Guo Qi is a pseudonym. His original name is Song De. He is from Jiangning County, Yingtian Prefecture. He was in charge of the artillery camp in the southern capital of the Ming Dynasty. He was ordered to escort the Western artillery team to Beijing to assist in the war in the early years of Chongzhen. During this process, in addition to learning the use of new artillery from the Western artillery team throughout the process, he also participated in several wars against the Later Jin army, making him a rare artillery officer in the southern capital of the Shenji Camp.

When Emperor Chongzhen first ascended the throne, he was determined to take martial arts to recover Liaodong. Therefore, after hearing that the Portuguese Macau won a great victory against the Dutch Red Barbarians and seized 10 new artillery pieces, he specially sent Li Fengjie, the Right Minister of the Ministry of War to Macau to buy new artillery pieces to deal with the Later Jin outside the pass. At the same time, he recruited 20 Western artillery divisions to teach the Ming army to use new artillery pieces and helped the Ming army form a new firearm unit.

Due to the Ming Dynasty's kindness and trade needs, the Portuguese Macau agreed to the Ming court's request for the purchase of military weapons. They sent officers to serve as the commander of the team with Xilao from Gongsha, leading 4 artillery divisions, 2 deputy artillery divisions, 4 translators, 15 gunners, 3 entourages, and a total of 32 people to Beijing. The team carried 10 new cannons and 30 eagle-mouth guns.

In the Ming Dynasty, Guangdong sent a team to escort to Xuzhou along the way, and then the troops sent by the Nandu Guardians continued to escort to Beijing. This team was the 300 Shenji Camp soldiers led by Song De, who was the then battalion officer.

In addition to escorting the Western artillery team during this trip, Song De also took on the learning task. Unfortunately, the team happened to encounter a large-scale entry into the Later Jin Dynasty, which is the "Ji Si Change".

At that time, the Later Jin army had already entered the pass, but the artillery team had just arrived in Jining. The Ministry of War sent people to Shandong to urge it. It was winter when the canal was frozen. Xilao from Gongsha discussed with Song De and others. Later, shed the boat to land, and took cannons day and night to rush to the capital. (Author's note: This story novel "Blue Blood Sword" is described, but the Western artillery team was used as a negative character. Only at that time, Li Zicheng and others had not rebelled, and the enemy of the Ming Dynasty was a different race, Later Jin, so the author of the novel was suspected of vilifying the Ming army.)

As a result, the Western artillery team and the Later Jin army encountered outside Zhuozhou City. At that time, Liangxiang near Zhuozhou had been captured and massacred by the Later Jin army. When it was heard that the Ming artillery team came from the south, the Later Jin army then attacked. Hundreds of officers and soldiers sent to escort in Shandong actually scattered.

Although Song De was a small battalion in Shenji Camp in Nandu, he did not flee as feared the enemy and fled like Shandong soldiers. Instead, he escorted the Western artillery team to take refuge in Zhuozhou.

Xilao from Gongsha was also calm in the face of danger. After entering the city, he placed all ten cannons he brought in at the top of Zhuozhou City. The Portuguese artillery quickly assembled and adjusted the shooting angle, filled the shells and fired at the rear Jin army that followed. As a result, the sound of the cannon shocked the Ming and Later Jin army, and the Later Jin army did not dare to attack and retreat.

Although there was no substantial battle between the two sides in this battle, Zhuozhou City was indeed preserved because of this batch of new cannons. After the war, Xu Guangqi wrote a letter saying that the reason why the Later Jin army "look around Zhuozhou without attacking" was because of "fearing guns", which shows that the power of these cannons is indeed quite great.

After that, because the Later Jin army was unable to conquer the capital, they led their troops to return north after plundering, and Xilao and others from Gongsha were able to arrive at the capital safely.

