The first battle was lost, and the town of Sugototo quarreled within.

Some of the inhabitants fled to Guatemala, hundreds of miles away, and asked the governor to bring troops to help them find their grounds.

Some of the residents insisted on holding on, trying to use the wooden fence of the town to unite and repel the Chinese invaders.

The die-hards have the upper hand because they are richer and naturally speak with a louder voice. Most of them were plantation owners and workshop owners, fearing that after they left the town, the Han Chinese would burn down their plantations, burn down their workshops, and take away their slaves, and years of accumulation would be in vain.

In particular, a few plantations to the south, located on the Han Chinese marching route, have escaped with their families, but most of the indigenous slaves have been lost. They shouted to kill back, wanting to take back their slaves, as if they wanted money and didn't want their lives!

After another day, the Han and indigenous coalition finally approached the town.

The wooden fence on the outskirts of the town has been temporarily upgraded to a simple wooden wall, and the old and weak, women, children, and slaves have been mobilized to defend the "city".

Osvaldo said to the more than 1,000 slaves: "If you defeat the enemy, I will give you freedom, give you land, and take more slaves to help you plant." You will have your own family, your own wife, your own slave and your own plantation! Every day when you don't have to work, you have endless food to eat and rum to drink! ”

The slaves were very happy and took up arms in high spirits.

Lies can't fool ghosts, but they can fool natives!

Chen Li looked at the town from afar at this time, and suddenly felt a little headache. Although the town was poorly defended, the terrain was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it was located on a hill and high ground, and it was necessary to rush from the bottom to the top when attacking.

"What, how do you fight?" Zhou Hong asked.

Zhou Hong was also a pirate before, but he was a pirate privately raised by Fujian maritime merchants, and after opening the sea, he became a private soldier of maritime merchants. Of the 700 armed forces that got off the ship to fight, more than 100 of them were dispatched by Zhou Hong, and Chen Li was only their nominal leader.

Chen Li said with a smile: "Don't worry, we have robbed several manors along the way, and our food is very sufficient." ”

A bunch of aborigines and Han people rested on the spot, and also lit grass vines to expel snakes, insects, rats and ants with thick smoke, which was found with the help of local aborigines.

The inhabitants of the town? Hiding behind a wooden wall with a weapon? Trembling and waiting for the enemy's attack.

The Han Chinese and the indigenous coalition army, but only a few people were sent to stand guard? The rest all sit down and nibble on sugar cane to cool off? Then he made a fire and cooked to fill his stomach.

Osvaldo sent his eldest son with more than a dozen knights? Slipped away from the side of the town. Planning to suddenly kill from the rear when the Han attack? Maybe they can defeat the Han Chinese.

Don't use modern thinking? to measure ancient warfare.

Morale is frighteningly low in both the East and the West, and any situation can lead to the collapse of the enemy's army.

It was getting dark, but the Han still did not attack. How do the townspeople feel? From apprehension to impatience? The slaves also calmed down from the euphoria of regaining their freedom.

The mayor's son, Arancha, who had returned with his cavalry before dark, suggested at this time: "Father, perhaps you can choose to fight at night, the enemy is already sleeping." ”

Osvaldo shook his head and said, "The other party has an excellent military general?" They marched very cautiously, using the Indians as bait to open the way. In the event of an ambush? That general can also decisively kill the fleeing soldiers, and let his troops quickly stabilize. Such a general? Will the whole army sleep unsuspectingly? No, they did it on purpose? Lure us away from the wooden walls? Fight them outside the town. ”

Arancha still didn't want to give up: "What if the Night War raid can succeed?" ”

Osvaldo patted his son on the shoulder? "We have too few warriors, and the defenders are mainly Indian slaves. These slaves cannot be released to fight anymore, otherwise they are likely to all collapse. Moreover, slaves who could not see clearly at night wanted our own warriors to go on a night raid? ”

"But ......" said Arancha.

"No," Osvaldo said, "we can't take the initiative to fight at night, and we have to guard against each other's night fights. If we can hold out a few more days, reinforcements from Your Excellency the Governor will arrive, and victory will be ours. ”

In the middle of the night, it was pitch black.

Chen Li took out his pocket watch and looked at the time by the light of the fire. After another half an hour, he woke up several of the leaders, and everyone took out their pocket watches to align the hour and minute hands.

Seven hundred Han Chinese were armed, and four hundred people in the back, with the help of bushes, quietly walked around the side of the town.

Most of the defenders in the town fell asleep against the wooden walls. They had been nervous for a day, and it was already the middle of the night, and they were physically and mentally exhausted, and they even slept most of the time while standing guard.

"Enemy attack!"

A dutiful sentry suddenly shouted in terror.

The rest of the defenders immediately woke up from their dreams and hurriedly took up their weapons, only to see more than a thousand torches lit to the south outside the town.

These torches were made during the march, and Chen Li pondered the night attack from the beginning.

Most of the indigenous allies were night blind, and they were not expected to charge at night, but only to pick up two torches and stand there and shout loudly.

50 musketeers, standing outside the town and shooting freely, regardless of whether they can hit the target or not, can just use the sound of gunfire to make a noise. Similarly, 100 archers are also throwing indiscriminately, and whether they can kill people depends on fate in the dark.

The attention of the town's defenders was all drawn to this side.

The remaining defenders on three sides were transferred over, and the rest of the people who did not leave also subconsciously looked to the south.

"Kill!"

