Reborn as King of South America

Chapter 50 Andean Condor

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On the vast South American grasslands, teams of cavalry were conducting tactical drills.

A huge Andean condor hovered in the sky, its sharp eagle eyes scanning every move on the grassland.
Suddenly, a hare jumped out not far from the cavalry training area. The condor with its divine eyes spotted its prey and immediately swooped down from a height of four thousand meters. The high-altitude attacking eagle was like a missile, turning sideways and folding its wings, heading straight for the hare.

When the crisis came, the hare unleashed its survival instinct, running and dodging desperately, using its sharp turning ability to avoid the condor's three deadly swoops.

The hare was so fast that it ran to a forest in a blink of an eye. It was about to enter the forest to escape the eagle's hunting.

At this time, the condor swooped down again, but when it was close to the ground, it did not go straight to the hare, but deviated a few meters to the left.

The crisis came again, and the hare subconsciously turned left to escape the pursuit, but fell into the trap set by the condor in advance. The condor swooped down and caught it and flew high into the sky.

"Battalion commander, Kurosawa has caught another rabbit." A cavalryman who was in training pointed at the condor flying high into the sky.

Fang Minghong looked at the divine eagle with a hint of envy in his eyes.

Heize is the name given to the Andean condor by Li Mingyuan. Two months have passed since the condor was shot down by Li Mingyuan. Under Li Mingyuan's careful training, the unruly condor not only recovered from its wounds, but was also tamed by Li Mingyuan.

Five days ago, Li Mingyuan released Hei Ze. After two months of recuperation, Hei Ze was more energetic than before. After adapting to the sky for a day, he caught five rabbits on the second day. In the past few days, he followed the cavalry, waiting for the rabbits startled by the cavalry to jump out and fall into the trap.

"Captain, the brothers have been training for more than 20 days. Why don't we talk to the prince and give us two days off so that we can catch two eagles in the mountains."

Fang Minghong was not the only one who envied Li Mingyuan's eagle. One of his platoon leaders also had a crush on the eagle.

"When the battalion commander was a company commander, he promised to go eagle hunting with the brothers. Now that he has been promoted, the commander cannot deny his promise."

An officer who knew the inside story echoed.

"I've been so busy with training that I forgot about this matter." Fang Minghong smiled embarrassedly, and then said, "You guys train first, I'll go discuss it with the prince." After Fang Minghong finished speaking, he turned his horse around and galloped away.

"Platoon leader, I think the battalion commander is more anxious than us." Looking at Fang Minghong who was leaving impatiently, the soldier who asked the question just now asked in confusion.

"You probably don't know this, but our battalion commander has three hobbies: good bows, good horses, and eagles. His love for eagles started after the prince shot down the Andean condor."

"Brother, I also heard that the battalion commander privately asked the prince for Kurosawa, but was driven away by the prince with just one word."

"What did the prince say?" a curious cavalryman nearby asked, stretching his neck.

"Let me make it clear in advance that I can tell you that you can, but you can't spread it outside."

"Just tell us, we promise to keep it a secret."

"We are brothers who fought together. How can you not trust us? Don't hide it, kid."

"Then let me tell you," the soldier who was surrounded by the crowd imitated Li Mingyuan's tone and said, "Fang Minghong, you love horses like your life and treat your horses as precious as your wives. Why did you change your temper today and set your sights on my divine eagle? Are you tempted by someone else and don't like your Madam Ma anymore?"

"Haha, it's the battalion commander's fault for bragging to others every day about how good his horse is. Otherwise, the prince wouldn't call the battalion commander's horse "Mrs. Ma." The curious soldier laughed.

"The battalion commander's face must have been red at that time, right?"

"Haha, you guessed wrong. The battalion commander was not shy at all. He even said with a smile: The big landlords have wives and concubines. I have a favorite horse, so of course I want an eagle."

Everyone burst into laughter after hearing this.

"What are you guys doing? Are you itching to not train seriously?" A rude shout interrupted the discussion and stopped the laughter. "It's the brigade commander. What brings you here?" Without guessing, everyone knew that the person who came must be their brigade commander Li Dawei, and the company commander with the highest rank spoke up.

