"Sir, this is all the Krandi I can find." Outside Santa Fe, a young intern staff officer reported to the detachment's commander-in-chief, Chang Kaisheng.

Chang Kaisheng nodded slightly, and then looked at the unkempt and ragged Crendi Indians with critical eyes. There were more than 500 of them, of all heights, but most of them looked emaciated, a sign of overwork and chronic malnutrition. Many of them still have scars on their bodies, as if they had been abused by their guardians (guardians in the guardianship system, who were actually slave owners), and they still wore shackles on their hands and feet, and they walked with a loud noise.

But don't look at their physical misery at the moment, but they are very uplifted mentally. Because this army from the south actually drove away the Spaniards, who had been oppressing them for many years, and also planned to release these poor people and let everyone be free. It's wonderful!

"The Crandis, Charua, Araucan, and other natives of colder parts of South America were not suitable races for slavery. They were free and aggressive by nature, far less docile than the blacks, and even less resistant to heavy work than the blacks, and it was not cost-effective to capture them as slaves unless necessary. Chang Kaisheng's mind sounded a report of the National Intelligence Directorate on Indian races in the vicinity of the East Bank, which contained such a paragraph, and he remembered it very clearly.

In fact, the Spanish colonists in the southern half of South America were always dissatisfied with the Araucans and the Crandis because they were definitely not qualified slaves in the eyes of the Spaniards. The Araucans, in particular, not only fled from all directions, but even attacked the Spanish colonies in turn. And with the secret funding of suspicious foreign powers, a long-term guerrilla war was waged. Leaving the Spaniards exhausted.

So it is with the Araucans of Chile. The Cranti people of La Plata are not good stubbles either. These rebellions against Spanish rule continued throughout the 17th century, during which there were several major uprisings, the largest of which seems to have taken place in the 50s of the 17th century, that is, a few years later. After the outbreak of the uprising, the Spaniards transferred troops from Peru on the one hand, and on the other hand, bought many Indians to fight for them, and spent countless money and a considerable amount of time to suppress the uprising. In the aftermath of this uprising, the Spaniards did not lessen their oppression of the Clandians. Instead, they intensified their efforts and instituted stricter controls, and a large number of Crantis died under the brutal tyranny of the Spanish colonizers, and by the 18th century the population had plummeted to the point where they could no longer launch any uprisings.

And in this time and space, on the eve of the outbreak of the great uprising of the Crantis, due to the sudden start of the war, a large number of East Bank troops poured into La Plata. They routed a significant number of Spanish troops, and white Spanish peasants fled everywhere, which greatly shook the basis of Spanish rule in the eastern part of La Plata, at least in the lower Paraná River. The people of the East Coast go everywhere. Both freed local Indian slaves and white indentured slaves and distributed weapons to them. They were secretly encouraged to take revenge on the Spaniards.

It is worth mentioning that the living conditions of the large number of indentured slaves of Central and Southern European origin in the La Plata region are no different from those of the Crandíns, who have suffered the same frenzied oppression and abuse by their masters. When these men came to the New World from the mainland, they had already signed an agreement with the captain or colonial company that they would work for a certain number of years (usually 3-7 years) for the white farmer or rancher who bought their ownership after arriving in the New World. Knowing that these men would be freed at the end of the term, their masters were even less merciful to them, and their work was even more intense than that of the Klandians - because the Klandians were the private property of their masters, and were more worthy of being "preserved" in order to create a greater value for their masters, and these indentured slaves were only lended, and naturally they were to be used to death.

Therefore, whether it was a Crendic or a white indentured servant, they hated the Spaniards equally. And when the East Bank army announced that they were granted freedom and distributed weapons to them, they immediately burst into cheers. Within a week of receiving the weapons, these men poured into the farms, pastures, and estates in the countryside, attacking the Spanish farmers who had brutally enslaved them, dividing their money, cattle and sheep, and then the estates, warehouses, and houses that had taken many years to build were burned down by vengeful slaves who were full of irrational zeal.

