Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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"I do not know either!"

At this moment, the Incas on the opposite side also began to speak, but not in Inca, and not to Perez and Andre, but to each other.

An "Inca" with gray braids and beard rode up to an "Inca" about [-] years old with a swollen face, and asked in Mongolian: "Ceringtaiji, do they speak Latin?" Or Spanish?"

It is not Cering Dundobu who is called "Cering Taiji", and of course it is not Zhu Celing, but Borzigit Cering. He is the descendant of Genghis Khan, Taiji of Khalkha Mongolia, is Burni, Prince Chahar who ruled Khalkha Mongolia, was sent to the New World to support the Yin Family Khan.

Although he could not understand the Inca language, he also knew that the other party was not malicious...Maybe it was a Spanish businessman (Perez was wearing Spanish clothes) who came to do business?

So he drew his right hand from the handle of a six-shot revolver, stroked his moustache with it, and said, "They speak Spanish!" The wine barrels on the wooden boat dropped, and he suddenly laughed, "They are wine merchants!"

"That's great!" The elderly Mongolian licked his lips, "It's been a while since I've had good wine!"

Ceringtaiji nodded, then took out a money bag and threw it over, and said boldly, "I want all your wine!"

Chapter 862: Holy Spear Battle Revolver Boom!

"It's gold coins!"

Perez took the money bag and opened it, and immediately his eyes were full of gold!

He hurriedly took out a gold coin from the small but heavy bag, and found that it was a gold coin of rather exquisite workmanship, and there were a few square characters on it, which were obviously not Inca characters—because the Inca had no characters!But no one cares about the writing on the gold, people only care about the purity of the gold.Perez took the gold coin and put it in his mouth, took a bite with his teeth, it was a little soft, it was real gold!

"Lieutenant, why did the Incas give us gold coins?"

Andre also saw the golden gold coins. He has been doing business with the Spaniards, of course he knows that gold coins are a good thing.But he didn't understand why the Incas gave himself gold?Could it be that they want to buy the Karen Kawa Indian tribe?

"Give us gold coins?" Perez quickly hid the bag of gold coins in his arms, "It's for me... I'm an Inca, and you're not an Inca, so why should that Inca prince give you gold coins?" gold?"

"Are you an Incas?" Andre looked at Perez, an Indo-European mixed race, "Didn't you keep saying that you were a Spaniard?"

"I, I..." Perez probably felt that it would not be good to swallow the gold all by himself, so he handed a gold coin in his right hand to Andre, "This gold coin is for you, stop shouting!"

"I..." Andre, who took the gold coin, wanted to ask for more, but the "Inca Prince" Ceringtaiji was already impatient.

The gold coins have been collected, why not deliver?

"Wine! Move it down!" Ceringtaiji yelled, raising his left hand to point to the wine barrel on the canoe, and at the same time stretched his right hand under the hem of his robe, and put it on the handle of a revolver!

The origin of this revolver is amazing!

It was invented by Zhu Heqi, Dai Zi, and Huang Luzhuang together - among them, Zhu Heqi "invented" the thunderbolt fire and the cork bomb, Dai Zi designed the drum drum, and Huang Luzhuang designed the drum drum Linkage mechanism with trigger and hammer.

In addition, the three of them did not create a revolver out of thin air. In fact, the Europeans had already created a matchlock gun.However, this kind of joint gun has no linkage mechanism, and the drum must be moved by hand, and there is no cap, and it has to be ignited with a match, which is very inconvenient.Therefore, it was not popularized after its invention, and it did not become a standard weapon for the army.

The Lianfa gun invented by Dai Zi in history should be a kind of rotary matchlock gun. This thing is not very easy to use, and it is normal for the Qing court not to pay the bill.Otherwise, given how much Kangxi attached importance to the Eight Banners firearms, he would definitely get a batch of Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers.

