One hundred and forty-three, the revenge of the chengguan
In short, after more than an hour of communication, by dawn, Wang Qiu had basically figured out the causes and consequences of the fall of Hope Port.
While this was partly due to the negligence of the old king Avaha, in general, the most critical problem was the lack of garrisons.
As soon as Wen Deji led an expeditionary force of 7,000 and a large number of entourage from the Pacific coast to the Mexican plateau in the east, the port of hope was drained of human resources, and only a few hundred samurai and more than 1,000 healthy women remained.
Moreover, since the wormhole connecting modern time and space was also half-gone, the timber business of Hope Port could no longer be continued, and the foreign lumberjacks who had temporarily gathered here quickly dispersed, reducing the total population of the city to about 20,000, and everyone else was sent to the distant countryside to farm.
In this way, when Pizarro and Magellan's fleet, as well as a large number of Mayan warriors from Tepetvanc, suddenly arrived yesterday morning, the armed liliang that they hoped would be able to gather quickly in the harbor became quite limited.
On the one hand, King Avaha mistakenly believed that these whites had already been defeated and surrendered by Wendehei, and on the other hand, he felt that his son-in-law had become the "shijie overlord" (in his consciousness, the Mesoamerican civilization circle was the entire shijie), and no one dared to offend easily.
Therefore, although he was a little wary of these uninvited guests, he did not take it very seriously, neither did he declare martial law to the whole city, let alone evacuate the old and weak women and children living in the city of Hope Port.
Of course, the repeated reminders of the traversers before leaving, after all, still played a certain role.
So the old king Avaha did not take 4,000 unarmed servants with him to meet Pizarro, who had already set up an ambush in the Spanish camp, like the stupid Inca emperor in the movie (who had not yet ascended the throne at this time in the first year, and it was his father who beat Magellan away in this book). Instead, they quickly gathered all the only 600 samurai and more than 1,000 armed women in Hope Port, put on metal anti-cut suits, carried axes, rubber tappers and "drill monkey nPS" and went to the beach to negotiate with the "white-skinned devils" and find out their intentions.
As a result, the Spaniards first sent a batch of worthless gifts such as linen, bells, hats, etc., and then said a lot of flattering good things, and temporarily fooled the old king Avaha. At the same time, while actively exploring the deployment of defenses around Hope Port, they quietly transferred soldiers, war horses, and artillery ashore, and when Pizarro finally found out that there was neither a fleet nor a battery near the city, and there were few indigenous soldiers, and it seemed that it was easy to succeed, they immediately turned around and started to use guns and artillery, intending to capture Hope Port in one fell swoop.
Sadly, not long after the start of the war, the swaggering Pizarro found himself running into an iron plate.
On the one hand, facing the metal anti-circumcision suit produced by the meat factory with the advanced technology of the century, not only the old-fashioned muskets and crossbows of the 1st Chiji could not be shot at all, but even the Toledo long sword was difficult to pierce, which made the Spaniards, who were accustomed to bullying the stone natives with steel swords, feel a little at a loss for a while. On the other hand, rubber tapping knives and wood-chopping axes, which do not lure steel, are still widely used killing weapons until the end of the year.
After more than an hour of melee, less than 30 people were killed in the battle, mainly from artillery shelling. On the contrary, the Spaniards who came from a long voyage were hacked to death at once due to their weak steps and poor physical strength, and the Mayan warriors with stone tools were killed and wounded more than a thousand in Europe in these years, armor is a very expensive thing, and not every Spanish soldier can afford it.
After a fierce battle, the Spaniards with "primitive and backward equipment" and the Mayan warriors with even more primitive and backward equipment, despite having twice the superiority in strength, were still beaten back step by step by the "strong soldiers" Hongshutizgans, and even the two light artillery guns that the Spaniards had carried ashore after a lot of hardships were also lost in the melee. If not in the later stages of the battle,...,
The defenders of Hope Harbor were overwhelmed by naval artillery fire from the sea, and if it was difficult to get close to the beach, the Hunghitizgan warriors, who had already killed them, would have driven these invaders into the sea and drowned.
But the problem is that at this critical juncture that determines success or failure, a raging fire suddenly broke out in the city behind the defenders!
It turned out that another Spanish army led by Magellan, taking advantage of the fact that the defenders of Port Hope were basically fighting fiercely on the seashore, landed ashore from other places, and then led a few spies pre-arranged by the Mayans to pretend to be traders, and under the guidance of the saddle and horses all the way, they went around on land and broke into the city of Port Hope, which was extremely empty and had no walls to defend, from the rear!
Of course, with a few dozen men under Magellan's command, it is impossible to occupy the entire city, and the spontaneous resistance of the citizens and the throwing of stones alone can drown out this bit of people. But he didn't want to be here, and as soon as he entered the city, the gang set fire to it everywhere and caused chaos. Another group of Mayans smashed an elevated aqueduct from a source in the suburbs, leaving the people of Port Hope without a water source to fight the fire.
After this trick was used, it immediately hit the death hole of Hope Harbor.
From the establishment of the port of hope to the present, but in the past three years, except for a very small number of brick houses and color steel mobile houses moved in later generations, the city is basically a simple thatched shed, which is very easy to catch fire in the dry season. Moreover, after the Time and Space Gate was taken away by Wen Desi, a large amount of surplus wood was piled up on the "Guang" field and main road in the city, which was very dry in the sun, and the whole city was simply a king-sized flammable warehouse!
