By the end of June 1678, the Pampa Plain had officially entered the winter season.

In a small hidden ditch outside the town of Franco (later known as Las Flores), Inigo, dressed as a mercenary from the South Netherlands, carried a musket in his left hand, stroked the heavy sword at his waist with his right hand, and swept his eyes over a group of bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods standing in front of him: among them were gauchos, criminal prisoners from the East Coast, agents of the General Intelligence Bureau, and many bandits or cultists from the East (Yang Liang must be no stranger to this), in short, a hodgepodge, a scumbag concentration camp.

Normal people stay in this group of notorious bandits, I am afraid that they have long been in a trembling and restless, but Inigo is at ease, accustomed to it, and even when his eyes sweep to a certain person, some people subconsciously avoid looking at him, which shows that this guy is not a good bird, otherwise he can deter this gang of murderers.

Of course, Inigo's reputation on the Pampa Plains is so great that many people are terrified, but there are still some people who have some problems with him, such as a former Qing land bandit nicknamed "One Hang Three".

"One Hanging Three" was formerly known as Wu Yifei, a small officer in the Green Battalion of the Qing Dynasty, very brave, and stationed in the Yangzhou Prefecture of Jiangbei. The last time the East Coast army went out to Jiangbei to capture people, the whole army was scattered, and this guy was directly captured and captured, and then because of his good behavior, he led the way many times, so he was rewarded with a reduction in labor sentence and immigration to the East Coast mainland. Later, Wu, who was unwilling to dig in the soil on the Brazilian plateau, managed to sign up for boarding a migrant ship to the Pampa Plain, and successfully mixed in the grassland, which can be regarded as the number one person.

This time, Director Sheng Dehongsheng of the State Intelligence Administration planned an attack on Franco Town, and also summoned Wu Yifei, who was "one hanger and three", and his five or six like-minded old brothers to bring them under the command of Inigo, which more or less made Wu Yifei, who thought he was a good strength, very dissatisfied.

Ah, by the way, I forgot to introduce the origin of Wu Yifei's nickname "one hanging three". This one hangs three people from Nantong Prefecture, with a wealthy family, and when he was a teenager, he colluded with a group of evil young people to cause trouble in the township. Because Yangzhou Mansion is located on the front line, the situation has always been tense, so powerful country hooligans such as Yi Jiao San were recruited as local regiments, which made it even more convenient for this group of people to eat the common people. However, he never misbehaved with the women of the good family, and whenever there was a physiological need, he went to the kiln in the town street to solve it. According to the local rules, it takes a hanging of money to call Sister Yao, but he is extra generous, paying 30 more than others every time, claiming that Sister Yao is not easy, this is their own money, so they come and go and don't fight a "one hang three" nickname, but also quickly became famous in ten miles and eight towns.

"Stinky boy, this is the ground of Boss Inigo, can you let your kid walk on the flat road?" Seeing that Wu Yifei's attitude was not very respectful, and he actually looked at Inigo with a big grin, and there was a faint hint of provocation in his eyes, a former Shandong Wenxiang Sect disciple who followed him was furious, and he rebuked angrily.

"It's the flesh that's tight, isn't it?"

"Look at your fine skin and tender meat, Lao Tzu can hit the ground with a slap."

"Young man, you are unlucky, just as God will not protect pirates, nor will he protect you."

The minions laughed and scolded angrily, which made Wu Yifei and a few old brothers a little angry for a while, and almost had a seizure. But after hearing two coughs from a civilian officer of the National Intelligence Service, everyone wisely closed their mouths as if nothing had happened, leaving only a group of gauchos who could not see the situation clearly and stunned there.

The official of this State Intelligence Bureau is Cai Zu, the son of Cai Huaze, a former general of the Shun Army, and he is a large body, a hunting suit tightly wrapped in bulging tendon meat, a wide cowhide belt, a 1633 type flintlock pistol on one side, and a dagger with a sheath on the other, legs crossed, like a black iron tower.

