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On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus "discovered" the New World, then claimed the honors in the name of the Kingdom of Spain, and then named each of these new lands in Spanish. In 1493, Columbus's second voyage discovered two islands clinging to each other to form the appearance of a butterfly, and he dedicated the land to Madame de Guadeloupe, a noblewoman from the Extremadura region of Spain.

We don't know what the charm of this Spanish noblewoman who was slapped by Columbus was, but it is certain that an Italian who persuaded Queen Isabella of Spain to sell her jewelry with one mouth to raise funds for a voyage that seemed "hopeless" at the beginning, thus achieving the most dazzling achievement in human history, in addition to the irrefutable objectivity of the "earth circle" itself, his extremely high emotional intelligence also played a large role in this.

Interestingly, in the history of Europeans exploring and learning about strange worlds, Guadeloupe, located in the Caribbean, has an even more unique historical position.

There are always many scholars who can dig through the piles of old papers to find the source of Europeans' understanding of the New World. In the early 15th century, for example, an unknown Italian cartographer left behind a magical map. Several islands are depicted in the ocean west of the European continent, one of which bears the name "Island of Hell". In the corresponding textual notes, the cartographer depicts the eruption of a volcano and the appearance of the island.

It's amazing. The island bears a striking resemblance to Guadeloupe, which was later discovered. As for the timing of the eruption, it also coincided unexpectedly. However, this map was made almost half a century before Columbus discovered the New World.

If we add a bunch of plausible truths about the contribution of the Eastern Ming Empire to the exploration of the world's oceans, it is not difficult for us to find that in fact, there are still a large number of forgotten people and things in our history, and we continue to change our perception of history.

The rumbling sound of cannon echoed over the Caribbean Sea, less than 800 meters from the coastline, and four warships of the Navy of the Chinese American Republic lined up in the bay. The 16 naval guns fired a large number of shells at a rate of fire totaling more than 50 rounds per minute, at an angle close to direct fire, and the clear sky actually drew a faint barrage trace. Exploding patches of smoke and sand along the coastline.

A Caribbean village had long since disintegrated under overwhelming artillery fire, the fire and smoke were littered with mud and sand of broken corpses and blood, and the flying fragments of the wreckage were constantly tearing apart a few pieces of blood mist or stumps, and then quickly carbonized in the heat.

** Topless Caribbean women die holding their children. The dying men clutched their spears or bows in vain, staring at the great ships on the distant sea. Countless people fleeing under fire were crying, and then they were drowned in the scorching storm by the "inadvertently" falling high-explosive shells.

The shelling lasted at least 20 minutes, and the combat escort fleet fired thousands of 90-mm high-explosive shells before finally stopping this typical ostentatious behavior under the pretext of "fire cover" under the orders of Major Sun Yang, the commander-in-chief of the fleet.

The bombardment was so close that the nine flying shear merchant ships carrying the army units and the engineering teams of the country's two major construction companies were silently watching the navy's naval artillery scrubbing of the pristine island. Unlike the usual indifference of veterans among the officers and men of the Army, the recruits and ordinary citizens who were on the scene for the first time to observe the naval barrage of artillery fire were frightened by the massive salvo of the naval fleet and the horrific and terrifying images in the binoculars.

Rudolph, the head of the engineering team of the Oriental Construction Company, has already regretted the act of borrowing a crew member's telescope just now out of curiosity. Now I constantly draw crosses on my chest. Tang En, the head of the project of the state-owned construction engineering group, couldn't bear to tilt his head and sighed again and again. Some of the European or Chinese construction workers who had snatched a few glances through the binoculars were even pale, and their whole bodies were trembling slightly as they held on to the side of the boat.

Another half an hour passed, and one after another landing sampan boats appeared on the surface of the sea, and a company of army landing troops shouted slogans and rowed desperately forward.

A few minutes later, a group of heavily armed army officers and men rushed to the coastal salient, the officers looked around vigilantly, and the non-commissioned officers pulled and kicked and shouted all kinds of expletives. Scolding some of the recruits who have been stunned by the tragic scene in front of them is not as good as pigs and dogs.

