Chapter 1980： Black servant army

No way, the fighting style of the black people in this era was too strange, so weak. It's no wonder that Europeans can easily send hundreds of colonists or thousands of soldiers to easily hit a country as big as a territory. It ’s not that the colonists are too strong, but that the fighting power of the black guys is too scum ...

Hundreds of people fought each other, and actually threw javelins at a distance of thirty or forty meters. With the javelin as the head, it was absolutely over to kill people ...

Malin felt that Chen Haonan, with a bunch of gangsters, could easily defeat those indigenous warriors. After all, the machete's machete can really cause serious casualties.

Marin read African history in his last life and introduced the Zulu War. King Chaka, the founder of the Zulu Kingdom, changed this ridiculous way of fighting and made the soldiers use short spears and shields instead. The shield can resist the enemy's javelin to a certain extent, and the short spear ... is not for throwing, but for stabbing ...

King Chaka found that using a short spear to stab an enemy in close proximity would bring much greater lethality than throwing a javelin at a long distance. Then, his army used this combat method to sweep other black tribes, and finally established the Zulu Kingdom. Of course, when fighting the Zulu War, they met the British army who had used metal bullets to mount their guns. Facing the huge generation gap of weapons and technology, Zulu warriors can only be slaughtered and brutalized no matter how brave ...

The black bow cavalry led by Putinski, although far from the technological level of the British metal bullets loaded during the Zulu War, was much stronger than the black indigenous soldiers who used stone javelins.

Moreover, even if you can't beat it, you can run away. Black soldiers can no longer run after horses. Even if Bolt is possessed, it can only erupt for a while, after all, it can't run the horse's four hooves.

Of course, Marin will not only let Putinski and them conquer such a large territory with cavalry of about 1,000 people. It's not that you can't beat it, but that there are not many people to guard after it is scored.

Therefore, Marin arranged for them as follows-let Putinski serve as the chieftain of the Mauritania region, and then, to equip the other Maoxi fathers, each equipped with hundreds of bow cavalry, stationed separately on this land leading to the Songhai Empire All sections of Shangshang Road.

As for the shortage of manpower, this is not a problem. Marin intends to let Eschwein use bows and arrows, salt, sugar, cloth and other materials to exchange more black young slaves with the bow-tribal tribes near Dakar. Then, train them into qualified bow cavalry.

Then, the 46 living grandpas, with the exception of Putinski as the chief, each led 100 black juvenile archers, each responsible for the safety of a distance on the trade route.

In this way, when a large number of African cattle and slaves are purchased from the Songhai Empire in the future, the safety along the way will be guaranteed.

Of course, as for the original **** and management of the Dakar region, Marin intends to select 30 people from 46 living Mao Gong km to be responsible for the safety of various sections of the trade route. The 16 people who remain will continue to stay on the ground and command the children of the black tribal leader. After all, the hundreds of people are also a powerful fighting force. Besides, that old business road also needs human protection.

Then, the remaining 30 grandfathers, each with 100 black juvenile archers, were enough to hold the road north of the Senegal River to the Songhai Empire firmly in their own hands.

By that time, Marin could not only buy a large number of African cattle and slaves from the powerful Songhai Empire, but also buy a large amount of cheap gold for gold coins.

This route basically has water sources along the way, which is much safer than the commercial road that traverses the Sahara Desert, and the transportation volume can be greatly increased. It is estimated that the black tribes along the way have no fighting power of even five, which is very easy to deal with.

As for the "White Moors" of later Mauritania, that is, the Berbers who descended from Morocco, the fighting power was strong. After all, there are scimitar cavalry.

However, it seems that the White Moors entered Mauritania in large numbers only after Morocco conquered the Songhai Empire at the end of the 16th century. At present, those combative White Moors are still active in the desert oasis in northern Mauritania. The southern region of Mauritania that Marin wants to conquer is still dominated by black people.

Those backward black tribes only need Putinski and his Mao Gonggong companions, with 3,000 black cavalrymen, to be properly suppressed.

As for the question of the reliability and unreliability of Putinski and his fellow Maos, Marin has no worries. Why? Because Mauritania has no artisans, metal, bows and arrows, it cannot be self-sufficient and relies heavily on Marin's supply.

Therefore, Marin does not worry that the Mao Gong Gong will be out of his control. Besides, these people are all castrated father-in-law. They have long lost hope in the future and can't talk about ambitions. They are much better controlled than normal people.

