This is the first time in Jiangning to come to the southern Chile region with continuous mountains and humid climate.

As the battalion commander of the 12th mixed battalion of the Army, Major Jiangning has a place in the army's east coast military system. After all, the army has only 12 mixed battalions, and each battalion is very popular, so its battalion commander is naturally the focus of everyone's attention.

Major Jiangning is now almost forty years old. He has worked in the Beining area for many years, and has been with Lu Xiaofeng, started as the township armed minister, and finally transferred to his position as the regional security commander. Now, Major Jiangning, who serves as the battalion commander of the 12th Mixed Battalion, actually understands that it may be difficult for him to go further. After all, there are so many carrot pits in the Army Department, and a bunch of people are staring at him. He has no advantage, so he should not make plans as soon as possible.

As for taking a different approach to serving in the military headquarters, it is even more difficult! You should know that with the prosperity of overseas trade and the increasing efforts of colonies, the naval forces now have more and more say in the joint staff headquarters, and a large number of positions are occupied by naval officers. It is difficult for an army officer to be promoted to the military headquarters. Major Jiangning is also a senior army leader, and he has long since been extinguished from the intention of making progress, unless the state allows the further expansion of the scale of the continental army, but this is not so difficult.

The biggest goal of Jiangning's current major, or interest, has shifted to practicing his life goals, cracking down on hostile forces, cleaning up the indigenous peoples, and expanding the territory. The last time when the Spanish were about to make trouble at Silver Harbor, he led the 12th Mixed Battalion to land, and then dealt with it decisively to eliminate a disaster. Later, the ministry has been training on the Pampa Plain, and by the way, clearing up various open or potential opposition forces in the local area to protect the development of this fertile land for the overall situation of the country.

Since it was escorted, it would naturally not be limited to one place. The Pampa Plain was obtained, and places like the Brazilian Plateau and the Chilean Valley had to go. So, after Zhao Ke, a regional commissioner in Southern Chile, sent someone to report to the Executive Committee for reinforcements, the department boarded the ship from Niuzhuang Port, with ships and trains, and came all the way to Liucheng Port, and then quickly headed north to Boling County. At this time, it was almost the end of December, which was very fast.

Today is early January 1683. The 12th Mixed Battalion headquarters, which had been resting in Boling County for several days, has begun to pack up its luggage and go north to enter the area north of the Bible River. In the past two months, the Spanish and the East Coast people have become increasingly fierce in the competition for Valdivia to the front line of Biarica, and even small-scale armed conflicts have erupted. A village of treasury was raided by Spanish cavalry, more than 20 people were injured, cattle and sheep were robbed, houses were burned, and fields were destroyed. This year's harvest was basically yellow.

Subsequently, the people of the East Coast also organized a counterattack, organizing more than 300 militias. On the road from Biarika to Valdivia, they kidnapped a Spanish convoy and pulled about ten cars of mercury ore into the Red Flag Prison. They had planned this operation for a long time and achieved their goal without killing one person. It was clean and neat.

After this, Shuangyi fell into silence. It seemed that everyone knew that the other party was not easy to mess with and did not dare to intensify the conflicts. The East Coast naturally wanted to calm the incident. The destroyed villages could be rebuilt, but it was just a little property. But if the Spaniards took all their efforts, it would be difficult to say whether the Red Flag Prison of the East Coast people could exist, so it would be best to stop there. And the Spaniards, their natural fear of the East Coast people was born with fear of the East Coast people.

It was always playing a role. Coral and many old people in Valdivia did not forget how the East Coast Army landed in Chile and killed all directions. Valdivia was broken back then! Therefore, not only did they dare not take ruthless measures in the conflict with the East Coast people, causing casualties, but also after the East Coast people made up their minds to counterattack, they suddenly retreated like frightened little beasts and carefully observed the situation in front of them.

Even the slick Valdivian colonial officials had already begun to slash the blame. They sent messengers to Lima to report the news, on the pretext that the current situation had exceeded their control. They were not authorized to go to war with the East Coast people, so they could only temporarily stop all actions and wait for Lima's reply - the bureaucrats' instinct to seek profit and avoid harm is indeed very tenacious. It was enough to be forced to offend the East Coast people before, but now they do not want to continue to intensify the conflict.

The 12th Mixed Camp arrived in the southern Chile area under such a background and immediately became the focus of attention of all parties. There were many Spanish remnants in the three counties of Boling, and Valdivia had many channels to get news - especially today when the ministry had already made it clear to go north.

"Come on, eat more oil cakes and drink milk tea. I went north of the Jiehe River, and the conditions were relatively difficult, so I couldn't see these things often." The logistics officer brought a table and greeted all the colleagues from the camp to sit for dinner.

At this time, everyone was on the south bank of the Jiehe River, and most of them were resting by the wooden bridge leading to the north bank and having lunch. The temperature in southern Chile was not very high, and today it was a cloudy day, so everyone put the foldable table outside in the open air, and asked the orderlymen to bring the meal and use it directly.

Zhao Ke, a commissioner of the Southern Chile Regional Administration, was also invited to have a meal together. He had just sent some supplies to the officials of Boling County to work hard, so he sat down and had a good chat with Jiangning and others. After all, for a long time, the public security work in the five exiled prisoners' settlement areas north of Jiehe was entirely dependent on others, and he could finally disband the militia that had been guarding outside for a long time and return to the counties.

"This is a famous Chilean dish. The deer-seed sauce is very delicious. Captain Jiang must try it." Zhao Ke pushed a plate of raw deer tongue to Jiang Ning and said with a smile: "This deer is very common in Chile. It is not big, but it tastes very delicious. Especially this deer tongue, there are many wonderful things to eat with sauce. Captain Jiang might as well try it."

