Cheng Ping held a shotgun in his hand and fired a shot at the top of the church.
Sawdust fell like raindrops from the ceiling.
"ah--"
"Who are you?"
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A woman's scream sounded.
Then came the priest's shout.
Cheng Ping can only understand a little bit of Spanish, which he learned while fighting in Moxico.
In this jabbering situation, he could not understand a word.
"Captain, leave it to me!" Liu Donglai had a scar on his face and was known as Liu Dabazi. He was the most ruthless person in the Chengping team.
Cheng Ping doesn't like him because this man is murderous.
Although Cheng Ping likes fighting, he doesn't like killing civilians.
Cheng Ping was too lazy to deal with these nonsense anymore, so he turned around and walked out.
Liu Donglai stayed with dozens of Bunama people. He was used to doing these dirty jobs.
These white men must die, and they must die at the hands of the Bunamas,
These Bunama people originally didn't like to do bad things in the church. But since they ransacked a church and found a large amount of treasures stored by priests in the church, they also saw things they shouldn't have seen in the basement, such as the priest who was imprisoned in the basement.
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These people have abandoned their beliefs, why can the devil always be by God's side?
Then they also want to be devils.
After killing two or three towns in a row, these people have really become devils.
This is the source of their fighting power, and being brutal when something happens is also a kind of fighting power.
Cheng Ping came outside the church, squatted on a big stone and smoked a cigarette.
This is a paper-wrapped cigarette produced in Canada, which tastes much better than the thick cigars produced in Cuba.
Their brigade was ordered to march eastward, and they also brought with them more than 2,000 people from Bonama's "Imperial Alliance Army".
The order given by Liu Qingnan was for them to make a big noise.
Let Columbus feel that they are going to the prosperous coastal cities to the east.
Then, when Colombria deployed troops on the northern coast, they penetrated south into the hinterland of Colombria.
How can we make things worse? Of course, murder is the way to go.
"Captain." A team leader named Gu Yuan came over from a distance. In addition to several team members, there were also some Indians, some who seemed to be mixed-race people, and even a few black people.
Gu Yuan's ancestral home is Anhui, and he and Cheng Ping are fellow villagers, and they are already familiar with each other.
"Captain Cheng, these people are our liberated workers." They are workers, but they are actually slaves of the wealthy families in the city.
Slavery has been abolished in South Amelia, but the reality of human exploitation of human beings has not changed.
The divide between rich and poor here in South Amelia is very serious. In plantations and some factories, there is not much difference between workers and slaves.
The cost is low, they have a small number of people, and they have to make a big splash. In addition to killing people, they are just like fighting bandits.
If they suppress some people, they will naturally win over some people. If they want to gain wealth, they can only kill the privileged class and win over these penniless poor people.
These people have some resentment towards the oppressors in their hearts and are easier to win over.
Cheng Ping threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stepped on it with his foot.
"Gu Laizi, it's you who picks the rest of this damn thing, it's all crooked and cracked."
"Lao Cheng, I am treating you like a donkey with good intentions. I have already helped you initially transform these people, and they are very obedient. If it weren't for the sake of my fellow villagers, would I give them to you?"
"Oh, it's very lively inside!" Gu Yuan pointed at the church and said.
There were screams inside, mostly women's screams, and men's laughter.
"Why don't you go in and have fun too!"
"Haha, no, it's boring if you play too much!"
"Lao Cheng, it's good that you keep yourself clean. I heard that you never touch white women."
"Get out of here, I want you to take care of it!" Cheng Ping drove Gu Yuan away, leaving the dozen or so people under him behind.
These people were not pure white people and were qualified to surrender, so that they could save their families and participate in the plunder of the small town.
After the incident is over, some of them will be taken away by Cheng Ping and others, and the rest will become the owners of the town.
As for whether the Colombian government will send troops to quell them in the future, that is not a matter for them to take care of.
Most white people here live in big cities.
In small places, the proportion of Yindians and mixed-race people is higher.
What they are doing now is destruction.
Destroy the original order of Columbus.
Know that it is much easier to destroy than to build.
A small town like Turvaux can completely lose its order overnight.
Once those local low-level people participate in looting the city, it means that they become thugs and destroyers of the old order.
After the Yangtze Security people leave, the city will be managed by them. These people will be divided into gangs based on their occupation and race.
