Chapter 1211 Do not talk about martial arts
Cun En asked Qin Jun to review the team.
This team has great morale and is well equipped.
The knights are basically cable armor and cotton armor. A set weighs fifty or sixty catties, and it can also be paired with a pair of war horses. Although this plate armor is not of the general level, it is at least of the rank of a lieutenant in the regiment of officers and soldiers.
Most of the infantry are the children of knights or servants. Most of them only have a piece of cotton armor, which is one or two grades lower than that of knights, but it is also a full-body protective armor. Cotton covered iron.
"I always feel that we are a little too disrespectful of martial arts!"
After the military parade, Qin Jun was still so excited that he couldn’t calm down. There were nearly 7,000 people, plus those who were onlookers, tens of thousands of horses.
"A little bit." Cun En nodded.
At the beginning, they were only a thousand soldiers in the martial arts hall, and they had just gone through simple initial training. With the help of hundreds of Qin Lang's pro-army, they beat the natives on Shilong Island into a mess.
It's not how powerful the apprentices are, but how weak the natives are.
Many natives could not be called soldiers at all. When many of them went into battle, they were almost naked.
Take an antler spear or a club studded with shark teeth, or just cut a stick and go to war. Some smart people even know how to get a shield.
But the equipment is not the biggest problem.
The weakest point of these natives is that they don't understand what war is, they can only fight. Thinking that fighting is a group fight, Wu Yangyang and a group of people came up, there was no command, dispatch or stuff at all, it was just a swarm of bees anyway.
What kind of force control, arm coordination, and tactical command, there are none of them.
Not even a reserve team, let alone battle tactics.
is just one word, dry.
Although the apprentices in the martial arts hall are inexperienced, they are equipped with good equipment, not to mention the basic infantry coordination, array assault heavy infantry, skirmish line assault cavalry, array projectile crossbowmen, Skirmishers, shooters, catapults, and more.
So when they rushed up with machetes like Chen Haonan Pheasant, barefoot and shirtless, screaming, on Xuejun's side, there were heavy infantry in iron armor holding high spears and forming a dense line. Spear array, then cavalry on both wings.
Behind the spear array are crossbowmen, and there are even catapults and musketeers behind.
Amidst the sound of drums, the trainees moved forward nervously and excitedly under the orders of the coaches, and stopped to organize the team after walking for a while.
One side is galloping like wild horses, while the other side is advancing like a wall.
Therefore, every time there is a battle, there will always be a surprisingly similar scene. The natives rushing to the Xuejun formation with great momentum, and then one after another the team flags point forward. The platoon of spearmen jabbed their spears.
Immediately, those brave native warriors were pierced one by one and fell to the ground, and within a quarter of an hour, the natives would collapse, turn around and flee in all directions.
Then the infantry couldn't catch up, so they could only watch the students of the cavalry department mount their horses and pursue them.
Although the natives are barefoot and running barefoot, they are not afraid of running fast on sand and gravel, but how can they run faster than four-legged war horses?
Although war horses are not resistant to the heat of Luzon, it is still no problem to chase after a short period of time. The cavalry swung their sabers on the horses and cut down the fleeing natives one by one. It was over quickly.
The pro-army sent by Qin Lang is just watching the show by the side every time, and there is no need to make a move at all.
Just such a group of inexperienced student soldiers easily defeated the natives on Shilong Island.
But this time, they even formed nearly 7,000 people from the left and right Yuhou armies, and several large ships cooperated to go to the rear of the family to make a surprise attack. It is said that most of the young and strong natives have assembled. This is really a victory No martial arts.
"The next article also said that if these natives are willing to surrender, we can still give them another chance. It's just that this time, the conditions are not as good as last time."
Before Qin Lang recruited the natives, the condition was to levy tithes. Now Qin Lang changed the conditions. If the natives wanted to join, they had to pay one-third of the tax.
In addition to taxes, the annual 20 days of free labor will be increased to 30 days.
The headmen had to send their sons as pledges, and even one-third of their land property had to be handed over to the Qin family.
If this can be done, Qin Lang can agree with these natives to repent and join.
"The natives are capricious and cannot be trusted."
"If you dare to rebel, you dare to kill, what are you afraid of."
This time, the Shilong army town is going south, which is to continue to expand outward.
The main purpose is to establish strongholds in key places, build castles, and garrison troops and horses. As long as there is a military fortress, it can control a large area around it.
The Nasugbu Plain is the destination of the dispatch of troops this time because it is a fertile plain with a large amount of flat land suitable for farming, along the coast and with large rivers. Of course, it is the priority to occupy.
After defeating the natives here and building a castle, you can start to entrust this plain to retainers or sell it to immigrants.
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In the north, with Xinjinshan as the base, three troops were also sent.
