Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1289 Promoting Peace by Fighting ([-])

In May, the local people on the east coast have already entered the joy of harvesting, but in Chengen Township, the newly occupied Beining area, more than 300 immigrants have just rushed to sow the seeds.This latest improved wheat variety cultivated by the Northern Seed Company is believed to bring good harvests to the residents of Cheng'en Township during the summer harvest. Everyone has been eating cassava, a crude "slave food" for too long. Desperately needing to relive the taste of delicious beef noodles, steamed buns and white bread.

However, apart from these, what the hundreds of residents of Cheng'en Township have heard and encountered recently has been bad news.First of all, on the 1st of this month, several immigrants from the east coast who were logging in the wild woods were attacked. Two people were killed and one was seriously injured, and many others were slightly injured. He was captured and later interrogated as Chief Calderon's person, which made everyone angry and a little scared.

On May 5th, another group of Indians attacked a pasture, killing one lawn mower on the east bank and injuring two people, but they were scattered by the garrison of the Second Mixed Battalion (half a company) who rushed over quickly. There were seven or eight corpses.Since then, the Indians have been quiet for a long time, and they did not launch a third attack until May 4. This time they used a full 5 people, and it seems that some of the St.The officers and soldiers of the Second Mixed Battalion, which had been increased to one company, dealt a head-on blow to Chief Calderon's troops, killing and injuring dozens of people on the spot, and captured more than ten people for Chief Calderon to "enjoy" To the worst defeat in recent years.

Chief Calderon seems to be a little more sober at this time. He doesn't ask for brandy, spices, tobacco, or alcohol, let alone any tribute. He only hopes to maintain peace with the "tribes" on the east coast of Cheng'en Township. They even did not hesitate to sell the location of the secret camp of a small-scale (about 19 people) St. Paul's flag team to the east bank.The people on the east coast accepted the "good intentions" of Chief Calderon, and then quickly dispatched troops to take over the small but bad-looking St. Paul's flag team. At that time, they even wanted to take over Chief Calderon's tribe , but considering the vastness of Lin Hai, it was not easy to find, so he gave up in the end. The company commander who led the team felt that he had to wait until the population increased and the strength became stronger. Did we slowly deal with the Indians hiding in the forest in the later stage? There is no rush for this.

What's more, the Army's Second Mixed Battalion cannot stay in Sao Paulo without restriction. In fact, they will set off for Changshun Port in the next few days, waiting for naval ships to pick them up for the next step of military operations.For this reason, the Ministry of the Army also readjusted the combat tasks of each department: the most elite mixed battalions No. 1000, No. 2000, No. 1.1, and No. [-] will gather at Changshun Port, and at the same time there will be nearly [-] Indians from the No. [-] Brigade of the Volunteer Army ( More than [-] new recruits have been added recently), and the Chengshan County Security Regiment, which has a large number of recruits, has [-] members (it also means to take them to practice). If some auxiliary technical arms and non-combat civilian personnel are counted, the total force is about [-]. , is extremely large.

In addition, in order to fill the vacancies left by the various ministries, the Ministry of the Army also rotated some county security teams from the mainland. Araucan County Security Regiment) 1600 militiamen, and more than [-] members of the Fifth Brigade of the Volunteer Army composed of Gauchos, defected Tehuelche people, and some Tierra del Fuego natives went northward to consolidate the occupied area, and vigorously launched a campaign to strengthen public security and clear the All kinds of threatening St. Paul's bannermen, exiled Indian slaves and unnaturalized savage Indian tribes, to ensure that the immigration work can be carried out smoothly. Instead of swallowing the entire occupied area at once, they have formulated a timetable in detail, planning to spend ten years to roughly digest it, starting with key areas, and shrinking the force (it will not work if it is not shrinking, the militia cannot hang out for a long time) , The key guarantee is that the next piece is one piece, and finally it will take decades to develop it well, provided that the territory of the people on the east coast will not continue to expand.

