Chapter 477: Troops Sent to Luzon

"Four dollars a month, and there are paid winter and summer vacations, various holiday benefits are also very generous, and there is also a house prepared by the college to live, if you work for five years, you can also share a yard. Tsk, if this kind of good job is placed in the future generations, it will definitely be more sought-after than civil servants! Li Su looked at the proposed teacher's treatment and couldn't help but praise again and again.

In order to attract some scholars to join the education system, Xie Chun and Hua Guang have made great efforts, and the treatment offered alone is enough to make many people excited. But fortunately, Li Su strongly supported him behind him, otherwise Cui Wei would not have agreed to such a big expense.

Although the cost is a little more, as long as the education system can be built, all this is worth it in Li Su's opinion, and teachers have the heavy responsibility of teaching and educating people, so they naturally have to be paid accordingly. However, now because of the limited conditions, so the source of teachers is very wide, and their own moral quality can not be guaranteed, but now the main thing is to build the school, so for the time being, it can only be like this, and when there are more talents in the future, it is not too late to improve the quality of the teaching team.

In addition, what makes Li Su very happy is that such a high welfare treatment is not in vain, many Datang scholars heard the news, and began to rush to teach, in fact, Li Su also knows that the most attractive to these people is probably the condition that can enter the office, after all, one to teach and educate people to say that it sounds good and has face, and second, there is also a channel for promotion, so they are so eager.

But that's exactly what Li Su wants to see, no matter what these people are for, but the most important thing is that with their joining, Taiwan's education system is finally built, just a few months later. Several primary schools in Keelung City that have just been built have officially started to enroll students, and at the same time, several cities such as Tainan have also built primary schools one after another. Moreover, all of these primary schools use uniform teaching materials and are taught by uniformly trained teachers. Although I can't see anything yet, I believe that when the first batch of students enter the society, everyone will understand the meaning of the phrase knowledge is power.

And when Li Su made great efforts to educate the Taiwanese people, he also sent another team to 'educate' the aliens, but there were no polite teachers in this team, but all of them were fierce people with weapons in their hands, and they set off by boat from all over the country, and there was only one destination, that is, Manila in Luzon.

Manila in June is the time of day when storms rage. In the past, there would have been half as many ships in the port as usual, and the whole of Manila would have entered a period of economic depression, after all, no merchant would risk capsizing in a storm to go to sea.

However, this year's June was very unusual, not only did the number of ships in the port not decrease, but there were two or three percent more than usual, and the port was even busier, with countless supplies unloaded from the ships and transported to warehouses in Manila for storage. Countless merchants also arrive every day, wielding gold and silver coins in the hope of finding a place to live in Manila.

After the arrival of these cargo ships and merchants, a fleet of troop transports finally arrived in Manila. But when the army disembarked, the soldiers in the army all looked at the city of Manila with awe, and when the people in the city saw them. There was also a look of disdain on their faces, because none of these troops were the descendants of the Qi Palace. In other words, all of them were Sillas, Wa, and steppe people.

These troops rushed to Manila on the front foot. Yanbei, who had been staying in Linyi, also rushed here. Yanbei should have arrived in Manila a long time ago, but when he was halfway there, he received an order from Li Su to let him go back to Taiwan, but when he saw Li Su, he realized that Li Su felt that it was not safe to use only foreign troops, so he allocated another 3,000 Han troops, including 1,000 musketeers and 500 artillerymen who had just completed training.

At the beginning, muskets and artillery shined on the battlefield of the Japanese State, and after the end of the war, Li Su immediately increased the production of firearms, and also promoted the original musketeers and artillery soldiers to instructors, forming a firearms training battalion, and now has trained 5,000 musketeers and 1,500 artillerymen.

In fact, with the implementation of the Sinicization policy by Li Su, the ruling situation of the Wa State has changed greatly, and the rebellion has rarely occurred, so if Li Su is willing, he can draw out more firearms troops and hand them over to Yanbei, but Li Su also knows that the climate in Luzon is rainy and very humid, and if the current firearms troops are there, I am afraid that there is not much use, so only a 1,000-man musket team and 500 artillery were transferred.

After Yanbei landed in Manila with a Han army of 3,000 people, all the troops involved in the battle against Luzon this time arrived, but Yanbei was not responsible for commanding the army to fight, and he didn't have that ability.

