Dominate the Country

The dark sky brightened, and a new day began.

Silva led the team to the eastern slope valley of the Cordillera Mountains east of La Paz City, and went around a place called Lamilin, and brought back more than 70 or 80 shivering mixed-race people and Indians.

"Sir, I searched five villages and only found these people. Some villages have been completely abandoned, and no one can be found. Some villages have only a few people left. There should be 400 to 500 people in the village of Mabulu, but when I arrived, there were only 40 to 50 people left, and they all looked scared and in a bad state."

The town of Campos, more than 30 miles away from Lamilin, is one of the outlying towns of La Paz City. The entire town is still firmly controlled by the garrison. There are 500 to 600 townspeople living here, but if the slaves and servants in the plantation are counted, the entire town of Campos can exceed 2,000 people.

There is a rare flat land in the surrounding areas of La Paz, and there is a small river running through it. The cultivated area reached 1,500 hectares at its peak, which can be said to be one of the nearest granaries of La Paz.

However, in the entire area outside La Paz, except for the town directly controlled by the Spaniards like Campos, many villages that were not directly controlled by the Spaniards before were in trouble.

The white villages are fine. The Spaniards will certainly not harm them to death, but while enjoying this huge benefit, they also have to face the threat of Indian "rioters" at all times. Those rioters treat them mercilessly, and the white descendants who fall into their hands will die.

Of course, this is much better than what the Indians have experienced. The guerrillas attacked the white villages and estates, how can the speed be compared with the speed of the Spaniards harming the Indian villages? The Indian villages are the real sorrow. The Spaniards captured the men in the villages one by one and put them in the factories in the city to work, or directly sent them to various mines as slaves. By doing this, the Spaniards could not only obtain a large number of free laborers, but also weaken the strength of the surrounding Indians.

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

There were still some Indian resistance forces active in the wild. The guerrillas were not only small in number, but also had difficulty surviving and were weak in strength. There were only a few muskets, not enough gunpowder, and artillery was unheard of.

But the Spaniards still hated these resistance forces. Once caught, they were either beaten and hanged, or beheaded directly.

Wang Ping came to La Paz under such dangerous circumstances. He met with local resistance forces at the Uyuni Salt Flats 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. Destroying and stagnating this metal base that was vital to the Spanish colonial government was of great help to the war.

Maybe Wang Ping couldn't complete the mission at all, but he was about to be deployed to La Paz. Who made him belong to the special operations department of the garrison army? Who made him a Chinese? Chen Han wanted to conquer the vast South America, and it was inevitable that the Chinese had to make sacrifices.

Wang Ping could speak fluent Spanish and a proficient native language. The language of the Quechua and Aymara people was similar. He had a certain influence around La Paz. As a "special commissioner", he was always looked up to by the locals.

But Wang Ping was also very dangerous because Juan knew of his existence. La Paz had raised his bounty to 500 yuan.

The scale of the resistance force directly led by Wang Ping was not large. They only had 50 or 60 people. This was the result of Wang Ping's two months in La Paz. Each "special commissioner" had several "bodyguards", all of whom were elite soldiers with rich combat experience. Wang Ping relied on these elite soldiers to make the combat effectiveness of the small team he organized stronger. Compared with other resistance forces, the extra advantage of Wang Ping's leadership is that the weapons are better.

Wang Ping led his team to attack a gold mine. It was a small gold mine with a small scale and less than 100 people. After killing ten guards and three supervisors, Wang Ping and his team rescued seventy or eighty slaves.

A batch of corn and potatoes were found in the kitchen of the gold mine. More importantly, there was a stove. Bowls of boiled cornmeal paste made the rescued Indians grateful. Drinking a mouthful of hot paste, the sweet taste of corn made their tears fall down.

After these people were sent to this gold mine, many of them had not been able to drink a sip of hot water for several months. Cold water and corn cakes were their standard, so that every rescued Indian had severe malnutrition and their physical fitness became extremely poor.

The mine owner no longer lived here permanently. He had a luxurious villa in La Paz. He only came to inspect sometimes. Moreover, the mine owner here is a very perverted person. What he likes to hear most is the screams of slaves when they are tied to the cross and burned to death.

There is a special cross in the mine, carved out of stone, which is the place for execution. This is also his special punishment for Indians who make mistakes.

In the raging fire, the bruised Indians screamed in the flames and turned into charcoal.

Wang Ping gathered all his men and asked them to listen to the slaves telling the cruel scene under the cross. The Indians in the team were shocked and angry, and several Chinese warriors were also shocked. But no matter whether they were shocked or angry, they could do nothing about the hateful mine owner.

