Chapter 131: The Sioux surrender
The explosive flowering shells fatally frightened the little-known Sioux horses, and Alivadoni's main cavalry unit was disrupted by the firing of several artillery pieces in the first round of charge!
Then they were shot by the line infantry platoon and suffered heavy losses!
Alivadoni quickly realized the gap in the 'hardware' between the two sides, and he thought that he would come to the middle to defeat the encircled Han Empire army, and immediately changed his goal!
The frontal charge of the main force of the Sioux was easily crushed by the guns and artillery in the queue, but Alivadoni took advantage of the blood of the Sioux cavalry and the sacrifice of the Sioux infantry to scatter towards the encirclement of the American Field Army.
The Sioux warriors did not lose their morale because of the rout in the middle lane, but instead were driven by hatred to wantonly kill and injure the inexperienced American field army on the battlefield!
The battle lasted from noon until the sun set, and Wang Qiming had to withdraw his troops before dark......
Although he achieved the final victory, the messy and tenacious fighting style of the Sioux made the soldiers of the American Field Army suffer a lot of losses!
Moreover, Alivadoni relied on his personal courage to defeat a regiment of the American Field Army in some areas!
This also allowed the remnants of Alivadoni to escape from the danger of the destruction of the whole army and escape from the encirclement!
However, the disadvantage of the main force of the Sioux was also highlighted, except for the troops who followed Alivadoni and escaped from the battlefield completely, most of the other troops were scattered around, and were found and killed or captured in large numbers in the pursuit of the American Field Army led by Wang Qiqi the next day!
In the following days, Wang Qiming did not give Alivadoni a chance to regain his old troops, and regardless of his own losses, he divided the American Field Army into several columns and carried out carpet purging, so that the Soviet soldiers who escaped by luck on the first day of the battle were annihilated in large numbers. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
It can be said that Alivadoni played a battle loss ratio with Wang Qiming on the first day, but in the following days, it became a complete failure!
However, although Alivadoni failed, his deeds of killing and wounding thousands of American field troops at one time did not shake Alivadoni's position in the Sioux Grand Alliance!
And in this battle, Alivadoni's miraculous personal hand-to-hand combat ability also shocked Wang Qiming, and it was the first time he saw a legendary battle in which one person tortured and killed hundreds of people!
Fortunately, this is the era when muskets and artillery dominate the battlefield, if in the era of cold weapons, if such a person acts as a vanguard, how many lives can be filled?
After this battle, although the combat effectiveness of the Sioux was weakened to the extreme, the large number of casualties of the American Field Army also hindered the plan to occupy the territory of the Sioux people.
Wang Qiming, who felt that his troops were insufficient, began to ask Zhao Dutian for help......
Zhao Dutian didn't expect that Angela's words came true, and the Sioux really caused some trouble to themselves, and at the same time, it also made Zhao Dutian see the shortcomings of the glamorous American Field Army!
The officer level of the American Field Army has absolutely no problem with the will to fight, and the main problem why it cannot withstand the casualty ratio of the armies of the first-line European powers lies in the quality of the soldiers!
Although those Indian soldiers have also been baptized by the patriotic and loyal thoughts of the Han Empire, the most attractive to them is the high treatment, the starting point of the soldiers' combat is dominated by material interests, and when they encounter a real strong enemy, they will naturally highlight their weaknesses, and they are filled with a large number of recruits, and the battlefield response ability will further decline, and it will naturally become easier to be shaken!
To put it bluntly, it was caused by the rapid expansion of the American Field Army and the short training time!
Zhao Dutian had to consider whether to use the Indian army as a second-line force!
However, now that the human resources of the Han Empire are in short supply, it is obvious that they cannot leave the support of the Indians' human resources!
In Zhao Dutian's future plan, the Indians, a race whose combat ability is not too prominent, will be used as a supplement to the local security forces and grassroots labor such as workers and miners, while the Han people will be the main population of the field standing army!
In fact, the current Han population of the Han Empire system is enough to support tens of thousands of front-line troops, but Zhao Dutian does not want these loyal and reliable Han people to be consumed in future wars, which will cause the foundation of the Han Empire to be shaken, so these Han people have been dispersed by Zhao Dutian to all levels of the Han Empire, as the 'screws' of the empire, to maintain the stable dictatorship of the Han Empire!
Zhao Dutian would rather spend more money and send more Indians to the battlefield to die, rather than let the Han people in the system suffer a large number of casualties!
Naturally, after getting the news of Wang Qiming's insufficient troops, a large number of American Self-Defense Forces took the wartime allowance and drove into Louisiana!
Zhao Dutian's plan to save financial expenditures was ruined by the stubborn resistance of the Sioux people......
It's just that Louisiana's gold mine income has also replenished the empire's finances to a certain extent, and the additional expenditure is not too big!
50,000 California Indians, who were half-soldiers and half-farmers, moved out of their hometown and came to Louisiana under the order of Zhao Dutian!
Begin a large-scale encirclement and suppression of the Sioux with huge losses in the army!
The total population of the remnants of the Sioux is less than 50,000, and it is conceivable how narrow the living space of the Sioux has become under the encirclement and suppression of 50,000 people!
It is foreseeable that the Sioux Grand Alliance will perish, but it is only a matter of time......
Wang Qiming's important work has also become to defeat the Sioux Alliance!
At the beginning of the ninth year of the Han Dynasty, the last seven-color flame council of the Sioux Grand Alliance ended, and the remaining Sioux tribes officially surrendered to Wang Qiming, and the war between the two sides ended with the destruction of the Sioux after paying tens of thousands of casualties!
The Sioux tribe completely became a tribe of miners in Louisiana, and the entire Sioux tribe was forcibly relocated to the vicinity of the gold mines to make a living by digging gold for the Han Empire......
All the Sioux horse ranches were nationalized by the Han Empire, and Zhao Dutian could finally start forming cavalry units in a structured manner!
The horse breeding technology of the Sioux people is exactly what the Han Empire lacks!
The Han Empire had cavalry instructors, but there were not many horse breeders......
The 50,000 half-soldiers and half-farmers of the American Self-Defense Force were also completely resettled in Louisiana as a local security force, and they were reclaiming farmland in the plains of Louisiana!
At the same time, the families of these Indians also began to migrate to Louisiana in large numbers, and Zhao Dutian planned to completely turn this place into the land of the Han Empire!
After more than 100,000 Indians migrated from California to consolidate Louisiana, Zhao Dutian discovered his own shortcomings!