Although Nanqi was prepared for the Renaissance Army's attack.
But preparation may not always work.
After Dong Shuheng entered Nanqi, he attacked steadily and used the artillery support on the gunboat.
The defense lines set up by the local forces in Nanqi are at best equivalent to the forts of the powerful families in history.
They thought that they had forts and cities, and the Renaissance army was deeply entrenched. If they wanted to attack these places, they would have to put in a large number of troops.
However, Dong Shuheng did not dislike them.
He was not in a hurry, and the battle on the northern front was completely left to Peng Yulin.
The local forces in Nanqi on the southern front can only defend and have no ability to attack at all.
Dong Shuheng just knocked down Wubao in one city after another.
Step by step, it's like harvesting.
This shocked the local people greatly.
The artillery blasted away the Wubao first. Sometimes there was no need for the Renaissance army to attack at all, and the Siamese servant army had already rushed in to resolve the battle.
The next step is to clean the area. All the strong men and women are escorted to the rear to wait for transfer.
Under Dong Shuheng's arrangement, fighting became an assembly line.
Different teams are responsible for different links and are connected in an orderly manner.
Only in the face of an absolute disparity in strength can war be fought like this.
"President, there is a man who calls himself Li Weiliang and wants to see you. He claims that he has a strategy to pacify Nanqi, which will allow us to easily capture Nanqi without knocking one by one." Wei Yuxiang went to the cabin to report.
"Oh, someone has come to lead the way at this time. It's interesting." Dong Shuheng smiled lightly, but he did not continue to ask about this matter.
"What's going on south of Peng Yulin?" Dong Shuheng asked.
It had been ten days since Dong Shuheng entered Nanqi, and Peng Yulin basically moved out at the same time as him.
The lower reaches of the Lancang River have three main tributaries flowing into the sea.
The northernmost tributary that Peng Yulin walked.
He landed from Vinh Long under the escort of the fleet, and then took the land route along Mei Di and Xin'an all the way north to Saigon.
Simply capturing Saigon would be equivalent to cutting off the land route for the rebels heading north to the south.
"Commander Peng is still attacking Saigon. The French army and part of the South Vietnamese Kingdom rebels have withdrawn there. They have a large number of artillery. Our siege is not going very smoothly," Wei Yuxiang said.
"Has the French fleet returned to Vung Tau?" Dong Shuheng asked again.
"No, they are still confronting our first and second fleets at Cam Ranh Bay." Wei Yuxiang replied.
"Then let the gunboat formation escorting Peng Yulin's troops leave the mouth of the Lancang River and see if they can go around the Saigon River." Peng Yulin's side must not be able to keep up with the firepower.
Dong Shuheng knew that the French attached great importance to artillery, and their artillery was not far behind the Renaissance Army's technology.
Moreover, Peng Yulin marched on the road. In the Nanqi area with dense river networks, it was difficult to march with heavy artillery.
"Think thump thump..." Dong Shuheng tapped his index finger on the table and thought for a while.
In this case, let's meet someone named Li.
The army continued to advance, and Dong Shuheng had moved from the ship to Longchuan City.
This is the nearest city to Phnom Penh.
Dong Shuheng used this place as a temporary travel camp and logistics transfer base.
There are a large number of Baath Army staff here.
A large number of them are responsible for transporting supplies to the front line.
Material supplies coming from the rear must be allocated according to the applications of each army.
The materials and personnel captured in the front must be transported to the rear, and they must also be counted and deployed here.
The captured young men and women had to undergo physical examination here, and then were sorted into groups and sent to Phnom Penh's Chanzhou Port, which was an important port located in Sihanoukville in later times.
After more than two years of construction, it has become the most important external port in Phnom Penh Province.
Here, the Westpac fleet will be responsible for receiving these people.
These Nanqi people were nominally prisoners of war of the Renaissance Army and were to be sent to Xinhua Island for reform.
West Pacific Company is responsible for transporting them away and relocating them.
Now Westpac has fifteen 3,000-ton standard cargo ships.
These ships were built at shipyards in Fuzhou and Jilong.
After leaving the factory, some self-defense weapons were installed on these ships.
Strictly speaking, they should be regarded as armed merchant ships.
This kind of iron-ribbed wooden hull steamship is mainly powered by steam. Although some have sails, the sails are only their auxiliary power.
These captains sailed between China and Papua and other islands in the Western Pacific for years.
Send immigrants to those islands. Ship some of the output from the islands, and then send necessary materials for development.
West Pacific Company has actually not made much money yet, because external development itself is a matter of heavy investment and slow benefit.
But the company's stock remains strong.
Because most of his shareholders are big families.
Many of them don't go there just to make money. They just want to get a piece of land on the ocean for their families.
