Wind Rises in North America 1625

Chapter 199: Training?

At 1631 a.m. on September 9, 15, just as the "Breaking Waves" carrying Ming Dynasty immigrants had just arrived at Shixing Port, a force of more than Marines and more than Indian servants was launching a campaign against the rebellious Indians in the dense forest four kilometers north of Xinning Fort.

After several days of reconnaissance, the Marines discovered that the largest group of Indian rebels was hiding in the valley near the stream.

These people suddenly attacked in Xinning Fort, injured several supervisors, destroyed part of the city wall construction site, and then stole some supplies and fled into the forest, finding a hidden camp that they thought was very safe.

The Indians who started the riots belonged to five tribes with different mindsets and no hierarchy. They were temporarily brought together by the Xinhua people to participate in the construction of the Xinning Fort city wall.

Even though they committed such a "big thing", they still did not think about integrating effectively, gathering into groups, and uniting to fight against the retaliatory actions launched by the new Chinese.

After fleeing into the forest, these Indians chose a direction according to their tribal affiliation or family unit and hid deep into the forest.

In fact, after these Indians acted impulsively, they felt a little regretful and annoyed.

Falling out with the New Chinese is definitely not what they want to happen.

After all, after they arrived, life in the entire tribe changed dramatically.

They can eat delicious meals, exchange for soft and comfortable cloths, and under their guidance, they can also live in houses that are better sheltered from wind and rain.

More importantly, when food was extremely scarce in winter, we could still get some food from them through labor.

Oh, by the way, there is also the "holy water" called wine. After drinking it, your whole body will feel warm instantly, and you can also experience a floating feeling, which makes people unable to stop.

In addition, the children of the tribe can go to their castle to live and study with the children of the New Chinese, which not only allows them to learn many useful "skills", but also reduces the pressure of raising children in the tribe.

Although they don't know the saying, "A young boy can eat his father out of poverty," all Indian women who have raised children know that raising children is difficult and requires too much energy and physical strength.

Leaving the children to be raised by the new Chinese seems to be a very cost-effective thing, and it also makes the men in the tribe happy and relieved.

As a result, they are now angry about the rough treatment of the supervisors and have suddenly rebelled and turned against the Xinhua people.

Not only will the benefits you have gained be lost, you may even face severe retaliation from them.

The Xinhua people are a "tribe" with a very large population and extremely powerful weapons. With just a flick of their fingers, they can kill and destroy any Indian tribe.

However, things had come to this point, and no amount of remorse or regret would help. They could only flee into the jungle under the leadership of the Indian "warriors" who led the riot in order to avoid revenge from the new Chinese.

That's right, these Indians who "rebelled" really had no tribal chiefs or sacrificial organizations. After venting their anger, they just ran away, leaving the chiefs and priests who were completely unaware of this on the territory of the new Chinese. No one knows what will happen to them.

At this time, they had been hiding in this valley for five or six days, and their fear and panic gradually subsided.

But they knew that it was not advisable to stay here for long and they had to move further north.

As long as they are far enough away from the Xinhua people, the Xinhua people will probably choose to give up after they can no longer find any trace of them, thus giving them a way to escape.

The midday sun is bright and dazzling, giving people a feeling of warmth.

By the stream, a dozen Indians were fishing with iron pitchforks. Not far from the shore, several people were holding knives and cutting up a hunted reindeer.

Beside the two bonfires, several women kept adding picked up dead branches to the flames, causing several clay pots to bubbling with steam. Some potatoes and meat were cooked inside, emitting waves of rich aroma, attracting the nearby Indians to look over from time to time.

Well, after eating, everyone will pack up, leave here, and hide farther away.

Otherwise, if the new Chinese find you, there will be no good outcome.

"Roar!……"

Suddenly, there were bursts of wild roars in the woods, the birds in the woods fluttered and flew up, and hares and deer jumped out from them.

Just as the Indians in the valley looked panicked, fully armed warriors continued to emerge from several directions in the forest.

They had feathers on their heads, leather armor on their bodies, and sharp daggers and spears in their hands. They shouted and slowly approached.

Behind them was a group of Xinhua Marines holding muskets. They looked calm, said nothing, and raised their arms silently.

It's over, the Xinhua people have surrounded us! "Liu Dazhu, it's time for you to redeem yourself from your crimes and make amends." Marine Commander Mo Tianhai looked sideways at an Indian and said seriously, "But I have to remind you not to kill too many people. Try to capture them alive."

