Marin was not blind, although he couldn't see the expressions of the recruits on the city wall ten kilometers away, but after observing it in the past few days, he found that the recruits of the Fifth Legion guarding the city wall were becoming more and more handy.

In the first two or three days, the walls were often found by the besieging British troops, and a section of the wall was occupied. Although the British army will eventually be driven down, it will also pose a threat to the city walls. However, as the recruits become more accustomed to it, this is rarely the case. During the siege on the seventh day, Marin found that there was only one danger at the head of the city, and it was quickly disposed of.

Marin was very pleased to watch the growth of these recruits of the Fifth Legion, and in order to better train these recruits, Marin even revised the plan to attack in seven days, and decided to wait a few more days......

Although it is said that this week's siege battle is estimated to have caused more than 1,000 casualties to the recruits. However, Marin is not worried. Why? Because the Fifth Army has a full-fledged field medical team......

This mature medical team has enough clean gauze packed in oiled paper bags, as well as a large amount of medical alcohol (all of which are by-products of the production of Erguotou, that is, the more choking parts of "Guotou" and "Guowei"), as well as enough Jinchuang medicine configured by Mozhigen and Battle...... As long as it is not a fatal or disabling injury, it can basically be saved......

It is a miracle that half of the wounded on the battlefield of the old army of the same era survived...... And in Marin's army, this survival rate is more than half......

In order not to let the French learn this skill, the wounded of the Fifth Army were carried to the field hospital under martial law for secret treatment. Therefore, the French in the city did not know the means of treating the wounded in the Fifth Army. Otherwise, these Frenchmen would have reported to Louis XII.

As for whether the French will find a "miracle" with a high survival rate of the wounded after that, Marin is not very worried. Why? Because the wounded on the battlefield generally do not die after getting off the battlefield, but after the wound is infected, they will die of painful illness for a long time. But Marin didn't wait long for a few days to finish off the British outside York. Then the Fifth Army and the French could part ways. At that time, who knows the survival rate of the wounded of the Fifth Legion?

It was precisely because of this confidence that Marin planned to postpone it for a few more days so that the recruits of the Fifth Legion would be more familiar with the atmosphere of the battlefield. You must know that this kind of relatively safe atmosphere for military training is hard to come by......

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While fierce urban assault and defense battles broke out in and around York, fighting between colonial troops and natives broke out in the American colony of Cuba at the same time......

Of the 600 fighters who went to Cuba, 300 were hunters in the Black Forest, and they were all masters of tracking and shooting. The other 300 people, also old residents of the Black Forest, are no strangers to the jungle. Moreover, Marin sent them to Cuba last year. However, it was only now, in mid-to-late May of the following year, that the gang began to do ......

Why? I don't adapt to the water and soil......

It's all tears, Marin has thought it through enough, and specially eliminated those who are afraid of heat. However, the climate in Cuba and Germany is too different. One is the tropical rainforest, the other is the temperate black forest, two worlds altogether......

So, the first thing that those 600 jungle fighters did after arriving on the island of Cuba on a boat for three or four months was a collective illness......

Of course, it is not the fatal disease, but the disease that is not big or small. Although not lethal, it was enough to deprive 600 people of most of their combat effectiveness......

In desperation, Tara, the governor of Havana, had no choice but to raise these uncles first, serving ginger and brown sugar every day to help them recuperate......

After several months of cultivation and adaptation, all of them gradually adapted to the Cuban climate. Then, they began to tentatively find some small tribes near Havana to practice......

Because of the presence of 300 forest hunters, and the presence of some Alsatian wolfhounds, those small local tribes could not even escape after the defeat. After all, it was easy for the indigenous warriors to escape, but it was very difficult for the old and weak women and children in their village to escape...... Following their scent, the Alsatian wolf dogs, the ancestors of the German herdsmen, can easily find them...... By the way, when they first arrived in Cuba, the symptoms of these Alsatian wolfdogs were more severe than that of humans, and they were almost so sick that they could not move......

Of course, the expeditionary force did not harm the Cuban natives. After using clockwork muskets to suppress some of the fiercely rebellious fighters, most of the natives were taken prisoner.

Those natives, in fact, are not very weak in combat. I had never seen a musket before—the flames and smoke from the muskets, and the thunderous noise, frightened the native warriors so much that they couldn't find the north. On one occasion, Tara even spotted a "number one warrior" of an indigenous tribe who was so frightened by the sound of muskets that he peed his pants on the spot...... No, the natives don't have pants, they wet the leaves and hides that wrap their lower bodies......

Relying on the tremendous power of the platoon guns and the earth-shattering sound, the local tribes were no match for the expeditionary force. Even if you want to ambush, you will be seen through by the alertness of the Alsatian wolfdogs. And the traps were all broken by the forest hunters one by one...... This battle could not be fought, and the local tribes were either defeated and captured, or fled in advance......

By the end of June, in a month, the Cuban Expeditionary Force had defeated twenty Taíno tribes and taken more than 7,000 prisoners. The area under its control reached almost five or six thousand square kilometers, roughly equivalent to most of the later Havana Province and Havana City. Farther away, because the jungle can't run far, you can't control it for the time being.

Tara, though, wasn't disappointed. Because, five or six thousand square kilometers of land is already big enough. You know, the twin islands in North America that Tara managed before were only about 500 square kilometers in total. And the five or six thousand square kilometers around Havana are already more than ten times the area he previously managed. As long as it is developed, the land will be greatly available......

Moreover, the island of Cuba has abundant freshwater resources, with abundant precipitation and numerous rivers, which are ideal for agriculture. At the same time, the terrain in the area around Havana is quite flat......

After conquering thousands of square kilometers of the surrounding area, Tara took the strong men directly and asked the warriors to take the captured Taíno strong men and cut down trees together. On such an island full of tropical rainforests, the only way to reclaim farmland is to cut down the trees and dig up the roots......

Of course, Tara also plans to send professionals to process and preserve the timber that is suitable for shipbuilding, so that it can be used for future shipbuilding.

The problem is that Cuba is tropical, and the variety of trees here is very different from that on the North American continent. When they were in the Twin Islands of North America, Tara and her men were able to separate the white oak tree and the red oak tree that Marlin had specially confessed, and preserved these two trees suitable for shipbuilding in their entirety for shipbuilding.

However, the timber in the forests of Cuba is all tropical species, and most of Tara and his men do not know and do not know which kind of wood is suitable for shipbuilding. Therefore, in desperation, Tara prepared to write a letter to Marin for help, asking Marin to send a few discerning and knowledgeable shipbuilders to come and identify the local trees on the island of Cuba to see which kind of trees were suitable for shipbuilding. In this way, Tara can also keep the logs suitable for shipbuilding for a year or two so that they can be used for shipbuilding. As for those that are not suitable for shipbuilding, they should be burned directly as firewood...... Alternatively, it can be used to build a house and make furniture in general......

As for the Manhattan Island in New York, which is under Albert's jurisdiction, although Marin has sent thousands of soldiers, the army is still in the training and adaptation stage because there are relatively few forest hunters.

The climate in New York is good, and only a very small number of people sent to it are not adapted, after all, they belong to the temperate zone. It's just that because there are too few people in this army who were originally hunters in the Black Forest, most of them need to be trained in forest adaptation by the dozens of soldiers who were former Black Forest hunters, and they have not yet reached the stage of attacking the Mohicans. Now, they've just stepped out of Manhattan Island and explored north along the Hudson River. Wait until you reach the territory of the Mohicans before you attack......