Even from the boat, you can see a series of ◆◆ built by the Nguyen clan on the coastline, especially in the sea and land points and suitable places for ships to berth, you can see the forts built by the Nguyen clan everywhere, many of them are European, although there are obvious "monkey version" characteristics from the scale to the material, but it is undeniable that the "Westernization" of the Ruan clan in military thought and jishu is much more advanced than that of the Ming Dynasty.

In this battle between the North and the South of Vietnam, not only were European colonists involved in Southeast Asia, but Chinese pirates also mixed in, providing naval liliang for the fight between Nguyen and Zheng, and they fought happily. Both sides did not hesitate to throw all kinds of "official titles", "titles" and "orders" to the pirates, anyway, all it cost was a piece of paper, a large wooden seal, and a nondescript official uniform. can bring in countless people and ships to work for themselves, why not.

As for the reward, it is the free plundering of the wealth of the enemy's land.

Ping Qiusheng suddenly remembered something: "Herald! Order Wang You to report to the stern tower immediately! ”

Wang You, who had served in the Battle of the Pearl River Estuary, had originally participated in logistics work in the joint logistics study class at the Mayuan base; he used to be the head of the old battalion of the pirate group, and he was originally responsible for logistics, but now he is a professional counterpart. This time he went to Southeast Asia, and selected and transferred naturalized people from the whole military system who were more familiar with the environment in Southeast Asia, and Wang You was temporarily seconded.

"You've followed Zheng Bao here." Ping Qiusheng asked Wang You.

"Yes!" Wang You's posture of standing up and answering is not standard, although he is mixed with the pirate group, but he is essentially a master who plays with a pen, and he is also older, so the effect of "regularized" training is far less than that of other peers. The navy uniform was worn on his body, and it had the demeanor of a man who had just worn a foreign uniform during the Meiji Restoration.

Wang You looked at the familiar coastline: Wang You roughly described the things that he "fought" with Zheng Bao's fleet in this area, and the so-called battle was burning, killing and plundering in this area. It was a good deal at first, as the Nguyen had little defense along the coastline, and the fleet easily captured many ships and plundered a large amount of goods. Except for a part paid to the Zheng family, the rest was all the fleet's own.

But gradually this coastline became less and less easy to gnaw, and there were more and more forts and beacon towers, not only did they often have to brave artillery fire to land ashore, but sometimes they would encounter interceptions by Nguyen's fleet, and both sides fired together, and the losses of men and ships were very heavy.

It was precisely because this business became more and more dangerous that Zheng Bao had the idea of returning to Guangdong.

"How many Daming pirates are still fighting for Zheng and Ruan now?"

"Report! I don't know the exact number. Last year, when Zheng Bao recruited sailors and ships in Jiangping, there were more than 30 units for the Zheng clan to fight. All of them have been knighted. ”

The number of shares and ships of these pirates often changed, and the Chinese pirates under the command of both the Zheng and Ruan clans belonged to the "rebel army", which was neither counted nor paid. It's just a name for them to attack and harass each other. With the exception of a few large-scale battles, it is rare to assemble for unified command of operations. As for coming and going, it is more free, willing to come and go, and listen to it. So as soon as the typhoon season arrives in the summer, these pirates basically retreat to the coast of China.

As for the Chinese pirates who fought for the Nguyen, there were far fewer of them, relatively speaking. It is not easy to replenish personnel and ships. However, there are more than a dozen of people he has heard about and dealt with at sea. However, he also said that many pirates were canonized by both sides. Frequently change positions in order to pan for gold in this chaotic situation.

Of course, there are not a few people who die in the gold rush. Wang You knew that several shopkeepers under the old Zhucai in the past were sinking in the sand here. So when the ship came here, he couldn't help but feel sad again.

Quarks often pass through the area, and they have heard a lot about the war. He pointed to several buildings deep along the coastline: "There are granaries for the Annamite people, and I have heard that there are many further inland, the largest of which is at the east gate of Hue City. God forbid, these barbarians have been killing each other for several years, and the Portuguese are involved, and they have hoarded a lot of food, but I reckon that soon no one will be able to eat these things if they continue to kill like this. ”

"Did the Portuguese provide them with firearms?" Ping Qiusheng asked. He saw that a large number of batteries and forts should be equipped with artillery, which was a staggering number in total.

"The Portuguese had a foundry in Hue very early on, where artillery and shells were cast. Arquebuses can also be produced. Makes a lot of money! Quark said enviously. He was a businessman, and he was better informed about this kind of information, and he had always been envious and jealous of it, and what could be more valuable than arms? When Li Luoyou wanted to cooperate with him to set up a cannon foundry, he was very enthusiastic.

