[Today's second update]

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North America, Eastern Pacific, under the city of San Jose.

As the 3rd Infantry Division and the 4th Infantry Division of the Royal Army of the Chinese Imperial American Dispatch Army set up positions outside the city, a total of 200 Shenwu three-year infantry guns of the two divisions were concentrated and used to form two artillery positions with powerful firepower, which were arranged on the high ground in the north and southeast respectively.

As soon as the artillery positions were erected, they bombarded the city of San Jose.

With a cannon bang, the Shenmu cannon on the high ground to the north opened fire, igniting the prelude to the Battle of San Jose.

The cannon roared, the smoke of gunpowder filled the air, and the Shenwu three-year infantry gun, which had a range of up to 1,500 meters, was powerful on the battlefield for the first time.

Solid shells weighing six kilograms whizzed into the air, sending out a long whistling sound and shooting into the city of San Jose in a parabolic line.

The hot shells crashed into the city walls, creating a deep crater, and the rubble flew and the dust flew up.

The Russians and other artillery guns opened fire one after another, like ten thousand thunders, and the mountains shook far away.

Two hundred artillery pieces bombarded the city from the commanding heights, and in an instant, the smoke and flames filled dozens of miles, and there was no distinction between them.

After a round of shelling, the Spaniards on San Jose began to counterattack.

The giant fortress guns used to defend the city roared and fired back at the Chinese artillery positions outside the city. Every time a huge shell weighing more than a dozen kilograms falls to the ground, it will smash a pit one or two meters deep, which is really terrifying.

The two sides first engaged in an artillery battle that lasted for more than three hours, and although the Spaniards' fortress guns were fierce, they were too few in number, and the rate of fire was comparable to that of a snail. Under the fierce fire of the artillery of the Chinese Empire, it is not bad to be able to fire one shell in ten minutes.

In turn, the new infantry guns of the Imperial Artillery, although more powerful, were also somewhat more complicated to operate, with a rate of fire of more than one shot per minute.

As time wore on, after three hours, the Spaniards' fortified artillery was largely muted, either broken or lacking ammunition, or the artillery was killed. At this time, the Imperial artillerymen were also tired enough, and after three hours of shelling, the Imperial artillerymen were already out of breath, and it took four or five minutes to fire a shell.

The fight was almost over, and the commander immediately ordered to stop the shelling and take a break. At the same time, the infantry began to assemble and prepare for the siege.

However, at this time, the Spanish defenders in San Jose also lined up, and under the command of the commander, Lieutenant Colonel Monterey, 3,000 Spanish infantry drove out of the city and lined up to meet the enemy.

The Spanish commander then shouted and demanded an infantry duel with the infantry of the Chinese Empire.

"Duel?"

"Are they stupid?"

On a high ground east of San Jose, He Zhi, commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, Li Kai, commander of the 4th Infantry Division, and Ma Guangyuan and Shi Tingzhu, the two commanders of the Jaguar and Panther Cavalry, were surprised by the Spaniards' actions.

"Maybe"

Li Kai said: "In short, these Westerners think differently from us."

Ma Guangyuan nodded and said, "It's true that the thoughts of these Westerners are very puzzling, but they lined up outside the city, perhaps because their fortress cannon has failed. In order to prevent us from pushing the infantry artillery under the city to bombard the city walls, they had to go out of the city to meet the battle."

"I agree with this view"

He Zhi said: "The opponent's fortress artillery is basically useless, and if we want to attack the city, we must collapse the city wall." And if our infantry artillery wants to collapse the wall, it must be within a mile of the wall. ”

Shi Tingzhu said suddenly: "These foreign devils are in battle under the city, why don't we bombard them again."

Two hundred pieces of artillery, one round of shelling was enough to take out a large number of Spanish soldiers.

Several people glanced at each other, and Li Kai suddenly said: "But people want to duel with us, and they require a duel between infantry, not artillery."

"Are they stupid, should we follow suit?"

Shi Tingzhu blurted out, and immediately provoked the black faces of He Zhi and Li Kai. Immediately, he smiled brightly and said, "How to decide is your business, I'm just talking about it in passing."

