Chapter 387 Xiang Zhuang Dancing Sword is intended to be Pei Gong Sun Ying and Helena met in Quanjiazhuang Town, and soon, the knowledgeable and well-informed Helena won Sun Ying's friendship.Fortunately, Sun Ying didn't have enough social experience, and Helena borrowed a sum of money from Sun Ying without using any collateral, relying on the friendship between the two.The amount is not too much, five or six thousand taels of silver.Under Sun Ying's bargaining, he spent 1,500 taels to buy a Flying Fish-class catamaran.At the same time, a full 100 tons of cans were purchased at a price of 500 per can, and in this way, Helena took a hundred tons of cans to act as a second dealer.She traded canned food with the Spaniards in the South China Sea, and made a lot of money, going back and forth for a total of three months, with a capital of less than 3,000 taels of silver, and ended up earning more than 18,000 taels of silver.Not only did he pay off Sun Ying's loan, but he bought an armed merchant ship with a displacement of more than 1,500 tons from the Portuguese.Helena left Quanjiazhuang Town with a full load of goods and set off to return to Europe in May of the third year of Chongzhen.Almost a year and a half, Helena is back."
Your Excellency Earl Quan, I'm here to do business with you!""
Oh, what business?"
Quan Xu smiled: "What do you like?"
Silk, porcelain?
Tea?
Or ""I've got a crush on cement!"
”In the town of Quanjiazhuang, Helena and her men fell in love with Quanxu's reinforced concrete family fort, which was taller than all the castles of kings in Europe and as hard as a boulder.Even the bravest knight, Aberg, wielded a sledgehammer and couldn't smash the damn thing.Helena was already interested in it, if the wall was built a little thicker, or simply poured a large amount of cement slurry between the interlayers of the two walls, forming a cement wall half a meter thick or even a meter thick, wouldn't it be impossible for any cannon to bombard?
At that time, the Venetian city-state republic and the Ottoman Empire were in the midst of a fierce battle, losing one after another, and the overseas colonial strongholds were falling one after another.When I was in Quanjiazhuang Town, these cements were actually produced by later industrial technologies, but they were only packaged in Quanji.Helena used five pieces of silver to buy a bag of cement and smuggled it back to the Venice city-state republic.After Helena's cover-up, after some heated debate, the parliament finally decided to grit its teeth and squeeze a sum of money out of the crumbling finances, so that Helena could return to Asia again, and she must buy a few boatloads of cement back."
It's good to do business!"
Quan Xu arranged for someone to arrange dinner and eat with Helena, Sun Ying and others.While eating, Helena thought for a while, as if she remembered something: "Your Excellency, I came to Daming this time, but I didn't come alone, I brought nineteen big ships, seventeen of which are three-story ships that can carry more than a thousand tons, armed merchant ships!"
”"And then!""
We can make a business!"
Helena looked at Quan Xu, blinked her big watery eyes, and said with a smile: "For example, you paid to hire the naval fleet of our Venice city-state republic to help you fight a battle, although the nineteen ships of our Venice city-state republic are a little worse than the Dutch, but they are much stronger than your Ming fleet, if it is not for our help, I am very sorry, I am not optimistic about the next war!"
”Sun Ying was slightly stunned: "War?
What war?
”"Sun, you probably don't know yet, do you?"
Helena shrugged: "Your Excellency the Earl has detained the people and ships of the Dutch East India Company, breaking the rules of free trade, and they are going to send troops to teach Your Excellency the Earl a lesson!"
”When Quan Xu heard this, he was not surprised or shocked, and his face was calm.Helena thought that this news would make Quan Xu mess up, but she didn't expect that Quan Xu seemed to know about it for a long time?
Of course, Jeon Wook knew.When he suppressed Alfonso, he thought about it, but he didn't expect that the Dutch were really the first iron, and under the persecution of Spain and Britain, they had a mortal enmity with Quanxu."
Hire you to fight!"
Quan Xu thought for a while and said, "I don't know how much you will charge for hiring your merchant ship to help me transport the troops to the chicken coop?"
”As long as the Dutch fleet appears in Liaodong's line of sight, then Quan Xu decided to take Taiwan first and defeat Taiwan, at sea, Quan Xu will also be afraid of the Dutch fleet, on land, the whole family army can easily teach the Dutch how to behave.The militia and guard soldiers organized in Nanjuyi can't deal with it, not to mention, the whole family army that is armed to the teeth?
With the firepower and equipment of the whole family army, looking at this time and space, if he recognizes the second, no one dares to recognize the first."
Your Excellency!"
Helena smiled bitterly: "You have no possibility of defeating the Dutch, their fleet is invincible in the whole world after the destruction of the Spanish Invincible Armada, although the Dutch's East India Company Combined Fleet is not as powerful as the Dutch's local fleet, but in the entire Asian region, they are the real sea overlord!"
”"The sea lord of the fart!"
