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Chapter 196 Preparation for the War

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As a modern person, Gao Gui is very clear about the importance of public opinion orientation. When Zhou Quanbin, the governor of the Five Army, supervised the preparations for war and carried out active mobilization, Gao Gui sorted and packaged the massacre of Chinese business as described by Ban Zhaowang, and asked people to write a documentary report in the most straightforward sentence

In less than a day, it spread all over the Taiwan Bend. Everyone's topic was the vicious incident of the massacre of Chinese businessmen in the Luzon. Teahouses, wine shops, streets and alleys were all discussed, almost overturning the sky.

What Gao Gui didn't expect was that he underestimated the patriotic enthusiasm and national honor of the Han people. People took to the streets with a turbulent sentiment and shouted at the murderer with the most indignant and generous enthusiasm.

(From 1571 to 1898, its land was occupied by Spain, so "Hailu" is translated as the Little Luzon. The name of Great Luzon is called Spain. In the past, most overseas Chinese went to the Philippines landed in Luzon. Therefore, Luzon is the common name of the Philippines. During the time when Spain ruled the Philippines, overseas Chinese also called Spain the Great Luzon, and called the Philippines the Little Luzon. People spontaneously gathered in government offices and near military camps in various places, demanding to join the army and demanding the army to conquer Luzon. Many wealthy merchants even offered to donate property as military expenditure and started war in Luzon)

Gao Gui's original intention was to mobilize the enthusiasm of the people and also investigate public opinion. At this time, it was a whim. He didn't know that the people had such a big reaction. He was surprised and happy, and was filled with emotion. Such a people with a sense of national honor made him proud and proud, making him feel a kind of hope, an exciting hope. Compared with the numbness, cowardice, and slaughter of the people in the late Qing Dynasty and the Japanese invasion in World War II, it is simply incomparable. The Han people have a way to save them!

The excitement in Gao Gui's heart was not something that people of this era could understand. Compared with the indifference and numbness of later generations, the Han people in this era still had national honor and national honor. They still had blood and courage. Nothing is more important than this. The Qing Dynasty must not let the Qing Dynasty corrupt the last piece of land of the Han people!

Gao Gui's heart was magnificent. He could no longer sit back and watch the recurrence of history and the return of tragedy. In world history, the 17th century was a time when European countries were developing rapidly. Their development quickly left the former Eastern power behind. When the Qing Dynasty braided soldiers were still waving their swords and bent their bows and shooting arrows, they already had machine guns and cannons. When the British and French coalition forces invaded China, the bullets and shells that were crazy pouring on the Chinese people were still fresh in memory. Gao Gui still remembered them. The Eight Banners soldiers rode their proud war horses and rushed towards death one after another. The gap between the times was so sad and helpless, which made people bleeding from the bottom of their hearts!

From this moment on, when the people shouted on the streets to conquer Luzon, Gao Gui burst into tears.

His previous plan was to wait until it was finally developed, so he immigrated to Indonesia (Java) and gave up Taiwan and focused on establishing a Han country in Java. After all, Taiwan was too close to the inland, but now he has changed his mind, Java, want it!

Luzon, want it!

Taiwan, too!

If possible, why not establish a new Han dynasty connecting Taiwan, Luzon and Java?

The next two or three hundred years was the era of great navigation. With a strong navy, one could have the power that surpassed the military power of Southeast Asian countries and dominate their life and death. As for Japan, Gao Gui sneered. At this time, Japan was still a shogunate era when the country was closed. Although the emperor was the nominal supreme leader, in fact, he only owned a small piece of land that could be pity. The real power of the country was in the hands of the General of Makubo. The general owned the most land, and then he then divided the land down layer by layer to Daming and the warriors.

Economically, it is still feudal serfdom. Such a loose island country should allow them to disappear from this world, killing them all, regardless of gender, age, and completely eliminating this cruel and inhumane beast nation. Even if they are called the murderous devil in this space, the butcher will do whatever they want. Before and after World War II, the deep blood hatred between the Chinese people should be resolved at this time!

Through the documentary report he drafted himself, Gao Gui immediately thought of the best tool to guide public opinion newspaper

He immediately discussed this matter with Chen Jinnan. Under his assistance, Zheng Jing helped the local people, trade vendors, build schools, promote talents, and set up systems, which made Taiwan a new look in a short period of time. The country's governance is the best talent for governing the country. What kind of vision does Chen Jinnan have? He immediately saw the role of the newspaper and the far-reaching significance behind it.

