New Shun 1730

If this battle took place after the Russo-Japanese War in history, the British commander would have stood on the rocks of Gibraltar and looked at the fortifications of Dashun and calculated the troops in his hands, and there would be no need to fight.

Just think about surrendering with honor, which is purely courting death and can't be fought at all.

But the problem is that only those who have eaten peppers know that people are treacherous; those who have never eaten them will at most think that the red peppers look weird, but they will still stuff them into their mouths and chew them.

This is the state of the British army today.

They know that these siege fortifications of Dashun look weird, but they don't know the reason behind it.

Nowadays, no one pays attention to this tactic. Dashun is the weird one. They know that there is no chance to fight a large-scale field battle, so they put all their talent points on trench warfare.

They learned from Vauban, but they made Vauban's set better than the master, just like the blue uniforms of Dashun and France.

The shrimp-red uniforms of the British Army and the sea-blue uniforms of the Dashun Army were full of hostility, just like their colors.

In a circular fortification where the British Army was attacking with all their might, several skirmishers slaughtered the British Army in the distance with expressionless faces, just like they were hunting on weekdays.

These skirmishers were not the skirmisher companies in the Nanyang region, but the first skirmisher companies in the north that arrived in Europe with the fleet.

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

On the whole, these skirmishers were loyal to Dashun, because Dashun had done a great cause that was worthy of being recorded in history and shone with the glory of mankind.

Fifteen years ago, a campaign called "Anti-acne Relay" was launched in Dashun.

Although it may be a bit "cruel" and "lacking a little humanity" from the perspective of future generations, it is a real good deed at this time.

In Songjiang Prefecture, Dashun collected 160 children from human traffickers.

These 160 children were divided into four groups, heading to the Western Regions, Nanyang, Kanto, and Fuso.

There were 40 children heading to North America.

From the first day of boarding the ship, the arm of the first child was cut and infected with cowpox.

The rest of the children were strictly separated and not allowed to come into contact.

When the cowpox of this child had begun to be fully infected in about 10 days, the cowpox cytoplasm of this child was used to infect the second child.

It was by using children as "petri dishes" to relay that within a year, Dashun's cowpox vaccination, relying on the help of these children, quickly spread to the border areas of the empire, across the yellow sand of the Western Regions and the vast Pacific Ocean.

In a faster way than the infectious diseases in the Old World, it broke through the limitations of space.

Naturally, this matter was led by the Privy Council and funded by the court.

Especially in the Western Regions and the Heilongjiang River Basin, it was not easy for the court to move some people there. Death was very expensive. Under the policy of strengthening the border, the highest mortality rate was still diseases such as smallpox, and Dashun really couldn't afford it.

However, in the direction of North America, it was a cooperation between government-led and capital-oriented.

Mainly because of those years, sea dragon skins were extremely expensive and the profits were extremely high.

And because of Dashun's own productivity, the Dashun Whale Sea Fur Company made colonial expansion relatively gentle.

The fur traders in Luosha mainly relied on guns. After all, even the cables used for shipbuilding in Kamchatka had to be cut into sections from St. Petersburg and carried over by horse-drawn carriages. They could only rely on robbing to maximize the company's profits.

On the Dashun side, it didn't rely on robbing.

Because robbing is not as efficient as trade.

You can exchange a sea dragon skin with three feet of cotton cloth, an iron pot, a knife, a few packs of matches, three bags of rock sugar, five pounds of dried dates, etc. Why do you have to rob?

Is it cheap to transport a person from one end of the Pacific Ocean to the other side of the Pacific Ocean when people are killed by robbery? Moreover, when summer comes, vegetables and fruits need to be replenished, otherwise people will die. If people die, who will go to collect raspberries? Originally, a red headband could allow a little girl in the tribe to pick a basket of raspberries; if it is robbed and forced labor, at least a dozen people will be sent to watch with guns, and the cost is there.

Moreover, the most expensive sea dragon skin, that is, sea otters, is more troublesome to catch. It is not that sea otters are invulnerable to swords and guns when they are shot, but there will be holes on the skin after being killed, and the price will be cut in half immediately.

And catching sea dragons still depends on the local indigenous people, who have rich experience.

In this case, along with the pursuit of "profits from sea dragon skins" by the Dashun Whale Sea Fur Company, it also brought various infectious diseases to northern Fuso.

Especially smallpox.

In this case, the Dashun Whale Sea Fur Company was also very anxious-people died, who would work? Who would catch sea dragons?

