Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1892 The Sword Points at Dongying (Wei Jiu) Off-topic
Fog is both an obstacle to action and the best cover, especially for those who are familiar with the environment.

The fleet of the Maritime Trade Alliance has been hiding around Sacheon since Gao Yushi landed in Sacheon, and has never shown up outside Busan Port, but staying in Sacheon does not mean that it is parked in the port and does nothing.

They investigated the hydrology and sea conditions in the sea area between Geoje Island and Noryangjin clearly. They not only drew and marked the location of the islands and the direction of ocean currents, but also searched for local North Korean fishermen and asked them about possible extreme weather in different periods and periods.

In short, the Sea Trade Alliance fleet has made corresponding preparations for all factors that may affect operations in this sea area.

Speaking of which, this is also a good tradition formed by the Maritime Trade Alliance, especially Jinghua, over the years. After all, a large proportion of Gao Pragmatism's understanding of the "century-old navy" is about "how to form a good tradition".

However, the encirclement can be formed in the fog, and there are certain factors of coincidence.

When the fog began to appear, the sky had not yet dawned. Due to the short distance between the four ships of the Ming Army, the windbreak signal lights were turned on for the need of communication and command, and they happened to be discovered by the main fleet that was slowly advancing eastward.

Since the large windproof signal lamp is still one of the unique skills of the Maritime Trade Union (retort-like structure glass cover, the lower base can be detached to replenish lamp oil and replace the wick, and the outside is fixed and protected with cloth-covered barbed wire), so the "Dongchang" "The captain and provisional fleet commander Gao Shengyi knew that the decoy formation must have returned as soon as he heard it.

Gao Shengyi immediately ordered to get in touch, and took advantage of the opportunity to learn that the Japanese navy was not far behind the decoy formation.Without hesitation, he ordered to change the formation and set up encirclement nets in a targeted manner.

This is not a siege battle, there is no siege, a siege is a comprehensive siege in all directions.

Of course, the division of troops is not evenly distributed. The flagship "Dongchang" second-tier battleship and the two third-tier battleships "Changning" and "Changding" are all assigned to face the enemy.

Five first-class cruisers were assigned to the left wing of the fleet, which is the northern position, and six second-class cruisers were assigned to the right wing, which is the southern position.

At this time, in addition to the four decoy formations that had been operating continuously for a day and one night, and the twelve ships that had been transferred to support operations outside Busan Port, there were still [-] armed transport ships left.Gao Shengyi allocated fifteen of them to the east of the encirclement, behind the Japanese navy, and allocated five to the west, south, and north routes.

Judging from this configuration, the east route blocking the return of the Japanese army has the largest number, but there are no main warships in the formation; the west route is the strongest because of the presence of three battleships that can be called sea giants in today's world; There are cruisers on the road, and there are a lot of them, and they are equally powerful.

Obviously, the three roads in the south, west and north are the main attack, while the east road is mainly responsible for blocking the entrance to prevent the Japanese navy from being defeated and fleeing back to Busan.As the North and South Routes each have several cruisers with strong combat effectiveness and fast speeds, they can also exist as hunting fleets when there is a loophole in the East Road blockage.

There is no doubt that this is a must-kill formation, and it is not intended to leave even a trace of life for the Japanese navy, and it is completely aimed at complete annihilation.In fact, this is also a manifestation of Gao Shengyi's emotions in this battle - he is really holding back.

At the beginning of the expedition, he saw that the master had mobilized such a large-scale main force of the Beiyang Fleet. At that time, he was already ready for a shocking decisive battle with the Japanese navy, and he wanted to have a "Battle of Baijiangkou" in his heart. , Following the example of the Tang Dynasty, Japan was defeated in the First World War.

Unexpectedly, after North Korea, the master just dispatched twelve armed transport ships in his own fleet to the imperial navy to help blockade the Port of Busan, while the real main force of the battle stayed in Sacheon "doing nothing" and could only do some hydrological investigation. idle business".

This made Gao Shengyi, who was holding his breath for a big battle, almost depressed. Every day, he was thinking about when the battle situation would change, so that the Beiyang Fleet, which had been holding back all the time, would give vent to it, so as not to prevent the North and South Fleets from being separated from each other. During the annual routine joint exercise, he was underestimated by the Nanyang gang.

Having said that, I need to interject a little bit about the development and performance of the Nanyang Fleet in recent years.

During the Battle of Luzon back then, in order to train the Beiyang Fleet, which had few opportunities for large-scale actual combat (of course, it was mainly because of the need to lead the nobles to open up new markets), Gao Wushi dispatched the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance with the Beiyang Fleet as its core. The fleet, in cooperation with the marines and other armed forces on land, fought the battle of Luzon.

