Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 498

With a sound of "Boom!", a round shell landed on the hillside, and then bounced down the slope for dozens of meters. After rubbing against several people, it was finally caught by a two-person hug big tree blocking.

After the artillery was fired, a group of young people in their 20s immediately adjusted the gun positions and calculated the parameters.They were so skilled that they did it all in just 2 minutes, completely comparable to those senior artillery officers in the regular army.

There is no other trick to do all this, it can only rely on hard work and hard work.As graduates of the 35th class of the Executive Committee's Guards Corps, they have been training together for ten years. Whether it is personal skills or teamwork, they have reached the point of perfection. What they lack now is practical experience.And this is exactly the reason why the executive committee pulled out this top-notch army—by beating mobs like the Guaranis to gain experience.

Accompanied by the stunned youths of the cadet regiment, the Changkai Victory Division of the Army's 1st Company was also dispatched.This group of proud officers and soldiers of the first company in the country looked at these young people with a hint of immaturity on their faces with critical and scrutinizing eyes, and did not participate in the combat operations of these students to attack the Guarani village.

They just stood in full armor on the only way the Guaranis had to go to retreat, and then watched more than 300 young cadets carrying out various combat actions in accordance with the contents of the infantry drills.It can be seen that they usually practice very diligently and hard, but their movements are too rigid, their tactics are too rigid, and they still need the training of war to teach them some tricks.

Liao Xiaoyao, the leader of the 35th regiment (meaning the 35th session) of the Xuebing Corps, was also sweating profusely watching the "performance" of his apprentices.He himself is one of the instructors of the 35th class of students, but he is only 27 years old. Although he is much older than this group of students, he is definitely a junior among the traversers.After spending a full ten years hanging around in the Bingtuanbao, he has finally made it through, and began to lead this group of newly graduated students out to accept the baptism of actual combat.

The young cadets kept bombarding the Guarani village with artillery. After the artillery shooting, it was the turn of the soldiers in full armor to quickly approach the enemy's stronghold with bayonet-mounted rifles. After being blocked by arrows or projectiles fired by the enemy, they immediately hid on the spot, and then continued to wait for the support of field artillery.

Extremely dependent on artillery, well-regulated style of play!Liao Xiaoyao was a little disappointed, but also a little relieved.

He was disappointed that his cadets didn't put up a good raid.They had made a few small mistakes in the previous battle, which turned what should have been an easy raid into a long and difficult battle of positions.There were some errors in the map drawn by the intelligence officers of the gendarmerie in advance, but the several student company commanders who were in charge of commanding the battle should have discovered the error and made correct adjustments immediately, but it is a pity that they did not do all this when they were fledglings.Discovered by the enemy by accident, they had to turn a supposedly perfect raid into an offensive drill, which was very frustrating.

But after all, their offensive battles were pretty good, and the infantry and artillery coordination was quite good.The artillery fired accurately, and the infantry advanced in a timely manner, and soon these Guarani believers armed with bows and matchlock guns were pressed into the Zhuangzi.In the open cornfield outside Zhuangzi, there were more than 1 corpses lying here and there, except for one from the east bank, and the rest belonged to the group of Guarani believers who were bewitched by the Jesuit missionaries.Now they have pressed the enemy into the village, and the only way to escape behind the village is also guarded by the seniors of the [-]st Company of the Army, and there are dozens of cavalry cruising on the hills and slopes on the periphery.There is basically no possibility of failure in this battle.

Four of the eight field artillery pieces of the artillery company have been pulled to the front, and the simple fortifications built by the Guaraní people with mud and planks were turned upside down under the dense rain of bullets.A full half of the company's soldiers rushed up with bayonets and stabbed the dizzy Guarani man who had just crawled out of the ruins of the fortifications to the ground on the spot.

With that nail removed, the battle should almost be over.Most of the able-bodied men in the village had died in battle, and the Guaranís had no strength left to resist.The soldiers of the Academy Corps rushed into the village cautiously, and then began to wipe out the remnants of the enemy from house to house.

At this time, the back of the village also thought of the dense gunfire and the whistling sound of artillery firing shotguns.It was that the Guarani people who fled from the village were attacked by officers and soldiers of the Army's 1st Company ambushing halfway, and their casualties should have been heavy.However, the soldiers of the Academy Corps did not have any sympathy for them. They were educated since childhood that these barbarians attacking our villages, hurting our people, and robbing our livestock are absolutely unforgivable targets.

In fact, about one-tenth of the more than 300 student soldiers today are of Guarani or Charuya indigenous origin, but after ten years of closed education and training by the people on the east coast, these people are now at least The older youths of seventeen or eighteen didn't have any sympathy for these natives, and they were still merciless in killing them.

