Lord of Ming Dynasty

There is also a patrol fleet of a squadron in the open sea, and the sailing warships that captured the enemy were organized into a fleet, seven sailing warships, plus two remaining sailing warships of the New Qin Empire, a total of nine patrol fleets, yes, they used ancient Sail warships patrol.

A week later, one of the steam engine battleships was completely repaired. Mo Lin had four steam engine battleships in his hands, three of which have not been repaired until now, and only one has been repaired intact, so he dare not go out to trouble the British again. The British have no time to take care of them.

There are still four ships threatening in the dock of the port, and the other dozen seized ships are parked there waiting for maintenance.

A slave team of 500 people is re-strengthening the breakwater dam, and building artillery air-raid shelters on the top and the reverse slope to hide the artillery. When in a hurry, they can be pushed out to attack ships in the port, or hit the reverse slope to attack the port. Enemy warships in the sea, or used to block port exits.

Another slave team of 500 people is digging the beach, setting up various fortifications on it, or building fortifications at the pier, or pushing artillery to various forts that have been built, or changing some places in Xinxianju Town, Newly built shops, material warehouses, workshops, and residential houses, this time all red brick and tile houses, with heated Kang, because winter is coming, and a long winter is coming. Although the winter in Newfoundland is not cold, it is definitely long .

In a simple wooden house, the members of the mercenary regiment who lived in it for two winters no longer want to live in it anymore. They all miss the heated kang, the wood-burning stove in their hometown, and the new coal-burning stove.

Now there is no shortage of coal in the neighboring peninsula, and a small coal mine is enough to meet the needs of the current fleet and civilian use.

At the moment, 5000 people are logging, and the slave team collecting forage is at the last moment of winter, cutting grass and logging as much as possible when the vegetation and trees are withered, while digging coal to collect stones, burning lime, cement, and bricks.

There are still 5000 people who are desperately building strongholds in various places every day. The strongholds have been expanded into castles, surrounded by low-walled towns, and under the low walls are various houses, shops, and various defensive facilities.

Another 5000 people dig fortifications on the border, build trenches, live under the whip every day, and contribute to the safety of the neighboring peninsula.

There are two thousand slaves lying in hospital beds waiting to recover. After they recover, they will also join this kind of army. Even their officers are working hard, not to mention officers and soldiers, or tribal leaders under the whip of the supervisor. and tribal warriors, all slaves.

Under such cruel oppression, it is normal for a dozen people to die every day, and it is also normal for thirty or fifty people to be tired. Of course, some people injured guards and supervisors, and then were beaten to death and thrown into prisons. Some people killed the guards Or the supervisor, escaped, and all those caught were executed, and those who were not caught, there was no other way.

That is to say, the overseer brigade is a dangerous place. At least one overseer was injured in two days, one was seriously injured in three days, and one died in a week because of the resistance of the slaves.

As the days passed and winter approached, a winding road crossed the center line of the island and connected Xinxianju Town. It used to take three days for troops to reach the border, and two days for a quick assault. It takes only one day and one night to get there on a flat road. It takes only two hours for fast horses, eight hours for carriages, six hours for cavalry, and ten hours for the entire team of infantry carrying carriages.

A castle was built in the small town of Winter to store troops and stockpile supplies. This is almost 60.00% of the border between Xinxianju Town and the border. Sending troops from here to support other places, Luo Zuo put his headquarters here.

With the onset of winter, another five warships were repaired within a month. The three warships used by Morin were put on the berth for maintenance and repairs. He led the six steam engine warships to start normal patrols outside. , You can also cooperate with the nine sailing warships to go outside to the British Avalan Peninsula.

After he was ready, another [-]-ton sailing warship that had suffered heavy losses in front was repaired, and then the number of sailing warships became ten, and a captured steam engine warship was put on the berth. The three steam engine battleships that Lin led before were repaired together, and it is estimated that they will have four more steam engine battleships available in a month.

Then there are ten steam engine battleships, and the navy of the New Qin Empire is recovering. It will take about next month, and the next month, to revive with full blood. By then, there will be another thirty warships.

And this time the battleship will be much stronger than the previous two fleets.

At least in terms of tonnage, it is much stronger, with a maximum of more than 5000 tons and a minimum of [-] tons, and the number of steam engine battleships reached eighteen.

High tonnage, the artillery of the British, plus the artillery that was eliminated by the navy of the Chinese Empire, the entire fleet was replaced with new naval guns, not very mixed bronze guns, iron guns, and imitation guns. field guns, plus British naval guns modified from imitation field guns.

In short, the tonnage has increased, the firepower has increased, the speed has increased, and the number of people and troops that can be loaded has increased.The combat effectiveness of the fleet has increased, but the fly in the ointment is that there are not so many people operating the warships.

The first thousand 240 chapter four long winter

In the winter of 1712, the British died down, and the French disappeared without a word. A recruitment team of 50 people was sent to Wu Kejing on two captured British [-]-ton sailboats to go to Turkey to recruit Han Chinese. At that time, the New Qin Empire entered a relatively peaceful period.

