Xiao Tianjian was very concerned about this matter, and also personally participated in the formulation of the action plan, after the Admiralty Department and the Haimao Group Company jointly discussed, Xiao Tianjian personally circled two locations on the coast of the Lê Dynasty in Vietnam.

One of these two locations is Toulon, which later became Da Nang in Vietnam, and the other is Cam Ranh, which is also known as Cam Ranh Bay.

The reason why Xiao Tianjian chose these two places as the supply base of the Great China and the DPRK is because these two places are natural harbors, and since ancient times, these two places are the places that Chinese maritime merchants must pass through when they go to the South Seas, and they are also used as safe havens, which have unique geographical advantages.

In his eyes, this Vietnam is also a henchman of China in the old time and later generations, and it must be completely eliminated, so that it can be reunited into the territory of the Great China and North Korea, and the hidden danger of this future China must be completely eliminated.

Now is the best time to deal with them, because the Lê Dynasty itself is now in a state of division between the north and the south, the north is controlled by the Truong clique of the Lê dynasty, and the south is controlled by the Nguyen clique, as the royal family of the Lê dynasty, it is now nothing more than a puppet, and the fighting between the Truong and Nguyen clans in the north and south is non-stop, and the Great Trung Dynasty has enough reasons to clean them up.

Both the Nguyen and Zheng clans, in order to obtain profits, colluded with pirates, gave pirates officials, acted as their so-called sea masters, and then shared with these pirates the goods obtained by robbing and robbing the merchant ships of the passing Chinese.

After the establishment of the Haimao Group, it has fought with these pirates who were attached to the Later Li Dynasty many times, so the Dazhong Dynasty has enough reasons to repair them, and the capture of Toulon and Cam Ranh Bay is equivalent to inserting two knives in the waist eye of the Later Li Dynasty, and after solving the matter of the Strait of Malacca, looking back, the Dazhong Dynasty can completely attack from the land and the sea, and destroy the Later Li Dynasty in one fell swoop, restore the Cochin Province, and return it to the territory of the Great Middle Dynasty, so that there is Cochin Province in the east and Luzon Province in the west. After the Strait of Malacca is occupied, the entire South China Sea will completely become an inland sea for the Chinese, and whoever wants to enter Asia in the future will have to look at the faces of the Chinese.

After listening to Xiao Tianjian's opinion, the military headquarters immediately agreed to his suggestion, and included the occupation of Cam Ranh Bay and Toulon Harbor in the plan of action for this expedition to Malacca, and made separate arrangements as two sub-items in the main battle plan.

As for the final resting place before attacking the Strait of Malacca, Zheng Zhilong put forward the idea that he could contact the Sultan of Johor, who is now at the southeastern entrance of the Strait of Malacca, to obtain a forward base in the Riau Islands.

After Xiao Tianjian heard this, he immediately believed that he had asked about the Sultan of Johor, so Zheng Zhilong told Xiao Tianjian in detail what he knew.

It turns out that the current Sultan of Johor is actually the descendant of the king of Malacca, after Malacca was occupied by the Portuguese, the king of Malacca asked for help to no avail, so he fled to Bintan Island on the Riau Islands, continued to fight against the Portuguese, and changed his name to the Sultan of Johor, occupying the largest Bintan Island in the Riau Islands, and also controlling the nearby island of Batam, dozens of miles to the west, is the Lion City, which can fully control the southeast entrance of the Strait of Malacca.

According to Zheng Zhilong's meaning, the Sultan of Johor can contact the current Sultan of Johor and inform him of the things that the Ming Dynasty did not care about before, and now the Sultan of Johor is willing to help the Sultan of Johor take back Malacca and let him sit in the position of the king of Malacca again, but the premise is that the Sultan of Johor will provide two bases in Batam and Bintan Island as a resting place for the Sultan of Johor, and the Sultan of Johor will provide logistics support for the Sultan of Johor, especially the supply of fresh water and food, and send guides to lead the Sultan of Johor to attack Malacca.

After Xiao Tianjian listened to Zheng Zhilong's words, he immediately nodded and affirmed his suggestion, this is the best way at present, as long as he can get a forward base on Bintan Island, as a resting place for the Dazhong Korean Boat Division, then it will be a great help for the next attack on Malacca to control the entire Malacca Strait, and in addition, he can also provide some supplies to the Dazhong Dynasty through the Sultan of Johor, so that it will save a lot of trouble for the Dazhong Dynasty.

Therefore, according to the results of the deliberation of the people, the navy department began to make a final break to formulate the entire battle plan for going south to Malacca, and at the same time submitted it to the cabinet for approval, and Xiao Tianjian Yubi Zhu approved the battle plan.

Immediately, the Haimao Group sent people and ships from Guangzhou, as a businessman, to start the preliminary survey of the route, and also went to Bintan Island to find contact with the Sultan of Johor to negotiate future cooperation.