If they do n’t cooperate, it ’s a big deal to dispatch the regular army to annihilate ...

In fact, Marin did not intend to manage this area carefully. As long as he can buy enough tropical cows from the Songhai Empire and buy enough gold, he does not care about the control of this land.

Even if Mao Zedong, such as Putinsky, wanted to be king and dominate, he would n’t matter if he was an “Emperor” or something. As long as it does not affect his purchase of cattle, slaves and gold, he is happy to see it succeed. After all, it is not Marin but the Portuguese who will have a headache in the future.

The Portuguese are understaffed and want to conquer Putinski, who already has thousands of cavalry, and can not beat thousands of regular troops. But in a small country like Portugal, it is difficult to mobilize thousands of expeditions. Later, when the Portuguese colonized Mozambique, the large Mozambique colonial area, with an area of ​​nearly 800,000 square kilometers, often maintained a scale of more than 1,000 colonial troops for a long time. This is certainly due to the fact that the blacks have very poor combat effectiveness, but it also exposes the Portuguese shortage of manpower and strength.

The only problem is the supply of horses. The black people in Senegal have no horses, and there is no horse in the black world in southern Africa.

The horses of the cavalry of the Songhai Empire and the Mali Empire are actually the Arabian horses and Pembroke horses brought by the bearded merchants of North Africa through the Sahara desert trade routes.

According to records, the Songhai people bought horses from Arab merchants at the time, and the price was to exchange 10 black slaves for a horse. Thousands of cavalrymen in the Songhai Empire. In other words, in order to form a cavalry unit, the Songhai Empire estimated that tens of thousands of black slaves were used in exchange for cavalry horses ...

Of course, Malin is less troublesome to get horses. Previously, the war horses that Puginsky and his Thousand Bow Cavalry rode were bought from Morocco. It is not money, but the materials such as sugar, salt and cloth were exchanged with the Arabs and Berbers in Morocco, and the price is not expensive.

But there are not many horses in Morocco, and when Spain and Moroccans compete for control of the Moroccan region, Marin cannot import a large number of desert climes from the Moroccans. Because, in the eyes of the Spaniards, it is similar to the enemy. Marin was superficially friendly to the Spaniards, and also obtained the Ayoun colony from the Spaniards. Therefore, it was not possible to openly import large quantities of Pembroke from Morocco.

However, it is different now. Since contacting the Persians, Marin no longer has to import horses from Morocco, but can directly import large quantities of Persian horses from Persia.

Persian horses also have the blood of Arabian horses, and the climate in southern Persia is also a tropical desert climate. Therefore, Bosma can also adapt to the climate of Mauritania. Exactly, Marin now has a cattle and horse boat specializing in the transportation of cattle and horses, and can transport a large number of Persian horses here. Therefore, Putinski trains black juvenile bow cavalry, and the horses are not worried.

After opening the trade route of the Songhai Empire, it became very simple for Marin to obtain black slaves. The slaves in the Songhai Empire were cheap, and just to exchange horses with the Arabs, they could bring out tens of thousands of black slaves in exchange. Therefore, Marin wants to purchase black slaves, which is estimated to be easier than purchasing African buffalo.

Thinking of the thousands of black slaves ~ www.novelhall.com ~ and the 3,000-person arch cavalry team that Putinsky will form soon, Marin suddenly came up with an idea-why don't I form a black What about servants?

Since a large number of cheap, honest and obedient black slaves can be obtained from the Songhai Empire in the future, they can be used as serfs at the same time to train them into servants, that is, artillery.

In the future, Marin will definitely conquer the Aztec Empire and the Inca Empire in the Americas. It is not difficult to send a large army from the homeland to conquer these two empires in the past, but it is not cost-effective to allow the large army to stay in these two places afterwards.

You know, the mainland of Beihai is not very peaceful. In the German region, wars are frequent. If tens of thousands of troops are stationed overseas for a long period of time, the local defense force will be reduced.

Therefore, Marin planned to use the black servant forces in large numbers after the main forces captured the Aztec Empire and the Inca Empire, and stationed in the Americas with a small number of local forces to manage and suppress the local Indians. The black servant army may not be able to fight the enemy's regular army, but there is no problem with the indigenous people used to suppress the defenseless colony. The point is-Black slaves in the Songhai Empire are cheap ... Even if a tens of thousands of black servants are formed, it won't cost a few dollars. Moreover, the most important thing is-the servant army composed of black slaves does not need to pay, as long as it provides food ...