The revolver "invented" by Zhu Heqi, Dai Zi, and Huang Luzhuang is a quasi-complete body. It has a rifled barrel, a cap, a cork bullet, and a drum trigger linkage mechanism. Not only the rate of fire is greatly improved, but the reliability is also greatly increased. , and the accuracy is much stronger than that of ordinary smoothbore guns!

Although the performance of this revolver is powerful, its mechanical structure is still too complicated compared to the handicraft industry in the 17th century. Therefore, the output of this new type of weapon is very low, the yield rate is lower, and the cost remains high.

Therefore, the ordinary Ming army did not have any equipment. Only Zhu Heqi's guard cavalry and guards, as well as the "Yin family cavalry" sent to the New World, were equipped with this black technology weapon.

However, due to the quality of the currently manufactured revolvers is still high, the service life is still relatively limited, and the cost of ammunition is also high, so the Yin family cavalry equipped with revolvers are not willing to use them. Chaoge can only be repaired, and it is very slow to repair, and it will not be sent back in a few months.Therefore, when bows and arrows can cope, they usually use horseback archery to solve the problem.

And Perez does not need to be shot with a bow and arrow, nor does he need to be bombarded.The two of them saw Ceringtaiji get angry and pointed at the wine barrel again, and immediately understood what the other meant.

He hurriedly said to Andre: "Let your people carry the rum to the shore... That Inca prince wants to drink!"

Although Andre, who was only allocated one gold coin, was not very satisfied, he still did not dare to disobey Lieutenant Perez's order, and it was his task to give the rum to the Incas.So he quickly ordered his men to move the barrels of rum from the canoe to the shore, and then let them carry the barrels together, and followed the Inca knights to the Incas camp.

After approaching the camp of the Incas, Andre and Perez discovered that on the outside of this river bend camp (the inside is counted on the side of the Colorado River) is a very open pasture, on which there are many cattle, Flock of sheep and horses.This shocked Andre and Perez again. The North American prairie was full of bison, and the sky was full of fleshy pigeons. The Incas, who should be very capable of hunting, did not eat ready-made ones. They also raise their own...not only cattle and sheep, they actually farm land!

When Andre and Perez walked outside the trenches of the Inca camp, they actually found a lot of well-growing wheat and a large vegetable garden with various fruits and vegetables!

In addition, they also saw many Inca women and children - all of whom were not "Inca" looking, practicing bow and arrow on a shooting range outside the gate of the camp.Andre and Perez observed carefully, and found that these women and children were using arrows with bone arrows and a strange-looking bow.

When Andre and Perez wanted to see if the Inca women and children could shoot accurately, they had already followed the Inca prince and descendant of Genghis Khan to a gate of the camp.

Outside this gate, Andre and Perez saw the guns of the Incas for the first time-the eight guards guarding the gate had only two flintlocks without bayonets, and the remaining six had only bows and arrows. Knife, oh, and a revolver in a "boom holster" strapped to the trouser leg!Because it was covered by the hem of the robe, Andre and Perez did not see it.And they didn't have the opportunity to observe further, because Ceringtaiji didn't let them enter the camp at all, but just let them wait outside the camp gate, and then went in and summoned a group of "Inca men" to carry the wine barrels in, and then Andre and Perez were driven away by the Inca warriors guarding the gate...the two didn't say anything more, and went back holding the gold.

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When it was getting dark, on the west bank of the Colorado River in Texas, on the west side of a large dense forest, twenty brigades of the Spanish Royal Army had set up camp.Through this forest is the meandering Colorado River. There are more than a dozen Indian canoes strewn about on the river beach. It is the canoe that Andre and Perez are riding to find the Incas camp.

Now Andre and Perez have arrived at the camp of the Spanish Royal Army and were taken to the Duke of Lorraine, Lieutenant General Churchill and Archbishop Philip.