This is the third winter for the Mercenary Corps to come here. The previous two winters were spent in wars and struggles.

This winter has been very peaceful, but tranquility does not mean that you can be idle.

After owning the adjacent peninsula of nearly 120 kilometers long and [-] kilometers wide, plus four small islands, a total of [-] square kilometers of land, in addition to the continuous construction of buildings, it is hunting and fishing, consuming the previous area saved for the winter supplies.

The food rationing system is implemented. Anyway, the more than 3000 Han people are used to the bumps and displacements, being controlled by the chiefs, and being submissive. It is their greatest happiness to be able to settle down. Therefore, every Han has a happy smile on his face, not at all because of his own Life is harder than before and they complain about it. They have experienced death, fled thousands of miles, and experienced more than 2000 wars. They cherish the present life very much. No one complains because of the strict control and the shortage of supplies. ,dissatisfied.

Everyone has divided the land, and everyone has their own one-acre basic ration land, which is in the farm outside. Now the farm is working with slaves. In winter, more than 100 slaves died a month, and then more than 100 people couldn’t bear it. , wanted to join the Overseer Brigade and be loyal to the New Qin Empire. However, now that the system has changed, only those who perform well can be promoted to captives, and only those who have performed meritorious service can be promoted to captives. Captives still have to work, but the treatment they receive It's better.

Only those who performed well among the captives could join the supervisory brigade. Although it was harsh, 25 people quickly joined the supervisory brigade. They were originally members of the supervisory brigade. , After surrendering, it did not have any impact on the New Qin Empire, at least they did not betray the New Qin Empire, so these 25 people became members of the Overseer Brigade again, but no matter whether everyone was the team leader, team leader, or team leader, You have to start over from the players.

Tang Yaweng's affairs are complicated. He not only has to wait for Wu Kejing's call at any time, but also cooperates with Wu Kejing in the construction of the country. At the same time, he has to manage the captives and take care of their food, clothing, housing and transportation. Of course, most slaves don't have to take care of them. Fence the place and throw them in there.

Those who become captives live in the shacks and ground nests they built under the operation of the supervisory brigade. The slaves can only do it themselves. They can build the shacks or find a hole in the ground to nest. Every day, the slaves live a life that is worse than death. Not only will the captives tie ropes to them every day, but some people have to bake wooden shackles and shackles. Yes, the prisoners have a relatively leisurely job. They are responsible for cooking for the slaves, coming and going to bake the shackles and handcuffs, and then counting The work done by the slaves, the number of people.

The slaves are passive and sabotage, and the captives will automatically become slaves after three times; the slaves fight, riot, and damage tools, and the light captives are suppressed, and then receive punishment, demerits, or warnings; The men of the overseers were killed; if the slaves escaped, the captives sat together and were killed or flogged.

If the riots of captives and slaves cannot be suppressed, the overseer brigade will be demoted to captives, or become slaves in serious cases, and the more serious garrison will kill the overseers, captives, slaves, and all offenders to maintain the tranquility of the camp.

It is so cruel, because there are too many slaves and captives, and even the supervisors. There are not many dead spots, and the population of more than 3000 Han Chinese and other mercenaries cannot be suppressed.

But it’s not bad, the slaves are still working hard, maybe the conditions are tough, maybe the situation is very bad, but most of them are actively working, about 25 slaves were successfully converted into captives, and [-] captives were converted into supervisors. .

Of course, not all slaves are miserable. For example, there are many skilled carpenters who can build houses for the camp and plan the construction of the camp. Then these slaves can live in the barracks they built, and each barracks is given a brazier, Chase Shop, eat better, at least half full, although their level is still not as good as the captives, but they can guarantee that they will not be frozen to death or starved to death in winter.

Others, such as experts in various trades, blacksmiths, craftsmen, and shipbuilders.

Those with knowledge, such as those who knew a few languages, often walked in the ranks of captives and overseers, provided translations, and communicated with slaves and captives.

Some technologies are particularly good and are placed in important places, such as shipyards, weapon factories, forage yards, inside stables, wineries, warehouse management, stone processing, etc.

And those British officers who were captured were in a separate camp and were guarded by the garrison brigade. Of course, they were not good fish and meat. Intelligence, there are officers who are used to train sailors, infantry, cavalry, artillery.

They conduct basic training for the team, lay a good foundation for the Han Chinese team, and lay a good foundation for the foreign mercenary regiments, and then they are trained by the leading officers of Huaxia to learn from each other's strengths and train their own officers and soldiers.

Among the more than 2 people, only more than 2000 slaves and captives received this kind of preferential treatment different from captives and slaves.

Among the thousands of British immigrants, there are also many skilled craftsmen. Among the 200 people who received special treatment, nearly [-] people came from British immigrants.

