On the first night of arrival in Santo Domingo, the mission had a good time. That is, the food supply on the island seems to be very tight, and they can only eat sweet potato rice with it. Of course, the leaders of the big guys still ate black bread.

The Governor of Santo Domingo, McCas, solemnly told the head of the mission, Bishop Rugani (bishop of a region of the Papal States, not a cardinal), that this was saved for the hospitality of our guests......

The other officials of the investigation team were dumbfounded, Nima! When did ordinary brown bread become a hospitality for guests?

Then, McCass cried to all the nobles, it's not like we're treating you slowly. Instead, something big happened here last year! There was an indigenous young man named Carlos who learned some cultural knowledge from Spain and learned to make bows and arrows and other weapons. Then, last year, this restless young man "rose up", led thousands of natives to rebel, and also established a "kingdom of Carlos" (the young man Carlos didn't know what name to use for the country, so he simply used his Spanish name).

Moreover, this year, this guy continues to grow, and there are already tens of thousands of natives under his command, and there are tens of thousands of strong men who can fight as warriors alone......

The members of the investigation team naturally did not believe it, in their opinion, the tribe of the indigenous people with a maximum of a few hundred people, thousands of people is terrifying, where are the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses? So, with the exception of Bishop Rugani, the head of the investigation team, who had been instructed by the Pope to play stupid, everyone else showed a look of disbelief.

But by the next morning, they had to believe...... Because, outside the castle of Santo Domingo, there are thousands of natives surrounded by them, and the number is still growing......

Last night, Mercas sent out a dozen people from the village closest to the castle belonging to Carlos, angering the indigenous chieftain Carlos at once.

So, early the next morning, he gathered three or four thousand strong men from several nearby villages, armed with weapons such as recurve bows and spears, and surrounded the castle of Santo Domingo. Moreover, Carlos also sent men to the village chief who was far away to inform them to send troops to support them as well......

So, the next day, the members of the mission saw that there were more and more Native American warriors outside the castle of Santo Domingo. By the afternoon, there were already seven or eight thousand people......

The gentlemen of the investigation team, who had a good night's sleep last night, were frightened when they saw this. After all, there are tens of thousands of people, and there is no boundary. Although there were not tens of thousands of seven or eight thousand indigenous soldiers outside the city, the number was about the same. Moreover, the natives were loosely formed and not as concentrated as European armies, and to the layman, they seemed to be more than tens of thousands of troops......

"I'm afraid there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, right?" Bishop Rugani said with his teeth chattering.

Baron Mawson, who came from the Duchy of Lorraine, frowned and looked at it, and explained:

"Not ten thousand, but close to ......"

In any case, Baron Mawson was also an aristocrat. In this era, most of the nobles were military aristocrats, and Baron Mawson still had this vision. However, the indigenous soldiers outside the city were too chaotic and there was no neat formation to calculate, so Baron Mawson could only estimate that the number should be less than 10,000 based on experience.

But what happened next made the members of the investigation team despair, and by the afternoon, it seemed that more people had arrived from distant villages and joined the siege.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, Baron Mawson said solemnly:

"There must be more than 10,000 people now......

In fact, until the next morning, follow-up people arrived from afar. McCasses secretly looked through the binoculars and estimated the total number of people to be more than 14,000.

This is already the largest number of troops that the indigenous leader Carlos can muster, after all, he has a population of tens of thousands. For the purpose of demonstration and fighting, he mobilized all the men.

At this time, there were only 500 defenders in the castle of Santo Domingo......

However, McCas, the governor of Santo Domingo, was not in a hurry at all. Because, he knew that they had an advantage in weapons. And, when Carlos's native army began to attack at noon the next day, McCas's men smiled and gave an order to scatter broken glass and nails under the walls......

Then, the leaders of the investigation team were surprised to find that the first batch of indigenous warriors who rushed up had jumped back with their feet covered......

Why? Because the natives don't wear clothes and don't have shoes......

Just a few pieces of broken glass and nails on the ground can stab the bare feet of an indigenous warrior. Therefore, the first wave of the natives' attack ended in nothing.

But Carlos, after all, had worked under the Spaniards for several years, and was not comparable to the average native. After two days of contemplation, Carlos finally came to his senses, so he sent his men with brooms to the city to sweep the glass shards and nails......

Although the soldiers at the head of the city used arquebuses to shoot the natives who were sweeping the glass shards and iron nails, many of them were still swept away. In particular, natives often come to clean up at night.

In this way, after two or three days, the natives finally cleared the way to attack. And in the city, Mercasse has no extra glass slag and iron nails to sprinkle.

Of course, McCasse didn't expect this move to defeat the enemy. So, continue to prepare for the defense step by step.

The natives carried a simple wooden ladder made by Carlos from memory, intending to climb the city and storm it. However, they did not see that a cauldron had already been erected on the top of the city, and it was steaming......

This is, of course, not boiling the foul-smelling "golden juice", but boiling oil......

