At the Louvière Post House, when the sky was about to brighten, Liu Xiaoyuan frowned tightly, and it took a while for him to say to his henchman, Liu An, the deputy superintendent of the Rouen Customs: "What do you know they want so many white slaves to do?" ”

Liu An's face was a little pale, his eyes were slightly red, and he couldn't stop yawning, obviously he had rushed from Rouen Shangguan Island to see Liu Xiaoyuan overnight. In the hospitality Selassie. At the banquet between Solomon and Lai Fu, Liu An had already taken a lot of dry goods from the mouths of the two.

The other party's intention surprised Liu An. Although he had known Selassie for a long time. Solomon and Reifot came for the White Slaves. But he didn't expect that the number of white slaves needed by the other party would be so large!

Just the young white slave girl, the opening is 180,000!

Originally, the old man Liu An thought that the "black eunuch" was out of the palace to buy and find Europa for Chen Dasheng. But these 180,000 ...... How did Chen Dexing run out? And the other party did not propose to be beautiful, but stipulated that the age was under 25 years old, and if you are in good health, you can relax to 30 years old.

"Xiangye, the little one didn't find out what the other party wanted the white female slaves to do, but he knew that the other party wanted to transport these white female slaves to Mingzhou."

Liu An reported what he heard at the banquet - the white slave girl will be transported to the Mingzhou Continent!

"To Mingzhou?" Liu Xiaoyuan frowned. For Europe, Mingzhou on the other side of the Atlantic is a familiar and unfamiliar place.

I say familiar because almost everyone knows that there is such a place, knows that it is the territory of the Ming Empire, and knows that the second-class Indian masters are from there. It's just that until now, it seems that no Europa has ever been to the Mingzhou continent. Because...... The Ming Empire does not allow it! The reason is that the Europa people carry diseases that can be transmitted to the Indian lords of Mingzhou.

But now...... Aren't you afraid that these Europa women will go to Mingzhou to pass on the disease to the Indian master?

"The ...... to Mingzhou Are they all women? Liu Xiaoyuan suddenly thought of something.

"It's all women!" Liu An is definitely authentic. At last night's wine feast. He got a lot of words out of Lai Fu's mouth.

"So many white slave girls go to Mingzhou......" Liu Xiaoyuan thought for a while, and suddenly clapped his hands and said. It's to get married! These white slave girls went to Mingzhou to marry and have children! ”

"Marry?" Liu An was stunned for a moment, and then laughed. "How is that possible? There are people in Mingzhou, aren't those Indian (Indian) warriors from Mingzhou? If there are men, there must be women. ”

Liu Xiaoyuan shook his head, "I don't know about this." However, Chen Dexing was willing to spend money to buy white slave girls from Europa, and he must have betrothed them to Han immigrants who were willing to settle in Mingzhou. As for the woman of Mingzhou...... I heard that Mingzhou has had many epidemics in recent years, and countless people have died, and I am afraid that there are not many people left. If they plundered their women again, they were afraid of arousing public outrage. ”

The news of the smallpox plague in Mingzhou and the susceptibility of the Indians to the disease were no secret in Europa. After all, there are tens of thousands of Indians living in Hong Kong and Macao. In recent years, I have also become familiar with Europeans. I don't know how much of Mingzhou's truth was leaked through their mouths - how simple the Indians were, how cunning the Europa people were, how could they hide it?

Liu Xiaoyuan is so thoughtful, think about it carefully, the key to it has been transparent.

Mingzhou is a treasure land with extremely wide land, extremely sparse people, and a lot of gold and silver! It is the private land of the Ming Dynasty, and it cannot be touched by the Europas. But it is not easy to transport people to Mingzhou across the Pacific Ocean, and now the Ming Dynasty is not a poor livelihood. The common people have a good life, and there are fewer people who are willing to cross the ocean to Mingzhou. Moreover, even if some people are willing to go, most of them are going to get rich. When you have dug up enough gold and silver, you will go back to your hometown. Naturally, I won't bring a woman, and in the end, even if I want to settle there, it's difficult.

Therefore, the Han people in Mingzhou must have more men than women, and the proportion is out of balance. And let them settle down in Mingzhou. The Ming court had to find a wife for them. However, there is a rule in "Chen Li" that "Han people are not slaves", so naturally you can't buy poor women in the Ming Dynasty. In this way, they can only find women locally in Mingzhou and Europa.

The local aborigines of Ming Chau have been greatly reduced due to the epidemic. The number of women available is limited, and the authorities are afraid of arousing public outrage. You can only spend money to buy from Europa......

"Hahaha......" Liu Xiaoyuan thought of this, and suddenly burst out laughing.

