Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1723 Occupation

The New China Pioneering Team is indeed making pre-war material preparations and has entered the final stage.Xinhua County, Tacheng County, Daze County, Mianhe County, Ningguo County (established in the first half of this year, under the jurisdiction of Ningguo Town, Xiuning Township, Wanling Township, and Kanghua Township), Lu'an County, Gaodu County There are personnel sent by the New China Security Command to conduct inspections to see if supplies such as food, weapons, ammunition, tents, medicines, draft animals, horses, and vehicles are in place.

They carried Shangfang's sword and investigated very seriously. Every time they went to a place, they called the township (town) chief, police station chief, and armed minister to the scene to open the warehouse together, count all kinds of war preparation materials, and then rely on the war demand. Supplements are made in one place to ensure that the needs of the war are met (while maintaining an extra 20% margin).

During this process, many problems were naturally discovered, such as the inconsistency between the materials and accounts in the warehouses in various places, or substandard goods, etc., which happened from time to time.After the situation was summarized and reported to Xinhua County, Huang Yi became furious and ordered all those responsible to be imprisoned, tried, or ordered to pay compensation, or put in prison, or directly executed. In short, a group of people were dealt with severely.

At the same time, he was also a little frightened. It has only been so many years, and this kind of thing has started to happen in the local area. It is scary to think about it.Of course, this may not seem like a big deal to others, because in a horizontal comparison, foreign countries are much worse. For example, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, Druiter led the fleet into the Thames River, and the British coastal defense forts were either The type of shells and the caliber of the guns are wrong. Either the gunpowder sent from above is inferior, or the officers have stolen and sold all the ammunition. In addition, people who are paid for nothing, in short, it is a mess. .

But Huang Yi naturally doesn't look at things like his subordinates. He comes from later generations—although he is only a middle school student—he has higher requirements in this regard than Britain, France, the Netherlands, or Ming and Qingshun, so when he ordered While seriously rectifying, I was also thinking about whether it is time to reform the supervision system of the New China Pioneering Team, but I couldn't think of a good way for a while, so I could only let it go for the time being.

The inventory and replenishment of supplies will not be completely completed until the end of April.Since then, the cool season (also the dry season) is almost approaching. For Xinhua Island, it is not only a very suitable time for outdoor work, but also a month suitable for fighting on the battlefield.

Today is already April 4th, and Peng Yuanzhi, the police commander of the Zelu area, personally led the main force to the Daze County area.His subordinates include more than 15 professional soldiers from the Garrison Command (actually, they are regarded as second-line reserve forces on the east coast, even inferior to the first-line reserve forces like the New China Infantry Battalion), which he regards as the core force.In addition, the security regiments of the three counties of Daze, Lu'an, and Gaodu also sent some people here in varying degrees. There are about a thousand people in total. The training level does not seem to be high, and the equipment is just enough. The old gun, the morale is even more average, it seems that he is not very willing.

After all, the three counties of Daze, Lu'an, and Gaodu were established only a few years ago, and they were developed in a barren land. The main tasks of ordinary people are to cut trees, clear shrubs, level land, clear swamps, grow food, The heavy work of building roads has almost squeezed out every ounce of energy in their bodies, and even pulling them out to march and fight, isn't this killing everyone?You know, many people still want to take advantage of the dry season to repair the leaky roof, plant a few acres of vegetables, plant a few fruit trees, and level some wasteland. How can they waste their good time on fighting and killing?It's the cool season now, it's the cool season for working!

Peng Yuanzhi had no good solution for these militiamen who were single-mindedly nesting in the one-acre-three-point land at home. He could only keep cheering them up, promising to increase the distribution of loot to them, so that they would never suffer.At the same time, I also warn that the Antemoro, Antefazi, and Antesaca are not ignorant indigenous peoples. In fact, they are the only ethnic group on the island who can use written records (using a variant of Arabic) , and also use firearms, it is not an easy target for war.If everyone still goes to war with an outing in mind, they may suffer unexpected losses, so Peng Yuanzhi thinks it would be better not to go out.Moreover, Peng Yuanzhi even warned that the enemy may have already predicted the actions of the people on the east coast, and the battle process will not be very easy, and they will only seek their own death if they are careless.

