New Ming Empire mixed in America

The time passed as the Xinming Empire was busy building roads, and half a month had passed in the blink of an eye.

These days, Li Mingqi often goes up to the lighthouse on the pier and looks towards the sea. The longer it takes for the immigration fleet to set off, the more anxious he becomes.

Therefore, we can only urge the workers at the shipyard to speed up and prepare to build their own immigration ship as soon as possible.

Now, in addition to the flagship Asuka, the navy of the Xinming Empire only has two empty-shell warships that have been emptied of all cannons of twelve pounds and above.

More than 1,500 imperial subjects were selected to form the first generation navy of the New Ming Empire. Under the guidance of Spanish sailors, they began to drive warships around the offshore waters.

From time to time, the remaining dozen or so 9-pound guns on the ship were used to train the ability to fight at sea.

Today, Li Mingqi stood on the lighthouse and looked at the sea as usual. Suddenly, a guard in uniform carrying a personal communication base station came galloping towards him on horseback.

After hearing the sound of horse hooves, Li Mingqi began to walk down from the lighthouse.

Because no one is allowed to run wildly on the streets unless there is an emergency.

"Your Majesty, Commander Sun sent an urgent message via the intercom. The Baipi Army camp has been discovered on the north bank of the Xinming River."

As Jin Yiwei spoke, he handed a walkie-talkie to Li Mingqi.

The current base stations have not yet been installed in Yingtianfu, so the lighthouse has to rely on mobile base stations for relay.

Picking up the walkie-talkie, Li Mingqi asked directly:

"Sun Laifu, tell me the specific situation."

"Back to Your Majesty, the patrol just sent back a message saying that they saw smoke from cooking stoves more than ten kilometers away on the north bank of Xinming River..."

It turned out that the patrol team found dozens of smoke plumes during their usual patrol on the North Shore today, so they went to check.

When they got closer, they discovered that it was a military camp under construction. Through the binoculars, they could see soldiers in military uniforms being busy.

The number of enemy troops was about a thousand, but the patrol judged from the size of the opponent's camp that the number of local soldiers should be more than that.

"The opponent has eight twelve-pound cannons, more than 1,200 soldiers, and possibly cavalry."

The patrol team leader clicked his baton on the sand table a few times, then picked up a few white flags and planted them at the enemy positions they had scouted.

Finally, I took off the camera that had been hanging around my neck and connected it to the projector.

Soon, photos of enemy camps appeared on the big screen.

Looking at these photos, the officers in the conference room began a combat rehearsal.

Nowadays, soldiers have long been accustomed to equipment like cameras bearing the Royal Academy label.

Because during this period novel things were constantly invented and manufactured by the Royal Academy.

From the street lamps on the street that light up by themselves at night, to the shovel driven around by one person.

These things were classified by the soldiers as steam rollers of this era. Anyway, they were all things for which they did not understand the principles.

In this era of rapid change and endless inventions, the emergence of new technologies is simply ordinary.

Even those arrested...those white-skinned workers who were impressed by His Majesty's imperial temperament and cried out for free to shed their blood and tears for the development of the Xinming Empire did not feel any violation.

Unless they are professionals engaged in relevant fields, it is difficult for ordinary people to see the clues from the excavators and forklifts that have been disguised twice.

High technology such as cameras and projectors are now only used for military purposes.

The soldiers were in awe of these sophisticated instruments. After all, these machines with the brand of the Royal Research Institute had Li Mingqi fabricate one heroic story after another.

For example, a certain Jinyiwei who traveled thousands of miles and spent his blood and tears to obtain camera-related technology from foreigners, and a certain researcher who was seriously ill and vowed to trade his health for technology.

Another example is the leader of a research institute who was suddenly inspired by observing the shadows illuminated by the sun.

In order to let the imperial soldiers use the projector as soon as possible, he had to observe more than twenty shadows in the sun every day... ahem, a full eight hours!

In the end, he paid the price of blindness in exchange for the projector the empire has today.

There are many other things that are as evocative as this...

For example, the Royal Academy is now equivalent to the omnipotent 'Dragon Group' in later novels, which is both familiar and unfamiliar to the people of the empire.

I say it is familiar because occasionally in life we ​​see items with the Royal Academy logo on them.

For example, the name "Xinming Medical Manual" is actually the "Barefoot Doctor's Manual", a medical book from the Xinming Empire.

For example, the Type 60 rifles in the hands of soldiers and the various equipment on their bodies. Or the strange machines that help build roads, etc...

The Royal Academy is now the highest-level confidentiality unit in the empire. As a result, young people who were later transferred to the academy were forced to sign confidentiality regulations.

The bright red words "Violators shall be shot for treason" on the regulations made these future pillars of the empire secretive about the Royal Academy.

The discussion in the conference room quickly came to an end.

Because the outposts distributed near the Xinming River also sent back news, saying that an enemy cavalry reconnaissance team was discovered by the Xinming River.

A small-scale exchange of fire broke out between the two sides. To be precise, the white-skinned cavalry was suppressed and beaten by the soldiers at the post with Type 60 rifles from a long distance.

I can't fight, I can't run, I can't run.

In the end, only two of the ten-man cavalry reconnaissance team survived, and their opponent was an ordinary Xinming post with only three sentries.

There are many such outposts built with cement on the north bank of the Xinming River, just to deal with the current situation.

"I think all the sentries at the outposts should be withdrawn to the other side of the river and only hidden posts should be left to prevent possible retaliatory actions by the enemy."

This month, the commander of the third battalion in charge of the sentry post spoke up.

Soon, this proposal, which was agreed upon by everyone, was notified to the frontline outposts via walkie-talkies.

In addition, soldiers of the National Defense Force also began to gather in an orderly direction towards the Xinming River, and began to build fortifications with sandbags and barbed wire along the river.

There are also some river patrol teams composed of rubber boats appearing in the Xinming River to prevent enemy troops from sneaking across the river.

At this time, Li Mingqi was listening to the officers' tactical discussions in the conference room, and would make some suggestions from time to time.

Something like "Can we figure out a way to knock out all of the other side's twelve-pounders before the war begins?"

"We can first preset a battlefield, then plant explosives, and then suddenly detonate them when the two sides engage in battle."

etc…

The suggestions mentioned by Li Mingqi are actually very implementable, and the current battle is like a turn-based game.

The two sides lined up in a dense queue and walked within a hundred meters, and then you and I started shooting at each other.

After a few rounds of volleying, the charge phase will begin.

If Li Mingqi chooses to defend during the battle, it is very likely that the California army will come to fight with the National Defense Forces on their own.

After all, the Second War of Independence had just ended, and the White House had only been painted a few years ago.

The U.S. Army, which thought it had defeated the British Army, was now very inflated.

Therefore, Li Mingqi was very confident that the opponent would go to the preset position on his own.

But war is not a game. You cannot expect that the enemy will really do what you want. All situations must be taken into consideration.

So the discussion in the conference room started again.