No way, the way black people fight in this era is too bizarre, and it is so weak that it is a mess. It is no wonder that the Europeans can easily conquer a territory the size of a country by sending a few hundred colonists or thousands of soldiers. It's not that the colonists are too strong, but that the combat effectiveness of the black buddies is too scum......

Hundreds of people beat each other, and they actually threw javelins at each other from a distance of thirty or forty meters...... With the aim of a javelin, it is definitely too much to kill people......

Ma Lin felt that even Chen Haonan and a group of gangsters could easily defeat those indigenous warriors. After all, the machetes of the thugs can really cause serious casualties.

Marin had read African history in his last life, and it covered the Zulu War. And King Chaka, the founder of the Zulu Kingdom, changed this ridiculous way of fighting, allowing warriors to use short spears and shields instead. The shield can withstand the enemy's javelins to a certain extent, and the short spear ...... Not for throwing, but for stabbing......

King Chaka discovered that stabbing an enemy at close range with a short spear was far more lethal than throwing a javelin from a distance. Then, his army used this method of warfare to sweep through other black tribes, and eventually established the Zulu Kingdom. Of course, during the Zulu War, they were confronted by British troops who had already used metal bullets and reloaded guns. In the face of a huge generation gap in weapon technology, no matter how brave the Zulu warriors are, they can only be slaughtered and tortured......

The black archers led by Puginsky, although far less technologically advanced than the metal bullet rear-loading guns of the British during the Zulu War, were much stronger than the black native warriors who used stone spearheads.

Moreover, if you shoot an arrow on horseback, even if you can't beat it, you can still run away. No matter how much the black warriors could run, they could not catch up with the horses. Even if Bolt is possessed, he can only break out for a while, and he can't outrun the horse's four hooves after all.

Of course, Marin will not only let Puginsky and them conquer such a large territory with a cavalry of about a thousand people. It's not that you can't beat it, but there aren't so many people guarding it after it's beaten.

Therefore, Marin arranged for them as follows - let Puginsky be the chief of the Mauritania region, and then, after giving the other Mao fathers, each equipped with hundreds of archers, to garrison each section of this land trade route to the Songhai Empire.

As for the lack of manpower, this is not a problem. Marin planned to let Eschwein exchange more black young slaves with bows and arrows, salt, sugar, cloth and other supplies with the tribes near Dakar who owned bows and arrows. Then, train them into qualified archers.

Then, the 46 living Mao Gonggongs, with the exception of Puginsky, who was the big chief, each led 100 black young archers, each responsible for the security of a distance along the trade route.

In this way, when the large number of African cattle and black slaves from the Songhai Empire began to be purchased in large quantities in the future, the safety along the way would be guaranteed.

Of course, as for the original rule and management of the Dakar region, Marin intends to select 30 people from the 46 living Maogong kilometers to be responsible for the security of various sections of the trade route. The 16 who remained remained in the area, commanding the children of the black tribal leaders who had been left behind. After all, those hundreds of people are also a powerful combat force, so it's a pity to let them go. Besides, that old trade route also needs to be protected.

Then, the remaining 30 Mao Gonggongs, each with 100 black young archers, were enough to hold the road north of the Senegal River to the territory of the Songhai Empire firmly in their own hands.

At that time, Marin could not only buy a large number of African cattle and black slaves from the powerful Songhai Empire, but also exchange a large amount of cheap gold for minting gold coins.

The route, which has water along the way, is much safer than the trade route across the Sahara, and the volume of transport can be greatly increased. The black tribes along the way, the combat effectiveness is estimated not to be even 5, which is very easy to deal with.

As for the "White Moors" of Mauritania in later generations, that is, the Berbers who came south from Morocco, they were quite strong in combat. After all, there are scimitar cavalry.

However, it appears that the White Moors entered Mauritania in large numbers with the Moroccan conquest of the Songhai Empire at the end of the 16th century. At present, the fierce White Moors are still operating in the desert oases of northern Mauritania. And the southern part of Mauritania that Marin wants to conquer is still the world of blacks.

Those backward black tribes only need Puginsky and his fellow Mao Gonggong to bring 3,000 black archers to suppress them properly.

As for the reliability of Puginsky and his fellow Mao fathers, Marin was not worried. Why? Because Mauritania has no craftsmen, no metal, bows and arrows, etc., it is not self-sufficient, and it is very dependent on Marin's supply.

Therefore, Marin was not worried that those Mao Guilds would get out of his control. Besides, these people are all castrated fathers-in-law, and they have long lost hope for the future, and they can't talk about any ambitions, and they are much easier to control than normal people.

