"Why did the Liu family become officials of 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 anxious.
The news from Sanfa is not good.
The Liu family has been spending a lot of money to recruit people these days.
There are signs of the Qing Dynasty.
Recruitment is much smoother for the Liu family than for the Luo family.
Let alone recruiting people here in Pontianak.
The thugs under his command had to be coaxed, otherwise they might all go to Liu Qianxing's side.
Although Zhu Daohua has the power to defeat the Dutch.
But who is not afraid of the reputation of the Heavenly Soldiers of the Qing Dynasty?
"The Dutch were defeated by the king in one battle, so who does Liu Qianxing mean to him? If he was really powerful, he wouldn't be the Dutch's dog at that time!"
"Will he become more powerful if he is covered with Qingta's skin?"
Luo Fangbo shouted and encouraged his thugs in the building in Pontianak.
The Dutch and Lanfang flags hanging on the surrounding buildings have been lowered and replaced with the Ming Dynasty's sun and moon flag.
"Your Majesty has received the news and has ordered his troops to set off. They will arrive in a few days! Liu Qianxing and the other countries in Borneo are looking for death!"
Luo Fangbo actually didn't have much confidence.
In the beginning, he was also a scholar who read books from sages and sages, and was not a aggressive underworld leader.
It is said that he is commanding his thugs to rob a mine, waterway or something.
Then he's still good at it.
But seriously commanding an army to fight.
Luo Fangbo had no choice.
However, he also obtained basic teaching materials from the Ming Dynasty Army and Naval Academy.
Among them, Napoleon compiled a military book [Ming Army Training Manual] that combined the actual situation of the Ming army with European infantry training, as well as China's [New Book of Discipline Effects] and [Records 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 attaches who could read them. If ordinary wealthy scholars dared to read this, they would be reported.
That's really too much to eat and walk around.
Although it is not as good as the private armor, it will be eliminated by the nine tribes.
But it’s also a handle.
Critical moments can be fatal.
After reading these military books.
At least Luo Fangbo still knew something about how to organize an army, how to set up camps, etc., so that he wouldn't be at a loss when things happened.
Now he divided his troops into three parts.
The main thing is to dig earth and build trenches on the only road from Sanfa to Pontianak, and then send people to protect the port. If something goes wrong, you have to set sail and escape, and part of it relies on two large enclosures to create a The deputy took a defensive stance.
Unlike Liu Qianxing's side, which was a mixture of flintlock guns, matchlock guns, swords, shields and spears.
The six thousand Luo family thugs in Luo Fangbo's hands all carried flintlock guns with bayonets.
Zhu Daohua originally purchased a large number of flintlock muskets from his factory in Calcutta. These flintlock muskets were originally supplied to the European battlefield and are considered the mainstream equipment at the moment.
However, after the Ming Army began the "yellow gunpowder" modification, 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 flash cap as the percussion powder and yellow gunpowder as the propellant.
Although there is also no rifling - this is mainly because Boss Zhu does not know what a Minie bullet is.
But this kind of musket has a higher firing rate and a longer range.
Using yellow gunpowder as the propellant can be more powerful than using black powder as the propellant with half the amount of gunpowder.
And the flintlock gun that retreated after the Ming army changed its equipment.
On the one hand, it was sold to Southeast Asian countries.
on the other hand.
It is used to aid Lanfang.
It is different from foreign vassals like Xishan Dynasty.
Lanfang was considered an internal vassal.
In the future, the Grand Duke of Lanfang or King Lanfang will be appointed to Zhu Daohua's son.
Therefore, Zhu Daohua did not be stingy with the scraps of weapons in his hands.
After some arming.
These Luo family thugs were not as panicked as the Chinese workers in Lanfang.
Now they are holding the muskets in their hands, waiting for the arrival of the Qing soldiers.
...........
at the same time.
Zhu Daohua also ordered troops to set off on Batam Island.
However, it was different from the massive dispatch imagined by Liu Qianxing, Lin Guoliang and others.
