Lord of Ming Dynasty

"Are you ready?"

"This time we fought the British's fifteen six-pound guns and three twelve-pound guns. We tried to end the battle with one round, two rounds of supplementary fire, and the end was over in 6 minutes. Thirteen six-pounders, twelve twelve-pounders, eight eighteen-pounders fired."

"Sergeant, why don't you shoot the Spaniards first, they have a lot of guns."

"Private first class, don't ask why, just execute the order and give the order to fire." The sergeant looked at him with cold eyes, holding a telescope in his hand, and said coldly.

"Fire the guns," the corporal shouted to a group of soldiers operating the artillery.

The lowest rank here is third-class soldier, who can only carry the shells in the back sweating profusely. Second-class soldiers and first-class soldiers are the main force to operate the cannon. These are selected elite artillery with good skills.

As for the other officers, corporals, sergeants, and sergeants, they are commanding other artillery over there, just like the enemy, to suppress the opponent's infantry attack with firepower.

As the battalion commander of the artillery battalion, the sergeant personally led the selected elite artillery to carry out this strike mission.

There are 400 British artillerymen who are suppressing the first regiment and first battalion of the Han Chinese Regiment of the New Qin Empire on the hillside, plus a company of colonial troops, a platoon of regular troops, and wandering around. The dozen or so cavalry protecting the artillery had no idea that they had been locked in.

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The violent explosion of the "boom boom boom" exploded sparks on the British artillery positions. The artillery of the New Qin Army hidden 900 meters away kept projecting shells onto the opponent's positions, and constantly corrected the trajectory. Extending to the surroundings of the enemy's artillery positions, those British colonial troops who wanted to rush in became cannon fodder and fell on the hillside.

It took only 4 and a half minutes to shoot about 500 kilograms of shells, which turned the British artillery into ashes, about 2 artillery pieces and nearly 500 artillery pieces became scrap iron, and then took [-] minutes to cool down and adjust the angle, etc. The British sent the news to the Spaniards. The Spaniards had just reacted and hadn't adjusted their artillery. But half a minute later, the artillery of the New Qin Army, which was [-] meters away from the Spaniards' artillery position, opened fire again.

From far to near, the 1000-pound artillery destroyed the enemy's shell storage area, and the shells and some ammunition pulled by dozens of carriages killed nearly a thousand wounded colonial soldiers and more than [-] Spanish merchants and colonial logistics personnel, as well as The busy Indian captives and captives of the New Qin Army, as well as a company of Spanish regular army guards, were reduced to ashes in the explosion of shells.

The continuous firing of eight 750-pound guns caused the Spanish artillery to withdraw only three cannons in a hurry, and the others were smashed into scrap iron by [-] kilograms of shells, and some of them died with them. [-] artillerymen of the Spanish regular army, [-] soldiers of the auxiliary and protection of the colonial army, and about [-] Indian tribal fighters.

The Spaniards have not yet reacted. The last strength of the Han regiment that has been waiting for a long time, the second regiment that was disabled yesterday was reorganized into a battalion. This is the remaining strength of the reorganization of the three battalions. The cavalry battalion, a part of the wounded and reorganized troops, a total of 750 people are on the main defensive position, fighting against the enemy's 300 colonial troops and 450 regular troops.

In addition, the first battalion of the Han regiment, plus the cavalry of the guard battalion, totaled 800 people. The second battalion of the first regiment of the Han regiment was defending the lake position. They faced the Spanish colonial army of 500 and the Spanish regular army of 300. The third battalion was in the ridge position, plus some wounded, a total of 400 people.

600 people, this is all the land forces that can be assaulted in Luo Zuo's hands now, and it is useless to hide them all the time.

The 300 troops slowly moved towards the front main position, and immediately approached within [-] meters.

After the devastating blow to the enemy artillery positions over there, the artillery quickly transferred the artillery fire to more than 2000 Spanish colonial troops in front of the main position. From the explosion points that exploded continuously, it can be seen that the enemy colonial troops are already in chaos. After getting up, the crazy super-retreat took a total of not more than 10 minutes, but it was the turning point of this hard battle.

