Chapter 1008: Guerrillas of the Americas

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Silva led the team to the eastern slopes of the Cordillera Mountains, east of La Paz, and went around a place called La Millin, bringing back more than seventy or eighty yellow-skinned, shivering mestizos and Indians.

"Sir, I searched five villages, but I only found these people. Some villages have been completely abandoned, and no one can be found. In some villages, there are few people left. There should have been four or five hundred people in the village of Namaburu, but when I arrived, there were only forty or fifty left, and they all looked like they had been scared out of their souls, and they were in a very bad state. ”

The town of Campus, more than thirty miles from La Millin, was one of the outlying towns of La Paz, and the whole town was still firmly in the hands of the garrison. There were five or six hundred townspeople living here, but if you count the slaves and servants on the plantations, the whole town of Camp would have more than 2,000 people.

With one of the few flatlands in the area around La Paz, a small river running through it, and at its peak it was cultivated on 1,500 hectares, making it one of the closest granaries of La Paz.

It's just that in the entire area outside La Paz, except for towns like Campus, which were directly controlled by the Spaniards, many villages that were not directly controlled by the Spaniards before were unlucky.

The white villages were fine, and the Spaniards certainly did not kill them, but while they enjoyed this great benefit, they also had to face the constant threat of Indian 'riots'. The rioters treated them mercilessly, and the white descendants who fell into their hands were nothing but death and death.

Of course, this is much better than what happened to the Indians. How can the speed of the guerrillas attacking the villages and estates of the white people be compared with the speed of the Spanish scourge of Indian villages? The Indian village is the real sorrow. Men from village to village were captured by Spaniards to work in the city's factories or sent directly to the various mines as slaves. In doing so, the Spaniards could obtain a large number of free laborers and weaken the surrounding Indians.

Their food and livestock were robbed, their farmland was trampled on, their houses were destroyed, and the Spaniards just didn't want them to live.

And there are still some Indian resistance forces active in the field, the guerrillas are not only small in number, difficult to survive, but also very poor, there are not a few muskets, gunpowder is not enough, and artillery is even more unheard of.

However, the Spaniards still hated these resistance forces, and once caught, they were either severely beaten and hanged, or beheaded.

It was in this dangerous situation that Wang Ping came to La Paz, where he joined the local resistance in the Salar de Uyuni on the Peruvian plateau west of La Paz, where the situation was much better than in La Paz. But Wang Ping couldn't stay there, his battlefield was La Paz. The destruction and demobilization of this metal base, which was vital to the Spanish colonial government, was an important aid to the war effort.

Maybe Wang Ping will not be able to complete the task at all, but he is already going to be sent to La Paz, who made him subordinate to the special operations department of the garrison army, who made him a Chinese. If Chen Han wants to conquer the vast South America, it is inevitable that the Chinese people will have to make sacrifices.

Wang Ping is fluent in Spanish and proficient in indigenous languages, which are similar to those of the Quechua and Ayimala peoples. He has a certain influence around La Paz, and the 'commissioner' can always be looked at by the turtles.

But Wang Ping is also very dangerous, because his existence is already known to Juan. La Paz's bounty on him has been raised to five hundred.

The scale of the resistance led directly by Wang Ping was not large, they only numbered fifty or sixty people. This is the result of Wang Ping's two months in La Paz. Each 'commissioner' has a few 'bodyguards', these are all elite soldiers with rich combat experience, and Wang Ping relied on these elite soldiers to make the combat effectiveness of this small team he organized a little stronger. Compared with other resistance forces, this additional advantage of Wang Ping's leadership is that the weapons are better.

Wang Ping led his team to attack a gold mine, which was a small gold mine, small in scale, with a total number of less than 100 people. After killing ten guards and three overseers, Wang Ping and the others freed seventy or eighty slave laborers.

A batch of corn and potatoes were found in the kitchen of the gold mine, and more importantly, there was a pot stove, and the bowls and bowls of boiled corn batter made the rescued Indians weep with gratitude, and when they took a sip of the hot batter, the sweet taste of corn made their tears fall down.

After these men were sent to this gold mine, many of them had not been able to drink a sip of hot water for months, and cold water and tortillas were their standard, so that every Indian rescued was severely malnourished and in poor physical condition.

The owner of the mine is no longer resident here, he has a luxurious villa in La Paz, and he only visits it occasionally. And the owner of the mine here is a very perverted man, and his favorite thing to hear is the screams of slave laborers as they are tied to the cross and burned to death.

There is a special cross in the mine, carved in stone, which is the place of execution. It was also his characteristic punishment for the Indians who made mistakes.

In the raging fire, the scarred Indians screamed in the flames and turned to charcoal.

Wang Ping gathered all his men and let them listen to the cruel scene told by the slaves under the cross, and the Indians in the procession were furious, and several Chinese soldiers were also shocked. But whether it was anger or shock, everyone was helpless against the hateful mine owner.