After the cannons arrived in the capital, Emperor Chongzhen named the cannon "Shenwei General". The governor of the Jingying Rong Zheng, Li Shouqi and other civil servants of the Ming Dynasty, responded strongly and satisfied with the succession of the cannons after witnessing Gongsha's others' practice of guns and cannons. He gave Silao, missionary Lu Ruohan and other Portuguese people such as Gunsha, and gifts such as silk, tribute robe and silver. During this period, the two sides also negotiated on the Macau issue.

The Ming court proposed to hire Xilao from Gongsha to stay with the Ming army. Xilao from Gongsha to agree happily, and then commanded the artillery team to help the Ming army recover Zunhua, Yongping and Qian'an, which were occupied by the Later Jin army.

Later, Xilao from Gongsha followed Sun Yuanhua to Pidao. Under the command of Deputy General Zhang Tao, he defeated the Later Jin army in the Dongjiang area and achieved a considerable victory. After that, the Portuguese gun divisions such as Gongsha cooperated with the Later Jin army in the Xuanchuan area of ​​North Korea near the mouth of the Yalu River to fight with the Later Jin army with Western artillery, and once again severely damaged the Later Jin army with new firearms. The record was about to kill nearly 700 enemies.

In the end, because Mao Wenlong, the commander of Dongjiang Town, was killed and the situation in Dongjiang was unstable, Xi Lao and others from Gongsha followed Sun Yuanhua to Dengzhou to assist Sun Yuanhua in the training of the new army. The disciples brought out were Kong Youde and others who later surrendered to the Jin Dynasty.

Song De should have handed over the office and returned to Nandu after arriving in Beijing, but because the Ming army lacked artillery talents at that time, the Ministry of War asked him to continue to learn further with the Western artillery team, and then headed to Dongjiang together. But soon after, because the Ming court wanted to continue to purchase Western firearms and equipment, several Portuguese translators set off to return to the south and went to Macau in person to help recruit gunmen. When he returned from Macau, a major change occurred in Dengzhou.

After Kong Youde rebelled, he attacked Dengzhou City. Gongsha led the Portuguese artillery to resolutely fight back at the top of the city, killing and injuring many rebels. Xilao of Gongsha was an extremely hero. Unfortunately, he was unfortunately killed and died while throwing an iron pot filled with gunpowder at the rebels on the city tower. Except for the missionary Lu Ruohan, who was lucky enough to cross the wall and escape, the rest were killed.

Chongzhen issued an order to posthumously award Xi Lao, who was appointed as the general of the Ming Dynasty, and his deputy Lu Weiluo, he posthumously awarded the guerrillas. The following Portuguese gun divisions and mercenaries who died in the country were all posthumously awarded the title of general and given 10 taels of silver to provide pensions to his wives and children who stayed in Macau.

At that time, Xiong Mingyu, the Minister of War of the Ming Dynasty, praised these Western artillery divisions sadly and said, "The Australians admired Yi and lost their loyalty. They saw it on the day of supporting Liao and defending Zhuo. It was a place for five years. If they went to the coach for dispatch, they would come down from the head, command the gun division, and strive to destroy the thieves!"

The collapse of Western artillery teams and new-style troops made the Chongzhen Dynasty no longer able to form a Western army, so Song De had to return to the Shenji Camp in Nandu again.

It was originally natural to be promoted after returning with his ability and ability. It was just because he was honest and not good at flattering Shangguan, so he was still a small camp team after a few years. After the establishment of Du Hongguang Dynasty, he was promoted from the camp team to the artillery camp discipline leader because of comforting people's hearts.

The leader is equivalent to the general flag, and the salary is higher than that of the camp team. However, in a prosperous place like Nanjing, if the salary of the Xiaoxiao general flag is to support a family, it is probably only a way to have enough food and clothing. If you have favors between relatives and friends on weekdays, you have to borrow some money from your colleagues.

Moreover, the three major camps in the southern capital are famous. Whether it is the Three Thousand Battalions, the Five Military Battalions, or the Shenji Battalion where Song De is located, half of the soldiers are vacant. The salary is all called to the generals and the lords above to drink the soldiers' blood.

But every time the school exercises are performed by the rogues hired by thirty or fifty copper coins, standing one by one, one by one, one by one, and one by one, yawning, and there is no appearance of the soldiers in the Beijing camp.

