In December of the fourth year of China, the commander of the second detachment of the first far-sea fleet of the Chinese Navy once stood on the tower of the city of Gorofusa (now Malacca), looking at the city and port that were smoking, and the blue sea in the distance, and black pillars of smoke rose everywhere.

The Gorofusha Sea is the choke point between the South China Sea and the Tianzhu Sea, and dozens of ships from various countries pass through it every day, so it is also the most rampant sea area for pirates. These pirates came from all over the South China Sea region, including Linyi people, Funan people, and Dunsun people, and were divided into six powerful pirate groups and dozens of small pirate groups. Originally, it belonged to the southern kingdom of Dandan (located on the island of Sumatra) and the northern kingdom of Banda (located on the Mara Peninsula), but the Dandan and Panda kingdoms were simply unable to suppress this group of powerful pirates, because they did not have as powerful sailors as the Linyi country, so the sea area of Gorofusha became a three-way region. Although the port of Gorofusha is still a territory of the Dandan Kingdom, the most powerful people here are pirates.

These pirates did all kinds of evil, they sacked every ship they ambushed, killed people and overhauled goods, no matter whose ship they were, and the richest Chinese ships were the favorite objects of this group of pirates. After dozens of painful lessons, Huaxia, which has deep pockets, began to change its methods and improve its measures. First of all, the Huaxia merchant ships upgraded their sea ships, most of them were replaced with simplified versions of Weihai galleons, and strengthened their armed personnel and equipment, becoming armed merchant ships, and always acting in groups. These Chinese armed merchant ships were highly firepowered, and their sailors were fully trained in military affairs. Counted as a reserve for the Navy. He fights more fiercely than pirates. The Huaxia Navy also began to send ships of the Far Sea Fleet from the Zhuya Military Port south to meet the escort.

Therefore, from the first year of Huaxia, it was difficult for the Gorofusha pirates to take advantage of the Chinese merchant ships, so they could only transfer their targets to the ships of other countries, or use the method of sneak attacks to deal with the Chinese merchant ships. After Zeng Hua issued an order on the South China Sea Economic Strategy, the Huaxia Navy moved south. After completing the sea control in the western part of the South China Sea, one of the main tasks of the South China Sea Economic Strategy Navy is to make trouble with the pirates in the Gorofusha Sea. The Chinese people have "clear grievances", and if they have a grudge, they must take revenge. In the past, it was beyond the reach of the whip, but now that it has reached out to the South China Sea region, it is natural to understand this account first, and Gorofusha is the main transportation route of the eastern and western seas, how can the Huaxia Navy let it go?

The second detachment of the 1st Ocean Fleet of the Huaxia Navy was in charge of passing through Lagorofusha. And the commander of the second detachment who was responsible for commanding the combat site was Zeng. He was promoted to captain of a first-class offshore warship during the Battle of Choshu. Soon after, he was transferred to the captain of the 15th Chasing Wind Armor of the first detachment of the First Fleet of the Far Sea Fleet (one level lower than the third class of the high sea warships), and moved with the fleet to Linnan Port (now Sanya Port in Hainan) with the fleet in the first year of Huaxia. At the end of the first year of Huaxia, he participated in the battle on Luzon Island with the army, and after more than three months of fighting, the first and second detachments of the First Fleet in the far sea, 400 warships, and nearly 20,000 stormtroopers occupied this large island in the east of Zhuya County, which is known as Luzon.

In the next two years, he commanded warships to follow the fleet south along the coast, and participated in the landing battle of Lucheng Port (present-day Manila, Philippines), the Battle of Yancheng (Batangas Harbor, Luzon, Philippines), the Battle of Sulu, the landing of Baoshan Port (present-day Zamboanga Port, Medan, Philippines), the landing of Midway Island (present-day Palawan, Philippines), the landing of Brunei Harbor, and the Battle of Boni Sea (present-day Guawa Sea).

When he was promoted from the captain of a 1st frigate, the captain of a 3rd class of long-sea warships, and the captain of a 2nd class long-sea battleship (currently the largest high-sea warship of the Chinese Navy) to the second detachment, the first task he received was to occupy Gorofusha. Wipe out the pirates here.

