Lord of Ming Dynasty

The prince's fleet stretched for dozens of nautical miles, and the extremely fast frigates kept shuttling on both sides of them, delivering information and orders. In the entire waters of the Chinese Empire, the patrolling fleet ships always whistled and escorted them for at least one or two hundred nautical miles. Then turn back to your own jurisdiction to continue patrolling.

Now the Chinese Empire has more than 300 89-ton 500-horsepower warships that can run at a speed of 21 knots, as well as more than [-] [-]-ton steam engine warships of the previous generation, and frigates From [-] tons to [-] tons, the speed reached [-] knots.

The entire fleet is advancing at a cruising speed of twelve knots, which is more than half faster than the general speed of three to five knots, and then five to six knots of the previous generation-class sailing warship.

At this speed, it only takes less than two months for Cong Yanjing to go to the farthest island of New Zealand, which is more than 1 nautical miles, and the round trip only takes four months.

If it is a frigate going back and forth, it will only take 28 to 30 days, at most it will not take more than one and a half months.

According to the plan, the fleet will go around Africa, visit Spain, and then visit England and France. The prince will travel in several countries, and then he will find a place to settle down and start his own business. Zhang Qiang said that there are still many in the sea. New continents, he was going to find those new continents.

Of course, he doesn't fully trust the British and Spaniards, so he also brought some Spanish and Dutch descendants to learn about some things in the West, and of course the current Spaniards, Portuguese, and Dutch people he associates with.

First, the fleet made a fresh water supply in Qiongdao. After wandering around Qiongdao, the fleet continued to move forward and stopped at Saigon Port, the base of the Fifth Fleet, for a day. There were more than 1000 prisoners exiled here, and hundreds of sailors. And soldiers, replenished a batch of steam engine samples, scrap steel and masts, and some shipyard machinery, and then continued to set off for the Strait of Malacca.

When passing through the Strait of Malacca, some merchant ships and small sailing warships were added, some lifeboats for each warship were added, and some ammunition and shell supplies were added. This is the last supply in the Chinese Empire, so many things have to be carefully considered.

Stayed in the Strait of Malacca for three days, then sailed through the waters of Malacca at a speed of six knots, and sailed directly into the Indian Ocean. It has stepped out of the sphere of influence of the Huaxia Empire.

The fleet goes upstream, and the first stop will be the port of Bengal, the new Spanish colony. At the same time, it will visit and walk around the newly-occupied Dhaka land of the Chinese Empire, which is deeply influenced by Indian ethnic forces.

The fleet drove quickly, and arrived at the port of Bangladesh five days later. The fleet parked here for a few days, conducted the last inspection of the ship, replaced parts, and maintained the ship. The fourth prince, Prince Zhang Hai, inspected Spain under the leadership of the escort. The colonial governor's fleet, land troops, and hundreds of miles deep into the Bengal area, arrived in Dhaka, where they chatted cordially with the officers and guards of the Chinese Empire to understand the situation.

A week later, I got tired of living in the Bengal area. This is not the prosperous Chinese Empire. If you want to eat, just give an order, and someone will deliver it by fast boat. If you want anything, the rich goods of the Chinese Empire will be delivered to him immediately. Going up the mansion, apart from mosquitoes, poverty and backwardness, there are also tribal and racial frictions from time to time, as well as war frictions against the Spaniards and immigrants from the Chinese Empire provoked by the British from time to time.

After the escort escorted him back to the port, they stayed in the port for a day, and then boarded the flagship. The fleet left the port quickly on the second day, and the fleet resumed its journey on the third day.

Here, I visited one station after another, traveled to the past, where, Li Ya and the others entered the most critical moment of life and death.

After a few days of confrontation with the French, Indians, and Iliads, the Indians finally launched an attack. The Iliads rode pony horses constantly guerrilla, spying, and charging. I drove to the sea not far away to watch the battle.

It was a good time for spring plowing, the reclamation of the farmland had been basically completed, and when the sowing had begun, Li Ya and the others could only fight, a life-and-death decisive battle with the natives who opposed them.

