Because Lin Haijiang's fleet has absolute sea supremacy, Lin Haijiang can completely skip the Penghu Islands and directly attack the island of Taiwan by leaps and bounds, which is also unique and extremely rare in all previous attacks on Taiwan in history, and it can also be said that it is precisely because Lin Haijiang has a strong and absolute sea power that he can implement a tactic.

Kaohsiung, which appeared in Lin Haijiang's telescope, is it just about the same size as a town in later generations? The harbor was densely packed with cargo ships of all kinds, and the surging crowd clearly did not correspond to the size of the town.

Soon the fleet completed the blockade of Kaohsiung Port, and there was already chaos in Kaohsiung Port, and many merchants were waiting anxiously on the ship for the impending doom, because for most businessmen, the ship and the cargo were equal to their surname, and if the ship sank and the cargo was lost, it was a more painful thing than death.

What shocked almost everyone was that almost no one had heard of the fighting on the Penghu Islands? Why was he suddenly overwhelmed by the GIs? Kaohsiung garrison Li Jixin looked at the steel giant on the sea, and had no idea of resisting, and the news of the failure of the prefect Lin Qingsen to go to the leaders of the various clans of the alliance was like wings.

With his twenty-seven old and weak soldiers, he resisted the Western ironclad ships? At this moment, Li Jixin had to try his best to evacuate the merchants on the dock, but the merchants who sacrificed their lives and money and some people who took advantage of the chaos to steal chickens and dogs made the dock even more chaotic, especially the cry of the child made everyone feel like the sky was falling apart.

Li Jixin reluctantly took off his top from the five products, and threw it into the sea casually, looking at the top wearing floating on the water, Li Jixin sighed helplessly, his garrison is really short of three battalions of 1,500 people, plus an artillery battalion of 16 3,000 jin general cannons, but although the imperial military department is full of preparation, but there is only an empty shell left in the Taiwan and Xia general soldiers, and the original 196 people were asked by the prefect Lin Qingsen to arbitrarily judge the opportunity. Only twenty-seven old, weak, sick and disabled people were left behind, and this garrison still existed.

The coexistence of garrisons, duties, and territories has become an empty phrase here! Li Jixin flicked the old and somewhat tattered official mansion, sighed long, and instructed a veteran soldier sixty miles away behind him to say bravely: "Old Ren! Give me a clean face! We can't be too sloppy to die, and if we don't have new robes, it doesn't matter, who made us poor! This face is our own, and we have done it ourselves, so it's easy to go on the road if it's scraped clean, isn't it? ”

Lao Ren answered and began to take out the objects from the accompanying shaving box, and carefully braided Li Jixin's hair!

After the Marines landed, Gauge saw a group of Qing soldiers with a depressed look on the dock and wearing almost unrecognizable color gowns? A guy who looks like a military general is shaving his head there?

Gao Qi has also eaten the Great Qing Dynasty salary, and he used to worship the guard, so he is particularly sensitive to the garrison, and the person who shaves his head not far away seems to be a garrison officer, but this garrison and his soldiers seem to be a little miserable.

As more and more Marines landed and the six- and twelve-pounder guns were brought ashore, Gauge immediately announced that the blockade of the port would be lifted, that merchant ships in the port would be able to pass freely, that cargo could be unloaded normally at the Qianshui Wharf, and that the remaining three wharves would be used by the Marines to load and unload troops, weapons, and war supplies.

Actually let their own cargo ship pass? And don't check? No taps? Not blackmail?

In this time of chaos, the most unreliable thing is this group of soldiers to eat food, almost all the merchants are holding the business certificate and silver ticket issued by the Nanyang Naval Division, or simply holding the bag containing the silver money around Gao Qi and refusing to disperse, they have to let Gao Qi accept it, otherwise they dare not leave, as a result, the more Gao Qi does not want it, the more these merchants cry and wipe their tears and refuse to leave.

