I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

Liu Mingchuan and several outstanding Huai troops were honored with the "Emblem of China Defenders".

Liu Mingchuan was also received cordially by Emperor Xunzong of the Ming Dynasty, and was embraced by Emperor Xunzong.

The whole interview process lasted for 10 minutes and [-] seconds.

What specific discussions between their rulers and ministers have not been seen in any newspapers or magazines.

All I know is that after that, all Huai Army soldiers who participated in the Western Expedition automatically obtained permanent Daming Zhuka. When they retire, they can choose to live in Daming at any time. Emperor Zhu will pay them retirement wages and enjoy basic medical insurance .

This situation is not well defined.

In essence, they are still from the Southern Tang Dynasty, but at the same time they also have the citizenship rights of the Ming Dynasty.

The term dual citizenship is certainly not appropriate.

Because the Ming Dynasty did not recognize dual nationality, and the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the Southern Tang Dynasty was also a relationship between monarchs and ministers, not a purely parallel relationship, but closer to a relationship of inclusion.

In the words of Su Xunzong, this is called the theory of limited sovereignty, and it is a kind of patriarchal Chinese chauvinism.

But it may not be unwelcome.

In addition, the collective award of Zhuka did not shy away from Li. Zhu Fugui greeted him, and Liu Mingchuan also took the initiative to report after returning to Suzhou.

According to the general script, for this blatant behavior of mixing sand, Liu Mingchuan's best end would be to die from being shot in the back on the battlefield.

But it is obvious that now Daming is taking the script of Lighthouse and Su Xiong.

The American father wants to install a few people in the Tokyo District Attorney's Office, or in other words, the entire Tokyo District Attorney's Office is staffed by the American father. Does the Japanese Prime Minister dare to disagree?

Similarly, Su Xunzong wanted to arrange a few young men who were more pleasing to the eye and more pleasant to kiss to be the department heads of the satellite countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Would those small countries dare to resist?

The answer is obvious.

Lord Li also chose to pretend nothing happened.

Not only that, but in terms of material allocation and staff replenishment, the Mingzi Battalion was given the treatment second only to their own standard battalion.

Among the more than 30 battalions in the Southern Tang Dynasty, Mingzi Battalion is the only one equipped with bulletproof vests and iron pagodas, and it has the largest number of people.

As the so-called raising soldiers for a thousand days and using them for a short time, at this moment, facing the extremely ferocious British and barbarian ambush soldiers who are waiting for work at leisure, it is only natural that Mingziying should take on the important task of frontal blocking.

And Liu Mingchuan also knows very well that the terrain of the port area is narrow and the artillery of the enemy ships is sharp. If a large group of men and horses gather in one place, it will only increase the casualties.

What's more, Liu Mingchuan has also seen the demeanor of a world-class strong army after getting along with Zhao Xizhu and other Ming instructors day and night.

Soldiers are expensive, not expensive.

Those ordinary Huai army, it's all right to fight with the wind, if they are mentally broken in the face of the strong ships and guns of the foreigners, and roll up the bead curtain, it will destroy the entire arrangement of the Southern Tang army.

It's better to take the elite division as the vanguard and fight to the death with the foreigners!

Soon, all three hundred warriors who had obtained the Great Ming Zhuka were listed.

Liu Mingchuan's face is full of pockmarks, and he doesn't need makeup to play the melon stall owner, but at this moment, his face is full of flesh, but it makes people feel a kind of iron-like determination.

"Everyone, we are all good men who drank the blood of Hulu in Yili. We are warriors certified by the emperor. If there are too many words, this general will not say more. If we win, we will be famous in history. If we lose, we will die." There is no place to bury, the soul is broken and wild!

Gentlemen, follow this general to kill the enemy! "

"kill!"

There was no alcohol, but the brief pre-war mobilization had its effect.

Three hundred vanguards wearing the same bulletproof vests and helmets as the Great Tomorrow Soldiers, holding Dewu two-year-made rifles, and carrying a dozen hand grenades headed for the key nodes of the dock.