Several earth platforms were added in the center of the camp, and an air-raid shelter was also added. The artillery was placed in the blast hole under the mound in the camp. Once needed, it could be dragged out immediately, pushed onto the earth platform, and counterattacked. In less than a minute, the artillery can be put into the anti-bunker hole again to prevent the enemy's naval guns from hitting the fort and destroying the cannon. This is because the steam engine ship of the mercenary regiment has not been fully repaired after the enemy's fleet appeared at sea. And I have to come up with a way, and even if the repairs are completed, they can’t go to battle, because the enemy also has steam ships, although they are not produced by the Huaxia Empire, they may be inferior to their retired warships and converted into merchant ships. It is a battleship, and the enemy still has a numerical advantage.

Li Ya watched the battlefield carefully with Sara on the watchtower in the center of the camp. Now the outlying forts have been replaced with combat teams composed of captives and pirates. Each team has at least five commanders and suppressed soldiers they sent. The sergeant, the original mercenary main force and the five teams returned to the camp, focusing on the defense of the camp. The sailor team and Tang Yaweng's pirate team were responsible for the defense of the port, the dock, and the dock, and at the same time defended the distance from the camp to the port for a mile and a half. For this section of defense, once the enemy breaks through the defense five miles away, the defense in other places can only be regarded as a means of delaying the enemy's encirclement of the camp and port, and cannot prevent the enemy from isolating the camp and port.

"Perhaps we should dig a retreat channel under the camp and the port. Once the camp cannot be defended, we will retreat to the boat, withdraw completely, and then drive the boat to escape here in the middle of the night." Wu Kejing carefully expressed his opinion .

Sa Lei said with some distress: "In that case, everything we have here will be completely discarded. Because of the construction of this place, all the prisoners we died and injured will have to give up. It is a question of how many people we can escape in the end. Most of us The supplies and ammunition, most of the personnel will be lost, maybe that will make our ships faster and able to escape, but this is the western world, we have no supplies, and no one will give us supplies, we will be in Die silently on the vast sea."

"No, we have to hold on. The enemy doesn't have much power. Through these few days of fighting, we learned from the captured enemies that there are not many French people, and they also have enemies. This is only a small part of this big island. To the west, north, and east, on the larger island, where there is a land connection with this small island, it is the territory of the British, and where is the ruler here. So I think with our strength, we have Confidence can last until the day when the French compromise."

Chapter 170 Why are these Chinese people so powerful?

The battle with this sudden colonist has lasted for half a month. At the beginning, they just encouraged the Indians to harass and investigate. When they found that the colonists only built and did not attack anyone they saw, and there were not many people at the same time. The French let the Indians attack them. If the Indians can drive these bloody colonists from nowhere into the sea, the French will be very happy.

But these people are so powerful. The Indian tribe lost hundreds of people and did not let them succumb. On the contrary, these people's ultra-long-range cannons, fierce close combat, and sharp marksmanship surprised the French. They knew that they had met a strong enemy. So they brought in the Iliads, another native on the island, and promised them that whoever snatched these people's supplies, weapons and equipment, and even ships, these things would be theirs.

With hope, the Indians have intensified their harassment of these Chinese people these days. Yes, through the captured pirates and other captured slaves, the French knew that these people were actually deserted citizens of the Chinese Empire, Russian mercenaries, Knowing that it is a mercenary group of Russians, this is even more irritating to the French. The French of Germanic descent are very displeased with the Slavs, a continuation of the race that is also of Germanic descent. Under the instigation and propaganda of the British, Western Europe There is a natural hostility towards the Russians expanding to Western Europe.

Of course it will not be good for these people. What the French want is to eliminate them.

Now they have the strength to destroy this group of people. They have more than a dozen sailing battleships, two steam engine battleships, and a group of French tramps with hundreds of people, as well as retired officers. They also have castles and thousands of French immigrants. For them, this is their territory, their homeland, and they also have various interests with the Indians and Iliads.

Now the Indians are still testing, and the cavalry of the Iliads are wandering around. Once there is an opening, these treacherous people who are smarter than the Indians will rush in and slash and kill.

The captive slaves squatting in the foxholes and firing guns indiscriminately faced the enemy's charge tremblingly. Behind them were the wandering pirates, the fusiliers of another team, and the scout cavalry of the mercenary regiment. The main thing is to supervise the battle, supervise the captive slaves who are not united with the mercenary regiment, and prevent them from escaping.

