Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 110 Westward Expansion and Iron Ore ([-])

The cavalry pursuing the Charuyas returned before dark.

Those Charuyas had already expended a lot of physical energy in the previous attack, and now they ran away in a panic, which naturally consumed a lot of physical energy. More importantly, how could they run with two legs faster than four-legged ones? cavalry?Therefore, most of these poor Charuyas became ghosts under the sword of the cavalry. Only some strong and lucky enough guys relied on the complicated terrain to get rid of the cavalry's tracking and regain their old lives.

"The Charuya village has been found. It's not far from here, about five or six kilometers away." Xu Yu sat in a newly built red brick house used as a warehouse, and said while chewing ostrich meat: "Those Chaluya people The Luya people probably thought they had escaped our pursuit. Haha, they got rid of us, but they couldn’t get rid of our lovely hounds. Old Shao, do you want to take over this village?”

"Don't be in a hurry." Shao Shude took a bowl of fish soup and drank heavily, "Who knows that there are no other Charuya villages nearby. We are not many people now, and we can't afford losses. We should be careful in everything." For the first time. Now we should focus on construction first, and when the next batch of immigrants and supplies arrive, we will send out manpower to take over the village. We will arrest all the old and weak women and children, and send the children to Dongfanggang to study, and the women will be divided. Give these immigrants and pirate slaves, why don't the old people stay here and do some simple farm work."

"Yeah." Xu Yu swallowed a piece of beef hard, and then said: "Sooner or later, we will sweep around here to find all the Chaluyas hiding in the swamps, woods and barren meadows, so as to replenish manpower. The disobedient tribes will fight until they are convinced."

"Old Xu, don't always be murderous." Shao Shude frowned, and said, "We should 'suppress and appease the Charuya people'. First of all, we should attract them with economic benefits, and then slowly subtly influence them. At the beginning Didn’t we successfully deal with the Guarani people near Ping Anbao, and now they have basically been peacefully incorporated into our system. There are very few indigenous people in Uruguay, and I’m afraid there won’t be many left after killing them a few times. In fact, I always feel that the sudden attack of the Charuya people is very strange, it shouldn’t be, someone must be agitating them.”

"The only ones who can have such means are those old magic sticks of the Jesuits." Xu Yu threw down a half-eaten bone stick, and a big yellow dog rushed in from outside the door, grabbed the bone stick and ate it wagging its head and tail. .

"I don't think it's that simple." Shao Shude said, "Maybe there are Spaniards behind the Jesuit missionaries. I'm afraid they are the ones who don't want to see us develop smoothly. If I were them, I would definitely be able to do it." This kind of thing. I will even send a large number of gaucho herdsmen as horse bandits across the prairie to burn, kill and loot here, and those bitter gaucho people are absolutely willing to do this job."

"Gao Qiao people, they are only capable. If they face each other head-on, let's see how I can overwhelm them." Xu Yu looked down on these Gao Qiao people who ran away repeatedly.

"You, Old Xu! You are also a senior officer now, don't rush to lead the charge yourself. Okay, let's take this matter step by step. Now we have to work hard. The construction progress of this new town cannot Fall." Shao Shude said.

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On July 7, the inland river shallow water transport fleet, which had increased to six, docked at the simple wharf on the Yi River.The fleet unloaded building materials, grain, seeds, livestock and some daily necessities, and even two 15-pound guns.In addition to these supplies, there were two hundred new immigrants and two hundred pirate slaves.They will take a short rest here, and after the rest, they will undertake the arduous task of continuing to dredge westward and expand the river.

At this time, on this large construction site named Xiayihe Fort, after half a month of hard work, the new immigrants have built warehouses, bathhouses, canteens and toilets, and even dug the reservoirs and sedimentation tanks. pit.In addition, a large number of trees were cut down, and a thin wooden fence was erected outside the city.The wooden fence and the barbed wire make this place initially have a certain degree of protection.

The Charuya people of the nearby tribes should have been injured in that inexplicable battle. Most of the young and middle-aged men died in the battle, which made the remaining old, weak, women and children have been in panic these days.According to the report of the investigators, there were indeed two Spanish priests in the village. They seemed to have been trying their best to encourage the Chaluyas of this tribe to migrate the whole village after they learned the news of the failure.

