The elimination of fifty British cavalry was not even an appetizer. Huang Ting's first target was the approximately five hundred British troops entrenched seventy miles away.
The opponent only has a hundred cavalry, and half of them have been eaten by him before. None of them have escaped. This will not let the opponent know in advance that the expeditionary force has arrived.
Early the next morning, Huang Ting ordered the entire army to set off. As long as his troops moved fast enough, they could eat the piece of meat in one bite before the opponent could react.
Due to the large range of hunting required, the British cavalry units generally did not return to their units on the same day, and it was normal for them to return to their base after three or four days.
Huang Ting took advantage of this gap period and planned to catch them all in one fell swoop.
This might alert the enemy and let James II know that he is coming, so it doesn't matter.
The worst case scenario would be to turn a sudden attack into a full-scale attack. Sooner or later, the prey would be confronted again.
Because the number of steam tanks is limited, the marching speed of the entire army will of course take care of the large number of infantry.
So Huang Ting ordered two hundred tanks to attack as the vanguard, each steam tank carrying a squad of infantry.
Even if the prisoners cheated and provided inaccurate information, their vanguard troops directly stirred up a hornet's nest.
Under the cover of aircraft, two hundred tanks and two thousand infantry were enough to compete with tens of thousands of British troops.
Huang Ting also didn't believe that the main force of the British army would be so close to him. This was completely unreasonable.
Playing under the lights in central and southern North America, especially when one's own side has a large number of aircraft for reconnaissance, is tantamount to actively seeking death.
If he really wanted to die, James II would not have had to travel long distances and cross several rivers to come to a place like this.
Huang Ting had previously promised the prisoners who handed over the information that as long as the information was true, the sum of the number of prisoners killed would be calculated on a per-capita basis.
A head is worth one silver coin. If two hundred people are killed and captured, then two hundred silver coins will be given to the captives.
Not only will it be released immediately, but a road will be opened for it to go anywhere in the world.
Of course the British prisoners didn't believe it, but there was no other way, and they didn't want to go mining.
There are bags of silver coins on one side, and twenty years of mining experience on the other. Any fool knows how to choose!
The actual distance to the target is about eighty miles away. It's not close, but it's not far. Infantry armed with tanks can reach it in one day.
When the Ming army tanks were discovered, the British troops stationed there were in panic. They only had five small cannons.
The heavy weapons had been abandoned while running away. I originally thought that there would be no yellow-skinned monkeys in this kind of place, but now I was dumbfounded.
Within a few kilometers, people can run much faster than tanks.
If it's further away, once the person runs out of energy, they can only wait to be crushed by a tank.
It was almost three o'clock in the afternoon when the Ming army arrived at the prey's lair, but due to the cooperation of aircraft, the battle would not last until dark.
There are only a dozen cavalry stationed at the station, and the rest are a large number of infantry and a small number of artillery who huddle together for warmth.
It seemed that an Indian tribe had just been robbed, and there were cow skeletons everywhere in the camp.
The Indian guides were very angry about this and said that these were their property.
Fortunately, after the war, the captured British weapons and ammunition can be used to repay it, otherwise the guide will apply to kill all the British prisoners...
The battlefield is an open area with only a knee-deep creek flowing through it, which will not be an obstacle to the tank's attack at all.
The Ming army adopted a horizontal push tactic of 100 steam tanks on the front and 50 steam tanks on each side, intending to encircle the British army.
Seeing yellow-skinned monkey chariots and flying things coming one after another, some British troops in the camp resisted stubbornly, while others began to run away.
Small cannons can no longer destroy third-generation steam tanks, and bullets fired from flintlock guns can only knock off the paint.
In turn, the tanks and guns of the Expeditionary Force can deal devastating blows to the British infantry and artillery on the opposite side, leaving no hope of a comeback.
In less than five minutes after the fighting began, more than 200 British soldiers were killed or wounded by tanks.
The British army had not found any traces of yellow-skinned monkeys before, thinking that there were only Indians in this area, so they relaxed their vigilance and did not even dig trenches.
They are now not much different from the local Indian tribes, they are all mobile.
It's just that one is mobile herding and the other is mobile robbery!
Now it was their turn to be robbed. This bitter taste was not easy to taste, but it had to be swallowed!
The British infantry could not stop the tank's horizontal push. Whether it was grenades or muskets, they could only play a symbolic role.
