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    As of December 1645, there were as many as 970,000 citizens in Huamei with formal rights of settlement, of which 34% were minors.  In addition, there are tens of thousands of people who still maintain temporary settlement rights for various reasons, and there are tens of thousands of "quasi-national" residents of various Indian reservations.

    The national population base continues to expand. Although the general fertility rate has declined slightly over the years, it still had a high average value of 230 in 1645.  In the three major cities of Manchester, Qingcheng and Yacheng, due to the very few new immigrants resettled in recent years, the general fertility rate fell below the 200 mark for the first time.  (Note: General fertility rate refers to the number of live births per 1,000 women of childbearing age per year)

    Although tens of thousands of new immigrants join the country every year, compulsory compulsory education for minors and literacy education for adults have kept the adult illiteracy rate in China and the United States below 10% in recent years. With the increase of localized nationals,  The base is getting stronger and stronger, and it is expected that the adult illiteracy rate will continue to drop below 5%.

    It is foreseeable that this overall young national population structure should be full of vitality and hope. The high-quality demographic dividend of the new generation brought about by the new civilized education led by the masses has been slowly released and will be released in ten years.  Really bloom.

    Compared with the rapid increase in the national population, the proportion of Chinese and American soldiers in the total population has been declining.  At present, excluding the Foreign Legion, after the new round of recruitment, the total number of officers and soldiers in Huamei's army and navy has reached 19,500, accounting for less than 2% of the country's population, including about 8,000 in the army and about 11,000 in the navy.

    This ratio of soldiers to civilians is still relatively high by the standards of modern countries in peaceful times.

    In the National Defense Forces, the main strength of the army is divided into four brigade-level units, including three infantry brigades and one cavalry brigade. In addition, there are the capital garrison, a few military police units and a number of military and civilian units.

    Under normal circumstances.  A standard Chinese-American Army infantry combat brigade will include a brigade headquarters, three standard infantry battalions, a light field artillery battalion, a light baggage battalion, and a brigade-affiliated cavalry company, with a total strength of between 2,800 and 2,900.

    However, except for the 3rd Infantry Brigade (Eastern Brigade) deployed in the Far East, which is fully staffed, the other two infantry brigades remaining on the mainland are not full, with only half of the normal strength.

    However, thanks to the National Guard reserve system that has been implemented for many years, the brigade establishment of the Chinese and American Army at this time is more of a symbol of the formalization of the standing army, and it is also a necessary model to save military expenditures as much as possible in peacetime.

    In contrast, although the Chinese and American Navy has successively added four 2,200-ton Peace-class light cruisers, two 3,400-ton Nuwa-class light cruisers, and several auxiliary ships in the past four years, the Chinese and American Navy's standing  The troops are still relatively abundant.

    This makes it impossible for the main warships, which were usually unable to be fully manned in the past, to prepare for war and set sail.  Now, 20% more sailors can be carried for rotation and rest in key combat readiness positions, thereby further improving the ocean combat effectiveness of the main battleship.

    After three years of continuous expansion, the Marine Corps has now become a strengthened battalion combat unit with more than 900 officers and soldiers.  The Marine Corps has only made a brief appearance in Jiangzhou before, but what is certain is that future European military operations will be the stage where the Marine Corps acts as the absolute main force.

    However, as the strategic adjustment in the Far East and the pace of intervention in the European war approach, even if the Chinese and American armies recruit reserves to meet the existing force establishment, the problem of insufficient total force is becoming more and more prominent.

    On the mainland, the threat from the Iroquois Indian Confederacy in the north has been reduced to an all-time low.  However, after annexing Virginia a few years ago to establish the Jiangzhou Administrative Region, Huamei also inherited the negative assets of the original English colonists - the military threat from the hostile Indian groups in the south, mainly the Baohatans.

    In order to eliminate these potential southern threats that are difficult to control, China and the United States have successively invested several National Defense Army infantry battalions, cavalry battalions and about half of the Foreign Legion Buffalo Brigade.  So far, the clearing and driving operations along Zhou Kemin City to the areas on both sides of the middle reaches of the James River have been effective.  But to consolidate the gains in the long term, more local army units will need to be invested.

    In Europe, assuming the lowest level and least direction of military intervention, it is expected that at least one brigade-sized ground force will be invested.  After all, once you get involved.  The enemy is not as simple as a few thousand Dutch mercenaries ten years ago.

