Lin Fei hurriedly asked, "What did you say?" It's not as simple as I thought? What's going on? ”

Jiang Hui replied: "That's right, after the failure of the Spanish attack last night, they no longer used the tactics of attacking with large troops, but sent small forces to carry out more than a dozen attacks one after another, and more than 30 migrant workers were killed. ”

Lin Fei let out a "hmm" and said: "The recruited migrant workers were killed, so to appease the family members well, and pay more pensions, is there anything difficult about it?" ”

Jiang Hui sighed and said: "There is nothing to issue pensions, it's just that the hearts of other migrant workers are fluctuating, and many of them have already proposed to quit the engineering team, and they don't want the money we haven't given them yet." ”

Lin Fei frowned and said, "Is there such a thing? When we attacked the first few lines of defense, didn't the enemy also send troops to harass our troops? Why didn't those migrant workers quit the engineering team before? ”

Jiang Hui said: "Your Majesty, in the previous battles, the enemy army relied on the strong defense line, and didn't care too much about us building fortifications, but now that we are directly facing the enemy's city wall, the frequency of their attacks has increased significantly, and the intensity of the attack has also been significantly strengthened, and the most critical point is that in the past, they only fought the army, not the civilian workers, but now they only fight the civilian workers, not the army. ”

Lin Fei then asked, "What about our security forces, can't they protect migrant workers?" ”

Wei Zelong's Sixth Regiment is the unit responsible for the task of defending, he heard Lin Fei's question and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, this is not that our Sixth Regiment is not doing its duty, we also want to protect the migrant workers, but our soldiers are much less than the migrant workers, and the enemy's attacks are fragmentary, and our soldiers are unable to protect every migrant worker at the expense of one or the other." ”

Lin Fei nodded after hearing this, and said, "I don't blame you for guarding the troops for this matter. ”

Wei Zelong's face softened slightly, Lin Fei turned his head to look at everyone, and said: "It seems that the enemy army has obviously strengthened the protection of the city wall, and Manila is even more difficult to fight, but these difficulties have been solved, Jiang Hui, how much money do you pay to the recruited migrant workers now?" ”

Jiang Hui replied: "We calculate the money according to the amount of earthwork excavated by migrant workers, and the soil of the one-meter-long fortification is dug for two pesos. ”

Lin Fei thought for a while and said, "Raise this price to four pesos, and the number of people left behind should increase a lot." ”

Jiang Hui nodded, and Li on the side said clearly: "But Your Majesty, increasing the remuneration is only a way to cure the symptoms but not the root cause, to relieve the harassment of the enemy army, so that they can't beat us, in order to eradicate the stubborn disease." ”

Lin Fei smiled: "You are right, what do you have to treat both the symptoms and the root causes?" ”

Li clearly said: "I went to the front-line combat troops to ask, and they said that the enemy army was attacking us from a trench on the opposite side, and if we can lay this trench, the threat of the enemy army will be completely solved." ”

Lin Fei asked, "How far is that trench from the city wall?" ”

"According to my estimates, about 500 meters. ”

Lin Fei shook his head lightly and said, "No, it's too close, this trench is completely under the protection of the enemy's city firepower, once our army attacks, it will be killed and injured by the fire at the head of the city." ”

Li Ming nodded, and then said, "If this method doesn't work, I have another way." ”

Lin Fei made a gesture of "please speak", and Li said clearly: "Now we are building fortifications 2,000 meters away from the enemy's city wall, if we can put the artillery 3,000 meters away from the city wall, the enemy army will not be able to do anything about our artillery." ”

Without waiting for Lin Fei to speak, Zhao Menggang on the side raised his hand and said, "Chief of Staff Li, our artillery can't fire at a distance of 3,000 meters from the target. ”

Li was stunned for a moment and said: "I read that the technical manual of the HP-2 75mm howitzer says that the maximum firing range of this type of artillery is more than 5,000 meters, and it can't still hit the target when it is 3,000 meters away from the target?" ”

Zhao Menggang said: "What you said is right, 3,000 meters is indeed within the range of our howitzer, but the circumferential dispersion of shells at a distance of 2,000 meters from the target and 3,000 meters from the target is completely different, and it is ......calculated according to the probability theory."

Lin Fei coughed lightly, interrupted Zhao Menggang, and said, "Let's put it simply. ”

Zhao Menggang said "sorry", and then said: "To put it simply, if you shoot at a distance of 3,000 meters, the number of shells that hit the city wall will be much less, and the purpose of your majesty is to blow up a gap in the city wall, so you need multiple shells to hit the city wall, if we shoot at a distance of 3,000 meters, the number of shells hit is likely not enough to blow up the city wall, you understand?" ”

Li Ming has been learning all kinds of military knowledge, which naturally includes weapons and equipment, so he understood Zhao Menggang's explanation and said: "So that's the case, it seems that my method can't work." ”

After Li Ming finished speaking, he looked up at everyone and asked, "What can you do?" ”