In the forts not far away, each of the forts has a part of the original squad of a dismantled mercenary regiment of 15 people. They are surrounded by captive slaves with little combat effectiveness. On the fort are the artillery of the mercenary regiment. The disassembled melee fighters of the pirate squad are mainly the overseer squad of the mercenary regiment and the selected captured gunmen.

Soldiers and officers of the main mercenary regiment are in camps and docks, where is the port.

The Indians were probing with dozens of people, wandering around the perimeter of the camp for five miles to find the weakness of the camp. On some high ground outside the camp, the French cannons fired twice in this direction from time to time.

There were solid bullets and blooming bullets that fell, and the smoke was very thick. It can be seen that the technical level of the French has not developed much at all. It is far behind the British and Spanish, and even worse than the Dutch.

Faced with such firepower, the mercenary regiment didn't even bother to use mortars. They just used the prisoners on the front line to delay the enemy's attack time and spend time with the enemy.

Maybe it was because the mercenary regiment was too calm, the French launched a salvo of fleet artillery from the sea, and the French warships more than a mile away fired hundreds of shells, blowing up the port and wharf, damaging many structures. The wooden houses and some warehouses were erected, and several people were injured here. When the enemy fired, many people hid in the air-raid shelter, leaving only a dozen observers on the surface.

The dock has already begun to fill with water, and the thousand-ton steam engine battleship has risen to the ground. The French hit hard, but this ship is not afraid. More than 60 sailors, plus more than 30 pirate sailors from the pirate team , plus Saray's command, only the cannon at the stern began to fight back. Compared with the cannons of the French, this cannon at the stern was much sharper.

Although it only has a 75mm caliber, it can hit far and accurately. After a few shots, the main mast of a French sailing warship was interrupted. Ten minutes later, the French sailing warship suffered three injuries and two serious injuries. , had to stay farther away from the coastline, retreated five nautical miles away, and was towed by the homemade tugboat and wooden raft at the pier, the steam engine battleship that had not been fully repaired drove to the sea, turned sideways, and kept firing shells into the enemy fleet.

Half an hour later, the French began to retreat. The steam engine ship was punched with a big hole, the tail rudder was damaged, a sail warship sank, five were slightly injured, and five were seriously injured. They caused great damage to the ports of the Chinese Empire. Most of the newly repaired steam engine ships were damaged, the newly added masts, many holes in the hull, the tail guns were damaged, and some fixed artillery in the middle were damaged. More than 20 people were killed and more than 30 people were injured. The loss was not small, but the enemy was finally driven back.

The steam engine ship was dragged into the dock again, and the dock began to pump water out. The prisoners were transferred to seal the exit of the dock and repaired again. It is said that during the battle, it is dangerous to do so, but it is also helpless, because everyone is counting on This ship is used to escape, and it would be great if it can be repaired. When escaping, there is more chance of winning. This is not the imperial army. It is the best choice to stand firm and die. They are mercenaries. When the situation is unfavorable, they must Li Ya had to give everyone hope that they would run away, otherwise the mercenaries would scatter and flee in all directions, at least their morale would be low.

The mercenaries are fierce, but what supports them is not the country, not righteousness, but life and wealth, and hope. Without hope, some people may still hope to surrender.

When the battle at sea began, the cavalry of the Indians and Iliads frantically attacked those weak areas as if they were stimulated. The Indians began to attack those foxholes and trenches. This time there were three to four thousand people. There is also artillery support from the French behind, and the fight is very difficult, even more difficult than naval battles.

After all, the mercenary regiment is full of more than 200 people. The previous damage, plus the prisoners they executed themselves, as well as the prisoners who could not participate in the battle, and their own wounded soldiers, can be used to defend the periphery of this radius of more than ten miles The strength of the defense circle is only about [-] people. This is the result of Li Ya mobilizing two teams of mercenaries from the camp to fight because the situation is not good.

The helpless captive slaves who were forced to confront the Indians were trembling and couldn't even hold their guns, let alone fight. Under the supervision of the supervising team, they only killed or wounded 50 or [-] enemies. Let the Indians rush to the front. At this time, the supervisory team has become the main output, and the captured slaves have become melee troops. They will fight bloody battles with the Indians around the trenches and foxholes. If their courage is aroused, These people are not vegetarians either, and none of them are simple.

