Lehar was very excited when he was selected to join the Indian Army. This gave him hope of completely getting rid of his previous poor life and living a normal life.
It also gave him hope of revenge in the future!
He has never forgotten the suffering he suffered in his hometown.
Especially his sister who died tragically!
Whenever he thought of his sister when she left home, he couldn't help but feel the hatred in his heart. He hated his father who sold his sister in exchange for money to treat his injuries, and he also hated himself for why he didn't just die at that time!
If he had been directly beaten to death at that time, his father would not have chosen to sell his sister in exchange for money to treat his injuries.
And he hated the monks and landlord officials who were superior in his hometown even more!
Because Lehar believed that all the tragedies that happened to him and his family were ultimately caused by their cruelty!
Just because his shadow fell on a monk, his family was ruined.
Why?
Lehar has been asking himself this question frequently over the past few years, and he finally found the answer.
It's all because of the many rules set by the superior upper castes, the many rules that oppress untouchables like them.
It was their rules and their existence that led to the tragedy of their own family.
He wants to resist, he wants revenge!
Even when he was alone with only a rusty hatchet, he still had this belief, so he wandered around the temple and attacked and killed five monks in a row.
They all deserve to die!
All deserve to die!
Now that he has joined the Indian Army, with the support of the Chu people behind him, maybe one day he can return to his hometown. At that time, he will destroy the high-caste people who oppressed untouchables like him in the past, whether they are officials or monks. , hacked them all to death one by one.
He saw the hope of revenge!
With this belief, he is very much looking forward to his future after joining the Indian Army.
Not to mention the future, he was very satisfied with the treatment he received after joining the Indian Army. As soon as he joined, he and more than 600 other selected Indian Army soldiers were taken to wash and shave their heads. Hair, abandoned those tattered and dirty clothes, and then put on a gray-yellow military uniform.
This kind of military uniform is not actually the standard military uniform of the army, navy or guard of the Chu Empire, but a uniform specially prepared by the Western Trading Company for foreign mercenaries.
Although the Indian Legion is only a servant soldier officially recruited and established by the military, the Western Trading Company has begun to recruit a small number of local indigenous people as cannon fodder very early on, but the scale is not large.
After putting on a gray-yellow military uniform and stroking his bald head, Lehar had a smile of rebirth on his face.
From today on, he, Lehar, is no longer a pariah in the Indian countryside, but a first-class soldier of the Indian Legion, a supernumerary army of the most powerful country in the world, the Great Chu Empire Army.
No one around him cared whether he was a pariah or not. The superiors of the Chu people didn't care, and the surrounding comrades were also all pariahs, so they didn't care either.
Here, he can laugh loudly and talk loudly!
When walking, you don't have to worry about your shadow falling on others and getting beaten up.
He, Lehar, a son of an untouchable, for the first time in his eighteen years of life, held his head high and lived an upright life.
That night, he was so excited that he couldn't sleep.
Not only him, but also many other indigenous soldiers who were selected to join the Indian Legion like him could not sleep.
"It's like a dream. This is the first time in my life that I have put on unpatched clothes. And look at the fabric. It is soft and warm. It should be the best Chinese cloth. I heard that this kind of high-quality Huabu is so valuable, almost everyone in our village could afford it before!"
"Yes, this outfit alone is worth it. Even if I die in a war, my life will not be in vain. At least I have worn clothes made of fine cloth!"
"Not only do you have something to wear, but the food is also so good. There are even slices of meat for dinner. Woohoo... This is the best meal I have ever had in my life!"
"Not only tonight, there will be opportunities to eat in the future. I have asked. From now on, in our army, we will have three meals a day, two dry meals, and we can still eat meat every once in a while!"
Lehar also answered at this time: "The canned meat tonight is so delicious... That is the most delicious food I have ever eaten in my life!"
Laihar didn't know that the canned meat they shared with a group of people tonight was the Donglin brand special fragrant meat canned food that has become quite famous in several indigenous countries in Southeast Asia in the past year or two. '.
The Western Trading Company saw that this thing was very popular in Southeast Asia, so this year it also chose to purchase a batch and brought it to India.
Most of them are sold to local indigenous people, and a few are supplied to some indigenous mercenaries under the Western Trading Company as emergency military supplies.
