Chapter 400: Building the North American Railroad

Seburi and another Manchurian man were busy on the railway site carrying a railroad track and shouting the trumpet of labor. Saburi was not only a son of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, but also the son of Yue Le, Prince An, but now he was a prisoner and was sent to the other side of the ocean to become a slave laborer.

Although at present, in the American continent and Southeast Asia, many of the original Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners have become second-class people, and some have even become Han Chinese entirely, but this does not include the Seburi group. The capital was breached, and later the city of Beihai on the shores of Lake Baikal was breached, and the captured Manchu Eight Banners were reduced to hard labor, and their labor had to be used to cleanse them of the crimes committed by their fathers and ancestors.

When the Ming army captured the capital, some people put forward the theory of original sin, in addition to the early surrender, now joined the Ming army of the Manchu Eight Banners, the later banner people are all original sin, whether they have been soldiers or not, as long as they are banner people, they are born guilty, they must accept a just trial, and then serve ten years of hard labor to wash away their crimes.

Although Sabli had become a coolie here, he was fortunate to be compared to the bannermen who died in the massacre.

Whether it was Wu Sangui who conquered the capital, or Zheng attacked and captured Beihai City, they all connived at the soldiers to carry out a massacre in these cities, and then many of the captured Aixin Jueluo family members were beheaded all over the house, and some people were sent to the coal mines in Nanyang, working in the dark underground, and died of exhaustion in a few years. And Sébury felt very lucky to have survived until now.

In North America, there are endless savannahs, and coming here feels like returning to the Mongolian steppes of northern China.

Golden River City (Los Angeles) in the south is a city that Zheng Jingcai snatched from the Spaniards not long ago. Today, Zheng Jing's territory runs in a straight line from north to south along the west coast of the United States, with no roads between them, and the connection between several cities is entirely dependent on shipping.

In order to strengthen the area under his control, Zheng Jing decided to build a railway from Yanping to the Jinhe River.

The castle, called Grizzly Bear, is a castle located 300 miles east of San Francisco, where the north-south railroad line and the west-to-east railroad line meet. The reason why it is named Grizzly Fort is because Zheng Jing once obtained a special pet here: the North American grizzly bear, this bear is also very human, and also participated in the Ming army, becoming a special warrior, it helps carry shells on the battlefield, pulls artillery carts, and likes to drink. So when the castle was built, it was named Grizzly Castle.

Grizzly Bear Fort is a typical European-style castle, a circle of 100 zhang, 3 zhang wide and 1 zhang deep moat, the four corners of the castle have hollow bastions, four concave sides and four concave triangular forts, the top of the castle is a turret.

The north-south railroad had already offended the interests of the Spaniards, who from time to time sent cavalry to harass them. However, such a castle is not a fortified castle that can be conquered by cavalry without heavy weapons.

But at this time Sabli was building a railroad more than thirty miles away from the castle, and if anyone attacked, they had only a simple camp to defend against.

"I'm here!" While Seburi and the other prisoners were working hard, someone shouted.

Not far away, on the grassland, a group of shirtless and horseback Indian cavalry appeared, followed by several Spaniards wearing large straw hats.

"That's a pro-Spaniard local fan." Someone said.

Wang Jizhen, the captain of the escort team, shouted: "Quick, all return to the camp!" ”

Wang Jizhen is the son of the famous general Wang Fu, as a meritorious son, he did not want to live a boring life of enjoying Qingfu and worrying about food and clothing at home in Nanjing, but chose to go to the American continent to expand his territory.

More than 300 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners and more than 200 local Indian coolies who were building railroads immediately returned to the camp. Sebury was worried, he didn't know if he could hold off Shengban's attack with a thin wooden fence. The defenders here were small in number, with only one company of cavalry, one company of infantry and one artillery platoon.

Wang Jizhen was already standing on the wooden tower, picked up the binoculars, and looked at the endless cavalry, the cavalry of the brigade spread from the sky, it seemed that there were at least five or six thousand people, all of them were one man with two horses or even one man with three horses, some of the cavalry carried muskets on their backs, and some of the cavalry were armed with bows and arrows.

"Shoot everyone!" Wang Jizhen gave the order.

Seburi was also given a smoothbore gun, and at this time he could only resist with the Ming army escort, if the camp was broken by those Shengfan, everyone here would have to die.

The reason why the Spaniards gathered the Indians who were close to them came here to plunder, because the Ming army gave them too much pressure in the southern Jinhe City, the Ming army's ironclad ships were active in the waters near Jinhe City, sinking many Spanish ships, on land, Zheng Jing built a huge city, although it was an oriental-style city, but there were raised solid fortresses on the city wall, and there was a fort every other way on the city wall, and it was difficult for the Spaniards to conquer those cities.

Once the north-south railway line was completed, the Spaniards would face the fate of being completely driven out of the Americas.

"Ikuban is attacking!" Someone shouted.

Sebri held the smoothbore gun tightly in his hand, the bullet was already loaded, and he only had to pull the trigger to complete the fire. The Indians outside had already begun to attack, and the Indians dismounted and, under the command of the Spaniards behind, launched an attack on the camp with only a thin wooden fence.

Outside the wooden fence there was a trench five feet wide and eight feet deep, and the Indians had to jump off the trench and climb up again. In the process, it is easy to be shot by fire from inside the camp.

The Indians, who were covering the fire behind the "bang bang bang", opened fire, and the bullets whistled and hit the wooden fence.

"Put!" Wang Jizhen roared.

Armed with rifled guns, the Ming army pulled the trigger, and several Indians who were attacking with muskets and bows spurted blood and fell on their backs.

The Indians in front had already jumped into the trench and began to climb up with all their might. Sebury aimed at an Indian and pulled the trigger. A gunshot rang out, and the Indian ten paces away had a bloody hole in his chest, and he fell into the ditch with a scream. Bullets whistled from outside, several of which passed through the gaps in the wooden fence, and one of the coolies beside Seburi screamed and fell backwards on his back.

Seburi knew the man who had been shot and fell, his name was Zildu, and he was the grandson of Zilharang. Unexpectedly, this person was lucky enough to escape the fate of the Zhujiu tribe, but he was shot and killed by the Indians while building a railway here.

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