Lord of Ming Dynasty

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Tang Yaweng galloped over, "Boss, Swee Tianlei and the others have returned, bringing back more than a thousand captives."

Li Ya and Sa Lei looked at each other, and there were gratified smiles on their faces. Li Ya said to Sa Lei: "Come on, let's go and see, this is a big victory. We have solved the Iliad, then The Indians will definitely tremble with fear, and the French will definitely not dare to touch us for a while. Now, we will have more time to wait for Wu Kejing and the others to come back and bring back more people. At that time, even if We are not afraid of the French coming again. Maybe we have enough manpower, and we can deal them another heavy blow, take the initiative to take the French town thirty miles away, so that we can gain a firm foothold here gone."

The two ran downstairs excitedly, and then rode to the edge of the forest four or five miles away from the city. All obstacles that prevent the troops from shooting are cleared away, at least within a certain range. For a shooting range as large as a city, at least a range of four or five miles should be swept out, so that once the enemy appears, the lookout post can find the enemy in time. , so as to sound the alarm, so that the defensive troops enter the defensive position, ready to block the enemy.

But this may not need to be done, because when the city was built, the surrounding trees were basically cut down, and they were used to build the buildings of the city and the camp, so the edge of the forest around the city retreated at least five miles. If the city is extended one mile forward, the edge of the forest will be five or six miles away.

Dozens of them arrived, and thousands of people came out of the opposite forest. The so-called number of people was hundreds or tens of thousands. The people who came out of the forest were scattered at first, and then they couldn't see the edge at a glance, and went back and forth. Soldiers of the mercenary regiment on horseback ran back and forth to support them. Soldiers of the mercenary regiment walked on both sides, watching the group of people vigilantly.

The first ones were all captives. There were Indians and Iliads. There were ten people in a team. They were bound by rattan with their hands and feet. Of course, it was one hand and one foot. The other hand carried the injured Indian. And the Iliads, with another group of prisoners, each carried their wounded compatriots with one hand, and four carried a stretcher, some of them were holding things in their hands and backs, and they were carrying things on their backs.

With their heads down, they walked in a low mood. One team, one team, seemed to be walking forever. After walking for more than ten minutes, they saw the main force of Sweeping Thunder behind them, and they were basically riding horses. , there are horses dragging things behind them, and they are also the elders of the team. Behind them is another group of Iliads carrying various things, but this group of people are riding horses and carrying weapons and equipment , Li Ya and the people around him immediately felt tense. Could it be that Sweeping Thunder and the others made a mistake and were captured by the enemy?

These Iliads came to negotiate with them?

Previously, these people also expressed that they wanted to negotiate, hoping that they could release the thousands of prisoners who were under custody, but the mercenary group did not agree to them.

Behind these people walked a group of Iliads, old and weak, women and children, and a group of people in the rear, and finally their main team, the Han Chinese team.

The continuation of the 180th chapter and nine mercenary regiments

After receiving the support of the small tribe of the Iliads, the strength of the mercenary group did not increase much, but after the combination of the two and the cannon fodder of nearly [-] captive Iliads and Indians, the strength of the mercenary group increased. a big step.

Six teams took turns to attack, each time they took twice as many prisoners as themselves, and drove the prisoners forward, those who did not attack were killed on the spot, those who attacked and dared to escape were captured and tortured to death, and the next time the attack failed Continue to drive, attack those who contribute and return, the Iliads are incorporated into the small tribes of the Iliads, and the population and soldiers of the tribes grow. The Indians allow them to form their own squads and serve as overseers. Every time they walk behind the captives , driving the captives to attack, while the mercenary squad walked behind to supervise their overseer squads.

In this way, within half a month, within a radius of sixty miles, except for the French, all other Indian tribes were wiped out, and those who were not wiped out were all moved to other places, and the Iliads were almost completely wiped out. Those who were not wiped out also fled, and the small tribe of Iliad grew into a large tribe of more than 2000 people, contributing 500 soldiers to the mercenary group.

The Indians contributed 500 warriors to the Chinese Empire, while retaining two tribes of 500, plus three small tribes of 500.

These Indians and Iliads successfully attached to the mercenary regiment.

Now the French had a headache. The Indian tribes attached to them were either expelled, wiped out, or annexed. The mercenary regiment gained 300 troops and 2000 prisoners at the same time. The human and Iliad scouting teams successfully expanded the mercenary group's sphere of influence to a hundred miles away, almost bordering the British sphere of influence at the end of the peninsula.

After the French received a supplement, their strength reached 500, but they could only hide in three strongholds and did not dare to go out, and even contacted them secretly or by sea.