"I'm in a good mood today, so I came to check on your First Battalion. Why don't you welcome me?"

"The brigade commander's visit to our first battalion shows that he values ​​us. We brothers are so happy that we can't wait to welcome him." After the company commander finished speaking, he gestured to everyone with his right eye. Everyone understood and immediately answered in unison, "Welcome the brigade commander to inspect."

"Haha, you guys are so smooth talkers, why don't you learn from your battalion commander?"

Li Dawei's words sounded different to the soldiers.

What can we learn from the battalion commander? The battalion commander himself was so frivolous when he met the prince, and he still expected us to learn to be steady from him.

"Hey, where is your battalion commander?" After Li Dawei finished laughing, he realized that Fang Minghong was missing.

"The battalion commander has gone to find the prince." A soldier nearby interrupted.

When Li Dawei asked these soldiers, he found out that Fang Minghong had asked Li Mingyuan for leave to catch eagles.

"The brat didn't even call me, the boss, when he had something good to do. Just wait and see how I'm going to deal with him." Li Dawei said hatefully.

The Andean condor that Li Mingyuan tamed was showing off its might in the sky over the Chinese Independence Army every day, and it had long made many Chinese officers itchy. So Li Dawei and the cavalrymen next to him gave an order and rode away.

In the military camp, Li Mingyuan did not go out to train the troops today, but stayed in the tent to review the "Infantry Drill Manual" that had just been completed.

More than twenty days have passed since the formation of the field army was announced, and the various troops have been training for more than half a month. The special forces, cavalry brigade, and naval forces under Li Mingyuan's charge were also handed over to their respective chief officers for training after ten days of training under Li Mingyuan's personal guidance.

The cavalry brigade and special forces are the spearhead troops in the transition, and the naval sailor troops are also of great significance to the transition operation.

There are many rivers from Paraguay to southern Brazil, and the Parana River is the main artery that runs through Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. Brazil will deploy warships on the Parana River to block the estuary, and when facing Brazilian warships, naval sailor units will be needed to take action.

Li Mingyuan selected 500 soldiers who were good at water from the army of more than 100,000 people, and trained them together with the 500 people originally selected from the fleet. Finally, 300 people were left to form a naval special forces to carry out sneak attack missions against Brazilian warships.

The training of the naval special forces in the 1000st century is strict and the training cycle is long. However, the Chinese Independence Army was about to be transferred in, and the sailors had only more than a month to train. Therefore, Li Mingyuan omitted many training items and only retained meters of armed swimming and sneak attack skills training every day.

Of the 1,000 soldiers selected, 500 sailors had gone through Li Mingyuan's training, and after more than 20 days, only 100 were eliminated, while 200 were eliminated from the 500 selected from the army. However, the remaining 600 people still had to go through the final round of tests, and only 300 would be left to form the Navy Special Forces.

The Infantry Drill Manual compiled by Li Mingyuan is divided into eight chapters, covering everything from the most basic soldier formations to large-scale troop assembly operations.
The main contents are: the first part is individual formation training, including marching, formation
Part 2: Individual combat training, namely individual soldier shooting against infantry and machine guns and individual soldier combat training.

The main contents of each chapter in Part III are the formations, combat, attack and defense of squads, platoons, companies and battalions.

The fourth part is about the use of light machine guns and artillery. The chapters cover mixed force formations, shooting, attack, and defense.
The fifth chapter is about night combat, including night attacks, sneak attacks and counter-sneak attacks.

Chapter 6 Regimental troop training, including attack, defense, pursuit, retreat, and night combat.

Chapter 7: Brigade and division level large corps combat training.

Chapter 8: Logistics and transportation support.

The Infantry Drill Manual explains the principles of war and combat techniques from the basics to the depths, and is suitable for everyone from ordinary soldiers to senior officers.

Li Mingyuan checked the Infantry Drill Manual one last time and after making sure there were no problems, he handed it to the guard, who took it to the staff officer to copy and then distributed it to the Chinese officers for reading and study.

(End of this chapter)