Pei Qin threw the bright red handkerchief on the ground after wiping the saber, and then looked at the group of Krandis captured by his soldiers, his heart full of irritation. There are so many Krandi people, you can't kill them all.

Now the main force has returned from Córdoba, and has withdrawn to the area of Santa Fe to rest, waiting for the ships squeezed out of the mainland to come and bring back the spoils. Founded in 1573, Córdoba is a city with a large population and a thriving business, and is a major transportation route between La Plata and Peru and Chile. Before the all-out war with the East Coasters, the Spaniards even transported silver bars to Santa Fe via Guò Córdoba and shipped them back home to avoid the greedy pirates who were watching the Spanish treasure fleet in the Caribbean.

In addition to its commercial prosperity, Santa Fe also produced high-quality wheat, fruit and cowhides, surpassing the entire province of Tucumán and even surpassing Santiago, the oldest Spanish colony in La Plata. Bender? Ciudad Estero. After such a rich city was breached by more than 6,000 tiger-wolf soldiers on the east coast, the wealth accumulated over the years was suddenly swept away, and it was no longer famous for its prosperity in the past.

Although the peace agreement signed between the East Bank and Spain clearly stated that the East Bank Government should return the property of Spanish civilians or businessmen illegally acquired during the war. But both sides know that there is no possibility of serious implementation of this article, who have you ever seen who will spit out the fat that has been swallowed? Moreover, everyone knows that this agreement is actually just a cover-up, and its real meaning is that the people of the east bank will export large quantities of weapons and military materials to the government of the Kingdom of Spain in the name of returning the materials looted during the war, as compensation for the acquisition of territory east of the Uruguay River. Therefore. The Spaniards were destined not to want to get back what was their own from the hands of the mounds on the east coast.

Besides. Today, the Crantis have staged a massive uprising in much of La Plata. Large numbers of white settlers were evicted or killed. If the Spanish farmers, ranchers, and ordinary farmers who had fled to the provinces of Tucumán and Cuyo were to return to their lands, they must first exterminate the mighty Clandi rebels. At a time when the Spanish Army had been weakened, it was obviously impossible to do this without the help of the people on the east coast, which was actually the reason why the Royal Spanish government did not hesitate to cede many rights in Southern Patagonia. Compared to the rich La Plata, the bitter cold of Southern Patagonia is nothing! However, in this way, it is clear that the Spaniards who have a request on the east coast will not be able to open their mouths to claim their belongings.

However, when it comes to the extermination of the Krandi rebel army, the people on the east coast did not grind foreign workers. At the urging of the Spaniards, they took out several of the Crandis rebels active near Córdoba with resolute and vigorous military action, and then led part of the Spanish army south from Jujuy to crush the Crandis together.

In the central region, Pei Qin, who stayed behind, also received instructions from his superiors to exterminate the Krandi rebels. After holding a banquet and killing dozens of Krandi revolt leaders, he sent his soldiers to quickly defeat and capture thousands of Krandi revolt soldiers. After signing the guarantee agreement, all these people were transported by ship to South Africa, New China and the Australian colonies by the East Coast, as the vanguard of local pioneering.

After doing this, in recent times, Pei Qin has noticed that the tone of his superiors' orders has changed. Therefore, he decisively reduced the frequency of his troops' sorties, and at the same time tried to drive the Klandians as much as possible. Replaces the previous strategy of slashing and killing. And it just so happened that the Krandi people were also frightened by the thunderbolt tactics of more than 8,000 officers and soldiers on the east coast on the entire front at this time, and some small and medium-sized rebel army organizations were finally able to listen to the "admonition" of the east coast people in the face of brutal killing, and they took the team and some cattle and sheep, and divided into three ways under the guidance of the east bank cavalry:

Heading south to the outskirts of Puerto Blanca, remote and inhospitable with few Spaniards to be seen, it would not be a problem to house some of the rebels and their families, and perhaps to provide some much-needed labor for the East Coast government; The second road crossed the Paraná River to the east and took refuge in the swampy, forested terrain on the west bank of the Uruguay River, where the terrain was difficult for the Spaniards to exterminate and make it easier for them to grow.

Both of these roads have the common benefit of having the support of the East Coasters, which makes it easier for them to stick around in the long run. In addition to these two routes, the third route was to go to the port of Buenos Aires, which was currently in the hands of the Guards Corps of the East Coast Executive Committee, where they would wait for the ships on the East Coast to move to the East Colony to start anew.

