Lord of Ming Dynasty

It is a pity that there is no way to increase the number of personnel. Although no one died during this period, they are destined to have a team of less than 500 people here. The French are still strong, and the Indians are restless around the camp, looking for something to do They had a chance to ambush them, but Li Ya didn't give them a chance. When they saw any movement, a few shots passed, and the Indians were killed and wounded. They would not have survived more than a few days without the treatment of the camp doctors because of the wounds they received under the fire.

The Iliads also ambushed the patrols, but the patrols didn't go far. Seeing them call the artillery first, and then shoot at them, the Iliad cavalry fled in embarrassment.

The French came from the sea and tried to get close to the port, but the two 128mm artillery in the port fired at a distance of more than ten nautical miles. They lost their armor and armor, and almost couldn't go back several times.

The mercenary group is like a hedgehog. The French, Indians, and Iliads can't even bite around a tiger. If they don't make it, one or two front teeth will come down. If things go on like this, everyone will die down.

Li Ya rode a horse in the wilderness between the camp and the water village. Now that the camp and the water village were wrapped inside the walls of the newly built city, there was no need to worry about the Indians lurking in and suddenly assassinating them.

Wearing a cowboy hat and a denim vest, he wears a short flintlock musket of the Chinese Empire on his waist, a 1705-style rifle of the Chinese Empire on his back, and a copper-shelled round-headed bullet belt of the 1705-style rifle on his chest. With a pipe in his mouth, a wrinkled old face blown by the sea wind, a pair of old hands with bulging veins, holding the reins, riding a captured Iliad pony, and Captain Sare Youzai with two sailor guards You Zai greeted Li Ya.

"Captain, what are you thinking?" Sa Lei asked in a hoarse voice.

Li Ya didn't answer, but asked instead: "Captain, how is your side? When will our ship become combat-capable?"

Sare put away his pipe, and said solemnly: "After half a year of understanding and repairing the power of our ship, the power has been restored to [-] horsepower, and it can basically sail [-] nautical miles at a speed of [-] to [-] knots. If there is no shortage of coal If it is, it can sail at a maximum speed of [-] knots during the battle without breaking down. As long as it is overhauled properly, there will be no serious problems during the battle.

The newly replaced main mast and other auxiliary masts have a total of six masts. The mast is as high as 31 meters, and has the function of telescopically reducing the height of the mast. It can reduce the height of the mast within 5 minutes to prevent sea storms. , causing the mast to break, we have three spare sails on each mast, which can ensure that all the sails of the main mast can be replaced at least within 10 minutes after the sails are damaged by enemy shells.

In addition, our main firepower, the wooden turntable at the bow, and the open-air turret with sandbags fixed and protected, can protect the gunner to the greatest extent. The artillery is a 128mm main gun. There are not many shells, but it is still possible to deal with a medium-sized naval battle. , There is also a turret-type 128mm gun at the stern, so that the front and rear can attack the enemy.

In addition, there are four 75mm field guns on each side to attack the enemy. The maximum attack angle is [-] degrees. The overlapping shooting range of the four guns can ensure that the enemy ships on one side are all within the shooting range.

There are twelve old-fashioned twelve-pound cannons under the second deck of the bottom of the ship, with a range of 800 meters, using solid bullets and simple bursting bullets.

The bottom warehouse has eight 600-pound guns, four on each side, with a range of 400 meters to [-] meters. It covers the warship in the middle range and prevents the enemy from approaching. It uses solid bullets and special armor-piercing bullets, which can severely damage the enemy below the waterline. .If the enemy is a wooden hull, the loss must be great.

In addition, there are sixteen movable mortars on the deck of the ship, which can hit the approaching enemies, use solid bullets and incendiary bullets, and even simple flowering bullets, with a range of 300 meters to 50 meters.

In addition, we also have two self-made [-]-ton sail warships, equipped with old six-pounder guns, twelve-pounder guns, eighteen-pounder guns, and tiger squat guns, which can cover our steam engine ships on the left and right sides at any time Do not be approached by enemies. "

Li Ya lowered his head and smiled wryly. With this level of strength, he can only guard the camp. Attacking is absolutely impossible. The French also have steam engine technology they stole from the British, and they also bought steam engine ships from the British, as well as from Spain. Where did people buy those experimental warships of steam engines sold by the Chinese Empire? Although those warships have actually been remodeled a lot and turned into merchant ships, for the French, they just remodeled them casually, although they do not have the quality of the Chinese Empire. And performance, but it can be regarded as occupying a certain position in the rising steam engine era, and has a certain strength of steam engine warships. They only need to study for a few years in the future, relying on the smooth performance of technical exchanges in palm-sized places where Europe communicates with each other. , they will soon catch up.

In Europe, France is the noble king, but France is too romantic, so they resist those arrogant gentlemen and British farmers.