The reason for saying this is still to start with the motivation of the people on the east coast to launch a large-scale offensive: In fact, there is no other, the main reason is that in recent years, the two sides have become increasingly fierce competition for mountains suitable for growing coffee.Aboriginal groups such as the Antaimoro people were extremely disgusted with the colonists on the east coast who continued to occupy the mountains, cut down trees, and open up plantations. Several plantations or logging camps under the Zelu regional government killed or wounded [-] to [-] non-national laborers. This naturally greatly angered Commander Peng Yuanzhi, who was caught by the military and government in the region, and decided to initiate punishment. nature of war.

And Peng Yuanzhi's report to the top was also approved by Huang Yi, the captain of the New China Development Team.Leader Huang said that he approved the Zelu area's request to launch a punitive war, and supported a batch of weapons and ammunition and 5 yuan in military expenses. The troops dispatched will be dispatched by the Zelu area police command. The implication is that the pioneering team will not send additional reinforcements. , everything depends on themselves.

Although Peng Yuanzhi was somewhat dissatisfied with this, he still accepted the reality in desperation.Of course, at the beginning, someone from Peng also sent someone to contact the brave Bara people living on the Mahafari Plateau and their servants, the Mahaffari and Antondruwa, but they were very concerned about the joint attack. The Antaimoro people and the Antaifazi people have no interest in them. They just focus on living their own lives, and they can only give up in the end.This battle must be fought by the people on the east coast themselves!

Coincidentally, the Daqing Basin on the west coast, which faces the Zelu region across the central plateau, is also preparing for a war in full swing recently.The target of the war is the Melina, the last and largest ethnic group on the island. The reasons for the war are very complicated, but if you look deeper, it is actually very simple, that is, plunder!To plunder the land, wealth and even the population of the Melinas to enrich the pockets of the East Coasters and fill their plantations.

Of course, in order to reflect the justice of the people on the east coast, the reason for the war in the Daqing Basin was determined to be land disputes and trade disputes.The so-called land dispute is actually very simple, that is, the border demarcation of the western grassland area between the East Coast people and the Melina people.It is said that after collaborating with the Melinas to defeat the Sakarawa Kingdom and its participating forces, the people on the east coast and the Melinas really existed for a long time in the honeymoon period, and the people on the east coast did not mention much about the border. More demands, after all, there are few people in that meeting, and the territory that can be controlled is really limited, so there is no need to fight for those many wild lands.

However, now that the Daqing Basin is being developed day by day, the people on the east coast are slowly migrating from the coast to the inland areas, and dry farming has been carried out on every piece of land suitable for planting, so the friction between the two sides has begun to increase. .However, if there is too much friction, there will always be people who are violent and will cause some troubles, so some casualties are caused, which makes things more complicated and serious.

And when it comes to trade disputes, it's even simpler.Because the Merina people on the central plateau started a fierce merger war, fighting each other endlessly, and agricultural production was damaged to varying degrees, so the scale of grain trade between them and the people on the east coast, which had been stable for many years, gradually began to shrink, and eventually completely stop.

This naturally makes the people on the east coast very dissatisfied, because it means that they need to spend more money to buy grain from the Portuguese Zambezi manor across the sea. The princes of the Merina people on the plateau refused, because their food was really in short supply and they had no room to sell it.

At this time, the two levels of government, the Daqing District Administrative Office and the New China Pioneering Team, which have long harbored ulterior motives, have already planned to use these two excuses—although it may seem far-fetched—to launch an attack on the Melina people with a scale of about A war with more than 2000 people, see if you can get any benefits.

