Chapter 49 Original, but that's it

Moire stood high up, holding a telescope to see Lai Guorao's fleet leave.

After putting down the binoculars, he said to Lao Zhou, "Now, here is our master's decision." ”

Lao Zhou said with a sad face: "Young master, by tomorrow at the latest, this island will be surrounded by those warships, and we won't be able to leave." ”

Yun Wen smiled: "This is the effect I want, if I don't survive a big war, how can my Yun Clan's personal guards gain a foothold in the army again." ”

Lao Chang watched the last touch of sunset gradually turn dark, and said in a deep voice: "I don't know how many of these 5,800 people on the island can go back alive." ”

Yunwen said lightly: "If you go back alive, Your Majesty will have a usable talent, and if you go back to two, you will have two talents, and if you can't become a talent, you will die if you die, and the wealth of my Lantian Dynasty is not so easy to enjoy."

The island is surrounded by mountains on both sides, and the other is a cliff, and the only place that is really convenient for attacking is the harbor, and if the beach can't be defended, we will retreat to the harbour, and if the harbor can't be defended, we will retreat to the jungle, and if the jungle can't hold it, we will go up the mountain.

In short, hold on until General Han's fleet comes, and we will be able to live, if not, then dead balls! ”

Moire doesn't seem to care too much about his life, Lao Zhou heard this, his heart was bitter, Moire can not care, he can't not care...... However, everyone is now stranded on the island, and even if they want to run, there is nowhere to run.

The gambling nature of the Yun clan is very heavy, from the emperor Yun Zhao, to Yun Yang, to Yun Fu, Yun Meng, Yun Hu, Yun Leopard, Yun Jiao, Yun Xiao are all like this, and now, to Yun Wen began to gamble.

The so-called wealth and wealth are in danger, which seems unreasonable in the Yun family, but it is precisely because the Yun family is a royal family that they are unwilling to give up their wealth, and they are more concerned about retaining the privileges of wealth than anyone else.

They knew that if other families declined, they would also decline, and if the Yun royal family declined, many people would die.

Moire thought that the war would not begin until dawn at the earliest, but the British apparently did not think so, and after the departure of Lai's fleet, the British fleet approached the island.

Although the tide had begun to reced, they still refused to give up, and the sampans of the troops went down to the sea densely, taking advantage of the bright moonlight on the sea to pounce on the island.

At the same time, the huge battleships had all turned their hulls, their gun windows spewing fire, and heavy shells crashing down in the moonlight with whistles.

This was only a deterrent, and the shells smashed the wooden buildings on the harbor, and even more smashed deep pits into the ground, and on the soft beaches, the lethality of solid shells was really limited.

Moire took a gun and put it on his shoulder, threw a cigarette into his mouth and lit it, and said to a group of people in Yunzhen: "The war has begun. ”

Lao Zhou saw that Moire's legs were trembling, but this guy's hands were very steady, and he didn't tremble at all when he lit a cigarette, this look couldn't be compared with his father, but considering his age, Lao Zhou's heart was a little warm.

Lai Guorao did not go far, except for the seriously injured and very slow Pishan entered the Strait of Malacca with a transport ship, he returned to the waters of West Island with two ironclad ships and eight three-masted warships.

West Island is not the largest of the many islands in the area, but it is so close to Bengal that it was used by the British as a springboard to India.

At dawn, Lai Guorao and his fleet quietly arrived at an island, which was uninhabited, the whole island was covered with dense forests, and in the early morning, countless seabirds could be seen leaving the island to forage for food.

The fleet glided across the slightly yellowish sea, and finally anchored on the back of the island.

Deputy General Zhao Rong saw that Lai Guorao seemed to be very leisurely, so he said worriedly: "I don't know what happened to Colonel Moire, the war must have started at this time." ”

Lai Guorao shook his head and said: "The moonlight was bright last night, and the British won't wait until dawn to do it." ”

"Commander, do you think the moire people can make it?"

"If you don't succeed, you have to hold on."

"We're just waiting here?"

"I'm here waiting for the Portuguese ......"

"Colonel Moire, they ......"

"I have to finish the path I chose."

"What if?"

"There is no case, war is an overall strategic thing, sometimes what should be discarded must be discarded, not because of small mistakes, the empire's goal is India, getting rid of the British is just a part of the overall strategy, the French, the Dutch, the Spaniards, the Portuguese are all part of this strategy.

General Han intends to use this battle to determine the power of our Ming Empire to carve up India, and how much we can occupy in the future depends entirely on whether we can beat the European countries in this war.

It would be even more beneficial for us to have a few fewer competitors. ”

Zhao Rong leaned on the side of the boat and looked down at the few small fish swimming around the side of the boat and said to Lai Guorao: "I always feel that General Han's plan is too big, we have just cleared Java Island, and she can't wait to start building a senior school on the island."

