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Text Chapter 477: Troops march to Luzon

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    "Four dollars a month, and there are paid winter and summer vacations, and various holiday benefits are also very generous. In addition, there is a house prepared by the college to live in. If you work for five years, you can also get a yard. Wow, this is great  If jobs were left to future generations, they would definitely be more popular than civil servants!" Li Min couldn't help but admired the proposed salary for teachers.

    In order to attract some scholars to join the education system, Xie Chun and Hua Guang have made great efforts. The salary offered alone is enough to make many people excited.  Fortunately, Li Min had strong support behind it, otherwise Cui Wei would not have agreed to such a large expense.

    Although the money is a bit too much, as long as the education system can be established, it is all worth it in Li Min's opinion. Moreover, teachers have the important responsibility of teaching and educating people, so they must be paid accordingly.  However, due to limited conditions now, teachers come from a wide range of sources, and their own moral quality cannot be guaranteed. However, the main thing now is to build schools, so this is the only way for the time being. When there are more talents in the future, we can improve the quality of the teaching team.  Quality is not too late either.

    In addition, what makes Li Min very happy is that such high welfare benefits are not in vain. After hearing the news, many scholars from Tang Dynasty began to come to teach. In fact, Li Min also knew that the most attractive to these people was probably the one  The conditions for becoming an official are, after all, firstly, teaching and educating people makes people look good and gain face, and secondly, there is a path for promotion, so they are so eager.

    But this is exactly what Li Min wants to see. No matter what these people come for, the most important thing is that with their participation, Taiwan's education system has finally been established.  Just a few months later, several newly built primary schools in Keelung officially began enrolling students.  At the same time, primary schools have been built in several cities such as Tainan, and these primary schools all use unified teaching materials and are taught by teachers who have been uniformly trained. Although it is not obvious yet, I believe that when the first batch of students enter the society,  Everyone will understand the meaning of the saying that knowledge is power.

    And just when Li Min was making great efforts to educate the Taiwanese people, he also sent out another team to 'civilize' the foreign races, but there were no gentle teachers in this team.  On the contrary, they are all vicious men with weapons in their hands. They set off by boat from various places, and their destination is only one, and that is Manila, Luzon.

    June in Manila is the season when storms rage. If it had been in the past, the number of ships in this port would have dropped by half compared to usual, and the entire Manila would have entered a period of economic depression.  After all, no businessman would take the risk of sailing a ship in a storm.

    However, June this year was very unusual. Not only did the number of ships in the port not decrease, but there were 20 to 30% more ships than usual. The port was even more busy. Countless materials were unloaded from the ships and then transported to warehouses in Manila for storage.  In addition, countless businessmen arrive here every day, waving gold and silver coins, just to find a place to live in Manila City.

    After the boats and merchants arrived, troop transport fleets finally arrived in Manila, but when these troops got off the ships.  The soldiers in the army all looked at the city of Manila with awe, and when the people in the city saw these soldiers.  There was also a look of disdain on their faces, because none of these troops were direct troops of the Qi Palace. In other words, they were all Silla people, Japanese people and grassland people.

    These troops rushed to Manila, and Yanbei, who had been staying in Linyi, also rushed here.  Yan Bei should have arrived in Manila long ago, but when he was on the way, he received an order from Li Min to return to Taiwan. Only when he met Li Min did he realize that Li Min felt uneasy with just using foreign troops.  Therefore, another 3,000 Han troops were allocated, including 1,000 musketeers and 500 artillerymen who had just completed training.

    At first, muskets and artillery were brilliant on the Japanese battlefield. After the war, Li Min immediately increased the production of firearms. In addition, he promoted the original musketeers and artillery soldiers to instructors to form a firearms training camp. Now they have trained  Five thousand musketeers and 1,500 artillery troops were originally sent to Japan to suppress the rebellion, but this time, for the sake of Luzon, Li Min just took some of them and gave them to Yanbei.

    In fact, after Li Min implemented the Sinicization policy, the ruling situation of the Japanese country has been greatly improved, and rebellions have rarely occurred. Therefore, if Li Min is willing, he can send more firearms troops to Yanbei, but Li Min  Xin also knows that the climate in Luzon is rainy and very humid. If the current firearms troops arrive there, they may not be of much use, so they only mobilized a thousand-man musketry team and a five-hundred-man gunnery team.  artillery.

    After Yan Bei landed in Manila with a Han army of 3,000 people, all the troops participating in the battle against Luzon arrived. However, Yan Bei was not responsible for commanding the army in the battle. He did not have the ability to do so. This battle was led by Zhou  The dragon is the commander-in-chief and the tiger force is the deputy commander-in-chief. All the troops are under the command of the two of them.