After more than half a year of intense preparations, Haimao Group brought back a good news, that is, after learning that the Sultan of Johor was willing to help him restore the country, he immediately agreed to all the conditions put forward by the Sultan of Johor, and said that in the future, he would always be willing to be a vassal state of the Sultan of the Mainland, accept the canonization of the Empire, and never betray the Empire.

In the past six months, the navy, in cooperation with the Haimao Group Company, has already made a clear understanding of the shipping lanes and topography in the area around Toulon Port and Cam Ranh Bay, as well as the situation of the local troops of the Later Li Dynasty.

The Ruan clique of the Later Lê Dynasty did not have a strong control over these two places, and the number of troops was very small, and the local people of the Lê Dynasty lived a very hard life, and there were some local Chinese who were very familiar with the local situation, so they could occupy these two places without much effort, and the Nguyen clique of the Lê Dynasty might not agree, but as long as the Dazhong Army established a strong bridgehead in these two places with lightning speed, it is expected that even if the Ruan Group does not agree, it will not be able to drive the Dazhong Army away.

Moreover, there is no need to send too many troops in these two places, and each has about one battalion of troops stationed there, which is enough to deal with the counterattack of the local Nguyen group's army and control this area.

So in the autumn of the ninth year of the Tianyuan Dynasty, the fleet of ships that had fought in advance set sail again in Guangzhou, and in addition to loading two naval battalions, these ships were also loaded with a lot of artillery for their stationing, and two capable engineering battalions were also dispatched, prepared with sufficient construction tools, and set off for Toulon and Cam Ranh Bay together.

After more than half a month of sailing, this fleet suddenly appeared in Toulon and Cam Ranh Bay, and the local Nguyen clan had no preparations at all, and the Dazhong army also landed on the two sides on the pretext that they wanted to build a shelter for merchant ships in these two places.

The naval battalion that accompanied the ship immediately landed and set up a temporary camp to control the two bays, and the accompanying engineering troops immediately unloaded a large number of construction tools, and recruited local people at a large price to help them build forts.

After just over a month, two fortified forts appeared in Toulon and Cam Ranh Bay, although these two forts have not yet been completed, but the forts were the first to be built, and the cannons were erected on the forts, which had the ability to resist the attack of the local Li Dynasty army.

When the Nguyen group of the Li Dynasty heard the news, they were very slow to react, and when they learned that these Chinese had actually built castles in these two places, they realized that things were a bit beyond their expectations, so they sent officials to the area of Toulon and Cam Ranh Bay to find the local garrison of the Dazhong Army, and asked the Dazhong Army to demolish the castle and evacuate the place.

However, the Li Dynasty's request was immediately rejected by the local chief officials, and they took out money to bribe these Li Dynasty officials who came to the Li Dynasty, and these people saw the money, took the short hand, and after returning lied that the Chinese had only established a small village, and there was no sign of long-term entrenchment, so they actually fooled the past, and after the Nguyen clan of the Li Dynasty listened, they actually did not stop.

However, the appearance of the Dazhong army threatened the interests of the local pirates, and the pirates saw that the Li Dynasty people did not move, so they gathered one or two thousand pirates on their own and launched an attack on Toulinburg, wanting to drive away the Dazhong army entrenched here.

The result was naturally very miserable, how could the pirates be the opponent of the Great Chinese Army, but they were not able to conquer Toulunburg, but were surrounded by the local defenders, almost all of them were annihilated in the port of Toulon, and more than 800 pirates were captured, and after killing the leader, the rest were all locked up in labor camps for the local garrison to be used as labor, and at once Toulinburg had more than 800 free laborers.

After the completion of Toulon Fort and Cam Ranh Fort, part of the engineering unit sailed south again, leaving some to continue to lead the laborers in the construction of the pier pier, while the rest immediately left for Bintan Island.

After contacting the local Sultan of Johor, the engineering unit of the Dazhong Army immediately began to build a fort in the port of Batam, and the Sultan of Johor also recruited a large number of local aborigines to help the Dazhong Army build the port wharf and trestle bridge.

After nearly half a year of preparation, as the preliminary preparations for the expedition to Malacca were basically completed, a batch of material fleets also began to sail, a large number of combat materials were transported to Batam Port Castle in advance, and stockpiled as a supplement for future wars, in addition to Toulon Fort and Cam Ranh Fort also began to stock up on food in advance, and gathered a lot of fishing boats to go to these two places in advance to fish at sea, in order to provide fresh fish for the fleet at any time, to ensure that the fleet can obtain enough meat along the way for the people on board to eat.

After learning that the preliminary preparations were completed, Xiao Tianjian immediately ordered the expeditionary force that had already been prepared and assembled to start action.

(Today, I would like to thank YYS1990, a drunken person, and Skydiou for their tips!) ）