Chapter 168: Occupying the Territory

The Governor's Palace is a sturdy small castle, completely made of stone walls, it can be said that this small castle is very strong, the Ming army because it came by a small flat-bottomed boat, did not carry cannons, to deal with such a city wall is a little reluctant, cannonballs can not blow up the fort wall, the officer who leads the team is reluctant to use the soldier's life to fill in the inside, so let the soldiers quickly build a position, and then use mortars to cover the small castle bombardment, and then use machine guns and sniper rifles to carry out fixed-point killing, covering the soldiers to carry this * close to the fort gate, Then blasting is carried out. After the gate of the fort was blown open, the people inside, whether it were soldiers or the governor of the small city, suddenly lost all confidence, and without waiting for the Ming army to attack, these people raised the white flag and simply surrendered to the Ming army.

Besides, those coalition soldiers who were driven out of the small port by the artillery of the Ming army desperately fled to the small town, followed by the Ming soldiers and Indian soldiers in pursuit, especially those Indians, they held the Ming army machetes that had just been assigned to their hands, one by one like chicken blood, there was revenge, there was revenge, there was revenge, and they ran fast, even the well-trained Ming soldiers were a little in a daze, how could these guys run so fast today.

After conquering this small city, Yidao and Bull led their tribesmen and began to search for their own tribesmen all over the city, as well as acquaintances from nearby tribes, because they were all married to each other, and they knew each other a lot, and the result was surprising that there were more than 2,000 Indians belonging to their race, who were also emaciated, and many were handcuffed and shackled.

In the process of searching for their clansmen, all the white families who abused their own people were all killed, and then the whole city began to go crazy, even those innocent merchants were also unjustifiably punished, and the whole family was killed, and the final result was very tragic, the white race in the whole city was killed and poked out, you can imagine how much hatred these local Indians have for white people.

When Niu Jinxing and Yu Hualong entered the small city under the escort of the guards, the whole town had calmed down, and the corpses of the whole city had been dragged out by the Ming soldiers. The two of them were not polite, and they were directly stationed in this small castle, as for those colonial officials, they had already been killed by the angry Indians, but no one destroyed the facilities in the governor's palace, and it is estimated that the Ming soldiers came in early and protected these things.

The two of them sat down and began to think about what to do next. According to Yu Hualong's meaning, put the gold, silver, jewelry and other things here on the ship, let the soldiers rest here for a few days, and then set sail and leave to pull down, this place is too far away from the Ming Dynasty, and I am afraid that these people will not be able to hold the land here, because this area is a plain area, there is no danger to defend, and if it is not good, it will be wiped out.

Niu Jinxing smiled and said to Hualong: "Although there is no danger to defend here, and there are plains all around, but this is a rich land!" The terrain is not dangerous to defend, the people can take advantage of it, we will not walk forward this month, I just looked at the arsenal of the Governor's Palace There are a lot of muskets and ammunition, the Indians here have been bullied by those white people, judging from the results of today's killing, they are full of endless hatred, we have avenged them as liberators, they should be able to accept us, besides, there are people of the same race as a knife and bull to help, we try to help them train soldiers, Let them go to war with those whites themselves, don't look at the current Westerners whose weapons are better than these natives, but their numbers are too small, and they are not of the same mind, I have studied these things in Lisbon, and the countries of Europe are also intriguing with each other, that is, Portugal within Spain may be independent, these situations are similar to our Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, as long as the people we leave behind grasp the opportunity, it will definitely become a colony point for us here. ”

Yu Hualong asked, "So does Mr. Yi mean that we leave some soldiers here to help the locals train the army, and then settle down here to reproduce?" ”

Niu Jinxing nodded and said, "That's what I mean." Do you remember that Chen Qingyun we met on the east coast of Africa? That guy still left in the former Song Dynasty, and he still can't forget to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, I don't know if His Majesty has arranged things there now. What I want is that we will also leave a Chinese bloodline here, so that they can spread out here and reproduce our children and grandchildren. I don't know if you have noticed, in the back of Brazil, the Portuguese began to immigrate there in large numbers, I think in the near future, it must be the era of great migration of the whole world, whoever occupies more land, who can get the most benefits, whose country will be strong, the current Spaniards are not colonizing immigrants everywhere, our Ming population is more than ten times that of them, will they not be able to rob them? ”