A sneak attack was launched on three sides at the same time, and the temporary wooden wall was easily climbed by a human ladder. For the sake of ease of movement, they even took off their cotton armor and fought only in single clothes - these guys, who had previously been either pirates or sailors, had long been accustomed to jumping gangs and climbing masts, and were very skillful when climbing over wooden walls.

The largest number of slave defenders, who could not see the enemy clearly at night, heard the sound of shouts of killing nearby, and were so frightened that they threw down their weapons and fled indiscriminately.

Let's put it this way, without the help of slaves to defend it, there are only six or seven hundred old and weak women and children in the town who can use weapons, and there are also a large number of children of about ten years old. Because the population composition of the town is very special, there are not many real Spanish colonists, who marry local indigenous women and give birth to a large number of mixed-race children, and because of the time problem, these mixed-race children are basically under the age of fifteen.

After the night attack began, the frontal feint pinned down too many defenders' forces and diverted their attention. The other three sides were killed in the dark, the slave soldiers collapsed directly, the children were also frightened and fled, and the resistance of the Han attackers was very weak.

"Sons, kill the enemy with me!" Chen Li passed into the wooden wall, opened the wooden gate, and led his subordinates to the town to kill.

The whole town was in chaos, the town was full of cries, and the slaves, the old and the weak, the women and children had no choice but to escape.

Most of the main force of the defenders was on the front, and when they found that they were being attacked by the enemy, they became panicked for a while, and they didn't know which side to fight.

Mayor Osvaldo ordered the defenders to continue the defense, and with more than a dozen knights himself, he rushed towards the enemy behind. But when they rushed some distance, they were stopped by the defeated slaves, and the horses crowded in the crowd did not work at all.

The front was still feinting, and the defenders panicked, abandoned their defenses and fled in all directions.

"Kill!"

The feint immediately turned into a real attack, and the town's frontal defenses were broken through.

The massacre lasted from dawn to early morning, with corpses strewn under the morning sun, countless kneeling begging for mercy, and many Spaniards, mulattoes, and slaves fleeing the town.

"Haha, got eight horses!" Chen Li laughed.

Zhou Hong said: "It's a pity that three horses were killed, otherwise it would have been eleven horses." ”

Chen Li said: "Someone took advantage of the chaos to ride a horse and ran away, they definitely have more than eleven horses. ”

Lin Dasheng, another leader sent by the maritime merchants, came over and said to Chen Li: "Chen, there is not much gold and silver found in the town, and tobacco leaves, cane sugar, and sugarcane wine are more valuable, and there are also a lot of grains such as corn. ”

"Where's that rosin?" Chen Li asked.

Lin Dasheng said: "Several catties were found. ”

Chen Li said with a smile: "This thing may be worth more than gold, I haven't seen it in Daming or Nanyang." ”

Zhou Hong asked, "How to deal with the captives?" ”

Chen Li thought for a while, gritted his teeth and said: "The indigenous slaves are released, the remaining men are killed, all the women are taken away, and they are carried back by boat to be wives for our immigrants." Well...... The women among the slaves were also taken away. ”

"What about boys? You can't kill it too. "Zhou Hong still has some humanity.

Chen Li said with a smile: "The boy is handed over to our friendly army, they can raise it if they want to, it doesn't matter if they don't want to raise it, anyway, it has nothing to do with us." ”

After resting for a day and a night, Chen Li slipped away with the loot.

War horses, cane sugar, rosin, tobacco leaves, and rum were all owned by the Han Chinese. Corn and other grains, the Han people took some away, and most of them were given to indigenous friends.

The Han people are happy, and the natives are also happy.

More than half a month later, reinforcements sent by the governor of Guatemala finally hurried to the town, and they were presented with a ruin.

These reinforcements pursued southward, and even if the Han escaped by boat, they would wipe out the indigenous tribes of the delta.

On a high hill, someone put down the clairvoyant mirror and said with a smile: "Go back and report the news, thousands of white dogs have come, and they have brought four small cannons." There were about one or two hundred musketeers, thirty or forty cavalrymen, and two or three thousand savage auxiliaries. ”

This is already the largest force that the governor of Guatemala, who rules all of Central America (except Panama), can dispatch troops in a short period of time!

As for Mexico to the north, they don't listen to the announcement.

Cortez, who destroyed the Aztec Empire, was a brother-in-law to the governor of Cuba. He took a few hundred men and ran to attack the Aztec Empire, and the governor of Cuba directly sent 1,500 people to reinforce - called reinforcements, but in fact, they came to seize the command of the troops.

Before the Spaniards could fight with the natives, they started fighting among themselves. Cortés killed the cronies of the Cuban governor, and after another fight, he swallowed some of the governors' men and drove out some of the governors' men, and completely fell out with the Cuban governors.

And the newly established Viceroyalty of Guatemala, the Governor was also sent by the king, and as soon as he came here, he parachuted in to seize power, killed Cortés's old buddy, and this thing fell out with the Viceroyalty of Guatemala. Anyway, Mexico is now semi-independent, and it doesn't have a good relationship with the two governors around it.

Chen Li, who had made a profit, was so bold that he didn't take the goods and sail away on the boat, but planned to ambush the other party's reinforcements. He wanted to ransack Guatemala City, the ruling core of all of Central America!

It was only because Chen Li learned from the captives that most of the gold and silver treasures obtained from Central America had to be sent to Guatemala City, transshipped to the east coast by land, and then loaded back to the king of Spain.

How much does that cost!