Lord of Ming Dynasty

The remaining 60 captive slaves who survived were briefly healed and turned into supervisors. Our supervisor team originally had more than 100 people. After so many days of fighting, they were hacked to death by the captives, killed, and executed by us. Some of them fled or escaped More than half, there are still 35 people left, and more than 60 newly transferred captive slaves plus these people just make up 100 people. "

Wu Kejing paused for a moment to see if everyone hadn't responded. He knew that everyone was hurting. The loss this time was relatively large, mainly in terms of numbers. The mercenary regiment had a total of 300 people. Due to various losses in the past few months, the mercenary group has only more than 500 people.

This is what everyone is most concerned about. There are only 200 people left in the regular combat force of the mercenary regiment of more than 100 people. It is not difficult to say that these 100 people have to manage 500 people, but they won the battle last night and the prisoners were captured. Quite a few, at least 700 people, but you have to analyze the attributes of your own people, then you will feel critical.

When the mercenary group escaped, there were still more than 400 people. Later, nearly 1000 prisoners were captured. Since they were held on board, as long as they were not given food and drink, they would have nowhere to run. It can be dealt with casually, and when those pirates come here, even the nearest pirates and captives are nearly a thousand kilometers away from their original place, they can only choose to attach to them and survive.

Now these are going to become the real main fighters of the mercenary regiment. From the perspective of control, if only these people are compared with the number of mercenary regiments, there will be no troubles, but now they are in other people's territory. On land, in case someone disobeys, pirates, merchants are captured, and the guards of those merchants have more real mercenary regiments of manpower, especially the two or three times more Chinese people.

The original composition of the mercenary regiment was mainly Han Chinese, supplemented by people from various ethnic groups in the European regions conquered by Russia. Now those people are at least twice the number of Han Chinese in the mercenary regiment, which means that they also have more than 100 people, and the rest is new. The number of pirates, merchants and their guards who joined them belonged to different races and came from different countries and regions. Although they are members of the mercenary group now, and they have been fighting the enemy with the mercenary group for so long, it is not that no one wants to If they want to escape, or their relationship is not harmonious at ordinary times, there are nearly a thousand of them, and now there are only a hundred of them left. Many of the deaths among them were directly executed by the mercenary regiment, so they didn't say it on the surface, but the suspicious character of the Han people still felt that they These people are untrustworthy, and there is always a kind of estrangement. Among these people, there must be some ambitious people who want to rebel, or want to control this power.

These people will now be assigned to the task of guarding the captives. If some of them make trouble on purpose, the strength of more than 100 pure Han people plus some foreign support mercenary regiments will only be 150. Once someone joins the French or incites the 1000 If there are too many new captives in turmoil, then they will eventually be beaten by chickens and eggs, and may even be backlashed.

The first thousand and 170 chapters are still low-key

The mercenary regiment used one hundred tested Han soldiers and officers, plus three leaders, to control more than 300 soldiers of the mercenary regiment of less than 800 foreign races, and then these soldiers guarded more than [-] captives. What's the point?

The Qing Dynasty controlled a population of hundreds of millions of Han people, and the history of later generations that continued for 300 years is similar. If it is done well, the mercenary group will take root here, and everyone will develop steadily. It is not a small risk for the dynasty to rise through the power of the mercenary group, and then overthrow and eliminate the power of the mercenary group and replace it.

"What we are going to do next is to focus on building here. The war is not over yet. This time we only won once, and we have not completely defeated the enemy. According to the report from the scout team, there are at least [-] Frenchmen here. There are nearly [-] French, British, and immigrants from other countries here, and according to the captured prisoners, our island is very big now, so big that we and the French only occupy the edge of an island. A small part of the corner is occupied by the British, and a part of the Italian territory, that is to say, our enemy is very powerful, and we have many opponents, so we have to do well to withdraw to the ship if something goes wrong. A suitable place for us to take root." Li Ya paused for the western epee in his hand, raised his head, and said seriously to everyone.

Tang Yaweng stroked his graying hair. Half of his original hair was gray, but the pressure of these two months was greater than when they were fleeing and when he was exiled, so it turned gray within two months.

At the same time, there are also some that he led a small team of mercenaries out to inquire about the French. As a result, half of the scout team died, fifteen people, more than half of the horses and supplies, and two mortars were lost. The mercenaries fought A small half of the team was lost, and more than half were injured, making the mercenary group that was already short of manpower even worse, as the oldest officer in a mercenary group.

