Lord of Ming Dynasty

"The French came out with a total force of 700 men, including 80 infantry, [-] cavalry, and [-] tribal fighters. Among the [-] infantry, [-] were artillery. That is to say, the French cherished their strength. Send them all out, the Frenchies."

Adjutant Larry said.

"Now they should not have so many people. When the tribal fighters attacked, they lost almost the same amount. When the artillery battled, half of them died. When they were attacked by the enemy's naval artillery, basically 80 artillerymen were reimbursed. They can be used for The attacking soldiers also lost more than 50 soldiers, and now it is estimated that there are less than 30 soldiers staying with the officer."

The corner of Thomas's mouth twitched, "These French guys are probably scared of being beaten by others. They even sent out only a small amount of troops. Now they are basically reimbursed. It seems that it depends on us. However, our loss is not small. , The Newfoundlanders basically suffered heavy losses, our artillery also lost 400 people, 100 artillery pieces, and the cavalry lost more than [-] people. It is estimated that the cavalry that has been killed now will have to lose a lot.

The infantry and tribal fighters also lost more than a thousand. These Huaxia people are really hard to fight.

This is because we have evacuated all the troops on the peninsula, and there are nearly half of the Newfoundland militia militia on the peninsula, plus fifty artillery pieces brought from the headquarters, that is to say, if we can't eliminate this group of provocateurs Huaxia people, we will lose the peninsula and even other places in the days to come. "

Thomas was very worried, and the adjutant Larry said: "Sir, in this case, we have to reserve some troops, and urge the French to draw more troops to participate in the attack."

Thomas glanced at Larry, and Larry said: "The French only took 200 people to participate in the attack. They still have at least 800 or at least 500 people guarding their town. They can organize at least [-] more people from the common people." People participated in the battle, that is to say, we lost a lot this time, but the French didn’t actually lose much, and it’s going up and down. Maybe it’s not the Chinese who reoccupied the peninsula in the future. After all, the Chinese also suffered heavy losses. After this time, the Chinese At least half of the power has been wiped out by us and the French, so if the French send troops, our empty strongholds will be occupied by the French."

"This is a problem. This time we have at least 500 casualties per 50 troops, so the French have twice as many troops as us. If they don't care about these Chinese people, it will be very easy to beat us. After this withdrawal, We leave at most 300 people to defend each stronghold, and the French can send [-] people to take down our strongholds, which is very possible."

"Then, well, Larry, you go and urge the French to send at least four hundred more troops to participate in the siege, and the Chinese people in Lawn are not moving now, let the French send people to guard against them, so they at least To draw another 200 people, after this battle, the French will lose almost 500 people, which is about the same as ours. With our strength on the island and the cowardice of the French, we can at least maintain a balance. If the French If people want to provoke, our fleet will tell them who is in charge of this island."

Larry left, Thomas continued to study his battle map, and cavalrymen kept bringing back the latest battle situation. According to the battle situation, the Chinese who attacked the stronghold had almost suffered heavy losses.

According to the data calculated by the staff next to it, at first the Huaxia had 400 troops. The battle started all morning, and the enemy lost 50 troops. Then they mobilized captives for hand-to-hand combat, consuming the [-] tribes they brought over. Soldiers, there are two or three hundred Newfoundland Musketeers, the French cavalry lost a lot, the artillery was directly lost, and the infantry lost [-] people.

The British soldiers lost more than 100 people, the cavalry lost 80 people, and the enemy's total loss was 600 people. That is to say, the enemy's strength is only 300 people, and there are still a large number of wounded soldiers. According to one intelligence report, the enemy began to flee and boarded a steam engine ship, a 15-ton Chinese-made ship, about [-] years old.

The remaining enemies were dozens of wounded soldiers. Now the British troops have attacked near the enemy's pier, and the French have also gone up, directly losing the remaining soldiers. There are still more than 30 French soldiers who did not participate in the battle.

Counting the number of casualties of the British soldiers, it actually reached 300 people, the cavalry lost 150 people, and there were more than [-] cavalry.

There are still more than 300 Newfoundlanders who can fight, and the rest are either killed or seriously injured. There are still 300 tribal fighters who are slightly injured and can still fight. Thomas moved the pencil to the enemy's lair. If you want to attack a small city, you have to pay more casualties than attacking a small town.

He dropped his pencil and raised his head, and a cavalryman ran over, "Report sir, the French warships intercepted the enemy's warships at sea, and the two sides began to exchange fire. Three French warships and three armed merchant ships with sails chased after them." Attacking with the fleeing enemy warships."

Larry rushed over, "Sir, the French got angry. They sank a warship and lost a hundred sailors and a hundred soldiers. They sent a heavily armed force of 600 people to attack the enemy's lair, France Your Excellency, Commander Le Mans, hopes that you can take the remaining imperial soldiers to participate in the attack on the enemy's lair."