This was particularly evident in the Buenos Aires area at the mouth of the Río de la Plata, where Liao Xiaoyao, the commander of the 35th Regiment of the Cadet Corps, who had stayed there, was only slightly "surprised" when some Spanish peasants came to complain to him about the "appalling" atrocities of the slaves, and then sent a few soldiers to disperse the mobs in a perfunctory manner. The Klandians who had just been freed were not stupid, and of course they knew that their freedom was not earned by themselves, but by the people of the East Coast, so they changed places with great interest and continued to loot. Before leaving, they also gave a lot of looted money, grain and livestock to the people on the east coast, which made Liao Xiaoyao nod secretly, these Indians were not too stupid after all.

The situation spiraled out of control wherever the horses of the East Coast Army went. The freed Indians and a small number of white indentured slaves began to move around the countryside with weapons issued by the East Coasters (mostly cold weapons, a few arquebuses), and the weak Spanish peasants could not resist it, and robberies, murders, and rapes occurred every day in the countryside, until in the end these Spaniards could only carry some of the food, put on horseback, and fled to the vicinity of Buenos Aires. At least here, the Indian thugs who have lost their minds are not afraid to kill them.

In the vicinity of Buenos Aires City, only some large landowners and big businessmen have the strength to protect themselves. For example, the Rodriguez family, a well-known local business leader, has a large number of wage workers on their farms and estates in the countryside, and there are more than a dozen retired veterans of the famous Flanders Legion. Under their leadership, the men in the manor easily withstood the tentative attacks of a few groups of Krandi with their sharp firepower, and the manor survived.

But they are only a minority after all. In this growing wave of Crandi liberation, a large number of native-born whites or peninsulars lacked sufficient self-preservation, most of them were killed, their estates destroyed, their property plundered, and the Buenos Aires region, which the Spaniards had spent more than half a century running, returned to its pre-liberation period overnight. To the horror of the Spaniards, the wave of uprisings, which had previously been confined to the southeast, had now spread to the Midwest, where slaves fled or were rescued by insurrectionists in Spanish settlements, villages, or farms, while their original guardians, the Spanish colonizers, either disappeared or died on the spot. The Crandi rebels were so angry that they spared even the white children, and even some of the Crandis who sided with the Spaniards were slaughtered, and the situation worsened with the deliberate connivance of the East Coasters.

Now Chang Kaisheng is actually going to do the same thing as Liao Xiaoyao, which is to start an uprising or riot of the Klandians in the Santa Fe area, and then completely disrupt the nearby shape and completely destroy the foundation of Spanish rule. The people of the east coast were not strong enough troops, and although they now occupied the cities of Buenos Aires and Santa Fe, there were still a large number of Spanish villages or estates in the countryside. In fact, the Spanish and Portuguese colonizers of this era did not like to live in cities, for example, in Rio de Janeiro in the 18th century, there were only 2,500 white residents, but in the vast inland countryside, there were still five to ten times as many white farmers or ranchers.

Therefore, these scattered Spaniards are always a threat. Once the Spaniards mobilized troops from Peru and Chile, these scattered Spanish villages or farmsteads were their natural supply points. Now that the rebel Klandians on the east coast have destroyed all these villages or farms, even if the Spanish army comes from the north or west, they will be in a difficult situation of lack of supplies. And if supplies are sent from Chile, not only will the consumption on the road be greatly increased, but the supply line will also be stretched indefinitely, which will put them in danger.

All in all, these Krandi people are very useful now, and the so-called precursor to the king is talking about them. The fact that the East Coasters were now extremely short of troops, and that La Plata was so vast and that they had so many things to accomplish prompted them to open the shackles of the Crantis, destroy the economic base of the Spaniards, and contain possible reinforcements from the Spaniards, so as to give the Coasters time to take things in stride.

"Unshackle them and give them a good meal." Chang Kaisheng turned his head to the intern staff officer and said, "After you have eaten enough, teach them some superficial military knowledge, and then issue weapons to let them go." If you go to the Spaniards a day earlier, you will share some of the pressure on us a day earlier, and who will let us have insufficient troops. It's too difficult to ask for local troops to come over now, and with the strength we have at hand now, it's not enough to defend such a long area, and it is nonsense to ask us to continue to attack and destroy more Spanish cities! ”

The intern staff officer naturally filtered out the second half of Chang Kaisheng's whining, and then went to greet the Krandi people who had just been freed. (To be continued......)