Lord of Ming Dynasty

A few days later, a messenger ship from the Huaxia Kingdom delivered Zhou Porridge's letter.

7Chapter 16 The Landing Battle Turned into a Trench Battle

Zhang Qiang read the letter sent by Zhou Porridge, and Zheng Keshuang quickly reached an agreement with the cabinet to exchange guano and iron ore for the warships used by the navy of the Huaxia Kingdom, warships, transportation ships, fishing boats, merchant ships, and the Huaxia Kingdom. Guns and ammunition, cannons, silk, tea, porcelain, and other special products of the Huaxia Kingdom, such as toothpaste, toothbrush, agricultural tools, wheelbarrows, carriages, mules and horses, newly developed glazed tiles, and population, Han people, Southeast Asia Aborigines, Native Japanese, and prisoners of war.

This is a large and all-encompassing trade, with a total capital amount of [-] million Huaxia Yuan. There are as many as one horse-drawn negotiation materials for specific projects. Zhang Qiang will definitely not be able to see them, and he has no time to read them. There are too many. When he is in his position, he only needs to grasp the general direction. What do the officials below want to do with the minutiae?

However, because Zheng Chenggong's mining of minerals is not so fast, it is necessary to follow the transaction rhythm of the two parties, and it is not known when and what month it will be completed. Therefore, Zheng Keshuang proposed to exchange part of the gold and silver for Huaxia Yuan, and then use Huaxia Yuan to pay part of the payment. They will ship the Huaxia Yuan back to Australia and use it as the money to buy products of the Huaxia Kingdom in the future.

This part of the money is paid every year, about 100 million Huaxia Yuan, but it does not necessarily have to be exchanged for 100 million Huaxia Yuan every year. They may exchange more each year. For example, they exchanged 800 million Huaxia Yuan in the first year and handed it over to the Huaxia Kingdom. gold and silver treasures.

Among them, 200 million Huaxia yuan has been handed over to the Ministry of Finance of the Huaxia Kingdom to purchase the [-] Japanese in the early stage. These Japanese came from the mine in Qiongdao. Those people are already familiar with the excavation and mining work of the mine. Can increase mining speed in Australia.

Not only that, but there are also [-] Southeast Asian slaves. These slaves came from Li Dingguo in the Southeast Asian War Zone. Many of them were troublemakers in the occupied areas and disobedient to discipline. They were thrown into prisoner camps and are working. The captives of a small Southeast Asian country, these people went to help the Japanese to carry out the most difficult mining work of the mine.

Fifty thousand Han people, these are of course not pure southern or northern Han people, but those naturalized Han people in Southeast Asia, or Han people whose ancestors are Han people, who are now Southeast Asians, Han people who have been captured or are already in occupied areas.

A total of 25 people have boarded the ships one after another. Some ships belong to the Third Fleet, and the Fourth Fleet has 20-year-old ships. There are about [-] ships, all of which are Dafu ships, and each ship has reached [-]. tons of size.

These lucky boats transport some personnel and materials near the coast. As long as there are no strong winds and waves, it is still possible. Because the ships are too old, the Huaxia Army does not use them very much, and they are expensive to maintain, so the cabbage price is sold to Zheng Keshuang. The total value of the 20 ships is only [-] Chinese yuan, which is like a free gift. Zheng Keshuang jumped up happily.

Then carry some low-priced goods, which are daily necessities. Zheng Keshuang is satisfied with these things and returns to Australia first. When he comes again, he will bring Australian goods, iron ore, and guano to China Kingdom for trading.

After dealing with Zheng Keshuang's matter, Zhang Qiang looked back at Feng Quan's side, and the landing battle was getting bigger and bigger.

Within seven miles of the coast, three miles away from Kochi County was the place where the two sides exchanged fire, with the wharf as the center. During this period, Feng Quan's troops could not exceed the range covered by the seven miles of naval guns, because the enemy's strength was too large and he lost ten. There are tens of thousands of militiamen, the enemy still has [-] militiamen, and at the same time, they also have [-] regular troops. Maybe their combat effectiveness is not as good as that of Xinlu Mansion's troops, but they are fighting in their own country, and supplies are easy, and they are superior in strength.

At the same time, there are Japanese support, the support of the Qing Dynasty, as well as the firepower and weapons of the Thais and the Dutch, and the support of instructors. With various advantages, after Feng Quan's landing battle caused great damage to the four countries, he was unable to advance further.

The enemy is not a fool, they also have elite troops, and Feng Quan's regular army was restrained on the side of Kitakyushu Island, so Feng Quan had to mobilize the militia in the territory to support him, mobilizing [-] young and strong people within seven days, There are [-] militiamen and [-] regular troops.

The battle with the four countries became a war of attrition.

The Dutch kept sending weapons to Shikoku Island, the Japanese kept sending some wandering samurai cannon fodder to Shikoku Island, and the Qing army deployed [-] troops to support Shikoku Island.

