Whoosh!

Bullets flew over the scalp.

Li Zhongyi lay behind a fallen tree, regretting it to death.

He is a powerless Wen Xiucai, but now he has to fight the vicious Albanians with a musket.

At this time, beside him, two strong men had already fallen to the ground.

They were all taken by him to cut trees in the dense forest, they were all Sichuan villagers, so poor that they had no choice, so they came all the way to the New World, oh, they came all the way to the New World.

Unexpectedly.

It's been less than twenty days.

It was here that he was ambushed by the Albanian tribe and gave up his life.

Now the Jinshan Governor's Mansion and the Sioux are on good terms, and the "love trade" between the two sides is also going well.

The Sioux woman married immigrants from the Jinshan Governor's Palace, and at the same time received some "dowry".

But in the same way, the Jinshan Governor's Mansion, which is friendly with the Sioux, cannot have a good relationship with the Albanians who have hatred against the Sioux, not to mention that the direction of the expansion of the Jinshan Governor's Mansion is actually the territory of the Albanians.

As a result, the two sides are constantly in conflict.

"Damn, this must be an alliance between the Britons and the Albanians!"

A Ming army officer lying on the ground scolded and said.

Li Zhongyi also nodded slightly when he heard this: "I heard that the Britons sent a small force to infiltrate them, and they may have colluded with the Albanians!" Hammer, I don't know what benefits the Albanians have gained, and they are willing to dispatch so many people at once! ”

"No life, no life."

"Let's be poor, the poor are miserable."

A group of Sichuan men who went into the dense forest to cut down trees and were ambushed shouted and complained.

At this moment, there were also shouts of various voices in the forest ahead.

Li Zhongyi raised his head slightly.

Hundreds of white men dressed in animal skins, including a few in felt suits, were shouting at them with muskets loaded with bayonets. 、

"It's over, it's over"

Li Zhongyi's scalp was numb, his head was buzzing, and he was at a loss.

Because he had heard that the wild people in this forest were as fierce as the wild Jurchen tribe back then.

A wild man as fierce as the Jurchens.

What can I do?

Right now.

The Ming army company commander shouted: "Free fire!" Free Fire! Listen to my orders and prepare to charge! ”

He had about twenty soldiers under his command, all rear-loading rifled guns—new equipment from some time ago.

According to the plan of the Generalissimo's Office.

'Frontlines' such as the New World are a priority area for new equipment.

As he spoke, the Ming army company commander had already pulled the bolt of the gun, put in a bullet, and then pushed the bullet into the load.

Bang!

A gunshot rang out, and a white officer in front fell to the ground.

The Ming army company commander did not pause, pulled the bolt again, and the bullet was loaded!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Dense and continuous gunfire rang out.

Li Zhongyi was shocked.

A musket with such a rate of fire is really amazing!

Twenty soldiers kept firing, and a large area fell in front of them at once.

The Sichuan lumberjacks, who were still panicked and thought they were going to lose their lives, were also relieved.

There were even those who felt out their muskets and aimed them to shoot.

Although they were all front-loading guns, the rate of fire was not as fast as the rear-loading guns equipped by the Ming soldiers.

But with the addition of dozens of lumberjacks, the fire intensified, and the Albanian warriors who seemed to be rushing in full force fled backwards with their heads in their hands.

"Master Li, take your people to the camp first, and leave it to us here!"

The Ming army company commander patted Li Zhongyi on the shoulder and said loudly.

"Don't run around, the forest is too big, it's easy to get lost."

Gunshots rang out sporadically. 、

Li Zhongyi was a little relieved, and then asked with some worry: "Company Commander Wang, they all said that the poor are not chasing, and their number seems to be quite large."

If they just rushed up desperately and could still fight, but since they all fled, it means that they are afraid of death, and they can fight us without fear of death, and since they are afraid of death, they will lose. Not to mention that we still have this! ’

Company Commander Wang patted the six-year-old rear-loading needle rifle in his hand.

In order to avoid too many complex mechanical structures as much as possible, the world's first mass-equipped reloader rifle was equipped without a magazine, and the bolt was pulled open and the bullet was inserted manually.

Archery is much slower than later bolt-action rifles, but much faster than today's front-loading guns.

And there is another benefit to loading from behind the butt.

That is, when loading, you can lie on your stomach, which greatly reduces the soldier's bomb surface.

In this case, Albanian warriors and British mercenaries armed with front-loading guns were no match for the Ming soldiers at all.

The exchange ratio between the two sides is very exaggerated.