In the past twenty years, because of his vigorous education, the popularity of reading and reading is extremely high. The role of newspapers is not only able to unite the hearts of the people and grasp public opinion, but also in turn promote the people to learn more and more extensive knowledge. A strong people leads to a strong country, and a rich people leads to a rich country. Chen Jinnan understands such simple truths.

Chen Jinnan, who is over fifty years old, had his eyes shining, as if he was ten years younger, and immediately discussed with his proud disciple Gao Gui overnight. Regarding the matter of running a newspaper, Gao Gui planned to use all the people he trusted. Wang Yunkai of the Mu Mansion and his nephew Wang Xi are the best candidates. Of course, he knew that mastering public opinion guidance is equivalent to mastering the people's hearts, and public opinion guidance is undoubtedly the best in his own hands.

At the same time, he also decided to go to Luzon Island in person. In the past six months, the special operations battalion he trained with modern military standards has already reached a scale of 300 people. Although the scale is not large, each of them is a loyal member of the Tiandihui Society. He is limited to under twenty-five years old. He has a martial arts foundation and is strong in body. He has also been trained in the military academy. As for weapons, they are all equipped with flintlock guns.

Taiwan produces sulfur and other substances, and there are a lot of resources required to make guns and cannons.

This was the era when the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty coexisted. Although the Southern Ming (Taiwan Zheng Family) was about to be destroyed by the Qing army in history, this cannot conceal the Ming Dynasty's technological level was far better than that of the Qing Dynasty.

Not only flintlock rifles, but artillery are much more advanced than the Qing army, and the shipbuilding industry is also far beyond the level of the Qing army.

Historically, the Qing army attacked Taiwan with the Dutch fleet as the main force, because the Qing munitions were not the opponent of the Zheng family's army at all, otherwise there would be no need to play the three strategies for moving the sea.

But when the only Ming Dynasty survivors who supported the storefront died, the Qing Dynasty's firearms retreated to a surprising level.

During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, the military had devoted its efforts to imitate a batch of magical cannons made in the late Ming Dynasty to equip the Eight Banners artillery team, but the range of the cannons was less than half as long as the original cannons. Before the Opium War, Guan Tianpei's diary recorded that the Qing army's 9,000-jin cannons (not mortar cannons) made by the Qing army at that time was only 1,200 meters long. You should know that the more than 1,000-jin red barbarian cannons in the Ming Dynasty were much farther away than this. When the two Opium Wars, the Qing soldiers were dizzy by British flowering artillery shells and regarded the flowering shells as divine objects, they completely forgot that their ancestor Nurhaci made the Ming army to death. At that time, there were a large number of Ming-Ying Huan Bullets densely covered with spider webs in the Eight Banners Cannon Library in Beijing...

So to put it bluntly, it is a bit unacceptable to everyone. Under the Qing Dynasty, China not only did not make progress, but also regressed in civilization. Let me say a little disrespectful: Not every nation has the wisdom of the Han people. The Song Dynasty destroyed by the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty destroyed by the Qing Dynasty were generally two major regressions in Chinese history. The reason why China was bullied and slaughtered by foreign invaders in the late Qing Dynasty was inseparable from these two major regressions in civilization.

In 1598, Zhao Shizhen, a firearm developer in the Ming Dynasty, improved the Lumi gun based on the Turkish mesh gun.

This kind of firearm has high loading capacity, long range, and its power is larger than that of European mesh rope guns during the same period, and is lighter than that of the Japanese Warring States Period at that time. Therefore, it was equipped with a large amount of equipment in the Ming army.

The Japanese coalition that defeated Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the war to support the Goryeo Ri Dynasty should be indispensable for the merits of the mother-child gun and the Lumi gun.

Qi Jiguang also invented a tiger squat cannon during the pacification of the Japanese

The chassis has iron nails that can hold the ground firmly to reduce recoil and improve hit rate

One shot can shoot more than 100 projectiles, which is a powerful tool for high-density area strikes.

Moreover, the gun is light in size and has strong maneuverability, which has significant results in combat against Japanese pirates who sneak into the mountains.

In 1568, Qi Jiguang even equipped it to the cavalry battalion, which acted like a small modern mortar.

The more famous Red Cannon was originally bought from the Portuguese Macau during the Tianqi period of the Ming Dynasty.

The Red Cannon is a long-barrel cannon, which is widely used by the British and Dutch people on warships.

