Lord of Ming Dynasty

Since the British don't want to end here, they can only prepare for war.

At present, a large number of slaves and captives have been transferred to the front line and combat troops, and other soldiers and horses have entered the repaired fortifications, preparing to resist the possible attack of the British.

According to the reports from the search ships dispatched at sea, the British fleet will arrive in half a month.

"We have reclaimed 500 acres of fertile land this year. Last year we only had 600 acres of land. This year we have so many slaves working, and after most of the winter, we have reclaimed 500 acres of land and planted oats. Barley, wheat, etc. have harvested a total of [-] shi of wheat, which is equivalent to about [-] million catties of wheat. We can harvest another [-] million catties of wheat in October this year, and then plant winter wheat. Next year we can still harvest [-] million catties of wheat.

Based on our current population, more than 1 slaves and more than 4000 captives, plus our current 4000 people and 7000 soldiers and horses, the total is about 3.Enough to feed us for two years.

In addition, we still have 100 million catties of wheat left by the French, 50 catties of wheat we brought back, and 30 catties of potatoes and corn we bought. Even if we have an additional population of 1 or 5, it will be enough We have been eating for a year.

There are also fish and meat from hunting. Our food is quite abundant. If there is no more population, I suggest selling some of the food, buying some iron and coal, and cloth. We don’t produce cloth here, so we have to seize There are also cloth purchased from Turkey and other places. We have no other places to buy. "

Tang Yaweng continued to report to Li Ya the material situation of the whole country. To prepare for the war, he had to know how much material he had in hand.

"We have added [-] new prisoners. It seems that we still have to work hard to increase the number of Han people. Have the recruiting ships we sent out come back?" Li Ya touched his face and said calmly.

Tang Yaweng said: "At present, the personnel sent out come back every two months, and they can bring back 300 to 8000 Han people each time, but there are more Westerners brought back, so this increase in the base of Han people is not enough. It's really difficult. So far, the number of Han people has only increased to 1000, but it is still far less than the increase in the number of slaves and captives. After all, we will bring back at least [-] people every time we win a war, plus the sporadic captured raids Our tribal population, we're adding at least five hundred tribal population, seven hundred Westerners every month."

Li Ya said with a headache: "Then Zhao Shuai said that at least one regiment of 3000 Han Chinese from the Chinese Empire can come over for us at a time? Even the naturalized Han Chinese from Central Asia are better than these ever-increasing Westerners." A few. If this continues to increase, the exile squadron, the overseer squadron, and the mercenary squadron will almost exceed the limit we can control.

In the two ancient castle wars, we wiped out 2000 enemies and 4000 of the enemy's vassal tribal fighters, but captured 8000 captives and made them all slaves. We added 2000 people to eat. Some people will be promoted to captives because of their good performance, and although our captives died so many people on the battlefield, at least [-] people, but immediately [-] slaves were promoted to the captive and overseer brigade because of their bravery in combat. The mercenary brigade is inside. "

Tang Yaweng said with a smile: "But we have two Han Chinese brigades and two cavalry Han Chinese squadrons. The nearly 2000 Han Chinese brought back last year all passed the test and became our population.

Now we have five Han Chinese brigades. Although the number is not enough, except for the first brigade which is overstaffed and the second brigade is 80.00%, each Han Chinese brigade has no more than 700 people, but our number is too much after all.

Fort Swift Current, which was not guarding Jinlin, sent two Han Chinese squadrons and two cavalry squadrons. The Han Chinese troops under his control were expanded to one Han Chinese squadron and one cavalry squadron. The artillery squadron was expanded into artillery on the spot. Is the squadron, the coastal artillery squad expanded into a coastal artillery squad?These are all Han Chinese.In addition, three hundred Han people were sent to him. "

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Jin Lin had already mastered the strength of a mixed Han brigade, plus his guard squad, personal guard squad, which happened to be the strength of an ordinary brigade.

It can be said that Jin Lin is almost at the same level as Luo Zuo.

Although Luo Zuo said that it was the defense of the neighboring peninsula, in fact, what he really controlled was the third brigade of the Han Chinese, with a strength of more than 800 troops, and a cavalry squadron with a strength of more than 200 troops.

For other deployments of soldiers and horses, Li Ya needs to issue a warrant to him before they can be transferred to him.

