Fortunately, Mayak's administrative system was still functioning, and with the soldiers' harsh repression, order was restored to the city two hours after the army entered the city.

In fact, it is just to drive all the people into their homes.

This is not only to prevent them from causing trouble, but also to protect them.

Asania could already see her soldiers on the move.

In this era, one of the income items of the army was looting, and they could tolerate it in Spain, but now in Cuba, many soldiers have the idea of making extra money.

In fact, if it were not for the domestic order, he would not have cared about it, and who told you to support the rebellion?

However, in order to implement Alfonso's repeated orders: "Do not provoke national hatred", he could only do his best to restrain his soldiers.

Some thieves who snatched bracelets and earrings, Asania didn't see it, but in the face of burglary and the like, he gave the most severe blow.

Instead of being shot, corporal punishment and salary deduction are inevitable.

Fortunately, Spain's military salaries have always been paid on time, and the soldiers did not rely on this to eat, and Asania managed to keep this port city, which is considered rich in Cuba.

After Mayak's upper echelons had fled, the one who could speak best was a city councilor named Gerardo.

Gerardo is a mulatto, and it is not easy to know that Cuba is dominated by Caucasians, and it is not easy to become a parliamentarian as a mulatto, even if it is only a city councilor.

"Gerardo is it, you come to be the mayor, someone will come to assist you later, behave well, there are many positions after the war." In the town hall, Asania patted Gerardo on the shoulder and encouraged.

The work of running the city could certainly not be done by the army, and there were no government officials on the scene, so Gerardo had to be appointed temporary mayor.

The advantage of having a local mayor is that it can make the city run faster, and the premise is that the mayor must be obedient.

Gerardo is obviously obedient, his identity as a half-breed has always been excluded, and he doesn't have a strong sense of belonging.

The style of the Second Army is very good for people, and everything is afraid of comparison, and from the time the army entered the city to the present, there have been no vicious incidents, which is really much beyond everyone's expectations.

This is a war of the European powers to suppress the colonial uprising, unlike European countries that are at war with each other and have to talk about a rule, here, how many people killed European newspapers do not bother to report a word.

This is also the reason why a large number of high-level people fled, thinking that they would die if they were caught.

In fact, they were right, in normal history, Spain created a concentration camp system, and most of the people who caught it died, so it can only be said that they were lucky in this timeline.

After quickly taking care of Mayak's affairs, Asania left 1/3 of his army in the city, waiting for the fleet to bring in the next batch of soldiers and supplies, preventing the landing from going into the city.

And he himself, with the rest of his army, blossomed on all sides, quickly approaching the south, trying to divide the Republic of Cuba in two before the enemy could react.

Soldiers are very fast, especially at this time, as long as they can achieve the set strategic goals, they can cut off Camagüey from the provinces further east, and without follow-up supplies and troops, the war will soon be over.

For this reason, they prepared as many horses as possible, but the landing fleet had reached the limit of transporting tens of thousands of them at one time, and there was not much capacity to transport horses, and even with the horses looted in Mayak City, less than 1/3 of them could ride horses.

In desperation, Asania decided to adopt the tactic of cavalry moving first and infantry consolidation, which he called horse racing.

As may sound, no sane general would let the cavalry break away from the infantry and artillery and attack alone.

However, this tactic proved to be effective, and since most of the troops were moved to the front, the defenses in Holguin were extremely empty, especially in the interior.

Not only that, before the siege of Mayak, the leaders did everything possible to mobilize the nearby army, including the militia regiment, to defend Mayak, resulting in a total of 5,000 people being wiped out, and now they are being strictly guarded.

This move completely cleared the resistance of the province of Holguin, and throughout the march, the Second Army encountered the police force the most, and it goes without saying how corrupt the police were in the colonies.

They were able to manage the escaped slaves, and they were not capable of fighting the regular army.

Usually the policemen, sensing movement in the distance, threw down their weapons and surrendered in advance, so much so that Asania uttered the famous phrase that accompanied him for the rest of his life: "I don't have time to take you prisoner!" Lay down your arms and leave the way. ”

And the policemen also obediently retreated to the side of the road, waiting for the infantry who came to take them prisoner, of course, they were also clever, and they were discharged on the spot and became civilians.

On the contrary, the resistance of ordinary people has been more violent, and all Cubans who have seen the war are pessimistic about their future.

Some of them were full of rebellious spirit, or brainwashed by the propaganda slogans of the Republic, and even brought their own dry food, fought back with their own earthen guns used for hunting, and even in a short time, united the young people of several estates and villages to form a village protection group.

Lacking earthen guns, they even used bows and arrows, and set many traps along the way.

These counterattacks caused some trouble for the Second Army, but the final result showed that ordinary people were indeed no match for the regular army.

The "township" is not good, but something happened to the township protection group, for these brave people, Asania admires it, but he can only say sorry for the different positions.

The only thing he could do was not to kill the prisoners after defeating them, but the Second Army was scattered throughout Holguin Province, and he had to control his direct subordinates.

Relying on this staking tactic, the Second Army regained the entire province of Holguín in just two days, and even controlled half of the adjacent province of Granma, and in a few days it could cut off the eastern part of Cuba.

Two days later, reinforcements from the front were belated, the former because it was difficult to draw troops under the rapid offensive of the Fifth Army, and reinforcements from the rear, the latter because of a lack of weapons and ammunition.

Faced with 18,000 men coming from the front to support the rear, and 50,000 troops (supposedly) arriving from the easternmost part of Cuba, the Second Army went on the defensive on both lines.

Wait for the reinforcements of the Fifth Army to reach Holguín by sea, and then flank and destroy the Republican forces in the provinces of Camagüey and Lastunas.

At that time, the east alone will not be able to make a single recruit with guns, and the end of the republic will be only in the moment.