Of course, holding out until the fleet arrives is not an easy task. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

There is at least 20,000 miles to sail from Dingyuan Port to Xinbocheng, because there is no way to replenish fuel on the way, the Ming fleet can only rely on auxiliary sails to sail, even if it will take two months to arrive at the earliest, and the British also understand this, so they must solve the Ming army in Xinbocheng within two months......

In fact, they did it half a month later.

"Yin Ren?"

Zhang Cheng said with a sneer.

In half a month, the Ming army has set up camp here, and with logs and trench antlers to form a defensive line, including the improvised dock has also been built, two armed merchant ships directly parked on the dock to provide support, and four armed merchant ships are anchored at the mouth of the river as a battery, and the number of Ming troops who landed has also increased to more than 300 people, but they first have to face not the British or pirates, but the aborigines here.

They were surrounded by a large number of Indian warriors.

"But it doesn't have to be solved by fighting!"

Zhang Cheng said with a smile.

Then he waved his hand, pointed to the mountains of cotton cloth beside him, and said to an Indian who came to negotiate: "Gift, this is a gift for you, we are friends and not enemies, we are here to do business, not white colonists, please look at our skin color, we are the same kind of people, we are from the kingdom of God in the East." ”

Wandering all year round, his complexion is indeed not much different from that of the Indians?

"The kingdom of God?"

The Indian messenger said puzzledly.

They belong to the Creek people, this area is inhabited by the Creeks, although it is still in the tribal era, but because of the influence of the colonists in the north and south, it has been relatively civilized, and even the weapons in their hands have appeared smoothbore guns, of course, they are still different from those in the west who have begun to speak Chinese.

"The Kingdom of God, the kingdom ruled by the Emperor of God, where your ancestors also came from."

Zhang Cheng stretched out his hand as he spoke, pointed to the musket on his back and said, "Can you lend me a one?" ”

The Indian was also refreshed, anyway, there were thousands of tribal warriors behind him, and he didn't worry about Lin Hao's fraud, and then took off the shoddy ancient flintlock pistol from his back, and now all European countries have replaced it with a Ming rifled gun, and many of these eliminated rags are used to cheat money from the Indians.

"This?"

Zhang Cheng looked at it with disdain, and then pulled the trigger twenty zhang away, and the bullet hit a cow that was about to be slaughtered, and the cow wailed angrily, shook its head and broke the rope, and rushed into the distance very violently.

"Trash!"

Zhang Cheng said and threw the gun to the ground, then reached out and took the rifled gun handed by Lin Hao, aimed at the cow that had run thirty zhang away and pulled the trigger without hesitation, with a gunshot, the Mini bullet instantly drilled into the cow's head, and the mad cow who ran wildly fell to the ground with a wail, and Zhang Cheng took out the bullet as quickly as possible, stuffed it into the muzzle and pushed it to the end with a strip, and then put on a fire cap and fired a second shot, and then the cow was completely silent.

"I've got it for you!"

He threw the rifled gun to the Indian and said.

"Three months at most, I'll give you another thousand!"

Then he added.

Without hesitation, the Indian turned around and shouted to the warriors who were waiting behind him: "Lay down your weapons, bring out our best food, and welcome our brothers from the kingdom of God." ”

"Look, it's as simple as that."

Zhang Cheng turned around and said to the stupid Lin Hao.

The Indians are not stupid, in fact the Creeks are not raw, they have even begun to try to form a union state in a European way, if these people who are really about the same color as them are trying to rob their farmland, their homeland, then of course they will not agree, but all they want is an estuary that they can only use for fishing, and they have given them a lot of gifts, promised them more gifts, and of course, they have shown great strength, So why do they want to use white people as gunmen again?

Soon, under the melancholy gaze of the following British, some of the Indians put down their weapons and walked to the Ming camp to carry the cotton cloth, while others went back to bring food and meat, and after Zhang Cheng took out the wine again, the two families set up a bonfire to revel, and the Britons left gloomily.

Of course, this is just the beginning.

The next group to visit was replaced by pirates.

However, at this time, the number of Ming troops also increased to five hundred, and the number of ships also increased to eight, at this time, the merchant ships of the entire American Universal Company received orders, and they were all equipped with radios anyway, although the radios on the ships could not communicate too far because of power problems, but it was still very easy to receive radio signals from bases such as Jinshan and Dingyuan Port, including some merchant ships sailing in the middle of the Atlantic.

So the hapless pirates suffered another crushing defeat.

