"What's going on lately?" After settling down, Wang Dali summoned the commander of the station, a veteran from Livonia, and began a routine questioning.

"In general, everything is in order, and the station has not been attacked by any enemy." "But in the last month, there have been a number of Guarani people in the nearby forests, which has puzzled me and made me wary," said Sergeant Livonia, who had been careful in his words. ”

"Guarani? You can't be mistaken, right? Where are the Guarani people here? Wang Dali stood up suddenly and asked in some surprise.

"Guarani indeed, I'm sure!" Sergeant Livonia affirmed: "I have dealt with the Guaraní people for a long time in the north, and I know their situation very well. These people are genuine Guarani in terms of language, clothing (the Guaraní are more civilized than the Charua and wear Spanish-style clothing) and other aspects, and I can't be mistaken in this regard, they must be Guaraní people who came from the north! And not only them, but also a considerable number of Spanish- and German-speaking combatants in the vicinity, the situation seems to be very bad. ”

"It's not good!" Wang Dali also whispered, "Could it be that the Spanish missionaries have gone crazy enough to drive a large number of Guarani people to settle here?" This is a disturbing sign! Sergeant, how big are these outsiders? ”

"It's not huge." Sergeant Livonia quickly replied, "They tend to be numbered from a few to a dozen and carry arquebuses or flintlock pistols, but there are also many with weapons such as light sabers and bayonets. I'm puzzled where they got their supplies from? You must know that the people of the Charuya near the road are also poor ghosts of bitterness. They can't afford to raise too many outsiders. I've probably counted it. Whether it's an outsider from Guarani or an outsider from the Old World. There are more than 100 people in the city, and it is absolutely impossible for the two nearby villages to be able to afford the two nearby villages, which are less than 200 people. ”

"Maybe they were coming down the Black River in a canoe from the north." Wang Dali guessed and said, "Damn! The Spaniards are really haunted everywhere, even in such a remote mining area, what do they want to do? Want an all-out war with us? ”

"An all-out war with them is long overdue, sir." The deputy commander of the station, a young man from the regimental fort, suddenly interjected: "The Spaniards are still living in the declining Middle Ages, and their spiritual level is rotten and erosive. As long as we go to war with them, we will definitely be able to occupy the whole of La Plata in three months! ”

"And then? What happens after three months? Wang Dali had already calmed down from the shock when he first heard the news, and he glanced helplessly at the impassioned young cadet, and asked, "What if the Spaniards transfer a large number of troops and fleets from the mainland or Peru in three months?" How do we cope? How to solve the urgent need for imported resources for domestic industrial and agricultural production? How do we deal with the shortage of goods and soaring prices caused by the war? How do we deal with the discontent and social unrest caused by the outbreak of war? How should we deal with the covetousness of other countries towards our overseas colonies and even our homeland that we have been induced by being caught in the war? Young man, can you answer me? ”

"I ......," the young cadet said, "we can import from other countries, such as the friendly Ottoman Empire, they are countries we can trust, and this will solve a lot of problems." ”

"The Ottoman Empire is not omnipotent!" Wang Dali interrupted the young man mercilessly, in fact he had long seen these militarists as unpleasant. So seizing the opportunity was a merciless reprimand: "We are so close to the Ottoman Empire, and at the same time we are a pagan country." This will undoubtedly deepen our separation from the Christian world. They may join forces, and even if they do not go to war with us, they may restrict the export of goods to us, such as cotton, wool, copper, lead, tin, and other metal minerals. They can even incite and condone the pirate ships of the country to attack our merchant ships, and do we want to go to war with the whole Christian world for this? This will put us in great trouble, it will cause us to lose our overseas colonies one after another, and our homeland will face the bad luck of dying at any time, is that what you want, young man? ”

The young student didn't speak again, but there was still unconvincing stubbornness in his eyes. In his opinion, these are all troubles that can be overcome, provided that they win the war. They only had to gamble their fortunes once, and the chances of success seemed quite high—as the Kingdom of Spain was struggling to cope with the rising French on the Old Continent, the whole country might be able to reap unimaginably large profits for it. Yes, we only need to bet once!

Wang Dali walked around the room twice irritably, then sat down at the table, took out a pen and paper and began to write a report. He felt that this important information had to be immediately reported to the Executive Committee, and that it could be a great deal that the Spanish might have penetrated into the vicinity of the Corrales mines. Originally, the people on the east coast still wanted to secretly develop it nearby, but now it seems that it is obviously not possible, and Spain has set its sights on this position.