At the beginning, Sao Tianlei led the third brigade of Han Chinese, and later he led the second brigade of Han Chinese, a total of 200 people, plus a cavalry squadron, an artillery squadron, and a coastal artillery squadron. His younger guard, the personal guard team, has more than 550 troops.

This is the troops he can control at ordinary times. In wartime, he is on the front line, and he has a lot of manpower. The third brigade of overseers has 3000 prisoners and slaves, two squadrons of cavalry squadrons, and the third brigade of Han Chinese who used to be reinforcements.

Battalion of Mercenaries, Battalion of Exiles, Squadron of Artillery.

Later, he left the second Han Chinese brigade to guard the border, and took the third Han Chinese brigade to attack the enemy.

Now that the Second Han Brigade has been dispatched, and after the wounded soldiers and the rest of the Third Han Brigade returned, he really took control of this unit and became the frontline guard officer.

"Have the reinforcements for Captain Sao Tianlei arrived?" Li Ya asked Tang Yaweng.

Tang Yaweng said: "The 500 slaves and captives sent over last time, plus the slaves and captives he left over and reinforced, in order to take Gubisburg, we invested a total of 4000 slaves and captives, and 300 people were killed or injured. , the remaining [-] people, now the original slaves in the territory are only [-] people, and the number of captives has increased to [-].

Although the captives only did a little less work than the slaves, and they no longer suffer casual oppression and execution, and they need to have a clear eye to impose criminal laws on them. Their personal lives are guaranteed, but they also have the obligation to join the army and fight. The obligation to be conscripted into corvee, and to be conscripted to serve in various workshops at any time, but they are outsiders after all, they are only the lowest second-level personnel in our empire.

On the surface, the people above them are common people, and the common people are the third-level personnel of the empire, but everyone knows that the real personnel of the third level are the personnel of the mercenary brigade, and they do not belong to us, so we issued an order to the mercenary brigade. The expensive salary gave them a lot of wealth, and bought real estate for them in various places.

They cannot enjoy the rights of our empire, and they cannot join the exile brigade. Because many people in the exile brigade have limited abilities or unstable thinking, and some people try to return to the Chinese Empire after a period of time, they are the first Fourth class people.

The civilians belong to the fifth class, the sailor brigade belongs to the sixth class, and other foreigners who have fought and have proved themselves, or retired, or are not in combat positions, they belong to the sixth class just like the sailor brigade Humans, from the common people to the Han brigade, the Han cavalry brigade, the Han artillery brigade, and the Han Chinese sailor brigade, we belong to the seventh class, that is to say, the highest rank. "

"These are slaves and captives. Where are the other reinforcements?" Li Ya asked.

"For other reinforcements, the newly formed Fourth Han Brigade, with a total of 800 people, and the newly formed Fourth Overseer Brigade, with a total of 600 people, these people transferred foreign personnel from the Third Brigade of Sailor Brigade, as well as Han Chinese personnel and officers, In addition, some officers were transferred from Second Lieutenant Luo Zuo's troops from the Second Han Chinese Brigade, and a cavalry squad was responsible for the escort." Tang Yaweng explained.

"A lot of people have been mobilized, is our local defense force enough?" Li Ya was a little worried.

Tang Yaweng said reassuringly: "That's enough. The 8000 newly transferred captives were all made into slaves. They were guarded by the Fifth Overseer Brigade and distributed all over the neighboring peninsula to replace the slaves and captives who were originally transferred. Fields, mining fields, logging camps, repairing roads and fortifications in some places."

"8000 people, isn't that too much?" Li Ya asked.

Tang Yaweng smiled and said: "Not many, more than 4000 are still seriously injured. We have paid a lot for medical expenses alone. Up to now, 3000 people can only lie down, 200 people are completely disabled, and 100 people died after returning. Those wounded Only a small amount of manpower from the Overseer Brigade is needed, plus the manpower of our earliest tribal allies to keep watch. The remaining 600 people have recovered from injuries and can join the labor. These people will be placed in some easy places together with the original captives. Farming, harvesting, transporting wheat or fish on a fishing boat returning from fishing at sea.

