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.

Except for the sailor team and the Han Chinese team, the mercenary team doesn't care about the life and death of the pirate team, they are just cannon fodder who are a little higher than the captives.

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It has been more than four months since Wu Kejing and the others left, and Wu Kejing and the others have never returned, which made Li Ya and the others feel uneasy.

The situation on the island is now that they have suppressed the French, but they know that the strength of the French is more than that. They can get support from the mainland nearby, but they don't know where their support is. They are fighting alone and do not take up any troops. Advantage.

Now they have two thousand disobedient captives and two thousand cooperative tribal soldiers who basically obey the command, but these people are quite unstable. Once they relax, they may counterattack and be eaten by two thousand cooperative tribal soldiers There is not even scum left. After all, they only have a total of more than 300 Han soldiers now, and only [-] Han soldiers can be used in battle. , their strength was just over five hundred troops.

It is necessary to control more than four times its own force, and eight times the population of the former enemy captives and the newly annexed Iliad and Indian tribes.

This month, the navy added a 180-ton merchant ship, and now they have three merchant ships, as well as two [-]-ton armed merchant ships, and an armed merchant ship converted from a steam engine experimental warship.

With these ships, they can barely send two 180-ton armed merchant ships out to patrol the coast. Although the distance is not far, it is only [-] miles along the shore and ten miles away from the shore, but this is also a big improvement. It will be crushed on the shore by French warships and merchant ships again, and dare not come out of the port.

"What's happened to the French recently?" Li Ya was also idle, using the nail clippers produced by the Huaxia Empire to trim his nails intently. The beard on his face had been removed by the group of people who came over half an hour ago. A barber among the Han people in North America was shaved clean, revealing his mature and handsome face. Except for the few wrinkles accumulated over the past year at the brows and feet, his face has been weathered and the weather is much less, at least You can't see it unless you look carefully.

His scout team, team leader Du Yijun, was a former garrison officer, and later served as an intelligence officer of the Civil Affairs Bureau for a year in the Ministry of Civil Affairs. When he was transferred to the Cavalry Army as a military intelligence inspector, he was already a military intelligence officer The leader of the Ministry of Operations, but because of an intelligence error, after Russia raided the garrison in Kazakhstan and suffered heavy losses, he was arrested and exiled to Central Asia to reclaim fields. He was arrested less than half a year. The cavalry army was withdrawn, and most of the cavalry troops Merged into the Field Army, the Field Army rose to replace the Cavalry Army and took over the Ural and Central Asian lines of defense.

I didn't know each other in Li Ya's mercenary regiment. When Li Ya faced the Hungarian infantry assault, he bravely stood up to respond to Li Ya's call, organized, and led the mercenary regiment soldiers to escape together with Li Ya, although not as good as Li Ya before. The recruited confidantes in East Siberia are close, but his ability is still there. He used to be a major officer in the garrison.

He still has the ability, and he performed outstandingly. He was appointed as the commander of the combat team at the beginning, and later served as the commander of the scout team. The scout team lost fifteen members, and six people retired due to serious injuries. However, after a few more people were added later, the scout team has grown to more than 70 people in the past half a year, using the captured Iliad pony horses to travel , distributed in the current mercenary regiment's [-] kilometers, that is, [-] miles, for routine reconnaissance and patrolling.

He was recently dispatched by Li Ya to keep an eye on the French.

"Reporting to the leader, the French added three armed merchant ships, brought some goods, fruits and vegetables, and added two hundred soldiers at the same time, but it seems that they are not guarding against us, maybe their old enemy, the British, is thinking of occupying this place again. Now, they probably still have a headache how to deal with the British."

Du Yijun stood straight, facing Li Ya like an officer still in the Chinese Imperial Army.

After leaving the Chinese Imperial Army for so many years, even Li Ya has become a little slack. He often does not abide by the rules in the army, but this person in front of him looks like a soldier of the Imperial Guard from the beginning to the end, and he usually wears his clothes The medals obtained in the garrison and the uniform of the garrison, but without the rank mark, this dress is very eye-catching and dazzling in today's exiled mercenary regiments. It is impossible to hate the Chinese Empire in the slightest.

