Chapter 124: Leisurely Far From War (7)
Komatsu, you performed well this time with the blade charge." During the break of the training, Naoto Hanzawa, who had the lieutenant's ejection, ran over and encouraged him.
It is actually just a practical battle, but the target of the battle is some Guarani natives who cannot get on the table, which makes people unable to get too excited. The East Coast battalion commander who led the team also said that the Guarani people have poor equipment and even worse training, which is just a bit desirable to combat. For the teaching battalion armed to the teeth, this is training!
When it comes to this teaching battalion, don’t misunderstand that it is not an elite force of the party and state in the later generations. It is a new face in the East Coast Army sequence and its combat effectiveness is also very good. The reason is very simple. The entire teaching battalion (two infantry companies, one cavalry company, and one artillery company) has 600 people, more than 90% of them are not soldiers on the East Coast, but students from overseas colonies or other countries who come to the East Coast for training. In short, this is a mobile training school.
Of course, the students did not start in the teaching camp, but attended classes in Dingyuan Military Academy. Only after two years of crash courses would they be assigned to the teaching camp and received a six-month military internship.
The internships of the East Coast people are not limited to the training ground, and the battlefield internships are also the top priority! At this point, hundreds of students from Northern Italy, Portugal, Crimea, Erat Mongolia, Kurland, Free State, Guangdong Erli, Salalah (Rajput), North Korea, Japan and the East Coast colonies were collectively pulled to the Chaco Plain and engaged in low-intensity security battles with the Spaniards from Asuncion Prosecutor's Court District to accumulate combat experience and deepen their understanding of new tactics.
The place they trained was on the grassland north of Jingting County. This place has always been a place where Spain and the East Coast are intertwined. Both sides are competing for it, but there is no open fight. In fact, Jingting County was originally such a place, but after the pioneering immigration on the east coast arrived, with the support of the rear, the Spaniards slowly drove out with the continuous support of materials. When Jingting County was established, the East Coast officially established an official here, and the Spaniards completely cut off the idea of retaking it back.
Of course, the goal of the Hexi Regional Administration is not only Jingting County. The Spaniards evaluated it as "greedy" and "brutal". How could they sit there honestly and not continue to move forward?
In fact, the Spaniards guessed correctly! The East Coast people did continue to expand northward. Before the pioneering immigrants came here, a large number of "civil volunteers" funded by the State Administration of Intelligence and the State Administration of Development entered this area. In the name of hunting, they continued to conflict with the Guarani people living in the local area and a small number of Spaniards. They were specially searching for trouble. Even if the Spaniards wanted to settle things, they could not do it. Therefore, the conflict between the two sides became increasingly fierce, fighting for prey, grasslands, forests, and everything they could fight for, and they had a lot of fun.
The Asuncion authorities naturally knew that the so-called "civil armed forces" from the East Coast were not good. If in the past, they would send people to protest to the East Coast government and then take a step back, and they would almost settle the matter. But this time it didn't work, and they had no way to retreat. If they retreated, the East Coast people occupied the land on the right bank of the Paraguay River, but they directly pushed the bayonet on Asuncion's soft abdomen, so that the Spaniards would be extremely passive.
Furthermore, they were also angered by the unscrupulous arrest of the Guarani people in the East Coast over the years as slave labor, and they must respond. Otherwise, they would be unable to suppress the internal Guarani opposition, which would endanger the stability of the rule. You should know that Charkas (basically Bolivia in later generations, but had an extra sea port), Paraguay, even in later generations, was a place with extremely high indigenous blood, and there were even a vast number of Indians in this era. Although their political status was generally low, if they ignored their demands and did not comfort them well, it would be a troublesome thing, and the Spanish colonial government had to do it.
Asuncion quickly raised some supplies and guns, armed a considerable number of Guarani Indians, and asked them to deal with the East Coast on the right bank of the Paraguay River. At this time, they did not care about the negative impacts that might be brought about by arming the Indians, and all restrictions were opened only for the safety of Asuncion and the smooth progress of colonial blood draw. After all, Iberians can wait for rice to be put into the pot.
It should be said that the efforts of the Asuncion authorities have achieved certain results. At least they have allowed the East Coast people to quickly occupy this blank area, directly threatening Asuncion to set up a long-barrel heavy artillery by the river to hit the other side of the river and go bankrupt. The armed Guarani people still insisted on the other side. Although the people of the East Coast people have made great progress, they are not government troops, but come to seek wealth, and will avoid fighting tough battles with excessive casualties, so they have never been able to fully understand the Guarani people.
