Zhang Qiang read the letter sent by Zhou Congee, and Zheng Keshuang quickly reached an agreement with the cabinet to exchange guano and iron ore for warships, warships, and transport ships, fishing boats, merchant ships, as well as guns and ammunition from the Huaxia Kingdom, cannons, as well as silk, tea, porcelain, and other special products of the Huaxia Kingdom, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes, farm tools, wheelbarrows, carriages, mules and horses, newly developed glazed tiles, as well as the population, the Han people, the indigenous people of Southeast Asia, the indigenous people of Japan, and prisoners of war.

This is a large and all-encompassing trade, the total amount of funds has reached 100 million Chinese yuan, and there are as many as a carriage of negotiation materials for specific projects, Zhang Qiang will definitely not see it, and he will not have time to look at it, it is too much, he only needs to grasp the general direction in his position, and what do you want the officials below to do in the details?

However, because Zheng Chenggong's mineral mining is not so fast, it is necessary to follow the rhythm of the transaction between the two sides, and it is not known when and what month it will be reached, so Zheng Keshuang proposed to exchange a part of the gold and silver for Huaxia Yuan, and then use Huaxia Yuan to pay a part of the money, and the excess Huaxia Yuan will be shipped back to Australia to be used to buy the products of the Huaxia Kingdom in the future.

This part of the money is paid every year, about one million Huaxia Yuan, but it is not necessary to exchange one million Huaxia Yuan every year, they may exchange more every year, for example, in the first year they exchanged eight million Huaxia Yuan, and handed over to the Huaxia Kingdom a large amount of gold and silver treasures.

Among them, 2 million Chinese dollars have been handed over to the household department of the Huaxia Kingdom to purchase the 100,000 Japanese in the early stage, these Japanese came out of the Qiongdao mine, and those people are already familiar with the excavation and mining work of the mine, and the transportation back can just increase the speed of mining in Australia.

Not only that, but there were 100,000 Southeast Asian slaves, these slaves came from Li Dingguo in the Southeast Asian theater of operations, and many of them were troublemakers and disobedient people in the occupied areas, and they were thrown into prisoner camps and were working, and some of them were newly captured prisoners of small Southeast Asian countries, and these people went just in time to give the Japanese a hand and carry out the most difficult mining work in the mines.

The 50,000 Han Chinese, of course, are not pure southern or northern Han Chinese, but those Han people who have been naturalized in Southeast Asia, or who are Han Chinese in their own right ancestors, and who are now Southeast Asians, who have been captured or are already in the occupied areas.

A total of 250,000 people have been boarded one after another, some of the ships are the Third Fleet, the Fourth Fleet is 20 years old, about 200 ships, all Daifuku ships, each of which has reached the size of 300 tons.

These lucky ships transport some personnel and materials near the coast, as long as they do not encounter strong winds and waves, they are still okay, because the age of the ship is too long, and the Huaxia Army does not use it much, and it is expensive to maintain, so the cabbage price was sold to Zheng Keshuang, and the total value of 200 ships is only 200,000 Huaxia yuan, which is equivalent to giving it away for nothing, Zheng Keshuang jumped up happily.

Carrying some low-cost goods, all of which are daily necessities, Zheng Keshuang is satisfied with these things and returns to Australia first, and when he comes back, he will bring Australian goods, iron ore, and guano to the Huaxia Kingdom to trade.

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 outside the county seat of Kochi is the place where the two sides exchange fire, with the wharf as the center, Feng Quan's troops during this period of time can not exceed the scope of the cover of the seven miles of naval artillery, because the enemy's strength is too much, the loss of 100,000 militia rabble, the enemy still has 100,000 militia, and at the same time people also have 50,000 regular troops, maybe the combat effectiveness is not as good as the troops of Xinlu Province, but the people are fighting on their own, the supply is easy, and the advantage is in the strength.

At the same time, with the support of the Japanese, the support of the Qing Kingdom, the firepower and weapons of the Taixi people and the Dutch, the support of instructors, and various advantages, Feng Quan's landing battle caused great damage to the four countries, but he could not push further.

The enemy is not a fool, they also have elite troops, and Feng Quan's regular army is pinned down on the side of Kitakyushu Island, so Feng Quan had to transfer the militia in the territory to support him, and in seven days, 30,000 people were young and strong, 30,000 militiamen, and 5,000 regular army troops.

The battle with Shikoku turned into a war of attrition.

The Dutch continued to send weapons to Shikoku, the Japanese kept sending some wandering samurai cannon fodder to Shikoku, and the Qing army lined up 10,000 guns to support Shikoku.

Feng Quan could not advance, could only passively defend, with the wharf as the center, five miles out of the wharf set up a defensive line, he used in the Qing army to fight with the Huaxia army, the Huaxia army used the trench defense line to confront the enemy, fifteen miles on both sides of the wharf is also his defense line, the entire defense line formed a semicircle centered on the wharf.

