Lord of Ming Dynasty

Taking control of the mouth of the Florida Strait, Zhang Siyuan set up card fees here. All passing merchant ships must pay the fee. There are not many merchant ships that come out because they are all Spaniards and British. Many merchant ships enter because they are all from other Western countries. Yes, even Portuguese merchant ships are not intercepted here, just let them pay the fee.

At the same time, they took out the goods here to buy goods with foreign merchants. They are innocent, and they buy goods and materials at the market price at what price they are now. For a while, other countries did not have any dislike for them. Because of this rule, supplies are also provided when docked at the port, and it is also allowed to go ashore to buy supplies, so this place does not become depressed because of the change of owner, but because the New China Kingdom collects a lot of supplies, they ran here very diligently, and soon The best anthracite, coal, charcoal, various strategic materials, and even war horses were brought here.

It is still impossible to occupy Florida with three mercenary brigades. They only occupied the bottom third of the peninsula. Although they also fought most of the island, they quickly retreated, because for now A firm foothold is the top priority of the main fleet of the New China Kingdom. Don’t forget that the British have been operating the North American colonies for decades. They have a lot of foundations, and there are still a large number of Mexicans and Indians. They still cannot offend these people, because the number of Indians is very high, tens of millions of people, Zhang Siyuan is not in a hurry, but ordered the mercenary brigade to drive the Indians here to migrate to the North American continent. Let the British in North America and those Americans settle it.

The end of the war means construction. In addition to repairing the warships, it is to form a new mercenary brigade. Some people are pulled out from the captives. Some captured Mexicans, plus captives, and the Han regiment were stuffed into half a battalion, and soon a mercenary brigade was formed.

They now have four mercenary brigades, one Han brigade and one marine brigade.

When the next immigration comes, recruits will be recruited from the common people, and then Morocco will send out another recruit regiment, another marine brigade battalion, and some wounded sailors to expand a Han Chinese garrison brigade.

Those missing troops can be slowly recruited from foreigners who immigrated from various places. It is estimated that when the fleet returns, five mercenary brigades, two Han Chinese garrison brigades, one Han Chinese brigade, and the marine brigade will be formed. The shortage of troops can also be replenished, and there will be more than 5 troops by then. Even if the British refuse to accept it, they will not be able to take back Florida at once if they send troops from North America to attack.

This time, more than 1 British prisoners were captured. These prisoners educated, and more than 100 people joined the mercenary regiment, filling the vacancy of a company.Dozens more sailors joined the sailors, and the fleet lost a few more sailors.

The suppression was still going on, the Indians resisted, the Mexicans fled, and the British refused to leave, so they had no choice but to become slaves and be chained to let them build Florida.

A total of 8 or [-] captives were captured. With the addition of tens of thousands of captives, the construction of ports and towns was soon completed, roads were widened, horse-drawn carriages were driven out, cultivated land was reclaimed, and factories sprung up like bamboo shoots. The same thing popped up, and warehouses were built up. In the past, the British colonies were sparsely populated, and the leisurely cowboy life in the west was gone, and some were bustling cities with people coming and going.

The construction speed of the British and the construction speed of the Han people in New China are still far behind in terms of scale, results, and wisdom.

The British still have two and a half super fleets in the Caribbean, and a super fleet and a colonial fleet in North America. In addition to the British fleet, the size of their warships has been greatly reduced. According to the latest new state According to statistics, the British have less than 1 ships, of which there are only [-] warships, only [-] auxiliary warships are available, and only about [-] main battleships.

It can be said that the New Qin State is now fully able to compete with the British, but now the New Qin State and the United Kingdom are in a state of truce, and there is still a situation of moving closer to the British.

For this reason, while Zhang Siyuan and the others are waiting for reinforcements from Morocco, while building Miami and this part of the peninsula occupied by Florida, they are planning how to get people from Dingyang Prefecture, where Han Chinese, mercenaries, and foreign people are brought in to strengthen the area. s population.

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New Dingyang Prefecture, as the British and Spaniards took over the canal, the Spaniards took over Colombia and most of the land in the north of Panama, New Dingyang Prefecture became declining, except for the local natives who had no way to escape, and North American immigrants flocked Fleeing to other colonies on the South American continent, the foreign population dropped by 50 people. The troops taken over by the British arrested people everywhere, which made the Mexican natives also migrate to the north bank of the Spaniards, and fled to Colombia on the south bank.

