The New China Development Team is currently preparing for pre-war materials and has entered the final stage. Xinhua County, Tacheng County, Daze County, Mianhe County, Ningguo County (established in the first half of this year, with four townships: Ningguo Town, Xiuning Township, Wanling Township, and Kanghua Township), Lu'an County and Gaodu County, all personnel sent by the New China Security Command to inspect to see if supplies such as food, weapons, ammunition, tents, drugs, livestock, horses, vehicles, etc. are in place.

They took Shangfang Sword to check very seriously. Whenever they arrived at a place, they would call on the township chiefs, police station chiefs, and armed ministers of the area to attend, open the warehouse together, count all kinds of war preparation materials, and then make up for the various war requirements to ensure that the war needs are met (at the same time, they should also maintain an additional 20% margin).

In this process, many problems were naturally discovered, such as the materials and accounts in warehouses in various places were not in line with each other, or inferior products were used as good ones, etc., which occurred from time to time. After reporting to Xinhua County, Huang Yi was furious and ordered all the relevant responsible persons to be detained, tried, ordered to compensate, detained and jailed, or executed directly. In short, a group of people were dealt with severely.

At the same time, he was also a little scared. It had only been so many years since then that such things began to appear in the local area, which was also shocking to think of. Of course, perhaps this may not be a big deal to others, because in terms of horizontal comparison, foreign countries were much worse. For example, during the Second British-Dutch War, Druittel led the fleet into the Thames. The British shore defense turrets either had shell models and gun calibers, or they sent inferior gun powder, or the officers stole and sold out all the ammunition. In addition, the people who were vacancies were in a mess, and they did not play any role, which made the Dutch pick up a big advantage.

However, Huang Yi naturally would not look at the problem like his subordinates. Although he was a middle school student from later generations, he obviously had no higher requirements for this regard than Britain, France, the Netherlands, or the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Therefore, while ordering serious rectification, he was also thinking about whether it was necessary to reform the supervision system of the New China Development Team. However, he could not think of any good solution for the time being, so he could only let it go temporarily.

The inspection and replenishment of materials will not be completely over until the end of April. Since then, the cool season (and the dry season) is about to come. This is not only a time for New China Island to work outdoors, but also a month suitable for battlefield fighting.

It is April 15th today. Peng Yuanzhi, the commander of the Zelu area, personally led the main army to gather in the Daze County area. His subordinates include more than 200 professional soldiers from the Security Command (in fact, it is considered a second-line reserve force on the east coast, even the front-line reserve force like the New China Infantry Battalion), which was regarded as the core military force by him. In addition, the security groups in Daze, Lu'an and Gaodu counties also sent some people over, which together looked like a thousand people. The training level does not look very high, the equipment is just right, they are all old guns, and their morale is even more average, and they don't look very willing.

After all, Daze, Lu'an and Gaodu counties have been established for a few years and have been developed on a wilderness. The main job of the people on weekdays is to cut trees, clear shrubs, level the land, clear swamps, plant grain, and build roads. The heavy work has almost squeezed out every energy in their bodies, and even pulled them out to march and fight. Isn't this your life? You know, many people are still thinking in their minds that they will repair the leaking roofs, plant a few acres of vegetables, plant a few fruit trees, and level some wasteland. How can they waste their good time fighting and killing? Now is the cold season, it is the cold season suitable for work!

Peng Yuanzhi had no good idea for these militiamen who were thinking about staying at home on acre of three-point ground. He could only cheer them up and promised to increase the distribution of spoils to them, so he would never let them suffer any losses. At the same time, he warned that the Antemoro, Antefaji, and Antesaka were not ignorant indigenous peoples. In fact, they were the only ethnic group on the island that could use words to record things (using Arabic variants), and they could use firearms, which were not the targets of easy warfare. If everyone was still fighting on the outing, they would likely suffer unexpected losses, and then Peng Yuanzhi felt that it would be better not to go out. Moreover, Peng Yuanzhi even warned that the enemy might have predicted the actions of the East Coast people, and the battle process would not be very easy, and carelessness would only seek death.

