On March 14, 1783, a fleet of twenty-two warships and transports appeared in the mighty Guatemalan Ocean. Obviously, this is a fleet of Chen Han's North American Expeditionary Force.

Now on the west coastline of the Americas, except for the blue sky and white sky and red flags of the Chinese, there is no second flag that can fly in such a large fleet.

The fact that the Spaniards' fleet had already left the west coast was also evidence that they had only been able to obtain information about the rockets for a few days.

Since the sinking of the destroyer, the headquarters of the Expeditionary Force has issued an order that all naval warships must maintain a safe distance of more than 500 meters from any ship during their mission.

A small sampan is used as a tool to send sailors to the target ship. The incident of being attacked by rockets must not break out a second time.

There are a total of 12 warships in the fleet this time, six of which are standard third-class battleships, equipped with between 70 and 80 guns, and the remaining two small and two are four flying shear bow warships, and two are five-masted Chinese-style sea ships, which have specially strengthened the wall thickness and keel of the ship, although there are only 44 guns, but there are 24 20-pound heavy guns, and then 15-pound guns and 10-pound guns, the range and firepower are not weak, and the tonnage has also caught up with the 1,000-ton medium-sized flying shear bow sailing ship.

Six of the ten transports were medium-sized Western-style galleons, and then four Chinese-style five-masted ships.

The speed of the ships of the fleet as a whole can be divided into three stages, and the Chinese sailing ships are significantly slower, although they require much fewer soldiers to sail than the Western-style sailing ships, and they are also faster than the Western-style sailing ships in the headwind.

The entire fleet was loaded with an entire infantry regiment of land and a battalion of cavalry, all of which were put together by a cavalry force that had to be put under pressure on the front line after the Spaniards caught fire in their backyard, so that the expeditionary force also had a surplus of troops to draw from.

The current main battlefield between China and the West is completely confrontational, and no one dares to attack easily. The presence of rockets raises great concerns about both offensives.

The Spaniards could not be defeated after several failed attacks, and the expeditionary force was frightened after seeing the defeat of the Spaniards, and did not dare to launch a frontal attack.

In the original plan of the expeditionary force, the strategic plan to deal with the 100,000 troops of the Spaniards was completed in only three months. Through successive frontal battles, the Spaniards were crushed to fight and their living forces were massively annihilated. The operational plan of the General Staff was only three months.

But now, three months have passed. The end of the war is still far away.

The expeditionary force, which did not dare to launch an offensive on the frontal battlefield, could only pay attention to other aspects.

After the start of the war, the expeditionary force, which had no sea supremacy but no surplus land forces, could now finally send out a bold attack by naval and land forces. The scope of the war was not just Mexico, but the entire west coast of the Americas.

It may cost some casualties to gnaw at the coastal ports of the Spaniards with fleet and land forces, but it is better than fearlessly throwing human lives into a frontal attack and eating rockets, right?

The fleet also carried a large number of guns and ammunition, and everywhere they went, they would mobilize the oppressed and oppressed Indians, give them the munitions and supplies they needed, and light the smoke of the Indians' resistance.

Within a thousand nautical miles or two to the south of the Xiajiazhou Peninsula, it can be said that everywhere they fanned the flames, and disturbed the peace of the Spanish backyard.

They wanted to harass the entire territory of the Spaniards in the Americas, not just one Mexico.

The expeditionary force believed that the Indians would suffer from the brutal exploitation of the Spaniards wherever they went; They believe that there is a sharp, irreconcilable contradiction between the two, wherever they may be.

At this time, the fleet sailed on the sea outside the Viceroyalty of Guatemala, as a country in later generations, Guatemala's presence in the Chinese folk was much weaker, and many people did not know this country, but in history, Guatemala was the rocker of the Spanish conquest of Mexico.

Although the prefectures were under the jurisdiction of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the Spaniards had their own colonial system, and there were prefectures under the four viceroyalties, and the territory of these prefectures was to a certain extent the territorial territory of later Central and South America. However, the Governorate of Guatemala was established ten years before Mexico City.

The fleet set sail from the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula and traveled to Guatemala for five days, but because there were no Spanish ships on the sea, the Spaniards and natives were completely defenseless when they appeared in the port of San José (not the capital of Costa Rica, a name that is common in the Americas).

Twelve warships lined up at a distance of five or six hundred meters from the port of San Jose, and hundreds of cannons bombarded the port area of San Jose without stopping, and white gunpowder smoke enveloped the entire fleet.

At the same time, many small boats were laid down on the transport ship, and the soldiers of the 6th Squadron of the Japanese Advance Brigade were divided into 10 small boats and struggled to row towards the dock area on the shore. Behind them, some sailors also rowed their boats and began to move forward on the sea, but their purpose was not to land and seize the beach, but to shorten the distance to within 500 meters and launch rockets from the boat.

