War will promote technological and even institutional changes to a certain extent.

The Western military breakthroughs have a lot to do with the fact that there are many countries and constant disputes on the land of Europe, especially the thirty-year war.

This is like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which gave birth to various schools of thought, and Qin State, which exerted its national strength to the extreme.

During the Warring States Period, a population of four or five million could be dispatched hundreds of thousands of troops, and the mobilization ability was so powerful that it had never appeared in the past dynasties.

In addition, in terms of weapons, Qin crossbows and Han crossbows, as well as bronze weapons, have also been achieved to the extreme and gradually transitioned to iron weapons, forming many powerful countries.

The thirty years of war in the West also gave birth to the changes in military culture and institutions in the West. Among them, military changes have been the greatest, and the army has gradually begun to move towards modernization.

During this period, traditional Western armor was manufactured to the extreme, and new firearms began to exert their power.

It can be said that they have the best defense and the sharpest firearms, and the spear and shield are the best, so they can roam the world.

Under such circumstances, hundreds of Spaniards could defeat more than 100,000 Aztec soldiers and easily rule Central America.

Today, the Ming Dynasty has also experienced decades of war, and its weapons are also rapidly evolving.

Especially with Zhao Ming's intervention, the weapons that Westerners have were basically available, and the soldiers in Donghai Town will also own them that Westerners do not have.

Now, in addition to navigation and warships, Donghai Town is not as good as the West, and the equipment of the infantry is actually not inferior to that of the Dutch.

Three hundred Ming soldiers raided more than 2,000 indigenous people and more than 50 Dutch camps, and the battle was almost one-sided.

The Dutch and the natives rolled down the rocks. Under the might of the Ming soldiers rushing down with their guns, they fled to the foot of the mountain in horror, but they ran into the Ming soldiers who had been prepared. They were bombarded by the guns and killed in groups and immediately scattered.

The indigenous camps were filled with fire, thick smoke rolled, and explosions continued.

The Dutch and the natives were in horror, shouting and scattering, scattering their lives, countless people were killed, and the camp was shrouded in blood and fear.

For a moment, Zhang Yida went down the mountain like a tiger. While rushing down, he threw grenades and lit the hut. The fire spread rapidly. Ming soldiers raised their bayonets and stabbed them mercilessly. The indigenous people were killed everywhere. The camp corpses were everywhere, and blood flowed into a river, becoming a bloody and cruel page in the colonial history of Donghai Town.

The camp fire burned in the middle of the night before it gradually went out. The indigenous camp was completely destroyed. The indigenous and the Dutch were either annihilated or captured. Only a very small number of people fled into the woods and disappeared.

At this time, Gu Youchang stood at the foot of the mountain, watching his subordinates, escorting thousands of indigenous prisoners, and more than a dozen Dutch people, with glamorous expression on his face.

I knew that the natives could not help but fight, but I didn't expect that the combat power was so low that the Ming soldiers had almost no casualties and destroyed a camp of more than 2,000 people.

A general flag officer ran over quickly and whispered: "General, the Dutch merchant ship anchored in the harbor has run away."

The general flag led fifty soldiers to attack Dutch merchant ships, but as they approached the merchant ships, they alarmed the Dutch people on the ships. The Dutch merchant ships were as tall as a city. The Ming army lost seven or eight brothers and failed to climb up, allowing the Dutch people to raise the anchor and escape from the harbor.

Gu Youchang frowned when he heard the words, but he ran away, so there was nothing he could do.

At this time, Zhang Yida walked over excitedly, "General Gu, found this!"

Gu Youchang took it and it was a cloth-wrapped parchment roll, so he opened it and looked at it. There were several newly drawn maps and some Dutch materials.

Gu Youchang didn't know him, but there was a general translation of Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish in Liusu camp, so he waved his hand and said, "Let's go, take the prisoners back."

In the evening, Gu Youchang and Zhang Yida, with the Ming soldiers, took groups of prisoners and some of the seized food back to the camp, which immediately caused cheers from the people left behind in the camp.

The Dutch in Xinmingzhou was annihilated by the Ming army, and the indigenous tribes were vulnerable to the Ming army. The Ming army had less than a thousand soldiers, but they could dominate Xinmingzhou.

A few hundred Dutch people could occupy a large area of ​​islands, and less than a thousand Spanish people could colonize Central America and defeat Aztec civilizations that had evolved into countries and city-states. Naturally, there was no problem with the Ming army's scattered indigenous tribes on the island.

Gu Youchang handed over the seized information to Ji Mengchen, and said to Cheng Bi: "This time, he raided the indigenous camp and captured thousands of prisoners. What should he do?"

After the fleet landed in Liusu, nearly a thousand people lived a nearly primitive life of hunting, gathering and fishing, barely maintaining food and clothing. With nearly a thousand prisoners, nearly a thousand mouths were added, which meant an extra problem.

However, for a long time, Donghai Town has urgently needed a population to expand Taiwan. In addition, Zhao Ming has always told his subordinates that people are the most important resource, so the subordinates have also been affected.

Therefore, Cheng Bi did not intend to kill the matter. He pondered for a moment and said, "First lock up, then organize prisoners, open wasteland, and cast castles to accumulate supplies for the return."

Xinmingzhou is extremely vast and much larger than Taiwan. If it wants to develop and build, it requires a large amount of cheap labor.

Moreover, when the ship sailed to Liusu, the food was completely digested. If you wanted to set sail again, you had to reserve enough food. Cheng Bi needed these people to participate in the labor.

At this time, Ji Mengchen opened the drawings and hurriedly glanced at them, but suddenly said in surprise: "Sir, General Gu, this is the map of Xinmingzhou drawn by Hong Maoyi, and there are also information on the detection of minerals. It says that there seems to be a gold mine here!"

Ji Mengchen is a scholar with a strong learning ability. During the sailing process, he not only acted as a heavy responsibility for navigation, but also learned many languages ​​in the past two years.

"Gold Mine?" Zhang Yida's eyes widened and exclaimed first.

Ji Mengchen nodded, picked up a letter and showed it to everyone, "This is a letter written by Hongmaoyi to the Governor of Hongmaoyi of Java, which says that they have discovered the gold mine."

Cheng Bi, Gu Youchang and others all showed joy on their faces. Cheng Bi asked anxiously: "Do you know the location of the gold mine?"

Ji Mengchen hurriedly put away the letter, searched through the remaining information, found a drawing, observed it carefully for a while, and pointed it to everyone and said, "It seems to be near our camp."
Chapter completed!