Feng Quan couldn't advance, so he could only defend passively. With the pier as the center, he set up a line of defense five miles away from the pier. Fifteen miles to the side is also his defense line, and the entire defense line forms a semicircle centered on the pier.

Feng Quan deployed a full [-] troops on this line of defense, and then set another line of defense two miles back, deploying [-] troops, drawing a semicircle one mile around the pier, and deployed another line of defense.

The third line of defense deployed [-] troops, and he personally sat at the pier to protect the army with [-] troops.

There are a total of [-] troops, and there are still a steady stream of troops landing behind. The camps are set up between the second and third defense lines on the left and right of the pier. The pier is also constantly accommodating war supplies, civilians, and reinforcements from the rear. .

The battle was not only about them charging against the second prince on Shikoku Island, but more often the second prince was constantly attacking Feng Quan and the others with their superior force, trying to drive them into the sea.

Under such circumstances, Feng Quan gradually established three lines of defense. Just as he stabilized his position, the enemy turned into a battle like a meat grinder during World War I in front of his line of defense.

The first line of defense is the focus of contention. In many cases, the enemy relied on its strength to break through the first line of defense time and time again. Feng Quan took advantage of his soldiers, even militiamen with sufficient training, sufficient weapons, and sufficient ammunition, to ruthlessly They dealt blows to the enemy, and wiped out the enemy's troops who broke through from one point many times, but regained the defense line of the point that was broken through.

In this regard, Feng Quan still did not give up, and obtained a large amount of building materials from the Xinlu Mansion, and used the captured prisoners to rush to build forts and fortresses one mile behind the first line of defense. More and more fortresses were built. Get up, around the Tunpu, there is a cave for Tibetan soldiers in the rear, and the entire wharf outside Kochi County is almost built into a fortress.

He did this, but the second prince and the little prince, as well as the Japanese, the Qing people, and the Dutch were very helpless for his turtle shell. No matter how many people charged, facing the trenches, according to horses, and barbed wire It is miserable.

Those young and strong squatting in the trenches, plus the militiamen, plus some elite squad leaders of the regular army, even if they took the Jinkai 1 matchlock gun and fired at the same time with 1 guns, they lost 5000 in one charge. There were many people, the cannon fodder was completely wiped out in the two assaults, and the militia troops behind also suffered heavy losses. That time, it did not lose [-] troops.

But even though they had more and more artillery, after the artillery passed, these people appeared again, and not many people were seen dead. If the soldiers who rushed up were not continuous, then there would be only one ending, all of them wiped out.

Feng Quan's artillery is more advantageous than theirs, with faster speed, and the shells are still cracked shells, which are more lethal than their solid shells.

The second prince had already mobilized all the troops from Kochi County to Kochi County. With 20 soldiers and [-] regular troops, he lost only [-] militiamen and [-] regular troops.

They had to mobilize troops from other counties, and the Qing army also mobilized soldiers, horses and green battalions to support them, with [-] soldiers and horses, and the Dutch even sent [-] troops and [-] sailors to help them. The hundred sailors mainly operate cannons, and train the second prince's militia to use cannons.

But in this way, they still could not break through the enemy's defense line. 20 soldiers and horses were transferred from other places, and more than 3 soldiers and horses were transferred from the other three counties. Thousands of young and strong soldiers and horses, they also organized 26 people on the spot, plus the original remaining [-] soldiers and horses, the total force reached [-] troops.

Feng Quan's side has successively increased its troops to 6 soldiers and horses. The original remaining 40 soldiers and horses, plus the successive increase of more than [-] soldiers and horses, the two sides have gathered nearly [-] soldiers and horses on this battlefield.

Zhang Qiang felt that the situation was developing to a situation he did not want to see.

If the landing battle becomes a trench warfare, do you want to develop tanks to meet the situation?

Then, Zhang Qiang smiled wryly, he absolutely couldn’t fight like that, and he wasn’t an engineering student, or a historical and archaeologist, so could he build a tank?I can still find the point of history and overcome this difficulty. My own history has not been learned well, not to mention that this history has been smeared by myself in a mess. There should be no reference for the route to take.

I am not a very talented person, and I am still playing the most common development route of a traverser with guns and cannons. However, due to my lack of historical knowledge and my own military knowledge reserve, I cannot continue to play this route smoothly. There is also a premise that I don't want the war fought here to become a model for Europe and the West to learn from.

The development of science and technology is too fast, and the enemy is smarter than you. You provide reference for others and sacrifice yourself, but let others get inspiration and develop. Then the history line of future generations will be weaker, and the future generations of China will be more difficult. Well, the historical line of later generations has become that the Westerners colonized China. Judging from their own history, at least they established a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. The economic theory revolutionized the rise and rebirth of the weak historical line, but that kind of rise was not complete. I had not overwhelmed other Westerners before I crossed over, and I was still in a defensive posture. It is difficult to overwhelm the west and let the dragon of the east take off.