"Your Highness the Bishop, Your Excellency the Duke, Your Excellency the Lieutenant General, the camp of the Incas is just five to six miles away from Spain (about [-] to [-] kilometers), relying on a river bend, it occupies a very large area and looks very strong. , there is a deep and wide outer moat, inside the outer moat is a circle of wooden fences and a circle of parapets. However, the weapons of the Incas are not very advanced, they are only equipped with a small number of muskets, and no artillery is seen, but everyone With bows and arrows, even their women and children can shoot!"

"Your Highness the Bishop, Your Excellency the Duke, Your Excellency the Lieutenant General, those Incas are still grazing outside the camp. They have a lot of cattle and sheep, a lot of horses, and they have grown a lot of wheat and vegetables."

In the tent of the Duke of Lorraine's headquarters, Andre and Perez were pointing to a scribbled map, reporting the enemy's situation from their investigation.

Both the Duke of Lorraine and Lieutenant General Churchill stood in front of the map with their arms folded, listening very carefully for fear of missing a word.After Andre and Perez finished speaking, they looked at each other before Churchill said: "Duke... I think we can use the cover of night to pass through this forest and finish in front of their camp before dawn." , and then launch a raid! At the same time, we can also set up rocket positions on the other side of the Colorado River and launch rockets into their camps. There are many cattle and sheep in their camps, and their women and children live there. There will be chaos."

The Duke of Lorraine nodded, and asked again: "How many people are there?"

Perez immediately took the question and replied: "Duke, they didn't let us enter the camp, so we can't confirm the situation in the camp. But judging from the size of their camp, the cattle and sheep outside, and the cultivated wheat fields, their There are at least tens of thousands of people, of whom there should be about [-] capable personnel."

Lieutenant General Churchill said: "Duke, we have more than 3 people, twice as many as them, and we also have an overwhelming advantage in firepower. This battle has a great chance of winning!"

Cardinal Philip added with a smile: "Duke, we still have the Holy Spear...Since ancient times, anyone who carries the Holy Spear on the battlefield can be blessed by Jesus, and must be invincible!"

This is when the holy spear comes out, who will fight for the front!

Hearing what Philip said, the Duke of Lorraine's confidence exploded instantly!So I nodded and made my final decision: "This is the end of the Incas... They should have perished more than 100 years ago, that was God's will! But they dared to turn to the devil, resist God's will, and linger on It has been more than 100 years, but the moment of their final demise has come! We will set off early tomorrow morning, and we must arrive near the Inca River after dark...the attack will begin in the early morning of the day after tomorrow!"

The Duke of Lorraine then said to Churchill: "John, you lead two brigades of the English Expeditionary Force, plus all the rocket troops, and advance along the east bank of the Colorado River. You must reach the other side of the Inca River before dawn the day after tomorrow, and arrange the rockets. Launch positions. At the same time, deploy infantry and artillery along the river bank... I guess the Incas who were suddenly hit will panic and choose to swim across the river to escape, and your people must kill them all!"

This is to exterminate the grass!

Archbishop Philip on the side was a little worried that Lieutenant General Churchill was not ruthless enough, and added: "Lieutenant General, the Incas have sold their souls to the devil...all of them deserve to go to hell, so we can't treat them as human beings. One must be eradicated! This is not only the order of the Duke, but also the will of God!"

"Obey, Your Excellency the Duke!" Lieutenant General Churchill stood at attention and took the order from the Duke of Lorraine.But he didn't say much to Archbishop Philip... He is a Protestant, and Archbishop Philip is a Catholic cardinal, and he is also the chief justice of the Inquisition!

The Duke of Lorraine nodded, and said: "I will personally lead the remaining eight brigades to march from the west bank of the Colorado River... the morning of the day after tomorrow will be the end of those Incas!"

Archbishop Philip immediately made a sign of the cross on his chest and said, "God will definitely bless you... I will march with you with the Holy Spear!"

This is when the holy spear comes out, who will fight for the front!