After the rebellion of Colombian mercenaries, the Han people who used to show off their might in various mines were reduced to slaves, and hundreds of thousands of Han Chinese and foreign captives were lost. The return of the Spanish colonists made the Han Chinese the biggest victims. The Han Chinese descendants of the Huaxia Empire in South America also became the targets of massacres. Some well-connected and wealthy Han people, as well as Han people with connections with the New Qin State, fled back to the New Qin State.

Originally, there were only 80 Han Chinese and 30 foreigners in Xinqin. Now, with the influx of Han Chinese and fleeing foreigners from Xinding Yangzhou, the population has increased to 200 million, and Xindingzhou has also increased to 200 million. The remaining 200 million of the more than 160 million Han people in Dingyang Prefecture fled one after another. Not only the Han people fled, but also those loyal mercenaries. The exclusion of the British, the Spaniards have a slightly more relaxed environment, but Colombia is stricter.

In short, the success achieved after 40 years of struggle was sold out by the high-level executives of the New Qin State. The British are very gentlemen and did not make any demands on the mainland of Newfoundland. For this reason, as the new king, the eldest son of the fourth prince Thanks to Wu Kejing, Prime Minister of the New Qin State, and signed an alliance with the British to become a friendly state, Xindingzhou also received some harassment, but it was not big. They only asked them to return about [-] people who invaded the British colony in North America. square kilometers of land.

And Zhao Shuai of the Privy Council ordered Jinlin to retreat to the entrance of the peninsula and not to invade the land of other friendly countries. It took the blood of nearly 30 Han Chinese and 50 mercenaries to defend the land for 20 years. Words are lost.

Jin Lin has no choice. He can't disobey the orders of the royal family and the cabinet of the new Qin state. He can only order the withdrawal of troops, destroy the fortifications, blockhouses, blow up the towns, and step on the farmland. Corps, so the land in Xindingzhou became tense. Many mercenaries were unemployed, and many Han soldiers were also unemployed. The only ones who were not unemployed were Han sailors and mercenary sailors.

Nowadays, the citizens of the new Qin Dynasty are not living well, they are very impetuous, and the foreign people are also disobedient. More and more public security problems make the Han people terrified. Some of them rode horses into the North American colonies, thinking that they could find new students there, while some fled to the mainland, and some fled to the Azores. Overnight, three or four of the Han people in Xindingzhou went to Han people. 80 fell to 60, but the Han Chinese who escaped from Xinding Yangzhou made the Han Chinese expand wildly to 120 million, but it was even more chaotic.

In order to calm down the chaos, Jin Lin ordered the formation of two mercenary brigades, two Han brigades, and recruited [-] young and middle-aged foreigners with excess energy among the Han people, and conducted military training for them. The barracks made about [-]% of the Han people and [-]% of the foreign people settle down. In addition to the relatively stable people before, about [-]% of the people settled down. With the stability of these people, the security of Xindingzhou is not as good as before. It's so chaotic, but the prospects are still not good. In order to prevent the chaos from threatening the development of Xindingzhou, Jin Lin ordered a curfew and was not allowed to leave the house for no reason.

In addition, the frontline mercenary regiments and Han Chinese regiments were transferred back to stabilize the situation, and the unstable mercenary regiments and foreign people were moved to the border area with the British, and the Han people were evacuated to the coastline, where the towns were safer. In such a turmoil, the common people can flee by boat, and the foreigners will lose their strength in the cannibalism. This is Jin Lin's hope, but the higher-ups don't seem happy to see this place stable, and sent a new mercenary commander to give him everything. Adding trouble caused friction and conflict between mercenaries and Han soldiers.

In short, the New Qin Kingdom is now scattered, while the New Huaxia Kingdom is in order, shining like the rising sun.

After occupying Miami, the British could not go out of the strait, and could only wander around the Caribbean Sea. They did not dare to come out to attack the fleet of the New China Kingdom.

