Chapter 333: Diamond War (2)
Sun Yuzhi has long stockpiled a large number of weapons in Ming Island, which is what Zhu Youxiao explained to him, these export rifles are basically at the same level as the rifles made by the English now, the processing level of the barrel is only a part of the firearms, and standardized, high-quality and qualified bullets are also very important, after all, the Ming Empire has made certain preparations under the guidance of Zhu Youxiao. The previous war did not allow Sun Yuzhi to use too much inventory, and now these stockpiled weapons have begun to be sold in large quantities, and the prices are much higher than before, after all, these guns are better than the previous ones.
While Sun Yuzhi was selling weapons, he also quickly reported the war that happened here to Zhu Youxiao, so that Zhu Youxiao could make an assessment of the war and know what he should do next. Sun Yuzhi never overdid things, just like when he went to Europe, he got a lot of wealth, but he still honestly reported to Zhu Youxiao and asked Zhu Youxiao to make a decision. Now he really couldn't judge what he should do, because the English had sent too many troops, and the weapons were not much different from those of his own.
After Zhu Youxiao received the news from Sun Yuzhi, he immediately ordered the military factory of the Ming Dynasty to start working in full force to manufacture a large number of export-type rifles. According to the information provided by Sun Yuzhi, the rifle level of the English was close to that of the export rifles of the Ming Empire. Zhu Youxiao asked Bi Maokang and Sun Yuanhua to set out a new standard for export weapons, according to the parameters of the English rifle given by Sun Yuzhi, the range of the export rifle was set to be far 30 zhang, and the quality of the barrel was increased to the point that it could fire 500 more bullets, and the accuracy and stability of the shooting were increased by 20 percent.
Secondly, on the issue of the Ndaru tribe, Sun Yuzhi meant to quickly make the Ndaru tribe independent, so that they could quickly arm themselves against the new coalition that the English were about to organize. Zhu Youxiao agreed with Sun Yuzhi's suggestion, after all, Ndaru belongs to the real natives, and it is much better for him to come forward to organize the indigenous army than for the Ming Empire to come forward itself, and Sun Yuzhi can continue to send officers to train them, as for the supply of weapons, it will definitely not be free anymore, South Africa has mineral resources, and Ndaru can call on his own people to mine, so that there is no need for Ming Island to continue to transfuse, they can develop their own economy to ensure supply.
In the German Confederation, the compulsory education of the Weimar Republic is the best, and they are even earlier than the compulsory education of the Ming Empire. King Georg Wilhelm, who united the German Confederation, naturally stabilized this system, and promoted it throughout the Confederation, so that this system was like in the Ming Dynasty, and in more than a year, the young and middle-aged people who came to the German Confederation were freed from illiteracy and became a huge group of quite high quality, so when they were equipped with new rifles, their combat effectiveness was much stronger than that of the English army, after all, they were more adaptable to weapons.
Compared with the army of the German Confederation, the Spanish army is a little inferior, although Philip III is very ambitious, but the already rigid political system and his own limited ability, the training of the army is difficult to elite, the combat power is average, it is good to be on par with the English army. However, their greatest advantage is the navy, and drawing on the achievements of the Ming fleet, their naval fleet can completely defeat the English navy.
Ndaru finally founded the country under the order of Sun Yuzhi, the location is just north of Ming Island, and then it quickly expanded to the northeast, and the size of the army also expanded rapidly, the grassroots officers trained by Zhu Kezhen for him in the early days now play a great role, so that his army's combat effectiveness has not declined because of the expansion of the army, and now he has become the second only to the Kingdom of Congo and the Talon Empire in southern Africa, but the current land area is limited to the west side of the coast, and has not yet expanded to the whole of South Africa in later generations.