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In the Yin Family camp at the Yinjia River (this is what the Shang side called the Colorado River in Texas) Bay, Celing Dunduobu was drinking rum while cleaning a six-round revolver. The curtains of the big tent were lifted, and after a cool river breeze, Borzigit Thering came in sweating profusely.

Celing Dunduobu glanced at him: "Cering Taiji, have you found the Spaniard's camp?"

"I found it!" Borzigit Celing grinned, "You are still smart, you are so smart, drinking cacao wine, you know that those Indian profiteers have problems... and let the officials follow them all the way, as expected The Spaniards have been spotted!"

This matter is really "Holy Blessing", Borzigit Celing regarded Perez and Andre as profiteers selling alcohol and beat them right... The quality of those rums is too high, how can the profiteers Maybe do business like that?Once you drink it, you know it's wrong.

So Celingdun Dob immediately realized that his camp might be targeted by the Spaniards.So he immediately asked Borzigit Celing to lead people to follow him, and he found the Spanish army!

Celing Dunduobu said with a smile: "You don't need to drink the sugar cane wine. You can tell by the color and the oak barrels that the wine is in. It is not something that Indian businessmen can get! Tell me, how many of them are there?" ?”

Borzigit Celing said: "At least [-]! Forty or fifty miles away... Do you think we are going to sneak attack?"

Celing Dunduobu turned the wine glass lightly, and said in thought: "No need... If I guessed correctly, they should come to your door by themselves! Celing Taiji, let's set up an ambush here, and then wait for the Spanish People come to die!"

As he was talking, he picked up the revolver that had just been polished and slammed it on the table in front of him!

Chapter 863 Inca fool, queuing up to die?

"Hold the spear straight!"

"Go on the bayonet!"

"God bless Spain . . . go on!"

As military orders sounded in Spanish, Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, and Cardinal Philip, who were riding tall Andalusian horses, saw the pikemen lined up in front of them first leveling their pikes, and then The fusiliers silently put their bayonets on their muzzles, and finally the pikemen were in front and the fusiliers were behind.The officers who led the team saw that the soldiers under them were all ready, so they asked the orderlies around them to light the torches, and then shouted the password and strode towards the forest.

Under the guidance of the firelight, the soldiers followed the officers' commands and took steps towards the woods ahead.Accompanied by the sound of fine footsteps, another brigade of the Spanish Royal Army disappeared into the night-shrouded forest.

Then, another brigade of the Spanish Royal Army marched up again, and formed a horizontal formation at the position where the brigade that had just entered the forest had started its formation...

It is now the early morning hours of August 1692, 8. Although it is midsummer, the night breeze is passing by, but it is slightly cool and very comfortable.Moreover, from last night to now, the weather has been bright and full of stars, and the visibility is quite good. It is indeed a good time for night raids and sneak attacks.The Spanish imperial army who participated in today's sneak attack, encouraged by Archbishop Philip and his priests, all had high morale. Everyone believed that the good weather and the comfortable temperature must be holy. The miracle brought by the spear is to facilitate everyone's marching and launching sneak attacks!

With the holy spear in hand, God bless, this battle must be won!

Under the moonlight, another three or two thousand bayonets and spear points undulated slightly under the moonlight, and then disappeared into the forest.

A German officer rode up to the Duke of Lorraine and Archbishop Philip, and then reported loudly: "My lord, Your Highness, all the infantry have entered the forest, and the first infantry brigade has successfully passed through the forest! The camp is still quiet and there is no reaction... The surprise attack has been successful!"

"Thank God!"

"God bless Spain!"

"God bless Emperor Leopold!"

The Duke of Lorraine and Archbishop Philip were surrounded by "God bless" immediately, and although these two real bosses still maintained a certain degree of reserve, their faces were already full of victorious smiles.

The Duke of Lorraine smiled and said to the officers and messengers around him: "Order all the 3-pound guns, mortars, signal rocket launchers and cavalry to pass through the forest!"

