Lord of Ming Dynasty

The previous sixteen warships went to battle, most of them were Inuit and Newfoundland, captives, slaves, and British and French surrendered, and the Han Chinese team on each warship arranged Three people, all of these people were lost and it was only a Han Chinese team, but it was not bad, and finally four ships came back intact.

A Han Chinese team that has seen brutal naval battles finally returned with 12 people. After returning, these people will stay in the camp to rest for half a month and then mobilize soldiers from other Han Chinese teams to join this team. This team will become the elite in the future. Many of the soldiers have also served on ships and fought on land, and have war experience. This is the talent Li Ya needs to cultivate.

Those Inuit were almost wiped out in the end, half of the Newfoundlanders came back, and very few British and French returned. These people were immediately assigned to the new sailor brigade and placed on board. Most of the sailor brigade were People in the pirate brigade, most of the pirate brigade are pirates, Indians, Iliads, and people from various countries.

And the Han Chinese team was transferred to two teams again, one is still monitoring, the other is learning naval warfare, and they will be the elite backbone of the New Qin Empire Navy in the future or come back.

In addition, there were Han Chinese officers who led and monitored the original pirate team. There were about ten people in a small team, and about a hundred people in a large team.

The two sailor brigades have 200 people, and the four squads, plus the addition of newcomers from the two squads, is about 300 people. If half of these people can come back, then a naval fleet with elite naval combat capabilities, plus some newly added manpower , is formed.

After nearly five hours of negotiations between Li Ya and Le Mansjean, Le Mansjean finally succumbed and left with an agreement that did not change much in the end, and in the end they would lose control of the four islands, sovereignty, and they would lose four islands. The reward for the ownership of the island is what Li Ya mentioned earlier, the release of all the French captives, the release of the slaves of the French Governor Siegfried and the servants of the manor, as well as all the French immigrants, without any ransom.

To ensure the commercial interests of the French on the island in the future, here Li Ya promised to buy French goods, first of all, a batch of French gunpowder. The neighboring peninsula does not produce gunpowder now, and the gunpowder stocks that were seized and brought by mercenaries in several battles were relied on. And the gunpowder brought by Wu Kejing and Zhao Shuai later.

For the procurement of gunpowder, the New Qin Empire used several merchant ships, about 180 tons, [-] tons, and [-] tons. These were produced by the New Qin Empire, and the merchant ships that detained the French paid for it. It means that they used these things , and wiped out the French gunpowder stocks on the four islands.

Then use a lot of caught fish to obtain their grain from the French. Because of the war, the New Qin Empire hardly ever obtained grain on this land, and the grain they grew themselves was destroyed due to the war. .

A total of eighteen boats of salted fish allowed Governor Siegfried to transport these fish back to France for sale, earning a lot of profit to make up for his losses here.

In addition, there are some timber, shipbuilding timber, ore, and coal, which made the French gain a lot even though they lost the battle.

These things cannot be sold by the New Qin Empire. They don't have anyone to trade with. Now that they have the French, it is natural to realize these things.

In exchange for food, gunpowder, and weapons from the French, they are used to continue fighting the British.

After a battle, the French captives and French immigrants were released, and the population of the island quickly decreased by nearly 5000 people, including [-] French, the lost sailor brigade, mercenaries from various countries, and nearly [-] Han people. .

It used to have a population of 8000, and with the addition of nearly 2000 people taken away by Wen Ruxin, the population is close to 2. Now there are only more than 3000 people.

Reduced food stress.

The remaining people are almost all soldiers, and they are all combat population. There are not many people in the first place, but there are only 800 people in the area. The trade cooperation and the acquisition of the French territory are a good start, at least proving that the New Qin Empire has gained a firm foothold here.

Of course, it is a bit too early to say these words, the war with the British has not yet started.

The first thousand and 230 chapters send away jackals and usher in wolves

After four or five days of preparation and negotiation, the deal with the French was finally completed before the arrival of the British, and at the same time it was ready for the next war.

The New Qin Empire obtained 2000 million catties of barley, wheat, oats, some sorghum noodles, cornmeal, and a large pile of wine that the French could not take away, enough to feed ten thousand people for a year.

The New Qin Empire paid 23 sailing ships ranging from 180 tons to [-] tons, including merchant ships, fishing boats, and some armed merchant ships. Of course, the artillery and some armor plates were removed. The New Qin Empire was extremely short of steel. Cannot be taken away by the French.

The French took 800 people, soldiers, civilians, and noble family members, on these merchant ships and fishing boats. Among the remaining three French warships, a steam engine battleship, a sail battleship, and a [-]-ton third-class Under the cover of sailing warships, they evacuated Newfoundland.

They took away all the mobile ships of the New Qin Empire, as well as a lot of ores, various woods, furs, and a lot of Huaxia Yuan, and sold the four small islands to the New Qin Empire.