The hundreds of thousands of troops of the English, plus more than 100,000 allied troops, nearly 300,000 troops suddenly drove to the west coast of Africa, and at this time the Kingdom of Spain and the German Federal Army were not yet in place, which made their expedition feel great pressure, they had to take the population to retreat to the territory of the Talon Empire and the Kingdom of Kongo, and unite the armies of the two countries to resist, but the huge number gap made them unable to do so, and gradually lost all their territory.
Not only was the large English coalition outnumbered, but it was also accompanied by three times as many explorers as the army, whose purpose was to mine and find valuable diamonds. The frenzied influx of hundreds of thousands of people has brought great changes to the ecology of southern Africa, the most basic of which is the food problem. Africa's natural resources are still quite abundant, but these rich resources have not made the indigenous people rich, but have developed their lazy habits, the biggest characteristic is that they do not store overnight food, eat and sleep today, and talk about tomorrow's food tomorrow.
After a large number of people entered the area, the Europeans naturally had to get the most basic food from the indigenous people, and these natives who did not have their own overnight food had food to give them, so fierce conflicts broke out, whether it was fruit gathering in the wild, or simple grain harvesting, and the animals in the wild became food for the stomach. Naturally, the indigenous population could not defeat the murderous European invaders, and they began to flee in large numbers.
For this situation, Zhu Youxiao had already prepared for it, and the merchant ship bound for Ming Island was loaded with dried sweet potatoes and dried potatoes, and fresh ones must not be transported over, so that they would soon be planted by the locals, and Zhu Youxiao's plan to make Ndaru's rapid expansion would fail. Therefore, when Ndaru distributed free food to the indigenous people who fled to him, these natives were naturally grateful, and they expressed their allegiance to Ndaru, and even the entire tribe of indigenous people threw themselves into the Ndaru tribe, so that Ndaru's people gained a huge population in a short period of time.
More than 200,000 Nordic coalition troops posed a great threat to the Kingdom of Congo and the Talon Empire, and the forces of the German Confederation and the Kingdom of Spain could not protect themselves, so they could only unite to fight again, but fortunately, the weapons of the Ming Empire continued to be delivered, and when the German Confederation and the Kingdom of Spain also reinforced 50,000 or 60,000 troops from the mainland, the situation stabilized slightly and formed a confrontation situation.
So far, although England's Nordic coalition army is like a rainbow and has been driving straight in, but because the German Confederation and Spain's expeditions deliberately avoided it, there was no large-scale battle, and the Kingdom of Congo and the Talon Empire also maintained a state of contact, and they did not dare to take the initiative to start a war. Could it be that when you see that you have more troops, you are so frightened that you don't even have the courage to fight?
In fact, this is not the case, the Kingdom of Congo and the Dalon Empire are waiting for the reaction of Sun Yuzhi of Mingdao, including the armies of the German Confederation and the Kingdom of Spain. The process of the war that occurred last year, they are still vivid, without the participation of the Ming army of Ming Island, it is difficult to win this war, especially the Nordic coalition army of England is now in full swing, and they have lost the main force of Ming Island to participate in the war, they have no bottom in their hearts, in case of defeat, like the last Congo Kingdom, they will not even have the opportunity to turn over.
What is Sun Yuzhi doing now? He was sitting in Mingdao's office studying Zhu Youxiao's letters. Zhu Youxiao's meaning is very interesting, the army of Mingdao will not participate in this war for the time being, first cultivate the tribe of Ndaro, this war does not need to end quickly, to let the Ndarou tribe grow strong in this war, but also to be able to control most of the territory of South Africa in the future, and even let England's Nordic coalition army establish a colony along the coast, form a long-term war situation here, focus their attention on diamonds, let them bleed as much as possible, and weaken the pace of their development.
The role of diamonds is not as big as they imagined, and the production of natural diamonds is not as much as they predicted, whether it is Namibia or Botswana in later generations, they only account for a small part of the diamond mines, only the South African region occupied by Zhu Youxiao's Ndaru tribe is the largest diamond mining area, and now Ndaru is still accumulating strength.