"Yes!"

Immediately, several messengers took the order from the Duke, rode their horses and galloped to give orders to the accompanying artillery and cavalry.The Duke of Lorraine then said to Archbishop Philip next to him: "Your Highness, it's our turn!"

"it is good!"

Archbishop Philip reached out and took a gleaming golden spear from an attendant beside him—this is the holy spear of Christianity, the Longinus spear!

I saw the cardinal just raised his holy spear and shouted: "In the name of Jesus, destroy all devils and devil's believers! Jesus is with us...to the devil's camp, go forward! God bless us, Amen! "

"Amen!"

Amidst the sound of "Amen", the cardinal holding the holy spear aloft drove his horse forward towards the forest ahead.The moonlight shone on the "golden spear" in the bishop's hand and the red robe on his body, which really gave people a sense of sacredness and solemnity.

The Duke of Lorraine made a sign of the cross on his chest, then rode forward, and followed Archbishop Philip into the woods ahead.

The woods had already been cleared by the Spanish Royal Army's stragglers, and there was no danger. The Duke of Lorraine and Archbishop Philip, led by a German officer who opened the way on foot with a torch, took less than half an hour to pass through. This forest is at least half a Spanish mile (2.5-3 km) wide.Before they walked out of the woods, the German officer who led the way had put out the torch in his hand so as not to expose the target.Outside the forest, there was a very wide grass field. The infantry who had already passed through the forest had already formed an offensive formation under the command of the officer.The soldiers of the eight brigades formed two large horizontal formations, each with four brigades.The infantry took the battalion as a unit and formed four horizontal formations.Among them, the fusiliers have been adjusted to the first three rows, and the pikemen are placed in the back row.

About half an hour later, the artillery and cavalry also came.The heavier 6-pound guns have not come yet, and the 3-pound guns, mortars, and rocket launchers that can be disassembled to allow the mules to carry the march all passed through the woods smoothly.Then it was assembled on the edge of the woods. Among them, the range of the 3-pound gun and the mortar were relatively short, so it was pushed or carried by the artillery all the way forward, and a group of skirmishers and cavalry followed behind to cover.And several rocket launchers are used to launch signal rockets, which are tools for incoming soldiers rather than artillery weapons.

In Texas summer, the days are long and the nights are short.It is almost two or three o'clock in the morning, and the sky can already feel a little brighter.On the front line of the Spanish Royal Army, most people held their breath and looked at the Inca camp two to three thousand yards away that had lit many torches and hung many lanterns.

Seeing that the camp of the Incas was unusually calm, they didn't seem to notice that the enemy was under their noses. All the officers and soldiers of the Spanish Royal Army could hardly restrain their excitement.Some guys who are very devout to God are already so excited that tears welled up in their eyes.

It's not that the Incas were too careless, it's the miracle of the "Holy Spear"!

The Duke of Lorraine is also a devout Catholic. At this time, he kept making the sign of the cross on his chest, and he was still chanting words, as if he was reciting the "Psalm of the Virgin"-as an experienced veteran in the battlefield, of course he has Found something was wrong.The Incas on the opposite side were too careless... And through the light of the moonlight, torches, and lanterns, the Duke could also see that the camp on the opposite side was set up in a very organized way!Even if such a camp concentrates a large number of artillery and bombards it with sugar bombs, it will take several days to bombard it.

Being able to build this kind of camp shows that there must be many very professional soldiers among the Incas who are familiar with the tactics and tactics of the sugar medicine era!

It's a bit surprising that the professional officer corps didn't set up enough clear and dark guards around the camp... The enemy is almost under their noses and they don't know anything about it.

