Lord of Ming Dynasty

In this way, the first battalion was broken up below, and the second battalion was on the hillside. Under the loud shouts of the Han officers, the new mercenaries fired cautiously to block the enemy's mountain-climbing offensive team. Some of them were mixed with colonial adventurers and The screams of the peasants were followed by an assist from a group of Spaniards.

Artillery, cavalry, Indians, and mercenaries temporarily recruited by the two countries, urged by the Spanish and British officers behind, fought hard to attack. The second battalion quickly retreated due to heavy casualties, and the enemy had already climbed to the middle of the mountain.

The Han officer is a second lieutenant, otherwise he would not be able to suppress those rebellious old mercenaries from various countries. Now the first battalion has been broken up and almost wiped out. It was organized and managed by the newly arrived mercenaries. It is composed of newly reorganized Indian captives and newly recruited recruits from Mexico. They should deal with the Indians almost the same, but there are too many Indians where the Spaniards are.

Thousands of people against three hundred Indian and Mexican recruits, as well as new mercenaries, although stronger than the enemy in terms of weapons and training, still cannot prevent them from using human sea tactics regardless of casualties, and the Spanish and British artillery. attack.

The second battalion seems to be retreating too, and the cavalry are surrounded by them. The third battalion is mostly Han soldiers, supplemented from the first and second Han regiments, and some remaining old mercenaries are also in this battalion. , which is elite.

The supply platoon and the artillery platoon continued to support the second battalion with artillery fire against the enemy's artillery fire.

But these second lieutenants knew that they could only delay the enemy's attack.

They may eventually be overwhelmed by the enemy's crowd tactics, and now there are corpses everywhere under the mountain, the enemy's horses and Indian corpses are everywhere, maybe there are not a few thousand people, and at the foot of the mountain, the corpses of a battalion of 100 people also fell At the foot of the mountain, the corpses of more than [-] soldiers from the Second Battalion on the hillside were also all over the ground. If he hadn't dispatched officers in time to stabilize the situation and slowly guide the soldiers to retreat up the mountain, they might all have fallen down.

But the enemy still has troops all over the mountains and plains, as if they can't use them up.

"Sir, the enemy is attacking from behind the mountain." A Han private first class ran over panting.

As a well-trained defenseman with many combat experiences, he has done a good job of deploying observation and alert sentries in many places.

"How many people?" he asked.

"There are mountains and plains, but the terrain there is rough and difficult to attack," said the first-class soldier.

"Lead your platoon to withstand it, hold it against me, you can't retreat, and take another three-pound gun, you can't bomb him."

The corporal ordered the remaining twenty soldiers in his platoon, and ran over with a three-pounder from the train platoon.

He looked back and wondered where the second regiment had arrived, but he didn't know whether he should count on the second regiment. The second regiment was a new regiment composed of wounded mercenaries returning and new mercenaries who had not fought. There are a large number of Mexicans. I don’t know if they can help when they come. The enemy’s strength is too sufficient. Now it is estimated that the number of Spaniards and British troops who were killed and wounded did not exceed 200. It was the colonial adventurers and farmers they recruited, and the Indians.

Thirty kilometers, it takes a day to run here. This is in the Andes Mountains, the road is not easy to walk, and it is cold.

The British sent regular troops to drive away their Indians, and the second lieutenant felt a little desperate.

But no matter how desperate, you have to fight. A company of the Han Battalion was sent to support the defense of the second battalion's last position on the top of the mountain. The artillery platoon moved to 100 meters in front of him, and the cavalry company was ready to fight back. Joining the rear defense, another company stood ready to support both sides, and he led the SS as the last reserve.

He didn't know that the second regiment of the mercenary regiment was also fighting hard at this time. After receiving the order to retreat, they quickly retreated. As soon as they withdrew fifteen miles away and sent someone to notify the rear, they were dragged back by the enemy's cavalry. The artillery shelled them from an ambush, they had to stop, and then were surrounded by thousands of Indians, followed by the main force of the Spaniards after the division.

