"It's not hard to besiege them, as long as we can send enough troops to the ground. Chen Yixin's answer was decent: "But this will probably drag our troops in Tamsui, and there is no way to quickly switch to the chicken coop." ”

"Attack the freshwater first, and the chicken coop can be taken down without rushing. Qian Tiandun had a deeper consideration: "The Spaniards mainly depend on Manila for supplies, so it is not a bad thing to make their nerves tense, and we also take this opportunity to examine the supply capacity of the Spaniards." ”

This reason is obviously far-fetched, and it is not sufficient, and Chen Yixin can certainly detect that there is a problem. However, he has been in the system for a few years, and although he is young, he also has some city governments, and he did not immediately go to the bottom of the matter.

Of course, Qian Tiandun would not be really stupid enough to deliberately leave a buffer time for his opponent, and if conditions allowed, he would naturally be eager to take down Spain's two major bases in the Taipei area in one fell swoop. However, the situation of Santo Domingo City seems to require the use of siege tactics, which will inevitably occupy most of the limited forces of the Penghu base, so that Qian Tiandun has no way to divide his troops to attack Salvador City in Jilong Port at the same time.

Of course, if the base camp were to be asked for support at that time, and the army applied for another battalion to come over to help coordinate the operation, it might be enough to adopt a two-pronged tactic in the attack on Taipei. However, Qian Tiandun did not want to take the initiative to share the profits of the battle exploits in the Taipei area, and he now needs to rely on this outstanding military exploits to win more care policies for the special operations battalion.

As the trump card unit in the Haihan militia regiment, the special operations battalion has indeed enjoyed a lot of inclined policy care, and can even independently recruit soldiers for training in the garrison and organize them on their own. Although the policy is good, the scale of the troops is constantly expanding, and the rationing of materials and equipment enjoyed has always been stuck in the battalion-level establishment, and what Qian Tiandun wants to do is to apply for an increase in the establishment of the troops under his command from a "special operations battalion" to a "special operations regiment."

Even if measured by the establishment of the reinforced battalion, the strength of today's special operations battalion is infinitely close to that of an infantry regiment, and it is already greatly overstaffed. However, if it cannot be upgraded in terms of establishment, then no matter how good the treatment is, it will only stay at the level of a battalion-level unit. It is obviously not a reasonable situation to maintain the operation of the regiment level with the treatment of the battalion level.

Qian Tiandun's application (1) ↓ dǐng (1) ↓ diǎn (1) ↓ small (1) ↓ said, .±.o□s_ (); The report had already been typed a long time ago, but like other military spending-related applications, it was stuck in the approval of the Executive Committee. The reason for this is very simple: From a battalion to a regiment, the military expenditure required will naturally increase correspondingly, and the average military expenditure of a special operations battalion is the highest among the troops, and this expansion means that the expenditure spent on this unit will double and rise. This is naturally something that cannot be ignored by some people who are always eyeing military spending. If Qian Tiandun wants to break through this layer of resistance, the best way is to come up with irrefutable combat merits, and apply for an upgrade while asking for merit for the special operations unit.

If he could think of other ways, Qian Tiandun actually didn't want to use this kind of off-the-counter move, but he was also very dissatisfied with the constraints of opposing voices, and it seemed that he could only change the status quo by means of brushing up military merits. Of course, the risks required to adopt such an unconventional method are also very large, and if the special operations battalion under his command loses in the battle, or if there are relatively strict casualties, it may become a lever for the opposition to attack him.

In fact, there are not many objects that Haihan is currently facing, and Qian Tiandun's selection of objects must be considered from the surrounding areas of the station, and the Dutch and Spaniards are inevitably included in the scope of his investigation. These two have a base on the island of Taiwan, and they are in pure competition with the Haihan, and they happen to be within the combat radius of the Penghu garrison, and their military strength is not comparable to that of the Haihan militia.

