Chapter 258: Coping and layout

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"The tree wants to be quiet but the wind is still!"
During the day, Mei Dongxing received the information sent by Liu Wu and Zhang Zhenxun. The tone was not easy. "Before the fleet left, some cattle, ghosts, and snakes jumped out to prepare for the fleet. General Wang, Nanyang Corps. The burden is not light! "
"The regular army of the Nanyang Regiment has only 5,000 men, and they are stationed in Annan, Songkhla, and the Natuna Islands. The military strength is scattered, and it is inevitable that people with intentions will find flaws."
King Wang Shan shook his head.
"If you fight against those foreign dog legs, how good will General Wang be?"
"It's not difficult to defeat the many Chinese pipitans in Nanyang, but it is easy to defeat them, and it is very difficult to destroy them all."
"The Annan, Natuna Islands and Songkhla Chinese people have a total of seven or eight thousand people. Before the war, we will gather the Taiping congregations scattered throughout Nanyang. Our armed strength should be more than four times that of those Chinese Can't we solve them with such strength? "
"The victory of the war is not calculated in this way." Wang Dashan laughed bitterly, explaining, "The Chinese people who planned to sneak attack on the transport fleet were backed by the Dutch, maybe the British also intervened. If we can't destroy them or destroy them all at sea battles, the escaped Chinese Jia Bidan will certainly rely more on the Dutch, then we will have a hard time attacking them. "
The Taiping Society is the largest underground force in the Nanyang region, but the Taiping Society's power can only be extended to areas where the Dutch have a vacuum or weak control. For areas controlled by the Dutch and the Chinese commander Jia Bidan who obeys the Dutch, the Taiping Society It has been secretly infiltrating in a cautious manner, trying to maintain apparent peace with the Chinese bibitan forces in areas controlled by the Netherlands.
Puppet Taiping would be under the command of Wang Dashan during the war, but Wang Dashan did not have much confidence in the combat effectiveness of the subordinate congregation of Taiping.
"The Governor has spent some time in the mainland, should he have seen the training of the National Defense Forces?"
King Wang Dashan paused for a while, and then asked about the situation of the National Defense Forces.
不错 "Yes, I have accompanied His Highness to inspect the army twice."
"What does Lord Namei think of the strength comparison between the Nanyang Army and the local army?"
"The Nanyang Army is an elite division compared with the French and Dutch colonial forces, but there is still a little gap compared with the local army."
Mei Dongxing seeks truth from facts.
"The colonial army is a second-class army, which is not as good as the regular army in France and the Netherlands. The Nanyang Regiment is of little significance to them."
Wang Dashan waved his hand indifferently and continued, "The weapons and equipment of the Nanyang Army are allocated according to the standard of the National Defense Forces. However, because the Nanyang is too far away from the mainland and the transportation costs are expensive, the real-arm training intensity of the Nanyang Army soldiers has only reached domestic Sixty percent of the troops, and the Nanyang Regiment's troops lack combat experience with white countries. In terms of actual combat capabilities, they are not far behind the local forces. "
"Although the Nanyang Regiment is a regular army, ordinary soldiers and grass-roots officers are mainly selected from Annan and the East Indies. The proportion of veterans is much worse than that of domestic troops, and it is understandable that their comprehensive combat capabilities are slightly weaker."
"Before Master Mei had not played for His Royal Highness Han, she managed hundreds of men in Australia. Master Mei should know the difficulty of maintaining an armed force.
Take, for example, the 5,000 regular army of the Nanyang Army. His Royal Highness allocates two million Chinese yuan in military expenses each year, equivalent to 1.072 million silver.
Excluding the basic expenses such as military puppets, weapon maintenance costs, soldiers' food, clothing, shelter, food, transportation, etc., the army conducted another medium-scale live-fire exercise, and the military puppets were almost used.
The National Defence Force is a firearm-based force. The lack of live ammunition training and tactical exercises has a significant impact on the combat effectiveness of the unit. In regular operations, the Nanyang Army should be able to cope with the colonial army of foreigners of the same size to three times the size. The militia forces and the Taiping Congregation pulled onto the battlefield, but it was difficult to exert a satisfactory combat effectiveness.
Therefore, Lord Mei and the Taiping congregation can deal with the indigenous and civilian Chinese armed forces equipped with cold weapons. It is unwise to deploy them to the front line to fight against the Chinese Jia Bidan supported by the Dutch and the Dutch colonial army. "
"The civil war is imminent. In order to reserve war materials and prepare for emergencies, His Royal Highness is raising funds from multiple parties. At this time, it is impossible to increase military expenditures for the Nanyang Army."
The ability of modern army to swallow gold is not the same as that of troops equipped with cold weapons.
Since the occupation of South China ’s mainland, the population has soared to more than 5 million, and the number of men of appropriate age has reached 1.5 million. However, compared with the relatively large number of men of appropriate age, the number of Han National Defense Forces has been maintained for seven or eight years. On the scale of the four divisions and three brigades, it was not until the beginning of 1878 that in order to meet the needs of the Argentine war, the establishment of the seven main units of the four divisions, three brigades was completed.
多少 What is the annual military expenditure of the nearly 100,000 National Defence Forces, including the four divisions and three brigades?
