Chapter 114, Invasion from the Sea In January of the sixth year of Chongzhen, on the stormy East China Sea, a large-scale fleet was cutting through the waves, blowing out billowing black smoke and heading north against the wind. yznnThe blue and white five-star flag representing the Chinese-American Republic and the red background star-ring flag representing the Chinese Alliance are fluttering on the masts of these warships.
They are a fleet of "Americans" from the other side of the world, and every plank is taken from the most authentic North American oak.
Five 1,500-ton "cruisers", five 900-ton "frigates", and 12 3,000-ton steam-sail hybrid armed transport ships.
By the standards of this era on the East Asian oceans, regardless of Every ship is a staggering super ship.
In addition, there are some three-masted ships, two-masted ships and single-masted speedboats without steam engines.
Due to the unfavorable wind direction, they are temporarily stranded at the Kasumigaura military port in the rear, preparing to carry supplies and baggage after the main fleet seizes the forward port base.
Catch up and help fight.
However, despite having such a powerful combat force, Major General Sun Yang, commander of the Chinese-American Republic Expeditionary Fleet, was still in a bad mood.
He was seen wearing a military coat, staring at the military map on the table, his brows furrowed.
On the map, three eye-catching red arrows mark the three key targets of the "Global Chinese Travelers Alliance"'s mainland strategy in 1633, Jiangnan, Liaodong and Lingnan.
Among them, whether it was the Liaodong strategy launched from Vladivostok or the Lingnan strategy launched from Hainan Island, tens of thousands of army troops were mobilized with the goal of destroying the army and destroying the country and sweeping across several provinces.
He, Sun Yang, was the only one in charge of the strategy for the Jiangnan route, but only had a mere 5,000 land troops.
Moreover, they were composed of Japanese "security forces", Li mountain infantry, black mercenaries, etc.
Major General Sun Yang regarded them as "miscellaneous" troops.
"Army" is the main force with such a sparse force.
Naturally, It is not enough to capture any big cities.
Although Major General Sun Yang can easily defeat any Ming Dynasty official army in a field battle with his tactics and equipment that are beyond the times, but to ensure the occupation, armed forces must be stationed everywhere.
As soon as they arrived, the troops were not enough.
Therefore, the task assigned by General Huangshi to Major General Sun Yang was relatively "easy".
It was to imitate the tactics of the British fleet during the First Opium War, first seize Zhoushan Island as an advance base, and then wait for opportunities to harass various places along the southeastern coast without asking for help.
Occupy a city or a place, just to increase their presence, in order to intimidate the landlords and gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, thereby retaliating for the "foolish and reckless act" of the Donglin Party who actively forced the Funing Army to rebel last year and provoked the war in the southeast.
Moreover, the British fleet during the Opium War had to penetrate deep into the Yangtze River, bombard Zhenjiang and Nanjing, and cut off water transportation to intimidate the Qing court.
Today's General Sun Yang can even skip this task.
He only needs to learn from the Japanese pirates and repeatedly toss on the coastline.
Now that Beijing in the Ming Empire has fallen, water transportation naturally no longer exists, and Sun Yang's small force is not enough to occupy Nanjing is a city, so it’s better to save it.
In addition, Premier Qi of the Chinese American Republic also gave Sun Yang a side task, which was to take the opportunity to find ways to recruit more people from the densely populated southeastern provinces to enrich the country.
The North American Great Plains is so vast and empty, it is a He can bring in millions of people with his tone.
In response, Major General Sun Yang, who wanted to make a name for himself in his homeland in the East, suddenly felt that his sadness was flowing backwards.
Such overqualified people are obviously being squeezed out.
They actually threw the powerful and gorgeous expedition fleet into Jiangnan, a secondary battlefield that only played a diversionary role.
What if this wasn't exclusion?
But after the initial depression and sadness, Major General Sun Yang still cheered up and figured out how to arrange his troops in an exquisite manner so that he could more efficiently use the scattered troops he had at hand.
The most dazzling performance was achieved on the battlefield in Jiangnan At the same time, at the front of the Chinese-American Republic Expeditionary Fleet, on the "Hangzhou" serving as the pilot ship, the heroic female Captain Li Huamei was in a very happy mood, so much so that while turning the steering wheel, she hummed a song from "Australian" "The "new song" Penghu Bay I learned there At this time, the "Hangzhou" under Li Huamei's feet was no longer the original single-masted ship with only more than 150 tons, but was replaced by a 1100-ton steel-framed wooden hull steam-sail hybrid The powered fast ship is better than the old "Hangzhou" in terms of speed, firepower and seaworthiness.
