Pei Qin rode on the back of a sturdy Turkmen horse, surrounded by a group of old brothers, carefully inspected the defense facilities outside the West Adventure Station. The West Adventure Station is located between Cordoba and Santa Fe, near San Francisco, later in the Argentina. It is quite large in scale. At this time, it was already stored with mountains of canned food, medicines, food, alcohol, ammunition, guns and other weapons, enough for a unit of 6,000 people to continue fighting for three or four months. In order to build this station, they also transported so many supplies to this point.

The road from Cordoba to Santa Fe is really painful! There are forests, swamps, and weeds everywhere, almost a primitive virgin land (in fact, it is almost the same), with no roads in the middle, no residents, and no place to provide supplies. In other words, this vast plain has almost become the best barrier for the Spaniards' defeated soldiers in Cordoba. Without such a vast no-man's land, Cordoba may have been completely destroyed by the East Coast people.

From Santa Fe to the West Advance Station, and from the West Advance Station to Cordoba, there were damaged vehicles abandoned by the Spanish, and the people or livestock who died on the way, as well as combat supplies discarded by people. Many dead people or animals who died in the wilderness had been gnawed by jackals and were not decent; the overturned carts sprinkled a large amount of wheat on the grass. Under the nourishment of rain and sunshine, many wheat grains had already taken root in the grass and grew green wheat seedlings; siege equipment, artillery racks, wooden barrels, etc. can be seen everywhere, and they were covered with moss or fungus. Occasionally a mouse hid in it and looked through it. It was so desolate.

The people of the East Coast who had seen this scene shook their heads and sighed. How panicked were the Spanish when they retreated from here! At the same time, they sighed. If there was a railway here at that time that allowed the East Coast people to transport a large amount of war materials to the front line in time, perhaps the retreating Spanish troops would not be able to escape. But this was destined to be a beautiful fantasy. The people of the East Coast had neither the railway nor the funds and time to build the railway, so they could only spend several months honestly building a solid advance station here, hoarding materials, and then set out again to attack the enemy.

After rotating a group of troops, two months ago, the army commanded by Major Jiang Zhiqing had crossed the West Advance Station and then rushed to the Spanish town of Cordoba under the guidance of the cavalry. Now, even among the lower sergeants, the news of the peace talks with the Kingdom of Spain is no secret. Everyone has no special feelings about this, but they just feel a little regretful. Damn, everyone hasn't caught enough, why did the superior suddenly negotiate with the Spanish? How is this possible! How can this be!

Therefore, driven by such a mentality, the nearly 6,000 officers and soldiers of the entire Jiang Zhiqing Detachment had a sense of urgency in their hearts. They carried forward the spirit of hard work, searched and attacked all the way, and defeated several small-scale Spanish troops that were delayed on the East Coast army. Then they arrived outside the city of Cordoba.

Pei Qin, who stayed behind, was not very clear about the battle situation. However, through the wounded soldiers returning from the front, we can know that the attacks of the East Coast army were not very smooth there. The main reason was the difficulty in transporting ammunition and drug resources. After each attack, there was a long intermission period to wait for logistics transportation. However, the Spaniards were fighting on the inside at this time, with sufficient supplies and morale bonuses to guard their homes, so the East Coast people made a very slow progress. So far, only some enemy strongholds outside the city of Cordoba have been cleared, and they also have to face the enemy reinforcements that may appear on the flank, which was very difficult to fight.

At the beginning of this month (January 1649), the newly formed Xiayihe County Militia Brigade and the Qingdao County Militia Brigade were two thousand officers and soldiers to the West Advance Station. After a little supply, these high-spirited young men sang military songs and headed west. They would rotate the other two county militia brigades that had been fighting on the front line for a long time so that they could go home as soon as possible to clean up the food in the fields and not miss the farming season.

To be honest, Pei Qin envied those young soldiers with neat outfits and high morale. They could follow the banner of the American Vulture, water their flowers of honor with the blood of the enemy, and work hard for their purses. But the hundreds of officers and soldiers who stood at the left were in trouble. They could only squat in this desolate place to cut grass and chop wood, take care of the wounded, sort out supplies, and capture barbarians. At the same time, they would be attacked by Guarani people who went south from the northern Paraguay region from time to time. It was really frustrating.