The frantically fleeing colonial army caused chaos on the two wings of the Spanish colonial army and the British colonial army. They also joined the ranks of fleeing. The soldiers of the remaining three battalions of the Han regiment on the three positions jumped out of the position to pursue, and this side also accelerated their pace. , the gradually dispersed queue rushed to the position in less than 5 minutes, and while eliminating the remaining enemies, they followed the chasing battalion of soldiers in front and advanced slowly.

Because the enemy's regular army has not been used yet, that is nearly 4000 troops. Don't think that the enemy will definitely launch a counterattack in order not to collapse.

But the artillery on this side also started to extend their shooting. For the [-]-pound gun, it is not difficult to shoot three miles or even four miles away. The enemy starts to attack from three miles away, which is equivalent to five miles away from the artillery position. Yes, ten [-]-pound cannons chased the fleeing colonial army for an extended attack, and three [-]-pound cannons launched an attack on the enemy's regular army. It may not be of much use, but it can be fired into the enemy's line or scare the enemy around. OK

The Spaniards were indeed stunned. Thousands of regular troops scattered around the Sanlidi camp, gathered in a hurry, and suppressed the fleeing colonial army. They were so busy that they were not only confused but also made mistakes. Their colonial army changed direction and fled. Shocked the regular army that the British were lining up. In order not to disperse these fleeing colonial troops, they fired in a hurry. At least 100 Spanish fleeing colonial troops were killed. The cavalry of both sides fought between the two armies. A battle resulted in the loss of at least 25 cavalry on both sides.

But then they were dispersed by the artillery of the New Qin Army, which was transferred to the main position, and the fierce artillery fire rang out again only 10 minutes later. At this time, the two sides had just gathered up the fleeing colonial army and counterattacked the three dissatisfied Han people who were chasing after them. The counterattack of the troops stationed in the first and second regiments of the regiment did not achieve much results. Only more than 100 soldiers of the Han regiment were killed and injured, forcing them to stop their assault and retreat. He joined his own army and turned around. Enter the rear 200 meters for reorganization.

However, in the second wave of attack, Luo Zuo led a regiment of strengthened Han Chinese battalions, guard battalions, and cavalry companies. The Spanish regular army could not resist the impact. Their colonial army was still in the process of collapsing and gathering. After one impact, there were more than 3000 people. The regular army was dispersed, and the British regular army came to help but was defeated by the guard battalion led by Luo Zuo himself. In the entire valley and plain, the Spanish regular army, the British regular army, and the two colonial troops were all fleeing.

The reorganized three battalions of 1000 Han Chinese regiments began to capture prisoners in the rear while dispersing the resistance troops assembled by the enemy's junior officers.

At this time, the artillery also dispatched protection teams to gather and strike the enemy along the front lines on both sides, and chased the enemy.

This battle ended with the defeat of the enemy and the uninterrupted pursuit of the new Qin army for two days and two nights.

After two days and two nights of pursuit, facing four times as many troops as his own, and there were still many stragglers and rogue colonial troops, Luo Zuo had to stop thirty miles away from the place where the first and second mercenary regiments were destroyed. The footsteps of pursuit.

It began to gather troops and prisoners, and finally it took three days to gather all the troops. The captured prisoners were 7000 people, including about [-] enemy wounded, and [-] Spanish and Chinese soldiers who put down their weapons and surrendered. Regular soldiers and officers of the British, colonial army.

And their remaining Indians and Mexicans, other mercenaries, other South American natives, about 4000 people.

And there were only [-] people left in his army who could still run, and the others were all wounded. Just collecting and searching for his own wounded and missing people made him stay here for seven days. Fortunately, Later, [-] reinforcements from New Qin and Xinding Yangzhou arrived to guard these captives so that the last time there were more than ten times more captives than their own, they were afraid and afraid of the enemy's rebellion.

