Looking at Fushun.
Zhou Qingfeng had made up his mind to leave Fushun by water, so he naturally had to start preparing.
Ships were hard to come by, the route was not smooth, and there were not enough sailors. These problems all had to be overcome. As the only team with sailing experience, Wu Baoer, who had worked in the Dengzhou Navy, was very valuable. But compared to the other people who had joined Zhou Qingfeng, Commander Wu's treatment was quite pitiful. After washing up, he was locked up.
These years, Daming's army was rotten. The guards on land were rotten, and the navy responsible for sea defense was even worse. Compared to the infantry who could be a soldier with a spear, the navy had to have ships to be considered a navy. But building a ship was much harder than making a spear, so the navy was too lazy to even build a ship.
The Dengzhou Navy was Daming's most important navy. At its peak, it had more than a hundred warships, but now it was lucky to have five. Many of the navy's soldiers had fled, and the shortage was very serious. Wu Baoer couldn't live on, so he brought a dozen of his subordinates to rely on Wang Kai. They drove a two-masted civilian ship to make a living on the sea.
In the ten years he had been in Liaodong Bay, Wu Baoer had never met someone as rude and unreasonable as Zhou Qingfeng. He had originally thought that this Lord of Baihu only wanted him to work for him, so naturally he would admit defeat and curry favor, and then find a chance to turn the tables. Who knew that this Lord of Baihu's curiosity was greater than anyone else's, and he actually wanted to dig out everything he knew about sailing.
But this person really did have the ability.
The moment he was controlled by the Soulless Spell, Wu Baoer actually still maintained his consciousness, but he couldn't control his thoughts. His origins, his background, his abilities, all of it leaked out like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube. The feeling of having his brain cut open and seen was too terrifying. The ports Wu Baoer knew, the forces he understood, the routes he had traveled, the evil deeds he had done …
Everything was exposed!
When there was nothing left to say, Wu Baoer was dragged away like a dead fish to be washed, changed into a new set of clothes, and put into the so-called quarantine camp for observation. Wu Baoer was considered an outsider, and no one could guarantee that he did not have any disease. It was necessary to observe him for a period of time.
The place where Wu Bao'er was locked up was very special. It was in the Guards Camp's confinement room. The whole house was empty except for the window at the door. After he came in, he leaned against the window and looked out. Not far from the confinement room was the training ground of the Imperial Guard, which had been rebuilt from the barracks of the Fu Shun Qianhu Institute.
"Which local tyrant is this? Why are they different from the original soldiers? "Wu Baoer saw an army that she had never seen before. He was locked up for three days, and the thing that left the deepest impression on him during these three days was the ear-piercing sound of the suona — it started early in the morning before dawn, and after it was blown, the entire barracks woke up. About a hundred people dressed neatly to go jogging.
The first time Wu Bao'er heard the sound of the suona, she woke up from her dream with an indescribable fear. Soon, he realized that the suona was blown from morning to night. It was blown when she woke up, when she was eating, when she was exercising, when she was training, when she was marching, when she was returning to the barracks, and when she was sleeping. It was even blown in her dreams in the middle of the night. After that, the entire barracks had to assemble urgently, or they had to run one round after the assembly before coming back to sleep.
He had never seen such a torturous thing in the world.
Wu Bao'er felt that if he was in such a barracks, he would rebel on the first day. He could either escape, or stab the superior officer who gave out orders and escape. In short, he could not live like this anymore. How could he live? But the soldiers of the army in front of him were very obedient. No matter how the superior officer tormented them, they did not resist at all.
Apart from loving to blow the suona, this army was also very diligent in their training. It could be said that they did not stop from morning to night. Wu Bao'er leaned against the window and saw the long spear formation for the first time.
When the basic formation of ten people horizontally and three columns stepped forward, Wu Bao'er was shocked by the orderly pace — she had never seen such a coordinated formation. Just looking at the momentum of their steps made her scalp numb. And when a platoon turned left and right, advancing and retreating under the same command, the uniform movement had a shocking beauty.
Wu Bao'er could not think of any words to describe this army. In any case, he racked his brains to think of all the tyrants he had seen before, but he could not think of anyone who could last more than three rounds in front of this army. Most people would be intimidated as soon as they met, and would flee before the spear could reach them.
Strong army, this was definitely a strong army!
Perhaps Grandpa Qi's servants were also at this level in the past.
Qi Jiguang was from Shandong. At the age of seventeen, he took over the post of the Dengzhou Guards Commander passed down from his ancestors, and began his magnificent life. When the Dengzhou Guards talked about Qi Shaobao, they were all very proud. In Wu Bao'er's view, the strongest army in the world was the Qi Family Army. Unfortunately, that was all in the past.
Wu Bao'er was not a good person. He killed people, set fires, raped, and pillaged. There was no law in the world of the sea. He only believed in strength, and only recognized silver and knives. He was an official in name, but in reality, he was a pirate. The soldiers of this strong army in front of him were inconspicuous individually, but their strength as a team still made him feel a deep chill in his heart. He could not help but want to understand more.
