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The officials of the Wu Dynasty would compose poems, drink flower wine, and fight for the top of a certain brothel, but none of them would pick up a map to see if the map of the Wu Dynasty was up to standard. The contemporary maps of the Wu Dynasty are basically as rough and ridiculous as the traces left by children wetting the bed, not only do they not distinguish between the north and the south, but also there is no scale to say, and it is completely impossible to distinguish the outlines of the provinces. According to Xu Xiake's diary, the maps he copied through relationships that can be called "military high-definition" are useless in his hand, and he can only ask the people he sees along the way to confirm whether the direction he needs to go in is correct, but he can't identify the direction according to the map. As for the records of mountains, mountains, rivers, and official roads on the map, not only are they inaccurate, but even many of them are simply wrong, especially the maps used by many military officers, even left by their ancestors for several generations, and many of the records are even densed, and they need to be supplemented by formulas or something to get a rough idea, which can basically be said to be useless at all. At this moment, many Meedno missionaries had landed and settled in Morningstar, and while they tried to preach to the Wu Dynasty, they also brought with them the cartographic methods used by the Meedno people, but except for a few pro-Meideno officials of the Wu Dynasty, most of the Wu Dynasty officials were dismissive of this, believing it to be unnecessary.

At this moment, there is no island of Taiwan on the map of the Wu Dynasty, and Taiwan, the largest island in China in the old world, is not the territory of the Wu Dynasty at all, but a place outside the law. None of the officials had any desire to occupy Taiwan and assert sovereignty, and what they were now happy to see was a closed country, although the main purpose of the seclusion was to prevent fishermen and farmers from providing information and supplies to the pirates who landed on the shore, but in fact it was to set a very high threshold for large-scale maritime trade. Any businessman who does not have an official identity license will never want to drive a ship into the sea for sea trade, even if someone is brave enough to sail into the sea on a big ship, he will have to face not only the "coast guard" of the Wu Dynasty - the Great Martial Sailor, but also all kinds of pirates of different origins, and at the same time there is a headache for them to feel more headaches "Zheng Family Sailor".

Zheng Jiajun's predecessor was a pirate, but after Zhao'an, he was not particularly different from the previous pirates. However, after they have the status of official authorization, they can be stationed in the Fujian Ocean with the permission of the imperial court, and now they have a base area, and most of the sea ships of the Wu Dynasty can only sail close to the coast according to the "needle road", so the Taiwan Strait between Fujian and Taiwan has become one acre and three points of land for his Zheng family's army, and any ship passing between the Taiwan Strait must be monitored by the Zheng family's naval army at all times, and any ship that does not fly the Zheng family's order flag has the right to attack and capture it in the name of suppressing thieves. If you are willing to hang the Zheng family flag, no problem, two thousand two thousand two years, without bargaining, the Zheng family relies on this method, from the trade fleets between the Taiwan Strait to collect millions of taels of toll taxes every year. And the Zheng family also has a trick that is quite sixty-six-six, that is, in the name of piracy, sneak attack nearby ports, burn and plunder them, and ensure that the trade fleet cannot dock at these ports, and can only choose Xiamen Port for docking and trading, so that his Zheng family can collect another transaction tax. In this way, the Zheng family only collects a huge amount of toll tax and transaction tax every year through this means, and Zheng Zhilong never hides this money underground like the old man in Shanxi, but takes it out to recruit displaced people, purchase weapons and warships, and use it to expand his own power. In particular, when Fujian was hit by a rare drought a few years ago, he also took the opportunity to recruit a large number of displaced people, transported them across the Taiwan Strait, immigrated to the island of Taiwan on a large scale, and occupied some areas suitable for cultivation on the island for settlement.

However, before he immigrated to the island of Taiwan, the Medeno people also carried out multiple batches of immigration to the island of Taiwan, yes, many batches. The Medeno people were adrift at sea for many years, and they also wanted a stable land, so they carried out a large-scale migration to the islands in the Pacific, and the effect of the migration was that most of the islands except Honolulu were more successful. Speaking of the reason is actually very simple, epidemic diseases, especially malaria, make the mortality rate of these Meedno colonists very high, because they live at sea for a long time, basically will not encounter the mosquitoes that transmit malaria, so there are very few antibodies to malaria, and once landed, especially on islands such as Taiwan, which are dominated by primeval forests, there are puddles that can breed mosquitoes, and this situation is even more serious on the Nicaean Islands, mosquitoes can almost rush towards people like bombers, and they can't stop it with fire.

