In the evening, Chang Wei and Sun Jingting talked in detail again, and both of them had the same understanding, at least within three years, Taiwan would have to rely on the help of the Russians, and it would take three or four years to train their own people, and it would still take a large number of foreign instructors and first mates to take the new sailors and officers to experience more wars and harsh natural conditions at sea, and run more long-distance routes in the South Seas and even to India, and it would take five years to really fight with the Dutch East India Company. And if you want to completely expel all the European colonizers from the South Seas to India, grab these territories and run them yourself, and be able to resist the fleets sent by these European powers, it will take at least ten or even twenty years of management.

Sun Jingting counted his fingers and said to Chang Wei: "It will take 20 years to run the Western Regions, and it will take 20 years to run the Nanyang...... Well, it looks like we've been working on Hutchison for twenty years. However, if everything can be successfully operated, the total area of the Nanyang countries is not small, and the thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty are almost the same, the population is also more than 10 million, the Western Regions is also very large, and the population is always million. ”

Chang Wei smiled: "My eldest brother has never said that he wants to build the country." ”

Sun Jingting said: "I haven't said it, but the situation is stronger than people, and it really reaches the point where it has tens of millions of people and thousands of miles of land, and the title of founding the country is also a matter of course." ”

Chang Wei said: "There may be a battle with Daming......

Sun Jingting sighed: "I hope there won't be that day, I said the same thing in front of Wen Lan." My Ming Taizu is the most righteous king of the country throughout the ages, driving away the tyrannical Yuan, recovering my Han family, and the bloody everywhere was swept away, and then resisted the Northern Yuan and Northern Captives for more than 200 years, which is not easy. As long as there is a glimmer of wisdom, such as the Ming Dynasty, the country is rich and the people are strong, and there is no civil strife, I think Wen Lan will be able to accept the north as the king and be a vassal to the great tomorrow. ”

Chang Wei said lightly: "If you are still Brother Xiaozheng, the situation is stronger than others, and when the day comes to the opportunity, the eldest brother will not give up." ”

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The sky was faint, Lu Da returned the salute to a group of soldiers, although he was very tired, he still stood straight, and his eyes were clear as if he had a good night's sleep, but the bloodshot in his eyes was obvious, which could not be hidden.

As a senior sergeant major, Lu Da has reached the apex of his military career, which comes from the reward after repeated meritorious service, and he enlisted with many people in the army, many people are over forty years old, muscle decline, when the army is a little reluctant, after two or three years, it is estimated that all the partners who enlisted in the army at the beginning will either be directly discharged, or will be transferred to local soldiers, into the local security system, such as the military police stationed in Tunpu, responsible for daily security maintenance, and some are transferred to military orders or military politics, military justice department, Assist officials in managing military and political household registration and daily management and restraint on veterans.

Lu Da's military position has reached its peak, unless he starts to study every day now, but with the difficulty of officer assessment, with his age, there is still no need to think about it.

"Be careful and don't slack off." Lu Da said to the new squadron leader: "The big battle is in a day or two, and we must raise our spirits." ”

The squadron leader is a young officer in his twenties, a soldier in his twenties, who passed the examination after being a soldier for half a year, and after another year in the official academy, he became an officer, and was promoted to squadron leader for another half a year. As for Li Gui and Xia Xiping, who have been promoted to higher positions in the past few years, after all, they are still a minority.

Although he is an officer, Lu Da is only a sergeant major, but Lu Da is a battalion-level sergeant major, and there is no sergeant major at the regiment level, so Lu Da is the top existence among the old soldiers, and the squadron leader himself is also quite experienced, after all, he has been a soldier for two years, but he also knows that these old sergeant majors have quite rich battlefield experience, and can be called sensitive sense of smell.

Seeing that the squadron leader listened to his own opinions, Lu Da smiled with satisfaction, patted the young officer on the shoulder, and took the squadron he led, walked out of the two shore batteries, and concentrated in formation, while the new squadron leader and the previous squadron leader signed and handed over the defense.

In addition to these shore-based seaside forts, there are more than ten forts in the front of Bengang Creek area arranged, every few miles, the section of more than 100 miles isolated, and then to the east is the mountain range, steep and precipitous, the mountains are stacked, the fourth regiment set up some mobile observation posts in the mountain area, in the plain along the river is stationed in the fort, that is, the bricks on the grassland, the military platform, three stories high, the bottom of the materials, there are horses and hay in the yard, the second layer of people, there are perforations on all sides, the top layer of the gun port, place several guns.

With the ability of the natives, there is no need for a fort, but the fort where the tun people live can easily isolate it, and these decent forts built now are of course not built to defend against the natives, but to defend against the Dutch.