Based on the cost of a domestically produced rifle of 15 silver, a gatling machine gun of 220 silver, and a 75mm field gun of 320 silver, excluding the consumption of shells, a full editor 12 was established. An army of 10,000 people needs at least 2.5 million renminbi for weapons procurement alone, while the army of 90,000 National Defense Forces needs more than 18 million renminbi.
海军 Compared with the navy and the army, military expenditures will only increase or decrease.
明 Li Mingyuan was reborn ten years ago. It is also a best effort to lay out the rubber industry and improve the development of the basic industry in Han Dynasty. However, whenever a small amount of white flowers, green silver, and British pounds started, it was immediately spent like a stream of water. The final result was for the development of the country. The Han government, including Li Mingyuan, not only did not save a lot of money, Also owed a lot of national debt.
There are countless aspects that require capital investment. For the sake of overall consideration, the Han government can only limit the military expenditures of the Nanyang Army. However, the effect of Li Mingyuan's debt development on the country is also very significant. Shipping company, Xinjing Machinery Manufacturing Plant, Hanguo Iron and Steel Company, Xinjing Military Shipyard ...
Including Han Guo Mining Co., which was newly established less than two years ago, any one can easily sell a high price of several million or even tens of millions of silver.
Mei Dongxing agreed with the development strategy implemented by Han from the perspective of a civilian. Wang Dashan guarded Li Mingyuan from a young age. He was loyal to Li Mingyuan and would not disobey the orders of the Han government. Therefore, Wang Dashan faced difficulties in the Nanyang Army After putting forward one by one, it gives a solution to the challenge of Chinese Jiabidan.
"After the Chinese Jia Bidan fled back to the land, our army could not effectively attack them, so if we want to destroy them all, we must find a way from the sea."
Wang Dashan said, rolling out the map, taking out the ruler, and after completing the measurement, he said, "It is about 6000 kilometers from Somalia ’s Kimayu to Nanyang Malacca. It takes about three days to calculate the sailing speed of the navy under General Hu and General Li. And the Chinese Bibidans are going to attack the fleet of transport shipmen half a month later, so we can notify Master Hu and General Li in advance and let them suspend their departure. After more than ten days, we will gather the main force of the navy to sneak into the offshore waters of Malacca and cooperate with me. The army annihilated many Chinese pirate ships and the Dutch-supported pirate fleet. "
"It is indeed operable to invite General Li's fleet to cooperate with the battle, but it is not clear what background the foreign devil Kirby mentioned by Zhang Zhenxun, will the haste offend the British?"
Mei Dongxing was worried about Kirby's British identity.
"Mr. Mei doesn't have to worry about this issue. Liang Xing, director of the Military Intelligence Department, provided a copy of Kirby's information, and Mr. Mei can check it first."
King Wang Dashan said a few words to his deputy. After more than ten minutes, the deputy took a notepad with dozens of pages and went into the conference room.
"Kirby, a British citizen, owns more than 20 large and small enterprises, including Kobe Iron Works, Kobe Steel Works, and Shipyards, because of excessive commercial expansion, which owes the British bank HSBC 800,000 pounds, Jardine Bank 200,000 pounds ... ... "
After carefully reading Kirby ’s intelligence introduction, Mei Dongxing breathed a sigh of relief, and laughed,
I thought Kirby was a great person in Britain. Now I know that it is just a pretending paper tiger, but a low-ranking British worker who can To the point where it is now, but also admirable. "
"Master Mei may not have spoken to Kirby, a foreign devil. When I was 17 years ago in Changzhou, Zhejiang, I met Kirby a few times."
Wang Dashan recalled, "At that time, Kirby was a guard in the concession ~ EbookFREE.me ~ After His Royal Highness occupied Changzhou, Kirby brought a dozen rifles into a bullet and claimed that he would help the heavenly brothers to fight the Qing Army. His Royal Highness heard After reporting to the brothers below, he dressed Kirby for more than a hundred and two silvers, and arranged him in the foreign soldiers. Later, Kirby excused himself from the foreign soldiers with an injury, and then used the name of heaven and the silver reward given by the attendant. Changzhou City started a raw silk business, earning 12,000 silver in less than a year, and then the king's servant evacuated from Changzhou and heard no news from him until Director Liang mentioned that a foreigner had spied on the boatmen of Jiangnan Shipyard Only then did I recognise him as a foreign devil. "
"Haha, look at General Wang and Kirby are still old friends."
Mei Dongxing laughed.
"Master Mei is kidding. Kirby, the foreign devil, only has money in his eyes. In order to make a huge profit, he dare to risk his life and cooperate with Dutch and Chinese pirates to get more than 200 shipyard workers in Jiangnan Shipyard. A familiar wolf has no friends. "
"That's not necessarily true. Since Kirby can profit among the three kingdoms of heaven, Japan, and the Qing government, it shows that he has something special.
The country is in a period of development and needs a variety of talents. If Kirby can serve the Han country, the government will not be too embarrassed to give him the remuneration he deserves. "
Mei Dongxing is a government official. He considers more practical interests when dealing with problems. As long as Kirby can bring benefits to the Han country, Mei Dongxing doesn't care how bad Kobe's personal conduct is.
"Since Master Mei intends to keep Kirby, half a month later, if he captures this person, he will definitely give him to Master Mei alive."
如此 "So, there is a trouble for General Lao."