Five months passed, and the time came to May of Chongzhen's 27th year. In terms of the navy, two colonial bases have been established in Somalia and Madagascar, because the Ming Dynasty has pointed out the cement technology, so the establishment of overseas colonial bases can be used in the use of reinforced concrete structure buildings, so the time cost can be greatly shortened.

Otherwise, if the city is still built with earth and stone, it will take a few years. Wooden structures are vulnerable to attack, as were the Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch colonies.

For example, in the Zulu War, when 50 British soldiers massacred 5,000 Zulus, the Zulu attacked a British colonial stronghold in the area, killed several British, and then the British retaliated.

Chongzhen attaches unprecedented importance to the human resources of the Ming Dynasty, and naturally does not want the Ming army to suffer accidents. Therefore, a colony built on the open sea must have well-developed defenses, including tall walls.

In addition to the perfect facilities, Chongzhen also left an infantry regiment garrison in each colonial stronghold to ensure security.

With an infantry regiment, supplemented by a well-developed city defense, and heavy machine guns, even if it is attacked by an indigenous army of more than 100,000 people, it is safe.

After establishing the Mogadishu stronghold in Somalia and the Suarez stronghold in Madagascar, Chongzhen led the three major fleets of the Ming Navy and the 4th Army Division to Cape Town, South Africa, and arrived in Cape Town in late May, and then destroyed the Cape Town stronghold that the Dutch had just built in a single attack.

Then, the Ming army built its own stronghold on the basis of the Dutch stronghold. At the same time as building the stronghold, Chongzhen also named this stronghold Haijiao City.

By the way, Mogadishu in Somalia is not called Mogadishu now, but Zhengzhi Dragon City. The reason why Chongzhen did this was to commemorate Zheng Zhilong, the father of the navy who had just passed away.

There is also Suarez City in Madagascar, which was also renamed Zheng He City by Chongzhen, of course, to commemorate the ancestor of the Ming Navy, the famous general Zheng He.

In short, the naval side is advancing in an orderly manner as planned. If there are no surprises, we will be able to reach Morocco in the second half of this year.

Then by the beginning of next year, it will be possible to launch a cross-sea attack on Rome. …… Then in terms of the army, six local towns and ten overseas towns have been reorganized, and the 100,000 town soldiers who have been rectified have also been sent to Yin Li, and have been incorporated into the dragoon corps.

The Dragoon Corps also became the only mobile combat corps in the Ming Dynasty. The Dragoon Corps had two cavalry corps, each of which had four cavalry divisions.

After Zhu Cijiong and Li Yan arrived at Yin Li, it took two full months to finally complete the reorganization of the entire dragoon corps, and the troops also formed combat effectiveness.

It was at this time that the Turks sent a message. The Cossack cavalry from the Volga had already entered the Kyrgyz steppes.

After Zhu Cijiong consulted with Li Yan and others, he immediately led the 1st Cavalry Army to urgently rush to the aid of the nomadic Turghut Department in the Kazakh steppe, while Li Yan led the main force of the 2nd Cavalry Army to Samarkand, first joining up with the other two cavalry divisions that were originally stationed there, and then meeting the Savifa Empire army from the Persian plateau.

Yes, the Saavifa Empire on the Persian plateau had already launched an eastward crusade in advance. Abbas II, Emperor of the Saavifa Empire, was young but ambitious.

Taking advantage of the God-given opportunity that the prime minister of the empire had just died and there was no elbow in the court, Abbas II mobilized almost all the standing armies that could be mobilized in the Sawifa Empire, a total of 80,000 standing troops plus 120,000 auxiliaries and civilian men, and marched eastward.

Moreover, Abbas II played a trick, ostensibly releasing rumors to fight Samarkand, but in fact, he aimed the spearhead of the Eastern Crusade at Kandahar, Abbas II wanted to follow the example of his ancestors, take Kandahar, and then enter India from the Kelber Pass, and recapture the rich Ganges Plain from the hands of the Mongols.

That's right, Abbas's real target is India. The so-called crusade of the so-and-so army is just an excuse.

However, Abbas II's hand really worked. Due to the inadequacy of the Arabs' intelligence work, Zhu Cijiong and Li Yan both misjudged that the target of the coalition army composed of Ottoman and Sawifa was Salmahan, so Li Yan led the 2nd Cavalry Army into Samarkand, but the door was open on the side of Kandahar and the Khalber Pass.

But then again, it's not really a big problem. Because from Kandahar to the Kelber Pass, this area is the birthplace of the Bukhara Khanate and the Kokand Khanate, this area has almost been killed by Zhu Cijiong into white land, and there are few people left.

Therefore, if the Savi French army really marches from this direction, its logistics supply will face unprecedented challenges, which is equivalent to the Ming army adopting the strategy of clearing the wilderness, just these more than 3,000 miles of logistics supply lines can drag down the Savi French army.

And even if the Sawi army overcame many difficulties and finally crossed the Kelber Pass and reached the city of Peshawar, they would be met with a head-on attack by the defenders of the Mughal Empire.

The Mughal Empire was now a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. The Mughal army will definitely not be able to defeat the Ming army, but it will be at least five or five to fight the Savi French army.