Soon the reinforcements from Morocco arrived. Forty transport ships brought over 2 Han Chinese from Colombia and Xindingyang Prefecture, [-] Han Chinese from Morocco, and [-] mercenary families. The Chinese Empire and the Qing Dynasty brought [-] Han Chinese. These are the newly arrived Han Chinese in the past few months. There are also [-] Han Chinese who fled to the New Chinese Kingdom from the mainland of the New Qin State and Xindingzhou. [-] Han Chinese and [-] foreign nationals were recruited. At the same time, there were [-] newly trained Han recruits and [-] mercenary recruits. With the arrival of these troops, the strength of the new Huaxia Kingdom here has increased to [-] troops.

With the arrival of 8 Han Chinese and 4 foreign nationals, the number of Han Chinese here has reached 12, and the number of foreign nationals has reached 15. A total of [-] people from the New China Kingdom have arrived. In the case of immigrants and captives, with these people and the North American immigrants who took refuge here, there are a total of [-] people here, which is not bad for the territory it is currently occupying.

At the same time, in addition to forty transport ships, there are also forty destroyers, twenty destroyers, eighteen repaired new main battleships, and six newly launched main battleships. Now the strength of the fleet here is the same as that of the local fleet. Yes, as long as all the new warships are launched in the mainland, there will be 26 main battleships, more than 50 frigates, and more than 80 destroyers, which is not bad.

With the arrival of these warships, the strength of the sailors here has reached 1000. After the Marine Brigade has been supplemented by new arrivals, the original dismantled troops have been fully replenished, and there is an additional Marine Corps. The brigade, the entire fleet has a strength of [-] people.

With so many troops, it can be regarded as a firm foothold here.

News of the new Qin State kept coming. While Zhang Siyuan felt sorry for the new Qin State, he also had plans to take the New Qin State into his pocket, but where would he start?

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After the foundation was stabilized, Zhang Siyuan thought that after all, he was close to the Dutch colony. The Han people would never take the initiative to devote themselves fully to fighting the enemy, and would always share the risk. The new Qin State did a good job before, and they could not be beaten to death. The French, relying on France, they have persisted here for 40 years. At the same time, they are invisible allies with the Dutch. Although the Dutch look down on them, they have to cooperate with the new Qin State in order to fight against the British. After all, cooperation has many benefits , For example, you can buy warships of the new Qin State.

Compared with the French, the Dutch did not obtain the technology of building steam engine warships from the Chinese Empire, nor did they develop and research the technology of steam engine warships. Later, they bought technology from the Spaniards and warships from the New Qin State. After so many years After researching, they can also manufacture steam engines and boilers, and they can also build steam engine warships, but what they built will never be comparable to the British, and even worse than the French. After all, they are a merchant country, not France. With a strong background in science and technology, it is not easy to digest the technology of the new Qin State and the technology of the British at the same time. Although they lack creativity and often take detours, they are not as realistic as the British to improve the combat effectiveness of warships.

The warships they built were grotesque and artistic, but they were not conducive to killing the enemy. The merchants made by the Dutch were full of merchants, with small hull decks and big bellies, in order to reduce taxes levied by the state and deck taxes levied by ports in other countries. Therefore, the belly is big and buoyant, but the speed is slow, the defense is insufficient, and the firepower is insufficient, but it is absolutely safe to ride and loads a lot of cargo, just like those big-bellied sailing warships they made.

Over the years, the Dutch bought 3000 warships from the Spaniards, from the New Qin State, from the British, and from the French Empire, and built 3000 warships by themselves. There are also more than [-] sailing warships. Not bad, but they clashed with the French, the Spaniards, and the British, and lost more than [-] warships, most of which were sail warships, but most of them were steam engine warships, all of which were sunk by the British colonial fleet. Or the Spanish colonial fleet sank, and the French won and lost, because there is not much difference in combat effectiveness between the two, and the French also clashed with the British. Most of the two are in a state of cooperation, so the battle damage is not great.

Now the two are working together to fight against the British and the Spaniards, and the losses are not small. The French lost more than 300 warships, and almost all the warships that were not main battleships were lost. The French have not yet calmed down. Returned to the port, stayed in the port and was unwilling to come out. The Gulf of Mexico was almost dominated by the British. The French also lost many colonies in the Gulf of Mexico. The Dutch also lost more than 500 warships. The warships were completely lost, and they also lost [-]% of the warships they built themselves. They had to use the warships from the Chinese Empire purchased from the New Qin State to continue to fight against the British, but they were still useless. Finally, they bought them from the New Qin State. Some four-type battleships were used as the main battleships, and the rest of the newly built and upgraded warships from China were launched to withstand the British attack.

