Dominate the Country

The mountains along the Nazas River in northern Mexico.

As a place where more than 80% of the area is plateau mountains, it is really not easy to clean up when the people here start to rebel.

Walnuts with thousands of grooves on the skin are always more difficult to clean than apples. This is a truth!

After China and the West reached a peace agreement, or when China completely occupied the land of Mexico, Chen Han and the Mexicans' alliance completely collapsed.

Their common enemy has disappeared, and then each other has become the strongest enemy of the other.

It's like Rabbit and Fruit. When Xiaobenzi was defeated and the war of resistance was won, Rabbit and Fruit regarded each other as their competitors, and a civil war inevitably broke out again.

Mexico originally had a population of 4 million. But that was before the Chinese entered America.

The continuous wars and internal disputes caused a sharp decline in the population of Mexico, especially the massacre of local Indian tribes by the Spanish under heavy pressure, and the bloody revenge of the "liberated" black slaves on the Peninsulars [Spaniards], even Mexicans [native whites] and mixed-race people, and finally the white people on the south side of the defeated Spanish colonial army. Anyway, by the time Chen Han entered Mexico, the population here was at most 3 million.

After the peace talks between China and the West, a large number of Peninsulars, Mexicans, and even mixed-race people turned to South America.

Chen Han had an agreement with Spain not to prevent local Western colonists from moving to South America or Europe.

Those Peninsulars and Mexicans stranded in Mexico did not support the Spaniards in their early years, but now they have tasted the bitter fruit. After occupying Mexico, the Chinese turned their faces and did not recognize them. There was no smile when they smuggled goods, and they treated them worse than when the Spaniards were there. They went south with regret, but there were always some people who chose to resist.

Then because of the complex and changeable terrain of Mexico, the whole of Mexico was caught in a war.

The American garrison was a bit like the Japanese invaders in China. Their combat effectiveness was strong, and one team could sweep away the rebels ten or even dozens of times their number, but they had few people, and Mexico had a large territory.

The rebel troops composed of the Peninsular people, Mexicans, and even mixed-race people were not like the garrison troops, but only harassed and attacked villages and towns. This greatly delayed Chen Han's digestion of Mexico.

Finally, the garrison came up with a solution, that is, to fight back with blood and tooth, and to organize Indian volunteers and black Shuli volunteers to hunt down the rebels.

Whenever there was a rebel army in a certain place, the local white people were all sent to labor camps, and all their property was confiscated.

So under Chen Han's extremely strict iron-fisted rule, more and more white people withdrew to the south, but it was easy for them to leave by themselves, and it was not difficult to leave with floating wealth, but the manor could not be moved, the fields could not be moved, and the cattle, horses, livestock and slaves were even more difficult to move.

In a word, Chen Han plundered most of the fruits of the Western colonists' operation in Mexico for more than 200 years.

Among the four million people in Mexico before, pure whites did not account for the majority, and Indians and mixed-race people did not account for the majority. The real main force was the black Shu people from Africa. The wealth of Western colonists cannot be separated from these black Shu people. In the Americas of this era, most of the population in Western colonies were slaves.

The number of slaves is often 5 to 10 times that of free people. For example, the total population of the French colony of Saint Domingo [Haiti] was only 536,000, and there were as many as 480,000 slaves.

Mexico was the world of mixed-race people in later generations, and it was also the place with the largest number of Indians. So many Indians were exploited by the Spaniards. They were either rounded up, and the entire tribe became slaves, or became slaves after the resistance failed, which reduced the import of black slaves to a certain extent. The price of the latter was not cheap.

But this only reduced the number of black Shu people relatively, and the population was not as exaggerated as in the Caribbean.

However, the hatred of the black Shuli for the slave owners will not decrease even if their numbers decrease.

In French Saint-Domingue, the black rebels who suddenly rose up burned 1,200 coffee plantations, 200 sugarcane plantations and many luxurious mansions of the slave owners to ashes in just two months. The blacks in Mexico also fought fiercely with the Spaniards in the "darkness before dawn", and their means of revenge against the whites were as bloody and determined as those of the Indians.

Many of those means were against military regulations and discipline when applied to the garrison troops, vassal troops or dispatched troops.

Now a life-and-death battle is going on in the mountains along the Nassas River.

The Nassas River is located in the north of Mexico. The land resources here are not rich, but the forestry resources are vast and the mineral resources are extremely abundant, including gold, silver, copper, lead, iron, zinc, coal, etc. Therefore, most of the Western colonists of this generation are engaged in mining and logging, rather than plantations.

And naturally, outsiders can understand how "bloody" the mines of this era are. Then any mine is a monster that eats people without leaving any bones.

Before Chen Han's army swept the area, the Spaniards had organized killings of slaves in the mines, but they were liberated by Chen Han's army before they were done. More than 10,000 healthy Indians and blacks liberated from the local mines became a sharp sword in the hands of the garrison army from the day they were liberated. These Indians and blacks who hated the Spaniards were the strongest volunteers of the garrison army to suppress Mexico.

