Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1278 Yi Ding
If this battle took place after the Russo-Japanese War in history, and the British commander stood on the rocks of Gibraltar to look at the fortifications of Dashun and calculate the strength of his own troops, then there would be no need to fight.

Just thinking about surrendering with honor is enough, it's purely looking for death, and it can't be moved at all.

But the problem is, only the cheap monkeys who have eaten chili know that the human heart is sinister; those who have not eaten it, looking at the red chili pepper, at best think it looks weird, so they stuff it in their mouths and chew it fiercely.

Today's British army is in such a state.

Knowing that Dashun's siege fortifications look weird, but I don't know the reason behind it.

Nowadays, no one pays attention to this kind of tactics. Dashun is the weird one. They just know that they have no chance to fight large-scale field battles, so they focus all their talents on trench warfare.

He learned from Vauban, but he made Vauban's blue uniform better than blue, just like the blue uniforms of Dashun and France.

The British army's shrimp-red military uniform and Dashun's navy-blue military uniform are as hostile as their colors.

In a circular fortification where the British army was attacking with all their strength, several stragglers slaughtered the British army in the distance with facial expressions, just like they were hunting on weekdays.

These skirmishers are not skirmishers from the Nanyang region, but the first batch of skirmishers from the north that arrived in Europe with the fleet.

To be precise, they were not even Han Chinese, but soldiers recruited by Dashun from tribes in North America. Many of them were originally employees of Dashun Whale Sea Fur Company, and Dashun recruited some skirmishers and forest light infantry in North America.

On the whole, these stragglers are loyal to Dashun, because Dashun has done a great cause that can be recorded in history and shines with the glory of mankind.

Fifteen years ago, a campaign called "Acne Elimination Relay" was launched in Dashun.

Although from the perspective of future generations, it may seem a bit "cruel" and "inhumane", but from this moment, it is a real good deed.

In Songjiang Mansion, Dashun took 160 children from traffickers.

The 160 children were divided into four groups and headed to the Western Regions, Nanyang, Kanto, and Fusang respectively.

There are 40 children going to North America.

From the first day on board, the first child's arm was cut and infected with cowpox.

The rest of the children were kept strictly separate and not allowed to touch.

Wait until about 10 days, when the child's vaccinia has begun to be fully infected, and then use the vaccinia cytoplasm from this child to infect the second child.

Relying on this method of using children as "petri dishes" relay, within a year, Dashun's vaccinia vaccination, relying on the help of these children, quickly spread to the border areas of the empire and crossed the yellow sands of the Western Regions. and the vast Pacific Ocean.

In a way faster than the Old World epidemic, it broke through the limitation of space.

Naturally, this kind of thing is led by the Privy Council and funded by the imperial court.

Especially in the Western Regions and the Heilongjiang River Basin, it was not easy for the imperial court to relocate people, and death was expensive. Under the policy of real borders, diseases such as smallpox had the highest death rate, and Dashun really couldn't afford to die.

However, in the direction of North America, it is a combination of government-led and capital-oriented.

The main reason is that in those few years, Hailong leather was extremely expensive and the profit was extremely high.

And because of Dashun's own productivity, Dashun Whale Sea Fur Co., Ltd. made the expansion of colonialism, relatively speaking, it was very gentle.

Those fur traders in Rakshasa mainly rely on guns.After all, even the cables used for shipbuilding in Kamchatka had to be cut into sections from Petersburg and carried by horse-drawn carts.They can only rely on robbing, so as to maximize the company's profits.

On Dashun's side, it's not about robbing.

Because grabbing is not as efficient as trade.

With three feet of cotton cloth, an iron pot, a knife, a few packs of matches, three bags of rock sugar, five catties of dried dates, etc., you can exchange for a piece of sea dragon skin. Why do you want to grab it?
Is it cheap to grab a dead person and transport a person from one end of the Pacific Ocean to the other?Besides, when summer comes, you need to add vegetables and fruits, otherwise you will die, and everyone will die. Who will collect raspberries?Originally, a red-headed rope could allow a little girl from the tribe to pick a basket of raspberries; if it was robbed and forced labor, at least a dozen people with guns would have to be sent to watch, and the cost would lie there.

Moreover, the most expensive sea dragon skin, the sea otter, is more troublesome to catch.Knocking down with a gun does not mean that sea otters are invulnerable, but that there are holes in the leather after being killed, and the price will be cut in half immediately.

But to catch Hailong, it still depends on the local aborigines, they have rich experience.

In this case, with Dashun Whale Sea Fur Company chasing "Hailong fur's profit" and landing in North Fusang, it also brought various infectious diseases.

Especially smallpox.

In this situation, Dashun Whale Sea Fur Company is also quite anxious - everyone is dead, who will do the work?Who will catch Hai Long?

Therefore, the Privy Council led this epic cowpox relay campaign across the Pacific Ocean. Of course, Whale Sea Company was willing to contribute, because at that time, the entire village community in the North Fusang area was in danger of flooding with smallpox, which seriously affected the company's profits. dividends have been significantly reduced.