First, he looked at their appearance. If he did not look, he would not know, but when he looked, he was shocked. The soldiers in front of him were all very strong, and there was not a single thin or weak person in the entire camp. This was another rare thing.
Wu Bao'er was a brave and fierce person himself. Although his body was thin, he was quite strong. He knew that there would always be one or two strong people in each group of official soldiers and bandits, but looking at the whole group, they were generally thin and weak. There was only one group in front of him that could make the whole camp strong.
"Heavens, does the leader of this group not deduct the soldiers' pay?" Wu Bao'er thought. He carefully looked at the soldiers' attire. During training, these soldiers were all fully dressed and equipped with all kinds of equipment. Just looking at these bits and pieces was an eye-opener for him.
Daming's soldiers wore fat jackets, which were cotton armor. Those things could definitely cause people to die of heat in the summer, but their defensive ability was only to block stray arrows. At close range, whether it was against swords, spears, or bows, it was only a psychological comfort. But this group of soldiers in front of him were all wearing metal armor, and it seemed to be a very expensive magic tool.
Rich, really rich!
Wu Bao'er could not help but click his tongue.
The manufacture of the armor was complicated. Just the cold forging of the small armor pieces took a lot of effort. The cost of a single set of armor was dozens of taels, and if the armor pieces were strengthened with magic, the price would increase exponentially. Just this set of armor alone would cost at least a few hundred taels of silver. Looking at the current Daming Dynasty, he had never seen a general give his soldiers such treatment.
Just this set of armor was worthy of the name of the strong army in front of him.
Apart from the armor, the soldiers in this group had a lot of miscellaneous things on them. Wu Bao'er felt that the vests worn by the soldiers were quite special. He had never seen such a style anywhere else. There were a lot of pockets sewn on the vests, and it looked very strange. He did not know what these pockets contained, but the most eye-catching was the water gourd hanging behind their waists.
Wu Bao'er was a person who traveled everywhere, and he knew all too well how important it was to carry water with him. When he was in a difficult situation, he could endure it without food, but without water, he could not endure it at all. When his mouth was dry, he would even drink a mouthful of urine.
Other than that, these soldiers' clothes, pants, boots, and even the vine helmets on their heads all attracted Wu Bao'er's attention. It was not that he was eager to join this group, but he was really curious. He looked at the soldiers in the camp in rows of two or three, and their every movement was clean and precise. He secretly put himself in the shoes of the enemy and thought about how he should deal with them.
"If we go ashore, I, Grandpa Wu, will naturally run as far as I can. But if we go out on the sea, Grandpa Wu is definitely not afraid. " Wu Bao'er sighed in the detention room, and sang a line in a low voice, "This is really like the saying, 'A dragon in the shallows is toyed with by shrimps, a phoenix on the ground is not as good as a chicken'. But it seems that Baihu Zhou still wants to use me. Grandpa, I will endure it for now, and bow my head when it's time. "
Just as Wu Bao'er was letting his imagination run wild, the door to the detention room suddenly opened. The soldier who came to deliver the food called out, and stuffed a tray full of food into the room. He was immediately delighted, and picked up the tray, sat down cross-legged, and began to eat heartily.
"Mmm … Delicious." If one were to ask what Wu Bao'er liked the most these days, it would undoubtedly be the food in this place. "There's fish and meat every day, no wonder the soldiers here are so strong. They must be greedy for the good food, which is why they can endure the harsh training of the officers. Otherwise, their morale would have been gone long ago. "
Thinking of the good food, Wu Bao'er suddenly shouted towards the outside of the detention room, "Hey, brothers, how much do you get paid a month? How often do you get paid? How much do you deduct? How much do you have to pay? "
The soldier who delivered the food had not gone far, and turned around to reply, "Us soldiers get two taels a month, and we get paid every month. I've never seen anyone deducted anything. No one has ever paid anything to pay. "
"How is that possible?" Wu Bao'er did not even care about eating, and leaned against the window and said, "You eat well, wear well, and you don't deduct anything from your monthly pay? You don't even take a single silver from your subordinates?
Don't try to trick me, the Daming Dynasty has been established for more than two hundred years, and there has never been such a thing. Back then when Grandpa Qi ruled the army, he also had to take the subordinates as his filial piety. Even if the officials are kind, where do they get so much silver? I, Lord Wu, have never heard of an official who doesn't drink the blood of his soldiers. "
Pfft … The soldier who delivered the food only laughed disdainfully, and said, "I've never seen a country bumpkin before". He did not argue further, and turned around to leave. Wu Bao'er leaned against the window, and was instantly enraged. He stretched out his hand and scolded loudly, "How dare you, don't leave. I, Lord Wu, have traveled extensively, and I've seen more people than the amount of rice you've eaten. Who are you calling a country bumpkin? Get back here, Lord Wu wants to reason with you. "
The soldier who delivered the food pretended not to hear him, and continued to walk away. On the other hand, the other sailors who were locked up heard Wu Bao'er's scolding, and all of them leaned against the window to show their support. All sorts of Deng Prefecture dialect and slang were extremely unpleasant to hear, and vulgar words flew everywhere.
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