In fact, they also knew that the British did not transfer so many warships because of them. There were a total of 300 warships, plus the original sailing warships and merchant ships, as well as the old steam engine warships. More than [-] warships, fighting against them for so many years, the British only lost [-] sailing warships. The losses of the old steam engine warships and the main fleet were all in the new Dingyang and Xinyang states of the new Qin state. Dingzhou was lost in the naval battle, and at least a thousand ships were lost, which made the British afraid.

After the Spaniards lost more than 1000 old sailing warships and steam engine warships here, they transferred almost the same warships as the British warships, but a few days ago, they transferred all these two hundred warships away They sent 160 warships back to the mainland. It is said that they were defeated by the new Chinese kingdom in front of them, the newly rising Han kingdom, and there are not many warships in the mainland.

Now several Western colonial countries are exhausted from fighting in the Caribbean Sea. The British, who were originally strong and confident, are also fighting hard because of the hammer of the New China Kingdom, and they dare not win anymore. The Caribbean is starting to slump.

Due to the continuous war, merchants from all over the world stopped coming here. Only British merchants came here, bringing goods and supplies to supplement here, and at the same time transporting the raw materials of the colonies back to England to supplement British supplies. The British depended on colonies all over the world. Replenish the island’s supplies, especially India, but India is too far away to keep up, and it takes a long time to travel on land and sea. Even if the speed of the ship is now as fast as the average speed of [-] knots, it takes a trip to get down. It takes three or four months to transport it here, and it will take three or four months to go back. Now the Suez Canal has not been opened, but Panama has opened, but it is far away. month time.

But in short, there will be an extra road wherever they occupy, so they forced the new Qin State to hand over the canal. They and the Spanish family occupied one side, which is almost equivalent to the new Qin State spending ten years opening up a commercial channel for them. is happy.

The Dutch were struggling, and they lost a lot of warships. If the British were not defeated by the New China Kingdom during this period, they might not be able to cope with the combination of the British and the Spaniards.

The French are separated from them on two sides, one is in the Atlantic Ocean and the other is in the Gulf of Mexico. The other fleet of the French is still in the Pacific Ocean. When the canal was there, they can still support it through the canal, but they have to pay some tolls to Xinqin China, now that the Spaniards and the British control the canal, the new Qin State does not give a shit, and it has begun to decline. The Dutch are suffering, and at the same time they are disappointed with the New Qin State.

Now that there is such a powerful Huaxia Kingdom, they feel that they should communicate with the Huaxia Kingdom and at least buy some warships, otherwise they will not be able to defeat the British. As for the Spaniards, they will not come back because their fleet is transferred back to the mainland up.

Under such circumstances, the two wanted to cooperate, so a month later, the two sat together, and after discussing, the two closed the straits and patrolled the Atlantic Ocean, and no longer let the merchant ships of the British and Spaniards go. And warships, in order to cooperate, Zhang Siyuan gave [-] first-generation auxiliary warships captured by the British, and sold [-] captured steam engine warships and [-] merchant ships to the Dutch at the same time, and sold them [-] frigates at the same time. After capturing the main battleship of the British, the Dutch became stiff for a while, and they were also very happy. They formally concluded an alliance with the New China Kingdom. This was the first time a Westerner formally concluded an alliance with the Han Kingdom.

Chapter 7 The Dilemma of the British

With the signing of the alliance treaty with the Dutch, Florida became more and more stable. Although the British colonies sent large troops into the peninsula, their tactics of lining up and the tactics of constant harassment by rangers were ineffective in the New China Kingdom, which had strong fortifications. In front of it, it is simply a joke, barbed wire, wooden stakes, trenches, plus the Indian warriors recruited by patrols with a keen sense of smell, plus the full coverage of artillery positions, plus the front line is full of mercenaries, the officers are Han Chinese, and there are supervisors No matter how many Han Chinese groups die in front, the New China Kingdom will not frown. The British are very helpless about this, and they are consuming their own people, because the forward positions are all tied up with ropes, and a person on the opposite side must be killed. The enemy can retreat, otherwise until the death of the battle.

