Chapter Seventy-Two: The Sweep of Hispaniola

The war in Italy seemed to be at a stalemate, which, of course, was soon to be broken.

However, in the meantime, let's turn our lens to the New World of America.

"Whew!" A terrible howl was heard, from an unfortunate soldier on the island of Hispaniola. The arrows of the Indians were also very lethal.

And then...... The guy struggled to his feet again and continued to fight.

So...... He wasn't actually hurt just now. So what's howling?

Another arrow struck, and the guy quickly dodged it.

"Thank me......" muttered Ferdinand in Sicily, looking in the direction of the New World of America. That's right, it's all Ferdinand's work, and without him preparing the plates for those soldiers, the casualties on Hispaniola would surely have skyrocketed.

Now, of course, the number of casualties on Hispaniola is still surging. However, the surge has come mainly from indigenous people.

After receiving powerful reinforcements from the Spanish mainland, thousands of soldiers began the full-scale conquest of Hispaniola.

In the year 1495, the entire island of Hispaniola was in flames. Well, there's not much "war".

According to relevant information, at the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century, the total number of Indians on the island of Hispaniola was 100,000. After 300 years, only 2,000 Indians remain. In fact, there are still 2,000 Indians left, which is already very good.

And now, the process of declining the number of Indians is about to be accelerated.

The Castilian army fought on the coast, in the rainforest, in the Indian villages, using arquebuses, bows, spears, shields, and other tools to advance from east to west.

More powerful weapons are influenza, smallpox, and plague.

Eurasia is the center of human civilization. In Stave Arenas's General History of the World, the world before 1500 is divided into Eurasia and the world outside Eurasia.

The advantages of Eurasia over the Americas are all-encompassing, including population, economy, science and technology, politics, military, and culture. Genetic superiority is even included.

Genetic superiority here refers to the body's immunity, as well as viruses and bacteria.

Even the bacteria of the Americas, in front of their relatives in Eurasia, are full of dirt buns and have never seen the world.

So, more Indians died not under the guns and swords of the Castilians, but from the flu, smallpox, and pestilence.

This is the Resident Evil of Hispaniola, and the future will also be the Resident Evil of the American continent.

The Castilian "Iron Man" (iron plate is also iron), with the help of the "Eurasian virus", is invincible and plunders thousands of miles...... Although most of it is rainforest, there are savannahs.

However, these places will be sugar cane plantations in the future! With the introduction of Oriental cultivation techniques, it was sure to produce a large amount of cane sugar, which became another major source of income for Ferdinand. Ferdinand, however, was planning to open another bank and have some start-up capital. In addition, all aspects of military construction, infrastructure construction, and social construction all need money, and the development of industry also needs money.

Money can make ghosts grind, and Ferdinand had to let a large number of Indians in the Americas with blood and tears to push the bloody money mill for money.

Accelerated such a Resident Evil in the Americas, Ferdinand's conscience ...... Of course, it doesn't hurt at all.

It's really a good conscience, he does it for the sake of the national interest! The interests of the country are above all else. This is perfectly in line with Ferdinand's values.

He was fighting for what is now Spain. If he wants to enjoy the glory and wealth, power and so on, he can be an ordinary king for the rest of his life, anyway, Spain is so autocratic here. The biggest beneficiary of this Resident Evil is, in the final analysis, the big duck.

"Big Duck, I've done so many things for you, detonated so many technology trees, you can give me some energy, you must fly, you must be a Qiqi Duck!"

The Indian tribes scattered on the island were defeated one after another, some were conquered by iron-blooded means, some were bought with money and gifts, some were destroyed by viruses and bacteria, and some were intimidated by enemy soldiers.

In its original history, it was only in 1502 that Castile conquered Hispaniola completely, and now, with Ferdinand's strong reinforcements, this time may have been seven years earlier.

The Castilian army exerted its might in the face of a completely unequal native, completely occupying the eastern and central parts of the island, compressing the Indians into small areas in the west, and then advancing further, cutting and compressing the remaining territories of the Indians, driving them into small reservations, as in the westward movement.

No, it can't be said about reservations. In the 19th century, although the U.S. imperialists bloodily slaughtered Indians, they still carried the shell of the "dish cooking legal system", even if it was a massacre of Indians, there were laws to follow, killing a few people, stripping a few scalps, and how much bounty to receive, there were strict regulations, and each state also legislated according to its own situation. Therefore, the Indians were also bathed in the brilliance of the boiling, and they would be cooked in the prescribed vessels. Because of the "freedom", the Indians could of course also enjoy the great "freedom" of the United States of America in their "reservations".

However, at the end of the 15th century, on the island of Hispaniola, there was not even this bit of cooking and freedom. There are no reservations, obedience is life, resistance is death, and the new territories are all the territories of the Castilian royal family, and there is no room for anything. Those who are not afraid of death are dead. Large numbers of Indians were enslaved, or entire tribes chose to accept domination.

In 1495, the number of Indians on Hispaniola was reduced by 20,000, and only a little more than 70,000 remained under Castilian rule. It doesn't seem like there were many dead, but that's just because there weren't many Indians on the island in the first place, so they couldn't kill much. The real killings and deaths will take place on the North American continent, the Aztec Empire, and the Inca Empire.

The fighting on the European continent was intermittent. And in the New World of America, the fierce war never stopped. Unlike the Italian Wars, these wars were much smaller in scale, and there were no important battles that could be handled, no sharp and unique strategies and tactics, and they would not be recorded in the "General History of the World" by Stav Arenas or anyone else, nor would any historian or military strategist sort them out and comment on them.

But these "insignificant" wars and campaigns are much more decisive than all the famous battles in Eurasia.

The Italian War, the Three Great Expeditions of Wanli, the Thirty Years' War, the Qing Army's entry into the customs, the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years' War, the Napoleonic Wars, and even the two world wars are not necessarily as important as these battles that have not been recorded in the history books.

The British Empire was not born out of a great victory over the European powers, but out of three hundred years of crushing victory over the natives.

The United States rose to the throne of a superpower in two world wars, but the conditions of its chosen nation were achieved by the Westward Expansion Movement and the blood and tears of the Indians.

The Russian/Soviets, the Eurasian bear, were involved in one European war after another, but the establishment of this powerful empire was born out of its unknown wars against the Siberian Tatars, the Central Asian Pacifists, and the Don Cossacks.

In the wilderness where the Great Powers had not yet set foot, the first visitors were drawing strength.

In the dark corners of the giants, a new overlord is quietly emerging.

America, the land of change, will write a new chapter in this world.