18th century total war

Chapter 324
"The noble Kshatriyas and Brahmins are white-skinned, the British officers who command us are also white-skinned, and our current enemies are also white-skinned. Can we really defeat those high-caste people?"

The continuous sound of guns and guns coming from the front made gossip gradually appear in Gulag's team. A companion who was also from a Sudra family next to him was not sure whether he was asking him or himself.

However, this question caused the surrounding Sudra soldiers to turn their faces away, and many of them showed expressions of thought.

When Gulag saw this, he quickly stopped his companions and whispered back: "Our masters are British whites, and our enemies are Greek whites. They are completely different!
We are not fighting for the gods now, but for our food, clothing and survival.

The instructor said all these during training, have you forgotten? "

"No, no, I haven't forgotten...

I'm just... I'm just afraid of defeat. I don't want to die. I haven't slept with a woman yet, and I don't know what that kind of thing feels like. I want to have a child of my own..."

Gulag couldn't help being dumbfounded when he heard this. He had never thought that a person would have so many wants.

You are a sudra, do you want so much, have you forgotten your lower caste?
Gulag felt that it was a wrong decision to try to save this companion. Sudras must have the consciousness of Sudras. I just want to eat and wear clothes. You have already thought about marrying a wife and having children!
However, the goal of marrying a wife and having children seems to be a good goal. Gulag was luckier than this companion. When he was in the village, he once raped a Sudra girl, and the feeling was really wonderful.

It's a pity that the bullying girl committed suicide later. Gulag fled the village where he was born in fear of retaliation. Anyway, his parents had many children, so he was not bad.

Gradually, new desire appeared in Gulag's eyes, and he felt that his previous thoughts were too pure and naive.

With enough food and warm clothes around him, he might be able to seek a better life.

Gulag did not resent the British instructors who beat him, who are now the commanders of his unit, because they had been repeatedly taught that the food they ate and the clothes they wore were provided by the British.

They should learn to be grateful!

In fact, life in the barracks did make the Gulag more comfortable than life in the hellish society it once was.

This is not only because of food and clothing, but more importantly, there are Sudras of the same status as him and even Dalits of lower status.

Although those British instructors are also high-ranking big shots, high caste in the eyes of the Gulag, most of the time they don't come to talk to them.

Most of them are handed over to the adjutants promoted by the best of them for management.

Now these lieutenants are the immediate bosses of soldiers like the Gulag.

The most important thing is that the Gulag learned to fight from the British instructors and knew how to use the weapons in his hands. Even people of high caste and white skin would bleed!

This is naturally because the British instructors are worried that soldiers composed of Indian untouchables, restricted by religious ideas, will not dare to attack the enemy on the European battlefield where white people are everywhere!
If this kind of thing really happens, it will be a scandal of the century, and the whole of Europe will ridicule the IQ of the British...

Of course, this kind of behavior by the British military also brought their relationship with the Kshatriyas and Brahmins of many Indian states to a freezing point. The Kshatriyas and Brahmins were very dissatisfied with the way the British taught untouchables and slaves to resist.

Unfortunately, under the guns of the British army, Kshatriya and Brahmin could only swallow this dissatisfaction into their stomachs.

"No loud noises in the army!"

When Gulag was in a daze, his companion who kept talking and attracting the attention of the surrounding soldiers was suddenly picked out by a second lieutenant officer who was also from Sudra.

Only then did Gulag wake up, and then he was horrified to see the Sudra officer who had the same origin as him, enforcing battlefield discipline in front of everyone, and pointing a musket at his companion who was begging for mercy. Pulled the trigger.

The gunshots of this kind of execution were inconspicuous in the team at this time, because other companies occasionally had Indian soldiers who violated military discipline being dragged out and shot in public!
Obviously, these are all orders issued by British military officers, and officers from Indian soldiers are nothing more than executors.

The effect was unexpectedly good. The Indian company, whose morale was in turmoil before seeing the enemy, immediately returned to silence, and the fear of British military discipline rose again.

Among the armies of European countries at this time, if the officer corps of the Russian Empire is the most greedy, then the officer corps of the British Army is the most unkind.

The Red Shirt Army is the most frequently used unit in the European army at this time. The three-column salvo tactics at close range are the supervisory team with the guns pointing at the front troops one by one!

When the British Red Shirts set foot on the battlefield, they would always be followed by several officers wielding sabers. The sabers in the hands of these officers would slash on the fragile necks of soldiers who violated the military discipline on the battlefield anytime and anywhere!

The record of the British Red Shirts was not brought about by the gentleman's demeanor, but by the bloody methods of British officers.

Of course, not all officers of the British Army are like this, generally only those ordinary red shirts will enforce such cruel military discipline, because most of the ordinary red shirts come from thieves, rapers, robbers, bastards Wait for social scum, in the eyes of those noble officers, this kind of scum deserves to be killed!
Obviously, this set of operations of the British Army has been intensified and used in the Indian Army.

As a British with hundreds of years of colonial history in the Indian subcontinent, it is natural to know what a refreshing and wonderful religion Hinduism is. How could it be possible not to pay attention to the biggest weakness of Indian soldiers?

In the history of the world in Li Wei's previous life, when Indian soldiers served the British government, their combat effectiveness was dozens or hundreds of times that of India after independence!
In the two Opium Wars, almost all the main sources of the British army came from India, but the officers were British.

It was these Indian soldiers who beat the Qing army several times their size to the point of crying, and finally lost their capital...

Whether it is the world in Levi's previous life or Britain in this world, they are using Indian soldiers to conquer and rule India. The real British soldiers are less than one-tenth of the Indian soldiers!
However, India is a very different region. When they were ruled by the British, their combat effectiveness was not bad, but after India became independent, it immediately became a joke all over the world...