Two regiments were surrounded on two fields.

And a group of Han people sent by Luo Zuo is advancing rapidly, at least one day's journey away from them, more than 100 kilometers.

All marched lightly, running forward, advancing more than 40 miles in one day, and still advancing in the middle of the night. At this time, only one company of the mercenary regiment was left fighting with the regular Spanish army. The British had already moved the battlefield. Go to encircle the second regiment.

The second regiment held on for a night and was destroyed.

This time the Han regiment directly lost one and a half battalions of soldiers and officers.

Direct losses of [-] mercenary veterans and [-] mercenary recruits, as well as [-] Indian captives, and hundreds of Mexican native recruits.If you add the loss of the advance team looking for the fourth prince in the early stage, it will be huge. A total of [-] troops, prisoners, and slaves have been lost.

At this time, the Han regiment was still running forward, completely unaware that the two newly formed mercenary regiments had been wiped out.Although the Spaniards and the British paid more than 1000 regular troops, nearly [-] Indians, and [-] colonial adventurers, they won.

Chapter 23, Chapter [-] Replenish the Population

Just when Luo Zuo and the others were facing the possibility of failure, Zhuang Lin was full of complacency. He and Lu Fang looked at the [-] Han people who disembarked from Central Asia, Russia, and Turkey, and the Central Asian population under the account of the Turkish Sultan. There are also slaves sold to them by the Sudan. Half of these slaves are the Han population and bankrupt Russian nobles who were captured by Turkey and recruited by Russia as coolies in the army, or the Eastern European nobles, or the people and tribal barbarians of Eastern Europe.

These totaled 13 people. It took Lu Fang three months to lead the fleet, and it took seven trips back and forth to transport them all back. The main focus was on the Han population.

Although the population of Han people here is quite large, there are also 30 people, distributed in two port-type cities with a radius of two hundred miles from the mouth of the sea, and in the new towns and villages opened along Gatun Lake. The total number of local Mexicans and Indians, as well as white immigrants from North America, as well as nearby Spanish immigrants, is not enough to see.

Panama has a small territory, but it has a large population. There are thousands of Mexicans and Indian tribes who have been continuously attacked and killed by British colonists. Each Indian tribe has at least 100 people, and the largest number is even more. There are more than 4000 people, probably more than 50 people, while there are nearly 300 million Mexicans, 10,000+ Spanish immigrants, and tens of thousands of other European white immigrants. Colombia and Venezuela, Peruvian Indians and South American natives, descendants of Han people, British colonists, Spanish colonists, and mercenary prisoners from various countries have reached a total of 20 people.

Compared with these types of complex and diverse, and widely distributed, the population of the Spanish colonies surrounding them, the population of more than 30 Han Chinese is still too small, although there are still [-] to [-] troops in the army and navy, they can face the huge population The base number, as well as the French, Dutch, Portuguese, and even Prussian, Saxon, Milanese, Romans and other Western businessmen who continue to come here to do business, Han Chinese have become a minority here.

To be honest, if it weren't for the large population, I'm afraid they won't be able to survive once they are killed, and they may run away from the leaky Panama coast. Zhuang Lin, the former second lieutenant of the Chinese Empire, might just wave his hand and learn from the old emperor Zhang Qiang. They expelled hundreds of millions of cannon fodder to be killed by the enemy, and then they finally killed those cannon fodder. They had a lot of prisoners. In addition to digging the channel from Gatun Lake to the mouth of the sea every day, these prisoners helped build roads on both sides of the river, and houses. Except for railways and roads, they really don't have much use.

At the moment, the small number of Han people brought from the Chinese Empire is getting less and less. At first, about 3000 people can come every month or half a year, adding little by little the Han people transferred from the Azov Islands, and the Han soldiers who were exchanged for captives. , mercenaries, Han people, and finally the population has reached 5 from the initial 30, and it is increasing every month. From Xindingzhou and the mainland, there will be 70 to 30 from time to time Han people immigrated, and some Western European foreigners became mercenary families or other merchant families of the people of the New Qin Empire. In fact, the population of the two cities has reached about [-]. The newly occupied places along the way There are hundreds of thousands of civilians, soldiers, and soldiers, close to a million, but the Han population is only [-].