The reason for saying this is to start with the motivation of the East Coast people to launch a large-scale offensive: In fact, it is nothing else. The main reason is that the two sides have become increasingly fierce in recent years for mountains suitable for growing coffee. Indigenous peoples such as the Antemoro people were extremely disgusted with the behavior of the East Coast colonists constantly occupying forests, cutting down trees, and opening plantations. They flatly refused the proposal of the East Coast people to buy the mountain, and sent people to attack, burning several plantations or logging camps under the Zelu regional government, killing and injuring seventy or eighty non-national labor workers. This naturally greatly angered Commander Peng Yuanzhi, who was arrested in the region by military and political forces, and decided to launch a punitive war.

The report Peng Yuanzhi fought above was also approved by Huang Yi, the captain of the New China Development Team. Leader Huang said that he would approve the request to launch a punishment war in Zelu, and support a batch of weapons, ammunition and 50,000 yuan of military expenditure. The troops sent were allocated by the Zelu Regional Security Command. The implication was that the development team would not have additional reinforcements, and everything would depend on them.

Although Peng Yuanzhi was a little dissatisfied with this, he had no choice but to accept this reality. Of course, at the beginning, Mr. Peng also sent someone to contact the brave and warlike Bara people living on the Mahafari Plateau, their servants, Mahafari people, Antondruva people, but they were not interested in jointly attacking the Antemoro people, Antefaji people, etc., and they were all focused on living their own little life, and in the end they had to give up. The East Coast people still had to fight this battle themselves!

Coincidentally, the Daqing Basin on the west coast, which is across the central plateau from the Zelu area, is also preparing for a war recently. The target of the war is the last ethnic group on the island and the largest ethnic group of the Melinas. The reason for the war is very complicated, but if you look into it in depth, it is actually very simple, it is plundering! The land, wealth and even population of the Melinas are plundered to enrich the pockets of the people on the East Coast and fill their plantations.

Of course, in order to reflect the justice of the East Coast people, the reason for the war in the Daqing Basin was determined by land disputes and trade disputes. The so-called land disputes are actually very simple, that is, the East Coast people and the Melina people on the border division of the western grassland area. Speaking of which, after working with the Melina people to defeat the Kingdom of Sakarava and its participating forces, the East Coast people and the Melina people really existed for a long time during the honeymoon period. The East Coast people did not make too many demands on the border. After all, there were few people at that time, and the territory they could control was really limited, so there was no need to fight for many wild lands.

However, as the Daqing Basin is gradually developing, people on the east coast have begun to migrate slowly from the coast to the inland areas, and dry farming has been developed on every land suitable for planting, so there are more frictions between the two sides. When there are more frictions, people will always be violent and cause some trouble, which will cause some casualties, which will complicate and serious.

When it comes to trade disputes, it is even simpler. Because the Melina people on the Central Plateau began a fierce annexation war, fighting each other endlessly, and agricultural production was damaged to varying degrees, the scale of grain trade with the East Coast people, which had been stable for many years, gradually began to shrink and eventually stopped completely.

This naturally made the East Coast people very dissatisfied, because it meant that they needed to spend more money to buy food from the owner of the Portuguese manor across the sea, so they strongly demanded that the Melina people resume food trade, which was naturally rejected by the Melina princes on the plateau because their food was really tight and they really had no room for sale.

At this time, the Daqing Regional Administration and the New China Development Team, which had long been ulterior motives, had already planned to take advantage of these two excuses, although it might seem a bit far-fetched to launch a war of about 2,000 people against the Melina to see if they can get any benefits.

