After entering the summer, the empire once again sent 10,000 troops into the Great Wilderness Dongzhou, and counting the original 12,000 people, the garrison of the Great Wilderness Dongzhou reached 22,000 people, in order to solve the problem of food supply, the Ming army began to tax the local indigenous people.

The taxation was not smooth, often accompanied by violence, which also caused many local natives to flee, and at the same time, due to the entry of outsiders, bringing diseases and plagues, resulting in a sharp decline in the local population, the local indigenous population in the areas controlled by the Ming Dynasty has plummeted by three percent within a year or two, and the population continues to decline.

For the natives of the uncontrolled areas, the Ming army mainly focused on trade. Through trade and taxation, the Ming army was slowly able to meet nearly half of the army's food needs, and in March of this year, the Ming army established its first arsenal on the islands under its control. All these greatly alleviated the Ming army's dependence on domestic supplies, and the Great Wilderness Dongzhou was already planning to march into the Indian region.

Once the Indian areas are controlled, the military cantonment plan proposed by Zhu Cijun can be carried out as scheduled, and all the problems of the Great Wilderness Dongzhou can be easily solved. Compared with Xipol, the Great Wilderness Dongzhou is more suitable for human survival.

At the end of July, 10,000 troops arrived in the Great Wilderness Dongzhou, and the army came with Li Dingguo, the governor of the Shenyang Governor's Office, who was the highest commander assigned by Zhu Youxiao to be in charge of the entire Great Wilderness Dongzhou.

After 10,000 troops repaired on the island for half a month, they set off again for the Indian region under the leadership of Li Dingguo. Li Dingguo wanted to establish a strong foothold in the Indian region before winter came.

Although the Indian region is not the center of Manchukuo, it is extremely important to Manchukuo and is the barrier of Manchukuo. After the Manchus entered the Great Wilderness of Dongzhou, they tried their best to expand eastward to obtain more supplies, and the power of Manchukuo had extended to the Great Lakes region.

After the Ming army entered the Indian region, it also marched eastward, and the 5,000 Ming army in the Yukon also moved south to join the main force.

It was not until September that Li Dingguo led 10,000 Ming troops to meet the 20,000 troops of Manchukuo. The 20,000 troops of Manchukuo were stationed here for a long time, and when the Ming army entered the Indian area, the Manchukuo army kept retreating, choosing a suitable place to fight the Ming army.

The location chosen by the Manchurian Army was both open and occupied a commanding height, which gave them an absolute geographical advantage, which could well contain the artillery superiority of the Ming army and enable their cavalry to give full play to their superiority.

Although the Ming army lost the advantage of artillery, their advantage in muskets was still obvious. The Ming army relied on the Apocalypse Gun and repelled the enemy's attacks several times, but the Ming army was limited by geographical conditions and was temporarily unable to counterattack. And the Manchurian army, after several unsuccessful attacks, decided to drag the Ming army to death.

Compared with the Ming army, the Manchurian army was much more adequately supplied. The first time the Ming army set foot in the Indian region, it was impossible to carry a lot of food on this eastward march, but the Ming army had a killer feature, that is, the 5,000 Ming army that went south, as long as it was used properly, the 5,000 Ming army could be caught off guard by the Manchurian army, which was also one of the reasons why Li Dingguo boldly marched eastward.

The two armies were temporarily locked in a standoff. But in the confrontation, there are still daily skirmishes between the two armies, and both sides hurt each other.

But five days later, the Manchurian Army, which was confronting the Ming army, suddenly retreated. Li Dingguo knew that the Manchurian Army had detected the news of the reinforcements of the Ming army.

"Order the whole army to retreat and find a suitable place to build the city." Li Dingguo gave up the idea of continuing to advance eastward.

"My lord, won't our army continue to pursue the Manchurian army?"

"The Jianyu are obviously more familiar with the terrain here than we are, and the terrain of Rocky Mountain is complex, and if you blindly pursue it, you may fall into the trap of Jianyu, this risk is not worth the risk." Li Dingguo explained.

"According to the report, the royal court of Jianyu is on the back side of Rocky Mountain, and after this battle, it is very likely that the royal court of Jianyu will move."

"We can't rush to exterminate the remnants of Jianyu, and only after the start of Tuntian next year will our army have the ability to cross the Rocky Mountains and enter the plateau area."

"No."

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The Ming army established three strongholds west of the Rocky Mountains in preparation for the upcoming Tuntian.

At this moment, Zhu Youxiao also received the news that Britain and the Netherlands had concluded the Treaty of Westminster and the end of the First Anglo-Dutch War. The Dutch lost the First Anglo-Dutch War due to strategic mistakes, and the British began to rise.

After the First Anglo-Dutch War, the Dutch Führer de Witt sent a secret envoy to visit the Ming Dynasty to seek support from the Ming Dynasty. Now the Ming Dynasty has the strongest navy and army in the world, and it is the object that Britain and the Netherlands have been fighting for.

But Zhu Youxiao never wanted to get involved in the Anglo-Dutch war, after all, money was needed to fight a war, and the empire's development in the Great Wilderness Dongzhou, the confrontation with the Russian army in Xipol, and immigration all required huge amounts of money to support.

This time, Zhu Youxiao still did not agree to the Dutch's request to send troops, but Zhu Youxiao agreed to sell a batch of warships to the Dutch, and guaranteed the interests of the Dutch in the East Indies, in exchange, the Netherlands sold all the interests of Boni (Kalimantan Island) to the empire to offset the cost of the warships, and at the same time recognized all the interests of the Ming in the East Indies, Leng Zhou, and the Great Wilderness East Continent.

After the Ming Dynasty drove Spain out of the South Seas, he obtained Spain's interests in Bo Ni, and after this transaction, Zhu Youxiao obtained a complete Bo Ni.

Moreover, Zhu Youxiao's move undoubtedly promoted the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, which advanced the Second War by three years.

After Zhu Youxiao obtained Bo Ni, he set up a political envoy in Bo Ni, and at the same time began to emigrate to Bo Ni Island. At present, the migration of Luzon, Taiwan, Myanmar, Laos, Myanmar-China, Yangon and other provinces has basically been completed.

Compared with Lengzhou, Xipol and other places, the migration in Nanyang has been much smoother. When the new preferential immigration policy came out, people in Luzon, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places took the initiative to apply for immigration.

In order to better control Bo Ni, Zhu Youxiao decided to use Bo Ni as the first large-scale military camp experimental site.

"I have decided to send 50,000 troops to Boni, implement a new military cantonment system in Boni, and support the construction of Boni." Zhu Youxiao said.

"Your Majesty, where are the 50,000 troops going to be drawn from?" Hong Chengchou asked.

"40,000 people from the governor's offices who are ready to retire are allowed to go to Boni with their families, and the remaining 10,000 are female soldiers who are ready to be sent to the Great Wilderness Dongzhou."

"But retired soldiers are subsidized, in this case, I'm afraid the soldiers will have opinions."

"You can't leave the army for the time being, and at the same time, the empire won't recruit new soldiers, and the governors will do a good job of explaining and pacifying."