Thinking of this, Wang Dali was a little depressed, at the end of May, at the end of May, at the end of the autumn harvest, the military department recruited about 1,500 militiamen from Dongfang County, and then went to Dingxi Fort (formerly Triford Military Station) to gather more than 1,000 regular troops, and then continued to carry out the second phase of the Qingxiang operation to the west, and continued to fight deeply against the Guaraní. They did not occupy land or plunder, but only to kill, that is, to kill and injure the living force of the Guaraní and to reduce their population.

So far, the battle should be ongoing. Major Zhu Liang, who led the team, had already sent back several good news, each time destroying a number of villages, capturing a number of prisoners, eliminating a number of resistance, and so on. The common people in China are naturally overjoyed by the repeated propaganda of public opinion controlled by the state. But Wang Dali was very disdainful, he felt that these militarists really had nothing to do, and pushed all the Guarani people to the side of the Spaniards, which was really a big loss. Many Guarani people can be assimilated through probation education, so why do they have to kill it for nothing?

But the militarists' insistence that even if the Guaraní people wore Hanfu, spoke Chinese, and were actively educated, the aborigines were aborigines, natural separatists, and must be eliminated, leaving Wang Dali, a universal, speechless.

In addition to the fighting in the Yakuy River basin, the settlements on the eastern bank in the hilly areas of the western part of the lake were not very peaceful. New Königsberg had long been under siege by thousands of natives, and although they were never able to break through the walled city guarded by the militia and some of the cadets of the Guards Cadet Corps, the normal local agricultural production, logging, road construction and other work could not be carried out, and a settlement in the good end was completely turned into a front line.

As for Hekou Township, Zhenhai County, which is adjacent to it, it has also strengthened its vigilance, and the 1st Company of the Army, which is Chang Kaisheng, has moved its headquarters here. There are large areas of farmland, orchards, and deep in the junction of the two lakes and canals, and there is also a modern shipbuilding special factory of great importance. If the modern factory is occupied by a group of natives, his standing chairman will be swept to the end.

Although the area around Xihu Township and Dafengbao, which are the country's main agricultural production areas, has also suffered sporadic attacks, the scale is negligible, and the local militia can easily deal with it, which also makes the people above breathe a sigh of relief. After all, a low-bunker farming base with a thousand settlers had just been built there, and they didn't want anything to go wrong at this time.

The Duck Lake basin in the north is full of war, but I didn't expect that the south, which has been relatively calm, is gradually not peaceful, which is a headache. This year, the Executive Committee has strengthened its determination to open up the northwest region, and the population of the settlements along the way, such as Canyon Fort, Hundred Foot Cliff Fort, and Merlot Fort, will be enriched. At present, the settled population of Fort Canyon has reached 1,800 people, of which 30% are old nationals; There are only about 600 people in the Hundred Feet Cliff Castle at present, but by the end of this month, a group of 1,000 new nationals who have been planned for a long time should come to settle down; As for the Merlot region, it is even more important, although there are only about 300 farmers from Hebei Province farming, but soon a road construction team of 2,000 men and women (half Ming people, half Polish and Russian slave girls) will arrive here to start building the railway, which they will settle down in the area. As for the walls of Merlot, another South African laborer of about 2,000 people came to build it.

It's a headache to see so many people spread over such a vast area along the railroad, most of them new immigrants, with little formal militia military training and a combat effectiveness of five. At present, only half of the cavalry battalion (more than 330 people) patrols the area, but they patrol an area of hundreds of kilometers from the south to Fort Ninjin (with 800 settlers) and the north to Fort Merlot. The range is too large for an enemy to attack, but if an enemy does, they will probably be exhausted.

In the middle of Wang Dali's report, several militiamen who had gone out to patrol suddenly walked in with serious faces, and the news they brought was also very shocking: they had captured a Spaniard and two of his Guarani servants in the mining area, and they had found a few pieces of dog's head gold in the Spaniard's bag. However, this news alone was not enough to move Wang Dali, and the news that shocked him was that the Spaniard still had accomplices, and that his accomplices and several servants had slipped away with some gold ore samples a few days earlier, and it seemed that they had hurried back to report it.

This is serious! Wang Dali looked at the captured Spanish "colleague" - prospector in a bit of a daze, and was a little speechless for a while. He had never felt the war so close to the East Coast at this moment, as if he had heard the footsteps of the war demon getting closer and closer. (To be continued......)