Li Jixin, who played the role of a captive on the side, was extremely emotional about this, and he didn't believe that there would be a cat that was not fishy? Could it be that this guy in Nanyang has a particularly big appetite for thieves? Want to swallow all the goods of this gang of merchants in one bite? That's how ugly it is! However, Li Jixin thought about it carefully, these businessmen basically took the certificates issued by him in Nanyang, and as long as the people in Nanyang were not crazy, they would definitely not do this kind of thing of killing chickens and taking eggs.

After a while, the shouting merchants suddenly noticed that there were many more soldiers beside them, these soldiers were different from other ordinary soldiers, their clothes seemed to be more high-end fabrics, and the double fast guns on their waists were all the same? The yellow tassel on the shoulder swayed, you must know that this bright yellow is not a color that can be used casually in the Qing Dynasty, and if you don't use it well, you will lose your head.

After the merchants calmed down, Lin Haijiang came to the merchants with a smile and smiled slightly, Lin Haijiang hesitated for a moment how to phrase his mouth, and finally decided: "I'm sorry for everyone, Lin is Lin Haijiang, the commander of the Nanyang Naval Division, if someone is rotten and deteriorated today because of the delay in the time of the fresh melons and fruits, my Nanyang Sailor will compensate for the full price, and please rest assured, my Sailor protects everyone's interests, as long as everyone abides by the law and does not resell contraband. I, the Nanyang Naval Division, will only protect you, and will never make things difficult for you. ”

Lin Haijiang walked in front of Li Jixin, several guards wanted to search Li Jixin's body, Lin Haijiang looked at a beautiful short knife on Li Jixin's waist and waved his hand: "No need, weapons are a part of a soldier's life, leaving a weapon is equivalent to leaving dignity." ”

Lin Haijiang's words made Li Jixin slightly stunned, but Gao Qi on the side glared fiercely at the few guards who had collected their weapons before, and there was a short knife that he didn't notice?

Lin Haijiang turned around and asked Gao Qi without any scruples: "Is this the garrison who didn't resist and shaved his head?" ”

Gao Qi stared at the short knife on Li Jixin's robe waist and nodded, Li Jixin took off the short knife on his waist and said helplessly: "It was blocked by the robe just now, this is given by my mother-in-law, there is such a valuable thing at home, and the rest is all my big smoker old man." ”

Lin Haijiang looked at Li Jixin and nodded: "Very backbone, a bit of a soldier's tough touch, I have to thank you for not being in the same room, what we are doing today is for the people not to be bullied, not to be humiliated by foreigners, the Qing court should have died a long time ago, every time they sign a treaty, they have to exploit the people once, one treaty after another is equivalent to cramping and peeling the skin of the people all over the world, the people of the world are looking forward to not being endlessly exploited, to be able to achieve food and clothing, This is not only my personal meaning, but also the desire of the people all over the world. ”

Li Jixin was stunned when he heard Lin Haijiang's words, Nanyang is really the opposite? The previous rumors were a big attack, and today he was finally fortunate to hear what Lin Haijiang said, but the result was really a little difficult for him to accept, in fact, Li Jixin also knew that he and the others were likely to have little life.

Lin Haijiang glanced at Li Jixin and said: "Return all your personal belongings to you, make an exception and give each of you a severance pay of one hundred taels, and there will be a ship to return to Guangzhou tomorrow, can you go back with the ship?" ”

"Won't you kill us?" Li Jixin asked suspiciously, and then Li Jixin regretted it, isn't he looking for trouble?

Lin Haijiang turned around and stopped, frowned slightly and said, "What do you mean?" Why do you want to kill you? ”

Li Jixin was already a little stammering at the moment, and couldn't say why, Lin Haijiang said frankly when he saw this: "It is true that I killed and abused prisoners, and executed tens of thousands of rebels before and after the conquest of Indonesia, but you must be clear that they are of a different race, and their hearts will be different if they are not of my race, so they naturally do not need to be polite to them, and you are my same race and root, and when the country is unified and strong, the people of the world can eat three full meals a day, which is the goal that one of our soldiers strives for." ”

Gao Qi returned Li Jixin's short knife to him and said: "You kid is really fateful, the Führer has personally chatted with you for so long, even our old subordinates around the Führer, it is rare to be able to say a few words to him!" ”