Yu Hualong took Niu Jinxing's words and said: "According to Mr., we are going to fight all the way down, and also occupy a large piece of land here, and then report to His Majesty the Emperor and start our emigration?" ”

Niu Jinxing said: "Whether to immigrate depends on Your Majesty's thoughts, but it is definitely Your Majesty's intention to spread our Chinese civilization to the whole earth, let's go this way, you can see that wherever there are Spaniards and Portuguese settlers, there will be a large number of local people who can speak their language, don't look at the current indigenous people's hatred for them like the sea, and after a few hundred years, maybe through continuous population reproduction and intermarriage, they will definitely conquer these indigenous people with advanced ideas and technology." I don't know if you've noticed, but everywhere they go, they have to build churches and force the local indigenous people to accept their faith. Maybe it's forced now, but after too many years, the descendants of these indigenous people may naturally go to faith, which is what we call 'three people become tigers' or 'habits become natural'. These are the lessons I learned from this voyage. ”

Yu Hualong said: "After all, Mr. is a scholar, and his vision of things is different from that of us, I have seen all these phenomena you mentioned, but I have not considered it as carefully as you." ”

Niu Jinxing said: "General Yu, in fact, it is not that the eyes of the subordinates can see so far, it is our Emperor His Majesty who has a long-term vision. Why when the Ming Dynasty was the most powerful, when the Three Treasures Eunuch Zheng He went to the West seven times, they did not have the idea of His Majesty today, but before our trip this time, His Majesty let us carry a large number of weapons, but not a large number of tea, silk, porcelain, this is the difference between His Majesty and others today, this purpose is to rely on our military force to expand the territory for the Ming Dynasty. ”

Yu Hualong said: "Since Mr. thinks it is better for us to do this, then let's do it according to Mr.'s understanding of His Majesty's thoughts, you just need to think about what we need to do, how to do these things, and leave it to our soldiers to complete the idea, even if it is broken, we must complete the idea." ”

Niu Jinxing just likes Yu Hualong's character, he is very self-aware, the two of them have their own strengths, through a long time together, these two people with completely different personalities have formed a very good tacit understanding, such as the idea of capturing this small city this time. Although the purpose is not necessarily the same, the thoughts are indeed the same, and they are all like occupying this small city.

After the Ming army occupied this small city, a series of things happened that they themselves did not expect. In addition to the killing and stabbing of the Westerners in the small town, they also rescued more than 2,000 of their comrades with a single sword, and secondly, they got along very well with the indigenous Indians here, although the language was not very different, but the similarity of skin color and common hatred bound them together. With a knife and a bull, they united with the local indigenous Indian residents and quickly formed a robbery army, and soon wiped out the Westerners who were four or five hundred miles away, and regained the land and wealth that belonged to them.

Through this period of contact, a knife they completely subdued the Ming army, after cleaning up the Westerners here, a knife took the leader of the local aborigines, a native called Monkey to see Niu Jinxing and Yu Hualong, after entering the door, the monkey knelt down to Niu Jinxing and Yu Hualong, and then said to the two: "Thanks to the help of your nobles, we finally drove out these hateful invaders, we once warmly entertained these people, treating them as guests from afar, but they bullied us with guns." Now with the help of the nobles, we have driven them away, but maybe a large number of them will come back to take revenge on us, and we hope that the nobles will stay and continue to help us, and we are willing to share everything here with the nobles, including the land, the gems, and the women. ”

Perhaps because of the similarity of skin color, these natives were very willing to associate with the Ming soldiers, of course, this must have something to do with the fierce fighting methods of the Ming soldiers, and they may also have something to do with worshipping the strong in their hearts.

Niu Jinxing said: "Monkey, since everyone calls you Monkey, you must be the smartest and bravest person in the locality, what do you mean I know in my heart, with your own strength it will definitely be difficult to resist the army that may retaliate, but do you think that with your ability, plus our people, can you guarantee the victory over the future enemy under your command?" ”