The main players of the battle include 800 security regiments from Mianhe and Ningguo counties, 400 people from Daqing Guard Brigade, and thousands of people from the Xinhua Infantry Battalion, the main force reinforced by Xinhua County. To be honest, the lineup of this unit is much stronger than that of Peng Yuanzhi. Not only is there nearly twice as many people, but the strongest combat power on the island of the Xinhua Infantry Battalion, which serves as the main force, makes them salivate.

This reserve force with four infantry companies has a history of many years. It has been fighting everywhere on the island, including grasslands, forests, swamps, deserts, and mountains. It has left traces of their combat. It can be said to be an experienced and famous veteran brigade with great combat effectiveness. Even if it is exaggerated, the thousand officers and soldiers of the New China Infantry Battalion are probably the most professional tropical troops in the East Coast Republic of China. They have a lot of experience in fighting on tropical jungles and islands with snakes and insects, humid and stuffy, and complex environments, and are teachers of many other troops.

Just last month, Major Zhou Yafu, the battalion commander of the Marine Battalion, even contacted the New China Infantry Battalion through the Second Fleet, intending to send some professional officers and non-commissioned officers to the same tropical island of Huaiyuan (Trinida) to guide them on how to fight in the tropical jungle. After all, the Marine Battalion often has to operate in the Caribbean Sea, which is a standard tropical area and must master relevant skills.

The New China Infantry Battalion was so "attractive" that it was actually invested in the Daqing Basin area and participated in the war against the local Melina, which shows how much importance the New China Trail Development Team attached to this war. There is no doubt that they wanted to take advantage of the favorable opportunity of the Melina themselves to fight each other, first to clarify the enemy forces on the western grasslands so that they can grasp the entire coastal plains, and then decide whether to send troops deep into the plateau depending on the situation to launch a further blow to the Melina people. Conservatively, there are nearly one million Melina people and countless towns, farmland, canals, workshops and other facilities they have established. It is an invaluable wealth and cannot be moved by others.

Therefore, if the war against the Antemoro people planned by Peng Yuanzhi and the Antefaji people was optional, then the war against the Melinas planned by Huang Yi himself was really inevitable. With the "greed" of the East Coast people for land and population, especially the latter, as the Venetians also came to the island to open plantations, the demand for domestic market on the East Coast has grown rapidly, and the demand for non-national labor workers is getting bigger and bigger, not to mention the Daqing Railway, which is still being built "stubbornly". The outbreak of this war is almost inevitable, and the Melinast people will surely usher in a catastrophe!

On April 30, 1676, after inspecting the second phase of the expansion of the largest Caiyuanbei Island Sugar Factory on the island, Huang Yi, the captain of the New China Development Team, arrived at the famous Ningguo Port (formerly Ma Renjia City), and moved into Ningguo Dao Temple (formerly Ma Renjia Mosque), and temporarily requisitioned the place as a command center, intending to command this war, which is not small in size throughout the whole process.

On May 2, after thousands of people from the New China Infantry Battalion landed in Ningguo Port and moved to Wanling Township, the Second Navy Fleet, which was responsible for logistics and material transportation and support, suddenly brought him a slightly helpless news: they had just had a serious armed conflict with the Omans in the area of ​​Emba Island, and sank three Omani Arab sailboats. Someone secretly reported to Huang Yi that one of the ships was actually a legitimate merchant ship from India and was blackened by the guys from the Second Fleet. However, Huang automatically filtered these words and pretended that they did not hear them point out that this was an outbreak of long-term accumulation of conflicts between the two sides, so they should not be taken lightly.

The commander of the Second Fleet, Mo Liei, formally requested Huang Yi to send some more regular soldiers to the Leba Island to garrison to prevent the Omani people from engaging in retaliatory landing operations. After all, their navy could not squat there every day. Huang Yi was really annoyed about this. What's wrong? I was about to launch two wars on the island at the same time, completely defeating the remaining indigenous forces on the periphery and occupying the entire island. You came here to me?

If this Omani had some of the affection accumulated in business in the past, it would be really hateful now!
Chapter completed!