Dominate the Country

On March 14, 1783, a fleet of 22 warships and transport ships appeared on the vast Guatemalan Ocean. Obviously, this was a fleet of Chen Han's North American expeditionary force.

On the current western coastline of America, except for the Chinese flag of the blue sky, white sun and red earth, there is no other flag that can fly in such a large fleet.

The Spanish fleet had long left the west coast, which also proves that they had only obtained the information about the rockets a few days ago.

Since the "sinking of the destroyer", the expeditionary navy headquarters, which had learned from the pain, issued an order that all naval warships were required to keep a safe distance of more than 500 meters from any ship during the mission.

Use small sampans as a tool to send sailors to the target warship. The rocket attack must never happen again.

There are twelve warships in this fleet, six of which are standard third-class battleships, with 70 to 80 guns. The remaining two small, two medium and four clipper warships, and two are five-masted Chinese large sea ships, which have specially strengthened the thickness of the hull wall and keel. Although there are only 44 guns, there are 24 20-jin heavy guns, followed by 15-jin guns and 10-jin guns. The range and firepower are not weak, and the tonnage has also caught up with the 1,000-ton medium-sized clipper sailing ships.

Six of the ten transport ships are medium-sized Western-style sailing ships, and four are Chinese five-masted ships.

The speed of the ships in the entire fleet can be divided into three stages. The speed of Chinese sailing ships is obviously slower, although they need much fewer soldiers than Western sailing ships during navigation, and their speed is faster than Western sailing ships when against the wind.

The entire fleet was loaded with an entire infantry regiment of the army and a battalion of cavalry. These were all put together as a team of infantry and cavalry after the Spaniards had to relieve the pressure on the front line after the fire in their backyard, so that the expeditionary army also had extra troops to be drawn.

The current main battlefield between China and the West is completely in confrontation, and no one dares to launch an attack easily. The existence of rockets has greatly worried the attacks on both sides.

The Spaniards could not fight after several failed attacks, and the expeditionary army was frightened after seeing the failure of the Spaniards and did not dare to launch a frontal attack.

In the initial plan of the expeditionary army, the strategic plan to deal with the Spanish army of 100,000 was only completed in three months. Through continuous frontal battles, the Spanish will to fight was defeated and their living forces were annihilated in large numbers. The operational plan of the General Staff was only three months.

But now, three three months have passed. The end of the war is still a long way off.

The expeditionary army, which dared not launch an attack on the front battlefield, could only pay attention to other aspects.

After the war started, the expeditionary force, which had control of the sea but no extra land forces, could finally send out a bold attack by the navy and the army. The scope of the war was not just Mexico, but the entire west coast of America.

Using the fleet and land forces to attack the Spanish coastal ports might result in some casualties, but it was better than fearlessly throwing lives into the frontal attack and being bombed by rockets, right?

The fleet also carried a large number of guns and ammunition. Wherever they went, they would mobilize the oppressed and exploited Indians, give them the weapons and supplies they needed, and ignite the smoke of Indian resistance.

From the Lower Jiazhou Peninsula to the south within one or two thousand nautical miles, everywhere can be said to be a place where they fanned the flames, and they wanted to disturb the Spanish backyard without a day of peace.

They wanted to harass all the Spanish territory in America, not just in Mexico.

The expeditionary force believed that the Indians would suffer cruel exploitation from the Spanish wherever they were; they believed that there was a sharp and irreconcilable contradiction between the two, no matter where they were.

At this time, the fleet was sailing on the ocean outside the Viceroyalty of Guatemala. As a country in later generations, Guatemala has a weak presence in the Chinese folk, and many people don’t know this country, but in history, Guatemala was the seesaw for the Spanish to conquer Mexico.

Although the governorship here is under the jurisdiction of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the Spaniards have their own set of colonial management systems. There are governorships under the four major governorships. The jurisdiction of these governorships is, to a certain extent, the national territory of Central and South America in later generations. But the governorship of Guatemala was established ten years earlier than Mexico City.

The fleet set off from the southern tip of the Lower Jiazhou Peninsula and took five days to reach Guatemala. However, because there were no Spanish ships on the sea, when the fleet appeared in the port of San Jose [not the capital of Costa Rica, this name is very common in America], the local Spaniards and natives were completely unprepared.

Twelve warships were lined up at a distance of 500 to 600 meters in the port of San Jose. Hundreds of cannons bombarded the port area of ​​San Jose without stopping, and white smoke enveloped the entire fleet.

At the same time, many small boats were lowered from the transport ship. Soldiers from the 6th Squadron of the Japanese Volunteer Corps took ten small boats and rowed hard towards the dock area on the shore. Behind them, some sailors also rowed small boats and began to move forward on the sea, but their purpose was not to land and grab the beach, but to shorten the distance to within 500 meters and launch rockets on the small boats.

The soldiers of the Sixth Squadron quickly approached the port area. Contrary to their expectations, there was no one in the San Jose port at this time. Except for a few ships that were battered by shells, not a single Spanish defender could be seen. .

Did everyone run away?

The squadron leader of the Sixth Squadron was confused. Could it be that after seeing the fleet, the Spaniards realized that they were no match for them and ran away?

The fort at the Port of San Jose had stopped firing back at some point, and the squadron leader could no longer see anyone when he held up his binoculars.

