Marin was not a blind man. Although he could not see the expressions of the new recruits on the city wall ten kilometers away, he observed these days and found that the new recruits of the Fifth Legion guarding the city wall were becoming more and more skillful.
Two or three days ago, the British army who often siege the city wall found a loophole and occupied a section of the city wall. Although the British army would eventually be driven down, it also posed a threat to the city wall. However, as the recruits became more and more adaptable, this situation was rare. On the seventh day of siege, Marin only found that there had been a danger on the top of the city wall and it was quickly dealt with.
Marin watched the growth of these recruits and soldiers from the Fifth Legion with joy. In order to better train these recruits, Marin even revised the plan to launch an attack seven days later and decided to wait a few more days...
Although this week's siege battle probably caused more than a thousand casualties to the new recruits, Marin was not worried. Why? Because the Fifth Legion has a mature battlefield medical team...
This mature medical team has enough clean gauze wrapped in oil paper bags, as well as a large amount of medical alcohol (all by-products of the production of Erguotou, that is, the more choking part of "pot" and "pot tail", as well as sufficient Jinchuang medicines configured by Morigen and Bater... As long as they are not fatal and disabled injuries, they can basically be rescued...
The old army of the same era, the wounded on the battlefield, could survive half of the wounded soldiers... and in Marin's army, the survival rate was mostly half...
In order not to let the French learn this, the wounded soldiers of the Fifth Legion were carried to martial law hospitals for confidential treatment. Therefore, the French in the city did not know the methods of the Fifth Legion to treat the wounded. Otherwise, these Frenchmen would definitely report to Louis XII.
As for whether the French would discover the "miracle" with a high survival rate of wounded people, Marin was not very worried. Why? Because the wounded people on the battlefield generally do not die after they get off the battlefield, but will die after the wound is infected for a long time. But Marin will not wait a long time, and in a few days, he will deal with the British army outside York City. Then, the Fifth Legion and the French can part ways. At that time, what do you know about the survival rate of the Fifth Legion’s wounded people?
It is precisely because of this confidence that Marin planned to postpone it for a few more days so that the recruits of the Fifth Legion would be more familiar with the battlefield atmosphere. You should know that this relatively safe training atmosphere is hard to come by...
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Just when fierce urban offensive and defensive battles broke out inside and outside York City, a battle between colonial troops and indigenous people broke out in the American colonies and Cuba Islands...
Among the 600 soldiers who went to Cuba, 300 of whom worked as hunters in the Black Forest, were all masters of tracking and shooting. The other 300 were old residents of the Black Forest, and were no strangers to the jungle. Moreover, Marin sent them to Cuba last year. However, until now, it was mid-to-late May of the following year, and these people began to take action...
Why? I can't adapt to the local environment...
It’s all about tears when you say too much. Marin has already considered it carefully and has specially eliminated those who are afraid of heat. However, the climate difference between Cuba and Germany is too great. One is a tropical rainforest and the other is a temperate black forest, which are completely two worlds...
So, after the 600 jungle warriors arrived on a boat for three or four months, the first thing they did was to get sick collectively...
Of course, it is not that fatal disease, but a small disease that is not big or small. Although it is not fatal, it is enough to make 600 people lose most of their combat power...
In desperation, Havana Governor Tara had to raise these old men first, serve ginger and brown sugar every day to help them condition them...
After several months of cultivation and adaptation, the old men gradually adapted to the Cuban climate. Then, they began to tentatively train some small tribes near Havana...
Because there are 300 forest hunters and some Alsace wolfdogs, the small local tribes cannot even escape after being defeated. After all, it is easy for those indigenous soldiers to escape, but it is difficult for the elderly, weak, women and children in their village to escape... Following their smell, the Alsace wolfdogs, the ancestors of the German Shepherd, could easily find them... By the way, when they first arrived in Cuba, the symptoms of these Alsace wolfdogs were even stronger than humans, and they were almost sick and unable to move...
Of course, the Expeditionary Force did not harm the Cuban natives. After using a clockwork to suppress some of the fiercely rebellious soldiers, most of the natives were captured.
Those natives were actually not very weak in combat. But I had never seen a musket. The flames and smoke emitted by the musket, as well as the loud thunder, scared these indigenous warriors so much that they could not find the north. Even once, Tara found that a "number one warrior" of an indigenous tribe was so scared that he was so scared that he was peeing his pants by the loud thunder of the musket... It was not right. The indigenous people had no pants, but wet the leaves and animal skins that wrapped their lower bodies...
Relying on the huge power of the ferry guns and the earth-shaking sound, the local tribes were no match for the expeditionary army at all. Even if they wanted to ambush, they would be seen through the alertness of the Alsace wolfdog. The traps were also seen through by the forest hunters one by one... This battle could not be fought. The local tribes were either defeated and captured, or they fled in advance...
By the end of June, in one month, the Cuban Expeditionary Force had defeated twenty Taino tribes and captured more than 7,000 people. The area controlled by the Cuban Expeditionary Force almost reached five or six thousand square kilometers, roughly equivalent to most areas of Havana Province and Havana City in later generations. No matter how far away the jungle is, it cannot be controlled for the time being.
However, Tara was not disappointed. Because the land of 5,000 square kilometers was already large enough. You should know that the two North American islands that Tara had managed before were only about 500 square kilometers in total. The five,000 square kilometers around Havana were more than ten times that of the area he had managed before. As long as it was developed, there would be a lot of land...
Moreover, the freshwater resources on Cuba Island are very sufficient, not only abundant precipitation, but also numerous rivers, which are very suitable for agriculture. At the same time, the terrain near Havana is still very flat...
After conquering the surrounding area of ​​thousands of square kilometers, Tara directly took the men and asked the soldiers to escort the captured men and captives of the men and women of Taino to cut down trees. On this island full of tropical rainforest, only by cutting down the trees and digging the roots of the trees can it be cultivated into farmland...
Of course, Tara also plans to send professionals to process and preserve the wood suitable for shipbuilding in order to prepare for future shipbuilding needs.
But the problem is that Cuba is a tropical region, and the varieties of trees here are very different from those on the North American continent. When on the two islands of North America, Tara and his men could also separate the white oaks and the red oaks specially explained by Marin, and preserve these two trees suitable for shipbuilding intact for shipbuilding.
However, the wood in the Cuban forests is full of tropical tree species. Most of Tara and his subordinates do not know, and they do not know which tree wood is suitable for shipbuilding. So, Tara was helpless and prepared to write a letter to Marin for help, asking Marin to send a few shipbuilding craftsmen with good vision and knowledge to identify the local trees on Cuba Island and see which trees are suitable for shipbuilding. In this way, Tara would also save the logs suitable for shipbuilding for one or two years, so that they can be used for shipbuilding. As for shipbuilding that are not suitable for shipbuilding, just burn them as firewood...or, it is also possible to build houses and create general furniture...
As for the Manhattan Island in New York under Albert's jurisdiction, although Marin sent thousands of soldiers, the army was still in the training and adaptation stage because there were few forest hunters.
Chapter completed!