This is almost the first war in the world where people can understand the specific process in such real time, although the Tang themselves have hidden many important details and secrets, but even the facts that can be published are enough to shock the people of Europe. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 In the past, Europeans were accustomed to learning the details of a war or event only months or even years later, and the civilians of many countries basically had no way of knowing what the country was going through, which colonies had wars, where and with which countries had conflicts.

But now, you only need to spend 12 pence to buy a Datang Daily to know the world's major events. Even, a member of the British House of Commons privately told a friend that the British military did not need to keep its own intelligence system at all, because that group of idiots could not get as much information as he could get from the English edition of Datang Daily. As now, the British learned about the war in the Americas almost exclusively through the English edition of the Datang Daily.

The local newspaper industry in the UK is not without action, and they will also spend money to buy news from Datang News Agency, or find Datang Daily to reprint it, otherwise there is really no way to compete.

Of course, there is no way to do this, the news system of the Datang Republic such as Datang Daily and Tang News Agency has a strong information and communication capability, and behind it is a country's news ability and technical level, and the military and Datang officials all take the initiative to transmit the news to Tang News Agency, and then send it directly to Europe and other parts of the world. As far as what happened in the Americas is concerned, Datang has a large number of journalists and a large number of channels in the Americas, which is a convenience that Europeans do not have. Plus the fast communication of wireless telegraphy. It also enables Europeans to get fresh and hot news as quickly as possible.

It's not that there are no Europeans who don't see the benefits of this ability to communicate. However, they still have a cable telegraph in their own country. Transoceanic communication is still not possible for them for the time being. Britain, France and other countries have repeatedly hoped that Datang will provide them with similar technology, but the Tang people have not relented.

Regardless of the speed of the newsletter, if you just look at the content, European news readers will find that New Spain is almost finished. At the beginning of the war, Datang Daily was not afraid to leak secrets, and compared the situation of the two sides. The correspondent of the Datang Daily writes that in North America. The Tang Republic has an army of more than 30,000 people on the west coast and the Gulf of Mexico, and the Tang Dynasty can also mobilize reserve troops to participate in the war, so the actual strength that the regular army of the Tang Army can invest should be 40,000 or 50,000 people. Moreover, the Tang Army can mobilize foreign legions from the Asia-Pacific region to help in the war at any time, and it is not too difficult to transfer 10,000 or 20,000 attached troops. These units are equipped with the best weapons and the best training, and many have actual combat experience and are familiar with the modes of modern warfare. On the other hand, the Spanish colonial army. In recent years, due to economic problems, they have been slow to update their equipment. Moreover, the level of weapons generally lagged behind the Tang Army by more than an era. In terms of numbers, they do not have an advantage, the colonial Spanish army is about 30,000 people, and they are scattered all over the place, and they will encounter particularly big trouble in the face of the Tang army that takes the initiative to attack.

European readers are convinced by this analysis, and many people do not have a clear understanding of the strength of Datang, but when it comes to the facts, most people are still not optimistic about Spain. Especially now in Spain, due to the death of Carlos III, there is a political struggle in the country, and it is not even possible to determine whether to support the colony of New Spain.

Sure enough, as expected in the newspapers, the Don army captured a large area of land in a very short time, and the Spanish side was overwhelmed to deal with it.

In the New Spring of 1789, the 3rd Brigade of the Don Army and the 2nd Regiment of the Xiandeng Army, after crossing the Sierra Madre Occidental, came to Guadalajara. Prior to this, the Spanish National Revolutionary Party also tried to start a riot in Guadalajara, but it was unsuccessful, so the Don army chose to storm the city.

With great difficulty, the Don army pulled eighteen 105-mm howitzers from Puerto Vallarta outside the city of Guadalajara, with which they carried out a heavy bombardment of Guadalajara. The two sides fought fiercely on the city after the shelling, but the Spanish army was unable to defeat the formidable 3rd Brigade of the Don Army, fled in a hurry, and retreated from Guadalajara. It took only a day and a half for the Tang army to capture the second largest city in Mexico, and after the subsequent Tang army arrived here, the Tang army pointed directly to Mexico City, the heart of Mexico to the east.