So he sent a report to Li Ya, Prime Minister of the New Qin Empire, and asked him to get some Han population here, and then there was this big immigration. The empire was free from British harassment and other constraints, so it was used calmly. In half a year, about 9 Han Chinese who were expelled from Central Asia and Eastern Europe for various reasons were collected, and there were also 1 Han immigrants transferred from Siberia by the Chinese Empire.

These are all used to fill the gap in the imbalanced population ratio here. After these people come, they will go deep into both sides of Gatun Lake, along Gatun Lake to the opposite bank, the Pacific coast, but most of the Pacific coast is really cliffs, They are all hundreds of meters high cliffs, and there are only narrow beaches and violent ocean monsoons down the path or small passage. It is not suitable for people to live there, and they can only retreat dozens of miles away from the mountains on the Pacific coast. Find a place to live and settle.

The more strategic place is Panama City, where it happens to be a flat, sloping land that reaches the coast with a gentle slope, and the only passageway that can be used to enter and exit the Pacific Ocean is open for tens of miles, and it is surrounded by thousands of nautical miles. There is a cliff coast with a big difference in height and height, and the cost of digging to the sea is much higher if they choose another route, so capturing Panama City has become a top priority, because they have already reached Gatun Lake, which is only [-] miles away from Panama City. The end of the river in the Pacific Ocean, and further forward is Panama City.

But at this time, it is impossible to fight. Maybe it doesn’t matter if you start a war with the colonial army. The colonial armies of the British and the Spaniards fight to death in private, but sometimes they have to join forces to deal with the local natives, Indians, or To deal with the French, the French sometimes unite with the Portuguese, and sometimes they fight to the death with both shots. However, unless one of their own sides is about to fail in their country, they will control them and send reinforcements from the mainland or from other colonies.

But once the decisive battle in the colonies so far away has been decided, it will be the business of some local diplomats. Everyone sits down and talks, and fights while negotiating. After the negotiation is over, they drink and talk about women together. In Europe, brothers and cousins ​​are added. After a fight, the relationship gets closer, and then there is a kiss or something, just like children playing around.

It’s not as good as the New Qin Empire now, but sometimes they still don’t tear themselves apart when it comes to interests. They fight back and forth between the colonies, between the native land and the native land, and between businessmen and businessmen. The problem is the New Qin Empire. No matter how great the interests are, the bottom line cannot be touched. Sometimes Europe will turn its face because of the colonies. That's how the hatred and wars come from.

Panama City is where the Spanish colonial governor's office is located. Once this city is overthrown, the colony will no longer exist, and Spain will still turn its face. Regardless of how big it is now, except for the two sides of Gatun Lake, the new Qin Empire and the Panama colony The Spaniards are still in a state of discord in other places, and they have not violated their other places.

Even though Colombia’s fighting has become a mess, and the casualties are so heavy, it is only a matter of two military depot routes after all. The Luozuo Army has not yet set foot in other areas, and the local Indians are also being suppressed. In fact, the Colombian colony is still theirs. , so it is not the last moment to turn around, but once the city is to be pulled out, then it is to take a colony from the Spaniards. This kind of interest can only be fought between the mainland and the mainland.

The arrival of so many people is also to make up for the disadvantages of insufficient population and insufficient military resources in case of war.

The first thousand 520 chapter four is not enough population

Looking at the one-meter-thick report sent back by Luo Zuo, Zhuang Lin and Lu Fang scratched their heads a little. The civil affairs officer from Xindingzhou was sitting next to them, also looking confused.

Luo Zuo and the others have been chasing and rescuing the fourth prince for more than half a year. That fourth prince is really capable of tossing. After a long time of tossing, the enemy didn't catch him, and the side didn't rescue him. Could it be that he belongs to the rabbit?He knows how to escape, and his escape skills are top-notch.