"Führer?" Li Jixin looked at Gao Qi with a puzzled face, Gao Qi smiled slightly: "After occupying Hainan and Taiwan, this is also a secret that is not a secret, the Chinese Empire has been formally established in the old port on the first day of January, and the Metropolitan Governor of Lin Haijiang was inaugurated as the first head of the empire, and our Chinese Imperial Navy cooperated with the Marine Corps to recover Hainan, Taiwan, and Ryukyu in advance, paving the way for the follow-up strategic attack on the mainland." ”

Gao Qi patted Li Jixin on the shoulder and said: "The Development and Construction Corps is still recruiting, you can go and try it, the treatment is good, and your family can follow the army." ”

Li Jixin pointed to the troops in the march and wondered: "Then we also issue those kinds of clothes and foreign guns?" ”

Gao Qi laughed and said: "How is that possible, the Development, Production and Construction Corps is a second-level strategic unit, not a combat unit, and only a small number of weapons are distributed, and the clothing is a uniform canvas overalls and suede shoes." ”

After Gao Qi left, Li Jixin looked blankly at the neat line of marines in Gao Qi's mouth, marching forward with majestic steps, and the detachments of various numbers on the dock quickly formed a team in the password, Li Jixin was extremely surprised, how many hours does it take for such an elite division to survive?

Especially the military uniforms and short cowhide boots on those soldiers, and the rifles produced by the Chinese Empire that they had never seen before? Li Jixin looked at the almost colorless official uniform on his body, looked at the twenty-seven brothers in rags, and then waved his hand with emotion: "Damn, where is the soldier, not to eat food and sell his life?" Lao Tzu wants to sell a glamorous one, are you willing to go with me to the development and construction corps to sign up? ”

As the saying goes, a good person is not a soldier, and a good iron does not hit a nail, which actually has a certain basis.

The people who didn't care about it took a hundred taels of severance pay for no reason, and they already realized that the Chinese Empire was really playing! Is this money really given? Fools don't do that!

Li Jixin led people to the recruitment office of the Development and Construction Corps, which had not yet been established, to sign up, but Gao Qi, who was worried about finding a reliable guide, divided him and his subordinates into various units as guides, and as a result, Li Jixin and his group of old and weak soldiers were able to put on new-style military uniforms for the first time.

Li Jixin, who is about the same height as Gao Qi, is wearing Gao Qi's spare military uniform and leather boots, but there is a private rank hanging in the place of the rank, and the private rank is incompatible with the general uniform with gold and wide red roads, and Li Jixin has become the focus wherever he goes.

After learning that the battlefield and troops of the Nanyang Naval Division had landed in Kaohsiung, Lin Qingsen, the prefect of Taiwan who had ordered the secret decree of the two palaces, was directly dumbfounded, the reason was very simple, Lin Qingsen had thought about the secret decree too simply, and he thought that he could say that he could mobilize the nine mountain tribes and many mountain tribes to send troops together, which could give the Nanyang side a deterrent, after all, Lin Qingsen had not received a report from the imperial court that the Nanyang rebellion.

Taiwan is within the range of the Nanyang Naval Division's patrol moderation, if he takes the initiative to attack the Nanyang Naval Division, then it is not Lin Haijiang who rebels, but he Lin Qingsen, these days Lin Qingsen has read the secret decree given by the two palaces hundreds of times, he is very sure that the two palaces did not give him the right to go to war, just let him delay and not cooperate with the Nanyang side, do not let the Nanyang garrison troops in Taiwan, but he is a small prefect, leading no more than a thousand troops, what to use against the ironclad ships and wolf-like army in the South Seas?

To put it mildly, Nanyang can rush him into the sea with a soak of urine, originally thought that it would provoke local ethnic contradictions and disputes, and the adults would force Nanyang to retreat, and if they didn't succeed, they could deduce that they would make a difference in people's livelihood, but now Lin Qingsen's wishful thinking has all failed.

