The Battle of Harkasburg was no less than a huge earthquake for Spain. Just after the Battle of Harkasburg, when the news reached Madrid, it caused great panic in Madrid. The king and many dignitaries hurriedly mobilized more troops. Many troops were hoarded in Madrid, and at the same time they began to send people to contact the Chu people in an attempt to negotiate peace.
But there is nothing special about this battle for the Chu Empire. It is just one of the many battles that the Chu Empire has fought in overseas campaigns over the years.
Both the scale and intensity are actually very low.
Battles like this started when the Chu Empire marched into Nanyang, and basically had to be fought every one or two years. A series of battles during the early march into Nanyang, especially when the entire Indochina Peninsula was annexed in the Nanyang Development Plan, and Siam , among the series of wars fought by the two countries in Myanmar, the scale was actually larger and the intensity was greater.
When he subsequently entered India, he also fought many battles with the local indigenous kingdoms in India, especially a series of wars with the Mughal Empire.
Although the Chu Empire had little awareness of the war that broke out in India, many ordinary people did not even know that the many army units of the Chu Army stationed in India were fighting every day, and had already fought with the Mughal Empire. Several large-scale battles.
But it is undeniable that the Chu Army fought very frequently in the Indian region, but most of these battles were fought by Indian servants. As the main force, the regular Chu Army generally served as a supervisory team and technical support. There is little talk of directly using the infantry of the regular army to fight the infantry of the Mughal Empire.
This is mainly to avoid unnecessary casualties.
After all, before the Chu army installed breech-loaded rifled guns on a large scale, the main infantry weapons equipped by the Chu army were only percussion cap guns and front-loaded smoothbore cannons. Although the technology was significantly ahead of the indigenous people of various countries, they still had front-loaded rifles. Smoothbore weapons have many limitations, such as short range and slow rate of fire.
Even if the Chu army using this kind of weapons and line tactics can gain huge strategic and tactical advantages, they will suffer a lot of casualties if they are unlucky.
Even if the enemy army is just a group of cold weapon troops using bows, arrows and spears, if they are lucky enough, they will still cause certain casualties to the Chu army.
Under such circumstances, the Chu army also organized and established an Indian army on a large scale in the Indian peninsula, with Indian untouchables as the main source of troops.
From one regiment at the beginning, to more than ten divisions now.
Today's Indian Army has actually assumed the main combat tasks in India, especially infantry combat tasks.
This greatly reduced the unnecessary casualties of the Chu army.
Later, when they conquered Africa, the Chu army also sent Indian legions to Africa to fight with the local indigenous people in order to reduce unnecessary non-combat attrition in the regular army.
Whether in India or Africa, the Indian Army has achieved good results, greatly reducing unnecessary casualties or non-combat attrition of the Chu Army.
This also led to the Chu army forming a complete set of tactics using Indian legions in the Indian Peninsula and Africa.
The basic core is that the infantry of the Indian Army is the main combat force, and the Chu Army's regular army serves as the supervisory team, technical and support forces, such as dispatching cavalry and artillery to supervise and support operations.
Using such tactics, the Chu army fought many battles with the Mughal Empire in the Indian Peninsula. Only in this way could they force the Mughal Empire and the Chu Empire to sign a series of treaties, including fully opening the market and limiting tariffs. , get rid of the imperial title, give up sovereignty and claims to most of India, cede Bengal and other areas at the entrance of the Ganges, and give up areas around Mumbai.
Later, they were forced to accept the protection of the Chu Empire and lost their military command and diplomatic rights. Even ordinary internal affairs and other rights were subject to the supervision of the Chu Empire.
For this reason, the Dachu Empire also specially dispatched a Mughal supervisor to supervise the actions of the Mughal Empire.
Taking advantage of this series of war victories and the signed treaties, the Chu Empire also divided the Mughal Empire. The Mughal Empire, which used to control the central and northern regions, has now been reduced to controlling only part of the northern territory. A small empire.
After the Mughal Empire split, the Chu Empire directly took part of the coastal areas into its hands and established a number of colonies under its direct control, such as the four major states of Bombay, Bengal, Indong and Goa. .
In addition, it supported the establishment of more than a dozen local indigenous kingdoms, such as the Kingdom of Jijirat.
As for the area where administrative agencies are directly set up to carry out large-scale immigration rule, it is the southern region of India, but the area is actually not large. Direct control of this place is more to directly control the Palk Strait and ensure the safety of the route.
This area under direct rule was also called the Inan Province. The Chu Empire directly established the Inan Governor here, established various prefectures and counties, and conducted large-scale immigration.
In the above series of processes, war is naturally inevitable.
So despite the fact that the Chu Empire was peaceful at home, in fact the Chu army was fighting overseas almost all the time, and the scale of some wars could easily reach tens of thousands.
