Guo Zili took the battleship "Free Trade" and approached the sea outside Mianhe Port.∮Because there has not yet been a dedicated dock for large warships to enter and exit the port, the "Free Trade" can only anchor the sea far away, and then relay the materials and personnel through small boats, which is more troublesome.

Of course, the "Free Trade" did not come to Mianhe Port alone. In fact, there were several other ships of the Second Fleet, including 2 sail guard gunboats, 3 fast cruise ships, 1 armed transport ship, and a total of 7 professional warships. It is already almost all ships of the Second Fleet (there is also a quick contact ship and a small training ship at home).

These ships took advantage of the southeast wind of the cold season. They first went south from Xinhua Port, and stayed at Guihua Island and Tacheng Port for a short time. Then they bypassed the French colony at the southern end of Xinhua Island and followed the southeast wind to the north to reach Mianhe Port. They will stay here for a long time because Ma Wanpeng of Mianhe Port reported to Shi Qinjie that foreign ships have appeared on the sea off Mianhe Port recently, so why is it still unknown.

Shi Qinjie was about to leave office, so he was extremely reluctant to have trouble at this time, so he immediately discussed with Major Guo Zili, the commander of the Second Fleet (the Second Fleet is not under its jurisdiction), and asked the other party to lead the fleet to patrol around the island, and then stay in the area of ​​Mianhe Port to focus on patrols, driving away or capturing any suspicious foreign ships to ensure the safety of Mianhe Port, a key place. This place has intersections with the natives, and the place across the sea is also a Portuguese colony, which is very sensitive. Moreover, considering the increasingly tense relationship between the Eastern Coast Republic and the Kingdom of Portugal recently, the Portuguese who are not weak here must be extremely careful and vigilant - especially to prevent them from colluding with the French at the southern end of the island.

A few days ago, Guo Zili took several ships to inspect the south and landed near the Mahafari Plateau in the south. He exchanged gifts with the local indigenous Balahs and established a primary connection. The Balas are the indigenous people of the driest area of ​​the island (Mahafari Plateau). Currently, the loose Bala Kingdom (actually a tribal alliance) has been established. The civilized level is relatively low, but the temperament is relatively fierce. Both the French in the east and the Sakaravas in the north have very dissatisfied relations, and this is undoubtedly the basis for the establishment of a friendly alliance between the East and Pakistan.

It is said that since the end of 1651, Xiao Baitu, who was "inflated a huge amount of food and salary" and "death and wounded two thousand soldiers" (Ma Wanpeng's words to Shi Qinjie). However, he was unable to completely pacify the Kingdom of Monabe. Although they greatly injured the living forces of this kingdom and plundered a large amount of supplies (the hump and cattle were over 6,500, more than 13,000 sheep, and more than 30,000 leathers), and also occupied the palace of this indigenous kingdom - located in the later Bezaha area, the war was never over and the Sakaravas could not be allowed to admit defeat.

Since the Monaber Kingdom does not admit defeat, the people of the East Coast have to spend a lot of manpower, material resources and military power to accompany this native kingdom in hills, grasslands, and forests. So far, the cumulative number of casualties has exceeded 2,000 - of which about one-quarter of the Polish soldiers, and the rest are the Eight Banners of the Islands. Among the casualties, less than half of the casualties caused by head-on battles. More than half of the remaining half have basically died of various diseases or simply exhaustion, which is quite helpless.

At present, Xiao Baitu, the war maniac, led the main force of about 2,000 (Polish and German soldiers about 700. All of them were local soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Islands), and stationed on the front line of Pingman Fort (the native palace of the original Bezaha, which was conquered and named Pingman Fort) and prepared to carry out long-term occupation of this area. In addition, in order to ensure the smooth transportation in the rear, Xiao Baitu also ordered 1,000 (the Qing army captured 500 people, and another 500 local soldiers of the Islands Eight Banners of the Islands) to set up a transfer station in the Tongguburi area, and named this place Dasheng Village to commemorate his victory in leading his army here to defeat the army of the Monaber Kingdom and annihilate three or four thousand enemies more than a year ago.

However, Xiao Baitu's attitude of ignoring reality and pursuing the locals was also quite unhappy. It was nothing more. First, the material consumption was very large, and the manpower was very large - and this was the key. Originally, the East African Transportation Company transported many Polish prisoners of war from the Ottoman Empire, which were all good laborers. However, due to constant front-line wars, many people were forced to transport them to fight, which undoubtedly affected production.

