Chapter 607, The First Death of the White Armored Soldiers
For someone like Dorobelle Leked, he was able to have a few white-armored soldiers as personal guards by his side, all because he was the great-grandson of Emperor Taizu of the Qing Dynasty. If it were the general who ruled the country, it would have been a big deal if he had a few red-armored soldiers by his side.
Dorobeleked actually threw all his white-armored soldiers and red-armored soldiers into the battlefield. It can be said that he was determined to win.
After all, after all these years, not one of the white-armored soldiers has died on the battlefield!
This also gives the white-armored soldiers an unusual significance. Whenever the battle is unfavorable and the white-armored soldiers are deployed, the red-armored soldiers will become the commander's trump card.
Past battles also gave the Qing generals this kind of confidence.
Often, after white-armored soldiers go into battle, they can easily defeat the majority of enemy troops with a small number, thus defeating more with fewer and laying the foundation for victory!
I have to say, these white-armored soldiers and red-armored soldiers are quite powerful.
Braving the hail of bullets, they rushed toward the enemy. When they were less than eighty meters away from the enemy, two red-armored soldiers were knocked off their horses by the Star Marines who turned their guns. On the contrary, the other soldiers who were following them were knocked off their horses.
Most of the cavalrymen were killed and injured.
But the distance they had reached was already the limit.
The Star Navy spotted the cavalry charging towards them and immediately fired a series of cannonballs at them.
This bombardment of artillery shells immediately knocked the cavalrymen off their feet.
Then a large number of bullets came flying.
The red-armored soldiers didn't say much, they were all beaten to death.
On the contrary, the three white-armored soldiers wearing double-layered iron armor followed Niulu Ezhen Legeshdan and were not hit by the bullets.
However, the war horses under their crotches were not so lucky, and they were all killed by bullets.
The two white-armored soldiers were unlucky. They failed to vault in time when the war horse fell, and were directly pressed underneath by the war horse.
Niulu Ezhenlege Shidan, on the other hand, led the last white-armored soldier behind the vault and launched a desperate charge towards the Star Navy.
After rushing out less than twenty meters, the white-armored soldier was killed by concentrated fire. At this time, Niulu Erzhen Lege Shidan grabbed the big bow and shot an arrow.
This arrow struck a Star Marine soldier in the forehead with shock, killing him with one blow.
However, Niulu Ezhenlegeshdan failed to shoot the second arrow and was turned into a hornet's nest by the sudden increase in firepower.
This Star Navy soldier also unfortunately became the only death of the Star Navy in this battle.
To be honest, this incident caused quite a stir at the post-war discussion forum.
At a distance of more than fifty meters, while running, an arrow penetrated the enemy's forehead.
To be honest, this kind of archery skill is really amazing.
It is conceivable that if a guy like this was placed in front of the Ming army, I don't know how many people would be killed.
The double layer of iron armor and cotton armor actually blocked some bullets, but he was not very lucky, and one bullet penetrated his neck armor.
And the arrows of the Ming army were basically ineffective against it.
In this way, it can be easily achieved by being unparalleled in the Ming army.
Of course, this also shows that the opponent has excellent physical strength. If it were a Ming army soldier wearing heavy armor weighing more than 70 kilograms, it would be considered good if he could run a hundred meters. It would be absolutely impossible to fight.
No wonder in later generations, Obai was able to kill more than a dozen young eunuchs who were practicing martial arts easily even after being blinded by lime.
However, no matter how powerful the white-armored soldiers were, no matter how powerful Niu Lu Ezhen was, they eventually fell to the gunpoint.
This is the power of firearms after entering the era of metal shell bullets.
With the destruction of the Eight Banners soldiers and Guan Ning's cavalry, the next battle was just over.
However, it was precisely because of the charge of the Eight Banners soldiers and Guan Ning's cavalry that the final sweep was a little lacking.
More than 100,000 troops collapsed and fled, and only more than 40,000 were captured in the end. More soldiers fled into nearby mountains and could not be traced.
However, being able to capture more than 40,000 people in this battle has already cheered the seniors who were looking forward to it in Xinghai City.
This means that hydropower station projects can be accelerated and a stable power grid can be built as soon as possible.
To this end, the Fourth Division specially sent two regiments to escort the prisoners.
However, it is not an easy task to send these prisoners to the seaside to wait for transportation by the fleet.
Those prisoners want to escape!
No one wants to be sent to a place they don't know.
Moreover, the existing fleet can only transport up to 8,000 prisoners at a time.
The fleet made five trips back and forth before transporting all the prisoners.
And the number of prisoners who died along the way was at least two thousand.
For this reason, the Ministry of Transport, which is responsible for fleet transportation, was severely criticized by Chief Executive Zheng Xiangdong.
After all, every prisoner here is a labor force that can be continuously used in the future. Even if they survive the long period of labor reform, they can be sent overseas to develop colonial sites and establish tentacles for outward expansion.
You know, the Ministry of Industry alone has repeatedly made strong requests to send advance troops to the Persian Gulf.
After all, without oil, it would be impossible to improve the industrial system.
Fang Xiaoyue even proposed to contact Zheng Chenggong to develop the oil resources on Dajuan Island first.
Although there are very few oil resources there, and if they are fully exploited, they can only last for a few months at most, but at least some problems have been solved first, so that many experiments can be carried out first.
After the hydropower station received the support of more than 40,000 free laborers, the construction speed suddenly accelerated.
In just three months, the construction of the hydropower station dam in the upper section of the Changjiang River was declared successful. After that, it took two months to install the generator set, store water in the dam, and test the hydropower station.
As for the power grid project connected all the way to Xinghai City, it was also fully constructed within these five months.
As the hydropower unit rotates for the first time, the powerful current passes through the transformer, power grid and other equipment, and finally reaches Xinghai City, lighting up the street lights that have been installed long ago.
From this moment on, the entire Xinghai City became brighter at night for the first time.
The naturalized residents who were working the night shift were also curiously staring at the light coming in from the window.
The whole city began to come alive.
With the completion of the street light project, some elders of the Senate proposed changes to the elders' welfare system during a meeting.
They asked the elders to buy real estate and settle in Xinghai City on their own, and did not want to continue to live in the elders' area like Tongzilou.
Some elders asked for the allocation of wives, maids, islands, etc.
At this time, everyone noticed that although the Senate was established, there were actually huge loopholes in the welfare of the senators.
Until now, naturalized workers have been paid, naturalized farmers have been paid, and naturalized soldiers have been paid, but they have always been superior. The extremely noble elders are still working hard for this country, and none of them are.