"Why did the Liu family get the official of the Qing Dynasty, didn't the Qing Dynasty never care about the affairs of Nanyang?"

In Pontianak.

Ye Daoqi, the head of the Ye family, was also in a hurry.

The news from Sanfa is very bad.

The Liu family has been ruthless these days to recruit people with money.

There are signboards of the Qing Dynasty.

The recruitment of people on the Liu family's side is much smoother than that of the Luo family.

Pontianak is not to mention recruiting people here.

These thugs under his hands have to be coaxed, otherwise I am afraid that they will all run to Liu Qianxing's side.

Although Zhu Daohua has the power to defeat the Dutch.

But who is not afraid of the prestige of this Qing Heavenly Soldier?

"The Dutch were all defeated by the king in a battle, what is he Liu Qianxing? If he had been really good, he wouldn't have been a Dutchman's dog back then! ”

"Cover the skin of the clear tartar and he will be able to become stronger?"

Luo Fangbo shouted to cheer up his thugs in the walled building of Pontianak.

The Dutch and Lanfang flags hanging on the fence have all been lowered and replaced with the sun and moon flags of the Ming Dynasty.

"The king has received the news, and he will set off with his troops, and he will arrive soon! Liu Qianxing and the countries of Borneo are asking for their own death! ”

Luo Fangbo actually didn't have much confidence.

He was also a reader of sage books at the beginning, and he was not a brave and ruthless underworld leader.

If you want to say that you want to command your subordinates to grab a mine, a waterway or something.

Then he's still doing it.

But he is commanding an army to fight.

Luo Fangbo didn't have much to do.

However, he also got the basic textbooks from the Daming Army and Naval Academy.

Among them, Napoleon compiled the military book [Ming Army Training Drill Manual], which was combined with the actual situation of the Ming army and integrated with European infantry training, as well as China's "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness" and "Practical Record of Military Training".

They are all very practical knowledge of the art of war.

However, not many people dared to read these books in the Qing Dynasty, except for some military attachés who could read them, if the usual wealthy scholars dared to read this and were reported.

That's really not going to eat and walk around.

Although it will not be dissipated by the Nine Clans like the private armor.

But it's also a handle.

The critical moment can be fatal.

After reading these military books.

At least Luo Fangbo still has some understanding of how to organize the army and how to set up camp, so that he will not be at a loss.

Now he has divided his forces into three parts.

The main thing is to dig an earth trench on a road from Sanfa to Pontianak, and then to send people to protect the port, if something is wrong, you have to set sail and flee for your life, and some of them rely on the two big walls to put on a posture of stubborn defense.

It is different from Liu Qianxing's side where flintlock pistols, arquebuses, swords, shields, and spears are mixed.

The six thousand Luo family thugs in Luo Fangbo's hands were all flintlock pistols with bayonets.

At the beginning, Zhu Daohua bought a large number of flintlock pistols in the factory in Calcutta, and these flintlock pistols were originally supplied to the European battlefield, which can be regarded as the mainstream equipment at present.

However, after the Ming army began to modify the "yellow powder", the Ming army began to use the Ming army's standard musket produced by the Batam Arsenal.

It was a modified musket that fired a mercury thunderate cap as a firing charge and yellow powder as a propellant.

Although there is also no rifling - this is mainly because Boss Zhu does not know what a Migne bullet is.

But this musket had a higher rate of excitation and a longer firing range.

Using yellow powder as a propellant can be more powerful even if the amount of powder is reduced by half compared to black powder as a propellant.

And the flintlock pistol that was withdrawn after the Ming army changed clothes.

On the one hand, it was sold to the Nanyang countries.

On the other hand.

It's used to aid Lan Fang.

It is different from foreign feudal domains like the Nishiyama Dynasty.

Lan Fang is considered an internal domain.

In the future, the Grand Duke of Lanfang, or the King of Lanfang, will be given to Zhu Daohua's son.

Therefore, Zhu Daohua did not skimp on the leftovers of weapons in his hands.

After some arming.

These Luo thugs were not as panicked as the Chinese workers in the Lanfang lands.

Now they are all holding the muskets in their hands, waiting for the arrival of the Qing Heavenly Soldiers.

..........

Meanwhile.

Zhu Daohua also set off in Batam.

