"Fuck, shame on the face!" A squad leader of the Dongfang County Militia Brigade kicked over a Spanish man, and then crossed the bayonet rifle in front of him, and several East Bank militiamen who were also carrying rifles looked at the middle-aged Spanish man with a sneer......

Didn't you just take your cattle away and kill the meat and eat it, as for those who want to die or live? Damn, Lao Tzu is already polite, who dared to stop me when I followed King Chuang back then? That is, now that you have arrived in the East Coast Country, you must be held strictly, otherwise I would have stabbed you to death earlier! The squad leader spat in the Spaniard's face, then picked up his rifle and walked away.

Military discipline is worrisome! Not far away, 6 Ming, who had just entered the city from the boat, couldn't help but shake his head when he saw this scene. The captain of the gendarmerie accompanying him embarrassedly wanted to step forward to write down the names of the militiamen and the number of the unit to which they belonged, but was rejected by 6 Ming with a wave of his hand. The militia does not receive military salaries, it is not easy for everyone, so forget it!

The city was spared in 1633 when the East Coast army entered the Pacific Ocean to break the diplomatic battle, and it was the only city not to be captured during the Araucan Revolt of 1633-1634, because the armed forces of the city were largely preserved.

At that time, the rebellious Araucans organized a team of more than 1,500 men to frantically besiege the city for two months, but they were firmly blocked by about 5o white soldiers and more than 15o Peruvian Indian soldiers in the city, and finally even collapsed under the flank attack of hundreds of Spanish colonial legionnaires who came to support them, achieving the greatest victory of the Spanish military campaign against the Araucan people on this island.

However, after escaping the catastrophe more than ten years ago, this time Chakao City finally failed to escape again. The 6,000-strong East Coast Deng 6 troops were more than ten times the number of Spanish defenders here. Not to mention the disparity in firepower between the two sides (6 Corps field artillery 2:16). Therefore, it was completely normal for the Spaniards to last less than a day before they were defeated.

At this time, there was a gloomy cloud in the city. This was due not only to the fact that too many men had been lost in the city in the previous battles, but also to the ransom levied by the army on the east coast (2 pesos for adults and 1 peso for children) and the large quantities of livestock, food, precious furs, ship materials, etc., which were forcibly purchased by military tickets, which caused them to lose a large amount of money and property at the same time.

But they didn't dare to resist. The result of the revolt was death, as it was confirmed that seven immigrants from Aragon and South Germany refused to accept the tickets of the East Coasters, and they were soon dragged aside by the wolf-like East Bank soldiers, who listened to a few "bangs" of gunshots, and no one dared to disobey the will of the East Coasters.

The house of the Spanish mayor was requisitioned by the East Bank army, and this brave mayor died in a previous battle with the East Bankers. Now his wife and children can only be driven to the neighbor's house next door, and as for his own home, it has now become the temporary residence and conference room of 6 Ming and Xie Hansan.

"What's your next move? Will you continue to raid the rest of the Spanish strongholds on Chiloe Island, or will you go north to attack the large port of Puerto Barrios? Or are we simply not going around these newly opened areas and going north to attack Valdivia? Xie Hansan and 6 Ming have also known each other for many years, so when the two are together, they are more casual, and there is no distinction between superiors and subordinates. He asked about 6 Ming's next move, apparently worried that their maneuvering around the non-Spanish core of Chiloe Island would not attract enough attention from the Spaniards, and that it would be contrary to the original intention of the Pacific attack by the people on the east coast.

"My original intention was to toss around here a little longer, and then attract the ships of the Peruvian fleet of the Spanish Navy to the south for a decisive battle with us. Just destroy the warships of the Spanish-Peruvian fleet. Then the waters on this side of the Pacific are temporarily at our disposal. The strength of the Spanish-Peruvian fleet was already average, and a few years ago it even sent a few capital warships to Buenos Aires to form the La Plata fleet. Therefore, now the Peruvian fleet can put together five or six professional warships, even if I think highly of them. 6 Ming leaned back in his chair, drank a glass of red wine treasured by the owner here, and said: "The only thing that the Peruvian fleet needs our attention to may be the battleship 'San Lorenzo', this ship has thirty or forty guns, it is not very easy to deal with, it is the flagship of the Peruvian fleet, but the other ships are not in my eyes, and they are not the opponent of our three main warships at all." ”

"Now, though, it seems that things have changed." 6 Ming finished evaluating his opponent, then changed his words and said: "According to the information we have and the interrogation of prisoners, we know that at this time of year, almost all of Chile is shrouded in the influence of the south wind, especially in the central and southern regions, either southeast or southwest. The Peruvian fleet simply could not go south, because it was both against the wind and the water (Peruvian cold current), and it was very difficult to sail. Maybe they can take advantage of some crosswinds or variable wind direction to sail to the north of Chile, but it is impossible to make it to the center or south, which is a bit embarrassing for us. ”

