Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1326 Beining ([-]) (Today's four bursts)

Xu Xiangdong, Lu Xiaofeng, and Jiang Ning were strolling on a meadow, looking at the soldiers who were practicing not far away.

There are more than [-] officers and soldiers in the first brigade of the South Railway Guard Team (the lack of a cavalry squadron). After the departure of the second mixed battalion, this reserve force has four infantry squadrons and one artillery squadron—it is called a reserve. In fact, except for the salary and treatment, this army is not much worse than any regular battalion, and even the establishment is somewhat similar-it has become the Dinghai magic needle stationed in the core city of Beining Town. After all, the law and order in this area depends on them. up.

However, the regular army is good at field battles, and the endless security battles will obviously gradually drain everyone's morale, reduce everyone's combat skills, and lower the military discipline of the troops.In the end, the No. [-] Brigade of the Southern Railway Road Protection Team, which was still fighting well, will probably be reduced to a unit that is almost the same as the militia. tolerated.Therefore, he applied to the Ministry of the Army and transferred Xu Xiangdong, the training officer and army captain of the Southern Railway Guard Team, intending to use his rich experience in training troops for many years to pull another troop in the Beining area—together with him. The cannon fodder of the Volunteer Army is different. This unit must be good at security warfare, mountain warfare, and forest warfare. few Indian tribes were complicit).

The number of this force is tentatively set at 800, with a complex composition of Italians, Russians, Poles, Transylvanians, Moldavians, Mings, Indians and even some defectors from the St. (They are allowed to stay on the east coast by charter) It can be seen that they rushed to Beining from various farms, construction sites, pastures, logging fields and even mining areas across the country, abandoning their original contradictions and forgetting each other's jealousy and prejudice , to join the army for one purpose only, and that is to obtain the official citizenship of the East Coast Republic of China.

Xu Xiangdong still remembers the first time he saw these soldiers and gave a speech. At that time, he said to a group of men in ragged clothes but with piercing eyes: "There is no tranquility on the horizon where the new year will come. The Portuguese are still refusing to surrender, and the natives in the wild are not restless, but I think you will seize this opportunity with the same enthusiasm you have always had. Many of you have combat experience in the past, and this experience will only make you You are stronger, let us move forward resolutely to meet whatever prospects the future has in store for us."

"All I can give you is to suffer from thirst and heat during the day, starve and freeze at night, and there are dangers anytime and anywhere, because we often travel in the wild. But the end of these pains is that you become citizens of the East Coast Republic of China. Dignified life, think about it for yourself, do you want to work for seven years in the endless mines, pay the price of health and aging, and then wait for naturalization with a little pitiful wages indefinitely, or now Holding a sword in hand, pounce on the enemy to earn a future for yourself? I think this choice should not be made.”

After the speech, Xu Xiangdong announced that all the more than [-] people will be organized into the "Zhong**** Infantry Battalion". After a little training in the barracks on the outskirts of Beining Town, they will drive to the newly established Zhaoqing Township Pirabola near the small town of Dupont Jesus), escorting more than a thousand immigrants and the civil and military partners Lu Xiaofeng and Jiang Ning to take office there, it is considered that the people on the east coast have officially extended their footsteps of colonization to the depths of the Tiet River up.Moreover, this also shows from the side that after fighting for such a period of time, the people on the east bank think that they have controlled the nearby situation, so they start to extend their tentacles to the distance-although there are always some people nearby. Hidden dangers have not been cleared up, such as a certain Calderon chief, but we can't stop moving forward because of the existence of these barbarian tribes living in the mountains and stop colonizing the inland, so how can we do it!

Counting the time, today is almost the time for this Lao Shizi's "loyalty" to go out. Xu Xiangdong, Lu Xiaofeng, and Jiang Ning inspected the troops for the last time.The soldiers trained very hard. Although there were a lot of situations, it wasn't that they didn't work hard. It was because there were quite a lot of differences in language, habits, and combat thinking between them. It's not a big problem. After a good run-in, it will naturally become a tacit understanding.

"There are some special soldiers joining today." Second Lieutenant Jiang Ning who was walking in the middle suddenly said, "A group of young people with their own horses and weapons. After being promoted by organizations such as the 'Soldier Soul Promotion Association' and the 'Patriotic Student Union', they came here with a lofty sense of honor to kill the enemy for the country, and strongly demanded to join our army. The Ministry of the Army means that these stunned youths are commendable for their courage , maybe their combat skills are not bad, but they don’t understand the horror of the battlefield at all, and they lack practical combat experience. The first brigade of the road team (the brigade may be reorganized into the seventh mixed battalion and transferred to the Far East for rotation in the future. The battalion will use Xiayihe County as the recruiting place), and the other relatively poor ones will be stuffed into our Zhong**** This way, let them join us to prepare for the battle."

"Is the military planning to turn Zhong**** into a nursery for children?" Lu Xiaofeng, who came from the civil service system, was a little dissatisfied. Although he didn't like the army, everyone was on the same boat now, and he didn't want to either. The loyalist army, which may have been dealing with for a long time, is filled with a large number of inexperienced and passionate young people, which may ruin his colonization career.

