Daming Military Empire

Chapter 687 Across the Americas, Attacking the British Army

In October, North America has slowly entered winter. The sea breeze in Jinshan Port has been chilling, and the streets of Jinshan City have also been blowing cold.

At this time in previous years, the people of the Indian tribes don’t go out very much, because their spinning and weaving technology is still at the initial stage of manual work, and they can’t weave too many cold-resistant clothes. At this time, they usually sit around at home , Roast the fire to keep out the cold.

However, this time of this year is different, because the Great Tomorrow Dynasty has come, bringing countless thick fabrics, and according to their clothing style, each of them was given a set of clothes to keep out the cold.

Of course, if they want to make more and better-looking clothes, they can also. There are many factories in the city of the Great Ming Dynasty that provide job opportunities, and the construction of roads and cities along the railway line requires a lot of labor. They can go to work at any time to make money and buy them. Clothes are made of various brightly colored fabrics.

Clothes alone make them burst out with great enthusiasm, not to mention porcelain, tea, fine wine, spices, smooth mirrors, exquisite knives and other innumerable good things, which drive them to work hard. To get what you dream of.

Another interesting scene appeared in the factories in various cities in North America and on the construction sites inside and outside the cities. All the working Indians were wearing exactly the same clothes, as if they were work uniforms, which made people look pleasing to the eye.

These are indeed clothes that Indians wear specially for work. These clothes are given to them for free by Da Ming Dynasty. Since they are free, they naturally don’t use too good fabrics. They all use them for work. Yes, as for when they are not working, they naturally wear better-looking clothes made of bought fabrics.

Due to the active participation of the Indians, road construction and city construction were progressing rapidly. At this time, the American Railway had already been built near the British colonies on the east coast, and the cities and stations were almost completed.

It was at this time that a huge fleet of ships ushered in the port of Jinshan City. There were thousands of uniformed armed blessing ships, and the shadows of ships were almost everywhere in the entire bay.

Needless to say, this is the third wave of the Ming Empire's colonial fleet. Thousands of armed blessing ships not only brought the first batch of [-] households to guard, but also brought a large amount of weapons, ammunition and commodities. There are dozens of locomotives.

Daming Royal Machinery Group's factory in Jinshan City has produced an unknown number of trucks and passenger carriages during this period, but they can't make locomotives, so they can only be shipped from Daming.

After the locomotives were hoisted from the armed blessing boats, they directly entered the railway track on the pier, and then drove into the workshop of the Daming Royal Machinery Group in Jinshan City with the sound of sirens, and soon after, the workshop of the Daming Royal Machinery Group drove out A full train.

The originally empty Jinshancheng Railway Station was filled with trains, and the platform where there was no one was filled with soldiers from the Tianxiong Army and the Zhongyong Army.

Seeing that it is about to enter the cold winter, if you don't take action, you will have to wait until next year.

Naturally, Lu Xiangsheng didn't want to wait a few months before attacking, and Zhu Cijiong didn't want the big powers to use these months to obtain more supplies from the North American continent. !
It was based on this consideration that Zhu Cijiong deliberately asked the third wave of colonial fleets to bring the locomotives that were urgently needed here, as well as the weapons, ammunition, food and supplies needed for this war. Therefore, not long after the things arrived, Lu Xiangsheng organized The army is ready to go.

With the active cooperation of the local aborigines, the Ming army has already investigated the deployment of the British army on the east coast.

At this time, Britain had a total of six colonies in North America, namely:

Virginia Colony established in 1607;
Massachusetts colony established in 1620;
The New Hampshire colony established in 1623;

Maryland Colony established in 1632;

Rhode Island Colony established in 1636;

Connecticut Colony established in 1639.

And there are not many British troops in these colonies, the smallest is less than 1000, and the largest is less than 1. The total is about [-] to [-] British troops.

I don't know if the British army is too superstitious about their naval power or they simply didn't expect to be attacked here. In short, the defenses of their various gathering points or towns are very lax, and they basically built a circle of low walls to protect them. To defend against the Indians who had no gunpowder weapons.

Of course, castles were built in some places, but those were just ordinary castles used to defend against ordinary people, not bastions.

This kind of ordinary defense is no problem against the Indians, but it has no effect at all in front of the well-equipped Ming army. If it were not for the fact that the British army may receive sea support at any time, Lu Xiangsheng might have sent cavalry long ago Go and clean them up, and repair some railways.

The main purpose of repairing the railway was to transport heavy weapons such as artillery and armored chariots to guard against reinforcements from the British.

At this moment, the American Railway had reached the rear of the Indian Pequot tribe’s settlement, that is, between Maryland and Connecticut. It was probably located in the northeast of Pennsylvania in later generations, and it was only more than 100 miles away from the Maryland colony and the Connecticut colony.

Since the relationship between the British colonists and the Indian tribes was quite bad at this time, and their strength was not enough to sweep all the Indian tribes, they did not dare to enter the gathering area of ​​the Indian tribes, because once they entered, they basically could not get out. .

But the Ming Empire is like a fish in water here, the Indians regard them as their saviors, not only will not attack them, but will do their best to help them!

After several days of preparation and several days of train rides, Lu Xiangsheng finally led all the soldiers of the Tianxiong Army and Zhongyong Army to the terminal station of the East Coast American Railway.

Not only a large-scale railway station was built here, but also a large city was built. As for the name of the city, he has already asked the emperor for instructions, but he has not received an answer. For the time being, he can only call it the Pequot tribe.

This Pequot tribe is also a large tribe with tens of thousands of people. Their original gathering place is not here, but near the coast. They were forced to move here after being killed by the British colonists.

The Indian tribes near the east coast are basically similar to them. Those who were killed by the British colonists were forced to relocate, or those who were killed fled in all directions. It can be said that they have a deep hatred with the British colonists.

Now that the Great Ming Dynasty came to help them avenge them, they naturally couldn't be more active. There was no need for Lu Xiangsheng to mobilize them. The nearby tribes took the initiative to send soldiers to lead the way for the Ming army.

Lu Xiangsheng naturally wished for it. Since the strength of the British army was not very strong, he decided to divide his troops into two groups.

Along the way, he personally led the Tianxiong Army to attack the relatively large and populous colonies of Maryland and Virginia to the south.

Along the way, Yang Zhong led the Zhongyong Army to the north to attack the other four smaller colonies.

People from the local tribes led the way, and the process went smoothly. Soon, the Ming army appeared on the outskirts of the gathering place of the British colonists without anyone noticing.

(End of this chapter)