The thirty cannons of the Macau Portuguese were also plundered from British ships

The Ming Dynasty obtained these thirty cannons, some used for military imitation, and some used for actual combat, and were arranged outside the pass.

Yuan Chonghuan's victory in Ningyuan was due to these red cannons bought from the Portuguese, which bombed Nurhaci, the Qing Taizu, who had promised that he had never lost all his life, and fled in a panic. In the end, like Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he became angry and ended up in depression.

In 1635, another Ming Dynasty firearm researcher, Bi Maokang, invented the flintlock rifle

The flintlock gun is equipped with an automatic flint ignition device, so it is not afraid of wind and rain, and does not require a flint ignition in advance. The launch speed and accuracy are greatly improved.

It is a significant change compared to a melee

The self-development of flintlock rifles in the Ming Dynasty was not much later than that of Europeans. Germany invented the flintlock rifles and devoted them to the army to fight the French in 1644. So from another perspective, the Ming Dynasty's technology and military level was still the same as that of European powers at that time. If there had not been a Qing army entering the pass, without the Qing Dynasty, it is conceivable that China would have been dragged down by the Qing Dynasty, which did not pay attention to technology?

Will those European countries come from behind and carry out invasion?

The dignified Eastern power eventually became a semi-feudal and semi-colonial country. I wonder if Nurhaci would die again under the sacred and angry place?

In order to maintain the 300-man special operations battalion with the most advanced weapons at the time, Gao Gui paid a lot of his pockets. These flintlock guns need to be maintained and they need to collect bullets from Zheng Kebi for training. Moreover, before the Spanish massacre of Chinese business, Gao Gui planned to study the installation of a single shot or further the installation of a continuous shot.

This more advanced weapon was developed until the 1830s. In the 1860s, the rear-mounted gun was officially launched and was equipped with the army by Britain, the United States and other countries. Unfortunately, Gao Gui was not a military fan. Although he knew this weapon, he didn't know what to do about it. He had to roughly tell the concept to the craftsmen of the arsenal first and let them think about it themselves. As for whether it could be accomplished, Gao Gui didn't have much hope. After all, if he had a rear-mounted gun in two hundred years, he could dominate the world if he had it now, but technical work was not something that could be done by thinking about it.

Just in the season of summer and autumn in 1680, the Zheng family's Nanming army officially announced the war to the Spanish colony Luzon. The Grand Governor Zhou Quanbin personally led 450 large and small warships, and 70,000 soldiers drove to Luzon.

This year was called the first battle of the rise of the Ming Empire in later generations!

Gao Gui, Chen Jinnan, Taoist Master Xuanzhen, Guan Shiji and other core members of the Tiandihui Society were also on one of the fleet's ships, including 300 special operations battalion soldiers.

This is Gao Gui's first time in contact with a naval battle. Seeing this magnificent scene, he felt proud in his heart.

As one of the earliest colonists in the Age of Discovery, the most powerful maritime colonial empire in the West in the 16th century was Spain. After more than a hundred years of experience, its strength was surpassed by later countries such as Britain and the Netherlands. However, their warships cannot be underestimated, at least they are much more advanced than the current warships of the Southern Ming Expeditionary Force.

During the sailing at sea, Gao Gui and others did not waste any time. On the one hand, they asked the Chinese merchants of Ban Chawang and others about the Spanish naval fleet, and on the other hand, they inquire about their military power in the Philippines. In addition to Ban Chawang, two Chinese merchants also had certain reconnaissance qualities. From what they said, Gao Gui slowly found out an intelligence that the Spanish navy had started a war with Britain, suffered great losses and had great strength. The warships should be between thirty and fifty ships.

Gao Gui knew that even these dozens of warships were definitely not to be underestimated. However, although he was worried, he learned from Chen Jinnan that Zhou Quanbin, who was nearly 60 years old, was a veteran general, and had fought no less than a hundred times in all seas. If Zheng Kebi had not made up his mind to show off overseas, he would not have sent such a commander at the national level to command.

Seeing that Master is so confident, Gao Gui is also relieved.

Early this morning, when the sky was just dawn, the team exploring the way forward fired cannons to warn. For a moment, the warships were facing a great enemy, and shouts and trumpets were heard one after another. Gao Gui couldn't help but feel nervous. They and the ships behind them were preparing to land for battle as rear teams. There were no long-range attack weapons such as cannons on the ship. They could only watch the rumbling of cannons in front. The three hundred soldiers in the special operations camp were tightly holding the flintlock rifle in their hands, staring at the shadows of the fire in the fog in the distance...