Zeng worked very hard to complete every task, because he knew that in addition to his excellent work, he was also an important reason for his promotion so quickly. Under the influence of this factor. He was cautious. Because he knew that his father, Zeng Hua, the king of China, was actually very strict with many children. He won't care if you make a fool of yourself and lose face, he will definitely use his influence to let you enter the cold palace, and he once wanted to behave better than his other brothers in front of his father.

Gorofusha is easy to occupy, but it is just a simple dock harbor with a wooden fence behind it, as long as you put the warship outside the harbor and send troops up to receive it. However, the pirates of Gorofusha were difficult to deal with, and dozens of pirates, large and small, were scattered in a radius of thousands of miles. With thousands of small islands as a base, it is easy for him to find you, but it is very difficult for you to find him. Moreover, the Chinese navy is now very active in the South China Sea, and has destroyed dozens of naval divisions and countless ships, large and small, although the war is still spreading in the Boni Sea and Boni Island (now Kalimantan), but the Gorofusha pirates have already raised their spirit to take precautions.

I have discussed with my subordinates, but I can only use conspiracy and trickery. With the consent of Zhang Ke, the commander of the fleet, he mobilized more than a dozen captured Linyi ships, hung the banner of Funan, and sailed towards Gorofusha in full load. The Huaxia army fought with Lin Yi and Funan, and the Gorofusha pirates knew the land, but how was the battle going? At that time when information was not developed, and the Chinese navy cut off the sea connection in the South China Sea, Gorofusha was not clear at all.

Although the wind is very tight now, the pirates still have to eat, and each pirate has hundreds of people, and there are thousands of people, and tens of thousands of mouths need to be filled with their families. Moreover, these pirates are used to robbing, most of them do not produce, there is no "surplus food" at all, they must obtain food through two ways, the first is to go ashore and plunder, which is more dangerous. After years of sea troubles, most of the inhabitants of various countries have long been away from the coastline, and once the pirates penetrate deep into the land, as long as they are ambushed in the unfamiliar areas, they will never recover.

The second route is relatively safe, plundering merchant ships, and then exchanging the goods on board with the nobles of various countries for food, which is the biggest source of income for pirates, otherwise the sea disaster is so serious. The nations of the region were able to live unharmed with these pirates. These aristocrats were able to make huge profits from it.

Therefore, when this Funan merchant ship approached the waters of Gorofusha, it was targeted by more than ten pirates. Linyi is the most developed maritime country in the South China Sea, but Funan is the most powerful country in the South China Sea, and it is common for strong forces to join forces, so pirates who don't know the situation of the war think that this is a very normal merchant fleet. Moreover, they also hoped to rob the Funan fleet to curry favor with the Huaxia people, and perhaps ease the relationship between the pirates and the Huaxia navy.

The Funan fleet saw the pirates. Immediately "panicked" and ran towards the port of Gorofusa, trying to find refuge there. But the pirates knew that it was still pirate territory, so they chased after them.

The "Funan fleet" approached the port of Gorofusa, and nearly 1,000 sailors abandoned the ship and rushed into the city of Gorofusha with weapons, apparently preparing to rely on this wooden fence to resist the attack of pirates.

More than a hundred pirate ships then stormed the port of Gorofusa. Then about two thousand people went ashore. Attacking the city of Gorofusha, the rest of the men were busy packing up the ships that looked like they were full of goods. The pirates all knew that most of the people in the city of Gorofusha were related to pirates, and as long as they said hello, many of them would take out their weapons and become pirate allies, and capture the poor Chams alive. Are they stunned by the Huaxia people?

Just when the pirates were busy, a huge fleet appeared in the waters outside the port of Gorofusha, and led the second detachment of the first fleet of the Huaxia Navy to block the more than 100 pirate ships in the port of Gorofusha. The "Funan and Cham" people who rushed into the city of Gorofusha also showed their hideous true colors, they pulled out their weapons, and killed the young men in the city of Gorofusha in groups, cutting off the pirates' "internal response" at once, and then attacking back and forth. An onslaught was launched on the pirates.

