Chapter 841 The French were naturally unwilling to accept the blackmail of the Ming Dynasty, and then the revenge of the Ming Dynasty came.In the original time and space, the Indians of the Americas did not form a unified nation, nor did they make breakthrough progress in science and technology.North America is better, at least it has entered the Bronze Age, and their metallurgical technology is quite mature, while South America is even more struggling.Tribes like the Dragon Tribe, in fact, are still in the Stone Age, they don't even have the ability to make steel, South America has the second largest steel reserves in the world, especially the iron quadrangular iron ore in Brazil, with more than 30 billion tons of reserves, second only to Australia, more than China and Russia.This kind of iron ore, which has a quality of more than 60 percent, only needs a little refining before it can be used.However, the Indians of South America do not use it.The backwardness of production technology and the absence of a unified nation and state are naturally scattered.So it was very easy for the European colonizers to deal with them.However, more and more Indians, under the inspiration of the divine envoy, accepted the funding of the Ming Dynasty and the support of the Ming people, and their science and technology directly entered the Iron Age from the Stone Age.Although the Ming still did not provide muskets and muskets to these backward tribes, they only provided steel swords, armor, and most importantly, bows and crossbows.With the support of the Ming people, the French found that these natives were becoming more and more difficult to deal with.Soon the French encountered a completely different Indians, their tribes were turned into castles, and it was useless to bombard them with artillery if they wanted to attack a tribe.Don't look at many tribes without stones, nor reinforced concrete, but castles built with rammed earth are just as difficult to collapse, especially since the Indians are equipped with a large number of weapons from the Ming Dynasty, such as sharp spears, strong shields and armor.You must know that the French colonial army in South America is still equipped with arquebuses with a range of fifty or sixty paces, like the flintlock pistols equipped by the French mainland army, and the colonial army has no chance to equip them.The Indians learned the three-stage strike of the crossbow machine, and the neat phalanx was slowly pressed......
The French were able to cope with it, but the problem was that their casualties had increased so much that they had to abandon a large number of settlers and retreat into a few important cities.As for the Indian tribes that surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, they used their equipment advantages to expand around, where could the tribes that were still in the Stone Age resist such an attack?
One after another, they were defeated and annexed, which meant that the Indians who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty became as strong as the wind and grass.In particular, the dragon tribe has slowly expanded from two or three thousand people to nineteen vassal tribes, with a total population of more than 50,000.These Indians, who were familiar with the South American climate, were armed by the Xinhuadu Governorate into a dragon legion with a total strength of 6,000 men, who were proficient in mountain and jungle tactics, trekking through mountains and rivers, walking on flat ground, and elusive, which caused the French a great headache.At this time, the most regretful Moyo was the Spaniards, who sold to Daming at a cheap price in La Plata, which allowed Daming to establish Zixin Province in South America, and in just a few years, Daming Xinhua Province has grown from deserted to a population of millions.Especially after the operation of the oracle, the Ming Empire's exploration of the American continent was advantageous from the beginning, and there was no obstacle to their integration with the Indians except for language.Those who took refuge in the Ming Dynasty quickly became strong with the support of the Ming Dynasty, and began to squeeze the living space of white immigrants, Xinhua Province has extremely vast arable land, and it has also become a paradise for Ming immigrants, and the Ming Dynasty has become the biggest winner in the New World.Quan Xu only got some scattered news from the annual report of the Xinhua Provincial Government, and in this cold winter, Quan Xu took the Guards Brigade all the way to Hanhai Province.The capital of Hanhai Province is located on the southern shore of Lake Berga in Beihai City, which has long been the Chinese name for Lake Berga and has been Chinese territory since the Han Dynasty until the mid-to-early Qing Dynasty.At this time, Beihai City should be regarded as the youngest city among all the provincial cities in the Ming Dynasty, and it has also become the commercial center of Hanhai Province, with a population of officially more than 20,000.Located in Beihai City, Quan Xu naturally met with all the officers and soldiers of the Second Division stationed in Hanhai Province.It's just that when Dangzi had dinner at night, the chief of staff of the Second Division complained to Quan Xu: "Your Majesty, the minister is boring, it's too boring!"
A whole division of troops is thrown here, except for training all day long, it is to drink wind, bored to death!
At the beginning, there were still remnants of the Mongols and Manchus, and we needed to deal with them, but the Governor's Office of Anbei soon sued us for overstepping our authority, and they mediated by their own authority, and these contradictions were quickly resolved!
Now we are idle to look for robbers to fight, and after defeating a few handfuls, the sand thieves and bandits have also learned to be obedient, and hid on the other side of the North Sea, and we can't reach them!
”Qi Yuanbi smiled bitterly: "The two division commanders under my hands, the twelve brigade commanders and a bunch of officers have been shouting in my ear that they are too idle, the bones are going to rust, and some people even say strange things!"
