Chapter 1025 Advance Team (6)

After adding hundreds of laborers at once, the construction project of the coastal camp has finally begun in full swing. The construction workers have drawn two defense lines running east-west and north-south along the area where the temporary dock is currently located, preparing to use

This will isolate an area near the water as Haihan's main camp on the coast of Miaoli. This area is located exactly at the mouth of Houlong River. The planning plan makes maximum use of the terrain advantages, allowing the west and north directions to

Using the water as a natural barrier, you only need to set up defense lines on the east and south sides to deal with threats from land.

At present, most of the west coast of Taiwan Island has been controlled by Haihan. Although the Dutch still retain a colony in Damuan Port, the local governor Hans knows very well what can and cannot be done. According to the agreement between the two parties in 1632

According to the understanding agreement signed in November, Dutch ships entering and leaving Taiyuan Port can never go from the Fujian Strait to the waters north of Taiyuan Port. Even Dutch merchant ships heading to Okinawa and Japan can only go around the Bashi Strait in the south of Taiwan Island.

Go over there.

The pirates and Spaniards who originally operated in the Fujian Strait have all been eliminated or driven out of the waters near Taiwan last year. Therefore, the Miaoli area, located in the middle of Taiwan's west coast, no longer needs to consider man-made threats from the sea.

Camps near the sea can deploy the main defense force on land - after all, the only ones that can threaten Haihan in this area are the indigenous tribes in the inland mountains.

Taking into account the armed level of the indigenous tribes, Haihan certainly does not need to use big tricks such as building forts here. He only needs to dig trenches around the perimeter and pull up barbed wire, and then put some obstacles such as deer villages to block horses.

While increasing the depth of defense, narrow the defense surface as much as possible, and then build parapets and hidden fortifications near the remaining main passages, so that the defenders can gather forces and steadily implement fire output during wartime, and the pressure on defense will be reduced.

Much smaller.

Before Morgan returned from the mountains, Tian Yeyou had already divided the migrant workers at the station into two groups for construction. One group was responsible for building military facilities, mainly peripheral fortifications. The other group was responsible for civilian facilities, such as docks and warehouses.

Barracks, as well as various facilities needed for life in the camp area. In addition, it is necessary to use local forest resources to start preparing more building materials for the initial projects of several inland strongholds. Especially where the oil fields are located, during the exploration period,

The number of personnel stationed will be close to a thousand. The long-term camp required to accommodate so many people is no small project. Some building materials do not need to be prepared locally after the large troops move in.

Although Tian Yeyou is not from the construction industry, the places he goes to are often in the wilderness, from Tiandu Iron Mine and Heitugang Coal Mine in the early days of time travel, to later Shilu Iron Mine, Jilong Gold Mine, and now

In Miaoli, every place is being constructed bit by bit from scratch. He has watched it as a bystander for several years, and he has watched it for a while. Compared to Morgan, he is at least a semi-professional, and he has no idea how to do it.

I am already familiar with building a camp and can fully serve as on-site command.

Morgan didn't have many opportunities to lead troops alone outside. Occasionally, he would lead his scouts in the mountains near Sanya for field training. There was no need to build such large camps and defenses. Naturally, in this field

He was not as experienced as Tian Yeyou. But it was a rare opportunity to meet a knowledgeable person, so Morgan asked Tian Yeyou many questions in this regard at the dinner table. The two chatted while drinking until late at night.

The next day, while Morgan was still sleeping, he was awakened by a loud noise coming from outside the tent. Morgan thought that the fleet from Penghu had arrived. As he was about to get up, the guards had already entered the tent and reported to him: "Chief, there are a few people coming from outside the camp.

The natives seem to be trying to convey some message to us."

After hearing this, Morgan quickly put on his clothes, walked to the door, turned back and ordered the guard: "Take my gun."

The gun Morgan was referring to was not his treasured M200. That gun was usually dismantled into several large pieces and placed in a moisture-proof box, and was rarely assembled for use. The gun Morgan was using now was a Hi-Han.

A new product produced by Ordnance Industry in small batches, a breech-loading repeating rifle imitating the Spencer M1865 rifle.

