On the first day of July of the seventh year of Wanli, the Luzon War Zone, the Luzon Governor's Office, and the Luzon People's Armed Forces Department jointly issued a war mobilization order, requiring all Luzon soldiers and civilians to prepare for the second half of the anti-aggression war!

Within one day, 500,000 Luzon soldiers and civilians knew about this order, but did not cause much panic. Instead, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Because from the day when the Spanish were driven out of Luzon in the second year of Wanli, everyone knew that this day would come sooner or later, but they didn't expect that it would come so late that they actually made them wait for five years.

Fortunately, Mr. Zhao has a long-term vision and foresees that this battlefield may be delayed for a long time. He cannot do nothing and wait for the enemy to take revenge. Therefore, he formulated a general policy of "focusing on me and focusing on construction", requiring the military and civilians to be relaxed and maintain production and combat readiness. Otherwise, the string in everyone's heart would have been broken in a long wait.

The Spanish come late and there are benefits, and all military and civilians can have enough time to prepare for the war.

And proficiency will bring confidence. At this time, they are not panicked and only need to prepare step by step as they have practiced repeatedly in the past five years.

The Governor General's Office declared a state of emergency in the jurisdiction of the Governor General Luzon, and the entire island was closed. The acceptance of mainland immigrants was suspended and all non-combat readiness personnel were prohibited from entering and leaving the country.

All farms, factories, and shops on the island have all been transferred to wartime state. All materials are subject to a distribution system and production is adjusted to facilitate arms. The main purpose is to suspend the production of consumer goods, and according to the unified deployment of the war zone, and under the specific allocation of the Governor's Office and the People's Armed Forces Department, some unsustainable logistics materials, such as military rations and sanitary supplies, and to assist the war zone in carrying out various defense projects.

At the same time, before eliminating the emergency, all people must obey the command of the superior units, remain vigilant, and conduct wartime drills seriously... For the elderly, weak, women and children, it is mainly to simulate how to evacuate and deal with it once the Spaniards land on Luzon.

All adult men on the reserve list of the People's Armed Forces Department began to carry out pre-war ideological education, live-fire training and other combat preparations, and took on public security and duty tasks in the rear. Unless the situation of war collapses, the reserve will not be put into combat.

But the soldiers must participate in the war. These elite militias selected from ten miles of reserves have been trained far more than ordinary reserves on weekdays. They have excellent military skills and physical fitness. They will undertake arduous shore defense tasks and support forward operations in time - for example, when the war zone wants to recover Cebu or Borneo, the soldiers must jointly undertake more difficult tasks with the Marines.

There is also a militia under the jurisdiction of the People's Armed Forces Department, which is a mountain militia brigade composed of the Igoro people who have been naturalized in the Ming Dynasty. They will also gather and stand by and cooperate with the combat zone at any time.

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The real protagonist of this battle is naturally the coast guard force that has been established for the tenth anniversary.

In fact, one month before the war mobilization order was issued, the Coast Guard General Command ordered the entire army to enter the third-level combat readiness state.

As soon as the guards of each theater were ordered, they carried out in-depth mobilization of combat readiness; stopped all officers and soldiers from taking leave, recuperation, visiting relatives and retiring; strengthened combat readiness duty and communication support, unsealed, inspected, and supplemented weapons, equipment and combat readiness materials; revised combat readiness plans, conducted on-the-fight training; closely monitored the enemy's movements and shared intelligence in a timely manner.

The two major guard zones are mainly to guard against local fleets who suddenly head north and attack Taiwan and mainland China. Although this possibility is extremely low, the battlefield changes rapidly and anything can happen, so the best way is to be fully prepared.

To this end, all the squadrons of the water police stations in the Taro Guard District went south and formed a local fleet with the squadrons of the Taiwan Security District, with the commander of the Taiwan Security District Haiergo as the commander-in-chief; the commander-in-chief of the Taro Guard District Zhu Jue as the police commissioner.

Even Guangdong General Lin Daogan and Fujian General Hu Shouren secretly strengthened their guard just in case.

As for the main fleets of the two major guard zones, they had already arrived in Luzon and were included in the war zone sequence long before the arrival of the Typhoon season.

In addition to the Coast Guard Strategic Fleet with Yongxia Bay as its home port and the Luzon War Theater War Preparation Fleet, the four King Kongs of the Coast Guard troops were all arrived in April.

For three months, the four major fleets have been conducting pre-war training such as formation, combat, night flight, etc. When they cannot go out to sea on typhoon days, all the officers and soldiers will conduct physical training frantically.

The slogan on the training ground, "Sweat more before the war, and less blood during the war" has never been regarded as a criterion by the officers and soldiers as their true criterion as they are now.

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In mid-July, Zhao Hao also came to the theater headquarters located on the Memorial Square of the Jiannei Tragedy to supervise the overall combat preparations.

On the 17th, the military region held a joint combat meeting. More than 100 senior officials from all departments of the theater, each fleet, the heads of each department of the General Command, the Governor's Office, and the People's Armed Forces Department attended the meeting.

At the meeting, Jin Ke, deputy commander-in-chief of the Coast Guard, commander of the theater and police commissioner, first made a report on combat readiness.

