Chapter 42: The Eve of the Battle of Quito 2 Li Xiaoyu
Li Xiaoyu's team of 12 people, of which Li Bin is the gunman, and the Irishman Witt is the guide, because he has lived in Quito for two years and is very familiar with the terrain and street conditions of Quito, so he brought the only foreigner with him.
Quito was a long city in the shape of a north-south city, with no strong walls or gates. Leaving or arriving at Quito, there are only two roads, the northeast and the southwest, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the northwest, southeast and southeast are high mountains, and there are no major roads.
At worst, this is also a strategic dead land, as long as the north and south ends are blocked, Quito will be in danger.
Witt found his fellow Scottish countryman, Wilkes. David, who ran a tavern and occasionally worked as an intermediary, buying rubber, ivory, cinchona, and antiques for British merchants.
"Hi, how are you? Dear David" Witt took Li Xiaoyu and Li Bin, who had already dressed up as whites, to meet his fellow countrymen in the tavern hall.
"Oh! Take a look, take a look! Who is this? Who's this? Werther, who went to the north to make a fortune, is back! β
David shook his beard exaggeratedly.
Werther went up to a bear hug.
"You can't imagine what happened to me. Really, you definitely can't imagine it! Find a small room, I have something to tell you! β
David led Witt Li Xiaoyu through the back door, then directly into the back warehouse, and then closed the door.
"Say it! Victor! β
"Do you know Panama Chinatown?"
"Chinatown? Uh, I've heard of it, I've heard that the Chinese there are very vicious and kill people at will! β
Li Xiaoyu spoke before Werther at this time
"The Chinese kill all the hateful pirates, robbers, thugs, and it's three times more prosperous now than it was before June, and the crime rate is down 80 percent, and they do things fairly, there is a clear system, and the vigilantes below won't stop cards and collect taxes at will."
David: "Are you?" β
Li Xiaoyu: "Hello, please call me Mister. Rain, rubber merchant! β
Witt said in his heart, God, still Mister rain, merchant? Isn't he a Marine platoon commander? Forget it, well, he can say whatever he likes.
"David, you know what? The Chinese Independent Army has sent 100,000 troops to occupy the northern region of Ecuador, from San Lorenzo to the city of Upper Bo, from the city of Upper Bo to the small town of Cayambe, which has been controlled by the Chinese! β
David was taken aback: "Impossible, right?" The Chinese are so powerful that they wouldn't have traveled thousands of miles to South America to work as indentured servants, and I can't talk nonsense about you. β
After hearing this, Li Xiaoyu directly tore off the white mask, revealing the face of the yellow race.
"My name is Li Xiaoyu, my rank is sergeant, the first army of the Chinese Pioneer Army, the special operations regiment, the first battalion, the third platoon commander of the first company, I entered the city today to reconnoiter the presidential palace, the defense force and troop layout of the city hall, we are not here to beg you, and we have 20,000 troops stationed in Machachi, and 30,000 troops are stationed in Kayambe at the north gate, and the attack will be launched in three days, and it depends on your current performance whether your tavern is safe or not!"
"Smack!" Directly slapped the imitation M1911 on the table, and directly scared Witt to death, oh my God, why are you so rude.
David: "Ahhhγγγγγγh He screamed and fell under the table.
Li Xiaoyu looked at it, it turned out to be a coward! But why is the previous speech so arrogant? It's really not a coffin and you don't shed tears, these hypocritical foreign devils.
Then things were much easier. Under the cover of the David Tavern, the 84 members led by Li Yong, the commander of the 1st Special Operations Battalion, successfully entered the old town of Quito.
Lurking near the Tavern of David, only three blocks from the town hall, and the city of Quito is built on a valley, the blocks are high and low, and the road is always uphill, making it easier to hide.
In Li Yong's mind, to deal with the second-rate South American soldiers in the era of single-shot guns in 1876, interspersed with assaults, breaking walls and holes, dividing and encircling, breaking through tunnels, continuous blasting, brave interspersing, dividing and encircling and annihilating, as well as high-precision real-time support from artillery and air force, are real urban street combat tactics that can crush the Eritrean army.
When he listened to the results of Li Xiaoyu's on-the-spot tactical intelligence reconnaissance, he felt that some of the previous battle plans did not seem to be perfect.
"I also went into the town hall myself and looked at their defensive set-up, which seemed to me to be full of holes."
Li Yong was surprised: "You go in at night?" β
"No, during the day, I followed David directly in, bringing all kinds of bread, grilled sausages, rum, I carried a big bag directly, they didn't check, it turned out that the deputy mayor of the city hall was also one of the tavern owners."
Li Yong was overjoyed, and this plan without beheading was very certain.
"David, can you have a charity dinner at the David Tavern?"
