Chapter 341 The First Vote Business in the Americas

[Today's first update]

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St. George's in North America, a small town of Spaniards with a nice view.

The rolling mountains and forests, the trickling streams, the sound of the black miners' hard work, and the sound of sweat on the ground, all converge into the best lullaby of the Spaniards.

This morning, though, was a little special, as the Spaniards seemed to feel the ground tremble in their sleep.

Then, several Spaniards supervising the work of the blacks noticed a large number of uninvited guests at the entrance of the town under the mountain.

Due to the distance and the shrouded mist, the Spaniards did not see the specifics of the uninvited guests. However, as more and more people gradually surrounded the town, the Spaniards in the mines suddenly realized that something was wrong.

It's bandits

A few Spaniards on the mine didn't know who the person was, let alone that it was the American army of the Chinese Empire, they only thought that they were bandits who came to rob.

A Spaniard uses his pistol to warn the town when a gun goes out.

Suddenly, the whistling of gunfire pierced the quiet sky over the town and echoed through the cols for a long time.

"Damn"

Ma Guangyuan, the commander of the Jaguar and Leopard Cavalry, who had just arrived at the entrance of the town, couldn't help but curse, the scout's mistake, and the guide's misjudgment of the mine's start time.

The cruel Spaniards did not treat blacks as human beings at all, and even mined day and night.

"We have surrounded the town, and there are many blockades within a radius of dozens of miles, and there will be no news to pass on"

Shi Tingzhu's words next to him suddenly made Ma Guangyuan go in a much more distant direction. Still, the first robbery of a white man's town made him both excited and nervous.

"Hands-on"

Ma Guangyuan waved his hand, and immediately thousands of cavalry rushed into the town, and then surrounded all the residences along the streets.

The gunfire woke some of the Spaniards from their sleep, and when they opened their windows and saw the uninvited guests rushing into the town, they screamed.

"Shoot the Arrow"

At the sound of the order, the tiger and leopard rode with a bow and arrow, and fired indiscriminately at the doors and windows of the Spaniard's house.

The arrows shot from the strong bow pierced the doors, windows, and room boards lightly, and many Spaniards were hit by arrows, and some were nailed to bed directly by the arrows shot in the window.

Suddenly, the screams of the Spaniards woke up the whole town, and everyone knew the severity of the problem, and they were surrounded by a medieval army of knights.

No

It was the bandits who possessed the equipment of the Order, because the next moment after the arrows were fired, they began to kill and loot.

The Spaniards, unprepared, were suddenly lambs to the slaughter.

With a bang, a fat Spanish man rushed out the door and fired a shot at a Jaguar cavalryman, who was knocked off his horse with the tremendous force of the lead bullet.

A puff of green smoke rose from the cavalryman's armor, and the Spanish fat man thought he had killed one, but the next moment the cavalryman sat up.

The Spanish fat man was dumbfounded, this shot was enough to wear the armor of a European knight at a distance of 100 meters, and now at a distance of 10 meters, he failed to penetrate the opponent's armor.

"How is this possible?"

The Spanish fat man looked at the cavalryman who had regained his feet in disbelief, only to see a piece of lead bullet on the opponent's cuirass nailed deep in the center. At this time, the cavalryman who escaped from the muzzle lifted his hood, wiped the blood that spilled from the corner of his mouth, and touched his chest again, the bullet was still hot.

Step by step, he walked towards the Spanish fat man who shot him, full of sneers.

However, this sneer, to the fat man, seems to be a call to death.

Hurriedly reconditioned the gunpowder and projectiles, but his hands trembled.

He was indeed stupid, at such a close distance, he was even ready to use the musket for the second time.

The knife fell, and the fat man's head flew into the air, and a touch of blood red splashed down.

The looting and massacre of St. George's town lasted more than two hours, and in order to cover up the truth, Ma Guangyuan ordered the entire town to be burned down, leaving behind a large number of indigenous weapons, giving the Spaniards the illusion that the Indians were fighting back. Ma Guangyuan regarded the black slaves as his friends, so he freed the black slaves and gave them the weapons of the Spaniards captured in the town, and sent them deep into the heart of Mexico to cause trouble and destruction.

The fire burned for two days and two nights, and by the time the Spaniards in a nearby town found out, St. George's had turned into a scorched earth.

The tigers and leopards plundered all the warehouses of the Spaniards in the small town of St. George, and distributed everything except gold, silver, jewelry, and grain to the Indians, and destroyed the rest.

The gain of the first vote was not small, and the preliminary estimate was nearly 800,000 silver dollars. All belongings will be sent to the Fog City Fortress, where the final count will be made, and then exchanged into imperial silver dollars, which will be deposited into a special account for the Imperial American Dispatch Army, which will be used as a dividend treasury for the dispatch army when it returns to China in the future. Among them, Ma Guangyuan and Shi Tingzhu selected some bizarre jewelry pieces and sent them back to Beijing in delicate boxes as their first gift to the emperor.

After looting the town of St. George's, Ma Guangyuan and Shi Tingzhu decided to continue looting several surrounding towns after research.