They may even attack each other.
In these places, even if Columbus wants to restore order in the future, it will take a long time.
Cheng Ping lit another cigarette and waited for his men to finish their work.
The next morning.
"Commander, the squadron ordered the troops to assemble. We are going to the next stop." The squadron's messenger hurriedly ran over to convey the squadron's order.
At this time, Cheng Ping was having breakfast with his team.
Breakfast is bread and milk.
This time they went deep behind enemy lines and had no logistical supplies at all. They had to rely on captured supplies along the way.
Today's breakfast was obtained in this small town.
When they arrived, their entire team consisted of 2,800 people, including 800 soldiers from Yangtze River Security.
There were also two thousand servants of Bonama.
After conquering three cities, their number now exceeds 5,000.
Moreover, the grain and livestock in their hands can last for a month.
Therefore, the captain Cai Songgui decided to continue marching eastward.
This time they are no longer making a small fuss, they are going to make a big one - attack Monteria, the capital of the province of Cordoba in the east.
It was a big city with a population of fifty thousand.
"Hey~~" Cheng Ping took out his whistle and blew it in his mouth.
Immediately, fifteen soldiers and fifty servants from his team came out of their respective rooms.
In order to facilitate management, Cheng Ping asked three combat groups to each have ten servants.
The remaining twenty or so people didn't even know how to use muskets, so they were just used to help the team carry supplies.
Cai Songgui asked each team to carry their own logistics supplies. This greatly improved the team's mobility.
It is also convenient to spread out and fight. Sometimes when you encounter those small manor, just send a small team to sweep it.
In the past few days, everyone in the team has captured a lot, including dozens of mules and horses. In addition to logistical supplies, these horses carry gold and silver.
In order to ensure the speed of transfer, there are no cars in the queue.
There were also some cattle and sheep driven by servants to follow the team.
These livestock are mobile rations.
"Get ready within five minutes and then set off." Cheng Ping gave the order.
There are people in the team who can speak Spanish and will relay orders to these servants.
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On the Western Front battlefield, Tian Fang's main force, after being devastated at the beginning, is now becoming more difficult.
Ecuador gathered its troops on the central plateau.
The cities on the plateau, whether it is Quito, Ibarra in the north, or Ambato in the south, are places that are easy to defend but difficult to attack.
"Everyone, let's talk about what we should do next. Should we continue heading north, or attack Quito with all our strength."
I originally thought that after the attack reached the rear of Grenada, these people would surrender.
I never expected that these enemies are very stubborn.
"Krupp, I think it is better for us not to attack Quito. There are tens of thousands of troops there now. Once our attack on the city is blocked, it will increase the enemy's confidence in resisting."
"Jianhua is right. Our ultimate goal is to use war to promote peace. As the ruling party said, Grenada still has the potential for war that has not been tapped. But we in Donghua are almost at the end of our rope."
"Now that we have declared war with the Great Empire, they are likely to provide more support to Grenada."
"Next, we need to speed up. I have already made an agreement with the ruling leaders. After we capture a city, we will move it out and leave Ecuador with an empty shell. Let's see if they are in a hurry."
"Yes, Commander, and since we now have complete control of the sea, we don't have to worry about our retreat being cut off when we go north."
"I have never felt that our brothers in the Navy are so important before."
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In Ciduo, the capital of Ecuador.
President Rivera has already returned to his base camp from Galas.
Frontline operations are directed by frontline commanders, but you still have to defend your own country.
Fortunately, as the main battlefield on the Western Front, Ecuador was allocated 60,000 coalition troops.
"What, the navy of the Great Empire was defeated in Manta Bay. How could the Donghua people have such courage to attack the Great Empire?"
"President, what should we do now? Are we leaving the western coastal cities alone?" War Secretary Juan Flores was very uneasy. The 10,000 coalition troops deployed in Machala on the western front have now been surrounded by the Donghua Army.
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To put it bluntly, given the moral character of the coalition forces, these people may surrender at any time.
"How about we send more reinforcements from Qidu?" Juan Flores asked carefully, for fear of angering the strongman president who came to power in a coup.
"No, Qidu's troops cannot move. We don't know their total strength on the Western Front yet."
