When the fleet passed through the dangerous Strait of Magellan and entered the port city of Monte in southern Chile, it received two telegrams.

Adil found Yang Ji with two telegrams.

Seeing that he looked very strange, Yang Ji said, "Did O'Higgins launch? Then his actions were blocked?"

Adil then smiled, "There is good news here, bad news, which one do you want to listen to first?"

Yang Ji cursed: "When is it now? Let me tell you the truth. The Governor expected it well. We only have five days left in coal, and we need supplies in urgent need!"

Adil then put away his smile, "The good news is that Venezuela has indeed launched it, and it has started before we crossed the Strait of Magellan, and attracted part of the Spaniard's firepower there"

"After receiving the news of Venezuela's launch, O'Higgins was also ready to launch it. Unfortunately, since he was arrested for sympathizing with the Laurota organization the previous time, he was obviously not a meticulous person, and this time he was not surprised to see through it."

"He has a very trusted secretary, a Creole native, graduated from San Felipe University in San Diego. O'Higgins usually obeys him, and he is also a supporter of the independence movement."

"But although he supports independence, he also has principles, that is, he hopes to gain independence through his own efforts, and does not want to rely on external forces, especially with external forces like us. Our huge fleet obviously cannot escape the eyes of the Spaniards, so this person finally chose to inform him"

"The commander of the San Diego Brigade arrested O'Higgins immediately"

“What about good news?”

"I said before that Ohiggins' son Ocon is the commander of the city of Concepción. Fortunately, we have informed us. Before the Spanish army arrived, he closed the city gate and persuaded his soldiers to do so, and naturally he used the old slogan of "not being free but dying."

"Then we're waiting for our rescue in the city of Concepcion"

Yang Ji slapped his thigh, "Very good, if O'Higgins really convinced the Chilean defenders, then we will not gain much benefit, but it is different at the moment. If we even repel the attack of the Spaniards because of our assistance, we can gain greater benefits"

Adil nodded, "Chile is a narrow and narrow place, roughly divided into three parts, the desert area in the north, the comfort area in the middle, and the wet area in the south"

"The 100,000 Creoles and the vast majority of white Europeans live in the middle, the main population of the desert area to the north is Araucan workers, and the humid area to the south is mainly Araucan farmers"

"If we successfully make Chile independent, then we can directly obtain two major regions in the north and south, mainly Arakan people. The north is the copper mine and saltpeter mine heavy area, the south is the coal mine heavy area, and the central area is the main area of ​​Santiago City. Although there are gold, silver, copper, iron and coal, the output is not large, mainly port commercial and agricultural areas."

"It is not a problem to successfully capture the two major regions of the north and south with our appearance and preferential policies for the Kaihua natives"

"I just find it strange"

Yang Ji asked, "What's strange?"

Adil replied: "Of course, the Spaniards knew that our arrival was in response to Ohiggins. They had fleets in Buenos Aires, Valparaiso and Lima. Why didn't they come to intercept them early?"

"Although the Saiyin number, which we first explored, has traveled back and forth between the east and west coasts of South America three times, compared with the Spaniards here, it is still a stage where people are unfamiliar with the place and can barely pass it."

"The only chance that the Spaniards can defeat us is to use the sinister weather in the Strait of Magellan to block the western section, or use the seas between broken islands on the southern end of Chile's west coast to block it, but they did not do that. Why is that?"

Yang Ji smiled and said, "Are you an intelligence officer? You are still a military move. You have put the Spanish in a situation where we can use telegrams to communicate at any time. Although they know we are here, they cannot know when and where we are coming."

"We can either cross the Strait of Magellan or walk the Tierra del Fuego to the south. Although there is a detour there, it is still easier to walk than the Strait of Magellan"

(Turkey Channel refers to the later Bigece Strait, and the name at this time is still the former)

"It is more likely to go directly around the southernmost tip of South America and come to the west coast"

Adil suddenly realized, "Then we..."

Yang Ji returned to his seriousness, "Hurry up north to Concepcion!"

....

As Yang Ji expected, when the fleet arrived at the coast of Concepcion at its fastest speed, it not only sank a Spanish Clipper cruising on the sea, but when they all came to the Bay of Concepcion, they also saw almost all Spanish warships gathered there!

At this time, although the Biobio River facing Concepcion is also open to navigation, due to severe siltation in the downstream, only small boats and flatbeds can be used. The port city in the southwest of Concepcion Bay is an excellent harbor and later became a naval base in Chile.

Talcavano is still twenty miles away from Concepcion. The Spanish Navy came ashore from here and then advanced southward to siege the city of Concepcion.

The Spanish Navy was also surprised by the sudden arrival of the Truchen fleet, but it was too late. Although about twenty sailing ships including the first, second and third-class battleships and armed merchant ships did not lower their sails, they all docked in the port of Talcavano!

At this time, they wanted to adjust the sail position and it would take at least an hour to dispatch. The Truchens obviously would not give them this opportunity, so they immediately attacked the ships despite the dense fire of shore artillery.

An hour later, all of these ships sank into the seabed!

Then there was the Truechin Navy's easy-to-drive link. It took another hour to suppress and destroy the guns on the other side, and finally boarded the dock at dusk!

At this time, the Saiyin ship that was leading had sailed from the south into the Biobio River south of Concepcion and blocked the estuary.

The Spaniards thought of the Truchens coming back, but obviously did not expect them to come so quickly. Of course, in order not to let Concepción fall into the hands of the Spaniards, Yang Ji specially let all the ships drive up their horsepower and use the spare steam engine, so when they arrived, the coal they carried was only three days left.

That is to say, they must repel the Spanish army's siege on the city of Concepcion within two days, and then enter the city of Concepcion for supply!

Talkavano is just a small army fortress, with the largest battalion of troops inside. After the Truchens were covered with artillery fire in the darker sky, the battalion commander of the battalion quickly surrendered.
Chapter completed!