The Rise of the European Emperor

There is no way, the fighting style of black people in this era is too weird and weak. It's no wonder that Europeans can easily conquer a territory as large as a country by sending hundreds of colonists or thousands of soldiers at will. It's not that the colonists are too strong, but that the fighting power of the black buddies is too scumbag...

Hundreds of people fought each other, and they threw javelins at each other thirty to forty meters away... With the aim of a javelin, it must have been able to kill people...

Marin felt that even Chen Haonan with a gang of gangsters could easily defeat those indigenous fighters. After all, the machetes of gangsters can really cause serious casualties.

Marin had read African history in his previous life, which introduced the Zulu War. King Shaka, the founder of the Zulu Kingdom, changed this ridiculous way of fighting and asked the soldiers to use short spears and shields instead. The shield can withstand the enemy's javelins to a certain extent, and the short spear...is not used for throwing, but for stabbing...

King Chaka discovered that stabbing the enemy with a short spear in close proximity can bring much more lethality than throwing a javelin from a long distance. Then, his army used this method of warfare to sweep other black tribes, and finally established the Zulu Kingdom. Of course, when fighting the Zulu War, they encountered the British army who had already used metal bullets to load their guns. Faced with a huge gap in weapon technology, no matter how brave the Zulu warriors are, they can only be slaughtered and tortured...

Although the black horse archers led by Puginsky were far behind the metal bullet rear-loading guns of the British army during the Zulu War, they were also much better than the black indigenous warriors who used stone spearheads and earthen javelins.

Moreover, if you shoot an arrow on horseback, even if you can't beat it, you can still run away. No matter how fast the black fighters can run, they will not be able to catch up with the horses. Even if Bolt is possessed, he can only explode for a while, after all, he can't run the four hooves of the horse.

Of course, Marin would not just let Pujinski and the others take cavalry of about a thousand people to conquer such a large territory. It's not that you can't beat it, but that there are not so many people to guard it after you beat it.

Therefore, Marin's arrangement for them is as follows-let Pujinski serve as the general leader of the Mauritania region, and then equip other Mao Gonggongs with hundreds of archers and cavalry each to station on this land leading to the Songhai Empire. All sections of Shang Shang Road.

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

Then, among the 46 living eunuchs Mao, except for Puginsky who was the chief leader, each of them led 100 young black cavalry archers, each responsible for the safety of a certain distance on the trade route.

In this way, when they start buying African cattle and black slaves from the Songhai Empire in large quantities, the safety along the way will be guaranteed.

Of course,

As for the rule and management of the original Dakar area, Marin intends to select 30 people from 46 living Maogong kilometers to be responsible for the safety of various sections of the trade route. The remaining 16 people will continue to stay in the local area to command the children of the remaining black tribal leaders. After all, those hundreds of people are also a powerful force, so it's a pity not to blame them. Besides, that old trade route also needs protection.

Then, the remaining 30 Mao Gonggongs, each with 100 young black cavalry archers, are enough to firmly grasp the road from the north of the Senegal River to the territory of the Songhai Empire in their own hands.

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

There are basically water sources along this route, which is much safer than the trade route across the Sahara Desert, and the transportation volume can be greatly increased. The black tribes along the way are probably not even 5 in combat power, so they are very easy to deal with.

As for the "White Moors" of Mauritania in later generations, that is, the Berbers who went south from Morocco, their combat effectiveness was strong. After all, they have scimitar cavalry.

However, it seems that the white Moors entered Mauritania in large numbers, and they only went south after Morocco conquered the Songhai Empire at the end of the 16th century. At present, those white Moors with fierce fighting power are still active in the desert oasis in the northern part of Mauritania. The southern part of Mauritania, which Marin wants to conquer, is still dominated by blacks.

Those backward black tribes only needed Puginsky and his eunuch Mao companions with three thousand black cavalry archers to properly suppress them.

As for the reliability of Puginsky and his eunuch Mao companions, Marin was not worried. why? Because Mauritania has no craftsmen, no metal, bows and arrows, it cannot be self-sufficient, and it is very dependent on Marin's supply.

Therefore, Marin is not worried that those Mao Gonggong will escape from his control. Besides, these people are all eunuchs who have been castrated. They have long given up hope for the future, and they are far from ambitious. They are much easier to control than normal people.

