Chapter 924: The Capture of Mexico City (4)
"Boom! Rumble! Boom ----" In the early morning of the next day, Ming artillery began to bombard Mexico City violently.
Shells continued to explode in Mexico City, and the heavy artillery fire enveloped almost the entire city in a sea of fire, and one building after another was destroyed.
Countless Aztecs and Spanish soldiers were killed and wounded, and the city was filled with fear and chaos.
Originally, when the Ming army destroyed more than 150 cannons in the city in an instant last night, it hit the Spanish defenders and Aztec fighters in the city, and they were full of panic.
Today, the Ming army officially bombarded the city, with a large number of buildings in the city as a reference.
Witnessing one building after another being blown up under the shells, and witnessing countless Aztec civilians and Spanish soldiers suffering heavy casualties under the shells, such a bloody and miserable scene further greatly damaged the morale of the Spanish soldiers in the city and the morale of the Aztec armed forces.
"Nope! O gods! Come and save us! "Some of the Aztecs could not bear it anymore and fell on their knees and shouted to the sky, calling for their gods to come out and bless them.
The Aztecs now regretted and despaired, and they should not have helped the Spaniards to fight against these powerful demons, because they were too powerful to be defeated.
When had the Aztecs in the city seen such a fierce and terrifying attack, in their eyes, the cannons of the Ming army were simply like the spells of the legendary gods, which their mortal bodies could not resist.
If it shows that before the army came to the city and began to attack the city, the Aztecs were still bewitched by the Spaniards, and they were fierce to resist the Ming army, and had the confidence to defeat the Ming army, then at this moment, in the face of such a powerful and terrifying attack of the Ming army, they completely lost their will, except for praying for the blessing of the gods, they could no longer raise the courage to continue to resist the Ming army.
The Aztecs are always like this, obviously it was originally a civilization with a history of 2,000 years, but it has been maintained in the temple, the rule of the gods, almost 2,000 years have not been developed, the thought and civilization are too backward, no wonder the original empire of 15 million people, only a few hundred Spanish soldiers can defeat their 100,000 troops, and establish the first colonial stronghold, and then destroy the entire Aztec Empire.
It wasn't just the Aztecs who lost the courage to resist, and the Spanish soldiers were no better.
The Ming army's 300 field artillery, with a round of shelling almost every few breaths, was too fierce to crush their courage and will to resist.
"Lord Governor, be careful!" The Doge's Palace was completely blown to rubble, and Tribweth was thrown to the ground by a Spanish guard, and a cannonball exploded not far from him, and by the time Tribweth turned over the Spanish guard who was pressing on him, the guard had already been killed by two pieces of shrapnel.
Looking at this dead soldier, at this moment, Duke Tribweth also really regretted it.
Maybe he really shouldn't have just fought a large-scale decisive battle with the Ming army in Mexico City, the Ming army was indeed too strong, so strong that it was beyond his imagination, even the last time he and the British army formed the Anglo-Western battle with the Ming army in the south of the thirteen states of North America, he didn't fully see the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.
The Ming army was so strong that he could not resist it at all.
Mexico City is not their support at all, but their grave. Even if the Ming army did not attack the city, relying on the power of artillery alone was enough to bury them all, how could they defeat the Ming army.
"Boom!" It was at this time that the walls of Mexico City finally collapsed because they could not withstand the power of the shells.
"The wall is down! The army of the Ming Empire is about to invade! The Spanish soldiers, who watched the walls collapse, retreated in horror.
It was about half a pillar of incense that the Ming army really began to attack the city.
"Attack!" Thousands of Ming infantry rushed toward Mexico City.
"Smack! Syllable! Syllable! After the Ming soldiers rushed into the city, they did not hesitate to shoot all the Spanish soldiers or the Aztecs who tried to resist.
The "Da -----" machine gun fired at some of the denser groups of Spanish soldiers and Aztec forces.
Originally, because of the fierce artillery fire of the Ming army, they lost the will to resist, and now under the dense fire network of Ming rifles and machine guns, all the Spanish soldiers are in rout, and they do not dare to resist the attack of the Ming army at all.
The Ming army attacked quickly, while the Spanish soldiers and Aztecs continued to rout and flee.
Soon, the Ming army successfully reached the center of the city and was continuing to advance, preparing to completely capture Mexico City.
"Lord Governor, the Ming army is about to kill here, run away!" Some Spanish soldiers led Duke Tribweise all the way out of the city.
Lost so fast!
Looking at the soldiers around him who were full of fear and constantly retreating, Duke Tribweth was completely desperate.