In view of the fact that his own strength and force were not enough to take down the small town and two strongholds of the French in one fell swoop, the mercenary figure did not attack the French again, but peacefully coexisted with the French strangely. Although the two sides had no contact, However, the troops and subordinates of both sides are restrained in unison, and they are not allowed to be hostile or initiate friction with each other.

Just when Li Ya and the others didn't know how to proceed, two dilapidated merchant ships sailed into the port, and the fort inside the port turned simultaneously to monitor the two merchant ships entering the port.

"It's our merchant ship, but I don't know where it came from. It is flying the flag of our mercenary regiment. There is nothing wrong with it. Except for those who go out from us, they don't know how to change it when we come here. Flag." Sa Lei put down the binoculars, and said to Li Ya, Tang Yaweng, and Sweeping Thunder who came by.

"Let them enter the port, it seems that they are the people we sent out earlier." Li Ya also put down the binoculars and said.

Soon, two merchant ships entered the port dock under the guidance of a 180-ton armed merchant ship to berth.

The five people he sent out from the boat, "Report to the leader, we were ordered to go out to find people, but we didn't find the leader Wu Kejing and the others. We only found some Han Chinese living in North America on the coast of North America, a total of 310 or eight people."

A few days later, these 310 eight people accepted the placement of the mercenary group and settled down on the island. All the 130 young and strong people were incorporated into the Han Chinese team and became the second team of the Han Chinese team. Five officers and five soldiers were sent here. The soldiers are responsible for managing them. The five soldiers are actually officers. They have no military ranks in the mercenary regiment, but they have actual positions. Squad leader. In a squad of 70 people, everyone is actually a squad leader, but in the more advanced Chinese Empire, they are at least Compared with the senior officers like the captains of the company commander, they can only be soldiers.

Now after these people are assigned, each of them will be at least a squad leader, and some of them will also serve as the captain of the pirate squad, which is equivalent to the position of platoon leader.

The selected 70 Han Chinese homeless people were assigned to the second Han Chinese team, and then received training from five officers and five squad leader-level soldiers.

The remaining people are engaged in their original occupations, blacksmithing, running restaurants, carpenters, woodcutters, herding horses, running shops, liquor stores, grocery stores, fur processing, and farming. Yes, the strongest project of the Han people is actually farming. breeding.

Due to the large loss in the early stage, the original craftsmen and merchants all died in the battle, so the mercenary group became a pure military camp. Now with the arrival and existence of these people, the mercenary group has come back to life. They were concentrated in the places where the families of some former mercenary regiments lived.

The biggest harvest this time is a group of homeless Han women. These people were squeezed out by British exiles and black slaves in North America, and the local Han people there had to go into exile. Many of their men died , leaving behind a whole family.

According to statistics, most of these women have had families, some men are still there, some men are no longer there, but the children are still there, and some are alone, so after obtaining their consent, Li Ya let them go on a blind date and formed a family with the Han soldiers in his squad. Although there were not many, only eight women married the soldiers in the squad.

However, this also makes it possible for the mercenary group to continue. Due to several battles and half a year of fleeing, the families of these people either died or were separated during the escape. Therefore, now the mercenary group, even Li Ya Men are almost all bachelors.

Now the mercenary regiment has families, that is, women and children. There are only 38 families in the mercenary group, and there are only [-] newly married families including these eight families.

Well, if you add these families, there will be 58 families, which will lay the foundation for the mercenary group to reproduce. If they are all bachelors, then even if they lay down a foundation, they will not last long. When they grow old, That's when the mercenary group was destroyed.

The arrival of these people brought 15 teenagers and children under the age of 33 to the mercenary group, which is the future seed of the mercenary group.

These people came back, but they were faster than Wu Kejing and the others. Li Ya inquired carefully, and found out that because the ship they sent was small, the five people could not control the pirate sailors and merchants on board, plus some The rebellion of Indian captives, five people were forced to escape from the ship on the coast of North America, the pirates and merchants who betrayed them did not kill them, they fled by themselves, and took away a 180-ton merchant ship made by the mercenary group .

However, in exchange for a population of more than 300 people, Li Ya will not pursue it. Even if they pursue it, with their current strength, they will not be able to find a dozen missing rebels in the vast sea.

This made him strengthen the management and monitoring of the pirate team.

When I turned around, I found an excuse to kill all the alien businessmen who were still left. At this time, more than 50 people were killed, and almost a small team disappeared, but they quickly sent [-] soldiers and four officers to regroup. That team transferred dozens of people from the captured overseer at the same time. The team did not suffer much loss, and its strength did not increase or decrease.