So in everyone's eyes, he is a different kind of existence. He usually doesn't have many friends and doesn't have much contact with everyone.

However, in everyone's reviews, it is still good, mainly because he is fair and just, and he never provokes people. He takes the initiative to help everyone. Although he doesn't speak much, everyone knows his kindness.

"You said why the French have never taken the initiative to attack us, or that they died down after the first failure, and never troubled us, or took the initiative to contact us. Don't they know that under such circumstances, the next step we They must be the ones to fight?" Li Ya looked at Du Yijun and asked.

Du Yijun shook his head, "I don't know about this either. I'm not a roundworm in the stomach of the French, but I think we should take the initiative to negotiate peace. Now we are already the biggest force on this peninsula, and the French can only be regarded as reluctantly." A force that can fight us.

They have potential, but in terms of weapons, equipment and manpower, they are a bit similar to us at the beginning. They have a large number of people and troops, and their weapons and equipment are good, but they are still a little bit short, and they cannot all be used for attack. Now we are also In this way, with a large number of people and troops, and good weapons and equipment, they even overwhelmed the French, and at the same time overwhelmed the French in terms of momentum.

But we know that if we can't eliminate the French with one blow, our advantage will be lost. The French are close and can quickly resupply, but it is impossible for us to resupply. Preserve yourself while destroying the enemy, while dealing with the pressure from the British, the next enemy that may take over France, and the pressure of the French to come back and retaliate. "

Such an answer made Li Ya decide whether to deal with the French or not.

From the heart, who doesn’t want to let their own side dominate the peninsula, but from the analysis of Du Yijun just now, their own side’s strength is damaged and there is nothing to supplement, even if the Indians and Iliads take refuge in the forces and captives. There will be more to add, since they've already wiped out every one of these types they can get around.

After the past, it will be the territory of the British.

For the British, the mercenary group did not have any information about them. They only knew that they were very powerful. The French were forced by them to retreat from the island to the peninsula. All colonial ports and inland towns were lost.

In this way, the French have become a weak existence, but also an unstable threat. It is necessary to communicate with them, or directly eliminate them, and then bear the joint suppression of the two local European landlords in the future.

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After listening to Du Yijun's report, Li Ya sent him to continue to stare at the French. There is no room for error. If the French are aggressive and open up their positions, it is not difficult to get rid of them without fear of loss. After all They have so many warships, and their weapons and equipment must be more damaged than the current weapons and equipment. These days, relying on the matchlock guns they built, some people, such as the Iliad, used bows and arrows to fill their numbers. People also took their throwing guns and blowing arrows to make up the number, and few had matchlock guns in their hands.

One is that Li Ya is worried and did not equip them with extra seized matchlock guns, and the other is reserved for the Han soldiers selected from the follow-up population. The mercenary regiment cannot produce the rifles and flintlocks of the Chinese Empire. Not to mention the craftsmanship, just say that it takes about a month to build a matchlock gun. What is the technical level of the craftsmen? Where did the Russians seize the advanced weapons and equipment of the Chinese Empire, as well as the French weapons and equipment captured, the main force is the flintlock.

The quality of these flintlocks is actually not as good as the flintlocks made by the Chinese Empire. Now the Chinese Empire no longer manufactures these flintlocks. Even the old single-handed rifle weapons of the troops are being sold. The advanced rifle of years ago.

As far as he knows, the rifles of the Huaxia Empire have been equipped with the Huaxia 1711 type rotary bolt, with a bayonet, a sight, and a five-round bridge-clip magazine rifle. It's accurate and easy to operate.

This is simply a sharp gun for today's Europe. Europe still can't produce rifles of this craft, and the main equipment in Europe is flintlock guns. Ten years, and at least 30 years behind in terms of manufacturing process and technology, but due to the rise of commercial trade in the Chinese Empire, Europeans can still get some 1705-style rifles that were backward in the Chinese Empire.

Compared with the 1705-style rifle, the 1711-style rifle is far worse, with a range of 400 meters, but the accuracy is not high, and the round bullet has no power when flying at 200 meters, and because the production is not standardized, the bullet Flying more than 100 meters, the accuracy of the head is basically bad. It often hits an object, but the bullet flies to a place six or seven meters away and hits another object. The most suitable combat distance is actually 120 meters away. A sharpshooter Can hit a person's head, what an ordinary gunman can basically hit is a person's body.

