The Great Jin Kingdom, outside the Immortal Gate.
The eight flags are flying!
On the grassland, tigers are as fierce as the forest.
Forty thousand soldiers of the New Army of the Eighth Banner, wearing various colored rifle helmets and outdated cotton armor, stood silently. Eight brigade squares, thirty-two battalion squares, and one hundred and twenty-eight companies formed a perfect lineup.
Viewed horizontally, they are straight lines. Looking vertically, they are straight lines again. Looking at it diagonally, it's still a straight line.
The battalion commander, battalion deputy, staff officer and accompanying Taoist priests of each battalion stood in front of the square formation. The officers held their sabers in their hands and looked powerful. There was also a Taoist priest who was holding a fly whisk and carrying a sword on his back. He also stood upright. At a glance, you could tell he was a Taoist priest who had attended a military academy...
How could this kind of chilling be comparable to that of the Eight Banners Master from another timeline?
Zhuge Weidao, who has been with Nalandili for a long time, has now figured out the details of the Dajin Eight Banners soldiers... These people are actually the farmers in Wuji Valley. Every household has a village and some livestock. Although I didn't have any cash in hand, I had no worries about eating and drinking thanks to the fertile land in Wuji Valley and the grassland on the hillside.
Wuji Valley is a world of Taoism, and each Eight Banners leader is equipped with a small Taoist temple, which is both a religious place and a school. The disciples of the Eight Banners received a six-year "immortal cultivation education" there. Among them, those who "cultivate" well can go to the monastic school in Bagua City to continue their "cultivation". After "cultivation" in the Taoist Temple in Bagua City, they can also take the exam. Immortal University Hall.
Of course, the small Taoist temples assigned to each leader and the monastic schools in Bagua City are "public cultivation", and their level is average. That is to say, ordinary Banner children go there to study and practice (among them, Banner women generally receive six years of immortal education), and Eight Banner nobles usually go to the Wenxian Hall of Nalan's family to "cultivate." In addition, the Nalan family also has a Yingxian Pavilion that specializes in training female cultivators...
In other words, the 48,000 new officers and soldiers of the Banner who are arrayed outside Xianmen Pass today have at least six years of experience in cultivating immortals, and all of them can do calculations. As for the disciples of the Eight Banners who served as officers and military Taoists, at least they all entered the Eight Banners Lecture Hall after graduating from the Bagua City Monastic Academy, and some of them were "high-level monks" who graduated from the Immortal University Hall.
Even though they dress in a rustic style and believe in "scientific fortune telling", in fact they are all soldiers who have received modern education! Although the average years of education is not as good as that of the Ming Dynasty, it is not worse than that of the British army in Great Britain.
However, within the Kingdom of Jin, the only people who can enjoy this "modern immortality education" are the three to four million bannermen and half-banners living in Wuji Valley.
However, since there is no industry in Daijin that can match this part of the "high-quality population", just providing education and some limited welfare for these bannermen has already made the Daijin court unable to make ends meet!
In the middle of the grassland where the army was lined up, there stood a huge watchtower. The upper floor was empty except for two "yellow mandarin jackets", holding on to the railings and standing side by side. Both of them kept looking at the phalanx below. These two people were Zhuge Weidao and Zheng Guoxian.
These two people and the Ming Dynasty army and navy advisory group they brought were now dressed in the uniforms of the Jin army. Although the British could probably guess that the Ming Dynasty was behind the scenes to instigate the Jin army to invade India. But the Ming army's advisory group cannot hide it at all. This is too irresponsible. After all, Daying and Daming are still testing each other out, and it’s not time for them to fight each other!
In addition, before Emperor Daoguang sent troops, Lin Zexu, who had completed the task of arching fire, had already returned by airship with the "Lease Material Agreement" and "Railway Construction Agreement" signed by both parties - with airships and railways, Lin Zexu could come and go. It's really convenient.
"Kamiyama, do these immortal soldiers look okay?" It was Zhuge Weidao who asked.
Although he was a complete layman when it came to the army, he could still tell at a glance the spirit of the tens of thousands of Eight Banners soldiers underneath. Just with this formation, I don't think the old eight flags under the wild boar skin hands could even be displayed.
