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"Yes, Your Majesty!" Luo Sangu, commander of the First Fleet of the Navy, and Niu Meng, commander of the First Brigade of the Army, replied at the same time. As for why they wanted to destroy the Buayan Sultanate first, they didn't care. In any case, the two sultanates on Mindanao will be the target of the Xinhua army. It doesn't matter which one you destroy first or which one you kill later!

The Sultanate of Buayan is located in the southern part of Mindanao and has a population of about 100,000 people, all of whom are Moros. Before the rise of the Xinhua State, the Buayan Sultanate had only an army of two or three thousand men. After the Xinhua State wantonly exterminated the natives, the Buayan Sultanate also began to expand its armaments. Now the total number of troops has expanded to about 10,000. It's just that, in terms of equipment, the army of the Buayan Sultanate is completely incomparable with the Xinhua army. Their navy is almost nil, and their army is mostly armed with weapons such as broadswords and spears, and only a handful of elite units are armed with old-fashioned muskets. This musket can't even compare to the British Burka-style rifle, let alone the Exocet rifle equipped by the Xinhua Army!

"The population of the Buayan Sultanate is mainly concentrated in the Davao region, its capital, as long as we contribute to Davao, eliminate the main force of its army. Then it won't take much effort to destroy the Buayan Sultanate! After the destruction of the Buayan Sultanate, the fleet sailed west along the coastline, and the main force of the 1st Brigade, escorted by the fleet, attacked Kotabatar, the capital of the Maguindanao Sultanate! The Maguindanao Sultanate was somewhat stronger than the Buayan Sultanate, with a total population of almost 150,000 and an army of more than 20,000. However, their equipment is also very rudimentary. At that time, the 3rd Brigade would move south from Zamboanga to cooperate with the 1st Brigade in attacking the Maguindanao Sultanate. The task of the 2nd Brigade is to hold the area around Xinhua City! I am sure that we will win this battle! Those natives who are also inbred, and the natives who are also indigenous to the natives, must not be our opponents! Long Yufei laid out the entire plan. The Sultanate of Maguindanao and the Sultanate of Buayan are both small countries in the South Seas. Although the strength of Xinhua is not strong now, there is still no problem in dealing with these two effects.

As the second brigade of one of the three brigades of the Xinhua Army, this time the task is to guard Xinhua City. Xinhua City is not only the capital of Xinhua, but also the most important industrial base of Xinhua. All of Xinhuaguo's heavy industry factories, including arsenals and shipyards, are concentrated here. If this place is destroyed, it can send Xinhua back to the pre-liberation period at once. Therefore, it is very necessary to leave a strong army to garrison the nest!

"Your Majesty! Among the countries founded by the Moros was the Sultanate of Sulu. Although the relationship between the Sultanate of Sulu and the two Sultanates of Mindanao is not harmonious, they are of the same origin. We launched an attack on the Sultanate of Maguindanao and the Sultanate of Buayan, and the Sultanate of Sulu will certainly not stand idly by! Premier Li Decheng said.

"If the Sultanate of Sulu intervenes, will we be able to defeat them?" Long Yufei looked at the senior military officials. He did not directly answer Li Decheng's question.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, although the Sultanate of Sulu is powerful, it cannot be compared to us! If the Sultanate of Sulu dares to intervene, we can destroy them together! Niu Meng, the commander of the First Brigade of the Army, replied nonchalantly!

"Ha Lu Ha! That's right, that's what I mean, too! The Sultanate of Sulu, although stronger than the Sultanate of Maguindanao and the Sultanate of Buayan, is nothing more than an indigenous country in our eyes! I believe that our army can easily defeat them! Long Yufei said confidently.

The Sultanate of Sulu is an Islamic sultanate founded in 1457 by the Sulu people (a type of Moro people) in the Sulu Islands at the western end of the Muslim Autonomous Region of Mindanao in the southern part of the present-day Philippines, as well as the middle of the provinces of Basilan and Tavitawi, Palawan, northern Borneo and other islands around the Sulu Sea. The Sultanate of Sulu was an early feudal society, and its social structure consisted mainly of three classes: hereditary nobility (Dato), freemen, and slaves. The Sultan was both the supreme ruler of the world and the leader of religion. Before the Spanish invasion of the Philippines, Sulu was one of the more socio-economically developed countries in the region, with extensive political and economic ties with China and surrounding countries.

"If there is no doubt, then, so decide! Three days later, the army departed! I'm in charge of this battle! After I left, the affairs of Xinhua City were fully handled by Premier Li Decheng and Minister of Military Logistics Zhao Yi! Long Yufei said.

"Your Majesty, are you going to take the royal expedition?" Foreign Minister Lin Zihao asked.

