Daming Lake, Kampala City.
Kampala is the capital of the Kingdom of Uganda, the largest indigenous country in the Great Lakes region of eastern Mexico.
But in the eyes of the people of the Ming Dynasty and the Mo Nu who returned from the Ming Dynasty, the capital of this so-called largest country can only be regarded as a relatively large-scale shabby village.
At this time, outside the city of Kampala, a large group of local indigenous Mexicans stood in a large mess.
Their feet were bare, their bodies covered with various kinds of cloth, and they held various weapons in their hands.
A few carried old bolt-action rifles, some flintlock muskets, some matchlocks, and a large number of spears.
The native indigenous civilization has been impacted by foreign civilization to a certain extent, and obtained some weapons at different stages.
But it has not developed itself, let alone production capacity, and repair ability is lacking.
They are the last warriors of the Kingdom of Uganda.
Opposite them, a few hundred meters away, was a group of dark-colored soldiers.
Some of these soldiers were wearing uniforms of the Ming Dynasty, with pistols hanging on their waists, and relatively new bolt-action rifles in their hands.
There were more people around them wearing messy indigenous clothing and holding older bolt-action rifles.
But after all, everyone has a bolt-action rifle to use, not a flintlock or even a cold weapon.
These soldiers barely fought into several groups, with officers of different ranks controlling discipline.
These people are the Monu Legion of the Ming Dynasty.
The officers were mainly Mo slaves repatriated from the Ming Dynasty and surrounding vassal states, as well as naturalized Mo slaves and Mo slaves from the Dongmozhou vassal state.
Their characteristic is that they can speak the elegant dialect of the Ming Dynasty and have accepted most of the Ming Dynasty culture.
They are all considered naturalized Mo people.
Before Zhu Jingyuan went to Xiyang Cape for negotiations, he had already formulated the strategy of allowing the naturalized Mo people to conquer other Mo people to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors, and preparations for its implementation had already begun at that time.
After the peace talks, the Monu troops that had been initially trained became one of the main forces of the Ming Dynasty to conquer the indigenous people in the eastern part of Mozhou.
The Ming Dynasty set up an independent slave military merit and title system for the Menu Legion.
Status and military merit were directly related to the number of slaves.
The slaves obtained in the war were directly used as a method for the black slave army to record their merits and also as a way to reward their merits.
Mo slaves from the mainland of the Ming Dynasty and surrounding vassal states would have the opportunity to obtain slaves if they participated in a battle and survived.
Of course, the premise is that this time a slave is captured or captured, and his merit is enough to distribute the slaves.
If you own ten slaves through military exploits, you can be assigned a horse and gain the title of "Black Knight".
Later, as an officer and a black noble, he led his slaves to fight, captured and distributed more slaves.
For every ten additional slaves, the Black Knight title increases by one level and a horizontal bar is added to the military medal.
When you own thirty slaves, you can be promoted to "Black Gentleman".
One hundred slaves were promoted to "Black Baron".
Three hundred slaves were promoted to "Black Viscount".
A thousand slaves were promoted to "Black Counts".
Three thousand slaves were promoted to "Black Marquis".
Ten thousand slaves were promoted to "Black Dukes".
All "black noble" titles are divided into three levels, which are clearly distinguished in military medals.
These titles have nothing to do with the normal titles of the Ming Dynasty. To distinguish them, there is a special word "black" in front of them.
Although their names have titles, in fact, they are still slaves in the Ming household registration.
At the same time, only naturalized Mo people are eligible for this kind of promotion.
The Mo people in other areas and the Mo people conquered by the naturalized Mo people can only be slaves of these "black nobles".
Among the Mo Nu Legion on the scene now, those wearing Ming military uniforms are all "black nobles".
Those with messy clothes are their slaves.
However, being a slave of a black noble does not mean that there is no chance to improve one's status.
For those high-level black nobles, once the number of slaves under their command increases, it will be difficult for them to directly manage them.
The black gentleman has thirty slaves, and he needs to select three elite slaves to be the black captains of his slaves.
Divide the thirty slaves into three teams: left, middle and right, and manage them through their own three black captains.
Under the Black Baron there will be three Black Flag Commanders on the left, middle and right, each of whom will help him lead the three Black Captains in combat.
The Black Viscount will have three Black Hundreds under his command, and the Black Count will have three Black Bosses under his command.
The Black Marquis has three black guerrillas, and the Black Duke has three black ginseng generals.
These people are collectively called black officers. They are all slaves of the black nobles, but they are all slaves with status.
This management system was proposed by Zhu Jingyuan and was 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 their titles will be promoted on the spot.
The number of slaves owned directly corresponds to status.
Whoever fights well will have more slaves and will have a higher status.
Simple, crude and easy to understand.
It stimulated Mo Nu's fighting enthusiasm very well.
Designing systems and hierarchies that are too complex may be counterproductive.
The current level of complexity is almost the management limit of this force.
The naturalized Mo people are okay, but the black officers and ordinary slaves below are very unreliable.
The purpose of using the three-three formation is not to create elite infantry, but to worry that ordinary Mo people cannot figure out large numbers such as five or six.
It is also because they do not want to have a large-scale Mexican army. 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 Dynasty uniforms.
