In the spring of Vladivostok, the weather is still a little cold. A huge fleet of sailing ships is slowly sailing into the Golden Horn. There were already a lot of people waiting on the pier.

Li Ming and Song Tao stepped off the No. 1 landing ship and hugged Gao Jianguo, Qiao Haopeng and others who came to greet them.

They went all the way to the Military Commission, and someone had already arranged a table of banquets. Everyone sat down and drank and talked. Qiao Haipeng said with a smile: "Li Ming, on behalf of the Admiralty, I thank you!" Good fellow, if you make such a move, the Admiralty is a big game. ”

Gao Jianguo smiled bitterly: "Our War Department is envious of them, that is really expanding the territory, but our War Department still has to nest here, and now we can't move." ”

Li Ming thought for a while and said: "I have thought about it, although Vladivostok cannot rush to send troops, we must be determined to go north. led the troops all the way to the north, and if possible, they fought all the way to Shuangchengzi, and even to the vicinity of Xingkai Lake. ”

Song Tao also said fiercely: "I don't believe that the natives around here dare to stab us, our company's reputation in the past two years is not good, hehe...... Hundreds of tribes were slaughtered again, and Ningguta was burned again, anyway, those tribes around us will definitely walk around when they see us. ”

Gao Jianguo said with a smile: "Let's lay the railway to Artem first, only by occupying Artyom and then developing northward, there will be a reliable support point." Then Song Tao, you will take the special combat team and the mountain regiment to find out the area south of Xingkai Lake for me, so that you can not find the pulse when you can save it. ”

"Old Qiao, this time I brought that He Wu, and there are more than a thousand pirates from Manila, even the more than 2,000 people who captured Zheng Zhilong have been brought back. I threw them all on Jeju Island and let the people from the overseas brigade train them. You go to see it in a few months, and if there are good ones, pull them to the Admiralty. Now that the expansion of the Admiralty is imminent, it is afraid that it will be too late to train new recruits. ”

Song Tao also smiled: "He Wu, this guy is really good, when the royal city of Manila was defended, if it weren't for his city, it would have been broken a long time ago." Train him well, and he may be a general in the future. And the more than 1,000 people under his command are all dead set on our Far East Company, and after training, they can use it if they can. ”

This time, Li Ming brought back more than 20 sailboats from Manila, most of which were Spanish galleons in relatively good condition. Seven of them have a tonnage of close to 1,000 tons, so there is no problem at all in converting them into sailboats, and an 85-mm anti-tank gun can be installed in the cabin.

During this trip to Manila, several modified sailing ships have withstood the test of actual combat and proved that their combat power is very strong, although they cannot be compared with cutting-edge sailing ships, but they pose a huge threat to ordinary sailboats.

Plus four cutting-edge sailboats launched at the company's shipyard this year. The number of sailing ships of the company has reached 18, which is enough to dominate the Asian oceans. Together with more than two dozen converted sailboats, the Far East is already ready to implement that plan.

Qiao Haipeng said with a smile: "As for the place in Macau, we discussed it with Lao Gao, and there is no need to fight hard." If that place moves, it will shock the Ming court again. Whatever the next will will be, it will have an unnecessary impact on our plans. ”

Gao Jianguo nodded and said: "So I still think of a way at sea to hijack all the sea ships in and out of Macao, and not let go of a single ship, so that they are panicked every day, so that we have a chance." But if we want to do this, we have to put a nail in the coffin in Macau and provide us with effective intelligence through the guò radio. Song Tao, this depends on you. ”

Song Tao smiled and said, "This is no problem, I can go in person." How about I make some noise in Macau? Let the merchant ships of various countries who are already panicked never dare to come to Macao in the future. What do you think?? ”

Gao Jianguo nodded and said: "This is up to you to summarize and decide according to the situation, I only need information, and you use wireless telegraphy to send out information every day." As for Nagasaki, Japan, I think we should let the Satsuma clan help us gather intelligence, and we waited on the front line of Ryukyu and Taiwan, which was tantamount to choking their necks and never allowing a Portuguese ship to return to Macao. ”

Although they studied the plan to attack Macau, it would take several months for the concrete action to take place. And not only that, there is also a big dragon along the coast of Guangdong. That is Liu Xiang of Lamma Island, and the Far East Company cannot avoid his existence in the future.

Li Ming thought for a while and said, "Old Qiao, that Liu Xiang from Lamma Island, Guangdong, what is your Admiralty's opinion?" Co-optation or extermination? ”

"I think that Liu Xiang's company should still be based on co-optation, and it is better to support the two than to let the Zheng family dominate. And this guy is also a talent, and he will be a mad dog when he is released in the future. Liu Xiang must know about our situation now, and I estimate that Xiao Hanguang will be able to send a telegram back in a few days. Liu Xiang should also go to Manila to worship the mountain. ”

Just when Li Ming and the others were thinking about how to calculate Liu Xiang, Liu Xiang on Lamma Island was also facing a choice.

Lamma Island is the third largest island in Hong Kong, China, after Lantau Island and Hong Kong Island. Lamma Island was known as "Boliao Island" in ancient times, and was once a place for foreign ships to trade in Guangzhou during the Tang and Song dynasties. In modern times, because the island is located in the south of Hong Kong and is shaped like the Chinese character "丫", it was named "Lamma Island" and gradually replaced the name "Boliao Island".

Liu Xiang also heard about the Far East Company, and their spies in Manila also met the Zheng brothers in Manila, and it seemed that they were absorbed by the Far East. The Zheng brothers have all been co-opted, and if he wants to resist the Far East, he is looking for death.

Of course, Liu Xiang, a famous murderer in the Far East, knew that the reason why he was not found was that he had not yet poured out his efforts, and once they found them, they would be passive. So Liu Xiang is also making a choice, after all, he is used to being a master, so how can he be willing to let him go to the Far East coldly.

A shrewd and thin man next to him said solemnly: "The big boss, it is said that the Far East Company is extremely fierce, and the Hongyi people sent a ship to hang near Manila for a few days, wanting to put some pressure on the Far East Company." Unexpectedly, the Far East Company directly sent ships to destroy several large plywood ships of Hongyi, not to mention, they also sent ships to Batavia, guarded near Malacca, and hijacked Hongyi's ships when they saw them. They sent another ship to bring Hongyi's castle in Taiwan. ”

Liu Xiang's face was full of solemnity, and he asked gloomily: "It took them a few days for the Far Eastern Company to take over the big part of Reshalan City. ”

The man said, "It was said that it only took one day." ”

Liu Xiang sneered and said: "They are bragging, we haven't been there, you said that we need to attack there, how many people do we need, how many days do we have to fight?" ”

"The big boss, this should be Zhun Xin'er, it is said that the Far East was in Taipei Tamsui a while ago, and the castle of Franc Robot Tamsui was beaten, and it seems that it also went down in one day. The big boss, the one who comes is not good, we really have to be careful. ”

Liu Xiang sighed and said with a wry smile: "In the future, our buddies will no longer be able to drift freely, the Far East Company is here, how can we still live." Alas...... I'm going to take the soldiers up, if it's too late, Zheng Zhilong will be relieved, and I will be the first to be killed. ”

"Big boss, we can go, leave Lamma Island, the sea is so big, just find a small island, can they still find us."

Liu Xiang shook his head and said with a wry smile: "They occupy Taiwan and Manila, and it is said that there is also Ryukyu, where else do you say we can go." The sea is big, but if we leave the course, what will we eat? ”

A few days later, Xiao Hanguang sent a telegram from Manila, saying that Liu Xiang had come to Manila in person. Gao Jianguo received the telegram and was immediately overjoyed, he called back to report to Xiao Hanguang, asking Liu Xiang to go back to Lamma Island first, and when it was autumn, someone would naturally look for him.

The company's success in recovering Liu Xiang is definitely a great joy for Far East. Zheng Zhilong's strength is management, while Liu Xiang's strength is naval warfare. It is said that Zheng Zhilong was full of praise for Liu Xiang's command of the battle array.

What kind of scene would it be if these pirates who dominated the southeast back then were released from the pool of Nanyang one day. It's really cool for everyone to think about letting Chinese pirates rob the whole world.

On Jeju Island, as soon as He Wu and the others got off the boat, they were dismounted by a group of soldiers. This time, Li Ming did not let the teaching team send people to train the pirates, but let these ruffians who had been training on Jeju Island be responsible for training these pirates.

He Wu had already been mentally prepared before he came, and he had also explained to his subordinates, so although He Wu and the others were angry, they all endured their anger and did not have an attack.

However, the pirates below the Zheng clan couldn't stand this anger, and they fought with the ruffians on the spot, and the final result was that those who shot out of the Zheng pirates were stuffed in the confinement room for three days, almost tossing them to death.

The Zheng pirates were honest all of a sudden, and they didn't dare to stab anymore.

What followed was endless training, and how to teach the team how to use these ruffians on these pirates several times over.

People are actually afraid of being forced, no matter how hard and tired they are, as long as they survive the beginning, in fact, that's it. Now Zhao Si is He Wu's instructor, and the ruthlessness of these pirates makes Zhao Si secretly speechless.

In fact, pirates drift on the sea all year round, which is no better than on land, not to mention the difficult conditions, and the chance of getting various diseases is very high. So the pirates and sailors of this era, going to sea is basically playing with their lives.

Three months later, He Wu and the others almost lost a few layers of skin under the harsh teaching of these soldiers. But people have indeed changed, and there is even a taste of rebirth. Every word and deed is clean and neat, and just standing there, I feel the spirit that I can't speak. R1152