The East China Sea Fleet of the Ming Imperial Guards, which was banned by order, has always been based on efficient and efficient operations.

The 10 detachments launched a sweep against the coastal areas of Lingdingyang and Daya Bay and carried out extremely smooth work.

In less than three days, this sea area, except for the trenches where the Portuguese were entrenched, was controlled by the officers and men of the Royal Navy.

It was the evening of the fourth day of the fleet's arrival, and Zhu Youxiao had arrived on the desolate island of Hong Kong.

The island, which he named Hong Kong Island, is now full of people of all kinds who are undergoing major construction.

All the people in the nearby hundreds of miles of sea were transported by the soldiers to the three locations designated by Zhu Youxiao, and the large-scale construction of Zhuhai, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong began.

The first task was to build a large port and a large coastal city in each of the three places.

Only after these two tasks are completed, then the two basic national policies of the Ming Empire will be promoted.

The soldiers were not idle, not only commanding those various craftsmen to carry out large-scale construction, but also making final preparations for the capture of the trench tomorrow.

After dark, all the small reconnaissance ships were sent out and a tight cordon was set up around the fleet's anchorage on Hong Kong Island, and the fleet began to rest.

At present, the 30,000 royal soldiers are divided into 30,000 brigades, each of which is responsible for the large-scale construction of a place.

Tomorrow to capture the trench will not take so many men at all, with twenty Leopard cruisers and ten thousand sailors dispatched, it will be enough to give those Portuguese face.

The reconnaissance work of going to the reconnaissance trench to reconnoiter the specific situation of the Portuguese was very smooth, and those Portuguese did not expect at all that now that there was suddenly a large fleet of the Ming Empire, they would hit their mind.

Not to mention the changes that have taken place in the sea area of Lingdingyang now, they don't know about it, and even the great changes that have taken place in Yuegang in Quanzhou, Fujian, these Portuguese are also kept in the dark.

In this era, without communication tools such as flying pigeon biography, the transmission of information is quite slow.

Not to mention across the province, even the major events that occur in the province often take ten days and eight days to get the news.

According to the scouts who went to scout in the form of merchants, the Portuguese also gathered a lot of ships and men in the trenches.

Although they are now considered Spaniards, they still want to get a piece of the deal between the Ming Empire and the Westerners because they have a lot of autonomy.

Their warships and armaments are indeed imitated by the British, and heavy artillery such as large-caliber cannons is not absent, but they are very little equipped, equivalent to about one-third of long-range artillery.

Among them, Kofilin cannons are the most, and the scout team also found several seventeen-pounder Kofilin cannons.

This kind of Kofilin cannon was also equipped with some in the northern military towns of the Ming Empire in the past, with a firing range of five miles and a caliber of 5.25 inches!

It's just that even if their armament is not bad, there will be little room for tomorrow.

The armament of the Ming Royal Navy is stronger than that of the other party, and it is used to surprise operations, and under surprise, those Portuguese in the trench can withstand the salvo of three or five rounds of Shenwei cannons, which is quite good.

The reconnaissance in the past few days is not to say how much attention should be paid to the Portuguese in the trenches, but to thoroughly find out the hydrological situation of the Lingding Ocean and the waters of Daya Bay.

There is no way, who made the size of the Leopard cruiser of the Ming Royal Navy too big?

If you don't know the waters where you are fighting, you will be caught in the shallow or hit the dense reefs, and then you will have a lot of fun.

Not only will it cause unnecessary losses, but I am afraid that I will be depressed to death by myself!

At this time, Zhu Youxiao frowned, sitting in the hall of the main mansion of Hong Kong Island City, which had just been completed, and he was holding a piece of information in his hand, which was sent by Lu Xiangsheng.

I don't know why, there have been a lot of major events in the past few days, Sun Chuanting, Li Dingguo and others have used flying chickens to pass books and report to themselves.

Now the two secret recitals of Li Dingguo and Lu Xiangsheng have attracted Zhu Youxiao's attention.

Lu Xiangsheng's secret recital is about the latest developments of the two brothers Huang Taiji and Dolgon on the northern steppes of the Ming Empire.

