"Lin Jun is responsible for the defense on land. It is necessary to build the colony into an iron barrel that cannot be attacked within two months." Liu Yuan immediately said to Lin Jun, deputy commander of the fleet.

"No problem." Lin Jun was originally from the Army and was very familiar with Land Warfare.

"But it still needs to be considered clearly how to deal with it at sea." Liu Yuan was most worried about the problem at sea, which was five times more powerful. If he was not careful, he would be surrounded.

If you are surrounded, you will definitely lose.

Liu Yuan expressed his worries, Cao Li thought for a while and said, "Five of our warships were robbed from British warships. British warships are more flexible and the fastest. We can place these five warships in the outer sea, and then wait for an opportunity to use superior artillery and speed to fire the joint forces kites, and resolutely not get close to the coalition forces."

"Other warships are arranged in the port and cooperate with the artillery to block the entrance. If the coalition forces rush into the port, they enter the river channel and then offset the numerical advantage of the coalition forces in the river channel. At the same time, we must select a location in a certain section of the river and set up some forts. If the coalition forces chase into the river, they will lure them to this point and then launch artillery and sink together." Cao Li pointed to the map and said.

Kingsoft Port is two bays, extending out on two peninsulas on the west coast, embracing the ports together. The entrance is very narrow, and inside is Kingsoft River named by the American fleet.

The first line of defense is the entrance to Kingsoft Port.

The warships are arranged here and can also support the forts on the two peninsulas. If the coalition warships rush into the port, the warships will retreat to the Jinshan River.

There are only four important strongholds in the California Colonial, one is the Kingsoft Fortress, which is located on the later "San Francisco Fortress Park".

The second is Xin Zhaojiabao, which is located in the lower reaches of Jinshan River, and the shipyard is located in Xin Zhaojiabao.

The other two bastions are located in the Golden Delta area where the Kingsoft River and two DCs converge, which is an important agricultural area of ​​the California colony, with lots of cotton fields, and textile factories are also set up there.

This layout also makes the defense more calm now, regardless of whether the coalition warships can rush in or not.

But it is best to block these coalition warships outside.

After discussing for more than a day, Lin Jun suddenly pointed to the port entrance and exit on the map and said, "The entrance can accommodate five warships entering at the same time, which is still too large. And once it reaches night, the coalition forces attack with fire ships, it is not easy to resist."

"This is indeed a problem..." Cao Li dragged his cheek and thought for a while, and waved his hand and said, "It's still time to take advantage of time, so we block the entrance with huge rocks and other objects, so that we can only accommodate a warship. At the same time, taking advantage of time, we can pull a Hengjiang iron lock at the entrance. If we want to go out, relax the iron lock and let the iron lock sink to the bottom of the water. When we want to block the sea, we will tighten the iron lock and let the iron lock cross half a meter high on the river. If the fire ship comes, it must be a night when the east wind blows. When the east wind blows, the iron lock must be pulled up."

"Hengjiang Iron Lock! OK." Liu Yuan was overjoyed. This method was really great. Once the iron lock was pulled, it would be impossible to break the iron lock except by calcining it with fire or capturing the Jinshan Fortress, so he would not want to rush into the port.

"In this way, the coalition forces never enter the port and will definitely attack Kingsoft Fortress. The fortifications of the fortifications are already very complete, but how to allocate troops needs to be discussed."

The force is only 5,000 Marines, and they have to face an attack of 25,000 people. But it is impossible to put all of them in the fortress. The only problem is how many people are needed for defense in other places.

"This is the topographic map of the coastline of Kingsoft Port. If the coalition forces attack Kingsoft Fortress, it is very likely to land from the south, because the north and south coasts are all mountainous and are not suitable for landing." Cao Li pointed to the location of the later generations of "South San Francisco".

"It is also not ruled out that they landed from the Sea Mink Bend." The sea mink Bend mentioned by Cao Li was an area where they found a large number of sea minks, so they were named Sea Mink Bend. The location of the sea mink is the "Monterrey Bend" in later generations. The coast of Monterrey Bend is not blocked by mountains. You can reach the Jinshan Fortress through a relatively flat passage or reach Xin Zhaojia Fort.

"If they find that Jinshan Fortress cannot be captured for a long time, they will most likely attack Xinzhaojia Fort. Xinzhaojia Fort is in the lower reaches of Jinshan River. If they want to attack on land, there is only one passage. That is to go here. We just need to set up a level here. Three hundred people are enough to block the attacking enemy. Then set up a pass west of Xinzhaojia Fort and arrange two hundred people. This will definitely make you feel like you have wings and you will have to come in."

Xin Zhaojia Castle is located in Pittsburgh in later generations. The passage from the road to Xin Zhaojia Castle is located between two small mountains. The attacker must pass through the later generations' Walnut Creek, Dublin, and Ferrimont, and set up a level directly in the Walnut Creek, which is enough to block the attacking enemy.

At the same time, the location of Xin Zhaojia Fort is the southwest of mountains, and the endless plains of California to the east. The enemy only passes through the northwest river bank. Set up another pass at the river bank, which is absolutely safe.