I just don't know whether it's their lack of persuasion or some other reason, but the remaining Charuya people in this village have not migrated.They are still as usual, hunting and fishing, as if nothing happened.After unsuccessful persuasion efforts by two Spanish priests, they also seem to have given up on further persuasion.Maybe they still have a fluke mentality, thinking that the matter is over like this, they can continue to preach here with peace of mind, develop the power of the church, and then gradually expand and infiltrate east and north.

On the morning of July 7.The Chalujas of this village will probably never forget the day when a large group of cavalrymen in dark blue uniforms and black-brimmed hats surrounded the village on tall Andalusian horses.And behind them, there were hundreds of musketeers holding flintlock rifles with indifferent faces, and a hundred pirate slaves holding spears.

These pirate slaves were promised by the officers that as long as they fight for the westward movement of the East Coast Republic and consciously defend the interests of the East Coast Republic, they will be granted amnesty after half a year and will be granted the status of freedmen.The East Coast Republic of China ignored their poor quality in the past, and a few pirates who performed well were even given the chance to be promoted and given aboriginal women as rewards.In the future, if conditions permit, the East Coast Republic of China can even bring their relatives and family members from the old continent to the new continent for free, so that they can reunite with their relatives and friends.

Such favorable conditions were irresistible for these pirates, and the expectation of being able to start all over again and live a better life inspired their endless desire to fight.Under the rhythmic whistle of the officers, they rushed towards the village with an unstoppable momentum at fairly neat steps.

The Charuyas who saw this scene were so startled that they almost fainted.Some of them still had painful memories of the battle half a month ago in their minds. Seeing these "devil's people" come to kill them at this moment, all of them felt thirsty and palpitations.They subconsciously wanted to escape, but there were cavalrymen cruising around the village, obviously they couldn't run with two legs.If they knew idioms, then at this time they would definitely be able to understand the meaning of the idiom "a turtle in a urn" more deeply.

Aiwani, a police officer of the East Coast Republic who was originally from the Charuya, stood in front of the team and used the local tribal dialect to persuade him to surrender. He made a half-hour publicity through his own personal deeds and current living conditions. The central idea is to ask these Charuyas to give up resistance, join the system of the East Coast Republic, and become obedient citizens under this system.

Within half an hour, dozens of Charuya people came here one after another to express their surrender.These people may have been seduced by Aiwani's sweet words, or they were photographed by the force of the army of the East Coast Republic. In short, they made a choice, and the commander-in-chief and cavalry captain Xu Yu handed over these people to the cavalry in the rear. .

The two Spanish priests were no longer silent at this time. They also gave impassioned speeches among the villagers, agitating in the name of religion and God, and strengthening the will of these villagers.Under their constant incitement, although the remaining Charuyas are still panicked, they are not as confused as they were at the beginning. They seem to have gained some kind of spiritual support, and this support gave them strength to fight against Negative emotions such as anxiety and fear.

"God's stick!" Xu Yu cursed dissatisfiedly, "I hate the god's stick the most."

"Ahem..." Yu Ci, a Taoist priest from the Religious Affairs Office next to him, cleared his throat in embarrassment, and said, "It's time for us to go?"

"Go." Xu Yu said impatiently, "Hurry up and come back after finishing the work, our side will start soon."

Yu Ci rode his horse to the front of the queue together with another member of the Crossing Congregation—Jia Fei, the first judge of the Yihe Circuit Court under the Supreme Court.Yu Ci's rhetoric was still the same old one, mainly about black materials about the church compiled by the Religious Affairs Office, and then to boost the morale of the soldiers who had joined Taoism.He tried his best to promote it in a hurry before the battle, and only God knows how effective it will be.

After him, Jaffe, the first judge of the Yihe Circuit Court, first announced the illegal act of Spanish priests entering the territory of the East Coast Republic to preach, and then invoked some of the provisions of the "Land and Resources Law" that was just introduced in May , declaring that the occupation of these lands by the Charuyas who have lived here for generations is "illegal" and they are "guilty".

After the facade work is done, everything that follows will be logical.The mobilized pirate slaves took the lead, the musketeers followed, and the cavalry cleaned up the fish that slipped through the net. In less than an hour, the village was conquered.The people who traveled through did not start a massacre. Only a small number of Charuya people were killed, and the remaining nearly 200 people were all captured and captured.

As for the two Spanish priests, they were executed on the spot after Jaffe announced that they were guilty of illegal entry and spreading cults (the East Coast Republic stipulates that any missionary activities that have not been reported to the government are illegal).

(End of this chapter)