What these people are more capable of is that most of them know how to deal with the animal furs they hunt, turn them into clothes, or knead them into expensive furs, and they are good at their preservation, storage, transportation, and management, so These people were organized to set up another camp by a lake to process the furs.

A Han Chinese team and a Han Chinese cavalry team guarded them, and another team of overseers was mobilized to guard them, and three hundred slaves with this basic foundation helped them process the furs.

Animal meat was processed by a special processing factory of the Han people, and many of them were placed on the tables of the officers of the New Qin Empire in winter. They drank French wine, British brandy, and rum, and the Han people processed it themselves. All kinds of rich meat came out, and the officers of the New Qin Empire lived very comfortably this winter, and the excess meat was distributed to the homes of the Han people in the processing factories, as well as in the Han military camps around the country. Part of it was given to the officers of the Overseer Brigade and the officers of the Foreign Mercenary Corps.

During this long winter, the New Qin Empire had a good time.

The first thousand 240 chapter five winter savings 1

"We are facing the bitter cold wind, with the efforts of five hundred slaves with experience in shipbuilding and one hundred of our own boatmen, we have completely restored all the warships. Now we have eighteen steam engine warships, twelve Sail warships. Among them, twelve sail warships are divided into two teams, one team is stationed on St. Pierre Island, as our guard post against the British and French coming from the sea, and the other team will be used to follow the steam engine warship fleet The forward sentry detachment."

Mo Lin spread out a piece of paper, bowed his head, and read the results of his work during these days.

"In addition, we have fifteen sailing warships of less than [-] tons that can be used for coastal and offshore defense. These can be used as liaison ships for various port positions, and can also be used as defense and security ships. Three of them are [-] tons The above ships are stationed on our small island facing the Avalan Peninsula. Behind them are three [-]-ton sailing warships standing by in the port behind, and can support the squadron on the island when necessary.

The other six ships are also on the island near the coast of the main island that we got from the French, which is the stronghold of the British facing the main island. Three of them, one of [-] tons, and two of [-] tons The remaining two ships, the remaining three ships, two ships are on a small island not far behind, and one ship is in a port close to the enemy on our side of the peninsula. When fighting, you can quickly pass the news and join them , forming a six-ship squadron.

The last three, [-]-ton ships are huge in size and can be used to transport food and supplies at ordinary times. There are weapons and smoke alarms on board. When the weather is good, they can warn the enemy's merchant ships and warships that cut into our inner line. Then Retreat to a nearby port for shelter. "

"Once again, all our steam engine warships have been replaced with British naval guns. This kind of naval gun is more suitable for us and is closer to our original Chinese Empire's attacking field artillery. In addition, we are trying to equip two types of artillery on the bow. One is our original 34-pound heavy-duty siege gun. Behind it, it is raised by about two meters. We pretended to be our original artillery turret. The two artillery use a joint device, which can make our artillery fire at the same time. Fire two shells to clear the guns on the enemy warships for the siege guns ahead.

When we are close to the enemy's large warship, such as a 34-ton large warship, we only need one shell to blow up the enemy's bow or severely damage the enemy's ship. The 128-pound artillery uses our artillery maintenance Although the factory improved 500mm artillery shells have a shorter range, they need to approach the enemy about 800 meters away. If they want to hit or shoot accurately, they need to approach the enemy about 600 meters to [-] meters. Although there is some risk, if When we have to, this artillery is still very useful. "

At the winter seminar, Mo Lin reported the news to everyone in this way. Both Wu Kejing and Tang Yaweng knew this, because Tang Yaweng managed these factories and enterprises, and Wu Kejing was in charge of all things, civil affairs, and the output of the captives. As well as the various departments that need to be established, there are many overlaps with Tang Yaweng's functions, but there is nothing. Now everyone is responsible for many things. As the second leader of the New Qin Empire, Wu Kejing may have more things to coordinate, not only Just a county magistrate who manages civil affairs, he can see, manage and intervene in many things.

After Mo Lin finished speaking, Li Ya looked up at the old colonel Tang Yaweng. He was the only old man here with the same military rank as himself. He had done a lot of work in the past two years of building the new Qin Empire. Maybe he was not good at commanding and fighting, but Counting and dispatching materials, and managing logistics is really awesome. Under such a difficult situation, it is still possible to build a lot of ships needed by the New Qin Empire with one ship per month, although these ships are sailing ships , It may not have much combat effectiveness, but it can transport materials, go fishing, transport personnel, and when necessary, it can be converted into an armed merchant ship and used as cannon fodder.

In the history of the Huaxia Empire and the New Qin Empire, cannon fodder played a very important role.

"In general, we have stored a total of 1 tons of firewood this winter, which is enough for us to burn another winter. If there is no more population this summer, we don't need slaves to prepare firewood. Coal we have A total of [-] tons of coal have been used in the past few years. Because of the steam engine, we have a surplus of about [-] tons this year. In addition, we have excavated [-] tons of coal.