Wen Zhong said: "It seems that the matter in Penghu is over? ”

"Commander Wen's mind is really moving. "Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info" Gan Hui said: "It's really over, so we are under pressure, and there have been many frictions, and when we come here, we are very worried that a naval battle will break out at any time." ”

"I see." Wen Zhong said: "We will try to find wood for you." ”

"Thank you." Gan Hui hugged his fists and said: "Oak wood is similar to oak, Taixi side mostly uses oak to build ships, his generation began large-scale navigation two hundred years ago, all countries have a variety of oak for backup, oak grows into a hundred and fifty years, their reserves are quite sufficient, so the shipbuilding uses more oak, less pine and oak. There are also a small number of boats, which can be made of teak. We are in the Ming Dynasty, saying that the place is vast, but there is no oak, and teak is almost none, and it is almost impossible to build ships with oak or teak. If all pine is used, the keel deck and other important places will certainly not be as strong as the Dutch ship, only the oak wood here in Liaodong is similar to oak and can be replaced. However, the number of oak trees that are hundreds of years old and hugged by several people is also small, and they need to be found in the vast forest...... Therefore, the matter of shipbuilding is also imminent. Fortunately, we can rejoice that the firearms bureau branch in Taiwan has begun to take shape, and in the future, the military department will transfer most of the good guns to Taiwan, and our ship artillery is not afraid of lack of copper and iron, and there are enough boring machines and punches to make cannons, which is quite a fortunate thing. ”

"Okay, our 12th Regiment will be responsible for this." Wen Zhongfa said: "It is also an important matter, from now until the beginning of spring, we will spend three or four months to investigate and determine, and then organize manpower to plan the route for felling and transportation." But we have limited funds, and according to your standards and requirements, we need a large number of manpower just to survey and make sure, and we need more silver for cutting and transportation, and even to build a road from Kuandian to Jiangkou that can pass through simple carriages, and it will be difficult for us to do this well without special financial allocation. ”

"Chang Zhengshi has already sent someone to the grassland to find Lord Zhang to explain in person." "Taiwan will be a particularly important place in the future, and I think we should give priority to our needs," Gan Hui said. ”

"That's not right." Wen Zhong said warmly: "The grassland, Liaodong, Taiwan, including Datong and Zhangjiakou, everywhere is a place where we are important, and there is no place that is particularly important. ”

"Yes, under the gaffe." Gan Hui admitted his mistake calmly, but still insisted: "Each has different emphasis, for example, after a few years, Liaodong will be more important than Taiwan, and the year before last, during the grassland war, it will be more important than elsewhere, and Taiwan at this time should be the most important place." ”

"That makes sense." Wen Zhongfa stood up, Gan Hui also got up to say goodbye, his task has been completed, there is a boat waiting on the side of Phi Island, it is not appropriate to stay for a long time.

"It's good that this place was developed by the conductor and your colleagues." Gan Hui said sincerely: "In the bitter cold land of Liaodong, you are really hard. ”

Gan Hui and Congren came from Phi Dao, hit the estuary and went ashore, all the way east, only rugged and difficult paths, through the estuary, mountains and forests, over rugged and steep slopes, through quite dense woodland, all the way, the hardships and hardships are needless to say.

In such a place, there are still quite a few fugitives from Liaodong who have begun to settle down, cultivating land in various valleys, and after a year or two, they have become a little larger.

However, the reclamation and pioneering of Liaomin and Dongjiang Town is obviously not as professional as that of Heyusheng, from the planning of acres to water conservancy and irrigation, and then to road repair, although it is in the depths of the mountains of Kuandian, but the soldiers and soldiers of Yusheng have not given up because of this, Kuandian originally had 50,000 or 60,000 Han people to live, in fact, there is still quite fertile arable land to cultivate, the 12th regiment occupied several large valley flats and slopes, reclaimed and planted a considerable area.

In the eyes of Gan Hui and others, this is a bitter cold place, only to pay October but the cold ground is frozen, which makes the southerners feel a little unacceptable, such a cold day, hiding in the house to bake the fire is still uncomfortable, not to mention to open up so much land, but also to burn bricks to build barracks, build defense lines, cut down trees to build bridges, build roads, it can be said that the 12th Regiment was poor and white when it first arrived in Kuandian, thousands of people guarded the deep mountains and dense forests, only the hills and flats have some abandoned village houses, it seems to be still telling the past decades ago......

And the barracks are full of staggered barracks and buildings, and there are many sentry posts when I come over, both in the open and in the dark. In terms of the scale of the camp and the tightness of the guards, the Dongjiang territory seen along the way is really too far apart.

"You're so thick-skinned." After the guests left, the bald man said to Wen Zhong: "It's money to open and shut up, and all the marching divisions are also part of Hutchison, so you are like an outsider." ”

"You know a bird." Wen Zhong laughed and scolded: "I still don't understand this truth? Now Taiwan is the richest, and it has its own amount of control, so if you don't take the opportunity to get a few, the salary of our 12th regiment is paid by the military department, the annual public expenditure is fixed, and the amount of military expenditure is also limited...... What is the war, and what is fought is not money and food! ”

"I've said that I've been fighting for two or three years, but what year is it? Don't make it three years and three years, it will be miserable. ”、

"Fuck your crow's mouth." Wen Zhong scolded with a smile, but his face also showed a look of worry, at present, Kuandian to southern Liaoning belong to the guerrilla zone, Dongjiang Town now has about 30,000 soldiers, but the quality of this soldier is really not flattering, from Wen Zhongfa's point of view, a few soldiers in Dongjiang Town can be called elite, such as Zhang Pan's recovery of Lushun and Jinzhou's subordinates, Mao Wenlong's family can also be called elite soldiers, Mao Chenglu, Mao Youjun, Mao Yongshi and other generals' families and personal soldiers can also fight with Jianyu, the number of these generals will not exceed 5,000, In addition, those so-called soldiers may not be comparable to the soldiers of the merchant regiment, and there is a big difference in the quality of the personnel from training to equipment and personnel themselves...... Even if there is a big fight in the future, the possibility of Dongjiang Town being the main force is very small, Wen Zhongfa feels that he still has to rely on himself, in this regard, he also wants to make the plate of the 12th regiment bigger and stronger, and in the future, he will give an order, kill Niumaozhai from Kuandian, go straight to Hetuala, and complete the unfinished business of General Liu Zhi back then.