If they don't cooperate, it's a big deal to send out a regular army to exterminate them......

In fact, Marin had no intention of managing the area carefully. As long as he can buy enough tropical cattle from the Songhai Empire and exchange them for enough gold, he doesn't care about the control of this land.

Even if Puginsky and other Mao fathers want to be the king and hegemon, and be a "great emperor" in the local area, Marin doesn't care. As long as it doesn't interfere with his buying of cattle, slaves, and gold, he is happy to see it. After all, it was not Marlin who would have a headache for them later, but the Portuguese.

The Portuguese were short of manpower, and if they wanted to conquer Puginsky, who already had several thousand cavalry, they could not defeat it without sending a few thousand regular troops. But in a small country like Portugal, it is difficult to send a few thousand people on an expedition. Later, when the Portuguese colonized Mozambique, the huge Mozambique colonial area, covering an area of nearly 800,000 square kilometers, often maintained the size of more than 1,000 colonial troops for a long time. This was of course due to the poor fighting of the blacks, but it also exposed the lack of manpower and troops of the Portuguese.

The only problem is the supply of horses. There are no horses for the black people in Senegal, and there are no horses in the black world in the whole of southern Africa.

And the horses of the cavalry of the Songhai Empire and the Mali Empire were actually Arab horses and Bobu horses brought by bearded merchants from North Africa through the trade routes of the Sahara Desert.

According to records, the Songhai people bought horses from Arab merchants at that time for 10 black slaves in exchange for one horse. And the cavalry of the Songhai Empire numbered several thousand. In other words, in order to form a cavalry unit, the Songhai Empire estimated that tens of thousands of black slaves were exchanged for cavalry horses......

Of course, Marin doesn't have that much trouble getting horses. Previously, the horses on which Puginsky and his 1,000 cavalry archers rode were bought from Morocco. It was not for money, but for the Arabs and Berbers of Morocco in exchange for sugar, salt, and cloth, and the price was not high.

However, the size of the horses on the Moroccan side was small, and Marin was unable to import large quantities of Bobu horses suitable for the desert climate from the Moroccans when Spain and Moroccans were vying for control of the Moroccan region. Because, in the eyes of the Spaniards, it was about the same as a capital enemy. Marin was ostensibly friendly with the Spaniards, and had acquired the Laayoune colony from the Spaniards, so it was not possible to openly import large quantities of Bobu horses from Morocco.

Now, though, it's different. Since coming into contact with the Persians, Marin no longer has to import horses from Morocco, but can import large quantities of Persian horses directly from Persia.

The Persian horse also has the lineage of the Arabian horse, and the climate of southern Persia is also a tropical desert climate. Therefore, the Persian horse can also adapt to the climate of the Mauritanian region. It just so happened that Marin now has a cow and horse ship that specializes in transporting cattle and horses, and can transport Persian horses to this side in large quantities. Therefore, Puginsky trained black junior archers, and the horses were not worried.

After opening up the trade routes of the Songhai Empire, it became very simple for Marin to obtain black slaves in the future. The price of slaves in the Songhai Empire was cheap, and just to exchange horses with the Arabs, people could give tens of thousands of black slaves in exchange. Therefore, it is estimated that it will be easier for Marin to purchase black slaves than African buffaloes.

Thinking of the thousands of black slaves, and the 3,000-strong archers that Puginsky was about to build, Marin suddenly had an idea - why don't I form an army of black servants?

Since a large number of cheap and obedient black slaves can be obtained from the Songhai Empire in the future, then, while being used as serfs, they can also be trained as servant troops, that is, cannon fodder soldiers.

Later, Marin was sure to conquer the Aztec and Inca empires in the Americas. It is not difficult to send large armies from the mainland to conquer these two empires, but it is not cost-effective to have large armies stationed in these two places after that.

You must know that the mainland of Beihai is not peaceful. The German region is a war-torn place. If tens of thousands of troops are stationed overseas for a long time, the defense will be reduced on the local side.

Therefore, Marin planned to wait for the main force to conquer the Aztec Empire and the Inca Empire, and use a large number of black servant troops, together with a small number of native troops, to be stationed in the Americas to manage and suppress the local Indians. The black servant army may not be able to fight the enemy's regular army, but it is still no problem to suppress the indigenous people of the unarmed colonies. The point is - the black slaves of the Songhai Empire are cheap...... Even if you form an army of black servants with a size of tens of thousands, it won't cost a lot of money. And, most importantly - the servant army of black slaves did not need to be paid, as long as food was provided......