Chapter 1032: Imperial Army Style
In reality, fighting against those uncivilized natives is completely different from the situation shown in film and television dramas.
The natives are cruel and fierce, they are very good at sneak attacks, and they will always make surprise attacks when you are unprepared, and then bring you a lot of losses.
Last year, the Empire invaded the Caribbean and South America.
At that time, Jay Chou, as a senior commander in the army, also participated in this war.
There was nothing to fear from the Spaniards and the Dutch, or even the British, after all, you can use modest tactics to defeat them.
Even if there are some strategies these guys will use, most of them can be guessed.
So, it's very easy to beat them.
But when the Caribbean Sea was conquered and the Great Army began to make a raid on South America, trouble arose.
South America at this time was densely packed with tropical jungles, which were much more lush than in modern times.
After all, the tropical jungles of modern South America are almost destroyed. In the 17th century, the tropical jungle environment was still very well preserved.
Fighting in such an environment was a nerve-wracking blow for the Imperial Army.
At that time, there were many Mayan tribes in the area controlled by the Spaniards.
So, in order to resist the Empire, the Spaniards conscripted these Mayan tribes and allowed them to form a large indigenous army to come against the Imperial Army.
At the same time, the Spaniards promised a big reward.
Therefore, these conscripted Mayan warriors launched an attack on the Imperial Army one by one. Their attack inflicted a lot of casualties on the Imperial Army, something no one expected.
Yes, the equipment of the Imperial Army can be said to be the most advanced in this era, and there is no country with better weapons than theirs.
At the same time, the tactics used by the Imperial Army. It is also a cross-era tactic.
But all these advantages, in the dense tropical jungle, simply cannot be brought into play.
It even put the Imperial Army at a disadvantage all of a sudden.
This was completely unexpected by everyone.
But fortunately, these people in the upper echelons of the empire are not brain-dead, and they immediately responded to such a situation.
Didn't you Spaniards use the Mayans to fight?
Wouldn't we!
At that time, the empire had already controlled the Caribbean and much of South America, and many Mayan tribes lived in this area.
Immediately, a large number of Mayan tribal warriors were also recruited by the empire.
The reward of twelve dragon oceans a month is enough for these Mayans to work hard.
Moreover. These Mayan tribes recruited by the empire were still tribes that hated the Spaniards very much.
At this point, the offensive of the Imperial Army began to go smoothly.
At that time, Jay Chou had seen the fighting style of the natives with his own eyes.
They will take advantage of the terrain and the environment to hide themselves. Most of the places where they hide are where the armies must pass, and because of their sharp camouflage, you will hardly notice their presence.
When the army enters their ambush circle, they will suddenly burst out and attack.
In such a situation. No matter how elite the soldiers of the Imperial Army were, there was no way to deal with such a sneak attack in the first place.
Therefore, in many cases, there will be a lot of casualties in the first time.
Blow arrows!
Earth Bow!
These rudimentary weapons are often capable of causing a lot of damage.
Since the army hired a large number of Mayan natives. Only then did the army turn the tide in one fell swoop.
I have to say that if you want to deal with indigenous people, then you have to use indigenous talents as well.
Because only the natives know how the natives fight, and can take action to solve the relief. At the same time, use the same means and methods to effectively inflict blows and damage on the other side.
In normal history, the English or the French, or even the Spanish and the Dutch invaded the Americas. They have all used such a means and methods.
And in fact, it turned out that this means is very effective.
It was in this way that the Indians were slowly consumed.
Strictly speaking, in normal history, the Indians were not defeated by the whites, and their defeat was based on infighting.
The vendettas between the various tribes exploited by the Indians killed even more people than the whites.
It can be seen that this means of using control is very effective for the strategy of the Native Americans.
Unfortunately, I don't have much time here, so I don't have that much time to find an indigenous tribe that I can use and hire them to deal with the enemy this time.
Otherwise, this battle would not have been so difficult at all.
Damn the native monkeys of the South Seas!
Jay Chou slowly came back to his senses from his memories and cursed softly.
