I want to be emperor

Chapter 731

Outside Mumbai, a group of ragged or even bare upper body, with only half a piece of cloth covering their crotch, and local aborigines with brown and dark complexion are working hard.

Lehar was also one of them. He was wearing the tattered cloth left by his father, barefoot, and was struggling to pull the rope.

Beside him, there are dozens of civilians pulling the rope together. Behind the rope is a huge 150mm artillery.

This artillery was originally a naval gun on a cruiser. In order to support the army's attack on Mumbai, the navy temporarily removed some 130mm and 150mm naval guns from several warships, and used these more than ten naval guns to form a temporary squadron. Naval Heavy Artillery Battalion.

However, even the naval guns brought ashore are short-barreled cannons in naval guns, which are lighter than long-barreled naval guns of the same caliber, but that is only relatively speaking. Howitzers and field guns are much heavier.

At the same time, after these naval guns landed, there was no large two-wheeled gun mount used by the army's field guns. They could only use small four-wheeled gun mounts for naval guns, so it was more difficult to maneuver.

Why didn't the Ming army pull out the Hongyi cannon and use it as a field artillery... It is because although the small four-wheeled gun mount of the naval gun is strong, it is not suitable for maneuvering in the field.

In order to transport these heavy naval guns from the temporary dock all the way to the city wall to participate in the battle, the Chu army used a lot of manpower.

As for the livestock...the Chu army did not bring too many mules and horses when they landed across the sea, and they could not recruit too many mules and horses in the local area for a while.

Because the caste system is a very interesting elliptical structure... Brahmins and Kshatriyas belong to the absolute high-level, and the number of them is actually not many, and the Vaisyas and Sudras are more.

These monks who didn't even want to approach their own shadows in the past knelt at their feet under their rusty machetes, licked their dirty toes, and begged for their lives!
It was at that time that he felt that these so-called high-caste people were nothing more than that, they all had hands, feet and a head, and the most important thing was that they would die if they were stabbed!

All of this was naturally seen by the Chu army personnel who were in charge of supervising their work.

However, this effect is not great, and it is also a matter of probability. In fact, many civilian men who dug trenches were hit by British artillery shells and were killed or injured.

This also means that this social structure is extremely stable, because apart from the untouchables, even Sudras can find a sense of superiority from this system!

What he heard was actually the Portuguese... The Portuguese recruited the natives as hard labor or recruited servants, but they didn't care about the so-called racial system within the local natives.

Together with others, Lehar struggled to pull a 150mm short-barreled naval gun up the hill, and while drinking water and resting, he looked down a hillside in the distance.

Lehar can't figure out these outsiders, he only knows that there is a future he wants ahead!

However, when he was 16 years old, when he entered the village to work, he was walking well. Suddenly, a monk came out of a side alley, and Lehar's shadow just fell on the monk. !

After all, these aborigines have no military literacy, and sometimes they will run back in a swarm when they are bombarded by the British army.

This unusually stable social structure can be stabilized to such an extent that people at the bottom are desperate... You can't find enough bottom partners even if you want to resist.

This made Lehar even more happy and even excited!
As a man of untouchable background, he once thought that he could control hundreds of people under his command, and he even had Sudra under his command.

Because he can walk freely in the sun without worrying about his shadow falling on others, even if his own shadow falls on those noble Chu soldiers, they will not speak ill or even beat him severely.

At the beginning, Lehar would be very flustered when faced with the shelling of the British army, but after a few experiences, he found that the shells of the British army would only fall outside and could not hit the trench at all, so he calmed down. .

In the past, he heard that in Mumbai by the sea, a group of foreigners would recruit people to work as laborers or even serve as soldiers, regardless of their ethnic origin.

Therefore, the Chu army will also select some active indigenous civilian husbands among these civilian husbands, and let them be small foremen and the like.

There are tens of thousands of civilians, how to organize them to work efficiently is also a science, even with the translation provided by the Western Trading Company, it is very troublesome.

His sister died after the event.

He didn't want to be a pariah under pressure, he didn't want to be beaten to death if his shadow fell on others, and he didn't want his sister to be raped to death by dozens of monks.