He Zhi then said: "Bomb the fuck first"

Li Kai sighed, Shi Tingzhu had already said that it would be a fool not to open the cannon, so naturally he had to open the cannon.

"They're stupid anyway, no wonder we"

Li Kai smiled bitterly, and immediately ordered the artillery to aim at the Spanish troops under the city.

"Open the gun"

At the sound of the order, the infantry artillery that had just been extinguished suddenly roared again, and in an instant, shells whistled and flew towards the Spanish queue under the city of San Jose.

"Spread out"

The Spanish commander under San Jose heard the cannon and immediately shouted, but a few seconds later, the shells whistled in, and immediately cut a blood groove in the phalanx of the Spanish army like a plow.

After a shell, the Spanish troops under the city suffered thousands of casualties at once, and Monterrey, which had a small number of troops, suddenly burst into flames.

"Damn"

Monterey spat out the mud and sand in his mouth, staring at the enemy in the distance with a dark face.

Originally, Monterrey thought that the fortress cannon had failed, and the opponent had a large number of artillery and would soon break through the city. In order to evacuate the Spanish civilians in the city as much as possible, he chose to delay time.

Therefore, he proposed to engage in an infantry duel with the infantry division of the Chinese Empire. However, he forgot the identity of the other party. In the West, if the weaker side proposes a duel, then the stronger side has to accept it. However, this somewhat stupid rule is not in the entry of the Orientals.

"What should we do?"

The adjutant came to me with a disgraced face and asked Monterey.

"How many more do we have?"

"Less than 2,000, about 1,800"

Monterrey gritted his teeth fiercely and said, "We must hold on for a while, otherwise the civilians in the city will not be able to evacuate safely"

The adjutant said with a bitter face: "I'm afraid there is bad news for you, they can't run away"

"Why?" Monterey asked, confused, "As long as we can hold them off for a few more hours, the civilians can escape to St. Louis."

"They can't get by," the adjutant said with a sad face: "I just got the news that the people who ran out before have returned, and they say that the road to St. Louis has been blocked by Chinese cavalry"

"What?"

Monterey looked at the adjutant in surprise and asked, "Aren't their cavalry on Santa Fe's side?" ”

The adjutant smiled bitterly and said, "I think Santa Fe's side should be a disguise, and the real purpose of the other party is us"

"Damn" Monterey was unusually annoyed, he had already sensed that the Chinese Imperial army was trying to attack San Jose, so he sent someone to ask Santa Fe for help. As a result, the commander of the defenders of Santa Fe claimed that the main force of the Chinese Empire's army was in Santa Fe and therefore refused to send troops to San Jose.

Now it seems that this qiē was a trap set by the Chinese army, which had tightly sealed off all the passages in San Jose.

"I'm afraid Santa Fe and St. Louis are in the dark right now."

"Are they going to kill us?"

"I don't know"

Monterey seemed to have aged for decades in an instant, and his gaze was a little glazed, which frightened the adjutant even more.

Knock knock

At this moment, the second round of shelling by the American Dispatch Army of the Chinese Empire began.

The Spanish troops outside the city withdrew, hiding under the walls, holding their heads in their hands, and letting the mud and sand on the walls fall on them, but they were too frightened to move.

All the Spanish civilians outside the west gate retreated to the city, although the guns of the Chinese imperial army were aimed at the city wall, intending to collapse the wall. Occasionally, however, shells were fired into homes in the city, causing civilian casualties.

The roar of artillery was deafening. The smoke of gunpowder fills the air, obscuring the sky and the sun.

After several hours of shelling in San Jose, the city was filled with flames and smoke.

After about another half hour, the shelling stopped, and Monterrey hurriedly got up to observe the situation outside the city.

The smoke obstructed the view of the enemy artillery on the opposite hill, but Monterrey was certain that the enemy's artillery would not be able to collapse the wall from a distance, and would need to be close to firing shells.

"The enemy is coming, ready to fight"

Monterey gave an order, but few people could hear it.

Annoyed, Monterey hurried down and kicked the shivering soldier in the sandy mound.

"Rise up and fight"

Monterrey shouted as he picked up his soldiers and ordered them to go to the city to fight.