On the side of the Ming army, three lumberjacks were killed because of an ambush.

And after the two sides have played each other.

There were almost zero casualties on the side of the Ming army, and dozens of figures fell on the opposite side at once.

Such an exchange ratio made the scalp of the British commander who planned this ambush tingle.

Li Zhongyi was also greatly relieved to see that Company Commander Wang was so confident, and then crawled backwards with his hands and feet.

"Withdraw, let's withdraw first!!"

Soon.

Li Zhongyi retreated to the camp along the banks of the river with dozens of lumberjacks carrying muskets.

And immediately after, there was a steady stream of gunfire in the woods.

Twenty Ming soldiers with rear-loading guns pursued hundreds of enemies.

I don't know how long it took.

The gunfire in the woods gradually became more and more relaxed.

Then I remembered the voice of "Daming Wansheng".

Won

Li Zhongyi breathed a sigh of relief.

"Recently there have been more and more conflicts, and I don't know. Isn't it that the Britons are going to start playing big. ”

Li Zhongyi muttered.

The smoke gradually cleared.

On the battlefield just now, there were corpses everywhere.

But most of them are enemy.

Two Ming soldiers in red uniforms were shot, but they did not die, lying on the ground and wailing, and soon a military doctor rushed up, took out the bullet with iron tongs, and then stopped the bleeding, applied anti-inflammatory drugs, and bandages.

One of the soldiers was shot in the thigh, and the situation was slightly better.

There was also a man who had been shot in the shoulder, his bones shattered, and he looked like he was probably disabled even if he had survived.

Li Zhongyi hasn't seen it very clearly.

There was the sound of rustling footsteps ahead.

"Let's go! Come on! Let's be honest! ”

It turned out that the officer of the Ming army who had just charged after the enemy had returned.

More than thirty captives were also in captivity.

They were all tied up with ropes and strung together, and several of them were still bleeding.

Li Zhongyi looked at it carefully, and these Albanians were very strong, and they looked much stronger than many Sichuan peasants.

But now they're all honest, drooping their heads.

In the back, a few more tightly bound were a few white captives.

Company Commander Wang ran over quickly.

There was gunpowder smoke on his face, and the clothes on his body were also stained with blood, but looking at his energetic appearance, it seemed that the blood was not his own.

"Lord Lee, the enemy has repulsed, killed sixty-three people, taken thirty-seven prisoners, six of them Britons, and the rest have fled. Have you counted your people? ”

Hearing this, Li Zhongyi reacted, he hurriedly gathered his subordinates, and then his face turned dark.

"Six less, what can I do?" He looked at Company Commander Wang, "Can you let your people look around?" ”

Company Commander Wang stretched out his hand, shook his head and said, "Looking for?" Where can they find this deep mountain and old forest, if they are lucky, they can run along the river to the mouth of the Jinshan River, then it will be safe, and if they are unlucky, it will be over. ”、

"How can this be good.."

"What is good? Hurry up and cut down the trees, finish cutting early and go back early, the forest is more dangerous at night, right... Master Li, can you borrow two axes? ”

'Axe? Yes, the axe has it,'

Come in and cut down trees, how can you not bring an axe.

Li Zhongyi didn't think much about it, so he asked his subordinates to give the Ming army two logging axes.

But what happened next was something he will never forget.

In his diary, Li Zhongyi described the incident very carefully.

When they asked me to borrow an axe, I didn't know what I was going to do, and then I saw the Britons being pressed up, and they pressed on the stump and cut off their heads with the axes, and the Britons screamed, but soon they all fell silent, and the natives were frightened, and they knelt down and begged for mercy, and a messenger told them that if they didn't work honestly, they would cut them down. Then we had more than twenty more slave laborers with shackles on their feet. ”

After that, the Jinshan Governor's Office sent several small armies to destroy several Albanian tribes in succession, causing thousands of deaths to the Albanians and capturing more than 2,000 women before the Albanians surrendered and agreed not to cooperate with the British."

The expansion of the Ming Dynasty in any direction was actually carried with blood and tears.

And under the Ming Dynasty, there were also several densely populated vassal states that also had the need for expansion.

Especially Japan.

"Your Majesty, many samurai in Japan have asked to join in the expansion of the New World."

In the middle capital.

Inside Emperor Zhu's imperial study.

Concubine Tokugawa Mitsuki, who was rubbing Emperor Zhu's shoulders, began to blow the wind in Emperor Zhu's ears.

