In the late autumn dusk, the sun fell weakly from the western sky, plating the north beach of the Jinshan Peninsula with a layer of pale gold, which looked as if there was gold everywhere - in the eyes of the colonists of the Northern Ming Dynasty, as long as they were convinced of the Indians in the Jinshan area, the gold of Jinshan would make each of them a rich man!

Yes, each of them will get rich! In addition to Wen Tianxiang and Jiudeng monks...... Before the expedition set out, Chen Dexing promised them that if gold was found in the New World, they could take it as much as they could until they couldn't take it anymore - everyone could always carry more than 100 catties of gold home from the ship, right? Even taking into account the impurity of the gold collected from nature, each of them could harvest thirteen thousand pounds of copper. Even for a gentleman, this is an astonishing asset.

Players who stay in the New World will be rewarded twice as much when they return in the future! If they don't plan to return to the Old World, then after 10 years of service, each of them will receive the title of viscount and the corresponding domain - become a feudal lord with a territory!

In order for the Chinese to arouse a high enough interest in the New World, a huge wealth effect is still necessary.

Of course, if you want to achieve a great wealth effect, you must first defeat the swarming Indians!

Amid a strange roar, a large group of Indians poured along the beach like a tidal wave, huddled together on the beach with their backs to the sea. In the front row are mostly brawlers armed with leather shields and short spears, and in the back are archers with bows and arrows carrying quivers and sticks, or pitchers with several short spears.

Among the chaotic Indians, there are also some guys with feathered crowns on their heads. Without exception, they are surrounded by everyone, majestic. It's like a big man in the tribe.

These Indians are in high spirits for the past ten days. They have been frequently testing the reality of the "sea people", and have already figured out the number of people and the power of their weapons -- there are not many people, about a few hundred. The weapon is relatively powerful, and there is a very hard "stone knife", so it has some advantages in close combat. But that's it, as long as you open the distance and fight with bows and arrows and javelins, you can overwhelm the sea people with numerical superiority.

Of course, the "village" of the sea people is also a nuisance, surrounded by a ring of wooden fences. Trenches were also dug. However, it is too far to stop the Chumash warriors, who are more numerous than the stars in the sky!

The lobster, who was still wounded, had no way to draw a bow and throw a spear today, so he followed the "Children of the Sea" chief and the shark elder as their advisors. After all, he was the only one who had really come into close contact with the sea people.

The lobster rubbed his palms excitedly, there are so many good things in the sea people, hard stone knives, unforgettable food, and great water. The thought of that kind of water made him want to go to the front.

"Lobster, what's that?" Elder Shark's question interrupted Lobster's thoughts.

The young Indians craned their necks and stood on tiptoe. Less than 200 paces away, three large logs suddenly protruded from behind the wooden fence, as if they were on two pieces of rolling wood - the lobster had seen wheels and carts in the expedition's camp, but he didn't recognize them. The Indians forgot to invent the wheel, even the most advanced Mayan civilization (the Maya are said to have invented the wheel. There are cars with wheels in the toys of the Mayan children, but there is no place for wheels outside of the toys) and the Inca civilization are not so advanced. The fishermen and hunters of Northern Mingzhou, the Chumash people, were even more unthinkable of wheels, so the lobsters forgot to report to the chiefs and elders.

Just the Indians couldn't figure out what the log-like thing was on wheels. And continue to move forward with your head covered. The naval gunners in the expedition have already put a long barrel of something. Stuffed into the "log" and fiddled with it a few more times to aim it at the approaching Indians.

A qiē is ready. One of the naval officers in the expedition waved the small red flag in his hand downward, and the three gunners poked the red-hot iron skewers into a small hole in the back of the "log".

Then thousands of Indian warriors saw the most terrible scene in their lives: three "logs" made a deafening noise at the same time, and then the fire flickered and the smoke filled the air, the "logs" retreated backwards, and in the blink of an eye, the three shotguns were pushed out of the muzzles by the huge thrust of gunpowder, and the thin iron sheets suddenly shattered under the combined action of the internal and external pressure difference, and the 240 iron bullets that had lost their restraint screamed in the air and weaved a web of death, sweeping towards the Indians in front of them.

From the muzzle of the cannon to the projectile sweeping across the body of the Indians, it took less than a second, and the Indians who were just in front of the muzzle did not have time to react at all, and their flesh was greeted by the merciless destruction of iron and fire!

At the same time as the cannon sounded, a huge spherical object was slowly rising from the camp of the expedition members......