When Jiang Ning heard this, he immediately picked up a piece with chopsticks with interest, and praised while chewing: "It is indeed delicious. In the past, he chased and suppressed the Tevech people in the Patagonian platform. He broke through too far and lost his way, and his supplies were all lost. The two platoons of cavalry brothers and I spent a whole week by eating raw rat and rabbit jerky meat. Then he would mix with any sauce, which was far worse than this."

"Haha, if Captain Jiang likes, you might as well stay in Chile for a while. I instruct the county chef to make some every week to deliver it." Zhao Ke laughed as soon as he heard it, and immediately beat the snake and said with a stick, with a tentative smell inside and outside.

"Teacher Zhao, don't test it." Jiang Ning said with a wry smile: "You and I can decide whether to stay or not. If the superior asks me to come, we will come. If we ask us to leave, I will have to leave. This is not vague. The instructions given to us by the Army Department are quite clear, that is, to deter the Spanish local colonial armed forces so that they will not interfere with our colonial activities north of the border river. As for when the deterrence will be, we have not said this, we can only wait for the superiors to order it."

"Understand, understand." Zhao Ke also picked up a deer tongue and said while eating: "The orders from the superiors are indeed the most important. But what I can't understand is that there are many scattered silver mines distributed from Valdivia to Biarica, so is the center really not moved at all?"

After hearing what Zhao Ke said, Jiang Ning was silent, and later said: "The silver mine is more sensitive. If we move, the negative impact will be very great. To be honest, after getting along with us for so many years, the Spanish have gradually figured out our routine and knew what we are really interested in, that is, the land located in the New World in the South. Although they are very annoyed that we keep eating and occupying these lands, to be honest, is their annoyance really annoyance that we usually understand? In fact, it is not the case. I heard from some friends of the General Administration of Intelligence that the Kingdom of Spain actually has a deep understanding of our country now.

We have adapted well to the transformation of our roles and no longer confronted us, but instead acted as a partner to solve various troubles for them, such as finance, security and other things. And some of the lands we have occupied that originally belonged to the Kingdom of Spain, such as Hejian, Southern Chile, and some areas of the Pampa Plain, are actually the rewards they paid to us. And they asked themselves that if they controlled the rhythm, they could afford this reward, so they tolerate our various small movements and small penetrations step by step. Otherwise, do you think we can get so much land so easily? It is impossible, at least not so easy."

"So--" Zhao Ke listened intently.

"So there is also a tacit understanding between the Executive Committee and the Kingdom of Spain. That is, we regard many of the land in the New World in the Southern Land as temporary items stored in the Spanish, and can be retrieved at any time. The Kingdom of Spain is only a temporary custodian. When we do not have enough energy to keep it." Major Jiangning put down his chopsticks, took a sip of beer, and said: "The money we paid to the Spanish for the purchase of land in previous times is for the sake of others' face, and the other is also in disguise support for the Spanish Kingdom's various actions in Europe, which is considered to be disguisedly interfering with the situation in the European continent. Therefore, small-scale fights are allowed, and within the scope of the rules of the game. The Spanish have actually lost the confidence to permanently retain many lands, including La Plata. The reason why we are forcibly supporting this tour

The play can only be played longer. But the matter of Hongqi Prison this time is obviously a bit different. Because it involves gold, silver, copper and mercury mines, it touches the bottom line of the Spaniards, so they have a fierce rebound this time. Demolition, burning our colonial villages, robbing our property, and destroying our fields. This kind of thing has been happening in the past, but it is always rare. Especially this time, the tug-of-war between the two sides has lasted for several months. It was not until you fought back heavily before that the Spaniards calmed down. But I judged that this calm was only temporary. After sending back more clear instructions on Lima, the Spaniards in Valdivia and other places were probably mobilized to cause trouble for us, so they were mostly serious this time."

"I also think something is wrong this time. In fact, when I crossed the border and reclaimed in the Hejian area, the Spaniards were actually very reluctant. They once sent cavalry to invade the village, but were beaten away by our people. But this time, it was rare to see the war for several months. What's more, the current background is that the Spaniards' attitude towards us is getting softer and weaker. They have the courage to toss for so long, which should have made them feel threatened. Alas, it's probably the matter of mines. They are really nervous about these things. They don't seem to care about the land and they just need silver."

"That's certain. Without the gold and silver of America, they would not be able to maintain it in the Old Continent." Jiang Ning said affirmatively: "In fact, the boss sent us to camp this time, and it was not without temptation. It was to see where the bottom line of the Spaniards was. That is, once we really threatened some silver mines here - although they were small silver mines - how they would react and resist firmly. I think if the Spaniards could even give up these small silver mines, then their bottom line would be really low, or there would be no bottom line at all. Then we can speed up some actions without paying too much attention to their ideas or taking care of their feelings, and everything would be done according to our own planned plan."

"It turns out there are so many twists and turns in it." Zhao Ke immediately smiled after hearing this, and only heard him say: "This is actually equivalent to a strategic test of the Spaniards to see if they can pass it. If they really give in in the end, it will prove that they are not unavailable for the land that is not so core in the Peru Governor's District. Then not only the Executive Committee, but also I know what to do, haha. The Spaniards don't want this area at the bottom of the central valley of Chile, so I'm not polite."

Jiang Ning laughed when he saw this. His 12th Mixed Battalion could almost complete the river crossing today. Then he would lead his troops to arrive in the Hongqi Prison area, collect information, observe the situation, and then directly break into the area of ​​the Lanke Town in later generations, set up a fortress to see how the Spaniards would react.
Chapter completed!