New Ming Empire mixed in America

(Two chapters in one, just revised)

Ding Yi was eye-opening about this fort.

Because he had never seen such a scrawled fort.

"Are all the forts here like this?" Ding Yi asked, looking at the bishop who was being held by two soldiers.

The bishop's figure can hold two Ding Yi, and his round belly and fat face weighs two hundred pounds.

After the church was shelled, the bishop immediately hid in the basement.

As for the Portuguese soldiers who ran into the church, most of them were shot to death by rotating machine guns when they resisted.

To be honest, if the battery had been invented earlier, machine guns like the Maxim probably would not have appeared again.

After all, the rate of fire of an electric rotary machine gun is much faster than that of the Maxim, and the cooling problem of the barrel is several times better than that of the water-cooled Maxim.

Now the Xinming Empire has done a good job in researching new machine guns, but for the time being it has not found a machine gun that is better than the rotary machine gun.

Not only that, many generations of rotary machine guns have been developed, such as ship-type rotary machine guns, positional rotary machine guns, assault rotary machine guns, and carriage-type rotary machine guns. The number of barrels has been reduced and smaller bullets have been replaced.

A rotating machine gun that can be carried by soldiers has also appeared on the drawings.

However, due to the emergence of submachine guns and imitations of the first-generation AK rifles, the development of rotary machine guns that were originally designed for offense was suspended.

However, the cavalry intends to put this small rotating machine gun on their horses, and I heard that experiments have already begun.

To be honest, there are many reliable studies in the Xinming Imperial Academy, but there are even more unreliable studies.

Most of the unreliable research started out as just an idea, and was then assigned to the white scientists who were 'invited' to the Xinming Empire for research.

As for whether those people invented and created great things, Li Mingqi didn't care at all.

No matter how important their inventions were, they would not be of any help to his New Ming Empire. On the contrary, they might bring changes to other countries.

Now Li Mingqi wished that all other countries would degenerate into the Middle Ages, and then the New Ming Empire would crush them with planes and tanks.

Therefore, regarding the attitude of these white scientists, Li Mingqi holds the idea that if he cannot get it, he will destroy it, and if he gets it, he will treat them as tools.

"Back to my lord... the fort here... looks like this... after all, this is not an important area. Only the big fort on the Macau Peninsula is the real fort..."

The bishop's broken Chinese made it difficult for Ding Yi to listen, but he understood the meaning.

"Let me just say, if all your Portuguese forts look like this, I can't imagine how you managed to build a country safely for decades..."

Ding Yi nodded clearly. If the Puppet Qing could not even attack the simple fort in front of them, then he dared to say that the Puppet Qing was hopeless.

Although the forts here in Taipa have many shortcomings, they can still control the warships on the sea by relying on the unique terrain.

But now the National Defense Forces are attacking from land, so this fort is no different from being undefended.

Although the two islands of Taipa and Coloane were not as valued by the Portuguese as the Macau Peninsula at this time, they could not tolerate the Portuguese running around here, so it is estimated that it would take a few months or half a year to completely clean them up.

After all, there is only one battalion of National Defense Force soldiers who have landed ashore, so Ding Yi's task at this stage is to destroy the towns on the two islands. Specifically, he needs to take away all the ones that can be used, and burn those that are no longer needed or are too large.

When Ding Yi led the National Defense Forces to sweep across Taipa and Coloane Islands, Li Mingqi's ship had already arrived at the outer port of the newly blockaded Macau Peninsula.

This is the main port for the Portuguese to export to the outside world. In addition, the artificial islands at this time have not yet appeared, such as the artificial land between Taipa and Coloane islands, and the later port area A has not yet appeared.

And with the Grand Fortress on the Macau Peninsula (also known as St. Paul's Fort, Central Fort or Ruins of St. Paul's Fort) as the core, it forms a solid military defense line with the A-Ma Fort and Guia Fort.

Among them, the Fortress is located on the top of Persimmon Hill in the center of the Macau Peninsula, also known as Fortress Hill. It was built by the Jesuits of St. Paul's College in 1617 and was not officially completed until 1626.

The fort covers an area of ​​about 8,000 square meters and is in the shape of an irregular quadrilateral with a side length of about 100 meters. The four corners protrude outward, giving it a Western bastion shape.

The bastion is a kind of fortress invented to defend against artillery attacks. Its essence is to change the city from a convex polygon to a concave polygon.

Such an improvement will expose the attacker to more than one bastion face (usually 2-3) regardless of attacking any point in the castle, and the defender can use crossfire to carry out multiple strikes.

