When Yulinwan received Jiang Beiming's flying pigeon message, Xu Tianbin had already set off with his troops. Yulin Bay has sent out all the forces that can be used, and at present, except for Liu Guannan, there are still some patrols left, Zhou Chongde and Li Shuang have brought over some military households and patrol officers, and only the No. 777 missile speedboat moored on the dock can defend Yulin Bay. However, fortunately, some of the naval soldiers on the 777 remained in Yulin Bay, and the cannons on the 777 could still be fired.

After discussing with Zhang Guodong and Wang Hua, Zheng Jiang sent two letters to Lushun and Vietnam in the name of the chairman of the Military Commission, the main content of which was that everything was fine at home and that all localities should act cheaply.

It was already late November, the Jinzhou defense line was almost completed, and Jiang Beiming was mobilizing troops to actively prepare for the attack on Nanpu. Li Fuqiang and Lin Zhaolong of Puliango are also ready to stop, and the winter offensive is about to begin.

Puriango had already been occupied by the Yulin army, and Li Fuqiang thought twice about not integrating Puriange's 1,000 troops into the Yulin army, but left 1,000 people to be stationed with the original army.

The remaining 11,000 people gathered by Lin Zhaolong were organized into a reorganization division. In order to win over Ruan Youyi and deter him, Li Fuqiang asked Ruan Youjin over and appointed him as the operational staff officer of the integrated division. Nguyen Dinh was very interested in attacking Cambodia, and Vietnam and Cambodia have always had deep contradictions in history, and the two sides often fought back and forth. So this time, as soon as Li Fuqiang said that he was going to fight Cambodia, neither Ruan Youyi nor Ruan Youjin expressed any objection.

"Zhaolong, everything that should be prepared is ready, and I have also explained to Ruan Youyi about guarding against Ruan Qi. If there are no surprises, I think we will send troops at the end of this month. ”

Lin Zhaolong was lying on the map looking at something. The route of the march has been determined, and Pliango is less than 500 miles away from Phnom Penh, and even if it is advanced slowly step by step, it will not take ten days and half a month to reach Phnom Penh.

In the fifth year of the Ming Dynasty (1430), Siam invaded the Khmer Empire, besieged Angkor for seven months, and finally conquered Angkor in 1431. In 1434, Chenla was restored and the capital was moved to Phnom Penh. Therefore, Cambodia has long lost the glory of the Khmer Empire, and it is not a problem for the 10,000-strong Yulin army to defeat Phnom Penh.

"There is no problem with sending troops at the end of the month, have the British in Kampot replied?" Lin Zhaolong raised his head and asked. As a precaution, Li Fuqiang sent a message to the British that Yulin Bay was going to attack Phnom Penh and let them strengthen some defenses in Kampot.

When Li Fuqiang heard Lin Zhaolong ask this question, he suddenly laughed: "The British have replied, and they also asked to join the attack on Phnom Penh. ”

"They're going too? There aren't many British in Kampot, how many troops can they send? ”

"That's a lot." Li Fuqiang said with a smile, "The British said that an elite team of 80 people was formed, and there were more than 200 native soldiers. ”

"The British are sick." Lin Zhaolong was amused by this sentence, "Such a few people also want to get a piece of the pie, and the world is actually their good thing." ”

"If they want to go, they can go." Li Fuqiang didn't care, "But this also shows a problem, the pioneering spirit of the British is indeed incomparable to us." ”

"Li Fuqiang, we all know that the main purpose of going to Phnom Penh this time is still people." Lin Zhaolong talked about another topic, "But the question is how do we recruit soldiers, forced conscription or conscription." The family didn't give us a clear instruction to make our own decisions. ”

"I have an idea for this, you can hear it first." Li Fuqiang said what he had come up with for a while.

Historically, the king of Cambodia has been the supreme ruler of the country. There are five ministers: Lonely Branch, Gao Xiangyi, Po He Duoling, Shemo Ling, and Hu Duolou. There are also a number of ministers under the minister, and each city in the country has a minister marshal to govern, and the minister, the minister marshal, and the minister are all filled by the king's relatives. In the Angkor period, the feudal hierarchy was more strict, and the official subordinates went out to take sedan chairs and umbrellas at different levels, and the height and width of the houses were also customized. The official mansion is not confused with the people's houses, and the people can only build thatched houses, and the ministers of the state are allowed to use tiles. The father dies on the throne and the son succeeds to the throne, and the son who is not the king's wife and concubine shall not be the heir. And the code states: the king is the lord of the land, and the king's property includes the people, water, land, forests, and mountains of all the kingdom. The peasants only have the right to use the land. The king divided the land among his subordinate nobles, and the peasants had to pay a certain amount of rent in kind and labor to the feudal lord in exchange for the right to use the land.

During his time in Vietnam, Li Fuqiang also learned more or less about the Cambodian social system, which was a feudal hierarchy that was even more backward than the Ming Dynasty, and the poor lower-class people could not see any hope. Therefore, the method that Li Fuqiang came up with was a combination of the military merit knighthood of the Shang Dynasty reform and the land reform carried out by Yulin Bay. For a society to be dynamic and dynamic, it is necessary to allow social classes to move, and only by letting everyone see hope that this society can develop.

Li Fuqiang also intends to divide land in Cambodia. Like Yulin Bay, all the ownerless wasteland in Cambodia will be taken into public ownership, and as long as the family who signs up for the army can get a certain amount of land, and there will be land rewards after the war exploits. Using Cambodian land to attract Cambodians to join the army does not cost any resources in Yulin Bay, and Li Fuqiang believes that this method should be feasible.

For the upper class of Cambodian society, as long as they cooperate with Yulin Bay, it will also be beneficial, and that is business. Yulin Bay, like the British, can underwrite all Cambodian specialties.

Cambodia is located in the tropical monsoon climate zone, the climate is mild and humid all year round, and the four seasons are like spring. The main food crop rice, can be three to four crops a year, other crops are also very rich, wood, coconut bamboo, agarwood, yellow wax, cardamom, purple stem, Dafeng seed oil and so on are Cambodia's specialty. There are also tropical fruits such as pomegranates, sugar cane, mangoes, etc. Rhinoceros, elephants and other exotic animals and freshwater fish are also well-known all over the world. These things are certainly of interest to the British.

Lin Zhaolong listened to Li Fuqiang's account and didn't put forward any opinions. Lin Zhaolong felt that this method should be the best way and the fastest way, and with the support of military backing, I believe that the Cambodians will not have any objections.

On 25 November, the integrated division, consisting of three infantry regiments, one cavalry regiment and one heavy artillery regiment, set out from Priango. Now it is the dry season in Cambodia, and the road is still relatively easy, although the speed of the mule and horse dragging the 6-pounder cannon is a little slow, but it still advances towards Phnom Penh little by little according to the march plan.