The Spaniards had many strongholds in Central America, and their center was New Spain, later Mexico.

When the California colonies declared war on Spain, the American Fleet and the American Infantry Brigade were already on the table, and the California Governor's Office immediately launched an offensive against the Panamanian underground.

There were also more than 50 clippers from Shandong, all of which were requisitioned by Liu Yuan, and commercial trade was temporarily suspended, but instead used to transport troops and supplies.

On the east coast of the Isthmus of Panama is Puerto Dios, along with Panama City.

The First Fleet captured the west coast of the Isthmus of Panama with lightning speed, and 20,000 troops landed ashore.

The Viceroy of New Spain received the news that day and was almost frightened into a heart attack, but immediately began to deploy Central American forces to focus on the defense of Panama City.

It's just that the Spaniards are very tight on their forces, and there are only more than 20,000 troops in the whole of Central America, and they are scattered in many strongholds.

By contrast, the California colonies were heavily armed. The American Infantry Brigade itself has tens of thousands of troops, as well as 30,000 villagers, who have become more combative after further training.

The American Infantry Brigade, which landed on the Isthmus of Panama, with the assistance of more than 10,000 villagers, quickly captured Puerto Dios, and on the third day it landed in Panama City.

The Spaniards had not assembled their navy until the time they arrived at the city.

The American Fleet firmly blockaded the Isthmus of Panama on the west coast, and more than a dozen Spanish warships rushed to the rescue on the news and were mercilessly sunk.

At this time, the American Fleet was no longer able to look down on warships, especially the warships of Spain and the Netherlands, these warships were slow, cumbersome, and needed to be refitted, so they simply sank a hundred, and the local shipbuilding industry has been greatly improved, and it will not be long before new warships will be launched.

In the case of sea supremacy, the right to land is also firmly in the grip.

The American fleet then headed north, attacking the Spanish ports along the way.

The Spaniards established a number of ports on the west coast, and these ports were accompanied by gold and silver mines.

The California colonies had a large number of troops, and except for more than 10,000 troops for the defense of the city, the other 30,000 troops were sent out to fight.

Twenty thousand troops were committed to the Isthmus of Panama, and another 10,000 troops were put into charge of the capture of the Spanish stronghold in Mexico.

The climate of the Mexican plateau is mild all year round, with 24°C in the intermontane basin and about 17°C in the higher areas; The inland northwest has a continental climate. In most areas, there are two seasons of drought and rainy season, and the rainy season concentrates 75% of the annual precipitation. The average annual precipitation is less than 250 mm in the northwest, 750-1000 mm in the interior, and 1000-2000 mm in the central part of the Gulf Coast and the southern part of the Pacific Coast. Because the territory of Moxi is mostly plateau terrain, there is no severe cold in winter, there is no scorching heat in summer, all seasons are evergreen, the natural conditions are extremely superior, and it has the reputation of "plateau pearl".

Mexico was also a major source of silver for the Spaniards, as well as many gold mines, which the Spaniards had been mining for a century in Central America.

After the outbreak of the Central American War, the American Infantry Brigade quickly conquered Panama City and Puerto Dios, where they seized gold and silver that had been hoarded there for nearly half a year, worth a total of more than 8 million taels.

The 5,000 defenders of Panama City could not resist the attack of the American Infantry Brigade, and the walls of Panama City were simply unable to resist the fierceness of the artillery artillery, and the Spaniards in the city were at ease for a century, facing an enemy several times their size, and surrendered without any decent resistance.

After taking control of Panama City, the American Infantry Brigade quickly deployed troops to support the Mexican battlefield, leaving only 1,000 defenders in Panama.

On the battlefield in Mexico, the Spaniards were also defeated, and most of them surrendered without resistance.

Just as the California colonies focused their attention on the Spanish region of Mexico, the Spaniards on the east coast of the Americas organized a counterattack of 30,000 troops against Panama City.

The 30,000-strong army included native Spanish soldiers, native soldiers from the colonies, and Portuguese soldiers.