It took a long time for Monterrey to gather the soldiers, but there were only three or four hundred of them, and the other soldiers had disappeared during the shelling.

"It's only been a hundred years, and the soldiers of the empire have become so cowardly"

Monterey sighed and led the remaining three or four hundred men to the city to resist.

Outside the city, the Chinese Imperial soldiers had already finished their formation, and the Chinese Imperial soldiers armed with Type 30 rifles looked energetic and majestic.

The rifle resisted on the shoulder, the vertical and horizontal lines of brushes, and the bright bayonets were divided into flashing eyes. For every ten soldiers, one soldier has the dragon flag of the Chinese Empire hanging under the head of his gun, and everywhere the dragon flag goes, it is the territory of the Chinese Empire.

Looking at the Chinese Imperial army under the city, the military appearance was neat and the fighting spirit was high, and the remnants of the Spanish army at the head of the city had no fighting spirit and were depressed.

"Will they accept our surrender?"

Monterey's sudden words surprised the adjutant next to him.

"Then I don't know," said the adjutant, pointing not far away, "I only saw that they were carrying artillery down the city, and they were about to collapse our walls."

Monterrey looked closely, and sure enough, behind the phalanx of the Chinese imperial army, artillery pieces were being transported.

"They're not going to shoot us head-on"

Monterrey sighed, and immediately understood the combat tactics of the Chinese imperialist army. That is, to use absolutely superior artillery to bomb the enemy into chaos, and after losing the will to resist, then launch an infantry charge. Before that, both infantry and cavalry could only watch the excitement.

This was undoubtedly a new tactic of land warfare, which Monterrey had heard from Europe, and it was this tactic used by the Swedish king to defeat the armies of the Holy Roman Empire.

Thinking of this, Monterrey suddenly said: "Go and inform them that we surrender, but ask them not to massacre civilians"

Monterey didn't know if his words would have an effect, but it was his last chance, and he had to give it a try.

On the opposite hill, when they learned that the defenders of San Jose had asked to surrender, He Zhi and the others were not surprised.

However, Monterrey's request that the Chinese imperialist army not slaughter the city surprised He Zhi a little.

"They thought we'd slaughter the city?"

He Zhi smiled bitterly and looked at Li Kai next to him, as well as Ma Guangyuan and Shi Tingzhu, expressing his incomprehension.

"The other party seems to see us as killing gods, are we that evil?"

“……”

Ma Guangyuan and Shi Tingzhu glanced at each other, but they both coughed dryly and did not speak.

In fact, He Zhi and Li Kai were both excellent graduates of the Imperial Military Academy, and they were educated so that they would not carry out the massacre of the city lightly.

However, Ma Guangyuan and Shi Tingzhu did not receive military training from the Imperial Military Academy, and most of their subordinates were Han Chinese who had served in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Emperor Deng Haonan of Shenwu transferred them to the Americas for the purpose of letting them play the role of blackface.

He Zhi then called the envoy of the other party and told him in person: "The Chinese Empire is the Celestial Empire, and it will not do bad things such as slaughtering the city, so you go back and tell your commander, Mr. Monterey, that as long as they surrender sincerely, and the civilians in the city do not take acts of resistance against the imperial government and soldiers, then we will treat them well."

The envoy was obviously stunned, and was a little short of what He Zhi said, but he still thanked him, and hurried back to tell Sù Monterrey.

"What? They even say that? ”

When Monterrey heard the envoy's reply, he couldn't stop laughing or crying.

"They're so cheeky"

The adjutant also had a wry smile on his face and said, "Regardless of whether they are cheeky or not, in short, the other party agrees that we will surrender and will not slaughter the city, this is what we need, isn't it?" ”

Monterey sighed and said, "That's all there is to it, I hope they keep their promises"

Half an hour later, Monterrey pacified the Spanish civilians in the city, opened the city gates, and led more than 1,000 remnants of the defeated soldiers to march outside the city to hold a surrender ceremony.

As He Zhi took over his sword from Monterrey, he proclaimed San Jose the third colony of the Chinese Empire in the Americas outside the city.