It's hard, it's really hard, this Hong Chengchou's son is really not a cheap lamp, wait, Zhang Qiang suddenly thought of something, "Come here, bring the situation of the third prince and the eldest prince."

The attendant room that Zhang Qiang carried with him was all-encompassing. The cabinet or the various departments he managed had corresponding manpower and departments to contact and handle related matters. The Ministry of Military Intelligence was responsible for information transfer and ordering, backing up files, keeping secrets, etc. responsibility.

7Chapter 17 Another Fire

Soon the attendants contacted by the Ministry of Military Intelligence in the attendant room found the latest information about the third prince and the eldest prince, the son of Lu Guohong Chengchou from a pile of materials.

Zhang Qiang took a look. Although they had the support of the Taixi people, they had to bypass the patrol boats of the Huaxia Army from far away and transport weapons and personnel from Southeast Asia and Nanyang to the Ryukyu Islands. This made them extremely efficient. Low, if there are almost eight out of ten ships, it is considered God’s blessing. Generally, one of the ships sank in a shipwreck, or something happened. Three of the remaining nine ships may be captured or sunk, and one may return midway. There is no such thing as insurance at sea in this era, and sailing with the performance of a wooden sailboat is generally not a big deal and death is no big deal.

When the five or six ships arrived, more than half of them were the supplies of their respective ships. The supplies were consumed midway, and at least half of the people transported died or became ill, because the Dutch were not so kind to treat the natives of Southeast Asia as human beings.

Even at least [-]% of their soldiers fell ill or died accidentally due to the long journey, so the transportation capacity is limited, and they can only transport some weapons and ammunition, and a small amount of troops to support the prince.

Therefore, the eldest prince can't consume the third prince who has a short distance and has a larger population than them.

The distance from Amami Island to Ryukyu Island is only a few hundred nautical miles, and there are more than a dozen large and small islands in the middle. With the support of the Huaxia Army, the third prince has already occupied seven or eight of them. The attack on Ryukyu Island, which harassed the prince, caused a lot of trouble for the prince, and the population dropped sharply. Now he is still guarding the main island and the five or six surrounding small islands, unable to counterattack.

The two sides killed and killed almost a hundred thousand people. The first prince's cannon fodder troops couldn't keep up, and the navy fleet couldn't beat the third prince's navy fleet, so they could only hide near the port. Let's attack. According to the latest statistics, the Huaxia Army Garrison and Navy Fleet stationed on the Grand Prince Island reported that the Grand Prince now only has fifteen thousand-ton warships, more than 30 eight-hundred-ton warships, and more than 100 six-hundred-ton warships. In addition to defending the main island, these ships can only support the garrison and population of one or two large islands that are dozens of nautical miles away from the nearest, and the others are unable to attack.

The population of the third prince has reached 70, and most of them are Southeast Asian natives and Japanese prisoners supported by the Huaxia Army. He has 180 navy warships and 270 warships. Although he is also losing money, he has the Huaxia Army to supplement him. Not afraid of loss.

Zhang Qiang thought, since so many people and naval battleships are idle, he must not be able to repay the support he gave him, why not let him fight the second prince, anyway, their second and third children fight each other and want to eliminate each other Opponents, why not do it?

Let the third prince use a war to repay his debt to the Huaxia Army.

He said to his attendants: "Send someone to inform the third prince, and tell him that I want to meet him in Kagoshima and let him come to see me."

Today's third prince has almost followed Zhang Qiang's lead. He is the backer of the third prince, the little king of the Ryukyu Kingdom. Zhang Qiang doesn't want to annex the Ryukyu Islands for a while. Or the knowledge of other kingdoms is average. Although the current Huaxia Kingdom has advanced a lot, it is still a feudal agricultural country after all, and there is no industry yet.

If you say that industry is also a light industry, matchlock guns, flintlock guns, the manufacturing industry of the Bronze Cannon Age, and others, sailing ships and luxurious carriages are all made of wood. What kind of industry is this?

Therefore, the dynasties of the past dynasties did not have the ability to expand. Now the Huaxia Kingdom plus the Qing Dynasty, the Dajin, some territories that have not returned, and the territories of the three small countries in Southeast Asia are considered large. People in this era cannot imagine how big they are, so the past dynasties The Chinese nation of the dynasty has no intention of expansion at all.

It will take a long time for the third prince to go to Kagoshima County. He has to deal with a lot of things. Although the kingdom is small, it has a lot of people, 70 people. Of course, there is not so many people in reality. The total core population is only 30 people. , which also makes Amami Island very crowded.

Some habitable places have actually been occupied by the residents who came first, the officials and soldiers who followed him from the state of Lu, and the common people. Many wastelands are shacks. A hole is dug in the ground, and a roof is built with wood on it. Just hang a thin cloth curtain or other reed mats. This is the place where a family of four or six or seven people live.

Such wasteland is almost occupied by foreign populations, and even the beach is overcrowded.

Soldiers, especially the navy fleet, can only live on board every day.