Due to the size of Mexico, Spanish settlements were far apart, with most small towns within a hundred miles of each other. The matter in the small town of San Giorgio was not discovered until a month later by the Mexican silver team. This was also because the Spaniards had to transport a shipment of gold and silver to Mexico City every month, so the Spaniards found out that the town of San Giorgio had been destroyed, otherwise it would have been much longer.

During this time, the Imperial Jaguar and Panthermen were divided into 20 thousand troops and plundered hundreds of small towns in the northern border region of Mexico. Everywhere it went, it was like a flood passing through, and there was not a single piece of man or animal left.

Some of the larger towns had a population of one or two thousand, while the smaller ones had only a few dozen people, and within a month they caused huge human and property losses to the Spanish colonists in Mexico, and the Mexican colonial government was furious.

The Imperial Jaguar and Leopard Riders, with their strong combat power and mobility, never attacked important towns defended by the Spanish army, but only ransacked small towns in remote areas. This was mainly due to the fact that the Imperial Jaguar and Panthermen were not fully prepared for a ground war with the Spaniards, and first raided the surrounding small towns to test the reaction of the Spanish army.

However, although the Imperial Jaguar and Leopard Riders did not loot the cities of the Spaniards, which had huge oil and water, they were also rewarded with huge sums of money for looting hundreds of small towns in the past month. The looted gold and silver cakes alone are worth tens of millions of silver dollars, and other diamonds, jewelry, and ornaments are even more difficult to accurately value.

A month later, the news reached the Spanish colonial governor's palace in Mexico City.

With the sound of crackling debris coming from the office of the governor of Mexico, the nearby guards and servants hid far away, for fear of harming the fish in the pond.

The door of the Governor's office was closed, and the Mexican Governor, Reynoldsa, yelled at Casdila, the chief of the Mexican colonial police, and spat on his face, but the latter could only force it.

After a long time, Reynosa finally got tired and stopped to catch his breath.

"Coffee"

With a roar, the servant in the distance hurriedly brought the coffee that was about to cool.

Reynosa drank it all and forgot about his habit of not drinking cold coffee.

Maybe he's mad.

"Find the murderer immediately, I don't want to hear the news that so-and-so town has disappeared from the face of the earth again"

"Yes," Casdila replied hastily, "Rest assured, Your Excellency, I will do everything in my power to find the murderer and bring him to justice."

Reynosa nodded, calming down. Looking at the stack of urgent documents piled up on the desk, they were all reports of the disappearance of the border town.

With a burst of fire, Reynosa also came to his senses and asked, "Is there any progress?" ”

As the sheriff of Mexico, Casdila naturally had to investigate in detail when such a thing happened, and even if it was not investigated, the governor must be given a reason, a reason not to be dismissed.

"According to my opinion, the crime organization implements the three-light policy of burning, killing, and robbing the target town, which requires considerable strength. So I suspect it's not an ordinary bandit."

Reynolds paused for a moment, and he also suspected in his heart that this kind of large-scale three-light policy was not something that ordinary small bandits could do. Besides, in the territory of Mexico, which has been ruled for more than a hundred years, there has never been such a situation, and I have never heard of any big bandit organizations nearby.

"So what do you mean?"

Casdila thought for a moment and replied, "I suspect that the Indian tribes in the north did it, because the weapons of the Indians can be found in the ruins of the crime site, and the only ones in the north who have been fighting against us are the Indians."

"How can the Indians have such strength?"

Reynosa was puzzled, he suspected that it was not the bandits, but it could not be the Indians. From his impression, for more than 100 years, although the Indians have always secretly captured the Spaniards and returned them to live sacrifice, there has never been an entire destruction of the corpses of entire villages and towns.

"Could it be the Dutch?"

Reynosa hated the Dutch the most, which was also a common problem among Spaniards. The Dutch War of Independence lasted almost a century, and the Spaniards lost face on the continent. At the same time, the Dutch were fond of the three-light policy and crazy plundering in colonial wars.

At this time, the Dutch West India Company was establishing colonies in North America, seizing islands in the Caribbean in Central America, Brazil in South America and the Spanish vassals Portugal, and gold and silver mines in Peru and the Spaniards.

"The Dutch are the most annoying"

Casdila couldn't help but curse, but he wasn't sure it was the Dutch, because the accident was near the Pacific side, where there were no Dutch military deposits.

"Whether the Dutch did it or not, we'll find out" Reynoldsa said with a dark face, "Now we must stop them from continuing to harass our town"

Casdila smiled bitterly and said, "Then I'm afraid I need the help of General Tiqueiras, and I'm afraid my security police won't be able to do it."

Reynolds paused for a moment, only to realize that he had made a mistake, that the enemy was not an ordinary bandit, but most likely an army, so he roared at the sheriff and was obviously playing the harp to the ox.

"I should have found General Tiqueiras."

Casdila hurriedly nodded in agreement, secretly thinking that he had just been scolded for Tiquelas, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Reynosa nodded, sent Casdila to investigate further, and called Tiqueiras to his office.

Soon, Lieutenant General Tiqueiras came to the governor's office.

In fact, Tiqueiras had already learned of the situation a week earlier and had already begun an investigation.

