Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 914 Indian Destroyer ([-])

Captain Consicao took the hatchet out of a Guarani man's head, and then casually wiped the ax blade that was still stained with brains, and the tense expression relaxed a little.

This damn battle is finally over!He and his close associates, who have worked with him for many years, once again defeated a medium-sized Guaraní tribe and drove them deep into the dense forest.Most of the adult men of this tribe were killed or captured, and the rest fled without a trace, accompanied by women and children.

Captain Consicao didn't think there was a chance that the Guarani tribe would come back to take revenge on them or the East Coast people. The chances of this were really slim.They are more likely to exhaust the last trace of vitality of the tribe in the endless migration and wandering, and then either die of hunger or disease, or die in civil strife, or die in the attack of other tribes, in short, they are finished!

After the battle, the Guarani soldiers at the bottom began to make up one by one with knives and guns as they had always done before, and the Mamelucos (mixed-race whites) were assigned to collect spoils. The upper-level officers and non-commissioned officers, who are composed of gentlemen (especially white men), sat down on the ground and began to rest.

It's hard work fighting these barbarians!The process of fighting may be very easy, but the long march before was really exhausting. Many people wore out several pairs of shoes. I really don’t know how many Indians who didn’t even have shoes persisted.In addition, the relatively hot and humid climate in the forest and the abundance of mosquitoes also caused many flag soldiers to suffer from various diseases. Some died on the marching road, but more people were taken in by the Taoist church on the east coast. They received some humanitarian treatment—although most of the fighters were devout Catholics, many of them would not mind receiving treatment from false gods and pagans when their bodies were suffering from illnesses.

"It's time to return to Taiping Fortress for rest." The St. Paul's flag team, which has cleared the Guarani tribe in the upper reaches of the Yakui River, has moved to the hilly area south of Taiping Fort. With the assistance of the East Bank Gendarmerie, they are constantly fighting Raid and hunt down the Guarani people, and then send the captured people back to Brazil for sale. As for the vacated land, of course, it will be developed by the farmers on the east coast who followed up. The cooperation between the two parties has been very pleasant on this point. .

Captain Consicao and others are now located near the small town of Encruzillada in southern Brazil. There used to be some Guaraní villages here, but under the continuous attacks of the Sao Paulo flag team for several months, they have disappeared. Completely gone.The slave hunting team led by Consicao, which still maintains a size of more than 3000 people, relies on the settlement of Taipingbao, the settlement of the people on the east coast, and constantly attacks and sweeps up the surrounding Guarani people. The pace of the people living nearby to open up wasteland became faster and easier.

Of course, Taiping Fort has not been built for a long time, the population is not very large, and the products are not rich, so this place is just a base for hoarding supplies.The daily consumption of the St. Paul's flag team is mainly maintained by the massive supplies transported from nearby Dingxi and Yiling counties.

By the way, Yiling County was officially established as a county last month. It is the No. 13 county-level administrative unit of the East Coast Republic of China.The county has a total population of nearly 2000, and has four townships under its jurisdiction: Yiling Township, Laojunmiao Township, Modaoshi Township and Shifangdian Township. The seat of the county government is Yiling Township, which replaced the original Dingxi County The role of the westward bridgehead.

The successive establishment of Dingxi County and Yiling County symbolizes the strong determination of the government of the East Bank Republic to develop the Beiyazihu ​​area.This place has a warm climate, abundant rainfall, and good soil. Later generations are almost Brazil's big granary. It once provided one-third of Brazil's grains in one state, and also provided a large amount of meat and dairy products. It can be called "" The Land of Abundance".

In this current plane, Ping'an County, the core county in the North Yazi Lake area, is also the largest industrial base in the East Coast Republic of China. Many enterprises related to the national economy and people's livelihood are located here, and the population is very dense.At the same time, it is also facing the threat of the Portuguese on the plateau opposite the Gerard Mountains (although it does not seem to be a threat for the time being). Ping'an County, an important town in the north, is of great significance.

Captain Consicao has been in society for many years. He learned a little knowledge when he was young, and later participated in the war in the Old World. He has traveled far and wide and seen a lot.He was very worried about the people on the east bank strengthening their pioneering efforts in the Yakui River Basin, and at the same time, he was a little panicked by their growing military strength in the area. Their attentive eyes and the child waiting to be fed at home made him dispel this idea time and time again.

