Lord of Ming Dynasty

Some of the military depots in the front only left two people, and the wounded who were transferred later and those who recovered from their injuries continued to stay. A private first-class was in charge of the depot and reorganized. When they arrived, a few more people were left behind , the strength of the military depot is increasing every time, from two people to five or six people, to a squad, to a platoon, to a reinforced platoon, and it will no longer increase, because the troops they lead this time are also considerable. The supplementary troops were too few, and in some places, only one platoon or even one squad could be maintained.

Half a month later, they had gone deep into the end of the Andy Mountains and entered the territory of Peru. More and more wounded and sick people were left behind by the mercenary regiment. There was one battalion at a time, and the third mercenary regiment had to stay behind. The next reinforced platoon took care of them and helped them transfer to the rear. They were sent to Makaibo Bay in World War I and boarded a ship to return home for treatment.

But the fourth prince and the others are getting farther and farther away. Sometimes Luo Zuo really admires the fourth prince, who can run so well. Over the years, the British and Spaniards have spread the news many times that he was captured or killed. He actually Still alive, he was resurrected soon after.

Luo Zuo and the others simply fought a small encounter with the British and the Spaniards this time. The mercenary regiments took turns to fight, and almost wiped out the colonial coalition forces organized by the Spaniards in South America and Europe, so that the Spaniards and the British could only rely on their own forces. The troops came to stop and chase the fourth prince and the others.

The new mercenary regiment, that is, the fifth regiment built a military station on another route and cleared the colonies of the Indians and Spaniards. It also suffered losses of at least a dozen people every day. After a few months, it had lost one and a half battalions of troops, and There was a battalion of wounded, and then the four mercenary regiments rushed to support them, as well as the newly recruited mercenaries from various countries who had not had time to train, as well as the Mexican indigenous army.

Although the two regiments were still at full strength, most of them were filled by Mexicans and new mercenaries. Only a few Han officers and a few old mercenaries, that is, the old generation of the New Qin Empire, defected and followed The mercenaries who fought actually guessed what the New Qin Empire did, so they were basically scattered and were very good at saving their lives.

The third mercenary regiment suffered heavy losses in the decisive battle with the captured Indians and Spanish captives in the previous battle. After the source of soldiers came up from behind, and after the replenishment of prisoners from the supply battalion, it was basically considered full, but the combat effectiveness As the first and second regiments of the mercenary regiment pursued the main force of the Spaniards and the British, they continued to fight the enemy's blocking forces and the Indians who helped the Spaniards. , also suffered heavy losses, and is still unable to replenish its troops.

Chapter 520 Pursuit 2 - Loss

The ratio of troops between the two sides is changing, but the common feature is that both sides are losing troops. The Spaniards and the British also lost a lot of troops. The blocking forces fought so that they had to recruit colonial personnel from where they passed, and had to use the Indians who followed.

The combat effectiveness of both sides is declining, but the combat effectiveness of the Spaniards and the British is declining rapidly, because they are blocked by targets in front of them, and behind them are the mercenary regiments of the Luozuo Army who are sticking to them like maggots. The first regiment and the second regiment, although because the opponent's first regiment has only 2000 people, plus the directly subordinate battalion, it is only 300 people, and the one on my own side has 3000 people, plus the directly subordinate personal guards. There are various colonial miscellaneous troops. The number of a regiment is nearly 3, and they are more than one regiment. Their two armies have a total of more than 3 people, plus more than 7 Indians, and they are constantly being recruited. Indians, they have nearly [-] people.

But the problem is that they keep attacking those Indians who don’t want to cooperate along the way. Yes, don’t look at them ruling here, but not all Indian tribes sell their accounts, or they can coerce and lure them, and they can use them. The advance, constant killing, and constant fighting, of course, to deal with these Indians, there are tribes that are also Indians, and these Indians are also consumed.

But the mercenary regiment that was chasing after others and also dealing with the Indians had to mobilize their own troops, because the Indians have been proven many times that they are not very useful, they can only be sent to others, exchanging hundreds of Indians for others Three or two people, at most a dozen people were injured or died, this deal is not worth it, the key is that it is impossible to stop people from chasing them.

