Lord of Ming Dynasty

Because now there is no established British fleet on Newfoundland, there are only a dozen dilapidated thousand-ton steam warships, maybe there are some thousand-ton class hidden somewhere, and even enlarged some say five thousand-ton sail warships , or steam warships, but the number will definitely not be too many. Their current number is not enough to fight against the New Qin Empire.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have been looking for them all winter, not even some fierce battles, not even all three or more small fleets, but only some hundreds of tons of sailing warships.

That is to say, in front of the previous 20 fleets of the New Qin Empire, which were mainly sail warships, supplemented by steam warships, and most of them were steam warships of the thousand-ton class, they did not have the courage to concentrate all of them. There should be at least [-] warships, and the quality must be slightly smaller than the [-] new Qin Empire's [-]-ton warships that range from a few hundred tons to [-] tons. They are rare and still lying on the berth. The fleet launched an attack.

Everyone knows that the British are waiting, waiting for the arrival of the fleet from the British mainland three thousand nautical miles away, as well as the arrival of the expeditionary forces, officers and even high-level officials sent there.

Due to the two consecutive wars of the New Qin Empire, the population of the Han Chinese decreased, and almost all foreign mercenaries were lost. The three brigades of the sailor brigade were full, and one and a half brigades were lost. The population of each stronghold lost 500 people. The two tribal allies of the Iliads had a population of 200 before the battle, and 400 were soldiers. After the war, the population was [-], plus a total of [-] tribal fighters. After several battles, they lost many people , directly led to the post-war population continued to drop to a total of [-] people, and the two tribes of tribal fighters could not make up [-] people.

Afterwards, the remaining population was married with the remaining population of the New Qin Empire, and then the two tribes lost 600 to 1000 people, so the current population and soldiers of the last two tribes are [-], which is still the common population and soldiers of the two tribes. case.

After some people were transferred to join the sailor brigade and the newly formed wanderer brigade, they had no more combatable soldiers, and the two tribes left less than 100 combatable soldiers, who stayed in the tribal villages.

Therefore, due to the sharp population reduction and the need to restore strength as soon as possible, the consumption of materials and various weapons and equipment is also high.

So for a whole winter, no one hit anyone, and sometimes the two sides ignored each other, neither of them wanted to see each other, and each focused on sorting out their internal relationships.

It's spring, and the New Qin Empire is busy allocating population, allocating land, training soldiers, and training some officers at the same time, repairing warships, storing supplies, and there are still a lot of supplies that are in short supply.

Although some daily necessities can be barely maintained, although there is a small iron mine, the insufficient iron can be re-melted through the seized enemy materials, and the salvage of some sunken ships has also allowed the New Qin Empire to recover a lot of steel. After re-melting, New artillery pieces and new guns were built, but there were always not enough supplies for mass production.

Relying on distant Spain, Africa, or even Eastern Europe, which is occupied by Turkey and Russia, is not a solution after all, because the voyage is too long, and there is no coal supply in the middle, steam ships dare not go that far, and the coal mines on the island are too small , Can't support the entire fleet to go out to the far sea, and go back and forth for nearly 1 nautical miles. Doesn't it matter that the [-]-ton steam engine warship has to be dragged back by a sailboat in the end?

When the recruiting fleet sent out found them, they already wanted to give up the steam engine ship, otherwise they could only float in the sea. Without coal, even a small rowboat could not drag a [-]-ton steam engine battleship.

These days, although the equipment is simple, the tonnage of the ship is not large, and the cruising range is still not large. If the British want to come, then a steam engine ship, 3000 tons or [-] tons, if fully loaded, has a range of more than [-] nautical miles. , but to return, sorry no more coal.

It is also possible to burn charcoal, but the speed may be the same as that of the previous sailing merchant ships. The speed of three to four knots may not be able to drive the ship. It is possible to move, but it is not necessarily fast.

Therefore, you must bring a sailboat when sailing, because this thing, in addition to needing the wind, can also be dragged by a small boat, because it is powered by a sail, and if there is no wind, the sail can be hung and the boat can be dragged to maintain three knots. The basic speed of , even smaller, the key is that there is not much consumption.

Therefore, the steam engine ship must follow the sailing ship transporting coal to maintain endurance.

It’s not enough, even if you dismantle the sailing boat and burn firewood, it can last for a while.

This kind of practice is generally used when crossing the sea. If you drive close to the shore, it will be fine. If you can't, go to land to find firewood.