The Nanyang Fleet, apart from sending a group of sailors familiar with Luzon's sea conditions as guides, almost did not participate in the battle at all, which led to some dissatisfaction within the Nanyang Fleet.

Jinghua's system is self-contained, but its top-level system is in the final analysis the family slave and family system of Daming. This has led to the fact that, except for the Gao Pragmatic couple and the Gao family clan, everyone else is in principle a slave or maidservant.

What are slaves and maidservants?The biggest characteristic of slaves and maidservants is that they belong to their masters personally.For example, when the owner divides the family, they should be distributed together with other properties, and the owner can sell and transfer them at will.

In other words, the master is "the only one" to the slaves, and the slaves are "one" to the master. The master is the owner of the property, and the slaves are only the property of the master.

Property does not require self-awareness, and all will depends on the owner, so the Nanyang Fleet does not dare to have any dissatisfaction with the highly pragmatic decision.

However, people are people after all, not to mention that Jinghua's reward and punishment system is very clear and strict.As part of the armed servants, in addition to the ways of "promotion and salary increase" such as years of service and daily meritorious service, the best way to obtain a status leap and wealth accumulation is to make military exploits.

Before the acquisition of Longya Peninsula (Malay Peninsula), there were almost no actual wars (in fact, several small countries were fought, but they were basically at the level of armed parades). It was Huang Zhiting who finally took it from the Portuguese through military threats and economic oppression. Got it.

This caused the Nanyang Fleet, which took a long breath to prepare for a big fight with the Spanish and Portuguese Empire, to be dumbfounded on the spot. In the end, it only received a one-month salary increase as a reward, and the entire fleet was disappointed.

At such a good time to conquer Luzon, it is obvious that Luzon should belong to the scope of responsibility of the Nanyang Fleet from a geographical point of view. As a result, because Ming is used to treating Luzon as part of the "Oriental Ocean", the task was assigned to the Beiyang side. It aggravated the depression of the Nanyang Fleet.

Not long after this, not only Gao Wushi learned that the Nanyang Fleet had emotions, but even Huang Zhiting, who was based in southern Xinjiang as her husband, received an intelligence reminder from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and had to tailor some extra tasks for the Nanyang Fleet.

At that time, the Indochina Peninsula and Longya Peninsula were already in the hands of Jinghua, and the unconquered areas in the Nanyang region were mostly the so-called "East Indies" or "Spice Islands" in later generations. Naturally, these additional tasks were nothing more than targeting them.

Naturally, Gao Yushi would not call these places the "East Indies". He called them the "Nanyang Islands" according to the Chinese custom. Therefore, the task book that the Nanyang Fleet received in the end was the "Nanyang Islands Project."

In fact, the plan was very rough at that time, and it was full of words with strong uncertainties such as "if there is a chance", "if conditions permit", and "if the time is right", it did not give any orders to the Nanyang Fleet. Clear task objectives and completion time limit.

In short, this is a "goal letter of intent".As for how much your Nanyang Fleet can do, it doesn't matter, you can do as much as you can, and it doesn't matter if you can't do it.

Obviously, Gao Pragmatism and Huang Zhiting's original intention was to give the Nanyang Fleet a "starter", but they didn't hold much hope.Highly pragmatic means to digest the Indochina Peninsula first, such as building Dingnan City, the core of governance, first, and then constructing the Nanyang Trade Center Dragon Tooth City (Malacca City) and the Nanyang Navy Center Huzhou City (Singapore).

As for the Nanyang Islands...you might as well wait to avoid indigestion.

However, with the passage of these years, the third phase of the construction of Dingnan City was completely completed, and Jinghua built the largest, most advanced and extremely strong super giant city in the history of Nanyang at a position slightly south of Bangkok in later generations, as the core of its rule in southern Xinjiang. .

How big will the city be after Phase III is completed?Compared with the capital of Ming Dynasty.

Of course, for the purpose of political expression and military practice, Dingnan City did not adopt the square and symmetrical layout of the central axis like the capital of the Ming Dynasty, but turned it into a super-large-scale city of bastion buildings.

Its periphery is a polygon with as many as 28 protruding triangles. It is not so much a star shape as it is almost a gear shape.

Each "gear" is a firepower point, and at most one target force can be arranged, that is, 1756 people. 28 gears means 49168 people, a front-line defense force of nearly 5 horses.

Of course, it is not necessarily necessary to arrange a full manpower. Each "gear" has a battalion of about [-] people, which can also better complete the defensive task.In this way, the total front-line force can be reduced to more than [-] people, but the strength is not greatly reduced, so that the defender can fully make flexible adjustments according to the actual situation.