Cai Zu's honor is not at all like the kind of people who wear black skins and mainly analyze intelligence and write reports all day long, but more like those martial artists under the command of the military police. Cai Zu coughed twice to stop a potential infighting, and then pouted again, signaling Inigo to hurry up and tell everyone what to do next, because the scheduled departure time was not far away.

Inigo nodded, and didn't shirk, and began to speak, and as he spoke, he assigned tasks, who attracted firepower, who rushed and struck, who collected supplies, who controlled personnel, and who guarded the perimeter, all of which were implemented on everyone's heads, and the rules were clear, worthy of being a mercenary.

The "bandits" also listened very carefully, and nodded from time to time to indicate that they understood. Of course, there are also people who are not very clear about their responsibilities, so Inigo asked, and Inigo was not too troublesome and explained them clearly one by one. After doing this three times, at eight o'clock in the morning, when all the preliminary preparations were made, everyone whistled, turned on their horses, and killed the town of Franco.

Their attack on Franco was an operation that had been planned by the General Directorate of National Intelligence for a long time, in order to deter the Spaniards and make them realize that even in the Pampa plain, the territory of the Spanish Kingdom, the people on the east coast could fight whenever they wanted, and it would take no effort at all. Moreover, they didn't even need to send in an army, they only needed to recruit a few rabble to form a horse team of 100 men to overthrow a small colonial town like Franco's Town.

The horses soon marched near the walls of the town of Franco, perhaps because they had been discovered by the Spaniards from the watchtower (there was no shelter in the steppe), and by the time they had approached, the gates of the town were closed, and a priest threw the key into the well and called out to the men to come out and fight the enemy.

Seeing this, Inigo sneered, and ordered his two old brothers to lead a group of gauchos to charge forward, intending to control the gate to the left and the right first, and then set fire to the door. His idea was good, but the problem was that he overestimated the fighting spirit of these gauchos, and saw that they had just dismounted and walked dozens of paces, when a volley of bullets came over, knocking down the first few people, and the morale of the remaining people collapsed at once. No matter how much the two old brothers of Inigo tried to coerce and lure, their legs were like they were filled with lead, and they were still reluctant to move forward, sparing their lives.

Seeing this, the intelligence officer Cai Zu was furious and scolded: "Grandma, a bear, your courage has been taken away by dogs!" Rush over to me, open the door, and grab a living reward of ten silver dollars, and five dead dollars, based on the head! Fast! ”

The rabble was encouraged by the money, and they didn't wait for Inigo's command, and went up two teams at once, including the team led by Wu Yifei. This guy is also a good hand in the fight, while beckoning his subordinates to rush forward, while leading a few old brothers to carefully observe the location of the Spaniards, and then seven or eight guns beckoned together, often a few clicks can be captured, this time suppressed the arrogance of the Spaniards, greatly boosted their morale.

And by the time a few of Inigo's key men with Minnie guns stepped forward unhurriedly and fired long-range precision shots, the Spaniards' first line of resistance collapsed almost instantly. Having lost more than a dozen corpses, their morale collapsed, and despite the dissuasion of the officers and priests, they ran away and hid in the town.

Yihang San looked at it and laughed, and directly asked a few gauchos holding firewood to step forward to burn the door, while he himself hid in the shooting corner of the watchtower, quietly observing the changes in the situation. He knew in his heart that these Spaniards had been defeated, completely defeated! Although they were organized by the officers and priests to resist to a certain extent on the grounds of defending their own property and the safety of their relatives at the beginning, their will to fight was very problematic after all. With such combat ability, it is no wonder that they still cannot recapture the island of Hispaniola, which has been occupied by the French for a long time, even though they have absolute sea supremacy! It is no wonder that a large commercial port like Belio was completely sacked by English pirates, which is really incompetent to the extreme.