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Only one day, the troops drawn from various military depots, as well as soldiers from two companies of the Han battalion fifty miles away, soldiers from a cavalry platoon, and a reorganized team of the three arrived. The team has recovered to more than 800 people, close to 5000 troops.

As for the remaining British and Spaniards who escaped, there were not many of them. The two Guards Battalion Guards Cavalry Companies had been chasing them for eight days. They might not be able to destroy the enemy, but it was still possible to bite them.

A Han Chinese battalion was left, plus a battalion of the wounded was responsible for guarding the captives here, building a captive camp and building a large assembly point, and leaving all the mercenaries here to reorganize into a mercenary regiment to help protect the wounded and build captives Battalion, he took the first Han regiment, the second regiment, the artillery battalion, a company of the cavalry battalion, and the personal guard company, which were refilled with lightly wounded and newly arrived Han Chinese from various military stations. He embarked on the pursuit of the enemy the way.

According to the report of the chasing cavalry, the enemy's total strength was only 1000 people, and all supplies, supplies, and prisoners were lost. The regular army of the colonial army was like a stray dog.

As Luo Zuo and the others accelerated their pursuit, the enemy fled faster, and fled all the way to the coast of Peru. It wasn't that they didn't want to run to other places, but because in order to fight this battle, the Spaniards took Panama, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, etc. The colonial army in other places has been exhausted, and even the colonial militia and all available manpower Indians have been exhausted. All they can rely on is the 6000 regular troops of the two countries that are landing on the coast of Peru.

Now they are approaching at a speed of [-] kilometers per day, and ten miles behind them are two companies of personal guard cavalry who are closely chasing, and fifty miles behind them are the Han Chinese regiments who are chasing up. Zuo led the Second Regiment, the Artillery Battalion, the Cavalry Company, and the newly arrived Han Chinese Regiment Third Regiment, the First Battalion, and the First Battalion carried as many as sixteen eighteen-pound artillery pieces and about thirty tons of shells and bullets.

Now there is only one regiment left in the mercenary regiment, and it is not full. It is working with the remaining two battalions of the Han regiment and the mercenaries who arrived to build and expand the prisoner camp and large assembly point, and build more military depots along the road behind.

Behind, the 5000 new Dingyangzhou troops who just disembarked are passing through the [-]-mile long military depot line close to the Portuguese colony, and they are constantly catching up at a speed of [-] miles per day. They are carrying more supplies and Ammunition, as well as nearly [-] mining personnel and mechanical equipment, the exploration team of about [-] people who are constantly being sent out is exploring minerals in Colombia.

It may take a long time for a large army of more than 1 people and [-] captives and slaves to catch up, but Luo Zuo's pursuit is non-stop. A crippled Han Chinese regiment, plus a crippled direct subordinate regiment, plus the newly added After fifteen days, a battalion of the Chinese regiment overtook the enemy, and after a not very tragic battle, wiped out all the remnants of the British regular army and colonial troops who had fallen behind, and captured the enemy's colonel commander. Send a company of soldiers to escort the prisoners back and continue the pursuit.

They have penetrated far into Peru. After killing and dispersing hundreds of enemy stragglers one after another, when they were 150 miles away from the command staff who were fleeing from the Spaniards, they received a cavalry company sent back by the enemy from the sea. The news that the 150 reinforcements were only [-] miles away to join the enemy stopped him, and the other news was that the fourth prince and the others finally stopped, and they were going deep into a coastline [-] kilometers away from Peru and another country. In the small village, the cavalry sent by He Haole finally got in touch with the company that was chasing behind, and the cavalry of that company also got in touch with the cavalry company in front.

After hesitating for less than a meal, Luo Zuo ordered less than two regiments to turn to protect the fourth prince and their return, while leaving intercepting and garrison troops, observation posts, and wandering cavalry nearby.