Usually the city is hit by a lightning strike during a thunderstorm, or the residents are not careless in cooking with fire, which can often cause a small fire. This time, it encountered malicious arson, and the water source was cut off, and the fire was really out of control...... The old king Awaha, who was supervising the battle near the port, saw the city behind him on fire, and immediately panicked, and did not care about destroying the remnants of the enemy on the seashore, so he hurriedly collected his troops and went to put out the fire.
Pizarro, who had been gritting his teeth, saw an opportunity to turn defeat into victory, and after a little respite, he rushed into the smoke-filled Port of Hope with the rest of his soldiers, taking advantage of the smoke and chaos throughout the city, and looting a lot of property from houses and markets that had not yet caught fire.
At the same time, thousands of slaves purchased by Port Hope in recent years have taken advantage of this uncontrolled opportunity to rush out of the burning city, and try to break free from their shackles and escape back to their hometowns. Although the Hunghiutizgan warriors, who had long been anxious, had no intention of intercepting and pursuing these fugitive slaves, their large-scale absconding behavior completely destroyed the order of the city, and turned the originally organized firefighting and evacuation of citizens into a chaotic rout that trampled on each other.
To make matters worse, in the midst of the smoky chaos, the old king Avaha's party was scattered by the fleeing citizens and slaves, and then met the Spaniards after running to the outskirts.
Although he mustered up his courage and fought hard to kill a Spanish soldier, he was then knocked into the air by the enemy's cavalry, breaking an unknown number of bones, and by the time he was carried out of the battlefield by his own men, he was basically helpless.
After hours of fire and chaos, the people of Hungshuitizgan had completely abandoned their attempts to save the city, and had fled to the countryside. Although in the inland area only separated by a mountain tree, it has been raining heavily since the afternoon of this day, and blocking the return route of Wen Desi, but on the side of Hope Port, not even a drop of rain has fallen!
It wasn't until after dark that he hurried back to Hope with his bodyguards, and immediately launched a counterattack against the invaders. …,
Because Director Ma had already obtained a batch of modern munitions before, so Wen Desi finally had more decent equipment this time Under the cover of the burning fire, the furious Wen Desi "Emperor" gathered himself with an A, led the guards to charge, and killed hundreds of Mayan soldiers who crossed the sea to attack in one face, in addition to annihilating a Spanish cavalry mixed squad of about 30 people, and captured many prisoners.
But the fire in the city could not be extinguished at this time, and in the dark night, it was impossible to find the location of the enemy, and more importantly, he had always remembered the whereabouts of his wife and children, so after giving the invaders a little color and catching a few live mouths at the same time, Wen Deji no longer continued the night battle, but began to look for the traces of his wife, children and relatives, and finally found them in a small village on the outskirts.
However, at this time, the king of Avaha was on his deathbed, and the little princess Tia was also kidnapped by the Spaniards in the chaos.
Judging by the scene, the Honshutizgans did not lose a single battle, and managed to kill thousands of invaders. However, in terms of results, the port of hope, which was still full of smoke at this time, was a monument of shame that represented the defeat of the defenders.
In the face of this unexpected attack, Senior Sister Ma Tong couldn't help but sigh: "..............., alas, Q knows that if this is the case, the one-eyed dragon Navaez should also be brought here, if he is here to take a turn and show the agreement we signed before, Pizarro and Magellan may not dare to do it!" "As soon as the repression of the Mexican Valley and the Aztec Empire was over, and Cortés and his cronies were executed, the one-eyed dragon Navaez returned to the port of Veracruz, which had long been burned to the ground, with 200 Spaniards under his command, according to the agreement he had made with the travelers. At present, these fellows are building houses and preparing to rebuild the port and the town: while waiting for the Spanish fleet, which is probably never to return, to bring them back to the Cuban colony, to report to the Governor of Velázquez and to receive commendations.
“… It doesn't work, even if Navaez and his men are here and willing to stand with us, instead of joining forces with Pizarro and Magellan and selling us together... The army of the Governor of Panama may not necessarily sell the account of the Governor of Cuba," Wang Qiu immediately shook his head and retorted: "Navaez is just a subordinate of the Governor of Cuba, and the Spaniards who attacked Port Hope this time are mainly from the Panama colony, whether it is Magellan or Pizarro, they are not obliged to abide by the agreement signed by the Governor of Cuba!" "First, the Spanish Kingdom and the American colonies of this era were almost the same as the ancient vassal states of the Chinese Kingdom in terms of autonomy. Though all the viceroyalties were nominally canonized by the King of Spain,
However, due to the difficulty of information transmission, he was actually the local emperor who monopolized the power.
Because the emperor is far away, it is common for them to send troops to fight each other, and the Spanish king across the Atlantic Ocean can't control these faraway things at all, basically as long as the governors can pay tribute on time, the rest of the things will come with them.
"..............., what should I do? Of course, it is a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye, and let these hateful robbers pay for their blood debts! Wen Deji raised angrily with a black face: "What if it is a historical celebrity? This time it has all hit the doorstep, where is there any room for mercy? Since these Spaniards can't learn how to do business civilly, let them go to heaven to learn the Emperor and Our Lady! ”“… That's right! It is God's job to forgive sinners, and our job is only to send them to God! Commander Cai Rong, who has always been full of vitality, also waved her little fist, shouted indignantly, and at the same time gave orders to his subordinates: "Wang Qiu, Ma Tong!" Limited to you in a small one
Get a new 10-wheeler truck in a few seconds! Let's crush the enemy into meatloaf again! As soon as Wang Qiu and Ma Tong heard this, their faces immediately collapsed: an hour here is only equivalent to two or three minutes in modern time and space...... Miss Cai Rong, the last ten-wheeled truck has been buried on the Mexican plateau, in such a short period of time, where do you let us get a ten-wheeled truck!