On August 1, the Xiao Bailang fleet, who had been drifting on the sea for more than half a month, crossed the Magellan Strait again and arrived at the east side of Tierra Tierra, anchored in a wind-sinked bay. The "Galicia Flying Fish" and Yunsheng No. 1, loaded with valuable materials, were anchored on the inside, and the gunboats "East Coast Eagle" and "Red Trout" were anchored on the outside. After obtaining the permission of the officers, the sailors took turns to rest ashore, and at the same time they also added fresh water to the entire fleet.

After looting the Chakao City at the beginning of last month, the entire fleet began to turn south, and followed the strong west wind and current to smoothly cross the Strait of Magellan, preparing to return to the Malvinas Islands. The Spanish Peruvian fleet stationed in Cayao divided half of the main ships. These warships were searching for Xiao Bailang's small fleet, led by the powerful four-masted sailing ship "San Lorenzo". After realizing that something might happen if something happened to swing along the coast of Chile, Xiao Bailang decisively ordered the end of the attack on the Pacific coast. The entire fleet returned to the Atlantic Ocean within a month and threw the Spaniards who were still looking for their traces in Chile.

In general, Xiao Bailang's fleet's attack has gained a lot. On the one hand, it effectively harassed the Spaniards' maritime transportation lines, which made the Spaniards insufficient war preparations, delayed the outbreak of a large-scale war, and bought a lot of time for the Executive Committee. On the other hand, they crossed the Strait of Magellan, captured three Spaniard towns, wiped out more than a hundred Spanish colonial troops, and plundered a large amount of supplies and money. More importantly, he made the Spanish colonial authorities start to face the crossing crowds, and the rear, which originally thought was safe, were also attacked by the enemy, which caused their will to war to a certain extent.

In addition, the Araucans' resistance began to rise gradually with the help of the cross-border crowds. The Spanish officials in Chile were worried about this. The economic order of the colonies was hit hard, and the losses caused were immeasurable. In order to save the situation, the Peruvian governor even sent a considerable number of troops from Lima to help General Santiago stabilize the situation. Without the support from Peru and Chile, the Chalkas prosecution court alone could not support the long-term consumption of the war in the La Plata area. This was a trick to remove the fire from the cauldron, but the dramatic thing was that the Spanish Army was defeated too quickly and miserably in the La Plata area that they were wiped out before they could even feel the pressure on the material side. Now, the officials in Buenos Aires no longer had to worry about raising mountain-like war materials.

During the fleet's mooring, Lu Ming took some people to the shore and boarded Tierra del Fuego again. After several months, Lu Ming, who was back in the old land, was quite emotional. Behind him was a platoon of army soldiers. These soldiers were carrying large and small bags, full of iron pots, knives, daggers, ignition equipment, salt, wine, dried fruits and other items seized from the Spanish towns. Obviously, Lu Ming planned to trade with the local natives, Ona people, in Tierra del Fuego.

After walking inland along the coast for a long time, Lu Ming and others were discovered by the Ona people without any surprise. These natives rushed up excitedly and pulled them into the tribe. Fabian, Matthias and others followed Lu Ming, grinned. After experiencing such a situation, they knew that these simple Ona people had no malice. They just needed to trade items urgently. Of course, the exchange items they gave would definitely satisfy you.

The Ona people provided all the items they could provide: cured meat, skins, oils, llamas and other supplies. Among them, llamas are the most popular. Lu Ming has always wanted to introduce this animal the same size as a foal to the east coast for breeding. This little thing runs like a flying mountainous area with thin air and can carry loads. It is really suitable for a large number of mountain infantry that may appear in the future.

The old friends of Lu Ming and others, the Ona man named Sava who came to have a meal last time, also came. The tall Indian took out some gold of not very high purity to exchange supplies for the travelers. Lu Ming was surprised when he saw it. After some speculation and exchanges, Lu Ming was sure that there must be a gold mine near the Anna tribe. At least, there will be gold mines on this island. Lu Ming recalled carefully and couldn't remember anything useful. Tierra Tierra was a very remote place in his previous life, and there were only a few information introduced. However, this important information must be reported to the Executive Committee. In the future, some goods urgently needed by the indigenous people can be exchanged for the gold in their hands. This is a profitable business. As for direct mining, Tierra Tierra is too far from Uruguay and has many concerns in terms of safety, and at present, this condition is not met.