"Have I already sold my soul for the damn silver coins?" Captain Consicao often confesses alone.And after confessing, he would always pick up his sword again and vent his anger on the Guaraní barbarians, which instead aroused the great appreciation of the people on the east coast, the world is so painful.

"Pack up your things and prepare to retreat." Captain Consicao kicked the ass of several Mamelucos who were raping women with the high-grade whale leather boots purchased from the east coast, and then followed closely behind him. The officers behind him ordered: "We have been fighting continuously for several months this time, and we have killed and injured more than 5000 Indians, and captured more than [-] prisoners. It is time to take a break."

Several Mamelucos who had their ass kicked got up from the ground with unlucky faces, and then ran away with their pants up.Not far ahead, the officers were already blowing the whistle for assembly, and the military flag had already been erected. They had to run faster, or they would be beaten up again by their immediate superiors.

The assembled team set off soon. Except for a few two or three hundred soldiers left behind, most of them followed Captain Consicao and returned to Taipingbao, the nearest settlement on the east coast.Of course, they can only rest in the designated atmosphere in the Taipingbao area. If they enter the towns of the people on the east bank—in fact, Taipingbao is just a large rural area at present—shopping and leisure, they still have to get the local east. Only with the permission of the person in charge of the shore militia can they enter in batches.

The captured slaves were sold on the spot to waiting Portuguese merchants, who would return north of the Gerard Mountains with the slaves and East Coast goods, and sell everything to the local gentry for a profit.After paying for the goods, the people on the east coast also paid the employment fees for this month to the slave catchers, which immediately crowded the only store in the local area. Madeira liqueur imported from the old continent It was sold out quickly, and the money earned by the Brazilians was taken back by the people on the east coast in a blink of an eye.

Captain Consicao didn't go out with his rude subordinates to get drunk, he first went to meet the top officials of the East Coast people in the local area, and ordered a batch of supplies that were extremely important for the next march and war through him.At the same time, a reinforcement of about [-] soldiers (mostly Guarani soldiers) from the Diocese of St. Paul will have to cross the Gerard Mountains and enter the east coast almost next month, and this must be reported in advance. .Otherwise, if the East Coast Army guarding the border wiped them out as Guarani rebels, they would really be unable to cry.

After finishing all this, he went to the hospital outside the city to visit the patients in his team.There are more than 100 sick patients, about half of them are mildly ill, and have basically recovered after being diagnosed and cared for by the pagan "pastor" on the east coast; Most of them are contagious diseases, and they have been quarantined at present, and doctors from the East Bank (doctors trained by the Taoist church) are helpless with them, and they don’t know how to diagnose and treat them.After all, even in the capital on the east coast, there is nothing that can be done to diagnose and treat cholera, syphilis, and tuberculosis. For these slave catchers suffering from such diseases, their lives are actually very worrying, so their spirits have always been very low. .

Perhaps the only vicious disease that people on the east coast can overcome at this time is probably the malaria that some people suffer from.But the problem is that people on the east coast don’t have enough cinchona, and efforts to introduce cinchona trees in Xinhuaxia Island have also failed. At present, they can only rely on imports from Peru and Chalkas to maintain a certain stock.But can the little slave catchers really afford such a thing that is worth more than gold?At least from the frown of Captain Consicao, he is unwilling to pay the money. After all, most of the sick are Indian soldiers, not high-status white gentlemen. Who cares about the life and death of Indians? ?impossible!

"Captain Concicao, there are currently 37 people hospitalized in the isolation ward, some of whom are suffering from very serious infectious diseases. I am sorry that we cannot do anything about it, so I will kindly remind you that Fu Lei of the Gendarmerie The second lieutenant will soon conduct an assessment of their physical condition. If the result of the assessment is bad—for example, second lieutenant Fu Lei believes that there will be a risk of a large-scale disease epidemic in the Taipingbao area—they may not be able to continue living here. In addition, the hospitalization fee you paid earlier is not enough, if you want to continue..." The person in charge of the hospital reminded Consicao.

"No, I don't want to continue." Captain Consicao said decisively, "Give them to me, I'm still useful."

The person in charge of the hospital was stunned at first, then seemed to remember something, sighed and agreed.He already knew what the Portuguese was going to do, and he could only mourn for the Indians, who were about to suffer from a large-scale attack of disease.

(End of this chapter)