Chapter 269: The annexation of Mexico is over
Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Native Guard of the Americas, except for the officers who served as officers in the teaching corps composed of retired veterans earlier, almost all the soldiers were semi-conscripted or completely pulled into the army!
This is why the equipment training of the Native American Guard is similar to that of the Han Guard, but the combat effectiveness and morale are very different!
Therefore, Zhao Dutian, who replaced the Native American Guard Indian soldiers in the army who did not want to fight, with the volunteers who returned to the occupied area to surrender, when he won the hearts of a large number of soldiers and soldiers, he also invisibly greatly reduced the hidden danger of forcibly pulling strong men!
This hidden danger will not be apparent when the army has the advantage and wins many battles, but if the army is frustrated or loses the battle, it is likely to be like dominoes, causing a chain reaction!
Even if it is suppressed by a loyal officer corps, the combat effectiveness of the American Home Guard in adversity will be so low that it is even possible to be crushed by the enemy at the touch of a panic!
Just like the Indian rebels who have lost their fighting spirit!
With the vigorous development of the land reform and landlord movement in Mexico, the American Native Guard was also steadily changing blood and training under the suppression of the main army of the Han Empire!
In the overall planning of the Imperial General Staff, after the complete replacement of the 100,000 American Native Guards, the overall mental outlook will inevitably be completely renewed, and the hidden dangers of the American Native Guards will be suppressed to the greatest extent!
Those Indian slaves who were given additional land were all accustomed to living a hard life, and suddenly got so many benefits and rose in status, it is no wonder that they do not support the rule of the Han Empire!
What's more, there will be 'ideological counselors' trained by the Han Protestants in the army who regularly carry out loyal and patriotic brainwashing education, constantly instilling Zhao Dutian's great achievements, and the concept that the Americas are sacred and inalienable territories belonging to the Americans!
These Indian slaves and half-breeds of the Han Empire, who wholeheartedly supported them to bring them a better life, lacked nothing more than training and discipline, and it was only a matter of time before these things were compensated, and they were much better than ethereal morale!
As long as it takes a certain amount of time to train the Native Guard of the Americas and train them on the battlefield, these people will be at the level of a proper European standing army!
Of course, there will definitely be a certain gap with elite veterans, but with 100,000 more European standing troops all of a sudden, the combat effectiveness of the whole world can reach the second-rate level, but it is terrible to think of it!
Take the entire Spanish Latin American colonies as an example, there is no way to come up with an army of 10,000 European standing armies!
In order to guard against the invasion of the Han Empire, the elite of Spain's colonies in the Americas had long been pulled into the Tucson fortress on the front line, and at this time it had been completely annihilated by Zhao Dutian at any cost......
The remaining three governorates naturally have a lot of troops, far more than 100,000 people, but most of them are militia armed with only simple training, and even the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War can fight!
Don't look at the victory of the American Revolutionary War, but it was completely dependent on the support of the capitalists in the United States and the big financiers in Europe, the French!
When the Continental Army led by Washington was driven by the British to fight guerrillas everywhere, the French even sent their direct troops to help the American Continental Army fight, not to mention any supplies, weapons, ammunition and naval support!
It can be said that the independence of the United States is inseparable from the painstaking support of France!
As a result, the United States succeeded in independence, and Britain lost so much money, spending so much money to fight, and as a result, losing a large piece of rich colonies, which can be said to be a loss of blood!
But the defeated Britain was also much stronger than the French who helped Washington win the Revolutionary War!
Britain just loses money, France is a direct economic collapse!
This was also the fundamental trigger that led to the later French Revolution!
Among the reasons for the outbreak of the revolutions of the lower strata of the people in the past dynasties, all kinds of isms can only serve as an introduction, and if you want the majority of the people to follow the uprising, it must be because the common people do not have enough to eat!
Only when the livelihood of the common people is really related to the issue of the people's livelihood will there be a large number of hungry and red-eyed people who will follow the leaders of various isms to play the uprising and revolution!
And the French Revolution broke out after the collapse of the French finances!
Therefore, Zhao Dutian is not in a hurry to annex the remaining South American colonies, and takes the vast and rich Mexico with a population of several millions, as long as he uses coercive measures to carry out a simple and crude redistribution of wealth, he can pull up a united army!
If it weren't for the fact that the Han Empire could only support and maintain a standing army of more than 100,000 in order to maintain a fiscal balance, the Han Empire would have been able to pull up more than 500,000 troops directly from Mexico!
Of course, these 500,000 troops will be completely financially collapsed if they can last for a year at most with the financial resources of the Han Empire!
Moreover, if you want to arm 500,000 large army muskets, it is also quite a huge amount of work!
However, the fact that the Han Empire was unable to support so many standing armies does not mean that the Han Empire would give up such a good opportunity!
This was the time when the Indian slaves and mestizos had just turned over and became the masters, and it was the time when the people were most grateful to the Imperial Liberation Movement!
Naturally, the enthusiasm for joining the army is also the highest!
Since it is impossible to recruit all of them into a costly standing army, let's first pull it up and act as a local security force!
These local security forces are completely armed with looted cold weapons and outdated arquebuses, and they are rotated to carry out security patrol training tasks on weekdays, and most of them are still busy at home with farming and other work, so the Han Empire only needs to pay a small fee!
The armament of the local security forces basically comes from seizures, which saves a lot of money on the manufacture of weapons!
For the Han Empire, the financial pressure is still very small!
This kind of local security force can effectively maintain the rule of the occupied area, and it can also use the reincarnation training system to let these people form basic military literacy, and when the empire wants to expand the army, they can be directly pulled out as a reserve for training, and it will soon be formed!
This kind of local security force is considered to be open to recruitment, and it was not until the end of the 25th year of the Han Dynasty that the tide of people joining the army completely subsided, according to the official statistics of the empire, there were 478,000 Indians and mixed-race children registered in the local security forces!
For the first time, Zhao Dutian completed the prerequisites for the crowd tactics!
With the end of the conscription of the local security forces, the Spanish Foreign Legion has also completed its training!
The Tiger Wolf Marine Corps and the Native Guard of the Americas have also completed battle damage replenishment and training!
It can be said that the Han Empire has initially and completely digested the essence of the Mexican region at this time!