In the past few days, because of his hard work and initiative, Lehar has made a good impression on a corporal of the Chu army who is in charge of their group of civilians, and let Lehar be the foreman of their group of civilians.

The untouchable class constitutes the bottom sharp corner of the oval social structure under the Indian caste system.

Laihar didn't know these things, but someone in the upper echelons of the Chu army was thinking about these local caste issues, and trying to use these caste issues to do something.

It was at that time that he knew that those noble Brahmin monks would also be frightened to kneel on the ground and tremble begging for mercy when facing his ancestral rusty hatchet!

After attacking and killing three monks in a row, the local temple finally found out that something was wrong and began to organize people to search for the murderer. He was forced to leave his hometown and walk all the way to the seaside.

Therefore, although pulling cannons has been very hard and even dangerous in the past two days, they had to pull a 150mm cannon down from the foot of the mountain to a hill tens of meters high in the morning. As a result, a tracker slipped on the sole of his foot when going up a steep slope. It also caused a team of trackers to fall down, which eventually caused the cannon to slide directly. The aborigines next to them couldn't dodge and were crushed on the spot...

Many of the local aborigines who sat in carriages, sedan chairs, rode mules and horses, and even dragged their families to the edge of Chengwai to watch, and their complexion was generally fair, were these high-caste people.

This kind of social structure is very interesting, because oppression is passed down layer by layer, and the sense of superiority is also obtained from people with lower status than themselves, so even the penultimate sudras, they also I think this system is very good... because there is still a group of untouchables who can be oppressed by them.

Two years later, he learned that his younger sister, who was bought into a temple as a goddess, had died. He heard that on the day his sister died, a goddess event was held in the local temple. As one of the goddesses, his sister was forced to participate. Violations of monks.

But the oppressed, untouchables at the bottom are unable to resist because of the small number, lack of resources and force.

It's fine to run backwards, and some will foolishly pick out traffic trenches and run in the open space above... Isn't this just like a living target for the British gunners.

As for the high-caste personnel such as the kennel...they are all watching the show from the sidelines.

After hearing the news, he stood far away outside the temple for a long time, watching the monks coming in and out. He didn't swear or get angry, but just watched quietly...he didn't go back until it was getting dark.

As a result, Lehar was young and strong, and he was picked to pull the cannon. Lehar was very happy about this... because he finally had the first full meal in his life!
Pulling cannons is a hard job, and the Chu army has a lot of food and supplies. When these aboriginal husbands work so hard, the Chu army doesn't mind giving them better food.

Before the siege, the Chu army had to dig some traffic trenches to facilitate the siege infantry, especially those 115mm light howitzers to be able to approach the city wall smoothly, so as to avoid being attacked by the enemy's firepower during the march.

The result is this?

As a result, before the trenches were dug, Lehar became the captain of a brigade of civilians, and he was in charge of hundreds of indigenous civilians. Among these hundreds of civilians, there were more than a dozen of them who were Sudras.

The so-called sense of superiority of the middle class is not fundamentally different from the sense of superiority of the Indian Sudras. They are all obtained by comparing the poorest or untouchables at the bottom.

And what he didn't expect was that when he finally came to the vicinity of Mumbai, he heard that there was a war ahead, and another group of outsiders from the east and outsiders from the west of the city were at war.

In the end, manpower could only be used instead of mules and horses to pull the artillery.

Two years later, his father also fell ill and died, and his mother died of dystocia when giving birth to his sister.

But Lehar doesn't know that his news has been out of date for several years, the Portuguese have been driven away long ago, and the owner of Mumbai has been replaced by the English.

Sooner or later!
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There was even a scared incontinence!

Then there are the lowest untouchable untouchables. In fact, these people are far inferior to the Sudras in number.

Even when the British army was shelling, the excavation continued, and the excavation progress was the fastest among other aboriginal peasant teams in the surrounding area.

By the way, Americans are proud of themselves. The elliptical social structure advocated by countless sociologists is very similar to the elliptical social structure under the Indian caste system.

In this way, the casualties of the group of civilians he led were even smaller. After digging trenches for several days, one person was killed at the beginning, and nothing happened in the next few days.

Lehar and hundreds of civilians were busy for several days before transporting the dozen or so naval heavy artillery from the temporary pier by the sea to a heavy artillery position outside Mumbai. There is also a lot of ammunition.