What they were interested in was a privilege owned by the Western Pacific Company, which was colonial development rights.
A company like West Pacific that can have its own weapons and occupy its own territory.
There are many in history, and without exception they are all of the Big Mac type.
The most famous ones, such as those of the East India Company in Europe, were big men who made small indigenous countries look down upon them.
Huaihai Company was originally like this, but now it has been nationalized.
Currently, this is the only company within the Renaissance Army that has such power.
Although the West Coast company in the United States is bigger, it can no longer be regarded as a Chinese company.
It can only be regarded as a North Amelia company controlled by Dong.
Dong Shuheng knew that aristocratic families all had their own ambitions.
But he doesn't want these people to use their ambitions at home.
With such a company, they can express their ambitions.
To Dong Shuheng's surprise, the main middle- and upper-level employees of Xitai Company turned out to be the children of some wealthy families, most of whom were children of common people.
You must know that overseas colonial development is an extremely dangerous thing.
Lu Shun was a commoner son of the Lu family in Zhejiang.
He has been very brave and fierce since he was a child and likes to read knight-errant novels.
His dream is to become a leader in the village.
Relying on the Lu family's power in Zhenhai, he can indeed do it.
But under the harsh policy of the Renaissance Army, the best outcome for people like him would be to be exiled to Xianbelia.
After the Lu family became a shareholder of West Pacific Company, Mr. Lu, who knew his youngest son very well, had the foresight to arrange for him to join West Pacific Company. Originally, he just wanted him to suffer some hardships and temper his character.
At the beginning, Lu Shun worked as a manager in the company.
The company's management is divided into headquarters and front line.
The stewards at the headquarters are responsible for the company's operations and are responsible for various basic functions.
Front-line managers will be in charge of certain areas.
He is equivalent to a local military and political official.
The area that Lu Shun is in charge of is as big as Ningbo Prefecture and is located in the southeast of Papua Island.
Now the official name of this island has been changed to Xinhua Island.
The Lushun area is in the southeast of the island, located in the lower reaches of the Prali River in later generations.
This is the downstream impact plain of the river, suitable for agricultural development.
However, most of the land here is in a barren state.
It is said to be a plain, but in fact many places are swamps.
Lu Shun initially had less than a thousand North Korean laborers on hand.
After half a year of operation, only half of it was left.
At the beginning, Lu Shun also focused on development.
It didn't take long for him to become obsessed with fighting.
He has a group of two hundred Fuso mercenaries under his command.
At the beginning, the natives in the forest attacked their camp.
Lu Shun led several counterattacks. He found that the thrill of fighting was much more satisfying than fighting in the countryside.
After fighting several defensive battles, Lu Shun figured out the fighting methods of these indigenous people.
They basically only have throwing guns and soft bows with a range of only a few dozen meters. As long as you protect yourself and don't get hit, you'll be fine.
The opponent's weapons can be protected by simply wearing a wallet.
Of course, the premise is that you can't let them get close.
Lu Shun led his people to massacre several tribes. This guy's method of killing was very cruel. However, this shocked many tribes and made them voluntarily move to the area under Lu Shun's jurisdiction.
Here, no matter how cruel he does, no one will care.
Because he is the king here. This feeling makes Lu Shun addicted to it.
In the first half of this year, Lu Shun was hit by a blowgun when he led his men to attack the natives. Although the blowgun was not very powerful, it was highly poisonous.
Lu Shun was almost buried in a foreign land due to poisoning.
Fortunately, he was lucky. When he returned to the camp, the doctor tried all kinds of antidote pills, and miraculously survived.
Next, he returned to China to recuperate for a period of time.
Under the old man's compulsion, Lu Shun even married a wife.
Lu Shun's daughter-in-law is also a lady, petite and delicate.
But the life of a hot bed with a wife and children is not what Lu Shun wants to live.
He is like a wild beast that has been released into the forest. Now let him return to the zoo. How can he adapt?
The old man said that he was not allowed to go out until his wife was pregnant. The old man would help him arrange things in the company.
How could Lu Shun be willing to do this?
In order to fulfill the old man's request, he went out to find his friends during the day for the next month and tricked them into following him to Xinhua Island.
When I go home at night, I work hard on my new wife.
Fortunately, hard work paid off. One month later, my wife's aunt did not come to visit relatives on time.
After seeing the doctor, Lu Shun was overjoyed, not because he had a wife, but because he could finally go out into the wild.
This time, he went to sea with the fleet, but instead of going to the transit port in eastern Luzon, the fleet went directly south to Phnom Penh.
Passing through the South China Sea, they did not go along the Annan route. It was said that it was not safe for fighting there.
The fleet made a circuit from the western waters of Luzon to reach Phnom Penh's Zhanzhou Port.
After arriving here, the steward of the fleet told Lu Shun that a group of prisoners would be handed over to the company soon.