    In the Far East, there are currently two full combat brigades (Eastern Brigade and Brown Bear Brigade) on standby, but after missing the best military operation window in 1645.  It is foreseeable that the newly introduced Far East military action plan will require more land forces to be effectively executed.

    The most serious one is probably in the Indian Ocean. The "low-intensity armed intervention" operation led by Governor-General Sun Hongyi at the beginning of this summer has now been substantially bankrupt.

      In addition to a battalion of the Gray Wolf Brigade of the Foreign Legion, the patchwork force also included multiple National Guard units drawn from the Nanshan Overseas Territory, the South African Governor-General and the Indian Ocean Governor-General. The total strength barely reached the size of a brigade.  .

    Facing the Kingdom of Merina, which was on the rise in Madagascar¡¯s history, and with the help of the riots of indigenous tribes on the west coast and the south, mainly African Bantu people, the paramilitary operations directed by the Chinese and American colonial governors were speculative and lucky from the beginning.

    King Andrian Jaka of the Kingdom of Merina rejected the Chinese and American colonial government's harsh northern land division requirements, and then a colonial war, described in Chinese and American newspapers as "a low-level trade conflict," broke out.

    Years of barter transactions allowed the rulers of the Kingdom of Merina to obtain a large number of 21b flintlock rifles. Then the army composed of Indonesian descendants who were familiar with the mountainous terrain of Madagascar was divided into two, and the main force was concentrated to attack the western and western countries.  The original black tribe rebels in the south used only a small number of troops to resist the Chinese colonial troops invading from the northeastern coast.

    The Chinese and American colonial troops carrying heavy baggage were completely unprepared to deal with this kind of large-scale indigenous guerrilla warfare with a large number of hot weapon elements.  The main force starting from Songhai Town stopped and stopped all the way, and was even led by the opponent for several laps in the mountains.

    The last news reported in the newspapers was the report that the Chinese and American colonial troops were about to arrive on the Central Plateau before the National Day.

    In early autumn, the Chinese and American colonial army finally arrived in the central plateau of Madagascar. After successively destroying several large villages and towns of the Merina people, a tropical falciparum malaria began to spread. More than one-third of the officers and soldiers were sick and bedridden.

    ??Then the Merina people, who had withdrawn their main force, launched a major counterattack. Although the Chinese and American colonial troops rushed to fight, they broke the siege of thousands of indigenous troops.  However, they had to abandon hundreds of corpses and desperately withdraw their troops. Dozens of dying and wounded people were forced to be abandoned along the way, and countless damaged weapons and supplies were discarded.

    Historically, it took France more than ten years and hundreds of thousands of troops to establish a relatively stable colonial rule in Madagascar. However, in this era, the colonial army of just over 2,000 people could not defeat the million-strong M¨¦ri.  Na Guo bowed his head.

    From a certain perspective, both Sun Hongyi and the Eastern Alliance Group behind him underestimated the resistance determination and war strength of the Merina Kingdom.  The new strategy of militarily occupying northern Madagascar, establishing a foothold in the Indian Ocean, and penetrating toward the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent has to be slowed down significantly.

    In order to save the face of the military and to satisfy public opinion, it is necessary to conduct reconciliation negotiations with the Kingdom of Merina soon and then announce "successful resolution of the conflict crisis" internally.  Sun Hongyi is completely low-key this time.  But that doesn¡¯t mean that Huamei¡¯s senior executives, who are now concealing all news reports, can swallow this sigh of relief.

    ??Perhaps in a few years, after China and the United States complete their strategic harvest in Europe and the Far East, a formal and comprehensive military retaliation against the Kingdom of Merina will be launched.

    To sum up, from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, from Europe to Asia, when more and more imminent military problems are queuing up to be solved, the small amount of China's national defense standing military force becomes difficult to cope with.

    Even though the Chinese and American navies can ensure the strategic security of the homeland with their existing ocean-going naval bases and force projection capabilities, it is obvious that the country created by the time-travelers is never willing to just play the farming game in North America for most of its life.  Combining various factors, both China and the United States have to consider increasing the army's standing force.

    Or.  People who are over fifty or even in their sixties are eager to change and control the world with another mature mentality.  Expanding the standing military force to absorb the incoming strategic gains has become the consensus of the Chinese American Congress and even state and local councils. It is urgently needed at least for now.