At the same time, bad news came from the direction of the fort.

Originally, Li Shaoquan sent several troops to take over the fort and use it to deal with British warships.

It turned out that these British and barbarian weapons could not be used at all.

It's not that there is anything wrong with the craftsmanship of the cannon itself.

Cape Town has five forts, each with eight to twelve Armstrong 110-pounder coastal defense guns.

This cannon was finalized in 1859, with a real caliber of 177.8 mm, firing 50 kg shells, and an effective range of about 3000 meters.

In today's European or North American battlefields, such data are somewhat insufficient.

But in Africa, these coastal defense guns are enough to deter all pirates.

It is precisely because it is enough to deter pirates, so...

What made Li almost suffer from cerebral palsy was that these foreigners are too greedy.

Only the top layer of the ammunition boxes of these cannons has ammunition, and the bottom piles are all empty boxes.

Moreover, the copper castings of many cannons have been removed!

At first Li thought it was Yang Yi doing this on purpose. After all, they were trying to lure the enemy, not capitalize on the enemy.

However, after field surveys by some generals of the Huai Army, they all insisted that this was greed for money.

Those dust, those traces can't be faked.

They are very familiar with these things!

As a result, Yingyi's cannons could not be counted on.

The Southern Tang army could only forcefully lift the dozen or so Ming-made cannons they brought up the mountain with manpower.

This will undoubtedly be a huge waste of time.

Fortunately, during this period of time, those Yingyi fleets did not fire, but circled wildly in the port.

Liu Mingchuan, who was ambushing in the temporary trench, felt very strange that he could not wait for the British shelling.

But he didn't dare to poke his head out.

Because the place where they ambush is already very close to the best landing place in the port.

It is easy to expose the target easily by probing, and it is destructively bombarded by the British ships.

Because they were afraid that the British would use naval guns to plow the land before landing, so the limited number of tanks in Nantang were placed far away.

In this way, human flesh must withstand the first wave of the British landing offensive.

Therefore, the task of the three hundred warriors was to wipe out the first batch of British and barbarians who landed, and not let them stand firm on the beach, so that the other battalions and armored troops could encircle in time and hit the British army halfway through.

Chapter 740

boom!

Finally, the sound of shelling sounded.

This made Liu Mingchuan heave a sigh of relief.

The sound of shelling was far away, indicating that the British did not discover their ambush troops, but shelled the fake targets set up by other battalions.

If they tried to turn the muzzle, it would be difficult to calibrate the shells.

As long as all the grenades are thrown into the vanguard of the British army before the British gain a firm foothold, the mission is considered half successful.

Liu Mingchuan poked his head out cautiously and glanced outside.

Seeing this, he was dumbfounded.

I saw that the place where the gunpowder smoke was filled was not a dock position, but a British ship.

To be exact, it was not the reinforcements of the British army, but the ship that fled the Cape Town sailors in a hurry...

……

"Sink them all for me! Damn it, this is a tactic of the Ming people trying to get them, deliberately letting them prevent us from turning around, and soon Zhu Fugui brought his super huge Shenzhou ship to kill!"

On the Prince of Wales, John Churchill, in the name of the Governor and Vice-Prince of India of the British Empire, ordered the Anglo-Indian fleet to fire at the Cape Town Navy.

After two rounds of cannon fire, these small steamers and wooden sailboats were buried in the sea one after another.

With no constraints, the Anglo-Indian fleet quickly turned around and prepared to run away.

Suddenly, with a "bang", John Churchill was thrown to the ground by a huge shock on the deck.

He covered his bleeding forehead and shouted: "What's the matter, has the Ming people's navy arrived yet? Or is their shore artillery shooting at us?"

The captain quickly replied: "Lord Marquis, it's not at all, those damned Cape Town beggars got mad, they sailed into our port side!"