The design of the fort is relatively simple, with certain design blind spots at the four corners, but it is sufficient to deal with small-scale invasions.

The northeast, southwest and southeast walls of the fort are built on a 3.7-meter-wide granite foundation. The walls are built with rammed earth and plastered with oyster shell powder. They are very solid and the wall is about 9 meters high.

Narrow upward and inward.

The upper wall of the fort is about 2 meters high, shaped like battlements, and can accommodate up to 32 cannons. There are also blockhouses at the two corners of the southeast wall.

The northwest wall facing the Chinese mainland is mainly made of granite. The sub-wall is relatively short and has no muzzle. This mainly shows its defensive role overseas and its friendly gesture towards the puppet Qing government.

This fort and several other forts have tightly defended the Macau Peninsula. It can be said that there is no blind spot.

When no attack order was received, the warships of the Pacific Fleet only blocked the perimeter and did not enter the range of the fort.

To be honest, if there were no airships, even the Pacific Fleet would have to suffer huge losses if it wanted to capture this place.

This is one of the reasons why Li Mingqi has not ordered an attack in the past few days.

The attack can only be carried out after the airship has drawn the terrain map and the Pacific Fleet command has studied the battle plan.

This is the immigration transfer station booked by Li Mingqi, and it is also the first step for the Xinming Empire to enter the Puppet Qing Dynasty.

Besides, foreigners can cede territory here in the Puppet Qing Dynasty, but the New Ming Empire cannot cede territory?

No, this is not ceding land, this is taking back the homeland!

After looking at the photos on the wall, especially the photos of several forts, all the people participating in the combat meeting couldn't help but take a breath.

Let’s just talk about the big fort. The fort is equipped with a water tank and a munitions depot. The munitions depot is sufficient to cope with a two-year siege.

And because it was previously the residence of the Hong Kong Governor and the City Defense Commander, the surrounding area has been designated a military restricted area.

Without the assistance of airships, if the army attacks alone, it is estimated that even the soldiers of the National Defense Force will not be enough to fight.

And there is not only this big fort here, but also other scattered small forts and fortifications.

"Let's talk about it. What do you think about this attack?"

Li Mingqi sat on the main seat and glanced around at the officers below.

Navy officers and officers of the National Defense Force sat in two rows in separate rows, while only Liu Erhe of the Imperial Guard participated in this meeting.

After all, the Imperial Guard is only a force to protect Li Mingqi's safety and will not participate in regular attacks under normal circumstances.

"Your Majesty, I believe that the troublesome central fort should be removed first. Its location is too critical. Both the east and west coasts are within its bombardment range."

The first one to speak was Cheng Yuanliang. He didn't understand land warfare, but he was very proficient in naval warfare.

Unless that fort is removed, it would be difficult for his Pacific Fleet to get close enough to attack it.

After all, the fort is built on a mountain. The height alone can make most naval gun attacks miss, not to mention that the fort is a fortress-style building.

And judging from the photos, the muzzle-loading cannon on the fort is still an export version of the Xinming Empire.

Li Mingqi was extremely surprised when he saw the artillery exported by the Xinming Empire appearing here.

After all, most of the artillery exported by the Xinming Empire came from the United States, and few were exported to Europe, let alone Macau.

It seems that Lin's Northern Federation has a lot of rats.

"The elevation angle of the naval gun is limited. I want to attack the fort on the top of the mountain..." Cheng Yuanliang wrote and drew on the table, and finally handed a simple picture of shooting Zhu Yuan to Li Mingqi for review.

"Only the naval guns on the deck can be adjusted. The naval guns in the cabin gun deck cannot attack there even at the maximum elevation angle."

"However, we can try our rocket launcher, but its accuracy is too small, and it must stop outside the range of the coastal defense artillery, so the attack is not easy."

Listening to Cheng Yuanliang constantly speaking various professional terms, Li Mingqi nodded from time to time while looking at the shooting elements in his hand, looking very professional and serious.

In fact, Li Mingqi couldn't understand the simple shooting Zhu Yuan that Cheng Yuanliang brought over.

Don't look at the concept and algorithm of Shooting Zhuyuan, which was developed by Li Mingqi.

But Li Mingqi has provided so much information, can he still understand it all?

Li Mingqi even took out a pig-raising manual. Does Li Mingqi still need to understand how to provide postpartum care for sows?

So Li Mingqi could only fool him a few times in a professional manner.

But even though he doesn't understand these things, the Xinming Empire now has airships.

There is no need to send warships over to bombard them, just use airships to blow up the forts.

