Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2483 Leisurely Away from War ([-])

"Komatsu-kun, you did a good job in this white-blade charge." During the interval after the training, Naoto Hansawa, who was wearing the lieutenant's shoulder badge, ran over and encouraged him.

It is said to be training, but it is actually actual combat, but the combat targets are some Guarani natives who are not on the stage, which makes people not very interested.The East Coast Battalion Commander who led the team also said that the Guaranís were poorly equipped and trained, so there was only something to be desired about their will to fight.For the training camp armed to the teeth, this is training!

And when it comes to this training camp, don’t get me wrong, it’s not an elite unit of the party-state of later generations, it’s a completely new face in the east coast army sequence, and its combat effectiveness is also very good.The reason is very simple. The entire teaching battalion (two infantry companies, one cavalry company, and one artillery company) has six to seven hundred people, and more than [-]% of them are not soldiers from the east coast, but overseas colonies who came to the east coast for training. or students from other countries.In short, this is a mobile training school.

Of course, the students were not in the teaching camp at the beginning, but in the Dingyuan Military Academy.Only after graduating from the two-year crash course will they be assigned to the teaching camp and receive a half-year military internship.

The practice of the East Coast people is not limited to the training ground, the battlefield practice is also the top priority!No, hundreds of people from Northern Italy, Portugal, Crimea, Oirat Mongolia, Courland, Free State, Guangdong Erli, Salalah (Rajput), North Korea, Japan and the colonies on the east coast After a month of training on the playground, the trainees were collectively dragged to the Chaco Plains to engage in low-intensity public security battles with Spaniards from the Asunción Prosecutor’s Court District, in order to accumulate combat experience and deepen their understanding of new tactics .

The place where they train is on the grassland north of Jingting County.This has always been a place where the strengths of Spain and the East Coast are intertwined. Both sides are competing, but there is no big fight on the surface.In fact, Jingting County was originally such a place, but after the arrival of pioneer immigrants from the east coast, with the continuous support of supplies from the rear, the Spaniards were slowly driven out.When Jingting County was established and the East Bank formally established a government here, the Spaniards completely gave up the idea of ​​retaking it.

Of course, the goal of the Hexi District Administrative Office is not limited to Jingting County.The Spaniards evaluated it as "greedy" and "cruel", so how could they sit there honestly and not move forward?

In fact, the Spaniard guessed right!The East Coasters did continue to expand north.Before the pioneer immigrants came here, a large number of "civilian volunteers" funded by the General Administration of National Intelligence and the National Development Administration entered this area. Under the pretext of hunting, they constantly clashed with the local Guarani people and a small number of Spaniards.They went there specifically to find fault, and the Spaniards couldn't do it even if they wanted to make peace with others, so the conflict between the two sides intensified, and they fought for prey, pastures, forests, and everything that could be contested.

The Asunción authorities naturally knew that this group of so-called "civilian armed forces" on the east coast had come here with no intentions.If in the past, they sent people to protest to the government on the east coast, and then took a step back a little later, they would almost have calmed down.But this time it won't work, they have nowhere to go.Going back, the people on the east bank occupied the land on the right bank of the Paraguay River, but they directly put the bayonet on Asuncion's soft belly, so the Spaniards would be extremely passive.

Furthermore, they were also angered by the unscrupulous arrest of Guarani people as slave labor by the people on the east coast over the years, and they must respond.Otherwise, I am afraid that it will not be able to suppress the voices of opposition from the Guarani people inside, which will endanger the stability of the rule.You must know that Chalkas (roughly Bolivia in later generations, but with an additional outlet to the sea) and Paraguay, even in later generations, are places with extremely high aboriginal ancestry, and there are even more Indians in this era.Although their political status is generally low, if they ignore their appeals and do not appease them, it will be a troublesome thing, and the Spanish colonial government has to do it.

As a result, Asunción quickly raised some supplies and firearms, armed a considerable part of the Guarani Indians, and let them deal with the people on the east bank on the right bank of the Paraguay River.At this time, regardless of the possible negative impact of arming the Indians, all restrictions are lifted, just for the safety of Asunción and the smooth progress of the colonial blood draw. After all, the Iberian mainland can wait for the rice to be cooked.

It should be said that the efforts of the Asunción authorities have had some effect. At least they allowed the people on the east bank to quickly occupy this blank area and directly threaten Asuncion. — the attempt went bankrupt.The armed Guarani people still persist on the other side. Although the people on the east bank have made great progress, they are not government troops, but Those who come to ask for money will avoid fighting tough battles with excessive casualties, so they have not been able to fully understand the Guarani people.

