Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 524 Mining Area ([-])

"What happened recently?" After settling down, Wang Dali summoned the commander of the military depot—a veteran from Livonia, and started a routine questioning.

"In general, everything is normal, and the military depot has not been attacked by any enemy." The Livonian sergeant said carefully, "However, in the past month, some Guarani people have often appeared in the nearby mountains and forests. I was confused and wary at the same time."

"Guarani people? You can't make a mistake, right? Where are the Guarani people here?" Wang Dali stood up suddenly and asked in surprise.

"It's indeed Guarani, I'm sure!" Sergeant Livonia said with certainty: "I have dealt with Guarani in the north for a long time, and I know their situation very well. Whether these people In terms of language, clothing (the Guaraní people are more civilized than the Chaluja people, and they wear more Spanish-style clothing) or other aspects, they are all genuine Guaraní people, and I will never be wrong about this Yes, they must be the Guarani people who came from the north! And not only them, but also a considerable number of Spanish and German-speaking fighters nearby, and the situation seems to be very bad."

"It's really not good!" Wang Dali also said in a low voice, "Could it be that the Spanish missionaries are crazy enough to drive a large number of Guarani people to settle here? This is a disturbing signal! Sergeant, these outsiders How big is it?"

"It's not very big." Sergeant Livonia quickly replied, "They usually range in size from a few to a dozen people, holding matchlocks or flintlocks, but there are also many people holding light sabers, Weapons such as rapiers. I am puzzled where they get supplies from? You must know that the nearby Charuya people are also poor and miserable, and they cannot afford too many outsiders. I probably counted them , whether it is Guarani outsiders or outsiders from the Old World, the number of them exceeds 100 people. It is absolutely impossible for the two nearby Chaluya villages to support the population of less than 200 people. "

"Maybe they traveled down the Black River in a canoe from the north." Wang Dali speculated, "Damn it! The Spaniards really linger everywhere, even in such a remote mining area. , What do they want to do? Do you want to start a full-scale war with us?"

"It's time to start a full-scale war with them, sir." The deputy station chief of the military depot, a young man from the Fort Corps, suddenly interjected: "The Spaniards are still living in the declining Middle Ages, and their spiritual level is decayed. As long as we go to war with them, we will definitely be able to occupy the entire La Plata within three months!"

"And then? What about three months later?" Wang Dali had recovered from the shock when he first heard the news. He cast a helpless glance at the impassioned young soldier and asked, "Three What if the Spaniards transferred a large number of troops and fleets from the mainland or Peru in a month? How should we deal with it? How should we solve the urgent need for imported resources for domestic industrial and agricultural production? How should we deal with the shortage of materials and soaring prices caused by the war? How to deal with the discontent and social turmoil caused by the outbreak of war? How should we deal with the coveting of other countries on our overseas colonies and even our homeland because we have fallen into war? Young people, can you answer me?"

"I..." The young student was at a loss for words, "We can import from other countries, such as the friendly Ottoman Empire, they are countries we can trust, and this will solve many problems."

"The Ottoman Empire is not omnipotent!" Wang Dali interrupted the young man's words mercilessly. In fact, he had long disliked these terrorists, so he took the opportunity to reprimand him mercilessly: "We are so close to the Ottoman Empire, and at the same time we are a pagan nation, this will undoubtedly make us more and more separated from the Christian world. They may unite, if not war with us, they may Restrict the export of materials to us, such as cotton, wool, copper, lead, tin and other metal minerals. They can even encourage domestic pirate ships to attack our merchant ships. Are we going to start a war with the entire Christian world for this? Is it? This will cause us to get into great trouble, will cause our overseas colonies to be lost one after another, and the mainland will also face the bad luck of subjugation at any time, is this what you want, young man?"

The young student didn't speak any more, but there was still unconvinced stubbornness in his eyes.In his view, these are troubles that can be overcome, provided they win the war.They only need to gamble on the national luck once, and it seems that the possibility of success is quite high-because the Kingdom of Spain is struggling to deal with the rising French on the Old Continent, then the whole country may be able to obtain unimaginably rich benefits for this.Yes, we only have to bet that once!

Wang Dali walked around the room twice more impatiently, then sat down in front of the table, took out a pen and paper and began to write the report.He felt that this important information must be reported to the executive committee immediately. The fact that the Spaniards had infiltrated into the vicinity of the Corrales mining area was a huge event.Originally, the people on the east coast planned to secretly develop it nearby, but now it seems that it is obviously impossible, and Spain has already set its sights on this position.

