On the last day of September 1647, the heavy rain over the channel had just stopped. On the beach outside Chakao Harbor, a large group of soldiers in khaki cloth uniforms, large caps, and cowhide boots were leaping from the dinghy like dumplings with bayonet rifles in their arms, and then marching quickly to the shore in a group of knee-deep waters.

There were several small bronze cannons on the shore firing at the surface of the sea without a single shot, but this was almost unquestionable in the face of the thousands of soldiers on the east coast who had landed quickly. More than 300 Klandians armed with spears and sabers of the East Coast rushed swiftly towards the enemy's battery, and they were told before setting out that once Shun Lì captured the battery, a third of the ransom collected from the Spaniards after the breach of the city would be their own, which naturally aroused their enthusiasm for battle.

The Spaniards' battery had already been carpet-bombarded by three large warships on the east coast, and three guns were blown up, but they also managed to damage the flagship of the Temporary Task Force in the Pacific on the east coast, forcing it to abandon its intention to blow up the battery and send land forces to land in an attempt to occupy it.

The Spanish soldiers guarding the fort fired a volley of muskets, and the Crandians who were rushing upwards were knocked down by seven or eight, and the rest of their footsteps slowed down, but at this time they could not help themselves, because more of their companions behind them were rushing forward with their spears raised, and they could only continue to rush forward.

The Spaniards brought out a small six-pounder cannon, and after charging and reloading, a dense stream of grapeshot shells was fired from the muzzle, causing more than twenty casualties in the surging crowd of East Bank troops. The Klandians who were rushing forward were a little scared. They all ran towards the bushes on both sides of the road. Underneath the trees is a steep hillside. It was so slippery after the rain that many of the Crandy Servants fell screaming.

"A rabble!" Xie Hansan, who served as the commander-in-chief of the enemy before the army's operation, put down the binoculars hanging on his chest, then pulled out the snow knife on his waist, pointed to the position of the Spaniard's battery, and said: "You go and inform Bianchi (the leader of the Clanti Volunteers) and tell him that if he can't take the fort within an hour, then he will pack up his things and roll back in the muddy water of Santa Fe to roll with the Spaniards!" If you want to make a fortune in Chile, Chalcas and Peru, you can't do it if you don't have the ability! ”

After the herald repeats the order and goes to the herald. Xie Hansan looked at the beachhead again, where two companies of soldiers from the east bank had landed and lined up, and a large number of small boats on the beach were rowing towards the beach with follow-up troops and supplies.

"Tell Sù Maletzky (the leader of the Polish mercenaries) that when the troops have been gathered, they will go out to attack the city of Chaka, and the second artillery company will cooperate with them. In addition, Vicente's Araucan Liberation Army, together with the Tatar cavalry, began to occupy key points of communication outside the city to prevent enemy reinforcements from coming or the enemy retreating inside the city. Xie Hansan gave orders in an orderly manner, and in his arrangement, the troops used were almost all servant troops and mercenaries, and the troops from the mainland on the east coast were still waiting near the beach. As a general reserve. From this we can clearly see that his combat idea is to consume no pity servant army and mercenaries. Minimize the casualties of the descendants on the east coast while achieving their own strategic objectives.

Although Chacao was the capital of the Spanish colony on Chiloe, the population declined dramatically and the economic base plummeted after the Araucan revolt against Spanish rule more than a decade earlier (triggered by the Araucan revenge for the massacre of Spanish settlers after the withdrawal of the East Coast army from the island). Although the Spaniards continued to move some immigrants from Granada and South Germany to enrich the white forces here, the island's strict ethnic antagonism and occasional outbreaks of ethnic vendettas made it difficult to calm down for a long time.

Especially in Puerto Castro, which had been handed over to the Araucans by the East Coast in its entirety, almost all of the local white Spanish settlers died in the vendetta of the turned Araucans, and the colonial cause of many years was ruined. Later, the Spaniards mobilized a large number of colonial legionnaires from Peru to land on the island and fought for several months before the Araucan rebels who occupied Puerto Castro and its vicinity were swept away, and it took the Spaniards more than a year to wipe out the Araucans on the entire island. At the end of 1634, when the whole island finally calmed down under the frenzied suppression of the Spanish colonial army, according to statistics, there were less than 1,000 people left on the entire island, of which about half were Araucans, the rest were mainly mixed-race, and there were only about 100 pure whites.

