Although the number of troops in the landing was not large, when the enemy artillery array near the landing site was effectively suppressed, the night assault and offensive operations began to become much smoother. In particular, the effective combination of heavy artillery fire and attacking forces allowed the opponent, who had just regained some of his morale after the explosion, to disintegrate once again.

At the same time, the second group of lightly armed marines also landed at night at the fastest speed, and when the second group of about 5,000 troops landed safely ashore, and the number of field troops landed on land reached 8,000, the whole battle seemed to have gradually come to an end.

Of course, at this time, Wang Yuan still told the people who went ashore not to relax, because the opponents in this area of defense were not opponents who had not dealt with the main force of the volunteer forces, and they might not imitate some of their own attack methods.

As Wang Yuan expected, when the battle of the night attack was about to be accepted, the violent explosions suddenly sounded again from all directions, and the dense rain of bullets began to fall from the sky, so that the attacking team also suffered more than 400 casualties and losses under the condition of being fully prepared and paying attention to dispersion and concealment as much as possible, which made the attacking team have to reopen when the sky began to gradually brighten, but perhaps because the previous powerful blasting defense counterattack ran out of energy, Perhaps it was because of the initial collapse and the heavy casualties in the assault, and the landing attack force became more and more abundant, and the stubborn resistance of the defenders was not able to stop the army from taking the whole port at a relatively fast speed, and it was not until this time that many horses, which were not suitable for landing at night, began to land on special bridges at this time.

When tapping and cleaning the battlefield, Wang Yuan still felt a little relieved, the entire Acapkol port may be because of the deployment of thousands of medium and heavy artillery, although a lot of gunpowder was consumed or damaged in the previous battle, but still let the attacking team capture more than 900,000 catties of gunpowder and even more than 2 million catties of shells.

Years of civil war, combined with the various large-scale expeditions to Europe, also caused the gunpowder to be depleted very quickly throughout the Old World, and the capture of the port of Acapcol made the ammunition of the entire fleet very abundant. And perhaps because of the expeditionary operations against the European continent a few years ago, the way of fighting in the East has also had a huge impact, so that the quality of these munitions is quite outstanding.

The expedition to the New World carried a lot of horses, of course, but the horses were not used for human propeller power and took up a lot of wasteful tonnage space. As a result, there were only about 2,000 horses accompanying more than 20,000 officers and men, many of whom were light horses. Therefore, this also limits the ability of the entire team to carry gunpowder to the greatest extent.

"If Mexico City or Velak Road also have such complete artillery defense and even combat preparations as here, then our army's attack on the land route this time will face many variables." After thinking about it for a long time, Wang Yuan said without worry.

The officer in charge of commanding land operations and marines felt that the enemy should not have such a large capital: "If the enemy has a defense of the size of Acapcole in Mexico City or on Verac Road to the east, then the medium and heavy artillery alone will occupy the entire firepower of eighty or ninety capital warships." To say that the remnants of the entire Western European forces have such a base for shore defense, and are also mainly concentrated in coastal ports where transportation is more convenient, I believe. But I don't think they have had time to deploy a garrison of this size in the last year in an inland area like Mexico City, at most the port of Velak Road to the east may not be inferior to the garrison here... ”

"We did everything we could to make the most of our forces during this attack. The target is Mexico City and even the Potosi silver mines, and the action should be as swift as possible, and there should be no fear of a temporary division of troops, and I am sure that this time the combat effectiveness of the Marine Corps officers and men is not an ordinary unit. However, if it was determined that the enemy's garrison was too large, the attack would inevitably suffer unacceptable casualties and losses during the previous reconnaissance of the enemy's situation. Although we may face a lot of variables when we attack from the other side around the distant New World, this time our army's capture is also rich, and it should be enough to strengthen the force of sufficient scale to be able to adapt... Wang Yuan finally said.

After a day's rest and military discussions, new combat operations and plans were decided. Because the strength of the expedition was fundamentally limited, in order to maximize the firepower and supplies under the limited circumstances, it was finally decided that the landing force would continue to carry out offensive operations throughout Mexico after landing ashore until the Potosi silver mine area was broken and the core area from Mexico City to Acapcol could be defended. As for the Velak Road in the eastern part of the coast and other places, it is only an opportunity to attack when the conditions are right. At the same time, the main fleet will also start southward as soon as possible after carrying sufficient supplies and gunpowder, and unloading a lot of horses and personnel, and strive to land on the east coast of the Americas in about half a year to a year, during which at least 2,000 elite infantry will follow the army southward and also clear some strongholds in other areas in the south of the New World, including Lima.

After the battle plan was decided, the whole army also quickly began to move, 2,000 horses and 600 well-made carriages that could advance on four wheels or two wheels, accompanied by 5,000 elite troops to attack the deep interior of Mexico City, about 3,000 troops remained in Acapulco, an important port. Although the defense of the harbor did not seem to require much garrison force after having sufficient equipment and firepower, Wang Yuan eventually left enough strength to withstand a considerable number of casualties in the past. After all, although it is quite far from the mainland of the East and even the South Seas, and even more so from Tessie, there are still very navigable currents in many places near the equator that allow ships to sail here in a not too long time. Shi Yong, the new general of the Volunteer Corps who commanded the officers and men of the Marine Corps, also remained behind, taking charge of the expeditionary force to launch an offensive against Mexico City.

In this way, on the second day of the breakthrough of the port, Wang Yuan led the fleet to the south without a moment's delay.

(End of chapter)