Li Ming returned to Jeju Island with his troops, and the troops rested on Jeju Island for a few days, and Li Ming convened a meeting of cadres above the platoon level of the corps to seriously summarize the operation. Although there was no large-scale fighting during this trip to Shandong, it was also a severe test for the long-distance assembly and mobilization of more than 10,000 soldiers of the troops.

The first batch of cadets of the training corps have all gone down to the grassroots units for internship, and the noncommissioned officer school has also successively trained a large number of grassroots noncommissioned officers. In this large-scale mobilization and assembly, the platoon commanders and backbone non-commissioned officers of the grassroots companies were all commendable in this operation.

After the troops finished resting and recuperating, they returned to their respective stations one after another, and the Shandong Corps was also disbanded. After finishing this qiē, Li Ming finally had time to meet those old generals of Liaodong. In the past few days, Kong Youde and the others have been waiting very anxiously.

Ever since they landed on Jeju Island, their hearts have been on the sidelines, for fear that the Far East Company would swallow up the soldiers in their hands. If the Far East had the intention of annexing them, they would not even dare to put a fart and hand over the army. Even if they want to fight, the soldiers below will not follow them to death.

Finally, someone came and led them to the Jeju Island Garrison Command. Li Ming took Song Tao, Zhou Cheng and other high-level officials of the Shandong Corps to meet them, and held a banquet to entertain the generals of Dongjiang. made Kong Youde feel more faced, and even his bones were a lot lighter.

Everyone drank politely, originally Kong Youde and they were still a little restrained, but there was Song Tao on the table to enliven the atmosphere, and after a few rounds of wine, they were all released.

Kong Youde picked up the wine glass and said respectfully to Li Ming: "My lord, I salute you with this glass of wine." He tilted his head and drained the wine. Li Ming smiled, picked up the wine glass and nodded gently.

Kong Youde smiled and said, "My lord, when are we going to Nanyang?" ”

Li Ming smiled secretly in his heart, knowing that these guys were really in a hurry. He said lightly: "In a few days, some of your former colleagues in Dongjiang will come over, that is, Shang Kexi and Mao Chenglu. There are also nearly 1,000 Dongjiang veterans, and if I hand them over to you, I can also increase your combat power a little. ”

When Kong Youde heard this, a look of excitement appeared on his face. These two people have been friends with them since they were in Dongjiang, and they were both fighting with Tartar together back then, and they are considered their own people.

Li Ming lifted a curtain on the wall next to him. A map of Southeast Asia is revealed. He walked to the bottom of the map and pointed to the location of the Champa city.

"This place is the chosen place for you to settle down, the Champa state of Annam, bordered by the Nguyen regime in Annam to the north and the kingdom of Chenla to the west. The geographical location is superior, the climate is suitable, and most importantly, the Champa country is weak, so you should have no problem occupying this place. ”

Geng Jingzhong, who was next to him, looked at the map for a while and said with a smile: "My lord." Can we go to Luzon? ”

Hearing his words, Li Ming and the others almost burst out happy. Nima ...... You dare to choose our place. Li Ming shook his head and said, "Luzon is already the territory of our Far East Company. If you don't want to go to the city, then go to Taiwan. ”

Kong Youde was shocked, who didn't know that Taiwan was the territory of the Zheng family, and the first thing they did when they went was to fight to the death with Zheng Zhilong. The Far Eastern Company's hand is long enough, and it actually takes such a good place as its own. Thinking of this, he shook his head and said, "Then it's up to the adult." Our brother went to occupy the city. May I ask you, my lord, did the Far East send us there directly by ship? ”

Li Ming shook his head and said, "Because the road is far away. Some of the small sea ships you have obtained in Shandong cannot sail far at all, so they can only be used as our company's sea ships. But if you want to send so many of you people and supplies to Luzon, you have to divide it several times. Prepare for war in Luzon, and then cross the sea to occupy the city, and wait for you to establish a foothold there. Then transport the follow-up materials over. ”

Li Jiucheng smiled and said: "My lord, don't you have that kind of big iron boat, use it to send us over, just once." ”

Li Ming smiled and said, "If you insist on using the company's giant ship, it's okay, but the giant ship is dispatched once." It will cost more than 100,000 taels of silver, and you will have to pay for this silver. ”

Kong Youde and they listened to Li Ming's words, their heads shook like rattles, let's go on a sailboat, they really can't afford to sit down with that big guy. Li Ming said this, but they believed that it was really possible for such a large steel giant ship to cost more than 100,000 taels of silver to move once. Far Eastern companies are so fucking rich.

After Li Ming and Kong Youde finished negotiating, they ignored them and handed over the shipping work to Zhou Cheng. He and Song Tao got on the No. 2 and No. 3 landing ships, as well as two landing craft, and sailed to Lushun with a large number of supplies.

The company's construction committee has sent an engineering team of nearly 1,000 people to Ocean Island with various construction machinery and materials. The construction of the military port, storage area, barracks, northern defense line, and several sets of large-scale steam generator units will be completed before the winter of this year.