With the efforts of so many malaria transmission vectors, the mortality rate is very high, whether it is the Maidnor people or the Fujian immigrants who were transported to Taiwan by the Zheng family, and even within five years of the new arrival on the island of Taiwan, the mortality rate can reach between 50% and 80 percent, so even if both the Maidnor and Zheng Zhilong want to develop the island of Taiwan, they cannot resist the ravages of malaria to the migrants. Over the years, the Medeno and Zheng immigrants have not spread out on the island of Taiwan as expected, just occupying the north and south ends of Taiwan, just a few small settlements, Taiwan's land is fertile, but the food grown is completely unnecessary compared to the groups of dead immigrants, so in recent years, the immigration to Taiwan has begun to decrease significantly. Therefore, not to mention Zhou Jinfeng, even the Emperor of the Apocalypse does not have many opportunities to hear about the word Taiwan.

After preliminary discussions, the Executive Committee convened a larger meeting with the Ministry of Human Resources, the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, the Industrial Committee, the Agricultural Committee, the Military Committee, and the Construction Committee to make plans for the possible implementation of the Shanxi Counterinsurgency Campaign.

According to the plan, both the Navy and the Ministry of Commerce and Trade will send some transport ships to transport personnel and supplies to the location of Qingdao in Shandong, and then the supplies and personnel will pass through Qingzhou, Jinan, Dongchang, Daimyo, Zhangde, Lu'an, and finally enter Pingyang. Since the rebel army at the moment is basically concentrated in the area of Binh Duong Province, the plan of the Military Council is to end the battle in the area of Binh Duong Province and reduce the casualties caused by the defeat and escape of the army. Because the news obtained from the Di newspaper that every time the rebels attack the city or fight, they will drive the old and weak women and children to the forefront of the ranks to attack the front line of the Wu Dynasty army, so it is conceivable that there should be a lot of children and women, so in the battle, it is necessary to reduce the casualties of these cannon fodder who are lined up in the front line as much as possible, so the artillery as a curved fire will play a great role.

The main combat force to be sent to Shanxi this time will be composed of the first battalion of the Foreign Legion, which will have three infantry companies and one cooking company, and the first battalion will be accompanied by the first logistics company of the Foreign Legion, which is responsible for logistics, with a total of 1,800 personnel. In addition to the Foreign Legion, the 122 squadrons of the Army Teaching Artillery Brigade will also be sent to Shanxi together, of which the artillery of the first squadron is mainly 1629 smoothbore guns, equipped with nine, each gun has a special front vehicle that can be integrated with the gun body to form a four-wheeled gun truck, which can travel quickly on not very smooth roads, and the artillery front car is also provided with ammunition boxes, which can be loaded with twenty integrated shells, in addition to twenty ammunition delivery vehicles, which can transport two to three base ammunition, Ensure that the artillery squadron can maintain a continuous output of fire in battle; The artillery of the second squadron was divided into two types, one was a short and thick mortar, which was imitated from the mortar of the Civil War, and its curved trajectory could reach an accurate range of 500 meters. The shell is a thin-shelled grenade, which is filled with a large number of iron balls and wrapped with a layer of prefabricated fragments, and the blasting time is set by the length of the fuse, and the detonation of the shell can be adjusted between three and thirty seconds after it is fired. After test firing, this mortar can reach a range of up to one kilometer, and the shell is filled with yellow explosives, which can kill living targets within a range of 10 meters in the vicinity when exploding, and if it is an air explosion, it can reach a maximum killing radius of 20 meters; The second type of artillery of the second squadron is a mortar known as the all-conquering mortar, and it is not the first time that the Senate army has been equipped with mortars. However, because the steel used at that time was not up to standard, two of the mortars found cracks in their bodies and could not be used, and the other gun, although there were no cracks, had to be sealed for follow-up treatment recommendations. With the quality of the steel of the Oriental Iron and Steel Plant is getting better and better, the mortar has been re-produced and equipped back to the artillery unit, the mortar used this time is still the old model of the 1629 60 mm mortar, in order to use this batch of mortars, the military industry department has also specially redeveloped a batch of new mortar shells, divided into smoke bombs and blasting shells, the former can be on the ground to trigger the fuse for about ten minutes after the smoke screen, in order to disrupt the enemy's command or in front of the enemy to cover the line of sight, The blaster is loaded with a new yellow explosive, and the fuse used is also a new spring-triggered fuse or delayed fuze, but the latter is very small, mainly using a trigger fuse, which can cause damage to a living target within a range of six or seven meters. These artillerymen originally belonged to the artillery training group, and they would learn combat experience from this expedition, and when they were sent out to form other artillery units in the future, they would be able to play a role in training new soldiers as soon as possible. In this operation, because Li Zhen needed to provide teaching to the 3rd and 4th Squadrons of the Artillery Teaching Brigade, he could not personally command the front, so this expedition would be commanded by Hong Jie.

