readx(); Approaching the coast, the Qilianshan dock landing ship opened its dock tail door. The 200 marines on board the ship are far less than the 800 or so carrying limit of the Qilianshan, and the soldiers did not use the new amphibious combat vehicle developed by Datang for the marines, but the most ordinary assault boat.

More than a dozen small boats floated out of the landing ship and rushed towards land. The Marines completed the landing almost in a state of exercise, and it was impossible for them to meet the enemy on an island that was essentially backward only to the aborigines, and on a virtually uninhabited coast.

Liu Jun, a young Indian soldier, held his S11 assault rifle unhappily and said to his comrades beside him: "I knew that when we came to this place, we might not even let go of our guns." ”

His companion Zhao Jing, who was also an Indian, replied with a smile: "We have to be stationed here for a while, there are a lot of wild animals here, at least they can let you hunt, right?" ”

Liu Jun is not interested in hunting or anything, he and Liu Jun are both coastal Salish people, the tribe lives in the area of Vancouver, Seattle, British Columbia, and is good at fishing but not very good at hunting. The point is that Liu Jun has almost no memory of the barbaric and primitive tribal life, and he has lived in an apartment building built specifically for the Indian ethnic group since he began to remember, and his childhood memories are learning to play games with his friends at school, rather than following his father and people to hunt.

Young Tang Indians like Liu Jun have formed a very unique generation. They retain a lot of Indian characteristics, most of them are influenced by their parents, but they accept the Tang lifestyle, can use Chinese characters proficiently, like to invite friends to play ball and watch movies, and like to eat hot pot and skewers. And there is no difference between the sense of national identity and the children of ********.

Most Indians have changed their surnames to Tang, such as Liu Jun and Zhao Jing, whose names are actually taken by teachers at school based on the homonyms of their Indian names.

Liu Jun said with a little complaint: "The climate here is too different from ours, and it is very humid and hot everywhere. I already had a hunch that I was going to be uncomfortable. ”

Zhao Jing carried the steel gun on his back and patted him on the shoulder comfortingly. said: "We are marines, elites who can challenge all kinds of difficult environments, don't embarrass us." ”

Liu Jun said unadmittedly: "Hmph, maybe you will be the first to fall ill at that time." ”

Zhao Jing pushed him and scolded with a smile: "Crow's mouth." ”

Indians of different regions and ethnic groups have a tendency to join different forces. For example, the Chumash people in Jiazhou were inclined to join the cavalry units, while the Salish people in the north lived by the sea. More willing to be an honorable Marine.

At this time, the company commander began to call the soldiers in the company, and began to reconnoiter the surrounding area with the fireteam as a unit, to ensure that there were no aborigines, and to find an area more suitable for building a colony. Their company will live here with the immigrants who have come here. Therefore, it is still important to find a campsite.

The Marine Corps squad consisted of twelve people and was divided into three fireteams, somewhat similar to the U.S. military configuration on the other side. The main reason is that the firepower of the Marine Corps is actually higher than that of the Army, depending on the equipment of Liu Jun and Zhao Jing. The standard rifle is already a fully automatic S11, which is actually a copycat version of the AK-47. A fireteam with team leaders riflemen, grenadiers and machine gunners can be said to be very powerful.

Considering that the size of the Marine Corps is much smaller than that of the Army. It is more likely to fight alone, so it is natural to equip the Marine Corps with the strongest firepower, otherwise with the consistent character of the military, it will not be willing to equip the Marine Corps with fully automatic firepower.

The Marines quickly conducted a thorough survey of the 20-kilometer perimeter area, determined that there were no traces of Aboriginal activity, and identified a coastal plateau as a construction site for the colony. In the days that followed, the Marines were effectively forced to work as construction workers, farmers, fishermen, security guards, and other compound occupations, building a village and clearing the land. Grow grain and vegetables.

Although the Navy longed for a naval base on the island of Madagascar, it was at a time when the infrastructure was weak and the population was sparsely populated. Basically, there is no room for manoeuvre. Now all you can do is build a relatively simple port. Convenient for supply ships that come every once in a while. The supply ships will bring a variety of daily necessities to the island's inhabitants, and initially for the marines and immigrants in the event of a shortage of food.

Compared with other colonial projects of Datang, Madagascar's colonial plan can be described as casual. However, this rhythm is the normal rate of colonization of other countries in this era.

Ordinary little immigrants and little soldiers don't know what the company commander in charge of military affairs and the person in charge of civil affairs are plotting about.

"The fourth largest island in the world, the population is probably not even 1 million, maybe it is four or five hundred thousand, on average in such a large area of land, in fact, it is quite small. I'm afraid it's quite difficult for us to attract ******** here, and the country's focus is also on immigrating to North America, so we still have to mobilize local manpower to use it. The person in charge whispered.

How could the company commander not know what he was thinking, and said, "Mobilize manpower?" You mean go and hunt slaves, okay? If you go to the country, everyone will have to walk around without food. ”

The person in charge said with a slight mockery: "I really thought that this colonization was just a dinner party, and there was blood and violence everywhere." But if we go too far, it will definitely not work, I think so, we first send people to get a group of aborigines, sign a 'compulsory labor contract' with them, we will take care of the food and housing, let them work for us, work for a few months, the contract period will expire, and then let them choose to stay, we are hiring, and it is also a human rights and humane employment, right? ”

The company commander smiled after hearing this, and said: "You have a belly of flowers, haha, okay, maybe this is really a method, but the work of the tropical aborigines is still very poor, and we shouldn't have much hope." ”

The person in charge said: "Guide as much as possible, or rely on the reward and punishment system, those who do well will eat much better, and those who do not do well will be whipped." Let's not be too tied, this colony is almost the edge of our huge empire, no one will look at us with a magnifying glass, in the final analysis, the country still needs us to develop this place with as few resources and as little time as possible. ”

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