Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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Of course, the whites and mixed-race whites in the New World are highly armed, and almost everyone has a gun... In the event of foreign invasion, they can still display relatively strong combat effectiveness.

But now it is time to invade the distant Shangfang Kingdom, and it is the Earl's full effort to pull out 500 people.

But as long as smallpox is working, this amount will suffice.

"Very good!" Archbishop Desumaraga laughed, "A surprise attack will be carried out even though we have all the advantages...Count, it seems that we can celebrate our victory in advance!"

Garcia, the adjutant of the vice-king of New Spain, also quickly complimented his master: "Your Excellency, I am sure that this victory will be comparable to Cortez's conquest of the Aztecs and Pizarro's conquest of the Inca! "

The Count of St. Chris nodded to his adjutant, and said in a low tone: "Alfonso, then I will give you a chance to become a knight!

I order you to lead a company of musketeers on the galleon Santa Isabel as the vanguard of the army, and be the first to land in the City of God (in the Los Angeles area)... As long as you win, I will ask His Majesty the Emperor to give you a knight! "

Noble!

Garcia is the youngest son of a noble family. Although he has a noble status, there are still seven or eight funerals for his brothers and nephews away from the title... This way is basically useless, and he doesn't want to be a monk, so he just He could only rely on his youth and handsomeness to be cast as an adjutant under the Earl of St. Chris, who was born in a wealthy family.

But the road from an adjutant to a jazz is not easy. After all, the Earl of St. Chris is just a small earl, and he has more than a dozen young and handsome adjutants under him. Garcia is not outstanding among them.

So this time the Earl of Saint Chris let him take the lead, he is definitely promoting him!

Alfonso Garcia immediately stood at attention when he heard the words: "Of order, Lord Earl!"

……

July 1689 in the Western calendar.

Six small sampans pierced through the mist on the sea in the early morning, and landed on the most beautiful beach in the City of God with a bang.

Before the sampan came to a complete stop, the officers and soldiers of New Spain mercenaries who were full of them jumped off.In the lead is Alfonso Garcia, the adjutant of the Count of San Cristino.All I saw was him holding a thin sword, pointing forward, opening his throat and saying loudly: "God bless Spain!"

"God bless Spain!"

The soldiers also shouted together, and then came down rumbling, each with nervous and excited expressions.

Of course they know that the Count of Santa Cruz has dropped the terrible smallpox on the land of the merchants in order to conquer the godless and soulless evil country of Shangfang in the northwest of America... For the barbarians who have never been exposed to smallpox As far as humans are concerned, this disease is absolutely fatal, and can even wipe out a nation within a few months!

So as long as everything is normal, the newly built commercial port on the beach of City of God has now become a city of death.Even if there are still a few people alive, they must have fallen into despair and panic, and it is absolutely impossible to organize effective resistance.

However, when the company led by Garcia walked through the sea fog during the flood landing process, they were still worried, worried that bullets and artillery shells would be fired on the beach.After all, the Earl of St. Chris only sent a company of 200 people to carry out a tentative attack... If guns are fired on the beach, it means that the poisoning operation has failed, at least most of them have failed, and the subsequent landing of the army will be cancelled. .Garcia and his company will be abandoned on the beachhead of the City of God, and the only thing waiting for them is an honorable death.

For Garcia and his men, this adventure landing is simply a life-and-death gamble!

Fortunately, until they set foot on the beach, there was still no gunfire or cannon!

After Garcia and his men yelled together, they quickly ordered the soldiers to quickly plant a "Blood and Gold" flag on the beach where they had just landed.After the fog on the sea clears, if this eye-catching flag is still there, the Santa Isabel on the sea will know that the landing has been successful!

Then the Santa Isabel will launch a signal rocket, and 22 galleons farther from the coastline will immediately pounce on the beach of the City of God, launching a full-line landing battle.

Seeing that his subordinates had planted the flag, Garcia left a few people to guard the flag, and then asked the trumpeter around him to sound the rallying call. Nearly [-] Spanish musketeers and spearmen who had come down from the six small sampans All the soldiers ran towards him, and formed a column of mixed spears and muskets at his command.Then Garcia waved his hand and took the column towards a commercial port surrounded by wooden fences and sand near the landing site.

That commercial port was connected to the pier, and it was supposed to be the ideal landing place for Garcia and the others, but this morning the sea was filled with fog, and Garcia and the others could not find the location of the pier.But now the fog had cleared a little, so he could see the commercial port surrounded by low walls and fences at a glance.

