Chapter 488: Fierce Soldiers

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When the full load goes south again, it is a smooth journey, and it is not a dream to increase the average speed by three percent to reach seven or eight knots.

Hainan Island's Lingao Port to Huangjiawan Island is nearly 2,000 nautical miles, and the fleet can only be calculated on an average of 70 or 80 nautical miles per day to go north, and it is conservatively estimated that it will take a full month to dock and replenish supplies.

When going south, it was smooth sailing, day and night, and could sail an average of 150 to 200 nautical miles a day, and should be able to arrive in about half a month, Huang Sheng roughly calculated the time, gave enough margin, and thought that two months was enough, and the follow-up troops should arrive at the end of October.

The high-ranking villagers and immigrants who came from the north had a one-month adaptation period before entering the fight, and their bodies should recover.

The subsequent immigrants have been participating in the labor of repairing bridges and roads and building seawalls, and there will be an hour of military training every day.

Now, more than half a year has passed, and the new immigrants' obedience, discipline, and force values have been improved, and their physical fitness is also stronger than that of the two Guangxi refugees.

The situation of the Huang family is very good, Hainan Island has been completely taken, the population has increased by 700,000, the plundering of Guangdong to crack down on pirates and mountain bandits has caused no less than 200,000 ordinary people, and many fishermen and merchant sailors have also been arrested.

The number of displaced people from Liangguang and Fujian was more than 100,000, and the number of displaced people from several provinces attracted by the troops of the Long March also reached 70,000.

The speed at which the robbery and wealth were obtained was astonishing, and the Huang family had more than 200 large and small sea vessels, of which fifty or sixty were large ships that could sail far away, and the smaller sea ships were more than enough to run the route from Lingao to Leizhou.

The total value of gold and silver treasures seized from the lairs of many pirates and bandits has exceeded one million taels of silver.

Huang Sheng didn't understand why Da Ming always felt embarrassed and burdened when he fought, obviously he could use war to support the war, but the Huang family would be stronger every time he fought.

The same is true of those colonial empires in history, Britain, a small island nation that is constantly fighting and plundering, has become an empire on which the sun never sets.

And the Jiannu in Liaodong, Ming Dynasty, who had a population of only a few hundred thousand, also ransomed his troops and kept fighting, and finally laid down a world of flowers, and they all became slave owners.

Why did the Han people weaken and impoverish the country when they fought a war? Huang Sheng believes that Confucianism is deeply rooted, and he should not do to others what he does not want to be done.

Huang Sheng's principle and policy is to "do to others what you don't want to do to yourself", so money, food, and population must be converted into combat effectiveness, and now that there is a way to make money, a large number of people are needed.

As long as there is a "Huaxia Daqian Village", there will be a team to take in refugees, so the population of the Huang family is increasing every day, and by the end of September it was close to 2.6 million, of which more than 900,000 were men.

Without the convenience of shipping, it would be an impossible task to quickly deploy troops, transport people, and materials, so the Ming Dynasty was able to seize Annam, but it was impossible to hold on here.

Huang Sheng came once and for all, Annan didn't need to stick to it in the future, they were all fierce Han people with knives, and the chief of the security guard and the chief of the armor all had hot weapons, and it was not at all that a small guerrilla could make a big one.

It is also necessary to do this, and the vast collection of displaced people to Hainan Island and the pioneers who went to Qinzhou to assemble have 10 tens of thousands of households, more than 900,000 people, and it is a disaster to not give them enough acres and job opportunities, and it is imperative to take them to Dayue to fight for living space.

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The Great Yue Kingdom attacked the Quang Nam Kingdom and easily broke through the border wall, and the whole country was jubilant, Zheng Jie was carried away smoothly for a while, and increased his troops several times in a row, trying to unify the Great Yue Kingdom, which had been divided for decades.

The complacent Zheng Jie once again launched the mobilization order, and the remaining general led the 30,000 troops reassembled to the south over the border wall, which he thought should be the last straw that crushed the Quang Nam Kingdom.

Unexpectedly, the military and civilians of Quang Nam learned that the powerful Ming had promised to send troops to the rescue, and they had the confidence to defend the territory.

