Chapter 489 Military Information

Shizuoka, Japan.

The troops in Macheng are indeed stretched. The main force is launching a large-scale return to Taiwan because the Dutch in Java is restless. The Dutch East India Company gathers troops in Java, and its attitude is already very obvious. There is another war in Nanyang, and the Dutch gathers troops.

There is only one reason: the local fleet is coming, and a war may break out at any time in Malacca. I have no choice but to transfer troops from Kaiyuan to support it.

Ma Chengyin regretted it a little, and his steps were too big and he was ripping the ball. This was the inevitable result of the elite soldiers' strategy.

However, the elite military strategy must be implemented. Blindly expanding the army is another Li Zicheng. The huge army will destroy the finances. The good news is that in Myanmar, Japan plundered, and the Taiwan Governor's Office officially expanded its army.

It was impossible to expand the Taiwan Town Army's strength to 50,000 in one fell swoop. The sudden expansion of the army inevitably led to a decline in combat effectiveness of the troops, which was also impossible.

There is still a problem at the moment, the candidate for the general garrison stationed in Japan.

Li Dan is already old. Yan Siqi and Yang Tiansheng are both pirates and have poor ability to guard one side. Now that Nanyang is in a hurry, he can only push Yan Siqi to the position of general in Japan. Yan Siqi has lived in Japan for many years.

, there should be no trouble in a short period of time.

To the west, Mao Wenlong became restless again and was secretly arresting people and returning to North Korea to start mining.

Ma Cheng ordered people to beat him up, and he was helpless. Once the magic box of the slave trade was opened, it would be difficult to close it again, so he could only let it go.

In the evening, the excited Yan Siqi was killed and summoned Yang Tiansheng to comfort her.

When he returned to the inner house, he saw Princess Zhenming crying, but Zhou Yunyan was gone. It must be because of the official business.

Ma Cheng frowned and said, "What are you crying?"

Princess Zhenming couldn't help crying and started crying. Perhaps because of her great patience, the sound sounded very strange. She was a little intermittent and had some breathing. She said that she was not breathing properly and was in a while.

The trembling sound is soft, and it makes people think of something else in a trance.

Ma Cheng had no choice but to wave his hand and let the two maids retreat. The charming woman cried and threw herself into her arms.

Ma Cheng said softly in his heart: "Tomorrow, I will order someone to send you back to North Korea."

Princess Zhenming just cried constantly, letting Ma Cheng learn the greatness of the wind beside her pillow. She said in her heart, isn't she just a queen of North Korea? I'll send a message to Mao Wenlong tomorrow and give the North Korean Wudao a glass of poisoned wine.

.In July of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the King of Korea died of illness. North Korea supported Princess Zhenming as the king, known in history as Queen of Zhenming.

In mid-July, Taiwan.

As the territory under control becomes larger and larger, the three departments of Taiwan are also reorganizing. The reorganized Taiwan Governor's Office has an Executive Yuan and a Marshal's Office, and the two powers are established together. Nan Juyi also serves as the chief official of the Executive Yuan, Ma Cheng Naturally

In charge of the Marshal's Office, the military and political separation in Ma Cheng's conception was initially realized. Naturally, Taiwan's military and political separation could not be completely separated. There is also a huge Taiwan Development Bank outside the two governments, which also has extremely powerful authority.

Under the Marshal Macheng Mansion, there is a Du Zhenfu Division, a Military Governor Division, a Staff Division, and an Military Discipline Division, which commands the soldiers and horses of all battalions in the province. In addition, there is a Tongzheng Division, each department has a chief officer and an deputy officer.

The two members, the chief officers of each department are all fourth-ranked and the adjutant is all fifth-ranked.

The war clouds were covered, and the news came from the Portuguese said that the Dutch gathered a fleet on the mainland, India, with a total of fifteen four-masted sail warships, and more than a hundred armed merchant ships of all sizes, rushing towards Malacca with murderous intent. In Java, the Dutch gathered

With 12,000 troops, Malaya attacked Malacca City. The Dutch's strength made the Macheng as big as a fight. This should be the full strength of the Dutch in Asia.

In land battles, the Horse City naturally did not match the Portuguese.

In the naval battle, Ma Cheng had 120,000 hearts. The Taiwanese navy had 18 main battleships and the Portuguese had 6, but the number of armed merchant ships was much worse than that.

The General Staff Department was caught in a debate at this time and had great differences.

Some staff members advocated that the navy avoided fighting, blocked the Strait of Malacca with heavy artillery, and concentrated their forces to encircle and annihilate the Portuguese army in the direction of Malaya. Another faction advocated the mobilization of the whole nation, recruited Yi soldiers along the coast of Fujian, Taiwan and Guangdong, and submerged with sea of ​​people tactics.

The Portuguese fleet, the two factions were in stalemate.

Staff Department, Military Affairs.

Ma Cheng and Nan Juyi sat upright, looking at the dozens of staff members blushing, Nan Juyi had already adapted to the darkness of the staff member debate. The old man admired this atmosphere very much and could not reason.

The argument is unclear, but we cannot make trouble, we must always argue some truths. The two factions have a confrontation. Most of the subordinates promoted by Nan Juyi from the position of Fujian Governor have advocated facing the enemy head-on and flooding the Portuguese fleet with human sea tactics.

This is reasonable. Nan Juyi once defeated the Dutch by relying on the tactics of the sea of ​​people when he was the governor of Fujian.

The proposition of this sect has the upper hand. Most of them are scholars who are from juren, or even scholars from Jinshi. If the Ming Dynasty goes to the country, there is no reason to avoid fighting. According to the previous example, the rewards for dead soldiers were offered, and rewards were issued to those who went to sea to fight: participate in the war

Each person gives two taels of silver, and if the war is extended, an additional five taels will be added. Each fire ship is sixteen, if the Dutch ship is burned, two hundred taels of silver will be given fifty taels of silver, and one Dutch head will be given fifty taels of silver. Considering that the court at that time

The monthly salary of the seventh-rank official is only about five taels of silver, which is quite high.

There must be brave men under heavy rewards. Isn’t the Dutch fleet afraid of fire ships?

Another group of people was a staff officer named Zhang Yongchan, who was born in the chief rank of the navy. His origin was quite complicated. He was from Fujian and a fellow villager of Yu Dayou, the leader of the navy. After the Fujian navy was defeated, Zhang Yongchan

I had to be idle at home, and later I went to work as a Taiwanese navy as a colleague. Because I had studied and passed the imperial examination, I was recommended to the Staff Office to specialize in naval warfare. In other words, this person has no foundation in the Taiwan town army.

Miscellaneous brands.

Zhang Yongchan strongly opposed the direct confrontation of the Dutch fleet, because he had studied the intelligence sent by the Portuguese in detail, and believed that the Portuguese fleet was much stronger than the one a few years ago. This incoming Portuguese fleet was equipped with the latest model.

The smoothbore cannon and the new warship has a draft of up to 1,500 tons. The Portuguese's intelligence is very vague. However, judging from the displacement, this new warship is likely to have very strong firepower.

A warship of 1,500 tons has never been seen before, and it still has no idea how well it performs.

Zhang Yongchan believes that the Portuguese did not tell the truth, and obviously concealed the performance of the Dutch main warship. Why is this? Because the Portuguese are not kind-hearted. This person's talk makes Ma Cheng and Nan Juyi alert at the same time.

It makes sense, and the Portuguese probably didn't tell the truth. Ma Cheng frowned. What is the concept of a 1,500-ton sail battleship? This is really a behemoth.
Chapter completed!