Before that, the most important thing they need to do is to end the war with the Portuguese and return the country to a normal state. Otherwise, trade, construction, and digestion will be out of the question.However, in order to end the war, it seems unrealistic to end the war in a short period of time, given the pace of people's work, the efficiency of transportation, and other differences in religion, culture, and economy in this era. It might last for several years or more.Of course, it is not impossible to speed up this process, but this requires the people on the east coast to work harder to beat the Portuguese harder and create a sense of urgency, so that it is possible to quickly start peace talks and end the war. There is no other way.

It is precisely because of this that, with the approval of the Executive Committee, the Joint Chiefs of Staff once again formulated a plan to "promote peace through fighting" involving both the navy and the army.In this plan, let’s not talk about the navy. The main battle of the army is probably to gather elite troops and, under the escort of the navy ships, land in the coastal waters of Pernambuco, Bahia and other general areas in northeastern Brazil. , to implement various combat operations.The main purpose of this kind of combat operation is to cause the greatest economic loss to the enemy, and the loss of personnel is secondary. The staff members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff hope that through this kind of military operation, the Portuguese, who are exhausted and exhausted, will be quickly driven to the enemy. Come to the negotiating table and settle the fruits of victory in the war as soon as possible.

The staff officers were very confident, and felt that after the enemy lost the four "transfusion vessels" of Ming Dynasty, India, East Africa, and West Africa (of course, these transfusion vessels were thick and thin), if they lost the thickest transfusion vessel in Brazil, then they would definitely Will be "weak" and urgently need to "take a good rest", and this is exactly the purpose of the East Coast people.Of course, if this does not make the Portuguese succumb, then the navy can only organize a large fleet again, and venture to Europe to bombard and block the coastline of the Kingdom of Portugal. This should dispel the last chance of the Portuguese, and of course it will also cause The great attention of various European countries, but there is no way to achieve the goal.

On May 1661, 5, they ended their respective combat missions and changed their defenses—changing defenses is an extremely complicated task, especially when tens of thousands of people are involved, it almost exhausted the staff officers of the Liaison Division, Logistics Division, and Marching Division of the Ministry of War. Get down——The finished army's 25nd, [-]rd, [-]th, and [-]th mixed battalions have assembled in Changshun Port, and they are waiting for the navy ships to arrive.In this battle, the older battalion commander of the Second Mixed Battalion, Major Xiao Xi, will serve as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, responsible for the landing operations of tens of thousands of army officers and soldiers, and the battalion commanders of other ministries will cooperate.

The materials on the pier of Changshun Port are piled up like a mountain. This former capital of General San Vicente in Portugal has now become the base camp for people from the east coast to manage the Beining area.A large amount of materials were transported to the pier by sea, and then transported to Beining Town through the rugged and dangerous trails to support the reclamation and construction of inland areas.Compared with the slow progress of land auctions and listings in Cheng'en Township and other places, the land auctions in Changshun Port and several new settlements around it (mostly located in very narrow coastal plains) went quite smoothly. , a large number of second-generation nationals from the prairie on the east coast of the south came to settle here with large bags and small bags. The immigration department also arranged for a large number of immigrants from Huai'an Prefecture and non-nationals to live here. Coupled with the convenience of sea transportation, these few settled The development of this point is many times stronger than that of Beining Town.

By the way, these new settlements have absorbed a total of more than 6000 people. They are Salt River Township near the small city of Itaniaen in the later generations, Gaosha Township near Peruibi in the later generations, and Berti Township in the later generations. Qingyan Township near the small town of Oga.It can be clearly seen from the map that these three settlements plus Changshun Port are basically in a straight line, and they are all distributed on the narrow coastal plain outside the Mar Mountains, which also determines the future of Changshun. The county boundary of Shun County is a long strip with a length of more than [-] kilometers from north to south, but a depth of only ten kilometers.

The three newly established settlements are currently mainly dominated by logging and animal husbandry. The grains are all imported from the outside world, and this will be the case in the foreseeable next few years. After all, the forests on the coastal plain will not be cut down. The land has been cleared, how to plant it?Of course, there may be some residents who have the skills to fish for a living, but considering that the fishery resources in the southern coast of Brazil are just so-so, they can’t compare with the coast of Patagonia, so they are destined to not be able to support too many of them. The fishermen, the future of the three settlements and even Changshun County still have to rest on the planting industry. Of course, the traditional advantageous industries of forest logging and deep processing cannot be lost.