Not only half a day. The pirates were wiped out, and the losses of the Chinese navy were also acceptable. The port of Gorofusha and the city of Gorofusha officially fell into the pocket of the Chinese Navy.

"Shoucheng, it's time for us to take the next step." Zeng turned his head to his clerk Yin Shen and said. Since he became the captain of the ship, his local clerk has always been Yin Shen, and it can be regarded as the care of the Admiralty and the Department of Military Affairs for Zeng.

"We've only eliminated less than a quarter of the pirates in this area, and our task is still very difficult." Yin Shen looked at the sea in the distance and said.

"So we must speed up, and we must immediately send orders to the people and nobles of the land to gather together to build a city and a port for us." Zeng continued.

This is the strategy of the Huaxia Navy through the South China Sea region, advancing along the coastline, exploring deep-water harbors along the way, and then using the harbor as a base, stationing sailors, or luring or threatening local residents to build castle ports, becoming a stronghold in the region, and then developing in depth around it, in the strategic plan of the South China Sea of the Chinese Admiralty, this time the strategy invested in the first and second fleets in the far sea, more than 2,000 warships and warships of the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth fleets in the coastal sea, and nearly 100,000 sailors in Changzhou, Qingzhou and Xuzhou. The purpose is to weave a large network in the South China Sea with port strongholds as nodes and fleets as longitude and latitude, and to encompass this rich and vast sea area into the Chinese territory. And Shangshu Province is even more unique, and even the administrative area has been determined. To the east, Luzon and Medan are divided into a state - Song State, which is divided into Luzon, Medan, Yan, and Sulu; Boni Island, Golden Island (now Sumatra), Kuawa Island, etc. were divided into one state - Golden State, which is divided into Boni County, Bonan County, Golden Island County, and Guawa County; In the west, according to the plan of Shangshu Province, the area east of the Mekong River was assigned to the jurisdiction of Jiaozhou, in addition to the original Jiaozhi, Wuping, and Jiuzhen counties, the original Linyi area was restored to the former Han Dynasty Rinan County and the newly established Xin'an County, which governed the area south of Ninan until the north of the Mekong River, and the governance office was Xin'an Port and Xin'an City built on the original site of Puliange, these counties will continue to expand inland, annexing the territory of the original Linyi and Funan, and the original Zhenla area was divided into Liao County, which is the only inland county in Jiaozhou; The area west of the Mekong River, including Funan and its many dependent states, will be divided into one state - Mee, which are Siam, Khmer, and Austronesian counties.

Zeng and Yin Shen knew these things, but they also knew that it would take some time to really realize them. Because of the vast territory of the South China Sea, the large population, and the large number of islands, not only the army has to spend a lot of effort, but also the navy has to exert all its strength, and the weather here is hot and humid, which can easily cause plague diseases. Therefore, it is necessary to constantly rotate the soldiers. Put in a lot of manpower. The South China Sea region is a rich region, where grain, spices, ores, and wood are produced, and there is also direct access to Tianzhu and Persia. Although Huaxia has invested a lot of manpower and material resources, it has also gained huge wealth and returns, and the returns will be even greater in the future. Because of this, the Huaxia State will not easily incorporate the South China Sea region into its administrative territory, because once it is officially a formal state and county, many military means cannot be realized. When Mozhou, Bohai Heishui County, and Changzhou were officially established, the original population was reduced by more than half. In this proportion. It is still very early for Nanhai to establish a state and county.

"The South China Sea is the southernmost territory of China, whether it continues to the south, west or east, we can't control it, it's too far away." I couldn't help but sigh when I thought about it. Yin Shen stood beside him and didn't make a sound, but waited until Zeng sighed and his emotions recovered before continuing.