The 1st and 2nd Artillery Squadrons sent out were quite well equipped, but the weapons and equipment of the soldiers fighting on the front line could not be ignored, and the main weapons of the Foreign Legion this time were of course 1628 and 1629 rifles, most of the non-commissioned officers were equipped with carbines, and the officers and men were equipped with revolvers to ensure that they could fire at least six rounds to stop the enemy in close combat. In addition to rifles and pistols, the Foreign Legion is also equipped with a large number of grenades, these grenades are in the shape of oval grenades, using a pull-fire fuse to trigger, with the commissioning of chemical plants, the production of ammonium nitrate is also increasing day by day, in addition to fertilizer, picric acid can also be produced, just because most of the producers are naturalized citizens with a low level of knowledge, so the veterans of the military industry department in charge do not dare to increase production. Fortunately, picric acid doesn't need to be used to reload grenades, so each soldier can get four grenades, and this expedition will probably send all the grenades to be tested on the battlefield.

In addition, the Foreign Legion is also equipped with heavy machine guns, yes, the Type 1628 heavy machine gun, this heavy machine gun is very heavy, each machine gun group needs five people, three of them carry the machine gun, two people are responsible for transporting ammunition, when the battle begins, it will be divided into two groups, one group of two people is the machine gunner and the observer, and the remaining three people are loaded for the ammunition supply plate and sent into the machine gun. The new 1628 machine gun has been improved to increase the rate of fire to a certain extent, but the problem is that the water temperature can easily rise, especially when the battle is fierce, a box of bullets has not been finished, and the water in the tank has basically been finished. However, this time I went to the icy and snowy Shanxi, and the temperature was not too troublesome. In addition to the heavy machine gun, the 1629-type light machine gun that was once equipped to the northbound detachment has also been equipped to the troops on a small scale at this time, and the soldiers have expressed great affection for this light machine gun that can break through, these new light machine guns use a weighted barrel, and a large number of heat sinks have been added to it, which can maintain continuous shooting for a long time in battle without damaging the barrel, and the barrel can also be replaced, and this light machine gun uses a bullet chain, which is far more convenient than the bullet supply plate to feed the bullet, The best part is that the new machine gun uses a seven-millimeter metal cartridge, which is not only easier to preserve, but also much more reliable than paper shells, and the weight of the seven-millimeter metal cartridge is nowhere near half the weight of the old 12-millimeter rifle cartridges, and the soldiers can easily carry more bullets into battle. Due to the reduced weight of the warhead, the loaded propellant is also much smaller than that of a twelve-millimeter bullet, so the range of the bullet not only did not decrease, but on the contrary increased by a hundred meters, and now it has reached an accurate range of five hundred meters, and the maximum range can reach eight hundred meters. The only flaw is that this machine gun has more parts and is more complicated to assemble, so the number of experimental equipment is not much, and the Foreign Legion is equipped with a total of three, and when it arrives in Shanxi, I don't know if it will be enough.

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