Chapter 43: The decisive battle against Quito

If things go too well, there will also be hidden crises, and this is the case with the current Donghua Pioneer Army.

Zhao Shi is still refining his current attack plan for Quito.

First of all, the charity dinner will be used to control the upper echelons of the Ecuadorian army in the David's Tavern and defeat the enemy's chain of command;

secondly, the Scottish mercenary company was disguised as the special guard of the presidential palace, and the 5,000 men of the 1st Brigade were led to surround the town hall and the presidential palace, disguised as a coup d'état;

Third, 4,000 men from two regiments of the 3rd Brigade of the 4th Division were ambushed on the side of the road outside the Xicheng Barracks to support the city, leaving 2,000 people in reserve.

Fourth, 6,000 people from 3 regiments of the 2nd Brigade of the 4th Division were divided into three attack detachments to sweep the surrounding towns and liberate the Chinese workers and Indians.

On the night of January 12, 1877, the David's Tavern Club was parked outside, and the banquet hall was lit up with all sorts of carriages, oil lamps and candles, and a group of men and women were drinking and chatting inside, unaware of the danger that was coming.

"Boom!"

The sound of cannon explosions could be heard in the distance.

"What's going on?"

Beria hurriedly summoned the captain of the guard and asked what was going on? Captain Boria immediately ordered his men to go down and check the post to find out where the explosion was coming from.

Fifteen minutes later Bolya of the Guards returned and reported the situation to the president:

"Ah, Mr. President, here's the thing, the explosion came from the barracks in the West City, and the barracks were attacked by massive enemy forces, but the exact number of enemies is not known."

"What? Is that the Chinese rebel army coming? ”

At this time, Colonel Bauer of the General Headquarters analyzed:

"Is there more than 30,000 people in the Xicheng military camp? Yes, you don't have to worry too much, if you rush out at night to attack and annihilate the enemy, you may not be able to do it, because the situation is unknown. If it was just to hold their camp at night, preserve their strength, and counterattack after dawn, they would still be able to do it. ”

President Beria always felt that things were not easy.

Sure enough.

At this time, gunshots could be heard outside David's Tavern

"Horn. . . Trumpet.. Trumpet.. ”

Li Yong frowned, the sound of gunfire meant that the attack had been exposed.

"Witt, let you Scottish soldiers go up and directly attack the hall of the Sprinkle Hall, impose martial law in the name of the vice president, and attack immediately if you fight back."

"Yes."

Werther walked out of the alley with 80 members and approached the gate

"Who? Hold it! ”

"The Special Guard of the General Headquarters is on a mission!"

Just then, Captain Boria came out

"Commander-in-Chief's Guard? And what about Commander-in-Chief Kamani? The president wants to see him. ”

Werther waved his hand

“let's go! Do it!!!! ”

Four members of the team rushed out, raised their guns and fired "Horn... Horn Horn... Five guards at the gate were killed, and Boria was taken prisoner.

More team members rushed into the gate, one team controlled the gate, one team went to the roof, one team looked for the president, and the other team covered Li Yong to see the panicked and chaotic people in the banquet hall.

There was naturally resistance, but the vanguard army also had a special combat team lurking in the tavern, and after Li Xiaoyu and 12 members attacked from the upper floor, the presidential guard was attacked on its back.

David pulled the president at this time

"President, come with me, I can take you out!"

After speaking, he led the president and six or seven others to run to the backyard warehouse, which had a cellar.

When I went down to the cellar, I saw some wine cabinets, and several people pulled open the cabinets, which was an authentic passage, and everyone walked in.

"Where does this lead? David! Beria asked

David held a torch in one hand and pressed the mechanism with the other, and the tunnel was closed at once.

"Oh, this tunnel leads to Bread Mountain in the south of the city, 2,400 feet away, and the rebels outside won't know about it."

Seven people walked for half an hour and finally reached the exit.

Petit Loaf Hill is a steep hill located in the old town south of Quito, named after the appearance of a loaf of bread. Vi

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de Quito (Our Lady of Quito) is a towering aluminium statue that stands proudly on the mountain.

At the southern end of the city, Bread Mountain, 183 meters above sea level, has a winding road leading to the top of the mountain, and on the top of it is a large stone statue of the goddess Quito, which is known as a symbol of the independence and freedom of the people of Quito. There is an ancient Inca temple on the mountainside, and you can stand here and look down on the whole city.

The exit of the tunnel is halfway up the mountain, where there is a dilapidated stone house, with a yard of more than 500 square meters, and it is obviously uninhabited at present.

Li Yong's special combat team has ended the battle, but the president is gone, and David is gone, and the drawbacks of too few people in this attack have appeared.

It's still careless, although this David has attracted high-ranking officers guarding Quito, including the mayor and the speaker, but now the president is gone, and the commander of defense heard that he is in the Xicheng barracks, and he doesn't know if the attack of the vanguard army over there will go well?

The guns were still ringing in the city, and because the 20,000 defenders in the city were scattered, their commander was absent, and there was no unified order, leading to the surrender of some of the junior officers, some of them resisted, some of them became robbers, and some of them retreated to the southern city of Bread Mountain.

