Many nobles gathered around it excitedly. Seeing the fine salt inside, everyone was laughing from ear to ear.
"With these fine salts, we can buy good land in the Volcano State..."
"Yeah, it's not impossible to become a noble on Volcano Island..."
While everyone was thinking about the wonderful future, an officer came running from the city, holding a rap parrot in his hand.
Raptors have many habitats on the islands of the Republic of Tasmania. They can learn to speak under the training of trainers and are usually responsible for communication and delivering messages.
Especially those that are tamed by professional animal trainers and have the ability to be transmitted through the mind to directly allow the rap parrot to say what the animal trainer wants to say.
The officer came among the many nobles and quickly found the noble speaker Augustine, a middle-aged man with a big belly, covered with gorgeous jewelry and wearing a golden cage hat.
"Sir Speaker, this is the message from Port No. 1. Please take a look at it..." The officer handed the parchment in his hand to his hand.
When the Speaker took it over and took a look, his smiling face immediately turned cold.
"Everyone, we are in trouble." Speaker Augustine raised the parchment scroll in his hand.
"Port No. 1 was breached by unknown forces. The entire guard fleet was wiped out. The city defense force also suffered heavy losses. Currently, this unknown force continues to advance towards our Haisha Town."
The news was like a pebble dropped into a lake causing thousands of waves.
Many nobles immediately exploded, especially the nobles who had many properties in Port No. 1, and their faces turned pale. After being captured by other forces, their properties would probably be plundered by the other party.
"What force is the other party? How many troops are there?" a relatively calm noble asked.
"I don't know the strength of the other side at the moment, but what is certain is that the other side is not a pirate. The other side has about 50 warships and an army of about 1,000. The information sent by the spies said that the other side's army has strong combat effectiveness." Speaker Augustine explained in detail, and then said
expressed his own opinion.
"I suggest that you notify Port No. 2 and Port No. 3 and ask them to withdraw all their troops. Together with our troops from Haisha Town, it will be enough to annihilate the other side."
Hearing the Speaker's reply, most of the nobles breathed a sigh of relief. The enemy only had more than 1,000 people. Although the spies claimed that the opponent was powerful, they also had 4,000 people, which was four times the number of the opponent. They could be pushed to death by a crowd.
"Yes, notify all the troops to return immediately and strive to wipe out all this unknown force. Let them see that we Tassie Islanders are not easy to mess with." Some radical nobles immediately shouted to make the other party look good.
All the nobles returned to the town with a solemn and angry expression, and the four carriages behind them drove into the town closely following the crowd.
The steward at the front of the carriage also had a solemn expression on his face, but when he looked back at the carriage, he suddenly smiled again, then thought of something and immediately suppressed it.
The two rap parrots quickly took off from the town, entered the black night, and flew towards the two ports respectively.
At noon the next day, the Ming Dynasty Marines led by Qin Feng crossed a low mountain and finally could see the city wall of Haisha Town.
"Stop..." Qin Feng frowned and turned to look north and south. The black eagle in the sky was circling, and the distant scene had fallen into its eagle eyes.
"Ambush? It came so fast. Did you travel all night last night?"
However, since the front of Haisha Town is also flat and there is no terrain to hide the army, the troops responsible for the ambush are a bit far away.
"Captain, look, troops have been sent out from Haisha Town." A general guard pointed into the distance.
Qin Feng looked up slightly and saw that two thousand soldiers were already lined up at the city gate. They still inherited the style of the Taxi Islanders and formed a scattered formation similar to a single line.
"Well, it's a bit difficult to handle." Although Qin Feng was not afraid of being attacked from three sides, the loss of soldiers was still inevitable.
And there is no need for Qin Feng to let his army enter the opponent's encirclement, right?
"The whole army moves north, the cavalry quickly attacks the ambush in the north, and the infantry advances at a gallop." Qin Feng decided to first swallow up one of the opponent's ambush troops, and then turn around to deal with the opponent's two armies.
The nobles of Haisha Town sat on carriages pulled by camels and beasts and watched proudly the Ming army on the opposite side.
"We are attacking from three sides and have a numerical advantage. No matter how strong the enemy is, we will annihilate it." A nobleman introduced the current situation to his companions with a smile.
"Maybe they will flee when they see our ambush..." A rather optimistic nobleman spoke.
"No, they were too scared to come forward when they saw so many of us. Look, they really stopped there." A noble pointed at the Ming army stopped in the distance.
Then he quickly ran towards the north in the eyes of all the nobles, especially the cavalry, who ran very fast and gradually pulled the infantry a long distance away.
"What's wrong with them? Why are they running north?"
"No, they are running away. Let's chase them quickly. We can't let them run away."
"Hurry up and let the ambush troops from the north stop them."
Many nobles looked anxiously at the Ming army that was far away from them. If they escaped in the encirclement formed by them, then the nobles of their Haisha Town would become the laughing stock of the Taxi Islands.
"Pursuit with the whole army..." Augustine, the noble speaker, ordered unhurriedly while sitting in the camel beast carriage and enjoying the service of two beautiful maids.