In this way, the British actually consumed their own people, and even the mercenaries were only slightly injured. Those who hid in the fortifications and trenches were actually their former colonial and indigenous troops, Indians, and North American immigrants from various countries, and mercenary groups. The soldiers are the supervising team, the patrol team, and the Han Chinese regiment is the overall supervising team, which implements the overall strategic policy above.

This is the same as during the War of Resistance Against Japan in later generations. In fact, the Japanese were the overall supervisor of the battle team. A small team led a regiment of puppet troops. The loss and destruction caused by China is much stronger than that of the Japanese. The total Japanese military force in China for eight years was only 120 million people. After several wars, there were only more than 70 casualties, while the Chinese died 500. [-] million people, this is the benefit of driving away wolves and tigers.

There are only 15 Han Chinese in total, more than 6 Han troops, and more than 8 mercenary troops, but there are hundreds of thousands of captives. There are also 10,000+ captives who can be driven away if you choose them, and let them fight. After losing thousands of people, there was no way to open up the situation, and they had to retreat, leaving most of the troops to build fortifications. The two sides fell into a stalemate like the New China Kingdom and the Spaniards.

This stalemate is exactly what Zhang Siyuan needs. He needs a period of stability to build a base area and wait for reinforcements. After the reinforcements arrive, the defense will be strengthened, and construction will be launched in various places. In a short period of time, the territory they occupy in Florida will be firm. rock.

The alliance with the Dutch made the base here have commercial income and a lot of toll income, and a lot of supplies arrived. Although a lot of money was spent to capture the enemy's warships, the fleet's destroyers and coast guards, as well as The transport team was reduced by a large number of warships and transport ships, but it also greatly increased the strength of the allies. The greatly increased Dutch immediately turned around and attacked the Spanish colonies. The fleet had to fight against the Dutch, and at the same time, part of the fleet had to be separated to maintain the ports in the Gulf of Mexico. The six hundred warships were divided into two parts, one part was in the Gulf of Mexico, the other part was in the Cuban Sea, or in the Spanish colonies.

Following Luo Zuo's contact with the Colombian Han people and the Panama Canal Fleet, a Han Chinese fleet of [-] auxiliary warships circumnavigated the Cape of South America, returned to the New China Kingdom from the Pacific Ocean, and fell into the embrace of the New China Kingdom. There are also [-] Mexican mercenaries, [-] Mexican foreign citizens, [-] Han Chinese, and [-] family members of Han Chinese people. The New China Kingdom immediately sent [-] Mexican mercenaries and half of the [-] auxiliary warships to Mexico. Come here in the Gulf of Mexico, the fleet in the Gulf of Mexico has been formed.

With 24 destroyers, [-] frigates, [-] steam engine battleships from the coast guard, and [-] captured merchant ships from the transport fleet, the Kingdom of New China is strengthening its base in the Caribbean little by little.

Because they jointly controlled the mouth of the strait and the nearby waters, and now they have established a relatively powerful fleet in the Gulf of Mexico port. The British Gulf of Mexico fleet was defeated again, so they withdrew their warships here, leaving only a dozen or so ships hiding. The warships and some transport ships in the port, as well as some merchant ships that can do business nearby, the British power in the Gulf of Mexico has shrunk extremely, retreating to the middle of the Cuban Sea and the Caribbean Sea.

The Dutch captured the West Indies occupied by the British and a series of British colonies around Nassau. A naval battle broke out between the two sides with hundreds of warships. In the end, the Dutch lost more than 100 warships, 89 sailors, and [-] soldiers. The British colonial army completely ended the British rule of this string of islands in the Atlantic Ocean. The British lost [-] main warships, [-] auxiliary warships, [-] immigrants, and [-] colonial troops, and retreated to the Caribbean Sea.

The French also transferred warships and regular troops from the mainland to attack along Central America. Not only did they take down more Caribbean ports in Central America, but they also captured all the British and Spanish colonies in Central America. Take it, and drive the British forces out of the Gulf of Mexico. The British lost eleven main battleships, thirty auxiliary warships, and hundreds of merchant ships. Now they leave Florida in the Gulf of Mexico. There are several auxiliary warships and thousands of colonial troops in it, but there are [-] to [-] British colonial troops and regular troops on the center line of the peninsula in front. The French dare not attack and can only let it go.