Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 763 Chaos and Order ([-])

Pei Qin threw the bright red handkerchief after wiping the saber on the ground, and then looked at a group of Kelandi captured by the soldiers under his command, his heart was full of irritability.There are so many Kelandi people, no matter how much you kill them, you can't kill them all.

Now the main force has returned from Cordoba, retreated to the Santa Fe area to rest, and waited for the ships squeezed out of the mainland to come and transport all the spoils back.Cordoba is a city established in 1573. It has a large population and prosperous business. It is an important traffic route between La Plata, Peru and Chile.Before all-out war with the East Coasters, the Spaniards were even transshipping silver bars via Cordoba to Santa Fe, and then shipping them back to the country to avoid the many greedy pirates staring at the Spanish treasure fleet in the Caribbean.

In addition to commercial prosperity, Santa Fe also produces high-quality wheat, fruit and cowhide. The abundance of products ranks first in the entire Tucumán province, and even surpasses the oldest Spanish settlement in La Plata, Santiago del Este. Luocheng.After such a wealthy city was breached by more than [-] tiger-like soldiers from the east bank, the wealth accumulated over the years was wiped out immediately, and it never returned to the prosperity it was famous for far and near.

Although the peace agreement signed between the East Bank and Spain clearly stated that the East Bank government should return all the property of Spanish civilians or businessmen illegally obtained during the war.But both parties know that there is no possibility of serious implementation of this article. Who have you seen who would spit out the fat that has been swallowed?What's more, everyone knows that this agreement is actually just a cover-up. Its real meaning is that the people on the east bank export a large amount of weapons and military supplies to the Spanish Royal Government in the name of returning the materials looted in the war, in order to obtain the Uruguay River and other resources. compensation for the territory of the Eastern Region.Therefore, the Spaniards are destined not to want to get back what belongs to them from the hands of these Qiuba on the east bank.

Besides, there is now a large-scale uprising by the Clandis in most of La Plata, and large numbers of white settlers have been deported or killed.Now these Spanish farmers, ranchers and ordinary farmers who have fled to the provinces of Tucumán and Cuyo, if they want to return to their own land, they must first destroy this massive Kelandi rebel army.Today, when the strength of the Spanish army has been severely weakened, it is obviously impossible to do this without the help of the people on the east coast. This is actually the reason why the Spanish Royal Government did not hesitate to give up many rights in the southern Patagonia region. where.Compared with the rich La Plata, what is the bitter cold place of Southern Patagonia!But in this way, the Spaniards who asked for money on the east bank obviously couldn't open their mouths to ask for their belongings back.

However, when it comes to the extermination of the Kelandi rebel army, the people on the east coast did not work hard. Under the urging of the Spaniards, they used resolute and powerful military actions to eliminate several Kelandi rebels active near Cordoba. , and then took part of the Spanish army that went south from Jujuy to crush the Kelandi people together.

In the central region, Pei Qin, who stayed behind, also received an order from his superiors to destroy the Krandi rebels.After he hosted a banquet and killed dozens of Kelandi uprising leaders, he dispatched his soldiers to quickly defeat and capture thousands of Kelandi uprising soldiers.After signing the guarantee agreement, all these people were transported to South Africa, New China and the Australian colonies by ships from the East Coast, as the pioneers of local pioneering.

After doing this, recently, Pei Qin found that the command tone of his superiors had changed, so he decisively reduced the frequency of troops' attacks, and at the same time focused on driving away the Kelandi people instead of killing them all. Strategy.And it just so happened that the Kelandi people were also frightened by the thunderbolt methods of more than [-] East Coast officers and soldiers on the entire front. Some small and medium-sized rebel organizations were finally able to listen to the "exhortations" of the East Coast people in the face of brutal killings. "Well, they took the team and some cattle and sheep, and under the guidance of the cavalry on the east bank, they divided into three groups:

Go all the way south to the outskirts of the Port of Blanca, which is remote and desolate, and there are almost no Spaniards on weekdays. It is not a problem to house some rebels and their families. At the same time, these people may also provide some for the east coast government. Urgently in short supply of labor force; the second route went east across the Parana River and hid in the swampy and densely forested areas on the west bank of the Uruguay River.

The above two paths have a common benefit, that is, relying on the support of people from the east coast, so that they can persevere for a long time.In addition to these two routes, the third route is for the family to go to the port of Buenos Aires, which is currently controlled by the guards of the East Bank Executive Committee, where they will wait for the ships from the east bank to the east. , moved to the East Coast Colonies to start over.

