RNP Chapter 350
Chapter 350
Looking at the retreating Indian archers, the deputy captain breathed a sigh of relief.
These Indians are indeed too backward.
Their bows and arrows, the armed citizens of Daming thought they were very advanced, but when they left, they did not even dare to take away the bodies of more than a hundred dead archers.
The deputy captain took the twenty armed citizens who remained behind, poured gasoline on their bodies, and then set them on fire.
However, before they retreated, they took away most of their bows and arrows.
The few pairs left behind were bows and arrows that were too late to take away.
"Deputy captain, these bows and arrows, we tried them, even with all our strength, the arrows fired only flew less than sixty steps, and it is estimated that they will be lethal at about thirty steps."
"How effective is the armor piercing?" , the deputy captain asked curiously.
"I tried it just now, even if it is five steps away, it can't penetrate the plate armor, and there is basically no armor-breaking effect."
The deputy captain was very confused, "400", this Indian, there are tens of millions of people in the Americas, why except for astronomy and mathematics have been developed, everything else seems to have not developed.
In particular, some of the weapons that fell on the ground turned out to be bronzes.
This surprised the deputy captain, the land of China, that was the Warring States period, began to use iron tools, and now it is at least nearly two thousand years away.
This Indian, all in this era, there are still a large number of weapons made of bronze, which is really eye-opening.
Looking at the arrow, it turned out to be bronze, and the deputy captain helplessly spread his hands.
"Gentlemen, this Indian, don't worry!"
"Immediately, at a distance of one or two hundred paces from the coast, start building brick kilns, cement kilns, and prepare to build strongholds."
"Release two carrier pigeons, just say that we are on the west coast of North America and are ready to build a stronghold, please rest assured."
March of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen
Chongzhen was in Beijing and organized the departure ceremony of the second echelon of the Daming people's colonization.
In the second echelon of national colonization, Chongzhen sold a total of 5,000 three-masted sailing ships.
The citizens of the second echelon of Daming, they have more options for weapons.
Among them, grenades and mines have become the latest weapons.
After these granulated black powder came out, Song Yingxing and they created grenades and mines after many tests.
These grenades and mines were filled with thirty lead bullets as explosive fragments.
Chongzhen copied the template and saved it in his unlimited copy system, and many of the citizens of Daming who went on this expedition bought ten grenades.
This time five thousand, adding sailing ships that colonized the Arabian Peninsula.
However, in the second echelon, the destinations from number one to number 500 are the Arabian Peninsula.
The Arabian Peninsula was now in the hands of the Ottoman Empire.
Chongzhen doesn't care who these lands are in their hands, anyway, they can copy them infinitely, these people are also idle in Daming, it is better to let them go to other places to open up territory.
Of course, the colonization of the first to fifth hundredth of this second echelon must be much more difficult than the fleet going to other continents.
After all, at this time, the Ottoman Empire basically pressed other countries on the Europa continent.
Even the Duchy of Rus had to temporarily sign a contract with the Ottoman Empire to provide a large amount of food supplies to the Ottoman Empire every year, otherwise the Ottoman Empire would find an excuse to attack the Principality of Rus where it bordered the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman Empire even bet on both sides of the continent of Europa.
Whoever has greater interests in the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman Empire can support the countries of Europa that they are optimistic about at any time.
Like the battle between religion and Catholicism, the Ottoman sultans bet on both sides.
Religious believers, mainly in the French Empire and the Dutch Republic, have fought many wars with the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Spain.
Among them, the Ottoman Empire made a lot of money.
Today, it is difficult to take the Arabian Peninsula from such a powerful Ottoman Empire.
However, the Ottoman Empire also had great hidden dangers, most of the land within the entire empire was directly contracted to merchants, and merchants paid a certain amount of money every year, and the entire tax was handed over to those merchants, which is the so-called tax system.
It is like giving the Ottoman sultan 10 million taels of silver a year, and then the tax revenue of this year belongs to the merchant, which is equivalent to the merchant giving money to the sultan in advance, and then slowly collecting the annual tax himself.
If there is not 10 million taels of silver, it is a loss, more than 10 million taels of silver, and after deducting some labor costs, the rest is earned.
The tax package system greatly solved the problem of financial shortage of the central government of the Ottoman Empire.
Chongzhen did not have the slightest worry, because the entire Ottoman Empire had already clashed with the Swedish principality and the Polish Federation at this time.
At the same time, conflicts broke out with the Safavid Empire, and even the Duchy of Rus had its eyes on the northern part of the Ottoman Empire.
This led to the fact that around the Ottoman Empire, it was basically full of enemies...
If it can occupy the Arabian Peninsula of the Ottoman Empire, the Ming Empire will have a bridgehead in Asia and Europe, which can be retreated and attacked.
This time, Chongzhen took into account the geographical location of the Arabian Peninsula and arranged the first and fifth hundredth three-masted sailing ships of the second echelon of national colonization to colonize the Arabian Peninsula.
In March, two thousand ships departed, and in April, three thousand departed, and the armed citizens who had basically been waiting at the pier for two months all boarded the three-masted sailing ship and left the dock.
In the past few months, Chongzhen has received thousands of letters from armed citizens who colonized various places.
Most of them were easily won, and both blacks and natives represented extremely poor combat effectiveness.
Of the five thousand newly departed sailing ships, it is expected that the five hundred three-masted sailing ships of the Arabian Peninsula will arrive first, because they are the closest colonial party to the Ming Empire.
"Your Majesty, the flying pigeon transmission book from Fukuoka in the Kingdom of Yin is Huang Taiji's!" , Wang Chengen handed the flying pigeon book to Chongzhen.
Chongzhen frowned: "The untouchables we sent in the past, we have already sent 100,000 untouchables in a row, how is the consumption?" "
Wang Chengen lowered his head and whispered: "Huang Taiji is very cunning, he will send the assistance army composed of the Horqin untouchables and the Vara untouchables in the past to organize two Fukuoka battles in a row!" "
"In the two battles, I was stunned to reimburse the 20,000 Horqin Assistance Army and the 20,000 Vara Assistance Army!"
Yang Sichang looked angry: "This Huang Taiji, consuming the auxiliary army, must be captured and taken back to the Beijing Division 4.2 Strict Punishment!" (Read violent novels, go on Feilu Fiction Network!) ）
Chongzhen waved his hand: "No, no, no, how many people did they destroy?" "
"I heard that about 60,000 Yan soldiers were killed and wounded, and about 100,000 Yan people were eliminated to help the Yan soldiers transport food and grass!"
Chongzhen was delighted: "Well done!" Huang Taiji still understands Xuan's mind very well, and uses the auxiliary army to consume the soldiers of the Yin people! "
"This Huang Taiji's loyalty is worthy of praise!"
Yang Sichang was surprised: "Your Majesty, are you sure you want to reward Huang Taiji?" "
"Yes, reward him! Let him continue to fight a war of attrition with the Yan people, and Xu intends to consume part of the Dongyu Assistance Army and the Annan Assistance Army. "
"After all, if it is not my race, its heart will be different!"
The ministers agreed with Chongzhen's ideas, after all, the world is indeed divided into different interest groups.
They are not from the Huaxia clan, and if something happens to the Daming Empire in the future, they will definitely be the first to jump out against the Daming Dynasty.