First hit the Burmese people hard, and then encroach and weaken, even if it is a dozen or decades, we must completely solve Myanmar.

The emperor remembered very well that the Burmese were capricious, and in the three dynasties of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in history, wars broke out with the central dynasty.

The wolf's ambition is not fed and uncooked, and it is not something that can be influenced by benevolence and righteousness. What convinced them was only cannons and muskets, only despair that did not dare to fight the enemy.

If the label of Vamien as revenge is not very accurate. The conquest of the Spaniards in Luzon was a bloody battle of revenge.

Those who kill my people will pay with blood and blood, and will not be forgiven.

Dongfan, has been officially designated as the Taiwan government by the imperial court, temporarily administering eleven counties, Kaohsiung County in Tainan is one of them.

However, the nature of Kaohsiung County is different from that of other counties, and it is temporarily under military administration, to be precise, as a military base for the conquest of Luzon.

After the Dutch fleet was annihilated, Yaowu took back the power of the trench mirror, signed a treaty with the Dutch, and the navy completed its mission, the two fleets returned to Kaohsiung to continue their preparations and training.

A battle with the Dutch is actually not much of a feat, at least in the eyes of Shen Yourong and other admirals, the conquest of Luzon and the defeat of the Spaniards is the first battle of the navy's prestige in the ocean.

In the sixth to seventh year of the Apocalypse, a severe drought occurred in southern Fujian, and the fields were full of terracotta. The imperial court and the General Association of Maritime Merchants jointly recruited tens of thousands of hungry people from Quanzhou to go to Taiwan to reclaim land;

In the eighth year of the Apocalypse, southern Fujian suffered another great drought, and the people were hungry. The imperial court and the general maritime merchant association once again recruited tens of thousands of people from Zhangzhou and Quan, "three people were given three taels of silver, and three people were given one head of cattle", and they were transported to Taiwan to settle down.

Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other coastal provinces have formed policies against immigrants, and those who are interested can also disperse to Taiwan and be resettled by the Taiwan government.

Over the past few years, Kaohsiung County has more than 100,000 residents, and more than 200,000 hectares of land have been reclaimed by military and civilian personnel.

This is, of course, the emperor's inclined policy, otherwise, Taiwan's reclamation and colonization requires a large number of people and labor, and if Kaohsiung County is not a key care, how can it get so many immigrants?

With people, labor, and troops, the inclination of the imperial court's policies and the investment of funds, Kaohsiung's construction was very rapid, and the large and small ports were able to berth two fleets and hundreds of warships.

The Marine Corps has also reached the total of 15,000 men in the three major battalions, all of which are fully staffed, and are intensively conducting training in beach-rushing landings and land warfare.

Shen Yourong returned to Kaohsiung and immediately threw himself into intense work.

In his lifetime, Shen Yourong, who is already over eighty years old, felt the tightness of time.

Next year? The year after?

Putting down the documents in his hand, Shen Yourong got up, walked to the window, looked at the shadow of the mast in the harbor in the distance, and fell into deep thought.

Banzai hated the Spaniards to the core, and the wording of the secret decree was full of anger, which put a lot of pressure on Shen Yourong.

Of course, the emperor was also strategically planned and did not choose the first opponent as the Spaniards.

invade Burma first, and use plunder to accumulate funds in order to launch a great war that spans thousands of miles across the sea; Fight the Dutch first, build up the confidence of the navy, and practice the tactical play of naval combat.

The first base - Kaohsiung, resettlement and reclamation, to minimize the difficulty of transporting materials from the mainland, and reduce costs to the greatest extent.

Build a sea ship first, enough to carry 20,000 marines, as well as a large transport ship with all kinds of ammunition and supplies. Combined with the ships of the Maritime Association, the transportation capacity has met the conquest of tens of thousands of troops.

The first training of the marines, as long as they can land smoothly, with the superiority of weapons and equipment and troops, the defeat of the Spaniards in Luzon is certain.

Do reconnaissance first and gather all kinds of intelligence. The so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is invincible.

The maritime merchants who went to Luzon, the Chinese who lived in Luzon and returned to the Ming Dynasty, and the spies of the Zhenfu Division in disguise, had a clear grasp of the reality of the Spaniards.

And all this was done in the best possible secrecy and secrecy, without the knowledge of the Spaniards in Luzon.

Even in order to paralyze them, the emperor never mentioned the Spaniards in public, mentioned Luzon, and allowed maritime merchants to go to Luzon to trade and make money, so that the Spaniards could get some silk porcelain and other goods that sold well in Europe.

Shen Yourong thought that the emperor had made another mistake of being overly cautious, and in his opinion, it was not too difficult to attack Luzon and eliminate the Spaniards.

In terms of the comparison of troops, the Spaniards in Luzon plus the vassal natives were only a few thousand; Ships, the Spaniards had only a dozen.

And the Ming army will dispatch tens of thousands, and the two detachments have more than 200 warships alone.

The difficulties and risks facing the Ming army were long-distance navigation at sea and unpredictable wind and waves.

In this regard, Shen Yourong has no choice but to choose the safest time to go to sea according to the climate and experience.

For the prevention of risks, Shen Yourong once secretly told the emperor to smuggle weapons and ammunition by maritime merchants, and sent officers to train local Chinese in Luzon.

After the massacre, there are still 70,000 or 80,000 Chinese in Luzon, armed with thousands of men, which is enough to compete with the Spaniards.

Moreover, instead of letting the Chinese fight alone, the Ming army would still send a certain number of regular troops to cross the sea to participate in the battle.

But the emperor did not hesitate to veto Shen Yourong's suggestion, for the simple reason that there was no guarantee that the news would leak, which would not only prepare the Spaniards, but also cause the local Chinese to be slaughtered again.

There was a gentle knock on the door, and after Shen Yourong responded, several officers pushed the door and entered.

This is the main commander of both detachments, both of whom are quite young. After the naval battle with the Dutch, the spirit of the individual was different from before.

Shen Yourong ordered everyone to sit down, and in his office, there was an informal military meeting.

"The construction of landing ships needs to be accelerated, and the practicality of the new style is still satisfactory."

"The Marine Corps must conduct training not only for beach landing, but also for land operations. For example, siege attacks, such as head-to-head battles. ”

"Combat experience can be an issue, but there is also no place for the Marines to conduct real combat. As long as the training is stricter and the war starts, you will not be greedy for life and afraid of death. ”

"The arquebuses still used by the Spaniards, the number of them is only thousands, or the military and civilians combined, what can they fight with us?"

"It's best to fight next year, after a long time, the news is easy to leak, and the tense spirit of the soldiers is also easy to relax."

"Five thousand soldiers ashore is enough to defeat the enemy. With 15,000 men, I am afraid that in the future, we will have to fight in many places, train troops in advance, and then use Luzon to fight in real battles. ”

Shen Yourong listened with a smile, and finally waved his hand, signaling everyone to stop talking.