The loading mechanism is a magazine type, which needs to be pressed in one by one, and five bullets are almost the same. However, compared with these, the ones made by the Huaxia Empire have higher precision, and other imitations have much lower precision, and the bullets are more accurate. The spring inside the magazine and the casting technology of the magazine are not high enough, and the burrs inside often jam the bullet, or delay entering the chamber, causing the bullet to jam.

The 1711 type, as long as it is made by the Chinese Empire, it must be refined, and the materials used are better. The range reaches 600 meters. Usually, it is still possible to hit some small targets at a distance of 200 meters. It still has a certain accuracy at 300 meters, and Because of the bridge clip, the bullet can be pressed in quickly and fired quickly.

However, the 1711 type has not been seen in the world now, because the Chinese Empire has fully equipped the expanded field army and guards with this rifle, while the retreated 1705 type is equipped with the garrison. The strength of the field army and the guard army is average, and they are still expanding and adjusting.

Weapons and equipment have not been completely lost yet, and the 1705 type has been equipped for so many years, and there are a lot of them, so it is normal for them to flow out. There are even imitations in Europe, but because their ironmaking skills are not up to standard, the quality of their products is not good. Well, since they don't yet know how to make rubber and other parts that need to be used in firearms, their products can be said to be of poor quality.

The Chinese Empire is very strict about these strategic technologies and materials. Except for the prince, several ministers of the Ministry of Industry, the emperor, and others, even the prince is not allowed to intervene.

The mercenary group doesn't even have the craftsmen who can already produce those strategic materials and technologies, and in comparison, they don't even have the technology and craftsmen to produce smelted flintlock guns, they can only repair them.

Li Ya walked around the camp with the guards, while thinking about the future development of the mercenary group.

Another month has passed, and it has been more than five months since Wu Kejing and the others left. There is still no news about Wu Kejing and the others, not even the dozen or so people and five cronies he sent for the second time. They are looking for Wu Kejing. To respect them, the last time their ship encountered a mutiny, they had to go to the North American coast, and then it took them more than two months to bring back more than 300 Han people. This time, Li Ya reduced the number of pirates sent out. The merchant guards, the newly arrived Han Chinese fishermen, and the small tribe of Iliads were sent to help the five of them.

Just as he was about to leave the camp to go to the water village to see the results of Sa Lei's shipbuilding, a sailor from the water village ran towards them with two people on a horse.

Li Ya's pupils suddenly dilated, dilated, because the two people behind him are the two he sent out this time, and they will be back in less than a week. It will take at least two months to cross the Atlantic Ocean. If the steam engine ship may not be used A few days, but this time they still use a newly built armed merchant ship of 180 tons, according to the power level of the merchant ship.

When there is no wind, the lifeboat has to be pulled by sailor oars. When there is wind, the speed is only one or two knots when the sail is full, and the speed is only three to four knots when the wind is slightly stronger. It is the average speed of an armed merchant ship. If it is downwind, it can reach six or seven knots, and if it is headwind, it will only be three knots. It will hit the rocks and be silent or be dragged by the sails and overturn the ship.

When the storm came, I could only pray for God's blessing after cutting off the main mast. When a gust of wind came, the speed reached twelve knots, and the ship could not stand it and disintegrated directly, or pressed them into the water, destroying the ship and killing people.

So sailing in this era is a matter of narrow escapes. Even their thousand-ton steam engine ship drifted at sea for several months, lost power, and survived only after seeing this island.

When the people arrived and got off their horses, two men he sent walked up to Li Ya. Li Ya looked at them and asked expectantly: "Did I meet Chief Wu on the way, and they came back? How many people did they bring back? How many weapons and equipment?" and supplies?"

The two looked at him, hesitating to speak, their faces were ugly like constipation, the two exchanged eye contact for a while, when Li Ya was in a bad mood and was about to reprimand them, one of the tall ones stood up, Reluctantly said: "Boss, we met Boss Wen at sea. They heard that we came here and asked us to lead the way here. We thought we would rather die than bring them here, but..."

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"But, but what?"

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