Captain Conceicao removed the hatchet from the head of a Guarani man, and then casually wiped the blade of the axe, which was still stained with brains, and his tense expression relaxed slightly.

This damn battle is finally over! Once again, his close subordinates, whom he had worked with for many years, routed a medium-sized Guarani tribe and drove them deep into the forest. Most of the adult males of this tribe were killed or captured, while the rest fled without a trace with the women and children.

Captain Consicao didn't think the Guarani tribe had a chance to come back to them or the people of the East Coast for revenge, and that was a rare chance. They are more likely to exhaust the last vestiges of their tribe in endless migration and wandering, and then either die of starvation or disease, civil strife, or attacks by other tribes, and they are finished!

At the end of the battle, the Guaraní soldiers at the bottom of the ranks, as they had done before, began to mend their knives one by one, the Mameluko (mixed-race whites) were assigned to the good job of collecting booty, and the upper officers and non-commissioned officers, who were composed of gentlemen (especially whites), sat down on the ground and began to rest.

It's so hard to fight these barbarians! The process of fighting may have been easy, but the long march before was really exhausting, and many people wore out several pairs of shoes, and I really don't know how many Indians who didn't even have shoes managed to persevere. In addition, the relatively hot and humid climate in the forest as well as mosquitoes; The abundance of insects also caused many flag soldiers to suffer from various diseases, and some of them were buried on the march, but many more were sheltered by the reception team sent by the Taoist Church on the east coast. Then he received some humanitarian treatment - although most of the fighters were devout Catholics. But in the case of physical pain. Many people still don't mind being treated by false gods.

"It's time to return to the Taiping Fortress for rest." The São Paulo Bannermen, who had cleared the Guarani tribes in the upper reaches of the Yakuí River, had now moved to the hilly areas south of the fort of Taiping, and with the assistance of the gendarmerie on the east bank, they continued to attack and hunt down the Guaraní, and then sent the captured population back to Brazil for sale.

The current location of Captain Conceikao and others is near the small town of Enkruziliada, Brazil. There used to be a few Guarani villages, but they have completely disappeared after months of continuous attacks by the São Paulo Banner. The slave catcher led by Consikao, which still maintained a size of more than 3,000 people, relied on the settlement of Taipingbao on the east coast, and constantly attacked and swept away the surrounding Guarani people, and their efforts undoubtedly made the pace of the east coast people in the vicinity faster and easier.

Of course, Taiping Fort has not been built for a long time, the population is not very large, and the products are not abundant, so it is just a base for hoarding supplies. The daily consumption of the São Paulo Flag Team. It is mainly maintained by the massive materials transported from nearby Dingxi County and Yiling County.

By the way, Yiling County was also officially established last month. It is the thirteenth county-level administrative unit of the East Coast Republic of China. The county has a total population of nearly 12,000 people, under the jurisdiction of Yiling Township, Laojunmiao Township, Modaoshi Township and Shifangdian Township four townships, the seat of the county government is Yiling Town, replacing the role of Dingxi County originally played the role of a bridgehead to the west.

The successive establishment of Dingxi County and Yiling County marks the strong determination of the government of the Republic of China on the east coast to open up the North Yazi Lake area. This place has a warm climate, abundant precipitation, and good soil, and is almost the big granary of Brazil in later generations, once providing one-third of Brazil's grain as a state, and also providing a large amount of meat and dairy products, which can be called "the land of abundance".

In today's plane, Ping'an County, the core county of the North Yazi Lake area, is the largest industrial base in the Republic of China on the east coast of China, where many enterprises related to the national economy and people's livelihood are located, and the population is very dense. At the same time, it also faced the threat of the Portuguese on the plateau opposite the Gérard Mountains (although it does not seem to be a threat for the time being), so the establishment of multiple counties and the relocation of the settled population (which meant a significant increase in the number of militias) were of great significance to defend the northern town of Ping'an County.

Captain Consicao has been in the society for many years, learned a little knowledge when he was young, and later participated in the war in the Old World, so he can be regarded as well-informed when he travels south and north. He was very anxious about the intensification of the East Bank's expansion in the Yakui Valley, and at the same time a little frightened by their growing military power in the region, and at one time wanted to leave the service of the East Bank infidels, but the attentive gaze of his subordinates and the waiting children at home made him dispel this idea again and again.