So with a plan in mind, Li Mingqi didn't panic.

He wanted to hear these officers' plan of attack.

"The fort can be dealt with by the airship troops. If there are incendiary bombs, it will take a little more time to cover the entire fort in a sea of ​​fire..."

When Cheng Yuanliang said this, he looked up at Li Mingqi and asked:

"Your Majesty, I have a question I would like to ask..."

After Li Mingqi nodded, he continued to ask: "After all, there are not only Portuguese people here in Haojing, but also many Chinese people. Does your Majesty have any arrangements for these Chinese people?"

Li Mingqi understood what Cheng Yuanliang meant. He just wanted to ask sideways whether the Pacific Fleet could bomb the city during the battle.

Regarding this issue, Li Mingqi really thought about it carefully.

There are not only Portuguese people on the Macao Peninsula, but also many Chinese and Chinese businessmen who come here to look for work, families of pseudo-Qing officials who come to play, and fugitive criminals from the pseudo-Qing Dynasty.

The most important thing is that there are still a large number of mixed-race people on the Macau Peninsula.

At that time, the church here and the East India Company did not allow foreigners to do many things in Macau, including the prohibition of intermarrying with locals.

The difference between Europeans and Eurasians is becoming increasingly obvious, which has brought about a more important unwritten rule, that is, any European, whether he is an employee of the East India Company or a Hong Kong merchant, cannot intermarry with a Macau woman, violating this rule

The prescribed punishment was expulsion from the European community and termination of partnership or dismissal.

But this kind of clause was simply impossible for the European merchants at the time, especially the Portuguese soldiers stationed here.

So how to treat these people, Li Mingqi couldn't come up with a regulation for a while.

After frowning and thinking for a long time, Li Mingqi raised his head and said:

"The Chinese looking for jobs will be identified and hired directly. After all, we need to establish a transit station here...or an outpost."

After hearing Li Mingqi say that this was just an outpost, the eyes of everyone attending the meeting lit up.

This means that their Majesty has the ambition to conquer the Central Plains, and is not the kind of monarch who lives overseas and never comes back.

This made everyone's minds active. They thought that entering the Central Plains and Dingding Huaxia was the best state.

As for the west coast, they have always believed that it is not a permanent place.

This time Li Mingqi finally announced his ambition clearly, so these people were even more motivated.

"In addition, the families of pseudo-Qing officials and businessmen who came to play..."

Li Mingqi had murderous intent in his eyes. The Portuguese have occupied Macau for hundreds of years, and each of these Chinese businessmen doing business in Macau have developed into big families.

To say that they still do not regard themselves as Chinese in their hearts, this remains to be verified.

But with the influx of opium and the large-scale sale of Chinese workers to all over the world, every one of the big businessmen here contributed.

Don't say that some businessmen do not engage in opium or human trafficking. This is ridiculous.

Under the current circumstances, these two are the hugely profitable industries.

If they didn't engage in this kind of business, their status would have been replaced long ago within a few years.

Don't play the trick of getting out of the mud but not staining. Li Mingqi only knows that those who are close to the ink will be black.

The probability of a white lotus-like business family appearing among a group of bastards is infinitely close to zero.

If it were you, would you be able to watch an alien appear among your own people?

People with different paths should not work together, and businessmen are very cooperative.

Otherwise, it would not appear here in the Macau Peninsula as a chamber of commerce.

If you, the leader, didn't do those kinds of business, the chamber of commerce would have disbanded a long time ago.

So for these people, Li Mingqi has no patience to comment like a judge on how many good people and good deeds they have done. The only thing is, in the business of opium and human trafficking, whoever gets involved will die.

Even if you are not involved, you will still die if you just provide convenience for these people!

Thinking of this, Li Mingqi's eyes flashed with cold light, and he said sternly: "Arrest them all, confiscate their property, the head of the family will be chopped up, and the others will be hanged, no one will be spared!"

The businessmen should die, and the families of those officials should die.

If people who were able to visit the Macau Peninsula at this time had no interest at all with the Portuguese or European businessmen, I would not believe it even if I killed Li Mingqi.

In addition, the Second Opium War had just ended at this time, and it was the time when the opium epidemic was at its peak.

So these people deserve to die!

Even if they were killed by mistake, they deserved it. After all, they were not involved in the opium business, so they were also fake Qing officials. It was not too much to die once, right?

I don’t know how many Han people died because of the Puppet Qing’s entry into the country. Several family members of Puppet Qing officials died. Li Mingqi thought there was nothing wrong with charging some interest.