If the Chinese Empire is not afraid at all, their technological development, under the urging of Zhang Qiang, and under the urging of the new emperor and prince, will develop wave after wave. Any fleet of warships will be able to beat Britain and France. It's a waste of money, but their mercenary regiments don't even dare to attack the Indian tribes now. There are no people and no skills. This is a limitation.

He looked into the distance, how many people could Wu Kejing bring to them?

Or Wu Kejing and the others escaped by themselves, leaving them alone. After all, the cohesion of the mercenary group lies in this restricted place. Everyone must live and survive. Once they have a chance to escape here, their hearts will be scattered. What he doesn't know is that, If it was just the members of the mercenary group, Wu Kejing and the others who were united under the pressure of confusion and death might really be gone forever, and Wu Kejing and the others are the intelligence operations team of the Chinese Empire's Military Intelligence Department. They are carrying missions. Wherever they flee, they will be chased and killed by the military intelligence department. If they fail to complete the mission and escape, that is betrayal. This is especially important for intelligence personnel. They are sensitive, and the Chinese Empire will not let betrayers go.

The first thousand and 180 chapters and four small tribes of the Iliads

"You said, can we go out and get rid of the tribe of Iliads here? According to the interrogated prisoners, there are not many Iliads here. The prisoners we captured before were only a few hundred people, and their entire tribe did not exceed 3000 people, that is to say, in the previous few battles, they are all young and strong, and there are not many men who can guard their tribe. I mean take them away, cut them off, so that we can devote our energy to deal with the remaining two opponents."

Li Ya said to Sara.

Sa Lei tapped his horsewhip and thought for a while, "Well, yes, but you have to know that our backbone staff here is only about a hundred people, and my sailors are no more than two hundred. You are going out this time to lead the team yourself. It is better to send people out, send people out for fear of damage, and lead the team out by yourself, without you, our team may be destroyed immediately, you are the backbone of everyone, and we cannot attack easily."

Through understanding these days, Sa Lei knew that since Li Ya had this idea, he would definitely not trust his subordinates to carry out his idea, especially at this time, he must do it himself. Either way, the remaining troops in the camp wanted to rescue him, and at the same time keep the city and the sea several kilometers away.

This kind of possibility is very big, because the French did not give up attacking them, and sent people over from time to time to investigate or harass them. The Indians who suffered a lot of losses were lurking around, and they might jump out at any time. If one or two of them are lost, their strength is not enough, and if one of them dies, it will be a loss.

"The French sent people to negotiate, hoping that we would release their men. After several threats and temptations, they hoped to use ransom to redeem several of their officers. Now you must stay in the camp. If the French find you in the camp , then they are likely to attack with all their strength, without you, without me, or only me, the mercenary group will not gather together and follow my arrangements, besides, I am not a professional land warfare expert, Don’t have any experience in command, give up, at worst we’ll go now, get out of here, damn it, the temperature here is too low, and the temperature in summer is not too cold.”

Sa Lei held the rein in one hand, turned his head and said to him, the two got off their horses, and muttered for a long time, Sa Lei still disagreed, this was the first time, Li Ya was a little annoyed, being pressed and beaten by others all the time, This is not the habit of his soldiers of the Chinese Empire.

"Can you let Sweeper go? His injury is almost healed, and his ability to lead the team is also good." Sa Lei looked at Li Ya and suggested.

Li Ya lowered his head, frowned, and nodded after a long time, "That's fine, I'll sit here, and Lieutenant Sweeping Thunder will take people to copy the Iliad's lair and teach them a lesson. Actually..., I'd rather It is the French who want to teach us a lesson, as long as we beat the French, other natives will not dare to do anything to us."

After the two chatted, and a few days later, Sao Tianlei stood at the injured place again, looking at the more than 100 pirate squads with different faces and the manpower drawn from each team, as well as the original Han people of the fifty mercenary regiments. The backbone, as well as a dozen surrendered Iliads, gave a few deep instructions, and then more than 200 people walked into the jungle.

They don't have so many horses, and the horses are inconvenient to move in the jungle. They can only walk to the tribe of the Iliads, 60 kilometers, more than [-] miles, and it will take almost a day and a night to go. They can't go back, and the camp can't be rescued.

Leading the way by surrendered Iliad captives, the team trekked deep and shallow in the dark jungle. The sky-sweeper walked at the tail of the team. There were three scouts leading the Iliad captives to explore the way. The pack horses carrying weapons and hauling ammunition advanced in a single file, followed by fifty Han mercenaries with advanced Huaxia 1705 rifles in their hands, followed vigilantly, and there were three Iliad prisoners in the team, five Indian captives with their provisions and equipment.

At dawn, the team walked out of the jungle and came to a huge valley. The valley was winding, with many paths and plains. There were also several small forests. A stream meandered through the valley. I don't know where it goes.

"Send someone down to investigate, let's rest for a while," Sao Tianlei said to the officer beside him.

The officer responded, greeted an Iliad prisoner and four soldiers, and sent them to investigate around the valley, then set up guards, and 200 people rested in place.