The wooden gate didn't last long before the raging fire, and after the bandits used their horses to pull down the remaining logs that made up the gate and dragged them away, they rushed in with a roar and a horse, also bravely!

The "snapping" resistance did not last long, and after several rabble substitutes for the dead, they pulled out their guns and knocked down one of them, and then rushed over with daggers in hand, killing a Spaniard wearing a boat-shaped hat and looking like an officer. His elder brother applauded his eldest brother for his bravery, and then charged with a clamoring gun, and soon crushed what appeared to be the last of the Spaniards' resistance—well, the enemy had left behind almost ten corpses.

The next battle is actually quite simple and not very technical. Having lost the courage to resist, the Spaniards huddled at home, trembling as they awaited the judgment of the conquerors. They should have been so worried, because the enemy who had come to attack their town did not seem to be the regular army of the East Coast, for they wore neither blue nor yellow, not even military uniforms, and many of the gaucho faces did not look like good birds, so they were all worried. Especially the men who clutched the muskets tightly already regretted it in their hearts, thinking that they should not resolutely resist just now, and now this kind of life is really difficult to be slaughtered.

It was two hours before the rabble under the command of Inigo and Cai Zu finally took full control of the town. They washed the town's warehouses and grain hoards, and of course the cattle pens were not spared, and the best Andalusian horses were picked up by the smiling bandits, which was a good harvest.

The Spanish residents of the town were asked to send a representative from each household to gather in the open space in front of the town's church, hand over their private weapons, and then they were imprisoned in the church and asked their families to bring money to ransom them - ten yuan each, which was exactly the price Cai Zu promised everyone during the previous battle.

To tell the truth, the Spaniards were still surprised in the face of such "civilized" robbers, because although the ransom of ten dollars for a person is not low, what is it compared to life? Let's get together, let's make it up, I hope this group of strange bandits will leave quickly after receiving the money, and don't hurt them anymore.

After receiving the money, Inigo, Yihang San and the others seemed to be a little reluctant to leave immediately. Especially this guy who hangs three people, holding a dime and three cents of silver in his hand, seems to be thinking that there is no Spanish kiln sister in this town, and if there is, he still has to be happy, how can he leave so quickly!

But neither of them is a talker, they all have to look at the face of Cai Zu, the uncle of the State Intelligence Administration - in fact, every man who mixes on the grassland has to look at the face of the people in the General Intelligence Administration or the Military Police Headquarters, otherwise although the world is big, there is really no place for you, and the people who dared to do this before died miserably, and their bodies were pecked clean by the vultures - Cai Zu is not a bandit, and he doesn't know much about the interests of the bandits, so after seeing that the goal was achieved, he gave an order to everyone through Inigo and a hanging three, Take the loot and slowly retreat.

The reason for this is because the purpose of this attack on Franco Town is to beat the Spaniards and let them know how terrible the "riot" will be and how serious the consequences will be once the people on the east coast have lost their livelihood! This will break through the town of Franco, which is not very far from Buenos Aires, rob a large amount of loot, and intimidate the local population, the impact has been done, the goal has been achieved, so when will it not be withdrawn!

So they withdrew so cleanly that a few hours later a Mestizo cavalry who had passed by chance was so angry that they pursued it, and finally gave up, for only God knows where these bastards are going to be happy!

And when the news of Franco's attack on June 27, 1678, by "rioting" East Coast pioneers, reached Buenos Aires, officials of all sizes in the entire court district were shocked. Of course, they understood what the reason for this matter was from beginning to end, and they also felt a little unacceptable that the people of the East Coast were so resolute, so simple and rude, that this is not their style in the last ten years! What the hell happened to the East Coasters? Many officials, including General Constantin de Ovando, are confused, things seem to be getting a little out of hand for them, and if they don't react a little, what will happen next?

What's even more fucking up is, what exactly are they supposed to do? Fierce resistance or what happened at all? No one could answer.