    Maybe it¡¯s some business mentality at work.  The House of Representatives rejected the proposal to continue to establish a fourth Foreign Legion combat brigade. Therefore, when it came to the specific implementation level of military expansion, some people began to consider taking an eccentric approach: with the guiding ideology of cherishing national strength and diverting war losses, establishing a brigade mainly composed of Indians.  A volunteer force composed mainly of young people on the reservation.

    ¡°This has to be said to be an extremely dark psychology at work.  However, in the eyes of quite a few members of Congress, those rebellious Indian reservation residents themselves are potential disharmonious factors in the Chinese and American native land.  Although the new generation among them has already accepted many aspects of the Chinese and American local economy and culture, it is not easy to make them stay in their own right for hundreds of years to achieve "benefit for the future".

    A new unit nominally organized as the "First Volunteer Brigade of the Chinese and American Defense Forces".  All volunteers will be recruited from the "Yin reservations" across the mainland.  For Indians whose economic and livelihood development levels are obviously several levels behind,For the younger generation on the reservation, the treatment provided by the Chinese and American Army is obviously much better than the life provided by the old-fashioned people on the reservation.

    A large number of young people have been lured to serve as cannon fodder on the glamorous front. Perhaps the old people in the Indian tribes¡¯ reservations, who now live in relative poverty and are under increasing pressure from population reproduction, do not feel any conspiracy.  But for those who came up with these ideas, they are a gentle move to secretly weaken and dilute the long-term strength of each Indian reservation.

    After more than 20 years of in-depth contact, whether friendly or disgusting, there are many young people in various Indian reservations who are interested in Chinese and American life.  According to the assumption, the First Volunteer Brigade of the National Defense Forces is a "special contract volunteer". The salary and combat allowance of ordinary soldiers are less than half of those of normal National Defense Force soldiers, and the disability pension is also much lower. The biggest benefit is that the reservation where they are located will receive more benefits.  Many trade and tax preferential treatment.

    During the voluntary military service contract period, half of the salary and allowance of all Indian volunteers will be paid directly to the elders of each reservation.  Therefore, the elders easily listened to the gorgeous official propaganda. Under the temptation of visible benefits, the intention to apply was much better than people imagined.

    Mochi, who retired with the rank of Army Colonel several years ago, has been favored by both Congress and the Army Command this time and will be invited to return to active service and serve as the commander of the volunteer brigade.

    As Li Xiang's brother-in-law, Mo Qi, who is only in his forties, is now even a grandfather. He is also the leading rich man in Shangjishi (a town on the east bank of the middle reaches of the Song River that is mainly composed of naturalized Indians). Among the Chinese and American Indians  It has a considerable influence among Chinese nationals.  He seems to be the most appropriate candidate to serve as the supreme commander of this force, which is mainly of Aboriginal descent.

    Mo Qi has a position that is most liked by those in power in China and the United States, that is, he has a very high sense of national identity for China and the United States, and is even more paranoid than his sister Nata in some aspects.  In order to make Moqi feel valued, the China-American Congress directly awarded Moqi the rank of Brigadier General of the Army. This intriguingly gave birth to the first senior Indian-origin general since the founding of the China-US Army.

    Most of the volunteers for the volunteer brigade will come mainly from Songzhou, followed by the Indian reservations in Haizhou and Binzhou, and they will all be dominated by Algonquian-speaking Indian tribes.

    However, the overall quality of this kind of paranational personnel is low. Even if most of the new generation have received education from reservation community schools since childhood, their cultural level is still far inferior to that of real Chinese and American citizens. Even if they are allowed to serve as ordinary combat infantry, their training  The difficulty will be quite high.  As for technical arms such as cavalry, artillery and combat engineers, don't even think about it.

    Therefore, the backbone non-commissioned officers and all technical arms of the brigade will be recruited from the National Guard reserves in various towns and cities to serve as veterans who have served in the National Defense Forces.

    According to the deployment plan, the nearly 2,900 officers and soldiers in the brigade must be in place before the spring of 1646, and then go to Binzhou in the south for six months of intensive training, and be shipped to the Far East by the end of 1646 at the latest to invest in the attack on the Manchu Qing Dynasty.  in military operations.  (To be continued)
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