"Why is Xiangye laughing?" Liu An on the side was puzzled and asked in a low voice.

Liu Xiaoyuan said with a smile: "Because the matter of the Mingmeng peace agreement will be completed, there will always be a hundred years of peace in the world!" ”

"Really?" Liu An was still puzzled.

"You can't be wrong!" Liu Xiaoyuan said with great certainty, "For the Ming Dynasty, swallowing 100,000 miles of fertile soil in Mingzhou is the foundation of eternity, compared with Mingzhou, Europa is nothing here, and it is difficult to manipulate, without hundreds of thousands of soldiers, millions of immigrants are simply not enough to suppress." Therefore, as long as our Great Mongolia can provide convenience for the Ming Dynasty to colonize Mingzhou, Chen Dexing will definitely not kill us all! If he kills us all, where will he buy so many white slave girls? ”

"Sold to Chen Dexing's white slave girl?" Liu An seemed to feel incredible, and looked at Liu Xiaoyuan with wide eyes.

Liu Xiaoyuan nodded affirmatively: "Of course!" Confucius said: Eating and drinking men and women, people's great desires exist. There are few people in Mingzhou, and food is definitely not scarce, and what is lacking is women......"

This thing sounds strange, the dignified Great Mongolia, the foundation founded by Genghis Khan, now has to rely on sending women to the Ming Dynasty to protect itself...... If Genghis Khan knew about it, he would have to live out of the grave - but even if Genghis Khan lived, it would be useless!

Because Chen Dexing opened an era of steel and H medicine! Today's war is no longer something that can be controlled by the backward steppe peoples.

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Central Asia, the two river basins, Huzhang Henan, Tongtian Pass. At this moment, a general battle to decide the survival of the Ilkhanate and the Timur Khanate is going on at the most critical time.

After Zhu Sijiu's army defeated the busy brother Timur last time, they easily defeated the Tongtian Pass and drove the busy brother Timur into the city of Kuyu. However, there was no attack or siege, only the gates of Ferghana's territory were blocked to grow potatoes. After waiting for nearly three months, it was time for the potatoes to be ripe. Finally, the 120,000 Ilkhanate army led by Abaha and Boyan came!

On the 12th day of the seventh month of the seventh year of the Great Ming Dynasty, 80,000 Ming troops marched to the west and 120,000 troops of the Ilkhanate. On the plain outside Tongtian Pass, another fateful battle unfolded.

Liu Dou has now been promoted to lieutenant company commander and is no longer serving in Guo Kan's Silver Armor Division. Instead, they were transferred to the musketeer division directly under Zhu Sijiu -- Guo Kan, Liu Quan, and Yan Zhongji all contributed their own musket regiments, and the three of them gave Zhu Sijiu 1,000 men, and Zhu Sijiu used them to form three four-company pike battalions, which were assigned to the three musket regiments.

Therefore, Zhu Sijiu's musketeer division was a mixture of musketeers, sword and shield men, and pikemen.

Moreover, all the fighters of the whole division. Whether armed with a spear, a sword and shield, or a musket, it is a full steel armor, and it is definitely a configuration for hoplites.

In today's battle, Zhu Sijiu threw his newly built musketeer division into the offensive as soon as he came up. Eight thousand and several hundred soldiers, under the command of Hai Dawei, the division commander assigned by Zhu Sijiu, listed three unprecedented four-column horizontal formations on the battlefield. With the support of 144 artillery pieces and 36 rocket squads, they began to approach the left flank of the front of the army of the Ilkhanate.

"Hold the formation! Hold on to your formation! Moving Forward ......"

Liu Dou roared loudly, and the blood on his body seemed to be boiling.

The battle line composed of 120,000 troops was spread endlessly on the vast grassland. Armed with maces, maces, and spears. Dressed in iron armor and leather armor, there are also people riding war horses and holding bows and arrows.

Such an army, if it had not encountered the Western Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty, would have been invincible - at least here in Persia, Dashi, and Lianghe. There is simply no force that can threaten them.

But now, in front of the Ming heroes armed with steel and firearms. This army of the Mongols is simply outdated.

"Da Da Da ......"

The sound of the drums rang in the ears of every Steelclad warrior. All the people follow the rhythm and move forward at the speed of the walk.

"Immortal Heaven bless the Mongols!"

The shouts of the Mongols came from the front! Liu Dou looked up. It turned out that the cavalry of the Mongols had come up, and the horse team of tens of thousands of people had already listed the formation on the steppe. It's about to charge.

"Hollow phalanx!"