With the deepening of the East Coast army's suppression operations, and more and more Spanish musketeers being transferred from Chile and Peru to La Plata, the living space of the Krandi rebel army has been greatly reduced, and the number of people has also increased from the peak period. More than 17 people (historically, about 50 people were involved in the Krandi uprising that broke out in the 50s, and were basically killed by the Spaniards after mobilizing troops) to less than 10 people now.Moreover, after the hardliners were killed one after another, the remaining Kelandi rebels were basically frightened. At this time, their hot heads gradually calmed down, and their attitudes began to soften. More and more people planned to listen to their previous behind-the-scenes support According to the instructions of the people on the east bank, the soldiers divided into three groups and went to various places.

As for the rest of the Krandi rebels who are still determined to stay in La Plata after all their good words, the people on the east coast can only feel sorry for them. The elements even completely hate the people on the east coast. For them, the people on the east coast and the Spaniards are enemies, both are imperialists, and they must be attacked.

Hundreds of soldiers under Pei Qin defeated such a Kelandi rebel army last week. These starving Kelandi people even wanted to attack the West Army Station on the east bank to seize food and supplies.As a result, this group of robbers who only robbed and did not do production collapsed immediately after being fired at by volleys of guns and bombarded by cannons, and were captured and captured by hundreds of soldiers on the east bank.

For these people, Pei Qin didn't know what to do.Detain him, you have to take care of the food; if you kill him, it would be a pity; hand it over to the Spaniards?What's the difference between that and killing them!Now that the war is over, according to the withdrawal plan agreed by the two parties, the West Army Station must be handed over to the Spaniards before June 6; Santa Fe and Corrientes must be handed over to the Spaniards before the end of August; November 15 at the latest Previously, Buenos Aires would also be handed over to the Kingdom of Spain; and before December 11, 10, the East Coast Republic would evacuate the last soldier stranded in the Kingdom of Spain, and the entire territory of La Plata would be handed over to Spain peacefully kingdom.

The withdrawal date was getting closer and closer, and Pei Qin faced difficulties with the [-] or [-] Kelandi captives, just after he planned to disperse all these people—anyway, these will be troubles for the Spaniards in the future ——The latest order from the local Army Department has arrived, ordering him to send the captives to the port of Santa Fe in the rear, and then the ships of the South China Sea Transportation Company will transport them to Xingnan Port in Southern Patagonia, and hand them over to the southern port. Iron company disposal.If there is no accident, these Kelandi people will build roads and railways for them with their own hands under the supervision of the soldiers of the Southern Railway Company's road guards until the end of their lives.

Since April 4, when the East Coast and the Spanish army joined forces to deal with the Kelandi, in less than two months, there have been more than 12 Kelandi in the two countries with a total of less than 1000. The combined strangulation of the armies destroyed them.At least one-fifth of these people were transported back to iron mines, coal mines, construction sites (railways, roads, towns), and forest farms in China by people from the east coast, where they served as slave workers with little freedom.According to the East Coast government's consistent cruel policy towards the aborigines, these people have almost no possibility of surviving. They are just consumables just like those building materials and tools.

As for those Kelandi rebels who were frightened by the people on the east coast and voluntarily surrendered, they ended up much better.Some of them settled in the Port of Blanca in the south, some settled on the edge of the uninhabited forest and swamp on the west bank of the Uruguay River, and some settled in the overseas colonies on the east bank (these people can obtain the status of colonial residents after a few years) , their descendants can even obtain the nationality of the East Coast, of course, the registered permanent residence is in the overseas colony), although life is still hard, but it is much better than those comrades who were arranged to work in the black coal mines until they died. What is the difference between life under the Spaniards and life under the Spaniards?

In late June, Pei Qin arrived at the Port of Santa Fe with the last batch of supplies and personnel from the West Army Station.After they left, Peruvian Indian soldiers coming from Cordoba immediately took over.This incident shows that after a lot of hard work by the Spaniards (at the same time, there were also people on the east coast who complied with the treaty and "hardly" helped them), they finally roughly restored order in the northwest of La Plata.Nearly ten cities in the two provinces of Córdoba, Tucumán, Salta, La Rioja, Jujuy, Mendoza, and San Juan, which were once almost precarious, were finally defeated by the menacing East Coast army and momentum. Most of the astonishing Krandi rebel army was saved.Not only that, they are now pacifying the northwestern countryside of La Plata with the help of a large number of musketeers and cavalry dispatched from Peru and Chile, as well as mobilized white and Mestizo (white and indigenous mixed) militias. situation.

For them, it is not a big deal that other areas of La Plata are in chaos. The three provinces of Cuyo, Tucumán and Paraguay are the essence of the whole La Plata. The order in these places has been maintained. Prata can make a comeback, otherwise everything will be out of the question.

(End of this chapter)