The Privy Council also took this opportunity to establish a semi-independent rule in North America.By vaccinating the local aborigines, they gained the trust of the local people.

same as usual.

The chief paid tribute, and the court also gave it back.

Recognize the emperor and honor the nobility.

Proton enters Beijing and goes to school.

If there is a war, meritorious deeds will be rewarded.

The Privy Council also recruited a group of companies there, and cooperated with Hezhe, Oroqen in the old forests of the northeast, and some North Asian ethnic groups in the dog country, and formed a total of 60 skirmishers, hunters, or high-latitude forest light infantry companies .

Part of this is due to the need for stability on the northern frontier.

Dashun's tactics against the Pan-Mongolian cavalry were the tactics Dashun used to fight the Bengali cavalry in Bangladesh.The skirmishers cooperate with the artillery to grab the position, and the infantry forms a formation behind. Facts have also proved that this tactic is very effective, and it is very restrained against the lightly armed nomadic cavalry.

Therefore, this part of the skirmishers and hunting companies were placed in Mongolia or the Western Regions.

The other part is to cooperate with the Atlantic strategy of the Privy Council - in North America, Dashun colluded with the local aborigines in the British and French colonies.In addition, there are dense forests, and the British actually lack forest light infantry at this time. This part of forest light infantry or hunting soldiers will go to the east coast of North America to harm Britain and France in the future.

These skirmishers and forest light infantry did not participate in the battle in Nanyang, because letting them go to Nanyang was tantamount to letting them die, and the death rate was too high to bear the heat there.

But going to Europe and North America is very suitable.

Generally speaking, the life trajectories of these people who came from the Americas and served in the Dashun skirmishers or forest light infantry units are basically similar.

As soon as they opened their eyes to see the world, they began to contact the Dashun traders who went to their tribe to collect fur and berries.

It is found that people in the generation of parents are addicted to spirits.

When I was seven or eight years old, or about ten years old, I witnessed the cruel scenes of smallpox and frequent deaths in the tribe.

Then there is Dashun's cowpox ten-thousand-mile relay, which cuts their arms apart and connects them with cowpox soy milk.When the blisters started to grow all over his body, he used the blisters on their bodies to inoculate the adults of the tribe.

Then, they followed the tribe to hunt in their own tribe's territory, happily trying the food stewed in an iron pot sold to them by the Dashun merchants.

Learned to drink, and used the furs they accumulated to exchange a barrel of sorghum wine from Dashun merchants... If it was a girl, they would exchange some Dashun flower cloth, or some persimmons that they had never seen before Cakes, jujubes, preserved peaches and the like.

Then, with the idea of ​​going out and seeing the outside world, he joined the skirmishers or forest light infantry companies formed by Dashun, and began to learn to adapt to those new rifles with rifled wooden stocks.

Together with people of similar fate in distant Heilongjiang or Wusuli River, Waixing'an Mountains, Kuwu Island, Ezo, Honolulu, Yukon River, Haida and other places, eat imperial food and earn military pay.

Some of them went to the Yili River in the Western Regions, where they served for a long time; some were stationed in the capital, and then went to Europe with ships to participate in European wars.

It should be said that they are different from those Indians on the east coast of North America, and they have no blood feud with the British, after all, they have never seen it before.

But as soldiers, shooting people with guns on military pay, this kind of thing, in their view, is really similar to hunting animals.

Marksmanship is always practiced.

For normal soldiers in Dashun, firing a gun is training, and the imperial court also provides gunpowder, which is very expensive.

But for those of them whose families are basically peripheral employees of the Whale Sea Fur Company, muskets are a tool for making money.

If you want to drink, you have to hunt.

For a piece of skin, whether the eyes and mouth or the body is beaten, the price of peeling off is different, and the wine in exchange is also different.

It's like when the Privy Council organizes combat engineers, it will give priority to selecting soldiers from gemstone mines, gold mines, and coal mines.

Or in the era when tanks and planes emerged in later generations, farmers who used tractors to cultivate land and planes to spray pesticides were excellent tank soldiers and air force soldiers.

This can also be regarded as the combination of production and soldiers with the characteristics of Dashun.

Therefore, their marksmanship is quite good.

The disadvantage is that the discipline is very poor.

Especially when it comes to the endurance of the cruel battlefield, such as the line infantry that requires a strict formation, it is definitely not as good as those soldiers selected from the disaster victims and the dead.

However, as skirmishers and forest light infantry, these shortcomings can almost be ignored.

The role of skirmishers is free shooting, and the role of forest light infantry is to support the anti-British uprising of Pontiac chiefs in the Great Lakes region. These do not require very strict discipline, especially in the dense forests of the Great Lakes region.

The current defensive battle with stepped rear deployment is similar, at least it does not require the perverted, plain field formation discipline.

These skirmishers from North America shot very easily, as if they were hunting before serving, they knocked down those big red lobsters one by one.

Even, there is still time to turn around and make a few jokes at the artillerymen who are busy loading gunpowder and cleaning the Martian remnants in the cannon.

(End of this chapter)