The New Qin Empire acquired some of their more powerful old-style naval guns, as well as some shore guns, a lot of solid shells, gunpowder, and four islands. The New Qin Empire just sent four captured French five-hundred-ton wind When sailing ships, four pirate squads, and four hundred Indian captives went to defend and build four small islands, the British also came.

It took the British four days to clear the waterway, and four days to assemble the army. In the early morning of the fifth day, when everyone was still asleep, Wen Ruxin led more than 100 remaining Han Chinese who surrendered to the British, and 800 British The soldiers and horses, as well as the French taken by him, are now prisoners of the French, captives of the British, but they quickly surrendered to the British and were returned to Wen Ruxin's army, so Wen Ruxin took With these, he took them away, reduced the old troops by about 900 people, and the total strength was about [-] people, and landed on the neighboring peninsula again before dawn.

The landing site is about 25 miles away from the neighboring town. It is close to another port, but it is blocked by a reef. Maybe the big ship cannot enter, but the small boat can still pass. The big ship is moored on the sea. To support other British fleets, they lurk in the jungle.

"Major Larry, the Marystown stronghold is in front of us. After passing the Marystown stronghold, we will reach the neighboring town fifteen miles away. If we capture the neighboring town, and then capture the two cannons of the New Qin Empire , we can control a radius of about fifteen kilometers, that is to say, we can control Marystown, Winter Stronghold, and even the opposite, the Grande Class Port, and the artillery can even cover all of Xinxianju Town It can suppress the two cannons in Xinxianju Town. This is definitely beneficial to us."

As the former lieutenant of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas, Major Larry has experienced the failure of the previous attack on the neighboring town. It was the man in front of him who led the Han army to defeat them. If they hadn't cooperated with the French later, they could at least stabilize the front line At Winter's stronghold, and the port of Marystown, and then negotiated the release of the British captives, the situation at least would not be like this.

The French were all driven out of the neighboring peninsula, and the British were also driven out. Both of them suffered heavy losses. This time, 45 warships were assembled, including fifteen thousand-ton sailing warships, and ten [-]-ton sailing warships. The third-tier sailing battleship, twenty steam warships ranging from [-] tons to [-] tons, and one flagship with [-] tons, which can already be regarded as the largest British first-tier battleship.

Their mission is to cooperate with Wen Ruxin and the others to seize the neighboring town, and seize the two naval guns that pose a huge threat to the fleet. The giant guns are said to be a kind of naval gun of the Chinese Empire, not a special coastal gun. The Chinese people The coastal artillery is bigger and more powerful than this one. Maybe Britain can't beat the Chinese now, but it can beat the New Qin Empire, which doesn't have much backup, and even if it has backup, it's far away.

"Proceed in secret, and take away or eliminate everyone you meet on the road. Before we get close to the neighboring town, we can't be exposed, understand?" Adjutant Larry didn't have a good impression of the Chinese who had defeated them. , said very bluntly.

"Yes, yes, Major Larry, we will go quietly without making any noise."

After successfully bypassing the lake and the patrol area between the Winter stronghold and the Marystown port stronghold, they successfully reached the woods five miles outside the neighboring town in the early morning.

"Action, when the sky can see people clearly, we rushed into the town. There used to be a pirate squadron, an African mercenary squad, an Indian tribal squad, and a cavalry squad. Afterwards, there were only three hundred British captives left here, one African mercenary squad, one Indian squad, one pirate squad, and the two pirate squads were transferred. Of course, it is important to attack and be defended by two Spanish squads Capture the forts at the port of the port." Larry explained the mission again.

So Wen Ruxin could only take the remaining [-] Han troops around him, a hundred or so British, two hundred or so French, all the people who had been smashed here to attack the town. City gate, where to seize.

Larry led the purely British troops, pushed the six-pound guns, followed behind, and the 600-man troops advanced slowly.

Larry is very nervous, if they can capture the shore artillery here, or this town, then they can use the port defense, and then signal for the British transport ships to send more Newfoundland and Inuit tribal fighters up , Then counterattack the Winter stronghold, and fight all the way to the other side of the peninsula. A British infantry regiment, a colonial regiment, a cavalry company, and an artillery company commanded by Major Thomas who attacked there will join forces. If they fail, they will be killed. The defense forces of the New Qin Empire were completely wiped out. He didn't want to be a prisoner. If he hadn't escaped with Lieutenant Colonel Thomas last time, he might have been captured.

After him, those British captains and other officers were not so lucky, and they were all captured. If Wen Ruxin hadn't taken them out to attack them, they were subdued by the British and French who suddenly turned against them. Then they are likely to be reduced to slaves or surrender, and become soldiers of the new Qin Empire. Maybe they saved their lives, but lost their honor, and it will be difficult to return to Britain in the future.

After walking for more than ten minutes, when the sky was bright, he saw Wen Ruxin and the others had already approached the city gate. The simple city gate and the low fence wall seemed to be unable to block anything at all. The second time they attacked Time, that's how the breakthrough was made. It's a pity that those who made Wen Ruxin run away. This time, no one will run away.