Quan Xu smiled faintly and said, "When we Chinese dominated the sea, they didn't know where to play in the mud, just their broken boats, I will send them to God in minutes!"
”"They're not a couple of ships!""
How many can there be?""
Quan, you heard about me, calm down, they have concentrated nearly half of the fleet of the Dutch East India Company and armed merchant ships, almost fifty or sixty ships, even if it is the British, Spaniards, or Portuguese, they must be avoided at sea!"
Speaking of this, Helena reacted, she wanted to exchange some benefits for Quan Xu for this precious information she obtained, but in this way, she gave it to Quan Xu for nothing.When she came to her senses, Helena was so angry that she didn't even want to eat."
Alright, alright."
Quan Xu looked at Helena and said, "Cement, I can sell it to you!"
”At that moment, an elderly fat man whispered to Helena.He looked very excited.Helena explained while showing an apologetic look to Quan Xu: "Your Excellency, the Speaker of the Netherlands is doubting the quality of your cement, he said that on the way to Liaodong, he didn't see you building fortresses and castles with cement, can't you trust the quality of cement?"
”"I can answer that question!"
Quan Xu said with a smile: "The best defense, naturally not a fortress, not a fortified city, but an attack, on land, no one is the opponent of our whole army, I want to rent your merchant ships, transport my troops to the chicken coop, at most a month, I will take Dayuan Island, the Dutch will lose their only foothold, this is just the beginning, the Dutch can choose the beginning of the war, when it will end, then I have the final say!"
”Quan Xu handed over the work of trading with Helena to the Liaoning South Council Center, and there were special personnel to handle it, and he needed to prepare for war.Although Quan Xu wants to take Taiwan, of course, he also has a certain degree of difficulty.The first is the problem of insufficient troops.Although the strength of the whole family army exceeded 50,000 horses, from Liaodong to the Far East, and then to Huaiyuan Town, the expansion was too fast, but Huayang Society also planned to let Huang Taiji return to Tumochuan and have a decisive battle with Lin Dan Khan.Of course, Chen Ying and Luo Shiming are also suspicious, they are using a plan to prepare for Yin Emperor Taiji, which shows that they are not sure of victory.For Huaiyuan Town, Quan Xu is powerless.However, he still has to maintain absolute pressure on Huang Taiji.Thinking of this, Jeon Wook had a hazy plan.After convening a staff meeting of the whole army, Quan Xu decided to transfer the second, second, and fourth regiments from the 1st Brigade, the 9th, 7th, and 8th regiments from the 2nd Brigade, the 25th Regiment, the 26th Regiment, and the 27th Regiment from the 4th Brigade, and the 31st and 32nd regiments from the 5th Brigade.The 33rd Regiment, a total of 12 regiments, plus 6 artillery regiments, a total of 18 regiments, more than 12,000 men.The southbound corps was formed, which landed in the three directions of chicken coop, Taichung, and Tainan, and then swept through the Dutch and Spanish settlements or castles.Dispatching more than one-third of the troops of the whole family army in Liaodong is too big, and I am afraid that it will not be able to hide from Huang Taiji.Quan Xu decided to organize a winter drill with the Tianxiong Army, and all the cavalry units of the whole family army were dispatched, and one-third of the infantry and artillery were dispatched, forming an army of more than 60,000 elite men and horses with the Tianxiong Army.Maintain enough pressure on Huang Tai Chi."
What red and blue military exercises?"
When Lu Xiangsheng heard Quan Xu's words, he was a little confused.A drill is a drill, never a confrontation drill.Quan Xu explained: "In order to test the training situation of our two armies in practice, in the process of confrontation drills, we removed the arrowheads, replaced the knives and guns with cork, and the arrow shafts or knives and guns were painted with red paint. ”Lu Xiangsheng groaned: "This method is novel, but will it cause casualties?"
”"Yes, definitely!"
Quan Xu smiled bitterly: "However, if we don't carry out this military confrontation exercise, how can we know the training results of the troops?"
In this way, the Tianxiong Army plays the role of the Houjin Army, on the ruins of Shenyang City, and undertakes the defensive task, while our whole family army undertakes the Blue Army, responsible for the attack, the time is limited to one month, and the Blue Army will win if you capture Shenyang City, or you will defend Shenyang City, and you will win!
”The Tianxiong Army and the whole family army launched preparations for the red and blue confrontation exercises, but Quan Xu did not hide it, and announced to the outside world that he would conduct military confrontation exercises with the Tianxiong Army.However, after Huang Taiji received this information, his face became very ugly: "Drill, drill fart!"
”Fan Cheng smiled bitterly and said: "Xiang Zhuang's sword dance is intended for Pei Gong!"
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”Huang Taiji gathered soldiers and horses, and on the one hand, he gathered soldiers and horses, and on the other hand, he retreated the old and weak women and children to the Horqin grassland.