Thinking of this, Wang Dali was a little depressed. When the autumn harvest ended at the end of May, the military headquarters recruited about 5 militiamen from Dongfang County, and then went to Dingxi Fort (formerly Triford Military Station) to gather more than 1000 regular troops, and then continued Carry out the second phase of the rural clearing operation to the west, and continue to attack the Guaraní people in depth.They are not for occupying land or looting, but for killing, that is, killing and wounding the Guaraní people's vital force and reducing their population.

So far, the battle should still be going on.Major Zhu Liang, who led the team, has sent back several good news. Each time, several villages were destroyed, some prisoners were captured, some resistance elements were eliminated, and so on.Under the repeated publicity of the state-controlled public opinion, the common people in the country are naturally rejoicing about this.But Wang Dali was very disdainful, he felt that these gangsters were really looking for trouble, pushing all the Guarani people to the side of the Spaniards, it was really a big loss.Many Guaraní people can obviously be assimilated through probationary education, why do they have to kill them all?

But the terrorists insist that even though the Guarani people wear Hanfu, speak Chinese, and actively receive education, the aborigines are just aborigines and natural separatists who must be wiped out. is speechless.

In addition to the fighting in the Yakui River Valley, the settlements on the east bank in the hilly area west of the lake were not very peaceful.New Königsberg has long been besieged by thousands of natives. Although they have never been able to break through the walled city guarded by the militia and some students from the Guards Corps, the normal local agricultural production, logging, road construction, etc. It was impossible to expand, and a settlement in good condition completely turned into a front line.

As for Hekou Township, Zhenhai County, which is adjacent to it, its security has also been strengthened. Chang Kaisheng's 1st Army Company even moved its headquarters here.There are large farmlands and orchards here, and it is located deep at the junction of the two lakes and canals. At the same time, there is also a modern special shipyard that is of great importance, so Chang Kaisheng cannot ignore it.If the Hyundai factory is taken over by a group of natives, he will be the chairman of the Standing Committee.

As for the country's main agricultural production areas, Xihu Township and Dafengbao, although they also suffered sporadic attacks, the scale was so small that it could be ignored, and the local militiamen could easily deal with it, which also made the gang above People breathed a sigh of relief.After all, a low bunker agricultural base with a thousand settlers had just been built there, and they didn't want anything to go wrong at this time.

The war in the Duck Lake Basin in the north is raging. Unexpectedly, the south, which has been relatively peaceful for a long time, is gradually becoming less peaceful. This is a headache.This year, the executive committee has stepped up its determination to open up the northwest region, and the population of settlements such as Canyon Fort, Baichiya Fort, and Merlot Fort along the way will be enriched.At present, the resident population of Canyon Fort has reached 1800, of which the old citizens account for 600%; Baichiya Fort currently only has more than 1000 people, but before the end of this month, there should be a group of 300 new citizens that have been planned for a long time to come to settle. ; As for the Merlot area, it is even more important. Although there are only more than 2000 farmers from Hebei farming the land, there will soon be a team of [-] men and women (half of them are Ming people, Half of them are Polish and Russian female slaves) and the road construction team arrived here to start the railway construction. After the railway construction, they will settle down here.As for the city wall of Merlo, another group of about [-] South African laborers came to build it.

There are so many people distributed in such a vast area along the railway, and most of them are new immigrants. They have basically never received formal militia military training, and their combat effectiveness is basically five. This is enough to cause headaches.At present, only half of the cavalry battalion (more than 330 people) is patrolling here, but their patrol range covers hundreds of kilometers from the south to Fort Ningjin (800 settlers) and the north to Fort Merlot.The range is too large, it's okay if there are no enemies to attack, but if there are enemies, they will probably be exhausted.

And just when Wang Dali's report was written, several militiamen who went out to patrol suddenly came in with a serious face, and the news they brought was also very shocking: they captured a Spaniard and his colleagues in the mining area. The two Guarani servants of the Spaniard found a few pieces of dog gold in the Spaniard's luggage.However, this news alone was not enough to move Wang Dali. The news that shocked him was that the Spaniard actually had an accomplice, and his accomplice and several servants had already brought some gold ore with them a few days ago. The sample slipped away, and it seemed that he hurried back to report.

This is serious!Wang Dali stared blankly at the captured Spanish "colleague"—the prospector, and was speechless for a while.He had never felt that the war was so close to the east coast at this moment, and he seemed to have heard the approaching footsteps of the war demon.

(End of this chapter)