The king of Japan has been given to Zhu Yizin, the sixth prince of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the contradictions in Japan have not been resolved.

And Japan is not the same as North Korea.

The country of North Korea, as we all know, has a very special relationship with the Ming Dynasty.

It belongs to the first place in the fifteen non-conscripted countries in the "Emperor Ming Zu Xun".

However, this ancestral precept is not binding on Zhu Daohua, the de facto founding emperor, and Emperor Zhu has already abolished it, and also promulgated a new ancestral family law - "The Rite of the Ming Dynasty".

Similarly, the relationship between North Korea and the new Ming Dynasty is now going to be attacked by troops sent from the bottom of the pile.

The reason for this situation is that the national consciousness of Korea has gradually taken shape after the Manchu Qing Dynasty came to dominate the Central Plains.

Before the fall of the former Ming Dynasty, North Korea was actually part of the Ming Empire!

The king of Korea is the county king of the Ming Dynasty, enjoying the treatment of the prince, the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" is the national law of the DPRK, the king of the DPRK not only accepts the canonization of the Ming Dynasty, but also belongs to the governor of Denglai to control it.

The language is also based on Chinese characters.

Moreover, at that time, North Korea also considered itself to be the country of Jizi, and the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and North Korea at that time could not be better.

However, after China was ruled by the Manchus, North Korea gradually regarded Han China as a "barbarian", and developed from anti-Qing to hostile to China at the beginning, and its national consciousness was formed in the process.

Today's North Korea is no longer the North Korea of more than 100 years ago, which is why there is the current Donghak Party Rebellion.

Of course, the chaos in North Korea this time is also related to the fact that Zhu Ming, especially Zhu Daohua himself, does not attach much importance to North Korea.

He has always regarded Japan as the top priority of the Ming Dynasty's East Asian diplomacy.

And see North Korea as a weak country that can be bullied at will.

Zhu Daohua is even more contemptuous of the two classes of wealthy families who have monopolized the wealth and power of North Korea for a long time - they are definitely not as fierce as the Japanese samurai, and this group of Confucian scholars and doctors in the Ming Dynasty has enough in the country, isn't the Korean country bad in their hands?

If you don't put these people in order, how can you let your son become the king of Joseon?

"The samurai of Japan want to go to war."

Emperor Zhu opened his eyes and said.

Tokugawa Mitsuhime nodded helplessly: "At the beginning, the various domestic feudal clans supported Yizin'er to come to power, and they coveted the Laparana Plain in South America. ”

Emperor Zhu looked at Tokugawa Manhime: "If this is the case, the Laprana Plain needs Japan to fight alone, and the Ming Navy can provide shipping assistance and send a group of Japanese samurai to gain a firm foothold first." But. Although that place is called New Japan, it is not only the Japanese who immigrate there, but also the people of other feudal domains, who also have the right to immigrate to New Japan! ”

Tokugawa Mitsuhime nodded when he heard this: "This is nature, it's just, this king of old and new Japan"

Emperor Zhu smiled when he heard this.

This little Japanese girl is waiting for herself here.

"Let the sixth child be the king of the new Japan, as for the king of the old Japan, then he has to work hard to love the concubine and give birth to a son."

In the midst of Tokugawa Mitsuhime's exclamation.

A big war is about to begin.

Suddenly, there was a rush at the door.

"Your Majesty, the North Korean side is urgent!"

Emperor Zhu had no choice but to let Tokugawa Manji go first.

Soon.

The urgent report from the North Korean side was sent to Emperor Zhu's desk.

It turned out that there was a conflict within the Donghak Party, and there may even have been a coup d'état or a fire merger!

On one side of the conflict was the "land reform faction" of the Donghak Party, led by Chung Min-sze, who insisted on dividing the land of Korea equally.

However, this strategy was strongly opposed by the two wealthy Korean families who joined later, as well as the Joseon king Yi Ying whom they supported.

Li Ying also has the blood of the Lee royal family of Joseon, and at the same time, he also gathered a group of two groups of wealthy families loyal to the Li Dynasty.

The leader is the Jeonju Lee family.

The history of this family can be traced back to the Silla period and it was one of the six great families of Silla.

Lee Sung-gye, the Taejo of the Lee dynasty of Joseon, was a tribe of the Lee clan in Jeonju.

Jeonju Li, which has been inherited to the present, has more than 100 side branches, has many large households, and also has a lot of land and wealth.

Li Ying is actually the spokesperson of the Li family in Jeonju.

Therefore.

Naturally, they are against the division of land!

(End of chapter)