This is also the traditional way of defending the city in ancient China, pouring boiling oil down......

However, this trick was very rare in ancient Europe, why? Because there is no vegetable oil in Europe, there is no cheap tung oil, only expensive olive oil and flax oil, as well as butter and sheep fat. However, these oils are very expensive, and no castle is willing to pour oil on them.

Of course, the defenders of Santo Domingo were not splashing expensive olive oil or flax oil, but cheap whale oil......

When whale oil is boiled, it is also in liquid form. Rugani and other members of the investigation team were very curious about the extravagance of the Santo Domingo defenders, and they actually poured oil......

But when they got closer, they smelled a fish smell. Obviously, these oils are raw whale oil that has not been processed much. McCasses explained that these are fish oils extracted from fish caught nearby. Rugani and the others didn't know how to do it, so they didn't ask much. And Baron Mosen and others, who understand military affairs, because they are inlanders, do not understand that fish can produce oil, and they don't ask anything.

Moreover, Baron Mawson does not understand the approach of the defenders, even if you pour oil, how many can you burn? Isn't that a waste of oil?

But soon, he understood that the main purpose of this oil was not to burn people......

After the indigenous army smashed hundreds of rudimentary wooden ladders on the city wall, the defenders at the head of the city unhurriedly scooped up the boiling whale oil with wooden spoons and poured it on the natives who climbed the ladders first......

"Ahh

Suddenly, the group of native warriors who had climbed the stairs the fastest let out a terrible howl......

They didn't have any armor, only the waist was covered by leaves and other things, and most of them were basically half of the fruit. Splashed with boiling whale oil, it's no wonder if it's not miserable......

But the real trouble came after the first group of native warriors who were burned by boiling oil fell, and the soldiers at the head of the city continued to scoop up the hot oil with wooden spoons and splash it on the wooden ladder. Then, hundreds of wooden ladders were covered with oil......

It's too bad now, the native warriors are barefoot anyway. If you wear shoes, there is no problem with oil on the wooden ladder. But you don't have shoes on...... It's hard to stand on a wooden ladder stained with oil......

So, the native warriors who climbed the ladder next slipped and fell down the wooden ladder...... Occasionally, a few climbed up and were stabbed down by the defenders with spears......

The investigation team at the head of the city was dumbfounded, but when Mawson and other nobles saw it, their eyes first lit up, and then their eyes dimmed......

They also saw that McCas's defenders were sure that the natives had no shoes. If the aborigines have non-slip leather shoes, the oil on the ladder will not affect their ability to climb the ladder. Therefore, pouring oil on the wooden ladder is only suitable for dealing with the natives who are not wearing shoes, and is not suitable for use in the European theater.

If you are an ordinary native, you may have to retreat. After all, it's hard to understand. However, Carlos was the one who had been in the castle of the Spaniards after all. He pondered and came up with a countermeasure to clean the ladder......

He sent someone to withdraw the ladder and soak it in the river to clean it, although it was not completely cleaned, but it was not so greasy. Then, he had the mud rubbed on the ladder, which was still a little greasy, and when the sun dried, the ladder was no longer slippery.

After several confrontations, the whale oil in the castle also ran out. McCasse was also a little nervous, thinking that he could eat the natives, but he was cracked twice.

So, next, the two sides began to fight offensive and defensive battles with real knives......

Fortunately, the defenders had a castle to rely on and could hide from the bows and arrows of the natives. The indigenous warriors, on the other hand, could hardly escape the muskets on the city.

After a few days, the city was sprinkled with blood. Most of them were native, but there were a few hapless defenders. A few unlucky eggs were inadvertently hit by stray arrows shot up from the city. Fortunately, only two people died, and several others were rescued.

After more than ten days of attacking by the native army, Carlos finally found an embarrassing problem and ran out of food......

The indigenous army then had to be disbanded and returned home, with the women continuing to grow cassava and sweet potatoes, and the men going into the mountains to hunt......

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That's why McCasse dared to start a fight to scare the Mission, as the two sides had already fought each other many times before. Mercasse was also aware of the weaknesses of the indigenous people, and the lack of food reserves. Just like this siege, it was the indigenous warriors who brought cassava and sweet potatoes from their homes to participate in the battle. When you finish eating, you have to go home and get it, or, go hunting. As a result, the indigenous people simply simply did not have the ability to besiege the city for a long time.

But what puzzled McCasse was when the natives were so manic? Why did you attack for more than ten days? In the past, even if they were stimulated, they would attack for three or five days at most...... This time, if he didn't still have hole cards in his hand, he would have been frightened by the attack of the natives.

At this time, the investigation team, which had been frightened for more than 10 days, also took the opportunity to propose to go to Cuba Island to continue its investigation. As for the Haitian side, after witnessing the brutal siege battles, several representatives of the mission had to admit that the Taíno people on the island were indeed savage and powerful, and that they could not be "tamed" without violence......