Four hundred and ninetieth eight chapters dust settled
It rained lightly in Cordoba in the early morning, but this did not make this city, which had been established for more than a hundred years, cleaner and tidy. This hub city with a population of more than 15,000 (mostly Crandi people) at its peak has now turned into a ruin under the bombardment of cannons on the east coast; the once wealthy material warehouses, banks, granaries, shops and other buildings were organized by soldiers on the east coast; the Spaniards, who once walked arrogantly on the streets and alleys of the city, are now hiding in the corners like rats crossing the street, shrunk all day long.
The gallows lined up outside the city were hung with corpses swaying in the wind. These were the Spaniards who were still hostile to the East Coast army after the East Coast people occupied the city - of course, there were also a few Crandy people who entered the Catholicism. The top commander of the East Coast army, the new army major, Jiang Zhiqing, always treated the enemy as cold as winter, so he always held a firm suppression of the remaining Spanish resisters captured in the purge operation.
Cordoba is the result of the death of nearly 400 soldiers from our Great East Coast Army (more than one third of whom died in an epidemic). Now the spoils have not been transferred yet, and the sky above the city is not three feet high. How can these Spanish sluts be allowed to jump up and down? Haven't you seen your main force retreating under the fierce firepower of the East Coast Army? Haven't you seen your king no longer want to fight? Haven't you seen that you can hardly piece together a decent reinforcement to rescue La Plata?
Under such a disadvantage, he still attacked the East Coast army as the occupying army, which only means that your IQ is problematic. Major Jiang Zhiqing never has any mercy on those with IQ problems.
Today is April 1. The East Coast people have occupied the western part of La Plata, heading south and north, and transporting the node city from east to west for more than two months. During these two months, 6,000 East Coast soldiers almost demolished the entire city of Cordoba. Then they built their own temporary military camps and field fortifications in the suburbs, and successfully repelled the three counterattacks launched by the Spaniards.
In these three battles, they waited for it, using a large number of artillery and an dominant number of cavalry (five cavalry companies and some Tatar mercenaries), firmly occupying the initiative in the battlefield, and killed and injured more than a thousand Spanish soldiers (more than two-thirds of them were Peruvian Indians and Crandy Indians), almost making nearby Spanish towns such as Jujuy and Tucumman unable to piece together any field mobile power and could only defend passively. They watched nervously the movements of the east coast troops stationed in Cordoba.
The current situation cannot help but be nervous, because Chile has become an isolated island under the blockade of the East Coast Navy and has cut off most ties with Peru. People are in a turmoil and in short supply, if the local Spanish colonial officials had not ruled properly, the Chile area might have fallen into complete chaos.
Moreover, the Pacific Task Force of the East Coast Navy also sent a large number of army soldiers to land in the central and southern Chile a while ago. Under the guidance of the local Leadership Party (Alaucan Guerrillas), they advanced all the way north from the Maolin River Basin, and successively captured cities such as Maolin, Port Barrios, and Osorno. With the cooperation of the navy, they also occupied towns such as Chakao, Coral, Valdivia, and other towns. The Spanish ruling order in Chile was almost in danger of total collapse.
Since Chile is in a tight situation, the alpaca teams traveling between the many mountain passes of the Andes have greatly reduced their supply of supplies, and General Santiago has already cut off contact with Peru. The supplies on hand are not enough for them to fight several times, so they naturally have no spare time to support the La Plata region.
What's more, what they should be more worried about now is that the East Coast army has made a cruel decision and will forcibly attack the famous city of Santiago regardless of the cost of casualties. Although the possibility is not great, it is not small. After all, this is a very symbolic city. Who knows what these pagans will think after they go crazy?
The Chilean region was defeated like a mountain, and the Spanish in La Plata were used to defeat. The many Spanish remnants of the two places, including Jujuy and Tucumman, are now short of medical treatment and medicine, have low morale, have no fighting spirit, and have no supplies; they have no intention of guarding and are short of food and wages, which is really a dilemma, like a dog with a family.
If Jiang Zhiqing was bold and sent some of the main forces to attack Tukuman at this time, he might not have guaranteed that the Spanish remnants who were defeated by a series of failures and were hungry and lacked ammunition would scatter. Unfortunately, the East Coast people were limited to a long supply line at this time, and basically the offensive reached the end. They could only take a long rest for a long time, and wait for the supply from the rear to be sent to the front line to restore combat effectiveness before they could go to other places.
However, maybe they didn't have much time to replenish supplies to restore combat effectiveness. On April 1, the Executive Committee's special commissioner Qi Wangping, accompanied by two senior staff officers of the Army, came to the city of Cordoba, which had been operated by the East Coast army into a large field fortification. They came with them.
