"The Dutch were not Annam's old-fashioned army, many of them had fought in Europe before coming to the Far East, and they were not so easy to deal with. The fact that the Portuguese have been defeated in the Far East over the years, and that the colonies have been robbed of them is an excellent proof of this. Qian Tiandun was not particularly surprised when he heard this result: "What about Mu Xiabai's post-war report?"

The original operational plan for going south to seize the Anbuna Islands was jointly planned and formulated by the Annan Military Region and the General Staff Department of the Central Military Commission, and the candidates for the mission were also recommended by Qian Tiandun. Although Qian Tiandun is not directly responsible for the trend of the local battle situation, if Mu Xiabai's appearance is not good, then his face will not look good.

Mushabai asked the Executive Committee for help, but not for more garrisons, but for the base camp to send engineers to help them improve their fortifications, and to increase the island's supply reserves. "Mushaber thinks that the Dutch should not stop there, so in the future, the island of Ambuna will become the southernmost battlefield within our control. ”

"I think the training ground is more accurate. The special environment of the local area doomed the opponent to not be able to invest too many troops, so it was almost impossible for them to eat our defenders with their superiority in strength, and even if they made a comeback, they would only accompany us to train our troops. Qian Tiandun's tone was more relaxed: "Compared with those enemies who are not good at hot weapon combat, opponents of the level of the East India Company are more valuable for training." We have established an executive committee so that the Annan militia army can be stationed in the local area on a rotational basis and improve its actual combat capability through guò operations. ”

Ning Qi shook his head, raised two fingers and said, "There are two problems, first, the military expenditure for long-term operations is not a number, and the expenditure is too large, which is not in line with our original intention of seizing Anbuna Island. Second, according to your rotation, there will be a lot of people involved in the battle, and it will be difficult to keep this secret if you know more, don't forget that it is a group of pirates who are now controlling Anbuna Island. ”

"Neither of these issues is actually a problem. Qian Tiandun immediately replied: "We only need to defend the island of Ambuna, and the East India Company must organize a fleet to launch an expedition from Batavia." If I'm not mistaken, the voyage between the two places was more than six hundred nautical miles, and it would take at least a week for the Dutch fleet to reach the area, but the consumption on the way ~☆~☆☆~☆☆, m.※.c≦omstyle_tt; It probably already exceeds the cost of our war, and our military spending is well spent in comparison. Wasn't one of our original intentions in seizing the Ambuna Islands also to interfere with the Dutch's sea routes? Now that this effect has been well realized, the island can give them a slow bleed, and at the same time they will not have more energy to pay attention to the Fujian side. ”

"On the second question, I think this year we can find a suitable time to openly take over the island of Ambuna from the so-called pirates in the name of Haihan. After all, we can't keep acting this play, and as for what to do, I think you civil officials should be better at it, so I won't point fingers here. ”

The Haihan army to occupy Anbuna Island was originally modeled after the "Liaoyuan Plan" implemented earlier in Qiongbei, first sending a force to occupy the local area under the guise of being a pirate, and then the Haihan militia took this place from the pirates under the banner of the righteous army. Of course, after the seizure, the ownership will not be returned to the original owner, but will logically turn the spoils into the jurisdiction of Haihan. Under the operation of this line of thinking, the Qiongbei region has changed its flag and become belonging to Haihan, and the operation of Anbuna Island is naturally much more difficult.

The difficulty in accomplishing this plan was not the change of flag, but the right time and how to inform the Dutch East India Company in Batavia. If it had done well, perhaps the East India Company would have retreated and would not continue its military operations against Ambuna.

Ning Qi smiled bitterly: "You are throwing the pot in a chic way, then the Dutch will not stop at that time, this pot is the diplomatic department?"

"Don't want anyone's pot, this is more than that, everyone works together to contribute to Haihan!" Qian Tiandun has been a local magistrate for several years, and naturally he has more or less learned the ability to play an official tone.