The captain quickly sent someone to check the situation, and soon came to a conclusion.

"Master Marquis, although the tonnage of that damned ship is not large, it still caused us serious damage, and because of the collision, we have deviated and are about to hit the coast, and it is a reef coast without berths!"

"Damn it, what are we going to do then?"

"Master Marquis, order everyone to prepare for landing! We must give up the Prince of Wales, and..."

"Understood! Let's do it!"

John Churchill understood the meaning of the captain in seconds.

Because the number of troops transported this time reached 5, every ship was packed to the brim, and even the deck was covered with floor bunks.

There were [-] soldiers on board the Prince of Wales.

With so many people, it is impossible to load them all on other ships anyway.

In other words, part of the burden must be lost.

At this time, John Churchill showed the talent of the Churchill family, quickly made a judgment and issued an order.

As the bottom of the ship and the reef continued to collide violently.

Probably it was the blessing of the Prince of Wales' green will. In the end, although the Prince of Wales hit the rocks one after another and was seriously damaged, it still didn't move completely until it hit the coast.

This is a rocky coast far from the Cape Town pier, full of hidden reefs, not suitable for boats to dock at all.

John Churchill ordered everyone to disembark immediately. They must reach a place with a berth before other ships can come to rescue them.

At this time, the sea water had already poured into the battered bottom of the ship frantically.

Those British soldiers who were crowded in the bottom warehouse like sardines had long been drowned alive.

The remaining people quickly climbed off the side of the ship and jumped towards the shore.

Fortunately, after all, they are well-trained regular troops of the British Empire, and their discipline is not comparable to those of the Cape Town militia.

So John Churchill, the governor, was not knocked off the side of the ship with an iron fist, but was well protected and was the first to disembark.

Thanks to the fact that Nantang didn't know that the governor of India who was thinking about it was on this ship, so they didn't mobilize all their forces to encircle and suppress it.

On the contrary, the Southern Tang army, who was bombarded by the British army and I hit you with a series of operations, didn't react all at once.

Still think that this ship is a partial division that adopts the legendary stranded landing method.

The main force of the Southern Tang Dynasty was still keeping a close eye on the dozen or so troop carriers remaining on the sea, in case they were transferred away from the mountain.

As a result, when Liu Mingchuan's three hundred warriors were waiting for the enemy's main offensive, it turned out that a miscellaneous army from the Southern Tang Dynasty exchanged fire with the most elite British and Indian reinforcements of the British army.

This army is a militia group formed by the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River who donated their servants.

Its combat effectiveness can be imagined.

However, having been frightened by Zhu Fugui's notoriety for a long time, and having experienced a shipwreck, the panic-stricken British army was also distracted.

Especially when jumping off the ship, many British soldiers didn't even bring guns.

John Churchill was taken aback by the sudden appearance of the "Ming Army".

Although their clothes looked different from the legendary Butcher Army of the Ming Dynasty, there was no doubt that these guys with black hair and black eyes were the Ming Army.

"God will kill me!"

John Churchill took out a pistol and stuffed it into his mouth and was about to commit suicide, but the people around him quickly stopped him, "Your Excellency, Your Excellency, don't shoot, Ming Jun...Ming Jun seems to have fired three shots indiscriminately, turned around and ran away? Shall we chase?"

"Don't be fooled!"

John Churchill shouted: "This must be Zhu Fugui's trick to lure the enemy. I have read their military books. These Easterners are very cunning! Run, run to the north!"

……

In the end, the three hundred warriors of the Mingzi Battalion squatted in the bunker and ate ashes for a long time, and the British fleet turned around and fled.

The heaviest loss in this battle was actually the militia of the Jiangnan gentry.

In the brief firefight with the British "partial division", Zou Liangbu, a gentry who did not retreat in time, was hit by a stray bullet and was unfortunately killed. He became the No. 1 victim of China's conquest of South Africa.

In normal fighting, the militia killed three people and injured 170 and five people.