Dragon Sea Empire

The Dutch really did not expect to see such a scene.According to the information collected in advance, all Chinese businessmen and overseas Chinese said that the Penghu Islands are deserted islands, and only fishermen pass by occasionally. Without government.

And this Chinese United Company only came out this year. When the merchant ships of the Chinese Company went to Batavia, Old Port, Malacca, and Pattani, the Dutch fleet led by Wei Malang was already in Pattani. Know anything about the Chinese company.

Li Jin, the general manager, was originally from Haicheng, Zhangzhou, and had been doing business in Beida Nian for many years.Before the establishment of the Dutch East India Company, one of its predecessors, the Zeelander Trading Company, once hired Li Jin to work for them.After the Dutch East India Company merged Zeeland and other companies, it was logical that Li Jin also served the East India Company.Due to his outstanding performance, in 1600, the Dutch of Zeelander even took him on a trip to Europe.

In Europe, Li Jin was baptized there and became a Reformed Protestant in the Netherlands. He is likely to be the first Protestant in Asian history.

Li Jin also didn't know the details of Zhonghua United Company. He had never heard of the so-called "United Company".But the fact is now certain: someone has occupied the best settlement in Penghu.And it is a Chinese trading company.

Originally, he encouraged the Dutch to come to Penghu. One was the promise of opening up the sea and doing business brought by the eunuch Gao Cai sent Pan Xiu; the other was that he knew that Penghu was moved to the sea and abandoned in the early Ming Dynasty, and basically no one managed it. The place.After the Dutch occupied this place, they could follow the old example of the Portuguese in Macao and open up the sea for trade.

Now, it seems that Penghu has already been occupied as a base.

At the same time, seeing the huge Dutch ship with countless gun holes in the description sailing into the bay, Lin Xiao quickly released the carrier pigeons that had been prepared in advance, and Mai Xiaoliu led his men to prepare for the battle.

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Yin Feng, who returned to Hong Kong, met Zeng Rui. He was very happy that the Zeng family finally decided to take a stake in China United Company.Zeng Rui pestered him for several days, going to the guards to watch the firearms training.Yin Feng was busy spending the money from the robbery, so he had no time to pay attention to him, so he wrote a warrant to let him go to observe the training by himself. This action caused a lot of troubles in the future, which Yin Feng could not predict.

It took a lot of time to select the personnel sent by the Zhonghua Commercial Center in Pattani and Ryukyu. Both the Zeng family and the Han family wanted their own employees and family members to take up the post.The two families found Yin Feng after a dispute, and Yin Feng made a regulation, and immediately wrote several rules for the selection of personnel in foreign commercial offices.The first one is: you must be able to read and write, and have a little accounting and financial knowledge; moreover, you must have the ability to do business independently.

The Zeng family is a combination of officials, gentry and businessmen who can study and be an official, and they have an advantage in the first point; while the members of the Han family have gone abroad to do business early, and have many contacts with foreigners.In the end, it was a cousin of Han Ping and a domestic servant of the Zeng family who obtained these two positions.Yin Feng also decided that in the future, the positions in these overseas commercial offices will be openly competed by internal employees of the company.

On this day, Yin Feng was so busy that he came home very late, rubbing his temples and entering the house, yelling: "Headache, headache, I have to make decisions on everything... I'm starving to death, Wan'er..." Suddenly he He jumped up as if seeing a ghost, his face paled in shock: "Lianger! When did you come?"

His main wife, Zeng Jing, was sitting behind a table full of meals, looking at him with a smile.

After Zeng Yue died from a wound attack, Yin Feng spent only a handful of days at home in Quanzhou, and he hadn't touched his beautiful wife for a long time.In his home in Taiwan, Wan'er took care of him every day, and almost forgot about his wife, or deliberately did not think about her.Zeng Yue still had a great influence on him, and he always felt sorry for the Zeng family for not being able to bring back a living Zeng Yue.

Mai Wan'er could only stand by and serve.Yin Feng collected himself, sat down at the table, picked up the chopsticks, and said to Wan'er, "Sit down too, let's eat together."

Wan'er looked at Zeng Jing.Zeng Jing, who usually has a lot of rules and is full of airs in the front room, nodded amiably: "Sister, let's eat together."

Wan'er looked at her, and then at Yin Feng, feeling as if the sun was coming out from the west.

The three of them had a dull dinner, but they were quickly interrupted by the sound of hurried footsteps.Lu Shitou rushed in with a few people: "Brother Yin! The carrier pigeon! The carrier pigeon has arrived!"

When Yin Feng heard this, he pushed his job and said to the two women: "I have something urgent. I'm going to the military camp outside the city first, and I may not be back at night. You don't have to wait for me."

After the group of people left in a hurry, the two women looked at each other, looked at the dark doorway, and sighed together.

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On the way to the barracks, Yin Feng had already sent Lu Shitou back to Hong Kong to mobilize all members of the fleet, and was going to set off for Penghu tomorrow.At the same time, countless flying pigeons were released, and small fishing boats were sent overnight to secretly sail to the coast of Fujian; the Jinghai gang and pirate groups controlled by Chinese companies in various places will concentrate on the Penghu Islands.

Yin Feng rushed to the guard barracks overnight, gathered all the Portuguese mercenaries and temporary officers, and gave the order to start fighting tomorrow.

Mai De, a former Danmin sailor and the current head of Yishaoshao, spoke first: "Boss owner, we have only started live-fire training for a few days, I'm afraid..."

