Chapter 270 Ultimatum
After a year of development, Yanhuang Trading Company ushered in its own bottleneck. The labor force of more than one million people has been fully exploited, and if the burden is added, I am afraid that it will affect people's health, and in the long run, the efficiency will decline. Although these people still can't feel it because they are not as tired as their previous lives, the scientific research team composed of several nutritionists under Xiao Lin has already warned them, and Xiao Lin is not easy to ignore. After all, if the population is small, there will be one less waste for one. In the short term, it is difficult to replenish on your own.
In the past, due to the poor living environment, the number of newborns was not large. Later, the environment improved, and there were many newborns, but they were all babies, and it would take more than ten years to become adults. In addition, the market itself has become saturated, even with the help of Spain and Portugal, there are still signs of overcapacity. There are still a huge number of scattered Indian tribes on the North American continent, after all, there are tens of millions of Indians, and they have not died to the extent of millions of people in so many years of fighting.
The small tribes that can be easily annexed have also come to the company. Of course, it is not excluded that there are some small tribes that do not join because of the distance and the existence of various artificial and non-human obstacles on the road to the company. The rest of the tribes were divided into two camps. One is a tribe that is a little more open-minded, has contact with the company, and exchanges all kinds of precious furs and gold ore for some steel knives, steel axes and composite bows made from scraps in the company's arsenal, and then expands their minds and starts to do things.
The other camp is the old and powerful tribe that has not contacted the company because of the distance or the concept is not in agreement, but because the strength is surpassed, it is an old and powerful tribe that responds to the challenge of new tribes every day. The two sides fought fiercely, but because there were no firearms, the battle was not large-scale, and the number of casualties was not much. In the eyes of the company's observation agents, their battles were not much different from those of the company, except that their methods of dealing with prisoners and wounded were several times bloodier than those of the company.
Xiao Lin couldn't bear it anymore and began to secretly send four field brigades, starting from the periphery, to encroach on the Indian tribes. This kind of battle is too simple for a field brigade. The generation gap in weapons is too big, one is the era of cold weapons, the other is the era of automatic firearms, and the crushing is completely stress-free. Even mountain guerrilla warfare and scout warfare, the field brigade far surpassed the Indian warriors of these tribes. On the one hand, there is a professional army, and on the other hand, there is a semi-militia with only the courage of a horseman, which is a difference that cannot be made up by bravery.
Shawlin had gained 30,000 new people in a month, and the rest of the Indian tribes had received no news at all. Xiao Lin saw that sending a field brigade was a bit overkill, and in order to defend the coastline, he still transferred the field brigade back and replaced it with four garrison brigades. Unexpectedly, this change also came out of things. Xiao Lin originally wanted to train troops, but he didn't expect that the garrison brigade had a big and small shortcoming compared with the field brigade, and the blockade ability was not as good as that of the field brigade.
In a new encirclement and suppression activity, several people ran out. Now, all the Indian tribes knew. The company's actions against the tribes they had come into contact with were deeply despised and panicked. None of these people want to give up the tribe and join the company independently, and the company's behavior is touching their bottom line. What Xiao Lin didn't know was that someone had already passed a message between them.
Some time ago, I don't know who did it, which made the outside world suspicious of Xiao Lin's identity as an Indian. Because of the appearance of Lin Xin and these Chinese, people with a heart seemed to have noticed that something was wrong, and then there was news that Xiao Lin might not be an Indian. Rumor has it that they saw Shawlin and they were extremely fluent in Chinese, but had no knowledge of the Indian language at all. Shawlin knew at the beginning that this was a huge flaw, so they never took the initiative to admit that they were Indians.
But when this kind of message appears, Xiao Lin can't go to investigate. Alexey and his most elite agents investigated, and found that there was actually a shadow of the Church in it, and the Templars had not been exterminated, and were hiding in the people to do things. Alexei took them to continue the investigation, and they left the company's territory. They were also desperate in their hearts, and the remarks spread, and none of the Indians under the rule of the company came out to question and resist.
Xiao Lin's method of playing with a big stick in one hand and a radish in the other is too terrible, and even if these people have doubts in their hearts, they dare not question Xiao Lin's leadership. Except for the Eagle Tribe, the other Indians who joined the company were all comfortably cleaned up, and they are still unforgettable. And the Eagle Tribe, because they are direct followers of the Sun God, clearly understand that Xiao Lin is the messenger chosen by the Sun God. Even if Sholin wasn't an Indian, they wouldn't have any disrespect for Shorin.