Hearing 6 Ming say this, Xie Hansan was also a little speechless, yes, if the Spaniards' fleet is not cleared for a day, everyone will not be at ease for a day. Now that he learned that the Spanish warship could not sail here at all, Xie Hansan was a little dumbfounded: "So what do we do?" Will you continue to loot your belongings locally or will you head north? ”

"Let's go north." 6 Ming said, "There should not be any Spaniards who have brought the news of our arrival to Peru yet, so we still have some time. But I'm not going to waste any more time on Chiloe Island and its vicinity, which doesn't have a lot of oil and water. We went to Valdivia, a port of transit, for the silver mines of Villalica and other regions in south-central Chile, and at this time the Spanish ships were afraid that it would take a long time to make a round trip from Lima to Valdivia, so that a considerable amount of silver bars must have been stored in this port. We'll go there and get a handful, and after taking Valdivia, whatever the gains, we'll immediately go north to find the Spaniards' fleet for a decisive battle, and try to destroy their navy in a great battle. ”

"You call the shots, I'll listen to you." Xie Hansan slightly bowed, and agreed with Liu Ming's plan.

On 4 October, the troops from the east coast, having collected their supplies, had boarded the ship, pulled anchor and left the detached city of Chacao, before arriving at the outer harbor of Valdivia, Corral, at the mouth of the Valdivia, on the evening of 5 November. Corral was conquered by the East Coasters fourteen years ago, when the silver bars worth tens of thousands of pesos stored in the city of Zài were looted. Although the Spaniards reinforced Corral's defenses and several naval guns on the forts outside the city, the small number of defenders was always its main drawback.

In total, Kolar had less than a hundred regular troops, and even with the men who had been temporarily recruited, that number was pitifully small - probably only one defense against pirates, and they had no chance of winning in the face of thousands of troops on the east coast, covered by a large number of naval guns and supported by 16 field guns of the 6th Army.

On the evening of 6 November, as was the old routine, the Crandis, having suffered hundreds of dead and wounded, captured the fort, then destroyed the artillery and collected gunpowder, and all the Spanish captives (including the Indians) captured by them were naturally spared. At this time, the Polish mercenaries led by Maletsky also broke through the city of Kolar with the support of as many as 16 guns, and the battle ended.

The East Coast Army had begun an intense inventory of supplies in the city that night - they had no time to waste, for the news had been quickly passed on to Valdivia upstream when the East Coasters had arrived in the Outer Harbor the previous evening, and Valdivia would have continued to send people to the surrounding Spanish settlements, and then to Peru in the north.

After collecting supplies in the city (the only thing worth mentioning was the storage of silver bars worth more than 80,000 yuan in the zài warehouse), the army on the east bank collected many small boats nearby to transport heavy supplies, and then recruited a large number of Spaniards from the city to serve as coolie rowers. At the same time, all the vehicles and beasts of burden in the city of Corral were also collected, and these vehicles, together with the few vehicles brought by the East Coast, were loaded with ammunition, water, and medicine, and went upstream along the road carved out by the Spaniards, escorted by thousands of East Bank soldiers.

As for the nine ships of the Pacific Task Force, they remained in the port of Kolar, because the hydrology of the Valdivia River was not yet known, so they did not dare to venture upstream for fear of accidentally running aground, which would be a big problem.

On 10 October, 2,000 soldiers from the east coast arrived in Valdivia, and immediately launched an attack, clearing some small Spanish strongholds outside the city. On the 11th, after the reinforcements of the main forces arrived, they immediately launched a general attack on the city of Valdivia from three directions, and broke through the city on the morning of the 12th. Due to the fierce resistance of the Spaniards, both the Klandians and the Polish mercenaries suffered heavy casualties in this battle, so they entered the city and slaughtered the Spanish residents in some neighborhoods. Although the massacre was quickly stopped by the gendarmes on the east coast, the fires they lit in some Spanish settlements quickly spread and eventually burned half the city before they were barely extinguished.

After extinguishing the fire, it is natural that the materials will be counted. According to previous information, the Spaniards had silver mines in several towns, such as Villalica, in the Inner 6 region, and the mined silver ore was refined in Valdivia and then transported to Corral via the Guò River, where it was to be transported by Peruvian ships. At this time, I don't know whether it was because of the small output of the silver mine or some other reason, the people on the east coast only found about 100,000 yuan worth of silver bars in the city, and the rest were nowhere to be found, which was a great disappointment.

However, there was no time left for the people on the east coast to look for them, and they had to return to Colar and board the ship to go north in search of a decisive battle for the Peruvian fleet. Therefore, early in the morning of the 13th, the army on the east bank collected a number of small boats in the city to load the booty, and then began to retreat downstream. Before leaving, they set fire to the surplus ships on the dock along with the entire wooden dock, and the fire spread to the nearby city of Valdivia, causing the Spaniards to rush into the firefighting.

On the evening of the 16th, the East Coast fleet, which had all boarded the ships, pulled anchor and left the port of Corral, and headed north with the southeast wind and the Peruvian cold current. (To be continued......)

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