"Let's watch while walking." Xu Xiangdong also sighed when he heard the words.Zhong**** is really a stepmother-raised army. Although the transportation between Changshun Port (that is, San Vicente Port) and the inland area is inconvenient, this is not an excuse for your delay in distributing weapons. No, Many people under his command haven't hit the target twice yet, and the troops are about to move out, what a fuck.You know, not everyone in Zhong** has experience in using hot weapons in combat, so what's the matter!Moreover, the number of instructors was seriously insufficient. In the end, the loyal officers and soldiers had to teach each other tactics and experience. Nima is simply nonsense!

Xu Xiangdong used to be the training officer of the loyal army, and now he is their commander. The letter of appointment sent to him by the Ministry of the Army clearly stated: "...the Joint Staff Headquarters appointed Captain Xu Xiangdong as the loyal army commander. Commander of the Infantry Battalion, this man is experienced, intelligent, well-managed, and has always trained troops with strict discipline, so he will be able to remedy the inevitable defects of new troops, namely, the lack of training and disorganization. To change the phenomenon..." Therefore, he has to bring this army composed of hot-blooded youths and mobs, and he has to bring it with him, and he has to bring it with him; The naturalized Indians and the Mamelucos with ulterior motives fought and completely wiped out and surrendered them. If the regular army did this task, it would not be too difficult, but it would be difficult for the loyalists to do it. Because no one knows how these non-citizens performed in battle, what if the enemy flees as soon as the gun is fired?

The only good news now is that the ships on the east coast of Changhua, Changshun, and Hue are frequent, and the city has been occupied by a large number of immigrants from the east coast, so the enemies on the inland plateau have basically lost contact with the outside world. Contact, how many stock weapons they have on hand is really hard to say, but Xu Xiangdong thinks there should not be many.The most important thing for the faithful to be wary of is not the bullets fired by the enemy's muskets, but the arrows shot from the woods, which are often smeared with poison, which is very troublesome after being scratched, and the death rate is extremely high.

However, it is useless to think about these now, let's watch while walking.Thinking of this, Xu Xiangdong strode forward and went to meet his subordinates in another temporary military camp next door: more than 100 passionate young people from the south. They were born in engineers, officials, and businessmen's families. Those who have guns are looking after the horses, and those with guns are maintaining their guns. Many people wear beautiful clothes that are only popular in big cities. When they see Xu Xiangdong coming in, they complain to him about the lack of medicine and medicine, and there is no tobacco and spirits nearby. The most important thing It's because the troops don't have artillery yet!

The complaints of the hot-blooded youths made Xu Xiangdong feel the blue veins on his forehead. He could only explain that he had asked the Ministry of the Army to dispatch artillery. Unfortunately, the military representative of Beining Town replied that the Zhongnan Army lacked qualified artillery, so there was no artillery establishment. , and there were no mules and horses to pull cannons for them, which made Xu Xiangdong very speechless.

More than 100 members of the loyalist army (plus more than [-] passionate youths) assembled at the gate of the barracks, joined the immigration convoy led by Lu Xiaofeng and Jiangning, and then gathered thousands of civilians in Beining Town With complicated gazes, they headed northwest along the Tiete River. Their destination was naturally the newly established Zhaoqing Township, where nearly a hundred advance team members who had arrived earlier were waiting for them.

The distance of nearly [-] kilometers cannot be reached in a day or two, not to mention that the trails opened up by the Portuguese have been in disrepair for a long time and are full of weeds and vines. In many places, it is not even possible to pass heavy freight with such a wide width on the east coast. The carriage is very frustrating.Therefore, this is doomed to the hard life of the "rabble" of the loyalists. Not only do they have to guard the surroundings and search for roads, but they also have to open roads, fill holes, and build bridges in many cases. These non-national infantrymen are almost exhausted.

And the non-citizens who are used to suffering in construction sites, mines, and logging camps feel tired, and those pampered southern children are naturally even more unbearable.Many people's clothes were scratched by branches and bushes, and their faces were bruised. The blood aroused by semi-official organizations such as the "Soldier Soul Promotion Association" began to cool down.Xu Xiangdong observed them coldly. Those who can survive this time will naturally enter a new realm, and after further training, they may not be able to become a qualified and admired soldier; if they cannot survive, naturally it is better to send them away. Go home to find a job, have a baby, what to do in the future, the battlefield is not the place for you, you should play a role in the position that suits you, maybe you will become an excellent technician or businessman in the future.Anyway, no matter how bad its loyalists are, it will not accept such people, and this is also Xu Xiangdong's bottom line. He doesn't want mobs who will only add chaos on the battlefield, because it will kill everyone.

They actually walked for five days for the short [-]-kilometer journey.Immigrants, coachmen and loyal Japanese officers and soldiers, the total number of this huge team has already exceeded [-], but fortunately Xu Xiangdong, Lu Xiaofeng, Jiang Ning and others are still quite capable, and there are some people under their command to help, so finally Arrange the team's daily schedule in an orderly manner without any major mistakes.

