Whoosh whoosh!
The bullet flew right past his scalp.
Li Zhongyi was lying behind a fallen tree, feeling extremely regretful.
He was a literary scholar with no strength, but now he had to fight with the ferocious Al tribe with a musket.
At this time, two strong men fell to the ground beside him.
They were all brought to the dense forest by him to cut down trees. They were all fellow Sichuan people. They were so poor that they came all the way to the New World. Oh, they came all the way to the New World.
did not expect.
I've been here less than twenty days.
It was here that he was ambushed by the Al tribe and lost his life.
Now Jinshan Governor's Office has good relations with the Sioux people, and the "love trade" between the two parties is also going smoothly.
When a Sioux woman married an immigrant from the Jinshan Governor's Mansion, she also received some "betrothal gifts".
But similarly, the Jinshan Governor's Palace, which is on good terms with the Su people, cannot have much better relations with the Al people, who have hatred against the Su people. What's more, the expansion direction of the Jinshan Governor's Palace is actually the territory of the Al people.
As a result, conflicts between the two sides continued.
"Damn it, this must be an alliance between the Britons and the Albanians!"
A Ming army officer lying on the ground cursed.
Li Zhongyi nodded slightly when he heard this: "I heard that the British sent a small group of troops to infiltrate in. They may have connections with the Al people! Hammer, I don't know what benefits the Al people got, and they were willing to send out so many people at once. !”
"No life, no life."
"It makes us poor. The poor have a miserable life."
A group of Sichuan men who went into the dense forest to cut down trees and were ambushed started shouting and complaining.
At this moment, there were shouts from various voices in the woods ahead.
Li Zhongyi raised his head slightly and looked.
Hundreds of men wearing animal skins, including a few white men wearing felt suits, were charging toward them with bayonets in their hands and shouting loudly. ,
"It's over, it's over"
Li Zhongyi's scalp was numb, his head was buzzing, and he was at a loss.
Because he had heard that the savages in this forest were almost as ferocious as the wild Jurchen tribe back then.
A savage as fierce as the Jurchens.
This is how to do?
Right now.
The Ming Army company commander shouted loudly: "Free fire! Free fire! Listen to my orders and prepare to charge!"
He has about twenty soldiers under his command, and they all have breech-loading rifles - this is the equipment that was newly installed some time ago.
According to the plan of the Generalissimo's Mansion.
A 'front line' like the New World is a priority area for new equipment.
As the Ming Army company commander spoke, he had already unbolted the gun, inserted a bullet, and then loaded the bullet.
boom!
As soon as a gunshot was fired, a white officer in front fell to the ground.
The Ming Army company commander did not pause, pulled the bolt again, and loaded the bullet!
boom! boom! boom!
Intense and continuous gunshots rang out.
Li Zhongyi was shocked when he saw it.
Such a fast-firing musket is really powerful!
Twenty soldiers kept shooting, and a large group fell down in front of them.
The Sichuan lumberjacks, who were still panicking and thought they were about to lose their lives, also felt at ease.
Some even took out their own muskets, took aim and shot.
Although they are all muzzle-loading guns, their shooting speed is not as fast as the breech-loading guns equipped by Ming army soldiers.
But with the addition of dozens of lumberjacks, the firepower became more intensive, and the Albanian warriors who seemed to be rushing towards them with great momentum all fled back with their heads in their hands.
"Master Li, take your people and retreat back to the camp first. Leave this place to us!"
The Ming Army company commander patted Li Zhongyi on the shoulder and said loudly.
"Don't run around. The forest is too big and it's easy to get lost."
Gunfire rang out sporadically. ,
Li Zhongyi felt relieved, and then asked with some worry: "Captain Wang, they all say that you should not chase the poor enemies. They seem to be quite large in number."
'There's no point in having more people. If they had just rushed up and fought with all their lives, they could still have fought us. But since they have all fled, it means that they are afraid of death. If they are not afraid of death, they can still fight us. Since they are afraid of death, then Lost. Not to mention we have this! '
Captain Wang patted the breech-loading needle gun in his hand.
In order to avoid too many complicated mechanical structures as much as possible, this is the world's first large-scale rear-loading rifle without a magazine. The bolt is pulled and the bullet is inserted manually.
The shooting technique is much slower than the bolt-action rifles of later generations, but it is also much faster than the current muzzle-loading guns.
And loading from behind the butt has another advantage.
That is, you can load it lying down when loading, which greatly reduces the soldier's bullet-facing surface.