If they don't cooperate, it's a big deal to dispatch the regular army to wipe them out...

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

Even if Puginsky and other Mao father-in-laws want to be the king and hegemony, and be a "big emperor" in the local area, Marin doesn't care. As long as it didn't interfere with his purchase of cattle, slaves, and gold, he was happy to see it happen. After all, it is not Marin who will have a headache for them in the future, but the Portuguese.

The Portuguese were short of manpower, and if they wanted to conquer Puginski, who already had thousands of cavalry, they couldn't beat them without sending out thousands of regular troops. But for a small country like Portugal, it is difficult to send thousands of people on an expedition. In later generations, when the Portuguese colonized Mozambique, the huge Mozambique colonial area covered an area of ​​nearly 800,000 square kilometers, and often only maintained the size of more than 1,000 colonial troops for a long time. Although this is due to the poor combat effectiveness of blacks, it also exposes the problem of Portugal's lack of manpower and troops.

The only problem is the supply of horses. The blacks in Senegal don't have horses, and the black world in southern Africa doesn't have many horses.

The horses of the cavalry of the Songhai Empire and the Mali Empire are actually Arabian horses and Berb horses brought over by bearded merchants from North Africa through the trade route of the Sahara Desert.

According to records, the Songhai people bought horses from Arab merchants at the price of 10 black slaves for one horse. The Songhai Empire has thousands of cavalry. In other words, in order to form a cavalry unit, the Songhai Empire estimated that tens of thousands of black slaves were exchanged for cavalry horses...

Of course, it's not that troublesome for Marin to get the horses. Previously, the horses ridden by Puginsky and his thousand cavalry archers were all bought from Morocco. It is not money, but cane sugar, salt, cloth and other materials are exchanged with Arabs and Berbers in Morocco, and the price is not expensive.

But there are not many horses in Morocco, and when Spain and Moroccans competed for control of the Moroccan region, Marin was unable to import a large number of Berber horses suitable for the desert climate from the Moroccans. Because, in the eyes of the Spaniards, that is almost the same as being an enemy. On the surface, Marin was friendly with the Spaniards, and also acquired the Laayoune colony from the Spaniards. Therefore, it was impossible to openly import a large number of Berbu horses from Morocco.

However, it is different now. Since getting in touch with 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 Arabian bloodlines, and the climate in southern Persia is also a tropical desert climate. Therefore, the Persian horse can also adapt to the climate of Mauritania. It just so happens that Marin now has a cattle and horse boat that specializes in transporting cattle and horses, and it can transport Persian horses here in large quantities. Therefore, Puginsky trains young black cavalry archers, and horses are not worried.

After opening up the trade route of the Songhai Empire, it became very simple for Marin to obtain black slaves in the future. The slaves in the Songhai Empire were cheap, and they could exchange tens of thousands of black slaves just to exchange horses with the Arabs. Therefore, it is probably easier for Marin to purchase black slaves than to purchase African buffaloes.

Thinking of the tens of thousands of black slaves and the 3,000-strong horse archer unit that Puginsky is about to form, Marin suddenly had an idea-why don't I form a black servant army?

Since a large number of cheap and obedient black slaves can be obtained from the Songhai Empire in the future, they can be used as serfs and trained as servants, that is, cannon fodder soldiers.

In the future, Marin will definitely conquer the Aztec Empire and the Inca Empire in America. It is not difficult to send a large army from the mainland to conquer these two empires, but it is not cost-effective to station the army in these two places.

You know, the mainland of Beihai is not peaceful. The German region is a place of frequent wars. If tens of thousands of troops are stationed overseas for a long time, the defense power of the mainland will be reduced.

Therefore, Marin plans to use a large number of black servants, together with a small number of native troops, to be stationed in the Americas after the main force captures the Aztec Empire and the Inca Empire, and is responsible for managing and suppressing the local Indians. Those black servants may not be able to fight against the enemy's regular army, but there is still no problem in suppressing the unarmed indigenous people in the colonies. The key point is - the black slaves in the Songhai Empire are cheap... Even if a black servant army of tens of thousands of people is formed, it will not cost a lot of money. Moreover, the most important thing is - the slave army composed of black slaves does not need to be paid, as long as they provide food...