"On the north and south of our side are small countries such as Dandan and Panda, which are not a problem, and the key is the country of Gantoli further south, which is a big country on the golden island. Even Funan is not in its eyes, and most of the Gorofusha pirates can have anything to do with it. ”

"Dragnet tactics!" He thought about it for a long time before deciding that he, Yin Shen and others had been planning for the Gantuo Kingdom for a long time, and had also formulated several plans, but they had never decided. Today he knew he had a decision to make.

"We'll report to the Admiral. I asked him to send the first detachment to cooperate with us in patrolling the waters north of Gantoli and Jindao. All ships are considered pirate ships and are sunk! ”

I don't know how many times better the ships of the Huaxia Navy are better than those in the South China Sea, and even the ships of the Linyi Kingdom are not in the eyes, and the ships of these pirates are even worse, how can they be in the eyes of the Huaxia Navy, so the final fate of these ships is only one - to die at the bottom of the sea.

"But there's one more thing you need to decide, name the city and the port!" Yin Shen finally reminded.

"That's a problem, but I haven't figured it out yet." Zeng touched his chin and said that according to the laws of Huaxia, the first discoverer or occupier has the right to name the new place.

"I had a name in mind - Port-au-Prince and Princes." Yin Shen made a suggestion.

Zeng was silent for a moment, but continued to look at the sea in the distance. And Yin Shen seemed to see through his thoughts, and continued indifferently: "Although the South China Sea is far away from the Central Plains, it is much better than the Western Xinjiang. You can get to the mouth of the Yellow River in one month by speedboat, whether it is a fast horse by land or a flyship by water, you can get to Chang'an in a month, and you can return to Chang'an from the South China Sea in three months. ”

Speaking of this, Yin Shen glanced at Zeng meaningfully, then turned his head to look to the west and said, "I heard that the last time the eldest prince rushed back to Chang'an from Zhaowu, it took more than half a year to hurry up. ”

Hearing this, Zeng Tou replied without looking back: "In fact, Zeng Wei is following his father in Chang'an, and our brothers are also relieved when they are outside." ”

Yin Shen smiled, but never spoke again.

In March of the fifth year of Huaxia, after receiving the news that Funan Guozhi and Gorofusha Port had fallen into the hands of the Huaxia Navy, Zeng Hua finally breathed a sigh of relief, he looked at the map on the table, and said to Xie Ai and Zheng Pu next to him: "The overall situation of the host in the South China Sea has been decided, and now it is just a matter of continuing to expand the results of the war, and we can free up our hands to clean up the affairs of the West Road." ”

"Who does Your Majesty want to be the main general?" Xie Ai asked.

"The road on the West South China Sea Road is difficult and dangerous along the way, although it is directly beneficial to the support of the state and Banzhou, but it is more dangerous than the east road, because it does not have the cooperation and support of the navy, so the lord can not only take charge of the whole army, but also be tenacious and heavy, I think Huan Youzi (Huan Chong) is available." Zeng Hua thought for a while and said.

"The youngest son studied at the Chang'an Army Academy for two years, and went to Shuozhou and Bingzhou to command the government soldiers for several years, so he is already familiar with the tactics and system of our army, so there should be no problem." Xie Ai echoed. "Wang Kai, Yang An, Mao Dang, and Deng Qiang can be deputies." Zheng Pu said that his health is not very good now, so not only do he talk less, but he is no longer angry when he speaks.

Zeng Hua nodded, knowing Zhen Pu's thoughts, but he was more worried about Zhen Pu's body, Wang Meng is now lying on the sickbed, and Di Pudi's body is not much better, the five giants only Xie Ai, Mao Muzhi and Che Yindi make themselves feel at ease, it seems that time is the biggest enemy of heroes and heroes.

"It's so decided, transfer troops from Banzhou, Yizhou and Jingzhou, and go straight to Ningzhou in three ways, and solve the local problems here first." Zeng Hua clapped his hands and said.