In the past few days, due to the establishment of the Indian Army, it is necessary to replenish a batch of military supplies, and to get some meat to open the eyes of these indigenous servant soldiers... The Chu army has great experience and understanding in this regard. If they want to conquer a new soldier, The best way is to let them eat meat... This method has been tried and tested whether it is recruiting soldiers at home or recruiting indigenous mercenaries abroad. It is very easy to use.
But it is obviously impossible to feed these indigenous soldiers of the Indian Legion real fresh meat... The Chu Army soldiers themselves do not have to eat it. The sources of livestock in the surrounding areas are limited, and there are not many that can be carried with the ship. Most of the Chu Army soldiers themselves They can only eat canned meat...
And even if these canned meats were used by the Chu army for their own use, it was impossible for them to be eaten by the indigenous soldiers of the Indian Legion.
This thing is expensive, but it is filled with genuine pork, beef, mutton, and fish, and it is high-quality stuff that has been sterilized at high temperatures without using additives.
Even in the local area, the price of this kind of pure canned meat is not cheap.
To be honest, the entire Chu army would be reluctant to give such good food to the indigenous soldiers!
After all, the army and navy themselves are reluctant to eat real canned meat when they have nothing to do, so they only eat some when they have combat missions like this.
Don't expect a servant army like the Indian Army... To put it bluntly, a can of pure meat shipped from the mainland is more valuable than an indigenous soldier!
So in the end, I used a batch of Donglin brand special fragrant canned meat from the Western Trading Company, which was cheaper.
This cheapness is also relatively speaking. In fact, even Donglin brand special fragrant meat cans, which are banned from sale in the Dachu Empire and overseas directly governed territories, are not cheap overseas...
The Indian Army also had the opportunity to have a taste of it on the first day. In the following days, unless there is an urgent combat mission and unusual supplies, it will be impossible to even eat this kind of canned meat with special flavor.
After all, when the Western trade sells this kind of canned Donglin brand special fragrant meat for takeout, it is not cheap. Even the local indigenous people in India, even those Shudra families, may not be able to eat it often, let alone the untouchables. .
As for the indigenous people who can really afford to eat in large quantities, they don't need to eat these canned meats. They can directly eat all kinds of fresh and delicious meat.
Therefore, Donglin brand special flavor canned meat, even if it is exported overseas, is actually a consumer product for the middle class, and it is still a light luxury consumer product. Most people actually don't eat much.
Most consumers don't eat much, which is why the Donglin brand of canned special-flavored meat is very popular in overseas markets, but it doesn't kill anyone.
Because I eat less, the various additives in it are naturally of little use. After all, even real poisons have to be dosed, not to mention just some additives!
As for Donglin Brand Specially Fragrant Canned Meat, if a person is allowed to open it and eat it, there is a high probability that he will eat it to death...if he eats it frequently, it will also cause some physical problems if he eats it for a long time.
But these overseas natives, including the natives in India, obviously have no chance to eat more Donglin brand special canned meat.
They can't afford it...
Therefore, Donglin brand special-flavor canned meat continues to be popular in overseas markets, and not many consumers have problems with it. Occasionally, there are a few... What does your illness have to do with my canned food?
A can of Donglin brand special fragrant meat canned the forty or so indigenous soldiers, including Laihar, with endless aftertaste. At the same time, they also had a more intuitive understanding of the power of the Da Chu Empire.
This is a powerful empire that can feed canned meat to a group of untouchables like them!
And if you follow such a powerful empire, you can't say that your future is not promising, but you will definitely be able to survive with enough food, and even live a good life like a master.
Although the more than 600 indigenous soldiers who joined the Indian Army were untouchables, the reason for most of them, or except for Lehar, others to join the Indian Army was very simple: the treatment given by the Chu Army was good enough!
Even Lehar, part of his reason for joining the Indian Army was to get revenge, but more of the reason, like other untouchable soldiers, was just to have enough to eat.
Having enough to eat is their most urgent need!
The military and political officers of the Chu Army obviously knew this very well... Therefore, on the first day after the establishment of the Indian Army, they did not preach any big principles or policies.
They were given military uniforms, meals, and even canned meat.