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Thomas laughed bitterly, 500 British, now 600 casualties, half of the cavalry, artillery, and infantry were dead, about [-] of the seriously injured tribal soldiers and Newfoundlanders, British soldiers survived, in order to take care of these There must be at least [-] British soldiers left, and at least [-] cavalry.

What he can take away now is [-] lightly wounded Newfoundland soldiers, [-] tribal fighters, [-] cannons, a total of [-] artillerymen, the remaining [-] cavalrymen, and [-] British soldiers. Defeat the Huaxia people?

According to intelligence, there are at least [-] Chinese soldiers and [-] tribal soldiers.

Seeing that he was in trouble, Larry said in a low voice: "Sir, we can follow what the French did before. We can do what they do. Although we begged hard, they only sent two hundred soldiers. Fighting with hundreds of tribal soldiers, we lost a lot, half of the casualties, they asked this time, we can take all the people, but we don’t have to do anything.”

"That's good, let's do it."

After a night of rest, the next day, the British arrived five miles outside Xinxianju Town. Larry said to Thomas: "This is the camp of the Indian tribe attached to the Chinese people. It seems that they have withdrawn into the castle."

Thomas looked at the camp, "Then let's put our luggage and horses here, and we will also stay here, and send out cavalry to scout, drive away the Chinese cavalry, and don't let them approach us."

In the lively atmosphere, the British entered the camp of the Indian tribe. The camp is very large. After all, it is a camp of nearly 2000 people. Now there are more than [-] people living in it. It is not crowded. The soldiers set up tents and buried pots for cooking. .

Not far away, a group of French cavalry ran over and were let in after inspection and questioning.

"Here, here, Le Mans asked me to tell Lieutenant Colonel Thomas, we are responsible for attacking the enemy's front and west beaches, and you are responsible for attacking the enemy's east and north walls. We have arranged 600 troops for the front, with 32 gates. Cannon, on the west beach we have five galleys, three armed merchant ships, and a total of fifteen hundred sailors, where to attack, on land we have eighty cavalry, two hundred infantry, and one hundred tribal warriors to guard. At the end , eight miles from here, the original Iliad camp, there are [-] small town militiamen and [-] French soldiers guarding the baggage, and our headquarters is also located there."

The person who came was a second lieutenant staff officer who explained to Thomas the strategic deployment of the French.

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas did not listen carefully to the French's arrangement, but asked with a smile: "Have the enemies who escaped yesterday been captured or eliminated?"

The French second lieutenant's face darkened, and he said very ashamedly: "No, they escaped, we were sunk a sailing ship, a steam ship, and lost 100 sailors, and they fled back to their lair immediately. , The enemy's steamship came to bombard our port again, killing more than [-] civilians and sinking a merchant ship, which is why Le Mans made Your Excellency angry to completely wipe out the Huaxia people."

Seeing Thomas' gloating face, the second lieutenant couldn't help but argue, "But we also damaged their steamship, and they had to run away with sail power. At least half of their artillery, sailors, and people on board were lost. , Le Mans asked Your Excellency to say, at least we don’t have to worry about this group of enemies, they may permanently lose their combat capabilities, and now it’s up to us to see if we can take down the enemy’s lair in one go, it’s a good port and castle, take it down If so, we will have one more stronghold for the French. At least [-] French can immigrate here.”

His words made Thomas restrain his smile. Yes, such words are equivalent to helping the French and helping them regain their territory. The British did not want to see the French. The Chinese attacked the French and gained a firm foothold here. The French do not have the strength to drive the Chinese into the sea. The British are happy to see this situation. They thought that after a long time, the Chinese and the French will lose both sides. Then the French know that they cannot defend their last land stronghold. I will give up, so that the island will be their British family, and then this will be the territory of the British. I didn't expect the damn Chinese to attack their stronghold.

Before this, the British and the French had negotiated many times, and finally agreed that the two would jointly send troops to take down the Chinese stronghold, and the British would occupy the Chinese stronghold, so that the French could be forced to launch the island. This was the previous idea, otherwise you Do you think it will take a day or two to gather all the stronghold troops and militia that can be used on the peninsula, and the Newfoundland militia?

It takes half a month to mobilize and hold meetings, and it takes half a month for the troops to raise supplies, conduct strategic research, march, and arrive. In this way, they are actually here to fulfill their promise to attack the Chinese stronghold with the French. As mentioned above, they want to develop independently and have their own stronghold. Knowing that they can’t beat the French stronghold with strong troops and impeccable defense, they take the British stronghold next to the French.

Now they are unlucky, and it just happens that the two families jointly send troops to encircle and suppress.