On the frontal battlefield that the Gulag couldn't see, the continuous battle line of the Greek Defense Forces had already exchanged fire with the Indian servant army lined up in the first line of battle.

The battlefield is so big, it is naturally impossible for both sides to deploy all their troops. Fighting is not about queuing up to enter the field, it is not enough to just let people rush up.

The Greek Defense Forces did not use close-range three-column salvo tactics. In fact, no army in Europe except the French Defense Forces and the British Red Shirts now uses close-range three-column salvo tactics.

Not to mention that the requirements for soldiers are too high, and it will cause heavy losses to one's own side before the first round of salvo.

Soldiers of the Greek Defense Forces and the Indian Servant Army fired at their opponents at a distance of about 50 steps.

The Greek Defense Force is indeed a unit carefully selected by Aristotle and has undergone French training. Every time the Greek Defense Force discharges guns, there will be two rows at the same time. Pull the triggers simultaneously.

After the shooting, they will quickly withdraw from the gap between their respective companies, and the two rows behind them will follow up and raise their guns at the same time.

On the other hand, the Indian servant army did not shoot a volley, and there were no British officers on the front line. Only low-level Indian officers were waving cheap machetes and shouting in Indian dialect.

Fortunately, every soldier led by an Indian officer came from the same state and region as him, so there was no problem in language communication.

However, no matter how the Indian officers gave orders, the Indian soldiers holding muskets could only shoot on their own. Many Indian soldiers even fired out their own stabs after just firing a bullet, or simply shot Scrapped his musket due to overloading...

After just three salvos, the first row of Indian servant musketeers collapsed...

As for the Indian soldiers holding swords and spears behind them, they didn't even have the courage to charge, so they followed the defeated Musketeers and even the Indian officers and fled to the back.

Staying at the back of the queue, the middle-ranking British officer on a horse saw that the first line of battle collapsed in just one or two minutes of engagement, and quickly brandished his saber to prevent the rout from attacking him. Gallop across the open space.

Unlike ordinary Indian routs, these few British cavalry officers did not dare to rout towards the rear, because they knew exactly what was waiting for them there!

The officers at all levels of the Indian servant soldiers lined up in the second battle immediately issued an order to raise their guns, aiming at the large crowd fleeing towards them.

Immediately afterwards, the order to fire was given!

Facing the rout, these Indian servant soldiers finally performed normally on the training ground and shot the easiest first round of salvo!
The fleeing Indian servant army collapsed in a big way!

"The spearmen come forward, and the swordsmen follow closely behind. Kill all the deserters for me!"

The grassroots Indian officer in the second line of battle ordered with a grim face.

All orders are treated as if they were enemies.

Facing these Indian deserters, the Indian servants lined up in the second battle showed unimaginable morale. After all, they were facing a group of 'enemies' who had lost most of their weapons, panicked and had little resistance.

The Indian spearmen in the second line of battle were in front, and the broadsword soldiers were behind. They passed through the Indian musketeers who were loading ammunition, and rushed up with shouts.

Rows of bright spears easily inserted thousands of Indian routs into meat skewers in the first battle of the rout!
The whole trend of defeated troops was like colliding against a steel barrier, blooming with layers of blood.

In just one or two minutes, the Indian servants in the second battle killed more Indian soldiers than the Greek Defense Force!
Aristotle, who had been holding the binoculars high, lowered his hands in shock, and murmured in disbelief: "The Indians are crazy!"

Not only Aristotle was shocked by this, but the Greek defense forces, who were advancing in a column with bayonets raised, maintaining their basic formation and following the defeated Indian troops, also stopped and looked at this with wide eyes. A fight between Indians!

Of course, what the Greeks saw as cannibalism was nothing to the Indian servants. They were just enforcing military discipline on the battlefield and killing all the deserters from the neighboring states.

At this time, Aristotle finally understood why the cheap clothes worn by Indian servant soldiers were of different colors.

This is the British deliberately distinguishing them. Almost every 1 people are divided into a group, wearing cloth robes of the same color and style.

The Indian soldiers lined up in the second line of battle excitedly inserted their spears into the bodies of the Indian deserters, then taunted them loudly for their escape behavior, kicked the howling soldiers away, pulled out their spears, and pointed them at the lying soldiers. The vital parts of the defeated Indian soldiers who were vomiting blood on the ground were stabbed in again, completely ending their painful lives.

After seeing this scene, the Indian soldiers who fled and fell behind, how dare they continue to escape?

A few Indian soldiers who were close to the two wings of the British army began to flee towards the position of the British King's German Army, and were easily killed by German soldiers with good marksmanship...

The soldiers of the King's German Legion spared the British officers who fled back on horseback, but they showed no mercy to the fleeing Indian soldiers.

At the same time, a British general who was watching the battle from behind smiled and said to the other generals: "We should be able to reduce a lot of mouths in this battle.

Aristotle did us a big favor. If three more days pass, I really don’t know how I can feed the bellies of these one hundred thousand Indian untouchables.

There are too many of them, you know, and our Royal Navy cannot all feed the rations of the Indian Dalits. "

"Look at those Greeks, they stopped advancing, probably frightened by the blood of Indian pariahs."

"It's normal, the Greeks should rarely see thousands of people slaughtered before their eyes."

The British generals in the rear looked at the massacred Indian soldiers, as if they were enjoying an afternoon tea dance, and there was not even a trace of pity in their tone.

This is the mentality of Europeans at this time. Except for European whites, all foreign races in the world are not worthy of being called real people!

(End of this chapter)