The dark streets in front of you looked like they had been baptized by rockets, and under the light of the torches, not a single house was intact, either the gates were flying, or the windows were completely gone, or even the walls were collapsing. Some of the houses were still covered with dried blood, and a bloody corpse lying horizontally.

"Inoue, you take someone over there and occupy that two-story building! Off-road, your people are up in the fire! The others followed me, their guns pointed at the window door, and everyone cheered up and kept their vigilance! ”

The light of the fire in the distance lit up half of Panama City, but Yoshida looked at the small black building thirty or forty meters in front of him, and his eyes were full of caution. If it weren't for the fact that he didn't have any rockets in his hand, Yoshida would have had someone fire at the small building early in the morning.

He had just seen a couple of shadows running into the building with muskets in tow, and shooting him from the other side.

The building was darkly lit, and nothing was known about the situation inside, and no one knew how many people and guns were inside, and no one dared to lead anyone to rush.

"Grenades, throw grenades at me." Yoshida Shoichi didn't want to be stopped by a house, and the enemies in Panama City had not yet been cleared, so now was not the time to delay.

His mission was to clear the area as quickly as possible, and then attack the Spanish Doge's Palace from the flank. The former is important, the latter is even more important.

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

Continuous flashes of fire flashed, and the flames of the explosion lit up the curtains behind the windows. And through this hard-won firelight, Yoshida Masaichi carefully looked at the small building, but still didn't find anything.

Not a single figure was revealed.

"Be careful, aim your guns ahead...... "Yoshida Shoichi finally quietly pounced with a squad of troops. Everyone was scattered, and many of them were sweating on their foreheads, staring at the different windows without blinking.

"Listen to the people inside, surrender quickly, we promise not to kill the prisoners."

"Surrender and don't kill. Die-hard resisters. ”

When Yoshida Shoichi led the population to quietly approach the small building fifteen or sixteen meters away, several grenades were thrown by them, and some were thrown into it through the window, and the explosion shattered the door, table and chairs in the living room. But Xiaolou still didn't move, until they came to the ten meters of Xiaolou, Yoshida Shoichi didn't know, just in a corner of the window on the second floor, a pair of eyes were quietly peeping at them. When Yoshida Shoichi and the others walked within ten meters, a spark suddenly flashed in the corner of the second floor, and a dark figure suddenly stood up from under the window, holding a small bucket in his arms and throwing it at the window.

"Boom la la ......"

With the sound of the glass frame shattering, something the size of a small wine barrel fell from the sky. Yoshida reflexively fired a shot at the window, and a muffled grunt came from upstairs, but a larger burst of fire engulfed everyone downstairs.

"Squadron Leader......," shouted the forward-standing soldier who pulled behind him.

It was already faintly glowing outside, but it was still brightly lit in a tavern near the pier of Panama Port. This is the general headquarters of the expeditionary force's landing operations, and Chai Daji has been sitting in the tavern for more than an hour.

The attack on several forts was smooth, with the Spaniards being poorly prepared for the first reason, and the Spanish army here having only a few rockets being the second.

As the attacking forces began to storm the second and third bastions of Panama, after a period of rocket bombardment, the Spaniards, who had only about five or ten rockets stored in each fort, collapsed.

Then the bombardment of four six-barreled rocket launchers scattered a reinforcement force urgently organized in Panama City, which should have had more than 1,000 people, but was blown up by 24 rockets, and then fled in a hurry under the counterattack of the landing force of 2 or 300 people.

The two forts in the port of Panama were bombarded by hundreds of cannons, and they had little to fight back, and the open-air cannons arranged outside were all in tatters and tatters in a short time, and the few semi-enclosed and enclosed shore defense guns did not do any damage to the fleet, and when the landing force from the north shore wanted to cut off their connection with Panama City, the Spanish soldiers in the two forts chose to flee in a hurry again.

After that, the Marine troops who followed the defeated army all the way into Panama City had an overall advantage.

The tavern was poorly built. After the guards lit the oil lamps, the whole space was as bright as day.

"The tide has set. As long as the Viceroyalty of Spain is taken again, the whole of Panama City will be counted. ”

"We don't know exactly how much we need in the city."