"Of course!" Zheng Guoxian said with a smile, "How can this soldier not be able to do it? This soldier is better than the infantry of the Ming Dynasty!"
"What? Are you of such high quality?" Zhuge Weidao was stunned. He already knew that although Zheng Guoxian had been hanging around in Jinyiwei before, he was also an Army veteran with a serious academic background, and had even attended the Army Staff College!
How could this vision be different?
"Of course," Zheng Guoxian said with certainty, "They are all mountain dragoons, mounted as cavalry and dismounted as infantry, and they are particularly good at fighting in the mountains... In addition, they are all semi-professional soldiers and semi-professional soldiers. They are only half-farmers, and the quality of the officers and soldiers is not bad. How can our conscripts compare?"
"Then," Zhuge Weidao asked, "that Daoguang will not be captured all of a sudden, and he will take over India and become Daoguang Emperor, right?"
Zheng Guoxian shook his head and said: "That's not to say...the number of East India Company mercenaries is hundreds of thousands, which is much more than the British army! Although the vast majority of the East India Company's mercenaries are from India, The quality of the native soldiers is not high, but they have received all the training they should receive. Most of the officers and technical arms in the army are active British troops.
In addition, the East India Company can also use the armies of Indian princes to fight for them. For example, the Sikh Army, Hyderabad Army, and Mysore Army all have certain strengths, among which the Sikh Army is the strongest. If we include them, the total strength of the British Indian army is over one million! "
"A million? That much?" Although Zhuge Weidao has been "making up lessons" these days, he still doesn't know much about the army, and of course he doesn't know the military strength of British India.
Zheng Guoxian smiled and said: "Isn't this to prevent our Ming Dynasty? In order to stop our Ming Dynasty from advancing westward, the British don't care how many Indians die!"
Zhuge Weidao smiled and said: "This is indeed the style of the Anglo-Saxons...but it is difficult to say whether these millions of Indian soldiers are willing to die for the British Empire."
While the two were talking, the bugle suddenly sounded like a whimper, and then the sound of horse hooves was heard. The flag gate on the east side of the pasture opened, and a strong horse entered first. The knight on the horse was wearing a large parade armor with a dragon pattern and a yellow background. Although he has a fat figure, he sits upright on the horse. Who else can he be besides "Emperor Daoguang"?
Zhuge Weidao took out a pair of binoculars and began to look at the fat Daoguang on the horse from a distance. I saw Fat Daoguang, surrounded by a group of knights in yellow jackets, galloping on the grassland. The horses' hooves stirred up smoke and dust, passing in front of one square formation after another.
When Daoguang passed through a phalanx, the officers and soldiers forming the phalanx shouted neatly and loudly: "Long live our emperor! Long live!"
On the grassland, as Emperor Daoguang flew by on horseback, shouts of long live the mountains could be heard one after another, and the morale of the new officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners was also extremely high.
Daoguang just galloped around the pasture, and finally returned to the flag gate, reined in the horse, stood still, and looked at his army with bright eyes. At this time, Zhuge Weidao was also looking at him with a telescope!
At this time, Emperor Daoguang suddenly raised his voice: "I have made a divination today in front of the statues of our ancestors and Zhuge Kongming... The divination shows that 'the trapped dragon ascends to the sky, the opportunity cannot be missed'. It seems that This time we go south to attack Seal, we are sure to win!"
"Long live!"
The Eight Banners soldiers below cheered like the ground was shaking. Most of them couldn't hear clearly what he was saying, but Daoguang was a trapped dragon. They had also been trapped in Wuji Valley for many years. Although they had no worries about food and drink, they still had no worries about food and drink. As the population grows, the land in the valley has begun to become a little tight. Everyone's life began to go downhill decades ago.
If we don't find a way out, we may not be able to survive sooner or later, so everyone is looking forward to sending troops to fight!
Zhuge Weidao put down the telescope and said to himself: "The more I look at this fat Daoguang, the less he looks like the original Daoguang in history. He really looks a bit like an emperor... and he also acts very boldly. He is negotiating a deal." After signing the agreement to mortgage the lease of materials for track repair rights, I immediately made up my mind to print, but there was no ambiguity at all.
I'm afraid I can't compare to that one in history, right? It seems that this printing battle is a bit interesting! "