"Catch the harvest, collect the ball! When will I let me go westward?" The complaints from the men came from the ears. These officers and soldiers from Shun Army traveled around the world, went to Xiangyang, fought Kaifeng, fought Xi'an, and entered Beijing. They had countless wars in their lives, and they had long been old veterans with a deep temper. They were not very interested in fighting tough battles, but they were very interested in looting the enemy's wealthy towns when they were obviously superior to their side. Therefore, they were always worried about the inability to move westward to "make a fortune". In particular, most of them have now become families - relying on the blessing of the court, and they all married the Greek lady who was as white as snow. The heavy burden of the family made them full of desire to seize more wealth, so they were very dissatisfied with their superiors' arrangements for them to stay in the military station, and complained in private.

"We are not the imperial court's economic and technical army, so we are raised by our stepmother. If there is a good thing, it will not be my turn to wait." The troops brought by Pei Qin and Wang Jiazhong were complex. There were warlike men from Shun Army veterans, local bandits and bandits incorporated in Shandong, and Korean men who were forced to be forced on Jeju Island. Therefore, their combat effectiveness is quite suspicious, and it is understandable that they are not regarded as regular troops on weekdays. However, if they really have to be treated seriously, they are still much stronger than the few Gao Qiao herders under Jiang Zhiqing, the Crandy Volunteers and the Tatar mercenaries. It seems that these talents should be complaining about.

"It was also the battles of Kecheng (Correntes) a while ago, why would the court look down on us so much? In the first three battles of Kecheng, our troops were almost defeated. Deputy General Li was killed and Chen guerrilla formation was killed, and there were no less than 400 officers and soldiers. If it weren't for the fact that the Shangfeng sent some consultants to guide our troops to fight, I saw that the situation was unimaginable. At this time, don't say these nonsense. You, Wang Mazi, were so scared that you dragged your guns and ran back. The military judge didn't see it. My old Sun could see clearly. With your virtue, the superiors could feel at ease to let you go to the front line to fight?" A man with a tough face glanced at someone who was complaining and said disdainfully.

Perhaps because his words were too hurtful, Wang Mazi, who was born in a bandit, immediately retorted with a red face. He was in trouble for a while. Pei Qin couldn't help but scolded him loudly before calming down everyone down.

"It's all a bunch of bad balls!" Pei Qin used a horse whip and beat several people who were quarreling, and then he barely suppressed his anger: "The battle ahead may have been finished at this time, and you are still making trouble here. With the skill, it's better to send out two more times to catch some Guarani people and come back. What the Railway General Administration said, catching a native person is rewarded with five yuan, and you will get 1,000 yuan! You won't have the turn to make a fortune in the west. Do you have to miss this opportunity to make a fortune in front of you? A bunch of fools!"

Everyone was so scolded by Pei Qin that they dared not say anything else. They followed Pei Qin silently to patrol the military facilities outside the city. From time to time, there would be small groups of Guarani scholars coming over to sneak attacks, regardless of negligence. If the thousands of military funds accumulated here were destroyed, then they would certainly die, and were imprisoned, but they were afraid that thousands of troops on the front line would be dragged down by them and the entire army would collapse. They could not afford this responsibility.

After patrolling the various posts, Pei Qin returned to the command room inside the military station, and was still thinking about how to squeeze out limited troops to capture some natives to create some income for everyone. Nowadays, various infrastructure undertakings in China are in full swing, especially the General Railway Administration, which is extremely short of people and has asked the Army Department to grant them a reward of five yuan for native slaves, and the amount of cash transactions will be collected as much as possible, which made everyone very excited.

However, there are some practical difficulties in this. One is that everyone's job is to guard the good military station to ensure the supply of materials for the front-line combat troops. Therefore, they can only draw at most about 200 people at a time, and the remaining about 300 people must stay at the military station to guard against possible unexpected factors; the other is that the locals who should be arrested nearby have almost been arrested, and if they want to arrest, they have to go a long way to search for some unfamiliar places. This is a big challenge for them. Therefore, overall, it is actually not so easy to catch the locals. Although the entire La Plata hundreds of thousands of Crandi people are scattered in such a vast area, it is really difficult for you to find them.

Pei Qin shook his head, put the matter behind his head for the time being, and then carefully took out a cube of tobacco from his pocket and put it in his pipe and lit it. And just as he was comfortably swallowing the clouds and mist, his adjutant hurriedly ran in from outside and brought him a latest news about the front line: "On January 16, the 106th Army Company led by Captain Anda 15 led the first to break the interception of the Spaniards and entered the city of Cordoba. Inspired by Captain Anda, the rest of our army launched a fierce attack on the whole line and attacked the city one after another on the next day. Cordoba was about to fall, and the 'recapture operation' came to an end..."

"It's so fast!" Pei Qin was stunned at first when he heard the news, and then quickly reacted: the war is probably about to end completely! (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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