Chapter 49 It turns out, but that's it

Yunwen stood high, holding a telescope to watch Lai Guorao's fleet leave.

After putting down the telescope, he said to Lao Zhou, "Now, we have the final say here."

Lao Zhou said with a sad face: "Young Master, until tomorrow at the latest, this island will be surrounded by those warships, and we can't leave."

Yun Wen smiled and said, "This is the effect you want. If you don't have a war, how can my Yun family guards gain a foothold in the army again?"

Lao Chang looked at the last ray of sunset gradually turning dark and said in a deep voice: "I don't know how many of the 5,800 people on the island can go back alive."

Yunwen said lightly: "If you go back alive, your Majesty will have one available talent, and if you go back two, you will have two talents. If you cannot become a talent, you will die. The wealth of my Lantian Dynasty is not so easy to enjoy.

The island is surrounded by mountains and one is a cliff. The only place that is truly convenient for attack is the harbor. If the beach cannot be defended, we retreat to the harbor. If the harbor cannot be defended, we retreat to the jungle. If the jungle cannot be defended, we go up the mountain.

In short, if we persist until General Han’s fleet comes, we can live. If we can’t, then we will die!"

Yunwen seemed not so much about his life. After hearing this, Lao Zhou felt so bitter. Yunwen didn't care, but he couldn't ignore it... However, everyone is trapped on the island now, and even if they want to run, there is no place to run.

The Yun clan members are very gamblers, from Emperor Yun Zhao, to Yun Yang, to Yun Fu, Yun Meng, Yun Hu, Yun Leopard, Yun Jiao, and Yun Xiao, all of them are like this. Now, when Yun Wen starts to bet on a big gamble.

The so-called wealth and honor are in danger, which seems unreasonable to the Yun family, but it is precisely because the Yun family is a royal family that they are unwilling to give up wealth and honor. They are more concerned about retaining the privileges of wealth and honor than anyone else.

They knew that if other families declined, they would also decline, and if the Yun royal family declined, many people would die.

Yunwen thought that the war would not begin until dawn at the earliest, but the British obviously didn't think so. After the Lai Guorao fleet left, the British fleet approached the island.

Although the tide had begun to fade from the sea, they still refused to give up. The sampans transporting troops went into the sea densely and rushed towards the island while taking advantage of the bright moonlight on the sea.

At the same time, the huge warships had all turned around the hull, and the cannon windows kept spitting out flames, and the heavy shells smashed down like a whistle under the moonlight.

This is just a deterrent. The shells destroyed the wooden buildings on the harbor and even made deep pits on the ground. On the soft beach, the lethality of solid shells was really limited.

Yunwen took a gun and resisted it on his shoulder, threw a cigarette into his mouth and lit it, and said to a group of people in Yunzhen: "The war has begun."

Lao Zhou saw Yunwen's legs trembling, but this guy's hands were very stable and he didn't shake at all when lighting a cigarette. He looked like this and his father could not compare with his father. However, considering his age, Lao Zhou felt a little warm.

Lai Guorao did not go far. Except for the severely injured and slow-speed Mangshan took the transport ship into the Strait of Malacca, he returned to the waters of West Island with his two ironclad ships and eight three-masted warships.

There are many islands here, and West is not the largest one. However, because it is too close to Bangladesh, it is regarded by the British as a springboard for managing India.

At dawn, Lai Guorao and his fleet quietly arrived at an island. The island was uninhabited and the entire island was covered with dense forests. In the early morning, countless seabirds could be seen leaving the island to search for food in the sea.

The fleet slid across the slightly yellow sea surface and finally stopped on the back of the island.

When Deputy General Zhao Rong saw that Lai Guorao seemed to be very leisurely, he said worriedly: "I don't know how Colonel Yunwen and the others are doing. The war must have begun at this time."

Lai Guorao shook his head and said, "The moonlight was bright last night, and the British would not wait until dawn to take action."

"Commander, do you think Yunwen and others can succeed?"

"If you don't succeed, you have to hold on."

"We're just waiting here?"

"I'm waiting for the Portuguese here..."

"Col. Yunwen and the others..."

"I have to finish climbing the road I chose."

"What if?"

"There is no in case, war is a general strategic thing. Sometimes what should be abandoned must be abandoned, and no big loss is lost because of the small. The goal of the empire is India. Eliminating the British is just a part of the overall strategy. The French, Dutch, Spaniards, and Portuguese are all part of this strategy.

General Han intends to determine the power of our Ming Empire to divide India through this battle. How much we can occupy in the future depends entirely on whether our battle can hurt European countries.

If we can lose a few competitors, it will be more beneficial to us."