The nominal Siamese Palace and the de facto core of Jinghua’s rule are located on a peninsula almost in the middle of the city. The peninsula is not small, but the land connected to the land is quite narrow and long, making it extremely easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The peninsula itself is adjacent to the Chao Phraya River, and there is a large lake on the peninsula, so there is no shortage of water sources. Even if something unexpected happens, it will definitely last for a long time.In addition, as long as the naval advantage always exists, at worst, you can leave by sea and boat.

Jinghua spent a huge amount of money on the third phase of the Dingnan City project, but the final effect was remarkable, and it could even be said to be shocking.Not to mention that the aristocrats from all over southern Xinjiang were amazed when they saw it. Not only did the aristocrats who had already been relocated all move to live in the city according to Jinghua’s requirements, but even many small and medium-sized nobles who did not get the quota also begged their grandpa to tell their grandma to find ways to hope. Live in Dingnan City.

Is this weird?Not surprising at all.Dingnan City is like the city of Rome during the Roman Empire. Nobles from all over the country and even the conquered places regarded it as a paradise on earth, and they all wanted to be Romans.

They are scraping land crazily in their own locality, but the highest ideal is to take money to live in Rome, which is exactly the same as the attraction of many shepherd dogs in the later Midi.Oh, to put it the other way around, it should be said that Midi imitated Rome.

After the completion of the third phase of the project, Dingnan City will be the Rome of southern Xinjiang, which naturally attracts the nobles of southern Xinjiang to flock to it.

In this way, two goals are achieved: one is that the elites in southern Xinjiang are included in the high-level pragmatic hub; Jinshan Yinhai.

How dare you call it Jinshan Yinhai?Because in the second year when Dingnan City began to collect taxes, the customs trade volume was as high as 580 million guan, which almost surpassed that of Suzhou, the first prefecture of Ming Dynasty.And Dingnan City’s commercial (including industry and handicraft) and agricultural taxes totaled 1207 million taels, ranking first in southern Xinjiang, even surpassing Longya City (Malacca). Isn’t this Jinshan Yinhai?
Of course, the reason why Dingnan City has such fierce data is naturally because it has a powerful siphon effect, not only sucking the blood of Siam, but also sucking the blood of the surrounding kingdoms, but... isn't this exactly what Gao Yushi wants? ?

Until the proportion of "Han people" in southern Xinjiang exceeds [-]% through the immigration and naturalization household registration system, such a strong center and weak local model is a highly pragmatic policy that will always be adhered to.Although he will also build some "sub-central" cities in the kingdoms relative to the whole southern border, there will no longer be any place that can be designed and built on the scale of Dingnan City.

At least, definitely not before the "[-]% of the Han Dynasty" is achieved.

Now that the huge deficit has turned into a surplus, Gao Pragmatism can not only use it freely in the northern Ming Dynasty, North Korea, and Japan, but also has the ability to support the Nanyang Fleet. This greatly accelerates the Nanyang Fleet's ability to "make troubles".

In the second year after the construction of Dingnan City was completed, the Nanyang Fleet brazenly dispatched troops on the grounds that the Kingdom of Aceh supported pirate forces to rob the Ming merchant ships, and easily wiped out the main force of the Kingdom of Aceh's navy—if that was the navy.

Then, the Nanyang Fleet ignored the fact that the Kingdom of Aceh had sent envoys to Dingnan City to ask to see Huang Zhiting, and took advantage of the fact that Dingnan City had not issued any orders, dispatched two marines to the capital of the Kingdom of Aceh.

Because the troops were dispatched too quickly this time, it was completely a miracle, and the top leaders of the Aceh Kingdom were wiped out.Just when the high-level leaders of the Aceh Kingdom imagined that the ruling structure of the kingdoms in southern Xinjiang would basically be preserved, and that their own side would be treated in the same way by Jinghua, the bad news came.

It turned out that Huang Zhiting knew the plan of the Nanyang Fleet long ago, so she did not summon the envoys of the Kingdom of Aceh in Dingnan City until the capital was occupied. Then she took the time to order the Nanyang Fleet to "restore the Ming Dynasty's old port Xuanwei Division" in Sumatra.

Naturally, Huang Zhiting did not do this on her own initiative, but Gao Yushi had given her instructions long ago, so she presided over the reconstruction of the Old Port Propaganda Department very soon, and appointed a person named Shi Xiwen as the "Quan Xuan Consolation Envoy". It's the acting consolation envoy.At the same time, Huang Zhiting went to the Ming court to ask for confirmation of this appointment.
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PS: I don’t plan to write about the Nanyang Islands in detail. After thinking about it, I’d like to briefly describe it when I write about Beiyang.

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