The strafing from the aircraft made it impossible for the British soldiers to escape. The other side was condescending and wreaking havoc. Praying and cursing were ineffective at this time.
In order to deal with these five hundred people, Huang Ting sent twenty planes to hover over the battlefield, looking for moving targets.
The British soldiers lay on the ground and pretended to be dead, and maybe they could escape. Otherwise, no matter how fast you ran, you couldn't run faster than the planes in the sky, and you couldn't run faster than the bullets fired by the machine guns.
The two sides fought fiercely for nearly half an hour. No one of the more than 400 British troops escaped, and about 150 people were captured.
The expeditionary force injured more than a dozen infantrymen and no one was killed.
Not one tank was lost. When the two aircraft landed on the battlefield, their landing gear and wings were severely damaged.
Injured British soldiers can be released directly and go wherever they like with cold weapons and lighters.
In addition to high-value important prey, the expeditionary forces fighting deep in the interior can no longer easily treat injured prisoners.
It is very shameful to waste precious medicines, especially on some white-skinned barbarians.
Judging from the map and sextant given to him by his master, Huang Ting believed that he was now located south of the Ouachita Mountains.
About four hundred miles to the northeast is Memphis. You can visit the old place, but Huang Ting has no intention of revisiting his old place.
According to the prisoners' accounts, James II's main force should be located in the four lands of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska.
This area was the former French North America. After the French army withdrew from the area, it became a de facto unclaimed land, although it was nominally owned by the Ming Empire.
To use 60,000 men to sweep such a large area would be time-consuming, labor-intensive, and labor-intensive. The troops must be divided, and they must be divided into at least twenty groups.
According to his own situation, Huang Ting combined 400 to 500 Ming troops with 2,500 Japanese troops, equipped with 30 steam tanks, four heavy guns, six aircraft, 100 trucks, and 50 war horses.
This arrangement is equivalent to pulling a net for fishing. The strength of each team is not strong, but the advantage is that the area to be swept will be very large, which is very suitable for the current situation.
The distance between each route of people and horses is forty miles, and twenty routes are eight hundred miles. Contact is maintained by aircraft, cavalry and signal bombs.
Before setting off, all expeditionary soldiers were given a hearty meal.
Coming to North America to fight, there is nothing else but plenty of beef!
Each of the 60,000 soldiers has one pound of beef, which is only 60,000 pounds, which is equivalent to two hundred head.
Capturing a herd of bison is enough for the entire army to beat them to death.
Aircraft can come in handy at this time, searching at high altitude, swooping and strafing, and then bringing them back by truck.
After the cooks set up the pots, Huang Ting and other generals could enjoy the long-lost tripe-shabu, which was a real blessing.
Now everyone finally realizes the joy of the navy. During Jiexuan's expedition to America, the fleet and marines ate a lot of beef.
Locally, it is forbidden to slaughter cattle casually, and most of the ramen sold in stores mainly include pork elbow and braised pork.
Arriving in North America, Huang Ting and others were finally able to enjoy a bowl of fragrant braised beef noodles.
The most amazing thing is that there is more beef than ramen!
This is the taste of hometown, which makes many people feel emotional...
Even the Indian guide who was responsible for leading the way was given a large bowl and was full of praise for this delicious food after eating it.
Especially after asking about it, I was even more delighted that it can be made with just a few ingredients such as wheat and beef.
I plan to go back and recommend it to the chief, and it will become the standard meal of this tribe in the future!
During the dinner, Huang Ting inquired and learned that there was an Indian tribe near the battlefield and was related to the one in the south.
Therefore, the guide said that the cattle eaten by the British barbarians were their property.
Now the expeditionary force avenged him, and Huang Ting kept his promise and gave the captured guns and ammunition, including several small cannons, to the chief.
Arming Indian tribes will not pose a threat to the expeditionary force. The Ming Dynasty has already started the process of industrialization, and even the chiefs of the grasslands have become investors.
The Indian chiefs are no different from the chiefs on the grasslands back then. They all focus on herding, so the gap in civilization levels is obvious.
In the future, these chiefs will also be assimilated, but the ranch can be retained. After all, it is better to have someone than no one.
Many people in the local area don't understand what Emperor Haojing said. They just need to think about it.
Wherever there are people, there is a market for Ming products, which can make money for the empire!
The Indian tribes could only sell a few things such as beef, horses, and animal skins. They needed many daily necessities, but the Ming Dynasty provided them all.
