"Boom!" With a bang, a round cannonball landed on the hillside, and then jumped down the slope for dozens of meters, and after touching several people, it was finally blocked by a large tree with two people hugging each other.

After the artillery was fired, a group of young people around 20 years old immediately adjusted the gun position and calculated the parameters. They were so skillful that they had accomplished it all in two minutes, comparable to the veteran artillery officers of the regular army.

There is no other trick to do all this, it can only rely on hard work. As the graduates of the 35th class of the Executive Committee Guards Cadet Corps, they have been training together for ten years, and both individual skills and team tacit understanding have reached the point of perfection, and what they lack now is actually just actual combat experience. And this is also the reason why the Executive Committee pulled out this top-of-the-heart force - by fighting monsters like the Guarani, and brushing up on experience.

Accompanying the stunned youths of this group of cadet corps were the 1st Company of the Army. The officers and men of the proud National No. 1 Company looked at these young men with a hint of immaturity on their faces with critical and scrutinizing eyes, and did not participate in the combat operations of these cadets to attack the village of Guarani.

They simply stood guard in full armor on the path of the Guarani retreat, and then watched as more than 300 young cadets performed various combat maneuvers according to the contents of the infantry drill code. It can be seen that they usually practice very diligently and hard, but their movements are too rigid, their tactics are too rigid, and they still need to be tempered by war to teach them some tricks.

Liao Xiaoyao, the leader of the 35th Regiment (meaning the 35th Class) of the Cadet Corps, also looked at the "performance" of his apprentices with sweat. He himself was one of the instructors of the 35th class of cadets, but he was only 27 years old, although he was much older than these cadets. But among the traversers, he is an absolute petty character. After ten years of fighting in the Corps Fort, he is finally getting through. began to lead this group of newly graduated cadets out to receive the baptism of actual combat.

The young cadets used artillery to bombard the Guarani village. After the artillery fire was over, it was the turn of the soldiers in full armor to quickly approach the enemy stronghold with their rifles loaded with bayonets, and when they encountered the arrows or projectiles fired by the enemy, they immediately took refuge in the spot, and then continued to wait for the support of field artillery.

Extremely dependent on artillery, decent play! Liao Xiaoyao was both a little disappointed and a little relieved at the same time.

He was disappointed that his cadets didn't come out with a good raid. They had made several minor mistakes in the previous battles, which made what should have been an easy raid into a long battle for positions. There were some errors in the maps drawn up in advance by the intelligence officers of the gendarmerie, but the cadet company commanders who were in charge of directing the battle should have noticed the mistakes and made the correct adjustments immediately, but it is a pity that they did not do all this as a fledgling. Unexpectedly discovered by the enemy, they had to turn what should have been a perfect raid into an offensive drill, which was frustrating.

But in the end, their offensive battle was not bad. The infantry artillery coordination is doing quite well. The artillery fired accurately, and the infantry advanced in time, and soon pressed the Guaraní people, armed with bows and arrows and arquebuses, into the Zhuangzi. Outside Zhuangzi, there lay more than two dozen corpses in the open cornfield, all but one of them from the east coast, and the rest were from the Guarani people who had been seduced by the Jesuit missionaries. Now that they had pressed the enemy into the village, the escape route behind the village was also held by the seniors of the 1st Company of the Army, and there were dozens of cavalry cruising on the hilly slopes further out. There is basically no possibility of defeat in this battle.

Four of the eight field guns of the artillery company had been pulled to the front, and the rudimentary fortifications built by the Guaraní with mud and planks had been beaten to the ground under a dense rain of bullets. Half a company of soldiers rushed forward with bayonets and stabbed to death the dizzy Guaraní, who had just crawled out of the ruins of the fortifications.

After this nail is removed, the battle should almost be over. Most of the able-bodied men in the village have been killed in battle. The Guarani no longer have the strength to resist. The soldiers of the Cadet Corps cautiously stormed the village, and then began to go from house to house to clear the remnants of the enemy.

At this time, the village also remembered the dense gunfire and the whistling of scattered shells fired by artillery. It was the Guarani who had fled from the village and were attacked by the officers and men of the 1st Army Company, who were lying in ambush halfway through. Their casualties should be heavy. However, the soldiers of the Cadet Corps did not have any sympathy for them, they were taught from an early age that these barbarians were absolutely unforgivable for attacking our villages, harming our people, and taking away our livestock.

In fact, about one-tenth of the more than 300 cadets today are from Guaraní or Charruya, but after ten years of closed education and training by the East Coasters, these young people, who are at least seventeen or eighteen years old, have no sympathy for these natives, and they are still ruthless in their killing.

