Volume 18 Chapter 69 Across the Americas, Attacking the British

In October, North America has slowly entered winter, and the sea breeze in Jinshan Port has been chilling, and the streets of Jinshan City have also been cold and windy.

At this time of the year, the people of the Indian tribes did not go out much, because their spinning and weaving skills were still in the initial stage of manual work, and they could not weave much hardy clothing, and they generally sat around their homes at this time, baking the fire to keep out the cold.

However, this time of year is different, because the Great Tomorrow Dynasty has arrived, bringing countless thick fabrics, and according to their clothing style, they have been given a set of warm clothes for each of them.

Of course, if they want to make more and better clothes, they can also do it, there are many factories in the city of the Great Ming Dynasty that provide job opportunities, and there are also a lot of laborers needed to build roads and cities along the railway, and they can go to work at any time to make money and buy all kinds of brightly colored fabrics to make clothes.

The clothes alone gave them a great passion, not to mention the porcelain, tea, wine, spices, smooth mirrors, fine knives and countless other good things, which drove them to work to get what they dreamed of.

In factories and on construction sites in and around cities across North America, there is another interesting sight where all the working Indians are dressed in identical clothes, as if they were work uniforms, which is pleasing to the eye.

This is indeed the clothes that the Indians specially used to work, these clothes were given to them for free by the Great Ming Dynasty, since they were free, naturally they would not use too good fabrics, they all invariably used them as work, as for the usual time when they did not work, they naturally wore clothes made of bought fabrics, which looked better.

Thanks to the active participation of the Indians, the construction of roads and cities was carried out rapidly, and by this time, the American Railway had already been built near the British colonies on the east coast, and the cities and stations were nearing completion.

It was at this time that the port of Jinshan City ushered in a huge fleet of ships, and there were as many as a thousand armed ships of a unified system, and the entire bay was almost full of ship shadows.

Needless to ask, this is the third wave of the Ming Empire's colonial fleet, thousands of armed ships not only transported the first batch of 100,000 guards, but also transported a large number of weapons, ammunition and goods, and more importantly, dozens of locomotives.

The factory of Daming Royal Machinery Group in Jinshan City has built an unknown number of trucks and passenger cars during this time, but they can't build the locomotive, and they can only transport it from Daming itself.

After the locomotives were hoisted down from the armed Fu ship, they directly entered the railway tracks on the wharf, and then drove into the workshop of the Daming Royal Machinery Group in Jinshan City with the sound of the whistle, and soon after, the workshop of the Daming Royal Machinery Group opened a complete train.

The originally empty Jinshan City Railway Station was filled with trains, and the platform, which was originally empty, was also lined up with soldiers of the Tianxiong Army and the Loyal Army.

Seeing that it is about to enter the cold winter, if you don't take action, you will have to wait until next year.

Lu Xiangsheng naturally didn't want to wait a few months before attacking, and Zhu Cijiong didn't want the powers to use these few months to get more supplies on the North American continent, they all had an idea, that is, they must drive the British army out of the North American continent before the year!

It was based on this consideration that Zhu Cijiong deliberately asked the third wave of colonial fleets to bring the locomotive that was urgently needed here, and also brought the weapons, ammunition, and grain and grass needed for this war, so not long after the arrival of the East and West, Lu Xiangsheng organized a large army to prepare for the expedition.

With the active cooperation of the local natives, the Ming army has already investigated the deployment of the British troops on the east coast.

At this time, Britain had a total of six colonies in North America, namely:

the colony of Virginia, founded in 1607;

the Massachusetts colony, founded in 1620;

the New Hampshire colony, founded in 1623;

the colony of Maryland, founded in 1632;

the establishment of the Colony of Rhode Island in 1636;

Colonial Connecticut founded in 1639.

And the British troops in these colonies are not very large, the minimum is less than a thousand, and the maximum is less than 10,000, which is a total of 20,000 or 30,000 British troops.

I don't know if the British were too superstitious about their naval power or they didn't expect it to be attacked, but in short, the defense of their various gathering points or towns was very lax, and they basically built a low wall to defend against the Indians who did not have gunpowder weapons.

Of course, there are some places where castles have been built, but they are only ordinary castles used to defend ordinary people, not fortresses.

This kind of ordinary defense is no problem against the Indians, but in the face of the well-equipped Ming army, it is not effective at all, if it is not for the fact that the British army may receive sea support at any time, Lu Xiangsheng may have sent cavalry to pack them up, and what kind of railway to build.

The main purpose of the railway construction was to bring in heavy weapons such as artillery and armored fighting vehicles to prepare for reinforcements from the British.

By this time, the American Railroad had reached the rear of the Indian Pecot tribe's settlement, that is, between Maryland and Connecticut, probably in what would be northeastern Pennsylvania, just over a hundred miles away from both the colonies of Maryland and Connecticut.

Because the relationship between the British colonists and the Indian tribes was quite bad at this time, and their strength was not enough to sweep all the Indian tribes, they did not dare to enter the gathering area of the Indian tribes at all, because once they entered, they basically could not get out.

But the Ming Empire is like a fish in water here, and the Indians regard them as saviors, not only will not attack them, but will also do their best to help them!

After several days of preparation and a few days of train rides, Lu Xiangsheng finally led all the soldiers of the Tianxiong Army and the Loyal Army to the terminal of the American Railroad on the East Coast.

Not only did a large railway station be built here, but also a small city was built, and as for the name of the city, he had asked the emperor, but he had not received a reply, so for the time being, it could only be called the Pecot tribe here.

This Pecot tribe is also a large tribe of tens of thousands of people, and their original gathering place is not here, but near the coast, and they were forced to migrate here after being killed by the British colonists.

The Indian tribes near the east coast were basically similar to them, either killed by the British colonists and forced to relocate, or the killed scattered and fled, and the enmity between them and the British colonists can be said to be as deep as the sea.

Now that the Great Tomorrow Dynasty has come to help them take revenge, they are naturally active, and they don't need Lu Xiangsheng to mobilize, and the nearby tribes have taken the initiative to send soldiers to lead the way for the Ming army.

Lu Xiangsheng naturally couldn't ask for it, because the strength of the British army was not very strong, he decided to divide the troops into two ways.

He personally led the Tianxiong Army to the south to attack the colonies of Maryland and Virginia, which were relatively large and populous.

On the first route, Yang Zhong led the Loyal Warriors to the north to attack the other four smaller colonies.

With local tribesmen leading the way, the process went smoothly, and soon, the Ming army appeared on the outskirts of the British colonists' gathering place without realizing it.