The trumpeters of the Zhongguo Army Battalion will blow the horn on time at three o'clock in the morning every day. The company's trumpeters respond to the sound, and all the officers and soldiers get up immediately. in deep sleep.It is worth mentioning that, perhaps because of the complexity of the sources of loyalists and the lack of military discipline, military officers such as Xu Xiangdong strictly enforce military discipline and require officers and soldiers of all ministries to respect the personality and private property of immigrants accompanying the army. Not appeasing, so the military discipline of the loyal soldiers along the way is not bad, and nothing that can be criticized too much happened-if you ignore their violent temper and unfriendly attitude.

Captain Xu Xiangdong also runs back and forth all day long, not only to listen to the reports from the companies and outpost scouts, but also to inspect the situation of the ministries and the immigrant convoy every once in a while. It seems that he never needs too much energy. The rest made Lu Xiaofeng and Jiang Ning extremely surprised when they saw it, and they also expressed a little admiration: the people in the army are really frankly full of energetic red deer.

No matter how far the journey is, there will be a day when the journey is complete. On December 1662, 12, a huge team of more than 5 people finally arrived at the settlement of Zhaoqing Township.They pulled the mules and horses that came all the way to the Tiete River in batches to wash, feed, and drink water. The officers and soldiers of the Zhong**** Infantry Battalion also immediately took over several watchtowers and simple fortifications. And the outpost was also thrown out at the first time. This is what their chief, Captain Xu Xiangdong, emphasized thousands of times during training.

"The overall situation is relatively stable, nothing major happened. However, a group of Indians tried to attack our outpost last month, but were repelled. I asked someone to find out that this Indian tribe was registered by the Portuguese before. The so-called naturalized tribe, the chief is named Vargas, and the whole tribe has more than 1000 people. Before the Portuguese were defeated by us, this group was loyal to the Portuguese, but after the collapse of the Portuguese colonial power, they became lawless, not only They robbed us, even the Portuguese also robbed us, they simply regarded themselves as the emperor of the land!" The advance captain of Zhaoqing Township immediately reported the situation to Xu Xiangdong, Lu Xiaofeng, Jiang Ning and others, and only heard him say: " They must be found and wiped out as soon as possible, otherwise, when they expand to the outskirts for reclamation in the future, this situation will be a big trouble that cannot be avoided. Moreover, I think this kind of stupid chieftain without the slightest color and judgment should be Send them to the west, or send them to the rear to build roads. The [-]-kilometer road from Beining Township to Zhaoqing Township is too bad, and it should be repaired, otherwise it will be impossible for large trucks to pass. "

Xu Xiangdong listened to the advance captain's eloquent words, and began to think in his heart: I heard that several brigades of the Volunteer Army were disbanded, dispersed, downsized, and abolished, and now they are basically merged into two troops with a size of more than a thousand people. You **** and Bong ****.You **** swept and cleared the general area in Rio de Janeiro; Feng **** went further and swept in the two general areas of Espiritu Santo and Seguro to accommodate some immigrants from the southern mainland to settle and reclaim wasteland .These two departments have battles to fight, maybe they have already made some meritorious service, so the loyal army under their leadership must work harder, after all, the future of more than 800 brothers is in their own hands— — Well, now the army has been reduced to less than 800 people, because more than 40 southerners have expressed their intention to leave to Xu Xiangdong with shame on their faces, and Xu Xiangdong does not make things difficult for them. After all, not everyone is suitable for the job of being a soldier. , Not adapting is not adapting, reluctantly not coming.

Most of these people have completed elementary school education, and some even went to junior high school. It is indeed a pity to die hastily in the vast forest here. It is better to go back to China to find a job and find a job that is more suitable for you. Shining and glowing, this is also an effort for our Dadong'an cause-in case any of them fiddle with some new inventions and creations, the value created will not be stronger than being a leader in the Beining area?

Moreover, after returning home, I have to write a letter to the Ministry of the Army. The peripheral organizations such as the "Patriotic Student Union" and the "Soldier Soul Promotion Association" should be rectified. The brain is congested and comes to be the leader.It is not easy for the country to train a primary school student or even a junior high school student. With so many newly opened land and so many vacant positions for technicians and grassroots officers, wouldn't it be good to let them play a role there?In the harsh environment of Beining, not to mention the casualties in the battle, but to die from some kind of disease-this is very possible-it is also a loss to the country, non-nationals die as soon as they die, I don't feel bad, but Xu Xiangdong felt a little distressed and couldn't accept the deaths and injuries of the second-generation citizens who had received a complete primary school education (and even a few had received junior high school education).

"However, this is all for the future. The most important thing now is to find the enemy as soon as possible to fight. The heads of those Indians are all money and meritorious deeds. Whether everyone will eat dry or drink dilute It's all up to them." This is what Xu Xiangdong, the commander of the Infantry Battalion and Captain of the Army, is really thinking at this time.

"Where are these natives? How many strong men can be mobilized? How many muskets are there? How is the tactical level?" Xu Xiangdong quickly asked a series of questions to the advance captain of Zhaoqing Township from the gendarmerie intelligence department.

(End of this chapter)