The Dutch also continued to increase their troops on the side of Dayuan, at first there were only 1,000 people, and they captured thousands of natives to help them build forts, and then increased their troops from all over Batavia, and now there are about 1,500 regular soldiers, as well as more than 200 years of soldiers, and there are more than 10,000 natives and Han people who have been captured.

In addition to the military, there are hundreds of company employees who have been transferred to Taiwan, and the income from Taiwan is really high, and the transit trade and local goods are very profitable, and the profit from Taiwan last year was four tons of gold......

Judging from all kinds of signs, the Dutch initially sought Penghu and retreated to Taiwan as a last resort, but now they are more fond of Taiwan, and they have not only stationed a large number of garrisons, but also successively transferred a large number of clerks to guide the natives here to cultivate land and fish, squeeze sugar, catch deer, and transit goods......

More than 1,000 official officers and soldiers are quite a formidable existence in Asia, except for a few centralized powers such as the Ming Dynasty and Japan, they can almost sweep everywhere, and the Dutch East India Company only had 10,000 mercenaries at its peak, and now it is estimated that there are at most 3,000 or 4,000 people, which is equivalent to sending nearly half of its strength to Taiwan, and its determination is not insignificant.

Originally, the Taiwan Marching Division felt that it could conquer the world on land, but the Dutch had less than 1,000 people on land, and there were more than 100 years of soldiers, and their strength was not strong, and the Fourth Regiment might be able to defeat it with two battalions.

But now that the other party has built the city, the city of Geranza is a fairly strong castle, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is difficult for 10,000 people to take it, which means that the other party is invincible first.

And because of its strong strength, especially the strong navy, the March Division was worried that during the naval battle, its land division would send elite troops to sneak attack by land, and even if it was impossible to go straight to the core area, it would be very demoralizing to burn and loot on the periphery...... Taiwan's side is composed entirely of immigrants, and since the entry of Heji, nothing has been done except for Yan Siqi, so the immigrants living here have a fairly obvious sense of security...... This feeling is very important, especially for immigrants from war-torn places like Liaodong, where a sense of security is more important than anything else.

can't give them a feeling that they have just escaped from the misery and danger of Liaodong, and they have arrived in the land of four wars in the south, and they are still surrounded by tigers and wolves, and they are worried about their lives at any time...... If this happens, it will not only be bad for Hutchison's reputation, but also for future immigrants......

Liaomin is not so easy to recruit, when it comes to leaving Liaodong for thousands of miles, who can easily make up his mind? At this time in the Ming Dynasty, dozens of miles away from the village is far away, many peasants did not leave home a hundred miles away until they died, the Liao people fled thousands of miles away, just settled down in the area of Kuandian to Phi Island Tieshan, although the hardship was unbearable, but it was still in the homeland of Liaodong, and I heard that the people who went to Denglai suffered a lot, were bullied and scolded by the locals, and could only survive like a homeless person. In addition to giving generous conditions, Hutchison's recruitment was to bring back a group of people who had been in Taiwan for several months, and to use their own feelings and experiences to convince the Liao people that after arriving in Taiwan, they would not only have no worries about food and clothing, but also be far safer than in the area around Phi Dao.

As a common people, in this troubled era, there are certainly strong and strong people who are determined to help the great tomorrow and are willing to do heroic things. Although Taiwan is far overseas, since it is a safe and blessed land as Hutchison said, even if life is not as comfortable as Hutchison said, as long as the family can live safely, there are still a large number of Liao people who are willing to go south with the ship.

In the consideration of the marching division, the Dutch were absolutely not allowed to invade the cantonment area, and at most they had to block it on the periphery.

The military fort is the first line of defense, and the garrison of the fourth regiment has left the usual garrison place, from the defense of the natives to the defense of the Dutch, the fourth regiment is full of more than 5,000 people, in addition to the garrison of the Tunpu military fort and the manpower sent to the battleship, there are still more than 3,000 people stationed on the front line of Bengang seat, relying on the defense line of the military fort, even if it cannot take the initiative to attack, the defense is more than enough.

Lu Da's eyes were bloodshot, he was a sergeant major, there were a lot of things, and there were a bunch of chores after he went back, and he could take a nap after arranging the things at hand, in addition to his own rotation for an hour last night, he also needed to get up from time to time to inspect the sentry posts along the defense area, so as long as he came to the front to take shift, there must be no way to rest well...... This is also a helpless thing, the situation is tense, of course, it is more difficult than usual......

"Sergeant Major has worked hard." The new squadron leader smiled and said, "Hurry up and go back and rest." ”...