You should know that the area of ​​cotton fields between the Mianhe River and Hunhe River basin and the total cotton output are one of the important basis for Ma Wanpeng's performance assessment. If you have brought people to war and transport, the state-owned cotton farm naturally does not have enough manpower to work. Isn't this hindering Commander Ma's "progress"? So, Ma Wanpeng's attitude towards Xiao Baitu has changed from the initial support to the lack of support. But what should he do if he doesn't support it? It's easy to provoke a war, but it's not so easy to end the war. Xiao Baitu killed more than 8,000 Sakarava soldiers and civilians, and even occupied their royal court, seized a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry, cattle, sheep and livestock. At the same time, he handed over some of the head-on wives and daughters of the Menaber Kingdom who had not escaped to the subordinates' soldiers. The two sides have already formed a deep hatred.

What's more, the Sakaravas are famous for holding grudges. It would be strange if you humiliate the other party so much. This is obviously one of the important reasons why the war has been delayed to this day. Now, if you want to completely end this war that has been ongoing for a long time, you still have to completely destroy the other party, and there is no other way. So, you can see recently that the East Coast people have significantly strengthened their ties with the Bala people on the Mahafari Plateau, the scattered Sakarava tribes in the Daqing Basin (they are also often conquered by the Monaber Kingdom) and the Melina people in the east.

Especially those Melina who are enemies of the Sakaravas, they will spare no effort to strike them whenever they have the chance. Although in recent decades, due to the surge in combat power of the Monaber Kingdom (there are a large number of convex soldiers), the Melina people have been defeated repeatedly and their power has completely retracted to the central highlands, they have never negotiated peace with the Monaber Kingdom. The small-scale conflict between the two sides (mainly the Monaber Kingdom went to the Central Highlands to fight the Grass Valley) has not stopped for decades. It can be said that in fact, they hated the Sakaravas more than the East Coast people.

So, half a year after the war between the East Coast people and the Kingdom of Monaber broke out, the Melinas on the Central Highlands finally couldn't help but take action. Although they did not contact the people of the East Coast at the beginning, the effect of the joint combat was not very good, but this still completely collapsed the Kingdom of Monaber, which had already dealt with extremely difficult times. The old king and his two sons each took a branch of the people, scattered onto the vast land, and fought intermittently with the enemy.

At first, their enemies were limited to the East Coast people and the Melina people, but soon the Bala people on the Mahafari Plateau in the south also joined the battle group. They had a feud with the Sakaravas, so they hit it off with the East Coast people. Soon they crossed the Hun River (Unirahi River) from the south and launched an attack on the Kingdom of Monaber. In order to support their actions, Xiao Baitu was the leader, and Ma Wanpeng approved it to give them a batch of cold weapons so that they could better attack the Sakaravas. After the battle lasted until this year, the Melina people also contacted the East Coast people. The two sides agreed to send troops to compress the Sakaravas' activity space and clear out their living forces in order to completely solve the common major troubles of both sides.

To be honest, the Monaber Kingdom is quite good in New China Island, both the vision of the upper class and the combat effectiveness of the lower class military and civilians. Otherwise, they would not have unified the entire western half of the island in a few decades in history, and even if it weren't for the civil war, they would have occupied the northeast of the island. Not to mention that they have repeatedly repelled the attacks of Western colonists and annihilated the remnants of the Arabs on the island. Compared with their achievements, the Melinas were not able to mention military and war except for excellent farming.

Of course, their weakness is also quite obvious, that is, their lack of economic strength. Especially now that this country is just in its early stage of its rise, with nomadic and trestling as its main lifestyle. Wang Ting, who has been in operation for many years (also the most fertile and fertile agricultural area in their control area, with relatively developed dry farming agriculture) was captured by the evil East Coast people, and their strength plummeted.

Xiao Baitu understood this very well, so he firmly advocated chasing the Sakarava people relentlessly, because only he knew how weak the opponent was now. Every time he attacked, he could see that the Sakarava had fewer and fewer livestock, and every time he attacked, he could see that their population was smaller and smaller. Such a weak enemy was defeated in one go. When are you going to wait? Are you waiting for them to take a breath?

However, Xiao Baitu's wishful thinking has suffered a small setback recently. Because they found that the firearms in the hands of the natives of Saccarawa were not getting fewer and fewer, and their number increased from hundreds at the beginning to more than a thousand branches. This is simply terrifying and terrifying! After the situation was reflected on Ma Wanpeng, he also felt that this matter could not be neglected, so he sent a Clipper to notify Shi Qinjie of Xinhua Port, which is the reason why the Second Fleet recently increased patrol efforts - they suspected that the Portuguese or the French had intervened in this four-way melee in the western part of New China Island.

The Portuguese may be less suspicious, but the French are definitely very suspicious, because they and the British are the two European countries with the closest economic ties to the Kingdom of Menaper. British merchants have disappeared recently, but the French have two colonial strongholds on this large island, Dovensburg and Saint Louis. The suspect should not be too great!
Chapter completed!