It's just that the five teams are far less numerous than the one in the martial arts hall. The main reason is that the Shilong Town Military District is close to San Francisco Bay, surrounded by the Great Plains, and there are many retainer knights entrusted by Qin Lang nearby.
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Go south along the coast.
The wind is sunny and the weather is rare. In this season, there is no storm or heavy rain, which is very rare.
The fleet composed of more than a dozen large and small ships was still very fast, and it took only half a day to appear near the mouth of the river, and the unique black sand beach here could already be seen from a distance.
"Why is this beach black?"
"See those mountains in the distance? Those are volcanoes. Before the volcano erupted, these black sand beaches appeared later. This is a rare sight here."
The black sand beach is about ten miles long, and there is a deep water bay not far from the north of the black sand beach, which is suitable for mooring.
However, for the Qin family's fleet, after all, the largest one has a displacement of only a thousand tons, so under the guidance of the guide, it sailed directly from the mouth of the Nasugbu River.
"Please Dalang choose a name for this place!"
Nasugbu is just the pronunciation of the natives, so it is natural for the Qin family to adopt a Chinese name when they come.
Qin Jun looked at the black sand beach, "Since there is such a unique black sand beach here, why not call it Black Sand."
"Black Sand River, Black Sand Plain, Black Sand Bay, and then we will build a Black Sand Castle!" Qin Cunxian said with a smile, "It's a very unique name, very good."
Aboriginal fishermen were found fishing near the mouth of the river. The sailor students rowed the speedboat oars and charged straight away. Amid panicked shouts, these fishermen were soon caught up and caught by the net.
The fleet sailed into the river channel tens of feet wide, and everyone stood on the deck watching the two sides.
"Wow, these two sides are really an endless plain, just like the Luzon Plain over San Francisco. It's a good place."
This plain is surrounded by mountains in the north and northeast, covered with volcanoes, sea in the west and southeast, a long and narrow peninsula in the southwest, and a bay in the southeast, separated from Batangas by a small peninsula.
In the further south, there are many islands separated by a strait, among which Lubang Island and Mindoro Island are very large.
The geographical conditions of the Black Sand Plain are good. It is only a hundred miles away from San Francisco. It is surrounded by mountains on three sides and the sea on two sides, and it is next to a strait waterway.
The plain stretches tens of miles from east to west, north to south, respectively.
"There are about 500,000 mu of reclaimable land here." Cun En told Qin Jun.
"500,000 mu?"
"Well, it's just a lot more, not counting the surrounding mountainous areas."
Qin Jun silently calculated in his heart that for a Yuqiwei with 500 mu of land, 50 mu of land can entitle a thousand Yuqiwei, even if the most senior vassal has 10,000 mu of land, he can entitle fifty of them.
Three liters of tax per mu, three stones per hundred mu, and 15,000 stones can be collected for 500,000 mu. If one family is raised with a hundred acres of land, it can accommodate at least five thousand families, or even ten thousand families.
"I suggest setting up a camp along the river and sea on the north bank of the Heisha River Estuary, and then divide the troops to sweep up the indigenous villages, capture those rebellious natives to build castles, and then transport them back to San Francisco Port for sale after repairs." Cun En proposed.
Qin Jun, the marching chief, did not intend to make the main decision, and expressed his support for Cun En's proposal.
Six or seven miles north of the mouth of the Heisha River, there is another smaller river that flows into the sea. The northwest bank of this river is a mountainous area.
It is built between the two rivers, with the mountains on its back and the sea along the river.
"Will the terrain here be peaceful and safe?"
Cun En smiled and said, "It is backed by mountains and facing the sea and facing the great river. How can it be said that there is no danger? Although there is a flat river in the east, we are not facing fierce people like grassland Turks or Goguryeo after all. What we are facing They are just a group of primitive, barbaric and backward natives, as long as we build the castle, they will not be able to threaten us at all."
If a castle is erected, the Qin family will have a base here, they can attack all sides of the plain, and they can retreat into the castle to recuperate.
If a castle is erected, no matter how many native tribes and villages there are on this great plain with hundreds of thousands of acres of land, they will have no peace.
Not only can't gather to threaten San Francisco, but they can't even defend their own lair.
The castle is close to the sea, and it can communicate with San Francisco by sea. There are more than 100 miles of sea roads in ten directions, and it can also connect with Yancheng, Maye and other places.
Being close to the river can not only be a dangerous obstacle, but also facilitate the transportation with other parts of the plain in the future. It is very convenient to pass the river.
Thus, considering these reasons, Cun En suggested setting up camp at the mouth of the sea and estuary, and building a castle here in the future.
After the castle by the sea is built, then you can consider building a new fort inland, and then use the fort chain tactics, advance the fort, and completely lock the plain.
(end of this chapter)