"Of course! This battle is very important for the kingdom! I'll have to go myself! Long Yufei said. Long Yufei planned to kill the Maguindanao Sultanate and the Buayan Sultanate together in this battle, and if the Sulu Sultanate didn't know what to do, he would kill the Sulu Sultanate together! Therefore, he hopes to be able to be on the front line in person so that he can always have the latest battlefield intelligence. Whether it is Luo Sangu or Niu Meng, they are much worse in grasping the overall situation. If the opponent is only these sultanates, of course, there is no problem. But who can guarantee that there will be no accidents? For example, a large part of the territory of the Sultanate of Sulu is in Borneo. And Borneo is now mainly in the range of the Dutch's power, if the Dutch intervene, then does Xinhua need to start a war with the Western powers in advance? All of these need to be decided by Long Yufei himself!

"Your Majesty! The war ahead will allow the generals to come out on horseback! You should stay in Xinhua City! Lin Zihao said. The kingdom has just been established, the foundation is unstable, and if Long Yufei has no heirs, if something happens, the country that was established with great difficulty is likely to fall apart!

"Don't worry! This time, I'll stay on the ship and wait for the soldiers to destroy the enemy before I go ashore! Long Yufei said.

The others saw that Long Yufei was very resolute, so they had to stop persuading. Although everyone was a little worried about Long Yufei's safety, if Long Yufei stayed on the battleship, his safety would undoubtedly be guaranteed. With the strength of the Xinhua Navy in the Nanyang region, even if it cannot be compared with those Western powers, there is no problem in self-preservation!

On March 1, 1837, 12 'Shark-class' cruisers of the First Fleet of the Xinhua Navy escorted more than 40 merchant ships from Xinhua City into the vast sea to the first target. Among the more than 40 merchant ships were more than 6,000 people from the First Brigade of the Xinhua Army and all their equipment, including six infantry battalions and one artillery battalion, as well as units directly under the brigade headquarters.

Long Yufei boarded the cruiser 'Xinhua', the flagship of the fleet, and he was not good at military command, so he would not interfere too much. The reason why he drove the expedition was just to grasp the first-hand information of the battlefield in order to deal with possible accidents. After all, with the current communication conditions, if an accident happens, by the time he gets the news, the daylily will already be cold!

The First Fleet of the Xinhua Navy consisted of 12 'Shark-class' cruisers, and it was difficult for Long Yufei to name the 12 warships. So, he simply named the 'Xinhua' as Shark 1, the 'Zamboanga' as Shark 2, and so on for the ten subsequent warships, from Shark 3 to Shark 12. The second batch of 12 warships ranged from Shark 13 to Shark 24.

Although the 'Shark-class' cruiser has shown great combat power in the battle against the Spanish Navy's third-class battleships, Long Yufei does not attach much importance to this battleship. In his opinion, the ironclad ships in heavy armor and equipped with huge cannons are the masters of future naval warfare. The 'Shark-class' cruiser, such a sailing battleship, is just a transition. Under the condition that the technical conditions of the new Chinese country are not yet met, there is no way to use the 'Shark-class' cruiser to deal with the powerful Western navy!

From Xinhua to the Sultanate of Buayaan, it is necessary to sail along the coastline of eastern Mindanao, but fortunately, Mindanao is not large, and the voyage range is only more than 700 kilometers, and in terms of the speed of the fleet, three days is enough. That's a lot of time saved than walking through the dense forests of central Mindanao!

The voyage of more than 700 kilometers is nothing to the soldiers of the Xinhua Navy. But for those landlubbers in the army, they almost died, and many of them almost stood out from yellow bile. Fortunately, it was all calm along the way, otherwise they would have suffered even more.

On the morning of March 4, the fleet entered Davao Bay. The main territory of the Buayan Sultanate is concentrated near Davao Bay, where the soil is fertile and the products are abundant, and the main population of the Buayan Sultanate is concentrated here!

Although the Sultanate of Buayan and Xinhua are currently at war, the armies of both sides are engaged in a fierce exchange of fire in central Mindanao. It's just that because of the transportation facilities, the wars that broke out were all small-scale wars. Although the army of the Buayan Sultanate has always been at a disadvantage, from the Sultan to the ordinary civilians, they all believe that the vast forest is a natural barrier, and it is impossible for the army of the New China Kingdom to cross the forest to attack their territory, and they can sit back and relax!

When the huge fleet of the new country appeared in Davao Bay, the people of the Buayan Sultanate knew that they were already in trouble! The 12 'Shark-class' cruisers of the First Fleet of the Xinhua Navy broke into Davao Bay and slaughtered the shore, and along the way, many fishing boats of the Buayan Sultanate were directly sunk!