Qi Wangping first reiterated to all the soldiers that the principle of distributing spoils would not change, and at the same time, he also encouraged and praised everyone's heroic battles during this period, which made the morale of the officers and soldiers exploded. After saying this, Qi Wangping, on behalf of the Executive Committee, officially announced to everyone present: After friendly negotiations between the East Coast Republic of China and the Kingdom of Spain, the two sides signed a peace treaty at Valladolid in early December last year. In other words, the state of war between the East Coast and Spain has now ended, and both sides should stop any hostilities, and the troops that are fighting should also return to their own departure locations.
Qi Wangping emphasized that according to the peace treaty signed by both sides, the cities of Córdoba, Santa Fe, Correntes, Buenos Aires, which are currently "invaded" by the East Coast, such as Córdoba, Santa Fe, Correntes, Buenos Aires, which are "invaded" by the East Coast, should be returned to the Kingdom of Spain as soon as possible. The people of the East Coast have the obligation to return the property seized in the war, and at the same time, they should try their best to maintain peace and tranquility in these areas before the Spanish take over the cities.
After Qi Wangping said these words, he couldn't help but feel relieved when he looked at the slightly calm faces of the army officers and soldiers. He was really worried that the group of Qiu Bas would not buy it and would fight the Spanish to the end, otherwise he would not be able to get out of the market. After all, there was an Espanyol envoy next to him watching.
Fortunately, everyone seemed to be tired of this war that lasted almost three years, or the unshaven and sloppy East Coast soldiers in front of them had already made a lot of money. In short, everyone was not surprised by the end of the war and was very calm, as if this was a matter of course.
After Qi Wangping finished speaking in public, he pulled Jiang Zhiqing and Anda's 15th Army generals to a secret place in the city to have a conversation. Qi Wangping here showed Jiang Zhiqing the double orders of the Executive Committee and the Army Department, requiring Jiang Zhiqing to immediately find out the details of the Crandy uprising army active in La Plata, and then assisted the Spaniards to send troops to wipe out these Indian rebellious armed forces in order to quickly pacify the situation in La Plata.
After all, the Spanish armed forces in La Plata and even Chile were severely damaged by the East Coast people. At this moment, they were unable to solve the intensified Crandi uprising troops in La Plata, so they urgently needed the support of foreign armed forces. According to the peace agreement signed by the East Coast and the Kingdom of Spain, as the East Coast obtains privileges such as building roads in the South Patagonia region, the East Coast army must assist (only put it on the spot at a critical moment) the Spanish army suppressed the uprising Crandi people and restored the local colonial ruling order.
Now that the Spaniards have exercised this power, the East Coast people naturally cannot refuse what is stipulated in the treaty. Therefore, Jiang Zhiqing, who was leading the army to fight in La Plata, was selected by the Executive Committee and the Army to suppress the Crandi uprising, and most of the combat troops were his men.
To be honest, Jiang Zhiqing was unwilling to help the Spaniards suppress the Crandy uprising army. You should know that a considerable number of the rebel officers and leaders of Jiang Zhiqing and his predecessor Chang Kaisheng supported them, and the considerable supplies required for their uprising operations were also provided by the East Coast people. The two sides cooperated happily in jointly attacking the Spaniards. But now they actually wanted the East Coast people to send troops to suppress these Crandy people, which made Jiang Zhiqing bear it. It was just that the military orders were hard to violate, and at this time, if they were unwilling to do so, they had to pinch their noses and execute the orders.
Therefore, on April 12, 1649, Jiang Zhiqing found a way to convene a considerable number of nearby Crandi rebel leaders to Cordoba for a meeting - this is not the first time. The East Coast people used to use this method to assign instructors to the Crandi people to provide supplies.
At the meeting, Jiang Zhiqing first asked whether these Crandy leaders were willing to reconcile with the Spaniards, and the answer he received was naturally unwilling; then he asked whether these people were interested in leading their troops to South Africa, New China or Australia, but they still received a negative answer.
After a while of silence, Jiang Zhiqing immediately left the meeting place. Five minutes after he left, Captain Anda Fifteen commanded the fully armed 106th Army Company and a county militia brigade, rushed over with lightning speed, and then killed all the leaders and middle-level officers of the Crandy uprising army present on the spot.
After the April 12th Incident, the East Coast cavalry of Cordoba also began to take large moves. They waved their sabers and rushed into the camp of the Crandy Rebel Army who was still unknown to the incident. They raised their swords and fell, killing all the Crandy people who had not yet understood what had happened.
After April 12, the East Coast troops scattered in many areas of La Plata also began to mobilize frequently. The Spanish remnants of Tucumman, Jujuyi and other places also began to reorganize their troops to move south. Together with the East Coast people, they launched a cruel suppression of the uprising Crandi people. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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