Chapter 258: We Want to Liberate America
Nadora depressedly pulled out the boots that had fallen into the mud puddle, wiped the water stains on her head, and cursed the damn rainy weather in her heart again!
Nadora, struggling to make her way on the extra muddy dirt road washed by the rain, can't help but miss the warm wooden house in the Han Empire!
Even if you have to go out to work every day and work tirelessly until the sun goes down before you can go home, it's a hundred times better than coming to damn Mexico!
The cold and hard food, the military uniform that always exudes a damp smell, and the boots that are often soaked in water make Nadora very uncomfortable!
"Soldiers, there is a small town of locals in front of you, remember what the trainer taught, when you encounter a locals with weapons, don't fire first, and tell them that we are the Americans who have come to liberate them!
As long as the other party lays down its arms, it is our fellow Americans, and we must not hurt at will! But if they are stubborn, they are sinners who disturb the liberation of our fellow Americans! You can shoot and kill! ”
Nadora came the last reminder from the team officer in front of him, although he would not necessarily encounter a battle, but Nadora, who had experienced the cruelty of Tucson's offensive and defensive battles, still subconsciously clenched the flintlock pistol in his hand!
The flintlock pistol of the Han Empire is already considered to be the world's advanced level, and the ingenious fire cap shooting makes this flintlock pistol of the Han Empire can ensure a good firing rate in rainy days!
After the officer's voice died down, Nadora quickly saw a mess of wooden buildings, and he saw at a glance that the tallest building in the town, the Catholic church, did not have the usual Spanish flag flying. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
It was also a simple sign used by the soldiers of the Khanate to distinguish the Spaniard-controlled areas from the independent areas where the locals had already revolted!
Because in the offensive and defensive battle of Tucson, Nadora, who killed a Spanish soldier and became a private of the upper class, naturally had to walk in the forefront and enter the town!
The ringing of the town's bells didn't make Nadora and his companions nervous, with the experience of the tragic front-line combat of the Tucson Fortress, the recruits of the Native Guard of the Americas had already honed the steadiness of a veteran!
Wearing a boat-shaped hat, wearing a gray tight-fitting military uniform of the Han Empire, and holding a flintlock pistol diagonally, Nadora and a few companions walked into an unknown town!
Perhaps because of the sound of the bell, there was no one on the streets of the town, which couldn't help but make Nadora and the others feel a little depressed!
Soon, however, as they were about to reach the middle of the town, they were greeted by a group of 'civilians' armed with cold weapons and home-made shotguns, looking in horror at Nadora's group, which was far smaller than them!
If it weren't for the pigeon flag on the shoulders of one of them, the battle might have begun!
As the Viceroyalty of New Spain was close to the Han Empire, it was impossible not to know the power of this emerging American empire and its iconic pigeon battle flag!
Oh, outsiders often mistake a somewhat hideous pigeon for a trumpet eagle, so they used to call the military flag of the Han Empire the eagle flag with a twig in its mouth......
Zhao Dutian's dove of peace, which was designed due to his personal bad taste, has completely changed its taste......
Of course, Zhao Dutian, who has a lot of opportunities, will not care about the misunderstanding of the military flag by the people below......
"Han people, what are you doing here? The rule of the Spaniards has been overthrown by us, we are already independent! ”
Nadora looked at the group of 'armed men' in front of her, who had gathered almost all the young and strong men in the entire town, and couldn't help but feel a great irony, the Spaniards who had held back hundreds of thousands of troops in the fortress of Tucson for nearly two months were overthrown by a mob that didn't even have guns?
Nadora bets that the gang on the opposite side can't stop even a salvo!
However, being able to take a town without firing is not the same as attacking a town by force, the meaning and merit of war are not the same!
There were only a dozen of Nadora's party, and they belonged to the kind of pioneers who explored the way, sent by the officers to prevent the large army from being ambushed by dangerous elements in the dense buildings of the town.
After all, no conqueror wants to get a deserted ruin, and it would be better if they could fool the locals without killing people and accumulating hatred!
"The American compatriots in front, we are also Americans, we are here to liberate your army, as long as everyone lays down their arms and joins the common home of the Americans, freedom, land, and food will be everything!
Just leave the task of fighting to us, you just need to lay down your arms and live in peace, the emperor of the Han Empire has declared that he can be exempted from the extra tribute tax that is especially heavy on the American compatriots! ”
As soon as Nadora's words came out, not only the local young man opposite, but even the companions next to him also looked at him with admiration, and he could say such an orderly surrender speech, in the illiterate American Native Guard, he definitely belonged to the 'intellectuals'!
Intellectuals, or scholars, are respected in any period and in any country, and of course, respect here refers to the respect of civilians!
As for the exemption from tribute or something, of course, it is also a trick used by Zhao Dutian and the Imperial Staff Headquarters to fool people!
The upper echelons of the Han Empire had long anticipated the possibility of an uprising in the Spanish colonies, and the Spanish rule in South America was quite unpopular, not only the Indian slaves at the bottom, but also the native whites, and even the rich landlords and big estate owners, all had extremely strong independent tendencies!
This is also the real reason why the Spaniards ruled precariously!
If it were a group of illiterate Indians and blacks who were enslaved all day long, how would they know what revolution is, what nationalism is, what independence is!
All they know is that they don't have enough to eat, and they have to pay the Indian tribute tax of Rausch more than the whites!
Therefore, the original intention of most Indian serfs to rebel against Spanish rule was very simple and easy to satisfy!
However, it could not be these mud legs who really overthrew the colonial rule of the Spaniards, and there would inevitably be rich people who mastered the intellectual culture and revolutionary ideas to provoke this!
Hidalgo is also a large hacienda owner himself!
Even, the ancestor was a small Spanish nobleman!
These people instigated the oppressed low-level Indian slaves, gave them freedom, exempted them from additional oppression, and paid all the tribute to the Spanish government, and then took out some of the land of the Spanish colonial authorities, and divided the oil!
Then, wrap these cannon fodder to satisfy their desire for independence and power!
To put it bluntly, South American independence is a group of rich people or big capitalists of the big landlord class, using the interests of the Spanish colonial government to trick the lower classes of Indians into shedding blood for their selfish desires! (To be continued.) )