Most of them are Chinese people, or very similar to Chinese people, and a few of them are Hu people.
The officers of this unit are Ming people, and the soldiers are mainly Japanese, Korean, South Vietnamese, Burmese, Siamese and other ethnic groups.
This is a typical servant army composed of vassals and vassal states close to the Ming Dynasty.
Among them were artillery, infantry, and cavalry.
Weapons include small-caliber rifled cannons, curved cannons, light machine guns and heavy machine guns. Soldiers' weapons are all bolt-action rifles.
The organization is basically the same as that of the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, except that it has not been equipped with submachine guns for the time being.
They were the last troops and the main force in the war of conquest in eastern Mozhou.
It's just that there are basically no critical battles here. Most of the time, they are supervising the battles of the Menu troops.
When everything was ready, the Ming command officer gave an order, and the servant artillery fired first.
Fired several rounds at the indigenous troops in front of Kampala.
Just a few times.
A cannonball fell in front of the indigenous team, and the group of indigenous people immediately became chaotic.
Their usual battles were mainly with weapons of the same kind, and most of the time they were fighting with spears.
I don’t use guns much, because guns and bullets are precious items.
There was no artillery fire at all.
They were originally an army from the tribal and slave times, and they only acquired a small amount of modern weapons.
Real modern artillery is a real dimensionality reduction strike for them.
Many natives ran out rolling and crawling when they heard the sound.
A cannonball fell into the crowd, killing dozens of people and causing the crowd to become completely chaotic.
A few people who seemed to be the leaders yelled at the top of their lungs, but it had no obvious effect at all.
So the artillery stalled, and the railway had not been completely repaired, so it was still a bit difficult to transport the artillery shells.
The commander behind looked at the situation in front and asked the bugler to blow the charge horn.
The Menu Legion in front immediately rushed forward with guns in hand and howling.
"Grab the slave quickly!"
"Become a black noble!"
"Be a black officer!"
"Run it for me!"
The slave-holding troops were trained by the modern state machine and used unified modern weapons. This kind of slave-holding troops also had a dimensionally reducing impact on the real tribes and the social organizations of the slave era.
In particular, there are modern armies behind them, which can provide super spiritual support as well as ordinary fire support.
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The entire battle was completely one-sided, which was also the normal behavior of the Menu troops fighting against the indigenous people.
The Menu Army occupied Kampala with almost no effort.
There were some accidents and casualties during the battle.
Some of the black officer's soldiers ran away and did not completely gather up until the end of the battle.
However, this does not affect the jubilant mental state of all black nobles and black officers.
The last large indigenous city in the eastern part of Mozhou was captured.
The black nobles rode into the city on horseback.
The black officers carried guns, waved whips, and carried ropes on their backs.
Gather the local Mo people, tie their hands with ropes, and gather them in a group in the square.
Ming officers and servants were also invited to the square.
The officers are about to distribute the spoils of war to the Menu Legion.
Because all black nobles and black officers are very brave, all slaves are evenly distributed according to their grades this time.
In the next few days, the tens of thousands of people in Kampala and surrounding areas were all gradually distributed.
The total number of men in this Menu army doubled, approaching the one hundred thousand mark.
The slaves of the black nobles themselves are counted regardless of gender, age or child. But those who get weapons to fight are young and middle-aged people, and the other old, weak, women and children are auxiliary personnel.
Slaves who are particularly old and unable to move and those who are sick will basically be abandoned by the black nobles.
The slaves of the black nobles are not just soldiers, but a military-civilian integration model similar to a traditional guard.
But they will not stay and farm, but will continue to fight everywhere. The fighting method is actually similar to that of rogue bandits.
The conquered areas were left to the Ming servants to take over, and finally handed over to the Ming immigrants for management and reclamation.
As long as the Monuor Legion has a population, they will sweep all the Monuors forward and cross the Grand Canyon to the northwest and southwest.
To the east of the canyon is the personal territory of the Big Food King, and no ink slaves will be allowed to exist in the future.
After the Menu Army crossed the canyon area and arrived in South Sudan, Central Africa, southwestern Congo, and Zambia in later generations, they could turn rogue bandits into sitting bandits and start building their own fiefdoms.
At that time, a feudal system similar to that of the Western Zhou Dynasty will be adopted, the black nobles will become princes, and the food king will be their king.
All of them are nominally slaves of the Great Food King.
Many Mo people from the Ming Dynasty were purified black eunuchs.
Because these black eunuchs are relatively shrewd, mainly due to their relatively high level of education, they can quickly understand what Ming people say.
So he quickly took advantage of this and was one step ahead in fighting and dividing slaves, and held a high position in the legion.
However, they were unable to inherit their titles. However, at the suggestion of the Ming Dynasty officers, they all recognized their godson among the naturalized Mo people of the vassal state of Dongmozhou in accordance with the tradition of the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty.
As for the naturalized Mo people in the East Mozhou area, the able-bodied black nobles are now at the peak of their lives. They are surrounded by groups of wives and concubines, and there are often women with big bellies walking among the ranks.
The entire Menu Legion is full of vitality and passion.
They are probably the most competitive indigenous group in the entire Black Ink Continent.