Everyone was silent for a while, and Lin Fei said with a smile: "What's wrong with everyone? Is there no way? ”

Everyone acquiesced to Lin Fei's words with their eyes and expressions, and Lin Fei smiled: "That's it, I'll come up with an idea." Everyone focused their eyes on Lin Fei for a while, and Lin Fei said with a smile: "As soon as my method comes out, it will definitely make the Spaniards dare not attack again." ”

Staff Officer Li Tianqian's eyes lit up and asked, "Your Majesty, are you going to use artillery to bombard the enemy's trenches?" Force the enemy to retreat into the city? ”

Lin Fei shook his head and smiled: "After all, every shell can't fall into the enemy's trenches, so doing so is not only a waste of shells, but also ineffective, I have another clever plan, you listen to me in detail......"

Lin Fei finished talking about the plan, and arranged it on the same day, and the Spaniards on the opposite side were still unaware, turning the day, after a night of busyness, the annular moat dug by the field regiment under the head of the Komal regiment had begun to take shape, at 8 o'clock in the morning, the day was bright, the head of the Komaier regiment picked up the telescope and looked at the opposite side, only to see a group of migrant workers digging fortifications, and more than a dozen soldiers were protecting them in the single soldier lying bunker.

Seeing that there were hundreds of migrant workers and only a dozen guards, the head of the regiment could not help but show a smug smile, as if a hungry wolf saw a fat sheep, he waved his hand and called a staff officer, pointed to the distance with his hand, and said, "Do you see the migrant workers in that position?" ”

The staff officer nodded, and the head of the Komal regiment smiled: "There are more than a dozen migrant workers there, far away from the guards, and the guards can't protect them, you arrange a squad of troops, attack them, the old rule, kill a migrant worker and reward 200 pesos, and kill a Chinese Imperial soldier 1000 pesos." ”

The staff officer agreed, turned around and conveyed the order, there is no danger of dying to harass the migrant workers, and there is money to be made, so the Spanish grassroots troops like to go out to raid, and each squad leader has to squeeze his head in order to fight for the place of the raid, and a squad leader named De Talis bribed the staff officer 50 pesos, and the staff officer let De Talis lead the troops to set off.

Detalis took his squad and quietly slipped out of the trench, and approached the group of migrant workers under the cover of the grass half a man high on the ground, and the Spaniards were inspired by the camouflage uniforms of Lin Fei's troops and tied green strips of cloth to their bodies, so the concealment was not weak, so Detalis approached a position of five or six hundred meters away from the migrant workers, and the migrant workers did not find them.

Seeing that the laborers were still working, Detalis apparently did not notice them, and the guards in the distance did not mean to come over, and sensing that the attack was about to succeed, he counted the number of laborers, fifteen, and said excitedly: "Brothers, there are fifteen laborers, and we are going to make a fortune." ”

The Spanish soldiers in the squad also became excited, but they still suppressed their excitement and slowly approached the migrant workers, until they were more than 300 meters away from the migrant workers, and the migrant workers still did not notice them.

De Talis led the soldiers to speed up their pace, the migrant workers are getting closer and closer, those migrant workers are still working at this time, De Talis can't help but wonder a little, secretly thinking that they should find us at this distance, why are these migrant workers still working, and have no intention of escaping?

Detalis was shrouded in fog when he suddenly saw the migrant workers on the opposite side move, they put down their shovels and hoes, and picked up something from the ground, the distance was too far for Detalis to see clearly.

After picking up the things on the ground, the migrant workers immediately divided left and right, and ran to the left and right of Detalis and the others, Detalis was suddenly startled, thinking to himself how these migrant workers ran in front of us, are they here to die?

Detalis was thinking that the migrant workers were already approaching, and suddenly Detalis saw what the migrant workers were holding clearly...... Gun... Detalis exclaimed, "God, they are not laborers, they are soldiers......"

Detalis's voice stopped abruptly, because a bullet hit him in the chest, he fell down with a scream, and then the "pop" gunfire came one after another, several Spanish soldiers were knocked to the ground, and the others immediately fell on the spot and fired back, but the migrant workers were moving at high speed, and the Spanish soldiers would not hit the sports target, so not a single migrant worker was hit.

The Spanish soldiers were about to be surrounded by those migrant workers, and hurriedly threw their feet like flying back, and the gunshots of the migrant workers rang out behind them, and the marksmanship of those migrant workers was extremely accurate, almost every time the gun sounded, a Spanish soldier fell to the ground and died, and the Spanish soldiers' hearts were full of fear, so they simply didn't even want a gun, and ran for their lives with all their might.

The migrant workers only chased a few dozen meters and went back, they followed Lin Fei's instructions to deliberately let the Spanish soldiers go, and the Spanish soldiers fled back to their own team in a wolf bèi, and the head of the Comer Regiment had heard the gunshots at this time, and hurriedly came over and asked, "What happened?" ”

A Spanish soldier said with a sad face: "Those migrant workers are not migrant workers, they are soldiers of Lin Fei's army..."

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