”Quan Xu was slightly stunned and said, "What strange words?"
”Han Peng said: "They said that they can't find a single enemy in the southeast, northwest, and northwest of Hanhai Province, so I really don't know what the significance of forming the Anbei Governor's Mansion is!"
”This is really a problem, the Ming Dynasty now has no enemies on land, whether it is the fierce Cossacks, or the East Svras, when they see the Ming Royal Army, they will run as far as they can, and they don't have the courage to clash with the Ming at all.Now, with the strength of the Ming Dynasty, the common people also have a large number of weapons, and there is no need to send regular troops to robbers and bandits, or the remnants of the Mongols and Manchus.The militia or the construction corps could defeat these Manchu remnants.Obviously, in the face of such a weak chicken, the Anbei Governor's Office, which is a soldier in the whole people, can cope with it with one hand, and the second and fifth main divisions are only drinking wind in addition to training, and they are idle and have long hair.If you go back ten years, no, even if it is five years, such days are only afraid that the soldiers of the Ming army will not be able to ask for it, but now it is different, it is only two or three years since the construction of Dingxin Dynasty, the smoke of the thrilling war has not dissipated, and countless talents have struggled to crawl out in the sea of corpses and blood, they are eager to open up the territory, make contributions, let them stay in the north and have nothing to do, it is even more uncomfortable than killing them!
I envy the Anxi army, Anxi is really idle and bored, and he can go to the ballast of the neighboring countries, and suddenly send troops to raid a few cities and grab a few pieces of land or something, those days are very energetic, where are they like them, they are so idle!
The key province of Hanhai is not a good place, it is very cold here, and according to thermometer measurements, the minimum temperature here can be as low as minus 50 degrees.In an environment where you reach a kind of environment, it can be said that you will become ice, and if you are not careful, you will have frostbite, but it is bitter and tired, and there is no credit to take."
This ......
The status of your Anbei Governor's Mansion is a bit special, and there is no place to use you in normal times, but when you are really used, the world will be in chaos!
”Quan Xu said seriously: "So you have a great success in defending Mobei, don't think about opening up territory or anything!"
”"Your Majesty, you can't do this!"
Qi Yuanbi said with some resentment: "I am also the governor of the two governors of Anbei and Andong, but the three main divisions, eighteen brigades, and more than one hundred regiments, can I only act as a mascot?"
”"No, definitely not!"
Quan Xu pointed to the northwest direction: "Over there in the Urals, you must do it, and no one will rob you of this credit!"
”"But does this take until the Year of the Monkey?""
You don't pick fat and pick up thin, and fighting a war is not buying vegetables!"
Quan Xu muttered: "If you are really idle, organize each division, and each division will transfer a regiment to Japan to train troops with the cooperation of the First Fleet!"
”"Each division has a regiment, what is four or five thousand people enough?""
You are training soldiers, not fighting a war to destroy the country!"
Quan Xu said with a serious face: "There is nothing worth eyeing about that little broken place in Little Japan, but Iwami Silver Mountain is good, you can search it again!"
”"Your Majesty, your expedition to Tianzhu must be very short of infantry, right?"
Quan Xu shook his head and said, "There is no shortage." ”Qi Yuanbi's smile froze: "How is it possible?"
You are going to plunder a large country with a large population and hundreds of thousands of troops, how can you not lack infantry?
”"There are sixty warships, and seven thousand marines can sweep Tianzhu around, how can there be a shortage of infantry?""
How is it enough for only 7,000 men?
You must be very short of infantry, you must be very short of infantry, I have three divisions here, more than a hundred regiments are idle to look for flies to fight, just come in handy......"
"There is really no shortage of infantry!
I'm just going to grab money and land, not to destroy the country, why do I want so many people?
”"One more soldier and one more strength!
Your Majesty, help, give us Anton and Anbei Governor's Mansion a chance, otherwise it will be difficult for us to recruit troops in the future!
”Quan Xu thought about it, the palms and backs of his hands were full of meat, not to mention the second division, the fifth division, and the first division, this is Quan Xu's veteran team, the descendants of the lineage, if the world is peaceful and there is no war to fight, then it will be, but the armies in several directions in the southwest are expanding their territory, and good news is frequent.Anbei and Andong Guangzhou Governor's Mansion have nothing to do in the Governor's Mansion, and the contrast is too great.The conscripts are all hot-blooded young people, they are naturally eager to make meritorious contributions, and if they want to make meritorious contributions, of course, they have to go to the frontier, stay in Anbei and Anton and have nothing to do to build a fart career!
All the prefectures have been on the battlefield more or less in the past two years, only Anton and Anbei have not been on the battlefield, and if this continues, those three divisions will be abolished, and it is really not alarmist that they cannot recruit soldiers.