Even if you have a broken bone, you can be repaired if you go to Daming Hospital, not to mention other aspects. This is the benefit of developing technology.
The more backward the place, the smaller the threat to the Ming Dynasty. Emperor Haojing very much welcomed the Indian chiefs to join the alliance.
What's more, North America is so big, except for Zhang Tianbao's Dadong Empire, the rest will belong to the Ming Dynasty.
It is much better to be temporarily watched by Indian friends than to be occupied by white-skinned barbarians.
For a long time to come, there will be no fundamental conflicts between the Indian tribes and the newly arrived immigrants.
Settlement would be dominated by southern California to Mexico, as well as the East Coast and the Great Lakes.
Places like Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska can be turned into reservations for Indian tribes.
As far as Emperor Haojing is concerned, as long as the tribes obey the management, no one will care about you, let alone herding cattle, even if you are raising white skins in the interior!
The early tasks for settlements are to do business, farm, and mine, and other aspects will not be considered for the time being.
The first step is to seize back the land belonging to the Ming Dynasty from the hands of the two scoundrels, Spain and Britain.
Huang Ting went to great lengths to find James II's hiding place first by using dragnet-style sweeping tactics.
To capture the thief, capture the king first. After capturing this barbarian king, it will be much easier to deal with the other rotten fish and shrimps.
However, after the regiment destroyed more than 400 British troops, even the highest officer here, a major battalion commander, did not know this.
Obviously, James II learned the previous lessons and learned wisely this time. Maybe he never wants to be flooded for the third time...
For Huang Ting, this is equivalent to finding a needle in a haystack.
Unless the person who knows James II's home is captured, the raid can only be carried out slowly.
The specific time for the end of the battle, who knows what time!
The good news was that pilots reported evidence of expeditionary force activity in upper Arkansas.
In other words, Zeng Ying's troops have arrived in northern Oklahoma, and the vanguard may have entered southern Kansas.
Of course Huang Ting was very happy about this, and immediately decided that the entire army would break camp tomorrow, cross the Arkansas River, and enter the Missouri area to mop up the enemy.
Zeng Ying's current location is the upper reaches of the Arkansas River. According to sextant calculations, he should have entered south-central Kansas.
He was not here to fight the British, but to annihilate the Spanish defenders in the original Texas area.
The opponent retreated all the way north, so he could only follow and chase them.
The opponent mainly relied on cavalry, but Zeng Ying had very few cavalry, only two thousand, and the horses were captured in the early stage.
The cavalry troops use companies as combat units and cooperate with aircraft to conduct small-scale sweeps.
Once you encounter a large enemy force, you can temporarily retreat, fall behind the prey, and wait for reinforcements.
After being equipped with magazine-type rifles and revolvers, especially light machine guns, even five hundred Spanish cavalry could not defeat a company of Ming cavalry.
Because of this, the troupes suffered several heavy losses and lost thousands of cavalry, and they no longer dared to confront the Ming cavalry head-on.
They either carried out diplomatic warfare, or carried out guerrilla or ambush warfare. The battles of rushing into formations and defending the city almost disappeared in a short period of time.
San Antonio, an important town in southern Texas, was originally garrisoned by 2,000 men, deployed fifty artillery pieces and hundreds of mortars, with trenches dug around it and a large number of horse traps.
However, even such a defense was captured by the expeditionary force within three days. This was Zeng Ying's previous good start!
Zeng Ying participated in the expedition against Rakshasa, fighting all the way from the Ming Dynasty to Moscow.
In view of this, Zeng Ying led his troops to land in Spanish North America this time.
Don't look at the distance, just look where the prey is!
He didn't plan to do it again in his life, chasing his prey for thousands of miles in the Xianbelia area like he did last time.
The more barbarians there were in the stronghold, the happier Zeng Ying became.
After being equipped with enough powerful heavy weapons, the siege mission is no longer difficult.
The more enemies there are in the stronghold, the less your efforts are in vain.
Starting from San Antonio and heading north, Zeng Ying's troops captured more than ten Spanish strongholds in succession, killing and capturing more than 10,000 enemies.
So much so that the young soldiers gave Zeng Ying a nickname - "Stronghold Nemesis"!
But for Zeng Ying, a battle of this scale was very unsatisfactory.
There were only two thousand people at most at one time, and sometimes there were only a hundred or so people, just like a joke.
Where has the Spanish courage gone?
Were you scared out of your wits when you saw the planes and tanks of the Ming Empire?