Portugal and Spain concluded an alliance, and after the outbreak of the Mesoamerican War, the Portuguese also participated.

After more than a month of build-up, the two sides successfully gathered 20,000 troops to counterattack Panama City from Puerto Dios on the west coast.

With only a thousand defenders in Panama City, the Spaniards captured Puerto Dios and besieged Panama City, which was now in ruins and had nothing of value.

An artillery duel ensued, in which the Spaniards were outnumbered, and their artillery was always knocked out by the city's artillery when they bombarded the walls.

However, the Spaniards soon discovered that there was a gap in the western wall of Panama City, and the gap was so large that the Far Easterners did not seem to have any intention of repairing the gap.

This gap was clearly left by the Far Easterners when they stormed Panama City, and in that case, the artillery battle was meaningless.

At the same time, there seemed to be very few defenders in the city.

Upon learning of the reality of the city, the Spanish commander did not hesitate at all and launched a general attack the next day.

"These Far Easterners must be crazy, or they are idiots who have never been on the battlefield commanding the defense of the city, do they think that they can stop us with just those two barbed wires?" The Spanish commander sneered, then drew his sword and said viciously: "Pass my order - all attack!" The battle ended before lunch, and the captured Far Easterners were hanged. ”

"Yes." The adjutant quickly gave the order.

With the order of the Spanish commander, the Spanish troops lined up in a phalanx sounded military music, the military musicians beat and beat in front of the formation, and the Spanish soldiers in the back, under the command of the officers, lined up in a dense formation and rushed towards the gap in the western city wall.

The gap was huge, more than ten meters wide, and at the gap, two strange firearms of Mo Yang were placed there, and in front of them were two barbed wires.

This was a hole in the eyes of the Spaniards, and all the Spanish soldiers saw the gap in front of them, and their morale skyrocketed, thinking that this was a siege battle that must be won.

In Panama City, 1,000 soldiers of the American Infantry Brigade were stationed, and in the face of the counterattack of 20,000 Spaniards, they were not afraid, on the contrary, the soldiers had a lot of expectations in their eyes.

"Bang~!"

A large wooden box was pried open and filled with something wrapped in oiled paper, from which the soldier took out a long chain of bullets.

They stacked the chain shells next to the two machine guns, which were already loaded with ammunition, waiting for the Spaniards to approach and strafe.

The Spaniards marched to the beat of the drum and kept going...... At this time, the Western armies were still in a dense formation, and believed that the war should be above board, and any sneak attack was not allowed. On the contrary, the Shandong army has always paid attention to sneak attacks if they can.

The artillery at the head of the city seemed to be dumb, and not a single shot was fired. When the Spaniards came within 500 meters, the soldiers of the American Infantry Brigade stationed in Panama City did not even fire a gun.

The Spaniards threw in fifteen thousand men, and continued to advance in a dense formation to a distance of two hundred meters, and the city was still silent.

This made the Spaniards feel a little weird.

However, this was still not the time to charge, and the soldiers would certainly not have the strength to run from such a distance, and at two hundred meters, the Spaniards, although they felt strange, still attacked as usual.

The military music suddenly brightened a little, and the Spaniards' phalanx, one by one, approached the gap, and the pikemen were ready.

Soon, the Spaniards were 150 metres away from the blight and ran into barbed wire that was blocking their progress.

"All fire." The battalion commander stationed in Panama City saw that the Spanish army had entered the death zone of crossfire, and hurriedly shouted an order.

"Dada......"

"Dada......"

The two machine guns were arranged in a cross and opened fire, and the bullets flew out of the chamber one after the other, and opened fire on the Spanish soldiers who were destroying the barbed wire.

At just 150 meters, the first dozen machine guns equipped with the American Infantry Brigade still have great lethality thousands of meters away, and 150 meters is simply too close.

As soon as the two machine guns fired, the Spanish soldiers, who were destroying the barbed wire, fell like wheat.

