When the second prince was ready, he left the little prince Hong Wenyi to guard the house, and then personally led the fleet to attack the port of Darwin, where is the largest port of the Zheng family, as well as the city, there are nearly 700,000 people, including 300,000 people, 250,000 slaves, 150,000 soldiers and horses, including 50,000 army and 100,000 sailors. Where is the Zheng family's largest naval fleet.

According to the intelligence, there are a total of 350 warships and 110 warships that the Zheng family brought from the Huaxia Kingdom, bought, and built by the Zheng family themselves.

These warships and warships are the elite sailors of the Zheng family, as long as they are eliminated, the soldiers and horses of the Zheng family in other cities and ports are not to be feared, if they can just take Darwin's port and city, it would be good, they will be able to have a place to stay.

They are poor to death on the south coast of Australia, because the south coast is carrying the Ming continent, there are usually no people, so not many people go, even the Australian aborigines are not willing to come to the south coast.

In the past few years, he has some understanding of Australia, except for the coastline, the inland is useless, all mountains and volcanic craters, and deserts, water is scarce all year round, where the solar energy bakes, and some coasts are close to the inside point, but it rains all year round, heavy rain is flooding, there are rivers everywhere, it is difficult to walk, let alone survive.

In comparison, the north coast is a fertile land, where grain can be grown three times a year, and there are large grasslands to graze, raise sheep and cattle, the rain is just right, and the sun is not so hot, so it can be said that the Zheng family went to a good place.

Hong Hongxiu has no choice, who let the family take refuge in the Huaxia Kingdom from the beginning, he also knows their history, was driven out of the treasure island, Australia is the compensation of Zhang Qiang of the Huaxia Kingdom, but this is only limited to Zheng Chenggong's time, as long as Zheng Chenggong is there, as long as Zheng Chenggong is in peace, then the Huaxia Kingdom will not treat them well, but Zheng Chenggong died, his descendants made such a fuss, and now the Huaxia Kingdom is basically about to unify the territory of the original Ming Dynasty and drive the Qing court aliens out of the customs, so there is time to clean up the descendants of the Zheng family, Get the land back.

In the face of so many soldiers and horses of the Zheng family's naval division and such excellent warships, in fact, Hong Hongxiu has no bottom in his heart, his biggest bottom line is to fight a battle, annihilate a part, and weaken the enemy partly is part, through this blow, let the Zheng family know his strength, and give him a time to develop with peace of mind.

The Zheng family now has a population of 8 million, 1 million soldiers and horses, including 500,000 slave soldiers, 300,000 Japanese slaves, 200,000 prisoner slaves of various crimes, and the aborigines of Southeast Asia do not obey Wanghua, and there are also some Australian aboriginal slaves, Zheng Chenggong came here He did not learn from Zhang Qiang to kill the local natives but got along with them amicably, but many natives were unwilling to get along with the Zheng family, so Zheng Chenggong sent troops to recruit them, and after ten years of clearance, part of them were surrendered, Some of them escaped to the harsh environment of the central region, and some of them were slaughtered, and the young and strong were reduced to slavery.

And when Zheng Jing ascended the throne, his brothers were all killed, not to mention those natives, in addition to sending troops to chase and kill the natives who fled in the central part of the country, they also slaughtered the natives in the territory, and more people were reduced to slaves, but these slaves were not incorporated into the soldiers and horses, but were given to the meritorious nobles to share.

In order to make the Japanese, who account for almost half of the population of the Zheng family, serve, he promoted the status of the Japanese, many Japanese servant troops were treated as soldiers and free people, and promoted some Japanese to serve as middle-level commanders in the army, which was almost impossible in the Zheng Chenggong era, although Zheng Chenggong was a Han of Japanese descent, but his heart was the heart of the Han people, but Zheng Jing did not have that bondage, he regarded himself as the king of the Zheng family, the king of Australia, and did not recognize the Han people.

As long as they are loyal to him, whether they are Japanese or Southeast Asian aborigines, they are all from his Australia.

Hong Hongxiu disagrees very much at this point, he himself is a Han person, although he used to become a Qing Dynasty, but the books he read are Han Confucian books, and he has a high sense of identity with the Han people, he knows that this kind of action in Australia is very dangerous, for the Japanese who are going to perish, they are not without capable people, if they are given a chance, maybe they will become a big problem for the Han people, and Australia is swallowing a red-hot iron, destined to reap the consequences.

In a single nation, the Japanese have to do more meticulously than the rough Han people in terms of national integration and integration, don't look at the hundreds of daimyo generals in the melee, and there are anti-shogunate, but in fact, people are fighting internally, once they encounter external aggression, just like the invasion of Japan by the Lu State, the daimyo are unusually united, and they don't even dare to take all their subordinates to rescue other daimyo soldiers and horses who have a deep hatred with them.

Dead their own soldiers and horses are not hesitated, you have to put in the Han people, the brothers have to hesitate for a long time, and then the small family angrily sent people to inquire about the news, meaning, and then see that it is not good to retreat immediately, see the advantage, immediately attack the whole army, rush to If the brother has repelled the enemy, will immediately ask for a share of the spoils, the brother to save you, the meaning has to be meaningful, otherwise immediately start a war to destroy you, never consider saying that you killed your brother, the enemy is coming, can you stop it?

Therefore, he believed that promoting the Japanese was tantamount to digging his own grave.

Looking at the island of Papua New Guinea that is getting closer and closer, well, why does he know it, because the name of this island is also the name taken by Zhang Qiang, the king of the Chinese Kingdom.

At this time, there were 30 enemy 600-ton warships, 50 armed merchant ships, and 30,000 civilians stationed on the island of Papua New Guinea, which had already undergone the initial development of the Zheng family, and garrisoned 1,000 soldiers and horses.

His first battle was to occupy this place and obtain a foothold, occupying this place could shorten the time for their material trade with the Huaxia Kingdom by about ten days, from more than four months, to more than three and a half months, if they wanted to trade with Zheng Zhi and them in Luzon, then the time would be faster, at least half a month.

The distance between them and the Kingdom of China was shortened from a distance of 10,000 miles to a distance of only 8,000 nautical miles.

When they arrived, some goods were being loaded and unloaded in the port of Papua New Guinea, these goods were the materials used by Zheng Jing to build some coastal defense batteries, as well as a dozen coastal defense cannons obtained from trading with the Dutch, with these cannons, the northeast gate of his Darwin was closed, and the strait could be blocked, it was impossible to block them all, but at least let the enemy's fleet have some scruples, and cooperate with the fleet's attack, if the enemy wants to attack Darwin, he must first appreciate the style of these cannons.

Zheng Jing had already arrived at the bad behavior of Hong Hongxiu and his group who came here three years ago, so they often took armed merchant ships to harass Hong Hongxiu and them and prevent their development.

At present, Zheng Jing has basically eliminated his father's influence in Australia, killed all his brothers and clan brothers and uncles who may affect his throne, and stabilized his rule.

(End of chapter)