China has been in the Americas for far less time than the Spaniards, but it has a large population base backed up by the government's efforts to organize immigration, which has stunned Europeans. Coupled with their attitude towards the Indians, they did not deliberately befriend or even curry favor with the early European colonizers, and the Chinese with their own resources have always faced the Indian tribes with a crushing attitude.

Those who go along with it prosper, and those who go against it die.

The practice of the Chinese in the Americas is very much in line with this famous saying of their nation, all the Indian tribes that do not obey are all run away and all are eradicated, and all the subjugated Indians are scattered and resettled, which fundamentally solves the problem of 'folk race'.

And unlike the Spaniards, the British, and the French, there were many immigrants from other countries in the colonies, in addition to immigrants from their own countries. These people are of course honest when they first arrive, but when they take root in the local area, when the number of people in their community increases, there is an inevitable element of uneasiness—it is difficult for English immigrants and French immigrants to pee in the same pot; Hispanics, Dutch, and Portuguese are also congenitally incompatible; Italians are even more united, and they can fight each other's brains.

In any case, the colonization of the Europeans was much worse than the 'colonization' of China.

It can be said that playing fundamentally, twice has a definition error. The former is for profit, and the latter for expansion. It's not the same at all.

It is precisely this difference in philosophy that makes Europeans initially underestimate China's desire for expansion in the Americas.

The continuous march saw no one throughout, and the few settlements passing through were completely abandoned by the Chinese. Considering their constant harassment, and the occasional small-scale firefight, this is too worrying.

The cavalry continued to advance north with the vanguard, and then kept reporting back to Antonio Banderas.

On the road, the vanguard came across a transit station abandoned by the Wehrmacht, which was a good fortification, but the Chinese abandoned it.

Antonio Banderas's face grew grim. He didn't look at the back of the cavalry galloping away, and looked around with blazing eyes......

He had a feeling in his heart that the Chinese's hole cards were about to leak out. Because his department is already 200 kilometers away from the border between Deng and Mexico. Even if he were to retreat with his troops now, it would not be possible to withdraw to the border in a day or two.

It's just that Banderas has no idea what's going on behind his back.

The Western Route Army, which had to act before the Eastern Route Army for a while, had been beaten to a full head, and the back roads had been dug up. And in the middle of Mexico, far from the border between the two sides, and facing south of Manzanillo than Manzanillo, a siege is going on in the port of Acapulco, which for more than 200 years has been the main port for the galleon trade between Mexico and the Philippines.

When the port of Manzanillo was occupied by Chen Han and not returned, the port of Acapulco, which had fallen due to the Luzon problem, recovered a little during the years of peace between China and the West, but it is clear that the Spaniards had clearly regarded the port of Acapulco as a defensive military port rather than an important trading port.

Mexico City is located in a plateau valley, it is not a flat fertile field, it can be reached in any direction, east, west, north and south, although the western coastline of Mexico is vast, but there are very few places that can reach Mexico City in the fastest speed and shortest distance.

The Spaniards have been operating in Mexico for more than 200 years, and they have only 'walked' a few routes.

The port of Manzanillo is one, but it is now impassable. The Spaniards placed several fortifications on the road ahead, blocking the road to the death.

Puerto Acapulco is another, which is also heavily defended by the Spaniards.

The Spaniards recruited some of Europe's best military engineers from France, and immediately after the last war between the West and the Middle Americans, they planned the defense of this important port on the western coastline. The engineer left his design to the Spaniards to carry it out. A year later, the initial coastal defense works of the port of Acapulco were completed.

After that, the garrison of the port, the major general, reinforced the coastal artillery positions, built tunnels and supporting defensive pillboxes inland. But when he was building the second phase of the coastal permanent fortifications of the port of Acapulco, the French Revolution broke out, and all the energy of Spain was diverted to the European question, and the garrison of the port of Acapulco was forced to be cut, not to mention the second phase of the fortification that the major general of the garrison planned to build, and he himself was transferred back home by Spain.

This stranding, the project has been stranded directly to the present.