This made Lu Shun interested.
After the prisoners arrived, he quickly took his gang of friends to pick them out.
The people who went to sea with Lu Shun were all local bad guys, and they were not good people.
When they saw that there were women among the prisoners, each of them first picked out a few beautiful ones for themselves. They would all be divided among them anyway.
Lu Shun was not too interested in these things. In his territory, he raised many women, including Fusang, Korean, and even indigenous women he snatched.
Lu Shun didn't care about their looks, he just wanted to stimulate them.
Some of these women have already given birth to babies for him.
So Lu Shun didn't have much feeling about his wife's pregnancy. For him, it was just an addition.
"Brother Shun, everyone is looking for women, why do you specifically choose men? Maybe you like men's style. It's just that these men are dark and rough. If you want your husband, you should go to Siam to choose. Hehe, the taste is a bit strong!"
A gangster named Liu Dehai said.
This guy's family is a small landowner, not very wealthy, and he used to be Lu Shun's younger brother.
It's just that Lu Shun is usually very loyal to his friends, so everyone talks to him openly.
"Go away, I'll give you two guys tonight, the strongest ones, so you can have a good time." Lu Shun said angrily.
"No, Brother Shun, I was wrong." Liu Dehai quickly begged for mercy.
"You, stand up." Lu Shun saw a man from Nanqi squatting on the ground.
This man is short, but his arms are very thick. He definitely doesn't look like an ordinary farmer.
Moreover, Lu Shun, who had killed countless people in the past two years, could tell at a glance that this man had murderous intent.
The other person's eyes were filled with evil spirits.
This is the kind of person Lu Shun is looking for.
Although Fuso mercenaries are brave and fearless, they are not adapted to the tropical jungle climate of Xinhua Island.
When fighting with indigenous people, they often suffer losses because they are not adapted to the environment.
So he wanted to choose some warriors for himself this time.
Lu Shun winked at the translator, who stepped forward and translated Lu Shun's words to the man.
The Nanqi man stood up, his eyes still filled with hatred.
It seems that if you give him a knife now, he will go up and chop Lu Shun.
Lu Shun became interested for a moment and asked the other party to compare with him.
After hearing this, the man was right in his mind and rushed to Lu Shun's waist with a bear hug.
Because he is a head shorter than Lu Shun, he naturally attacks Lu Shun's lower body.
Lu Shun is no ordinary young master, he has also been coached by famous masters.
There are now many martial arts schools in China, and in addition to the Jingwu Association, there are also many private martial arts schools.
Martial arts have emerged in China.
Lu Shun wanted to be a knight-errant and had money, so he would naturally go to a martial arts school to study and make some friends by the way.
Lu Shun turned around, reached out to grab the opponent's belt, and threw him out.
The man rolled around, got up again, seemed to be humiliated, roared, and attacked Lu Shun again.
After several fights like this, Lu Shun saw that the man's physical strength was almost exhausted.
A grapple pinned him down. The man struggled desperately.
But his body was locked tightly by Lu Shun, and he couldn't move at all.
"I want this person." Lu Shun said to the mercenary steward.
With his height of 1.8 meters, he bullied someone who was 1.6 meters tall, so he was a bit weak. But he liked this man's wild nature.
The Nanqi man looked like a wild beast when he was pressing him down just now.
"Tell him that if his wife is gone, I will give him four or five dollars as a gift, and he will be well-fed and well-fed with me." Lu Shun asked the translator to tell the man.
It is easy for Lu Shun to get docile and obedient subordinates.
But in a place with a harsh environment like Xinhua Island, what is needed is ruthless people.
Lu Shun knew that their enemies were not just the local indigenous people.
Just two hundred kilometers away from the area he manages, there is another huge continent across the sea.
There are already some white people developing there.
From the official information of the Renaissance Army, Lu Shun also knew that the Great Empire had been trying to dominate there.
But Lu Shun was dissatisfied, why should such a large continent be monopolized by the Great Empire?
They only have a population of 20 to 30 million, so they don't need such a large territory.
Lu Shun hopes that one day he can also explore that continent.
A real man should be like a great president, lying drunk on the knees of a beautiful woman and waking up to take charge of the world.
Dong Shuheng has unknowingly become a role model for many ambitious young people.
Lu Shun selected dozens of people at the centralized detention center, all of whom were vicious and vicious.
Most of these prisoners were ordinary farmers. Although they were all designated as prisoners of war, Lu Shun knew what was going on.
Only capable people deserve to eat meat, while ordinary people can only do hard labor - building roads and farming.
What Lu Shun wanted more in his mind was to build his own armed force that could keep up with his needs for exploration and combat.
He has become a veritable adventurer.
He wanted to be a ranger in those unknown lands.
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