Chapter 419: Expand Aggressively

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Li Wenchang was defeated by the invasion of the coalition forces of the neighboring countries, and whether it was the powerful countries of Sri Buddha and Mora You, or the small states of Pahang and Ganga on the polar peninsula, and the Malay tribes, after this war, their vitality was greatly damaged, and they were afraid that they would not be able to launch another large-scale offensive within two years.

In the fierce battle of nearly three months, the Tang army itself suffered no more than 200 losses, but because there was no strong sailor to help, it failed to take advantage of the victory to achieve more results. There were only more than 3,000 soldiers capable of fighting, and the defense was more than enough and the progress was insufficient, and they were unable to go north to attack the Malay tribes north of Luo Yue, as well as Pahang and Ganga, which made Li Wenchang very regretful.

Li Wenchang sighed lightly: "The Puluo Governor's Mansion needs a strong naval division to conquer the Nanyang countries, and it needs to move in tens of thousands of people to have the strength to expand its territory. โ€

"Why don't the Governor go to His Royal Highness King Yan and request that the Puluo Governor's Mansion be given priority in immigration at the end of this year and transfer the South China Sea Fleet stationed in the Taiwan Governor's Mansion?"

Luo Zhengchen, who is the most famous for this battle, suggested.

"There are still three governors in Nanyang in front of us who are scrambling to ask His Highness for supplies, and the qualifications of those three governors are higher than that of a certain one, if you really fight with them, I am afraid that you will not be able to win."

"But the governor is a clan, a cousin of His Royal Highness, whether it is Wei Chi Xunyu after the founding hero or He Ruolie and Xiao Rensuo, who were promoted to the governor with military merits, they can't compare with you. More importantly, the situation around the Puluo Governor's Mansion is not comparable to that of the three Governor's Mansions of Boni, Luzon, and Yanshui, which only need to deal with the problems of the local indigenous tribes. The Governor played it truthfully, and I believe that His Highness will make a decision. โ€

Li Wenchang felt that what Luo Zhengchen said was right, and slapped the female wall: "Okay, I will write another notebook, asking His Royal Highness to increase the number of immigrants to the Puluo Governor's Mansion and strengthen the strength of the sailors." โ€

The fast sailing ship trial-produced by the Liaodong Shipyard sailed downwind and sailed at sea, but it took more than two months to reach Pyongyang.

As soon as Li Wenchang's recital was delivered to Li Yu, at the end of the fifth year of Xianheng, the large-scale immigration fleet of the four Nanyang governors of the Andong Pioneer Group went south, and arrived at the governor's mansions one after another at the beginning of the first year of the Shangyuan Dynasty to pay the immigrants.

The Puluo Governorate received more than 5,000 immigrants this time, which is much less than the other three Governorates, which all received more than 15,000 immigrants, but the quality of the immigrants is the highest, and both men and women are young and strong.

Li Wenchangnuo had a military need, and he could use the authority granted by Li Yu to act in friendship with the governors of overseas prefectures, and recruit young and strong armed men from the immigrants as unity soldiers.

After this migration, there were more than 9,000 soldiers and civilians under the jurisdiction of the Puluo Governor's Office, 3,000 guards at the corner, and more than 3,600 people could be recruited from the immigrants during the war.

The impact of the gathering of nearly 10,000 people on the island is that the island is too small, and the only arable land that can be cultivated is the eastern part of the island and the coastal plain, which can be reclaimed about 10,000 acres. It is located in the tropical rainforest climate zone, and belongs to the first reclamation and cultivation, and the grain yield is very low, with an average yield of only 100 catties per mu. Three crops must be planted in a year, and a bumper harvest must be guaranteed every season to ensure the food rations of the military and civilians of the Governor's Mansion for a year.

With more migrants arriving next year, the demand for food is bound to increase dramatically, and it is no longer feasible to retreat to Singapore Island.

According to the number of household registrations under the jurisdiction of Datang County, the current Puluo Governor's Mansion has a population of nearly 10,000 people, which is almost reaching the standard of establishing a central county. As soon as the immigrants arrive next year, they will directly become a medium-sized county.