In this case, the Albanian warriors and British mercenaries equipped with muzzleloaders were no match for the Ming soldiers.
The exchange ratio between the two parties is extremely exaggerated.
On the Ming army's side, three lumberjacks were killed in an ambush.
And after the two sides fought.
There were almost zero casualties on the Ming army's side, but dozens of figures fell down on the opposite side.
This exchange ratio made the British commander who planned this ambush feel numb.
Seeing that Captain Wang was so confident, Li Zhongyi breathed a sigh of relief, and then crawled back using his hands and feet.
"Withdraw, let's withdraw first!!"
soon.
Li Zhongyi led dozens of lumberjacks carrying muskets to retreat along the river into the camp.
Immediately afterwards, dense gunfire sounded one after another in the forest.
Twenty Ming soldiers held breech-loading guns and chased hundreds of enemies.
I don’t know how long it took.
The gunshots in the forest gradually became sparse.
Then I remembered the voice of "Great Ming Dynasty".
Won
Li Zhongyi breathed a sigh of relief.
"There have been more and more conflicts recently. I don't know if the British are going to start fighting."
Li Zhongyi murmured.
The smoke gradually dissipated.
On the battlefield just now, there were corpses everywhere.
But most of them belong to the enemy.
Two Ming soldiers wearing red military uniforms were shot, but they did not die. They lay on the ground and wailed. Soon a military doctor rushed up and took out the bullets with iron pliers, then stopped the bleeding and applied anti-inflammatory drugs. Apply a bandage.
One of the soldiers was hit in the thigh and looked to be in slightly better condition.
There was also a man who was shot in the shoulder and his bones were shattered. It seemed that even if he survived, he would probably be disabled.
Li Zhongyi hasn't seen it clearly yet.
The sound of rustling footsteps came from ahead.
"Let's go! Let's go! Be honest!"
It turned out that the Ming army officer who had just charged to kill the enemy had returned.
More than thirty prisoners were also detained.
They were all tied up with ropes and strung together, and some of them were still bleeding.
Li Zhongyi took a closer look and saw that these A people were very strong and looked much stronger than many Sichuan farmers.
But now they are all honest, with their heads hanging down.
There were several white prisoners in the back who were tied more tightly.
Company Commander Wang ran over quickly.
There was gunpowder smoke on his face, and the clothes on his body were stained with blood, but looking at his energetic appearance, it seemed that the blood was not his own.
"Master Li, the enemies have been repulsed. Sixty-three people were killed and thirty-seven were captured. Among them were six Britons. The others ran away. Have you counted your people?"
After hearing this, Li Zhongyi reacted. He hurriedly summoned his men, and then his face turned dark.
"There are six missing, what should we do?" He looked at Company Commander Wang, "Can you let your people look around?"
Company Commander Wang spread his hands, shook his head and said, "Looking for it? Where can we look for these people in the deep mountains and old forests? If they are lucky, they can run along the river to the mouth of Jinshan River. They will be safe. If they are not lucky, they will be lost."
"What should I do..."
"What should we do? Hurry up and cut down the trees. Finish the cutting and go back early. The forest is more dangerous at night. By the way... Mr. Li, can you borrow two axes?"
'ax? Yes, there are plenty of axes,'
How can you go in and chop down trees without bringing an axe?
Without thinking much, Li Zhongyi asked his men to give the Ming army two logging axes.
But what happened next was something he would never forget.
In his diary, Li Zhongyi described this incident very carefully.
"When they asked me to borrow an axe, I didn't know what they were going to do. Then I saw the Britons being pressed up, pressing them on the tree stump and then using the ax to chop off their heads. The Britons were wow They screamed randomly, but soon became quiet. The natives were frightened and knelt down to beg for mercy. A general told them that if they didn't work honestly, they would be beheaded. Then we There are more than twenty slave workers with shackled feet."
"After that, the Jinshan Governor's Mansion dispatched several small-scale armies, which successively destroyed several Al tribes, causing the deaths of thousands of Al ethnic people. After arresting more than 2,000 women, the Al The tribe surrendered and agreed not to cooperate with the British again."
The expansion of the Ming Dynasty in any direction was actually accompanied by blood and tears.
Under the Ming Dynasty, there were also several densely populated vassal states that also needed to expand.
Especially Japan.
"Your Majesty, many samurai in Japan have requested to join the expansion of the New World. This matter"
In Zhongdu.
In Emperor Zhu's imperial study.
Tokugawa Miki, the concubine who was rubbing Emperor Zhu's shoulders, began to whisper in Emperor Zhu's ears.
