Chapter 302: Expansion

At the beginning of the 31st year of the Han Dynasty, Zhao Dutian, who lived in the capital of Columbia Province to deal with government affairs, received the news of the Kyoto incident in Japan and the report of the suppression process, which made Zhao Dutian realize the seriousness of Japan's national problems and couldn't help but start to accelerate the governance strategy in South America!

With Spain's human resources in the three major satrapies of South America and a large amount of white land, the Han Empire drastically carried out a clear policy of 'racial separation' for the three major provinces divided into South America - Colombia, Peru, and La Plata!

Relying on the political correctness of the native countries of the Americas, the Han Empire wantonly coveted Indians and Indo-European people (after hundreds of years of colonization in Spain, it is difficult to find pure-blooded Indians, most of whom are of mixed Indo-European descent, and the Indians are the same exploited class, and they also identify with their own Native American identity!). With the land of the big white landlords and big capitalists, distribute it to these people, gain their popular hearts and enthusiasm to join the army!

After more than a year of rough statistics, the proportion of the population of South America, including black slaves, Indians and Indo-European people can account for about half of the population, most of the rest are black and black mixed-race, pure-blooded whites account for less than 10%, and most of them have either fled or been sent to Brazil, a colony on the European continent and Portugal!

It can be said that in South America under the rule of the Han Empire, almost all purebred whites became traitors in Europe and loyal defectors of the Han State, the main source of the Spanish Foreign Legion!

The Indians and the Indo-European mixed-race people completely changed their stance in the subsequent land redistribution policy, fully supporting Zhao Dutian's wise rule, and the Native American Guard was officially renamed the American National Guard!

There are more than 200,000 active-duty soldiers, and there are militia forces of a local security nature that even Zhao Dutian can't count!

Because those militia forces were organized and trained by the local people under the appeal of the Han government, they used broadswords and spears, obsolete arquebuses and old flintlock muskets, and they did not need to be financially borne by the Han government......

The Indians and Indo-European people who had just experienced the war and had been divided into land were not averse to this additional tax expenditure, and the vigilante militia was also very motivated to train because they were defending their land and property!

In the thirty-first year of the Han Dynasty, the army organization of the Han Empire underwent a limited reform!

The main army is naturally the largest in number, with the American National Guard composed of Indians and Indo-European mixed descent, which is said to be a guard, but in fact it is trained according to the standard equipment of the European standing army!

In addition, the two Han Guards who re-filled the full formation with systematic Han Chinese, the First Army guarded the safety of Zhao Dutian in Bogotá, the capital of the province of Colombia, and the original Spanish Governor's Palace in Bogotá City was also converted into the royal palace of the Han Empire!

In addition to the Royal Palace in Bogotá, the Royal Palace in Lima, the capital of Peru, and La Paz, the capital of La Plata, are only planned out of the area, without specific construction. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Second Army of the Han Guards returned to the core of the Han Empire, garrisoned in California.

In addition to these two main forces, the Han Empire also has some additional independent legions, such as the Tiger Wolf Marine Corps, which has less than 10,000 people, which is mainly used for foreign wars, and then the Green Jacket Rifle Skirmish Regiment with the honorary title!

Including the National Guard of the Native Americas and the Han Guard, all the corps are infantry!

Only a small number of Herald Cavalry and Observer Cavalry!

In the Han Empire, the cavalry unit will officially be formed separately as an elite main force!

In the battle to annex South America, the light cavalry unit with the revolver carbine made great achievements, and naturally it was greatly expanded!

Zhao Dutian expanded three cavalry regiments with a scale of 10,000 people at one time, namely the first cavalry regiment, the second cavalry regiment, and the third cavalry regiment!

These cavalry legions will be more divided into revolver carbines, rapid-fire cavalry, and charging cavalry!

When fighting, the rapid-fire cavalry of the revolver carbine first stepped forward to carry out fire killing, disrupting or breaking the enemy's formation!

This is followed by the cavalry, which specializes in hand-to-hand combat, to launch a charge and expand the results, and of course, the carbine cavalry can also draw their sabers to follow!

The ratio of the Wheel Carbine to the Charge Cavalry in a cavalry regiment is about 2 to 1!

It can be said that the cavalry tactics of the Han Empire are somewhat similar to the tactics of the Mongols back then, which are to harass and consume the enemy's morale with long-range cavalry first, and then use the charging cavalry to determine the victory or defeat in one game!

It's just that the Mongols used bows and arrows with a poor rate of fire, and the training cost of cavalry archers was too high, while the rapid-fire cavalry of the Han Empire only needed to pull the trigger continuously, and the training cost was lower than that of the charging cavalry!

Another difference is that the cavalry units of the Han Empire did not wear heavy armor in order to pursue speed and reduce costs, after all, the protection of armor in front of muskets and artillery is really bad......

Even the French cuirassiers wearing high-quality cuirasses made of industrially compacted pure steel plates are easy to be shot through at close range from an old-fashioned flintlock pistol, not to mention that now with the industrialization of various countries, the quality of the flintlock pistol is getting better and better, and the air tightness increases and the penetration is enhanced!

The standard flintlock pistol mass-produced in the factory is not the same as the hand-made flintlock pistol!

It's just that the current three cavalry regiments except for the first cavalry regiment, the remaining two are an empty shelf, the production of revolver carbines and the training of cavalry take time, although the cavalry requirements in the era of firearms are very low, but at least to ensure that there is skilled equestrianism......

When the Han Empire used land to win people's hearts and doubled its army, the English Empire, which was restoring the commercial circulation of the colonies, finally couldn't sit still!

Whether it is the Portuguese colony or the British North American colony, due to policy and racial reasons, they cannot hold the righteousness and favor the indigenous untouchables at the bottom like the Han Empire, if the British government dares to allocate land to the Indians, those noble gentlemen in the parliament will definitely impeach the entire cabinet!

It can be said that the advantages of the Han Empire in the Americas are the foundation of Zhao Dutian's popularity!

The British naturally can't watch Zhao Dutian sort out South America and strengthen themselves!