Chapter 171: The East Coast of the Pacific (1)

No one can predict what will happen in the future, even Zhu Youxiao, a person who has crossed over, can not predict the history after the change, Qian Shoulian and Gao Nian are not idle here, the two of them have made a very big career here, and established a country that includes Uruguay and Argentina in the future, making it an overseas territory of the Ming Dynasty, Qian Shoulian is the first governor here, and the indigenous Indians here are completely integrated with the Ming Dynasty people of the same skin color.

The Ming fleet, which continued southward, destroyed some colonies of Spain, Italy, France and other countries along the coast, and also exchanged the knives and bows it carried for the local indigenous people, and gave those white captives to the locals as slaves, and then left these places and never stayed. Niu Jinxing and Yu Hualong's purpose was to reduce the supply points of those white people here, create more trouble for their voyages, and weaken their power in this area, because they did not do these things under the banner of the Ming Dynasty, so that those white people thought that the local indigenous Indians rioted. Even if these white slaves were later rescued by their comrades, they could only hate the natives.

After passing through the Strait of Magellan smoothly, they began to get excited and finally returned to their homeland. On the way south, Yu Hualong rescued nearly a thousand of his comrades in the destroyed colonies, and robbed many slave trafficking fleets at sea, and then organized these people into an army, and trained them in military skills on the ship. These sold slaves must be young and strong, they have a bitter hatred for those invaders, and they are full of gratitude to the Ming people, willing to be loyal to His Majesty the Ming Emperor, especially a knife, bull, these people who have been with the Ming army for a long time, they have seen the strength of the Ming army, and the longer the time, the deeper their understanding of the Ming army.

San Diego is an ancient city with a history of more than 400 years. In 1541, the Spanish colonist Valdivia arrived here with 150 cavalry and built the first Spanish fort on the South American continent on the Santa Lucia Hill, located in the center of the city, and built a number of primitive residential areas with mud bricks and grass at the bottom of the mountain, which was the prototype of the city of Santiago. Originally a remote area ruled by the Inca Empire, the ancestors of the Incas lived in the highlands of Peru before migrating to Cusco to establish the Kingdom of Cusco, which developed into the Inca Empire in 1438. Between 1438 and 1533, the Inca Empire used a variety of methods, from military conquest to peaceful assimilation, so that the Inca Empire covered almost the entire western part of South America. The power of the empire reached its peak during the reign of Monarch Vajna Capac. In 1526, the Inca Empire was discovered by the Spanish colonizer Francisco Pizarro. In 1529, the Inca Empire was greatly weakened by a civil war over the throne. In 1533, Pizarro led an army to invade the Inca Empire, designing and killing the last monarch of the empire, Atahualpa, and the Inca Empire fell and became a colony of the Spanish Empire. Santiago was also visited by a prince of the Inca Empire, who was the commander of a tribe of Indians, and he treated the Spaniards, who numbered just over 100 people, as guests because the Spaniards had destroyed his political enemies, but the Spaniards had designed to capture him, hang him, and occupy the area. The tribesmen of the One-Knife tribe, loyal to the prince, began the war with the Spaniards, and in the face of asymmetrical weapons, their final result was defeat. Because of the defeat, they can only accept cruel oppression, so the resistance from generation to generation continues, but the fate is becoming more and more sad. In order to minimize the power of resistance, the Spaniards divided the slaves they caught, and those who were willing to accept the rule were left, and those who resisted fiercely were sold farther away as slaves, thereby reducing the proportion of the indigenous population here.

Now the sword and the bull came to the city of Santiago with nearly 3,000 soldiers trained from the warships, and behind them was a fleet of more than 100 Ming troops, which was their strong backing, and also the determination of these 3,000 soldiers to dare to fight against the Spanish rulers. In the face of the Spanish artillery battery on the mountain of St. Lucia, according to the Ming army's attack method, their ranks were scattered very far apart, so as to minimize the threat of artillery and avoid casualties as much as possible.

