Dominate the Country

In the port of Santo Domingo, the heavy rain has stopped, but the sky is already covered with red clouds.

The sky is gloomy, the sea breeze is howling, and the waves are rushing towards the embankment of the estuary of the Osama River from afar, one wave higher than the other, and crashing into the shore and breaking into water. A group of students are sitting on a mountain near the port of Santo Domingo. There are about 20 of them. They are students of the port school. The school they go to is behind this mountain. It was originally an ammunition storage warehouse of the Spanish garrison, but as early as when Chen Han's official personnel officially landed in the port of Santo Domingo, the current primary school had already been established there.

A group of primary school students are generally between seven or eight years old and early ten years old. They are all a group of children, but none of these children are afraid of the roaring of artillery. The Spanish island has not been stable in these years. The sound of guns and artillery is commonplace for them. These children have lived in the days of guns and artillery since they were born. Now, they just look at the warships firing not far away with heavy hearts.

This is a warship flying the flag of Port-au-Prince, but even these young children know that there are no such Western-style warships in Port-au-Prince in the west. Petion can only build the simplest sampan. Then their origins are worth considering, and even the sailors who operate the warships on them come from. It is also worth pondering. Although they are not main battleships like the third-level sailing battleship, they also have a fourth-level sailing battleship leading the way.

These warships travel from Port-au-Prince to Santo Domingo. Although they encountered strong winds and heavy rains during the voyage, the fleet was fortunately not blown away. On the contrary, the strong winds and rains also covered their whereabouts. No one in Rabe's group in Santo Domingo expected that the army of Port-au-Prince would come so suddenly.

After the heavy rain stopped today, this fleet took advantage of the wind to break into the port of Santo Domingo and bombarded the garrison camp.

The cannons in the port of Santo Domingo had been moved away when the Spaniards evacuated. The armies of Santo Domingo were tied up with each other, and no one could completely control the estuary of the Osama River - the port. Naturally, no one would put precious cannons in this place. The result is that they are now powerless to fight back.

The warships of Port-au-Prince blocked the door and fired naval guns outside the port of Santo Domingo. They started to bombard more than one kilometer away, and gradually got bolder and approached. First one kilometer, then eight hundred meters, then seven hundred meters, and finally stuck at the point of five hundred meters, with five warships lined up in a row. At the same time, the three transport ships in the rear were putting down small boats, and teams of black soldiers were riding small boats and rowing hard towards the dock.

Looking from the top of the hill to the city of Santo Domingo, the children felt that the whole city was shrouded in smoke and dust. The teachers at the school did not let them go home, and they stayed in school to wait for the results. These children were very obedient. Although they ran to the top of the hill, no one mentioned going home.

More and more buildings in the dock area were destroyed, and it seemed that there was nothing that could threaten the warships. They might have the courage to close the distance further, just to continue shelling the deep targets on land.

However, the fierce firepower of the naval guns was not aimed at the civilian buildings in the city. Just looking at the landing point of the shells, it was either the official [Rabe] buildings or the buildings such as the barracks fortifications. At least near them, we can see the purpose of the armed forces in Port-au-Prince, and we can also see that they are fully aware of the situation in Santo Domingo. But at least the safety of the citizens in the city is guaranteed. Otherwise, if the five warships and hundreds of guns bombarded the city, the civilians in Santo Domingo would definitely suffer.

The children looked at the warships not far away, and their expressions were gloomy.

They are living a happy life now.

Yes, eating well, wearing warm clothes, and being able to study, isn't this a happy life? But now all this has been broken.

No matter how the powerful Chen Han cleans up Port-au-Prince in the future, everything in Santo Domingo will never go back to the past.

The students in the school should all be the beneficiaries of the current situation. They watched the five warships firing non-stop. A child who was just over ten years old but had grown to 1.67 meters tall sighed and said, "Is General Rabe really going to die? What should we do next?"

One of Chen Han's biggest supporters in Santo Domingo is the black general Juan Rosario Rabe. He is the top power among all the forces in Santo Domingo, and he directly controls more than 2,000 armed forces. When Chen Han sent representatives to Santo Domingo, he was the first to express a welcome gesture.

In the following days, Rabe became Chen Han's representative in Santo Domingo. At the same time, under the guidance of Chen Han's official representative, he worked hard to restore the economy, develop education, and formulate land laws in the area under his control - allocating the land of French plantation owners to his officers and soldiers and landless and small-scale farmers.