According to the original prediction of the Duke of Lorraine, when his army passes through the forest to the west of the Inca camp in the river bend, it is possible to encounter the dark sentry of the Incas, and they will definitely be discovered by the opponent when they deploy outside the forest—so The Duke of Lorraine asked Lieutenant General Churchill to take a brigade of the English Expeditionary Force and pull a lot of rocket launchers to march on the east bank of the Colorado River, so that when there was a fight on the west bank, Churchill could launch rockets into the camp of the Incas. bomb, disturb their morale.

But now, the Incas didn't move at all!

If it wasn't for the blessing of Archbishop Philip with the holy spear, he would have suspected that those cunning Inca devils had already noticed that the Spaniards were coming to sneak attack, so they were ready to trap... But now with the powerful holy spear, those gangs It is normal for the Incas who believed in the devil to sleep to death.

At this moment, one of the Duke's adjutants walked over quickly: "Report, the artillery is ready!"

The Duke of Lorraine looked up at the sky, it was getting brighter again, it was time to attack!

"God bless, God bless..." the duke muttered two more words of God bless, and then he turned his head to look at Archbishop Philip, and said in a low voice, "Your Highness, you can start!"

Upon hearing this, Cardinal Philip raised the holy spear in his hand and shouted loudly: "Jesus bless us! Amen!"

Then he pointed the spear forward again!

With the spear in the cardinal's hand pointing forward, a signal rocket was pushed into the sky with the power of the deflagration of sugar medicine, and then exploded!

Equipped with rifled guns and grenade skirmishers, and under the cover of Spanish light cavalry, they have been pushed to the forefront by artillery, less than one-sixth of the west gate where the Incas camped. The 23 3-pound regiment guns in Spain, Already pointed the muzzle at the tall wooden door.There are also twelve mortars, which are also neatly arranged and ready to fire at any time.

Seeing the rocket exploded in the air, a German officer in charge of commanding the artillery raised a signal flag and waved it down heavily: "Let it go!"

The 23 3-pound regiment guns lined up first spewed out tongues of flame, and then the twelve 12-pound mortars fired flowering bullets filled with brown sugar gunpowder. A bunch of fireballs!

Because Texas is completely wild, the roads are not easy to walk, and there is no bridge to meet the big rivers and streams, and the heavy guns cannot maneuver at all, so the Spanish royal family of the Duke of Lorraine brought 3-pound guns, 6-pound guns and Several launchers for signaling rockets, and a mortar capable of firing 12-pound burst rounds.

At the same time, at a position on the other side of the Colorado River, more than [-] rocket launchers have been lined up, and Lieutenant General Churchill is guarding the position, stretching his neck and looking around.Seeing the signal rocket exploded in the sky, he also raised his right hand high and swung it down heavily: "Let go!"

With his order, all the sugar rockets placed on the thirty-odd rocket launchers were also ignited-this is not a signal rocket that listens to the sound and sees the light, but carries a sugar explosive blaster. The fired rockets all dragged their long tail flames, roaring and flying towards the camp of the Incas on the other side of the river!Although the Spaniards did not have a more reliable thunderbolt fuze, most of the rockets either did not explode, or exploded in mid-air before landing, and could not hurt the enemy at all.But the rockets exploding in the air are very scary, and those ignorant Incas will definitely be scared to pee...

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"Boom boom boom..."

When the spectacular rocket bomb exploded over the Inca camp, Borzigit Thering was standing behind a parapet with his arms folded to observe the battlefield, of course he was not panicked at all. ...How could you panic?He also went to the Xiaolingwei Lecture Hall in Nanjing, and he studied artillery. He has personally played with rockets equipped with thunder mercury fuzes that are much more powerful than this!

Moreover, there is also a small bazooka team in the Khan Department of the Yin family... Although it is only equipped with six bazookas mounted in six units, but because of the thunder mercury fuze, the power of the bazooka is incomparable to that of the Spaniards.

But now is not the time for these rockets to show their power, because all six rockets have been taken away by Celingdun Dob, and Borzigit Celing has only... a sniper with a rifled gun and a revolver Booming warriors of the Yin family.