In the month after the birth of his son, Zhu Daolin spent most of his time inspecting and holding meetings at the Baguazhou Yangtze River Shipyard, Gushan Iron City, and Longtan Industrial Zone, rectifying the management system of major factories and solving practical problems on the spot, except for two pretexts to go out to inspect and disappear for a few days.

During this period, Zhu Daolin also quietly sent 5,000 tons of special cement and 4,800 tons of construction steel to Baguazhou to build a factory building for a 1,000-ton hydraulic press, a water tower and an ancillary machinery factory.

For a whole month, as long as there is time, Zhu Daolin will rush back to the main courtyard of Hushan in time, eat with his wives and concubines, doting on his infant son, teasing him, and spend the evening with his wives and concubines.

In the sixth year of Chongzhen, October 21, light snow.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Zhu Daolin bid farewell to his wife and concubine and his beloved son, who had just reached the full moon, and led 500 guards and 262 students of the first phase of the martial arts academy who were equipped with single-shot rifles to board two 800-ton armed merchant ships that had completed their sea trials and had been officially delivered to the East China Sea Fleet, and sailed downstream.

After two months of intense preparations, all the troops and materials needed to attack the southern part of Yingzhou were delivered. The three divisions and two battalions of cavalry needed for the operation had secretly arrived at Tamsui Daying and Hsinchu half a month ago, and it had been half a month since they started targeted training.

The 21 large and small warships participating in the war, plus 7 new 800-ton armed merchant ships, have been secretly assembled on Chongming Island, plus Zhu Daolin brought two 800-ton armed merchant ships newly delivered to the East China Sea Fleet, the number of ships participating in the battle has reached 30, with a total strength of more than 28,000 people, not counting the 3,000 recruits who took over Hsinchu and the Yingzhou Army, which has tens of thousands of soldiers, and has an overwhelming advantage.

Even if the Fujian Zheng Group is angry, Zhu Daolin can be invincible.

Two days later, late at night. Zhu Daolin arrived at Chongming Hou Island, which had become a military tun, and joined the main fleet. Due to the winter rain falling from the sky, he could only rest for a night, and set sail out of the sea the next day when the sky was dark, and sailed out of the mouth of the Yangtze River and into the vast sea without realizing it. Sail forward in full sail in the north wind.

Not long after the fleet crossed the waters off Zhoushan, the weather improved greatly, and the pilot warship, with Zhu Daolin's consent, quickly corrected its course, entered the deep sea, and plunged directly into the northwest corner of Yingzhou Island, and successfully arrived at the Tamsui Military Port on the afternoon of 29 October.

Two 550-ton converted warships and five 800-ton armed merchant ships left the fleet before they arrived in port, according to the scheduled plan. rushed to the Hsinchu area non-stop and was responsible for transporting 6,500 soldiers of the Longtan Army into the battlefield.

Zhu Daolin boarded the dock and immediately issued a blockade order, and all ships were blocked in the harbor by Tamsui coastal defense warships.

Thousands of merchants from all over the world watched in horror as the whole body and loaded with guns and ammunition entered the dock, and the 7,000 soldiers of the Yingzhou Army, familiar to the local people, rushed over one after another to join the officers and men of the Third Marine Division, which was composed of new recruits from Liaodong. Fill the wide dock to the brim.

As far as the eye can see, there are many battle flags. The entire harbor was enveloped in the fierce atmosphere of slaughter before the war.

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In the temporary headquarters of the large battalion of the fortress troops, the generals and colonels shuttled back and forth, and the atmosphere was extremely tense.

Zhu Daolin calmly and confidently issued an operational order in the face of the chief and deputy commanders of the various ministries participating in the war and the 12 members of the Yingzhou Military and Political Committee:

"From now on, the entire Yingzhou has officially entered a state of war. The officers and men of the Yingzhou Army, the 1st Marine Division, the 3rd Marine Division, and the Combined Fleet on the assembled dock will all board the ship before midnight and rush to the battlefield at midnight! ”

"From now on, the defense of Tamsui Port was officially handed over to the Yingzhou Army Recruit Division and the Navy's Tamsui Fortress Force. The Tamsui Port Police Department has closely cooperated with each other, and it is strictly forbidden for any vessel or person to leave Tamsui until dawn tomorrow. ”

"Understood!"

The participants quickly stood up, and the twelve civil officials also hurriedly stood up, looking extremely nervous.

Zhu Daolin waved his hand and motioned for everyone to sit down: "If you have any questions, ask them immediately, and I will try my best to answer them." If there are no problems, then adjourn. ”

Wang Zhaohuan hurriedly stood up and asked curiously: "General, what should we do after conquering the territory occupied by the Dutch in the south?" ”

Zhu Daolin asked Wang Zhaohuan to sit down again, and said with a smile: "Mr. doesn't need to stand up and speak, just ask questions directly." This battle will inevitably take all the territory south of Hsinchu, and then impose a year of military control. ”

"The 1st and 3rd Marine Divisions attacked the Anping area, that is, the stronghold of the Dutch, the city of Geranza, and after the capture of Anping, the 3rd Marine Division was stationed for a long time, and the 1st Marine Division returned to Baoshanwei to rest after completing the work of clearing the surrounding rebel forces."

"After the participating troops of the Yingzhou Army captured Dagou in the south of Anping, they formed the first division of the Yingzhou Army on the spot, and then established a defense and stationed it for a long time;"

"After the battle of Anping, the Longtan army immediately turned around and went north, occupied the south of Hsinchu and stationed in Changhua Port, and established a defense on the spot, waiting for the change of defense!"

"After this battle, the East China Sea Fleet will be divided into two and the South China Sea Fleet will be formally formed, and the South China Sea Fleet Command will be temporarily located in Tamsui Port. In the next year, we will continue to relocate displaced people from all parts of the Ming Dynasty, enrich the occupied areas of Yingzhou, and gradually establish civil affairs yamen at all levels, and officials at all levels will be mainly dispatched by your Yingzhou Military and Political Committee to enrich them, and if there is a shortage, they will be transferred from Jinling, Baoshanwei or Qingdao bases. ”

"A year later, Yingzhou will officially establish the Daming Yingzhou Mansion, under the jurisdiction of Tamsui, Taipei, Keelung, Yilan, Hsinchu, Changhua, Chiayi, Anping and Dagou nine prefectures and counties, Dagou will be renamed Wannian Prefecture."

"If you are not familiar with the geography of the states and counties that will be set up, you can go back and check the new map of the Yingzhou administrative region issued by the Navy Command, which is marked in detail."

There was a buzz in the conference room.

The military attachés were all thinking about the great cause of opening up the territory, while the civil officials were very excited about the sudden announcement of the establishment of one prefecture and nine counties, and their hearts were full of joy to keep the sunrise of Yunkai, and they did not remember that most of the prefectures and counties had not yet fallen into their own hands, let alone that Kaohsiung and Yilan counties were still in the hands of the Spaniards, as if they had seen a huge stage, waiting for them to display their talents and ambitions.

Zhu Daolin waited for more than a minute with a smile, and saw that there was still a heated discussion in the conference room, so he had to order everyone to be quiet again. Zhu Daolin announced the adjournment of the meeting after asking everyone if there were no questions, and the civil and military officials held back their excitement and, under Zhu Daolin's reminder, immediately rushed to their posts to undertake various glorious tasks.

After bidding farewell to Zhu Daolin, the admirals and army generals rushed to the military dock as soon as possible, boarded the "Dongri" flagship, and discussed the coordinated battle plan, leaving only Wang Zhaohuan and Wei Yuying, two civilian officials, in the conference room. (To be continued.) )