Chen Zhouquan personally led the troops to the Northern Expedition, and there was a rare calm in Fengshan County, and even the bandits who had been entrenched in Chaishan (Shoushan) for many years disappeared, because the bandit leader also wanted to take the opportunity to rise up and ran to join Chen Zhouquan as a generalissimo.

Chen Guanghui sat in Fengshan County, with 10,000 troops in his hands, and was not idle, he had already divided his troops to seize all the Qing army strongholds in Fengshan County.

Chen Guanghui took the entire Fengshan County almost bloodlessly, and took the Kaohsiung Plain and the Pingtung Plain in the geography of later generations, which are both rice and grain producing areas and important bases.

In addition to Chen Guanghui's forces, there are also Zhou Lang's forces in the entire Fengshan County, Zhou Lang personally sits in Dagu Port, and Colin is stationed in Zuoying, although it is said that there are two forces, but Zhou Lang feels that it is three, unlike heaven and earth, which will regard Colin, a Yi person who cannot communicate, as a Yi person hired by Zhou Lang, Zhou Lang himself knows that he can't command Colin at all.

Zhou Lang was more concerned about Colin's movements than Chen Guanghui, and there were already some bad signs, Colin seemed to have discovered the unreliability of his subordinates, and found that the situation of his Heaven and Earth Society was more serious than he imagined, and he dismissed several leaders of the Heaven and Earth Society one after another. It was a heavy blow to the Heaven and Earth Society organization under his hands, although among the three hundred local soldiers before, the Heaven and Earth Society members were almost as high as two hundred, but most of them were coerced, and the real core was the dozen or so Heaven and Earth Society members who joined in the left camp.

I didn't expect Colin to be able to find out all these people when he couldn't communicate with each other, and he could drive them out of the army without the other party reacting, which was unexpected by Zhou Lang, he really couldn't understand how Colin did it.

If it were Zhou Lang himself, in the case of language barriers, he might not even be able to discover these secretly developed Tiandi Guild organizations, and even if he found out, he didn't know how to deal with it.

In addition to paying attention to these news at all times, Zhou Lang is training with his head bored, and he looks like he doesn't hear anything outside the window.

After several months of training, Zhou Lang's fair-skinned puppet also turned brown, his hands were calloused, his muscles were trained, and his height was close to 1.8 meters, which made him unbelievably strong.

The situation of his soldiers is similar to his, and when they train together, the gap will not be too big. Starting and running can be messy at all, even if the weapon is holding a weapon and charging quickly, it can maintain a general formation, which is already very good in Zhou Lang's opinion, and even Chen Guanghui praised it again and again after watching a few exercises. But Fischer still didn't think it would work, he felt that the soldier's skills had not yet been honed, and he still had feelings of fear.

Fischer said no, and Zhou Lang continued to support him in high-intensity training.

As for whether it will work or not, in fact, it has to be tested on the battlefield, but Zhou Lang does not plan to go to the battlefield in a short time, and his victory or defeat is no longer on the battlefield, but outside the battlefield.

To be precise, it is whether Harald will be able to bring back aid from India, including the rifles and artillery he demands, all kinds of strategic materials, and most importantly, money.

When Zhou Lang set out from India, he carried a large number of silver coins, a total of 400,000 silver dollars, but so far, more than half of them have been consumed. In order to attract others to rebel with him, Zhou Lang did not hesitate to spend a lot of money, the daily salary of officers was as high as five silver dollars, and the daily salary of ordinary soldiers was as high as five silver dollars, and the battle was doubled.

At present, there are nearly 1,500 soldiers under Zhou Lang who need to pay military salaries, 800 are in Dagugang, and more than 600 are in Zuoying, and the fixed expenses per month are basically about 50,000 silver dollars, and now there are only 230,000 silver dollars left, and if it continues, it will not last for a few months.

But this is all in Zhou Lang's plan, according to his plan, Harald should have sailed from India, and now it is time to pass Malacca.

Harald left Zuoying in June to purchase supplies in Macao, and then left Guangzhou in July. This is not a normal voyage, because under normal circumstances, China's voyage is from the sea to the summer back, because the monsoon blows from the sea to the land in the summer, which is suitable for returning, and the winter is the opposite, it blows from the mainland to the sea, plus the topography of China, often the northeast monsoon will be hung in winter, which is very suitable for going to the South Sea, so Zheng He went to the West mostly in winter and returned in summer.

But that doesn't mean you can't sail in the summer, the first voyage of the integration is in July.