    The reason why Zhou Long is appointed as the commander-in-chief instead of Su Dingfang and Xue Rengui is mainly due to the environment here in Luzon. The climate here is hot, and a considerable part of it is hot.Leading a jungle, fighting here is much more difficult than fighting on plains or mountains. In addition to facing enemies, you also have to face various dangers in the jungle. If a general without experience in this area leads a team, it is estimated that 10,000  If a man's army is thrown into the jungle, half of it will be lost before fighting the enemy.

    It was precisely with these considerations in mind that Li Min asked Zhou Long and Hu Li to lead the team. If Lu Qing hadn't been in charge of the navy and couldn't leave, he would have really wanted Lu Qing to make a cameo as an army general.  When the three of them were in Taiwan, they led many people to fight with the local natives. Although the weather in Taiwan is hotter than in Luzon, it is somewhat similar, so their combat experience in this tropical jungle is also limited.  Very rich.

    Zhou Long and Hu Li came with those foreign armies. This time, in order to pacify Luzon in one fell swoop, Li Min mobilized a total of 20,000 Japanese troops, 23,000 Korean troops, and 10,000 grassland troops.  Li Min originally mobilized 20,000 grassland people, but Zhou Long objected to this. In the end, Li Min followed his suggestion and transferred 10,000 grassland people to Linyi.

    Luzon is a big island, so the 50,000-strong army is naturally not enough, and Zhou Long has no intention of letting them be the main force. The real main force is the 50,000-strong Linyi army he transferred from Linyi. These Linyi people were originally transferred to the Japanese state.  , but was intercepted by Zhou Long, because in his opinion, the grassland people, Japanese people, and Sanhan people all lived in the north and were not adapted to the jungle warfare in the south. On the contrary, the climate in Linyi was similar to Luzon.  , so he suggested to Li Min to reduce the number of grassland people's troops and at the same time transfer all Lin Yi's troops to Luzon.

    Li Min would naturally not object to this reasonable suggestion. Moreover, he had already handed over the pacification of Luzon to Zhou Long, so these matters were originally Zhou Long's responsibility.

    After Zhou Long and Yan Bei all arrived in Luzon, they did not rush to seize Luzon. Instead, they stationed all their troops outside Manila. Then, Zhou Long and Huli personally supervised the 100,000-strong army to conduct emergency adaptation training.  In addition, they also found some people who were very familiar with the Luzon jungle to join the army and serve as temporary instructors, explaining to the soldiers the places to pay attention to and various taboos in the jungle.

    Speaking of which, these armies are all foreigners. Li Min and Zhou Long do not care about the life or death of these people. However, now that Li Min is pursuing the Hanization policy, he must use harmonious and gentle methods to deal with these foreigners, so it is not suitable to let these foreigners live now.  The army suffered a large number of casualties, and if there were too many casualties, the Qi Palace would also have to spend a large amount of money for compensation.  It is precisely because of this that Zhou Long, who received the instructions, made these preparations.

    In addition, Luzon is now in the rainy season. Not only is there a lot of rain, but the weather is also extremely hot, which is not suitable for war. Only from October to February of the following year will the rain in Luzon become less, and  The temperature will also drop a bit, which is a good time to attack.

    It's only June now, which means that Zhou Long's army will have to stay in Manila for at least four months. Of course, these four months are not for raising them in vain, but they need to adapt to the local climate, and from time to time  They need to be taken to the jungle for adaptive training.

    Originally, Li Min did not hide much about sending troops to Luzon. In addition, Li Min started his career in industry and commerce, and all the businessmen in the territory had great powers, so they already knew in advance that Li Min was going to send troops to Luzon.  In addition, many smart people have calculated that the army will definitely take action during the dry season, and will definitely stay in Manila in the intervening months.

    Precisely because of this, all the businessmen from Taiwan and other places went crazy to deliver goods to Luzon. Even in the windy and rainy month of June, the ships to and from Luzon were not interrupted.  After all, everyone knows that the army is the best place to earn money. With an army of 100,000 people stationed in Manila, the amount of food and supplies consumed every day is not a small amount, so they are active and prepare all kinds of supplies in advance.  , just wait for the army to come to purchase.

    Regarding this situation, the military is actually enjoying the benefits, because compared to the military's logistics transportation, these merchants can transport faster, and the cost is much lower than the military's transportation system. The only thing they need is to get  Just buy it with money.

    Of course, what these merchants are transporting are not very important materials. As for things like weapons and armor, they still need to be provided by the army¡¯s logistics system.

    After Zhou Long and Huli arranged the army training, they immediately found Yanbei because they needed detailed information on Luzon Island, especially the three major tribal alliances on the island, which were their focus.  But when they saw the information provided to them by Yan Bei, they discovered an unexpected surprise.  (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian.com to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Mobile users please go to read
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