Except for Li Ya's rank of Colonel of the Guards, which is about the same as him, the ranks of others are quite different from him, but because he is the rank of the militia, he can offset a lot with everyone. What you need to know is that Huaxia The empire's military rank system is graded. His militia commander's colonel rank is similar to that of a Guards captain's rank, and may be slightly lower. A lieutenant can serve as a lieutenant colonel in the garrison. In the garrison, that is the proper rank of colonel. In the militia, there is no militia now, at least the rank of major general.

As an old man with no qualifications, he feels that it is unforgivable to make such a low-level mistake. This is also related to the strict military reorganization of the Huaxia Empire, and all soldiers are the kind of responsible people. loyalty and responsibility.

Even if he has become an exile from an empire, he has extended this sense of responsibility and inherited it. After all, he is an old man who has been fighting with the Chinese Empire for decades.

"What should we do next?"

"Fight back?"

"Maybe we don't have enough strength. If there are a few more big battles like this, we may not be able to bear it. If we lose too many veterans and officers of the mercenary regiment, we may be backlashed by the pirate squad that has just turned into a mercenary regiment soldier. Moreover, which merchants and There are not many guards who can worry about it, and the guy who can cheat in a sea area is definitely not a good person."

Tang Yaweng put forward his views in a heavy tone with the feeling of being responsible for the mercenary group.

Sa Lei smoked silently. Although he is also a member of the Chinese Empire, he also has a kind of feeling, but he has lived in Central Asia for a long time, far away from the core area of ​​the Chinese Empire, and the influence of Chinese culture is relatively weak, so in his heart In fact, there is no sense of nostalgia and urgency like Tang Yaweng.

He also has dislikes and suspicions about the newcomers, but it's not that serious, because the kingdom on the sea is like that, betrayal and being betrayed, everyone is entangled in interests, and after watching too much, he naturally feels naive about true affection.

Li Ya nodded slightly and said: "It's impossible for us to fight back. The next step is to focus on stability. We will continue to build fortifications and stabilize our roots. At the same time, we must be prepared to fail. Captain Lei repaired the ship as soon as possible, maybe it can't restore it to the performance of the warship of the Chinese Empire, but it can be restored as much as possible, and the next thing we have to do is to be ready to escape or take root."

"In addition, Sweeping Thunder, you are in charge of expanding the repair shop. We captured the French cannons and reformed them this time, and at the same time reformed their guns, at least reaching the level of our flintlock guns. At the same time, smelting and The work of forging iron and burning charcoal should be done as soon as possible. The reclamation team should resume farming as soon as possible to make up for the lost time. The harvest in summer may not be good. We should try our best to have a good harvest this autumn. If we can survive this winter, the hunting team will also capture some prey as soon as possible, and stock up on supplies for the winter.”

He glanced at Wu Kejing, and then said: "Brother Wu, hand over the severely damaged French ship that was captured to you, send some brothers back to Romania or Turkey, where to recruit some people, and find a ship that is more than a thousand ships." Ton-class steam engine battleships and larger remodeled merchant ships are back. We are not afraid of spending money. We need to strengthen our maritime strength. Maybe the French will make moves next, and the British and Italians over there will not allow us to take root here. Germinate, we need to protect ourselves.

If possible, buy more weapons and equipment. After these two months of fighting, many weapons and equipment have been damaged. Our equipment has almost fallen back to the level of primitive people. Maybe we will not be able to defeat the Indians next time, Iliad People may be able to destroy us. "

These people in the mercenary regiment knew what Li Ya meant by saying this. They still had manpower. They didn't have enough manpower, and at the same time they didn't have enough weapons to manufacture. The weapons in their hands were all captured weapons and equipment. This has been eliminated in the Chinese Empire ten years ago, or the Chinese Empire has been replaced with a new generation of weapons, and these are disposed of as waste for the Russians.

Now the weapons and equipment in their hands are worse than the weapons and equipment given to the Russians by the new Chinese empire that the Russians hold, and the overall decline is not a generation. Their current main weapon has been replaced by the Chinese 1705 rifle. The flintlock guns that fell behind 30 years ago, and many people even hold captured arquebus guns, which fell behind as early as 50 years ago.

Matchlock guns are easy to manufacture, and they can manufacture them now. Although the output is not large, the small army provided to them is still competent enough, and there are many, but flintlock guns are not easy to manufacture. Technology, as well as skilled workers and manufacturing workers, that is to say, with their ability, they can only manufacture matchlock guns. Advanced ones cannot be manufactured, but rough ones can be manufactured, but they have to fight with Indians with matchlock guns. The number advantage, the Indians People can destroy them.