The volunteers in Mexico were different from Amaru's vassal army. The former had a stronger fighting will than the latter.

Today, on the banks of the Nasas River, hundreds of volunteers gathered and forced a chaotic army of thousands of people to retreat to the mountains.

Chen Han's control over Mexico was really not high. This chaotic army of thousands of people stayed on the banks of the Nasas River for more than half a month before being discovered by the reconnaissance troops. This is a very large force. Although the volunteers immediately rushed to kill, the chaotic army was not a mob without any weapons. They also rose up because of oppression, and they also have a strong spirit of resistance.

And the image of the Chinese in their minds is not only a tyrant like a robber, but also a traitor without morality. Their will to resist is also very firm. It's just that the weapons in their hands are very backward. They have nothing but flintlock rifles, and they don't even have cannons. Rifled rifles are the treasures of treasures.

The number of Mexican volunteers has grown from the initial 10,000 to 20,000 people now. There is no large military expenditure. It is enough to divide a part of the weapons seized from the Spaniards to arm them and supply them with some military supplies, food, cloth, etc. The cost of 30,000 to 40,000 volunteers is not even as good as that of a regiment of feudal troops.

But these volunteers who are full of hatred for the Spaniards can greatly squeeze the living space of the rebels. The biggest role of these volunteers is not to eliminate the rebels in the field, but to guard the territory. Just like a guard dog, when they find a thief, they will give a warning and chase and bite him. As long as they can follow the thief, that is their biggest role.

The bones are too hard to chew. The garrison troops were not in vain. The four or five hundred volunteers on the banks of the Nasas River came from three places. When the rebels were discovered and the news spread, the three cities centered on the Nasas River immediately sent out volunteers, and followed the movement of the rebels, instead of taking advantage of the scattered forces of the volunteers to counterattack fiercely. The three volunteers quickly gathered together, with a total force of four or five hundred people. At this time, it was difficult for the rebels to counterattack.

However, the rebels who had rested for more than half a month on the banks of the Nasas River also burst out with combat power. The volunteers lost more than a hundred lives and retreated from the mountains in embarrassment.

Under a mountain, Jiang Kui had a gloomy face. Looking at the volunteers who collapsed from the mountain, he knew that he was a step late. The group of rebels had formed a line of defense against the top of the mountain. Now the rebels are in a high position, occupying the geographical advantage, and they have won the previous battle, so their morale is not low and they are more confident. Although he had a hexagonal cannon and a new rifle, he didn't want to fight if he attacked from above. It was enough to have a headache if the rebels just threw stones down.

Fortunately, he was on their butts this time.

"Commander, the rebels have the advantage of terrain. It is inconvenient to fight during the day. Why don't we wait until night to start." A battalion officer said to Jiang Kui. Anyway, it won't be long before the volunteers will gather more and more. Then we will see how the bandits on the mountain can resist.

And now they have only come to two companies.

"Let's make efforts at night!"

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Such a scene also happened in Honduras at the southern tip of Mexico and in Guatemala. It can be said that the newly occupied land in the entire Central America is not stable.

Many white people, whether they are newly arrived immigrants or native whites, turned to Colombia as if their butts were on fire. But there are still some people who insist on staying there. The flames of war spread throughout the Viceroyalty of Mexico in Central America.

As the first governor of Central Mexico, Huang Jie governed all the newly occupied North American lands-Chile belonged to the direct jurisdiction of the American Garrison Army.

Huang Jie didn't know how many white and mixed-race families were ruined and incomplete in such a war, and he didn't want to care. To gain, there must be sacrifice.

It is better for these foreigners to make this sacrifice than for the Han people, right? But how to deal with the more than two million blacks in the country?

This is a problem that has never existed before - the land seized from Spain in the last war was vast and sparsely populated, with a total population of less than 20,000 or 30,000, which is very different from the current situation.

Now this problem must be faced seriously.

There are millions of blacks in Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama..., this is another million blacks. Although two million laborers are precious, Chen Ming is unwilling to let them take root in America.

But if these two million people are no longer in America, where will they go?

Data from later generations show that throughout the 18th century, Europeans sent at least 7 million black slaves to America. Therefore, in the Americas of later generations, from the Lighthouse Country to the Latin American countries, there are more or less mixed-race people, and the existence of black people cannot be ignored.

Later, thinking of the reputation of black people in later generations, Chen Ming was absolutely unwilling to see black people multiplying and living on the American continent he conquered.

"Father, since you don't want the blacks to pollute our bloodline, why not send the blacks back to Africa? Choose a fertile piece of land to settle the blacks, ..." or even help these blacks build one or several countries and let them be Chen Han's thugs in Africa?

Chen Ding said so.

"Brother, are you confused? There are two million people?" And the number of black slaves in the entire Americas is 5 million. Chen Ding's younger brother said in shock.