"Lieutenant Scott, sir! 一qiē顺lì! Sergeant Major Maddie walked up to Lieutenant Scott and saluted with pride, "Well done navy, the artillery has cleaned up this place." There was no resistance! The weather is nice here, I think it's a good place. Ha ha. Maybe we can kill all the barbarians here before Christmas! ”

Instead of refuting the sergeant's arrogant optimism, he quietly looked around the bay and coastline, and Lieutenant Scott took the map from the herald beside him, and gave the order to Sergeant Maddie: "Maddie, let the platoon occupy the northeast slope, establish a defensive position, and set up the organ." The second platoon remained on the beachhead, and the mortars were deployed on the spot. Three platoons advanced 500 meters to the northwest coastline and then defended in place. Give a signal to the fleet to land on a smooth lì. ”

Two wheeled organ machine guns, which had been improved in production technology and structural performance, were dragged to the northeast by more than a dozen soldiers, two mortar groups were deployed on the spot, and hundreds of soldiers ran towards their combat areas under the leadership of non-commissioned officers. In a short time, more sampan boats appeared in the bay, cargo boats were also lowered on the flying clippers merchant ships, and two naval river patrol boats towed by light cruisers began to go deep two kilometers northwest of the bay, preparing to explore the saltwater estuary.

Sunday, December 1, 1624. The occupation of Guadeloupe began, and on the day of landing, five infantry companies and one combat engineer company under the 1st Guadeloupe Combat Battalion, totaling more than 780 army officers and men, penetrated several hundred meters deep into the coast. Ring defensive positions were established. Subsequently, the clipper team carried a construction engineering team of more than 400 people. Carrying the necessary construction tools and building materials, they went to shore and began to build a temporary wharf and storage area in the port.

On the third day, the temporary wharf of the port was put into use, and the large flying scissor merchant ship Ao Guang was the first to dock at the port and began to unload its cargo. Large quantities of building materials and heavier engineering equipment were transported ashore one by one, and then according to the pre-surveyed engineering plan, the military defense project began to be built at the predetermined site.

On the sixth day, more than 3,000 tons of supplies had been transported ashore, and valuable military supplies were prioritized for storage in the improvised storage area, and more civilian supplies were crowded in the port. The roar of a steam engine swirls over the pristine island of the 17th century. Hundreds of construction workers, with the help of a company of combat engineers, began to expand the area of the landing base camp centered on the Carib villages destroyed during the landing, and hundreds of Carib prisoners of war captured in a few days were also forced to carry sand, gravel and wood under the urging of leather whips.

Two light cruisers guarded the bay. The other two frigates began to cruise around the island, shelling all Carib villages in sight. At the same time, two companies of Army units, led by Captain Yau Nam-cheol, a battalion officer, advanced in the direction of the saltwater estuary, two kilometres to the north-west, and in the afternoon discovered a small, abandoned Caribbean village on the edge of a forested area near the estuary.

The rapid response of the Caribbeans to the invasion of outsiders did not surprise You Nanzhe, but seeing the dense tropical jungle around him, He Nanzhe hesitated whether to cross the forest now and deploy directly at the saltwater estuary.

Guadeloupe, with its tropical maritime climate, has an average annual temperature of more than 25 degrees. The humidity was far beyond Bermuda, so that the prepared officers and soldiers were still sweating, many soldiers held their water bottles and drank heavily, and from time to time showed a few fearful expressions to the lush tropical jungle in the distance, and the non-commissioned officers looked around and stopped.

"Captain, I'm afraid we should wait a little longer." Lieutenant Scott walked up to You Nanzhe, politely offered his opinion, and pointed in the direction from the coastline to the area here, "This is two kilometers from the landing field, and it is covered by naval artillery fire. Let's wait for the Navy patrol boats to complete the blockade of the saltwater channel before we consider the next step. Moreover, I built yì that the direction of our march should not be the saltwater river in the northwest, but in the north. You see, the soldiers are not quite adapted to the climate here. We need enough fresh water. On the map, the nearest freshwater river is on the north side of the forest. Now that the entire landing base camp is dependent on the supply of fresh water from stocks, we must first seize the fresh water supply. ”

"Well, it's well thought out, it has to be. But we need to create a defensive buffer zone for the entire landing site, and the Caribbeans have often taken advantage of the carelessness of the landing Spaniards over the past hundred years. Lieutenant Scott, your company is here to defend and fortify, and I'll send another platoon of combat engineers to support you. ”

"Thank you, Captain!" Seeing that the other party had accepted his opinion, Scott saluted happily, "It's almost dusk, and I'm afraid it's unlikely that the fortifications will be formed immediately." The terrain was too flat and too close to the forest, so I needed more pipe organs and mortars to fortify my defenses. ”

"Yes, the fire support platoon of the 1st Infantry Company will be transferred to you!" You Nanzhe is also a decisive person, and he meets all of Scott's requirements, "But the basic fortifications must be completed before nightfall!" ”

"Yes, Captain!" Scott saluted solemnly again, and then walked towards his company.