However, it is different from the nest dispatch imagined by Liu Qianxing, Lin Guoliang and others.

Zhu Daohua dispatched only one brigade and one artillery battalion.

The 2nd Army Brigade was dispatched in its entirety, plus an artillery battalion.

Instead of short-range artillery guns, the battalion used a newly developed howitzer that fired flowering shells.

With mercury thunderate, it is also possible to make reliable ignition devices such as detonators.

So now the reliability of the flowering shells of the Ming army is very high.

The development of larger-caliber artillery with a longer range and greater power is also a matter of course.

And this is the strength that Zhu Daohua dispatched against Liu Qianxing and the allied forces of Borneo this time.

There were only 4,000 in all.

In fact, Zhu Daohua was too conservative to pull an artillery battalion.

If nothing else.

This artillery battalion will not participate in this war - this is the secret weapon that Zhu Daohua prepared to attack the cities with high walls in the interior.

"King, will the number of people be too small?"

Gu Song said with some concerns.

"At least the first brigade of the army can be pulled up, and it is safe to have almost 7,000 soldiers."

Before Zhu Daohua could speak, Napoleon shook his head again and again in Chinese, which was already quite proficient, and said: "Military advisor, how can you have the idea of being afraid of a mere rabble, can Liu Qianxing and the native people of Borneo be regarded as an army?" We had in our hands 4,000 regular troops who had undergone months of rigorous training, armed with yellow powder with mercury thunderate caps, paper bullets, grenades, mortar shells, and even howitzers. ”

Napoleon's head shook like a rattle.

Gu Song said that it was a military advisor.

In fact, it is more like Zhu Daohua's "Chinese political adviser".

Militarily he simply did not have any effective and reliable advice.

"Such a brigade, with a strength of 3,000 troops, far surpasses the opponent in firepower, or the defender, and the enemy even ridiculously wants to take the initiative .... How could this battle be lost? ”

Zhu Daohua said with a smile: "Military Division, the First Battle of Borneo is just a warm-up before the Northern Expedition, and there is no difficulty at all. But if two brigades are transferred away, there will only be one brigade left on the Batam side .... It's hard to hold some forces and they won't have any ideas. ”

Gu Song also nodded when he heard this: "Borneo is not too important a place, Batam is the current fundamental. ”

Of course, it's fundamental.

The current Army and Navy Academy, factories for various new technologies, and factories for steam engine improvement are all located in Batam.

There is no room for error.

Or even 10,000 steps back.

Even if Borneo loses here, it doesn't matter.

But if you lose Batam.

It was really a night back to before liberation.

The Army dispatched a brigade plus a howitzer battalion.

The navy dispatched the South Ocean Fleet to escort the transport fleet.

Now the Navy is also divided into three fleets.

One is the Strait Escort Fleet equipped with dhows for the Strait Governor's Palace.

One was the Northern Expeditionary Fleet, which was equipped with five newly developed three-masted schooners, 20 two-masted schooners, and more than 200 Daihiro and Daifuku ships used to transport materials and troops.

The other is the South Sea Fleet, which is used to control the surface of the South Seas.

The main armament of the South Sea Fleet was twenty brigs.

Now under the command of the Ming army, the total number of army is 10,000, the number of navy is also more than 10,000, plus a transport fleet of more than 5,000 people.

The total number of the Ming army also swelled to 25,000 people.

However, this is not the ultimate combat force that Zhu Daohua can pull out.

There are 1,200 cadets in training at the Army Military Academy and more than 600 at the Naval Officers Academy.

There is also a whaling team affiliated with the Daohua Trading Company, which can actually be regarded as an armed force.

The whaling party was armed with dhows and artillery, but not as many as the army.

The whaling industry is the next industry that Daohua Firm will invest in.

Whales are full of treasures, meat can be used as a protein supplement, and the most important thing is whale fat.

Whether it is glycerin, which is necessary for the manufacture of yellow powder, or the manufacture of various lubricating oils.

Whale fat is used.

It was not until the large-scale development and use of oil in later generations that the role of whales was replaced - otherwise future generations would probably have to rely on captive whales.

The total number of armed personnel under Zhu Daohua's command.

It has reached 35,000 people.

And this time, only 4,000 people were dispatched.

After two days of loading, the army from Batam soon sailed to Pontianak Port.