The machine gunners fired directly at the phalanx of the Spaniards, there was simply no need to aim, there was a bunch of people in front of them, and they swept back and forth in a direct line, no matter how they swept, there were people in front.

The two machine guns formed a death barrier, and the rushing Spanish soldiers fell in rows under the sound of da-da, and all the Spanish soldiers did not know what was happening.

I only knew that when the terrifying sound sounded, bullets that glittered like meteors shot out in front of me.

It was a massacre, a total slaughter.

The Spanish commander in the distance froze, dumbfounded as he watched the sudden and astonishing changes on the battlefield.

The soldiers in the phalanx fell in rows, and the soldiers were barricaded outside the barbed wire. The Spanish soldiers gritted their teeth under heavy fire, and in the European wars of this era, the soldiers had to have great courage, they were faced with the situation of shooting at the enemy at every moment, and if they were cowardly, they would be defeated!

"Rush! God is always on our side. The priest in the Spanish phalanx shouted.

Accompanied by the sound of military music, the Spanish soldiers rushed forward bravely.

If they had won, they would have strengthened their faith that God was on their side, but if they had failed, they would have no chance to expose how false the slogan was.

On the gap in Panama City, the main shooter Yang Zhen looked at the Spanish soldiers one after another in surprise, he knew that he had encountered the main combat force of the Spaniards in Central America, and at the same time greatly admired the courage of the Spanish soldiers.

According to his post-war recollections, "I have never seen such a tough enemy army, even in the original Battle of Changping, or the Zhenjiang Landing Battle, and the Liaodong Winter Offensive, the alien races in the northeast were extremely inferior, and they never held out for long under the heavy fire of our army, I don't know if we have such tenacity, because we have always had the most advanced weapons......"

The massacre continued, and in addition to the machine guns, other soldiers began to fire with muskets, and the artillery at the head of the city also rang out.

Eventually, the Spaniards retreated.

Looking at the barbed wire, I saw that many corpses had fallen in front of the barbed wire, and some experienced veterans looked at it for a while and concluded that the Spaniards had lost at least 3,000 people.

The repulsed Spaniards repaired for nearly an hour, and then their commander again ordered a charge at Panama City.

The Spanish commanders did not understand what new weapons the Far Easterners were using, but they were so strong that they were even more determined to take Panama City and capture some of them.

This time, the Spaniards still charged in the form of a phalanx, but there were some more cannons in front of the phalanx, and the Europeans at this time had little use of howitzers, mostly some cannons, and most of the light cannons had a range of only a few hundred meters.

These cannons were soon exposed to the lookouts at the head of the city, which focused on the cannons in the Spanish phalanx.

It's just that the Spaniards covered some of the cannons well, allowing a few of them to push to the front, and they aimed the cannons at the barbed wire.

Under the bombardment, several gaps appeared in the barbed wire.

The Spaniards then charged, and instead of marching to the beat of the drums, the soldiers rushed forward with their weapons in hand. There were only a thousand defenders in the city, and as long as they rushed through, they won.

The machine guns set up in the gap rang out again, and this time the machine guns that opened fire became four, and the other two were erected at the head of the city, and they opened heavy fire on the Spanish soldiers pouring in through the gap in the barbed wire.

Once again, the role of the barbed wire was brought into full play, and the Spaniards, who had only partially destroyed the barbed wire, had to rush through the gaps in a concentrated manner, but those few gaps in the barbed wire became pockets of death.

In the dense situation, the machine gunners continued to shoot at the Spanish soldiers who poured into the gaps, and the Spanish soldiers fell in rows, and the gaps became insurmountable obstacles.

Under the fire of four machine guns, it turned into a slaughterhouse in front of me.

The Spanish soldiers stoically rushed forward, but the Spanish commander behind was terrified, and when the charging soldier fell a third and had not advanced much distance, the Spanish commander could no longer bear it and had to order a retreat.

Another wave of the offensive was repulsed, and the morale of the Spanish soldiers became extremely low.

