Chapter 253: Tucson is broken
The failure of the last attempt at the Tucson fortress was undoubtedly fatal for the Spaniards, who were already demoralized, and now even the Spanish soldiers below knew that the loss of the Tucson fortress was only a matter of time......
Accompanied by the continuous artillery fire of the Han Empire, the quarrel in the battle conference room at the core of the fortress also increased, although the Han Empire had no Japanese cannon fodder, in order to avoid a large number of casualties of the American Native Guard, the intensity of the attack was weakened, but the resistance of the Spaniards was worse day by day......
Finally, after a section of the fortress wall was bombarded by the heavy artillery of the Han Empire with a diameter of more than ten meters, and was occupied and expanded by the subsequent Tiger and Wolf Marines, the quarrel of the Spanish generals in the Tucson fortress finally came to a result. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
It was not those Spanish veterans who insisted on serving their country who were greedy for life and afraid of death, but they were persuaded by the inevitable defeat situation and the lives of their soldiers, after 2 Spanish veterans and 13 Spanish officers chose to commit suicide, the new commander-in-chief of the Tucson Fortress agreed to the surrender conditions of the Han Empire, and ordered all soldiers to lay down their arms and stop resisting!
In terms of cruelty to soldiers, the absolute cruelty of the Western world and the Eastern world is still slightly inferior!
After all, at this time, the officers of the Western army were almost monopolized by the aristocracy, and once the war showed an obvious trend, it was not easy for the old commander to bring everyone to the funeral!
In the Eastern War, the phenomenon of the superior officials being shot at will because the subordinates questioned their orders was different, except for the violent Soviet troops that appeared in later generations, there were very few cases in European countries where the superiors ignored the subordinates!
Of course, this is limited to officers, and if a soldier dares to disobey orders, it will be punished severely!
With most of the Spanish officers in the fortress feeling that there was no need to resist, the few loyal Spanish governors seemed to have no other way but to commit suicide to ensure the immortality of their honor......
Mutiny or something, that's the means of revolutionaries!
If the Tucson Fortress were to be changed to the military system of the Han Empire, the commander would never compromise so much, even if many people objected, he would rather prepare a Hongmen banquet and eliminate all the unstable factors than choose to commit suicide and surrender!
That's the difference in perception!
Of course, if the commander-in-chief also wants to surrender, that's another matter......
The two sides carried out a formal surrender ceremony outside the ruined walls of the Tucson fortress, and Wang Qiming, the front-line commander-in-chief sent by the Han Empire, although the emperor of the Han Empire was also on the front line, let an emperor come forward to accept the surrender of a defeated general, which was obviously inconsistent with the principles of the Han Empire, a country that was trying to improve its own status!
According to the surrender agreement, these Spaniards who laid down their arms could regain their freedom after 3 years of hard labor for the Han Empire, while the noble officers and generals would receive corresponding captivity treatment according to their status, and they could not return to the Kingdom of Spain until the end of the war!
Of course, the ransom still needs to be paid, after all, the Han Empire can't support them for nothing, right?
For the always brutal Han Empire, this surrender treaty is already very conscientious, which is also agreed by Zhao Dutian, he has already aimed at the colonies of the Kingdom of Spain and even the mainland, and intends to withdraw from the puppet regime of the Clouey family, naturally he can no longer oppress the Spaniards too harshly, unless he has the strength to slaughter the whole of Europe!
It's just that slaughtering nearly 100 million people in the whole of Europe is not so reliable no matter how you look at it......
Besides, everyone has been killed, and he occupies those territories, and for a long time, it will be a barren!
As for being reduced to slavery is a potential powder keg, in modern times, the slavery system has been completely banned, not because of the benevolence of those in power, but with the development of the people's wisdom, the desire for freedom and rights has gradually risen to the level of life.
Therefore, the puppet regime and the integration of other nationalities are the next means of Zhao Dutian's Han Empire, and they are also methods that history has proved to be quite effective!
The surrender ceremony of the Tucson Fortress is very beautiful, but the losses in this battle are also very huge, and the fortress system built by the Spanish colonies with huge investment is not a simple thing to take!
Including the Japanese servant army of the dead light, the Han Empire suffered a total of nearly 100,000 casualties!
In addition to the Japanese, the biggest casualties were the American Home Guard, which was filled with a large number of recruits, and the mutiny that was flanked from front to back, resulting in the death of tens of thousands of American Home Guard!
As for the casualties of the elite troops, there were not many, only the Tiger Wolf Marine Corps suffered thousands of casualties!
Under the aura of the victory of the Han Empire, the news that the mutiny of the entire Japanese servant army was completely eradicated is nothing, in the Americas, except for those Japanese laborers living in the mines, no one will care about the life and death of these inferior people, just like in Zhao Dutian's previous life, the Americans exhausted tens of millions of Chinese in order to build a big railway, and no one will record and condemn a truth!
Ethnicity is a terrible thing, it can divide human beings into many, many different groups, and then rightly raise a butcher's knife to kill other peoples!
And consider it glory!
It is even more terrible than the feud between countries!
Countries are only fighting for interests, and the killing of nations is probably only due to hatred and unpleasantness!
While nationalism firmly unites a group of people, it also makes this group of people have obvious hostility towards people of other nationalities, and they also regard other nationalities as inferior!
As for the difference between superior and inferior people, it is constant with naked force!
If you win, you will be a superior nation, and if you lose, you deserve to be a slave of a superior nation!
Racial discrimination was very prevalent in modern society even in Zhao Dutian's previous life, with whites looking down on yellows, yellows looking down on blacks, Hispanics looking down on Mexicans, and Germans looking down on Hispanics......
In an American society, such a multi-layered ethnic group can be divided, and one can imagine how prevalent this kind of nationalism in which human beings kill each other in the whole world!
However, Zhao Dutian's era is okay, he is in the good old age when nationalism is budding and has not grown, so he can carry out the last national integration!
In the future, the whole world will only need three peoples, yellows, whites, blacks!
Oh, if it is possible, Zhao Dutian hopes to leave only two nationalities!
After the Tucson Fortress was taken, the repaired Han Empire army reached the stage of harvesting fruits! (To be continued.) )