Although only two of these merchant ships are made of steel, the firepower equivalent to a large cruiser is not something that a pirate ship can oppose, not to mention that these merchant ships are not inferior to them in speed after unloading their cargo, not to mention these small pirate ships, it is difficult to say whether the British Navy warships will work when they come, of course, if they drive those first-class battleships, it will definitely work.

But it's a pity that the British don't have the guts.

Two months later, the Ming Atlantic Fleet officially entered Xinbo Port, and the accompanying marines landed, and the city completely fell into Yang Feng's grasp.

The original defenders, that is, the Yinzhou Task Force, were retired, including their ships, which were also re-turned into merchant ships of the Universal Company, and then each left the port and returned to their shipping routes, continuing their maritime business, and in reward they each received a large reward, and those foreign mercenaries even officially obtained the status of subjects of the Ming Dynasty.

One by one, they all left satisfied, and the colonial governors of Britain, France, and Spain were dumbfounded.

Because immediately after that, a large number of goods originally franchised by the British and French East India Company were transported to Xinbo City, and at the same time, smugglers from all over the country swarmed like flies to blood, carrying these goods onto merchant ships and even small fishing boats, and then disappeared into the vast sea, and the next time they appeared, it would definitely be those scarred coastlines.

The British Royal Navy does not have a few warships in North America, let alone thousands of kilometers of coastline, and they can't see a single Boston.

What's more, many of these bastards don't even go by sea, after a hundred years of colonization, the land transportation and inland waterway shipping in New England and other colonies have been very perfect, and the smuggled goods pulled by a carriage go from the land, anyway, the British only have a total of a few thousand garrisons in this area, what can this person do. At present, the common people in these colonies are basically all in the same group as the smugglers, including a large number of local officials and policemen, who receive large sums of money from the smugglers every year, and they will not care if they see them.

Especially after the Indians joined the ranks, it made the British even more desperate.

Those smugglers passed through their territory under the protection of the Indians, directly into the water network of the Ohio River, and could even transport the smuggled goods from the interior to the distant Great Lakes coast, not to mention the British people in the colonies, even if the British army was transferred to the North American colonies, they could not plug the holes everywhere, and the poor East India Company had just had a few good days, and then was beaten half to death with a stick.

All kinds of tea, spices, kerosene and other goods purchased from the Ming Dynasty are piled up in the warehouses of the ports, unless the price is reduced to the point of losing money, no one cares at all, those colonial people who drink smuggled tea, wear clothes made of smuggled cloth, and eat food sprinkled with smuggled spices, regardless of the murderous eyes of those aristocratic capitalists in London, their lives are comfortable, and those guys who have sucked their blood for so many years should also be unlucky.

The British East India Company quickly slipped to the brink of bankruptcy.

However, this company cannot fall.

Unlike the original history, the current Britain, there is no other economic pillar, their textile industry is on the verge of a desperate situation under the impact of the Ming textile industry, after the loss of India, there is no place to plunder, all the rich people in Britain, almost all rely on the East India Company. Although there was no India to plunder, this company still monopolized the trade between Britain and the colonies with the East, shipped all kinds of goods from the Ming Dynasty, and then exported cotton and black slaves to the Ming Dynasty, relying on the monopoly power to continue to increase the wealth of the wealthy families, including the royal family, and also brought huge franchise fees to the British government to make up for the financial deficit caused by their large-scale military expansion.

Although this money is tantamount to sucking blood from the lower classes, it is more subtle than directly increasing taxes.

Once the East India Company fell, then the British finances were on the verge of collapse, unless they raised taxes on a large scale, the British finances would absolutely no longer be able to support the current expansion, they were now investing heavily in buying steel products from the Ming in various ways, and then smelting these steel products into heavy coastal defense guns, and constantly building one fort after another along the British coast, in order to prepare to resist the invasion of the Ming Dynasty.

Similarly, they are also replacing their own navy's naval guns with a full set of rifled guns purchased from Daming.

They are also frantically purchasing rifled guns from the Ming Dynasty, according to the calculations of the British government, if they want to stop the invasion of the Ming Dynasty, the easiest way is to be a soldier, that is to say, all British adult men, to do a rifled gun in each person's hand, ready to use guerrilla warfare to resist to the death to turn Britain into the tomb of the Ming people, conservatively estimated that they also need at least one million rifled guns, although they can produce it themselves, but the output is very low, and they have to buy mainly from the Ming Dynasty.

And this is all about money! (To be continued.) )