It’s just that many people in China don’t know it, or even if they know it, they don’t pay much attention...
The Battle of Hacksburg that is taking place in Europe today is similar to the Chu Empire... It seems that the scale of the battle is tens of thousands, but in fact the intensity is very limited, with only a dozen casualties on our side... This kind of To be honest, the battle is worse than a failed small-scale combat operation.
The Chu army overseas did not always have smooth sailing. Sometimes they were unlucky enough to be ambushed by the natives. The natives would shoot directly at them with a ton of bows and arrows, killing and wounding more than this number of regular soldiers of the Chu army.
The strength of the Chu army was actually due to its strength on the frontal battlefield, but some small-scale sporadic fighting forces, especially when they were attacked and ambushed by natives in unfamiliar places, could easily capsize in the ditch.
Otherwise, why the Chu army formed a large-scale servant army such as the Indian Legion? It is because it needs a servant army like the Indian Legion to undertake a large number of patrols and small-scale combat tasks, thereby avoiding unnecessary casualties of its own regular army soldiers.
As powerful as the Chu army, relying on its absolute weapons and tactical advantages, it can overwhelm any indigenous country on the frontal battlefield, and it is easy... but it is still a headache when encountering sporadic attacks.
Today, a few patrol soldiers were killed by cold arrows. Tomorrow, the checkpoints were secretly shelled by the natives with simple artillery and a few more were killed. Two days later, a few more were shot to death by blackmail... Even if it didn't affect the overall situation, it was still very disgusting.
In order to defend against such sporadic asymmetric attacks, the Chu army often needed to mobilize a large number of troops in the early days and spent a lot of military expenditures. In the long run, the gains outweighed the losses.
In response to such asymmetric and sporadic attacks, the Chu army's solution was to form a large number of Indian servant armies, and then use these Indian servant armies to conduct daily patrols and small-scale battles.
Of course, an ultra-high-pressure repressive measure will also be added. For example, if a patrol is attacked, then the surrounding indigenous villages and towns will be purged...
The Indian servant soldiers who were born as untouchables were happy to go to the villages and towns that they were not allowed to enter in the past, and shoot down one by one the so-called upper castes who looked down on them in the past.
Sometimes the officers of the Chu army repeatedly issued strict orders not to kill innocent people indiscriminately, but it was difficult to effectively control these Indian servants.
These soldiers of the Indian Servant Army, their humble origins coupled with the inhumane and cruel training of the Chu Army towards the Servant Army, which almost destroys humanity, will cause these Servant Army soldiers to often behave extremely cruelly when facing local high-caste people. …
Somewhat perverted.
This kind of abnormal psychology is the same even in Europe. In fact, during the battle, the number of Spaniards who actually died on the spot was far less than the eight thousand.
After all, the two sides did not fight hand-to-hand in this battle. The Chu army used artillery fire to kill the Spanish army from the beginning.
However, when intercepting and capturing prisoners later, the two Indian Servant Infantry Regiments on the mission behaved extremely cruelly. They would replenish the wounded Spanish soldiers who were injured and unable to move, and if they were slightly unruly, they would even do it simply for the sake of A little loot will lead to hunting and killing of defeated troops.
So in the end, the number of Spanish casualties exceeded 8,000, of which at least half died at the hands of Indian servants.
If it were the regular Chu army to capture prisoners, the number of Spanish casualties would not be so high.
In fact, this situation is not over yet. After capturing more than 20,000 prisoners, these prisoners were basically handed over to the Indian Third Division for custody and management.
As a result, within a few days, almost all the wounded among the more than 20,000 prisoners were dead... When the Indian servants took care of the prisoners of war, they would not care so much. The prisoners of war need to build their own tents and work to earn a negligible amount of money. food.
This situation is extremely uncomfortable even for uninjured prisoners of war, let alone those who are injured.
As for treatment... medicine is precious these days. The medicine carried by the Chu army's expeditionary force is only enough for the regular army. In the Indian servant army, only Chu officers and indigenous officers in the servant army can obtain medical treatment.
In other words, once the Indian servant soldiers are injured, they will not be able to get medical treatment. They can only get through simple treatment and survive.
It was impossible for these wounded Spanish prisoners of war to seek medical treatment.
After this series of things were completed, when these Spanish prisoners of war were escorted back to Cadiz, only more than 8,000 people remained.
This made several big guys in Cadiz very unhappy... These prisoners of war were originally intended as free labor. These prisoners of war were needed to build port berths and various infrastructures. As a result, they were directly used by the Indian servants. So many people died in one go.
But there is nothing that can be done about it... The Chu people themselves know better what the Indian servant army is like. Even the cruelty shown by the Indian servant army in many cases is connived by the Chu people.