Therefore, they constantly mobilized their own troops, the British troops, and the colonial army to fight against the enemy. Although the two sides were superior in terms of military strength, and successfully blocked them many times, the enemy could not accelerate their pursuit and killed a large number of enemy troops. The enemy is still biting, and the rear is constantly being supplemented by troops accelerating to catch up, and they have also begun to continuously use Indians as transport troops to transport materials and supplies.

During the battle between the two sides these days, the British lost more than 3000 troops in a regiment, the Spaniards lost more than 1000 troops, and there were two thousand colonial troops, totaling more than 6000 troops, and at the same time lost more than 1 Indians. It's the newly kidnapped Indians, just consumed.

The losses of the two regiments of the New Qin Empire were also very heavy. Each regiment lost more than 200 people, and the cavalry was added at a later speed. The newly reorganized Indian troops and some recovered soldiers from the mercenary regiment were sent to supplement, as well as the peasants from the Han villages found along the way.

Since their weapons and equipment and the mercenaries in battle are all experienced veterans, they were able to exchange for the loss of more than 6000 enemy troops with the sacrifice of only one regiment.

Perhaps the loss of these people is just a heartache for the strong Spaniards and British, but they know that this is their home field, but the Indians they can rely on are too weak. Fighting, these people are as mentally retarded as those black-faced guys in Africa, otherwise how could they be allowed to play for a hundred years.

So many Indians have been coerced, except for increasing their material burden, it seems that it has no effective effect now. If we have to talk about some effects, it is that these Indians who are constantly coerced are very important to the terrain with a radius of hundreds of miles. Familiar ones can no longer be familiar, so their role is to lead the way. Others, even consumption, cannot cause much damage to the pursuing enemies. Instead, they are hungry and dissatisfied every day, and many people are executed by them. At the same time, they are sending out to attack When the enemy fled, hundreds of people were killed by the enemy.

The British and Spanish generals suddenly felt that they had done something very unfavorable to them. They led the army of the New Qin Empire to clean up the local Indians. Both sides were cleaning up. For the New Qin Empire In other words, they also understand that when they arrive at a place, they will learn from the Chinese Empire to clean up the local indigenous people, and then replace them with Han Chinese, as well as European mercenaries, and people from various countries who fled to find a new life. The foundations of their colony are uprooted and they are helping the enemy with such folly and can't stop.

After a few more days of pursuit, the fifth regiment of the newly-built mercenary regiment of the New Qin Empire arrived with reinforcements from a cavalry company and a battalion, but the strength of the first, second, and third mercenary regiments was consumed, leaving only one regiment The newly recruited colonial foreign mercenaries were no more than one battalion. Although the Indian army consisted of [-] troops, they could only be responsible for transporting and helping the military station to mop up the counterattack and sneak attack Indians nearby.

The two Han regiments continued to deploy troops, so that the remaining mercenary regiment was now almost [-]% Han regiment.

So Luo Zuo had to revoke the formation of the new fifth regiment and organize it into the second regiment. One regiment joined the mercenaries of the cavalry company and the supply company, and the supply battalion was replaced by Han Chinese and Indians. Some Han Chinese and Indians were transferred to supplement the establishment, but only [-]% of the troops, which means that he now has less than [-] Han soldiers.

With such an organization, except for the artillery battalion, there has been nothing to do. His personal guards are equivalent to a company, and the Han Chinese in a company of the supply battalion. The combatable veterans of the entire army have dropped to the most dangerous 3000 troops. All the veterans and mercenaries of the Corps are no more than 4000 people, and the rest are the cavalry who arrived later and the foreign recruits who surrendered from the colony. The total force has dropped from the previous 1 to only 1000. Although there were [-] troops including the newly recruited troops, and the elite Indian captives transported in supplies, there were only [-] people, and the combat effectiveness had dropped to [-]% of the original level.

During this period, the British lost hundreds of troops again, the Spaniards lost another thousand troops, thousands of colonial troops were killed and wounded, and more than 1 Indians. The pursuers behind set up an ambush, and as a result, both sides suffered heavy losses.