However, there were still too many Indians, and the Iliad gunmen were also more powerful. The supervising team suffered damage and had to fight and retreat, and the captives even ran back.

After retreating to the vicinity of the Tunpu defense line five miles away, the artillery on the Tunbao began to fire, and the troops inside the Tunbao came out to help in the battle. The rear artillery suppressed the French artillery, and the Indians who suffered heavy losses had to retreat.

The first thousand and 170 chapters of the second murder in the middle of the night

"Baladino, be careful, don't let the Chinese find out." In the quiet night, in a patch of grass a mile outside the camp, two figures slowly moved towards the camp.

"Don't worry, Mr. Marceau, these Chinese people will not find us. They are as stupid as pigs. We only need to move a little further to get close to their camp."

The tall man said to the short figure.

"Those Iliads charged. We are here to help them open the gap. What if they don't come? Are we the two of us to deal with so many Chinese people?"

"No, boy Balatino, the Indians have also sneaked in. Those people may be the bravest fighters, but their combat effectiveness is too weak. Under the current guns, they can only exist as cannon fodder, but fortunately They are quite familiar with the terrain of this area, and they are talking about lurking, those Indians must be devils, they can stay still for hours, wait for you to fall asleep, and then suddenly jump out, insert a sharp knife directly into your heart, and then they will quietly retreat into the darkness, and let you die silently in pain."

"The Iliads are not bad either. They are the best riders, and the best fishermen and farmers. They can help us French in farming, fishing, or grazing." Balatino whispered, looking into his head Looking around, the two whispered and approached the fortifications in front of the camp.

The Chinese Imperial Army, which started as a defensive operation, paid more attention to the defense of the camp than those Westerners. The trenches were criss-crossed, crooked, but very organized, the passages for advance and retreat, and the land rocks that blocked the advance of the enemy cavalry. , Well done, very concealed, and very clever, the two carefully looked at the fortification in front of them through the moonlight and smiled wryly at each other.

There is no shelter at all around, not even a single dead grass. To approach these fortifications, they have to run 30 meters away from here, and there is also an open area 30 meters away inside the fortifications, although if a large force attacks, they can use these fortifications Advance in concealment, but if a person goes up now, he will be illuminated by the surrounding fires, and then he will be spotted by the enemy sentries in the trenches and foxholes not far away.

And retreating ten meters, there is also the enemy's moat, which introduces sea water to pour in. The width reaches five meters, and the depth is unknown. Less than half a meter outside the five meters is inclined upward, almost at an angle of [-] degrees. The city wall made of giant wood bends outwards, and there are prominent Lingbao walls on the left and right. Whether you hide under the city wall or climb up the city wall, you will be spotted by soldiers patrolling and standing guard on the left and right sides, and the half-meter-wide river bank, If the ladder is set up too upright, the enemy will fall down as soon as it is pushed. When it is more than halfway up, the enemy will shoot from the sides or the gaps in the bottom drawer, and they can kill you without aiming.

The two were lying in the grass and frowning. There were patrols passing by from time to time, and they were very dense from time to time, leaving a lot of space. This is not to say that the enemy did not pay attention, but that most of the enemy's troops were on the mountain five miles away. Hill forts, forts, and trench defenses are stationed, and there are only patrols in the middle. If they can break through the enemy's defense line five miles away, then they can drive straight in and reach the attack distance of less than 200 meters in front of the camp. The solid ammunition Napoleon cannon can destroy the enemy's giant wooden walls, and there is no need to take human lives to play siege battles.

With everyone around them, the two turned their heads vigilantly towards the place where the sound came from, and then the sound stopped. The two looked at each other, surprised, and then immediately stood up to run. No, there was a voice, a cold voice. Get up, "If you move, you will be impaled on your body by at least thirty darts."

"Oh," the two people were frightened by the sudden voice, trembling all over, screaming, instinctively turned around to check, the face was pitch-black, with sharp edges and corners, and the black eyeballs had some light gray or blue light, Or the radiance of imperial color, and the anger of anger.

The person next to him was holding a mercenary's Huaxia 1705 rifle, carrying a bone bow on his back, and a dagger hanging in his waist. His half body was exposed, with strong muscles and well-developed muscles, but his body was slightly short.