"According to the captives, the defenders of Panama City were between 2,6700 men, and there were originally 30,000 inhabitants in the city, but Panama has been threatened by us in the past two years, and many of the residents have moved away and asked for Colombia, or Colón on the other side of the isthmus. There are now more than 20,000 inhabitants left in the city. ”

"The Spaniards built four arsenals here and stockpiled large quantities of arms and materials."

"There's also a mint. But there shouldn't be too much gold and silver in it. ”

"Luxury houses, monasteries, hospitals, schools, you name it."

"If we can completely occupy everything here, we can go straight home."

Whether it is the wealth of the whole of Panama City or the countless inhabitants here, it is enough to fill the stomach of the entire fleet.

At dawn, the whole Panama City could no longer hear the sound of big guns, and the various departments began to demarcate areas, searching for the remnants of the Spanish soldiers from house to house, and at the same time controlling various material gathering places, and the four arsenals were destroyed by the West Tooth Extractors themselves in the night, which made Chai Daji feel distressed to death.

"The hostile forces in the city must be eliminated." Chai Daji said to the captain of the gendarmerie beside him, "Captain Xiao, I now appoint you as the security captain of Panama City, and your department must not only comprehensively inspect the military discipline of the troops, but also pay attention to the stability of the entire Panama City." You are now recording my order, that Panama City impose a curfew at night from this day until we evacuate, and that any failure to comply will be suppressed.

Each ministry set aside a team to take charge of the defense of the city, and then swept the outside of the city for me. ”

Outside Panama City, there is a road to the east that leads directly to the port of Colón on the Caribbean coast, which they built more than 200 years ago.

It's just that Chai Daji is not interested in Cologne now.

"Today is the first day of our occupation of Panama City, and there is no guarantee that some Spaniards who are not willing to fail will jump out and make trouble. All ministries must brace themselves and not slack off. ”

"Yes." The captain of the gendarmerie stood upright and gave a solemn military salute.

A serious aura enveloped the two of them, and both pairs of eyes were filled with a cold essence. They don't want to kill people indiscriminately, but some people had better be obedient and conscious, otherwise killing people is a good means to maintain order and majesty.

But Chai Daji obviously overestimated the cohesion of the Spaniards.

From dawn until dark, there was no riot as he feared. On the contrary, many Spanish soldiers who fled into civilian homes last night chose to take the initiative to come out and surrender when they were forced to do so.

The Chinese censorship is too harsh and strict, requiring not only the residents of their homes to vouch for each other, mutual authentication to neighbors, but also stripped of their clothes and checked their shoulders.

As a soldier, even if they are a rabble, the strangulation marks on the musket straps on their shoulders are very different from ordinary people. Not to mention the yellowing of the tiger's mouth on the thumb.

These defeated soldiers could not escape. And once it is discovered that some residents dare to hide the defeated soldiers, it will also be an irrepressible disaster waiting for the residents.

There were, of course, fierce resistance from the defeated Spanish troops, but those resistances were quickly extinguished.

Most of the city is deadly silent.

Come to think of it, the devastating attack ability displayed by the expeditionary force at night has swept away the courage of these Spaniards, and now their large army has been destroyed, and only these remnants are left, what courage do they have to resist? That's just an egg hitting a stone.

These Chinese soldiers all carried muskets on their backs, wore blue-green military uniforms and black military uniforms, although they were not very tall, especially those soldiers in black uniforms, but the bright bayonets on each musket, and the fierce momentum exuded by these soldiers, it was very frightening.

Because in the past nearly a year of war, the Chinese have proved their combat effectiveness with facts. How did the Spaniards in Panama City have the courage to resist? Moreover, the pure-blood peninsulars in Panama City are not in the majority, and the Indo-European people are the dominant ones here.

Of the 2,600 or 700 Spanish soldiers, 1,56 were taken prisoner, 5,600 were killed and wounded, and the rest fled outside the city.

The expeditionary force itself suffered a lot of casualties, and the casualties of the leading advance team were all 150, and the casualties of the entire army were less than 300, of which half were killed.

Of the 2,6700 men, there were 5,600 dead and wounded, a casualty rate of 20+, which was already beyond the expeditionary force's expectations for the Spanish army. At the same time, the number of his own casualties was also somewhat beyond expectations, and the reason why Chai Daji's face was not good-looking was that some of the soldiers' casualties were not caused by fighting, but because they broke into the rich Spanish families in the city to extort money and molested women. Fortunately, Chai Daji was stricter than these people, and the number of the latter was twenty or thirty, but it also changed the battle damage from two hundred to three hundred.

