Chapter 511: Stratagem

Hearing Jiang Feng talk about Zhangzhou City, Liu Twelve, who was a little happy because he was talking about his younger brother, also became serious, straightened up, and said:

"Lord Governor, Huazhou, Yizhou and Malacca have all dispatched some ships to Zhangzhou, and Zhao's affairs regarding military supplies have also been arranged, and these ships are replenished at the ports and docks of Yizhou."

Jiang Feng listened intently to Liu Twelve's report, and interjected there:

"Arrange for your Sima to keep an eye on the various ports of Daming, if there is a shipyard to build a big ship, no matter what, immediately send a fleet to bombard them!"

For the behemoth of the Ming Empire, more than 3,000 people occupy Zhangzhou City, even if it is sophisticated firearms and equipment, it is not a difficult problem to solve, and the Ming Dynasty also has a variety of gunpowder weapons, if the army is besieged, Zhangzhou City is a lonely city, thousands of soldiers. Without food and ammunition, it is not worth mentioning at all.

However, Zhangzhou City is very close to the sea, and the world-famous Moon Port is less than half a day's distance from Zhangzhou City, which means that as long as there is a fleet, it can send supplies and personnel to the occupation army of Zhangzhou City at any time, and when necessary, it can send troops to support, and the occupation army is almost invincible.

Speaking of now, it is self-evident that the 'Spanish occupation army' that inexplicably occupied Zhangzhou City, the production capacity of Huazhou Shipyard is huge, and the shipwrights of the Ming Dynasty and the technicians from the Netherlands can not only build those improved ships, but also those ships built according to Jiang Feng's opinion are called Chinese ships on the sea, which is also called according to the nomenclature of what kind of lucky ship and Guangzhou ship. These shipyards can not only build Chinese ships, but also Western Galen ships, and Fu ships and Canton ships are naturally not a problem.

This is the origin of those brand-new "Spanish fleets" on the sea, it is useless to have ships, but also to have Spaniards, and in the whole of Asia, the place where the Spaniards have the most is the colony of Luzon, and there are 13 or 400 men in it, and there are some regular soldiers.

Whether it was the sailors or the gunners on the ship, or the so-called Spanish occupation troops in Zhangzhou City, some of them were real Spaniards, and when they were on the ship, these people stayed on the side of the ship, and when they wore armor, they were required to lift their visors, revealing their blue-green eyes, high noses, and white skin that were inconspicuous in the eyes of Asians.

There are also army units in Zhangzhou City, when they march in formation, they are all standing on the outside, and they are also asked to talk loudly in Spanish, and be sure to give the people around them a concept, we are Spaniards from Europe, we are white. In fact, in each team, the Spaniards accounted for at most thirty percent, and the rest of the Dutch and Han Chinese, of course, the Han people were firmly wrapped in armor, and they could only be taken down to breathe within the specified area.

Among the hundreds of thousands of people on Yizhou (Taiwan) Island controlled by the Jiang family's army, a large number of displaced and poor people recruited from Fujian and Guangdong were trained in Yizhou Island much earlier than in Huazhou and outside the Guanxi Province, and the proportion of regimental training was also drawn according to the households, and of course there were some Cantonese people in it, and as for how to create the false impression of collusion between the "Spanish occupation army" and the maritime merchants and private soldiers in Guangdong for the people inside and outside Zhangzhou City.

This is similar to the principle of the Spaniards, as long as they speak Cantonese to those people seen by the common people on the periphery, everyone wears Cantonese-style clothing, and the Canton Boat shows a few faces here. First of all, let everyone think that the Spaniards and the pirates of Guangdong colluded to occupy Zhangzhou City, first clear all suspicions from Huazhou, and then make other arrangements.

Although the defense of Zhangzhou City is vigorously renovating the city defense with slaves and hired laborers to build a long-term defense system, the effect of such a hasty thing is not so ideal, but with the fleet in Zhangzhou Bay, everything is different.

Huazhou's absolute maritime superiority and the strong firepower of their gunboats are the strong backing of the defense of Zhangzhou City, and the Spanish fleet in Zhangzhou Bay can also get all kinds of effective support from the Yizhou Fleet behind it, so to speak, because of these fleets, Zhangzhou City is no longer an isolated city, but backed by the entire sea, and the besiegers can not only face the defense of Zhangzhou City, but also worry about the blow from the sea.

These things, the two people sitting in the back hall of the Huazhou Governor's Mansion have obviously thought about it clearly, but Liu Twelve is not worried about whether he can keep it, he said with some concern:

"Lord Governor, how can a medium-sized capital city in the South China Sea land achieve the pre-set goal of our Huazhou?"