Much more powerful.
Just like a real knight will love a good horse and spend a lot of money for it.
For a senior navigator who has been riding the waves since childhood and making the sea his home, there is really nothing in this world that can compare to getting a ship on board.
Waiting for the boat is even more exciting.
In addition to the new "Hangzhou" at her feet, which can reach a maximum speed of twenty knots, Li Huamei also received a rather impressive captain's outfit.
Although it is strange that those "Australians" would put a black eyepatch on a person with intact eyes, Li Huamei is still very satisfied with the other components of this captain's outfit.
The European style one decorated with silver skull cap emblem tricorn hat, trimmed with gold lace A red and black coat, a chest-baring purple-red tight-fitting leather armor with a short skirt, a Western stabbing sword with honeysuckle leaves wrapped around the handle, a high-power antique monocular telescope with night vision effects, and a strong steel-clad steel that can break wooden boards with one kick.
Long boots, and a nine-tailed whip that makes a crisp sound when waved.
Nowadays, Captain Li Huamei has long thrown away the straw hat and sunglasses that an unknown traveler gave her before.
She dresses up like one of those sexy female pirates in Hollywood movies every day, swinging her long whip and swinging around on the deck.
All the sailors were drooling and admiring.
What makes Li Huamei even more happy is that in the past year, she has not only been "successful in her career", but she has also gained a lot emotionally.
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She fell in love at first sight with Engineer Qi Feng of Lingao Construction Company, and the two parties soon became friends.
It's a pity that the fight is so hot.
With the new "Hangzhou" The brief leisure time was gone forever.
The shipping tasks assigned to Li Huamei by her superiors began to become increasingly heavy.
As a result, she had very few opportunities to meet Qi Feng.
She could only rely on letters full of sea breeze.
Letters from each other, expressing our sincere feelings to each other across a long distance.
A few days ago, the Hangzhou was ordered to go to Kaohsiung Port to wait.
It happened that Qi Feng was also doing a construction plan in Kaohsiung Port, and then he and Li Huamei had another long-lost sweet date.
Unexpectedly, just one day after the two got together, Li Huamei suddenly received an emergency order to lift anchor and set off.
Although after such a long period of training, Li Huamei has adapted to such sudden changes, but every time she and Qi Feng parted, she still made her first love.
She felt very uncomfortable.
However, her duty as a captain prevented her from showing her weakness in front of the sailors.
Therefore, Li Huamei had to open the photo box hanging on her necklace from time to time, and then stared blankly at the simple and honest smile of Engineer Qi Feng on the small photo.
A few years ago, when she was powerful and high-spirited at sea, Li Huamei once thought that men were just boring animals.
But now that she is about to turn twenty-seven in the blink of an eye, she is already an older leftover woman in this time and space.
Every time she sees those girls who are more than ten years younger than herself have actually married and even given birth to children one by one, Li Huamei's heart is filled with unspeakable sadness.
"I really want to have a child.
When a woman reaches this age, it is indeed time for her to have a family."
Li Huamei turned the steering wheel slightly while thinking wildly, "Or, after returning from this battle, Let’s get married to Brother Feng.”
Li Huamei murmured to herself, and at the same time, based on the "Kun people's customs" she learned while chatting with several "female cadres", she imagined the romantic scene of Qi Feng holding flowers and rings, kneeling in front of her and proposing.
There was a hint of shy blush on the weather-beaten cheeks.
When Captain Li Huamei, who was proud of both love and career, unknowingly raised the legendary "death flag" for later generations.
In a cabin below the deck of the Hangzhou, Captain Zhen Huan, who is now proud in his career but frustrated in love, is silently polishing his sword.
In the past year or so, this former young master of Li Zhai has made great achievements in Taiwan and has been trained into an excellent officer.
With the arrival of the Lingao Senate in Taiwan, agricultural development in the Tainan Plain entered a new stage.
Large areas of fertile land sleeping in the wilderness were developed as immigrant farms.
More foreign slaves were organized to open up wasteland further inland.
But this also aroused even more violent anger and resistance among Taiwan's indigenous people.
In order to deal with the increasing number of slave escapes and indigenous attacks, Zhen Huan's Li-Miao Mountain Infantry Battalion was transferred to Kaohsiung, and fought in the tropical jungle and Demonstrated amazing combat effectiveness in mountain operations.
Although these ethnic minority compatriots on Hainan Island are not qualified workers and farmers, they are excellent hunters and warriors.
They have been accustomed to walking through the mountains and tracking prey since they were young.
They eat and sleep in the open all day without suffering.
