Chapter 32 Gifts
The long-legged bear followed Deng Zilong's troops into the Medellin Mine in Colombia.
The city was built in a short history. It was first discovered by Lautaro's subordinates in a valley called Abra. Indigenous people gradually gathered here to dig ore and exchanged weapons and food for Deng Zilong in Ukyo to serve as the source of supplies for the Lautaro's rebel army.
Later, in order to protect the mining area, the Ming army simply moved the border marker over and completely covered it under the protection of the Ming army. At that time, the Ming army had built a city and set up a guard here. The gold mines were still owned by the Lautaro Rebel Army. The gold mines were still handed over to Youjing forged into gold ingots. They exchanged Tongbao for sale at the market price and then purchased arms from Youjing, purchased grain and grass, and used to pay military salaries to the Ming garrison near Medellin and the Lautaro Rebel Army.
This should be the base camp of the rebel army. Every day, countless news gathered from all over the country, and hundreds of envoys set out from here to the location of tribe leaders and rebel leaders in various parts of Colombia, bringing the latest instructions.
This time, the instructions were not issued from Medellin. Because Lautaro was seriously injured and died, the leaders from all over the country connected each other and told Medellin that they would make big moves on the last day of the tenth year of Wanli, with the name of the action being ‘a gift to the emperor’.
The long-legged bear parted ways with the Dongyang Banner Army who was waiting for the arrival of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the city. With the identity of a northern local volunteer, he led the volunteers of Changsheng County to join the Colombian rebel army nearby.
The leader who accepted him was named Minhao, and his station was in a Spanish stronghold called Jincha at the foot of Mount Tamana in the south of Medellin. There were a large number of coal mines being mined in the area.
Kincha was recovered by Lautaro's army a year ago, and then served as a frontline stronghold for the rebels and the Western Army many times. At that time, Mine Lok joined Lautaro's team with his colleagues, and walked through the Tamana Mountains to fight the Spanish desperately.
"Brother Lautaro said that in Colombia, our war with the Spaniards revolves around one mine after another."
The people of the mine pickaxe do not live in long houses like the northern natives. They are more accustomed to walking through the mine paths. During the day, they live in caves on the mountain and rest in shallow mine paths at night. The well-connected mine caves guide them to appear in various tribal villages of Jincha, and can launch fatal attacks on the Spaniards at all times. When the Spanish chased into the mine paths, they would be confused by the seven-dimensional and eight-dimensional mine paths.
"The mines are a place that they must compete for. They have to exchange minerals for money. General Lin said that the reason why the Spaniards stayed in Asia and did not leave is that they needed our minerals to be transported back to the country. He had to stay in the village and could not go with us."
Outside the long house of Jincha's village, Mining Lok pointed to the naturalized Spanish knight in Changsheng County and said to the long-legged bear, slowly chewing the coca leaves, looking at these people with a cautious look, and then said, "Which we don't need it, Lautaro said we have more and less, so there is only one purpose to kill them."
With this sentence, the mine pick raised one hand and slowly pushed forward, swaying from left to right, and said, "Other than this purpose, we don't care about anything else. If we attack the mine, we can kill them, we will attack the mine. If we give up the mine, we can kill them, we will give up the mine."
"Three months ago, the last Spanish soldier in Jincha died under my gun. I called it a mine hoe." The mine pick slapped the old mecha bird gun that was placed on his leg: "Don't look at it's old, it's still very useful."
The long-legged bear was a little impatient. He sat patiently on the open space in front of the long house. Before he sat down, he carefully blew the floating soil on the ground. The Liaodong military armor on his body made him red: "I came here from Jincheng to do a great career for the brothers of the Ming Dynasty. It is my blessing to be able to encounter big moves, but I want to know what big moves are?"
Minhao smiled and said, "Don't worry, don't worry, be patient."
He pointed to his mouth and said, "It's not time yet."
Chewing coca leaves was originally a habit of the Incas. After Spain conquered the Incas, this habit spread as the Spanish discovered that there were more minerals. Whether it was silver, gold or coal mines, in those deep mines, the indigenous people used to calculate the time by chewing coca leaves. They started chewing when they went down the mine. When the leaves in their mouths lost their smell, two hours had passed, and it was time to return to the ground to get some breath.
Although the mine pickaxe said that it was not time yet, the rebels kept crawling out with baskets woven by branches and leaves in the caves around the village, and placed various old weapons on the open space in front of the long house. Linlang blindly made the long-legged bears dazzled.
Ming-made waist knives, sailor axes, mine picks, straw forks, red tassels, shortened infantry spears, simple shields and torches, chain mails, mail turbans, Ming-style military hat helmets, Spanish breastplate, Spanish high-top helmets, Spanish light and heavy clamps, flintlock rifles, Ming-made clamps, flintlock rifles, Spanish Franchises, iron wooden cannons, tiger squat cannons... and backpacks filled with gunpowder and rock shells.
Some people knew at a glance that they had been trained in the Ming army and skillfully stole every rebel army around them.
Seeing this scene, the long-legged bear also began to prepare for his subordinates. More than a dozen veterans with military experience followed him and also stole the volunteers in Changsheng County.
Although I don’t know where to go, seeing the subordinates of Mining Pick’s preparations like this should be a long-distance attack.
More and more people appeared in the village from the surrounding mine caves. They sat in front of the mine pickaxe row by row. Each of them carried a basket and picked up the weapons they thought they were good at from the ground. They loaded gunpowder and stone bullets in the basket. Some more powerful miners placed wooden cannons or tiger squat cannons among them in groups.
The long-legged bear sat aside, looked at their preparations, and whispered to the retired yamen runner of Jincheng who was highly regarded by others: "The wooden cannon is really good, I will do this too. Wu Magistrate taught us."
Almost everyone was ready, and dusk was about to come, and the mine pickaxe finally spit out the smellless leaves in his mouth, carefully took off his shoes and inserted them on his waist, and walked towards the foot of the mountain with two thin long legs.
Without any orders, everyone stood up and followed the footprints of the mine pickaxe with baskets of weapons on their backs.
The long-legged bear didn't even react, so he quickly asked his subordinates to follow him, and he quickly chased the mine pickaxe with his Mongolian horse and asked, "Where are we going, what kind of battle are we fighting? I can be a cavalry!"
"Cabin, we have not had cavalry. Tonight we will march thirty miles, attack a Spanish stronghold and two mines, and blow up a coal mine."
Chapter completed!