Liao Xiaoyao vaguely heard that more than 35 people led by another trainer of the 200th Regiment once massacred a Chaluya village on the southern grassland, and the most ruthless ones were the more than 20 students who were born as orphans of Chaluya. The soldiers, almost every one of them has the blood of the Charuya on their hands, which is very emotional.

The cadets quickly cleaned up the entire village.The few remaining Guarani people were put under centralized surveillance, waiting for their fate to be exiled to overseas colonies, at least on this American continent, they would never be allowed to appear again.The apprentices counted the livestock, food and agricultural tools in the village with ease, and then marked them one by one, waiting for the people in the logistics department to deal with them.

This is Pilatini, a cool hilly town in later Brazil that was briefly the capital of the Rio Grande do Sul Republic and where the legendary warrior Garibaldi fought bloody battles.The land here is fertile, rich in resources, and the geographical location is superior. It is an excellent intermediate node for the people from the east coast to expand inland.

Taking control of this place, the people on the east bank can radiate the vast surrounding area, then expand southward along the lowlands between the mountains, and finally merge with the railway extending from the Melo area in the northern part of the prairie on the east coast, dividing the two parts of the country into north and south. On land, it is also connected by road and rail network.Therefore, this place can be said to be the main point that the East Bank must firmly control.

To achieve this goal, some Guarani villages scattered in the hilly areas along the way must first be cleared.

The people on the east bank marched along the path in the mountains, conquering and eliminating the Guarani villages detected by the gendarmerie intelligence personnel one by one, so as to ensure the safety of the east bank immigrants who were colonizing inland.Canggusu, about [-] kilometers to the east of Pilatini, is currently building the second town of the East Coast Republic after Mucaoling in the hilly area west of the lake.The residents here are mainly Latvians from Livonia, supplemented by some immigrants from Shandong. With the help of the regular army, they have repeatedly defeated the counterattacks of the Guarani people and performed very heroically.In order to commend their achievements, the executive committee made an exception and changed the previous practice of trying to erase the color of the origin of European immigrants, and officially named the castle under construction as Neukönigsberg.

After the establishment of New Königsberg, it has almost become the base camp for the East Coast Army and the Academy Corps to rest and reorganize.They kept starting from here, and then attacked the nearby Guarani villages after being guided by the gendarmerie intelligence personnel. So far, they have wiped out or expelled more than ten villages, pushing the line of defense forward steadily.

In order to cooperate with their actions and to better transport materials to the hilly areas, the Executive Committee has ordered the construction of a high-grade highway from Hekou Township, Zhenhai County to Neukönigsberg - Highway 2.The highway was originally designed to be paved with asphalt, but due to the serious shortage of asphalt output at the Pingan County Coking Plant, it had to be replaced by a gravel road.If building materials are abundant in the future, it is not impossible to change No. 2 Highway to cement pavement.

Both the executive committee and the military said the campaign against the Guaranís was a long-term one.In the future, the soldiers of the Academy Corps will fight the Guarani people here for a long time to exercise their fighting skills.Every time they conquered an area, the logging team and construction team of the people on the east bank followed there, and began to cut wood and build fields, build settlements and roads, and advance a little bit to the inland hilly areas, squeezing the living space of the Guaraní people.

The last gunfire finally fell silent before the sun went down.The officers and soldiers of the 1st company of the army escorted dozens of dejected Guaranís back to the village from the rear. The cavalry brothers who had been cruising in the distance before also began to gather their troops, and then headed towards the village that had been occupied by the people from the east coast. The village of Guarani moved closer.Today, they will not be able to return to Neukönigsberg no matter what. They are bound to camp here, so it is safer to camp inside the barbed wire fence of the infantry.

Under the assignment of Liao Xiaoyao, more than 35 students from the 300th Xuebing Regiment began to function in an orderly manner.Some students who had majored in criminal investigation and Guarani language began to interrogate these natives, some began to fetch water for cooking, some began to pull barbed wire and set up secret sentries, and some began to classify the seized materials and livestock for statistics. Everyone is very busy and looks very professional, which makes Liao Xiaoyao quite satisfied.

It is worth mentioning that the members of the Academy Corps are the key talents trained by the Executive Committee.The apprentices they spent ten years cultivating were not used as cannon fodder to consume at will. At present, letting them participate in the village clearing operation is just to temper their will and quality.In the future, they will go to various factories, mining areas, and construction sites to participate in some labor, and then they will finally graduate and be assigned to various departments of the army, schools, enterprises, and governments, and eventually become powerful forces who control the country and carry out their own will. tool.

(End of this chapter)