At the same time, the Don Army also began operations on the Eastern Front. The Eighth Brigade and the Ninth Brigade, which had just been formed for half a year, together with the soldiers of the mixed foreign brigade, set out from Aoliang, the capital of Pengzhou, and advanced to the southwest. The expedition of more than 10,000 Tang troops naturally required a large amount of logistical supplies, but fortunately, the Tang Army on the Eastern Front did not face complex terrain like the Tang Army on the Western Front, they faced the endless Great Plain of Texas and the coastal plain of eastern Mexico.

The Tang Army soon launched an offensive against the Spanish army in San Antonio, due to the limited number of Spanish troops stationed here, in the face of nearly 10,000 Tang troops in a panic, they originally planned to use military fortifications to hold on for a period of time, but the Eighth Brigade used trucks to pull 155 mm heavy guns, although the artillery skills of the recruits were not very good, but they still smashed the fortress of the Spaniards. The Spaniards chose to surrender after the bombardment, because they did not have an advantage in firepower and numbers, and they were unlikely to get any reinforcements, so surrender was the wise choice.

At this time, the Spaniards had not yet established Houston, and San Antonio was the most important town in Texas. After the 8th and 9th Brigades broke through San Antonio, they left only a small number of troops to garrison, and then continued southward, successively breaking through several Spanish towns, and finally met with fierce resistance from the Western Army in Monterrey, Nuevo León, but the Spaniards were muted again after encountering the heavy artillery of the Don Army, and still chose to surrender.

In this way, the 8th and 9th Brigades, which were hardly considered combat effectiveness in the Tang Army, marched all the way, and actually fought with great momentum and did not receive any losses. The next part penetrates deep into the northern part of the Mexican Alti and captures Salti. and joined forces with the 7th Brigade in the Zacatecas area. The other continued its movement south along the plains. Successive captures of Tamaulipas, Tampico and other places.

The foreign brigade stationed in the Bahamas landed directly in Veracruz. and was supported by the Insurrectionary Forces of the National Revolutionary Party of Mexico, which then entered Puebla with the Foreign Brigade and the Mexican Insurrectionary Army.

After taking Guadalajara, the Tang Army on the Western Front also attacked Guanajuato in two routes, one into Guanajuato, and the other into Michoacán in the southeast.

By February 1789, the Tang army had formed a five-way encirclement of Mexico City, with tens of thousands of troops on standby, with a large number of machine guns and more than 500 artillery pieces of various types. His Excellency Governor Flores' garrison in Mexico City was only 10,000 men, and they were not fully equipped. Lack of cannons.

To add insult to injury, the Tang Army's performance made the Spanish army's morale almost collapse, deserted soldiers appeared in an endless stream, and there were even Spanish native white officers who surrendered to the Tang Army collectively with their own troops. To make matters worse, the victory of the Don Army encouraged the Mexicans, who had already rebelled, and the native-born whites and Indians, encouraged by the Mexican National Revolutionary Party, revolted one after another, and in some places drove away the local Spanish colonial officials without even a single weapon. Most of the towns were occupied by the Don army. They all announced their accession to the Tang Republic, and even more exaggeratedly. The Kuomintang also launched and succeeded in Chiapas and Guatemala, which were far beyond the reach of the Tang Army, also announcing its accession to the Tang Republic.

All of a sudden, the end of the Spaniards' journey seemed to be on paper.

The situation of the New Spanish War was so eroded that Spain was greatly shaken, and some Spaniards who were still shouting about fighting against the Tang also stopped at this time, because no matter how you look at it, it is impossible for Spain to defeat the Tang army. Spain did not have the ability to organize a large-scale war of more than 100,000 men in the Americas, and even though the initial industrialization had begun and the national strength had developed to a certain extent, Spain did not have such national strength. And sending 20,000 or 30,000 men to Mexico to fight in the war would be a disaster for Spain's already stretched finances.

