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 this battle was nothing special for the Chu Empire. It was just one of the many battles that the Chu Empire had fought in its 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.

There were several large-scale battles.

But it is undeniable that the Chu Army fought very frequently in the Indian region. However, 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 large-scale installation of breech-loaded rifled guns by the Chu Army, the main infantry weapons equipped by the Chu Army were only flash cap percussion 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, slow rate of fire, etc.

Even if the Chu army using such weapons and line tactics can gain huge strategic and tactical advantages, they will suffer a large number 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 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 in 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 the Indian region or in the African region, the Indian Army has achieved good results, greatly reducing the 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 regular army of the Chu Army serves as the supervisory team, technical and support force, 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 Ganges entrance areas, give up areas around Mumbai, etc.

Later, he was forced to accept the protection of the Chu Empire, and lost his military command rights, diplomatic rights, and even ordinary internal affairs rights and needed to be supervised by the Chu Empire.

For this reason, the Chu Empire specially sent 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.

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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 established 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 they don't pay much attention to it...

The Battle of Hacksburg that is happening 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.

It was not always smooth sailing for the Chu army overseas. 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 Chu army soldiers.

The strength of the Chu army was actually due to its strength on the frontal battlefield, but some small-scale sporadic combat forces, especially when attacked and ambushed by natives in unfamiliar places, could easily capsize in the ditch.

Otherwise, the reason why the Chu army formed a large-scale servant army like the Indian Legion is because it needs a servant army like the Indian Legion to undertake a large number of patrols and small-scale combat missions, 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 bombarded 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 does not affect the overall situation, it is 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 willing to go to the villages and towns that they could not 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.

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Somewhat abnormal.

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, there was no close combat between the two sides 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 performing the mission behaved extremely cruelly. They would not mention re-shooting Spanish wounded soldiers who were injured and unable to move.

With some loot, the defeated troops will be hunted and killed.

So in the end, the number of Spanish casualties exceeded 8,000, at least half of whom died at the hands of Indian servants.

If it were the regular Chu army that came to capture prisoners, the number of Spanish casualties would not have been 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 was extremely uncomfortable even for the uninjured prisoners of war, let alone those who were 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 nationality 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 receive medical treatment.

After this series of events 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, and 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 show even the slightest bit of intolerance or goodwill toward the Indian natives... then don't expect to continue to gain the trust of the Chu people. They will be transferred or even dismissed immediately...

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 "command captain" specially awarded to outstanding Indian officers.

This military rank was not conferred by the Military and Administrative Department of the regular army of the Great Chu Empire, but was conferred 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 is 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.

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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.

It also provides a good promotion system for non-commissioned officers.
To be continued...