The Iliads have a higher level of technology than the Indians, even ten years higher. They can make matchlocks and flintlocks, and they have their own organized troops. The combat system is similar to the regular army, Western-style.

At their level, the French are against the sky, but their weapon advantage has not yet been completely compared, because they still carry some captured artillery and purchased cannons, which are higher than the French staying in Europe Some, but almost the same. After all, they are near their hometown, and the replenishment of weapons and manpower is also very fast, and they are good at mobilizing the local aborigines to fight for them.

So now they have to keep a low profile and just counterattack. Before they have the power to crush the enemy, they can only defend. They still have to keep a low profile so as not to provoke the British and Italians on the opposite big island.

The first thousand and seventy seven chapters of the post-war situation

Despite everyone's misgivings, despite the fact that the enemy is still strong, the construction of the camp is still needed after the war, and it is even more important because the sense of security of the mercenary regiment is reduced.

Everyone knows why.

More than 1000 Indian and Iliad captives were divided into nine teams, three teams were at the pier, one team was in the water village, five teams built fences and protective walls around Wulidi, and the original remaining twenty Several captives were pulled to a low-lying area. Most of these people were merchants, stubborn guards, and those who escaped and were caught and refused to mend their ways. Amidst a burst of shouting, they were all shot dead in front of the pit , and then the people who were drawn out by the supervisory team to visit were buried in the land, and most of the dead Indian bodies were too late to be buried.

After dealing with these people, this team broke up the reorganized team, walked neatly, and returned to the camp with flintlock guns on their shoulders.

The corpses on the battlefield were quickly disposed of by the new prisoners, and the burial was completed. Many fortifications were repaired under the whips of the supervisors and the gunpoints of the guard team. Barbed wire, repelling trees, trenches, and forts resurrounded the periphery of Wulidi Get up, go back to Wuli, and there is another same arrangement, with a low fence wall one person high behind it, and after retreating 100 meters, a new city wall begins to be built.

The captives are building simple things, and the mercenary regiment has no guards. The squad builds new buildings within the camp and city walls, pastures, school yards, smelters, charcoal factories, artillery repair factories, sawmills, forage yards , Grain warehouses, forts, soldier camps, prisoner camps, stone factories, trebuchet factories, animal farms, soldier garrison watchtowers, and watchtowers.

On the pier, in a simple dock, a group of people are busy. They want to manufacture some fishing boats and merchant ships, and those coolies are Iliads. Their education level, the number of craftsmen they have, and even a lot of intellectuals, Work as a coolie in it, or a low-level ship craftsman.

Li Ya and the others are going to build a few flying shear boats. In case the steam engine ship is sunk by the enemy, they can use the dexterity of the flying shear boat to escape the enemy's pursuit, or communicate with the outside world, and buy some materials in small quantities, such as ore and iron. All kinds of shipbuilding and artillery materials.

Wu Kejing has been sent out. He led fifteen Han soldiers and five foreign soldiers from other countries to look for foreign aid. The intelligence personnel of the Ministry of Military Intelligence inside could finally report back.

The personnel of the Military Intelligence Department, who have been frustrated for more than a year, have been floating on the sea for several months. They have experienced life and death within two months of fleeing, and at the same time lost a lot of manpower. Now after more than two months of fighting, their manpower has changed from before. Fifteen of them, down to a mere five. The others had already died in that counterattack. This is the tragedy of the intelligence personnel. They cannot reveal their identities, and they cannot gain support from Li Ya and the others, because they are lying in ambush The purpose of the spies around Li Ya and the others is to monitor and prepare to get rid of Li Ya and the others at any time, so as to cut off their future threat to the empire.

Of course, when the situation is favorable, they try their best to instigate these people and seize the advantages that these people have gained outside. This is their purpose and their ultimate responsibility.

The reason why Wu Kejing attaches great importance to coming here in person is that Li Ya and the others finally decided that he, the faintly formed third in command of the mercenary regiment, is needed to sit in and fight for them. They trust him, and the other is that he needs to obtain intelligence from other places. For communication, he alone knows some lines, so he can't send people casually. The safest way for the intelligence department is to contact through a single line. It is said that he is a node of the intelligence team, not the final node, but on the outer line, at the bottom, he is the final node and boss of these people.