First, bring out the benefits and suppress or hang these people, and then you can start talking about the truth and brainwashing them.
The military and political officers of the Great Chu Empire are very familiar with this routine. They have been playing it on their own people for more than 20 years, and now they can naturally play it on the natives.
As for thorns, hard stubble, etc., don’t worry about that!
When the Chu army selected people, they did not just jump around, but carefully selected from the twenty to thirty thousand indigenous people. Every indigenous soldier here has more or less obtained the ability of the Chu army to manage soldiers. Only by agreeing can you be recommended and join.
Why does the Indian Legion only have more than 600 people? It is not due to insufficient establishment or too much cost, but because after selection, there are only more than 600 qualified indigenous soldiers.
Those who are thorny or too smart don't even have a chance to join, let alone cause any trouble.
Therefore, military and political work is generally relatively easy to do.
As for Lehar and the others, they naturally did not know these considerations from above. They just felt that they were lucky to be able to join the Indian Army and live a good life.
At the same time, they have enough food and clothing, plus a small salary subsidy. When these people train in the next few days, no one dares to talk nonsense no matter how hard and tired they are!
According to Major General Bai Zhen's positioning of this indigenous servant army, this servant army will first be equipped with cold weapons and some flintlock guns and light artillery.
All weapons and equipment are various export equipment from the Dachu Empire. For example, the flintlock gun was a 'Western flintlock gun' that had been exported to the Ottoman Empire before.
The Western flintlock gun is also the only flintlock gun currently used for export in the Chu Empire. It is improved from the early two-year-old flintlock gun. It has an all-weather firing rate of 70%. It seems that the firing rate is not high. But it is still much stronger than the flintlock guns produced by a European country.
The prototype of this thing, the two-year-old flintlock gun, is no longer used by the militiamen in the Dachu Empire...it is currently only used for export.
However, even this kind of Western flintlock gun exclusively for export requires domestic approval for every export. Not just any indigenous country can purchase this kind of flintlock gun.
Even indigenous countries that are eligible for procurement have to pay a huge price to obtain these advanced flintlocks.
In order to obtain this batch of flintlock guns, the Ottoman Empire leased many coastal ports to Western trading companies and opened some markets, allowing the Chu Empire's machine-made cloth to enter the Ottoman Empire's market.
In addition, several indigenous countries in Southeast Asia that are puppet states of the Chu Empire have purchased some, but they are not many, only a few hundred to one or two thousand. Mainly because in the past, the Chu Empire had relatively strict control over this stuff. , if the quantity is large, the empire will not sell it...
There are relatively big restrictions on selling out, but there is definitely no problem in equipping your own mercenaries. The Western Trading Company has a lot of stocks of these Western flintlock guns, which can be used directly.
In addition to flintlock guns, there are also export-type plate armor, export-type light artillery and other export weapons and equipment.
In just a few days, just looking at the appearance, the equipment level of the Indian Army has directly surpassed that of a large number of armies of various indigenous countries... Even the so-called Janissaries built by the Ottoman Empire at a huge cost are not as good as the equipment level. Indian Legion.
In terms of equipment, the Chu army was quite willing and would not say that they deliberately let these servants use cold weapons or matchlock guns.
After all, arming cannon fodder also requires time and energy, and this is the mid-to-late seventeenth century. Even the equipment level of indigenous countries is not too bad. No matter how bad it is, there is still a matchlock gun!
If the Indian Army fought with matchlocks and spears, they might not be able to defeat the indigenous army!
And what's the use of a servant army that can't even defeat the natives?
However, the armed cannon fodder servant army cannot be equipped too well. On the one hand, it is too expensive, and on the other hand, it is also to avoid any problems in the future of these servant armies, which will be difficult to suppress.
Our regular army needs to maintain its absolute advantage over these servant armies in terms of equipment and even tactics, otherwise there will be too many troubles in the future.
After finalizing the equipment and other basic matters, the Indian Army has been initially launched. The next step is to conduct continuous training and gradually form combat effectiveness.
Laihar also knew at this time that the Chu State officers would select some of the outstanding soldiers to be promoted to corporals and serve as captains of each team. Laihar was very excited about this!
(End of chapter)
