On the shores of Daming Lake, the city of Kampala.

Kampala City is the capital of the Kingdom of Uganda, the largest indigenous state in the Great Lakes region east of Mexican.

But the capital of this so-called largest country, in the eyes of the Ming people and the Mo Nu who returned from the Ming Dynasty, can only be regarded as a relatively large and dilapidated village.

At this time, outside the city of Kampala, a large group of local indigenous Mo people stood in a large area in a mess.

They were barefoot, clothed in various colors, and armed with weapons of all kinds.

A handful had old bolt-action rifles, some with flintlock pistols, some arquebuses, and a large number of spears.

The original indigenous civilization was affected by a certain amount of foreign civilization, and obtained some weapons at different stages.

But it has not developed itself, let alone production capacity, and the repair capacity is lacking.

They are the last warriors of the Kingdom of Uganda.

On the opposite side of them, a few hundred meters away, was a group of inky soldiers.

Some of these soldiers wore uniform Ming military uniforms, with pistols slung around their waists and relatively new bolt-action rifles in their hands.

There were many more people around them, dressed in messy indigenous attire and carrying older bolt-action rifles.

But everyone has bolt-action rifles in their hands after all, and there are no flintlock pistols or even cold weapons.

The soldiers were also barely divided into several regiments, with officers of different ranks in charge of discipline.

These people are the Ming Dynasty's Monu Legion.

The officers were mainly the Mo Nu repatriated from the Ming Dynasty and the surrounding feudal states, as well as the naturalized Mo Nu and Mo Nu from the Eastern Mo Zhou Domain.

They are characterized by being able to speak the Ming dialect and have adopted most of the Ming culture.

are all naturalized ink people.

Before Zhu Jingyuan went to the Western Cape to negotiate, he had already formulated a strategy of letting the naturalized Mo people conquer other Mo people and return to their ancestors, and they had already begun to prepare for implementation at that time.

After the end of the peace talks, the initially trained Monu troops became one of the main forces of the Ming Dynasty's conquest of the indigenous forces in the eastern part of Mozhou.

The Ming Dynasty set up an independent system of slave military merit titles for the Murnu Legion.

Status and military merit are directly related to the number of slaves.

The slaves obtained in the war were directly used as a method for the black slave legion to remember their merits, and also as a method for rewarding them.

The slaves from the Ming Dynasty and the surrounding feudal states had a chance to get slaves if they did not die after participating in a battle.

Of course, the premise is that the prisoner or the slave is captured, and his merit is sufficient to distribute the slaves.

If you own ten slaves through military exploits, you can get a horse and get the title of "Black Knight" at the same time.

After that, as an officer and a black nobleman, he led his own slaves into battle, capturing and distributing more slaves.

For each additional ten slaves, the Black Knight title is increased by one grade, and a horizontal bar is added to the military merit medal.

When owning thirty slaves, you can be promoted to "Black Gentleman".

A hundred slaves were promoted to the "Black Baron".

Three hundred slaves were promoted to the rank of "Black Viscount".

A thousand slaves were promoted to the "Black Earl".

Three thousand slaves were promoted to the "Black Marquis".

10,000 slaves promoted to "Black Duke".

All the titles of "black nobles" are divided into three grades, all of which are clearly distinguished by military merit medals.

These titles have nothing to do with the normal titles of the Ming Dynasty, and there are special "black" characters in front of them in order to distinguish them.

Although they have titles in their names, in fact, they are still slaves in the household registration of the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, only naturalized ink people have this kind of promotion qualification.

The Mo people in other regions, the Mo people who were conquered by the naturalized Mo people, can only be the slaves of these "black nobles".

Among the current Monu legions on the scene, those wearing Ming military uniforms are all "black nobles".

The clothes are a mess of their slaves.

However, being a slave of the black aristocracy does not mean that there is no chance to improve status.

Those high-ranking black nobles, after the number of slaves under their hands increased, it was difficult for them to directly govern themselves.

The Black Gentleman has thirty slaves, and he needs to elect three elite slaves to be the black captain among his slaves.

Divide the thirty slaves into three squads, left, center, and right, and manage them through their own three black captains.

There will be three black flags on the left, center, and right below the black baron, and each of them will help him lead the three black captains into battle.

There will be three black hundred households under the Black Viscount, and there will be three black generals under the Black Count.

There are three black guerrillas under the Black Marquis, and there are three black generals under the Black Duke.

These people are collectively referred to as black officers, and they are all slaves of the black aristocracy, but they are all slaves with status.

This management system is a plan suggested by Zhu Jingyuan and discussed and verified by the Military Aircraft Department.

As long as the battle is won and the slaves are captured, the slaves will be divided on the spot and the knighthood will be promoted on the spot.

The number of slaves owned directly corresponds to status.

Whoever fights well will have more slaves and a higher status.

Simple and crude, easy to understand.

It was a good stimulus to Monu's enthusiasm for fighting.

Designing systems and hierarchies that are too complex can be counterproductive.

Now this level of complexity is close to the limit of the management of this force.

It's okay to say that the black officers and ordinary slaves below are very unreliable.

The purpose of using three or three is not to engage in elite infantry, but to worry that ordinary ink people will not be able to figure out large numbers such as five or six.

It's also because they don't want to have too large an ink army, and the total number of 10,000 people is also their management limit.

