After Lin Fei said this, his face was full of disdain, and the officer was very angry, and said: "Our plan of action was personally thought up by General Linghu, how could you Huazhu think of General Linghu's deep meaning?" ”

Lin Fei was stunned when he heard the name "General Linghu", and asked, "General Linghu?" Who is he? ”

The officer snorted coldly and ignored Lin Fei, Lin Fei turned around and called an attendant and said, "Go and invite the old craftsman Qin Xiren." ”

After a short time, Qin Xiren came, bowed to Lin Fei first, and asked, "Your Majesty, what do you command?" ”

Lin Fei asked, "Old man, you have lived in Cotabato for a long time, have you heard of General Linghu?" ”

When Qin Xiren heard this, a wave of horror appeared on his face, and he said in surprise: "General Linghu? How did you mention him? ”

Lin Fei pointed at the captured officer with his hand and said, "I heard him mention it." ”

Qin Xiren said in a trembling voice: "Could it be that General Linghu went to Kota Baato?" ”

Lin Fei looked at Qin Xiren's appearance, and was full of curiosity about this Linghu General, and was about to ask a question, only to hear the officer smile proudly on the side: "That's right, General Linghu has been transferred to Kota Baatar!" ”

Lin Fei patted Qin Xiren with his hand and said, "Old man, hurry up and tell me, who is this Linghu General?" What's so special about it? ”

Qin Xiren nodded and said, "This Spirit Fox General is named Servette, and he has been fighting against the Sulu Sultanate in the Zamboanga area for many years, and it is said that the battles he commanded have never been lost. His military tactics are extremely clever and incomprehensible, so others call him 'the Spirit Fox of the Pyrenees', and he is a brigadier general, so others call him General Spirit Fox. ”

The officer said triumphantly, "I can tell you one more thing, that is, General Linghu has just repelled the attack of the Sultan of Yagurul, and the Governor of Manila Sanders heard that a Chinese empire established by Huazhu has emerged and conquered Wuduan City, so General Linghu has been transferred from Zamboanga to Kota Baatar. ”

Lin Fei thought to himself that this Linghu General seemed to be a formidable opponent, and he needed to deal with it carefully in the future, but now he had to hit this arrogant officer hard, so Lin Fei smiled and said: "Return Linghu General, I think he should change his name and call him 'General Linghu', he hid in Kota Batholi and didn't dare to come out, and let his troops only walk thirty kilometers in five days, what is the difference between this and a turtle?" ”

The officer's face was flushed with anger, and he said angrily: "You are not allowed to insult General Linghu like this, General Linghu asked us to slow down in order to give us enough time to collect your intelligence, and not to fight without preparation!" ”

Lin Fei's heart moved, and secretly thought that this was the real purpose of General Linghu, this General Linghu was completely different from the generals he had met before, his previous enemies all despised the Chinese, looked down on his army, and he also used this to severely damage the enemy, but this Linghu General did not despise himself at all, let his troops slow down the march, and did not lightly contact with him.

Lin Fei laughed and said, "It turns out that this is the purpose of General Linghu!" ”

Only then did the officer realize that he had accidentally leaked his own military secrets, regretted it, lowered his head and stopped talking, Lin Fei waved his hand, asked the officer to take him down, and then took out the map and calculated the distance from his troops to Cotabato - 85 kilometers, in Mindanao, where there is no road, this distance takes four days.

Lin Fei thought in his heart, General Linghu is not in a hurry, and I am not in a hurry, I will extend the time of the march to 8 days, carry out land reform in the villages and towns on the road, and establish the prestige of the Chinese Empire among the people, so that we will form an encirclement of Cotabatar, and no matter how we fight, we will be invincible.

Lin Fei then led his troops to advance unhurriedly, carrying out land reform as they went, and two days later, on January 28, Chen Jingui followed the logistics supply team to Lin Fei's army.

Although Chen Jingui is responsible for delivering the weapons and ammunition produced on Samar Island to Lin Fei's troops, he can stay in Bazahai City, there is no need to go to the front line at all, the reason why he wants to come to the front line is all arranged by Lin Fei, Lin Fei has been away from the capital Yanhuangcheng for almost 20 days, and he must know the situation of the Chinese Empire, Chen Jingui is here to send reports to Lin Fei from various departments.

In the 20 days since Lin Fei left, all the work of Yanhuangcheng was carried out in an orderly manner, first of all, the establishment of grassroots political power, Li Ming led the police force to establish village governments in various villages, Chen Fu recruited more than 200 outstanding talents from Taiwan, some of these people went to the village government to serve as village heads, and some went to various cities to serve as teachers, Lin Fei established schools in various cities, and every child who reached the age of 7 must go to school.

The main purpose of the school is to get the people to support the Chinese Empire, so the school takes patriotic education as the core, and teaches children Chinese characters while patriotic education.