"Ningzhou has been autonomous for the Central Plains since ancient times, and it is difficult for the imperial court's hand to reach there, so there is no authority. The largest local forces are divided into three divisions, two of which are the planers, which are divided into east and west. The Dongfu people were also known as Wuman before, and the Xifu people were called Baiman. The Dongjiao people are divided into seven parts, namely Ayulu, Bedeng, Qiongtong, Duohu, Yeluo, Ka, and Shuishui, and live in Zhuti County (now Zhaotong, Yunnan Province) in Yizhou and Wei County (now Qujing, Yunnan) in Jianning County in Ningzhou, and the surname is Meng. Xie Ai took out a bit of intelligence and introduced that the intelligence of the Privy Council's Military Intelligence Department was naturally very detailed.

"The people of the West are centered on Kunchuan (now Kunming, Yunnan) and Dianchi, and are divided into five surnames and two surnames of Dongqin, and they are the big surnames. The lady was dressed in black, and her dress dragged to the ground; The woman was dressed in white, no longer than her knees. There were many cattle and sheep in Xijiao, but there was no cloth, and both men and women made their clothes from oxen and sheepskins. There is no etiquette of kneeling. Some dialects need to be translated four times before they can be understood in Chinese. Xijiao is a livestock husbandry, does not know how to cultivate and weave, and rarely has contact with the Central Plains. Since the former Shu Han Dynasty, there have been people as local governors in all dynasties, and the Dongjiao script is the same as the official text, the language is similar, the cultivation of silkworms is also the same as the Central Plains, it is said that it is likely to be the descendants of the Chu soldiers led by the Zhuang stilt of the Chu State in the Spring and Autumn Period and the old people, and some of the Dongjiao chieftains even claimed that their ancestors were from Anyi (Yuncheng County, Shanxi), and came to Ningzhou before the Yongkang Rebellion. ”

"The third force is the Heman of Yunnan County, they are centered on Yu (now Dali, Yunnan) and Yuze (now Erhai), divided into Yang, Li, Zhao, Dong and other dozens of surnames, the big surname is six or seven hundred households, the small surname is two or three hundred, there is no great monarch, not unified. The language, livelihood, and customs are roughly the same as those of Yizhou. The rest of the tribes have different customs, a few are similar to Western planing, and most are similar to Western planning. This time the Yongchang County Incident was in turmoil, and there was a shadow of the two major tribes fighting between the East and the West. ”

"The Privy Council has roughly figured out the situation in the counties of Ningzhou and the country of Pi, and has also formulated a corresponding strategy, which can be used as a reference for the marching camp ahead." Xie Ai finally concluded.

"The war in the west is more complicated than in the east, and the benefits will not be more than in the east, fortunately, the Hu Lawyers Association brought back a large amount of honorarium from the Roman Empire, otherwise I really don't know where to find this military expense." Zeng Hua said with a wry smile.

"The first step for the youngest son is to consolidate Ningzhou first and completely bring it under the jurisdiction of the three provinces. The army can attack from Banzhou and Yizhou, only when Ningzhou is stable, it is convenient to fight the country of Pi, and it is estimated that this stage will take two to three years. However, during this time, the country could not be idle, and a naval fleet could be dispatched to harass the coastal areas of the country, and the port of Nandao County in Meizhou could be relied on as a base. A part of the Changzhou government soldiers can continue to move westward to clear up local instability along the way, and they can gather all the way to the west on the line of Nandao County and Siam County. After the young son stabilized and consolidated Ningzhou, the troops could be divided into three routes, the young son soldiers went out of Yongchang County, the Changzhou army moved from east to west, and the navy concentrated its forces to carry out landing battles, seize important ports, and then develop in depth. ”

"Our territory will be based on the Brahmaputra River (this is so famous, Zeng Hua will also use it. Only by turning the country of Pi (most of present-day Burma) into our territory, and our carriages and ships can lead from Yizhou all the way to the southern ocean (present-day Andaman Sea), will the South China Sea region truly be our inland sea of China. Zeng Hua drew a thick line on the map, from the Himalayas along the Brahmaputra River to the Bay of Bengal.

On the second day, Zeng Hua issued a new order for the South China Sea Economic Strategy, Huan Chong was the chief of the march of the South China Sea West Road, and Wang Kai, Yang An, Mao Dang, and Deng Qiang were the deputy commanders.