The coastal ports of the United States of Venezuela were blocked, one of the two destroyers forced to go to sea was sunk, the other barely escaped back to the port with injuries, and all the warships hid in the harbor and did not dare to sail. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

However, it did not take long for the outer harbor of the capital Caracas to be bombed by the airships of the Xia Empire, and all the warships were devastated, all of them were destroyed in the harbor, and the officers and men of the navy suffered heavy casualties.

The Xia Imperial Navy did not look down on the old warships of Venezuela at all, and had no idea of capturing them, and their destruction could have a certain deterrent effect on the Venezuelans.

After that, the Xia Empire's continuous bombardment of its large cities in the country caused them to suffer heavy blows; Production has been severely damaged, with heavy casualties and incalculable property damage, and many Venezuelans have been forced to become displaced and large numbers have been displaced from coastal cities to rural areas.

After President J.V. Gomez seized power in a coup d'état, he adopted a dictatorship, he fought against dissidents, eliminated local forces, banned political parties and trade union activities, suppressed progressive forces, and was known as the "Andean tyrant", which was very unpopular with the new white class, and before and after the Xia Empire occupied Colombia, about hundreds of thousands of wealthy white people fled to Europe, which caused a heavy blow to the local economy.

President Gomez came to power in a coup d'état, and in order to gain the continued support of the army, he paid special attention to the construction of the army, building a well-organized and well-equipped army and garrison, and the treatment of the military was much better than that of the civilian class, becoming a special rentier class.

And President Gomez himself was greedy for wealth without limit, and a large number of national assets were embezzled by him, making him the richest man in South America at that time.

The United States of Venezuela, which had not yet discovered oil, was a backward agricultural country, and its people were mainly engaged in the cultivation and animal husbandry of cocoa, coffee, sugar cane, tobacco, cotton, rice, sorghum and rubber, as well as logging and timber processing.

The newly discovered gold mining area was occupied by the British, and later the Xia Empire occupied Guyana after the mining area was owned by the Xia Empire, and the current mining found in the United States of Venezuela is very poor.

At that time, the United States of Venezuela was heavily indebted, very poor, and the people were living in such poverty that if it were not for President Gomez's strong dictatorship with the military, the people would have risen up against it.

Now the Xia Empire's bombing of Venezuela, not to mention ordinary people, even soldiers have lost the courage to resist.

When Chen Yifeng received a telegram from the General Staff, the intelligence officers who had been lurking in Venezuela in advance also received a telegram from Li Civilian, asking them to rebel against Venezuelan military and political officials as much as possible, and listed a series of preferential conditions.

José Luis, the head of the intelligence unit in Venezuela, is a special intelligence officer with 10 intelligence officers under his command, mainly responsible for intelligence work in several countries in northern South America.

After receiving the order, José immediately divided all the personnel, three people were responsible for plotting against well-known figures in political circles, provincial governors, governors and other local powerful figures, four intelligence officers were responsible for plotting against middle- and low-level officers, and José himself was responsible for plotting against high-level Venezuelan officers, including the chief of the general staff and the secretary of the army.

The other three were in charge of the rebellion in Ecuador, where the time was more relaxed and much less difficult.

The intelligence officers quickly started their development offline, and the entire intelligence station was like a sophisticated machine, quickly running at high speed.

These people who need to rebel are all Venezuelan vested interests, and if there is no external pressure, they will very much support the rule of President Gomez, and they and their families will get a lot of benefits; Now the situation is different, the Xia Empire is about to attack, and even the world powers such as Britain and France are not opponents of the Xia Empire, not to mention that the entire North America is the territory of the Xia Empire, with North America as a base, relying on a strong army, advanced military equipment, and numerous mercenaries, relying on the strength of Venezuela alone to confront it, it is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg.

The loss of personnel and property caused by the bombing of the Xia Empire in various places was constantly reported to Caracas, and the military and political leaders were worried; Caracas was also heavily bombed by the Xia Empire, and the whole country fell into a state of panic due to fear.

High-level military and political officials who are familiar with the truth have their own plans in their hearts.

The Venezuelan Congress has ceased to function, and a large number of lawmakers have secretly fled with their families.

Most of the navy's warships had already been destroyed by the Xia Empire's airships, and the Minister of the Navy approached Commander Light.

Chief of the General Staff Juan Royce and Secretary of War Marco Ozil have secretly sent their families to live in Spain.

Basically all the top military and political leaders are ready to retreat, and no one wants to die with the country.

The vast majority of the people have long lost the trust they deserve in the government because of the turmoil in Venezuela for many years.

The only people who can remain loyal to the president are his 20,000 guards and 30,000 garrisons, as well as some policemen; The newly expanded million-dollar army, with a pitiful low level of loyalty to the president, is already very good that they do not point a gun directly at the president.

Each army commander and division commander has his own plans, desperately using the power in his hands to strengthen his personal power or family strength.

All sorts of detailed information were collected into José's hands, and he gave different instructions to each intelligence officer according to the authority given to him by the empire; At the same time, José arranged for his downline to deliver the handwritten letter to Juan and Marco.

The governors and governors of the provinces received letters of rebellion from the intelligence officers or had their subordinates go to meet with them in person, and the intelligence officers promised them that if they declared the independence of the provinces and joined the Republic of Colombia, their property would not be harmed in any way, and they would be canonized as Emperor of the Xia Empire, and they would continue to be in politics, but with a lower rank; If they are willing to leave, the Xia Empire will arrange for ships to take them to their target territory, and will pay them a large amount of money to keep them fed and clothed for the rest of their lives.

The promise to the army commanders and division commanders and others, intelligence personnel, as long as they lead the army to surrender, the army can be reorganized into mercenaries of the Xia Empire, they can continue to lead the army and enjoy the same level of treatment, the Xia Empire will not interfere with their management of the army, and the Xia Empire will provide updated equipment and basic military expenses.

At the same time, the intelligence agents used their own advantages to create chaos, and joined other businessmen to raise prices and make huge profits, making the lives of ordinary Venezuelans even more impoverished.

Many politicians cooperated with the demands of the Xia Empire's intelligence officers, publicized their dissatisfaction with the government, united with anti-government figures, and actively lobbied the army to prepare to form rebel forces to break the will of the government army to resist.

Although the United States of Venezuela gained independence from Spanish colonization, their upper echelons were all white or mixed-race, did not form an independent nation, did not have a strong cohesion, and were dependent on the powerful countries of Europe and the United States to survive in the past.

Now, under the strong military pressure of the Xia Empire and the division and collapse of intelligence personnel, the country is showing signs of collapse.