The attack on the last land stronghold of the coalition forces in the area of Velak Road was chosen before the light of day, and the main force was launched by land first. More than 100 mortar guns with a body weight of about 300 catties and even some remaining explosive shells on the fleet were classified as ground forces led by Shi Yong to organize the attack.

In the past six months, the 8,000 land troops occupying the area around Mexico City have roughly digested and screened and absorbed tens of thousands of Indians, and there is no shortage of manpower for the time being, so there are conditions for a larger-scale blasting attack, using gunpowder captured in the ports on the west coast of the Mexican Viceroyalty and even Mexico City.

Over the past few months, the coalition forces along the Velak Road have also built a number of winding and covered trenches near the port, which can hardly pose a threat even if a few pounds of heavy man-powered trebuchet stones are thrown from a distance of one or two hundred paces, or a group of six or seven bullets flying from a distance of a mile. However, this time, Shi Yong prepared a total of more than 600,000 lead bullets weighing up and down a pound, and also attacked at the limit distance of the blasting attack from about one mile to about 500 paces, and used most of the captured gunpowder in almost one attack.

Although the coalition forces stationed in the siege were well prepared, their personnel were as dispersed as possible in a much deeper defensive system than before, and they were generally covered with masonry or tunnels, they suffered almost one-time casualties in the earth-shaking blasting attack, losing more than 6,000 men, about a quarter of the defenders' strength. And that's not all, under the heavy lead bullet blow like a hail, many of the covered defenses that didn't seem to be too expensive were broken in this situation, and the strong bows and heavy arrows that began to be fired from all directions and even the three or two bullets of ordinary guns began to bring more effective casualties at this time.

Perhaps because they knew that their last remaining men were of little value, even though the last coalition forces stationed in the Velak Road fortification group had suffered more than a quarter of the casualties in the previous fierce blows and attacks, they were still met with fierce resistance when the army launched its attack after daybreak, and at this moment, the 120 heavy mortar guns transferred from the ships of the navy also launched a continuous and fierce fire under the operation of nearly 2,000 gunners. Using preloaded shells, 240 air-burst blasting shells were fired in less than a minute or so.

In the face of the coalition positions, which already have a well-established trench system and are relatively scattered in terms of strength and positional area, these heavy projectiles that explode at a height of more than 100 meters and as little as 120 meters under skillful operation are not small, but the scale of damage caused is not large. After all, the power level of black powder in this era was very limited, even if it was a blasting shell of about 300 catties, the actual killing range was not much better than that of the 1007 mm mortar shells of later generations, and only brought a total of two or three thousand casualties. However, the loud sound temporarily disturbed and suppressed the defenders' counterattack fire in a short period of time, and it took this opportunity to take advantage of the fact that the attacking troops on the road led by Shi Yong had approached the defenders' trenches and began to use bows and arrows and explosive black powder grenades to launch a fierce sweep and confrontation.

The violent explosions began to sound again from all around the position, and the defenders also began to activate the blasting defense attack, although at this time the sky had begun to brighten, but in the face of the scale seemed to be not much inferior, and the bullet rain was more dense when the blasting defense counterattack, the attacking team still suffered a lot of casualties and losses in the case of protective preparations, The more than 6,000 troops who participated in the attack and even the more than 10,000 Indian servants who followed the action also suffered about one-fifth of the casualties in a short period of time in this fierce explosive defensive counterattack of the Spaniards, and the attack had to be temporarily halted.

Of course, the deterrent effect of such a one-shot deal did not last long, and only a quarter of an hour or so later, the fierce attack began again.

If the defenders have an advantage in fortifications and an absolute advantage in troops, then this battle will of course be more or less variable. However, the 5,000 or so retreaters who were engaged in the attack this time were the most elite forces, and they had already suffered a lot of blows and heavy losses in the previous battles, and their combat effectiveness had begun to decline a lot.

In order to prevent the team from suffering uncontrollable casualties and losses when cleaning up the battlefield, most of the manpower invested was Indians who had not been defeated in the previous fierce blasting attack, which also reduced the pressure on the battlefield a lot.

When the enemy corpses were cleared and disposed of when they encountered resistance that the Indian servant forces could not cope with, the selected elite of the marines would intervene in the battle at this time, and soon the process and stages of cleaning up the battlefield began to pass in the decisive battle after the fierce blasting attack and artillery bombardment.

The casualties of the 6,000 or so Marine Corps officers and men who participated in the battle were close to 2,000, but a stone that had been pressing on the hearts of the officers and men for a long time gradually fell to the ground at this time.

"Let the officers and men get on board! Perhaps the battle is not really over yet, and there are still remnants of the enemy in the west of Tessie waiting for us along the northern coast... ”

Thousands of officers and men began to use the prepared drawbridge treads to step on the ships one after another, ready for the final round of expeditionary sweeps. Although the war is not really over, the officers and soldiers who have not received the education of foolish soldiers also generally understand the situation at this time, and even if there are some battles in the future, they may no longer encounter decent resistance from such a large scale of enemy forces.

Contrary to what was expected, the fleet at this time did not sail directly to the north, but to the northwest, and the target was of course the remnants of the European land at this time. Of course, Shi Yong also understood the significance of such an arrangement, and did not want the elite Marine officers and soldiers to suffer more serious casualties.

(End of chapter)