Many of the current children have parents who are beneficiaries of this policy.

"I think the troops in Port-au-Prince will probably occupy Santo Domingo. As for the future... I don't know." A shorter child said woodenly.

"General Rabe will definitely win. The Chinese will not give up General Rabe." But there are also children who said this firmly.

"I hope our future life will not be too bad. I heard that life in Port-au-Prince is not even as good as Cape Haitien in the north." Children of poor people grow up early, and the war makes these children mature much more precocious. They are generally less than ten years old, but they have been thinking about problems for a long time. "The only lucky thing is that the Chinese are much stronger than Port-au-Prince."

The bloody killings, revenge and the years-long tug-of-war in the anti-French war caused tens of thousands of black slaves to fall. Before the war in 1890, Saint-Domingue [Haiti] had a population of 500,000 black and white people, but now there are only about 300,000 left. And it was divided into two!

But this population has an advantage over Saint-Domingue, because the total population of Saint-Domingue was only 150,000 before the war. But this manpower compared to the huge China..., it is like an ant under the feet of an elephant. These children saw a map on the first day of school. They saw the whole world from the map, and also saw the huge and suffocating China and the tiny Spanish island in the tiny Caribbean Sea.

Although there is no comprehensive navigation between the Spanish island and Mexico, there are still sporadic blacks coming to the Spanish island from the mainland. How good the blacks under the Chen Han system are has slowly spread on the Spanish island, and some of Chen Han’s propositions are well-known to the blacks in Saint-Domingue.

But now General Rabe, the pillar of Chen Han's existence in Santo Domingo, is about to be destroyed. Santo Domingo has almost no ability to fight back under the force of Port-au-Prince. Many blacks under General Rabe may still have confidence in the future, but they are worried about the current suffering.

"Look, the people from Port-au-Prince are coming again." A child pointed at the dock and shouted loudly.

Because the pro-China faction led by Rabe had retreated comprehensively, the armed forces of Port-au-Prince seized the dock without any effort, and then they would attack the urban area of ​​Santo Domingo. Before that, they needed to seize the commanding heights near the dock, and the school was one of them.

A small force of 20 to 30 people came towards the school. All the students on the hill had a bad premonition.

Because General Rabe's armed forces retreated comprehensively and did not resist at all, these soldiers in Port-au-Prince felt that they had won the victory, and ran towards the school talking and laughing all the way.

However, whether it was the black soldiers who had already landed on the land of Santo Domingo or the white officers and soldiers who were operating the artillery and sails on the warships, they all didn't know that a pair of eyes were staring at them hundreds of meters away from the sea level, just like looking at a pile of dead fish.

They were the submarine detachment in Chen Han's navy!

The deployment of the Military Intelligence Bureau in the Caribbean Sea may not be complete enough, but there was suddenly an additional fleet in Port-au-Prince. The sailors of the fleet were still mainly white, and they operated English. And Alexandre Petion also assembled his most elite 2,000 troops-how many people are left in Dominica now? 2,000 troops are already a lot for there. And such a large action could not be hidden from the eyes of the Military Intelligence Bureau.

When this fleet sailed from Port-au-Prince to Santo Domingo, Chen Han was already making preparations, and several large transport ships arrived in Santo Domingo. These submarines under the sea level are Chen Han's killer move!

Of course, Ye Tingyang could not board the submarine himself. The submarine force was led by a 20- to 30-year-old left lieutenant officer. This man's surname is Peng, and he is from southern Hunan. He has been struggling in Dongting Lake since he was a child and is very good at swimming. After being admitted to the Naval Academy, he had excellent comprehensive grades.

When Chen Ming ordered to try submarines, he set a rule. Officers should put talent first and not be partial. Peng Mingjiu has a calm personality, is not panicked when encountering things, has a strong will, and has a suitable title, so he was selected!

At the beginning, it was a period of time that everyone will never forget. Peng Mingjiu suffered more than all the hardships he had experienced since he joined the army. Because in addition to a series of physical and diving training for frogmen, the narrow space of the submarine can drive people crazy, and as an officer, Peng Mingjiu must take the lead in everything.

Among the initial submarine team, half of the soldiers couldn't stand the submarine career and quit halfway. But Peng Mingjiu was the leader of the team, and he couldn't groan no matter how hard or tired he was.