The King of Japan has given the title to Zhu Yizhen, the sixth prince of the Ming Dynasty.
But Japan's domestic conflicts have not actually been resolved.
And Japan is different from North Korea.
As we all know, North Korea has a very special relationship with the Ming Dynasty.
Belonging to the first place among the fifteen countries without conquering in the "Huang Ming Ancestor Instructions".
However, this ancestral precept has no binding force on Zhu Daohua, the de facto founding emperor. Emperor Zhu had already abolished it and promulgated a new ancestral family law-"The Rites of the Ming Dynasty".
Similarly, the relationship between North Korea and the new Ming Dynasty is now being attacked by troops sent from the bottom of the pile.
The reason for this situation is that North Korea's national consciousness has gradually formed after the Manchus took over the Central Plains.
Before the former Ming Dynasty was destroyed, North Korea was actually part of the Ming Empire!
The King of Korea was the prefecture king of the Ming Dynasty and enjoyed the treatment of a prince. The "Da Ming Law" was the national law of Korea. The King of Korea not only accepted the canonization of the Ming Dynasty, but also returned to the control of Governor Denglai.
Language and writing are also based on Chinese characters.
Moreover, North Korea at that time also considered itself the country of Jizi. At that time, the relationship between Ming Dynasty and North Korea could not be better.
However, after China was ruled by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, North Korea gradually regarded the Han people as "barbarians". It developed from being anti-Qing at the beginning to being hostile to China, and its national consciousness was also formed in this process.
Today's North Korea is no longer the North Korea of more than a hundred years ago, which is why the current Donghak Rebellion exists.
Of course, the chaos in North Korea this time is also related to the fact that Zhu Ming and his subordinates, especially Zhu Daohua himself, did not pay much attention to North Korea.
He has always regarded Japan as the top priority of Ming Dynasty's East Asian diplomacy.
And regard North Korea as a weak country that can be bullied at will.
Zhu Daohua is even more contemptuous of the two wealthy families who have monopolized the wealth and power of Korea for a long time - they are definitely not as fierce as the Japanese samurai, and there are already enough of these Confucian scholars and scholar-bureaucrats in the Ming Dynasty. Isn't it that Korea is in their hands? ?
If you don't take care of these people, how can you let your son become the king of North Korea?
"The Japanese samurai want to go to war."
Emperor Zhu opened his eyes and said.
Tokugawa Miki nodded helplessly: "When the various vassals in the country came to power with Yi Zin'er, they coveted the La Plana Plain in South America."
Emperor Zhu looked at Tokugawa Miki: "If this is the case, Japan needs to fight the Laplana Plain alone. The Ming Navy can provide shipping assistance and send a group of Japanese samurai to establish a foothold first. But... although that place is called New Japan, but not only Japanese people can immigrate there, but people from other vassals also have the right to immigrate to New Japan!"
Tokugawa Miki nodded when she heard this: "This is natural, but this is the king of old and new Japan."
Emperor Zhu smiled when he heard this.
This little Japanese girl is waiting for me here.
"Let Lao Liu be the king of new Japan. As for the king of old Japan, he must work hard to love his concubine and give me a son."
In Tokugawa Miki's exclamation.
A big battle is about to begin.
There were sudden bursts of rushing sounds at the door.
"Your Majesty, there is an urgent report from North Korea!"
Emperor Zhu had no choice but to let Tokugawa Manji go first.
soon.
The urgent report from North Korea was sent to Emperor Zhu's desk.
It turns out that there was a conflict within the Donghak Party, and there might even have been a coup or a merger!
On both sides of the conflict, one is the "land reform faction" of the Donghak Party headed by Zheng Minshi. They insist on dividing North Korea's land equally.
However, this strategy was strongly opposed by the wealthy Korean families who joined later and the Joseon King Li Ying whom they supported.
Li Ying also has the blood of the royal family of North Korea. At the same time, he also has a group of wealthy families loyal to the Li Dynasty gathered around him.
The leader is Quanzhou Li.
The history of this family can be traced back to the Silla period, and it is one of the six most prominent families in Silla.
Li Chenggui, the ancestor of the Li Dynasty of Korea, was a branch of the Li family in Quanzhou.
The Quanzhou Li family that has been passed down to this day has more than a hundred branches, many large families, and a large amount of land and wealth.
Li Ying is actually the spokesperson of the Li family in Quanzhou.
therefore.
Of course they were opposed to land division!
(End of chapter)