In terms of the economy, prices have basically stabilized, new books have sold well, many people have gone to watch dramas, and spiritual consumption has increased, which has accelerated economic development on the one hand and promoted cultural construction on the other.

Lin Fei is most concerned about the progress of the shipbuilding industry, it is now January 28, 1895, in a few months the Qing court will sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki with Japan, cede the island of Taiwan, compensation of 200 million taels of silver, Lin Fei can not watch the island of Taiwan and 200 million taels of silver fall into the hands of the Japanese!

When Lin Fei set up troops to go to Mindanao, he asked Ling Xue to preside over the construction of two large slipways, which can build 5,000-ton warships, and the construction of the slipway is relatively simple, and after 20 days of sleepless construction, 40% of the work has been completed.

The same progress has been made in the steel pretreatment production line, the steel used to build the warship needs to be pretreated before it can be applied to the warship, these pretreatment includes the correction of various steels, the removal of the outer oxide scale, spraying protective paint, etc., the pretreatment production line has been basically built, and the training of relevant technical personnel is also in progress.

After reading the report, Lin Fei handed over the plan to integrate the Wuduancheng factory to Chen Jingui, asked him to take it back to Ling Xue, and asked her to lead her subordinates to organize, and handed over a new round of Chinese recruitment plan to Chen Jingui, and asked him to take it back to Chen Fu, so that Chen Fu could continue to go to Taiwan to recruit Chinese, this time the recruitment was mainly craftsmen and farmers, the craftsmen stayed in Yanhuangcheng to build ships, and the farmers were sent to Mindanao to reclaim wasteland.

Chen Jingui agreed to come down and said goodbye to go back, while Lin Fei continued to lead his troops to Cotabatar, and at 6 a.m. on February 4, Lin Fei led his troops to a small village called "Palang", 15 kilometers east of Cotabatar.

There are more than 200 households in the village, and a Spanish church is controlling it, Lin Fei first destroyed the church, and then ordered the troops to temporarily stay in the village, control this small village, and set up a material transit base here.

Parang Village is very close to Cotabatar, Lin Fei was worried that the Spanish army would come to sneak attack, so he sent the mobile outpost five kilometers out, and deployed several layers of secret outposts, these things were done, and the time came to 2 pm on February 4, Lin Fei decided to go to Cotabato to reconnoiter while it was still early.

Lin Fei took two sniper team fighters and galloped in the direction of Cotabato on fast horses, and after a short time, he saw the majestic city wall from a distance, but the entrance to the city was empty, and a soldier asked: "Your Majesty, isn't this Cotabato the most prosperous city on Mindanao?" Why is there no one coming in and out? ”

Lin Fei thought for a while and said, "Eighty percent of the Spaniards knew the news of our arrival and blocked the city. ”

Lin Fei walked another hundred and ten meters in the direction of the city wall, and now it is only more than four hundred meters away from the city wall, Lin Fei raised the telescope and looked at the city, only to see that there was an artillery cannon on the city, due to the angle, Lin Fei could only see a little muzzle exposed by the artillery, and nothing else could be seen.

A little cannon port also surprised Lin Fei, he didn't know in advance that the Spaniards had deployed artillery on the wall, Cotabato was originally a difficult fortified city, and now there is artillery to defend, it is even more difficult to fight, Lin Fei looked into the distance while thinking, and found that there was an artillery every three hundred meters.

Lin Fei's face was slowly covered with a layer of gloom, Cotabato has a strong city, a sharp cannon, and a wise general, the fox of the Pyrenees, how to fight this battle?

At this time, one of the warriors asked, "Your Majesty, shall we take a closer look at the city wall?" ”

Lin Fei shook his head and said, "In case the Spaniards shoot black guns, don't get closer, let's just look around the city wall." ”

Lin Fei reconnoitred the surrounding terrain around the city wall, the east of the city is an open field, his troops are stationed in the east of the city, the west of the city is the sea, there is a port, there is an east-west river in the south of the city, the width of the riverbed is 100 meters, because it is now the dry season, so the river is only 50 meters wide, the river is densely wooded, and it is difficult for large troops to pass.

After Lin Fei looked at the terrain of Cotabato, he couldn't help frowning, he wanted to take the city and lure the enemy out of the city, but what could he do?

Lin Fei thought about it and couldn't think of a good way, so he took people to fight his horse back, and when the staff officer Li Tianqian saw Lin Fei coming back, he hurriedly came over and asked, "Your Majesty, how is the reconnaissance?" ”

Lin Fei said: "Cotabato's defense is much tighter than expected, and I also found enemy artillery on the wall. ”

Li Tianqian was stunned for a moment and asked, "Artillery?" What kind of artillery? ”

Lin Fei shook his head and said: "I don't know, the distance is too far, the angle is wrong, I can only see one cannon port, and nothing else, you immediately ask in the village, have you seen anyone who has seen the artillery in the city, find it for me." ”

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