Now because of this encounter, he no longer has the slightest good impression of the natives of Nanyang in his heart.
In the depths of Jay Chou's heart, a seed of disgust has been planted.
One day in the future, he finally got his wish and could lead a large army to conquer Southeast Asia, where he launched a cold-blooded and merciless massacre.
So much so that later generations portrayed him as a cold-blooded and ruthless executioner in the history books, and smeared him!
Of course, those who smear Jay Chou are all Europeans or descendants of some Southeast Asian races, while Chinese people praise Jay Chou as a hero.
These will only happen in the future, and future generations will really not understand why Jay Chou will carry out a horrific massacre of the natives of Southeast Asia in the future.
In fact, the seeds of hatred have been planted today, and how can the fruits of the future be good.
The army began to search and advance, and Jay Chou judged based on the experience gained from the last year's war against the Mayans in South America that since these attackers were able to appear here, their tribe would definitely not be too far from here.
This freshwater stream was the first place where the incident occurred.
Once inferred, the enemy's tribe should be around here.
It is important to know that the range of activities of the indigenous tribes is not very broad, especially the indigenous tribes here.
After all, they are not like the Indians of North America, who can migrate.
The indigenous tribes here, basically after they settle in one place, they don't move.
They will thrive here.
The reason for this is simple, because the property here allows them to live.
At the same time, in an environment like this, there will never be only one tribe.
Therefore, under the entanglement of the tribes, everyone will draw an invisible boundary.
Therefore, Jay Chou judged that the tribes of those attackers should be around here. Because they can't be too wide, or they will invade the territory of another tribe, which will cause tribal wars.
In the end, it is a person who has experience in warfare against indigenous tribes, Jay Chou's judgment is very accurate.
If he didn't have such experience, then he would not have been able to make such a correct judgment for such a situation.
Experience and inexperience are not the same.
It is not unreasonable for Jay Chou to be in the position of commander and be in charge of an army of tens of thousands of people.
Although he can be regarded as a veteran, Zhang Tie and the others will not recklessly prop him up to such a high position for such a reason.
Jay Chou must have something extraordinary.
It is precisely because of this speculation that Jay Chou selected the Indian soldiers in the general, organized them into a reconnaissance team, and began to scout the surroundings, and at the same time let them clean up the surrounding Nanyang natives.
And from the current effect, the results of these Indian warriors are still very good.
Because of Jay Chou, they haven't encountered a sneak attack for a long time.
It can be seen that the natives who were originally hidden must have been killed by the Indian warriors.
Otherwise, with the character of the natives, they would not have endured for such a long time.
However, the losses of the Indian warriors were not small.
By now, there have been more than a dozen casualties among the Indian fighters.
Jay Chou is also helpless about this.
After all, the Indian warriors were accustomed to the forest environment of North America, where the environment was completely different from the environment of the tropical jungle.
If the Indian warriors had been replaced by Mayan warriors, the losses would certainly not have been so great.
However, Jay Chou must continue to use these Indian soldiers.
Because if it weren't for them, then things would be in trouble.
Therefore, even if there are casualties now, he can only harden his heart and let the Indian warriors continue to do things.
Here, the Indian warriors once again showed their fighting style, cutting off the scalp of each of the natives of the South Seas that they had killed and tying them around their waists.
You know, when the war is over, they will use these scalps in exchange for rewards.
In the Imperial Army, the Chinese used human heads to calculate rewards, Europeans used human ears, and Indian warriors used scalps.
Therefore, fighting against the Imperial army often makes the enemy feel very frightened because of this relationship.
Because these soldiers of the Empire have no respect for corpses at all, they will destroy the limbs of corpses, which makes the British, or Spaniards and Dutch who have fought against the Empire very complaining.
But the empire continued to go its own way, and nothing changed at all.
Because Zhang Tie felt that the enemy's head, ears, and scalp hanging from the waist of their own soldiers could have a shocking effect on the enemy's psychology.
Let the enemy's military morale waver, and even collapse without a fight.
So, a style like this has to be maintained no matter what. (To be continued......)