It is obviously a wise decision to choose those Cossacks who follow the crowd. At least, these Cossacks are more obedient. There are 100 German Cossacks who demonstrate to them, and they are still very willing to learn the rules.
Speaking of which, these Cossacks are born to be bandits on the grassland, and their personal combat effectiveness is very good. However, their discipline is very poor. Therefore, Marin does not need to train their personal abilities at all, but only trains their discipline. As long as the discipline is good, the combat effectiveness of the army composed of those Cossacks will double.
Marin is still quite precious to these Cossacks. In order to reduce their casualties in the conflict with the Indian Indigenous people, Marin ordered each of them to customize a chain mail with good protection. Although the chain mail is not as protective as the plate mail, it is much lighter than the plate mail and is suitable for light cavalry like the Cossacks. Faced with the backward weapons of the Indian Indigenous people, the chain mail is enough to protect the safety of the Cossacks.
As for sabers, they are all made of old high-carbon steel sabers. Such weapons are definitely enough to deal with the native Indians in Argentina. Because the Indians on the Argentine grasslands are probably still using stone tools, and there are no metal weapons. Even the most powerful Inca Empire in South America, the weapons of their army are just wooden sticks, stone axes, javelins, spears, bows and arrows. Moreover, the heads of spears and bows are stone tools. Therefore, Marin was confident that those Cossacks could withstand the attacks of those natives by wearing chain mail.
In addition, Marin will also equip the Cossacks with some ordinary cavalry bows and arrows. If you can shoot some enemies without contact, it is the best. Moreover, the shooting before the charge can hit the enemy's anger. In any case, the quality of European bows and arrows is definitely stronger than that of the stone-level earth bows and arrows of the native Indians. Even if the Cossacks are not good at archery, it is okay to let them shoot a few arrows randomly to scare their opponents. What's more, bows and arrows can also be used for hunting.
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In order to maintain the supplies of these Cossack cavalry, Malin allocated all the 5,000 Eastern European Mongolian horse mares purchased from Jamahan to them. With the 5,000 horse milk produced by the 5,000 mares, their staple food was available. The horse milk can be drunk when it is cooked, or made into yogurt or cheese, and it can be done no matter what. With bows and arrows, they can also shoot some wild animals on the Pampas grassland to obtain carnivore.
In addition, in the immigration and reclaiming areas at the estuary of the La Plata River, several fishing boats will be equipped to go out to sea to fish as food supplements. When the farmland in the reclaiming area is reclaimed, the Cossacks can not only obtain food supplies, but also vegetables.
After training for a while, Marin told the Cossacks about his mission - to attack and annex the backward indigenous tribes on the Pampas grasslands.
There was no problem with the 100 German Cossacks in Marin because they were used to obeying orders. However, the 400 genuine Eastern European Cossacks were confused...
A young Zaporoze Cossack asked Marin through the translator with a confused face:
"Master, you said that the indigenous peoples of the wild continent want nothing, they are poorer than our Cossacks. What can we get when we rob them? What is the point of doing this?"
The Cossacks are a group of robbers. When they attack other tribes, they always seek the property of other tribes. However, according to Marin, the indigenous people of the "wild continent" were very backward, like savages, and did not even have metal weapons. The Zaporoze Cossacks were a little confused - why do you want to rob such poor people?
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Marin was also a little stunned when asked - Yes, why is it that robs a poor person? In ancient times, nomadic people from the northern grassland went south to rob the Central Plains dynasty because the Central Plains dynasty is the richest in the world and worth robbing. But what exactly do you want this group of Cossacks to rob or primitive people?
Of course, for Marin, it must be a map of the territory. However, for those Cossacks, that cannot be said. After all, the territory was stolen and they were not given to them.
But if they do not arouse their desire to rob, they will have no motivation to attack the Indian natives. But, with the poor Indian natives, what is worthy of the Cossacks' plan? Without a good excuse, it will affect the enthusiasm of the Cossacks to expand...
However, after thinking about it, Marin could not think of anything worth grabbing for a group of Indian primitive people...
"By the way, population!"
Malin suddenly remembered that in history, when the nomadic peoples in northern China went south to rob, they not only robbed property, but also robbed people.
Why do those nomadic peoples rob people? This starts with the characteristics of the grassland nation. In the northern grassland, ethnic renewal was very fast. Before the Mongolians occupied the grassland, there were Xiongnu, Donghu, Xianbei, Rouran, Turkic, Khitan people... You just finished singing and I came on the stage like a carousel...
And how did these nomadic peoples rise? It is obviously too slow to reproduce by themselves. Therefore, these rising tribes often like to attack other tribes. In addition to those tribes that take the initiative to surrender, the nomadic peoples' handling methods are very cruel - they will kill men above the wheel height, leaving only women and children...
With women, they can force the captured women to give birth to children for them and strengthen the tribal population. Children can also serve as the combat power of the tribe when raised.
For those ancient grassland nations, women and children are the cornerstones of tribe growth. Even if the tribe had only a few hundred men at the beginning, as long as a few thousand women were stolen, thousands of children would be added in the next year.
Men and women are different. No matter how many men a woman has, she may only give birth to children. Even if she sleeps with a hundred men, she can only get pregnant with one child a year. But if a man has 100 women, within one year, all of these 100 women can be pregnant with children...
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Therefore, the secret to the rapid growth of those grassland nations is to steal enough women to make them pregnant. At the same time, it also robs those unknowing children and cultivates successors of the tribe...
As long as there are enough women and children snatched, a tribe will grow stronger, it will only take decades. And this is the law of the bare grassland jungle - which tribe has enough force to grab enough women and children, and can grow stronger quickly...
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However, such a law of grassland and jungle does not apply in Europe. Because Christianity stipulates that a man is allowed to have only one wife...
In Europe, only children born in marriage are regarded as human beings. As for illegitimate children, even the illegitimate children of nobles have no status, and will be ridiculed, and have no right to inherit.
Of course, Europe is a farming society, with a stable social environment and monogamy being implemented smoothly. On the grassland where there is endless killing, there is only one wife, which can kill those tribes. Moreover, even if you don’t steal women from other tribes, the mortality rate of men is very high on the grassland where conflicts are as numerous as dog hair.
In Beihai Country, Marin definitely dared not openly let men marry more women because it violated the canon. However, in the distant Pampas grassland in South America, Marin dared to take risks.
So Marin asked the translator to tell the Ukrainian Cossacks:
"If you conquered those indigenous tribes, women would choose whatever they wanted and gave birth to children, and they would have the right to be assigned to the land!"
"What?" The Cossacks were stunned.
Strictly speaking, most of the Ukrainian Cossacks were originally Orthodox believers. Orthodox religion is also a Christian branch and is monogamous. They were difficult to accept Marin's statement for a while. Only a few Tatars were used to this model, but they were not interested, but were full of interest...
Marin asked the translator to add:
"Of course, my wife can only marry one. However, the illegitimate child also has the right to get land. After all, there is too much land there to get to score! Moreover, the government can help you raise children..."
After saying so clearly, the Cossacks certainly understood what Marin meant. So they suddenly started to cheer.
For these Cossacks, it is nothing more than the word "wine and color". In addition, I hope there will be descendants. Marin allows them to steal women as mistresses and helps them raise illegitimate children... This is very attractive...
Then, the group of Cossack villains were ignited with enthusiasm and full of longing for the Pampas prairie...
Chapter completed!