Several soldiers who had assaulted women were ordered to be held in confinement and punished with whipping, as well as having their dividends cancelled from the battle.

Chai Daji didn't want to punish them too much, but the gendarmerie had a file there, and he couldn't help but punish them.

Assault on women has always been a red line for Chen's army. Even if you can play them openly after two days, the difference is only in the consumption of a few points, but now they can't be touched. This is the system set by Chen Ming. No one is allowed to disobey.

It has been a long, long time since Chai Daji left the front-line army, and after he took refuge in Chen Han, he did not choose to stay in the first-line army, but went to the military academy to teach. Otherwise, the punishment that awaits those soldiers will only be heavier. Many officers simply ignore these soldiers who have violated military discipline, and will simply throw the soldiers into the hands of the military police and let the military judge judge judge judge judge on trial. Unlike Chai Daji, he also communicated with the captain of the gendarmerie.

As for all the inhabitants of Panama who resisted, of course they were all uprooted, and hundreds of men, women, children, and children were held in solitary confinement, and in the future they were sent to the mines of North America to work as slaves, or to work as drudgers in the seaports.

More than 1,000 Indians were also 'freed' from the city, all of whom were slaves and had a variety of jobs and occupations. These people were not very happy about the arrival of the expeditionary force, and largely resisted, because they did not know the origin of these Chinese. They only know that China is also a powerful country, and has been fighting with Spain for several years, and has won the war against Spain.

Spain organized an army of 100,000 men and failed to defeat them, which was clearly a powerful country.

But how long can the Chinese stay here? I am 'free', but 'free' can't eat, what will I live on in the future? Many people are at a loss, and then they hate the Chinese for ruining their lives.

There were only a handful of Indians, probably one or two hundred, who were very welcoming to the arrival of the expeditionary force. When they accepted the task of guarding the Spanish captives, their eyes and temperament changed.

They were armed with sticks, and their eyes were fixed on the old men, officers, officials, and wealthy merchants, who would be severely beaten if they did not comply, while the soldiers of the expeditionary force next to them just smiled and watched them do the 'sport' and did not stop them.

These officers, the officials of the colonial authorities, and the wealthy merchants of Panama were to be exchanged for silver. Don't the Europeans say 'ransom', so they use the ransom to ransom people.

And these people will return to the Spanish community in the future, and it is hard to imagine that they will still have a friendly attitude towards the Indians, who have endured so many 'humiliations' of the Indians. And as long as they go to squeeze the Indians more vigorously, they are assisting Chen Han.

All kinds of confiscated materials in the city have also been counted, a total of gold and silver equivalent to more than 5 million Chinese yuan, all kinds of jewelry 1670 catties, amount, this is really difficult for them to estimate the value, even if it is an approximate figure, this needs to find an experienced jeweler to estimate. Then more than 600,000 catties of grain, more than 1,000 head of livestock, more than 4,000 long and short muskets [including arsenals], 53 cannons, and more than 200,000 pounds of guns and shells, this is the center of gravity. There were 300 sabers, 5,000 bayonets, more than 400 barrels of gunpowder, some sulfur, saltpeter and other raw materials, as well as more than 30,000 catties of iron and 2,000 catties of copper.

Besides, there are 10,000 or 20,000 people in the whole of Panama City.

The expeditionary fleet really ate a big fat man in one bite.

Before the escape, there were more than 200 Spanish officials and their relatives, 3,000 or 4,000 Spanish soldiers and their relatives, more than 3,000 pure-blooded peninsulars, and about 1,000 half-breeds who served the Spaniards as dogs' legs, not counting the 'liberated' Indian slaves, the number that had to be transported reached 8,000.

After the statistics came out, many people in the tavern looked at each other, this Panama City is really a land of wealth.

This meal is definitely enough for the entire amphibious fleet.

"It's a lot richer than Manzaniyo."

"Head, why don't we go down the road to Cologne?" More than 100 years ago, the Englishman Henry Morgan led pirates to break the Spanish port on the other side of the Isthmus of Panama, and then took Panama City in one fell swoop.

The latter will only be more prosperous than Panama City.