It's another year of Spring Festival, and all the territories under the rule of Yanhuang Trading Company have entered a festive atmosphere. In the early years, everyone who joined the company was a wealthy family, and they also liked this kind of festival where everyone was happy, and they wore new clothes and came to the market and supermarket to buy pleasant New Year's goods. Flour and pork are the best-selling, and the family has to pack tons of dumplings to eat. Fortunately, the company has long cultivated high-yielding crops, and batches of domestic pigs have also been raised to be fat and strong.

Many French people who have just joined the company have also received New Year's condolences from the company. There was not much to eat, just three days of white bread and a large piece of pork, but it also made the white French weep bitterly with gratitude. Coupled with the food and money accumulated from working for most of the year, they can also live their first prosperous New Year. Under the company's continuous crackdown, no officials oppressed them, and the underworld elements who dared to extort others were also reformed through labor in the mines.

More than 1,000 talents from the 21st century form the core team of the company, some in the government, some in the military, some in the factory, all three major aspects are in their hands. Taking advantage of the arrival of the Spring Festival, everyone also returned to the starting town, one is to report the work results to the core board of directors, and the other is to have a meal together. These three are to arrange and prepare to return to Huaguo in the 21st century in batches. If there are no relatives at home and they don't want to go back, Xiao Lin's board of directors will not force it.

I'm not worried that some of these people will leak secrets, who is willing to give up after spending more than half a year here. Everyone is also a sensible person, and they will never mention anything about this place when they go back. When I smelled it, I said that I went to Africa to find a lot of money. Huaguo is not a rice country, as long as they don't show any abnormalities, don't break the law and don't touch the country's bottom line, no one monitors and listens to them. It was also on this occasion that the Board of Directors convened a second plenary meeting to discuss whether to formally begin the conquest of the American continent.

By the end of 1725, the company was no worse than any other power in Europe with a population of one million. The total population has reached 750,000, mostly white and Indian. With the company's industrial strength, the output value is comparable to that of Spain in Europe, and the foreign trade income is also worth the tax revenue of Portugal. Of course, there is still a distance from Britain and France. Commerce is developing well, whites and Indians do not have the habit of saving money like the Chinese, and when they have money, they should enjoy life, so the currency circulation is very good, and the market is very healthy.

In terms of diplomacy, because there is still one British left on the North American continent, there is no contact with other forces for the time being. Ijik's 3,000 men were still on Jeju Island, and they began to withdraw one after another, and new sailing ships had begun to build keels, and they had to become the second batch of navy. Needless to say, the British made up their minds to fight with the company. The nobles of the colonies did not want to provoke the Mao Company, nor did they dare to refuse the demands of their own country in a fair and open manner, so they were consumed.

Ninety percent of all the Indian tribes still in North America have begun to merge with the company. Some small tribes that have difficulty surviving the winter on their own have already raised their clans to vote. Some of the leaders of the big tribes are still a little selfish, but they can't stop the people's will, and the company with a terrible military force swallows them. I really didn't want to integrate, so I didn't choose to fight with the company, but took my people to the depths of the continent, and two tribes even went to South America.

New settlements are rising from the ground to the ground, and at least one battalion of militia is trained in each town, and the hostile forces in the rear of the company are getting weaker and weaker. In less than a month, not to mention attacking the company's settlements, it would be good to be able to escape the encirclement and suppression of the militia. This would be very uncomfortable for the British, and even if they wanted to find allies to flank the company, it would be impossible. The production of 75mm guns continued, and now in addition to meeting the needs of the Navy ships for refit, each field brigade is also equipped with a mountain artillery battalion and a rapid-fire artillery battalion, and for the time being, one artillery battalion has 30 guns.

The personnel of the field brigade have completely mastered the performance of the three guns of the Type 56 gun family, and their combat effectiveness is not much worse than that of the Chinese Army in the mid-20 th century. The people of the garrison brigade, a brigade and a regiment, all of them have been reequipped with Type 56 guns, and as the main force of the elite assault regiment, they are now stepping up training. The garrison brigade also had an artillery battalion with a total of fifty guns, but thirty of them were Assault Type 1 mortars, plus ten Type 2 mortars, and only ten were 75mm guns.

The militia, the five or six gun families and 75mm guns have no share of them, but the brand-new Yanhuang Type 1 rifle is enough, and the squad leader has also begun to use the company's imitation Mauser pistol. A brigade, also with a battalion of men, was massively armed with submachine pistols from which the garrison brigade had been decommissioned. The people of the garrison brigade naturally switched to submachine guns that had been retired from the field brigade. Assault mortars, or a brigade with ten. Plus thirty light and heavy machine guns, the firepower was also sufficient.