The first thousand and 230 chapters The danger of language problems in defense

In the early morning, the soldiers of the pirate team who had just finished the night shift were holding their guns and walking towards their barracks in a daze. Thinking of nothing, except for the captives and slaves who worked all day and were very sober when they opened their eyes, everyone was in a daze.

The vagabond team that replaced the pirate team was composed of Iliads, Inuit, Newfoundlanders, Africans, and Indians. Just as they climbed up the watchtower and fort, they saw Wen Ruxin leading more than 100 Han people with him. Soldiers, more than 200 French soldiers, and a British cavalry team rushed over.

"Enemy attack——" an African black man just yelled out an early warning sound, and the Inuit soldiers beside him hesitated for a while looking at the running enemy. After three seconds, when the black man saw his The shouting did not attract the attention of the other companions, but when they laughed at him, the black man raised the flintlock in his hand, ready to shoot as a warning.

Because the mercenary regiments come from all directions, all over the country, and the entire West, in the entire New Qin Empire, in addition to the teams divided by race and language, country and ethnicity, the newly formed ones were transformed from captives and transformed from surrendered enemies. Come, the tribe warriors from the island joined, and after a series of changes, it was finally found that the elite had been picked away, and there were still many people who did not know how to farm or other skills. These people in the stronghold are compiled as Wen Ruxin and the homeless mercenary group they once organized, which is called the homeless team here.

Such troops are only the assistance of formal troops, and will not be counted as formal combat troops. They belong to the establishment of slaves, captives, and common people, and they are also called quasi-militia.

Under normal circumstances, during the daytime when there is little need for defense, regular army soldiers train from time to time, that is, patrolling, or they go back to the camp to sleep after the night shift, get up in the afternoon to eat, exercise, and then assigned to some tasks, complete the tasks and come back to rest. After eating, I go to work the night shift, and the night shift takes about once a week.The night shift is to patrol the vicinity in the dark, to be on duty for camp defense tasks, or to go out to fight.

Compared with the regular army, most of them are a group of pure races, or people from a country with the same language, wanderer squad, or the entire captive brigade, supervisory brigade, etc. In fact, there is an inconvenience for the owners of all places, that is, language question.

The small New Qin Empire has a population of less than 35, and there are dozens of languages ​​circulating in it. Commanders also need to repeat orders in at least three languages. This is not enough for a small team or even a group of [-] people. Everyone understands the order, because it is too complicated, the language is difficult, and body movements sometimes delay things.

So when the black mercenary yelled, no one could understand it at all, because the people standing beside him were Inuit people, people of this tribe had their own dialect of English, and because they were close to the British, So when he saw the British army, he took the initiative to stop the warning from his comrades-in-arms, and killed them all at once, lying on the tower.

100 meters, 50 meters, Wen Ruxin and the Han soldiers rushed to the door 50 meters, but they were still found, because there were too many people going out to do business in the early morning.

The Han soldiers squatted on the ground and fired a volley of guns, killing and wounding at the door. Then the Han soldiers continued to rush for 20 meters under the leadership of Wen Ruxin. At this time, the fortifications everywhere reacted. Scattered gunshots sounded. People have surpassed the Han soldiers and rushed in. This is their original territory, so they are naturally more familiar than the Han people.

The gradually intense gunfire made the whole town boil, and many artillery positions began to fire to prevent the enemy's advance. The sporadic gunshots of mercenaries emerging from all over the place blocked the French's attack, and they had to Stopped 50 meters inside the camp, and lined up to shoot. The British cavalry squad rushed up. The cavalry of dozens of people exploded with the power of hundreds of enemies. scattered.

The African mercenaries and Inuit mercenaries who were fighting ran around, either surrendering or turning around to beat their comrades. The Newfoundland team also turned against them.

The fierce exchange of fire made Luo Zuo, the commander here, feel that the situation was not good. He immediately gathered the Russians and Spaniards in the homeless team and drove them to the front fortifications to block the enemy, and ordered his own cavalry team to attack. Pursuing and killing the British cavalry who broke into the camp and wreak havoc, demoralizing the camp.

The Iliad squad was dispatched to enter the house to hold on, and the Han squad was dispatched to deploy defenses between the warehouse and the port. The Spaniards were assigned to deploy defenses at the port, and the artillery squad was ordered to fire. No matter the enemy or their own people, they were prevented from approaching the town. town, and port.

As for the stables, prisoner camps, slave camps, various ancillary buildings, and homeless squads outside the town, the artillerymen are all gone, and the strong men cut off their wrists to directly stop the British attack outside the town. place.

In terms of numbers, the number of guards is greater than the number of enemies attacking, and there are so many prisoners that they can carry ammunition without fighting.

However, judging from the current situation, due to the rebellion of the Inuit, the Newfoundlanders followed suit. The overall battlefield situation is not very optimistic for the New Qin Empire.