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Chapter 40 Chaos

No one remembers that the first black smoke surged over Lima City was on January 1, 11, Wanli.

No one knows how terrifying the city of Lima at night. The masked warriors were rampant on the streets, climbing over the wall and rushing into the mansions of nobles or merchants. After killing and robbing people, they disappeared, leaving only the mess everywhere.

The residents of Lima City are clearly distinguished and have been in a long-standing grudge. At this time, like a flood and a beast broke out. There are countless conflicts every day. Unless a large number of Ming troops are stationed in, no one can change this sign before the Western Army completely evacuated.

At this moment, the large-scale Ming army was obviously an impossible thing. Chen Mu and Deng Zilong's troops continued to advance on land. Small towns and tribes along the way needed to be comforted. It would take at least March to wait until they entered Lima City.

But the city can't wait that long.

People in the city can't wait that long.

The Spanish Legion had no intention of spending their own efforts in suppressing the riot. They were participants in this carnival. Although their organization was disrupted and their morale was extremely low, they were the most experienced people in the entire city of Lima.

The Ming army was unable to restrain the towns. Lima City was too large and their troops were too small. Only more than 400 people were stationed at the port. They tried their best to control the chaotic situation.

The Ming army was busy counting real estate in Lima City. After the Governor Du Tong personally observed, he divided the vacant land near the port in the northwest of the city into several areas, two areas into military camps, and four streets in the northwest of Lima City, including two vertical and two horizontal streets, allocated four hundred households to lead troops to garrison, and set up defenses on the spot, demarcating a huge safety zone.

Even in this, most people cannot discover the driving force behind the further development of the world, and what is worse is that sometimes even if they discover the development trend of things, they cannot make any changes.

This is the dilemma of the Spanish in Lima City.

The vast majority of nobles were unwilling to go to sea on Ming ships, which had nothing to do with the Ming army, but because many people saw that the chaos in Lima City was the source of the Spanish Legion that would board the ship with them.

Since the first fire burned in the city, the legion soldiers released the devil in their hearts. In the past few days, dozens of nobles' manors have been attacked, and even the manors outside the city have not been spared. Many people have begun to think about whether this long-distance voyage back to Spain is safe. In the face of worse reality, they don't even think that changing hands in Lima City is a bad thing.

At least the arrival of the Ming army gave them a place to ask for help.

In the eyes of Spanish nobles, no matter the indigenous mobs in the city who were full of anger, or the legion soldiers who were soldiers during the day and at night, they did not dare to enter the Ming District.

Not that no one tried to attack the areas where the Ming Banner Army was stationed. At the beginning, the sound of cannons could be heard every night in those streets. Every morning, people could find new corpses on the streets. The Ming army was responsible for killing and burying them. They were only responsible for taking away the weapons, armor and valuable things on the corpses. The remaining corpses got up early and knocked on doors from door to door, asking them to push the corpses out of the city with a cart.

Outside the city, there was a large pit dug by the Western Army at Toledo's order.

Ironically... the big pit was dug by Spanish soldiers, and most of the illegal people who were pushed into the pit by residents on a cart were Spanish, and more than half of them were Spanish soldiers.

When the chaos in the city first occurred, the local slaves detained by the Ming army during the process of registering the cabin were nowhere to go. There was no place for them to live in the city, and the outside of the city was even more chaotic than in the city, so they could only pretend to be brave enough to ask the Ming army for help.

In fact, even they themselves did not expect the Ming army to provide them with any substantial help. In the education of the Spaniards in recent years, Peruvian indigenous people were told that the people of the Ming Dynasty were devils who could eat people and not spit bones, and the Ming flag army was one of the best. Their terrifying record seemed to confirm this statement from the side.

The reason for asking for help from the Ming army was only because they were close to the Ming army's garrison and were far away from any church. The streets are not peaceful now, and no one dared to go that far.

However, they did not expect that although most people could not speak, the Ming army allowed them to enter the garrison. Although the attitude of the flag army was absolutely not amiable, they would sometimes show impatient due to busy affairs. Because Du Tong was overly cautious, there were few flag soldiers who had to face matters far beyond their ability.

These young men from the Ming Dynasty who were bored and practiced murderous skills were filled with an unknown fire in their hearts during this period.

But even so, it is a different difference compared to the Spanish treating them as animals and objects.

In fact, Du Tong drew out of the square area northwest of the city to resettle the people in the chaos while setting up a port garrison.

Those houses were useless to the flag army. Before the Oriental General Chen Mu ordered the reorganization of the Lima garrison on the spot, they lived temporarily, and they would probably go to other places or return to Changsheng in a few months with the military mobilization.

Many people already have families in Changsheng. Although they only have two or three thousand military pay per month, they can save money by keeping food and accommodation. Many people have also received rewards for excellent training... They first rewarded silver, and later rewarded Tongbao. Now there are more and more local people in Changsheng, and the military government has begun to reward fields.

There are not many fields to give you, but there will be a training test in three months to half a year. Many people can obtain land from it, ranging from three to thirty acres. They don’t have time to take care of these fields. Some of them find their families to cultivate on Changsheng, while others rent them out for the people to farm.

Many of them are already more like the garrisons in the victorious area.

However, those houses are very important to the people. Du Tong stayed in Jie County for a long time. The generals of the Eastern Military Office garrison on the west coast imagined that the enemy was the Western Army of Peru. He received many reports on the behavioral style of the Western Army from Changsheng.

Their legion owed wages, and angry Spanish soldiers easily robbed their towns. They had a criminal record of doing this, and they had done this several years ago in the Netherlands.

The problem of owing wages is common, not only in Spain, France, but also in the Ming Dynasty. As long as you are in financial difficulties, you will owe wages, but the degree is different. The common point is that once the wages are due to the reason, you will only ow more and more. It is difficult to stop them unless there is enough external stimulation.

For example, in the past two years, the wages of the Spanish local legion have gradually increased. However, the mountains of Peru are high and the kings are far away, and as before, these soldiers are poor and noble officers are interested in fueling the fire. They dare not take the risk of being killed to fight the Ming army, but do not mind leaving the Ming Dynasty a destroyed town.

It was just that the Spanish who were robbed and killed in this process... the noble officers could choose to fuel the fire to make this carnival belonging to the lower class begin and will not be their control when it ends.

Under this circumstance, the Ming army stationed on hundreds of households near the street of the Armed Square became the most popular position.
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