The 5,000 Shanxi refugees selected by Wang Yaowu from Dengzhou were transported to Haiyang Island a few months ago. Where to train for more than a month. The instructors are from the backbone non-commissioned officers of the overseas corps. These days, these mountain and Shaanxi refugees have been tossed and miserable by this gang of soldiers.

These 5,000 homeless people were all selected from the homeless people, and they were fed with coarse grains three times a day, and there were some seafood every day, or a few pieces of whale meat, and the homeless people recovered quickly. Moreover, they have fled from the mountains and Shaanxi for thousands of miles, and even the dead have eaten, as long as they are fed, no matter how hard the training is, compared with the sins suffered all the way from the famine, it is really pediatric.

Now they are also busy at various construction sites in Lushun, and Wang Yaowu has also recruited more than 1,000 young and strong laborers in Lushun City to participate in the construction of Lushun New City.

The three newly formed overseas brigades stationed on the islands of Dongjiang Town have also undergone rigorous training on the islands in the past few months. Since the backbone of non-commissioned officers of the overseas corps participated in the training of recruits, the instructors of the previous training team were angels compared to them, and these guys were simply a group of demons.

After nearly a year of hard training, these former Dongjiang soldiers have completely changed into individuals. At present, the defense work of the construction site in Lushun New Town is in charge of a training battalion and a newly organized overseas brigade.

Under the leadership of Wang Yaowu, Li Ming inspected the defense of several islands in the Dongjiang River. He visited the training and living conditions of the garrisons on the islands, and also expressed his condolences to the company's employees who were busy day and night at various construction sites in Lushun.

Now Lushunkou has become a huge construction site, with nearly 10,000 people busy, and the roar of construction machinery everywhere. The entire Port of Arthur has completely changed.

The perimeter of the base was fenced with barbed wire, and several steel watchtowers were erected and surveillance cameras were installed. Water-cooled heavy machine gun and artillery firing positions were set up in a dozen vantage points.

In the temporary headquarters of the Lushun base, Li Ming, Song Tao, and Wang Yaowu were surrounded in front of the sand table of Lushun and Jinzhou, which were newly made in Zuò. Wang Yaowu pointed to the location of Lushun and introduced to Li Ming and Song Tao: "The engineering and technical personnel appointed by the company have completed the surveying and mapping work in Lushun this spring, and have also made the planning of Lushun New City and New Port. Now all the infrastructure construction in Lushun is very smooth, and the construction of all infrastructure projects can be completed before the winter. ”

Song Tao said with a smile: "Lao Wang, you are building here on a large scale, and the Huanglong in Lushun City has no reaction?" ”

Wang Yaowu shook his head and smiled bitterly: "When we first landed, we frightened him, and closed the city gate every day as if we were facing a great enemy. Later, seeing that we had no intention of attacking Lushun, this guy went out of the city to meet with me, chirped a lot, and kept asking me what I was going to do? Hehe...... I told him that I wanted to build a new port here as a base for our Far East. This guy was anxious when he heard this, and he came to me for two times in three days to chirp, and I didn't pay attention to him. ”

Li Ming smiled and said, "Just don't bother with him if you chirp crookedly, if you have other ideas, clean him up." ”

Wang Yaowu laughed when he heard this: "What else can he think, his soldiers in Lushun took off the war demons of the Ming army, and came to our construction site every day as temporary workers, just to mix two meals." Huang Long and the Ming generals in Lushun City were in charge at the beginning, but they couldn't control it, and they didn't care about it later. Now there are more than 2,000 soldiers under his command, and at least more than 1,000 are working as coolies with us. A lot of low-level military leaders came to help us carry sand, haha......"

Huang Long stood at the head of the city in Lushun, looking at the huge construction site not far away, his hand clasped the edge of the female wall at the head of the city, his face full of bitterness. After the "Lushun victory", the Ming Dynasty's reward for him was not insignificant, the chief military officer of Dongjiang Town, the governor of Zuodu, and the prince Taibao.

But in the past year, Huang Long has been walking on thin ice every day, for fear that the Far East will have something to think of Lushun. As long as he can still lead his troops to guard Lushun, Dongjiang Town will still be Ming at least nominally. After the Denglai mutiny, the imperial court asked him to send sailors to support, but he refused to send troops to Denglai on the grounds that the army in Dongjiang Town was unstable.

Now in Dongjiang Town, except for the more than 2,000 Ming troops in Lushun, he can still listen to him, and on the other islands, how can he still command a single soldier. But he didn't dare to report anything to the imperial court, he had seen the artillery fire in the Far East. Once it is reported to the imperial court, those civil officials who don't understand bullshit will inevitably ask the imperial court to send troops to clean it up.

At that time, Daming and Far East will really tear their faces.

"Your Excellency, you should take care of it, now even my subordinates are working as coolies for those overseas people."

Huang Long turned his head and saw that Tan Yinghua didn't know when he walked to his side. He sighed and said, "If it's not worthwhile, let them go." How can you mix two full meals in a day there, and bring some food back for your wife and children at night. As long as the Far East does not fight Lushun, we will endure it. Unless I die, as long as I am in Lushun for one day, even if I am the only one left, I will stay here for Daming. (To be continued......)

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