The only thing they could do was to rush forward and push down the cross with a dark skin and a faint smell of burnt, and smash it into pieces.

"I have tried my best to imagine the enemy's cruelty, but in fact the enemy is much more cruel than we imagined!" Wang Ping wrote in his notebook. "The Spanish rounded up all the Indians as slaves and controlled all the materials. They destroyed the survival basis of the Indians. Hunger and high-intensity labor would kill more Indians than bullets..."

But this high-pressure ruling method can produce huge productivity. The Spanish are obviously using the lives of Indians in exchange for materials that are very precious to them. Wang Ping holds a handful of gold sand in his hand. His task is to destroy this high-pressure ruling method as much as possible.

Golden sand swished down from the gaps between Wang Ping's fingers. The reason why La Paz was built was because the Spaniards found attractive gold sand in the La Paz River.

Wang Ping was determined to make a big news. He wanted to make everyone aware of his existence. This would give more Indians confidence.

But Wang Ping was not going to die fearlessly. His goal was the port town of Ube, more than 50 kilometers away from La Paz. This was a freight hub for the Spanish on the La Paz River. If he caused trouble here, the Spanish would definitely jump up and down.

Of course, the premise was that he must succeed. Wang Ping would not do such a losing business if he could not eat mutton and got into trouble.

It was 60 to 70 kilometers from the gold mine to Ube, which was farther than La Paz. All the slaves followed Wang Ping after eating a bowl of cornmeal. They did not want to continue living under the rule of the Spaniards. However, with these Indians, the speed of the entire team slowed down.

In two months, Wang Ping had not broken up small mines, and had not liberated Indians and mixed-race people, but there was no way.

Not even one of the ten liberated slaves was physically fit. Whenever Wang Ping and his men took action, the Spaniards would always follow them like crazy hyenas, chasing them relentlessly.

Those Indians who were physically exhausted fell behind one by one in the process, and their final fate was naturally miserable.

So, after Wang Ping brought these Indians to a mountain, he separated from most of them. He gave each of them a few tortillas, and then let them "struggle" on their own. A small number of people with high physical fitness were included in the team by Wang Ping, and they were the best cannon fodder for Wang Ping's team.

After one battle, two battles, they were still rookies. After three battles, four battles, even the most inexperienced rookies would mature in the battle. At that time, they were the real members of the guerrillas.

It took Wang Ping a day and a night to reach Ube. Under the moon at night, the team of sixty people quietly arrived at the hilltop outside Ube.

The slave workers rescued by the gold mine were already far away from them. Most of the strong slave workers brought by Wang Ping and his team also fell behind, and only a few caught up with the team.

The life of the guerrillas is so hard. In order to find opportunities for war and for safety, they must move their legs quickly.

Life lies in movement!

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

This not only requires him to be able to march in a short time, but also to have strong endurance.

And the few garrison soldiers who followed him to La Paz, each of them can walk 120 miles of mountain roads in 24 hours.

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

Compared with the miracle of a certain army in later generations traveling 240 miles of mountain roads day and night, such a marching speed is nothing compared to a big one. But Wang Ping relied on his own legs to escape the pursuit of the Spanish again and again.

His current speed is already a miracle for the Spaniards!

Wang Ping, who had been behind the enemy for a long time, did not know what the battle on the front battlefield had become. When he entered La Paz, the army heading south had just reached Bogota on the front battlefield of Colombia.

Bogota, located in the hinterland of Colombia, is the most important city in this area and the core fortress of the second line of defense arranged by the Spanish in Colombia. This place, together with Cartagena in the northwest corner of Colombia, is located at the southern end of the Caribbean Sea and an important port in northern Colombia. In the mid-16th century, it was a transshipment port and slave market for Spanish colonists to plunder the gold and silver wealth of South America. It was the third largest city in Latin America in the early 17th century and gradually declined. But the arrival of the war made this declining city the center of the Spanish again.

Because Cartagena's geographical advantages are too powerful. The place is surrounded by water on three sides, and the ancient castles, cathedrals, and stone walls make it very suitable for conversion into a modern fortress.

And the existence of this place is also very suitable for threatening Panama. If Bogota is the core of the Spanish in the second line of defense, then Cartagena is the core of the Spanish in the first line of defense - the northern line of defense. And Medellin is just the general logistics base of the northern line of defense!

Before the battle, Wang Ping looked up at the moon in the sky. He felt that the court should have taken these two places by now.

That means taking over the whole of Colombia!