The Sonora Desert located on the border of the Kingdom of New Spain and the Kingdom of Jiaqing is a very special desert. This desert is not sandy at all. The rainfall even exceeds that of many wealthy villages in the Shaanxi-Gansu area of the Ming Dynasty. There is more rainfall in summer and winter. As for frequent flooding!
Before Westerners came here, there was a group of Indians called the Hohokam who lived here. They built cities in the desert, developed agriculture, and built irrigation canals until a major flood hit. That forced them to move from their homes.
After the arrival of the Spaniards, due to plague and massacre, the number of Indians in New Spain was greatly reduced, with only a few million remaining. Therefore, the Sonora Desert, a desert that often suffers from floods, naturally became an inaccessible and desolate place. land.
However, the Battle of the Flood Valley more than ten years ago made the Sonora Desert lively once again. Because this desert, which is not sandy at all, became the border area between the Kingdom of New Spain and the Kingdom of Jiaqing after the Battle of the Flood Valley - it was not only a trade port between the two countries, but also an important border defense town of the Kingdom of New Spain.
After Don Juan Jose became the regent of the Kingdom of New Mexico, he immediately established the province of Sonora and appointed Salvador de Iturbide, a noble officer who came from Europe with him, as the governor of Sonora. The provincial governor also encircled a large piece of land beside the Sonora River and granted it to Iturbide. He also made Iturbide a count in the name of the King of New Spain, and also allowed Count Iturbide to canonize a group of mestizos (descendants of Spanish and Indians) as knights on his own.
Finally, Count Iturbide took his knights and moved to the desolate Sonora Province to settle. He also led them to conquer all the Indian tribes in Sonora Province and turned the local Indians into his own serfs—— This is the so-called "Xia Jun Yin Min", oh, to be precise, it should be "Xi Jun Yin Min", the standard feudal colonial model!
Of course, this kind of feudal colonization could not be achieved anywhere, and it was not possible in Zhu Hehao's United States.
First of all, there must be an independent or semi-independent feudal state. Without the Kingdom of New Spain and the powerful regent Don Juan Jose, there would be no way to create many white (native white) counts, viscounts, and barons in New Spain. Forget about the Knight of Mestiso below. It is impossible to ask the Spanish king to enfeoff in the native land. Those kings with low intelligence may not even be able to recognize the great nobles of the native land. How can they understand the nobles of New Spain? Now that Don Juan Jose is sitting in Mexico City, he can at least block out a group of nobles, big and small, who look similar, right?
Secondly, one or several farming nations must be conquered! Serfs must be able to farm! How can you become a serf if you don't know how to farm? Therefore, it is very difficult for nomadic, fishing and hunting peoples to deal with... It is hard to fight and capture, let alone. After they are captured, they have to be taught how to farm. The language is not fluent, and people may not be willing to learn. It gives me a headache just thinking about it.
Therefore, the local tycoon's United States of Xinzhou did not recruit Xia monarchs and barbarians, but directly immigrated from the Celestial Empire circle. The United Kingdom of New England on the east coast did not engage in Xiajunjimin, and also relied on immigrants from Europe (mainly the Republic of England) for development.
The conditions in the Kingdom of New Spain were very good, and there were many Indian farmers growing corn. Farmers are easier to conquer than herdsmen and hunters, they have weaker fighting power, and they don't run around - America is such a big country, how can you conquer people who want to run around?
It was precisely because of the de facto independent Kingdom of New Spain and the millions of Indians who grew corn that Don Juan Jose was able to transform the New Spanish colony into a feudal kingdom of "European monarchs and Indians" in more than ten years.
Although the transformed country has drifted away from the Spanish motherland across the ocean, Mexico City's ability to control the core areas of the kingdom has been greatly improved, and the country's financial and military power have also been greatly improved, so that it can In places like the Sonora Desert, a long wall is built to the border!
That's right, it's a border wall that separates New Spain and the Kingdom of Garching, stretching eastward from the Gulf of California to the mountains east of the Sonora Desert, with a total length of nearly six hundred miles.
This side wall is made of wood and sandbags, and a "sandwood structure" watchtower is built every five miles. There is also a beacon tower that connects Fort Sonora, the capital of Sonora Province.
Of course, this 600-mile border wall was not used to stop the invading armies of the United States and the Kingdom of Jiaqing - in the eyes of Don Juan Jose and Count Iturbide, the Sonora Desert and the desert The desolate area in the south is enough to block any army that attempts to invade.
More than 2,000 miles of desolate area! Although there are some manors along the way, these manors are feudal manors centered on the castle and are difficult to attack.
Therefore, it is difficult for the invading army to obtain supplies along the way, and they must march with at least a month's worth of rations!
Instead of taking the fast and comfortable sea route, we chose to go to the Sonora Desert. Isn't this crazy?
Therefore, the main function of the border wall built under the leadership of Count Iturbide was to prevent illegal immigration - the Japanese in California could not be allowed to illegally enter New Spain to serve as "eighth class".
Oh, I'm kidding of course, but there were quite a few Japanese who crossed the border into the Sonora province of New Spain!
But these people did not go to the Kingdom of New Spain to work as "eighth-class people" because they believed in God, but they were evil smugglers and robbers!
Since Don Juan Jose adopted policies to combat smuggling and increase tariffs after taking office, smuggling via sea routes was greatly reduced. The Sonora Desert, which was originally ignored, has gradually become a new smuggling hotspot. The goods transported by Pacific sailing ships will first be sent to the "Gyeongju Port" (San Diego) controlled by the Kingdom of Gacheng, and then transported by Gacheng. A smuggling group composed of He tribe merchants and warriors from the Qing Kingdom transported the goods to Guaymas, a port city in Sonora Province, through the Sonora Desert.
These human smuggling groups are all armed smuggling groups with very strong combat capabilities. They often beat Count Iturbide's border militia to the point of losing their armor.
Fortunately, the warriors of the Jiaqing Kingdom were not interested in conquering the Sonora Desert, otherwise Count Iturbide would have lost his territory long ago.
However, the silk, lacquerware, porcelain, tea and other commodities smuggled in through the Sonora Desert every year still made Don Juan Jose very angry.
Under his supervision, Count Iturbide had to mobilize the militia and serfs in the territory to build a 600-mile border wall.
After the border wall was completed, there was less smuggling. The Japanese smugglers in Gyeongju have also changed their profession, not smuggling, but robbing... A large number of Gyeongju warriors will break through the border wall and swarm in!
Of course, the objects of their robbery were not the cacti in the desert, but the serfs in the noble manors in Sonora Province. Sometimes they also robbed white or Indo-European noble women!
And the people robbed by them will soon appear in the slave market of Gyeongju Port... Whether it is the United States of Sinzhou or the Kingdom of Gakyung, they all need serfs. And white or Indo-European girls are even better!
Because the business of robbing people was so profitable, more and more Japanese bandits joined in, and the losses in Sonora Province increased.
In order to resist these hateful bandits, Count Iturbide has worked extremely hard in the past few years. He almost never takes off his armor and his horse never leaves the saddle. As long as the beacon fire comes, he will personally lead the cavalry to fight against the breach in the border wall. The "eighth day" came.
So on January 20, 1674, the war broke out again. This old veteran count has no idea that today's war is different from the past (it looks exactly the same!). The count, who was not aware of the danger at all, immediately summoned 300 cavalry and left the Sonora Castle at high speed, heading towards the northern border wall.