The old eagle is still there, and in order to ensure the high-level status of the eagle tribesmen in the company, they also have to take the initiative to maintain Xiao Lin's dominance. Therefore, no matter how powerful this message spreads, it has not caused any bad impact on the company. In this case, they had no choice but to leave and go to the Indian tribes that had not joined the company, and continued to spread rumors and undermine Chauling's prestige.
Don't say it, it really works. These people were originally oscillating in the middle, and they did not agree with Sholin's reform of Indian traditions, and many of what they seemed to show bravery were forbidden by Sholin as a punishment of death, and these barbarians themselves were dissatisfied. At this time, Xiao Lin's identity as an Indian is not real, and they are naturally offset. The two camps began to cease fighting, and there was a faint sense of uniting to confront Xiao Lin.
Xiao Lin was also very helpless, these Indian barbarians were uneducated and stubborn to death. However, this seems to be a common problem of uneducated people, who have no knowledge, and have that little tradition in their brains, and no matter how good they play in modern society, as long as they move their traditions, they will play with you if they are instigated. Shawlin was also furious, and directly issued an ultimatum, within three months, all Indians on the North American continent must lay down their arms to the company's army that came to take over, otherwise they would be devastated by the company.
Xiao Lin once again started the pace of army expansion, and the army was directly expanded to 100,000 this time. The field brigade was officially expanded into three field divisions, the brigade-level establishment was abolished, and the original three field brigades were used as the base, which was directly expanded to 10,000 people. The garrison brigade was simply changed to seven garrison divisions, and the militia was not included in the overall planning of the regular army. On the contrary, the militia was reduced in size for the first time because it was transferred to the regular army. The production capacity of the arsenal has completely exploded, and the imitation of Type 56 semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns has been completed, and the scale of equipment has begun to be expanded.
The Yanhuang series of rifles began to be phased out from the regular army, and only half of the army was still in service. Machine guns are not yet available, water-cooled heavy machine guns and ZB-26 light machine guns still occupy the main position. This is true for machine guns, not to mention artillery. Of course, even if this is the case, an army of 100,000 is not something that those barbarians can resist. Even if the number of these people is very large, there are two million, and the proportion of fighters is very large, and a quarter of them are warriors. The ratio of one to five will not be taken into account by the company's military.
However, the tribe was very confident, and the five-member team that the Templars had come to prepare began to exert their strength, constantly moving around, prompting the two million Indians to unite. They were also contacted by smugglers and bought all sorts of muskets and artillery. Do not think that these European countries with colonies on the North and South American continents do not dare to mess with the company, and no white man will dare to sell weapons to the company's enemies. The businessmen in the embryonic period of capitalism were no worse than those in later generations, and as long as they had profits, they did not care whether they would offend people or not.
Xiao Lin's intelligence network was not strong enough to be that strong, knowing that someone dared to commit crimes, but it was not all accurate to the individual. However, Xiao Lin also has his own plans, and when the battle is over, there are ways to clean up these arms dealers who ask for money and don't want to die. For three months, both sides were constantly deploying troops, and Xiao Lin's 100,000 troops were divided into three large groups to fight. One field division with three garrison divisions, and the remaining one garrison division guarded logistics supplies.
Correspondingly, the Indian tribal alliance was also stubbornly divided into three groups, each of which was led by three groups of powerful Indian tribal chiefs. The Indian barbarians had been preparing for three months, and there were only 10,000 firearms troops, and compared to their smuggling activities, the regular factories did not dare to sell their firearms. So even if they had enough money, they didn't have enough of it. What's more, it's still a cold-weapon unit. Among them, archers and blowers are their output.
Xiao Lin sold more than 20,000 cold weapons, which were also equipped by the elite troops among them, and the rest were built by themselves. Stone weapons are available, so don't expect any combat effectiveness from these troops. The only thing that made Xiao Lin look sideways was the cavalry unit of 100,000. Among these two million barbarians, there are many tribes who are good at raising horses, and it is normal to make up 100,000 horses. If the cavalry had been used well and had broken through to the rear of the company's army, it could have caused great damage to the company's army.
In order to prevent a recurrence of the Indian bandit cavalry that had destroyed the settlements like before, Sholin sent out the tank troops, which had been expanded to tank regiments. Among them, twenty Type 59-1 tanks are the main force, which has formed a complete combat strength. There are also fifty White Tiger 1 tanks as support, and the new 10-ton tank continues to fight the White Tiger 2 in the middle of the tank, which is still under development, and no finished product has appeared. Thirty armored vehicles were commissioned, all of which were of combat type. There are still many of them, but there are not enough qualified drivers.
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