If the Indian servant army was not cruel to the Indian natives in the Indian peninsula, the Chu army would not dare to use it... How could there be an Indian servant army with more than a dozen divisions and a total strength of more than 150,000 people?
Obviously, most of the indigenous officers in the Indian Servant Army are not fools, and basically know these facts... If you want to gain the trust of the Chu people, become an Indian Army officer who is superior in front of the indigenous people, and gain far more than yourself. Living conditions of untouchable castes.
You have to give something, show your worth... and more importantly, show enough loyalty.
The most important thing is to follow the Chu people and stop thinking of yourself as an Indian.
What the people of Chu want is an army of servants loyal to Chu, not an army of Indians...
During the battle, if the indigenous officers of the servant army showed even the slightest bit of intolerance or goodwill towards the Indian natives...then don't expect to continue to gain the trust of the Chu people. They would be immediately transferred or even dismissed...
All these factors have led to the fact that the indigenous officers and non-commissioned officers in the Indian servant army are not allowed to separate themselves from their former ethnic groups.
Without cutting, you can't even become a non-commissioned officer, let alone become an indigenous officer, that is, the rank of 'companion lieutenant' specially awarded to outstanding Indian officers.
This military rank was not awarded by the Military and Administrative Department of the regular army of the Great Chu Empire, but directly by the 'Minister of Military Affairs of India, the Governor-General of India'.
Therefore, this military rank is also known as the "Governor-appointed officer" in official official documents, which is not the same thing as the formal officer in the Chu Empire in the traditional sense.
The governor-general appointed officers with only one single military rank, that is, "Tongwei". They mainly served as battalion commanders at the three levels of "battalion, company, and platoon" in the servant army, assisting Chu officers in commanding the troops... This position is actually the Chu army. In the regular national army, a battalion commander served by a senior non-commissioned officer.
The Chu Army established battalion chiefs in the platoon, company and battalion-level units in the new army. The platoon battalion chief is served by a sergeant, the company-level battalion chief is served by a sergeant major, and the battalion-level battalion chief is served by a senior sergeant major. .
To this end, the senior non-commissioned officer rank of Senior Sergeant Major was newly established.
These sergeants and senior sergeants are all senior non-commissioned officers who have served in the army for many years. They understand various situations in the army and can effectively assist officers in handling various battalion affairs.
At the same time, it also provides a good promotion system for non-commissioned officers.
After all, in the past, non-commissioned officers in Chu Kingdom usually served as deputy squad leader, squad leader and the backbone of technical arms. It would be difficult to go up further. A new senior sergeant major was established, and the two military ranks of sergeant major and staff sergeant were expanded at the same time. space.
This will not only allow the army to retain more experienced senior non-commissioned officers and improve the combat effectiveness of the army, but also solve the problem of retirement arrangements for senior non-commissioned officers who have served in the military for a lifetime.
Noncommissioned officers who can reach the level of staff sergeant are basically in their thirties. It is very embarrassing to retire at this time... After all, unlike officers, they cannot directly transfer to local agencies and directly enter the official ranks, and officers are all uniform. High-level talents who have graduated from a university are very popular in changing jobs in other places. Even if they do not accept the job transfer arrangement and start their own business outside, many companies will accept it.
However, the non-commissioned officers in Chu State are basically promoted from soldiers. At most, they attend night school in the army and pass the junior high school diploma on their own. Moreover, they have been in the army for ten or twenty years and can do nothing but fight... Arrangements for career change can be made It’s very troublesome, and you can’t get high or low!
The salary is high, but the local government dislikes it... Moreover, the cultural level of these senior non-commissioned officers is indeed lacking, and many positions are difficult to arrange.
The remuneration is low, such as arranging carriage drivers in local government agencies, workers in government-run enterprises, etc. The remuneration is too low...
Finally, the military actually does not want to let go of these experienced grassroots professionals too early.
Therefore, in order to solve these problems within the army, the new military rank of senior sergeant major was simply established, and the service duties at the two levels of sergeant and sergeant major were expanded.
This solves the problem of the service length of these senior non-commissioned officers, prolongs their military career, and allows them to serve until they are in their forties before retiring and arranging some idle jobs in local institutions to complete their retirement.
Therefore, in the regular army of the Da Chu Empire, current non-commissioned officers actually have a relatively promising future. As long as they can become non-commissioned officers before the four-year service period, even if they are just corporals, there will be room for further advancement. If they are strong enough and lucky, Fortunately, you can survive until you retire at about forty years old, which will basically lead to the rank of sergeant major.
At that time, the military will often directly arrange for you to take some leisure positions in local government agencies for retirement. Or, if you want to continue to work hard, you can also arrange to work as a higher-level patrol officer in the patrol agency, and you can work as a retired policeman. There is basically no problem with the seventh grade.