The British lost a total of 3000% of the thousands of colonial regular troops brought this time, and now there are only more than [-] troops left, and there are [-] colonial and Indian mixed troops.

The Spaniards were even more exhausted. They had 1000 troops, including 1 regular troops from the mainland and [-] from the colonial regular army and [-] from the navy. As a result, they lost [-] local troops and [-] The colonial army, [-] sailors, plus more than [-] Indians, the total force dropped from [-] to [-], and Indians accounted for half of their forces.

The first thousand and 520 chapters are annoying to chase

The main losses on the Spanish side were the Indians. Because of their rule and this forced dragging, the Indians suffered a lot. If it weren't for the tens of thousands of troops of their two families, the Indians could not resist. Even if they rebelled, it is common for Indians to work without doing their best. It is the current status of Indians that fleeing is greater than casualties.

And the fleeing Indians were once again sorted out by the two mercenary regiments following behind, and the Luozuo troop following behind was on the road, stopping from time to time to sort it out, and sorted out the remaining manpower of the Indians again. For slaves, warriors, in charge of clearing out other Indians and transporting supplies, or eventually sent out to fight their Spanish-controlled brethren, tribes, who did not flee.

In this continuous cycle, the Indians in this area fled to other areas one after another, but most of them were completely cleared by the three main countries. The loss was the Spaniards and British who relied on the exploitation of the Indians, these colonists.

As for the remaining Indian tribes who fled to the deep mountains and old forests, they are still caught in the struggle among the tribes. In the harm of natural disasters, they may be extinct in the near future.

After a large-scale blocking battle, there was a big disagreement between the Spaniards and the British, and then some of the remaining colonists of the British left the team and rushed back to their colonies, because of the large-scale mobilization of troops for half a year , making their colony unstable, they need to go back to suppress, and at the same time they bring back some Indian slaves.

In this walk, there are hundreds of British regular troops, more than 1000 colonial troops, and thousands of Indian slaves. The Spanish coalition forces have been reduced by several thousand, and their strength has dropped to more than 3.

Then the Portuguese also left. This war caused them a lot of losses. More than half of the more than 1000 colonists were killed and injured. Their colonial army regular army killed and injured more than 300 people. Except for some officers, they can say that they can’t help this war. I was busy, so I also brought two thousand Indian slaves, recruited several small Indian tribes, and left the Spanish coalition with more than 5000 people.

After that, the Italian Kingdom of Milan also took away at least 1000 people, and other countries also took away more than 1000 people. The total strength of the Spaniards and the British dropped to 8000. It not only reduced their burden, but also greatly weakened their combat effectiveness.

Weakened their cannon fodder force, the Indians have gradually renounced and hated them as colonists. The remaining more than 1 Indians did not give the Spanish governor of Colombia, who led the troops this time, any confidence. These people could not resist the new The regular army of the Qin Empire, although the regular army of the New Qin Empire is not much, but only 4000 people.

Their mercenary regiments have suffered heavy losses in repeated battles with Spain and the British. Three mercenary regiments have been disabled. The newly formed mercenary regiments have low combat effectiveness. There are still one, two, or three mercenary regiments, but the soldiers of those mercenary regiments are all captives recruited like them and newly sent Spanish, British, Prussian, Dutch, and Portuguese recruits. formed troops.

In view of this new situation, the colonel led by the British decided to send a part of the cavalry unit to join a Spanish battalion of infantry, plus a supply battalion and cavalry, as well as a small number of colonists left behind to pursue the fourth prince. Stay to fight a decisive battle with the Luozuo Army, and the battle will determine the outcome.

His proposal was quickly responded by the Governor of Colombia in Spain. He had long been annoyed by the tail that he worried about every day and followed him every day.

The two hit it off, dispatched troops, immediately stopped the pursuit, and began to look for terrain to set up an ambush.

But Luo Zuo and the others didn't know it at all, and they would join forces with the troops that had suffered heavy losses in front. After reorganization, they still sent one regiment forward, followed by the second regiment, with cavalry in the middle to liaise, the large army with prisoners and luggage, and artillery followed.