It just so happened that the East Coast Army field troops who were originally active in the vicinity were also transferred away. The desperadoes had no supervision, and they only ate meat instead of bones, which made people itch with hatred.In desperation, the higher-ups transferred such a patchwork teaching camp to let them compete with the Guarani people and practice what they had learned.

Don't underestimate the hundreds of people in the teaching camp!First of all, although they are all small in size, they have quite a complete range of arms, including infantry, cavalry, and artillery, which can effectively form a combat force and achieve the effect that one plus one is greater than two.Secondly, no matter where these people come from, they basically have combat experience. Many of them have even been in battle and seen blood. For example, Naoto Hansawa, the former captain of the death squad of the Brunei Defense Regiment, once braved the enemy's bullets and repeatedly swooped in. Charge, behead the general and capture the flag, and make great contributions.Therefore, their combat effectiveness is worthy of guarantee, and they are not the kind of rookies who have never seen anything.

The only weakness of these people is probably that their sources are complicated, they don't trust each other, and they can't command like a finger.For example, Lieutenant Naoto Hansawa, who served as the deputy commander of the first infantry company of the teaching battalion and the third platoon leader, had several Indian thorns under his command, and he was not very obedient on weekdays. The meaning of precaution is very obvious-these Rajputs who have fought countless times with the Omanis in the desert of the Arabian Peninsula, it is already very face-saving to call you a short winter melon "platoon leader", don't be shameless, Probably this is the mentality.

But fortunately, they are suppressed by superiors such as battalion commanders, company commanders, and instructors from the east coast, and they dare not fight too much—although the instructors on the east coast don’t want to see how united they are—the general rules are still If you obey, although you may not be able to fight a bitter battle, it still doesn't take much effort to deal with some Guarani Indians at the militia level.

Today they discovered a temporary camp of the Guarani people. After the artillerymen disrupted it with the eight cannons they carried, the infantry of the two battalions directly suppressed the entire army, and a swift and violent assault with hand-to-hand blades wiped out the hundreds of people. A Guaraní who came running over was knocked down, which can be described as extremely easy.Kentaro Komatsu from Timor Island was unparalleled in the battle and beheaded two enemies, so he was praised by Naoto Hansawa, a fellow villager and senior.

"Senior, after you graduate and return to Brunei, you can almost serve as the deputy commander of the garrison?" Kentaro Komatsu looked enviously at the captain's epaulette on Naoto Hansawa's shoulder, and said.

The captain of the reserve service and the captain of the East Coast Army are actually two completely different concepts, and their gold content is not the same.The garrison regiments, garrison brigades, advance detachments, task force detachments, newly formed XX divisions and other miscellaneous armed forces in the overseas colonies on the east coast, except for a few active officers, most of them are actually reserve officers.These reservists may be high-ranking rulers and lords in the colony, but they still can't straighten up when they meet active officers of the same level or even one or two levels lower.Just like the joke in the Army that "reserves are not as good as dogs", it is really a great honor to be awarded the rank of active duty officer.

According to the relevant regulations, after graduation, the trainees of the training camp will be awarded the official rank of active duty of the East Coast Army.This active military rank may not be particularly important to students from other countries such as Italy, but it is very important to students from the East Coast Colony such as Naoto Hansawa and Kentaro Komatsu. It is a very important step in their lives and a great success. Foundation.

Brunei has been completely controlled by the east coast and is slowly expanding to the surrounding area.The local natives are gradually being understood, which is the so-called vacating the cage to change the bird.And the people on the east bank didn't just stop there, in fact, they were also expanding to the surrounding mountainous areas, constantly hunting down the natives and expanding their territory.After all, the local tropical log resources are still very rich. In recent years, mainland China and Japan and North Korea have a great demand for such materials. If you invest in local timber processing plants and export them from the trading hub of Brunei, End ground is a good business.

The situation in Timor Island is also very similar. The people on the east coast are currently firmly controlling the half of Portugal (East Timor), and they are also steadily implementing the "de-indigenization" campaign. If nothing happens in the future, East Timor, Brunei, etc. The two places must be the areas inhabited by all the people on the east coast, and their importance to the local people on the east coast will increase day by day. After all, they have the same language and the same species.

If middle-level officials like Banze and Komatsu have done a good job in the colony, they may not have the opportunity to be naturalized on the east coast and work in the mainland.The active military rank is here, and it can be completed with a single transfer order.For people like them who have worked hard for less than half their lives, this is undoubtedly a beautiful thing that they can't even imagine, so they study and train very hard.On the battlefield, they also competed to perform, much better than those slick Indians.

If there is a bright future ahead, a fool would not work hard!

(End of this chapter)