We all know the hard work and risks of the lowest-level intelligence personnel. Wu Kejing and the others are also very difficult and difficult. They even doubted the Chinese Empire. Now they are only doing things with a little responsibility and inertia.

A small captured French armed merchant ship of less than [-] tons sailed on the sea for about a month before they arrived at the territorial port of England and Ireland. With the help of several foreign-faced mercenary soldiers Disguised as the owner of a small merchant ship, they pretended to be slaves who escaped from the Chinese Empire to serve the owner of the ship. They stayed in a small port in England and Ireland for two days, took a rest, explored the route and replenished supplies, After paying a lot of money, I set sail again.

Sailing to the Mediterranean.

The same way they came.

On the island of Newfoundland, in the southeast port of St. Louis, the French have been silent for a month. Every day they also send scout cavalry to scout the movements of the Chinese, but they can't make too much judgment, because they can't get close to the place within a radius of 25 miles. Within the scope, this 25-mile range even includes about seven or eight miles of their sphere of influence in front of their house. After that World War, the French were hurt.

Not only 230 people were captured, but more than 100 people died in battle. Eighteen 75mm caliber artillery pieces were lost, as well as 28 old 23-pounder field guns, 300 1705-pound old field guns, and There were more than [-] pack horses dragging the cannon, countless shells and ammunition, and they seized countless British Manchester [-] flintlock guns.

Compared with the British who obtained a lot of advanced things from the Chinese Empire, the French, a country that has not had much contact with the Chinese Empire for more than 50 years, their technological development can be regarded as very backward, even if the Chinese Empire from the United Kingdom has fallen behind The Huaxia 1705 rifles, they also have to retreat and continue to use flintlocks because they are too troublesome to build, and the quality is not good, they often explode and cannot produce copper bullets of good enough quality. Type rifles were purchased or seized from the Chinese Empire, or most of them were purchased from the United Kingdom.

Because of the British smelting technology, the barrels made of steel rails made by cooperation with the Chinese Empire or the steel rail manufacturing technology stolen from the teacher, so the British have the ability to produce the Chinese 1705 rifles, but they can only get them from the Chinese Empire. Some rail materials, as well as the steel they smelted, and the 1705-style rifles that the Chinese Empire has fallen behind, are actually of poor quality and expensive, so many British troops actually do not have large-scale equipment and can equip them. Most of them are elite troops. Originally, Zhang Qiang’s ability to collect intelligence was not enough, so he thought that the British also had the same level of technology as them and could manufacture these guns, so they let go of the sale of the British. In fact, it was mainly for Sweden and China. The British still guard against Russia and Turkey's business.

After all, the British at this moment, even though the journey is far away, the Chinese Empire still knows that they are in the whole world, and they are still very strong. They have defeated Spain, the Netherlands, and France. These maritime powers, or they are more powerful than them The country, the French are not satisfied, and are still competing with the British for colonies. The confrontation on Newfoundland is their most direct proof.

The reason why the French dare not launch the next large-scale attack is because the British on the huge territory on the opposite side are staring at them and want to drive them into the sea. If their current forces engage in another large-scale battle, they may really be defeated by the British. People are driven into the sea.

The first thousand and 170 eight chapters copy the growth model of the Chinese Empire

People die every day. This is not a world that can be sympathetic or merciful. This is a test of blood and fire. Either you die or I die. The history of blood and tears of the Indians and Iliads has forged the growth trajectory of the mercenary group.

The bodies of 800 Indians and Iliads formed a city with a length of five kilometers and an irregular width of 800 kilometers. The military knowledge and defense knowledge possessed by the Chinese Empire allowed them to quickly use the lives, blood, sweat, and bodies of [-] people to build a magnificent city. The city included three ports with a water depth of ten meters, and two There is a [-]-ton dock, more than a dozen wooden trestles extending [-] kilometers into the sea, and two stone trestles extending [-] kilometer into the sea.

A sea-blocking embankment extending to five kilometers into the sea was built, with a width of four meters above the embankment. Forts were placed in some places. The Chinese-style artillery has a total of three forts. Under the cover of the cliff forts on both sides, there is also a small island in the sea, which is about 75 meters long and 50 meters wide. There is a barracks for 30 people on it, and A wharf that can berth for offshore 50-ton transshipment ships.

There are also many forts in the port at the back, and there are even two forts from two independent water villages, which house two 128mm heavy artillery made by the Chinese Empire, but they are relatively old.