Therefore, Abbas II's careful thinking was harmful to a certain sect and a certain army, but it gave Li Yan's troops a chance to break through.

…… In short, the Central Asian battlefield is still calm. But the great war in the Kazakh steppes has officially begun.

The scout cavalry, led by Zhu Cijiong himself, encountered a reconnaissance squad of Cossack cavalry on the edge of the Kazakh steppe, and a skirmish broke out.

At this time, the captain of the personal soldiers who followed Zhu Cijiong was Zhou Peigong. Zhou Peigong said: "King Ding, the number of enemies is several times that of ours, why don't you withdraw first?" ”

"Withdraw? Why withdraw, it's just several times ours. Zhu Cijiong was not afraid at all, and said abruptly,

"That's not enough for us to stuff our teeth." Zhou Peigong was a little embarrassed: "But ......"

"Nothing." Zhu Cijiong interrupted him,

"Pass my order, pull the horizontal team to meet it." Zhou Peigong had no choice but to order the formation to be expanded, and soon, more than a hundred scout cavalry spread out left and right, forming a huge front, and then urged the war horse to meet the Cossack cavalry in front.

Seeing this, the Cossack cavalry on the opposite side also spread out their cavalry formation, forming a wider cavalry formation, and there were three horizontal formations in front and behind, and then slowly approached with sabers and spears.

A handful of Cossack cavalrymen also carried an arquebus on their shoulders. The cavalry of the Western world has been generally equipped with arquebuses, such as the cavalry of the Kingdom of Sweden and the Kingdom of France, the arquebus has completely replaced the spear used by the cavalry, and the standard equipment of the cavalry has become a saber and arquebus.

But the Cossack cavalry preferred spears and sabers, so the arquebuses were few in number. Only the Cossack cavalry, which entered Siberia, as well as the Far East, was armed with a large number of arquebuses.

Therefore, the Cossack cavalry is a traditional cold-weapon cavalry, and there is a generation gap between it and the Ming cavalry, and it is a full two generations difference, not in the same plane.

Zhou Peigong was not worried that he would not be able to defeat the Cossack cavalry. is just worried about Zhu Cijiong's safety.

After all, there are no eyes for knives and guns, and you are not afraid of 10,000, just in case. But Zhu Cijiong didn't care, there were no afraid words in his dictionary.

Soon, the distance between the two cavalry was reduced to a thousand meters. For cavalry, the most perfect charging distance was a hundred paces, that is, 160 meters.

In the case of light cavalry, the distance of the charge can be appropriately increased, but not too far. So the Cossack cavalry did not rush to charge, and the Ming army naturally did not charge.

After entering the 500 meters, the Ming cavalry even stopped, and then Zhou Peigong gave an order, and more than 100 Ming cavalry on horseback raised their rifles one after another, all of them were sniper rifles.

The rifles that the Ming army equipped the scouts with were all new sniper rifles equipped with scopes. Zhu Cijiong also raised his sniper rifle and locked onto a cavalryman opposite through the scope.

Seeing the Ming cavalry raise their rifles, the Cossack cavalry on the opposite side was not afraid, but let out unbridled ridicule, and these ignorant Cossack cavalry took the rifles in the hands of the Ming army as smoothbore muskets.

The accuracy of the smoothbore musket is extremely low, and there is basically no way to see the hit rate beyond 50 meters. Now the two sides are separated by 500 meters, and the rifles of the Ming army can't even hit the war horses under their crotches.

Amid the laughter, the Cossack cavalry continued to pull out of the horizontal line and slowly approached the Ming cavalry. In the blink of an eye, the distance between the two sides was less than 400 meters, and Zhu Cijiong decisively pulled the trigger.

Just listen

There was a "bang", and four hundred meters away, a Cossack cavalryman fell from his horse. This distance, for Zhu Cijiong, a special shooter, is for nothing, and he can hit it with his eyes closed.

Zhu Cijiong's gunfire was an order, and the next moment, more than a hundred Ming scout cavalry in a line opened fire one after another.

Dense gunfire rang out, and the Cossack cavalry on the opposite side fell in an instant, and more than one hundred and fifty Cossacks in the front row went to two-thirds in an instant, God!

The Cossack cavalry was instantly stunned. The muskets of the Ming army were so accurate? Zhu Cijiong and more than 100 Ming scout cavalry pulled the bolt and retreated as quickly as possible, then pushed the bullet into the chamber, and then raised the rifle and aimed at the second row of Cossack cavalry.

There was another burst of gunfire. The second row of Cossack cavalry also fell for the most part. At this time, the surviving Cossack cavalry finally reacted.

However, these Cossack cavalry were really brave, and they didn't run away after doing this, but directly launched a charge, urging the war horses to rush towards the Ming army, obviously wanting to kill the Ming army's close combat.

Unfortunately, the Ming army would not give them this opportunity at all. The rate of fire of bolt-action rifles was also fatal for cavalry.

[The beginning of the new book has passed the review of the editor-in-chief, and is currently accumulating the manuscript at the rate of half a chapter a day, the subject matter is still the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the entry point is after the bloody battle of the Hunhe River in 1621, in addition, due to the long-term sub-health of the body, I am currently drinking Chinese medicine for conditioning, and I will open a new book after the body recovers a little]