Panama City faces the sea to the west and is more than ten miles away from the port, and more than a dozen long-barreled cannons are deployed, with a maximum firing range of four or five thousand meters and an effective firing range of about two thousand meters.

It was clear that the Ming army was familiar with the range of artillery, and the assembled troops were all outside the effective range, and only sent stragglers to within three hundred meters.

The total number of artillery pieces carried by the fleet on the voyage reached 3,000, the range was short, the firing speed was 2,000, and the maximum firing range was about 1,000 Hongyi cannons.

If a city was difficult to capture, Huang Yong could have taken the time to bring the guns equipped with warships ashore and cooperate with the field artillery to bombard them indiscriminately.

It's just that Panama City looks weak defensively, and if it carries out a destructive attack, it will take time and energy to repair it after it is captured, which is too cost-effective.

Therefore, Huang Yong's tactic was for the Minnie gunners to block the cannon positions at the head of the city, so that the defenders could not effectively fire their cannons, and then obtain an intact city.

It proved to be effective, and it took longer to lay out the tactics than it did in actual combat, and the Spaniards had no idea that the Minnie guns in the hands of the skirmishers were already capable of reaching the defenders.

Half an hour had passed, and the defenders had not spotted the Ming artillery positions, so they did not realize that they were already within range of the Minnie gunners, and by the time they heard the "crackling" gunfire, it was too late.

The effective firing rate of five or six hundred mini gunners exceeded ninety percent, no less than five hundred mini shells harvested lives, more than 100 Spanish arquebusiers were killed, and more than a dozen gunners who were ready to fire were headshot by snipers.

Unfortunately, their military superior, Captain Miguel, was so conspicuous that he was killed on the spot by five Minnie bullets at the first round of gunfire without the slightest pain.

The officers of the Marine Division's Minnie gunners who loved to hit the enemy, and the gunners with outstanding shooting performance of five or six hundred formed a skirmish line when they approached the ideal position.

These best of the best musketeers are able to hit their targets at this distance, even without having to aim carefully.

After a rain of bullets, the defenders of the city who had narrowly escaped all fell down.

Soon there were follow-up Marines running close to the city walls, but it was not easy for them to find their targets.

It seems that without killing a single enemy, half of its own men were lost, and the defenders of the city were torn apart.

The enemy was fierce, ten times more numerous than their own, and it was clear that their weapons were superior to their own, and in this case, the colonists who bullied the weak and feared the hard were instigated, and the Spanish Army made a wise choice - a decent surrender.

In order not to anger the winner, the defenders who chose to surrender were more honest and did not dare to play tricks.

Huang Yong led the army into the city without massacre, and arranged for people to collect weapons and concentrate on guarding hundreds of young and middle-aged Xiyi.

The colonists, who had never suffered such a crushing defeat, looked at the army from the Ming Dynasty with horror, and they really couldn't imagine why there were such well-equipped troops in the far east, and the number was unbelievable.

It was possible to leave the lives of the Xiyi colonists, but it was impossible to leave the property, and soon precious metals and jadeite, agate, and pearls were piled up, and the preliminary estimate was close to 10 million taels in silver.

Wang Zheng, Lin Minghai, Xu Erjue, and Wang Yuqi immediately organized immigrants to strengthen the city, which was too small to accommodate 10,000 or 20,000 people, which did not conform to the living habits of the Han people.

They were to command the craftsmen and drive the slaves to build a city outside Panama City close to the sea that could accommodate 50,000 soldiers and civilians, and the name was also determined by Huang Han a long time ago, called "Hanwei City".

Huang Yi and Yu Fei each led two 1,000-mile marines to attack and advance to the north, south, and west after landing, and searched for a range of 200 miles centered on the landing site for half a month, all the way to the west coast of the Caribbean Sea, which belongs to the Atlantic Ocean.

Under the blows of the armed forces of the leading era, the progress was rapid, and the enemy army was invincible.

Fort San Lorenzo, Fort Portovero, Fortress of San Lorenzo and other fortifications built by the Spanish were captured one by one.

It was not that the Spaniards were vulnerable, but that they had too few troops, and the garrison in the fortress of San Lorenzo, which had the largest number of troops, was only more than three hundred.

Moreover, they were very unaccustomed to the new tactics of Minnie's gunners' sniping, and found that their musketeers could not beat their opponents at all, and the gunners were killed one after another when they turned their guns to aim, and they immediately lost the confidence to defend the castle.

The Marines would then send three Spanish soldiers captured in Panama City to the castle to shout at the castle, telling the defenders the news of the fall of Panama City and persuading them not to die in vain.

If you can't defeat the enemy, you are doomed to not be able to wait for reinforcements, and you heard the words of your comrades-in-arms who became prisoners of war say that they would not be executed or mistreated if they chose to surrender, and the defenders naturally chose to surrender.

Therefore, not a single military fortress experienced a bloody battle, but after dozens of Spanish soldiers were killed, a white flag flew over the castle.

Within a month, Huang Yi, Yu Fei and other generals led four or five thousand marines to attack seven Spanish military fortresses, killing more than 500 Spanish soldiers and capturing more than 1,200.

The number of natives captured was only 20,000 or 30,000, and now these Spanish colonists have led 10 to 20 natives under the command of the Han Chinese to build cities, reclaim land, mine stones, and burn bricks and tiles.

The colonists did not dare to resist, and few thought of escaping.

It was not just because the "Red Banner Army" did not abuse them because they were given food and clothing, but the colonists knew that their hometown was far away from the ocean, and they could not return home anyway with two legs, and it was relatively safer to stay in Panama City to work than to flee into the jungle.

The natives were killed too hard by the colonizers, and the hatred was buried too deeply, and it is not unusual for the white race to have no muskets in their hands, like lambs to the slaughter, caught by the natives, cooked and eaten.

This is not alarmist, there are not a few cannibalistic tribes on this continent.

As a result, colonists would rather accept highly civilized neo-colonist labor than flee, and too many whites were working hard to be rewarded for being recognized for performing well.

The pioneer group was well prepared and brought enough provisions, and even if it was completely on its own, it was able to build a city by the deserted sea.

The results are better than expected, and there are too many indigenous laborers, and although most of these people are uncivilized and a little stupid, they are not a problem to do coolies.

But one or two thousand white young men basically have some skills, and a similar number of white women can also sew and mend, do laundry and cook, and have their participation in the work, and it is much easier to manage the natives.

Panama City has a place to stand on the cone, and pioneers such as Huang Yi, Yu Fei, Shi Daxuan and so on are full of pride, and at this moment they all understand the intention of the "King of Hanjiang County" to develop the sailor at any cost.