Completely attracted by the changes on the European continent, Spain was exhausted, and not only failed to send troops to reinforce the Americas, but instead squeezed more wealth from the Americas to support its own war in Europe. The colonial authorities in Spanish America were also unable to raise funds for the port of Acapulco. The latter now relied on a coastal line of defense and coastal artillery fortresses to support its defenses.

When the war broke out, the main warships of the American fleet of Chen Han's naval division immediately set sail from Tokyo, passed through the port of Manzanillo without entering, and came directly to the sea off the port of Acapulco.

The destroyer fleet led by four flying shear warships, all equipped with 75-caliber hexagonal guns on their decks, sent several small ships built by the Spaniards themselves to the bottom of the sea at a distance of two thousand meters. There was also the dockside shipyard, which was supposed to be the birthplace of these small Spanish boats, which was also smashed to the ground.

Compared with the front-loading smoothbore guns of this era, the hexagonal gun is a bug. Although the shells of the hexagonal cannon are still solid, even the trick of scorching bombs cannot be applied to the hexagonal cannon, in case something happens.

But the cylindrical twisted shells were just right against ships and buildings.

Even the batteries in that harbor were crumbling under the continuous blows of hexagonal guns.

A fortification that can carry a spherical solid projectile does not necessarily turn into an impregnable wall in the face of a hexagonal cannon.

The masonry breastwork, and the church-like stone buildings, under the blow of the hexagonal cannon, it is hard to say how much better they are than the papier-mâché ones. The penetration of cylindrical shells is much stronger than that of spherical shells. The Spaniards were full of strength and couldn't do anything, and the ultra-long range of the hexagonal cannon made them not have the slightest strength to fight back!

Therefore, in the face of the attack of Chen Han's army, just after three days, Puerto Acapulco, a city that gathered half of the defense forces of the entire coastal area of Mexico's west coast, became precarious.

It's dawn. The flying shear bow group at sea, countless cannons aimed at the ruined port of Acapulco began to bombard again. Puffs of black smoke rose from the warships.

Accompanied by pillars of dust, shells fell in the city of Puerto Acapulco. The effective range of hexagonal guns can be at least 3000 meters, and large targets such as cities can be put into the maximum range of artillery - 4000 meters to 5000 meters.

In the port of Acapulco, broken wooden beams fly non-stop, and stones and bricks 'clatter'. The screams in the middle represent the blood of the Spaniards and natives.

The entire port of Acapulco was shattered in the bombardment. The thin buildings looked extremely fragile in front of the hexagonal cannons, the houses collapsed, the whole city was full of howls, and the whole city was completely wrapped in dust and smoke.

Major General González, the military governor of Puerto Acapulco, closed his eyes in pain. How does this make him resist the Chinese?

Their new cannon is too perverted.

Being able to hit so far and with such a high accuracy, the smoothbore cannon is rubbish compared to it.

In the face of an invincible opponent, in the face of an invincible enemy, what could be more depressing for a soldier than this? Gonzalez is only holding on now, and if he misses three meals a day, when his army and militia can't hold on, then he can choose to retreat or surrender with dignity.

Major General González did not have war deaths on his mind, as a Madrid nobleman, he loved His Majesty the King, he loved Spain, but he undoubtedly loved himself more.

The so-called command no longer exists. The resistance of Puerto Acapulco is now entirely spontaneous, or mechanical.

More than 3,000 shells gave the port of Acapulco another complete baptism.

The convoy of the American Fleet, which had arrived in the port of Acapulco the day before, had brought the last supplies and quartersupplies for the army. This is already the second batch of funds they have transferred after the start of the war, even though the previous Army and Marine Corps have not yet arrived.

Two days earlier, on the first day of the Academia Fleet's sailors attacking the port of Acapulco, they had seized a landing ground northwest of the pier in the port of Acapulco, and that night thousands of Spanish colonial soldiers and descendants of the local peninsula launched a counterattack on the position, and more than 200 were taken prisoner.

The convoy that had just left had taken all the prisoners of war, as well as hundreds of captured Spanish peasants.

These people wept and wept bitterly as their ancestors did when they came to America; Howling, wailing. But it didn't work at all. Instead, some of those who excelled were whipped by the sailors of the American Fleet, or simply pushed aside—left to work on the battlefield.