On May 5, an escort fleet consisting of two naval battleships and more than a dozen sail escort gunboats escorted a large number of transport ships to anchor in Changshun Port.Because the main force of the Portuguese navy is almost gone, there is no need to send many capital ships to go north this time, and it is more than enough to use sail escort gunboats as the main force.

There are 12 flute-shaped transport ships, 4 large clipper cargo ships and 2 steam engine sailboats, with a total transport tonnage of 1.59 tons, which can easily carry tens of thousands of army soldiers, luggage, weapons, food, mules and horses. When all kinds of items arrive at any coast of Brazil, not to mention the two battleships and 12 sail escort gunboats (mostly newly built and frigates returned from the Indian Ocean) launched by the navy can also provide a certain amount of supplies in the cargo hold, so this The sea-land joint military operation has sufficient supplies, and its self-sustainability at sea should not be weak.

Speaking of this, I have to mention that the large fleet led by Colonel Li Yi, Minister of the Navy, severely damaged the Portuguese Indian Ocean Squadron in the naval battle of Mozambique Island, and achieved 27 enemy ships (including Major Guo Zili's record) and Portuguese self-sinking ships), a while ago (April), Minister Li led a large fleet to escort a group of immigrant transport ships to the capital's Oriental Port, and received a warm welcome from the citizens of the capital.

Infected by the mood of victory, the wealthy citizens of the capital gave generously, and at the docks snapped up the goods loaded on the spoils of many Portuguese merchant ships: high-end Indian textiles, oriental brocades, raw silk, pepper, fennel, ginger, cinnamon, Commodities such as mustard, musk, tea, sesame oil, ivory, high-grade oriental porcelain (different from the low-quality porcelain produced on the east coast) were the most popular, and were bought up by enthusiastic people and merchants almost from the beginning; the rest such as borax, Capillaris, gemstones, benzoin, feather yarn, cinnabar, dyes, shellac and other products that were worried that they would not be easy to sell were sold out in the afternoon; even the palm sugar used as ballast (meaning soaked in seawater) , the rare tamarind, Helile, and the coconut products that are already abundant in the east coast are also favored by some people, and they are bought.

That night, the Navy handed over strategically controlled products such as camphor, sulfur, lead, tin, opium, saltpeter, and graphite to the Planning Production Management Committee, handed over gold and foreign currency to the Precious Metals Administration, and then handed over the captured eight Portuguese merchant ships (multiple 8-300 tons) to the private courier liner company and the state-run South China Sea liner company that rushed to buy early in the morning to go back and refit, and this combat operation to the Indian Ocean is perfectly over.Thinking about the difficulty in selling the large amount of seized materials and the slow return of war expenses, who would have thought that they would be snapped up by the people of the capital as soon as they arrived at the pier? Thinking about it this way, our people are still quite patriotic. Who will say that we have no sense of belonging in the future? , If you don’t have a sense of honor, I’m in a hurry with anyone, the people of the capital standing on the pier cheering for the navy’s victory and snapping up the “patriotic booty” will slap your face!

The naval ships returning from victory drove into the dock of the Dayu River Naval Shipyard in batches. The workers in the shipyard also showed great energy and worked overtime day and night to repair the ships as quickly as possible, and the bottom of the ship was also severely damaged. Scratch to make sure these ships are rejuvenated after long voyages in dire condition.

The naval ships that had been repaired and maintained did go into battle very quickly. They picked up more than 27 Maozi soldiers from Captain Yang Liang Yang’s troops in Changhua Bay on the 28th, and arrived at Changshun Port on the [-]th. At this time, the army troops were almost They are all here, and even the second battalion of the Volunteer Army has rushed over from Rio de Janeiro.After checking all kinds of war materials with the army and confirming that they are correct, it took four days for the various army departments to board the ship, and then the whole fleet set sail and sailed northeast along the Brazilian coastline , and their first goal is Ilheus, which is located north of Port Seguro - a port town similar to Port Seguro, mainly exporting high-quality naval timber, and it is also the target that the Navy is trying to capture.

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