Zhao Rong leaned on the side of the boat and looked down at the fish swimming around the boat and said to Lai Guorao: "I always feel that General Han's plan is too big. As soon as we cleared Java Island, she couldn't wait to start building a high-level school on the island.

Not only that, she has begun to gather the Ming people scattered in Nanyang. The meaning of Java to build the center of Nanyang is already very obvious. I am worried that if Colonel Yunwen ignores his life and death, it will affect General Han’s plan to carry out in Nanyang."

"Don't worry about this. Under the general trend, personal resistance will hardly play any role. The suggestion to build Java has passed the review of the Congress. Your Majesty has used the seal and the Prime Minister has signed it. It has entered the implementation stage. You see, within half a year, the fishermen without land in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty will flock to it.

They had the custom of going to Southeast Asia and knew how rich the South China Sea was.

In the past, they were willing to come to Nanyang to make a living at risk of death. Now, with the protection of the empire, their intention to go to Nanyang will definitely be more active.

What we can do is to expand them more space for them to display their talents.”

Zhao Rong breathed a sigh of relief: "Going south and going north is the national policy that the empire is actively advancing now. The first baby boom after the Ming Dynasty war has arrived. Is Your Majesty doing this to make room for those newborn children to survive?"

Lai Guorao smiled and said, "When I was at Yushan Academy, I heard from gentlemen that so far, the population of the Ming Dynasty is still too small. Mr. Gu of the academy believes that the Ming Dynasty still needs 20 million people to occupy our current land evenly.

If there weren't so many people, a lot of land would be wasted.

According to Mr. Gu's prediction, it would take at least a hundred years for the Ming Dynasty to have a population of more than 300 million. However, Mr. Liang does not think so. He believes that with the rise of the empire's grain output, the generalization of medical resources, and the nationalization of the Wenpo profession, the population of the Ming Dynasty will become a reality from 160 million to 30 million in the next thirty to 40 years.

Therefore, no matter how the debate is made in China, the responsibility of us soldiers is to expand our territory and seize resources as much as possible."

The conversation between Lai Guorao and Zhao Rong was blown away by the sea breeze.

No trace left.

However, after Yunwen repelled another round of landings for the British, his legs no longer trembled because he found that it was not difficult for them to kill those British people with the latest muskets.

He had left the forefront of the war, sat in the study of the Governor's Mansion, which originally belonged to Raymond, and began to carefully check the rifle in his hand, and by the way, what the ordnance officer said.

The rifle in his hand was named the Chinese Type 2 rifle, which uses copper-shell bullets, while the Chinese Type 1 rifle uses paper-shell bullets.

Although these two types of firearms sound like sister firearms, there is a fundamental gap in efficiency, especially after the development of progress in rake mercury, coupled with a long striker and rifle, the performance of the Chinese Type 2 rifle has been significantly improved.

This is not only reflected in range and accuracy, but also greatly improves the speed of filling ammunition.

Compared with the British who had a flintlock gun in front of the bird beak, the Chinese Type 2 rifle can choose more combat methods. Among them, the battle modes of various postures have greatly changed the survival rate of an infantry.

The 100-step distance is just the range of the front-loaded gun. The Chinese Type 2 rifle has shown extremely high lethality at the 100-step distance. The commonly used fifty-step flintlock rifle is simply a massacre distance under the Chinese Type 2 rifle.

After listening to the words of the ordnance officer, Yun Wen discovered for the first time that he was so powerful. The instructors in the military academy were all lying... Whatever the enemy was powerful, what if the enemy was cunning, what if the enemy was... In short, you can't underestimate the enemy.

Yun Wen suddenly felt comfortable all over, leaned her body against the chair, habitually put her feet on the table, and said to Lao Zhou: "We will definitely win this battle."

Lao Zhou looked at Yun Wen coldly and said, "Why do I think we are sure to lose, judging from your appearance?"

Yunwen laughed and said, "My gun..."

"That's the gun of the empire. The young master is just a person holding a gun... Look at the scar on my face. It was cut by a bandit who was only thirteen or fourteen years old when our weapons crushed the enemy.

If the master hadn't given me the good medicine given to him, my bones would have been decayed.

Before the war begins, the master regards the heroes of the world as nothing. However, when fighting, even if the enemy in front of him is very weak, the master is always cautious, cautious, and never says he will win before the war is over.

Master, only by killing the last enemy can you say what we win. As long as your enemy has a breath, don’t say what you win.

After returning to Yushan, the old slave will report to the master to know about this matter."

Yun Wen jumped up and said, "Uncle Zhou, you are going to kill me."

Old Zhou said coldly: "First of all, don't kill me, my family still has three children, two of them are not adults, I don't want them to have no father."
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