The other 4000 people, 800 of them are disabled, can only be put in the prisoner camp for cleaning, cooking, and producing some wicker frames for use in the mine. In the slave camps everywhere, not even a splash was light.Although the Fifth Oversight Brigade only has 100 people, there is no pressure at all to see them. What's more, our allies, the Indians, help us guard. The First Oversight Brigade also sent 2 people to focus on patrolling various places. "

Li Ya nodded slightly, walked back and forth with his hands behind his back, "How about Mo Lin?"

Tang Yaweng said: "The three brigades of the sailor brigade have been fully staffed. Except for one squadron of about 300 people that has been transferred out, there are two remaining squadrons guarding the shipyard, water fortress, and shore artillery battery. This is the third sailor brigade performing defensive tasks. .

The Second Sailor Brigade is responsible for the transportation of materials, port patrols, and patrols in the surrounding waters. There is a squadron of ships that is kept in good condition at any time and can be dispatched to support the main fleet at any time.

This squadron is equipped with 300 manpower, the manpower comes from sailors among the common people, some carpenters, goldsmiths, and shipyard technicians.At the same time, there is a reserve of 300 personnel from the third brigade, who can board the ship and go to sea at any time.In addition, I also prepared fifty Indians, fifty Iliads, fifty Spanish and Russians, and Romanian civilian combat sailors, as well as deployment of five hundred soldiers from the First Overseer Brigade who had experience in naval battles join.

The squadron is equipped with two steam engine battleships of [-] tons, three steam engine battleships of [-] tons, and eight sailing warships of [-] to [-] tons.

The minimum number of personnel on each ship is 150, and the maximum number of personnel is 450, which is strong enough. "

Li Ya frowned. There is nothing to do in this era with a large number of people on board a ship. On the largest British battleship of 800 tons, there are most of them on a battleship. It was loaded with [-] people.

This is the equipment they knew when interrogating the prisoners.

Even in the previous 180-ton armed merchant ship, they had more than 190 people on board, which is equivalent to one person per ton.In this regard, the New Qin Empire has no way to compare with the British.

As a small island country, the British have a large population. It is said that they have more than 1000 million people. There are at least 30 people on ships all over the world who are serving or serving as adventurer sailors on board to make money.

But their army has less than 3 people, and the police force is no more than 5.

But in Europe, as Europeans who are all of Germanic descent, they can join the British fleet and become soldiers of the British Navy as employers, so they can satisfy the maritime force of 30 people in the world.

However, the New Qin Empire was developed in the model of a land power of the Huaxia Empire. The counterweight is on the army side. The sailor brigade with less than 3000 people is the entire sea force. This is still mostly foreigners in the employment mode, only 1000 The Han people who are less than one person join the navy.

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"How many Han people can we fight?" Li Ya asked Tang Yaweng.

"The entire empire has a population of [-] or less than [-] Han Chinese. Three Han Chinese brigades account for a small part of the population, and one sailor brigade plus two newly formed Han Chinese brigades occupy a part of the population. The two together account for the total population. More than half of the Han people, plus the surveillance forces that need to be dispatched to other armies, our current Han people are only in the early [-]s.

The foreign population and naturalized tribal population account for 30.00% of the population.The others are captive skilled workers and the seriously wounded population.Beyond this are the slave and prison camps, which are the most important population.Then there is the exile brigade and the mercenary brigade. "

"Forget it, our main fleet is actually more than 1000 Han Chinese troops, plus prisoners and slaves. If the main fleet is going to go to war, then the first overseer brigade will have to leave the remaining [-] slaves to cooperate The first sailor brigade of the first fleet is fighting." Li Ya himself talked about the plight of the main fleet sailor brigade.

"Yes, there is no way. Now we have more ships but fewer people. We have always lacked the manpower of the main ethnic group. It is not enough to replenish three or two hundred Han people from outside every month or more than two months. We screen out the population that later abandoned, and the population that went out to fight and died.

In this battle, at least 120 Han Chinese cavalrymen and [-] Han Chinese squadron soldiers were killed, and [-] people were injured and forced to return to retire.This wounded, and maimed, seriously wounded population is our burden. "

Tang Yaweng said very distressed.

Li Ya had a disapproving expression. At the beginning, there were five or six hundred of them, but in the end, there were less than 600 people left. Later, there were nearly 80 people. After the first battle with the French, how many people remained? 9000 people.