The Spanish commander counted the losses and learned that more than 5,000 soldiers had been killed in the second charge, and more than 3,000 had been killed in the first charge, and more than 8,000 soldiers had been lost in just two charges.

The Spanish commander wanted to cry without tears, but with huge losses, the Spanish commander no longer wanted to continue the war.

Even if they could take Panama City, they wouldn't be able to hold it.

The artillery of the Far Easterners will once again blast the walls of Panama City open, and then it will only fall again. As for acquiring a new and powerful weapon, it seemed to him that the cost was too great, and it was not always possible to obtain it. In the afternoon of the same day, the Spaniards retreated, and they retreated by ship from Puerto dios to the island of Cuba.

The Central American War was still going on, but when the main Spanish forces were repulsed, the governor of New Spain, who had fled to the island of Cuba, had no idea of continuing to fight.

The strength of the Bright Empire in the Far East was not at all something that Spain could resist, whether it was the navy or the army, at this time the navy of the Far Easterners in the Americas had grown tremendously, and even the British, French and Dutch maritime alliances were repelled by them, and the Spaniards considered themselves not opponents.

And the army is not an opponent, the colonies do not have many land forces at all, the colonies are mainly navy and strongholds, European countries will not invest so many troops in the colonies to the Far Easterners, and the strongholds can generally be defended, and the Far Easterners are an exception.

Although the losses at this time are huge, if you continue to fight, the losses will be even greater. The Viceroy of New Spain sent emissaries to negotiate peace with the California colonies in April.

After half a month of negotiations, the two sides finally signed the "Central American Treaty", which stipulated that the Ming Empire had sovereignty over Central America, and Spain would withdraw from Central America within one month. Spain could retain the Peruvian region, Chile and Argentina were assigned to the Ming Empire, and Spain recognized the sovereignty of the Ming Empire in Central America and South America, Chile and Argentina.

The Ming Empire recognized Spain's sovereignty over Peru and Cuba, and promised not to occupy these areas, and would continue to maintain an alliance with Spain.

The Viceroy of New Spain, Ninja, was defeated and signed the Treaty of Central America, which marked the end of a century of Spanish rule in Central America.

The only thing that made the Spaniards arrive was that Peru, their main source of gold, and Cuba, the source of sugar, were saved.

Within a month of the signing of the Mesoamerican Treaty, the California colony received the Spanish colonies in the northern part of the Isthmus of Panama.

The entire West Coast, with the exception of Peru in South America, where Spain still has a stronghold, has been controlled by the California colonies.

At the same time, the Strait of Magellan also fell into the hands of the California colony, and the control of this choke point meant that any country's navy would have to take the windy and stormy Drake Passage if it wanted to reach the West Coast.

At the same time, the Spaniards also received the Spanish mint in Central America, and the Spaniards could grab about 500 tons of silver every year in Central America, that is, more than 1,600 taels, and more than 30 tons of gold, with a value of tens of millions of taels of silver, in addition, there were some precious stones. It is impossible to count the amount of gold and silver smuggled, but the amount is certainly not small.

In later generations, Mexico produced more than 2,000 tons of silver per year, equivalent to 16% of the world's silver, and the output of the mines operated by the Spaniards was still lower.

Conquering Central America, more than 30 million taels of precious metal mining income can be exported to the mainland every year, plus other tax revenues will be even more.

Governor Liu Yuan of California sailed to Panama, dispatched troops to defend the captured strongholds, sent administrators to manage those strongholds, and ordered the port defense to be strengthened.

Some pirates had already rushed to the West Coast to harass the ports of the California colony, which alarmed the colonies, and all ports strengthened their defenses.

At the same time, most of the frigates of the American Fleet were scattered to protect merchant ships and eliminate pirates everywhere.

At this time, the family has a big business, and it is different from before, in the past, it was possible to concentrate on dealing with the enemy, but now it is obvious that it can no longer act like that, and the merchant ship must be protected by frigates.

(To be continued)