Therefore, it is necessary for Li Wenchang to expand the territory of the Governor's Office. In the past, the troops were not aggressive enough to defend more than enough, but now they can recruit more than 3,000 united soldiers, and with the spare strength, they can draw half of their troops and horses to seek revenge on the two countries of Pahang, Ganga and the Malay tribes that participated in the siege last year.

Moreover, most of the children on the island do not have mothers-in-law, and there are only more than 2,400 women among the immigrants, which is completely in short supply.

Li Wenchang convened a meeting of the generals and the king of Luo Yue, and decided: "Next month, a certain general will personally lead half of the soldiers and horses of the Jiaoduanwei and 1,000 united soldiers and 500 Luo Yue troops to the north to conquer the Pahang, Ganga and Malay tribes that have committed our Tang Tianwei......"

Li Bao, He Kegang, Luo Zhengchen...... The army led the expedition with a certain one, and Chen Tianxi led the army to stay in the governor's mansion. โ€

"Li Dudu, there are only about 800 soldiers left in the small kingdom after last year's war, and although they are replenished after the war, there are only 1,000 people, can you recruit a little less soldiers and horses from small countries?"

King Luo Yue asked tentatively, because the country was weak and weak, and his heart seemed a little lacking in confidence.

"You just have to obey the order and send troops, after the war, you will be indispensable to the benefits of Luo Yueguo."

For the king of Luo Yue in front of him, who wanted to seek the protection of the imperial court, but also wanted to make less effort, and still had a small abacus in his heart, Li Wenchang was more and more disliked, so he replied angrily.

"Yes, Xiao Wang obeys the orders of the governor."

King Luo Yue felt the grievance in his heart, but he was also a king, but he whispered in front of a magistrate in the Tang Kingdom, and he was so unhappy. At this moment, I really regret my intestines, how could I be fooled by the Tang envoy who didn't have any hair to seek refuge in the Tang Dynasty?

Since the Tang army entered Singapore Island to establish the Puluo Governor's Mansion of Raushzi, King Luo Yue's life has not been easy.

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The grain and grass reserves in the Puluo Governor's Mansion are sufficient, and there is no need to raise them separately, but the newly recruited unity soldiers need to be trained. Li Wenchang trained his troops for a month, mainly to practice jungle warfare and teach how to guard against poisonous insects and ants in the tropical rainforest, and how to choose a site when setting up camp, especially to prevent mosquito bites.

Although Li Yu began to use alcohol to extract artemisinin on a large scale last year and distribute it to the governors in the tropics, after all, the extraction was just started and the amount of production was small, which could not meet the needs of the military and civilians of the governors in Nanyang.

Therefore, the prevention and control of mosquitoes in the field is still the second most important position under the combat mission of the governors of Nanyang.

After the whole army was ready, Li Wenchang led an army of 2,005 men across the narrow Johor Strait, joined the Luo Yue army of 500, and killed the interior of the northwest polar peninsula.

Later, in the history books, Li Wenchang's expedition was called the first northern expedition to the polar peninsula, also known as the "second war between Tang and Turkey". It lasted for half a year, dozens of battles before and after, and tens of thousands of beheadings (as for how many soldiers were in it, how many were old and weak, women and children, there was a lot of controversy in later generations.) Because more than 1,300 years later, near the battlefield recorded in the history books of the Polar Peninsula, several pits of 1,000 people, 100 people were discovered, and even one of the 10,000 people was discovered. A small number of the dead in the pit were killed with sharp weapons, but most of them died of suffocation, and DNA tests were not Chinese but the original natives of the Polar Peninsula. Since then, he has been scolded as a butcher by leftists).

He successively conquered the kingdoms of Pahang and Ganga, wiped out more than a dozen Malay tribes, and drove more than 20 Malay tribes northward. Li Wenchang marched to the Dandan Kingdom on the north coast of the Two Pole Peninsula and the South Coast to the Jinda Kingdom, and the boundary of the Puluo Prefecture has since expanded nearly 100 times. Reading, a better reading experience.