The cavalry chasing the Charuya drove back before dark.

Those Charuas had already spent a lot of physical strength in the previous attack, and now they were panicked and fled, which naturally consumed a lot of physical strength, and more importantly, how could they outrun the four-legged cavalry on two legs? As a result, most of these poor Charuas were the swords of the cavalry, and only a few of the strong and lucky enough relied on the difficult terrain to escape the cavalry's pursuit and pick up a dead end.

"The village of the Charuya has been found, not far from here, about five or six kilometers away." Xu Yu sat in a newly built red brick house that was used as a warehouse, chewing ostrich meat and saying, "Those Charuya probably thought they had evaded our tracking. Ha Luha, they got rid of us, but they couldn't get rid of our cute hounds. Lao Shao, do you want to end this village? ”

"Don't rush it yet." Shao Shude held a bowl of fish soup and drank it loudly, "Who knows that there are no other Charuya villages near Ludao, there are not many people now, and we can't afford to lose, so we should be careful." For now, let's concentrate on construction first, and when the next batch of immigrants and supplies arrives, we will send people to serve that village. The old and weak women and children were taken and the children were sent to the port of the East to study, and the women were given to the immigrants and pirate slaves, and the old men stayed here to do some simple farm work. ”

"Hmm." Xu Yu swallowed a piece of beef hard, and then said: "Sooner or later, this neighborhood will have to be swept up, and all the Charuya people who are hiding in the swamps, woods, and barren meadows will be turned out, so that they can replenish their manpower, and the disobedient tribes will be beaten until they are subdued." ”

"Old Xu, don't always be murderous." Shao Shude frowned and said, "For the Charuya, we have to 'suppress and appease'. First of all, it is necessary to attract them with financial benefits, and then slowly and subtly. Didn't we deal with the Guarani people near Fort Ping'an very successfully, and now they have basically been peacefully integrated into our system. There are very few indigenous people in Uruguay, and I am afraid that there will not be much left after a few more killings like this. In fact, I always feel that this sudden attack of the Charuya people is very strange, and it shouldn't be, someone must be encouraging them. ”

"The ones who can have such means are the old gods of the Jesuits." Xu Yu threw down a half-eaten bone stick, and a big yellow dog outside the door slammed in, grabbed the bone stick and shook his head and tailed and ate it.

"I don't think it's that simple." "Maybe there is a Spaniard behind the Jesuit missionaries. The last thing I want to see us develop smoothly is probably them, if I were them, then I would definitely be able to do this kind of thing. I would even send a large number of gaucho herdsmen to cross the steppe as horse bandits to burn and loot here, and those bitter gauchos would definitely be willing to do this work. ”

"Gauchos, that's all they can do, if you face them head-on, see how I can crush them." Xu Yu looked down on these gauchos who had repeatedly escaped.

"You, Lao Xu! You're also a senior officer now, so don't lead the charge yourself. Okay, let's take this matter step by step, now we have to step up our work, and the construction progress of this new town cannot be left behind. Shao Shude said.

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On July 15, the shallow-water inland convoy, which had grown to six, docked at a simple pier on the banks of the Yi River. The flotilla unloaded building materials, food, seeds, livestock and some daily necessities, and even two 4-pounder guns. In addition to these supplies, there were two hundred new immigrants and two hundred pirate slaves. They will take a short break here, after which they will take on the arduous task of continuing to dredge and expand the river to the west.

At this time, after half a month of hard work, the new immigrants have built warehouses, bathhouses, canteens and toilets, and even the water reservoir and sedimentation tank have been dug pits. In addition, a large number of trees were cut down and a thin wooden fence was erected outside the city. The wooden fence and barbed wire fence make the place initially have a certain protective capacity.

The Charuya of the nearby tribes must have been wounded in that inexplicable battle, and most of the young men were killed in the battle, leaving the remaining old and weak women and children in fear for the rest of the day. According to the scouts, there were indeed two Spanish priests in the village, and after learning of the defeat, they seemed to have been trying to encourage the Charuas of this tribe to move the entire village.

It's just that I don't know if it's because of their lack of convincing or if it's some other reason, the remaining Charuya people in this village have never moved. They continued as usual, hunting and hunting, fishing and fishing, as if nothing had happened. After unsuccessful attempts at persuasion by the two Spanish priests, they also seem to have given up on further persuasion. Perhaps they still have a fluke mentality, thinking that this is the end of the matter, and that they can continue to preach here with peace of mind, develop the power of the church, and then gradually expand and infiltrate the east and north.