Quark explained diligently, he also counted on Ping Qiusheng to promise his "Australian chart", although Liu San had shown Quark the sea is a controlled product, but the small precision of the latitude and longitude chart of the senate has already printed a batch, Zhong for the future to provide a large number of business partners with a lot of gifts.

Ping Qiusheng looked at the buildings in the distance and thought, these grains should have crossed the group, if it weren't for the melee between the North and the South, Vietnam's food would not be so tight. Although the local coastal defense was very methodical, the level of fortification was at best stronger than the Ming fort in Humen. Zheng Bao and his ilk certainly find it difficult to bite, but it is not a problem for them. If the fleet has a company of sailors and a small number of special reconnaissance teams, and then keeps up with a few U800 Harmony ships, it will not be a problem for one guy to grab 70,000 or 80,000 stone of grain and go back. But this time, there is no need to think about it, the engine Jihua has already collapsed all kinds of resources in Lingao, and many large-scale operations have been put on hold until next year. It is estimated that the Senate will not pass the proposal to rob the monkey food in the short term.

Ping Qiusheng noticed that there was a natural reef in the open sea separating the harbor, and the berthing conditions inside were still good, and at this time, the people on the shore seemed to have noticed the arrival of the fleet and set off the smoke of the alarm, but no ships left the port to investigate. Obviously, the other side does not have a standing navy that can go out of port to fight at any time. It is only a coastal defense system to prevent the other side from landing and harassing.

A little further south is Da Nang, where you can already see the mouth of the Han River, which is the boundary ridge of the Han culture of the Indochinese Peninsula. Vietnam in this time and space has not yet pushed its territory southward to the sea. In the eyes of the Vietnamese court, the south of the Han River was born, and it belonged to the territory they wanted to "educate" and "conquer".

After two days of sailing, the fleet arrived in the waters of Nha Trang. Ping Qiusheng ordered the fleet to anchor in this area, and sent a team to land to obtain water, firewood, and collect food. The landing team brought a little panic to the inhabitants of the area.

The local villagers sent two old men to bring some food and water to inquire about the intentions of the landers. Binh Thu Thanh had learned a little Vietnamese, but when he did, he found that his 300 Vietnamese sentences were completely useless, that there were no Chinese characters in southern Vietnam at the time, and that modern Vietnamese scripts based on the French alphabet could not communicate, and that the strange pronunciation was obviously a dialect of the Austronesian.

The envoy from the village could actually speak a little Chinese, of course, the pronunciation was very strange, and only a former pirate like Wang You, who had been here before, could understand it. After trying it, Elder Ping gave up his plan to go into battle and instead used the former pirate naturalized people who were familiar with the area to translate. After a mixture of Turkish and Chinese, both sides roughly understood each other's meaning.

Ping Qiusheng gave the villagers some common gifts in trade: glass beads and a few machetes. The village was asked to provide clean drinking water and food supplies. The fleet could pay for the daily necessities it carried, and Ping Qiusheng also gave a small glass mirror on behalf of the village, and the villagers went back with a thousand thanks. Rice, chickens and ducks, and a lot of fruits and vegetables were delivered on the same day.

Fearing an attack by Nguyen's army, the group camped on higher ground on the shore, with some men on board to guard it, but the patriarch apparently overestimated Nguyen's control. As the newly captured area of the Nguyen clan from the Champa state, they did not show much control. Its limited forces were apparently mobilized to the northern front. As local indigenous villagers, they have experienced wars, piracy, and European fleets, and they know that these outsiders are not something they can afford to provoke.

Since they understand the disparity in their strength, they can only cooperate with the various maritime shili that appear here in this time and space in addition to prevention, and now it seems that the Australians are still very polite, so the villagers are willing to cooperate with them as much as possible.

During his few days in Nha Trang, Lin Tan and his former "colleagues" enjoyed the beach. The scenery of Nha Trang is breathtaking, and the Americans still have a good eye for choosing this place as a base.

In Binh Thu Sheng's mind, the future Nha Trang is a base for travelers to advance in Southeast Asia, and it is also an option for veteran resorts.

The veterans of the long-distance exploration team who came with the boat took a small boat to conduct a hydrographic survey in Cam Ranh Bay, south of Nha Trang. This hydrologically advantageous natural harbour is a stunning naval base and commercial port. In the future, the commercial and military bases built in Cam Ranh Bay and Nha Trang should have a very good development.

South of Cam Ranh Bay is not the territory of Vietnam, but the territory of the Champa state. While resisting the northern attack, the Nguyen Dynasty continued to move south to "expand its territory", constantly compressing the original Champa state in this area, and compressing the remnants of Champa to the south of Cam Ranh Bay. Historically, the territory of Champa extended from the domain to Hue. However, now the Shili of Champa is only left in the area of the domain, and it can continue to survive for decades by relying on the mutual attack and containment of the North and South Koreas of Vietnam.