Two hundred Spanish soldiers held muskets and long guns, maintained a dense formation bombarded by sugar bombs, and walked slowly towards the commercial port.As the distance gets closer, the heartbeats of these people get faster and faster.

Because the commercial port was really well built, not only wooden fences were inserted, but also parapets were built with sandbags, it looked like a simple castle.Although there has been no movement at all so far, once there are troops guarding there, if there is another sudden fire, then these Spanish soldiers will go to see God!

Garcia bravely rushed to the front, silently reciting the names of God, Jesus, and Maria in his heart, and begging them to bless him, a devout believer... Maybe he had a share in the poisoning of Chaoge last time. At least hundreds of thousands of pagans in China died of illness!With such great merit, even if you die in battle, you should be able to go to heaven, right?

At the thought of going to heaven, the fear of the faithful Spaniard was wiped away.

But his fear was obviously superfluous, until he led [-] Spanish infantry to attack the commercial port through an open wooden fence gate, but no single shot was fired at them.And when Garcia rushed into the commercial port, the pungent stench rushed towards him!He looked around and saw two corpses lying on the ground leaning together, still wearing the torn cloth clothes of the Shangfang people, one of them still had a long sword in his belt, and the other was carrying a torn burden.

Garcia, who suffered from smallpox when he was a child, walked over boldly, checked, and found that they were a man and a woman, they should be husband and wife, there were no signs of injury on their bodies, and they should have died of illness on the side of the road...Obviously, this is a couple The couple who got smallpox and got very sick, but still want to go out to survive.Before they could get out of the commercial port, they fell ill by the side of the road and couldn't get up again!

Garcia made a sign of the cross on his chest, praying to God to forgive the souls of this pair of sinful people, and then got up and walked into the commercial port.

When he walked into the commercial port, he realized that the commercial port was not fully built. There were half-built houses everywhere, and building materials and tools were still piled up in many places.He also saw more corpses... in a large house that was already completed.The corpses were neatly arranged on the grounds of the house, with straw mats underneath.Look at the clothes these corpses are wearing, they are all merchants!

There are not only the corpses of adults, but also the corpses of children!From the utensils around the corpses, it can be seen that most of them were taken care of before they died... There are also a few corpses at the door of the house, maintaining a crawling posture, obviously wanting to leave here to survive elsewhere.

Garcia muttered to himself: "The couple who fell on the side of the road and the people who wanted to leave on their stomachs should be the last batch to fall. They may have been doctors before, but they were unable to defeat smallpox... No one Can beat smallpox, unless God wants him to live!"

Chapter 824 Leopold I died here!

New World, City of God Beach, early morning of April 1689, 4.

The sea outside the City of God is a busy scene of a large army landing on land at this time. A fleet composed of more than 20 galleons is flooding the water to transport military supplies.The commercial port and the adjacent docks full of dead people have all been controlled by the Spaniards.

A group of Spanish marijuanas are carrying the corpses and burning them with shirtless arms, cleaning up the half-repaired commercial port.The burning smoke was billowing, and the stench was blown by the sea breeze, and it was scattered everywhere.

The remaining Spaniards were divided into three waves, and one wave was busy flooding and transporting supplies.

The first wave formed a small team, left the Spaniard's landing site, and searched around.

Another wave camped outside the commercial port...their deputy king, the Earl of St. Chris, had never suffered from smallpox, so he had to stay away from the commercial port.Although the Earl believed in God, he didn't intend to go to see God right away, his old man.

This God is for worship, not for seeing!

The earl's camp was right next to the beach. Early in the morning, he was sitting outside his tent, drinking coffee, looking at the pleasant sea view, and listening to his adjutant Garcia, Father Torres and others. Several adjutants and officers were reporting something.

"Count, we have already translated the documents seized in the commercial port government office, some of which mentioned that there was an unknown disease in Xinchaoge and a large number of people died... The death toll has reached more than [-]% of the total population of Xinchaoge! "

"Count, there is another document that says that Shangdu has sent wizards, doctors and troops to Xinchaoge for disaster relief, and that someone will come to Haiprairie, the City of God...and let the prefect of Haiprairie work hard Treat the sick, especially protect the elderly and children. What a bunch of ignorant barbarians!"

"Count, our reconnaissance team also found some corpses and abandoned military camps on the road leading to the flood valley in the north... It seems that the army sent to rescue by Xinchaoge also had an outbreak of disease. Judging from the degree of decay of the corpses According to analysis, this army just left the area around the City of God a few days ago."

