1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 372
"My army is the face of the American army. If I can't even deal with the colonial army of the Dutch East India Company, my reputation as a Brigadier General of the United States will be in vain," Liang Yao said.

"I'm not worried about problems on land, but problems at sea."

It costs money to maintain a full-stacked army for a long time, but there is also an advantage, that is, an army that maintains a full-stacked army all year round tends to have stronger combat effectiveness than ordinary armies.

The Netherlands is a maritime power, and its strength on land has always been its shortcoming.

The population of the Netherlands is only [-] million, and it cannot organize a strong army.

The colonial army of the Dutch East India Company was similar to that of the British East India Company. They all used local whites as officers and recruited local aborigines to build a colonial army.

Such an army will not have too strong combat effectiveness.

What Liang Yao is worried about is the sea power of the Netherlands, which is the strength of the Dutch.

Borneo is an island. If you want to send your own army to the island and maintain follow-up supplies, you need a fair sea force to compete with the fleet of the Dutch East India Company.

The U.S. Navy is a decent sea power, but Fremont also told Liang Yao just now.

Bullying and bullying Japan, a regime that is not recognized by mainstream Western countries, will allow the navy to support Liang Yao's expedition to Japan.

But to face the European powers head-on, the federal government will not send precious naval power to assist Liang Yao.

If he wanted to get his hands on Southeast Asia, Liang Yao could only rely on himself.

Compared with land power, Liang Yao's sea power is relatively weak.

He only had three serious warships capable of ocean-going operations. Liang Yao had no idea whether this amount of sea power could face up to the fleet of the Dutch East India Company.

Liang Yao can only pin his hopes on the new ship at the end of the year, that is, the dark steamer equipped with the new guns from the Sacramento Arsenal.

"The Netherlands started its fortune by the sea, and its sea power should not be underestimated." Fremont nodded and said.

"Wealth and wealth are sought in insurance. We want to plant rubber in the East Indies. The Dutch East India Company cannot get around it anyway. It is better to fight against the Netherlands than against the UK. At least there is hope."

After resting at Deng Wenqi's home, Liang Yao went to the border between California's Nevada Administrative Region and the Nevada Territory.

It is where the eastern section of the Pacific Railway is currently repaired.

"Only you can! Only you can! Do you know where Borneo is? Just agree without thinking about it?"

After Liang Yao left, Deng Wenqi's wife Wu Jifen complained in Deng Wenqi's ear.

"They're all brothers from the Deng family. Why can the second child be the mayor of Los Angeles! The third child can be a minister in the state government, but you are left in Nevada, which is not a shit. Now it's a good thing, even Nevada can't stay. Now, I have to go to Borneo, a place I’m not familiar with.”

After finally settling down in Reno, Wu Jifen resisted going to Borneo, which is tens of thousands of miles away.

Nevada is far away from the prosperous place of California, but at least it is still in California. After the train, it is only a day's work to go to Sacramento or San Francisco.

What about Borneo?

Let alone the foundation, it is still a place full of smog in Nanyang.

"What do you know! How the third brother arranges has his own considerations." Deng Wenqi shouted.

"The third child can be a minister in the state government, he already has a bit of ink in his stomach, and he can learn foreign languages ​​quickly.

As for the second child being the mayor of Los Angeles, you only see the current scenery of Los Angeles, and don't know the sadness of Los Angeles in the past. When the state was first established, the second child was almost shot to death by ghosts from the east. "

Deng Wenqi had no complaints about Liang Yao's arrangement.

Without Liang Yao, he is still working as a miner for others in the mine.

He is a contented man and a man of self-knowledge.

In terms of culture, he is not as good as Deng Wenyu, and in terms of intelligence, he is not as good as Deng Wenshun.

Liang Yao was not partial to his arrangement. What he wanted to do the most was to look at the gold mines, but now he just changed something else.

When Deng Wenshun was arranged to go to Los Angeles, it was also considered a very bad arrangement, because at that time Los Angeles was the poorest and most marginal town in California without gold, which was very different from the current Los Angeles.

"Let them go if they are capable! Why let you go!" Wu Jifen refused to let go.

"That's enough! Believe it or not, I'll beat you by making noises in my ears!" Deng Wenqi thumped the table heavily.

"According to your logic, shouldn't the fourth child in Australia also come back to ask for an explanation?! Father-in-law is quite a sensible person, why did he give birth to such an ignorant daughter like you?"

Seeing that Deng Wenqi was angry, Wu Jifen stopped talking.

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XNUM X Year X NUM X Month.

Although the Taiping Army had captured Jiangning and Jianguo in March, the area controlled by the Taiping Army was very limited at this time, only controlling the three large cities of Nanjing, Zhenjiang, and Yangzhou.

Among them, Yangzhou City was lost under the siege of the Qing army in September.

The Taiping army said that they controlled Jiangning, but in fact they only controlled Jiangning city. Standing on the top of Jiangning city, they could even clearly see the camp of the Qing army outside the city.

The Taiping Army marched all the way from Guangxi, and the team grew bigger and bigger like a snowball, and they also took down big cities such as Wuchang and Anqing.

But these large cities basically left after looting the treasury in the city, and the Taiping Army had no plan to stick to the operation for a long time.

Therefore, until November 1853, the only areas effectively controlled by the Taiping Army were Jiangning City and Zhenjiang City, and even the suburbs outside the city could not achieve effective control.

粤勇目前已经有了两个1500人的营，和一个200人的马队，以及拥有10门6磅炮，10门12磅炮的炮雇佣炮队。

Regarding whether to send troops immediately, Yueyong's senior management has different opinions.

The Guangzhou Merchant faction headed by Pan Shicheng believed that the Taiping Army was now in full swing, and they should avoid their edge and wait for the opportunity, so as not to lose the two battalions of Yueyong who had just been trained.

The Guangdong gentry faction headed by Liang Shaoqiong believes that the Taiping Army is now in full swing, which is an excellent opportunity for Yueyong to perform.

In the end, the two sides reached an agreement that Liang Shaoqiong would lead the Shanzi Battalion and the cavalry and artillery teams to go northward on the large ship of the Global Shipping Group in Xiangshan Port to support Yangzhou City.

Yueyong went north by boat, and when he entered the Yangtze River, he attracted crowds on both sides of the strait. They were full of curiosity about this strange army.

There was a lot of discussion about this group of Xiangyong who was riding on the Yanghuo steamer.

Of course, these people are more afraid.

People in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have long heard of what Xiangyong did after he left Hunan.

They worried that Yueyong did the same thing as Xiangyong after entering Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Although Yueyong is called Yueyong, it is actually very different from the Hunan Army in terms of personnel composition.

The Hunan Army is basically composed of Hunan children.

Most of the soldiers and non-commissioned officers of Yueyong were selected from the refugees, and Guangdong soldiers and non-commissioned officers accounted for one-third of them.

It's just that the high-level people are basically Cantonese. After all, this is an army raised by Guangzhou merchants and gentry.

Yueyong, who went north, took a large ship of more than [-] tons of the Global Shipping Company, and the depth of the Yangtze River was still large enough for the passage of large ships.

However, the water in the canal was shallow and large ships could not pass through, so Yueyong could only go to Yangzhou on the water boats collected locally.

Before disembarking, Liang Shaoqiong, in military uniform, pressed the handle of the Yanling Saber with his left hand, and summoned the backbone of the Shanzi Battalion, the Artillery Team, and the Cavalry Team to give lectures on the deck.

(End of this chapter)