"Come back, in two days, you will go to Nanri Island to complete the handover, and I will go back with the mission fleet, and Fujian will depend on you to watch. If there is anything unclear, you can ask the father and son of the Gong family in Zhangban, they are familiar with the local situation in Fujian. In addition, Xu Xinsu's fourth son, Xu Yuzhuo, that is, the general of the naval division who went to sea to meet you today, he had studied in Shengli Port for a period of time before, and his political attitude should be more inclined to our side. Xu Xinsu usually puts him in charge of communicating with us, and if he has the opportunity, he can also win him over more, the reasons are not detailed, you know. ”

Qian Tian nodded, and he naturally understood the doorway in the middle. During his time in the Annam garrison, Haihan also consciously selected some young officers from Annam for retraining and support. The common characteristic of these Annan officers is that they have systematically received military training and indoctrination from Haihan, have a relatively friendly and even dependent attitude towards Haihan, and have a certain background of their own background, which can ensure that they can have more opportunities to climb up in Annan's officialdom. Both the Executive Committee and the Military Commission believe that after these young officers enter the top echelons of the Annan political circle with the support of the Haihan, they can lead and influence the country to continue to maintain a pro-Haihan political attitude in the next few years.

For example, Zheng Ting, who is currently the commander of the First Division of Annan, was one of the first batch of officers trained by the Haihan military system for the Annan military. In addition to going to the Shengli Port Military Academy for further study many times, he also had the experience of acting together with the Haihan militia on several occasions and observing the operations of the militia army on the front line. His father, Zheng Bai, is the current secretary of the Annan Military Department, and he is also related to Zheng Jie, the king of the Qing capital, who holds the power of Annan, and can be described as promising. The Haihan side hopes to support him to a higher position, preferably to take over Annan's military seal after one or two decades, which will help maintain the alliance between Haihan and Annan for a long time.

And similar routines can also be copied in Fujian, especially the background and personal conditions like Xu Yuzhuo, which deserve the military's attention and training. Qian Tiandun has been in Annan for so long, and he is no stranger to the operation methods in the middle.

On July 15, after a short rest, Qian Tiandun led the Haihan fleet to leave the Zhongzuo Institute and continue north, to Nanri Island off the coast of Putian, where he handed over the defense to Shi Diwen, who had been stationed here for more than a month.

Shi Diwen was not idle during this time, and commanded thousands of laborers sent by the Fujian government to repair and strengthen the port wharf and the city defense of Nanri Village. Although the fortifications here are nowhere near as strong as Fort Victory, they have already outstripped the defenses on the island of Ambuna in the South China Sea.

"Don't be too polite to the Ming army here, they are all lazy guys!" Shi Diwen did not forget to remind Qian Tiandun when the handover was completed.

Qian Tianduntou expressed his gratitude to Shi Diwen for his kind reminder. Although the defense here was mainly carried out by the Haihan militia, Xu Xinsu still insisted on deploying 1,000 infantry on the island. This is not that Xu Xinsu is not worried about the strength of the Haihan militia, but hopes to take this opportunity to learn more advanced military skills from the Haihan people.

Although Fujian sends dozens of officers to Shengli Port on Qiongzhou Island every year to study and study, Xu Xinsu will not be stingy with this aspect, but the problem is that the military academy of the Haihan people has a lot of restrictions on the number of enrollment places, and even if he wants to spend more money and send more people there, he can't do it. Xu Xinsu thought that this was a good learning opportunity, so that the middle and senior officers under his command would have the opportunity to see how the Haihan people deployed defense and conducted daily military training. As for how much you can learn in the end, it's a matter of talent.

Of course, Xu Xinsu himself is a businessman, and he knows very well that there is no truth in this world to eat for nothing, and he will definitely not be able to learn any real skills if he sends people to learn things by himself, and he will definitely not be able to learn any real skills without paying tuition. Therefore, Xu Xinsu also sent some benefits to the Haihan Mission very knowingly, and at the same time sent a battalion of elite officers and soldiers to Nanri Island to live next to the Haihan Mission, so that Shi Diwen could point out their daily training.

