The offensive and defensive battle of Santo Domingo was actually a half-truth and half-truth. Originally, McCasses didn't even plan to take out whale oil. It's just that he was frightened by the dispatch of all the indigenous troops, so he took out the tactics of whale oil and wooden ladders, hoping to retreat from the enemy. But I didn't expect it to be cracked.

Fortunately, he still has other hole cards in his hand, otherwise, 500 people against more than 14,000 people is really enough to hang. What hole cards does he have? Naturally, it's a dirt grenade! Although there are many natives, they are also afraid of the attack of native grenades. Although the native grenade is not very powerful, it can only injure a few indigenous soldiers at a time. However, that terrible attack with damage in the midst of a loud noise was a great blow to the morale of the enemy.

But this time, McCas's main task was to scare the investigation team, so he didn't show this hole card. Fortunately, they held out until the indigenous army ran out of food, and sent the investigation team away.

Later, McCas found out the reason for Carlos's madness this time - he had just taken a fancy to the daughter of the leader of the village that Mercasse sent to attack, and planned to marry a second wife. However, before he could get married, McCasse sent men to slaughter the village, and killed his sweetheart, cutting off all his heads......

Suddenly, Carlos, the indigenous leader, was furious. So, with all their might, they laid siege to Santo Domingo and launched a fierce offensive. Unfortunately, although the defenders of McCasse were small, they had a strong castle and many hole cards, so after fighting until they ran out of food, they had no choice but to retreat.

Of course, Carlos was still angry, and planned to attack next time when he had enough food.

However, McCasse was not afraid. In addition to those hole cards, he also has a reinforcement of three or four thousand people hiding in Havana. As soon as the investigation team leaves the Americas, the reinforcements will immediately arrive and cooperate with him to completely encircle Carlos's forces.

So, McCasse wasn't worried about what the natives could make. After all, although the natives have a scale of 10,000 soldiers and horses, most of them are in the crowd and have little combat effectiveness. In the face of thousands of well-trained troops, there is absolutely only one end.

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On the side of the investigation team, it was not easy to get out of the "war-torn Santo Domingo" and came to Guantanamo on the island of Cuba. Of course, now Guantanamo is not called Guantanamo, but "Havana", which is clearly fooling people.

At this time, the governor of Cuba, Tara, also personally sat in Guantanamo City to receive the investigation team.

"Welcome to the Mission, and welcome to Bishop Rugani!"

At the Long Bridge pier at the port of Guantanamo, Tara personally went to greet the investigation team. Although they were serfs from the Hoffman family, Marin later forced them to study. So, over the years, Tara also learned Latin. At the very least, it wasn't a problem to communicate with the people in the mission.

In the evening, the feast was finally no longer cassava and sweet potatoes. Because Cuba is an old colony that has been in operation for many years, it is natural that the bigwigs of the investigation team cannot be so neglected. So, here, Tara served the big men of the investigation team, including his men, with black bread, as well as a lot of fish and meat, including red wine.

"Yo, and beef?" When Rugani saw the dishes on the table, he was very satisfied.

But Tara said quietly:

"yes, there's beef. Yesterday it happened that two cows died in the manor, and they happened to be killed for meat......"

"Die of heat...... Cattle? "The members of the mission were shocked. Because, they didn't expect that the cattle would starve to death.

Tara gave them science - the cattle in the steppes of Eastern Europe are adapted to the cold climate, but it is difficult to adapt to the hot climate. In the summer, there are always many cattle that die of heat......

Actually, Tara isn't talking nonsense. Because, before the introduction of African and Indian cattle, the island of Cuba did die of heat every summer. After all, cattle imported from Eastern Europe are not heat-tolerant.

In fact, the best farming cattle that are most adapted to tropical climates are zebu cattle from India. It's a pity that Marin doesn't have a lot of zebu cattle in his hands now. Therefore, on the island of Cuba, there are still many old breeds of cattle.

Seeing the arrival of the investigation team, Tara deliberately "heated" two cows and got a lot of beef to entertain them.

After learning the "true origin" of the beef, the investigation team's interest in eating decreased a lot. If it weren't for the fact that Tara herself was munching on beef, they might not have dared to eat "dead beef".

After all, it is a "sugarcane producing area", so after the meal, Tara also asked people to serve cane sugar water to entertain the investigation team.

However, Baron Mawsen and others also realized a problem - it seems that the number of defenders of this "Havana City" is a bit small, only a few hundred......

So, after Mawson raised questions, Tara told him that in order to solve the security problem of Santo Domingo, half of the troops and horses had been sent to Santo Domingo. Originally, "Havana" had thousands of troops.

