Chapter 399: The North American War
Nguyen Van Hung, who was already familiar with the Chinese language, disembarked from the Han Chinese army with Li Si Xing and Jin Tongwu, and lived for a time in a temporary camp arranged for them by Zheng Jing, and then received them by local officials wearing black black gauze hats and green low-grade official uniforms.
This is the official uniform of Bapin County, but here he is the mayor of a town of 2,000 people. Unlike the original Ming Dynasty, where there were no officials below the county level, the current Ming Empire and vassal vassal states, towns and townships below the county level have officials, and the old system of gentry and family management below the county level has been abolished.
The residents of the town are mainly Han people wearing arrow-sleeved right shirts, or wide-sleeved Hanfu, in fact, those so-called Han people are not all Han Chinese, many of them are Japanese, Manchu and Mongolian, and Annam people like Nguyen Van Hung. The mayor of the town who wore the eight-grade official mansion was not a Han Chinese, but a North Korean, and he had been here for more than ten years, working hard step by step, and finally became a petty official.
There are also some people dressed as Mongolians, but those who wear Mongolian costumes are not necessarily Manchu and Mongolian, many are also Han Chinese, or Annamite people, Japanese, because the land here is vast and sparsely populated, all of them are grasslands, and they have to ride horses wherever they go, and Han people and others wear such costumes to facilitate horse riding.
In addition to the real yellow-skinned and black-eyed Asians, there are a small number of local aborigines in the town who have been sinicized, and some children are mixed races of Asians and local aborigines.
There were also smaller numbers of Caucasians, some from Europe, some who traveled across the American continent to settle in areas controlled by the Han Chinese, and were also absorbed by Zheng Jing and became residents here.
"Those little kids, they're so good-looking." Nguyen Van Hung looked at a few little girls who ran by, although they were also yellow-skinned and black-haired, but the bridge of their noses was straight, and their eyes were slightly pale blue, and they seemed to be mixed between yellow and Caucasian.
"Nguyen Van Hung, right?" The official interrupted Nguyen Van Hung's thoughts, "Will there be a war?" ”
"Yes!" Nguyen Van Hung nodded, "I have a gun and I have also been a soldier. ”
"Okay, then join the army. It's time to get ready for war. The eight-rank green-robed official handed a piece of paper to Nguyen Van Hung and asked him to sign it.
In this way, Nguyen Van Hung also became a member of the army of the Great American Kingdom and became an infantryman. However, although it is an infantryman, it has a good horse, after all, the area here is too large, even if it is an infantry, it needs to be ridden and maneuvered.
Li Sixing, the king of Jin, came here, and he was still the king of Jin, and the army he brought was also incorporated into the US military sequence and formed the first heavy infantry division of the United States.
The army set out on its way to the east. In front of the main army was an indigenous army composed of local Indians.
Although they are indigenous, they are not badly equipped, each of them carries a rifle on their backs, a pistol at their waists, and rides a tall horse, only the feathers on their heads and the oil paint on their faces can prove that they are indigenous.
This time, Zheng Jing did not want to send troops to attack the colonies of other countries, but to protect the safety of his own railway lines.
As soon as the army arrived at the railway construction site, there was a crisp gunfire in front, that is, the leading indigenous soldiers exchanged fire with the Spaniards and the French, the weakened Spain was ravaged by the British in Europe and beaten by the Ming on the American continent, at this time they could only choose to stand with the French, otherwise they would be completely driven out of the American continent.
The Indian soldiers who used Mini rifled guns were very accurate on the bumpy back of their horses, and although the Mini front-loading rifles could not be loaded on horseback, after they had fired a platoon of guns, they began to charge until they were only thirty paces away from the French and Spaniards, and pulled out six-wheeled pistols or double-barreled short guns from their waists, and the "ping-pong" was a fierce fire.
Native Indian soldiers, almost all of them are militia formations, most of the Indians have not been sinicized, although they are not qualified to become Americans, but they are aborigines, learned to plough the land and graze, and also pay taxes to Zheng Jing's kingdom, almost every Indian family has dozens of acres of farmland and thousands of acres of pasture, they have a good life, after having money, they want to buy weapons to defend their homeland.
The guns in the hands of these native Indian soldiers were bought at their own expense, most of them used front-loading mini-rifles, and the pistols they carried were either six-wheel pistols or double-barreled rifled pistols, and some people used double-barreled rifled rifles, and some even bought more advanced breech-loading rifles, in short, they bought whatever weapon they saw was good.
The French and Spaniards could not defeat the Indian militias who had purchased their own weapons, and the Western colonists fell off their horses one after another.
In addition to the French still resisting, the remaining Spaniards have long lost their fighting spirit, they were robbed by the Ming in Manila in the East, and Mexico in the Americas was also conquered by Zheng Jing, their colonies were lost one by one, as long as they met the Ming army, the Spaniards fled.
The indigenous Indians are still quite hard-working when they start fighting, they love the people from the Ming Dynasty, but they don't like these Western colonists, they have lived here for generations, but after the Western colonists came, everything changed. The Spaniards, in particular, destroyed the empire built by the Indians, and that's not all, they brought terrible smallpox.
Because of the rampant smallpox, the pure land of America was ravaged by the plague, and the Indians, who had no resistance to the smallpox virus at all, died in large numbers.
Eventually, it was the Ming guests who brought them advanced civilizations, educated them, and brought a medicine called cowpox to help the Indians contain the smallpox virus.
"If it weren't for cowpox, I'm afraid all North American Indians would be almost extinct." An Indian soldier looked gratefully at the Han army following behind, and said secretly in his heart.
One of the two French soldiers killed by the Indian soldier was an Indian of the same color and race as him, but he showed no mercy to the Indian.
After Zheng Jing came to the Americas, he relied on mining gold and minerals to earn huge profits. Once he had the money, Zheng Jing planned to build two railroads, the Pacific Railroad along the coastline from north to south, and the Pacific Atlantic Railroad across the North American continent.
But the construction of the railroad lines was not peaceful, because the construction of these lines, especially the transcontinental railway, was to the detriment of the French and Spaniards, who often harassed the construction sites of the railroad not only themselves, but also their Indian allies.
The Indians in North America, some of whom were pro-Ming, some were pro-British, and some were pro-French, were divided into three factions, and they were constantly at war with each other.
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