Lord of Ming Dynasty

The Spanish squadron was stationed at the port, and the homeless squadron was stationed around the farm to build fortress-style defensive camps to protect the town.

All the wounded were not transported back, but the original people were driven out in the farm, placed in seven or eight houses far from the warehouse, and a firearms team of a homeless squad was stationed nearby.

The captured British were held in the nearest house of the Spanish team. This time, 300 British soldiers and officers were captured alive. There were more than [-] British immigrant prisoners in other farms, and they were directly detained in the homeless team. In another part of the farm where seven or eight houses were concentrated, wooden stakes were placed around them, barbed wire was pulled up, and they were just thrown inside.

Not far from them were captives of more than 1000 people from the two tribes and tribe fighters, who were also detained in the same way, but the place was larger, close to a hill, and a team of homeless people was stationed on the hill, and the tribal population was detained in the open space below the mountain.

In the large office on the second floor of the warehouse, Wen Ruxin stood beside the long table in England, pointed to the map of the British town on the table and said: "Let all the homeless squadrons move, except for the guards. Drive the captives to start logging around the town, and build a giant wooden fence within three miles around the town to temporarily protect our camp.

This evening, at most tomorrow morning, it must be completed, and the captives and the officers who lead the team will be executed if they cannot be completed. "

The officer of the Han Chinese infantry squad asked: "My lord, are we not going back? Although we wiped out the British and occupied their strongholds, we are alone after all. The French may come to take advantage of it at any time, and the British's revenge may come at any time." , the British are strong and strong, and they can gather more troops to attack us at any time."

"No, I won't go back. I don't want to go back and continue living under the fence. You go back and mobilize some of the remaining manpower, troops and supplies, and bring the cannons. The cannons must be brought here before tonight, and there are enough shells to send the Romanian squadron down." Pull over here, the troops here are not enough. Bring some more food over here."

He tapped his finger on the table, "We must repair the six-mile fence within two or three days, build a lot of fortifications, arrange artillery positions, and wait for the British to counterattack. But we still have to leave a retreat, okay, The Russian squadron was also brought over, and a Han Chinese squad was brought over.

At the same time, inform Li Ya and the others of our results, let them know, and ask them to watch the French and not let the French make trouble behind us.The remaining four teams of Han Chinese and those who have no fighting ability should stay there for the time being. That side is much stronger than this side, and there are more artillery fire. Li Ya and the others have already gained experience in defense. Neither the Chinese nor the British would bother with them.

As long as we can withstand several attacks by the British, this is our camp, and we can slowly build here in the future. "

After the two of them finished speaking, the officer of the Han Chinese squad rode his horse and returned with three cavalrymen.

Wen Ruxin stood on the roof of the warehouse and watched the busy scene of various departments after his order was issued.

Driven by the remaining troops of the Rangers Squadron, both the British and the tribal population were all working. One hour of logging, one hour of construction, the fence, and the three-meter-high fence wall were quickly formed at a speed visible to the naked eye. Two and a half hours passed Afterwards, the whole town was surrounded, and the small cannons they dragged were set up on the top of the hills around the town, forming forts one by one.

The captives continued to strengthen the fence, and nailed the inside of the fence horizontally with crossbars. The iron nails about a foot long fixed the giant wood and the crossbar tightly together, and then nailed wooden boards three feet below the top of the town to facilitate the soldiers. They squatted on it to shoot and defend.

After all this was done, four hours had passed, the setting sun had already slanted, and the top of the mountain hanging in the distance was slowly falling.

The captives were driven to dig a moat around the camp. In fact, it was a moat, three meters wide and two meters deep. Many prisoners were overwhelmed. They worked all afternoon and had no water or food for a whole day and night. Regardless of those, some people were a little slower, butts, leather whips, or bayonets to greet, the project was not completed, and 200 people had died there, but no one took pity on them, the bodies were dragged aside, and others continued to work.

The Han team inside is also building fortifications, and the Spanish team is restoring the coastal defense forts and building fortifications facing the sea. The enemy's artillery was salvaged from the sunken ship by small boats. The guns were hoisted down and set up on shore defense batteries, or the town was pushed forward and placed on repaired batteries, or placed in the streets.

As expected, the moat has not been dug, and the interior has not been fully repaired. The enemy's cavalry appeared in the field of vision. They were British cavalry in white uniforms, red ribbons hanging diagonally from their shoulders, and black fur hats.

The Han cavalry and Spanish cavalry patrolling outside immediately chased after them and shot them away. The two sides chased and fought each other five or six miles away.

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The British gave Wen Ruxin the feeling that they came too fast. They fought all night and stopped for a hundred days before they came, "Why so fast?"

"What did you say?"

"Say it again?"

Wen Ruxin looked at the captain of the Spanish cavalry who was covered in blood and his cheeks were still bleeding. He stood there staggeringly, talking about a rather serious matter in a frightening way.

"There are about two hundred enemy cavalry. We can't beat them. Enemy infantry, wearing red uniforms and carrying flintlock guns, have appeared fifteen miles away from us."

The Spanish cavalry captain said.

"How many are there in total, and how many troops does the enemy have?"

Wen Ruxin hurriedly asked, seeing that the captain couldn't stand it anymore, if he didn't ask again, he might fall down immediately.

"There is at least one regiment, about [-] men. More than [-] of them are British, and the others seem to be Newfoundlanders. The enemy also has cannons, quite large ones, at least eighteen-pounders."

After the cavalry captain finished speaking, he fell to the ground with a plop.