Han farmers are more adapted to the wild tropical jungle.
After joining the army, the quality of these soldiers was further improved due to their adequate nutrition, the efforts of doctors to cure malaria, and the distribution of rifles, grenades, crossbows and the famous Gurkha dog-leg scimitar.
The range has increased, and the combat capability has become stronger.
In the first month of fighting in Taiwan, the number of Li and Miao soldiers who killed natives and captured escaped slaves exceeded the total number of Japanese security forces in the past two months.
However, the number of non-combat attrition was far lower than that of other troops. .
Second Lieutenant Zhen Huan, who was still the company commander at the time, gave full play to his hunting talent in the battle.
He was not content with passively repelling the attacks of the natives, but often took the initiative to ambush the local natives.
Starting from the third month, no Taiwanese natives dared to move near the reclamation team.
After some time, almost all the nearby native villages were cleaned up by Zhen Huan and his men.
In the last six months of his stay in Taiwan, although he was promoted to captain, it was a very boring time to fight against Huan Lai because he had worked too hard in the mopping up operations in the vast land between Kaohsiung Port and the Castle of Relanja.
There was no native village that dared to be hostile to the reclamation team, and catching the escaped slaves was not a challenge, and there was no need for him, the captain, to personally lead the team.
Although the beloved girl Fenda was also transferred to a hospital in Kaohsiung, she has been avoiding him, and she cannot leave the team at will.
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The only thing that cheered him up was a fight with a group of newly arrived Japanese security forces, and he was punished, but at least he won.
This mission to fight in the south of the Yangtze River was obtained by Zhen Huan on his own initiative.
He had had enough of boring days and was eagerly looking forward to fighting, looking forward to seeing the wider world outside, and seeing more wonders that were different from his hometown.
Scenery During these days in the army, he has greatly broadened his horizons.
Thinking about it now, back then, my family's focus on fighting for power and profit in that village of hundreds of people was a waste of life.
It's ridiculous that his family is so enthusiastic and complacent in order to rule such a small territory.
It can only be described as a frog in the well.
He had long heard about the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, which was about to be visited by Han merchants.
It was said that it was the richest and most prosperous place in the world.
Maybe he could bring back some silk handkerchiefs embroidered with beautiful flowers.
Let his girl be happy Zhen Huan was thinking this while shivering because of the cold wind blowing in through the porthole.
During the Little Ice Age in the late Ming Dynasty, the East China Sea was already very cold in winter, which made him, a tropical mountain dweller, very uncomfortable.
In addition, for Li hunters like them, seasickness is inevitable.
Although the cotton coat given above is very warm, the weather is still too cold and everyone is not used to it.
So everyone was lazy during the deck exercises every morning and afternoon.
And after the exercise, everyone was forced to eat a raw carrot.
The Japanese gnawed it with gusto, but Zhenhuan and his tattooed Li warriors were not used to eating the raw carrots given to everyone.
A female leader said this was to prevent everyone from suffering from "vitamin deficiency".
But another male captain on the ship, who was also forced to chew raw carrots, often muttered that, not to mention that the voyage from Taiwan to Zhoushan was only a few days, even if he had to take vitamin supplements, he would just rely on the soup in the dinner.
Onions are enough.
When he thought of the thick soup for dinner, Zhen Huan's face became even worse.
He didn't know if the chef on the "Hangzhou" was a miser.
The taste of the onion and potato soup every night was really terrible, not even a little greasy or meaty.
There was none, let alone any spices.
This made Captain Zhen Huan couldn't help but miss the wonderful enjoyment of drinking iced black tea and rum every day in Kaohsiung Port, and eating spicy roasted venison and seafood hot pot every now and then.
I hope that after landing, I can get some good things to improve my food.
Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly heard someone on the deck blowing a loud brass horn, and then there was a loud shouting in various languages with southern and northern accents.
It seemed like something big had happened.
So, Zhen Huan lowered his head and thought for a while, then put away the sharpened sword, wrapped himself tightly in his woolen military uniform, put on his cotton coat, and tied a scarf, then squeezed out of the cabin door in a bloated suit, and then groped through the long and narrow door.
Walking along the aisle, I bumped into someone a few times, and then slowly made my way to the deck.
Then, he saw those Fujian and Guangdong sailors, Japanese short men, and black-skinned ghosts from mysterious distant places, all swarming on the side of the ship, pointing towards the distance.
As the morning sea fog gradually dissipated, a few...
A looming little black dot suddenly appeared on the sea The first goal of this Jiangnan strategy, the Zhoushan Islands, is finally in sight. oshow7: