Chapter 348: All We Need is Cam Ranh Bay
Li Ming also said with a smile: "The immigrants exceeded the original plan, so we had to ask Song Shiping in Jiangsu and Zhejiang and Zheng Zhilong in Fujian to send hundreds of sea ships, and also mobilized most of the sea ships of the coast guards in Dongjiang Town, Jeju Island, and Tanegashima to send a large number of immigrants from Dengzhou to Jeju Island, where a migrant transit base was established."
The company has taken out all the heavy fuel reserves of the Sakhalin petrochemical base for more than a year, launched two 10,000-ton ships, and most of the ships in Vladivostok are constantly transporting migrants back and forth between Jeju Island and Vladivostok, day and night. Although the task is daunting, we are still able to successfully complete the task of transporting migrants from the current situation. ”
After he finished speaking, he thought for a moment, then turned his head to Wang Yaowu next to him and said, "Yaowu, the next step is to start preparing for the plan to land in Lushun, and prepare for our sweep of Liaodong in the next two years." ”
Wang Yaowu thought for a while and said, "When we land in Lushun, should we take any action against the Lushun City where Huanglong is based?" ”
Li Ming smiled and said, "You can go and meet him after you land, you can completely ignore his attitude, just say hello to him." Hehe...... As long as Lushun, which Huanglong occupies, is still there, then Dongjiang Town is still nominally Ming. I guess the Ming Dynasty should understand by now, they will definitely pay attention to our savings, and maybe they will even send someone to negotiate with us. ”
Lin Hua, chief of staff of the legion, took out a copy of the paper, handed it to Li Ming, and then said: "This is my assessment report of the General Staff on Southeast Asia, after our analysis, the most suitable foothold for the rebels in Liaodong in the future is the Champa State in the south of Annam. The location here is relatively important, and the occupation of the city is relatively weak, which is convenient for the Liao soldiers to gain a foothold.
Now Annam is more chaotic, the Zheng clan controls the north, and the Nguyen clan controls the south. There is also the Mo Dynasty that seized Gaoping, the protectors Wu Degong and Wu Gongbi who seized Xuanguang Town, and the Zhancheng State in the south. The war between the Truong and Nguyen clans began in 1627, and the fight lasted for nearly a hundred years. The Zheng clan has always been in an advantageous position, and the Nguyen clan is now unable to take care of the Champa state in the south at all, and now the time is very good for the Liao soldiers to occupy the Champa state. ”
Li Ming picked up the text and looked at it for a while. smiled and said: "Well, it's really good here in the Champa Kingdom, I'll discuss it with Kong Youde and them again, let these Liao soldiers go there and fight the Vietnamese monkeys, hehe...... When they gain a foothold in the Champa state, we only need Cam Ranh Bay as a strategic military port in Southeast Asia for our company's next step.
In the future, we will vigorously support them, let them go all the way to the west, and make a mess of Chenla and Siam. It also saves us a lot of unnecessary trouble. The South Asian continent has a harsh environment and complex terrain, and compared with the islands of Southeast Asia, there is already a national system that has been formed, and the company has no idea of developing the South Asian continent for the time being. ”
Li Ming handed the text to Wang Yaowu, and the other party looked at it for a while, and said with a smile: "Compared with the mutiny in history, Kong Youde and them this time are simply heaven and earth. The number of troops was already nearly 30,000, and all the materials that Daming had piled up in Denglai were swept away by them. Light firearms, artillery and food. It was enough for them to gain a foothold in Champ. ”
After nearly two months of non-stop work, more than 200,000 migrants from the Dengju base were all transported to Vladivostok and Jeju Island, and the company's Shandong immigration program was a complete success. Although the number of immigrants this time greatly exceeded the previous plan, the company has not been what it used to be, and after more than two years of development, whether it is the reserve of food and other materials. It is also the cultivation of grassroots management talents, which is very sufficient.
For several months, Yu Dake, the governor of Shandong, has been sparing no effort to try to appease the rebellious army in Denglai, and he also specially scraped together a batch of food and salary to send the Liao army in Denglai. Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others happily accepted the things, but they still did what they had to do. kept talking to him about it, which made him a little angry.
Although the Ming court also advocated appeasing the rebels, Denglai's proximity to Gyeonggi also made Chongzhen feel like a pins and needles, and the imperial edict to Shandong Governor Yu Dake quickly resolved the matter, which also made him anxious. Even Xiong Mingyu, the secretary of the military department who had always supported him, wrote to him several times to applaud him, asking him to hurry up and contact the Liao army and do his best to appease the rebels.
It was not until this time that Liu Yulie, the governor appointed by the Ming Dynasty, led 40,000 or 50,000 troops transferred from Jizhen and Sichuan to Shandong. The arrival of tens of thousands of reinforcements also gave Shandong governor Yu Dake confidence, and in order to put pressure on the Liao army, he asked Liu Yulie to lead the army to advance to Laizhou. He also sent Shen Tingyu of the Chinese army and Tao Tingyan, a staff general, to lead thousands of Shandong troops to Weixian.
However, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Li Jiucheng and other Liaodong rebel generals ignored them at all, and still collected supplies in Denglai, persuaded many Ming generals to surrender in Denglai, and also incorporated a large number of pirates in the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, and the strength of the army has expanded to nearly 30,000.
In order to end the mutiny, the Ming Dynasty deliberately sent Zhang Guochen, the highest-ranking Liao civil official, to Denglai to meet with Kong Youde, Geng Jingzhong and other rebel generals, in an attempt to appease the Liao rebels.
As soon as the tens of thousands of troops led by the governor Liu Yulie arrived in Changyi County, they were attacked by the Liao rebels led by Kong Youde. He was accompanied by the Shenji Battalion in the capital and five Hongyi cannons, as well as a large number of baggage supplies, all of which fell into the hands of the rebels.
Liao general Sun Yinglong because of his old friendship with Geng Zhongming, wrote a letter to persuade Geng Zhongming, Geng Zhongming will plan, casually found a head and sent it over, saying that he had beheaded Kong Youde, let Sun Yinglong quickly come to surrender, Sun Yinglong happily led the naval fleet from Tianjin to Dengzhou, as soon as he landed on the shore, Geng Zhongming was killed, and a large number of warships also became trophies of the rebels.
The situation in Denglai is becoming more and more erosive, and the voice of the Ming court advocating the suppression is gradually rising.
In September of the fourth year of Chongzhen (1631), more than five months after the Denglai mutiny, the Ming court finally lost patience and sent the civil official Zhu Dadian to take over as the governor of Shandong, and the eunuch Gao Qi led the Guanning army of 5,000 people and other armies totaling more than 30,000 people to encircle and suppress the rebels. He also mobilized 5,000 sailors from Jinmen, Huaihai and other places to flank the rebels, trying to complete the blockade of the rebels from the sea.
But when the Daming army of land and water arrived in Shandong slowly, they found that the rebels in Denglai had disappeared without a trace.
The Liao rebels had already boarded ships in Dengzhou and left Denglai, and the three landing ships of the Shandong Corps, dozens of sailboats, hundreds of warships of the rebels, and hundreds of civilian ships they collected and plundered off the coast of Denglai, as well as a large number of sea ships from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Song Shiping, also sent a large number of sea ships to Jeju Island with a large number of personnel and countless supplies.
They were accompanied by a large number of Ming civil and military officials and their families who had been captured in Denglai, including Sun Yuanhua, Zhu Wannian, Zhang Keda, Wang Daochun, Song Guanglan, Wang Zheng, Zhang Tao and others. Originally, Kong Youde and others wanted to release these people, but Li Ming strongly advocated that these people be taken away together. In history, Sun Yuanhua and Zhang Tao were executed, and Song Guanglan, Wang Zheng, Yu Dacheng and others were confiscated, and the ending was very miserable.
The reason why Li Ming did this was mainly because if a group of Liao army ruffians broke the Zhancheng State, there would be no one to manage the civil affairs at all. Don't occupy the territory, and then make a mess under your rule, and in turn be defeated by Chenla and Annam Nguyen. The Far East is counting on them to wreak havoc on the South Asian continent.
The Liao soldiers first recuperated on Jeju Island for a few days, and then successively took ships to Luzon, where they completed their preparations for the war of attacking the Champong state. Manila is less than 700 nautical miles away from the Champong state, and it only takes five or six days for ordinary Daming ships to arrive, and it takes less than two days for the No. 1 landing ship to reach an economic speed of 15 knots.
At Jeju Island's Jeeju Uijun Port, three landing ships and sailing ships entered the port one after another, and there were countless Damyeung Junk sea ships behind them, densely covered with the waters near Jeju Island.
Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Li Jiucheng, and others were standing on the deck of the No. 1 landing ship at this time. Suddenly, a Liao soldier general shouted in horror: "My mother......"
Everyone was startled by his shouting, Kong Youde felt very shameless, and scolded angrily: "You fucking shout a fart, you will be embarrassed by Lao Tzu." ”
That guy completely ignored Kong Youde's scolding, and still shouted: "Du Shuai, look at the ...... over there"
Kong Youde and a group of Liaodong rebel generals looked in the direction of his finger, and they all suddenly became dumbfounded. I saw two behemoths floating on the sea not far to their right. From a distance, the huge iron ship dozens of zhang long is like a giant dragon lying on the rough sea.
They suddenly felt cold all over, and their hairs stood on end. Kong Youde's body shook a few times, he now knew how strong the Far East was. These two big guys are made of fine iron all over their bodies, and just the iron on this behemoth can make how many firearms and cannons. He sighed in his heart, it seems that the Central Plains will be the Far East in the future.
The rebels on the other ships also discovered the two 10,000-ton giant ships on the sea one after another, and immediately frightened these ruffians, in their hearts, this is not something that can only be found in the mortal world, maybe only the heavenly immortals can make it.
Even in modern society, people will be shocked when they see them, let alone in the late Ming Dynasty.
Sun Yuanhua and a group of captured Ming civil and military officials were placed on the No. 2 landing ship and guarded by the Far Eastern Army. At this time, they were all gathered on the deck of the battleship, and when they saw the two 10,000-ton ships, their faces were full of horror.
A group of civil officials of the Ming Dynasty were shocked, but also lamented in their hearts. Who would have thought that on the side of the couch of the Great Tomorrow Dynasty, there would be such a fierce beast lying on its stomach. (To be continued......)
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