The Chinese Empire gained the city of San Jose, which provided a supply depot for the American army to conquer Mexico. San Jose was close to the sea, and the Empire could transport supplies to San Jose by sea from the Fog City Fortress.

With the surrender of San Jose, the Spaniards' understanding of the Chinese Imperial Army changed somewhat, and not all Chinese Imperial Army would slaughter the city. At the moment, the Army's infantry divisions were not in the habit of slaughtering the city, at least not in San Jose, and it was only as a few daring Spaniards walked out of their homes that the Spaniards who had been at home for days were relieved.

However, not slaughtering cities does not mean not plundering.

Most of the property in the city of San Jose was confiscated, and the Spaniards only kept the property in their own houses, and all other property such as estates, mines, shops, and companies were confiscated. The black slaves were emancipated from the name of the Spaniards, but they were transferred to the names of the citizens of the Chinese Empire, and there was no difference in essence.

The city government in San Jose City is relatively intact and has become the headquarters of He Zhi and others. More than 30 million silver dollars worth of gold and silver nuggets were recovered from the city government treasury, which, together with the confiscated property of estates, mines, shops, and companies, gave the empire a fortune of more than 70 million silver dollars after the occupation of San Jose.

Of course, this qiē is all thanks to Monterrey. If it weren't for his fear of the Imperial Army's massacre, he would have distributed these gold and silver treasures to the Spaniards in the city. It was precisely because he was afraid that the Imperial Army would kill people if they could not find wealth, so he did not touch the treasury in the city hall and handed it over intact.

However, Monterey and others did not gain the favor of He Zhi and others because of this, and after the handover, Monterey and other captives were sent to the manor and mine as drudgery along with the black slaves.

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In the first month of the eighth year of Shenwu, the Pacific Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire arrived in the Peruvian Sea area of the South Pacific.

When the huge Pacific Fleet arrived, the Spanish Navy in Peru was immediately terrified.

The Royal Navy's Pacific Fleet consisted entirely of battleships, up to a hundred battleships, which overshadowed the Peruvian Navy.

At this time, the Peruvian Navy had only four third-class battleships, thirty-two cruisers, seventeen frigates, and a number of schooners.

In comparison, it was dwarfed by the moment.

As soon as the Pacific Fleet came to the South Pacific, it gave the Peruvian Navy a disadvantage, allowing the other side to see the strength of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

On the 17th day of the first month of the eighth year of Shenwu, the Fifth and Sixth Fleets of the Pacific Fleet arrived on the west coast of South America first, and the Sixth Squadron, composed of 10 Beiyun-class fourth-class battleships, took the lead in shelling merchant ships and fishing boats along the Peruvian coast.

The Peruvian Navy had four cruisers, but before they could get close to the Sixth Squadron, they were stopped by the Royal Navy's Fifth Squadron, which suddenly arrived from the flank.

The ten Beigumo-class battleships of the Fifth Sentai were divided into two groups of five, forming a "figure eight" to surround the four Peruvian Navy cruisers in front and rear.

The Beinong-class battleships, equipped with 56 guns, used their side to bombard the Peruvian battleships, and the Peruvian navy, which hastily turned around to meet the battle, was beaten for a time without being able to fight back.

There was a difference of about sixteen guns between the Beiyun-class fourth-class battleships of the Chinese Empire and the first-class cruisers of the Spanish Peruvian Navy, and even in a one-on-one battle, the Peruvian Navy suffered, not to mention the ten battleships of the Fifth Sentai and only four cruisers of the Peruvian Navy.

Both in terms of quality and quantity, the Peruvian Navy suffers. As a result, as soon as the two sides exchanged fire, the Peruvian Navy turned around and fled, and the Fifth Squadron pursued closely, finally using their speed to separate one of the Peruvian warships and sink it, while the other three fled back to the Guayaquil Naval Base.

Faced with the strength of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the Peruvian Navy quickly responded. Since the other party only saw the fifth and sixth teams, thinking that this was the main navy of the Chinese Empire, although it was relatively powerful, it was not powerless, so the Peruvian governor sent the main fleet to meet the enemy.

At noon on the 18th, while passing near the Isabela Islands, the Peruvian Navy encountered the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and the Battle of Isabella broke out. V