The only thing they could do was to rush up and push the black-skinned, scorching cross and smash it to pieces.

"I've tried to imagine the ferocity of the enemy as much as I can, but in fact the enemy is much more cruel than we thought!" Wang Ping wrote in his notebook. "The Spaniards kept all the Indians in slavery and kept all the supplies in their hands. They destroyed the basis of the Indians' survival, and hunger and intense labor would kill more Indians than bullets......"

But this kind of oppressive rule was so productive that the Spaniards were clearly trading the lives of the Indians for material things that were so precious to them. Wang Ping held a handful of golden sand in his hand, and his task was to destroy this high-pressure rule as much as possible.

The golden gravel flowed down from the gap between Wang Ping's five fingers. The city of La Paz was founded because the Spaniards discovered the enticing golden sand in the La Paz River.

Wang Ping is determined to make a big news, and he wants to make everyone aware of his existence. This would give confidence to more Indians.

But Wang Ping is not fearless to die, his target is the port town of Ube, more than 50 kilometers away from La Paz, which is a freight hub for the Spaniards on the La Paz River, and making trouble here will definitely make the Spaniards jump to their feet.

Of course, the premise is that it must be successful. can't eat mutton and provokes a commotion, Wang Ping doesn't do such a loss-making business.

It was sixty or seventy kilometers from the gold mine to Ube, which was far away from the city of La Paz, and all the slave laborers followed Wang Ping after eating a bowl of cornmeal batter, so that they could not continue to live under the rule of the Spaniards, but with these Indians, the speed of the whole procession slowed down at once.

In the past two months, Wang Ping has not broken small mines, and he has not liberated Indians and mixed-race children, but there is no way.

Not necessarily one of the ten freed slaves was physically qualified. And whenever Wang Ping and the others moved, the Spaniards always followed them like mad hyenas, and chased after them.

Those physically exhausted Indians were left behind one by one in the process, and the final encounter was naturally miserable.

So, after Wang Ping took the Indians to a great mountain, he separated from most of them. Each person gives them a few tortillas and goes on their own 'fight'. A small number of people with high physical fitness were included in the team by Wang Ping, and they are the best cannon fodder for Wang Ping's team.

One battle, two battles, they're still rookies. Three battles, four battles, and no matter how rookie you are, you will mature in battle. At that time, they were the real members of the guerrillas.

It took Wang Ping a day and a night to reach Ube, and under the moon at night, a team of sixty people quietly arrived at the top of the hill outside Ubei.

The slave laborers rescued by the gold mine were already far away from them, and most of the strong slave laborers brought by Wang Ping and them were also left behind, and only a few followed the team.

The life of the guerrillas is so hard, in order to find fighters, but also for safety, they have to move their legs quickly.

Life is in motion!

When Wang Ping was first selected for the Special Warfare Division, the prerequisite was to walk 100 miles of mountain roads in 24 hours and 400 miles in 120 hours, and Wang Ping's results were 21 hours, 122 miles, and 112 hours and 400 miles.

This requires not only that he be able to force a short march in a short period of time, but also that he must have a lot of stamina.

And the soldiers of the garrison who followed him to La Paz were each able to walk 120 miles of mountain roads in 24 hours.

Their instructor told them: Your life depends on your legs, and your life depends on movement. If you want to live long, you have to run fast.

And such a marching speed is a drop in the bucket compared to the miracles of a certain army in later generations that traveled 240 miles of mountain roads day and night. But Wang Ping relied on his own legs to escape the pursuit of the Spaniards again and again.

His current speed is a miracle for the Spaniard!

Wang Ping, who had been behind enemy lines for a long time, didn't know what the battle on the frontal battlefield had been, and when he entered La Paz, the frontal battlefield in Colombia had just reached Bogotá.

Bogotá, located in the heart of Colombia, is the most important city in the region and the core of the second line of defense that the Spaniards have placed in Colombia. Together with Cartagena in the northwestern corner of Colombia, located at the southern tip of the Caribbean Sea, an important port in northern Colombia, a transshipment port and slave market for Spanish colonists to plunder South America's gold and silver wealth in the mid-16th century. At the beginning of the 17th century, it was the third largest city in Latin America, but gradually declined. But the advent of war turned the declining city back into the center of the Spanish.

Because Cartagena is so well located. Surrounded by water on three sides, the old castle, the cathedral, and the stone walls make it a perfect place to be converted into a modern fortress.

And the existence of this place is also very suitable to threaten Panama. If Bogotá is the core of the Spaniards' second line of defense, then Cartagena is the heart of the Spaniards' first line of defense, the northern line. And Medellín is only the general logistics base of the Northern Defense!

Before the battle, Wang Ping looked up at the moon in the sky, and he felt that the imperial court should have taken these two places at this time.

That would be equivalent to taking the whole of Colombia!