Now when the British army shelled again, he would still yell to scare the aborigines under his command, especially not to run around.

There were hundreds of well-dressed people, high-caste people who came from the surrounding area to watch the excitement... many of them had families... let this be a vacation!
Looking at them, Lehar spat on the ground. These people made him feel bad, reminding him of the upper caste people back home.

Raihar, who lost all his family members, came outside the temple again!
He wandered, waited, waited for the monks to come out, and placed orders!

In this way, the soldiers of the Chu army who are responsible for supervising their work can reduce their workload and improve work efficiency by managing these small foremen.

As a result, he was beaten half to death on the spot, and his injuries were extremely serious!
Because he is an untouchable untouchable, the lowest group of people in the Indian caste system, and he has to avoid people of other high castes when he walks. Even if his shadow falls on a person of high caste, he will be beaten severely !
In the end, his father sent his younger sister to the temple to be a goddess, and only then did he get money back to buy medicine for him to heal his injury.

Even the Sudras are only the fourth level in the caste system, only one level higher than the untouchable untouchables. However, if they were placed in other places in the past, these Sudras would be offended by them, the untouchables. of.

In fact... In daily life, those untouchables who oppress the untouchables are the most ruthless, and the most frequent are actually those Sudras.

When digging the trenches, the Englishmen on the top of the city also tried to counterattack, but the effect was not great.

After transporting these heavy artillery, Lehar's team was transferred to dig traffic trenches.

This is also why the Chu army likes to dig traffic trenches when attacking the city...it can effectively reduce the casualties of the attack.

After seeing the servant army created by many European colonists, Major General Bai Zhen felt that the Chu army could also set up a servant army to undertake some high-risk, high-casualty combat missions to reduce the Chu army's own casualties.

He doesn't want to!

Therefore, how to maintain the local colonial rule and seize more colonies is a question that needs to be considered.

In particular, Major General Bai Zhen, the commander of the No.70 Second Division, felt that it would be more difficult to rely solely on the Chu people themselves if he wanted to colonize and rule the Indian Peninsula, a huge area with a population of over [-] million.

And the only ones who can change his situation, change his name, and let him get rid of his status as a pariah are those outsiders.

No matter how capable the Chu army is, it has only 5 troops on the Indian Peninsula, and the 5 troops are only during the war, and some of the troops will be transferred after the war is over.

So when the Chu army recruited young and strong civilian husbands nearby, Lehar signed up without hesitation!
In fact, not only Laihar, but most of the indigenous people recruited by the Chu army are these so-called untouchables, and a small number of them are bankrupt, and their actual lives are not much better than those of the untouchables.

You'd prefer to see a pure pyramid structure... so you can find more untouchable mates and pick up guns and fuck it.

After all, the British fired solid shells, and these solid shells were not very lethal to traffic trenches.

I usually have to dodge when I walk.

So, when you are a pariah and at the bottom of society, you don't want to see this kind of stable oval social structure.

He did three experiments in a row, each time without exception! !
He used to think that these monks were protected by the gods and would be invulnerable!

However, Lehar still doesn't have any fear, and he even enjoys his life now...

After having this idea, Major General Bai Zhen, the officials of the Department of Civil Affairs who accompanied the army, and a member of the Indian Governor's Office who participated in politics after a brief discussion, planned to set up a servant army of several hundred people to test the effect.

It's not like pulling out this servant army now and letting them fight Mumbai... The untrained indigenous servant army basically has no combat effectiveness. They go to fight Mumbai just to let them die.

Bai Zhen is preparing to let these servants go deep into the local villages around Mumbai to clean up and expel the local aborigines, so as to make room for the subsequent immigrants from the country!
These trivial combat missions are not very intense, and they can just be used to test the quality of the servant army. If the effect is good, you can build a few more servant troops later to increase the scale... Anyway, it doesn’t take much to build a servant army For a little money, just give them some cold weapons and export version of matchlock guns, and the salary and treatment are also very low.

Ever since, when the order to form a servant army was issued, Lehar was recommended by the corporal of the Chu Army who was in charge of him to join the servant army named "Indian Legion".

(End of this chapter)