Xiong Tingbi stayed directly at the first destination for a month, which gave Han Feng the feeling that Xiong Tingbi was waiting for him to take the initiative to attack. And Anabilon's army of 30,000 has also been assembled and has arrived in Mubang.

Ten are to surround it, five to attack it, and to fight it twice.

When Xiong Tingbi received the news that Anabilon had sent 30,000 troops, he was looking for an opportunity to fight a decisive battle with Anabilon and the Wood Confederation coalition forces. Although the Longteng Army has not experienced a real formal war until now, he is full of confidence in this army, and he believes that the combat power of this army is definitely not under the border army. He had been in Liaodong, and he had compared the combat effectiveness of this army with that of the border army.

Against such a coalition of Burma and Mu State, he was confident that he would rely on 25,000 men to defeat the 100,000. Now it is guarded, and the army is sent out to sweep in order to train the army, so that the army can see blood before the official decisive battle.

Xiong Tingbi knew that if he attacked Mubang when he first entered Mubang, it would naturally be easy to take Mubang, but the result must be that the aborigines and remnants of Mubang will spread throughout Mubang, and when the time comes, the entire Mubang will fall into enemy guerrilla warfare, which is very unfavorable to immigration and later rule. Xiong Tingbi's goal is to drive the entire population of Mu Bang to the vicinity of Mu Bang City, so that all the pots can be served and there will be no future troubles, or at least all of them will be driven to Burma.

Xiong Tingbi also believed that only by defeating the Burmese coalition army from the front could the Burmese army not dare to invade Mu State for several years, and only then could the peace of Mu State be ensured for several years.

But if the Burmese and Muslim coalition forces hold the city, this will undoubtedly increase the difficulty of seizing Mubang, Xiong Tingbi just wants to lure the Burmese and Mubang coalition forces out of Mubang City and fight a decisive battle in the wilderness. Destroy the main force of the Burmese coalition army in the field, and then capture Mubang.

Although the army has stagnated in the past month, Xiong Tingbi's army has captured nearly 10,000 laborers and more than 3,000 women of working age, but it has not obtained much property.

With cement and a large number of laborers, all of whom could be used without scruples, the construction of the fort was more than twice as fast as the Dutch engineers had predicted, and in a month the main structure of the fort was completed, but of course nearly a fifth of the labourers had died.

"General, at this rate, it is estimated that the construction of the fortress will be completed in another month. It's just that when the next fortress is built, there may be a shortage of manpower. "At this time, people all over the world had no concept of human rights, and Europeans were even engaged in the dirty slave trade.

"Ben will know, this matter will be dealt with, Vincent, and in three days we will go to the next destination, and at the same time build a second bastion." Xiong Tingbi said.

"General, if a second fortress is built at the same time, the cement may not be enough." Vincent said.

"Don't worry about this, the cement workshop in Longchuan has started, and a large amount of cement will be sent directly from Longchuan to here." Xiong Tingbi said.

"Oh, General, can you give me a tour of your country's cement workshop?" Vincent said in surprise. Vincent was amazed by the excellent architectural properties of cement, and he felt that the world's architecture would be changed because of cement, and he knew that if he could bring cement back to Europe, it would bring him endless wealth.

Vincent mentioned cement several times in his letters to De Carpenter, and he once wrote: "Hanlong Fort is a castle built on the bones of slaves, and more than 15,000 people were used to build Hanlong Bastion, and more than 5,000 people died in just over two months of construction, and if cement were not used, the labor mortality rate of Hanlon Basilica would have been more than half, and the construction period would have been extended......"

"This will not be able to give you an answer, the cement workshop is the property of Tai Comber, and no one can visit it without his permission." Xiong Tingbi said.

"So where do I get permission as quickly as possible?" Vincent still didn't give up.

"Ben will suggest that you better build the fortress with peace of mind first, and then think of a way when you return to Beijing. Perhaps Your Majesty, as soon as he is pleased, will allow you to visit the cement workshop. Xiong Tingbi said coldly.

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Qin Liangyu's army was responsible for the transportation of grain and grass for the new army, and they needed to bring grain, cement and other materials from Longchuan, and then return women, ploughing cattle, gold, silver, and jewelry from the army of Longteng.

Wei Dazhong had now recruited a large number of immigrants in Yunnan and Sichuan, and according to Wei Dazhong's plan, the ratio of Han people to other ethnic groups was one to one, so that he could implement the policy of changing the land and returning to the people in Mubang.

Wei Dazhong's borders between Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, as well as throughout Yunnan Province, were plastered with signs recruiting immigrants. The conditions for immigration given by Wei Dazhong are very tempting, but not many people respond in Yunnan, especially those who are close to Longchuan and other places know that Mubang is fighting, as long as the people hear that the war is too late, who will take the initiative to lean up, even if the conditions given by Wei Dazhong are good, no one is willing to go.

The border between the two provinces is far away from Mubang, and now the news is blocked, almost no one knows that Mubang is fighting. Naturally, there are more people who are willing to emigrate, especially since the conditions for immigration are so favorable.

"Dashan, are you preparing to immigrate to Mubang?"

"Yes! My parents have agreed, and I have already signed up at the county office. Monkey, are you going? I went to Yamen today to ask, and what the notice said is true, as long as you arrive in Longchuan, every bachelor can send a daughter-in-law, divide 50 acres of land, and five households are also equipped with a ploughing cow, which is more than 10,000 times better than staying here, oh, and there are tax exemptions for three years. Oyama said happily.

Sending a daughter-in-law was one of the immigration conditions in Wei Dazhong's notice, which was very tempting for those who beat the bachelors. During this period, there was a serious imbalance between men and women, and it was a national problem, and the easiest and quickest way to solve this problem was to bring it from abroad. And Zhu Youxiao chose the simplest and most crude method, that is, to rob, directly from abroad.

"I want to go too, but my family doesn't want me to go that far." The monkey said enviously.

"You are such an adult, you also know that it is impossible to find a daughter-in-law if you stay here, and we can see at a glance in several villages here that even the ducks swimming in the water and the birds flying in the sky are all male. I finally saw a young girl, and they must have been other people's daughters-in-law. Dashan complained.

"Otherwise, I will simply go to the county government office to report my name first, as long as I don't sign up, I won't be able to do it, so my family will take my way." The monkey was moved by Dashan's words in a few words, just because Dashan said the truth.