Chapter 2456

The Haihan Army's landing operation in the Silia area was very smooth. There was no big city in the area, and no army could be organized to resist the foreign invaders. In just two days, the Siya area was completely under the control of the Haihan Army.

After hearing the news, the Bo Ni Kingdom sent an envoy to negotiate. Qian Tiandun met with him and stated Haihan's position, hoping to purchase or lease the Silia area from the Bo Ni Kingdom at a "reasonable price." Of course, if the Bo Ni Kingdom

If they don't agree to such a deal, the Haihan Army will not retreat and return this place to the Boni Kingdom. What is more likely to happen is another war on a larger scale, and even the entire Boni Kingdom will be involved in the flames of war.

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Qian Tiandun would not mind threatening the other party with harsh words like this. Haihan was determined to win the underground oil fields in this area. If the Boni Kingdom refused to submit, then what awaited them would be a war of national annihilation.

Fortunately, with the increase in trade exchanges between countries in the South China Sea in recent years, Bo Ni Country is no stranger to Haihan, and many dignitaries have even visited the South China Sea gold-selling cave Amborna Island. Therefore, there is no doubt about Haihan’s national strength.

The rulers of Boni State also had a relatively clear understanding of military strength and military strength. They did not rush into military confrontation and started negotiations honestly.

The final result of the negotiations was no surprise. Silia still nominally belongs to the Bo Ni Kingdom, but this area will be leased to the Haihan Kingdom for long-term use. The so-called long-term means that the Haihan Kingdom has the power to extend the lease indefinitely.

As a condition of cooperation between the two parties, Bo Ni will also receive military protection from Haihan, and will no longer have to worry about armed invasion by European colonists in the future.

This condition is simply irresistible to the Boni Kingdom. In the past two centuries, they have been invaded many times, and the Western colonists will not sit down and negotiate like the Haihan people. What they want is absolute

Surrender, otherwise they will be killed and plundered. For the Boni Kingdom, if long-term peace and stability can be obtained with only the Siliya region, then this deal is actually very cost-effective.

As for what the Haihan people will use this place for, Boni Kingdom doesn't care much. The local coastline is flat and there is no natural harbor, so it is not suitable for building a trading port or a military port. The nearby inland is full of virgin forests, and there is nothing

It is a particularly valuable property. For Boni State, there is nothing to lose by handing over this area to Haihan for management, not to mention that the rent Haihan promised to pay is several times more than the taxes paid to the national treasury.

Accelerating the occupation and development of mineral deposits and energy locations in East Asia is the tone set by the Executive Committee for the next development direction. The precious resources obtained through these places will become the first step for Haihan to enter the industrial society in this world.

Necessary guarantees. In particular, mineral energy resources such as the Siya Oilfield, which are located in shallow layers on the earth's surface and are easy to exploit and utilize, have naturally become priority development targets.

Although steam engines will remain the backbone of Haihan's industrialization now and for a long time to come, as the manufacturing technology of internal combustion engines matures and the chemical industry develops rapidly, Haihan's demand for petrochemical products is also increasing.

Large, the production capacity of Taiwan's Miaoli Oilfield alone can no longer meet demand, and the development of new oil fields is also a general trend. Haihan's petrochemical industry is two centuries ahead of its time, which will also accumulate funds for Haihan's future rise on a global scale.

More advantages.

In January 1641, Li Zicheng gathered tens of thousands of peasant troops to attack Ruzhou, Henan. However, he failed to conquer the target as smoothly as in the original history, because what awaited him and his men here were secret transfers from the northern border to the Central Plains.

The Guan Ning cavalry.

Five thousand experienced and well-equipped cavalry attacked in the early morning and broke through the peasant army camp in one fell swoop. Li Zicheng's troops were defeated before they had time to organize a resistance. Countless casualties were caused by the impact of Guan Ning's cavalry.

Li Zicheng, who hastily accepted the challenge, failed to escape as he had done in the past few years. There were still tens of thousands of Ming troops chasing and intercepting him outside Ruzhou. In the end, Li Zicheng was overtaken by the Ming army in a ravine twenty miles away from Ruzhou. He knew that he was in danger.

Without any luck, he refused to surrender, and all his soldiers were killed by random arrows. Most of Li Zicheng's leaders were also killed in this raid. The peasant army he formed dispersed after a few days, and has not been seen since.

There is a chance for a comeback.

Almost at the same time, Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of another peasant army, was intercepted by the army in Kaixian County, Kuizhou, in the southwest hinterland. Yang Sichang, the Minister of War, personally took command of the encirclement and suppression in nearby Yunyang County.

Yang Sichang mobilized tens of thousands of troops from Sinan Prefecture, Tongren Prefecture, Guizhou Province, Baoning Prefecture, Kuizhou Prefecture, Shunqing Prefecture, Chongqing Prefecture, Shaanxi Hanzhong Prefecture, Hubei Jingzhou Prefecture, Xiangyang Prefecture and other places in advance for this battle.

In order to complete his achievements in one battle, the actual situation was just as he wished. Zhang Xianzhong's troops were trapped in the mountains and forests of Kaixian County. Although they tried to break out many times, they all failed due to the disparity in strength.

In late February, as the encirclement tightened step by step, the scope of activities of Zhang Xianzhong's men became smaller and smaller, and more than half of his men and horses were consumed in constant small-scale battles. Finally, his men rebelled at night and killed Zhang Xianzhong and his staff.

The head of the confidant asked the Ming army to surrender.

Since then, the two main peasant armies that had plagued the Ming Dynasty for many years were destroyed, and the civil strife of the peasant army that worried Chongzhen was finally over.

Haihan did not directly participate in the Ming Dynasty's handling of civil strife, but the thousands of muskets and more than 200 artillery pieces sold to the Ming Dynasty's Ministry of War played an obvious role in these two battles. The peasant army's killing method played a significant role in the two wars.

For a well-trained firearms unit, it is equivalent to dying. As long as the weather is fine, the terrain is open, and the ammunition is sufficient, the Ming Army's firearms unit's winning rate against the peasant army is basically 100%.

Although the worries were finally solved, the luck of the Ming Dynasty did not seem to improve immediately. In the summer of the Ming Dynasty, large-scale droughts occurred in Shandong, Henan, Zhejiang, Huguang and other places, followed by a locust plague. Shandong had already

This is the third consecutive year that major disasters have occurred, and most state capitals have been involved. The government is unable to provide relief to so many places, causing a large number of people to flee for survival. Fushan County in Dengzhou and Ningbo in Zhejiang controlled by Haihan have relatively complete

The resettlement institutions and measures have become an area where refugees are rushing in.

Many local governments in Dengzhou fell out of control during this round of disasters. Chen Yixin took this opportunity to gradually bring Muping, Wendeng, Rongcheng, Rushan, Haiyang, Qixia, Laiyang, Zhaoyuan and other places near Fushan County under his control.

, the only areas in Dengzhou directly controlled by the Ming Dynasty were Dengzhou City and the adjacent Huang County. The Ming Dynasty's rule over Dengzhou began to exist in name only.
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