The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 42 Mines!

Following Wang Youcai's order, the Guangfu soldiers in the mine began to count one by one.

In the end, the count stopped at 41.

You know, when they left the large army to lure away the pursuers for the large army, there were a total of 50 people.

In just a short time, nine people were sacrificed.

Nine people doesn't sound like much, but there are only 50 of them. In comparison, the sacrifices of nine people are already two times smaller.

"Damn it, cheer up and prepare to defend!"

"As long as the red hair dares to enter the mine, give them some power!"

"Everyone hold on, the food and water on our bodies are enough for us to last for three to five days. As long as we can hold on, the general will definitely come to rescue us!"

Wang Youcai cheered up his brothers, but although his tone was firm, he still had no idea.

Will the general really send troops to rescue them?
he does not know!

Even if the general sends troops to rescue, can they persist until then?

This is also an unknown!

But he knows that he and others cannot surrender!

He is one of the five company commanders of the Restoration Army, and the leader of the rebels in the eyes of the Spaniards.

Even if you surrender, there will be no good fruit to eat.

The same is true of the brothers around him. Since they started the incident, they have killed many Spaniards back and forth, and they are considered to have surrendered.

How could the Spaniards not kill them?

Everyone is not that stupid!

If they want to survive, they can only pray that the general can come to save them quickly.

……

Outside the mine, Kayal and Yada stood together, looking at the dark mine.

Yada spoke.

"Kayal, do you want to send someone into the mine to chase after him?"

Kayal shook his head decisively.

"My dear Young Master Yada, believe me, it's definitely not a good idea to send someone into the mine to chase after him!"

"Entering such a mine is like coming home to those rat-like Chinese."

"But for the brave Spanish boy, the situation in the mine is too complicated and dangerous."

"I don't want the young man playing hide-and-seek with those field mice in the mine!"

Yada frowned and spoke.

"But what if they keep hiding in there and can't come out?"

Kayal shrugged.

"The food and drinking water they carry are limited. Without food and drinking water, they cannot hide for long."

"We set up a trap outside the mine, and wait until they are too hungry to stand it, and just come out and throw ourselves into the trap!"

Yada just nodded, but he still spoke.

"Do you want to line up a team of natives to go in and explore the way?"

Kayal did not refuse, but nodded.

"Okay, I'll make arrangements!"

Kayal didn't want the Spaniards to die in the mine, but he didn't mind sending a few natives into the mine to give their heads.

To him, the lives of natives are worthless!

No matter how many times he died, he wouldn't feel bad!
Under Kayal's arrangement, a team of 20 dark-skinned, short and thin natives headed for the depths of the mine with bare upper body, machetes in hand, and cat waists.

Not long after, there was a burst of neat musket shooting in the mine, followed by a shrill scream.

Then, there was no movement in the mine!
In the silence, Kayal and others waited outside the mine for nearly half an hour, but no natives came out, he shook his head and said.

"It seems that those natives were killed by field mice in the mine!"

"I was right not to send the Spanish lads into the mines!"

"It's better to set a trap outside the mine and wait for them to fall into the net!"

Yada looked ugly, but nodded coldly and said.

"Looks like that's all it takes!"

……

In the mine!
Wang Youcai swung his knife and chopped off the head of the last aborigine, and the round head rolled on the ground.

"Bury all these corpses, if you don't bury them, I'm afraid they will stink after a long time!"

"Yes!"

The soldiers around Wang Youcai took orders to do it.

They dug a hole in place, buried the body, and began to prepare for rest.

Except for someone who was in charge of vigilance, everyone else leaned against the stone wall and quickly fell asleep.

……

Valley!

Hu Dinggao took people to investigate and finally sent back the exact news.

"General, the Spaniards really have an ambush!"

"We found the location of the Spaniard's ambush team. It is estimated that there are eight or nine hundred people, and nearly [-]% of them are real red-haired, and the rest are native auxiliary soldiers."

"In addition to the ambush force, the Spaniards also have two or three hundred red-haired soldiers on the surface!"

Listening to Hu Dinggao's return, Zhu Hongyu frowned into a Sichuan character.

Things are in trouble!

Although he had expected an ambush from the Spaniards, he had not expected so many.

After the Liberation Army fought in the mine, Zhu Hongyu ordered the expansion of troops.

But it was only from six companies to seven companies.

Because after the first battle in the mine, the recovery army only got two or three hundred young Chinese.

The two 300 people, except for part of the transfer, are used to supplement the battle losses of the six original companies.

It can only expand a new company.

Those who were left were organized into a logistics team and a medical team by Zhu Hongyu!

Responsible for transporting food and grass needed by the army, as well as battlefield rescue.

That is to say, Zhu Hongyu only has seven companies in his hands now, and half of the companies under the leadership of Wang Youcai are surrounded by the Spaniards in the mine.

Zhu Hongyu can mobilize more than 700 soldiers now!

Against the five or six hundred Spanish army and the five or six hundred indigenous servants, even if he had known about the Spanish ambush in advance, his chances of winning were not great.

Therefore, he had to think carefully about how to fight this battle!
After thinking for a long time, Zhu Hongyu made a battle plan, and then ordered the mobilization of all soldiers to rescue Wang Youcai and others.

During this period of time, the ordnance manufacturing in the weapon workshop has already seen initial results.

A total of twenty sets of single-sided breastplates were made, ten arquebus guns were replaced with flintlocks, and hundreds of rounds of paper shell fixed ammunition were made.

There are also forty small three-edged spearheads!
Even the matching bayonets for muskets were made ten, and equipped with the ten arquebuses that were changed to flintlocks.

Get ready to prove it works on the battlefield!
In addition to these, what really made Zhu Hongyu dare to face the huge pressure from the Spaniards was the nearly [-] thunderbolts that the weapon workshop hastened to manufacture.

The size of a fist, the iron shell is filled with large and small buckshot stones.

The gunpowder is not ordinary granular gunpowder, but gunpowder with added sugar.

As the saying goes, one nitrate, two sulphur, three charcoal, add some sugar, big Ivan!

Adding sugar to gunpowder can greatly increase the explosive power of gunpowder.

Because of such a proverb, in some countries in the Middle East and Africa, white sugar has suddenly become a war preparation.

These nearly a hundred thunderbolts are the big killer Zhu Hongyu prepared for this battle!
Zhu Hongyu is a special soldier who has learned bomb preparation and weapon manufacturing.

Give him a little time, he can rub a C4 with bare hands.

It is not a problem to improve the gunpowder now!

Adding gunpowder and sugar will greatly increase the explosive power of Zhentianlei, which can cause damage to the Spaniards to the maximum extent.

(End of this chapter)