The soldiers of the 6th Squadron soon approached the port area, and to their surprise, there was no one in the harbor of San José at this time, except for a few sparse ships that had been hit by cannonballs, and not a single Spanish defender could be seen.

Did everyone run away?

The squadron leader of the 6th squadron was confused. Could it be that the Spaniards saw the fleet and knew that they were not opponents, so they picked their picks and ran away?

The battery in the port of San Jose did not know when it had stopped firing, and the squadron leader could not see anyone with a telescope.

When the Advance gave the signal that progress was going well, the guns began firing an extension towards the interior of the harbor, and then the 6th Squadron began to stride towards the harbor battery. They managed to occupy the empty battery, the crooked cannons, the smoke of the rocket explosions, and the bodies of the Spanish soldiers who had died tragically showed what had just happened here, but there was not a single living person to be seen now.

"Yaga. A bunch of cowards, cowards. ”

The squadron leader waved the saber in his hand and slashed at the neck of a dying Spanish wounded soldier, blood splattered, and the wounded Spanish soldier who only had one breath left was killed, which was the only living hole in the entire battery.

"Cowards, a bunch of cowards." Obviously they can still fight back, and they still have artillery, but they actually abandoned the battle and fled, how did these cowardly Spaniards occupy such a large and fertile land in the Americas?

The squadron leader thought of his hometown, so many people who did not even have a place to stand, who were busy all day long without clothing, and who worked day and night in the cramped, volcanic and earthquake-prone land of Japan, and countless people who even had the luxury of filling their stomachs.

However, on his first day as a samurai, he wept tears over the fact that he could eat a bowl of white rice poured with sea fish and tofu soup, compared to the Spaniards who occupied the vast, fertile, and rich land of the Americas and did not know how to cherish the land.

The land here is so fertile that you can reap a handful of seeds in three or four months; The land here is so vast that each person can't occupy a hundred or a thousand acres of land......

The Spaniards are simply wasteful, shameful waste.

That is the world's number one loser, the world's number one fool, who is wantonly squandering his wealth.

The Spaniards in front of him thought of the Japanese squadron leader, and a heartfelt hatred for the Spaniards rose in his heart.

It's like a poor egg who can't eat enough to eat, watching the feeling of the rich man lavishly gargling with bird's nest and paving the ground with gold bricks.

It is not pure envy of wealth, but a hatred of waste.

It's shameful to waste –

The 6th Squadron quickly occupied the deserted harbor area, and they searched the entire San Jose harbor, but there was not a single living figure except for a few houses on the shore that were littered with debris. On the contrary, a batch of guns and gunpowder were collected, and even the cannons had more than a dozen intact.

"Report to the captain, our department has searched within three hundred meters of the port area, and has not found any Spanish soldiers or natives." The squadron leader of the 6th squadron reported to the group leader. Now that the establishment of the Japanese Advance Brigade and the Security Corps has changed, Chen Ming has copied the Japanese military structure in his impression on their heads, which makes him feel a distorted sense of coolness in his heart, and it is a squad-squad-squadron-brigade-wing-brigade from low to high.

A brigade is a battalion, a wing has a strength of about 3,000, and a brigade is about 10,000. There are no divisions!

At present, whether it is a standing team or a security team, brigade and regimental commanders are all honorary titles, and they are not responsible for actual command, otherwise the power will be too great. Moreover, the danger of 10,000 formed troops composed of different races will increase geometrically.

It is true that Chen Han is raising a dog, but this dog cannot become a wolf, and Chen Han must not repeat the mistakes of the Western Jin Dynasty.

After hundreds of years of hard work by the two Han Dynasty, the Southern Xiongnu was finally trained into a Samoyed who could be funny, a scoundrel, and a cute Samoyed, but it fell into the hands of the Sima family, and the cute Samoyed became a vicious Tosa dog. Therefore, a brigade and regiment-level position is an honorary title, and it does not match the actual military power. So far, Chen Han has rarely dispatched brigade-level teams or security teams.

There was a large group of Japanese soldiers who followed the fleet south, and it was naturally this brigade that landed at the port first.

The captain did not have the full arrogance of the leader of the 6th Squadron, he stood at the top of the San Jose harbor battery, looking down on the whole of San Jose to the east, and all that was surging in his heart was endless pride.

Such a fertile land will be subject to their most ferocious and merciless ravages in the coming time. He likes it so much!

All that echoes in the captain's mind now is the military order he received before he set off, snatching everything that can be robbed and burning everything that can be burned.

Just like that, how many votes can I earn?

He didn't have the extra heart to think about Japan, and now he wasn't Japanese. He has already obtained the red book, and he is a Chinese who is serious about the eight classics.