With the deepening of the East Coast Army's clearance operations and the fact that more and more Spanish musketeers were transferred from Chile and Peru to La Plata, the living space of the Clandi rebel army was greatly reduced, and the number of the Clandi rebel army dropped from more than 200,000 at its peak (the Crandi uprising that broke out in the fifties of the 17th century was about 500,000 at its peak, and was basically killed by the Spaniards) to less than 100,000 now. Moreover, after the hardliners were killed, the remnants of the Krandi rebels were basically frightened, and at this time their feverish minds gradually calmed down, and their attitudes began to soften, and more and more people planned to follow the instructions of their former backstage supporters, the East Coasters, and go to various places in three ways.

As for the remaining Cranti rebels who are still determined to stay in La Plata, the people of the East Coast can only be sorry for them, and if they are caught, they will be beaten to death, because now these Crandi diehards are completely hated even by the people of the East Coast, for whom the people of the East Bank and the Spaniards are enemies, imperialists, and must be attacked.

Hundreds of Pei Chin's troops had crushed the Krandi army last week, and the starving Krandi, who had tried to attack the western march stations on the east bank in order to seize food and supplies. As a result, this group of robbers, who only robbed and did not produce, immediately collapsed after being bombarded by volleys of guns and artillery, and then were captured by hundreds of soldiers on the east coast.

For these people, Pei Qin also did not know what to do. Hold it up, you still have to take care of the food; If you kill it, it's a pity; Give it to the Spaniards? What's the difference between that and killing them! Now that the war was over, according to the withdrawal plan agreed between the two sides, the westward march station had to be handed over to the Spaniards by June 15; Santa Fe and Corrientes had to be handed over to the Spaniards by the end of August; Buenos Aires will also be transferred to the Kingdom of Spain by 10 November at the latest; By December 31, 1649, the Republic of the Eastern Bank would evacuate the last soldiers stranded in the Kingdom of Spain, and the entire territory of La Plata would be peacefully transferred to the Kingdom of Spain.

As the date of withdrawal drew nearer, and Peichin was confronted with the 1,700,800 Clandians who had been captured, just as he was about to disperse them all—which would be a problem for the Spaniards anyway—the latest order from the Home War Department arrived, ordering him to send the captives to the port of Santa Fe in the rear, where they would be transported by ships of the South China Sea Transport Company to the port of Synnan in Southern Patagonia and placed at the disposal of the Southern Railway Company. If nothing else, these Klandians will be under the supervision of the soldiers of the Southern Railway Company's road guards, and will build roads and railways for them with their own hands until the end of their lives.

In less than two months, since the East Bank joined forces with the Spanish army on 12 April, more than 50,000 Crantis were annihilated by the combined strangulation of the two armies, which numbered less than 11,000. At least one-fifth of these people were transported back to the country's iron mines, coal mines, construction sites (railways, roads, towns), and forestry farms to work as slave laborers with little freedom. According to the East Coast government's cruel policy towards the indigenous people, these people have almost no chance of survival, and they are just consumables, just like those building materials and construction tools.

As for the Krandi rebels, who were frightened by the East Coast and took the initiative to surrender, the fate was much better. Some of them settled in the area of Puerto Blanca in the south, some settled on the edge of the inaccessible forests and swamps on the west bank of the Uruguay River, and some started over in the overseas colonies on the east coast (these people were able to obtain colonial status after a few years, and their descendants could even obtain East coast citizenship, of course, the hukou was in the overseas colonies), although life was still difficult, but it was much better than those comrades who were arranged to work in the black coal kilns until death, what was the difference between that life and that under the Spaniards?

In late June, Pei Chin arrived at Port Santa Fe with the last supplies and personnel from the westward marching station. As soon as they left, Peruvian Indian soldiers coming from the direction of Córdoba took over. This event marked the end of the restoration of order north-west of La Plata by the Spaniards, after some effort (and with the help of the "great" efforts of the people from the east coast to comply with the treaty). Nearly 10 cities in the two provinces of Córdoba, Tucumán, Salta, La Rioja, Jujuy, Mendoza, and San Juan, which were once almost precarious, were finally saved in the face of the menacing East Coast Army and the terrifying Crandi rebel army. Not only that, but they are now pacifying the countryside northwest of La Plata, with the help of a large number of musketeers and cavalry sent from Peru and Chile, as well as mobilized militias of whites and mestizos (mixed white and indigenous descent).

For them, it is not a big deal that the other regions of La Plata are in chaos, and the three provinces of Cuyo, Tucumán and Paraguay are the essence of the whole of La Plata. (To be continued......)