"Brother You, this Lieutenant Scott is very bullish! Alas, it's been less than two years, and the officer is actually older than me, and now it's his turn to command me......"

Second Lieutenant Silence, the commander of the fire support platoon of the 1st Infantry Company, walked over, looked at Scott's back in the distance, and muttered some sour words in his mouth.

"This actual combat is very training, you should protect yourself first. By the time you graduate from West Point next year, you'll be a lieutenant too. You Nanzhe patted the little brother on the shoulder, his expression was very serious, "Lieutenant Scott is a natural soldier, and it has nothing to do with his immigration status, you must abide by the rules of the army." ”

"Hey, I know! When I was in Albany, I didn't lose the face of our army! Shen Mo tightened his military hat, and looked proud, as if he had forgotten the situation when he cried his nose next to the seriously injured Captain Deng Jian.

"Hehe, it's good to know, when this landing operation is over, you are no longer a little child, I will introduce you to a girl." You Nanzhe laughed.

"Wow! Who is it?! Silence's eyes lit up. The second lieutenant, who had only turned 20 not long ago, also showed his color at this time.

"It's the second daughter of Chang Kun of the Chinese Immigration Affairs Division. What is Chang Ziting's name, she is only 15 years old this year, and she is in the second grade of primary school in a national junior high school! Looks so bright! Maybe you'll be Bai Jun's brother-in-law in the future! You Nanzhe mysteriously leaned into the silent ear and muttered a name.

"Ah......" had long been silent about a few European beautiful girl nurses in the Capital National Hospital, but at this time she lowered her head like a frosted eggplant, "A woman from the Ming Dynasty has no common language, I don't want to ......"

"your common language, when you can still shake it and play WeChat bubble middle school students? As a promising teenager in the 17th-century Chinese American Republic, your historical mission is to have children. What's still picky, you know?! You Nanzhe laughed evilly, and that expression made Shen Mo shudder and think about it.

Two undisciplined officers of Chinese descent were whispering at the same time. Hundreds of army officers and soldiers, wielding sapper shovels, have begun digging fortifications around the villages abandoned by the Caribs. With the assistance of combat sappers, several organ machine guns have been unfurled on the positions simply constructed with sandbags.

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The Caribbeans, which belonged to a branch of the South American Indians, were then divided into two branches, the island and the continent. They are fierce and warlike, and have excellent canoe sailing skills. Around the 14th century, Caribbeans entered the Lesser Antilles from the coast of mainland South America, and quickly defeated and assimilated their original owners, the mild Arawaks.

The Caribbean expansion of force in the Caribbean continued even after the Spanish invasion. Of course, they were also one of the first Indian tribes to be plundered and slaughtered by the Spanish colonizers. They are cunning, brave and tenacious. Using their familiar natural environment and skilled warfare skills, they fought hard against foreign colonists, including the Spaniards.

The Caribs were hated and feared by all European colonizers, so much so that the Spaniards who invaded the New World described the Caribs as "cannibals", and the Spanish approximation became the origin of today's Carib ethnic names.

The European colonizers still overwhelmed the courage of the Caribbeans, who had fought for hundreds of years and fought against each other, and by the end of the 19th century, only a few thousand people remained on a few small islands such as Dominica, but they still held on to the last piece of land with the help of complex mountainous terrain and never gave in.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, who was already dying, suddenly made a historic decision to grant 3,700 acres of land on the east coast of Dominica to the Caribbean as a territory. At this time, the pure-blood Caribbeans were left with less than three thousand people left. The indomitable perseverance of the Caribbeans finally left a fruitful historical bookmark for the entire Indian nation in history, which is worthy of eternal pride and pride.