The East Coast Army field troops, which were originally active nearby, were also transferred away. The outlaws had no supervision and only ate meat and did not chew bones, which made people feel so angry. In a loss of help, the superiors transferred such a piece of teaching camp to let them fight with the Guarani people and practice what they learned.
Don’t underestimate the hundreds of people in the teaching battalion! First of all, although they are all small editors, they have quite a complete range of troops, including infantry, cavalry, and artillery, which can effectively form a combat force and achieve the effect of one plus one greater than two. Secondly, no matter where these people come from, they basically have combat experience. Many people have even been on the battlefield and seen blood. For example, the captain of the suicide squad of the Lai Guard Regiment, Naoto Reserve Captain Hanzawa, once braved the enemy's guns and bullets, repeatedly charged, killed generals and seized flags, and made great contributions. Therefore, their combat effectiveness is worthy of guarantee, and they are not the kind of rookies who have never seen anything.
The only weakness of these people is probably that their sources are complex, they don’t trust each other, and they cannot command them like their arms. For example, Lieutenant Naoto Hanzawa, who serves as the deputy company commander of the first infantry company and the third platoon leader of the third platoon, has a few Indian thorns under his command. He is not very obedient on weekdays, and he is whispering when he goes to the battlefield. He is slow to act and has a very obvious sense of defense. These Rajputs who have fought with the Omans in the desert of the Arabian Peninsula countless times. Usually, they respectfully call you, the short winter melon, "platoon leader" and give you a very shameless attitude. Maybe this is the mentality.
Fortunately, there are battalion commanders, company commanders, instructors, etc., and they dare not fight too much. Although the instructors of the East Coast do not want to see how united they are, the general rules are still abide by. Although they may not be able to fight hard, it is not necessary to deal with some militia-level Guarani Indians.
Today they discovered a temporary camp of the Guarani people. After the artillery soldiers disrupted it with eight artillery pieces, the infantry of the two battalions directly suppressed the entire army. A rapid assault of hand-to-hand attack brought down the hundreds of Guarani people who were wandering over, which was extremely relaxed. Kentaro Komatsu from Timor Island was extremely brave in the battle and killed two enemies, so he was praised by Naoto Hanzawa, a fellow villager and senior.
"Senior, after graduation, you can almost serve as the deputy commander of the garrison regiment after you return to Brunei, right?" Kentaro Komatsu looked at the captain's ejection on Naoto Hanzawa's shoulder with envy and said.
The reserve captain and the East Coast Army Captain are actually completely different concepts, and the value is incomparable. A bunch of garrison regiments, garrison brigades, advancing detachments, task forces, and new xx divisions in overseas colonies of the East Coast are actually reserve officers, except for a small number of active-duty officers. These reserve officers may be high-ranking rulers and masters in the colonies, but they still cannot stand up when they meet active-duty officers of the same level or even one or two levels lower. Just like the joke "reserve is not as good as a dog" in the army, it is a great honor to be able to obtain the rank of active-duty officers.
According to relevant regulations, after graduation, the cadets of the teaching battalion will receive the official rank of active duty in the East Coast Army. This active rank may not be particularly important to students from other countries such as Italy, but it is very important to students from the East Coast colonial cadets such as Naoto Hansawa and Kentaro Komatsu. It is a very important step in their lives and the basis for their success.
Brunei has been completely controlled by the East Coast and is slowly expanding to the surrounding areas. Local natives are gradually being clear, as the saying goes, is to change birds. Moreover, the East Coast people are not just stopping here. In fact, they are also expanding into the surrounding mountainous areas, constantly searching for local people and expanding their territory. After all, the local tropical wood resources are still very rich. In mainland China, Japan and North Korea have a great demand for such materials in recent years. If you invest in the establishment of a timber processing factory and export it from Brunei, the trade hub will be exported to the outside world, the end is a good business.
The situation on Timor Island is very similar. The East Coast people currently firmly control the half of Portugal (East Timor) and are also steadily implementing the "de-native" action. If nothing unexpected happens in the future, the two places of East Coast and Brunei will definitely be areas where all East Coast people live, and their importance to the East Coast local area will increase day by day. After all, they are the same language and the same species.
If middle-level officials like Hanze and Komatsu do well in the colony, they may not have no chance to be naturalized in the East Coast and serve in the local area. The active military rank is here, and a transfer order can be completed. This is undoubtedly a beautiful thing for them, who have been working hard for half their lives, so they are extremely hard to imagine. Therefore, they study and train very hard. When they go to the battlefield, they are also competing to perform, which is much better than those sloppy Indians.
If there is a bright future, a fool will not work hard!
Chapter completed!