Of course, with the strength of the Penghu garrison, if you want to brush these two at the same time, it will be a bit big, and Qian Tiandun doesn't want to take too many risks. However, the Dutch were still knowledgeable, and after Qian Tiandun led the fleet to Dayuan Port for an armed march, they took the initiative to seek a compromise in exchange for human trafficking in exchange for Haihan's promise not to launch an armed attack on Dayuan Port. In this transaction, the Haihan side did take a big advantage, and Qian Tiandun did not want to beat the Dutch to death with a stick, so after determining the development process of Kaohsiung Port, he quickly turned his attention to the Spaniards entrenched in the Taipei area.

Although the Spaniards have not taken the initiative to provoke Haihan so far, the fact that they have established a base in Taiwan is already the original sin itself, and one of Haihan's medium- and long-term goals is to control the entire South China Sea, and sooner or later the Spaniards will also stand on the opposite side of Haihan. The battle between the two sides is only a matter of time, and Qian Tiandun plans to use the Spanish base on the island of Taiwan to practice his hands first. Of course, Qian Tiandun would not take the initiative to disclose these deep purposes, even if Chen Yixin was also a member of the military, Qian Tiandun did not plan to take the initiative to inform him. If Chen Yixin realizes the truth on his own in the future, then it is another story.

If Santo Domingo City can be suppressed by firepower only by warships, then Qian Tiandun does have a plan to quickly take fresh water and then assault Jilong Harbor, but Chen Yixin's reconnaissance results poured cold water on this plan, and the local environment is obviously not suitable for such a simple and crude combat method as directly bombarding the city with naval artillery. If the special operations battalion wanted to capture the local Spanish stronghold, it was safer to besiege the city and send reinforcements, cutting off the supply line through guò to put pressure on the Spaniards in Diǎn. As a last resort, Qian Tiandun did not want the infantry to attack this stronghold, which was equipped with a lot of artillery, and even if he wanted to attack, he had to wait until his heavy equipment was put on the battle line.

But this small difficulty will not make Qian Tiandun discourage the idea of making a move on Taipei, and all he needs now is to get permission from the Executive Committee and the Military Commission. On the day that Chen Yixin returned to Kaohsiung Port after reporting on his reconnaissance findings, Qian Tiandun drafted a long telegram and sent it back to Sanya, proposing to attack the Taipei area, with a general battle plan attached.

"I only fought the Dutch in October last year, and it has only been a long time, and the construction of Kaohsiung Port has just begun, and he can't be idle again. I'm not against going to war to achieve foreign expansion, but isn't it too frequent to wage war?"

When this proposal was discussed at the Executive Committee, it was not surprising that it was questioned. In fact, the opposition advocates economic and cultural means to achieve foreign expansion, which is not a completely contradictory line with military expansion, on the contrary, the two have always complemented and promoted each other. However, if it comes to a temporary increase in military spending or an expansion of the size of the armed forces, the heads of these departments will, as always, stand up and express their opposition.

"I would like to correct you that we did not fight the Dutch last October, but only let the fleet pass twice at the gate of Dayuan Harbor. Of course, Yan Chujie would not sit idly by and watch the voices of only the opposition in the venue, so he immediately responded: "I need to remind you that the last time the militia army carried out a combat mission was the Penghu Battle in May last year. Everyone here has heard the report on the course of that battle, and the intensity of the battle is not great. Eight months have passed now, and the length of time for the troops to recuperate is basically enough, is this kind of frequency also high? If anyone has lost his memory, he can go through the archives and think back to how many battles we fought in the first three years of our existence, on average, once every few months, and then compare it with the current situation. ”

The period from 1627 to 1629 was indeed the period of the most frequent wars after the passage of the Haihan. Although the scale of the Haihan militia was very limited at that time, the frequency of combat was surprisingly high. Taking 1628 as an example, at the beginning of the year, the operation to aid Vietnam began, and the militia went to Annam to assist the North Vietnamese court in the war. In August, he attacked South Vietnam and attacked Hoi An Port; in September, he cooperated with the North Vietnamese army to attack the defense line of Fighting Rivers and Hengshan, and the North Vietnamese court finally began to gain the upper hand in the struggle between the north and the south of Annam; in December, the militia navy engaged Liu Xiang's armed fleet at the mouth of the Pearl River and defeated the opponent so that he directly gave up the sphere of influence of Shibazhi on the coast of Guangdong.