They desperately resisted almost every city and every cottage, and the two sides fell into a bitter battle and a tug-of-war, and Zheng Jie's fantasy of a quick battle could not be done at all.

Zheng Jie's army that crossed the border wall was close to 80,000, seventy percent of the regular army of the Great Yue Kingdom was in the Quang Nam Kingdom, and there were no less than 100,000 people to and fro to transport supplies.

Guangnan fought even harder, and seeing that it couldn't be supported, many ministers with active minds had begun to talk to Zheng Jie, the commander of Da Viet State, with the intention of surrendering.

This phenomenon is not uncommon in feudal dynasties, the lord of the country refuses to surrender, the common people cannot be the master, too many vested interests of the princes and ministers in order to keep their property and official positions began to think differently.

Nguyen Phuc Yuan, the lord of Quang Nam, who had lived like a long time, once again sent Hu Minh Son and several ministers to Hainan Island, imploring the Ming Dynasty to send troops to relieve Quang Nam and the upside down.

Huang Dongshan met with Hu Mingshan and others, and gave them a good idea to let Daming send troops quickly, and several ministers of Guangnan went back overnight to make a fuss.

In mid-October, Huang Sheng convened civil and military officials from the three provinces again to report on the situation of the war against the pirates, and showed everyone more than 3,000 pirates.

Of course, these heads are the Huang family's victories in fighting pirates, exterminating mountain bandits, and Pingli District in the past year and a half, and now all of them have become the evidence of meritorious service to the imperial court.

These heads don't need to be artistically processed at all, there are originally everyone in the pirates, not to mention the Li people, the Kunlun slaves are not new, and there are even more and more pirates.

Huang Sheng told the adults that after this period of encirclement and suppression, he finally discovered why Guo Huaiyi was so bold and reckless.

It turned out that he actually colluded with Zheng Jie, the powerful minister of the Great Yue Kingdom, and was actually canonized as the king of Qiongya County by the Great Yue State, and General Huang Mingdao was caught off guard by the sudden killing of the Dayue State Naval Division during the fierce battle with Guo Huaiyi's pirates.

The Ming army suffered heavy losses and had to temporarily abandon the attack on Hainan Island, because the Great Yue State continued to reinforce Guo Huaiyi and provided a large amount of military supplies and grain and grass, and the siege plan was now difficult to implement.

If you don't cut off the supply of Hainan Island and beat the pirates to an unsustainable point, under the premise that the pirates still have delusions, I'm afraid it will be difficult for Guo Huaiyi to obediently accept Zhao'an.

Just when the civil and military officials were discussing, the envoy of Guangnan State, the king of Jiaozhi County, Ruan Dan, rushed to Qinzhou to ask to see the governor of Liangguang.

He brought with him the letter of the lord of Guangnan, which clearly and clearly stated the fact of collusion between the Da Yue Kingdom and Guo Huaiyi's pirate gang detected by the Guangnan State, and also brought a lot of evidence.

The so-called evidence is the correspondence between Zheng Jie and Guo Huaiyi forged by Hu Mingshan and others, and the letters contain such things as seeking opportunities to seize Guangdong after taking Hainan Island, and so on, and are full of pride in opening up the territory and expanding the territory of the Great Yue Kingdom.

As a result, the performance of the officials of the three provinces was sent to Beijing from 600 li with the good news of the victory in the South China Sea in the first battle.

The harvest obtained in the south can not be transported to the head to report the merit, too hot, too far, if the epidemic accidentally appears, it will be troublesome, the adults have seen the ears cut off and pickled to report the merit.

Emperor Chongzhen saw the good news and learned that since Huang Sheng's arrival, the situation in the South China Sea had undergone a turning point, from Guo Huaiyi's continuous attacks on the coast of Guangzhou to the Ming army's continuous attacks on Hainan Island, where Guo Huaiyi was entrenched.

Emperor Longyan Dayue let the cabinet discuss and praise, and was quite annoyed by the collusion between Dayue and Guo Huaiyi fed back by the civil and military forces of the three provinces.

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