This kind of rifle uses a brass cartridge case. When fired, the expanded cartridge case will lock the rear of the cartridge chamber, thus solving the problem of air leakage in the breech gun. The metal cartridge case also solves the problem of moisture-proof ammunition. When loading, you need to

Take out the ammunition supply tube from the back of the butt, and then push seven rounds of copper-cased fixed-loading ammunition through the hole in the butt. When the trigger guard is pulled down, the rotating locking bolt retreats to open the gun chamber, and the empty cartridge case is pulled out. At the same time, the gun

The spring in the holder will push the next bullet out of the feed tube, pull up the retainer, and the bolt will push the bullet into the chamber and lock the space at the same time.

Although this kind of rifle needs to pull down the hammer before firing each round, and pull the trigger guard up and down after shooting to complete the action of unloading and loading the shell, its shooting speed is far faster than the current flintlocks that use fixed-loading ammunition.

With a firing rate of three to four rounds per minute, the gun can fire all seven bullets loaded in the butt in just over ten seconds at the fastest. If a preloaded cartridge is used to replace bullets, the sustained firing rate can be even

It can reach 21 rounds per minute, so it is no exaggeration to call it a continuous gun. The firepower output of this gun alone is equivalent to six or seven flintlock guns, and according to Haihan Ordnance's internal testing,

It can fire two hundred rounds of bullets at once without clearing the barrel, which is much better than a flintlock gun that fires paper fixed-loading bullets.

Of course, the shortcomings of this "advanced weapon" are also obvious, that is, the cost of production and use is too high. The current cost of one such repeating rifle is approximately equivalent to seven flintlock muskets, which means that it must be

To be installed into an army, it will cost seven times the military expenditure in the initial stage. In addition, because the structure of the gun body is more complex and the production cycle is much longer than that of a flintlock gun, it is almost impossible to implement it in the short term.

, and it is obviously difficult to give full play to the power of the new weapons through scattered installation.

Another shortcoming is ammunition. The production technology of copper-cased fixed-loading ammunition is still relatively difficult for the current Haihan military industry. The almost purely manual production process leads to very low production capacity. A skilled worker can make it in one day.

The bullets are only enough for one gun to fire for one minute. And with the performance of this gun, the consumption of ammunition is so large that it is impossible to ignore the gap between its cost and the ammunition used by the flintlock guns currently widely installed in the army.

Under the existing productivity, the improvement of weapon performance will inevitably mean a corresponding increase in production costs and usage costs. From the perspective of people other than the military, this kind of performance improvement should be considered to be an obvious surplus and waste.

, because the current level of armament is enough to defeat the opponents Haihan can currently encounter, and it is obviously not necessary to spend a lot of military expenditures on frequent upgrades of weapons.

Therefore, although the research and development of new weapons is always going on, the replacement of military standard weapons is quite slow. Several similar new rifles are also being developed at the same time. However, Morgan knows the goods well and went to Haihan Ordnance Industry before setting off from Sanya.

The subordinate weapons research center went around and selected this repeating rifle as a sidearm for the trip to Taiwan. The supervisor of Haihan Ordnance Industry was Bai Kesi, so he naturally gave the green light to this. After all, the safety guarantee of the Miaoli project was still high.

We have to count on Morgan's performance, and it is Haihan Ordnance's responsibility to provide him with the best equipment.

Morgan came out of the tent and saw Tian Yeyou walking out of the tent where he lived with a confused look on his face. Last night Tian Yeyou went to the back to chat happily and drank more. The alcohol must have not completely dissipated at this time. Morgan looked at him

The standing posture is a bit crooked and not stable enough.

"What's going on outside?" Tian Yeyou asked proactively.

"I heard that some natives are calling for battle outside." Morgan joked: "I'm going to fight them now. My friend, do you want to fight with me?"

"The natives are knocking on the door? Then I have to check with you!" Tian Yeyou seemed to wake up a lot immediately after hearing the whole news, with an eager expression on his face. It was obvious that he was not worried that the natives who came to the door could give him something to do.

No matter what trouble it caused, it was full of energy to watch the fun.

Morgan was right. Tian Yeyou had been in Taipei for a year, and he had interacted with the local indigenous tribes. Naturally, there was not much tension at all. At that moment, Morgan and Tian Yeyou came to the gate of the camp.

As expected, there were several natives standing in an open space outside. Although they were holding bamboo spears in their hands, they didn't look like they were looking for trouble.