The disadvantages of sailing in the summer are that the winds are unstable and storms are frequent, which can be very dangerous. But Zhou Lang can't care about the danger, Harald is an experienced captain, he has the ability to deal with these, the merchant ship is a large ship of eight hundred tons, and has the ability to resist large winds and waves, unless his luck is particularly bad, Harald should be able to deal with it.

Departing from Guangdong in July, if it goes well, you will be able to arrive in India at the end of September, and then get the supplies that Zhou Lang needs to set off, set sail before October, and should be able to return in January.

And it is already the tenth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, and the solar calendar has reached November, and after nearly two months of sailing at sea, Harald has already crossed the Strait of Malacca.

But how much aid Harald can bring, Zhou Lang himself has no bottom, of course Harald himself can't do this, Zhou Lang asked Harald to send a letter of tens of thousands of words to his partner Henry Pitt, saying that it is a letter, but it is better to say that it is a business plan.

In the letter, Zhou Lang gave Henry Pitt a detailed introduction to the company's current commercial advantages in China, focusing on the company's acquisition of a commercial base, and told Henry Pitt that the company was ahead of all Western countries and commercial powers, and that the company's future was more promising than that of the British East India Company.

To put it bluntly, he told Henry Pitt a good capital story, with the aim of attracting more investment and quickly blowing up the company's capital balloon.

Zhou Lang hopes that Henry Pitt can raise a million pounds of capital, but Zhou Lang has no bottom in his heart, because a million pounds is really an unimaginable huge amount of money in this era, and it is indeed too difficult for shareholders to invest such a large amount of money when the company has not made any profits.

In Zhou Lang's original plan, he would not be so urgent, he originally planned to go through several voyages and successfully achieve profitable performance, and then refinancing, after all, there must be some real glamorous results for listing, but the situation in Taiwan forced him to speed up this progress and have to use all means to expand his strength.

Henry Pitt was asked to help with the financing, and most of the money raised was used to buy supplies to strengthen the military, including cannons and rifles, as well as warships.

With Henry Pitt's influence in India, Zhou Lang believed that it should not be difficult to get hundreds of cannons and thousands of rifles, but it was warships that were difficult. Zhou Lang hopes to have a spot and buy ready-made old warships, recruit enough skilled sailors, and let himself directly form a combat force at sea.

But if the East India Company obstructed it, let alone warships, it would not be able to buy a single armed merchant ship. But Zhou Lang carefully evaluated, and he thought that it was unlikely that Kanghuali would obstruct him at this time. The only possibility that you can't buy a ship is that there really isn't a ship, then Harald will place an order at a shipyard in India and wait for the next time to get the ship.

In this way, Zhou Lang's expansion of sea power will be delayed for at least half a year, but the land power should be strengthened soon, as long as there are 200 cannons and 3,000 rifles, as well as sufficient military spending, Zhou Lang can expand the current army size to 2,000 people, with 2,000 Western-style troops, it is modest to say self-preservation, and Zhou Lang even has the ability to launch military operations.

Zhou Lang's guess was right, Harald's fleet had indeed passed through the Strait of Malacca now, even faster than Zhou Lang expected, and had reached the waters of Vietnam.

Zhou Lang's worries have also become a reality, Henry Pitt has worked hard, but this time he really failed to attract enough investment, far from the one million pounds Zhou Lang asked for, and Henry Pitt himself invested 30,000 pounds, but only pulled 300,000 pounds.

India's China fever has been burning for more than half a year, and now the craze has receded a little, everyone has become calmer, and rational investors want to see Magarny's results before making a decision, if Magalny's accident goes well in the Qing court, then the company established by Zhou Lang is really promising, so there are a lot of people who ask, but not many people who really pay for it, which makes Henry Pitt very angry, and says that he will never accept their investment again for those who reject him.

Without money, Harald naturally could not procure enough munitions, could not buy enough warships, and even failed to recruit a single sailor.

But Harald still set sail, because in Harald's opinion, he got everything Zhou Lang needed and completed all the tasks of his captain.

He brought back five ships, five armed merchant ships armed with twenty guns, all of which were fully staffed with well-trained sailors, and the holds of the fleet contained more weapons than Zhou Lang had requested, five thousand rifles and three hundred cannons, as well as plenty of gunpowder and lead bullet.

But Harald didn't know that these things were too hot for Zhou Lang.

Because these weapons and equipment were allocated directly by the East India Company from its own arsenal, and the East India Company not only gave weapons, but also gave to the army, and with the ships came 1,500 Indian native soldiers led by British officers.

Why did Cornwallis send troops to China?

Because just as Zhou Lang wrote a letter to Henry Pitt, Colin also wrote a letter to Cornwally, a superstitious letter, and Cornwallis received Colin's letter before Zhou Lang's letter reached Henry Pitt.

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