498 Retribution (I)
A war started by the Apaches, but later known as the Second Tang War (the First Tang War took place in 1774, when the Tang navy attacked Alpulco and forced Spain to recognize its occupation of California). However www.biquge.info more rigorous historians later divided the war into two parts: the first was the Tangxi War, which spanned the eastern and western hemispheres, with a new state challenging the old powers' possession of the colonies, which belonged to the redistribution of the colonies, and the second part was called the Apache War, whose purpose was to eliminate the Indians who threatened territorial security and hindered the Tang Dynasty's expansion in the interior of North America.
The scale of the Apache War was far inferior to that of the Dons, but its significance was considered to be in no way inferior to that of the War. Because the Apache and other tribes were located in areas adjacent to the three states on the west coast of the Tang Dynasty, they later became an important area of the Tang Dynasty in North America. In the absence of security, it was no easier to fight the savage Apache than the Spanish army. In Mexico, the Tang Dynasty was able to mobilize local anti-colonialists and obtain support from other quarters, but in New Mexico, the Tang army fighting here had nothing but steel guns in their hands, their own war horses, and supplies on their bodies.
Not only is it difficult for them to get support in terms of supplies, but in terms of intelligence, they cannot get the intelligence support of the Datang military intelligence department like in Mexico. Therefore, in order to find the tribe of the Apaches, the Tang cavalry had to expand the search range by company, looking for traces of all the Apaches in tens of thousands of square kilometers of land.
In the barren land of the Colorado Plateau, a long dragon wanders towards an unclear destination. Esquart walked at the front of the group on a not very athletic Andalusian horse. This is his tribe. The Baishan tribe that was once powerful in the western part of the plateau. Now it's full of a sense of despair.
His companion Cussi said to him worriedly: "Our trek is particularly food consumption, and we should have stayed in longhouses and tents for the winter, and everyone eats less, but now we have to walk every day I don't know how far, and everyone eats more." Moreover, there are already a few frail old people and children who can't hold on and die, and the people of the tribe are now very worried and panicked, and if there is no good way, I am afraid that we will not be able to make alliances with other tribes at all. ”
Esquart's mood became heavy. He underestimated the strength of the Tang people, firstly, he did not expect the Tang people to be able to gather such a powerful cavalry for a surprise attack, and secondly, he did not expect that the reaction speed of the Tang people would be so fast. The tribes of West Apache were not prepared for anything, and the Tang people came directly to the door. In the previous raids, almost all of the West Apache tribes were destroyed by the Tang people, only the White Mountain tribe was a little farther away, and Esquart led all of them to leave the White Mountain. But running away doesn't mean luck, and Esquart faces all kinds of difficulties.
Even if he had created an Apache alliance, the chieftains of the various tribes had agreed to Esquart's proposal against the Dons, but it was more intentional. No particularly substantive forms of cooperation have yet been developed. Only a few tribes had been involved in the bombing of the orbit before. Now it is difficult for Esquat to gather a large number of Apache warriors for a while. Fight against the invasion of the Dons.
He was now in a dilemma, and he took his tribe with a lot of horses and weapons, but he ran out of food, and soon his people would have nothing to eat, and would starve to death in this winter wasteland.
The plan didn't go according to his own ideas, which made Esquart somewhat confused. He led his people all the way east, hoping to stir up people from other tribes to organize a decent armed force to counter the actions of the Tang people. But soon, Esquart became less confident again, because the strength of the Tang people was somewhat beyond imagination. In a short period of time, almost a single blow wiped out all the West Apache tribes except for Baishan, and Esquart did not know how many Apache warriors he had to organize, how many war horses and how many muskets he had to compete with the Tang army. If this large army was really defeated by the Tang army, then the Apache would be doomed.
Esquart also felt very ashamed, and with the power of the White Mountain, he used his eloquence and skill to unite an Apache Alliance, but now he lost even his hometown. He also has to go to the door to find other tribes, and the people of other tribes will inevitably be suspicious of him. Even when Esquart passed through an Apache tribe and asked for some food, he was refused.
Unbeknownst to Asquart, the section of track they blew up had been repaired within a week of the incident, and the Donarian train was still running on the Loao Railway. The Tang people not only strengthened the support forces along the railway line, but also the Tang mechanized infantry from the West Coast Theater began to follow the railway line, clearing the area along the railway line, and did not allow any Indian forces to remain around the railway line. He didn't see the appearance of the Tang Army's armored vehicles driving into the Apache villages, and the panicked Apache people were still using stone weapons, and the bullets fired from the coaxial machine guns took the lives of many Apache people. Whether innocent or related to the bombing, or whether or not they participated in the Apache anti-Tang alliance, these tribes were eventually wiped out.
Tang Jun, who has always followed his own way of doing things, generally rarely does such a thing. However, every Tang soldier, before going to the battlefield, was told by his own instructors and political commissars that the lives of 263 compatriots were ruthlessly taken, and their kindness and mercy to the Apache people was disrespectful to their dead compatriots and irresponsible to the future people. Therefore, the soldiers all strengthened their will and raised the butcher knives in their hands.
Fortunately, killing is relatively more acceptable in the form of bullet shooting. Although someone proposed to directly throw out the butcher's knife Yamato Corps in the hands of the Tang Dynasty military to do this kind of thing, it was too difficult, and the military did not want to let their own son hide behind every time.
Now Esquart is not completely without plans, he hopes to place the tribe in a very secret place where he can get enough food and water, and then take the warriors of the tribe to go on the expedition, and use his methods of attack to start dealing with the Tang people. He believes that even now, the Apache have a chance to win. (To be continued.) )