"Count, we also found several villages of abandoned Indians, and there are also dead bodies everywhere!"

"By the way, some of the dead bodies found by our scouting team on the road and in the barracks were Indians, and some were dressed in the clothes of merchant civilians. It seems that the army of the Shangfang Kingdom is trying to transport smallpox patients... It's too much Ignorant!"

Hearing this, the Count of St. Chris frowned slightly: "They are still transporting patients, which shows that their army has not collapsed because of this plague... This is much better than the Aztecs!"

When Garcia heard the earl's words, he immediately understood, so he took over and said, "Count, they still have advanced artillery and muskets, and probably have a small amount of sugar medicine weapons. If their army can survive the encounter After the smallpox attack, after losing more than [-]% of the personnel in a short period of time, they still insist on carrying out the order, which really needs to be vigilant. I suggest that they should be sent out to pursue immediately, and they must not be allowed to return to Xinchaoge City, otherwise the defense of Xinchaoge City The power will be greatly increased."

"Can we still catch up?" asked the Earl of St. Chris.

"We must be able to catch up!" Garcia said, "They are still carrying a large number of patients, and many of them are also sick. The speed of the march must be very slow. And they may not know that we are coming, they have given up here voluntarily. It was empty when we landed. And if we don't catch up, we have nothing to lose."

The Count of St. Cristiano laughed, stood up and patted Garcia on the shoulder: "Alfonso, you are right, we cannot let this barbaric and brutal merchant army retreat to Xinchaoge City. Otherwise, we will soon It may not be possible to break through this ancient castle soon!" He then said to the adjutants and officers around him, "I will give you 24 hours to prepare. Tomorrow morning, I will lead [-] invincible Spanish officers and soldiers to fight for His Majesty and the Emperor. The glory of the Spanish Empire, go after and destroy those merchant barbarians who have been abandoned by God and are destined to go to hell!

In addition, tell the Spanish soldiers that those barbarians are not believers in God, so they don't have souls, so they don't have to be regarded as human beings... I order that the ministries must kill all the males among the merchant barbarians they encounter, one Do not stay, absolutely do not accept the surrender of these barbarians! "

The officers and adjutants below didn't have the slightest doubt about this inhumane order, they all stood on their feet and replied loudly: "Obey, Lord Earl!"

I have to say that white Westerners in this era are indeed qualified to dominate the world!When they faced other civilizations, especially when they encountered civilizations that they could exterminate at a relatively low cost, the resolute, decisive, and ruthless methods they adopted were comparable to the law of the dark forest.In contrast, the East Asian circle, which is full of civilizing barbarians, and the Ottoman Empire, which only wants to collect more poll taxes and recruit slave guards, are too far apart.

And Shangfang Kingdom, a "mysterious power" that suddenly appeared almost overnight, made all Western colonial powers, including Spain, Portugal, England, and France, feel dangerous... This should be a country that they can exterminate The dangerous opponent is immortal now, when will it be?

Since the Shang Fang Kingdom must be extinct, there is nothing to say, I have to take advantage of your illness and kill you!

Under the strict order of the Earl of St. Chris, 24 elite New Spanish mercenaries completed all preparations for the expedition in less than 4 hours.In the early morning of April 24, under the leadership of the Earl of St. Chris, they embarked on a journey together.

After leaving 500 people to guard the camp of the City of God, the marching team composed of a brigade of infantry, cavalry, horse-drawn three-pounder artillery, and carts laid out a mighty marching formation along the Following the road passing between the mountains and dense forests, he marched all the way to the north in a hurry.

Although the "merchant people" also have the characteristics of infrastructure madness, and they also possess the sharp weapon of "sugar medicine" to open mountains, build roads and quarry stones, but due to the small population, the time to reach the New World is too short.Therefore, except for Xinchaoge and its surrounding areas, the infrastructure in other places is almost as if it does not exist.

Therefore, it is impossible to find a road between the place called "Sea Grassland" by Shang Fangguo and Chaoge City that is enough for the army to march in a wide column.Especially in the hilly areas north of the "Sea Grassland" and south of the flood valley, don't even think about a wide formation.It would be very good to find a winding mountain forest path that allows troops to pass in three columns and four columns - that is the road opened up by the "Mongols of the Shang Dynasty" with ax and ax!

This road is fine for animals with legs, but it is not easy for those with "long wheels", and they must be pushed by horse-drawn people.

However, although this road is not easy to walk, from time to time there will be scenes on the side of the road that will boost the spirit of the Spaniards-dead corpses wearing various cross-collared cloths lying there!

