Rebirth of The Deer and the Cauldron, Wei Xiaobao Becomes a God

Seeing that the other side refused to surrender, Huang Ji immediately ordered the three armies to beat drums and march forward.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

As the drum beats sounded, the three squadrons marched forward in time to the beat and in neat steps.

When they reached 150 meters, the formation changed from 10x10 to 33x3. The squadron leader stood out of the formation, holding a flag in his hand.

The soldiers in the first row squatted down, raised the Zhuge Crossbows in their hands, and pointed them in the direction of the Tokugawa army's formation in front of them.

"First row, let go!"

The three squadron leaders gave the same order at the same time.

The three squadrons had 99 crossbows and pulled the triggers continuously. In less than a minute, 990 crossbow arrows were all shot at the soldiers of two squadrons of the Tokugawa family army at the camp gate.

These soldiers were used to a life of luxury and had never been to the battlefield. When they gathered, they only had samurai swords, bows and arrows, and muskets in their hands, without even shields.

After the first round of crossbow shooting from the first row, all 200 soldiers were injured. They no longer looked like soldiers. The seriously injured ones fell to the ground and struggled crying, while the lightly injured ones ran towards the barracks.

At this time, the second row of 990 crossbow arrows fell from the sky again. Those Tokugawa soldiers who did not escape the attack range had basically become "hedgehogs", unable to struggle, and could only wait to die.

Seeing that the enemy had been defeated, Koushui Huangji immediately ordered his troops to disperse, attack in teams of ten, and enter the camp to destroy the enemy.

Afterwards, the charge sounded, and 30 teams of guards rushed into the living area camp of the mining area. When they saw the soldiers of the Tokugawa family army, they raised their Tang swords and started to chop them.

The captain fled to the mining area halfway up the mountain with more than a dozen remaining soldiers, where there was also a squadron of Tokugawa's army.

At this time, the yellow machine gun had already cleared out the enemy forces in the living area.

No one was left alive, they were all killed.

The mining area is located at a high altitude and has a defensive wall. Crossbows shot from below cannot reach anyone unless they are standing on the wall. However, the enemy can light flares or shoot arrows from the battlements of the defensive wall, which can injure the attackers below.

After analyzing the terrain, Drool Yellow Machine decided to transfer steel shields and white phosphorus grenades from the front enemy camp.

Using the fine steel shield allows the grenadiers to approach the mining area safely.

The purpose of using white phosphorus grenades is to not collapse the mine and burn the enemies hiding behind the defensive wall.

When the shields and white phosphorus bombs were delivered, Dalui Huangji asked the Takeda Squadron and the Uesugi Squadron to provide cover, while he led the Oda Squadron to attack.

The soldiers of the Oda squadron were divided into groups of two, each holding a large iron shield, and approached the mining area little by little. Although the two squadrons at the back were constantly firing crossbows to suppress the enemy, the enemies in the mining area were still using muskets and bows and arrows to shoot down the mountain, hitting the fine steel shields with a "dang, dang..." sound!

However, this did not harm the guards behind the shields.

When Kou Shui Huang Ji led the Oda Squadron to 50 meters away from the defensive wall, Kou Shui ordered each group to take a white phosphorus grenade, one person to hold the shield, and one to throw the grenade.

"Ready, throw!" Saliva gave the unified command to throw grenades.

Fifty white phosphorus grenades were thrown from the bottom of the mountain to the top, landing on the walls and under the defensive wall, as well as at the entrance of the mining area.

The white phosphorus grenades exploded as soon as they hit the ground. The splattered white phosphorus ignited the sky with high-temperature flames and burned the earth. Within the range of the explosion of fifty white phosphorus grenades, people, objects, trees, grass... everything was burning, ghosts were howling, and wolves were howling. It was hell on earth!

Ten minutes later, the fire gradually weakened, and saliva led Oda's squadron to the mining area. Except for the corpses burned into charcoal, there was nothing left in the mining area.

At this point, the first mining area was captured, 300 enemies were killed, and our side suffered zero casualties.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, Captain Tang led the front-line troops to the copper mining area.

Captain Tang ordered the yellow machine to send the guards to gather the miners and have them lectured by Ishikawa Daisan.

Wei Xiaobao had already arranged for the treatment of these miners. All miners were freed from slavery. Those who were willing to return to their hometowns were given travel expenses, and those who were willing to stay and continue mining were paid wages. Those aged 18 to 26 who were willing to serve in the army were recruited into the Royal Guards as long as they were physically qualified.

When Ishikawa Daisan announced the treatment for the miners, all the miners knelt down to express their gratitude.

Being able to escape slavery and gain freedom is the lifelong dream of these miners' families. In some families, it is a common dream for two or even three generations.

They were suddenly freed from slavery today, and it seemed as if they were dreaming. If they had not really seen those devil-like guards being annihilated by the Royal Guards, they would not have dared to believe that all this was real!

Some miners knelt down and cried, some hugged each other and cried, some howled to the sky, and some laughed heartily...

They have been oppressed for too long by the loss of their freedom...

Half an hour later, the miners' emotions finally stabilized.

Next, the work was carried out in an orderly manner, counting the property in the copper mining area, distributing food and travel expenses to the miners, and registering workers and soldiers for recruitment.

These tasks were mainly completed by Ishikawa Daizan and the Ishikawa family army, and the guards sent Yamada Hidai to lead the recruitment work.

By 2 p.m., all the data was summarized in the hands of Captain Tang.

"The copper mine area has cleared out 15 tons of refined copper and countless copper ore. The mine area takes about five tons of copper ore every day, and smelts about half a ton of refined copper every day, and can smelt tons of copper per month.

There are a total of 2218 miners in the mining area, excluding women and children, and 1477 male laborers. Both male and female miners are under 50 years old. Those over 50 will be executed.

0 people are willing to return. "

Seeing this, Captain Tang asked, "Why is no one willing to go home?"

"Their hometown is controlled by the Tokugawa shogunate. If they go back, they will be caught as runaway slaves. Once they are caught, they will either be beheaded or sold. So they dare not go back." said Koushuihuangji.

Captain Tang continued to read on:

"There are 18 men aged 26 to 134, who are physically fit and meet the recruitment requirements. We will select and recruit 100 of them."

There are 2118 miners remaining in the mining area, including 1377 male laborers.

After reading it, Captain Tang asked Ishikawa Daishan to leave a squadron to guard the copper mine, and asked Koushui Huangji to send a team of ten people to stay behind to train the recruits, and the rest of the troops set off for the next stronghold.

In the evening, Wei Xiaobao received the battle report on the occupation of the first copper mining area. After seeing the report that only half a ton of copper was produced from five tons of copper ore, he called it a waste. The normal level should be 20% copper output rate, but this is only 10%, which is half short. The Ministry of Industry must mobilize a group of smelting craftsmen to come to Shiyu Mountain to transform the smelting methods here, otherwise it will be a waste of resources.