"Ah?" Liu Dazhu looked at Mo Tianhai in surprise.

"If everyone is killed, who will do the work?" Mo Tianhai glared at him.

"Yes, Captain!" Liu Dazhu licked his lips, tightened the long sword in his hand, and strode forward.

"Oh, with this kind of situation, how can it serve the purpose of training troops!" Mo Tianhai looked at the Indians who were fleeing like headless flies. They seemed to have no intention of fighting at all and did not dare to confront the vassal troops who were forcing their way up. A look of contempt appeared on his face.

To deal with these guerrillas who have no organizational strength, they can easily defeat them by sending out some young militiamen. There is no need for the Marines to go into battle personally.

It's simply using a sledgehammer to crack a nut!
Before departure, the committee director Luo Zhenhui solemnly instructed him that before the Spaniards came, the Marines should continue to strengthen their training and use these "rebellious" Indians as opponents to practice, hone the combat effectiveness of the troops, and test the tactics of the exercises.

But the current situation doesn't look like military training at all!

They were still a long distance away from the Indian "rebels", but they were able to locate their position through the smoke rising from the forest.

When the troops slowly approached the Indian camp, they found that they had not even set up a necessary guard post, allowing them to rush forward.

At this time, facing the panic-stricken "rebels", those roughly trained Indian servant troops were like tigers out of a cage. They quickly dispersed them, and then subdued them one by one in groups of three or five, and disarmed them.

In about ten minutes, this short and not very fierce battle was over. Seven resisting "rebels" were killed and thirty-four were captured, almost wiping them out.

The Marines did not fire a single shot throughout the entire process. They only swung the butts of their rifles a few times from the periphery, knocking down several "rebels" who tried to escape, without even breaking a sweat.

If the Spanish were as sparse as this, everything would be much simpler.

Since all the time travelers are from the navy, they are not very proficient in land warfare, especially the land warfare mode of the 17th century.

Therefore, when training Marines, there was no experience to draw on. They could only follow the fragmentary information that a few time travelers had seen, and combined it with the model of training new recruits in later generations, to create a similar line infantry phalanx, preparing to use the line-up shooting tactics with the Spaniards.

In fact, during this period, line infantry phalanxes had not yet appeared on a large scale, and the Spanish phalanx was still popular on the European battlefield.

During the ongoing Thirty Years' War, the Spanish also reformed their infantry phalanxes in order to adapt to the scale of the war, tactical changes and the large-scale development of firearms at that time.

The specific change is that the number of pikemen was greatly reduced and the number of musketeers was increased.

Generally speaking, pikemen accounted for 30% to 40% of the entire phalanx, while musketeers accounted for more than half.

Compared with the previous traditional Spanish phalanx, this improved infantry phalanx has stronger firepower output and its combat effectiveness has been greatly improved, which has played an unexpected role in various battlefields in Europe.

Unfortunately, however, it would soon be overshadowed by the military reforms of King Gustav of Sweden.

Large-scale line formations appeared in the Swedish army. Gustav arranged the infantry into wide and shallow lines, and then concentrated firepower to launch volleys, emphasizing the instantaneous firepower density.

A volley of line musketry prepared the spearmen behind for the charge.

As for the elimination of spearmen and the move towards fully armed linear formations, this only gradually took shape in the late 17th and early 18th centuries with the popularization of flintlock rifles and bayonets.

In other words, if the Spanish army came to attack Qiming Island, when the battle on land occurred, they would still fight in the form of a Spanish large square formation composed of a mixture of musketeers and spearmen.

If we consider the third-rate quality of the Spanish American colonial forces, their equipment and training levels are definitely not as good as those of the elite troops in mainland Europe, the ratio of spearmen may be very high.

As for their fighting ability and fighting will, they are also quite questionable.

However, although the time travelers had a general understanding of the situation of the American colonial army through the captured Spanish sailors, they still did not dare to take it lightly.

After all, these Spanish sailors did not have a complete picture of the colonial troops stationed in America, and the intelligence information they provided was varied and different.

To be on the safe side - in fact, the bigger problem is that the time travelers don't have a good understanding of the current military developments in Europe - it is better to follow the principle of overestimating the enemy and tactically overestimate the strength of the Spanish army in order to give yourself room for maneuver.

No matter what the quality of the Spanish troops is, they will all be treated as a strong army.

(End of this chapter)