Therefore, the Whale Sea Company was certainly willing to contribute to the epic campaign of the smallpox relay across the Pacific Ocean led by the Privy Council, because at that time, the villages and communities in the entire northern Fusang region were in danger of smallpox, which seriously affected the company's profits and significantly reduced the dividends of shareholders.

The Privy Council also took this opportunity to establish a semi-dominant rule in North America. By vaccinating the local indigenous people with smallpox, the trust of the locals was gained.

The same old way.

The chiefs paid tribute, and the court returned the gifts.

Recognize the emperor and honor the nobles.

Hostages went to Beijing and went to school.

If there was a war, they would be rewarded for their merits.

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

Part of this was due to the need for stability in the northern border.

Dashun's tactics against the Pan-Mongolian cavalry were the same as Dashun's tactics against the Bengal cavalry in Bengal. Skirmishers cooperated with artillery to grab positions, and infantry formed a formation behind. Facts have also proved that this tactic is very effective and very restraining to lightly armed nomadic cavalry.

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

The other part was to cooperate with the Privy Council's Atlantic strategy-North America, where Dashun hooked up with local indigenous peoples in the British and French colonies. In addition, there were dense forests there, and the British were actually short of forest light infantry at this time. This part of the forest light infantry or hunters would go to the east coast of North America to cause trouble for Britain and France in the future.

This group of skirmishers and forest light infantry did not participate in the battle in Nanyang, because letting them go to Nanyang was equivalent to letting them die. The mortality rate was too high and they could not bear the heat there.

But going to Europe and North America was very suitable.

In general, the life trajectories of these people who came from America and served in the Dashun skirmishers or forest light infantry were basically similar.

When they just opened their eyes to see the world, they began to contact the Dashun merchants who went to their tribe to collect furs and berries.

They found that people of their parents' generation began to indulge in strong liquor.

When they were seven or eight years old, or about ten years old, they witnessed the cruel scene of smallpox outbreaks in the tribe and frequent deaths.

Then it was Dashun's cowpox relay, cutting their arms open and giving them cowpox soy milk. When blisters began to appear all over their bodies, they used the blisters on their bodies to inoculate the adults in the tribe.

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

They learned to drink, and exchanged the furs they had accumulated for a barrel of sorghum wine from the Dashun merchants... If they were girls, they would exchange them for some Dashun floral cloth, or some things they had never seen before, such as persimmon cakes, dates, and peach preserves.

Then, with the idea of ​​going out and seeing the outside world, they joined the Dashun organized skirmishers or forest light infantry companies, and began to learn to adapt to the new rifles with rifled wooden stock bullets.

Together with people with similar fates in the distant Heilongjiang or Ussuri River, the Greater Khingan Range, Kuwu Island, Ezo, Honolulu, Yukon River, Haida and other places, they ate imperial food and earned military pay.

Some people went to the Ili River in the Western Regions and served there for a long time; some were stationed in the capital, and then followed the ship to Europe to participate in the war in Europe.

It should be said that they were different from the Indians on the east coast of North America. They did not have a blood feud with the British, after all, they had never seen them before.

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

Marksmanship, as always, is learned through practice.

For normal soldiers of Dashun, shooting is training, and the court also needs to provide gunpowder, which is very expensive.

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

If you want to drink, you have to hunt.

A piece of skin, whether it is used to hit the eyes, mouth, or body, the price of peeling it off is different, and the wine you get in exchange is also different.

Just like when the Privy Council organized combat engineers, it would give priority to selecting soldiers from gem mines, gold mines, coal mines, etc.

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

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

Therefore, their marksmanship is quite good.

The disadvantage is that they have poor discipline.

Especially when it comes to endurance on the cruel battlefield, for example, line infantry that needs strict formations are definitely not as good as those soldiers picked from the disaster victims and the dead.

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

The role of skirmishers is to shoot freely, and the role of forest light infantry is to throw support to Chief Pontiac's anti-British uprising in the Great Lakes region in the future. These do not require very strict discipline, especially fighting in the dense forests of the Great Lakes region.

Now this kind of defensive battle with ladder rear deployment is similar, at least it does not require the abnormal formation discipline of plain field battles.

These North American skirmishers shoot very easily, just like hunting before serving, knocking down those big red lobsters one by one.

There is even time to turn around and make a few jokes to the artillerymen who are busy loading gunpowder and brushing the remnants of sparks in the cannon.