This bleak situation left the Peruvian governor of the Kingdom of Spain and the Chilean general relatively silent, who at one point wanted to abandon the large island. However, with the rise of the Araucan guerrillas in the mountains of southern Chile, these indigenous warriors with vicuñas or boats attacked the Spanish colonies in central Chile, and the Spaniards eventually rebuilt the city of Chacao, which had been severely damaged, and moved a large number of new European immigrants to the area.

At the same time, the Spaniards also rebuilt a wooden fortress on the site of the burned city of Porto Castro and stationed a group of soldiers in it. Together with the small towns on the banks of the Cheten River on the mainland, which is separated by a strait, they formed two important gateways for the Kingdom of Spain south of Puerto Barrios (later Puerto Monte), an important town in south-central Chile, where the warships of the Spanish Navy often cruised to combat the small fishing boats of the Araucans that might appear on the sea.

The fleet of the people on the east coast came by the Gulf of Corcova, and they did not encounter any Spanish warships, and they had no interest in the small strongholds of Porto Castro and Chaitén, so they concentrated their forces on the more affluent port of Chacao. Once they have conquered Chacao Harbor and secured critical supplies, their next target may be the port of Barrios or Valdivia, depending on the situation.

More than half an hour passed, and the Crandi Volunteers, led by Bianchi the Gaucho, finally conquered the Spanish fort despite the casualties. Armed only with cold weapons, they fell seventy or eighty people under the fire and fire of the Spaniards, but in the end they still relied on the superiority of numbers to break the resistance of the Spaniards, and rushed to the fort within the hour stipulated by Xie Hansan. After the fort was conquered, the Clandians, who were furious because of the heavy casualties, brutally tortured more than a dozen Spanish battery soldiers who surrendered, and the East Coast officers who accompanied the army did not do anything to stop them.

On the other hand, the Polish mercenary soldiers, led by Maletsky, fought much harder. The Spaniards had only one cannon in the city and was destroyed by the East Coast artillery at the beginning of the war, but the Polish mercenaries, accustomed to fighting in the plains in Eastern Europe, lacked some effective means of attacking the forts in the temperate taiga mountains. However, they were experienced veterans after all, and after more than an hour of exploration, they quickly took down the two small strongholds set up by the Spaniards outside the city, killing more than 50 Peruvian Indian soldiers and only 10 casualties themselves.

When the remaining guns of the 2nd Artillery Company, which had joined them, were all in place, the 1,000 Polish officers and men launched a general assault on the city, and they fought fiercely with the Spaniards at the city gates, and the advance was quite slow for a time. However, Maletsky had fought for nearly twenty years and had considerable combat experience, and he judged that the Spaniards were limited in strength and that their main force had been drawn to the frontal battlefield on the north side, so he immediately sent more than 200 elite musketeers with two guns back to the east side, and after a short and fierce battle, the Poles took control of the east gate.

At this point in the battle, there is basically no suspense. The Spaniards, who were under-armed in the city, were faced with the dilemma of being attacked on their backs, and they were already struggling to resist the attack of the easterners head-on, and at this time there was also a warning from the east, but they could not do anything about it, so they could only give up the resistance on the frontal battlefield and fight and retreat into the city.

At this time, Xie Hansan also decisively invested more than 1,100 people in the first artillery company and the militia brigade of Ping'an County, and gradually advanced into the city from the eastern side of the city that was conquered. The Poles in front did not advance at this time, and they followed the direction of the Spaniards' retreat, constantly clearing the remnants of the enemy on both sides of the street.

After seeing that both armies had entered the city, Xie Hansan put down his binoculars and was not interested in looking at it anymore, the victory and defeat had been decided! As the commander of the Army, he has even begun to figure out where to move next. However, this is a matter for Lieutenant Colonel Lu Ming, the commander of the naval fleet, and he has no right to make decisions, at most he can give some advice.

At two o'clock in the afternoon of September 30, 1647, the army of the east bank occupied the entire city of Chakao. Most of the more than 450 Spanish defenders inside and outside the city (including the men who were recruited) were wiped out, and a small number escaped from the city and were captured by the Tatar cavalry waiting outside the city.

After capturing the capital city of Chiloe Island, the next step was to interrogate the captives, collect ransoms, and collect supplies. And when collecting supplies, the "temporary military ticket" of the poorly printed Pacific Temporary Task Force of the East Coast Republic appeared again, which made the Spaniards really want to cry without tears. (To be continued......)