On this line of defense, Feng Quan arranged 40,000 troops, and then retreated two miles to another defense line, arranged 20,000 troops, and drew a semicircle around the wharf, and arranged a defense line again.

The third line of defense was arranged with 10,000 troops, and he personally sat on the dock to protect our 5,000 troops.

A total of 75,000 troops, and a steady stream of troops landing, the camp was set up between the second and third lines of defense on the left and right of the dock, and the dock also continued to accommodate war materials, people, and reinforcements from the rear.

The battle was not only their charge against the second prince of Shikoku Island, but more often it was the second prince who constantly attacked Feng Quan and them with his superiority in strength, wanting to drive them into the sea.

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

The first line of defense is the focus of contention, many times the enemy relies on the advantage of strength to break through the first line of defense again and again, and Feng Quan uses his own soldiers, even if the militia is well trained, sufficient weapons, and sufficient ammunition to strike a blow to the enemy, many times to annihilate the enemy's forces that broke through from one point, but recaptured the defense line that was broken through.

In this regard, Feng Quan still did not give up, got a large number of building materials from Xinlu Mansion, used the captured prisoners to rush to work, and built forts and forts one mile behind the first line of defense, and more and more forts were built, left and right of Tunbao, and there were hidden caves in the rear, and the entire outer wharf of Kochi County was almost made 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, in the face of trenches, horses, and thistles, they were miserable.

The young and strong people squatting in the trenches, plus the militia, plus some elite squad leaders of the regular army, even if they were holding Jingai-1 arquebuses and 40,000 guns firing together, they lost more than 10,000 people in one charge, and the cannon fodder was completely wiped out twice, and the militia troops following behind also suffered heavy losses.

But even if they have more and more artillery, but after the artillery, these people come out again, and they don't see many deaths, and if there is no continuity among the soldiers who rush up, then there is only one ending, all annihilation.

Feng Quan's artillery is more dominant than theirs, the speed is fast, the shells are still flowering, and the lethality is greater than their solid shells.

The second prince has already transferred the troops of the entire Kochi county to Kochi county, 200,000 soldiers and horses plus 30,000 soldiers and horses of the regular army, and the loss is that only 30,000 militia and 10,000 regular army troops remain.

had to transfer troops from other counties, and the Qing army also sent soldiers and horses to support them, 10,000 soldiers and horses, and the Dutch even sent 2,000 troops and 500 sailors to help in the war, these Dutch mainly trained those militias, 500 sailors mainly operated cannons, and trained the militia of the second prince to use cannons.

But in this way, they still could not break through the enemy's defensive line, and 200,000 soldiers and horses were transferred from other places, and more than 30,000 soldiers and horses from each of the other three county towns were transferred, and the Japanese also supported 50,000 cannon fodder samurai, 50,000 young and strong soldiers and horses, and they also organized 10,000 people on the spot, plus the original remaining 60,000 soldiers and horses, the total strength reached 260,000 troops.

And Feng Quan's side has successively increased the number of soldiers and horses to 100,000, the original remaining 40,000 soldiers and horses, plus more than 60,000 soldiers and horses that have been added one after another, the two sides have gathered nearly 400,000 soldiers and horses on this battlefield.

Zhang Qiang sensed that things were moving towards something he didn't want to see.

If the landing battle is a trench war, do you have to develop tanks to meet the situation?

Then, Zhang Qiang smiled bitterly, he must not fight like that, he is not an engineering student, he is not a historical archaeologist, can he build a tank? I can still find the point of history and get through this difficulty, I haven't learned my own history well, not to mention that this history has long been smeared by myself as a mess, this is a weak historical line crosser who has crossed the weak history, but according to the route taken by the strong history, there can be nothing for his reference.

I am not a man of great talent, and I still play the most ordinary development route of the kind of musket and cannon traverser, but this route cannot be played all the way because of the lack of my own historical knowledge and my own military knowledge reserves, not to mention the premise that I don't want the war fought here to become an example for Europe and the West to learn.

The development of science and technology is too fast, the enemy is smarter than you, you provide reference for others, sacrifice yourself, but let others get inspiration and develop, then the historical line of future generations will be weaker, and the future generations of China will be more difficult, and if you don't play well, the historical line of later generations will become Westerners colonizing China, judging from your own history, you have also made a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and then Sun Cannon came out to stir up the situation, Jiang Kongge desperately supported, and then Taizu made a revolution with advanced economic theory, Only then did he complete the rise and rebirth of the weak historical line, but that rise was not complete, and he had not overwhelmed the Westerners before he crossed it, and he was still in a defensive posture.

It's difficult, it's really difficult, this son of Hong Chengchou is really not a fuel-efficient lamp, wait, Zhang Qiang suddenly thought of something, "Come on, bring the situation of the third prince and the eldest prince." ”

Zhang Qiang's chamber is an all-encompassing chamber, and the cabinet or the various departments under its own management have corresponding manpower and departments to contact and deal with related matters, while the military intelligence department is responsible for intelligence transmission and issuing orders, backing up files, confidentiality and other responsibilities.

(End of chapter)