Although looking at the appearance of these corpses, almost all of them were Indians who died of smallpox.But everyone believed that the army composed of Shangfang people must have suffered heavy losses.Most of them are also marching with the corpses of dead officers and soldiers, which will cause more infections.

So as long as you can catch up with them, you will definitely win a big victory!

Thinking of the imminent victory, everyone's footsteps became brisk.The army of more than [-] people marched quickly on the rugged mountain road...it was not until the afternoon of the second day after the Spaniards launched their pursuit that they were blocked by hundreds of felled trees.

"What's going on? Why didn't you move forward? Who will go ahead and have a look?"

The Count of Santa Cruz, who noticed that the team suddenly stopped advancing, yelled loudly.

"Count! The exit of the valley has been blocked with felled trees!"

What?Blocked?There won't be an ambush, will there?

General Jiu Bailiang immediately became nervous. He looked around and found that he was in a long and narrow valley.The hillsides on both sides are full of towering ancient trees, very dense, this place is very suitable for ambushes!

Thinking of this, he immediately ordered: "Warning! All companies are on alert... Send musketeers to occupy the high grounds on both sides!"

As soon as his voice fell, there was a rush of horseshoes in front of him, and at the same time, Adjutant Garcia shouted: "Get out of the way, get out of the way... Earl, there is a situation ahead!"

Garcia, who was sent by the earl to lead the team to open the way, now moved forward while shouting, and soon arrived in front of earl Chris.

"Alfonso, what's the matter? What's the matter?"

The Count of St. Chris was already very nervous.

"Count, someone is cursing His Majesty the Emperor!" Garcia said angrily.

"What? Curse His Majesty the Emperor?" Count St. Chris was stunned. "Alfonso, what are you talking about?"

"Count, just come and see me!" As he spoke, Alfonso Garcia turned his horse's head and ran forward again.

It was about His Majesty the Emperor, and the Earl of St. Chris did not dare to be negligent, so he called his guards and adjutants together, and followed Garcia to the front. After turning two bends on the winding mountain road, the Earl He was led by Garcia to a large pile of trees that had been cut down on the mountain road.Oh, and not all the trees fell on the road, and there was a tree that had been stripped of its bark, revealing white wood embryos, with Latin letters on the white wood embryos!

The Earl of St. Cristiano's eyes are not very good, and he can't see what the Latin text on it is?So he asked the adjutants around him: "My boys, can you see what is written on the tree trunk?"

"Count, it says... the Emperor Leopold I of Spain will die here! God, to curse His Majesty the Emperor! It is unforgivable!"

"Yes, this is an unforgivable crime!"

"These savages deserve to be exterminated!"

"Count, please let me cut down that big tree for you!"

"Okay, hurry up and cut down this tree that curses His Majesty the Emperor!"

The Earl of St. Cristiano hadn't done much research on the defeat of the battle. He didn't know how Pang Juan was defeated in the Battle of Maling, so he immediately sent someone to cut down the tree.In fact, this tree does not need to be cut down at all, because it will fall down as soon as it is pushed. fall down.But as long as someone pushes hard, the tree has to fall.

And as soon as the tree fell, "Boom" sounded!

"Boom boom boom..."

Three trumpets sounded suddenly, and then there was a burst of crackling gunshots like fried beans.

The Earl of St. Cristiano quickly turned over from his horse, then used his horse to protect his right side, and grabbed a good guy to protect his left side, and then he gathered his concentration and looked around.

After looking around for a while, the Count of Santa Cruz was relieved.Because he found that the white smoke that appeared with the bursts of gunfire was located on the mountainside on both sides of the mountain road, at least two hundred yards away from the Spanish soldiers on the mountain road... At this distance, the accuracy of the musket is very poor, and it is firing The muskets were not firing in volley, but they were disrupting the guns. The gunshots were chaotic and dense, almost connected together.Although it sounds scary, the damage it caused should be very limited.

Obviously, these merchant musketeers who set up an ambush on the mountainside did not really have the knack for flintlocks, so they did not pose any threat.

Thinking of this, the Count of Santa Cruz ordered loudly: "Order each company to form a shooting formation... After forming the formation, push up along the slopes on both sides. Be sure to maintain shooting discipline!"

But what happened next was far beyond the Count of Santa Cruz's imagination. Before his order was conveyed, the good guys around him were hit by bullets from a high place one by one, and they all wailed miserably. shouted.

"As you order, count... ah!"

"Ah! God!"

"Count, I've been hit!"

"My God, Mike is dead!"