"I don't have time. Let's hold a drill on the school ground tomorrow, select 400 people with the best training results, and set off with me." Yin Feng turned to Colonel Kutley: "Mr. Colonel, the special team you train has to follow me , especially Luo Aquan."

He looked around and asked, "Where's the logistics officer?"

"Here we come!" Zheng Dong, the fat logistics officer who used to be the accountant of Zeng's shop in Manila, hurried over.

Yin Feng didn't have time to worry about his lateness, so he ordered: "Immediately prepare 400 muskets and the gunpowder and bullets needed for a month's battle. You can ask Colonel Coutere for the relevant data. There are still 400 people two The food for a month must be prepared quickly."

Yin Feng paused, and loudly told everyone about the arrival of the Dutchman.No one has any opinions, just follow Captain Yin, no matter what country he is, just beat him.

Someone tugged at the corner of his clothes, Yin Feng turned his head dissatisfied, only to find that it was Zeng Rui.

"Why are you here?"

"Brother Feng, shall I go with you to fight the Dutchman?" Zeng Rui begged.

"No!" Yin Feng was startled, and shook off Zeng Rui's hand: "Absolutely not, it's too dangerous!"

"It's too dangerous! Then why do you go there yourself?"

Yin Feng shook his head like a rattle, and said firmly: "Absolutely not, I have to be responsible to your old man! Also, your pretty sister is coming to Taiwan, you go and accompany her."

Zeng Rui kept pestering him, but Yin Feng refused desperately: "This is an important military camp, you can't stay here." He simply called a few guard brothers and dragged Zeng Rui back to Taiwan city.

The basic organization of the guards of the China United Company imitated the non-weisuo troops during the Jiajing Great Japanese Pirates period of the Ming Dynasty.The popular non-guardian troop organization at that time was as follows:

The infantry formation in the mid-Ming Dynasty imitated the system of Shiwu in the ancient times, with five members in the army, the second army in charge, and one outsider.Three as a team, an external captain.The three teams are sentinels, and the outer sentinel is a member.The five whistles are the general, and the external one is the general.The five generals are the battalion, all of whom belong to the main general, and serve as Gao Biao Qisen, Sentry Jianbu, Calligrapher and Jiading, and all lead them.Take one battalion and each battalion is the same, and take one general sentry and one team, but each general sentry team is indistinguishable from each other. "This is the establishment of the battalion, general, sentry, team, and even.

The first volume of Qi Jiguang's "Ji Xiao New Book" "Shu Wu Pian" is battalion-division-team-shi, but the "general" is called "division".

Xu Guangqi's "Art of War" said that 5 people are an army, 25 people are a team, 5 teams are sentries, 5 sentries are troops, and 5 troops are battalions.The "total" is also called "department".The first battalion was prepared with about 3000 people.

Yin Feng has actual combat command experience in Luzon Island, and feels that according to the communication conditions at that time, the command levels of grassroots troops should not be too many, but they should not be too few—otherwise, the orders issued would not be conveyed to the ears of individual soldiers.Moreover, the number of basic troops should not be too large, otherwise the quality requirements for officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers would be too high. Yin Feng's troops are rookie troops that have just been formed, and it is impossible to require these military qualities from them.

So after a compromise, the battalion-whistle-team-shi system was adopted, with 10 people as the why, one chief and deputy each; three teams, one captain and one deputy, under the jurisdiction of 35 soldiers; One officer and two officers governed 200 soldiers; five outposts constituted a battalion, and the battalion commander had one officer and two officers under the jurisdiction of 1200 soldiers.The current guard is exactly the size of a battalion.The officers of each unit are named after the battalion commander, sentry commander, captain, and chief, and avoid using the imperial court's titles such as Ba Zong, Qian Zong, Commander, and Xiaoqi, so as not to stimulate some people's nerves or arouse the vigilance of the court.

As for the personnel of the army supervisor system, only the original Danmin sailors are now in charge, but the army supervisor has been sent to the post level.Since the army has just been established, and all the rules and regulations are different from the guards of the Ming Dynasty, and it is impossible to recruit officers from the army, there is a shortage of officers, so the supervisory army is generally the second in command of the grassroots troops.

At noon the next day, 400 guards from the temporary two guards had gathered at the gate of the camp.These are the top picks for training.

Yin Feng walked back and forth in front of them a few times, calmed down his emotions, and announced loudly: "Brothers, many of you have followed me to kill a bloody road from Luzon Island to live until now! We will not let you We will never let the Panyiyang devils kill us! Now, the Hongmaoyi have robbed our two boats, killed dozens of our brothers, and will rob us of our territory and business at our door. Brothers, what should we do?"

"Kill!" Soldiers No. 400 roared in unison.

Yin Feng waved his hand: "Let's go!"

The No. 400 troops carried ten 10-pound guns, pulled by ox carts.The gun carriages that are convenient for marching and fighting have not yet been manufactured, so it can only be done first.In addition, more than 4 auxiliary soldiers set off together with ammunition, food and grass, and went to "Taipei Port" to board the ship.

The entire company was mobilized, and countless people came to help deliver supplies. Of the 400 musketeers, 50 carried new-style flintlock guns, and all were issued gun swords—bayonets.This is the first actual combat use of the bayonet, so Yin Feng only took 50 spears on the road, hoping to see the first actual combat of the bayonet.