Thirty-six of the most advanced ships of this era crossed the Pacific Ocean and sailed the vast sea for about three months without encountering any foreign merchant ship or warship.

The reason is very simple, the fleet of the Longwu Naval Division is explorers, and there is no known route, so naturally there will be no merchant ships.

When approaching the port of Panama City, Huang Yi, Shi Daxuan, Yu Fei and other generals began to be excited.

Because they used a fixed telescope at a distance of thirty-two times to see several warships and a dozen merchant ships anchored in the harbor, all of which were not small in size and should have a displacement of more than 500 tons.

It is not surprising that the Spaniards needed to transport the plundered gold and silver treasures back to Europe, and the Europeans coveted the Spanish treasure ships, which had a long and dangerous road, and how could the treasure ships lag behind in terms of tonnage, speed, and number of artillery fire?

However, if you succeed in capturing a Spanish treasure ship, you can buy more than a dozen fully equipped ships, and you can afford the expenses of thousands of sailors for a year.

Under the temptation of such great interests, and without legal constraints, the privateers of various European countries are paying attention to the Spanish treasure ships, and the officials of various countries not only do not stop them, but also deliberately sell advanced warships and artillery to privateers.

This is actually Huang Han's support for Liu Xiang, Li Guozhu, Zheng Zhilong, a few famous pirate leaders, and raising pirates as a party.

The Spanish Empire, once the big colonial brother, was targeted by the younger brothers of Europe, and there were numerous attacks on the way to transport wealth from the Americas to Europe, resulting in huge casualties and economic losses.

What inspired many privateers the most was a naval battle in the first year of Chongzhen.

Privateer Captain Pete Petersson Hine, employed by the Dutch East India Company, won a fantastic victory in Matanzas Bay, during which not a single ship was wrecked.

Hein led 31 ships from the Dutch West India Company and about 3,000 sailors and gunners to capture 16 Spanish treasure ships and 5 Galen-type ships with negligible casualties.

The value of emeralds, agate, gold and other treasures on the Spanish treasure ship reached 11.5 million guilders, while the total capital of the Dutch East India Company at that time was only 6.5 million guilders.

This huge amount of money was able to cover the military expenses of the allied army in the seven provinces of the Netherlands for eight months.

Such a small and lucrative trade further stimulated the privateers of various countries, and the losses to the Spaniards increased day by day, and finally dragged the thin, weak, and the former boss down.

The Spaniards did not expect a large fleet to enter the port directly into the port to attack.

In order to seize the ship, the Furlong cannon was deliberately used to continuously fire scattered bullets to attack, and the Longwu Naval Division's warship was as fierce as a tiger entering a wolf pack, and the moment it came into contact with the enemy ship, the Spaniards who were urging the battle had no ability to fight back.

The artillery fire of the Longwu Naval Division was still raging, and the Spaniards, who were in decline, could not hold back, and a bamboo pole with a white flag on a Galen ship stretched out its head and swayed, and then two or three ......

In order to survive, the Spanish surrendered with dignity, and the Longwu Naval Division won the first battle and captured the warships, armed merchant ships, and more than a dozen large and small fishing boats in the port, which of course became trophies.

Completely different from the small fights of the Xiyi colonists, more than 10,000 Han Chinese set foot in Central America for the first time, and more than 5,000 intellectual young soldiers armed with mini guns, self-generated guns, and field cannons quickly surrounded Panama City, which was not as large as the small county town of Daming.

The Xiyi colonists were the masters of the city, and the status of the indigenous Indians was even inferior to that of the black slaves brought by the whites.

The Europeans were naturally superior on the American continent at this time, because the natives here were really too bad, and the Europeans belonged to the invincible existence.

But when the colonists in Panama City heard the rapid alarm bells from the church, heard the rumbling of cannons from the direction of the port, and took their arquebuses to the head of the city to join the regular army in the defense, most of them were terrified.

The vast majority of the colonists had experience fighting the indigenous armies, and few of them did not have a blood debt, and many had seen thousands of barbarians besieging white settlements.

The army that appeared outside Panama City should not have come from civilized Europe, judging by its numbers, but it was impossible for an indigenous army of thousands to be so well armed.

Many of the Spanish regular troops were carefully looking at the army of unknown nationality approaching the city, and they secretly smacked their tongues in their hearts, and it was obvious that the weapons and clothing of the other side were not inferior to their own.

The Han people in history were absent from the Age of Discovery, and after Zheng He went to the West, how could the army go abroad? It will not appear in North and South America.

In addition to the red flags, the flag of the Marine Corps is a bright yellow dragon flag, which is highly recognizable in the Liaohai, East China Sea, Siam Gulf and Strait of Malacca in the South China Sea, and is still unknown on the eastern side of the Pacific Ocean.

Miguel Serrano, who had the rank of captain and was the supreme commander of the Spanish garrison in Panama City, was already sweating profusely, and the clairvoyant mirror in his hand seemed to be a little difficult to hold.

Thousands of enemy troops surrounded Panama City, and Captain Miguel could imagine the fate of the ships and navy in the harbor with his toes, but he couldn't imagine why the navy was finished overnight.

Huang Yong, Huang Yi, Yu Fei, Lin Minghai, Shi Daxuan and other generals were also using clairvoyants to observe Panama City to be captured.

They knew the bottom of their hearts, because before they set off, Huang Han told them that the equipment of the "Red Banner Army" was far ahead of the Xiyi colonists, and the number was far greater than that of the Xiyi garrison in the Americas.

With these Xiyi, who have fattened up their courage because they have no opponents in the local area, they do not need to be polite, and they are directly crushed by force, and the harder they fight, the more well-behaved the colonists will be.

Three teenagers who could converse in Spanish broke away from the large army and came to the west gate of Panama to shout loudly, and the hearing of the Spanish that they could understand was a little stiff, which made the defenders of the city even more numb.

The meaning conveyed by the "Red Banner Army" is very simple, General Huang Yong from the Ming Dynasty ordered all Xiyi in Panama City to give up resistance and raise their hands to surrender, and the "Red Banner Army" guarantees the safety of everyone's lives and can send ships to send surrenderers out of the country.

Captain Miguel is a professional soldier, of course, he will not choose to surrender without letting go of a shot, and he did not order to open fire, open a robbery, and kill three Ming soldiers who rose up and shouted to persuade them to surrender.

The defenders of the city were highly nervous, and they were all waiting silently, and the half-hour deadline given by the Ming army was slowly draining.

The Ming troops outside the city continued to deploy, and Captain Miguel Serrano did not see the columns of Ming troops advancing in formation, but only saw five or six hundred Ming troops wearing the uniforms of the Great Red Army entering a straggler line into a distance of 300 meters.