He said that the current two brothers, Huang Taiji and Dolgon, ran to Mobei and Monan respectively. 97 Chinese

Both of them are like madmen, unrestrained and unrestrained against the various tribes of the grassland, launching endless attacks, and have swallowed up many grassland tribes.

In a short period of time, Huang Taiji has recovered to a population of more than one million, with 200,000 soldiers, and his strength has doubled.

And this guy Dolgon, because he went west to the grassland early and claimed the king alone, is now much better than Huang Taiji.

Today, the Dorgon and Dordo brothers, their people numbered more than 2 million, including 400,000 soldiers!

Fortunately, because this guy has annexed too many grassland tribes, it has aroused the common hatred of various tribes on the steppe, and everyone elected Lin Dan Khan as the leader of the alliance, and the two sides are in a confrontation.

According to Lu Xiangsheng's estimate, the time of the war between the two sides will not exceed July, and it will be within these ten days.

As for Amin, who is reckless on the surface, but actually insidious and tyrannical, he is very knowledgeable and takes his people with blue flags and runs all the way to the west.

Now it has passed through the south of the desert and arrived at the grassland of the west of the desert.

This guy kept running away, and at the same time he wantonly attacked the large and small tribes on the grasslands, and his current strength is not slow.

According to the latest biography of the flying chicken sent back by the Royal Military Intelligence, Amin has now grown to more than 700,000 horses and nearly 100,000 soldiers, and now he is fighting the Tatar tribe that was expelled to Moxi by Li Dingguo and Hao Shaoqi.

The Tatar tribe is actually a very widespread super-tribal federation, with a population of at least a few million.

It's just that the various tribes of this Tatar tribe are scattered and widely distributed, and they are not at all as strong and united as the tribes of Lin Dan Khan.

Although in terms of men and horses, the Tatar tribes combined, both in terms of population and territory, crushed all the tribes on the steppe, but their combat effectiveness and cohesion were not very good.

Therefore, in the previous confrontation with Lin Dan Khan, he was at an absolute disadvantage.

However, their territory is too large, and they are of the same clan as Waspur and Yili Rangli, both of whom were of the Great Yuan tribe before the dissolution of the Mongol Empire.

The territory occupied by these three major tribes is incomparably huge: Siberia in the east, Europe in the west, the Mughal Dynasty in the south, and the Ming Empire in the east.

It is entirely conceivable how powerful they would be if they were united.

It is also fortunate that they are not united, and if they really work together and unite, it will be a nightmare for any enemy.

But with Amin's cunning, he will definitely slowly attack and annex their large and small tribes one by one, using the strategy of boiling frogs in warm water, and it is not impossible to swallow elephants.

But unfortunately, Amin definitely doesn't have so much time to implement his big plan.

Because behind him, there are evil wolves: Huang Taiji, Dorgon, Lin Dan Khan, Tumut......

These evil wolves behind him, after the Ming Empire is advancing and expanding towards the grassland step by step, will inevitably advance westward in a big way, and will definitely launch a war of annexation with the goals of Tatar, Watt, and Yili.

The situation in the northwest prairie of the Ming Empire is so chaotic and complicated that Zhu Youxiao is also worried.

He thought about it, and then he asked someone to bring a few blank decrees and write a few decrees.

One of the most important ones is to let Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng immediately form three full cavalry field corps, choose a day to send troops to the prairie, and slowly advance towards the prairie in the northwest of the Ming Empire.

While advancing, he captured all the large and small tribes encountered along the way, formed a large-scale construction brigade, and vigorously built super official roads and super farms of 100,000 acres, and marched hand in hand with the army.

Only in this way can we crush and push step by step, compress the activity area of Huang Taiji, Dolgon, Lin Dan Khan and others, and drive them towards the northwest.

This approach is also the only one that can greatly expand the northern territory of the Ming Empire, and it is oppressive and extremely safe steppe strategy mode.

Although this method is a stupid method.

But only this method can solve the troubles of the steppes in the northwest of the Ming Empire once and for all.

Only in this way can we truly control this boundless prairie into the hands of the Ming Empire.

No matter how much time and energy is spent, it is worth it for Zhu Youxiao.