Jiang Feng laughed, the so-called handsome person does not have to charge into battle to fight in person, he only needs to strategize in the central place, Jiang Feng's position does need him to do this, but he is not used to it, for Jiang Feng, who likes to fight bravely and brawl on the street when he does not cross, when he comes to the Ming Dynasty, he prefers to fight with his soldiers rather than determine a plan in the house, but helpless is helpless, and he must do this, after all, he is in a high position, There are many things that you can't help yourself, and you have to keep adapting to them.

"The Ming Dynasty has been in the country for so many years, although there are such and such problems, there is one thing that has not been matched by the past dynasties, that is, the word backbone!"

Liu Twelve, who heard Jiang Feng's words, was stunned, thinking about how to say the two words of backbone, looking at those who were extremely humble to the eunuchs, the money and property exchanges between the superiors and subordinates, and bribery had become blatant behaviors, and the generals drove the households below to be slaves, farming and working for themselves, and the money earned was not enough to feed and wear, and the rest were pocketed by the generals.

Seeing Liu Tshi's somewhat puzzled eyes, Jiang Feng knew that this wise strategist did not understand what he said, thinking of this, Jiang Feng couldn't help but feel a little ashamed, these things were all the information he knew when he read the history of the Ming Dynasty when he didn't cross over.

If you talk about the advantages of surpassing the times, this is also one of them, there are more than the accumulation of hundreds of years of data and theories at this time, but for Jiang Feng, it is really pitiful that there is very little that can be used, fortunately, because I liked to see Yunzhongyue back then, I was somewhat interested in the Ming Dynasty and read some information.

"The Ming Dynasty is the Han Dynasty, it is the country taken from the hands of the Tartars, it can be said that the country is extremely upright, at the beginning of the founding of the country, these emperors of the Zhu family also have to see some lessons from the past, lest their own country also make the same mistake, before the Tartars, it was the Song Dynasty."

Speaking of this, Liu Twelve understood a little, but since his own adults were interested in talking, he naturally did not interrupt indiscriminately, but continued to make an expression of listening attentively, pretending that the occupation of Zhangzhou by the Spanish occupation army was Jiang Feng's strategy alone.

"Zhao and Song are also the dynasty of the Han people, but since the founding of the country, it has been pressed by foreign people, the Song Dynasty is almost step by step in retreat, always thinking that they can rely on the year to make peace, fantasizing about using money to make the other party concessions, as a result, all the way to the south, and finally even the country was destroyed by the Tartars, no matter which emperor of the Zhu family, they all saw this result, so they absolutely themselves as long as they made concessions to foreign peoples, the consequence was to lose power and humiliate the country, when the Tumubao changed, even if the emperor was taken captive, The ministers are also absolutely uncompromising, and would rather set up a new emperor than continue to fight! ”

Having said that, things are already much clearer, Zhangzhou City is occupied by ghosts, which is a shining slap in the face to the Ming Dynasty, but because the defenders who occupy Zhangzhou City have excellent firearms, and they don't have to worry about their communication lines being cut off, they can get support from the sea at any time, and it is almost an impossible task for the Ming army to take Zhangzhou City, or rather, it is impossible to complete it just by relying on the Ming army in Fujian.

The Ming Dynasty, which is absolutely unwilling to compromise, will inevitably increase its investment in the army in this area, and because the power of the nomadic tribes in the north has been swept away by Jiang Feng one by one, many of the troops in the north are idle and will definitely be transferred.

And at this time, the Ming Dynasty is not very peaceful, in the three northern provinces, the problem of cotton has developed to a degree that no one can imagine, the sudden expansion of cotton production capacity for cotton demand expansion, but the production of cotton fields will not suddenly increase so much.

Those who have already made a profit in the production of cotton fields have begun to expand their cotton fields as much as possible, and it is not uncommon to forcibly buy cotton fields, and now they are more in private collusion with the green forest to destroy each other, and then take it over as a borderless land. In such a fight with each other, the people who survive are often the big and powerful landlords who dominate a county or even a prefecture.

In order to prevent the cotton farmers in their hands, or more precisely, the cotton slaves from fleeing, and in order to prevent themselves from being attacked, they have built high walls and fortifications, and the scale of the domestic soldiers is getting bigger and bigger, and the equipment is becoming more and more sophisticated.

What Jiang Feng wanted to do was to add a handful of dry firewood under the pot of water that was about to boil......