Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 438 Hill District ([-])

The sun at three o'clock in the afternoon is not so glaring anymore.Shao Yuanyi leisurely sat up from a rattan chair. He had just finished his afternoon nap and was still a little confused.Although it was midsummer at this time, he was sleeping at the back door. Once the front and back doors were opened and the draft passed, it shouldn't be too cool.The clock at home "dangdangdang" struck three times, and in two hours, several of his apprentices would come to learn from him.This is also the task assigned to him by his superiors, that is, to spread the knowledge he has acquired as soon as possible so that more people can benefit. This is something the country has been advocating.

While there was still some time, he decided to go to his slope in the mountains to have a look, and after saying hello to his wife who was still feeding in the pigsty, Shao Yuanyi put his hands behind his back, and Shi Shiran headed north into the mountains.

The village is less than 300 meters away from the mountain, and there is a gravel road leading there.When building settlements and distributing fields, it has been stipulated that each person has three mu of flat land and five mu of slope land. The flat land is concentrated in front of the village, while the slope land is in the mountains.Due to the large-scale breeding of livestock, whenever the harvesters of the mutual aid group of the villagers start to harvest grass on a large scale, each household will take the cattle out of the livestock pen, put them on a cart, and drive them to the mountains to prepare for the pasture. Pull back the pasture that has been harvested by oneself.

The past two days were the pasture harvest season. From time to time on the road, some villagers who were driving ox carts and loaded with pasture came back from the mountains. Shao Yuanyi greeted them softly.These people are all residents in the east of the village, and the horse-drawn hay harvester in the village also harvests sequentially from their fields. It will probably not be until tomorrow that they will harvest the slope fields of Shao Yuanyi's family.

The sloping fields in Mucao Ridge are extremely large, about one thousand mu, all of which are located in the mountains to the north.The hilly terrain here has little ups and downs, and the slopes of the hills are relatively gentle, which makes mechanical harvesting possible.Shao Yuanyi stood on the hillside, and all he could see were lush slope fields of alfalfa, which were growing quite well.Although the land here is not as fertile as the one at the bottom of the mountain, it is suitable for growing alfalfa, and after the alfalfa is harvested and returned to raise livestock, it is often possible to obtain greater profits.But if it was in Daming, such slopes would have been replanted with wheat or corn early in the morning, regardless of whether it was suitable for growing grain, anyway, it was planted first.You must know that not everyone in Ming Dynasty had livestock to raise, especially when the social order gradually collapsed at the end of Ming Dynasty, everyone was more willing to grow dry land crops such as wheat and corn.

"Adapting measures to local conditions can only be done on the east bank." Shao Yuanyi sighed slightly, and then walked towards his own field.There are some fruit trees planted along the field path leading to the field. The fruit tree saplings were purchased by the village committee at first, and then distributed to the villagers, who took them back and planted them.Some people planted it in their own yards, and some people planted it in the field. Anyway, every household has this kind of thing. Even if passers-by pick a few fruits and eat them, no one cares. The atmosphere in the countryside is still quite simple. of.In the past two days, the agricultural technology station in the village sent everyone some fertilizer made of whale bone powder, and let everyone put it on the root of the tree. It is said that it is very beneficial to the growth of fruit trees. Many people have taken it back for trial use, but I am afraid it will be effective. Still have to wait a while.

Shao Yuanyi walked to his own field, wandered around, and chatted with a few villagers who were harvesting grass. When he was about to return, he suddenly heard a crisp sound coming from a mountain not far away.It's gunshots!Shao Yuanyi reacted immediately.damn it!Could it be that the Guarani attackers are at it again?

The village policeman who was supervising the harvesting of alfalfa was so startled that he drew a flintlock pistol from his waist, kicked open a wooden box on the ground, took out a rifle from it, and scattered them to the villagers who had gathered after hearing the news. They opened another box, and distributed the paper-cased ammunition and bayonets carefully stacked inside to the crowd.Many villagers have received extremely complete military training. To put it bluntly, the amount of regular army training and the number of live ammunition shootings in many European countries are not as good as them, but they are just a militia on the east coast-reserves in the reserve.Not to mention that some of these people are older and even retired veterans of the regular army. They have been fighting on the battlefield for many years, and they are naturally not bad in all aspects.

Shao Yuanyi also quickly rushed to the place where the crowd gathered, took a 32-C flintlock rifle from the patrolman, and skillfully began to charge and reload.Although he is a doctor, it doesn't mean he doesn't know how to operate firearms. In fact, every adult man on the east coast must learn how to use firearms and receive regular military training. This has created an extremely large reserve force for the East Coast Republic. .Based on the total population of about 3000 as of the beginning of this year, the number of registered militias is as high as [-], which has exceeded the number of standing armies in many European countries.