It took him nearly two hours to inform the participants of the specific combat readiness of the above departments.

Finally, Jin Ke concluded: "As of the 15th of this month, the theater has completed the construction of five defense projects in Luzon Yongxia, Daimao, Wangchao, Batangas and Ding Alan, and the soldiers stationed in the garrison can enter at any time."

The leaders of the Governor's Office and the People's Armed Forces Department were in a commotion when they heard this. The war zone was so generous that they felt great pressure.

"Why, I'm a little lack of confidence?" Zhao Hao, who sat alone on his head, asked Ximen Qingdao, the frowning Minister of the Luzonian Army.

In the second year of Wanli, when Ximen Qing protected Tang Paul from Luzon, he was only the deputy captain of the Marine Reconnaissance Brigade and an intermediate police inspector with two silver stars.

However, because he commanded the cruel defense battle in the ravine, he established a high prestige among the Han people in Luzon. After recapturing Luzon, he was recommended to serve as the representative of the coast guard in the Luzon Parliament.

Later, Luzon established the People's Armed Forces Department, and he naturally served as the Minister of Human Resources.

As a result, like his former boss, Marine Commander Wu Da, and Police Commissioner Pan Jinlian, he has a golden star.

He felt that he was rising too fast, and knew that many people envied, jealous and hated him, and were waiting to see him jokes. Therefore, he worked diligently on weekdays and was afraid of making mistakes, so he was naturally overly careful.

"Eliminate all difficulties and complete the task!" Hearing the commander-in-chief's name, he quickly stood up like an electric shock and said loudly.

"Sit down and talk, speak humanly." Zhao Hao rubbed his ears that were buzzing, threw a cigarette to him and said, "What I want to hear today is the truth!"

"Yes." Ximen Qing responded, sat down embarrassedly, picked up the cigarette and lit it, took a few puffs to sort out his thoughts. Only then did he return to normal and said slowly:

"The five places mentioned by the Deputy Commander-in-Chief just now, Yongxia, Tartar, Wangchao, Batangas, and Ding Alan, are not only the five most important ports on Luzon Island, but also the five gateways on the Luzon Plain. Any mistake in any place will lead to the opening of the Luzon gateway, so there are absolutely no mistakes in the five places!"

"The war zone is still in the arsenals of these five fortresses, which store 5,000 artillery pieces, 400,000 muskets, and ammunition enough for two years to be used. There are also materials in the arsenal that are also sufficient for two years to be used." Jinke added in a deep voice:

"So any mistake will greatly weaken our army and strengthen the enemy, and the consequences will be absolutely unimaginable."

"This is what the last general is worried about." Ximen Qing said dryly: "Does such important five fortresses be guarded by 15,000 soldiers? Can it be possible to leave the Marine Corps and the Maritime Patrol Team?"

"It's okay if you don't!" Jin Ke said with a dark face: "A 15,000 soldiers who have been strictly trained for five years, and have the best weapons and equipment in the world, will they not be able to defend a concrete fortress?"

"It's true that the troops are divided into one point, and there is indeed a little less, but our concrete fortress cannot be shaken by the Spanish cannons." Zhao Hao nodded with a smile and encouraged Ximen Qing and said, "If you can't take the courage to defend the ravine back then, there is still a reserve. However, with the Spaniard's ability to attack, it should not be as good as using the reserve."

"Yes, the soldiers swear to defend the fortress to the death!" Ximen Qing seemed to have been injected with powerful strength, and he responded with a heavy focus.

Everyone in the Governor's Office also expressed their opinions that they would do their best to protect the rear so that the coast guard fleet that was fighting on the front line would have no worries.

"You all need to strengthen publicity when you go back so that the people of Luzon know that I, Zhao Hao, are in Yongxia, and I will not go anywhere before the war is won!" Zhao Hao also ordered Xu Zheng, Baolu Tang, Liu Xuesheng and others to say:

"Don't let the people think that letting their soldiers defend the fortress is that the coast guard is ready to give up on them at any time."

"How could it be, absolutely not." Everyone hurriedly shook their heads into rattles. But after the battle to defend the ravine, they knew how complicated human nature would become once they were trapped in a siege. So the young master's concerns definitely make sense.

Zhao Hao raised his hand and signaled them to listen to him and said, "On the contrary, the coast guard officers and soldiers concentrated their efforts to eliminate the enemy as much as possible!"

As he said that, he sighed and said to Ma Yinglong, who was also the head of the theater commander, "You think of the information you just received."

"Yes!" Ma Yinglong, who had two golden stars on his chest, responded quickly, opened the folder, and said like an ordinary staff officer:

"According to the latest information received by our side, in May, the Spanish expeditionary force completed the assembly in Acapulco, across the ocean. There were 139 warships, 3,000 artillery pieces, more than 7,000 crew members and sailors, and an estimated 25,000 infantrymen."

"And, they have made a lot of improvements to their previous defeats." He paused, and said again: "For example, the number of large-caliber artillery has been greatly increased, and the infantry has also been equipped with the most advanced muskets..."

"Ah..." This was the first time that the people in the Governor's Office heard about the specific forces of the Spanish expedition, and they couldn't help but look pale.
Chapter completed!