They have no idea that they are stepping into the enemy's encirclement step by step.

This is also impossible. The Indians in the teams of both sides played a decisive role. Both sides used Indians to block each other's reconnaissance. For Indians who are good at fighting in mountains and are good at hiding themselves, it is perfect. But the Indians on this side are obviously much less than the Indians on the other side, and they are not very motivated, and they dare not send them out alone, because they are more decisive than the Spaniards and British in the colonial area. , They are killing everything, the Spaniards and the British just want to get land and benefits.

"What is this?" Luo Zuo asked a mercenary holding a stone.

The mercenary said happily: "This is an emerald. You only need to peel off the outer skin to see the gems inside. There are many more. Look, this is copper, this is iron, this is coal, and there are other gems." There are many minerals, the most important one is copper, iron and coal, there are huge reserves in this mountain range, and there are gold mines in the valley where you Chinese descendants live in Colombia we passed by.”

Luo Zuo, who started as a low-ranking officer, actually has no impression or concept of these things, but he still knows about copper, iron, coal, gold and silver. Isn't the new Qin Empire lacking in these?Especially coal and iron, which are the strategic materials they urgently need. They are needed to make guns and warships, not to mention the gold that everyone knows.

He looked at the gray-haired old mercenary on the opposite side, excited, "You are?"

The mercenary lowered his head guiltily and said, "Sir, I was originally a Spanish scientist who was investigating in this area. I was captured by you two months ago and now I am joining your mercenary team. But we are really not good at fighting, and I think your Excellency uses Our method is quite rough, I hope Your Excellency will give us a chance to reimburse the New Qin Empire."

"Okay, but I can't decide such a thing. In this way, you find all of your people, and then I will send cavalry to escort you back. This must be decided by the governor."

"Okay, thank you sir."

After arranging this matter, Luo Zuo continued to lead the troops to pursue, and it took another half a month to reach the Andes Mountains in Peru. The mercenary regiment marching ahead has reported that it has not exchanged fire or fought with the enemy for half a month. .

"Sir, this is the news from the rear. Our army has seized a length of [-] kilometers and a width of about [-] kilometers, and reached the land on both sides of Gatun Lake on the opposite bank. Now only the Spaniards are left. The Panama City has not been taken, His Excellency Governor Zhuang Lin asked you to speed up to welcome the fourth prince back to Xinding Yangzhou as soon as possible."

The first thousand and 520 chapters are surrounded by counterattack

The mountains are high, the ground is pine, and it is cold. The climate here is completely different from the low places. There are thousands of meters of high mountains all around. The hard land and weathered rocks made the road a bit tortuous and difficult. The soldiers walked carefully, wrapping their coats tightly and leading their horses forward, fearing that the noise would be too loud, and countless rocks would fall around them, or cause an avalanche.

The artillerymen yelled and pushed the cannon forward. Although the cannon was not very big, the largest was no more than twelve pounds, it still made the artillerymen sweat profusely.

The team of tens of thousands of people moved forward, and it took a few days to reach the lowland again. It is covered with snow, the trees are few, the weather is cold, it is a bit empty, and there are few people. Hearing that the first regiment of mercenaries in front was surrounded by a large number of enemy troops, the second regiment retreated urgently to escape the enemy's encirclement.

The third regiment and the second regiment will reconcile and resist the enemy's pursuit in the front. Luo Zuo immediately dispatched the cavalry company and the second Han regiment, and the Indians transported supplies to support.

The remaining troops speeded up and hurried on their way.

More than 100 kilometers away, a regiment faced a large-scale Indian attack and struggled to resist the enemy's attack on a hillside. While breathing, they fired guns. The cavalry ran around to convey the requirements of the regiment leader to Three battalions, a supply company, and an artillery platoon.

The three six-pound guns in their hands fired violently, but they still couldn't stop the enemy's attack. The enemy's artillery fired again and again scattered the troops on their side, and the casualties continued to increase. The Indian soldiers and Mexican soldiers even left behind. Gun held his head and fled, but was cut down to the ground by Indians, British and Spanish cavalry intercepting around him.