In this life, it is basically safe.
As for reaching the seventh rank, this is almost the end point of many low-level officials who have graduated from high school or technical secondary school and entered the officialdom through formal imperial examinations.
For many ordinary children from poor families who join the army after graduating from high school, this can be regarded as a step beyond class.
It was quite popular to join the army in the Chu Empire.
Not to mention the top academics who go to military academies and then work their way up the ranks as officers... These people basically become members of the upper-middle class from the moment they enter the military academies. If they advance a few levels, they will be able to live in their hometown. Duoduo is a famous figure in the local upper class society.
Ordinary people are treated very well as soldiers. Even if they only serve for four years and retire, they will basically be arranged to work, usually in government-run enterprises... If they are not willing to accept the job arrangement, they can also retire with a one-time salary. King went out on his own.
If you can become a non-commissioned officer, even just a corporal, then when the corporal retires, he will basically be assigned to a formal official administrative agency such as patrol police or clerk, with a serious grade, even if it is only from ninth grade, this is still An iron rice bowl, if you don't make mistakes, you can basically be stable for a lifetime.
Today's ordinary patrol officers, if ordinary people want to join, you must first have a high school or a specialized police technical secondary school to study, and then you have to start. A lot of people compete to get a basic patrol officer starting from the ninth grade. Position...
If you can retire at the level of sergeant or sergeant major, then the salary will be better.
In a word, as long as you join the army, the empire can arrange your life well. There is no hope of getting rich and powerful, but there is no problem at all in stabilizing your life.
This is why many poor children actively sign up to join the army every year. For most poor children, joining the army may be the best opportunity in their lives to escape poverty.
A series of factors within the Dachu Empire led to the creation of the position of battalion chief. After practice, it was found that it was indeed good, so the military began to extend the battalion chief system to servants such as Indian officers. .
As the exclusive position of the 'fellow lieutenant' of an officer appointed by the governor, in this process, although the lieutenant of an officer appointed by the governor still only has a separate rank of fellow lieutenant, it is also divided into first, second and third ranks, corresponding to the three levels of platoon, company and battalion respectively. Battalion Chief Position.
It is also very difficult for these governor-appointed officers to be promoted. Not only do they need experience, qualifications, and proficiency in Chinese, but more importantly, they need loyalty.
After all, these officers appointed by the governor are, for the Chu State, the link used to control the servant army...or a mouthpiece.
If there is a problem with this bond, it will be difficult for the Chu officers to directly command the indigenous soldiers...the two do not understand the language.
Based on this particularity, the Chu people have very high requirements for commissioned officers, and the assessment is also very strict. For Indian indigenous non-commissioned officers who are motivated to make progress, they will naturally take action to show their loyalty to the Chu Empire.
As a result, many indigenous officers in the Indian Army were very cruel to Indians, African and even European indigenous people.
Because they are a group of people without a country or a nation, and they don't even have a way out. They have no other way out except to serve the Chu Empire.
Hallel is one of them!
As one of the first Indians to defect to the Chu State, he had served in the Indian military officers for a long time, and became the first batch of officers appointed by the governor-general, with the rank of lieutenant.
Later, when the rank of lieutenant was subdivided into first, second, and third ranks, although he initially became a third-rank lieutenant, he was promoted to a second-rank lieutenant not long after.
After arriving in Europe, he has become a first class captain and serves as the battalion commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion of the 9th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Division of the Indian Army.
It can even be said that in this infantry battalion of more than 800 people, apart from more than 20 Chu officers, he has the highest authority and status.
This is also the object that countless Indian soldiers among the Indian officers need to look up to!
And Hallel is indeed quite satisfied with his current situation. The money he accumulated over the years on the battlefield allowed him to successfully purchase a piece of land in the East African colony. In the meantime, he even returned to his hometown in Mumbai, India, and married into their hometown. A woman from a high caste family.
The marriage process is naturally not harmonious and involves threats, inducements, and even bullets.
For this reason, Hallel also owed the favor of his former comrade who served in the army with him in the past and is now serving as a second lieutenant in the army stationed in his hometown... Even though the local Chu army officer took his money and turned a blind eye to it. Even if you close your eyes, you still need favors if you want to drag dozens of Indian officers and soldiers to come to propose marriage with guns in hand.
Although the cost is high, the favors are owed, and the process is troublesome, Hallel is happy!
He ran all the way back to his hometown from Africa because of his unwillingness or a revenge mentality: I made you look down on me and bully me in the past, and now I, a Dalit pariah, am riding on your Kshatriya daughter... …
Not to mention, it was really nice to ride on the body of the legitimate daughter of a high-caste family in my hometown that I had to look up to in the past...
(End of chapter)
