Kai Fu Han

Chapter 570

The chief of staff of the Fourth Staff Division has been standing in front of the sand table, deep in thought, and has not participated in the discussion among the staff.

"Have anyone sent people to negotiate with Satsuma and Osumi for the larger islands close to the main island? Can they be won over through non-war means?" Liu Xinqi asked.

"After negotiation, we have given in to buying land to build a new port, but these two states disagree life and death. I don't know what value these islands have for them, which are completely worthless." Chief of Staff Lin Yibing replied .

"It is understandable that even if your own yard is empty, it is impossible for your enemies to build a small room in the yard."

The Fourth General Staff Department can be said to be the general staff of the navy, and it basically serves the navy. Lin Yibing was born as a naval officer, so he is very clear about the things encountered in the development of the navy.

The cannibalization strategy of buying land to build a port cannot be implemented. It seems that the only option is to give up or rob.

"The information passed back last time, it seems that the Matsuura family intends to surrender, right?" Liu Xinqi asked.

"No, the Matsuura family just said that they would not block our way. I estimate that the Matsuura family will not surrender to us until the power of our Xinghan Alliance on the Japanese island exceeds that of the Japanese puppet emperor." Lin Yibing replied.

It makes sense, investing in potential stocks is too risky, and besides, this potential stock is still thousands of miles away on the other side of the sea.

"You said that after the Matsuura family has developed in the past few years and has money and people, do they have the idea of ​​​​expanding their territory?" Liu Xinqi asked.

This sentence suddenly reminded Lin Yibing.

Lin Yibing walked to the map of Xihai Island and checked the locations of several states, his eyes getting brighter and brighter.

"Hizen Province and Satsuma Province are adjacent to each other on the west coast."

"Yes." Liu Xinqi did not continue, watching Lin Yibing's performance.

"If we help the Matsuura family in the naval battle, the Matsuura family will gain control of the sea, and then with the sophisticated weapons and matchlocks purchased from us, they can completely defeat the local forces of Satsuma and Osumi."

"Yes."

"In this case, we can not only make a profit by selling arms to the Matsuura family, but also obtain jurisdiction over several outer islands in exchange for assisting in naval battles." Lin Yibing said.

The arms trade has been hugely profitable since ancient times.

The cost of a matchlock gun in Xinghan League has been reduced to [-] yuan.

However, when the [-]-yang matchlock gun was shipped to Hizen, the local forces were willing to spend [-] liang to buy it, because the cost of their own imitations was far higher than the [-] liang, and the quality was not as good as those made by the Xinghan League.

If they bartered and used matchlock guns in exchange for their gold, copper, sulfur, zinc, saltpeter and grain, the profits would double again.

"I think they would be willing even if we rent the Goto Islands in Matsuura County." Liu Xinqi reminded.

The Goto Islands are located to the west of Hizen Province, plus several islands in the south and Tsuuma Island in the north. If the fleet goes south again, it can completely abandon Hizen Province, and the importance of Hirado Port will be greatly reduced.

"The lion opens its mouth wide. We can ask for more in advance." Lin Yibing fully understood Liu Xinqi's strategic thinking.

This is killing someone with a borrowed knife.

The Xinghan Alliance attacked Satsuma and Osumi by itself, which was a war with the Japanese.

However, the Matsuura family of Hizen country's attack on the two countries was just internal friction. The Xinghan League only needed to intervene in the name of employment to achieve the desired results.

"I will formulate a plan as soon as possible, and then let Liu Xinyuan implement it. It just so happens that there is already a regiment of troops there, which is enough to complete this combat mission." "Leave it to you."

Liu Xinqi never gets involved in details.

The Emperor of Zhao was taboo against warriors and liked to use "formation plans" in battles, which greatly limited the performance of frontline generals and resulted in many fighter planes being unused.Liu Xinqi is at the other extreme. Since there are soldiers as the backbone of the army, there is no need to worry about loyalty issues. Therefore, when assigning combat missions, he only tells the generals the results he wants to achieve, and the process is completely left to the staff and generals themselves.

As the Xinghan League's army grew larger, this phenomenon became more and more obvious.

Before assigning tasks to Liu Xinyuan, I just told him: "I want to Liuqiu Islands!" At most, I added one to capture the first island chain along the way. The other combat plans were formulated by Liu Xinyuan and the staff themselves.

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On June [-], the training of [-] recruits of the Xingren Army was completed. Liu Xinqi had nothing to do and went to the recruit camp to see the recruits enlisting and said a few words to the recruits.

The recruits reorganized by the Xingren Army were inferior to the recruits from peasant backgrounds recruited by the Xinghan League themselves.

Some of these recruits were from local ruffians. Although they restrained themselves during the recruitment process and did not make any big mistakes, they were revealed once they entered the military camp.

"The military camp is a big melting pot, and anyone thrown into it can become a talent."

This is just a vision, and the reality is not so good.

Some people are scoundrels by nature, and they are also scoundrels when they become soldiers.Some people are lazy by nature, and they will also be lazy soldiers when they become soldiers.

The Xinghan League recruit camp is now very strict in screening. Recruits who do not meet the requirements will basically not be able to leave the camp and will be sent home directly.

This time, 2 people from the Xingren Army came to participate in the training, but only more than 100 people finally left the camp.

Nearly 2000 people were all cleared out.

Regarding this issue, Ruan Xiaoqi also approached Liu Xinqi and requested that those unqualified recruits be transferred to the garrison system, saying that those people would not be able to do much when they returned home and would only bring trouble to the hometown.

It sounds reasonable, but Liu Xinqi ultimately did not agree to Ruan Xiaoqi's plea.

If you go home and cause trouble in your hometown, the Ministry of Public Security will naturally be responsible for punishing them.

If these ruffians are allowed to enter the garrison system, the garrison is in a local area and has many opportunities to contact the people. If these ruffians are wearing military uniforms, the harm will be even greater.

The remaining more than 8000 people are still inferior to the innocent people recruited, but on the whole they are useful.

These people were directly assigned to Yuan Li and assigned to the garrison system.

This distribution result surprised Ruan Xiaoqi. He thought that these trained elite soldiers would enter the field army, but he did not expect that they were only qualified to become the second-line arms of the Xinghan League.

After the results came out, after listening to Liu Lisheng's report, Ruan Xiaoqi's learning motivation has greatly increased, and he no longer relies on his age to rely on his elders in school.

"Who doesn't want a good future?" Liu Xinqi replied to Liu Lisheng.

After the distribution, Yuan Li asked Liu Xinqi privately: "What is the difference between this batch of soldiers? Why are some of them given to the field army?"

"Actually, the combat effectiveness of this group of soldiers is no worse than that of the field army. After all, they are all veterans who have experienced war." Liu Xinqi replied.

(End of this chapter)