After listening to Huang Youde's report, Liu Yu was very satisfied.

"It's hard for the craftsmen in the firearms division to work overtime." He looked at the wooden shack that was lit up on one side,

"Don't worry, sir."

"The villain must send the best of his own fires to the camp of adults." Huang Youde's eyes rolled and he said softly.

Liu Yu glanced at Huang Youde with satisfaction and signaled that he could leave.

Now the Ming army is weak and has fewer people.

The required firearm configuration is also not very large.

According to the current production capacity of the Firearms Division, it still exceeds the speed of the Ming army's expansion of armaments.

There are not many Chinese in Luzon.

At the beginning, Liu Yu insisted on going south to Luzon, on the one hand, to escape the Qing court, and on the other hand, to accumulate strength against the Qing Dynasty.

The manpower, material and financial resources of the local Chinese in Luzon are naturally Liu Yu's first choice.

But when I arrived in Luzon, I found that it was not as good as it was.

Perhaps there may have been tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of Chinese living in Luzon at the beginning.

However, with the four consecutive massacres of the Spaniards and the indigenous people, the number of Chinese in Luzon has been greatly reduced.

In the past few months, Ming has searched almost all of northern Luzon, and only found only 2,000 Chinese, and this is only when the Manila authorities massacre and drive out the Han Chinese in north-central Luzon.

It is estimated that there should still be thousands of Chinese businessmen stranded in Manila City.

But that's about it.

It is estimated that the number of Chinese in Luzon today is no more than 10,000, or even more than 8,000.

Compared with the scale of the Ming regime trapped in Luzon today, which is undoubtedly much more shabby than the Ming regime that is trapped in Luzon when he moved to Taiwan, with tens of thousands of troops and a population of more than 200,000 people.

So much so that the current Ming has to rely on the food provided by the Iroque people to survive.

Luzon has many fertile fields, but most of them are located in the central plains of central Luzon, which is still in the hands of the Manila authorities.

As a result of the Battle of Mingcheng, Ming defeated the Spaniards and the local Tagalogs.

This allowed the Manila authorities to retreat into central Luzon.

The mountainous areas of northwestern Luzon and the north became the territory of the Ming, and all the fertile land and indigenous people of the natural northwestern Luzon also became the property of the Ming.

The most important grain-producing area in central Luzon has become the red line of the Ming and Manila authorities in the northwest.

At this time, the two forces were waiting for each other, but they did not dare to cross the red line of the Central Plains.

As for the Ming sphere of influence, there were also spectacular rice terraces cultivated by the inhabitants of the Ifu high mountains in northern Luzon.

When the soldiers of the Ming army climbed the mountains to northern Luzon, they were also shocked by the spectacular rice terraces.

The local natives are also good at farming.

Due to the lack of the number of local Han Chinese.

Ming also changed the basic strategy.

What was originally repression and deprivation has become pacification.

The local Iroke people and other Shengfan tribes saw that the Spaniards, who were originally showing off their might, were defeated by the Ming army that came from afar.

It can't help but make the tribes extremely panicked.

Out of self-preservation, the various Shengfan tribes near Mingcheng have paid tribute to Mingcheng and shown goodwill.

In order to ensure that the local Tagalog people and other people would not rebel because they were dissatisfied with Ming's oppression.

A pacifying policy was followed.

Liaise with the chiefs of the local indigenous tribes to pacify the upper echelons of the tribes.

Sent them weapons such as knives and guns, and sent soldiers to assist the natives in defending the walled city.

Help the local Ilok and other natives to get rid of the encroachment of the Tagalogs.

As for grain, the Ming Dynasty adopted a system of ten taxes and one system, which not only solved the problem of food supply for the Ming army, but also had a large surplus.

Of course, there are also reasons why the Ming army is only more than 1,000 people and cannot consume much food.

More than two months have passed since the inevitability,

Ming, a Han Chinese regime that could not escape Luzon was also established in a similar way.

With the firearms transported by the firearms division and the newly recruited Han soldiers, Huben Town was officially established.

After Liu Yu imitated the establishment of the Spanish army, Liu Yu also improved the establishment of Huben Town.

It is mainly divided into five associations.

One is the Long Knife Association, composed of Liu Quan's personal soldiers, after the battle of Mingcheng, the original soldiers were only more than 60 people left at this time, as the strongest combat force, they were divided separately by Liu Yu.

The two associations in the Shenji Battalion privately formed by Liu Yu were also separately carved out by Liu Yu and incorporated into Huben Town.

The two Shenji Associations fully prepare firearms,

The first gang consisted of fifty musketeers, carrying heavy arquebuses such as self-made muskets and turtledove-footed guns from the branches, and each musketeer was accompanied by three specially loaded loaders.

At the same time, Liu Yu also introduced grenadiers unique to the West at this time.

Although during the night attack on the Spaniards, the grenade ropes equipped by the Spanish grenadiers could not be ignited due to the sudden rainstorm, and they were useless.

But this does not negate the practical effectiveness of the grenadiers on the battlefield.

Whether it's siege warfare, defending a city, or defending against cavalry attacks, grenadiers can play an unexpected role.

By replicating captured Spanish grenades, the Firearms Division produced fire mines.

And equip the Ming army troops.

Liu Yu specially set up a grenadier association, which was served by a person with strong arm strength in the army, and used fire and thunder in an all-round way.

In the event of a counteroffensive in the future,

In the Jiangnan area, if you encounter the Qing Green Battalion or the Eight Banners Cavalry, you can use two magic forces to kill and injure the infantry or cavalry who attacked.

If the Tartar cavalry rushes over, the grenadiers will throw fire mines at the Tartar cavalry to cover the musketeers for reloading.

In the 17th century, the black powder was not very lethal, and the fire mines produced by the Firearms Division were basically blown in half due to gunpowder, and it was difficult to break into pieces to kill the enemy.

But the shock wave of the explosion through the fire and thunder, and the loud sound of the explosion, were enough to frighten the horses and disrupt the dense charge of the cavalry.

Especially in ancient times, when the people's wisdom was not opened, a sudden encounter with such an earth-shattering thing as fire and thunder would inevitably cause the enemy's army to waver.

At the same time, the long knife cooperates as an assault force, which can be attacked and defended, similar to pikemen, but the equipment is much worse.

And the heavy weight of the tiger town is artillery.

After the defeat of the Spaniards at the Battle of Mingcheng, a detachment of Spanish artillery was captured.

Liu Yu organized it into an artillery association, equipped with six Saikou cannons, which were operated by the captured Spaniards.

It can be said that this artillery unit is the artillery unit with the highest combat quality in the Ming army.

However, after five or six days, the newly formed Huben Town was roughly formed.

Although the actual combatants of Huben Town in this formation were only 200 people, the total number of loaders and porters reached more than 500.

Although the number of people and combat personnel are far inferior to that of Weiwu Town, which has 800 troops, the actual combat power of Huben Town is far beyond that of Weiwu Town.

If it is organized according to the formation of Huben Town, as long as there are six towns, Liu Yu will have the confidence to recapture Taiwan.

If there were troops in the Ten Towns, Liu Yu would also be confident that he would defeat the Qing Green Battalion and the Eight Banners troops stationed in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions.

However, the reality is that whether it is human or material resources, Liu Yu or Ming at this time are far from being able to do it.