……

On the blue waves, the old general Yu Zhigao, who had white eyebrows, looked tired, his eyes were a little black, and the bags under his eyes were very obvious.

After several months of siege, the Dutch trapped in Fengwei Cabinet Island were certainly exhausted, and the soldiers of the Ming army besieging them were really no better.

The first two months happened to be the time when the Penghu typhoon was intensive, a number of strong winds passed through continuously, and when the waves were large, they were more than ten zhang high, although the houses on Penghu Island were repaired as firmly and solidly as possible, they were still blown across many buildings by strong winds, and there were many dead and injured soldiers, and even the house where Yu Shigao himself lived was a little dangerous.

The ships on the sea were like paper boats, and many Ming warships were destroyed by the wind and waves, and more than 100 soldiers were killed and wounded, and the losses were heavy.

Later, Yu Zhigao could only order all the sailors and warships to enter the port to avoid the wind and waves, anyway, the Dutch ships did not dare to leave the port in such a storm, their ships were larger, but it was in vain to encounter such a wind and waves.

After the wind and waves were lesser, the Ming army did not try to attack the port again, from the land there was only a small road to pass, from the sea the Dutch had a strong coastal battery garrison, and there were warships to cooperate, there was no chance at all.

The Ming army has a large number of warships and more than 10,000 people, the main force of the Dutch plus the young soldiers have a thousand people left, the strength is ten to one, the combat effectiveness and will of the Ming army is much stronger than the ordinary miscellaneous fish troops, mainly in the sea and sea battles can not be broken up, as long as the battle is on the ground can only be hard to the end, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is relatively good, at least in the battle with the Dutch did not fall behind, several naval and land battles have defeated the Dutch, which is also the reason why the Dutch lowered their noble heads and took the initiative to negotiate with the Ming army.

These early colonists were different from their naïve descendants in later generations, they were incomparably brutal and incomparably cunning, even at the risk of their lives, as long as it was in their interests. The Europeans of this era not only possessed the fruits of the technological revolution, but also flourished in terms of military prowess at the individual level and at the national level, and this momentum continued until the First World War, when they fought their own blood and destroyed hundreds of years of accumulated wealth, and the upward momentum of the whole of Europe finally ended.

"If you want to make a fucking contract, they deserve it!" Yu Zhigao looked at the Dutch castle that could not be taken after a hard battle, and couldn't help but complain.

"Make a covenant." Haiphong Dao Sun Guozhen said: "The meaning of Lord Junmen is also to end the Penghu War as soon as possible. ”

Sun Guozhen looked at the generals, guerrillas, garrisons, and generals present, and said softly to Yu Zhigao: "Old general, this siege of Hongyi not only cost a lot of money and food, but also had many complaints from all sides, complaining that the losses in this battle were very large, and the elite of the naval divisions of our Fujian guards suffered very badly. The children of Fujian, you can't waste it in such a senseless war. ”

Yu Zhigao's face was expressionless, but his mood was very shocked. He knew that there were many gentry and generals on the shore who were quite dissatisfied with him, and that the Ming army had suffered more than 1,000 casualties in this battle, which was a very heavy loss for the Fujian Navy Division. After all, there are so many soldiers who can be put together by the entire Fujian Navy Division to fight at sea, and the losses in the First World War are too large, which are the essence of the guards, and even the generals themselves raised their families, how can they not have grievances?

If this war was stopped, although there was already considerable dissatisfaction, with the support of the governor and Haiphong Dao and other high-ranking officials, Yu Zhigao estimated that he would still be able to sit firmly in the position of the general army of Fujian, which was inherited from father to son, and the position of the Yu family in the Fujian generals was still unshakeable.

If he continues to fight, destroy dozens of ships and kill thousands of people, I am afraid that the resentment will be so great that even the governor's military gate may not be able to protect him, and when the time comes, he will have to step down and go home in disgrace if he wins the battle.

Yu Zhigao is sometimes very confident, so confident that he doesn't listen to people's persuasion, but when the difference in strength is really quite obvious and he can't do anything, he can still recognize the reality clearly.

In history, he did not listen to the advice of the people, and led the elites of the Fujian Navy Division to crusade against Zheng Zhilong, just thinking that this pirate would never be the opponent of the Ming Navy, but the result was a big defeat and a complete defeat, and in the end, he could not be exempted from the crime and was arrested and beheaded. The father and son of the Yu family are all dedicated to the country and have made great contributions, but the results are all bad fate, which can be described as a bad death, and it is also embarrassing.

As for the Dutch, Yu Zhigao was still as good as a stream, knowing that this battle could not be fought.

"Okay." Yu Zhigao's eyebrows moved, his calloused big hand stroked his snow-white beard, and said lightly: "Everyone complains that they can't fight, why should the old man insist, everyone is unhappy for nothing!" ”

Sun Guozhen said happily: "That's good, the Dutch general Gao Wenlu and its new governor Song Ke have all pointed out that the old general Yu can sign the agreement." ”

Yu Zhigao laughed and said: "I didn't expect the old man's handwriting to be so valuable, so I asked them to draw up the official document and sign it." ”