And even if 30,000 people are sent to fight across the ocean, how many of these 30,000 people can reach is still a big question. Because the Atlantic Fleet of the Tang Army was stationed in the Bahamas and Florida, the Spanish army had to go through the guard of the Tang Navy if it wanted to enter the Gulf of Mexico. Although the Spanish Navy has also changed a lot of steam ironclad warships over the years, Europeans know that the ship steam engines and cannons sold to them by the Tang people are inferior things, and the Tang Army itself uses the best. Even if the Spanish Navy may surpass the Atlantic Fleet of the Tang Navy in size, they still have their own territory to defend, and it is difficult to guarantee that if the Spanish Navy makes a big move, the British or any other country will not take advantage of the fire to loot and deal with them Spain.

As a result, people of insight in Spain began to call for the cessation of this unwinnable war, and even if the benefits were given to the Tang people, Spain should not continue to lose blood. There are many different theories of the benefits they have made, with some arguing that the Dons were more interested in New Mexico and Louisiana and that they would sell them these lands where Spain had no more operations in exchange for the Don's promise to withdraw from Mexico.

However, such an idea is obviously extremely absurd, and realists can see that Mexico will not be able to survive. Even if the Tang army stopped fighting, there were as many rebels as cattle and hair in this war. They all took advantage of this time to come out, some of them were simply the Tang people, shouting to join the Tang Republic, others may be opportunists who took advantage of the fire, they demanded the establishment of an independent Mexico, of course, these people's ideas may not be realized, but they will still have an impact on Spain.

Now half of the New Spanish colonial army has been defeated, thousands of people have become prisoners of the Tang army, and even some troops have defected to the Tang army, which is almost unimaginable in the eyes of the Spanish kingdom. A rough estimate is that the Mexicans who participated in the riot numbered 100,000, mainly native-born whites and Indians. Especially as soon as the decree of emancipation of aboriginal slaves came out, the Indians in the areas that the Tang army had not yet conquered, knowing that the Tang people would liberate them, jumped out of the mines and plantations like crazy, rebelled against the slave owners, took up all kinds of rudimentary clubs and weapons, and began to fight for their freedom.

Of course, this kind of thing is undoubtedly a very beautiful thing in the eyes of other outsiders. The young French thinker Babeuf wrote in the French edition of the Datang Daily: "...... What a great revolution this is, a revolution that liberated millions of enslaved lives, from now on, no matter in the past few hundred or thousands of years, people will sing the praises, talk about this war will take off their hats and salute, just like we are now, admire, ah, thank you to the heroes and revolutionaries of the Tang Dynasty, who brought the light of freedom and equality to this land, and we also believe that in the coming days, this power of self-existence and equality will spread to more places, long live freedom, long live Datang! ”

Even in the United Kingdom, which was very wary of the Tang Dynasty, Wilberforce, a good friend of Prime Minister William Pitt Jr., also appreciated the liberation of slaves by the Tang Dynasty. This political activist, who has been committed to the abolition of slavery in Britain, although he has a bad opinion of the Tang Dynasty, still dares to insist on what is right. Wilberforce believed that all civilized nations should be free of slavery and personal restraints.

European intellectuals and sober politicians understand this problem, and the Tang people have already burned the fire to Mexico and Spain has been helpless. The aborigines who pursued justice and freedom were like barrels of dynamite that had accumulated for hundreds of years, and they were finally ignited.

Originally, the Tang Army was already a terrible enough existence, and now with these Indians fighting for freedom, it was already an unrealistic dream for Spain to take back Mexico. And for Spanish politicians, the problem is definitely not just in Mexico. South America is also on the move, with rebels sharpening their knives in New Granada, Peru, Chile and Argentina and baring their fearsome fangs at their overlords. The terrible thing is that the Tang army is absolutely not going all out, they still have tens of thousands of foreign legions to mobilize, as well as tens of thousands of reserves and militia, pessimists believe that if this stupid war is not stopped, the Tang army will fight from South America all the way to Cape Horn, so that Spain will lose all its colonies in the Americas. (To be continued.) )