The gunshots came from the edge of the forest to the north.At this time, a dozen people wearing clothes made of animal skins, leaves and other things gradually appeared there. They held spears, bows and arrows in their hands, and some of them carried a matchlock gun on their shoulders.

"Sure enough, it's this gang! I've reported it to my superiors a few times, but the bastards in the village always evade the shortage of troops and can't find any manpower. Let me apply for manpower after the autumn harvest, shit!" Patrolman Niu Dacheng spat on the ground He spat, then stared fiercely at the group of Guarani people at the edge of the forest not far away, and said: "The number is still increasing. It seems that they have recently united with one or two small tribes nearby. It must be the group of Spanish The missionaries made the bridge, otherwise these grandchildren would not be so easy to unite."

It is not without reason that Niu Dacheng said this.In fact, since the first day the East Coaster's castle was built here last year, it has caused a huge stir among the nearby indigenous tribes.These primitive tribes are extremely barbaric and backward. That is to say, in recent decades, they have been influenced by the Jesuit missionaries who have worked tirelessly to spread the Lord's gospel. Generally speaking they are still ignorant and barbaric.

Especially after the East Coast people appointed the Catholic East Coast Archbishop Pedro on their own, the relationship with the Holy See dropped to a freezing point, which led to the hatred of many orthodox Jesuit missionaries.They regard the people on the east coast as heresy, a heresy more hateful than heretics, a heresy that must be destroyed soon!In order to eliminate the people on the east coast, these savages are the best cannon fodder for the missionaries.

After more than a year ago, the government of the East Coast Republic began to comprehensively launch the Western Development Strategy, advancing westward and gradually expelling, exterminating, and exiling the indigenous tribes along the way, which once again deeply offended missionary groups such as the Society of Jesus and the Franciscans Therefore, under the new and old hatred, conflicts between the two sides have occurred from time to time in recent years, and there is a trend of becoming more and more frequent.For example, it is not the first time that everyone has experienced the conflict happening in the field before us, so they reacted quickly and distributed weapons to everyone for self-defense.They have no way to retreat, less than 300 meters behind is the village where our family lives, they can't let these robbers rush into the village!

After sending one person back to the village to report to the director of the militia, the patrolman Niu Dacheng held a pistol, looked at the twenty or so villagers around him who had been temporarily transferred to musketeers, smiled, and said, "Take the ox cart Pull it over and gather together, everyone gathers together, let's see what these savages do to us. Hurry up, stop dawdling, it's not the first time I've experienced this, I'm afraid of a bird! Hurry up, they're going down the mountain .”

Under the urging of Niu Dacheng, everyone worked together to pull several ox carts and a horse-drawn grass harvester and roughly formed a circle.Then holding a musket with good ammunition, quietly waiting for the arrival of the enemy.

The enemies on the hillside seemed somewhat hesitant. They waited for a long time, and only after they had almost gathered their hands did they begin to slowly come down the hillside.Before coming down, they first threw a body in a black uniform from the hillside.The body was covered in blood, and the weapon had been removed. It appeared to be an East Coast patrol officer who was suddenly killed while on patrol.However, the natives did not do things well after all, and the sudden attack still gave the patrolman a chance to shoot, thus alerting the villagers down the hillside, which was a failure enough.Maybe it was because they lost too many good players in the previous campaigns, so now they can only use some unworthy things to attack the people on the east coast.

Niu Dacheng pressed the militiamen not to shoot in advance, he was going to give them another ruthless attack after the enemy charged close.There were about 80 to [-] Guarani people who rushed over. This is already a small tribe that can gather most of the troops. Most of them hold spears, and a few of them hold bows and arrows. Only the wrists of the last dozen or so people A slow-burning matchlock is wrapped around his body, and he holds a heavy matchlock gun in his hand.This should be brought by Spanish missionaries from the La Plata area for them, just like they armed the Guarani indigenous tribes against the Sao Paulo flag team.

The Guaranís also knew how powerful the East Coasters were with their guns, so they walked very scattered and at a fairly fast speed.

"Bang! Bang!" Six muskets fired in one direction, and two Guarani men holding spears and screaming were hit in the chest.The body that suddenly lost momentum while running at high speed still took a few steps forward relying on inertia, and then fell headfirst to the ground, the wooden cross on his chest was immediately stained with bright red blood.

Gunshots rang out one after another. Basically, three or five guns fired a volley towards one place, and then quickly reloaded and reloaded.Naturally, those Guarani people would not be so stupid as to stand still and let you fight. They also roared, and suddenly accelerated their marching speed, throwing some short spears over while running, which made the people on the east coast who were loading their ammunition panicked. of.

(End of this chapter)