The troops increased their speed, sixty miles a day, and then went deep into the plains and hilly areas at the foot of the mountain, eighty miles a day, and gradually increased the speed until one hundred miles a day, running for more than 300 miles before stopping to rest One day, at the same time, they sent people to search the surrounding area, looking for the fourth prince and the others.

The uninterrupted running for days made their troops out of touch with the front and back. The fourth prince and He Haole's liaison cavalry and messengers could not be seen in the front, and the chasing cavalry could not be seen in the back. Just chase in the direction. The terrain of Peru is long and narrow. As long as the fourth prince and the others are in Peru, they won’t chase people down. Besides, they will stop if they don’t attack for a certain distance, and send people to search and visit the locals and indigenous people. Here The aborigines had no hatred for the new Qin Empire. In order to pursue the enemy and find the fourth prince and the others as soon as possible, Luo Zuo didn't let anyone look at them like they were captives or slaves.

The tribes here are very simple and simple, although they are instinctively wary of outsiders, but after taking out the white paper, dyed cloth, strong hemp rope, and beautiful blue Huaxia coins of the New Qin Empire, or giving them a few Captured the matchlock guns in the hands of the Spanish colonial army, and then gave their leaders a firearm, and their leaders would treat them as honored guests.

It was the first time they felt the enthusiasm of the local tribes in South America, but this had nothing to do with their mission. After getting the whereabouts of the fourth prince and the others, they immediately continued to move forward without stopping.

Seven days later, they finally joined the four princes.

At this time, the fourth prince has changed from a handsome boy to a 50-year-old middle-aged man. It can be seen how much hardship he has experienced in the past ten years of his escape career from a proud and wealthy prince to a master of guerrilla warfare. sharp.

The fourth prince only had a few old guards close to him, more than a dozen recovered personal guards, and his former followers who kept gathering, but there were not many of them, a total of only a hundred people, There are dozens of followers they developed in South America and their families, as well as more than 100 family members he brought. The rest are the advance team soldiers and officers who came to find and protect him twice, and He Haole brought The cavalry and the remaining troops of the cavalry company of the mercenary regiment that gathered at the end totaled about [-] people.

When Luo Zuo led the army to arrive, they were preparing to transfer again. They all looked very leisurely. Maybe they were used to such days of constant transfer. One by one, they got on their horses as if they were taking a leisurely walk, and then pulled the pack horses and supported them with one hand. Saddle nap.

After resting in place for two days, Luo Zuo took the fourth prince and their team to Colombia.

At this time, the soldiers of the cavalry company who were communicating back and forth were rushing towards their garrison, but unfortunately they staggered. Luo Zuo and the others had already turned to another road and ran towards the inland of Peru.

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Three days later, the Luo Zuo Corps and the Fourth Prince's 800-man team, which had deviated from the original road and returned, had left the original place for nearly [-] miles.

This is what the fourth prince requested, speed, reconnaissance, familiarity with the local area, and mobilizing troops to intersperse quickly. Therefore, under the command of the fourth prince, Luo Zuo was a little cold sweating and helpless, but he had to listen to him, because he was the prince of the Huaxia Empire. , as a former member of the Chinese Empire, he still respected the prince very much, but the fourth prince was not polite at all, and immediately took over his command, commanding the troops to fly three hundred miles in the Peruvian plains, and then dived into the Andes Mountains, circled Run towards their big assembly point on the road.

After resting for half a day, and flying another fifty miles, the troops, especially the artillerymen, were almost worn down. The fourth prince ordered to go into the dense forest in the mountain to rest. Everyone was so tired that they fell asleep without even wanting to eat.

There are only some guard cavalry scouting and guarding around.

In the evening, they moved the camp three times, moved forward [-] miles obliquely, then slept until noon, got up again and began to climb the mountain road. After five consecutive days of rugged mountain roads, they came to the valley where the decisive battle with the Spaniards had been. Fifty miles away, the mountain pass that once wanted to stop the enemy, the fortifications and camps that were built by the Han Chinese regiment at the beginning of that mountain pass have not been dismantled, and now belong to the garrison of a military depot.