"Come on, drag it down and send it to the wounded barracks." Wen Ruxin calmly called out to the guards.

Turning around, I saw that the setting sun outside struggled a bit, and fell below the top of the mountain. The sun was gone, and the earth was dark, but it was not completely dark, and there was light in the darkness.

"You two go back immediately, take my warrant, bring all the troops you can bring over, and at the same time ask for help from Chief Li Ya." Wen Ruxin ordered the other two guards.

"Come here, tell the warships outside to stop carrying supplies, and immediately switch to combat mode on the spot, ready to fight. All sailor teams are on board, ready to fight at any time, and shell the enemy." After speaking, he turned to the two guards standing guard outside the door shouted.

He sent out all the guards around him who could be sent out to run errands.

Other guards also guard the second floor and roof of the warehouse.

In the midst of the busyness, darkness came, and everyone returned to their respective positions in a team, and retreated back to the small town where the fence wall had just been erected.

In the dark night, only the sound of horseshoes beating the ground can be heard outside.

After waiting for a long time, Wen Ruxin was woken up, and the leader of the Han squad came back, "Report, my lord, I have escorted the Romanian squadron, the Russian squadron, the Han squad, as well as our artillery, ammunition, and food back." .”

Wen Ruxin stood up abruptly, "Didn't you meet the British? They let you in?"

"My lord, we encountered British cavalry, but they didn't approach them. We drove them away a few times, but we ignored them. We knew that we had attacked their stronghold. They would definitely check and take revenge, but there were too few of them. , we just need to get here and not engage them."

"What are the British waiting for? Why don't they attack? Are they going to attack in the daytime tomorrow?" Wen Ruxin said to himself.

The Han squad leader looked at him, who was in a daze, and muttered, "The British didn't see many, but our scouts said that the French had made a movement, their warships started, and their troops were dispatched. March towards us. About 500 men. Cannon, cavalry, musketeers, and tribal warriors to follow."

Wen Ruxin seemed to have expected it a long time ago, and waved to him, "Take your people and go to the prison camp to capture all the young and strong, those with families, whether they are tribes or farms, all of them grab it.

Then hand over the captured cold weapons and armor to them. What your people have to do is to supervise them and supervise them. When it is time for them to go to the battlefield, drive them to the battlefield. Those who disobey will kill them first and then their families. .go.

Wait, take your team away, let another team be stationed on the first floor of the warehouse and in the house outside the warehouse, tell them, be ready to defend me at any time. "

Soon, the Han Chinese cavalry returned from the investigation brought back the news that the French had arrived on the battlefield. The French stopped directly in a grove five miles away from them. The British were still stationed fifteen miles away. They did not move. The British cavalry Fight them everywhere and spy on them at the same time.

The Romanian squadron went to help the Spaniards guard the captive camp and defend the pier. The Russian squadron was stationed near the fort, guarding the fort, and at the same time controlling the fort. The Han Chinese squadron guarded the captured [-] captives with families, formed them, and brainwashed them.

In the evening, Wen Ruxin took a dozen of his Han Chinese literati to run through the entire camp, two camps for prisoners, one camp for wounded soldiers, docks, boats, shore artillery batteries, and it was already past four o'clock in the morning when they came back.

He fell asleep sitting up in the office.

It was six in the morning when he woke up. He was woken up by the sound of French drums and horns. He climbed up to the roof of the warehouse and saw three miles away. Or blue trousers with white leggings and a black bear top hat with feathers, or a captain's black or blue-black captain's hat.

Carrying flintlock guns or matchlock guns, pushing cannons, the cannons are old-fashioned short-barreled cannons with thick barrels, bronze cannons, and in front of them are Indians and Iliad tribal warriors with complicated costumes, carrying axes and long guns , or holding a short sword and carrying a matchlock gun.As the leader of the Han Chinese squad said yesterday, there were about 500 people, about 200 French infantrymen, dozens of artillerymen, and more than 200 tribal fighters.

There are also a dozen cavalrymen.

Putting down the binoculars, Wen Ruxin murmured and calculated the French troops. If there were only about 700 troops, then there were still about [-] troops in their town and castle. The original number was [-] troops, and some were added later. , In addition to the ships coming and going in their port and the warships moored, those sailors can organize almost [-] people. The strength of the town appears to be between two and three thousand, for the French settlers may also be armed, as did the English settlers in this stronghold they attacked yesterday.

No wonder there are already [-] tribal fighters who can go into battle at any time, and [-] mercenary soldiers who can attack at any time. Li Ya and the others don't take the initiative to touch the French. It turns out that they already know that they want to take down the French. Possible things, at least in the present case.

What now?

Even if I defeat the French and the British, then my best situation is to defend this small town. Like Li Ya and the others, I will slowly develop and wait to recruit more exiles from the empire before I can attack the French or the British. .

He raised his binoculars again and looked at the British. The British were wearing white military uniforms and white captain hats, or blue captain hats, blue and black captain hats, covered all over, and even had breastplates. Moving over, the team spread out, covering an area of ​​almost two miles, with a lot of troops. Behind them were some soldiers wearing red gown uniforms and carrying what seemed to be Chinese-style 1705 British imitation rifles.

Behind them, dancing, swaggering tribes of Indians, or Newfoundlanders similar to them, wearing gray vests, white tops, gray, black, and blue linen trousers, and gray cowboy hats , rolled up his sleeves, and carried a matchlock gun with his arms open, or a big knife or short sword.