Morning of July 16. The Charuas of this village will probably never forget this day, when a large group of cavalrymen in dark blue uniforms and black-brimmed hats surrounded the village on tall Andalusian horses. Behind them, there were hundreds of musketeers with flintlock rifles and grim faces, and a hundred pirate slaves armed with spears.

The pirate slaves were promised by the officers that they would receive a general amnesty after six months, at which point they would be granted the status of freemen, as long as they fought for the western movement of the Eastern Republic and consciously defended the interests of the Eastern Republic. The Eastern Coast Republic of China was not guilty of their poor past, and a few pirates who performed well were even given the opportunity to be promoted and rewarded with indigenous women. In the future, if conditions permit, the East Coast Republic of China will even be able to bring their relatives and family members in the Old World to the New World for free, so that they can reunite with their relatives and friends.

The pirates could not refuse such generous conditions, and the desire to start all over again and live a good life fueled their desire to fight. At the rhythmic sound of the officers' brass whistles, they rushed towards the village with an unstoppable momentum with a fairly neat pace.

The Charuya, who saw this, were so shocked that they almost fainted. Some of them still have painful memories of the battle half a month ago in their minds, and at this moment, when they saw these "devil's people" actually killing them, they suddenly had dry mouths and palpitations. They subconsciously wanted to flee, but the village was surrounded by cavalry on horseback, and it was obvious that two legs could not outrun four legs. If they understand the idiom, then they will definitely be able to understand the meaning of the idiom "turtle in the urn" more deeply at this time.

Ivani, a police officer from the Eastern Republic of the Eastern Coast, stood in front of the procession and made the last persuasion in the local tribal language, and he used his own personal deeds to propagate the living conditions of the present for half an hour, the central idea of which was to ask these Charuas to give up their resistance and join the system of the Eastern Republic and become a submissive citizen under this system.

Within half an hour, dozens of Charuas came here one after another to surrender. These people may have been seduced by Avani's sweet words, or they were taken by the force of the army of the Republic of the East Coast, but in short, they made a choice, and the commander-in-chief, cavalry captain Xu Yu, handed these people over to the cavalry in the rear.

The two Spanish priests were no longer silent at this time, and they also made impassioned speeches among the villagers, agitating in the name of religion and God to strengthen the will of the villagers. Under their constant demagogy, the remaining Charuya, although still panicked, were no longer as godless as they had been at the beginning, and they seemed to have gained some kind of spiritual support, and this support gave them the strength to fight their negative emotions such as uneasiness and fear.

"Stick!" Xu Yu scolded dissatisfiedly, "Lao Tzu hates the god stick the most." ”

"Ahem...... Yu Ci, the Taoist priest of the Religious Affairs Office next to him, cleared his throat a little embarrassed and said, "It's time for us to go?" ”

"Go ahead." Xu Yu said impatiently, "Come back quickly after finishing your errands, we will start soon." ”

Yu Ci rode to the front of the queue with another crosser, Jia Fei, the first judge of the Yihe Circuit Court under the Supreme Court. Yu Ci's rhetoric is still the same old-fashioned, mainly the black materials about the church compiled by the Religious Affairs Office, and then it is to boost the morale of the soldiers who have joined Taoism. He hurriedly preached in front of the battle, and only God knows what the effect is.

He was followed by Jafi, the first judge of the Yi River Circuit Court, who first declared the illegal entry of Spanish priests into the territory of the Eastern Republic to preach, and then invoked parts of the Land and Resources Law, which was introduced in May, to declare the occupation of the lands by the Charruas who had lived there for generations "illegal" and "guilty".

Once the façade is done, everything follows. The pirate slaves, who had already been demoralized, took the lead, the musketeers followed, the cavalry cleared the net, and in less than an hour the village was conquered. The Crossing Crowd did not go on a killing spree, only a small part of the Charuya were killed, and the remaining nearly two hundred were all taken prisoner.

As for the two Spanish priests, they were executed on the spot after Jafi declared them guilty of illegal entry and spreading cults (any missionary activity not reported to the government is illegal in the Eastern Republic).

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