By this time, he already had some eyebrows.

Dealing with Lieutenant General Tiqueiras, Governor Reynosa naturally could not talk to him like he scolded Casdila. Although the other party is under the control of him, the other party is a duke, and the title is much greater than that of him, the earl governor.

"Dear Duke of Tiqueiras, I'm sorry I have to trouble you with something"

Reynoldsa changed his attitude and had to help him make coffee himself.

"I think I've got some eyebrows"

Taking the coffee handed over by Reynosa and looking at Reynoldsa's eager eyes, Tiqueiras said, "My men inspected the ruined town and suppressed thousands of rebellious black slaves. ”

"Did a black slave do it?"

Reynolds was immediately annoyed that the black slaves dared to rise up and rebel, which was intolerable and unforgivable.

"Hear Me Out"

Tiqueiras continued: "At first I also suspected that it was the result of the revolt of the black slaves, who were oppressed by us and did such dehumanizing things. But then we captured some of the black leaders, and after interrogation we learned that although their weapons came from Indian tribes, they were not given weapons by Indians, but by a powerful order of well-armed and numerous. ”

"Knights?"

Reynolds paused for a moment, then shook his head and said, "How is it possible?" On the American continent, only the empire still has the establishment of knights, although other countries such as Britain, France, and the Netherlands are also developing this continent, but they cannot have the participation of knights, at most they are musketeers on horseback but the number will not be very large."

"Here's the problem"

Tiqueiras put down his coffee and said, "This powerful order of knights does exist, I can swear"

Seeing Tiqueras's determined eyes, Reynosa had no choice but to follow his words and ask suspiciously: "It is possible to destroy hundreds of small villages and towns in a month, which requires tens of thousands of horses, and such a huge order of knights suddenly appeared on our heads, could it be that God threw them here?" ”

Tiqueiras nodded and said, "God is on our side, but God's enemies are not certain."

Reynosa understood that the enemies of the gods were the enemies of their Spaniards. But the Spaniards had many enemies, and which one was it?

"It looks like we suddenly have a new enemy"

"They must be pulled out immediately, otherwise we won't even know who the enemy is, it's terrifying"

Tiqueiras nodded and said, "I've already arranged it, and if it works, we'll soon know who this mysterious enemy is."

The Spaniards had 200,000 troops stationed in Mexico, and they were standing armies. This was a much larger than the 60,000 standing army in peacetime on Spanish soil, because Mexico provided the Spanish Empire with hundreds of millions of dollars of wealth every year. Thus, in more than 100 years, the Spanish Empire emigrated more than 3 million Spaniards to Mexico, while Spain itself currently has a population of only 6 million, which shows the importance of this place.

Lieutenant General Tiqueiras learned from the northern town of Santa Fe that the northern town had been sacked by unknown forces, and immediately made military deployments.

A Spanish army of about 30,000 men was sent from San Antonio to the important town of Santa Fe. At the same time, Tiqueiras laid out the bait in Las Vegas, three hundred miles from St. George's.

Las Vegas was a moderately developed town on the Mexican border at this time, and most of the silver convoys from more than 200 towns in the northwest of Mexico passed through Las Vegas.

Most of the towns around Las Vegas were looted, but the other side did not move Las Vegas, so Tiqueiras deduced that a military operation against Las Vegas was brewing, but considering that Las Vegas had a population of more than 4,000 people and 500 Spanish troops there. If the other side attacks Las Vegas without some careful planning, it will inevitably reveal its identity.

Lieutenant General Tiqueiras then ordered the silver team to temporarily store the gold and silver that had been seized in Las Vegas, and to let the news go out to the blacks and Indians in the vicinity, so that it would soon reach the ears of the mysterious army.

Las Vegas has stored more than 20 million Mexican eagles worth gold and silver, and such a huge sum of money is only guarded by 500 Spanish defenders, who are not afraid that the other party will not take the bait.

To this end, Tiqueiras mobilized 20,000 troops from Santa Fe and secretly marched to Las Vegas to prepare for an ambush on the mysterious army. However, it was worried that the defense of Santa Fe would be taken advantage of by the enemy, so it mobilized 30,000 troops from San Antonio to reinforce Santa Fe to ensure the safety of Santa Fe.

"Wouldn't that be too risky?"

After hearing about Lieutenant General Tiquelas's plan, Governor Reynosa thought something was wrong. After all, it is always uneasy to park more than 20 million silver dollars in Las Vegas and wait for the other party to grab them.

"What if it fails?" Reynosa asked again, "More than 20 million is not a small number, it is better to-"

Tiqueiras smiled and said, "Your Excellency the Governor does not have to worry that although Las Vegas has only five hundred defenders, their barracks are enough to delay the enemy for two hours, and our ambush force only needs half an hour to arrive, and with 20,000 elite army reinforcements, the enemy will definitely not get that money." On the contrary, once the other party exposes the target, we can know who the other party really is."

Reynosa was always uneasy, and the plan to take 20 million as bait was crazy. But Tiqueiras seemed to be completely sure that Reynosa would always give the opponent three points, and finally had to agree. E