"Your Majesty, our army has just taken Panama City and won the battle, all the departments are seriously lacking, the combat strength is exhausted, and they need to recuperate, and they are unable to march to Venezuela in a short time, after all, there are still a large number of remnants of the army that was collected by the Spaniards and reorganized, although the morale is not high, but the number is still very large, and these troops are mainly to cover the escape of the Spanish magnates, from officers to soldiers have received a lot of favors, and the combat resilience may not be as weak as we imagined!"

After Li Mingzhi heard Black Eagle's report, he stood up and analyzed rationally. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Zhao Dutian naturally also knew the specific situation of his own army, and it was a great victory to defeat the main force of South America that defeated the Spaniards, but at the same time, the losses were also very large, whether it was the replenishment of logistics materials or the cultivation and training of soldiers, it took a lot of time!

But!

There is an army that is not needed!

"The main force needs to be cultivated, but the real elite of our Han Empire has always been recuperating!

The Green Jacket Scattered Regiment, as well as a regiment of the Han Guards, with an artillery division, a newly formed cavalry division with carbines, are sent to support General Dubachla, he is now the signboard erected by our Han Empire, smash the signboard, and then try to recruit a formed Spanish army, it will be difficult! ”

After Zhao Dutian finished speaking, all the generals below straightened up and saluted in response!

This is the Han Empire, as long as Zhao Dutian's order is issued, no matter who it is, it will be carried out to the letter, otherwise, the Japanese colonial plan with huge losses will not be implemented, and the tragic war of attrition of the Panama Campaign will not be fought for several months in a row, beating hundreds of thousands of Spanish colonial troops to the heart!

You must know that in the history of the world in Zhao Dutian's previous life, there was no such large-scale high-intensity war of attrition before World War I!

If the Spaniards hadn't had the desperate support of the local native whites, the Battle of Panama might have ended in a month!

But it was precisely because of the desperate support of the native-born white people that they were defeated, so that those local tyrants completely gave up hope of confrontation and were willing to go bankrupt to buy a family's European ferry ticket......

It's just that those white tyrants can leave South America without their own property and with floating wealth, and the Spanish colonial authorities don't dare to do that!

Otherwise, even if they return to the Spanish kingdom, they will be hanged by the enraged Spanish king and a large number of nobles with interests in South America!

Therefore, the Spanish colonial authorities took advantage of the fact that those white tyrants did not all evacuate and left behind the manpower and financial support, and began to advance with all their strength to San Carlos, which was controlled by the surrendering general Dubachra!

The Spanish colonial authorities would never allow such perverse and successful capitulation in South America!

Zhao Dutian was willing to take out all the elites of the Han Empire in the Mexican occupation area to rescue General Dubachra, naturally he wanted to use this as a flaunt to let more Spanish generals take refuge in himself, of course, Zhao Dutian was so eager to win South America, and there was a more important reason that the victory in the Battle of Panama made him receive the prompt sound of the Imperial Age system again!

Zhao Dutian looked at the unification of South America mission rewards inspired by the victory in the Battle of Panama in the Age of Empires system, and felt that his whole body was full of boiling blood!

As long as you unify South America, you can get a bonus of 100 years of extra life! And women who are often watered by Zhao Dutian's life essence can also prolong their lives forever!

These are only personal rewards, and the rewards for other forces are even more covetous, because the Age of Empires system will reward complete sets of ironclad skills when the Han Empire's military flag is planted all over South America!

From the engine to the shell technology, all the accumulation and achievements of knowledge will be packaged and sent to Zhao Dutian's empire!

It can be said that with this set of ironclad ship technology, the navy of the Han Empire will rise from a regional power to a world hegemon in one fell swoop!

Even Britain, which has the most developed naval technology, is still thinking about how to wrap the wooden warship with iron armor at this time!

And it's just a conceptual idea, and I don't know where to start with the research and development of specific technologies!

At present, the world's mainstream shipbuilding technology is still stuck in how to build a bigger wooden-hulled ship and install more guns with larger calibers!

The ironclad ship rewarded by the Imperial Age system is not a tortoiseshell ship developed by the Japanese in the later period, but a real ironclad gunboat!

Compared with simply putting a layer of iron sheet on the bread outside the wooden hull, there is a technical advantage in the crushing level!

It can be said that as long as Zhao Dutian has an ironclad ship, no land in this world can resist the navy of the Han Empire, and the powerful army of the Han Empire can also land on any continent and any place in the world without loss!

Because no one can blast the hard shell of an ironclad in this era!

The reason is simple, yellow gunpowder was not invented!

Armor-piercing bullets are even more at the level of iron eggs......

In this era, ironclad ships are well-deserved unsinkable warships!

What kind of value does an unsinkable battleship have in this Age of Discovery, how can Zhao Dutian not know?

This is why Zhao Dutian would rather risk the loss of his elite and speed up the offensive in South America!

Under Zhao Dutian's order, the war machine of the entire Han Empire was overloaded in a short period of time!

The materials that were originally replenished to the battle-damaged troops were temporarily deployed to the elite of the Han Empire who were going to go on the expedition, and the replenishment rate of the soldiers was also slowed down, and all the road logistics and transportation capacity was focused on the delivery of weapons and ammunition!

A large number of logistics mules and horses, and even captured war horses, were pulled out and sent to the artillery of the artillery division, just to keep up with the marching speed of the infantry!

The delay in the replenishment of the battle-damaged troops will undoubtedly greatly delay the time for these soldiers to fight, and at the same time, their morale will fluctuate, but these are not problems, as long as the elite of the Han Dynasty can win the victory and win the future Venezuelan province of the Han Empire, as soon as the propaganda machine of the Han Empire spreads, the morale of the army in the rear will naturally recover!

Moreover, the main forces of the Viceroyalty of New Granada, in order to encircle San Carlos, are all placed in Venezuela, if they are defeated again......

It can be said that the New Granada Viceroyalty is basically undefended!

When the time comes, the Han Empire only needs to send a partial division to take the entire governorship!

Venezuela not only concentrates all the forces of the Viceroyalty of New Granada, but also the main forces of the Viceroyalty of Peru and the Viceroyalty of La Plata, and once defeated, the Spaniards will completely lose their offensive ability in South America!