He was quite confident that he could resist the Ming army by relying on Mexico City, but when the Ming army really came to the city and began to attack, he never saw that the forces under his command could show the slightest possibility of defeating the Ming army.
It is true that only the Five Nations Alliance Army can defeat the Ming Army!
"Get out of town!" Duke Tribweth gritted his teeth and ordered with a trembling voice.
The rout of the army out of the city means that the Ming army will completely capture Mexico City, and the Mexican colony is finished!
Having completely lost the confidence to continue resisting the Ming army to hold Mexico City, Duke Tribwez led the remaining Spanish soldiers to the outside of the city. Instead, the Aztecs, except for a few who followed the Spaniards to the outside of the city, were more on their knees, praying for the blessing of the gods, praying that the Ming army would not massacre them after they captured Mexico City.
"Marshal! The Spanish army has been routed out of Mexico City from the south of the city! A Ming soldier came to Yan Yingyuan and reported.
"Good! All the cavalry attacked, chased and killed the Spanish army that had fled from the city, and did not let a single person go! Yan Yingyuan nodded and said with a smile.
The capture of Mexico City was expected by him, and with more than 17,000 cavalry at his disposal, there was no doubt that the Spanish soldiers who fled from the city had only one fate, to be chased by the cavalry and surrender, or to be killed!
The Spanish soldiers had just broken and fled not far from the city, and the Ming cavalry caught up, and it was still Feng Houdun who led the team.
"Smack!" Feng Houdun raised his gun, pulled the trigger, and shot and killed a fleeing Spanish soldier in front of him.
"Smack! Syllable! "The other Ming cavalry also fired at the Spanish soldiers who were constantly fleeing, shooting and killing a large number -----of Spanish soldiers who were fleeing.
Two legs, after all, can't outrun the four legs of a war horse no matter what.
It didn't take long for the more than 17,000 Ming cavalry chasing to directly kill the front of the Spanish soldiers, blocking the way for the Spanish soldiers to continue to flee.
The woods were not very dense or so vast that they could not hide more than 36,000 Spanish soldiers, and they were very crowded. Soon, they were besieged in the woods by more than 17,000 Ming cavalry regiments.
"Surrender is their only option!" Feng Houdun sneered.
"Attack!" Feng Houdun waved his hand and ordered the Ming cavalry to attack from all sides at the same time.
The horses slowly strode forward, and the Ming soldiers on horseback pulled the bolts of their rifles and aimed at the dense Spanish soldiers in the woods to shoot.
"Smack! Syllable! ------"Spanish soldiers were constantly being shot and killed.
More than 36,000 Spanish soldiers were crammed into the woods, which was so dense that it was difficult for even the Spanish soldiers on the periphery to avoid the bullets fired by the Ming cavalry.
"Poof! Burst! Burst! "Blood mist splattered from behind the bodies of the Spanish soldiers who had been hit by bullets.
Within a while, more than 1,000 Spanish soldiers were killed by bullets, and the Ming cavalry slowly advanced outside the range of the Spanish soldiers' flints.
This is simply a massacre that cannot be resisted, and there is no hope of escape!
After a while, a large number of Spanish soldiers could not bear the boundless fear and despair, and began to kneel on the ground on a large scale, raising their hands high, trembling and surrendering to the Ming cavalry around them, hoping that the Ming cavalry would stop shooting at them because of their surrender.
"Your Excellency, no! A large number of soldiers began to surrender to the Ming army around them, and the Ming army will soon be killed here! A Spanish general, pale, and terrified, reported to Tribweis.
Duke Tribwes was stunned for a moment, in fact, from the moment he was surrounded in this wood, he had seen such consequences.
Finished! Now it's really over!
"There is no hope, surrender! Reduce the number of deaths among soldiers! In desperation, Tribweth finally chose to surrender to the Ming army.
He tried, he hoped to escape with his soldiers and reserve some strength for the empire, but they really couldn't outrun the iron cavalry of the Ming army, and in the real hopelessness, he had no choice but to surrender.
The Spanish soldiers had already surrendered to the Ming army on a large scale, and now with their commander Tribwes taking the lead, all the besieged Spanish soldiers chose to lay down their arms.
With the surrender of Tribweis to the Ming army with the main force of the Spanish army, the Ming army went straight to Mexico City and achieved complete success, not only capturing Mexico City, but also successfully annihilating the main force of the Mexican Spanish army, which was almost equivalent to destroying the Spanish rule over most of the Mexican colonies.
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