"There is also a small stronghold opposite the Kingsoft Fortress. The peninsula on the other side is full of mountains. It is impossible for the enemy to land, but it is possible for a small scale. We must set up strongholds to protect the Hengjiang Iron Lock."

"Well, there is indeed a need for manpower here."

After nearly a day of continuous discussion and revision, the entire response plan was finally determined.

Faced with the attack of the European Three-Nation Alliance, the California colony adopted an active defense and waited for an opportunity to annihilate the enemy. The American fleet arranged thirteen of the warships and fifteen of the pirate ships in the port. The other five British [***] ships with faster speeds than those built by Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands, and five faster pirate ships, were not known to be outside the port.

At the same time, stones and used waste ships block the entrance to Jinshan Port to a width that only allows warships to pass through, but these things cannot prevent the fire ship from rushing in, so a Hengjiang iron lock was pulled up.

Once you encounter a weather with east wind, you must not only pull up the Hengjiang iron lock, but also apply wet mud on the warships in the port to prevent capsizing in the gutter.

The defense on land placed 3,000 people in the Kingsoft Fortress, and at the same time, 20,000 young and strong Indian natives were dispatched to assist in the defense.

Another small stronghold was set up on the other side of Kingsoft Fortress, with one hundred musketeers and thirty gunners set up to defend.

Two passes were set up on the road to Xin Zhaojia Fort and five hundred people were arranged to defend. Other soldiers guarded Xin Zhaojia Fort and two other prisms in the middle and lower reaches of the Jinshan River and managed those Indian natives.

After the strategy and defense were determined, the California Governor's Office began to assign tasks, strengthen defense forces, and set up more shore defense artillery.

First, strengthen the bastion defense of Kingsoft Fortress. Kingsoft Fortress is likely to face long-term encirclement, so we must hoard food, fuel and ammunition in Kingsoft Fortress.

Then let the blacksmith build the Hengjiang iron lock, preferably two to three.

At the same time, build a stronghold pass, and then set up some shore defense artillery in Xin Zhaojiabao in order to cooperate with the fleet to eliminate the coalition warships in a narrow area downstream of the river after the coalition warships rushed into the port.

We also need to train 20,000 Indian young men in Kingsoft to let them master the key points of defending the city, treat them more kindly, and brainwash them.

For a time, except for the Indian Indigenous women and children who picked cotton in the field, most Indian Indigenous young and strong people were mobilized to prepare for active and intense war.

It is very likely that the coalition forces will launch an offensive in the spring, and it is generally unlikely to attack Kingsoft in the winter. If it is an offensive in the winter, it will be even more so that heavy snow is enough to prevent the coalition soldiers from operating normally on land.

Therefore, there is still plenty of time.

In addition to these actions, Liu Yuan also urgently sent a fly-scissor ship to return to Shandong and asked the military department to support some troops. It is October, and it is about two months from California to Shandong, and then it is transported to California with fly-scissor ships. It is also more than two months. In March next year, the support will arrive, which is exactly the beginning of spring.

At the same time, Liu Yuan loaded his harvest all year round and returned to Shandong with thirty merchant ships.

Among the goods, there were 500,000 taels of gold and 30 million taels of silver, and nearly 10 million taels of various goods, as well as 30,000 sheets of sea marten fur.

This was the result of ten months of looting. The goods on the fifty merchant ships were worth at least 60 million taels, but the colonies did not have enough personnel to sell those goods. Many of them were sold to the Spanish at a lower price, so they only had an income of 40 million taels.

There are certainly reinforcements. The income from robbery in California is so high that the military department will inevitably send troops to support it.

The reason why there is such a high profit is that the American fleet does not follow the rules and uses the navy to rob everywhere.

If the rules of Westerners are followed, regular troops cannot plunder merchant ships from other countries everywhere. Even if the two countries are religiously hostile, if anyone does not abide by the rules, it will lead to war.

The actions of the American fleet indeed attracted war and jointly attacked by the three major maritime powers in Europe, which naturally led to the Spanish's fuel.

And after being robbed of so many ships, it is undoubtedly tore off a piece of fat from them. How can the Dutch and British bear it?

It is impossible not to retaliate.

Louis XIII was furious because his daughter was stolen. Although the merchant ship was not robbed many times, he still raised troops to attack him.

The Spaniards were afraid that the American fleet would be defeated too badly and could not seriously damage the coalition forces. In mid-October, they actually drove a fleet of more than thirty merchant ships.

This fleet is full of gunpowder and food, and is given free of charge to the California colonies.

Because the things seized by the American fleet, those goods that had no market in the Ming Dynasty, or were too bulky and inconvenient to transport them back to Shandong were dumped to the Spaniards and Portuguese. The Spaniards and Portuguese really made a lot of money and gave them some gunpowder and food, but they did not suffer any losses.

For the Spaniards, the best result was the American fleet's victory, but the American fleet had played too hard on the East Coast, and the Spanish's wrong judgment led to a huge coalition.

The Spanish king's order to the Central American colonies was: to do everything possible to make it less easy for these Asians from the Far East Light Empire to defeat them.
Chapter completed!