The fragile walls of the port of Acapulco had long been torn apart by shells, and after the marines captured a landing site, the heavy hexagonal cannons were carried ashore one by one, and then the entire walls of the port of Acapulco were directly tested.

The defense of the port of Acapulco was indeed quite strong, not because the American fleet could not gnaw, but for a long time. Therefore, the Marine Corps of the Marine Division left aside the section of the port, and after landing on the shore, it was much more difficult to transfer supplies, but the future of the offensive was also smooth.

As soon as the shelling stopped, a left lieutenant waved his hand, and a battalion of infantry soldiers bravely rushed to the town in front.

The town is located directly north of the port of Acapulco, forming an isosceles triangle with the landing site of the marines and the port of Acapulco.

The town must be taken before the assault on Ciudad Acapulco can be launched.

Gonzalez was not a very brave man. Although he knew that if he appeared on the front at this moment, it would give great encouragement and courage to the soldiers who insisted on resisting. But the moment the cannon stopped, he immediately went to sleep.

It was his chief of staff, Colonel Kordada, who led his guards to the north of the city.

The distance from the headquarters to the front line in the north of the city is very short, and the detours of the streets and houses are only five or six hundred meters at most, and it is true that Acapulco is a very important port, but at its most prosperous time it was only 10,000 people, which is a small city. But in this short room of 100 meters, Kordada was stunned for more than a quarter of an hour.

The whole city has completely changed, really. Having lived in Puerto Acapulco for five years, Coldada really doesn't recognize the city in front of him, and the shelling has caused irreparable damage to Acapulco. The sturdy building was smashed into rubble, and only a broken wall remained. It is now difficult to find a complete house in the once lively streets, and the ground is littered with large and small bomb craters. It's not big, it's not deep.

The church of St. Mary's is entirely made of stone, and it has stood in Acapulco for more than 200 years. It's a place that everyone loves in Acapulco. What now? The whole building is like a tofu scum that has been punched hard, eroding and collapsing.

Major Raphael is commanding his soldiers and militia in a small town north of the city to organize a defensive line against the Chinese attack. In a hail of bullets, only the bravest dared to repair the gaps in the defensive line.

The Spaniards also had warriors, and their blood was also full of fierceness, otherwise the Spaniards would not have built such a big colonial empire. Now that time was a time for them to face a crisis, some of the peninsula's immigrants and descendants took up muskets and sabers and sided with the Spanish colonial army.

While there are reasons for this, it is possible that nationalism is burning.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The hot air balloon floated up, and the Chinese artillery, which had been resting for a while, seemed to have discovered something and continued to sound.

The attacking forces in the small town north of the city withdrew, and this was only the first round of tentative attacks of the day. Because of the cannon, it ended hastily. Lieutenant Zuo ordered the troops to be counted, and twelve were killed and twenty wounded.

"There are still enemies in the town who are resisting. We should continue to bombard until they are completely incapacitated. Captain Zuo asked people to pass the word to the command behind him.

Compared with artillery shells and gunpowder, he cherished the lives of his soldiers more.

The American Fleet has a large amount of arms and ammunition, and the carrying capacity of the transport fleet is much more powerful than that of horse-drawn carriages on land. In the minds of every Wehrmacht officer, the value of a soldier's life is far higher than the value of ammunition.

As long as the conditions allow!

Seeing that the Chinese army outside the city had stopped attacking, Raphael hurriedly asked his men to help strengthen the broken fortifications and count the casualties. But only a moment later, they were hit hard by the sudden turn of the artillery position.

"Fortunately, they are going to the city again."

Raphael muttered irresponsibly in his heart. His soldiers suffered many casualties, but Acapulco never sent reinforcements, and Raphael cursed Gonzalez to die more than once. Cordada is more of a military man than he is!

Raphael had already called for the men to work, using the materials of the collapsed houses, such as bricks and stones, and logs, to reinforce the scattered fortifications, and to build bunkers that could withstand the guns.

The second attack was no different from the first, and there were no more key targets in the town at the moment. It's a big ruin.