Although Morgan was not afraid of these natives, his identity did not allow him to put himself in danger. He immediately asked the translator in the camp to communicate with these natives. This translator who knew the native language was actually also from Taiwan.

The Pingpu tribe on the page is from a tribe near Kaohsiung Port in Tainan that has joined the Haihan tribe. They are hundreds of miles away from here, so it’s up to chance to understand how much the local natives say.

The translator left the camp and whispered to the natives for a long time, and then came back to convey the other party's intention to them. These natives came from Maolishe in the southern mountainous area. They had only one request, and that was that the Haihan people left here immediately, because

This river mouth is Maolishe's territory and no outsiders are allowed to invade it. As for the purpose of the Haihan people coming here, the natives don't care at all. They don't even want to talk about it.

"Tell them that since we are here, we will not withdraw. If they think that they can make Haihan bow down with just one sentence, it is too simple." Morgan's attitude is very tough, and he also has the faint intention of irritating the other party.

.If the indigenous tribes take the initiative to attack Haihan, it will provide the conditions for the military to take necessary military measures, which Morgan hopes for.

The translator took Morgan's answer and went out to communicate with the natives again. Morgan saw that the natives were gradually getting excited. One of them raised the bamboo spear in his hand and shouted in the direction of the camp.

Before Morgan could react, Tian Yeyou beside him said: "This guy is going to shake things up, send someone out quickly!"

As soon as Tian Yeyou finished speaking, he saw that the natives had already grabbed the translator and knocked him to the ground. As soon as Morgan saw that the other party said to do it, he immediately ordered his subordinates to attack, and he took it from the guard.

The gun came and was aimed at the natives outside the camp.

Morgan is about thirty meters away from where the natives are. If you use a flintlock gun at this distance, the chance of hitting by chance will be more than 50%. However, the hit rate of this new gun in Morgan's hand is quite high within fifty meters.

, and after his own adjustment, although there was only an aiming scale on the gun and no scope, for him, it was enough for him to aim at this distance with the naked eye.

When Morgan saw the leading native put his foot on the translator's chest and raised his bamboo spear to stab him, Dang even shot him without hesitation. The shot hit the native's upper body accurately, with a huge impact.

He immediately fell backwards and sat down. Morgan did not dare to be careless, reloaded the bullet, and then continued to aim.

Sure enough, another native became violent and, regardless of his companions who fell on the ground, he also raised his bamboo spear and stabbed the translator who fell on the ground. Morgan immediately fired another shot and knocked him to the ground. The remaining natives

The man was suddenly startled and doubtful. He did not dare to attack the translator again, but tried to carry away the two injured companions who had fallen to the ground.

However, at this time, a group of Haihan soldiers had already rushed out of the camp, stopped all these people, disarmed them, bound them, and escorted them back to the camp. Seeing that the situation was calmed down quickly, Morgan breathed a sigh of relief and handed the gun to him.

He took his own bodyguards and went with Tian Yeyou to check on the conditions of several prisoners.

Although the translator was subdued by the natives and fell to the ground, fortunately he was not hurt at all. He only had a few bruises on his body. But looking at his face and trembling body, he was indeed quite frightened. If it weren't for Morgan

If he took decisive action, he might really be stabbed through with a bamboo spear by a native compatriot from Maolishe.

Although this translator is not from Haihan, he is a member of the Haihan camp after all. Morgan does not want to see him being tortured and killed by other natives in front of his eyes. Such a scene will definitely have a negative impact on his own morale.

Influence. Moreover, the temperament of this native is so violent. He will directly hurt people if he says a few wrong words, regardless of time and place. It seems that it is indeed not easy to communicate through negotiation.

Morgan didn't have much good intentions at first, so when he saw the other party taking the initiative, he naturally started killing without hesitation. Although he still has the identity of a doctor, his long-term single life has made his temperament tend to be indifferent.

Moreover, he has had the experience of killing enemies on the battlefield before, and is more willing than ordinary people to use extreme means to solve problems.

A total of five natives who came to the camp to call for a demonstration were shot and wounded by Morgan. One of them was hit in the chest and was bleeding. The other was shot in the shoulder and his injuries were slightly minor, but Morgan had no intention of going there.

After treating them, the soldiers only asked the three uninjured people to be escorted aside, and then called the shocked translator over to prepare for interrogation.
Chapter completed!