Now it is necessary to quote a sentence hundreds of years after this time and space, the great revolutionary and military strategist Napoleon who led the French people to victory in the War of Independence. Comrade Bonaparte's famous words: "The history of imperialism setting up a few cannons and setting off a hot air balloon in the West is gone forever!" ”

This famous quote illustrates two problems: first, reactionary colonial rule will eventually come to an end! Whether this colonial rule comes from Western imperialism or Eastern imperialism. Second, the criminal history of being able to conquer a country and a people with a few cannons and a hot air balloon has indeed existed and has lasted for quite a long time.

And a few executioners, robbers, and demons who started this heinous history of crime and are destined to be remembered forever by the people of Europe and Africa—Wen Tianxiang, Zhou Xiaoqi, Meng Qi, Yang Aguo, Monk Jiudeng, Monk Yongxin, and others—saw the thousands of indigenous Indians crowded on the beach, as if they had collectively been immobilized, and did not move, but just raised their heads and looked at the huge balloons in the sky. They all sighed at the same time.

Deterrence of this kind of thing, the most feared thing is that it can't be shaken!

Although the force of the expedition was enough to kill the thousands of natives in front of them, it did not achieve its goal by simply killing them. Killing and retreating means the beginning of the war, and subjugating the other side means winning the war. It means that the expedition team has gained a firm foothold in the Mingzhou continent, which is more than 10,000 miles away from the home country.

The Indian lobster was still alive, and he was located at a distance from the muzzles of the three cannons. But he was still stunned by the loud roar and the mountain-like flying objects in the sky.

When the roar in his head faded and he "understood" what had happened, he trembled with fright - these people were not sea people at all, but celestial people! They are those who come down from heaven, they ...... Probably a messenger from God! And he brought a great army against the messenger of God!

What an unforgivable sin!

"Oh God!" As soon as the lobster's legs went limp, he fell to his knees with his hands raised in the air, and his mouth just shouted, "O God! Forgive me! O God! Forgive me......"

It's God! It turned out to be God!

Someone heard the lobster's shout, and the answer suddenly came to a blank mind!

Fire-breathing wood! Huge orbs that fly! This cannot be done by human beings, it must be God, at least God's messenger! And it's not an ordinary god, it must be a very powerful god!

The thought that he was fighting against the gods, the most courageous Indian, shook his legs like chaff. Suddenly, many people knelt down and bowed to the hot air balloon in the air......

……

Liaoxi, Yuguan.

Across the river from the dilapidated and old castle, 12 3-inch bronze cannons were erected and a hot air balloon was raised.

However, the cannon did not fire, but from a distance, quietly, pointing the muzzle of the cannon directly at the gate of Yuguan.

Behind the artillery position, there were also infantry and cavalry of the brigade, which discharged a dense formation outside Yuguan City. In the front row were the crossbowmen - they were no longer mere crossbowmen, in addition to crossbows, arrows and a large horizontal knife, they also carried a light rattan card, which the military and political secretary of the Northern Ming Dynasty had bought from Guangdong and Guangxi.

In other words, these crossbowmen turned into knife players, and they also had large cross-cutting knives with steel inlaid or sandwiched steel with blades up to three feet long. And everyone is dressed in iron armor, and everyone has undergone extremely rigorous training. Not only can it discharge a strict formation, it can shoot deadly arrows within thirty steps, but it also has hand-to-hand combat power that is no less than that of Mongolian cowardice. The rattan extended knife and straight stab method is simple and effective, which can maximize the power of the big horizontal knife!

After the crossbowmen (who are also sword players), they are still pikemen in armor, but the length of the spear has been increased to one zhang and two, and the steel spear head is also installed.

In addition, Xiao Tianlei, who once played a huge role in the Chen family's army, was taken from the crossbowmen and pikemen. This is because in previous operations, there have been many incidents of accidental explosions and injuries by small thunderbolts.

Therefore, the current Beiming Army has adopted the method of forming grenadiers separately. An infantry brigade was increased by a grenadier battalion, increasing the number from 1,000 to 1,300. And the melee weapons of the grenadiers are also large horizontal knives and rattan cards.

At the same time, in order to adapt to the characteristics of multi-cavalry operations in the north. The number of pikemen in the Northern Ming army also increased significantly, while the number of crossbowmen decreased accordingly. The standard configuration of an infantry brigade of the Northern Ming Army became two battalions of pikes, one battalion of crossbows and one battalion of grenadiers and a brigade headquarters company.

Moreover, the arrangement of the infantry formations of the Northern Ming Army has also changed, evolving from horizontal formations to phalanxes. In the case of a brigade-level phalanx, for example, there are usually three columns of crossbows and six columns of pikes, followed by the brigade headquarters company, and the grenadiers are deployed on both sides and behind the phalanx for cover and support tasks.

And now, in front of Yan Zhongji, the defender of the Yuguan Yuan Army, are three such brigade-level infantry phalanxes, and almost the same number of black-clothed cavalry. (To be continued......)