Chapter 70: The Pacification of Newfoundland
As a result of the "77 Incident in the Americas", the fighters of the "Space Expeditionary Force" suffered a major setback in their struggle and liberation, but they did not flinch and still fought resolutely against the evil invaders and colonizers.
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"Alas, finally got rid of these pesky natives." On the night of July 7, 1495, Fonseca, the chief leader of the criminal Castilian colonists, was enjoying delicious turkeys and cod in his camp in the meadows of Lanséo.
The climate of Newfoundland is naturally quite cold. However, it was July, and it was the height of summer, and although it was definitely not hot, it was at least "warm", so the Castilian people had a rare good time. Although the fighters of the great "Space Expeditionary Force" had unexpectedly dealt a heavy blow to the Castilian colonists with their fearless revolutionary heroism in the previous two days, at present, in Fonseca's view, the situation has not stabilized?
In this battle in the Long Ridge Mountains, the combined forces of the Castilian and Beotuks eliminated 315 vicious native invaders, and only five stumbled back. And the Castilian casualties were, no! What a great achievement. As for the Beotuks, 336 young men died, ahem...... We express our deep condolences!
Although there were still more than 600 natives in the south who were "stubbornly resisting", it was clear that the victory of the Castilians in such a major battle had caused irreparable losses to the strength of the natives, and it seemed only a matter of time before the invading enemies in the central and southern parts were eliminated.
The next morning, however, he received very bad news that made him furious.
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Let's take a look at what this bad news is all about.
Although, in the north, the fighters of the northern detachment of the elite "Space Expeditionary Force" suffered heavy losses, on the central front, the main forces of the "Space Expeditionary Force", with their great achievements in the abuse of the Beotuks for thousands of years, caused a huge psychological shadow on the Beotuks.
On the night of July 7, 600 soldiers of the "Space Expeditionary Force" on the central front launched a decisive charge against the camp of the Beotuk people at the foot of the middle of the Changling Mountains!
More than 1,700 unprepared Beotuks were slaughtered all over the field by the soldiers of the "Space Expeditionary Force", who numbered only one-third of themselves, and their bodies were strewn all over the field, and rivers of blood flowed on their backs...... Well, not horses.
Most of the Beotuk forces were wiped out in the raid, and the Beotuk chieftain, with only the remnants of more than 200 men, staggered across the Longling Mountains into the interior of Newfoundland. The casualties of the "Space Expeditionary Force" were only 72, and the rest were safe and sound, cheering and celebrating this great victory!
As a result, the brave and fearless soldiers of the "Space Expeditionary Force" broke through the defense line of the Long Ridge Mountains and entered the interior of Newfoundland on the east side of the Long Ridge Mountains!
On the southern front, having captured the cowardly and incompetent Beotuk blocking force, 40 soldiers of the "Space Expeditionary Force" also marched north, overcoming obstacles all the way into the interior of Newfoundland. This detachment joined up with the main force on 9 July. The strength of the "Space Expeditionary Force" reached 568 people.
So, when Fonseca woke up early the next morning, he was told that the whole island of Newfoundland was now in full swing.
Fonseca couldn't understand how this happened, could it really be that God's bad taste had flareed up? In fact, he really guessed half right......
However, Fonseca is not particularly worried, anyway, there are 40,000 Beotuks? Although nearly 2,000 people had been killed or wounded in previous battles, it should not be a problem to deal with the more than 500 aborigines who had fled into the interior of Newfoundland.
"How many troops have we stationed in the Changling Mountains?" Fonseca asked.
"Your Excellency the Governor (Fonseca is the Governor of the Province of Canada), 40 people." , the military commander of the detachment of the cantonment corps replied respectfully.
"Your Excellency, do you need to send more troops to deal with those natives?"
"No need," Fonseca waved nonchalantly as he finished his last cod stick, "we have 300 soldiers in total, and it's not worth distracting our forces to suppress the natives." ”
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As one of the pioneers of colonialism, Fonseca was naturally happy to see the indigenous people of the Americas killing each other! The soldiers of the "Space Expeditionary Force" unfortunately fell into the enemy's evil tactics of "using soil to resist soil and encircling and suppressing with a sea of people."
It is necessary to mention here that taking advantage of the contradictions between the indigenous people was indeed a very important means for the Spaniards to open up the American continent, and the plot here is also a microcosm of the relationship between the Spanish and the indigenous Indians in the future.
Cortés' conquest of the Aztec Empire was based on the contradictions between the natives. After landing on the Mexican coast, Cortés first engaged in several skirmishes with some local Indian tribes. However, Cortés soon formed an alliance with these Indian tribes against their common enemy, the Aztec Empire.
The Aztec Empire conquered the surrounding Indian tribes in Mexico, so instead of uniting to resist the Spaniards, the other Indian tribes provided the Spaniards with guides, supplies, and even Indian warriors to help them fight, resulting in the tragedy of the Aztec Empire, which was wiped out by the Spaniards.
Of course, the Indian tribes who helped the Spaniards did not have good fruit to eat, and soon followed in the footsteps of the Aztec Empire.
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Therefore, under the blow of the colonists' criminal strategies and tactics, the soldiers of the "Space Expeditionary Force" were besieged and strangled by the Beotuks who did not know the truth when they were fighting in the interior of Newfoundland!
The soldiers of the "Space Expeditionary Force" tried to explain to the Beotuk inhabitants that it was not difficult for them to borrow and repay, but the vigilant Beotuk inhabitants refused to give them any supplies, and instead beat them away with clubs, bows and arrows. In the same way, the ignorant Beotuk inhabitants cannot understand the ideas and behaviors of the soldiers of the "Space Expeditionary Force" who are free to fall in love and get together and disperse. The "Space Expeditionary Force" was increasingly depressed by the encirclement and attack of a large number of hostile civilians.
Enraged, the Beotuk chieftain decides to amass an unprecedented force for revenge. He recruited 3,500 Beotuk warriors, and on July 11, with a huge force advantage of 7 to 1, seized the opportunity to launch an ambush against the "Space Expeditionary Force". At this juncture, 40 soldiers sent by the evil Castilian colonists entered the battlefield and murdered the "Space Expeditionary Force" soldiers with arquebuses and sword and shield men.
In this way, after several hours of fighting, all 568 soldiers of the Space Expeditionary Force died heroically, and they also inflicted casualties on the Beotuk people 1,100 soldiers. In this way, the main force of the singing and weeping "Space Expeditionary Force" was annihilated by the invaders, while the criminal Castilian colonists did not pay the slightest casualties at this time.
However, there were still five soldiers of the "Space Expeditionary Force" in the Changling Mountains who were bravely resisting, and on the night of July 10, they touched the Changling Mountains and began a great strategic retreat. The remaining warriors secretly attacked a Beotuk stronghold in the Long Ridge Mountains, killed 16 Beotuks, seized some means of subsistence, and then trekked towards the coast, where they unknowingly returned to the coast and found a canoe. At this moment, six Beotuks found them on the coast, and were about to return to report the news, when the warriors opened their bows and arrows in a volley, and immediately six people fell, and one of the arrows actually pierced two of them.
The warriors sailed back to Labrador in canoes to tell the "Cosmic Chieftain" and his people about their heroic deeds. Although the cause of conquering the stars and seas has suffered a temporary setback, the tribesmen of the "Cosmic Tribe" do not blame them, because they have recently caught a few seals and a few beluga whales, and the food is fully guaranteed.
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