After the two families contacted, the French were angry, yes, they were angry. They sank two ships and injured three ships, but they didn't analyze the reason. All their steam ships were purchased from the Chinese Empire. They are all second-hand goods of more than ten years, and they were resold by Spanish businessmen. Their sailboats are simply vulnerable to the [-]-ton steam engine ship of the Chinese Empire.

This is why after Wen Ruxin and the others retreated to the ship, despite heavy losses, they were still able to escape back to Xinxianju Town smoothly.

Wen Ruxin, who escaped back, was in a state of distress. The whole army of the Nomad Squadron was destroyed, the Romanian Squadron was destroyed, and the Russian Squadron was destroyed. Less than 50 people from the four squadrons of the Spanish Squadron retreated to the ship, leaving behind dozens of serious wounded. The Sailor Squadron One was lost, and the slightly wounded stayed to stop the enemy. Another team covered Wen Ruxin and they boarded the ship, but there were not many people left behind.

As a result, Wen Ruxi had to assign his guards and people on board to serve as gunners, sailors, handymen, and barely operate the boat. In the end, they left 100 people in the British adjacent stronghold, with only Less than 300 people retreated to the sea, where they were blocked by five enemy warships, and the ship was damaged. After throwing off the enemy halfway, they could only use temporarily erected masts and sails as power, and returned in the middle of the night. Arrived at Xinxianju Town.

When all the people were lifted down, there were less than 150 people who could move around, less than 50 people who were not injured, and less than 80 people who were wounded and able to fight, and most of the others were seriously wounded.

When Wen Ruxin walked into the Juyi Hall of the camp with annoyance and anger, Li Ya smiled happily. Facing Wen Ruxin's anger, he told him calmly that he had sent the only steamboat with two A converted new-build armed merchant ship went out to avenge them, bombarding the French ports.

Facing Li Ya's ridicule, Wen Ruxin wanted to get angry, but he was forced to suppress his desire to vent. He knew that he had acted without authorization and suffered heavy losses. When he came back, those people on the boat who had followed him for many years looked at him as if they saw a dead person, lifeless.

Now what he was thinking about was how to deal with the accusation from Li Ya and the others. Now Li Ya just laughed but didn't blame him. This made him feel a feeling of being betrayed. He calmed down and thought about it, and suddenly understood.

It turns out that I have always been self-righteous, and I didn't pay attention to Li Ya's feelings and how they treated me. I slowly thought that he felt that he was being used, and he successfully provoked the conflict between the British and the French towards the mercenary group. Both are in peace, not in peace, the French come over from time to time to fight.

But Li Ya and the others have dealt with it, and they have already dealt with the biggest difficulty. Now they have beaten the British and caused a lot of trouble for the mercenary group, but they have already eaten the hardest bone, Li Ya What they've got left will just have to be dealt with, and maybe the British and French will have to retreat.

Good calculation.

The most successful calculation is that you have no troops to rely on, and the remaining people may not leave you, but they will definitely be half-hearted.

Li Ya and the others didn't care about Wen Ruxin, they were in a meeting.

The intelligence officer of the intelligence department in charge of the investigation was talking,

"According to our investigation, the enemy is divided into two parts, the British and the French, one east and one west. The British came with 800 people, including baggage, artillery, cavalry and infantry. They are currently stationed in the tribal territory of the original Indians. , thirteen miles away from us; the French, 200 in the front, are in front of our city gate, 200 in the west, in a hilly area, and 600 are in the former small tribe of the Iliad, and are now moving in the direction of the main gate, Where is their headquarters still located, eighteen miles away from us.

In addition, the French mobilized [-] militiamen and are transporting supplies and artillery. I think they are waiting for the artillery. When the artillery comes, they will definitely attack us.

The enemy's cavalry and our cavalry engaged in several battles, and we retreated without much struggle. There were about 100 enemy cavalry, including British and French. "

Li Ya looked at him seriously and asked: "Then do you know the situation of the neighboring town of the British?"

The intelligence officer said: "We sent a small boat, approached the enemy in a big circle, and then went ashore nearby for reconnaissance. There were still 200 to [-] regular troops in the enemy camp, all of whom were British. In addition, they rescued the prisoners. There were about [-] prisoners. One or two hundred men, I guess the captives will hate us, they killed all of our badly wounded and lightly wounded who were left there, leaving only the less wounded, repairing the camp."

"Is it possible for us to sneak attack the enemy?" Wen Ruxin interrupted suddenly.

Most people turned their heads to look at him, Wen Ruxin felt very embarrassed, he still didn't give up, he was going to wait for the battle to start, and lead the rest of the people to make a surprise attack, of course, this would require Li Ya and the others to give him some more soldiers and send a If the sneak attack is successful, he only needs to occupy the place, and when his other ship returns, there will be at least a full crew of sailors, plus the manpower brought back, there will definitely be another thousand people. That way you can stand your ground.

At least it won't be ignored like it is now.

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