The reason why Zhou Long was the commander, rather than Su Dingfang and Xue Rengui, was mainly due to the environment on the Luzon side, where the climate was hot, and a considerable part of it was tropical jungle, and it was much more difficult to fight in this area than in the plains or mountains, and in addition to facing the enemy, it was also necessary to face various dangers in the jungle, if the generals who did not have experience in this area led the team, it was estimated that the army of 10,000 people would be thrown into the jungle, and half of it would have to be lost before the war with the enemy.

It is precisely with these in mind that Li Su asked Zhou Long and Hu Li to lead the team, if it weren't for Lu Qing who was now in charge of the navy and couldn't leave, he really wanted Lu Qing to make a cameo appearance as an army general. When the three of them were in Taiwan, they often led people to fight with the local natives, and although the weather in Taiwan was not hotter than Luzon, it was somewhat similar, so they also had a lot of combat experience in this tropical jungle.

Zhou Long and Hu Li came with those foreign armies, and this time in order to pacify Luzon in one fell swoop, Li Su mobilized a total of 20,000 Japanese people, 20,000 Han troops, and 10,000 steppe people's army. Originally, Li Su mobilized 20,000 grassland people, but Zhou Long objected to this, and finally Li Su followed his advice and transferred 10,000 grassland people to Linyi.

Luzon is a big island, and the 50,000-strong army is naturally not enough, and Zhou Long did not plan to let them be the main force, the real main force is the 50,000-strong Linyi army he transferred from Linyi, these Linyi people were originally transferred to the Wa State, but they were intercepted by Zhou Long, because in his opinion, the steppe people and the Wa people and the Sanhan people all live in the north and are not suitable for the jungle warfare in the south, but the climate on the Linyi side is similar to that of Luzon, so he suggested that Li Yu reduce the number of the steppe people's army, and at the same time transfer all the Linyi troops to Luzon.

Li Su naturally would not object to this reasonable suggestion, and he had already handed over the pacification of Luzon to Zhou Long, so these things were originally Zhou Long's business.

After Zhou Long and Yanbei all arrived in Luzon, they did not rush to seize Luzon, but stationed all the troops outside Manila, and then Zhou Long and Hu Li personally supervised the 100,000 army for emergency adaptation training, and they also found some people who were very familiar with the Luzon jungle to enter the army as temporary instructors, explaining to the soldiers the places to pay attention to in the jungle and various taboos.

Speaking of which, these armies are all aliens, Li Su and Zhou Long They don't care about the life or death of these people, but now Li Su is implementing the policy of sinicization, and he also has to use some gentle means for these alien races, so it is not suitable for these foreign armies to suffer a large number of casualties, plus if there are too many casualties, the Qi Wangfu will also take out a large amount of money for compensation. It is precisely because of this that Zhou Long, who received the instructions, will make these preparations in this way.

In addition, Luzon is now in the rainy season, not only is there a lot of rain, but the weather is abnormally hot, which is not suitable for war at all, and only between October and February of the following year will the rain in Luzon become less and the temperature will be lower, then it is a good time to attack.

It's only June now, which means that Zhou Long's army will stay in Manila for at least four months, of course, these four months are not for nothing, but need to let them adapt to the local climate, and take them to the jungle for adaptation training from time to time.

Originally, Li Su didn't hide much when he sent troops to Luzon, and in addition, Li Su started with industry and commerce, and all the businessmen in the territory were powerful, so they already knew in advance that Li Su was going to send troops to Luzon. In addition, there are many clever people who have calculated that the army will definitely start in the dry season, and that it will definitely stay in Manila for a few months in between.

It was precisely because of this that the merchants in Taiwan and other places were all crazy to deliver goods to Luzon, even in the windy and rainy June, the ships to and from Luzon were not broken. After all, everyone knows that the army's money is the best to earn, and the army of 100,000 people is stationed in Manila, so the daily consumption of grain and grass is not a small amount, so they will be active, prepare all kinds of materials in advance, and wait for the army to come to purchase.

In this case, the military is actually happy to enjoy it, because compared with the military's logistics transportation, these businessmen are faster and the cost is much lower than the military's transportation system, and the only thing they need is to buy it with money.

Of course, these merchants brought some materials that were not too important, and as for things like weapons and armor, they still needed to be provided by the army's logistics system.

After Zhou Long and Hu Li arranged the training of the army, they immediately found Yanbei, because they needed detailed information on Luzon, especially the three major tribal alliances on the island now, which were the focus of their attention. It's just that when they saw the information provided to them by Yan Bei, they found an unexpected joy. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please read it on m.qidian.com. )