Not far behind the Menu Legion was a group of soldiers dressed neatly in Ming military uniforms.

Most of them are Shenzhou people, or very similar to the image of Shenzhou people, and a small number of Hu people.

The officers of this force were Ming people, and the soldiers were mainly Japanese, Korean, South Vietnamese, Burmese, Siamese and other ethnic groups.

This is a typical Ming Dynasty vassal state mixed servant soldiers.

Among them were artillerymen, infantry, and cavalry.

The weapons were small-caliber rifled guns, curved guns, light machine guns and heavy machine guns, and the soldiers' weapons were bolt-action rifles.

The establishment is basically the same as that of the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, but there is no submachine gun for the time being.

They were the main force in the war of conquest in the eastern part of Mozhou.

It's just that there have been basically no battles here, and most of the time they are supervising the fighting of the Monu troops.

When everything was ready, the Ming commanding officer gave an order, and the servant artillery opened fire first.

A few blasts were fired at the indigenous troops in front of Kampala.

Just a few clicks.

A cannonball landed in front of the natives, and the natives were immediately thrown into disarray.

Their usual battles are mainly with their own kind of weapons, and most of the time they fight with spears.

There are not many times when guns are used, because guns and bullets are precious items.

There was no artillery shelling at all.

They were originally the army of the tribe and the slave era, but they got a small number of modern weapons.

Real modern artillery is a real dimensionality reduction strike for them.

Many of the natives heard the sound and ran out in a hurry.

A shell landed in the crowd, killing dozens of people directly, and the crowd was completely chaotic.

A few of what appeared to be leaders yelled at the top of their voices, but to no apparent effect.

So the artillery was turned off, the railway had not been completely repaired, and it was still a bit difficult to transport the shells.

The commander in the back looked at the situation in front and directly asked the trumpeter to blow the trumpet.

The Menu Legion in front immediately rushed forward with guns and screams.

"Grab the slaves!"

"Be a black noble!"

"Be a black officer!"

"Rush to Lao Tzu!"

The slave troops, after the training of the modern state apparatus, used unified modern weapons, and this kind of slave troops also dealt a dimensionality reduction blow to the real tribes and the social organization of the slave era.

In particular, there are modern armies in the back, which can provide super mental support, as well as ordinary fire support.

】

The whole battle was completely one-sided, which was also a normal manifestation of the battle of the Monu forces against the natives.

The Menu Legion captured Kampala with little effort.

In the course of the fighting, there were some accidents and loss of personnel.

Some of the black officers' soldiers ran out of order, and did not completely retract until the end of the battle.

However, this did not affect the jubilant state of mind of all black nobles and black officers.

The last large indigenous city in the eastern part of the continent was breached.

The black nobles rode into the city.

The black officers carried guns, whips and ropes on their backs.

Gather the local Mo people, tie their hands with ropes, and gather them in a string in the square.

The officers and servants of the Ming Dynasty were also invited to the square.

The officers are going to distribute the spoils of war for the Menu Legion.

Because all the black nobles and black officers were very brave, this time all the slaves were evenly distributed according to their ranks.

Over the next few days, the tens of thousands of people in Kampala and the surrounding areas were all distributed.

The total number of this Monu army directly doubled, approaching the 100,000 mark.

The slaves of the black aristocracy themselves count regardless of gender, age and child. But those who got weapons to fight were all young and middle-aged, and the other old and weak women and children were all auxiliary personnel.

Slaves and sick people who are particularly old and unable to move will basically be abandoned by the black nobles.

The slaves of the black aristocracy were not just soldiers, but a military-civilian model similar to the traditional guards.

But they don't stay in Tuntian, but keep fighting everywhere, and the way they fight is actually similar to that of the rogues.

The places laid down were left to the Ming servants to take over, and finally handed over to the Ming immigrants to manage and reclaim.

As long as the Legion of the Murnu is populated, they will sweep through all the Murnu and keep advancing, crossing the Grand Canyon in a northwest and southwest direction.

To the east of the canyon is the personal territory of the Great Food King, and no Monu will be allowed to exist in the future.

After crossing the valley area and reaching the later regions of South Sudan, Central Africa, southwestern Congo, and Zambia, the Menu army was able to turn the rogue into a sitting colony and start building its own fiefdom.

At that time, a feudal system similar to that of the Western Zhou Dynasty would be adopted, and the black nobles would become princes, and the Great Food King would be their king.

All of them were nominally slaves of the Great Eater.

Many Mo people from the Ming Dynasty are black eunuchs who have been purified.

And because these black eunuchs are relatively shrewd, mainly because of their relatively high level of education, they can quickly understand what the Ming people say.

So he quickly took advantage of this, and was one step ahead of others in battles and slaves, and was in a high position in the legion.

But they couldn't inherit their titles, but at the suggestion of the Ming officers, they all recognized their godsons under the naturalized Mo people of the vassal kingdom of Eastern Mozhou in accordance with the traditions of the eunuchs who had been in the Ming Dynasty.

As for the naturalized Mo people in the East Mozhou region, those able-bodied black nobles are now at the peak of their lives, surrounded by groups of wives and concubines, and there are often women with big bellies in the team.

The entire army of the Murnos is full of vigor and passion.

They are probably the most competitive indigenous group in the entire Black Ink Continent.