Less than half an hour after they rested, just eating something and sleeping soundly, the investigator came back, and a soldier in charge of the team said to the officer: "Over there, in a small area in the valley There's a small tribe of Iliads in the woods."

Sao Tianlei was taken aback for a moment, what, he met the Iliads after walking less than [-] miles. Aren't they afraid that the mercenaries would steal them?So close to them?

"How many people are there, how many are capable of fighting, what are the weapons and equipment, and how many horses are there?" Sao Tianlei asked anxiously.

"The report shows that there are about 400 people. The number of people who can fight is estimated to be less than 50. There are more than 100 horses. Most of the weapons and equipment are some matchlock guns, and there seem to be some flintlock guns. Others are some machetes, armor, and swords , weapons like axes." The soldier reported.

"Take me to see, come on, to see if there are other Iliads around, or Indians, it's not logical. How did those patrols patrol? It wasn't that there was nothing here a month ago person?"

In order to conceal, he only brought two guards and the original five scouts.

Going around a mountain ridge, crossing a small stream, and entering the jungle, within three miles, I saw a flat land, a stockade-like human gathering place, children were running and playing happily, and old people were doing some fence maintenance. Young people are cutting down trees and carrying things, some are still forging iron, women are picking wild fruits in the forest, and some are training.

Most of them trained cold weapons, bows and arrows, spear throwing, epee, and spears. A few people were patrolling around on horseback with a leader who looked like a leader. The entire forest glade was about three or four miles wide. The camp Out of the low-lying area of ​​the glade, surrounded by fences, and some horses were placed in the fence on one side.

"Catch two captives and come back and ask them how they got here." Sao Tianlei said to the squad leader who was leading the troops beside him.

The squad leader nodded, took a step back, and left the original prisoner to the guards of the two guards sweeping the sky mines. He led the three soldiers around him and drew out the long sword and long knife from his waist. He held a short firecracker, Holding a dagger in the other hand, the four of them approached the stockade. In a forest next to the stockade, Iliads were cutting trees. They approached quietly. After a while, three soldiers attacked two Iliads who were cutting trees. special people.

Although there was some resistance, for the Han soldiers who had experienced many battles and were once soldiers of the Chinese Empire, it was very quick to face the two Ilyas who were only teenagers. They were captured alive.

"Take it back, leave two people here to watch, and we will interrogate them."

Back in the high forest where he was resting, Sao Tianlei handed over the two captives to the soldiers who were in charge of interrogation, walked to the team by himself, and asked everyone to prepare for the battle. Ambushes in the jungle, trying to intercept the fleeing Iliads.

The other team consisted of merchant escorts, some pirate squads, and Han officers, and went to ambush in the woods on the other side. The two teams formed an angle and completely surrounded the back and sides of the Iliads. Team members attack from the front.

The first thousand and 180 five chapters we are not the enemy

Just when Sao Tianlei allocated his manpower and brought the rest of the people to the front of the village, he saw something he didn't want to see. The two soldiers who stayed there to observe were hung upside down on the tree trunk at the gate of the village. On the road, an Iliad man was riding a dark brown horse wandering around the door, looking at the surrounding woods and the path here.

Sweeping Thunder stopped, and the soldiers who separated and surrounded in skirmish lines also stopped. Everyone bent over and held guns to guard the surroundings, and the surroundings were quiet.

Sweeper raised his hand, signaled the team to stop, walked over, and brought out the Iliad prisoners one by one, "Go up, ask them what they want to do?"

The prisoner cowered in fear, and the guard next to Soo Tianlei went up and knocked down the butt of his gun. The prisoner chattered for a long time, and then said a few words in half-understandable English, while following the translator, A Russian Slavic person translated: "He said that those are the Iliads in the west, not the Iliads on their side. Their tribe is not the same tribe as the Iliads over there, they are enemies. Those who seek refuge are the French, those who seek refuge are the British, I don’t know why they came here. If he goes up, he will definitely be killed.”

Sky Sweeper doesn't really care about the life of this prisoner, but meaningless sacrifice is not what officers like them do. The duty of an officer is to make the best use of limited soldiers and resources to defeat the enemy.

This time he brought out a combat unit of about [-] people, which is already considered the maximum force that can be used by the mercenary regiment in the camp. If it is damaged here, their situation will be even worse, so he will not Take risks easily, even if a prisoner who can only work for the camp, a prisoner who surrenders to them, if he dies like this, or is killed by himself, then the remaining dozen or so Iliad prisoners will all be killed Otherwise, people will be shaken when they go back, and no one will submit to him anymore.

So he let the man go, and said to the translator, "Go and see what they have to say, since they didn't kill our people immediately, but sent people to wait outside, it seems that they want to say something, Of course, it does not rule out that they want to kill me directly, or lure us into their ambush circle, you go, be smart, run if you see something wrong, we are here to cover you."

After finishing speaking, he waved his hand and ordered his subordinates to retreat to find a place that could be used for defense. At the same time, he sent people to warn the other two teams not to be ambushed.