"Have I sold my soul for the sake of damn silver?" Captain Conceikao often performed confessions alone. And when he had repented, he would always take up his sword again and vent his anger on the Guarani barbarians, which in turn aroused great appreciation from the people of the East Coast, and the world was so painful.

"Pack your things and prepare to retreat." Captain Conceicao used high-grade whaleskin boots purchased from the east coast to kick the buttocks of several Mamelukos who were raping women, and then ordered the officers who were following behind him: "We have killed and wounded more than 3,000 Indians and captured more than 5,000 prisoners in this continuous battle for several months, so it is time to rest." ”

Several of the Mamelukos who had been kicked in the ass got up from the ground with a gloomy look on their faces, and then ran away with their pants in hand. Not far ahead, the officers were already blowing the whistle of assembly, and the military flag had been erected, so they had to run faster, or they would be beaten by their own direct commander.

The assembled group soon set out for camp, and most of the locals, except for a few two or three hundred soldiers who had remained behind, followed Captain Concicao back to the nearest settlement on the east bank, Taipingbao. Of course, they can only rest in the area of Taiping Fort, and if they enter the interior of the town of the people on the east coast - in fact, Taiping Fort is only a large village at present - shopping and leisure, they must obtain permission from the local head of the east bank militia before entering in batches.

The captured slaves were sold on the spot to the Portuguese merchants who waited here, who would return north of the Gérard Mountains with slaves and East Bank goods, and then sell everything to the local gentry for a profit. After settling the payment, the East Coast also paid the slave catchers a month's employment fee, which immediately squeezed the only local store, and the Madeira dessert wine imported from the Old Continent was quickly snapped up, and the money earned by the Brazilians was recovered by the East Coast in a blink of an eye.

Captain Conceicao did not go out with his rude men, but first went to meet with the highest local official of the East Bank, and ordered a quantity of supplies that were extremely important for the rest of the march. At the same time, a reinforcement of about 500 men from the diocese of St. Paul, mostly Guarani, will have to cross the Gérard Mountains into the eastern bank almost next month, and this must be reported in advance. Otherwise, if the East Coast Army guarding the border is allowed to kill them as Guarani rebels, then they really can't cry.

After doing this, he went to the hospital outside the city to visit the patients in his team. There were more than a hundred sick numbers, about half of whom were in mild condition, and after being treated and carefully cared for by the pagan "priests" on the East Coast, they were now largely cured; The other half of them are in trouble, these people are basically suffering from infectious diseases, they are all in isolation, and the East Coast doctors (doctors trained by Taoist churches) are helpless and do not know how to treat them. After all, even in the East Coast capital, there is nothing that can be done to diagnose and treat cholera, syphilis, and tuberculosis, and for these slave catchers who suffer from such diseases, their lives are actually very worrying, so their morale has always been low.

Perhaps the only malignant disease that the people of the East Coast could overcome at this time was probably malaria, which some people were suffering from. However, the problem is that the people on the east coast have a shortage of cinchona, and the efforts to introduce cinchona trees on New Huaxia Island have also failed, and they can only rely on imports from Peru and Charcas to maintain a certain stock. But can the little slave catchers really afford this kind of thing that is more expensive than gold? At least judging by the frowning brow of Captain Conceicao, he was reluctant to pay the money, after all, most of the sick were Indian soldiers, not white gentlemen of higher status, who would care about the life or death of Indians? Impossible!

"Captain Consikao, there are still 37 people currently hospitalized in the isolation ward, some of whom are suffering from a very severe infectious disease. We are sorry that there is nothing we can do about it, so I would kindly remind you that Second Lieutenant Fu Lei of the gendarmerie will soon be carrying out an assessment of their physical condition, and if the assessment is bad, such as the risk that Second Lieutenant Fu Lei thinks will cause a large epidemic of disease in the Taipingbao area, they will probably not be able to continue to live here. Also, the hospitalization fee you paid is no longer enough, if you want to continue......" reminded the head of the hospital, Conceicao.

"No, I don't want to continue." Captain Conceicao said categorically, "Give them to me, I'll still be useful." ”

The person in charge of the hospital was stunned at first, then seemed to remember something, sighed and agreed. He already knew what the Portuguese was going to do, and he could only mourn for the Indians, who were about to suffer a massive invasion of disease. (To be continued......) R1292