The most powerful are the Guards Regiment and the Night Owl Special Reconnaissance Battalion, all of which have been replaced by Type 81 guns. Type 59-1 tank and Type 85 armored vehicle units also began to enter the stage of weapons firing training. The navy also formed a fleet of 30 warships supplemented by sailing ships and dominated by ironclad ships, and its firepower was no weaker than that of the British's fleet of nearly 60 warships. If missiles were used, the ships would be sent to the bottom of the sea without even seeing the enemy's face, but it would not be possible for a short time.

The company was so powerful that Shoren didn't feel the need for the British to be an eyesore here anymore. Relying on the 30,000 troops who had just arrived on the mainland, they began to tease the company's tiger whiskers, and it was an eyesore to keep them. As the old saying goes, "the side of the couch will not allow others to sleep peacefully", and the territories on both sides are so close to the ground that sooner or later a winner will have to be decided, and it is impossible for them to coexist peacefully. The meeting was very successful, more than 1,000 people, all clearly expressed their will, and in the end, the battle plan for the conquest of the North American continent was unanimously adopted.

On January 8, 1726, at the end of the seven-day holiday of the Spring Festival, the company's 40,000 field and garrison soldiers would take the initiative. Begin an all-out war against the British North American colonies, this time, not just a shallow one, but with the ultimate goal of completely eliminating the power of the British on the North American continent. Those who can surrender in time can also be treated as civilians. Those who dared to resist stubbornly, and those who did not die after the defeat were all arrested and thrown into the mine for labor reform.

For the time being, only more than 1,000 people know the specific content of the resolution, and others know that the company is starting to prepare for action. Xiao Lin just relaxed the first two days, and from the third day, he worked with Yu Xiao Qujun to coordinate supplies and prepare for war. The staff also returned to work early, and from the 3rd, a feasible battle plan was discussed, and finally the plan was selected and perfected on the night of the 7th. Orders began to be given, and the brigade commanders of the field brigade and the garrison brigade became nervous. Not fear, but prudence.

The British did not know about this. After being in contact with the company for so long, they also know that the company is just Christmas and Spring Festival, and it is all seven consecutive days of relaxation, which means that they have at least a seven-day buffer period. Now, the nobles are still busy arguing with generals from the homeland. As expected, the locals demanded that they each deliver half of their Hall M1819 and Heavy Fist to 30,000 reinforcements. Some of the small nobles are okay, there are not many in the first place, and half is not too much.

Lin Man, the big nobles, the worst is also the three thousand private troops equipped with these weapons. It's okay if you can't twist your arms around your thighs, but you have to make up for it. The money brought by the army was simply not enough, so, as expected, the local government wrote empty promises. These nobles were given a lot of lands in India, as well as many official positions. Tell me, even if you want a fiefdom, you should make it closer to the mainland and a place with stronger control. India, now that the British have not completely conquered it, there are not many people who resist, but it is too desolate.

The good places have long been occupied by others, and now is not the beginning of the conquest, and you can go and grab the high-ranking castes of India. For those poor people, how much oil and water can be squeezed out by squeezing it. The land is still uncultivated, and they need to organize their own hands to reclaim it. Not to mention the official position, when you arrive in India, people can handle you as much as they want, and you can't do anything about arranging you to a poor yamen. No, the two sides are just pulling their skins. Everybody wants to get enough money in rewards, but that's all they bring.

If it weren't for the aristocracy uniting and the private army under their command was too strong, they would have been robbed. This controversy continued until the news was received that the troops of the Yanhuang Trading Company on the other side had begun to assemble. At this moment, everyone panicked. After the local generals moved Lin Man to come out to play the round, the nobles who were not on the front line of the private army reluctantly handed over a batch of muskets and artillery, the number of which was about one-third of their own. Then, 30,000 British troops from the mainland immediately marched into the battlefield.

The British had neither radio nor wired telephones, and the transmission of messages was simply too slow. By the time the 30,000-strong army entered, the front line had already been shattered. The fighters of the field troops began to set foot in the British North American colonies. On the way, they encountered a group of routs, and when they learned the news, they immediately stopped where they were, let the rout take them, and began to build trench fortifications. The British concept of fortification excavation also evolved again, and without a single line to dig to the end, they began to divide positions and form cross-cover, which was also a means learned from the company.