Not only that, she has begun to gather the Ming people scattered in Nanyang, and the intention of preparing for Java to become the center of Nanyang is already very obvious, and I am worried that if I ignore the life and death of Colonel Moire, it will affect the eternal plan that General Han will carry out in Nanyang. ”

"Don't worry about this, under the general trend, personal resistance almost does not play any role, the proposal to build Java has passed the review of the congress, His Majesty has used the seal, the minister of state has also signed, has entered the implementation stage, you see, within half a year, those landless fishermen in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty will flock to it.

They have the custom of going to the South Seas, and they also know how rich the land of the South Seas is.

In the past, they were willing to come to Nanyang to beg for a living at the risk of death, but now, under the protection of the empire, their minds to go to Nanyang will definitely be more active.

What we can do is give them more space to develop their talents. ”

Zhao Rong let out a long breath and said: "Go south, go north, this is the national policy that the empire is actively promoting now, and the first wave of baby boom after the Ming War has come, Your Majesty is doing this to make room for those newborn children?" ”

Lai Guorao said with a smile: "When I was in Yushan Academy, I once heard gentlemen tell me that so far, the population of Daming is still too small, and Mr. Gu of the academy believes that Daming still needs 20,000 people to occupy our current land in a balanced manner."

If there were not so many people, many, a lot of land would be wasted.

According to Mr. Gu's prediction, it would take at least 100 years for the Ming Dynasty to have a population of more than 30,000,000, but Mr. Liang did not think so, believing that with the increase in the empire's grain production, the universalization of medical resources, and the nationalization of the profession of Wenpo, the population of the Ming Dynasty would rise from the current 160,000 to 30,000 in the next 30 to 40 years.

Therefore, no matter how much arguments are made at home, the duty of us soldiers is to expand the territory! Try to grab resources as much as possible. ”

The conversation between Lai Guorao and Zhao Rong was immediately dispersed by the sea breeze.

Nothing was left.

However, after repelling another round of beach-grabbing landings by the British, Moire's legs no longer trembled, for he found that it was not difficult for them to kill the British, armed with the latest muskets.

He had left the front line of the war, and sat in the study of the governor's palace, which had belonged to Raymond, and began to carefully examine the rifle in his hand, and listen to what the ordnance officer had to say.

The rifle in his hand was named the Zhonghua Type II rifle, which used copper-shelled bullets, while the Zhonghua Type 1 rifle used paper shell bullets.

Although these two firearms sound like sister firearms, there is a fundamental gap in efficiency, especially after the research and development of thundermercury progress, coupled with a long firing pin and rifling, the performance of the Chinese Type II rifle has been significantly improved.

This is not only reflected in the range and accuracy, but also in the speed of reloading.

Compared with the British's beak flintlock front-loading gun, the Zhonghua Type II rifle can choose more combat methods, among which, just the combat mode of various postures has made a earth-shaking change in the survival rate of an infantry.

100 paces distance, this is the range of the front-loading gun, and the Chinese Type II rifle has shown extremely high lethality at a distance of 100 steps, and the 50 steps of this flintlock pistol commonly used to shoot distance, under the China Type 2 gun, is simply the slaughter distance.

After listening to the words of the ordnance officer, Moire found for the first time that he was so powerful, and what the instructor in the military academy said was all a lie...... Say what the enemy is strong, what say the enemy is cunning, what to say...... In short, the enemy should not be underestimated.

Moire suddenly felt comfortable, leaned back on the chair, habitually put his feet on the table, and said to Lao Zhou: "We have won this battle." ”

Lao Zhou looked at Yunwen coldly and said, "Looking at your appearance, why does the old slave think that we seem to have lost?" ”

Moire laughed and said, "Lao Tzu's gun ......"

"That's the Empire's gun, and the young master is just a man with a gun...... Look at this scar on my face, it was cut by a rogue who was only thirteen or fourteen years old while our weapons crushed the enemy.

If it hadn't been for the good medicine that the master had given him, my bones would have rotted.

Before the war, the lord regarded the heroes of the world as nothing, but when fighting, even if the enemy in front of him was very weak, the lord was always cautious, cautious, and cautious, and never said that he had won the battle before it was over.

Young master, only by killing the last enemy, can you say that we have won, as long as your enemy still has a breath, it will be ten, don't say victory.

This matter, after returning to Yushan, the old slave will report to the old man that he knows. ”

Hearing this, Yunwen jumped up and said, "Uncle Zhou, you're trying to kill me." ”

Lao Zhou said coldly: "First of all, young master, don't kill me, I still have three children in my family, two of them are underage, I don't want them to have no father." ”