The next day, Tara personally led the investigators to the church. Next to the church, in a huge courtyard, hundreds of syphilis patients lay down. In addition to the hundreds of syphilis patients, there are also dozens of locals who serve those patients.

This is an important "set" for Guantanamo, and in order to show "goodwill" to the indigenous people, Marin specially built this temporary place to house hundreds of syphilis patients.

In hospital beds, hundreds of locals with severe syphilis were lying. Many of them were covered in abscesses and looked horrible.

Instead of letting the team get close to the syphilis patients, Tara had them go up to a tower next door, so that the team could condescend to see the scene in the large courtyard.

At the same time, Tara explained to the mission:

"These syphilis patients are all from Santo Domingo. Before the local natives rebelled, hundreds of people were sheltered. In the beginning, we had the clergy in the church attend to them themselves. However, due to contagion, several priests in the church unfortunately contracted syphilis and died......"

With that, Tara squeezed out a few tears, then pointed to the cemetery in the backyard of the church, and pointed to several of the tombstones......

"May they rest in heaven, Amen......" Rugani immediately took the lead in a prayer gesture, and the others immediately followed suit.

"Later, in order to protect the safety of the clergy, we hired a group of locals who were not very afraid of syphilis to take care of the sick." With that, Tara pointed to the natives who were walking among the sick, wearing masks and white coats.

"Because of the terrible contagiousness of syphilis, I have ordered the courtyard next to the church to be cordoned off to ordinary people. As for the hundreds of sick people inside, it is up to God to bless them. If they can be cured, I will naturally let them go back. In the unfortunate event of death, it is better to be buried in the cemetery behind the church......"

Rugani and the others nodded again and again when they heard this, even if Baron Mowson and others came to find fault and find faults, they had nothing to say about this arrangement. Besides, Mo Sen and the others didn't dare to enter the courtyard to check. After all, they are also afraid of death......

Over the next two days, the mission, accompanied by Tara, also inspected sugar cane fields outside the city and villages inhabited by local serfs who grew sugar cane.

Because of the preparations, these villages inhabited by local serfs have long been repaired. Moreover, the village where the local serfs lived, was built spacious and bright. The serfs were also not shackled, and everyone had a smile on their faces - apparently, this had been prepared for a long time......

In this way, the allegation that Marin abused and enslaved the local indigenous people was debunked......

But on the third day, when the mission was about to continue its investigation, several thousand indigenous soldiers suddenly appeared and surrounded the "city of Havana......

"What's going on? Governor Tara, why are there so many native soldiers and horses besieging the city? Rugani and other mission officials asked in alarm. They had just faced the siege of Santo Domingo, and there was still a shadow in their hearts.

Tara, on the other hand, explained with a bitter face:

"Well, don't you blame the damned indigenous leader Carlos? The natives around here are also Taínos. After starting a rebellion on the island of Hispaniola, that Carlos also sent his men to the island of Cuba in canoes to encourage the locals to start a rebellion. Now, while the city's troops were being diverted to defend Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola, a number of local tribes in the vicinity suddenly gathered thousands of men and horses, and from time to time came to besiege Havana. ”

After a pause, Tara also explained:

Of course, these indigenous savages also knew that the castle of Havana was fortified and difficult to overcome. So, their main purpose is actually to loot the villages outside the city......"

As soon as Tara finished speaking, the members of the investigation team standing at the head of the city saw thick smoke rising from the village inhabited by the indigenous serfs they had visited yesterday - it was clear that the indigenous rebels were setting fire to the village......

It's just that the people in the investigation team didn't know that the thousands of "indigenous rebels" this time were actually indigenous "puppet soldiers" recruited by Tara's men in the Havana colony. This time, these "puppet soldiers" also cooperated with Tara to act for the investigation team......

"The barbarians in this wild area are really barbaric, and they rebel at every turn...... Seeing the indigenous "rebels" "raging" outside the city, the officials of the investigation team shook their heads one after another, and their views on the colonies in the Americas were very bad......

As a result, Rugani wrote in his investigative report that the locals are quite savage, and when someone instigates it, it is easy to start a rebellion. This is true on the island of Hispaniola as it is on the island of Cuba...... So, in the beginning, I thought that there had to be military action, and it was really necessary. Perhaps, it is only when these barbarians believe in the Lord and are guided by the Lord that they can get rid of their barbaric habits......

Seeing this passage written by Rugani, Tara also nodded secretly. In fact, Tara had long known that the head of the investigation team was from the Papal States and was arranged by Pope Julius II. In the end, Bishop Rugani will certainly make a judgment in favor of the North Sea State. However, this requires the cooperation of the Beihai country to act well. Otherwise, it's not easy for people to jump to conclusions. After all, there were a few representatives of Germany's rival states watching......