Although these soldiers are already considered the elite of Fujian in Xu Xinsu's eyes, they are indeed far from the requirements of the Haihan militia, after all, their training level and corresponding treatment in the past cannot be compared with the Haihan militia. And Shi Diwen also knew very well that the intensity of Qian Tiandun's training special operations battalion in Annan was more exaggerated than that of the ordinary Haihan militia, and during Qian Tiandun's stationing here, these Ming troops would probably suffer a lot.

Along with the troops led by Qian Tiandun, there was also a batch of supplies specially sent by the Fujian government, mainly all kinds of livestock. This is not Xu Xinsu's own opinion, but at Haihan's request. There has always been no shortage of meat in the food supply of the Haihan garrison, and it is more troublesome to obtain stable supplies from the outside world in the relatively closed environment of Nanri Island, so the logistics department plans to feed some livestock on the island by itself, and even reclaim the fields to plant some fruits and vegetables to subsidize the daily consumption needs of the garrison.

This kind of treatment makes the Ming army stationed next to them naturally look a little greedy, and their usual training is with the Haihan militia, and the general content is similar. However, the Haihan soldiers eat white rice after training, and they can eat meat at least once a day, while the food on the Ming army's side is far from reaching such a level, and being able to manage it is basically quite a good treatment. As for meat, it's good to be able to take advantage of meat every once in a while.

However, the gap in food will be indirectly reflected in the physical elements, and the training intensity of the Haihan militia has always been relatively large, so it is impossible to exercise every day, almost every three days and five days. Haihan's food level ensured that the soldiers could keep up with such training intensity, but it was a great obstacle for the Ming army. The consumption on the body can not be replenished in a timely and effective manner from the intake, which can only cause the body to continue to overdraw, so the Ming soldiers who are tired and sick begin to appear in a large area.

As a result, the Ming army units that trained with the Haihan militia group quickly declined from the beginning when they were fully staffed, and the number of participants in the training became smaller and smaller.

Of course, how many of them are really unable to continue training because of physical reasons, and it is not good to be lazy anyway. Although there are certain objective reasons, Shi Diwen still has a bad impression of these Ming troops, because these people have regarded being a soldier more as a kind of occupation that eats and waits for death, and lacks the spirit that an army should have, and does not have the consciousness of protecting the family and defending the country. From the spiritual level, the gap between the Ming army and the Haihan militia is much larger than the weapons and tactics, and this is also a major reason for the gap in combat effectiveness between the two sides.

For Haihan soldiers, being able to join the militia as a soldier is actually a pretty good way out, not only to maintain their livelihood, but also to seek better treatment for their families. Under the rule of Haihan, whether it is naturalization, enrollment, recruitment, or property, there are relatives who have served in the militia or they have experience in the militia will receive many preferential conditions. The veterans who have retired from the militia and returned to their hometowns have corresponding work arrangements, so they don't have to worry about running out of food one day after taking off this skin. Even if he dies on the battlefield, there will be a special department responsible for taking care of his family after his death, and the level of pension is much higher than that of the Ming army.

Another very important one is that Haihan is in a period of rapid development, and the speed of promotion by virtue of military merits is very fast. The first batch of veterans who enlisted in the army in 167 have not been discharged from the army until now, and the lowest military rank is at least the beginning of the platoon commander, and the majority of the company commanders are like Yu Tiezhu and Gao Qiao Nan, who are particularly outstanding, and even have reached the rank of deputy battalion, and can command thousands of soldiers. This is a living example of the motivation of ordinary soldiers, because four or five years ago they were just a group of peasants who had just laid down their hoes, fishermen who abandoned fishing to join the army, hunters who gave up life in the mountains and forests, and even down-and-out literati who had repeatedly failed in examinations. In the Haihan militia system, these people from civilian backgrounds can be provided with a relatively fair channel for promotion, so that they can have the opportunity to gradually change from ordinary people to high-ranking officers.