The main body of the battle included 800 security regiments from Mianhe and Ningguo counties, 400 from the Daqing garrison brigade, and thousands of troops from the Xinhua infantry battalion, the main force that was reinforced from Xinhua County.To be honest, the lineup of this army is much stronger than Peng Yuanzhi's. Not only is the number of people nearly doubled, but the main force is the Xinhua Xia Infantry Battalion, the strongest force on the island, which makes them salivate. ruler.

This reserve force with four infantry companies has a history of many years. It has fought all over the island. Grasslands, forests, swamps, deserts, and mountains have left traces of their battles everywhere. It can be described as an experienced force. A rich and well-known old-fashioned team, and their combat effectiveness is quite impressive.Even if it is an exaggeration, the [-] officers and soldiers of the New China Infantry Battalion are probably the most professional tropical troops in the East Coast Republic of China. , They have a lot of experience, and they are teachers of many other troops.

Just last month, Major Zhou Yafu, the battalion commander of the Marine Battalion, even contacted the New China Infantry Battalion through the relationship of the Second Fleet, intending to let them send some professional officers and non-commissioned officers to the tropical Huaiyuan Island (Teli Nida Island), instructing them how to fight in the tropical jungle.After all, the Marine Battalion often has to operate in the Caribbean Sea, which is a standard tropical place, and relevant skills must be mastered.

The New China Infantry Battalion was so "attention-grabbing" that it was actually thrown into the Daqing Basin this time to participate in the war against the local Melina people, which shows how much the New China Development Team attaches importance to this war.Undoubtedly, they want to take advantage of the favorable opportunity for the Mailina people to conquer each other, first clear the enemy forces on the western grasslands, so that they can fully control the entire coastal plain, and then decide whether to send troops deep into the plateau according to the situation. The Lina people launched a further attack-it is conservatively estimated that there are still close to one million Melina people on the plateau, and the countless towns, farmland, canals, workshops and other facilities they have established are an inestimable wealth , can't help but be tempted.

Therefore, if the war planned by Peng Yuanzhi against the Antaimoro and Antaifaji people is dispensable, then the war against the Melina people personally planned by Huang Yi is really unavoidable up.With the "greed" of the people on the east coast for land and population—especially the latter, as the Venetians also came to the island to set up plantations and the domestic market demand on the east coast developed rapidly, the demand gap for non-national laborers is getting bigger and bigger. The bigger it gets, not to mention the Daqing Railway that is still being "tenaciously" built - the outbreak of this war is almost inevitable, and the Melina people will surely usher in a catastrophe!

On April 1676, 4, after inspecting the second-phase expansion of the island’s largest source of income, Beidao Sugar Factory, Huang Yi, the leader of the New China Pioneering Team and the commander of New China’s security, arrived at the famous Ningguo Port (formerly Marenga) by boat. City), lived in the Ningguo Taoist Temple (formerly Marenja Mosque), and temporarily requisitioned it as a headquarters, intending to command the whole process of this not-so-small war.

On May 5, just after thousands of people from the New Huaxia Infantry Battalion landed in Ningguo Port one after another and moved to Wanling Township, the Second Fleet of the Navy, which was responsible for the transportation of logistics supplies, suddenly brought him a somewhat helpless situation. According to the news: They had just had a serious armed conflict with the Omanis in the area around the island of Baba, and sank three Omani Arabian sailing ships-someone also secretly reported to Huang Yi that one of the ships was actually a legal ship from India. The merchant ship was blackmailed by the guys from the Second Fleet, but Huang automatically filtered the words and pretended not to hear them—they pointed out that this was an outbreak of long-term conflicts between the two sides, and it should not be taken lightly.

The commander of the Second Fleet, Morie Eel, formally requested to Huang Yi to send some more regular soldiers to garrison on the island to prevent the Omanis from carrying out retaliatory landing operations. After all, it is impossible for their navy to squat there every day.Huang Yi was really annoyed by this, what's the matter, I just wanted to launch two wars on the island at the same time, completely defeat the remaining aboriginal forces on the periphery, and occupy the whole island, so you came here for me out?

This Omani, if he still had some sympathy accumulated in business before, he is really hateful now!

(End of this chapter)