New Ming Empire mixed in America

"Brother Guo Wu, Brother Jiang asked us to leave here..."

A dozen gray-faced figures were hiding a few hundred meters away from the Spanish first line of defense. Three of them had rifles in their hands, and the rest had sickles and axes in their hands.

At this time, the leader Guo Wu's face was full of sorrow. Jiang Hua was killed alive in front of them, and they could only escape in embarrassment.

"Brother Jiang is dead. I don't want to run away like this. At least there must be someone to collect his body..."

Although Guo Wu's head sometimes doesn't work, he still cares about some things.

After finishing speaking, Guo Wu raised his head, looked around, and said, "You continue to move forward along here. I have drawn the route. You can escape as long as you follow the route."

Tightening the rifle in his hand, Guo Wu continued: "If I stay here, the Spanish official will definitely pass by here!"

The high-ranking official Guo Wu mentioned was the Governor of Birmingham, who had just gone to inspect the front line. When he was traveling, dozens of people followed him, which was very impressive.

While they were evading search by the Spanish defenders, Birmingham took his escort and some colonial officials to inspect the front lines.

Guo Wu, who was full of thoughts of revenge for Jiang Hua, set his sights on Birmingham.

"I..." The Chinese who just opened his mouth opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say the next words.

He didn't want to die in vain, he wanted to go back alive to see his family.

He has been caught working here as a laborer for more than two years. He is said to be a laborer, but in fact everyone knows what is going on.

Since Dai Ying announced the end of the slave trade, the name of slaves has become labor.

Guo Wu patted the other party's shoulder and waved.

Soon, only Guo Wu himself was left in this hidden corner.

With nimble hands and feet, I climbed up to the half-collapsed shop next to me, but there was no repair plan due to the death of the owner.

Guo Wu placed his rifle on the tilted attic and waited silently.

It doesn't matter if your marksmanship is not good, because this is within the defense line, and there are Spanish defenders in front and behind.

But just now, the high official and his people passed by only a few meters in front of them, and no one paid attention to whether there was an assassin on the road they walked through.

At this time, all the attention of the Spanish was on the fighting in the port area. Whether it was Spanish civilians or the Spanish governor, they all knew what would happen if Manila fell.

In particular, it was the Orientals who attacked Manila, and they knew what they had done to the Orientals over the years.

So within a short period of time, a full 15,000 people could be summoned.

However, the number of people was the same for the Xinming Empire. Within a few minutes after the airship took off, the Imperial Guard also participated in the upcoming landing battle.

Because the Spanish defense line has been completely exposed to the detection of airships.

Looking at the marked combat sandbox, Li Mingqi knew for the first time what denseness meant.

More than 15,000 Spaniards were blocked in the second half of the port area, and they were still using outdated line tactics.

This tactic has been played out in the hands of both the North and the South of the United States. Europe has also learned a little bit from it because of its close distance.

But the Spaniards nestled in the Far East colonies were still using the old line tactics.

In order to ensure the greatest possible blow to the enemy, a large number of soldiers were packed into each of their defense lines.

When viewed from space, the defense line constructed of stones and collapsed houses looks like ants packed together as densely as each other.

After receiving the report, Li Mingqi quickly called Ding Yi, the commander of the National Defense Corps who set off with the fleet this time, and Liu Erhe, the commander of the Imperial Guard, to discuss tactics.

Listening in were dozens of young staff officers who had just graduated and had not yet joined the army.

These young staff officers, who were like coming off the assembly line, looked very dull in Li Mingqi's eyes.

It is not as flexible as Ding Yi, an officer with a wild background, but the advantage is that it is more stable.

This time when they went to sea, Li Mingqi's purpose in bringing them out was to let these staff officers feel what the battlefield was like.

Then some of these people will stay in the Far East. They will help the Lanfang Republic train soldiers and lead these soldiers to fight the Dutch. This is also part of the Lanfang envoy's request.

And Li Mingqi has no reason to object. Li Mingqi sincerely helps the Lanfang Republic. Of course, Li Mingqi will also be able to get some outstanding officers who have been on the battlefield in the future.

And there will be some Jinyi guards staying here together with these officers, who will promote the Xinming Empire in Lanfang.

Strive to get these "abandoned people" to fall into the arms of the Xinming Empire.

What kind of democracy is this? Wouldn’t it be nice to be one of His Majesty Li’s people just waiting to die?

"I think airships can be used to buy time for the National Defense Forces to land. As long as the deployment of the National Defense Forces' artillery positions is completed, the initiative on the battlefield will be in our hands."

A staff officer named by Li Mingqi expressed his opinion. In this battle plan, Li Mingqi specifically asked the staff members to speak first, just to test the abilities of these people.

"No, there is no complicated terrain between the port area and the Spanish first line of defense. If they force those indigenous servants to rush over again, the National Defense Force will definitely suffer very heavy losses!"

Another staff officer expressed a different opinion. He pointed to the open space between the port area and the Spanish defense line on the sand table and said:

"There are no obstacles here. Except for the warehouses on both sides, there are only railway tracks. And the warehouses were built along this wide straight road, and at the end is the Spanish fortress."

Needless to say, it is obviously unrealistic to climb over the vast warehouses. The fortress is much higher than the warehouses. If these warehouses had not blocked the shooting range, it is estimated that the battleships would have to face more than just the shore on the fort.

Anti-cannon.

"Then we can only use airships to directly bomb their first line of defense. I believe that it only takes one round of bombing to buy enough time for the National Defense Forces!"

Another staff officer stood up and expressed his opinion, which made Ding Yi, who was listening, roll his eyelids.

In the end, he really didn't want to listen to these staff officers talking about war on paper. Ding Yi coughed twice and stood up and said:

"Your Majesty, I think we can send out a company first, carrying transfer rifles and light mortars to land first and build a position."

Picking up a small yellow flag representing the National Defense Force and placing it in the port area of ​​the sand table, Ding Yi continued:

"The soldiers can use airships to assist when they land. The distance between us and the Spanish is too close, and the wind direction is not conducive to the airships throwing incendiary bombs..."

Speaking of this, Ding Yi looked up at Li Mingqi, because just now Li Mingqi proposed using an airship to drop incendiary bombs to destroy the Spanish defenders' defense line.

But the current direction of the wind is blowing towards the port area. What if the incendiary bombs are blown by the wind into the faces of the National Defense Forces...