"my God……"

It was not only the people around the Count of Santa Cruz who wailed and screamed, but it rang out in the entire valley. The bullets fired from the heights were not only dense, but also very accurate!In a short while, the Spaniards in the valley were severely injured, corpses and screaming wounded were everywhere, and the rest of the people also fell into a panic, raising their muskets and firing indiscriminately. rushed towards the exit on the other side of the valley, desperately trying to escape the surprisingly accurate bullets.But those bullets knocked them down one by one like they had eyes.

The Count of Santa Cruz was also protected by a few good guys who were still able to move and fled out of the valley on foot. The long-lost general was completely confused at this time, and he also lost control of his subordinates. He couldn't think about it. I understand, how can the muskets of these merchants be so accurate?Are they shooting with rifled guns?But how could the rate of fire of a rifled gun be so fast?

Chapter 825 The Rising Yin Shang Empire!

Bursts of bullets rained down on the mountain road called Xinmaling Road by the merchants, beating the messy Spaniards to howl and howl.The cries went all the way out of the valley, and reached the ears of the Yin cavalry who were lurking on a hillside with dense forests.These Yin family cavalry were the Junggar cavalry who followed the Yin family's three thousand lords. There were about [-] of them, and they were under the jurisdiction of the three thousand lords.Each Qianhuhou has [-] subordinates, but only four to five hundred are the subordinates of the Qianhuhou, and the rest are the people of Zhu Celing, the great Khan of the Yin family, but are managed by three Qianhuhous.

In the woods, three thousand and hundreds of Yin family cavalry and their horses were still recuperating.They were originally lying in ambush in a nearby hidden valley. After the Spaniards entered the ambush circle set up by the merchant infantry through the valley entrance, they rushed over to occupy favorable terrain and prepare for the second wave of ambushes.Because I was in a bit of a hurry, and the road was not easy to walk, the horses were exhausted going uphill and downhill, so there were no people at the moment, so the horses had to let them go slowly.

Of course they had heard the dense gunfire coming from the north, and they all showed excited expressions.These Yin family cavalry are all "all-round cavalry", not only equipped with bows and arrows, sabers, carbine, breastplate, but also equipped with grenades and rifled guns!It belongs to the all-round cavalry who can immediately dismount, hack people, shoot guns and throw bombs, can do everything, and is not good at anything.

But now they have rifled guns and cork bullets (Migne bullets), but their marksmanship is quite accurate, so they have become very powerful.

In theory, rifled guns and cork bullets can be used to name and snipe the enemy's artillery, and the cavalry is highly mobile.On the battlefield, if there are hundreds or thousands of "sniper cavalry" running around, looking for the enemy's officers and artillery, is the battle still won?

Today, the cavalry of the Yin family who set up an ambush outside Xinmaling Road are all under the unified command of Cering Dunduobu, one of the three thousand princes of the Yin family.Although the Marquis of Qianhu of Celing was the last of the [-] families of the Yin family to arrive in the New World, he couldn't hold back the brother of his father Galdan. He was Zhu Celing's nominal cousin. As a matter of course, the number one prince of the Yin family!

Moreover, his military talent is obviously higher than that of Dugar Arabtan and Danjin Omu. Among the cavalry of the Yin family, he is the only one who knows how to use rifles and cavalry in combination.

So while the others were busy serving the war horses, he was busy running between the positions of the hundreds of households, explaining the order of shooting and cavalry assault to the hundreds of households below, and sometimes helping the people below to set up formations and set up ambushes .A lot of work!

When the Spaniards rushed out from the mouth of the new Maling Road valley in the north, he had just arranged for the 21 cavalry of hundreds of families who participated in the ambush.The hills near the seagrass beach are not considered tall, nor are they steep, so they are very suitable for ambushes.The only shortcoming is that the vegetation is well preserved, and they are all virgin forests that have never been cut down, which is not very conducive to the cavalry's array attack.

In addition, there are no big trees on this hillside from the middle of the mountain, and people have cut them down and used them for some major construction... But there are still about [-] steps left between the hillside with trees and the mountain road below. distance.

Therefore, Celing Dunduobu could only scatter the cavalry in groups in the woods east of the exit of Maling Road, and let these cavalry dismount first and shoot long-range with the rifled guns in their hands. After firing three or two bullets, they hit Spain. After the formation of people was completely chaotic.From right to left, cavalry attacks were launched one after another, and they should not rush too fast, or they would easily step on the roots of the trees, and after rushing down the hillside, they had to adjust their formation to form a horizontal team one by one.