Zhu Daohua only dispatched 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 guns with a relatively short range, but newly developed howitzers that are specially designed to fire explosive shells.
With mercury fulminate, reliable ignition devices such as detonators can be made.
Therefore, the reliability of the Ming Army's explosive ammunition is now very high.
It is also a matter of course to develop large-caliber artillery with longer range and greater power.
And this is the force Zhu Daohua dispatched this time against Liu Qianxing and the coalition forces of the Borneo countries.
There were only four thousand people in total.
In fact, Zhu Daohua was too conservative even if he recruited an artillery battalion.
If nothing unexpected happens.
This artillery battalion will not participate in this war - this is a secret weapon prepared by Zhu Daohua to attack the cities with tall walls in the interior.
"Your Majesty, are the number of people too small?"
Gu Song said with some concern.
"At least we can bring the First Brigade of the Army up. It would be safe to have about 7,000 soldiers."
Before Zhu Daohua could speak, Napoleon shook his head and said in his already quite proficient Chinese: "Commander, how can you have the idea of being afraid of a mere mob? Can Liu Qianxing and the natives of Borneo be considered an army? What we have in our hands They are four thousand regular troops who have undergone rigorous training for several months, and are equipped with yellow powder fixed-load paper bullets using mercury fulminate flash caps, grenades, mortar shells, and even howitzers."
Napoleon shook his head like a rattle.
Gu Song said he was a military advisor.
In fact, he is more like Zhu Daohua’s “Chinese political advisor.”
He had no effective and reliable advice on the military.
"Such a brigade has a strength of three thousand, and its firepower far exceeds that of the opponent. It is still on the defensive side. The enemy even ridiculously wants to take the initiative... How can we lose this battle?"
Zhu Daohua smiled and said: "Military advisor, the Battle of Borneo is just a warm-up before the Northern Expedition, and there is no difficulty at all. But if the two brigades are transferred away, there will only be one brigade left on Batam... It is difficult to hold on. Some forces won’t have any ideas.”
Gu Song also nodded when he heard this: "Borneo is not a very important place, Batam is the current foundation."
Of course it is fundamental.
The current Army and Navy Academy, various new technology factories, and steam engine improvement research factories are all in Batam.
There is no room for error.
Even take ten thousand steps back.
Even if Borneo loses here, it doesn't matter.
But if you lose Batam.
It was really like going back to before liberation overnight.
The Army dispatched a brigade plus a howitzer battalion.
The navy dispatched the Nanyang Fleet to escort the transport fleet.
The navy is now also divided into three fleets.
One is equipped with a sloop and is used to guard the Strait Guard Fleet of the Strait Governor's Palace.
One is the Northern Expedition Fleet equipped with 5 newly developed three-masted schooners, 20 ketch, and more than 200 Daguang ships and Dafu ships used to transport materials and troops.
Another one is the Nanyang Fleet used to control the waters of Nanyang.
The main equipment of the Nanyang Fleet is twenty schooners.
Now under the command of the Ming Army, the army has a total of 10,000 people, the navy has more than 10,000 people, plus a transport fleet of more than 5,000 people.
The total number of the Ming army also swelled to 25,000.
But this is not the ultimate combat power that Zhu Daohua can pull out.
There are 1,200 trainees at the Army Academy and more than 600 trainees at the Naval Academy.
There is also a whaling team affiliated with Daohua Trading Company, which can actually be regarded as an armed force.
The whalers were equipped with sloops and were also equipped with artillery, but not as many as the army.
The whaling industry was the next industry that Daohua Trading Company invested in.
Whales are full of treasures. The meat can be used as a protein supplement, and the most important thing is the whale's fat.
Whether it is the glycerin necessary for making yellow gunpowder or various lubricants.
All require the use of whale oil.
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 may have to rely on artificial breeding of whales.
The total number of armed personnel under Zhu Daohua.
It has reached 35,000 people.
But this time, only four thousand people were dispatched.
After two days of loading, the army departing from Batam soon took a mighty ship to Pontianak Port.