Fortunately, he finally got his reward. Submarines are no longer the emperor's boring "toys", but real weapons. After the surprise attack on Key West, Peng Mingjiu succeeded the right lieutenant to the left lieutenant, which made him see a brighter future.

Now, Peng Mingjiu stood in the small command cabin of the submarine, holding the periscope, commanding the small submarine to slowly surface. His ears could clearly hear the crew's breathing and panting. The hand-operated water pump, to make the submarine float up, is not a small job in this era.

"I must be an official, I swear, I must be the captain!"

He Sanshui, who was trying hard to press the water pump, glanced at Peng Mingjiu who was holding the periscope and didn't let go, and swore in his heart. He must be an official, he doesn't want to press the water pump anymore!

In the dim light of the submarine, He Sanshui was working hard. His round head was full of sweat. All the submarine soldiers were big bald heads, and the dim light reflected rays of light on their bald heads.

Although He Sanshui knew that the imaging of the periscope was very poor, the visibility was very limited, and the waterproofing and security measures after each use were even more cumbersome, he remembered that the first submarine he was on had a leak after the diving goggles were raised during a launching experiment, and half of the eight members lost their lives in that disaster.

However, if he became the captain, he would not have to work so hard, so he wanted to be the captain!

Now was the critical stage for the submarine to surface. Peng Mingjiu did not dare to be careless. After all, he was ascending during the day. If he was discovered by the people of Port-au-Prince, he would be very happy. That would be an absolute disaster for the newly established submarine force!

Peng Mingjiu concentrated on observing the surroundings carefully through the periscope eyepiece. He did not see any suspicious water objects around him. And the place where it floated was very direct. At most three hundred meters ahead, there were two transport ships from Port-au-Prince. This is close.

"Continue to drain!!" The submarine cannot completely float, but it cannot be more than half a meter away from the sea. They will pass through the isolation compartment and exit the submarine. Through the breathing tube, it breathes in the sea water and releases anchor mines one by one.

As soon as Peng Mingjiu finished speaking, the submarine immediately became busier.

They must work harder and harder to empty the water tank to the blue waterline as quickly as possible. In this way, the submarine can float under the sea level, and the people inside can clearly hear the sound of the waves above, but they can only clearly hear the explosion, and that is when they can breathe a sigh of relief.

The enemy was looking for death. All warships entered the mouth of the Osama River. Although the mouth of the Osama River was spacious and deep, waves seemed to hit the mouth of the Osama River from the Caribbean Sea in strong winds. But this is only the surface direction. Under the sea level with a depth of one meter, the water of the Osama River is pouring continuously towards the Caribbean Sea.

As long as the depth of the floating mines is set below one meter of water level, a large number of floating mines will float down the Osama River estuary, which will be a disaster for the Port-au-Prince fleet in the estuary area. The production of floating mines is very simple. As long as there are barrels and gunpowder, it is easy for Santo Domingo to make 10,000 floating mines.

The job of the submarine force is to arrange an anchor mine belt behind the Port-au-Prince fleet. When the warships hit in front retreat one after another, this anchor mine belt can be of great use.

"Attention all crew members, open the watertight compartment, pay attention to the situation, and report at any time!"

Ever since, just when the group of 20 or 30 Port-au-Prince soldiers were about to reach the gate of the Port School, a huge explosion suddenly sounded at the mouth of the Osama River.

Orange-red flames rose from under the sea and from the side of the ship, and huge water splashed everywhere. What was even more unlucky was a two-masted battleship. The entire warship was 'surrounded' by five sparks - the unlucky two-masted battleship, which blocked five floating mines. The result of the explosion was that the entire warship wanted to jump from the sea.

During the whole process, the warship showed no response, and the sailors on top did not even have time to jump off the ship and escape. The entire warship was enveloped in flames that filled the sky, with balls of fire emitting like festive fireworks.

The side of the ship was shattered, a large amount of seawater poured in through the holes, the hull collapsed, the mast tilted, and the entire battleship ended up capsized.

This scene was so shocking that the landing soldiers on the coast were stunned. The black soldiers who had been chatting and laughing just now, thinking they were sure of victory, became as dumb as a stick at this moment. They didn't seem to be seeing the end of the world, but they were actually at the end of the world.