Seeing a large number of natives attacking, the Spaniards also had to be cautious, the soldiers on the battery were prepared enough*, and they were even a little apprehensive in their hearts, this attack seemed to be different from usual, the previous attacks were gathered in groups, and after rounds of artillery blows, they lost the courage to attack. But today their formations are very dispersed, so the power of the artillery will be much reduced, and the chance of capturing slaves after the artillery is blown up as in the past is very small.

In fact, many of the people in these attacking teams were soldiers of the Ming army, and their role here was to act as grassroots non-commissioned officers, directing these Indian soldiers how to avoid artillery, and some were technical troops carrying mortars, but they were all Ming soldiers, and they were responsible for suppressing the Spanish artillery.

At a distance of four or five miles from the battery, the Spaniards' cannons began to fire solid iron bullets. Looking at the shells flying over, some soldiers were scared, but under the leadership of the non-commissioned officers of the Ming army, they still cleverly dodged most of the iron balls, and only a few unlucky ones were directly stoned to death, unlike the original one that was a large piece of death. The warships of the Ming army did not open fire, because the distance was too far, and even if they could hit here, the power of the shells would be much smaller. When a knife and a bull led the Indian soldiers to move to a distance of about a mile from the battery, the mortar team began to maneuver to fire, although the shells could not blow up the stone bunker of the battery, but the lethality of the soldiers was still very large, especially * is a curved gun, its dead angle is very small, unless it is directly next to the shell over this side of the wall, basically can be blown up, gradually the artillery soldiers of the battery were blown up to heavy casualties, and the solid iron bullet is less, as for the sub-mother gun, its range is shorter, Before the shells could be fired, they were blown up by the mortars of the Ming army.

There weren't many Spanish soldiers stationed in San Diego today, because it wasn't the center of their rule, just a small town on the edge, with only a few armed men on the batteries, except for the soldiers on the batteries. As the artillery power of the fort was suppressed by the mortars of the Ming army, they quickly entered the city and began to sweep away the immigrants, forcing them to run around, which made the Spanish soldiers on the fort feel even more panicked. The ordinary settlers thought that only the fort was the strongest, and many people ran towards it, and as these people followed, the Indian soldiers rushed to the fort.

After entering the fort, the brutal hand-to-hand encounter began, in the original time, these Spanish soldiers with good training and formation coordination, can completely suppress those ordinary young adults who have no military literacy, but this time it is not good, although there are only primitive ash rods and machetes, but the soldiers trained by the Ming army completely have the upper hand. The power of the short-range fighting musket could not be fully exerted, and the length of the ash pole was enough to hit their hands and feet, and the Indian soldiers who formed the battle group now completely had the upper hand, and the Spaniards were beaten back and retreated, and finally could only hide in the only stone tower of the fort, block the door of the corridor with muskets, and shoot in turn, so that they suffered a lot of losses from the attack, and had to withdraw from the range of shooting.

The non-commissioned officers of the Ming army were only responsible for directing their Indian soldiers to attack and dodge according to tactics, and did not directly participate in the hand-to-hand combat on the battlefield. Mortars are definitely not good at hitting such targets, and rifles can't shoot people hidden in the corners, so the Ming soldiers let the Indian soldiers go to the ship to bring two infantry guns, which is a direct shot, and at close range you can aim at the window of the stone building, which is a relatively closed space, it is much more powerful, many soldiers are not killed, but are killed by the blast wave, and each visible window fires a few shells, and the people inside are almost dead.

After the capture of the fort, the Spanish resistance was lost, and all that remained was a one-sided massacre by the Indians, and the city of Santiago became a nightmare for the Spaniards, all the men were killed and poked out, and the women emigrated to a sad end, the lucky ones who did not die at gunpoint and with sticks were assigned to the natives as wives, and finally they did not know what to do, and lost all information.