Obviously, this condition of recruitment completely infringes on the interests of the chieftains.

The Ming court did not guarantee their right to be officials from generation to generation, which means that after the older generation of chieftains dies, the family of chieftains will face decline!

Although it shows that the state has a fair imperial examination system, the children of the chieftain's family can rely on the examination to continue to be officials.

But because this examination system is too fair, it becomes unfair to the local toast leader family!

Isn’t this bullying to let a group of scattered people compete fairly with the Han people to become officials?

The chieftains are not stupid, so they naturally understand how embarrassing their children would lose if they really compete with foreign Han Chinese officials...

Therefore, many chieftains could see at a glance that the Ming Dynasty wanted to completely cut off their hereditary wealth!

After learning this, even though the Ming army had higher morale than itself in terms of military strength, weapons and equipment, the chieftains still united to make the final resistance.

They could not give up their original rights just because of a decree from the Ming court, even if the Ming army came here with muskets and cannons!

So, the vigorous Southwest Toast War broke out!

Due to the terrain, this war was all small. Although the chieftains formed a nominal alliance against the Ming Kingdom, they were also limited by the terrain that became just a nominal anti-Ming alliance...

In this kind of combat, Richard naturally would not use the Guard infantry as the main force of attack. Even if the chieftain's armed forces were only bows, arrows, big swords and spears, relying on the terrain would still cause damage to the Guard infantry.

Therefore, the main force of the battle was replaced by the Southwest Advance Army.

The tens of thousands of Southwest Advance Army have more troops than all chieftain warriors. The harsh living environment and backward production methods doom the Southwest Chieftains not to have much population. Even if they arm all the young and strong, the number of people alone is far inferior to the Ming army...

If there are hundreds of armed personnel, they are even powerful toasts.

Many little toasts only have dozens of young and strong armed forces!

Therefore, the outcome of this showdown was decided from the beginning. It was impossible for the chieftains to defeat the Ming army to be defeated, but the local environment!

As expected, the number of soldiers who died of illness in the Southwest Advance Army was far higher than that of soldiers who died in battle, even exceeding twice the number!

The officers and soldiers of the Southwest Advance Army did not fear the chieftains, but instead developed a sense of fear of the mountains, rivers and jungles.

Of course, all this was not good in front of Richard.

How did the Ming Dynasty make a fortune?

More than 20,000 guard infantry bayonets were holding behind them. As long as no more than half of the people died of illness, they were not allowed to go to the front line!

However, Richard did not simply allow the Southwest Advance Army equipped with a clamp to attack, and used howitzers in many easy-to-defense and difficult-to-attack locations, allowing the chieftains to see what "modern war" is.

The huge shrapnel only requires one round of volleys. The toast armed forces who have never seen the shells look like will collapse...

Therefore, although the Southwest Advance Army died seriously without fighting, the speed of the war was very stable.

The chieftain armed forces had no ability to resist the Ming army at all, and they could not even use their bravery. No matter how brave the chieftain armed forces were, they could not compare with the green-skinned orcs who were fearless.

Even the green-skinned orcs were corpses everywhere under guns and cannons, let alone mere chieftain armed forces?

However, smooth progress does not mean that Richard's advance is fast. The difficulty of traveling in the undeveloped mountain roads in the southwest is far beyond Richard's imagination, especially for large armies.

The toast war lasted until June 18, the Ming Dynasty.

The ending was not because all the chieftains were beaten up, but because the chieftains who resisted stubbornly failed repeatedly and were frightened by the scene of the Ming army massacre, the chieftains who did not fight were voluntarily surrendered to the Ming Kingdom one by one.

The surviving chief of the toast understands in the face of bloody reality that the right choice should be made between being scouted and exterminated by a family and losing power...

Originally, the chiefs of the chieftains wanted to rely on the terrain and diseases to make the Ming army retreat, but they found that no matter how many people died of illness, they would advance fearlessly and kill the rebellious chieftain tribe very thoroughly.

Anyone who resists stubbornly will be killed in the entire village and blood flows into a river!

After seeing Richard's determination and the terrifying combat effectiveness of the Ming army, the chieftains naturally no longer had the ambition to resist and surrendered one after another.

With the surrender of a large number of chieftains, although the path to the southwest peninsula is difficult to follow, at least a large number of leaders have accelerated the speed of travel.

At this moment, Richard's administrative center and military factory in the North Asia region were also completed. The tax revenue of 30,000 yuan spent 1,200 yuan for shipping coins, and the remaining yuan was used to recruit troops.

With the completion of the appeal court in the northern region of East Asia, the tax revenue increased to 35,000 fortune coins.

Richard recruited 20 six-inch howitzers with 28,800 lucky coins, expanding the scale of the six-inch howitzers to 40!

This is a very terrifying number in today's era!

The subsequent battle against the toast was so smooth because the number of howitzers doubled, and the parabola used the bomb to blow the toast warriors to death. Many times, they collapsed before they could fight against the toast warriors...

The cavalry artillery did not play any role in the Southwest Peninsula Battle, so it was not expanded.

The siege cannons were transported in, and Richard's army of southern expeditions did not bring them at all.

The remaining 8,800 lucky coins of Richard were used to recruit guard infantry. The purpose of infantry in mountain combat is still very important. Here, there may be a battlefield where small cavalry can play, but large cavalry cannot move at all. When they arrive in the southwest mountainous area, they will immediately be reduced to infantry holding war horses.

8800 Qiyun Coin recruited 88 Guards companies, totaling 7,040 people. After adding to the original Guards Corps, the total number exceeded 27,000!

Since the Southwest Advance Army was responsible for the attack, the losses of the Guards' infantry were completely negligible.

The environment in the mountains in the southwest is fatal to the indigenous humans, but it is nothing to the Guards infantry. Their adaptability is even better than that of the locals!

Because the Guards infantry will not get sick due to the environment!

It was because no one of the Guards' infantry fell ill that they could always control the Southwest Advance Army, which exceeded their number, and pressed them forward to become cannon fodder...

Of course, the combat effectiveness of these cannon fodders in the Southwest Advance Army is much stronger than that of the Southwest Chiefs...

However, when the battle of the toasts ended and most of the southwest toasts surrendered, Richard got a message from the southwest toasts:

The farmed plains and coastal areas of the Southeast Asian Peninsula were completely occupied by the recently rising Kingdom of Siam.

The king of Siam is also Richard's old acquaintance - Songtsen Gampo!
Chapter completed!