The camel is a gentle creature similar to a camel. It has no peaks on its back, strong gravity and slow speed. It is a specialty of the Tassie Islands.
So two chattering parrots flew out of the military formation in front of Haisha Town and flew in the direction of the two ambush soldiers.
Qin Feng rode his horse and led his cavalry to the position of the ambush troops in the north. Before he arrived, a parrot flew into the ambush formation in the north, and then the ambush troops rushed out from the low ground with double axes in their hands.
out.
"Kill them, stop them, don't let them escape..." The leading city defense army took the lead and rushed towards Qin Feng and others with their double axes raised high.
The corners of Qin Feng's mouth raised slightly, "Now that you're out, don't go back... greet them with long-range fire, incite the cavalry to retreat, and charge later."
The cavalry of the Shenji Battalion opened fire first. Their furlong machine could reach 400 meters away, and their powerful firepower directly knocked over the ambush troops who had just charged.
With only animal skin armor, their defense against the explosion of gunpowder was almost zero, so a large number of soldiers were directly torn apart by the force of the explosion.
Before the city defense officer at the forefront could react, three artillery shells landed at his feet. He was directly engulfed by the flames of the explosion. As the explosion subsided, only half of his charred body was left.
However, the fierce Taxi Islanders did not give up the attack and still ran towards Qin Feng and others.
Then came the gunpowder arrows fired by Qin Feng and the generals, which flew across the sky and landed on the crowd. Then explosions occurred one after another. Countless soldiers were once again blown away, and countless stumps flew into the air.
The military formation that had been baptized by gunpowder shells was already riddled with holes, and there was no need for the grenadier cavalry to project again.
Qin Feng led all the cavalry in a charging posture. He placed the provocative cavalry in front of the formation and the long-range cavalry at the back. In terms of melee combat ability, the provocative cavalry had the strongest ability.
"charge…"
The ambush was so scattered that there was no team of more than ten people. The provocative cavalry immediately charged with halberds in a skirmish formation spaced five meters apart.
Facing the overwhelming cavalry charge, no matter how fierce the Tassie Islands warriors are, they will suddenly wake up.
Some immediately turned to run away, some were too timid to step forward, and some wanted to fight back, but their heads were easily chopped off by the high-speed halberd.
The provocative cavalry easily waved their halberds like cutting wheat, knocking away or piercing the remaining Tassie Islanders.
The massive casualties instantly caused all the remaining Tassie Islanders to wake up and flee, but in the face of the cavalry pursuit, everything was in vain.
Within 30 minutes of the battle, a well-prepared ambush of a thousand men was completely wiped out.
Qin Feng turned his cavalry back, joined the infantry, and began to slowly set up an attack formation, waiting for the frightened Haisha Town soldiers and another ambush force.
I saw that the two troops quickly merged into one. The originally slow team seemed to be emboldened by the increase in the number of people, so it accelerated its marching speed.
When the difference between the two armies was about one thousand meters, a nobleman riding a camel beast ran out from the sea sand army formation and came to the middle of the two armies.
Qin Feng raised his eyebrows, "Is this a negotiation?"
I turned around and found that there was no suitable candidate for negotiation.
"There is still a lack of talent..." Qin Feng sighed and led his generals and guards towards the middle of the two armies.
When the nobleman riding the camel beast saw so many people approaching, he immediately panicked and ran back to the formation. However, the heavy and powerful camel beast was very fast. Qin Feng quickly came to the middle of the two armies, and the other party had not run a few meters away.
"Hey, you're going to run away when I come to negotiate. Do you want to start a war?" Qin Feng's faint voice reached the envoy's ears without any hindrance.
"Ahem..." The messenger coughed twice to resolve the embarrassment.
He drove the camel beast back, took a look at the fine scale armor on Qin Feng and others, and asked a little humblely: "Which empire is your army from? Why are you attacking our Taxi Islands? Can you tell us?
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"After fighting for a long time, it turns out you don't know who we are?" Qin Feng looked at the other party's awkward smile and said calmly: "You didn't even ask when you robbed our goods. Go back and give you ten minutes to discuss.
Time, if the result of your final discussion dissatisfies me, I will eliminate you right here."
Ignoring the constant shouts of the messenger behind him, Qin Feng led his generals and guards directly back to the formation and waited for the 10 minutes to end.
After two battles, Qin Feng was very satisfied with the newly built Ming Marine Corps. The offensive capabilities were indeed strong, and some flaws could be ignored. The next thing to consider was how to improve and how to make them more powerful.
At this time, the envoy also brought Qin Feng's report back. After hearing about the robbed goods, all the nobles immediately thought of the four boxes that were pulled into the city last night.
"Go, bring me Ogg..."
Noble Speaker Augustine immediately ordered someone to bring the exchange administrator of Port No. 1.
After seeing Ogg with a smile on his face, the noble speaker Augustine pointed at the opposite army with a cold face, "Tell me, how did you provoke the opposite army?"
Ogg looked back and forth blankly, "Sir, how many lives do I have to dare to provoke such a powerful army?"