After the transaction was completed, Lu Ming and others returned to the warship with seven or eight llamas and large bags of supplies. On August 3, the entire fleet set sail again, sailing all the way east, crossing the waves and arrived at the Sullivan Shelter Bay on the east island of the Malvinas Islands to anchor and moor. After arriving here, the entire fleet is not ready to take any further voyages for the time being.

The Chalua people on the island were waiting for Xiao Bailang's fleet to return. They stayed on this island where the wind and snow were all day long and did nothing. Apart from the dozens of Spanish and English prisoners, there was no one on the island. The only sea birds were sea lions and seals. Seeing that these Chalua people were still guarding this small camp safely, Xiao Bailang and others were also very happy, which meant that the Spanish had not discovered this place yet.

The Spanish and English people in the prisons on the island welcomed new partners. 42 sailors from the former Spanish Navy "Red Trout" battleship joined them, which brought the number of prisoners of war in the prisons on the island to 83. In the months after Xiao Bailang's fleet left, the Chalua people on the island took these prisoners to build many new houses using the mountain of building materials in the warehouse, which made this place, which seemed a little desolate, angry for the first time.

The sailors classified some of the materials on the ship and moved them into the warehouse on the island: more than 1,000 otters, seals, sea lions, foxes, and llama furs; 300 wool blankets; 15 tons of copper and 10 tons of lead; 500 barrels of gunpowder, lead bullets, and shells. In addition to these, another major gain in this trip to Chile was that it collected a large number of plant seeds. Chile's agricultural conditions were pretty good, and the Spanish spared no effort to develop them. This time, the travelers collected almost all the seeds or rhizomes that could be seen from local Spanish farmers, such as pepper, tomato, corn, sweet potato, peanuts, pumpkin, cotton, flax, etc.

Of course, the most important thing for the travelers is the several cinchona tree saplings they have obtained from the Andes Indians that grew in the mountains. In this era, no one knows the importance of this magical tree better than the travelers. The local Indian natives only know that the bark of this tree has a "fever reduction" effect after being ground into powder, but it is different in the eyes of the travelers. At this time, no drug in the world can effectively treat malaria, except for the quinine made after grinding the bark of the cinchona tree. The next specific expansion direction of the travelers is south of the Geral Mountains, and later in the Rio Grande, south of Brazil. If you go to this place and don't carry this drug, this drug, is simply joking about your own life.

Therefore, Xiao Bailang directed the sailors to carefully protect these saplings and put them aside. If the climate of the Malvinas Islands was not suitable for the growth of these trees, Xiao Bailang almost wanted to plant these trees immediately. Of course, other plants were also very important, and the sailors were careful to preserve them and prepared to take them back to Uruguay to grow in the future.

In addition to the seeds of these treasures, the travelers also had 2 pigs, 6 cows, 8 horses, 9 llamas, and more than 40 sheep. In order to make room for the boat, Xiao Bailang also asked people to put all these livestock on the island for free. Anyway, there are dense meadows everywhere on the island, and these livestock are not short of food.

After everything was arranged, Xiao Bailang, Wang Tiecheng, Lu Ming, Xie Hansan, Yu Lian and others sat together to discuss the next action. Because they didn't know what the battle was like in their hometown, the entire fleet did not dare to drive back rashly. If they encountered the main fleet of the Spaniards midway and caused any damage to everyone, there would be no place to complain.

Xiao Bailang and others were not worried about whether the Spanish could block the attack in land war. They believed that just because the Spanish came across the sea and lacked equipment and supplies, as long as they crossed the crowd to defend the city, they could exhaust the Spanish army. After discussion, they finally decided that Wang Tiechong would drive Yunsheng 1 back and observe. Yunsheng 1 was fast and had strong firepower. Even if they encountered the Spanish main fleet, they were not afraid. At present, Yunsheng 1 still had more than 100 tons of fuel, so it would be no problem to drive back and forth from here to Uruguay.
Chapter completed!