That is to say, it was wrong and wrong, the president also fled to Bread Hill, and more than 3,000 deserters easily met the president, and sticking to Bread Hill to wait for help was their only choice.

January 13, at 4:00 a.m., the Kabayan headquarters of the 4th Division of the Donghua Pioneer Army.

"It was reported that the special operations regiment had taken control of the city hall, the presidential palace, the police station, and the David Tavern, killing more than 1,800 enemy troops, capturing more than 8,000 people, and more than 10,000 people were scattered, and the southern city was still fighting. Our troops suffered 80 minor wounds, 46 seriously wounded, and 120 killed. At present, 4,000 people of the 1st Brigade Support Regiment have taken control of Beicheng and Dongcheng. ”

An Yu did not directly command the special operations regiment this time, and mainly served as the chief of staff of Zhao Shi's division commander.

"Although the completion of the attack plan is only 70%, but the resistance in the city is only more than 5,000, in the south of the city in the area of Bread Mountain, 30,000 people in the west of the city are blocked in the barracks and cannot get out, three breakthroughs at night have failed, let's see the day on January 13th! Hopefully, Speaker Salas will see the situation clearly. ”

When people are poor, they are often not afraid of death, but when people have rights and wealth, the desire to die will not be so strong.

The white Spanish and Indo-European people in Quito were the new petty bourgeoisie.

Spain was a failure in its ethnic policy in South America, where the demographic composition of the continent was originally made up of a diverse mix of Europeans, Indians, and black slaves.

However, the Spanish government is not sensitive to this social problem. Too much emphasis was placed on the superiority of the Spaniards in their position in society. This system of privileges eventually developed in South America, and after the economic and cultural development of South America, it caused strong social dissatisfaction.

The Insurrectionary Revolution can be said to be a struggle to maintain its high level of Spanish privilege without Spanish colonial rule.

Spain ruled South America, and by the late 18th century, the Spanish colonies had a wealthy group of Creoles, who were Spanish tycoons of European descent. A case in point is the leader of the uprising, Simón Bolívar, who was born in Caracas to a wealthy Creole family of four generations, all living in Venezuela.

However, the Spanish government discriminated against these South American tycoons Creoles, and the important positions in the colony were all appointed and sent by the Spanish royal family to South America to manage and serve as the colonial government. For example, from 1786 to 1810, not a single native Venezuelane was appointed to a government job.

This policy of neglect lasted for a long time, which eventually angered the influential Creoles in South America, who felt that they were being discriminated against by the Spanish government, and finally became active supporters of the independence revolution because they wanted more power and trade.

Zhao Shi: "These Creoles are the emerging middle class in South America, on the one hand, they believe in conservative Spanish Catholicism and hope to have the privileges of the native Spanish aristocracy, and on the other hand, they have received the education of the emerging bourgeoisie in France and the United States.

"So, they are contradictory, they want to possess wealth and have power, and they treat Indians, blacks, and white privileges."

"That's right, some are similar to our Republic of China period, a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, where the revolutionary nature of overthrowing the Qing Dynasty was mixed with the feudal conservatism of local protectionism. It's a bit of a split personality, it's been more than 40 years since the founding of the country, and the country's economy is getting worse and worse in chaos. An Yu also supports.

Therefore, to deal with this group of native-born whites, we must first strike with high-pressure force, and then give them a relatively fair upward channel with the Chinese.

Therefore, the combat mission of the Donghua Pioneer Army must be discounted, and these parliamentarians must understand that the privilege is over, and the monopoly is over.

The first thing to do is to redistribute wealth, which is simply to establish an East China Republic of the Americas of about 4 million square kilometers including Venezuela, Guyana, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru in the future, with a population of 40 million to 180 million, and more than 60% of the Chinese population.

At 11:00 a.m. on January 13, the remaining 20,000 people in the Xicheng military camp surrendered under the assurance and persuasion of Speaker Salas, and 8,000 people were selected to enter the vanguard reserve division, and the 2,000 Eritre defenders of Bread Hill President Beria, who did not know the situation, were still resisting.

"Report, telegram!" Zhao Shi and An Yu are discussing the finishing work of the Quito War.

Zhao Shi took it and saw that it was sent from the base Dahancheng, which roughly means that the battle to liberate Ecuador has temporarily slowed down, because Britain and France have already known a lot of our Chinese actions in the Americas, so they are constantly looking for trouble for us in various matters and sending all kinds of protests.

In particular, in Panama City, France has been trying to obtain the right to build and operate the Panama Canal from the Colombian Federation.

But with the recent establishment of Chinatown and the Chinese administration, although this port city is more prosperous than in the past, how can the British and French easily let the Chinese collectively control this canal!

The Colombian government is also adding fuel to the fire, exacerbating the contradictions between the Chinese and the British and French scholars and foreign capitalists, so that they can benefit from the fishermen. After all, the combat effectiveness of the Chinatown Vanguard Army led by Liu Yun has been taught.

The trees want to be quiet and the wind doesn't stop!