In desperation, Lin Qingsen took his more than 800 people, gave up the prefect's yamen, retreated into the mountains, non-cooperation became Lin Qingsen's only way, Lin Qingsen can be said to be in a dilemma, when he was not sure whether Nanyang rebelled, he could not report to the imperial court, nor could he withdraw from Taiwan, and the imperial court would have to bear the charge of slandering the court members to spread rumors to confuse the public, and withdrawing from Taiwan would have to bear the crime of abandoning the guard, inside and outside the horizontal and vertical are a death, in desperation, Lin Qingsen had to find a place with high mountains and dense forests to settle down temporarily, Hide and see what happens.

After the landing, Lin Haijiang instructed Gao Qi to first occupy the strategic points in the southeast of the island, to urge the Indonesian indigenous construction brigade of the Development and Construction Corps of the Old Port to arrive in Taiwan as soon as possible, and to first take the construction of roads as a top priority, just like Hainan, and then quickly stabilize the situation in Taiwan, publicize policies and laws and regulations to the aborigines, and conduct a comprehensive survey and statistics of the entire island.

Due to the lack of heavy metal minerals in Taiwan, Lin Haijiang could only transport all the eight cyclone high-seat phosphorus-carbon blast furnaces that Prussia had transported to the old port to Hainan, and because of the full preparation before, the iron ore samples from Hainan had been sent to Prussia in advance, so that Prussia could provide the correct and suitable blast furnace model, Lin Haijiang decided to build his largest shipyard in Haikou, Hainan.

Lin Haijiang was also pleased with the light takeover of Hainan and Taiwan, and it can be said that the Qing court made great contributions to the success of this strategy and tactics!

If it weren't for the will of the Qing court, the garrison of Qiongya and Taiwan would not know what to do, and there would probably be a vicious battle in Qiongya, but Lin Haijiang's expectation of a vicious war in Taiwan has not happened for a long time? The units were stationed so smoothly that even the most vulnerable heralds were not attacked? This made Lin Haijiang a little surprised?

However, the whereabouts of Taiwan's governor Lin Qingsen are unknown? A cadre of officials can not be found either? Could it be that they all escaped? Later, the businessman who knew about it secretly revealed that Lin Qingsen was afraid of both Nanyang and the imperial court, so he took 1,800 people to hide in the mountains in desperation, and when he left, he also gave a large amount of rice and bacon on credit, and it seemed that he had a long-term plan to enter the mountains?

Hearing the news, Lin Haijiang was indeed a little shocked, someone actually played guerrilla warfare with him? And this person is also the prefect of Taiwan in the Qing court?

However, Lin Haijiang was very funny, because he had no intention of occupying those worthless mountains and forests at all, and doing anything about public security, what he needed was to develop a few ports and medium-sized docks, build a fort defense line, arm Taiwan, and prepare for the future stationing of a fleet to control the Taiwan Strait.

Lin Haijiang originally wanted to transfer the mountain battalion to Taiwan, but under such a light take, Lin Haijiang resolutely changed the original strategic arrangement, and changed to encircle the whole island from the outside line and control the basic materials of life.

Lin Haijiang didn't know that the change in his strategy had disappointed a group of people who were looking forward to his visit, that is, Ah Caiwang, who thought he had strong capital and was ready to sell at a price.

According to Ah Caiwang's experience and the judgment of his new military division, whether it is Nanyang or Manchu, they are different from the blind suppression of Western countries, they will definitely look for local forces to cooperate, which is more in line with the Han tradition, and the army that surrenders without a fight is the highest state of military use.

However, the other side's large army has been landing for five or six days, but the Nanyang side has no intention of connecting at all? Lin Qingsen, the prefect of the Qing Dynasty who used to show off his might, has now also set up a home in Alishan with his people, and now even the stockade has been erected, while the marines who landed have been building fortifications in various places, and a large number of laborers from outside are building forts and fortifications and new roads?

A Caiwang had to face a cruel reality, that is, he was ignored, whether this neglect was deliberate or unintentional, but the neglect has become a fact, A Caiwang is also a little unable to sit still in the doubts of many leaders, because whether it is the previous surname Zheng or the Qing Dynasty, exploitation is exploitation, and oppression is oppression, but the reward for their heads is extremely rich, and many people are looking forward to the reward of Nanyang this time, because no one in Southeast Asia knows that Lin Haijiang is the lord of the rich country?

(To be continued)