Even in the so-called winter of Guadeloupe, the night temperature is close to 20 degrees and it is extremely humid.

In the dark forest, the birds seemed to be disturbed by something, and they flew up in panic. In the faint sound of stampede leaves. Blurred, low-pitched figures weaved rapidly through the trees.

Almost all **, wearing a hat woven with beautiful feathers. Mineral dyes are applied to the face. Sharp bone spears, heavy stone axes, and large hunting bows almost equal to their height, Caribbean warriors quietly groped their way out of the forest under the cover of night. These orthodontic figures, who are only about one meter and a half tall, are all hunched over without exception, careful to try not to make any sound from their feet.

A breeze blowing from the direction of the sea brought a strange aromatic scent, and a few Caribbeans who first touched the forest couldn't help but take a deep breath.

In just a few minutes, in the forests to the north and northwest not far from the abandoned Caribbean village, hundreds of Caribbean warriors with their bodies full of ** and only wearing a mask that "doesn't even count as a sex panties" were drilled. Holding back their anger, they intend to teach these foreign invaders a lesson that they will never forget. But what they didn't know was that they would be greeted by a modern army, including four organ machine guns and four 60mm mortars.

Captain Yau Nam-cheol's hunch was accurate, and Lieutenant Scott's preparation was also very well-prepared. On the surface there were only a few windproof kerosene lamps hung on the defensive position. More than 150 Chinese Army officers and soldiers were silently crouching behind the fortifications with weapons in hand. At this time, both new and veterans. They all clenched their weapons and waited for the non-commissioned officer's order to fire.

"Lieutenant Scott, they're coming!" Sergeant Major Maddie walked to the company headquarters in the dark and whispered. The headquarters tent in front of him showed only a glimmer of light in the dark night.

Under the kerosene lamp, Lieutenant Scott was still writing letters, and after hearing the voices of his subordinates, he just slowly put down his pen, then took out his pocket watch and looked at it: the time came to 23:05 in the middle of the night on December 6.

"Let's get started...... Second Lieutenant Shen of the Fire Support Platoon of the 1st Infantry Company is invited to be the commander-in-chief for tonight, and I wish him victory. Scott replied softly, putting his pocket watch aside. Then he continued to write letters, as if nothing could disturb his thoughts now.

Sergeant Major Maddie, who received the order, hurried to the defensive position outside the village and conveyed Lieutenant Scott's order to the silent second lieutenant, who had long been unable to hold back. The latter was only slightly stunned, and then nodded solemnly.

Walk to the front of the defensive position. Looking around at the figure swaying in the moonlight a hundred meters away, Sergeant Maddie pulled out a cigarette. The soldiers crouching nearby lay their rifles flat on sandbags, and the organizers pulled the joystick safe.

"Click!" The lighter burst into flames, and the European sergeant major lit a cigarette, took a puff, and then showed a look of regret, and then with a flick of his wrist, he threw the lighter out of the fortification, and fell into the gloomy stone pile with bright flames.

In the midst of the splash of sparks, a line of fire appeared that ignited instantly. Then quickly ran along a straight trajectory towards the perimeter of the defensive position.

A few seconds later, less than 50 meters from the defensive position, a circle of flames suddenly spread. The shallow earthen tunnel was filled with kerosene-drenched wooden branches or rags, and a one-meter-high wall of fire rose from the ground, illuminating the area of nearly 100 meters on both sides of the fire wall.

Under the firelight, the Caribbeans, who had approached less than 100 meters to the invaders, were startled, and many of them involuntarily stopped their steps. But a few seconds later, behind the wall of fire in the distance, a series of points of light or tongues of fire appeared with a continuous sound.

The organ bellows out long gun flames, and the machine guns carry a lot of kinetic energy. In an instant, it burrowed into the dense group of Caribbean warriors, setting off an astonishing blood mist. In the midst of a scream, a figure was shattered, and the human body without resistance was torn apart by the high-speed impact and rolling of the bullets, and the severed limbs and arms rose and fell one after another like schools of fish jumping on the boiling water.

Rifles also joined the slaughter. With more precise accuracy, they knocked Caribbeans to the ground who were stunned by the horror and blood. The rate of fire of the recruits was noticeably slower by a beat, and the veterans with cigarettes in their mouths were oily. It is already possible to shoot two bullets in 10 seconds.