Li Ya was still thinking about whether the British would come or not, how to deal with the British when they came, Zhao Shuai and Wu Kejing came in, Wu Kejing said to Li Ya: "Boss, our communication ship is back, The telegraph relay station is basically built. Now we need to send personnel to station outside to protect the relay ship. At the same time, we can also send telegrams directly to the country.

At the same time, our telephone lines on the island have also been laid, and the telephone room has also been built. We can communicate with the frontline sweepers and mines. With these, we can timely understand the situation tens of kilometers away. It is not necessary to send cavalry to run a long way to deliver the message.

Of course, the cavalry is still reserved, and sometimes it must be used, such as where we do not have a telephone room.

We have already sent a telegram, and it is estimated that within three days the telegram will be relayed to the center of the empire, and then they will send us more telephones. We can press a telephone for every place that needs to arrange a call to realize the whole Communications on the island are unimpeded. "

The first thousand 250 chapters ushered in the spring

After six months, the New Qin Empire finally survived the winter. Several heavy snowfalls made the land cold and hard. Because it was early spring, the land had not yet been covered with green again, and it was bleak everywhere. You can see the white snow, and the snow makes the roads lumpy. Even the roads that are cleaned frequently will inevitably have some ice slag, and it will click when you walk.

Wrapped in a thick fur coat, Li Ya felt that he had returned to that cold place in Eastern Siberia, but it was much colder than here. The maximum here was minus fifteen degrees, and occasionally twenty degrees or something. , where it can reach more than minus 40 degrees, and the average is about minus 25 degrees, that's a lump of ice in one breath.

Walking on the soft dry leaves in the forest, a few jumping squirrels around, sneaked out to look for the fallen pine nuts under the dead leaves. If there is anything to eat, you can see the sudden shoots that are trying to push up the top of the dead leaves.

A new brigade of blond, blue-eyed, high-nosed patrols is passing through the area. They will patrol the area non-stop to ensure that no British rat-like raiders are lurking in this area.

In the winter, Major Thomas on the opposite side still did some things. He dismantled the few troops of the British. A few people or a team of more than [-] people secretly took a small boat to reach the shore at night, and then people went ashore, infiltrated in, killed patrols or attacked villages, and even harassed small towns.

In one winter, the dissatisfied brigades of the New Qin Empire once again lost a lot of people, and even some people who came out to chop firewood suffered some losses, so the whole island was fighting guerrilla warfare, adding more patrols and adding more troops. There are many cavalry response teams, and even the newly formed troops of the sailor brigade are drawn out to serve as this kind of anti-guerrilla forces on land.

In any case, both sides have tempered their troops through this small-scale battle, and all the newcomers have adapted to the continuous guns and guns here, heavy snow covered, light snow constantly, here shoots, shoots, and the hounds over there The screams continued, and then the horses neighed, the voices were loud, and it returned to silence after a while. Either the personnel who rushed over looked at the corpses of a dozen patrols and the horses, or the cavalry squad that reacted quickly ran over to kill the enemy. The guerrillas then dragged the corpses and escorted a dozen captives into the village, and then the angry villagers would kill the captives and hang them to crooked neck trees outside the village.

Because of the population disadvantage, the New Qin Empire could only defend, not counterattack.

This is also because the two parties do not detect each other's strength, because there is no need, and neither side will launch a large-scale battle in winter. The snow is used as a parapet, how can there be a war here, is everyone playing hide-and-seek in the maze opened up by each other?

Everyone knows this is impossible, because in terms of population and manpower, the New Qin Empire is not even as good as the manpower of the Avala Peninsula.

Now that winter has passed, the snow has melted, and everything has recovered, which also indicates that the British may come. After half a year of recuperation, the New Qin Empire will usher in another blow from the British.

This time the New Qin Empire is ready to take the initiative to attack, 32 capital ships and [-] patrol ships are ready to go, the final preparations are ready, and they are waiting for the troops to go north to attack the enemy's main island, and then land troops to attack Ava on land The connection between the Orlando Peninsula and the main island, and then attack the Avalan Peninsula through the connection, cutting off the connection between the main island and the Avalan Peninsula.

Now he is going to send people to investigate over there. The people he sends can only be Indians and Iliads, because these two are now bound to them. The population of several hundred is among the population of tens of thousands. It is not obvious that they have no choice but to be assimilated.

So only a hundred or so Indians were drawn out, and then a few intelligence personnel were sent to follow them, and several reconnaissance teams were led by the Indians to investigate on the main island and the Avalan Peninsula.