Liao Xiaoyao vaguely heard that more than 200 people led by another instructor of the 35th Regiment had slaughtered a Charuya village in the southern grassland, and the most ruthless one was the more than 20 Chaluya orphan-born soldiers, and almost every one of them had the blood of the Charuya people on their hands, which made people feel emotional.

The cadets quickly cleared the entire village. The few remaining Guarani were kept under centralized custody, and their fate awaited them would be exile to overseas colonies, at least on the American continent, and they would never be allowed to appear again. The trainees counted the livestock, grain and farming tools in the village, and then marked them one by one and waited for the logistics department to deal with them.

This is Pilatini, a cool, hilly town in Brazil that was briefly the capital of the Republic of Rio Grande do Sul and the bloody battle of the legendary Garibaldi. With fertile land, abundant resources and a superior geographical location, it is an excellent intermediate node for the easterners to expand inland.

By controlling it, the people of the East Coast were able to radiate the vast surrounding area, then expand south along the mountain lowlands, and eventually join the railroad that extended from the Merlot region in the northern part of the East Coast Savannah, connecting the north and south of the country by road and rail networks on land. Therefore, this place can be said to be the key point that the East Bank must firmly control in its hands.

To achieve this, it is first necessary to clear out some of the Guarani villages scattered along the hilly terrain.

The people of the east coast followed the mountain paths and conquered and cleared the Guarani villages detected by the Gendarmerie intelligence officers to ensure the safety of the settlers who had colonized the interior. In Cangsu, about 30 kilometers east of Pilatine, the second town of the Republic of the East Coast is already being built, after the Pasture Ridge, in the hilly area west of the lake. The inhabitants of the area, mainly Latvians from Livonia, supplemented by some immigrants from Shandong, repeatedly defeated the Guaraní counterattacks with the help of the regular army, and behaved very bravely. In recognition of their achievements, the Executive Committee made an exception and officially named the castle under construction, New Königsberg, instead of the previous practice of trying to erase the color of the origin of European immigrants.

After the establishment of New Königsberg, it has now become almost the base camp of the East Coast Army and the Cadet Corps. They continued to set out from here, and then, under the guidance of Gendarmerie intelligence officers, attacked the nearby village of Guarani, and so far eliminated or expelled more than a dozen villages, and pushed the line forward steadily.

In order to accommodate their moves, and to better transport supplies to the hilly terrain, the Executive Committee has ordered the start of construction of Highway 2, a high-grade road from Hekou Township in Zhenhai County to New Königsberg. The road was originally designed to be asphalt, but due to the serious shortage of asphalt production from the coking plant in Ping'an County, it had to retreat to sand and gravel pavement. If there were plenty of building materials in the future, it would not be impossible for Highway 2 to be converted to a concrete pavement.

Both the Executive Committee and the Ministry of War have stated that the clean-up operation against the Guaraní is a long-term operation. In the future, the soldiers of the Cadet Corps will fight the Guaraní here for a long time to train their fighting skills. Each time they conquered an area, the logging and construction teams of the people of the east coast followed there, and began to cut down the fields, build settlements and roads, and push little by little into the inland hills, squeezing the Guarani people's living space.

The last gunfire finally fell silent before the sun went down. The officers and men of the 1st Company of the Army escorted dozens of dejected Guarani people back to the village from the rear, and the cavalry brothers, who had been cruising in the distance on the periphery, also began to gather their men and horses, and then moved closer to the Guarani village, which had been occupied by the people from the east bank. Today, they will not be able to return to New Königsberg under any circumstances, and they will have to camp here, so it is safer to camp in the barbed wire fence of the infantry.

The more than 300 cadets of the 35th Cadet Regiment began to operate in an orderly manner under Liao Xiaoyao's assignment. Some soldiers who had studied criminal investigation and Guarani began to interrogate these natives, some began to fetch water for cooking, some began to pull barbed wire and set up secret sentry, and some began to classify the seized materials and livestock for statistics, in short, everyone was very busy and looked very professional, which made Liao Xiaoyao quite satisfied.

It is worth mentioning that the members of the Cadet Corps are all talents trained by the Executive Committee. The cadets they have spent ten years cultivating are not used as cannon fodder for random consumption, and the current participation of them in the township cleansing operation is just to temper their willpower. In the future, they will also go to various factories, mines, and construction sites to participate in some labor, and then they will finally graduate, be assigned to various departments of the army, schools, enterprises, and government, and eventually become a powerful tool to control the country and implement their will. (To be continued......)