The order of the division commander Hai Dawei was conveyed by the first level. The three marching musket regiments stopped at the same time, and then suddenly there was a dazzling change of formation, and the original four horizontal columns quickly expanded into three regimental hollow phalanxes with intervals of more than 200 paces. The outermost layer of the phalanx was the sword and shield soldiers (also a four-company battalion), all of whom knelt on one knee, and their shields formed a low wall, from which long knives protruded. Inside the sword and shield soldiers were pikemen, also kneeling, with one end of the spear against the ground, also extending from the gap between the large shields. Inside the pikemen were three rows of musketeers, and at the bottom were the officers of the regimental and divisional headquarters.

As soon as the great formation was formed, the Mongol horse team started. The cavalry charged from two miles away—they were more than three and a half miles away from the Ming army's battle formation. The reason why it is so far away is to avoid shelling. However, they were still bombarded by rockets from the Ming artillery before, and the formation was chaotic for a while, and it was not easy to put it in order. Zhu Sijiu's musketeers had already taken the opportunity to advance more than a mile and a half.

The galloping scene of 10,000 horses was very terrifying, and the ground was trampled by the horses' hooves and trembled slightly, like a drum. However, the officers and men of the Ming Army's Musketeer Division were as calm as water.

The commander of the first regiment of the musketeer division is Zhu Sijiu's fellow countryman, named Tang Ying, who is also an "old sergeant" who has been in the army for more than ten years. In the Ming army there was the rank of colonel and the title of viscount. Seeing the smoke and dust in the sky opposite, he just shouted: "Musketeers prepare!" ”

"Musketeer, check the arquebus!"

The battalion commanders and company commanders below gave orders one after another. It was a routine order - the musketeers' ammunition was loaded and the arquebuses were lit before they could begin their advance. Now it's just another test.

"Musketeers, three shots!" Tang Ying ordered again. "The enemy is 30 paces away and open fire!"

The three-stage shot was the standard tactic of the Ming musketeers - that is, the musketeers were divided into three columns, two of which were responsible for loading and one for firing. Since this tactic was used on the defensive, and the Ming army rarely fought defensive battles for so many years, the Mongols did not see much of it.

"Boyan, have you seen this square array in Tianzhu?"

The Mongol army was more than two miles from their line in the rear, and on a tall nest cart, Ilkhan Abha, and Kublai Khan's general Boyan stood side by side. Both of them were holding binoculars and watching the former enemy.

"I haven't seen it...... However, when the minister was in the Central Plains, he had heard that the Ming army had a hollow phalanx of foot cavalry. Boyan frowned, and the binoculars in his hand were about to be grabbed out of the water.

As soon as he entered the battlefield, he saw that something was wrong! The Ming army here is much more elite than the one he saw in Tianzhu. Not only is the formation neat, but the movement of changing the formation is very fast, as if it is flowing smoothly. Their artillery is also powerful, not only can they shoot accurately, but they will also release rockets, and this rocket is also accurate! As soon as the battle began, three or four hundred rockets bombarded the left flank of one's own battle formation. It's been a mess! In the end, Abaha transferred the three thousand people of his cowardly Xue army to stabilize it.

But this side was stabilized, and the musketeers of the Ming army over there actually pressed up.

Charge with musketeers...... What kind of play is this? Boyan was puzzled, this musketeer Kublai Khan also had it, but he had always used them as archers. Even if you want to get close to the enemy, you will go up under the heavy protection of the cavalry. Why did the Ming army come up like this now?

"If you can rush, you should be able to rush away!" Abaha gritted his teeth, "As long as the warriors don't hesitate...... Damn, rockets! ”

Halfway through his words, his face suddenly became extremely ugly, and it turned out that in the sky in front of him, dozens of rockets dragging long tails of flames had risen! Looking at the direction in which they flew, they were used to bomb the charging Mongolian horse team.

The lethality of these hateful rockets is not great, but the scene of the explosion is too scary, and people can bear it, but the horse can't stand it, the horse is startled, and the charging formation will be chaotic, and the impact will drop greatly.

"King Khan, the cavalry of the Ming army!"

Boyan exclaimed again, and Ah Baha hurriedly looked intently, and saw that the right flank of the Ming army's battle formation also raised smoke and dust, and it was obvious that a large number of cavalry were coming. The prestige of the Ming Army's "Eight Banners Horse Team" was also heard of in Persia. Although there are not many of them, they all have steel armor and are good at riding and shooting, which is not easy to deal with!

"They must be trying to pursue our cavalry after the failure ......of the charge," Boyan said in a low voice, "King Khan, throw your three cowardly thousand troops into it." ”

Before he could finish his words, a rumbling explosion came from the front, and the rockets of the Ming army had already exploded in the galloping Mongolian iron cavalry.

At this time, the advance of the Mongolian cavalry was less than 100 steps away from the three hollow phalanxes of the Ming army! (To be continued.) )