Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 38 The Armed Forces of King Ming 【For collection, for further reading】

"How did the Liu family get an official in the Qing Dynasty? Didn't the Qing Dynasty never care about Nanyang's affairs?"

in Pontianak.

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

The news from Sanfa was bad.

The Liu family has been throwing money hard these days to recruit people.

There is a signboard of the Qing Dynasty.

The Liu family's recruitment is much smoother than the Luo family's.

Let alone recruiting people here in Pontianak.

The thugs under his hands had to be coaxed, otherwise they might all run to Liu Ganxing's side.

Although Zhu Daohua has the power to defeat the Dutch.

But who is not afraid of the prestige of the Heavenly Soldiers of the Qing Dynasty?

"The Dutch were defeated in the first battle by the king. What is Liu Qianxing? If he was really powerful, he wouldn't be the dog of the Dutch!"

"Covering Qingta's skin will make him stronger?"

Luo Fangbo yelled to cheer up his thugs in the enclosure of Pontianak.

The flags of Holland and Lanfang hung on the enclosure have already been lowered, replaced by the sun and moon flags of Ming Dynasty.

"Your Majesty has already got the news, and the troops are dispatched, and they will arrive soon! Liu Qianxing and the Borneo kingdoms are looking for their own death!"

Luo Fangbo actually didn't have much confidence.

At the beginning, he was also a scholar who read sage books, not a brave and ruthless underworld leader.

If it is to direct his thugs to grab a mine, waterway or something.

Then he can still do it.

But he commanded an army to fight in a serious manner.

Luo Fangbo had no choice.

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

Among them, Napoleon compiled the military book [Daming Army Training Manual], which combined the actual situation of the Ming army with European infantry training, as well as China's [New Book of Ji Xiao] and [Records of Military Training].

They are all very practical military knowledge.

However, not many people dared to read these books in the Qing Dynasty, except for some military officers who could read them.

That's really too much to eat and walk around.

Although it will not be eliminated by the nine tribes like the private armor.

But it is also a handle.

Critical moments are fatal.

After reading these military books.

At least Luo Fangbo still has some understanding of how to organize an army and how to set up a camp, so that he won't be at a loss when things come to an end.

Now he is dividing the forces in his hands into three parts.

The main thing is to dig earth and build trenches on the only way from Sanfa to Pontianak, and then send people to guard the port. If something goes wrong, they have to set sail and escape for their lives. The attitude of the vice-defendant is gone.

It's different from Liu Qianxing's mix of flintlock guns, matchlock guns, swords, shields and spears.

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

At the beginning, Zhu Daohua bought a large number of flintlock guns in the factory in Calcutta. These flintlock guns were originally supplied to the European battlefield, and they are considered the current mainstream equipment.

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

It was an improved musket that fired a mercury fulminate cap as the firing charge and yellow gunpowder as the propelling charge.

Although there is also no rifling - this is mainly because Boss Zhu doesn't know what a Miner bullet is.

But this musket has a higher firing rate and a longer range.

Using yellow powder as the propellant can also have stronger power when the amount of powder is halved than black powder as the propellant.

And the flintlock gun that retreated after the Ming army changed clothes.

On the one hand, it was sold to the Southeast Asian countries.

on the other hand.

It was used to help Lan Fang.

It is different from foreign vassals like Xishan Dynasty.

Lanfang is considered an inner domain.

The future Grand Duke of Lanfang, or King Lanfang, will be granted to Zhu Daohua's son.

Therefore, Zhu Daohua didn't hold back the leftovers of the weapon in his hands.

After some arming.

These Luo family thugs were not as panicked as the Chinese laborers in Lanfang.

Now they are all holding muskets in their hands, waiting for the arrival of the heavenly soldiers of the Qing Dynasty.

at the same time.

Zhu Daohua also set off in Batam Island.

However, it is different from the all-out attack that Liu Qianxing, Lin Guoliang and others imagined.

Zhu Daohua dispatched only one brigade and one artillery battalion.

The entire second brigade of the army was dispatched, plus an artillery battalion.

This artillery battalion does not use artillery with a relatively short range, but a newly developed howitzer that specializes in firing explosive shells.

With mercury fulminate, it is also possible to manufacture reliable ignition devices such as detonators.

Therefore, the reliability of the flowering ammunition of the Ming army is very high.

The development of longer-range and more powerful large-caliber artillery is also a matter of course.

And this is the force that Zhu Daohua dispatched this time against Liu Ganxing and the Allied Forces of Borneo.

There are only 4000 people in total.

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

If nothing else.

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

"My lord, is the number too small?"

Gu Song said with some concerns.

"At least the first brigade of the army can be recruited. It is safe to have about [-] soldiers."

Before Zhu Daohua could speak, Napoleon shook his head and said in his proficient Chinese: "Military officer, how can you have the idea of ​​being afraid of mere mobs? Can Liu Ganxing and the natives of Borneo be considered an army? It is four thousand regular troops who have undergone rigorous training for several months, equipped with yellow powder fixed paper bombs with mercury fulminate caps, grenades, mortar shells, and even howitzers."

Napoleon shook his head like a rattle.

Gu Song said he was a military advisor.

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

In military affairs he had no effective and reliable advice at all.

"Such a brigade has [-] troops, and its firepower far exceeds that of the opponent. It is still the defender, and the enemy even ridiculously wants to take the initiative to attack. How could it be possible to lose this battle?"

Zhu Daohua smiled and said: "Military Master, the Battle of Borneo was just a warm-up before the Northern Expedition, and it was not difficult at all. But if the two brigades are transferred away, there will only be one brigade left in Batam Island. What would you think."

Gu Song also nodded when he heard the words: "Borneo is not a very important place, and Batam is the current foundation."

Of course it is fundamental.

The current Army and Naval Academy, various new technology factories, and steam engine improvement research factories are all located in Batam.

Not to be lost.

Even ten thousand steps back.

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

But if you lose Batam.

It was really a return to before liberation overnight.

The Army dispatched a brigade plus a howitzer battalion.

The navy dispatched the Nanyang Fleet to escort the transport fleet.

Now the navy is also divided into three fleets.

One is equipped with a single-masted schooner, which is used to guard the Strait Guard Fleet of the Governor's Palace in the Strait.

One is the Northern Expedition Fleet equipped with 5 newly developed three-masted schooners, 20 two-masted schooners, and more than 200 Daguang ships and Dafu ships used to transport materials and troops.

The other is the Nanyang Fleet used to control the Nanyang Sea.

The main equipment of the Nanyang Fleet is twenty two-masted schooners.

Now under the command of the Ming army, the army has a total of 1 people, and the navy has more than 5000 people, plus a transport fleet of more than [-] people.

The number of the Ming army also expanded to 5000.

But this is not the ultimate combat power that Zhu Daohua can pull out.

There are 1000 and [-] trainees at the Army Military Academy, and more than [-] trainees at the Naval Academy.

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

The whalers were equipped with sloops and artillery, but they were not as numerous as the army.

The whaling industry is the next investment industry of Dao Hua Trading Co., Ltd.

The whole body of the whale is precious, the meat can be used as a protein supplement, and the most important thing is the fat of the whale.

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

Both require whale fat.

It was not until the large-scale development and use of oil in later generations that the role of whales was replaced—otherwise, later generations would have to rely on artificial breeding of whales.

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

It has reached 5000 people.

But this time, only 4000 people were dispatched.

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

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