A series of muffled pill packets burned and expanded, and four 60-mm mortars fired their first salvo according to the parameters that had been calculated for a long time. Seconds later, four clouds of smoke and smoke exploded at the edge of the forest behind the first line of slaughter, and dozens of Caribbeans with hunting bows who were about to retreat into the forest were staggered by high-explosive shells.

The blazing fire was like an invisible steel knife constantly swinging back and forth in front of the defensive position, and the shells were constantly falling into the air like heavy hammers, and the Clumps of Caribs were barely able to fight back under the blows of dense hot weapons, and it was impossible to even grasp the opportunity to escape.

"Stop shooting! Stop shooting! ”

As far as the eye could see, the wall of fire was much lower and about to burn out. Sergeant Major Maddie could no longer see any figures taller than the nearby bushes, so he straightened up from his fortifications and waved his arms vigorously at the soldiers around him. However, his efforts were apparently in vain, and except for a small number of veteran non-commissioned officers who laid down their weapons, the company, which consisted mostly of new recruits, was still in full swing.

"A bunch of pigs! What else are you going to shoot?! Sergeant Major Maddie strode over to an organ and kicked the ass of a recruit who was pulling out an empty magazine and was about to reload, "Hell, listen to my orders and stop shooting!" ”

Then, one after another, more non-commissioned officers began to shout and curse, and one of the Chinese corporal even knocked off the steel helmet of a European recruit who was still pulling the trigger with the butt of a gun.

The gunfire slowly subsided, and the entire defensive position finally returned to silence after a minute, and then a kerosene lamp hung on the position, taking over the task of lighting the extinguished wall of fire.

The look in front of him made the faces of the recruits who finally saw what they had done turn pale. The flat land, which was no more than a hundred meters away from them, was covered with layers of broken corpses, and the blood almost flowed out of a ditch between the piles of corpses, and gathered along the terrain in the low-lying places to form a pool of blood; Countless white slurries floated in the blood water, like wheat dough that could not be dissolved, and the bloody torso limbs were scattered everywhere like freshly baked toasted breadsticks drizzled with tomato sauce......

"God, look at the good things you stupid guys have done......"

Sergeant Major Maddie, who was accustomed to seeing bloody scenes, couldn't help but feel terrified of this "such a thorough slaughter scene". In front of him, he could barely see a Caribbean who was more than 60% intact.

Second Lieutenant Silence, who was in charge of the command, had returned to his tent by this time, and was quietly vomiting into the basin, until he vomited until the bile came out, thus expressing his gratitude to Lieutenant Scott for the exploits he had sent to him in another way.

“…… This battle may take a little longer, but I can promise that I will return to West Point to see you before our baby is born...... Please pray for me to go to church and forgive me for my sins in this war...... Love you Scott. ”

In the company tent, Lieutenant Scott looked up after writing the last strokes on the letterhead. There was no longer the sound of gunfire in my ears, only the faint muttering of officers and soldiers, as if I had just finished an exhausting night shooting training.

"Lieutenant Scott, the enemy has been repulsed, and the exact results may not be verified until after dawn...... Maybe it's dawn and you can't verify it. Sergeant Major Maddie walked into the tent with a strange expression on his face and saluted the lieutenant as he folded the letter.

"Send someone back to the landing base camp to report to Major Feng and Captain You, the chief of staff, that the defense line is safe now, and tomorrow I will command the troops to advance towards the forest to the north and strive to clear the area of the Tamsui River. I ask them to organize troops to cover my right flank tomorrow as well, preferably not less than one company. Scott carefully tipped the envelope and handed it to his loyal men, "By the way, please help me deliver this letter to the docks, thank you." ”

With that, Scott took off his military hat, drew a cross on his chest, and then lowered his head, crossed his fingers and clenched his fists against his forehead.

"Yes, sir......" Sergeant Major Maddie quickly drew a cross on his chest and silently exited the tent.

On this night, a reinforced infantry company of the Chinese Army, under the command of Lieutenant Scott, successfully ambushed a wave of Caribs night attack on the edge of the forest southeast of the saltwater estuary, about two kilometers from the base camp of the landing ground, with zero casualties, killing more than 300 Caribs on the spot within five minutes, and the few fled to the forests further north.