"Charity dinner? What the hell is that? David looked confused.
"You don't know?"
David nodded.
Li Yongshao was helpless, and introduced the plan to Li Xiaoyuliu and asked him to say
"The charity dinner is to invite the city's main generals above the corps level, mayors, mayors, deputy mayors, presidents, vice presidents, speakers, and big businessmen of the Chamber of Commerce to dinner, and say that you want to donate 500,000 pesos to the government and army on behalf of the citizens of Quito, and invite them to come!" β
David: "Uh... Belch.... I don't have 500,000 pesos! β
Li Yongxin said, why are you still so stupid?
"You don't have to pay for it, take it!"
At this time, Li Bin took a box and opened it. "Here is 200,000 pesos, tell them that this is an advance payment, and there are 3 main 00,000 after eating, go and do it!"
"Battalion commander, can David bring them all? I don't really believe him. Li Xiaoyu is still worried.
Li Yong: "Alas, you should know that it is 1877, the pursuit of wealth is still the mainstream of this era, what is clean government for the people, what is discipline, these things, I don't believe that their government has these things." The power of money is still very strong. β
Li Xiaoyu thought of something again.
"By the way, what about the Catholic and Catholic churches here? What about the recalcitrant congregation? β
Li Yong said: "Before we know the solution, we must understand the history of the development of Catholicism in South America! β
Religion has always been an effective means and the simplest way for Western countries to rule their people, and Spain and Portugal, the two countries that colonized the American continent at that time, were devout Catholics.
Even the two famous conquerors, Cortis and Pizarro, were very devout and crazy religious believers who took over this amazing land and Indians by faith, but what role did Catholicism play and what status did it have on the American continent?
First of all, what kind of religion is Catholicism, this church, together with Protestantism and Orthodox Christianity, constitutes the three main schools of the Christian church.
Moreover, the influence and existence of Catholicism greatly exceeded that of the Protestant and Orthodox sects at that time, and it is important to know that the bloody dispute between Portugal and Spain over the division of territory was also ended in the mediation and division of the world-famous "Papal Meridian" by Pope Alexander VI.
Therefore, the presence and assistance of Catholicism was indispensable in the conquest of this land, so that the Church flourished and blossomed everywhere in the Americas.
According to historical records, many of the soldiers who killed the enemy bravely in the colonial war were devout believers and missionaries from the Catholic Church, so they can be said to have played the role of executioners on the one hand.
However, there was a particularly brilliant and great missionary in the history of those days, and his name was BartolomΓ© de las Casas.
He was determined to change the situation because he had witnessed the brutal atrocities committed by the Spanish people against the Native Americans in the Americas because he had traveled with his father to do business, and he came to the Americas to renounce the so-called delegated custody of the Indians and free the slaves assigned to him.
He has been persuading these murderers to put down their sinful butcher's knives, and has also pleaded with the king, and his deeds are particularly glorious and great in the Catholic Church in the Americas for so many years, and it is worthy of all to understand.
The Catholic Church later blossomed in the Americas, with its own Inquisition and many large monasteries.
According to records, the Catholic Church in the Americas at that time received a large number of gifts and offerings from believers, as well as the hard work of Indian slaves, thus accumulating a great deal of wealth, and in the later period, the Church could obtain almost one-third of the material output and goods of the colonies, and their industries continued to expand and develop.
It can be said that in many places, the church has completely controlled the local economy and ruling power, and has become the real lord and master of the party.
It can be seen that the Church occupied an important position and influence in the American colonies, and in the hundreds of years of Church influence, it also really changed the religious beliefs of local blacks and Indians.
Even now, Latin America is still influenced and changed by the European Church, and according to statistics, more than 90 percent of the believers believe in Catholicism in Latin American countries such as Mexico and Argentina, and there are also religious factors in the history since then.
Li Yong said: "See, this is a tool used by the Spaniards and their descendants to rule South America, although the doctrine is lofty, but at the same time they possess a lot of natural resources and land resources, and at the same time they have a lot of power in the government to protect their own interests. β
"This is a kind of spiritual and civilizational control, so as to establish civilized and legal legitimacy for one's own material possession."
Li Xiaoyu: "It's a group of robbers from Western European civilizations? β
"Bandits of civilization?"
"This word is used well, the South American Incas, the Guarani people were originally the original owners of this large land, 17 million lands in South America, but after the arrival of the Spaniards and Portuguese in Western Europe, the land resources were plundered, the population was slaughtered, and the traditional culture was destroyed, morally speaking, they were robbers."
That's right, bandits.
We Chinese should unite with the Benshi Indians to reshape the new Chinese civilization, and retain the excellent national culture of the Indians and integrate into one, which is what this world should have been!