The Civil Affairs Officer said, "Recently, our expenses are a bit high. 10 people need to be resettled. We have spent a total of 3000 million Huaxia Yuan, materials for building houses, wages for supervisors, and money for buying food such as food, and buying Money for various needed materials, and some money for special expenses for their needs.

In addition, we continue to transfer the slaves captured from Colombia, Venezuela, and even the Andes Mountains, as well as the descendants of Han immigrants inside, as well as the astronomical daily expenditure of supplies and soldiers at the Santiao Military Station. This expenditure has already cost 700 yuan. [-] million Chinese yuan.

Including the expenses of our attack on the local Mexicans and Indians along the shore of Gatun Lake, as well as the British immigrants and Indian tribes in North America, it cost a total of 370 million Huaxia coins.

The daily maintenance and operating expenses of the fleet, the maintenance expenses of the army, the expenses of our officials and management officials, and various expenses have exceeded the amount of money we can earn by about double.

Now our relationship with the Spaniards has begun to deteriorate. Although it has not reached the point of breaking with the enemy, it is clear that the Spaniards have reduced their business dealings with us, and the number of Spanish businessmen who are coming to our side is also decreasing. Taxes and other revenues from the Spaniards have been reduced from 1000 million Chinese yuan to 300 million Chinese yuan this year.

In addition, according to local data, our overall trade with Spain has also been restricted. Our trade with Spain has dropped by 4000%, and our income has dropped from the previous 200 million Chinese yuan to 1000 million Chinese yuan. It is also a fraction, which proves that Spain is hesitating about our relationship or that they have already made up their minds to go to war with us or cut off commercial trade. Maybe the future trade volume will drop to no more than [-] million Chinese yuan per year, which means that in the future we will The strategic materials obtained from Spain will drop by [-]-[-]%, which will seriously affect our defense and commerce.

In addition, due to the large population reduction in the local area, at least 8000% of the population has been transferred from the local area to us and Xindingzhou, Xinbaodao. The local industrial capacity and various capabilities will drop by 9000%. The efforts of these years have only stabilized the income of the local area. On the basis of 7000 million Chinese yuan per year, and our trade with Spain, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the Chinese Empire is a material deficit, that is to say, we still need a large amount of material imports, and the output of things decreases with the population. The profit generated is also decreasing, from 8000 million to 8000 million, and sometimes it can reach [-] million, but the [-] million still needs to subsidize Xindingzhou and us here.

Although there are a lot of jewels and gold, they cannot be used, because there are too few, and once they are used, it will be an ending of only getting out and not getting in.

Generally speaking, our three territories, together with the mainland, are still a type of commercial trading port and an import-only country. Once there is a loss in business, then we will have reduced or almost no income and cannot maintain a large fleets and troops, and the material needs and wealth needs of the population. "

Lu Fang looked at him and asked: "Then we are saying that our relationship with Spain is slipping into war and hostility because of our dispatch of troops to find the fourth prince and our intention to open up a war operation leading to the Pacific coast?"

Without waiting for the Civil Affairs Officer to answer, he added: "This relationship is causing us to lose Spain, which gave us blood."

Zhuang Lin was a little silent. This situation had been expected many years ago, but for the sake of Panama, the sea route back to China that they decided to open up, they decided to fight against Spain. Anyway, the relationship between Eastern Han people and Spain is up and down. It's about the benefits. Without Spain, now the Portuguese are making up for it. Although the Portuguese are convinced by the beating, no one knows whether the Portuguese people who are originally from Spain are helpless sadness or suppressed anger, but in general It is said that the relationship with Portugal is still gradually warming up.

What is important is the commercial trade with Portugal, a country that is still relying on the British and the new Qin Empire. The hundreds of thousands of Huaxia Yuan to the current 1000 million Huaxia Yuan, all kinds of materials that can be obtained from the Portuguese colonies, as well as the products that they can obtain from their own country, are now gradually replacing Spain, but how can I say that the size of Portugal is still small? , so it is less than a quarter of the trade with Spain so far, but it is enough.