It was the intensive frequency of operations at that time that enabled Haihan to have several excellent anchorages at the mouth of the Pearl River in Guangdong and the southern part of Annam, laying an excellent foundation for the subsequent expansion plan from the south to the north. Since the rebellion of the Shilu Forced Labor Battalion in 1631, the only large-scale combat mission carried out by the military has been the Battle of Penghu. But as Yan Chujie said, this battle was actually thunder and rain, and the elite of the Haihan militia was exhausted, and as a result, the eighteen zhi fled without saying a word, and the militia did not spend much effort to conquer the Penghu Islands abandoned by the opponent.

Although the military also awarded awards to meritorious personnel after the war, the top brass generally believed that the battle did not fully achieve the purpose of military training. The navy may be good, after all, on the way to Penghu, it eliminated two pirate fleets that had come out to drag on time, but the army basically did not confront the opponent on the frontal battlefield, and what it did after landing in Penghu was just cleaning the battlefield. If the opposition wants to say that the frequency of combat in the past two years has been high, the military will definitely not accept it.

"Is it worth it for us to go to war against Spain at this time, and has it been systematically weighed and objectively evaluated?" The opposition, of course, will not take it lightly and continue to question the military's tactics.

"At this time, it is only fitting that diǎn will attack the Spanish in Taipei. Yan Chujie responded: "First of all, the Dutch suffered a heavy blow last year, and now they have no ability to fight against us, and when we deal with the Spaniards, we don't need to worry about the Dutch making trouble behind our backs." Second, the Spaniards were not prepared for war and lacked sufficient vigilance against us, which would greatly reduce the difficulty of the militia army. Finally, Taipei has a lot of mining resources that are worth occupying, and the significance of fighting this war is not only to drive the Western colonizers out of the island of Taiwan, but also to expand our financial resources. Ladies and gentlemen, if we win this battle, our gains will be very considerable, and it is no exaggeration to say that there is really a mountain of gold in Taipei waiting for us to dig it!"

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but start talking to each other, the precious metal veins in Taipei have not been discovered by the Spaniards so far, but if Haihan continues to leave this place to the Spaniards, then they will have the possibility of discovering this treasure land sooner or later. Although it was not until more than 200 years later in the 19th year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty that immigrants discovered the gold veins of Jinguashi, because the arrival of Haihan disrupted part of the original development process of this world, no one dared to guarantee that the local gold mines would not be born in advance.

In addition to gold mines, there are also symbiotic sulphur, arsenic, copper and sulphur-antimony-copper veins, whether it is sulphur or copper, which are extremely important strategic materials for Haihan, and the veins that can be grabbed will never be let go. Just by targeting this mine, Haihan has enough motivation to take military action to seize control of the area.

"Spain is an old colonial empire, is Qian Tiandun sure enough to fight them head-on?" is one of the concerns of neutrals. The Haihan militia is strong, but if it confronts Spain, a European power of this era, will it still be able to win as it has in the past?

"The Penghu garrison has completed the reconnaissance of the Tamsui Fortress and has drawn up a battle plan. Yan Chujie responded: "Qian Tiandun and his subordinates are ready to go to war, and now they are waiting for the executive committee to come up with an idea." The Spaniards were not as strong as we thought, and Qian Tiandun believed that the certainty of victory was ...... Ten percent of the uncertainty was only the actual combat time, attrition, and casualties, but he expressed confidence in the telegram that he could keep these numbers at a relatively small level. Comrades, this is a question to be scored! As long as we are diǎndiǎn, Qian Tiandun and his fighters will be able to snatch Taipei for us! In the past few years, have Qian Tiandun and his troops disappointed the Executive Committee even once? The special operations battalion is our trump card unit, and since they have all expressed their attitude, is it not enough to win your trust and support?

It has to be said that Yan Chujie's verbal skills once again played a role, and his rather inflammatory explanations made the heads of various departments with voting rights change their attitudes from the initial doubts. If this operation will not only not cause losses to Haihan, but will bring many practical benefits, then why is it necessary for everyone to oppose this good thing?