"Kill—"

With the command of the brigade commander, the soldiers of the entire brigade let out an exhilarating shout. The eyes of all the Japanese soldiers lit up with gold, silver, cattle, horses, livestock, everything, endless wealth was right in front of their eyes.

"Shifts, shifts ......"

The bright bayonets were raised above their heads, and more than 500 people cheered to their heart's content.

War, spoils, and a good life have been completely equated with each other, and every Japanese soldier who stood up has become accustomed to this 'life'. This is the biggest motivating factor for their heroic fight!

Whether it's the natives of Borneo, or the natives of Luzon and Mindanao, or the natives of Java and Sumatra, they can be cold-blooded and ruthless, because they are used to all this, used to this 'formula'.

In the Americas, the same is true.

"Bang Bang ......"

When the advance party entered the San Jose city, the counterattack came, and the captain could see through the binoculars a sporadic number of Spanish soldiers and locals hiding behind buildings or barricades with muskets, shooting at them.

But the captain of the group did not see the artillery.

"Line up."

"Raise your gun."

"Aim."

"Put."

A squad of Japanese soldiers quickly lined up in a 5X2 line with the slogan of the squad leader, and then ten muskets were pointed at the window of a house.

The difference between a well-trained soldier and a rabble is not only in the difference between the two sides in a large-scale array, but also in a small-scale offensive battle, the former can quickly line up a neat line of troops and fire a neat salvo under the orders of the officer.

And the musket of the current era, the poor accuracy, must be compensated for by numbers. The captain clearly saw two blood spikes on the chest of a middle-aged white man behind the window, and the whole person disappeared from his sight with the flying wooden frame.

"Aim!"

"Put!"

With the sound of a command, a medium-sized rocket flew out of the launcher, and the ground was scorched by a scorching tail flame. When the explosion was heard, an improvised barricade made of wagons, wood, and dirt flew up. A single medium-sized rocket is enough to turn the hard work of countless people into purgatory.

"Attack!"

A squad leader swung forward with a saber, and more than twenty soldiers with bayonets bent down and quickly rushed to the barricade that had been blasted through the middle.

The soldiers of the Advance Team successfully crossed the barricade and entered the rooms on either side of the barricade, and found nothing, except for a body behind the barricade, and it was clear that all the people here were either dead or all who were still alive had fled.

"Go on the offensive."

The pace of the marching team will not stop at all, even if many people are chasing the figure of the enemy on one side, and actively searching for anything of value in the room on the other.

Even though it's just a copper kettle, some people stuff it into a bag behind their butts.

The whole city of San Jose was not very big at all, the size of a town in China, and by the time the cavalry and infantry battalions entered the town, the advance team was in complete control.

In total, they killed and captured nearly 100 resistance fighters and seized more than 130 muskets.

It's a pity that they can't continue to attack the interior of Guatemala, according to the rules, it is already a plate of food that belongs to the rest of the plate. The team stepped forward to eat San Jose and plucked the oil, so they couldn't stretch their hands indiscriminately.

How much the five infantry combat battalions and one logistics battalion can achieve in the coming days depends on their ability.

The Advance Team was to stay behind to take care of the security of the San Jose port while the main force was dispatched.

"Yaga! What about the others? Is there only one hundred and ten people in the whole of San Jose? ”

"What about the rest of the residents?"

"That's wealth, too."

The green tendons on the captain's forehead are about to burst. It's like a rich man who opens his treasure room and suddenly finds that his treasure room is empty, and all the gold and silver treasures have been gone.

San Jose is a port, but in recent years there has been no maritime trade here, so it is certainly not a good place, but the Japanese team is still happy to choose it. Not only because they are standing up, but also the first substitute for the expeditionary force many times, even if it is now a guerrilla on the west coast, the expeditionary force occupies an absolute advantage, and the first shot is no longer to send death, but to make a fortune, but the captain still hopes to get the first position.

In addition to the eternal feelings of the team itself, it is because San Jose is located in the port, and not only the goods here can be counted as their profits, but also the local residents.

As it has already been said, if you take everything that can be snatched, isn't that person also a 'thing'?

The captain knows very well what kind of price an Indian white slave can sell in China!

"Even if all the residents were to evacuate, it wouldn't be that fast."

"They must be hiding somewhere."

"Find them all for me."

The angry captain grabbed the sky with his fingers, and the intense emotion made him feel as if he was about to tear the sky off.

"Captain, Your Excellency."

"The church ......, and there are people in the cellars of the port church."

God obviously did not want to let this Japanese team lose money, and just when the captain was angry and brandished the saber made of stainless steel that cost a lot of money in his hand, and cut a small tree with the thickness of an arm to pieces, the good news arrived.

When a squadron leader led his troops to harvest the port church again, they finally found the San José residents hiding in the cellars, along with a middle-aged priest.

"Get them all out and get them out for me."