While Zhang Qiang was busy building his new fleet, Du Ge was also busy, and now he has developed a regular army of 30,000 Han Chinese, a regular army of 50,000 Siamese natives, and a 1,000-strong Taixi mercenary army, and has a fleet of 100 warships, which nominally belongs to the king of Siam, but in fact belongs to him, and he controls this fleet.

This fleet had five 1,300-ton warships of the Huaxia Army eight years ago, which were some of the warships of the Huaxia Kingdom Naval Division that had been mobilized through his right when he left, as well as two 800-ton naval warships, seven 600-ton naval warships, eleven 300-ton ships, and five 200-ton naval warships, and the other small naval warships were not transferred, but had thirty merchant ships converted from Daifuku ships, which were now converted into armed merchant ships, and the conversion was carried out by the Dutch.

The sailors were equipped by the British, the gunners were equipped by the Dutch, and the officers and soldiers of the original sailors were killed by him because they did not want to leave the country, and the current structure is that the apprentices under these British and Dutch are all Han sailors and officials who came with him for treason, and there are some children of Siamese officials.

Among these people, the Han gradually controlled the power of the fleet, the captain was not Han or British, the first mate was not Han but Dutch, the helmsman was Han, the second mate was Han, the lookout was Han, the gun commander was Han, the boatswain was Han, and the Taixi were only equal to the status of technicians, although they also controlled part of the power, but the real power was in the hands of the Han officials who had betrayed the country from the Kingdom of China led by Du Ge.

In addition to these ships of the Chinese Kingdom, there were also the 300-ton Galen ships of the British, the 600-ton Caravel ships of the Dutch, the 180-ton Galen ships of the Spaniards, and the Carrack galleons of the Portuguese, a total of more than 150 ships.

It was not that Du Ge did not want to counterattack the states of other Chinese kingdoms in Southeast Asia as soon as possible, but he did not have any confidence, because he built a huge kingdom from scratch, and even Zhang Qiang ran for twenty years, and he worked hard to build a territory in Siam on the border with Burma and Laos, and a port in a place that was diametrically opposed to India, and there was also Siam's land in between.

Siam has a small population, but his ambition is not small, and the reason why he watched him do this without hindrance was because he tied up those officials with interests, and the Dutch and British pressured them so that they did not dare to ask too much, but he did not dare to make the stall bigger at once, because there was not enough population to control the territory, and if the stall was bigger, it would all contribute to Siam.

In this way, he trained 50,000 regular troops for Siam, all of them were firearms soldiers, although they were now under his orders, but there were many Siamese officials and children in them, and those people were time bombs.

In case it doesn't work out, blow yourself up, cheapen Siam, there are a lot of Han people in Siam, but most of them are Han people from the Fujian and Guangdong regions, and many Han people came to the Ming Dynasty, they don't have the same heart with themselves at all, they are concentric with Siam, many Han families here hope that Siam will be strong, and they don't want the Han people's Chinese kingdom to be strong, and the Han population and soldiers brought by Du Ge are two factions with them, just like when the Ming Dynasty just died, many people even served as officials of the Qing Dynasty, and what they thought about was the Han Dynasty.

This advantage allowed Du Ge to unite people's hearts, but this time did not last long, and the longer these people broke away from his control, the more they became Siamese people with the face of the Han people assimilated by the Siamese state.

In order to make these Siamese people feel pressure, Du Ge had to show some strength to deter them, and the sailor who attacked the Huaxia Kingdom was the strength he wanted to show.

Thinking of this, he said to the generals beside him: "Let the sailor set off to harass the sailor of the Huaxia Kingdom." ”

So a huge fleet set out, as many as two hundred warships, and Siam provided fifteen ships of three hundred tons purchased from the British, the British sent two third-class battleships to follow, the Dutch sent ten caravel ships of one hundred and eighty tons, and more than thirty Siamese merchant ships followed to deliver supplies.

Their target was the Fifth Fleet stationed in Saigon, unbeknownst to them, of course, that the Fifth Fleet had actually grown stronger.

When he sent out the fleet, he consulted with King Zheng Xin of Siam, as well as the Englishman Tyme and the Dutchman Ike.

Du Ge said to them: "If we want to deal with the threat of the Huaxia Kingdom, we must do this, constantly provoke them, constantly threaten them, so that they can't develop with peace of mind, you look at Japan, look at Zheng Chenggong's treasure island, look at the Lu Kingdom, and the newly destroyed Dajin Kingdom, the Huaxia Kingdom is advancing their strategy little by little, making you uneasy, let others help them attack the enemy, and they are slowly developing in the country."

Now they have a larger Han Chinese population, 180 million people, and they are constantly moving those who are not naturalized, as well as those who oppose them, to the surrounding war-torn small countries, and use those people as cannon fodder to exterminate you, are you just waiting to be exterminated? ”

Zheng Xin said: "No, they have already wiped out Siam, Donghu Dynasty, Annam Dynasty, maybe they will be us next, so I will allow you to do this in our country, otherwise, you will not be able to exist, our soldiers and horses will tear you apart, and then feed them to the elephants." ”

The Englishman Tim glanced at the Siamese king Zheng Xin with disdain, this native is too arrogant, his strength is not to mention that he is comparable to Du Ge and them, even if they are transferred by the British with an army of 2,000 people, they can kill their dynasty, if they don't need their market, his British Empire will not give them a good look, the Mughal dynasty has long been wiped out by him and the Dutch, and now those princely states are docile like dogs, and they have to live on them.

The Dutchman Ike did not listen to them, but said: "We have sent us a fleet in our country, last time we were almost disabled by the Zheng family, this time, we will send this fleet behind your fleet to attack the Zheng family, I heard that the Zheng family also bought their retired 400 naval warships from the Huaxia Army, this time we will completely kill them and avenge our warships." ”

Du Ge was interested in the Dutch's warships, "How many warships are there this time?" What kind of warships are they, aren't they? ”

Ike said: "There are eighteen in total, eight fifth-class warships, three-masted, five-hundred-ton, three six-hundred-ton four-masts, two six-hundred-ton five-masted warships, and five eighteen-sail eight-hundred-ton warships, and these eighteen alone can destroy hundreds of their warships." ”

The Englishman Tim did not react, he looked down on these warships of the Dutch, they were all old warships, although they were warships, abandoned the cargo capacity, specially used for war, and the speed was also a lot faster, but the performance of their warships was not good, the purpose of the British was to catch up with the Spanish Armada, not their old goods.

(End of chapter)