The war in Guazhou later broke out the fig leaf of the three camps. It can be said that before crossing the river, the three camps had already been dispatched to run away, making the general who led the troops to suppress the enemy so angry that he stomped his feet and had no choice.

With the scattered heart, Song Dekong had a lot of skills and could only live in a mess, and was a monk and a bell for one day.

Until one day someone suddenly visited his home at night and offered the unsuccessful team leader Song a nearly sky-high reward.

How much has this reward reached? It is probably just that after working there for a year, you can go back to your hometown to buy more than ten acres of fertile land to be a rent-collecting man. After working for three or five years, you will not be a Taiping man, but a rich man.

But there is no pie in the world.

The reward is high, but it takes the risk of the brain.

But as the old saying goes, the bolder one is, the more productive one is.

In today's world, Zhu Ming has lost his temper and lost his heart even more. He has never seen the Qinhuai River live and dream of dying, and the court is full of farts. How could this decadent atmosphere expel the Tartars, suppress the bandits, recover the old capital, and worship the former emperor?

This Nanjing will be broken sooner or later!

If you take this risk now, you can quickly improve your family's life, and you may not be able to make a prominent future in the future.

After hesitation for a while, Song De gritted his teeth and agreed.

But I still left a way out, but did not bring my family to Jiangbei, but went to Jiangbei alone.

Then he asked for sick leave from the camp. Shangguan was stunned when he saw that Song De came to take sick leave. He was not puzzled about how Song De got sick, but about who this person was. Then he waved his pen and approved the leave, and cared for his subordinates to get sick. Don’t think about anything more.

I turned around but suppressed the matter and refused to report it. Why?

Because Song De took a long-term sick leave and could not serve the court, then the court had no reason to continue paying you the salary, right? Even if you pay, you can't pay it all. Of course, the general will have to keep it first.

Song De didn't have the heart to think about whether his salary would be left. The pseudonym Guo Qi secretly went to Zhenjiang with the middleman. But when he arrived at the ground, he saw that dozens of people on the boat were from his three camps.

After counting one by one, all of them were lower-level officers who were capable but had no future like him.

It was so clear that everyone knew what they were going to Jiangbei. They nodded and did not ask much. They just shook Jiangbei in the night with the oars.

From then on, there was no team leader Song in Nanjing, but there was another instructor Guo in Jiangbei.

Later, the three camps of Nandu have gained a new look after vigorous rectification. The new Sun commander reformed the three camps with great drastic measures. He cut half of the officers and those soldiers who had been in full swing with just a few axes, but he left a seat for the officers who had been sick for a long time in the army. He paid monthly wages and sent people to deliver the money to his home on time. He was really kind.

Guo Qi was doing well in Jiangbei. The Huai Army of Jiangbei attached great importance to him, a person who had followed Western artillery masters to learn technology. Not only did he give high rewards, but he also gave battalion officials treatment in the army. He was respectfully called "Guo Camp Official" everywhere he went.

In addition to Guo Qi and his group of talents dug up from Jiangnan, Guo Qi also discovered that the Huai Army had sent people to Macau to recruit many Western technicians and bought a batch of Western artillery. God knows how these Western artillery were sent from Macau to Taizhou from under the eyes of the Ming army.

As the situation became clearer and clearer, the Huai Army, which inherited Li Zicheng's legacy, officially became the Dashun Army. Guo Qi suddenly found that he had encountered more and more colleagues from the three major camps, so many that he once mistakenly thought that all the three major camps had moved to Jiangbei.

What's even more outrageous is that every five days, Shunjun arranged special boats for the instructors in Jiangbei to go home to visit relatives.

The Ming army stationed on the other side of the river and the navy officers and soldiers of Zheng Hongkui's troops who were patrolling the river from time to time seemed to have not seen this.

Once when Guo Qi came home to visit his relatives, he saw several generals garrisoned in Zhenjiang on the same boat with him.
Chapter completed!