"We must defend several cities on the central plateau, where we have a defensive advantage. The coastal cities have now lost control of the sea, and it is useless to send more troops there."
"Hey... If I had known better, I would have evacuated all the people along the western coast. It's too late to regret it." Rivera sighed. He didn't want to think about how he oppressed the people at this time.
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Lima, a coastal city in Donghua, was the original capital of Milu.
After Donghua moved its capital to Cusco, it was still the residence of embassies and consulates of various countries.
The Daying Empire currently does not have diplomatic relations with Donghua, but it still has a commercial agency in Lima.
Nolan North used to be the minister to Milu, but after Donghua became independent, he was demoted to a representative.
Because he did nothing to deal with the Milu problem, Nolan North was also punished domestically.
In the past few years, his life in Donghua has been like a year.
Originally, Lima was a white people's world. Now it has become the stronghold of the Chinese.
The business interests of the Da Ying people here have basically been squeezed out.
Chinatown, which was originally located on the edge of the city, has now become the commercial center here.
With the arrival of a large number of Chinese businessmen, Chinese-style business stations were built here.
There are also some big local businessmen who have built Chinese-style courtyards around the city.
If not for the huge square in the center of the city, there is also the Gothic Presidential Palace.
It’s hard to believe that this was once a city founded by white people.
And this change only happened in just two years.
The changes brought about by the Spaniards in the hundreds of years of colonizing South Amelia seem to be less than what the Chinese have done in more than two years.
I have to say that this is a very creative and efficient nation.
They can always concentrate their efforts, twist them into a rope, and get things done as quickly as possible.
But what the Great Empire wants to do now has to be wrangling for a long time.
Otherwise, if war had been declared when Donghua was first established, it would have been easy to destroy it by gathering the power of all European countries.
Nolan North stayed here in the past few years and watched Donghua gradually become stronger through small-scale wars.
Their army increased from ten thousand to twenty thousand, to forty thousand, to eighty thousand, almost geometrically.
It is obviously impossible to rely solely on the power of the Donghua Kingdom. Where did they get so many weapons and so many officers?
It is impossible for a makeshift army to have such combat effectiveness.
No country can achieve this speed.
Relying on the endless stream of ports in Lima City every day, Nolan North knew where Donghua's power was imported from.
Those Chinese young people who got off the immigration boat were able to consciously line up in an orderly queue when they disembarked.
You say they are ordinary immigrants? Just lie to them.
Those long wooden boxes that were loaded onto the railcars could not contain all hoes and picks.
This length is clearly a musket.
North knew that someone had armed Donghua into a war machine.
All Chinese immigrants here are basically young adults.
The total population of Donghua is not large, only two to three million. But as long as they are given enough resources, they can arm an army of one million.
This is not alarmist.
People in this country are now basically divided into three professions.
The first type is farmers and herdsmen, which includes some Chinese, Yin Di'an people, and white people who were originally at the bottom.
The kingdom allocated land to everyone, enough for them to farm.
These people produced grain and meat to meet the needs of the entire Donghua.
The second type of people are miners. A large part of them are white soldiers captured in Donghua's previous wars. These people mine mineral resources, smelt gold, silver and copper, and sell them to the other side of the Pacific. Oh, and those damn Germans, they
He doesn't care at all about Europa's blockade of Donghua and the public opinion of Europa people.
The third type of people are soldiers. Here we still refer to standing soldiers. In fact, the Chinese farmers here, the Yindi'an farmers and herdsmen, and the Chinese miners all need to receive sergeant training. They are called militia.
This country is like Sparta in ancient Greece. The entire country is a war machine.
Farmers and herdsmen provide food and grass for the army. Mines provide funds for the army.
From this point of view, the most hateful thing is the Renaissance Army that has been providing them with weapons, funds and manpower.
Otherwise, as long as such a country is blocked, it will be difficult for it to continue to operate.
Nolan North has been reminding the country to pay attention to Donghua. This country already has the potential to dominate South Amelia and cannot allow it to develop. Strong measures must be taken to contain it.
However, domestic energy is attracted by India. South Amelia has never received enough attention. In the eyes of many people, nothing but guano is alpaca.
Of course, there are also the endless towering Andes Mountains.
Many Europeans know this place through the travel notes of some explorers and some adventure novels.
In their eyes, this place is a wilderness and a paradise for explorers.