The exile brigade and mercenary brigade on the island are being restored and newly formed.

These are the two main offensive forces. Everyone knows that the Han people cannot attack because the population of the Han people is too small.

The exile brigade was supplemented with some new foreigners, and then it was fully staffed and expanded. Originally, a team was filled with less than 60 people, and after it was full, it was 75 people. Then it was expanded to 100 people according to the Han Chinese brigade, and then expanded according to Their characteristics were expanded to 120 five people, which just formed three groups for each team and a command group.

It is equivalent to the establishment of one company for one future generation.

Among the expanded group of people, apart from some foreigners who lived and died with the new Qin Empire, the survivors of the original homeless brigade, there are also foreigners from the second wave and the third wave, and some Han Chinese. There are always Han people in the army, and these Han people are also later generations. The original Han people just sent a group to contact them, let them accept command, and then keep in touch with the rear.

As for the newly established mercenary brigade, a brigade of 300 people from the supervisory brigade was transferred, and some of the captives were willing to join the troops of the New Qin Empire as mercenaries to fight for the New Qin Empire. After accumulating certain military achievements and contributions , these people hoped to let them go, so these people formed another squadron, and there were some later Han people and foreigners who were unwilling to merge with the New Qin Empire. They were all rescued by the New Qin Empire. , So a total of three squadrons of infantry, one squadron of cavalry, and a squadron of artillery were formed.

For the New Qin Empire, these are extra cannon fodder soldiers. Since they don't want to be here, but if they want to leave here, they have to serve the New Qin Empire and work hard, otherwise, they can only be slaves.

From this point of view, not all Han Chinese or foreigners who came here are willing to stay here, or are interested in the New Qin Empire, and many people are unwilling to stay here, or have no good impression of the New Qin Empire, or are worried about the new Qin Empire. The empire was unable to resist the British attack in the west. Many people came out of the isolation camp. Three months later, when they had been incorporated or were about to be incorporated into various armies, they figured out the situation here and the new situation. Due to the current situation of the Qin Empire, many people are unwilling to serve the new Qin Empire.

This is also the reason why the New Qin Empire has no military strength and no population. One is that the wars are too frequent and tragic, and the other is that the situation dictates that many people are unwilling to follow them.

The first thousand and 250 six chapters of Major Thomas' embarrassment

It's spring, and Major Thomas is also preparing to deal with it. Since he escaped back, he has been dormant for a while, but during this time he found that the entire peninsula was in chaos, and there was no organization at all. He sent Larry to take someone out to take a look. , Colonel James and Major Hawkins did not come back, and a large number of British officers on Newfoundland did not come back. Most of the British army spent time in a daze and panic.

In many places, the highest rank is only a second lieutenant. At present, these second lieutenants have been organized and have almost stabilized the situation in the Avala Peninsula, but everyone is in a bleak situation, and they don't know what to do.

As soon as Captain Larry appeared, he immediately became the leader of the group. There were seven or eight army ensigns, five navy ensigns, and not even a lieutenant.

This attack caused heavy losses to the British army on the island. After Thomas got the news, everyone finally had a backbone. After Thomas confirmed repeatedly, James did not come back. Well, no one will blame him, no one Will demote him again or catch him.

So Major Thomas shook his body, and regained the spirit and majesty of Colonel Thomas when he was stationed on the neighboring peninsula.

"Larry, send someone to count all the British troops on the island that can fight, including those colonial expeditions, and our appendage Newfoundland and Inuit troops, population, and our weapons. Equipment, of course I also need to know how many ships and warships that can go to sea to fight are still on the island.”

"You go out too, and give me statistics immediately. I need the latest news. Send someone to investigate, and send someone to find everyone back."

A week later, Major Thomas finally knew how many cards he had to play.

There are still 100 British troops on the peninsula, troops guarding various ports, more than [-] sailors and marines, and eleven thousand-ton steam engine battleships, three of which did not go out to fight, so they were able to avoid being destroyed. Seven ships also returned after being driven from the occupied island by the enemy.

There are also eight thousand-ton sailing warships, which were seriously damaged and suffered heavy losses, and all had to be repaired in the dock.

The same is true for steam engine battleships, which also have to be repaired near the dock. There are only five ships that can fight without repairs. There are more than 1000 sailors and artillery, which is just enough for the manpower and combat manpower needed by five steam engine battleships.

Five naval ensigns are just enough to command these five warships, so in fact the warships he can fight in his hands are only five steam engine battleships.