Chapter 358: Zhu Youzhen's Intentions (2)
The result of the negotiation was that Zhu Youzhen paid the price of five transport ships plus one warship in exchange for the ownership of this San Diego town, and then Zhu Youzhen let the entire fleet enter the town, telling everyone that this is their base, and everyone will start a new life here in the future, and renamed this town Xincheng, because Zhu Youzhen's title is Xinwang, so this name also represents Zhu Youzhen's ownership.
If Zhu Youxiao is here now, he will definitely feel that Zhu Youzhen is very discerning, this small town called San Diego is the eighth largest city in the United States --- San Diego.
After sending off the Spaniards, Zhu Youzhen took Mao Wenlong and his generals and began to carefully observe the situation in this town. The town covers an area of fifteen or six square miles, and there are administrative office buildings in the center of the town, as well as a Catholic church, school, hospital, barracks, etc.
According to Zhu Youzhen's design, this town will become the center of the entire Xincheng in the future, and the current buildings of the town are completely preserved, which can be regarded as historical relics in the future, which Zhu Youxiao once told him.
In the following time, Zhu Youzhen continued to transfer the people he brought from Daming, forming a medium-sized city with a population of nearly 100,000, of course, this was a few years later.
At present, after Zhu Youzhen arranged the team, the first thing to start was to arm, the natives who had just retreated would definitely not give up their purpose, and they would gather more people in a short period of time, they coveted this town for a long time, and they would not give up like this, after all, the Spaniards built this town is still very prosperous. Whether it is an administrative center, a church, a school, a hospital, etc., these are the treasures of the indigenous people, and they want to own these luxurious houses and villas.
The stone walls around the town have been somewhat damaged, and it seems that the attack of the natives is not small, after all, they do not have large artillery, and it is also thanks to the fact that the wall built of this stone is very strong, otherwise Zhu Youzhen may get the ruins, and these broken places must be trimmed, to ensure the safety of human rights is the first priority.
On the fifth day of Zhu Youzhen's possession of the town, the soldiers came to report that a large number of indigenous troops were gathering at a distance of about fifteen miles in the vicinity, with a preliminary number of more than 30,000 people. According to the reconnaissance soldiers, through the binoculars, they actually have some firing guns, and they are also carrying earthen cannons, it seems that their purpose is their own Shinjo, and the number is still increasing, I don't know how many people will be in the end.
Knowing that a large number of indigenous people would come to attack the city, Zhu Youzhen immediately brought soldiers, craftsmen and ordinary people into the town to minimize his own casualties. Most of the ships that came with the team went to Fu Guancheng to pick up people, and Zhu Youzhen, the fleet that was left behind, also asked them to leave the port temporarily.
There were about 7,000 troops in the city, and Zhu Youzhen thought that this was enough to deal with these indigenous people, even if they had 100,000 soldiers, they had only one way to die in the face of modern muskets. Therefore, Zhu Youzhen didn't care very much, not to mention that there were fierce generals like Mao Wenlong by his side, even if he rushed up directly, it was estimated that these indigenous people were not opponents, but casualties were inevitable. Therefore, Zhu Youzhen sternly rejected Mao Wenlong's initiative plan.
Standing in the city, trying to preserve his strength and reduce unnecessary casualties, this is Zhu Youzhen's only idea now, after all, it is very difficult to migrate people from the Ming Dynasty to here. Comparatively speaking, if you can take these indigenous people for your own use, the cost is much smaller. Zhu Youzhen intends to teach these indigenous people a profound lesson, and then subdue them and become his own labor force.
Zhu Youzhen waited for a day, and unsurprisingly, about 80,000 or 90,000 indigenous residents surrounded him. What is surprising is that more than 20,000 of these indigenous people are armed with firing guns, which Zhu Youzhen could not have imagined. Do you want to take advantage of your unstable foothold and kill them directly?
In any case, we have to kill these people first and then talk about anything else, Mao Wenlong and others under my command are fighting the battlefield, not to mention that there are 80,000 or 90,000 natives, even if there are more natives, Zhu Youzhen will not be afraid, strength is fundamental, and the war experience is not comparable to these natives.
Zhu Youzhen sat in the administrative hall of the town in the center of the dispatch, and Mao Wenlong and the other three each led 2,000 people to guard the four directions. The reason why the troops are scattered in this way and the four gates are evenly distributed is that Zhu Youzhen and they simply look down on these rabble.
In the direction of the north gate of the town, the aborigines are the most, and the earthen cannons they carry are also arranged in this direction, Mao Wenlong sat on the city gate tower, watching these chaotic and unformed natives in the telescope coming directly towards the north gate, and his heart was full of disdain. Such a team still wants to attack Lao Tzu's town, I really don't know if these natives are looking for death.
The first to fire was the mortar carried by the team, because Zhu Youzhen ordered that no casualties should occur, if these earthen cannons were close to the city wall, they would still cause certain casualties, even if they were not *, just the * inside would also shock and injure people, so the earth artillery team became the first target, followed by the dense siege team.
More than 20 mortars were concentrated, and looking at the earthen artillery position a mile away, Mao Wenlong gave an order, and even the process of test firing was saved, and it was directly covered in the past. The earthen cannons of these poor indigenous teams were scattered by Mao Wenlong's mortars before they were even properly placed. In particular, they have no experience in modern warfare at all, and the spare shells and * are still put together, and when the * explodes, they continue to cause martyrdom, not only those precious cannons in their eyes are gone, but also the soldiers who can fire the artillery are also killed and wounded.
Without the threat of earthen artillery, the Ming army, which relied on the cover of the city wall to shoot, would not have suffered too many casualties, and if they were wounded by bullets in this mutual fire, it could only be said that these soldiers were unlucky. According to Mao Wenlong's words, you have fought with Lao Tzu for so many years, and the rifle in your hand is much stronger than the burning sticks of these natives, if that squad dies, then I will deduct the squad leader's salary for a year, and the dead guy will not give a pension, it's too fucking humiliating.
The firing speed of the firing pistol is much worse than the rifles equipped by the Ming army, especially since these firing pistols are still old goods sold to them by Zhao Shujiao, plus these natives do not have enough training at all, so Zhu Youzhen and they are not worried about casualties in their team at all.
The effective range of the rifle is 30 zhang farther than the firing gun, so the soldiers of the Ming army fire outside the range of the firing gun, and anyone who can enter the effective firing range, as long as there are more than ten people, will immediately take care of the machine gun shooter and beat these people into slag.
The not too fierce battle was fought from morning to noon, Mao Wenlong's men were really not a soldier and did not die, the soldier's combat ability is too different, the quality of the weapon is a factor, and more importantly, the quality of the soldier is too different, with the assistance of machine guns, few indigenous soldiers' bullets can hit within the effective range, so the Ming army will not have casualties.
Compared with the ease of the Ming army, the attacking natives were miserable, rushing forward together, the people in front kept falling to the ground, it didn't sound too dense gunshots, but the lethality was particularly large, and they could lie down and shoot when they rushed forward dozens of feet, but they just couldn't run this distance, and they couldn't reach the shooting distance if they wanted to shoot, and they crawled down to fight in a hurry, and they didn't know where the bullets flew. Seeing that a small wave of brothers easily rushed to a place where they could shoot, but the high-powered bullets from the opposite side hit, and their bodies were all beaten into a sieve, and what was even more tragic was that their bodies turned into minced meat.
When it was time to eat, both sides seemed to have a tacit understanding to stop shooting and start eating, and the morning battle was over, the natives suffered seven or eight thousand casualties, and the Ming soldiers were really not dead except for a few unlucky ones who were scratched by stray bullets.