When the advance team sent a signal that progress was going well, the naval guns began to extend their fire towards the interior of the port, and then the Sixth Squadron began to stride towards the port fort. They successfully occupied the empty fort, the crooked cannon, the smoke that still remained from the rocket explosion, and the remains of the Spanish soldiers who died tragically showed what had just happened here, but other than that, there was nothing there now. There was not a single living person in sight.

"Baga. A bunch of cowards, cowards."

The squadron leader waved the saber in his hand and struck a dying Spanish wounded soldier hard on the neck. Blood splattered and the Spanish wounded soldier who had only one breath left died. He was also the only living person in the entire fort.

"Cowards, a bunch of cowards." They could still fight back and still had artillery, but they abandoned the fight and fled. How did these cowardly Spaniards occupy such a large and fertile American land?

The squadron leader thought of his hometown. There are so many people who don’t even have a place to stand. They work all day long but have no clothes on. They work hard day and night in the narrow Japanese land where volcanoes and earthquakes often occur. Countless people Even filling my stomach is still a luxury.

But even as a samurai, on the first day he joined the security force, he shed tears just because he could eat a bowl of white rice topped with fish and tofu soup. Compared with occupying the vast, fertile and fertile land of America, he did not know how to cherish it. Land of Spaniards, Japan is so sad.

The land here is so fertile that if you sow a handful of seeds, you will be able to harvest in three or four months; the land here is so vast that each person can still occupy a hundred acres or a thousand acres...

The Spanish are simply wasteful, shamefully wasteful.

That is the world's biggest prodigal son, the world's biggest fool, squandering his wealth wantonly.

From the Spaniard in front of him to the Japanese squadron leader, a heartfelt hatred for the Spaniards actually arose in his heart.

It's like the feeling of a poor man who can't even eat enough, watching a rich man gargle with bird's nests and pave the floor with gold bricks.

It is not purely a jealousy of wealth, but a hatred of waste.

Waste is shameful——

The Sixth Squadron quickly occupied the deserted port area. They searched the entire San Jose port and found no living person except for debris scattered in a few houses on the shore. However, a batch of guns and gunpowder were collected, and even the cannons had a dozen intact ones.

"Reporting to the captain, our unit has searched within 300 meters of the landing port area and has not found any Spanish soldiers or natives." The squadron leader of the Sixth Squadron reported to the captain. Nowadays, the composition of Japan's support teams and security teams has been changed. Chen Ming copied the Japanese military organization in his impression on their heads, which gave him a twisted feeling of satisfaction in his heart. From low to high, it was the squad —Squad — Squadron — Group — Wing — Brigade.

A brigade is a battalion, a regiment has about 3,000 troops, and a brigade has about 10,000 troops. There is no division!

Now, regardless of whether it is the Stand Up Team or the Security Team, all brigade-level officers have honorary titles and are not responsible for actual command. Otherwise, they would have too much power. Moreover, with the formation of 10,000 troops composed of foreign races, the danger will increase exponentially.

It is true that Chen Han was raising a dog, but the dog could not turn into a wolf, and Chen Han must not repeat the mistakes of the Western Jin Dynasty.

After hundreds of years of hard work, the Han Dynasty finally trained the Southern Huns into a Samoyed that could be funny, playful, and cute. However, in the hands of the Sima family, the cute Samoyed turned into a ferocious Samoyed. Tosa Inu. Therefore, brigade-level positions are just honorary titles and are incompatible with actual military power. Chen Han has rarely dispatched brigade-level support teams or security teams so far.

Among the teams following the fleet south this time was a brigade of Japanese soldiers. Naturally, this brigade was the first to land at the port.

The captain, however, did not have the vindictiveness of the captain of the Sixth Squadron. He stood on the top of the fort at the port of San Jose, looking eastward at the entire San Jose, with only endless pride surging in his heart.

Such a fertile land will be subjected to their most brutal and ruthless ravages in the coming time. He likes it so much!

The only thing that echoed in the captain's mind now was the military order he received before setting off, to grab everything that could be grabbed and burn everything that could be burned.

Just like this, how much money can I make?

He doesn't have the extra time to think about Japan. Now he is not even Japanese. He has obtained the red book and is a serious Chinese.

"Kill Jiji——"

Following the captain's order, the entire brigade's soldiers cheered in excitement. All the Japanese soldiers' eyes shone with golden light. Gold, silver, cattle, horses, livestock, everything, endless wealth was right in front of their eyes.

"Ban Zai, Ban Zai..."

The sharp bayonets were raised above their heads, and more than 500 people cheered heartily.

War, spoils, and a good life have been completely equated with each other. Every Japanese soldier in the volunteer team has become accustomed to this kind of "life". This is the biggest stimulus for their heroic fighting!

Whether it is the natives of Borneo, the natives of Luzon and Mindanao, or the natives of Java and Sumatra, they can be cold-blooded and ruthless because they are accustomed to all this and this "formula".

In America, it is the same.

"Bang bang..."

When the volunteer team entered the city of San Jose, the counterattack came. The captain could see through the telescope that sporadic Spanish soldiers and locals were hiding behind buildings or roadblocks with muskets and shooting at them.

But the captain did not see the artillery.

"Line up."

"Raise your guns."

"Aim."

"Fire."

A squad of Japanese soldiers quickly lined up in a 5X2 queue with the squad leader's slogan, and then ten muskets were aimed at the windows of a house and fired.

The difference between well-trained soldiers and the mob is not only the difference in their mutual assistance when fighting in large-scale arrays, but also in small-scale offensive battles, the former can quickly form neat lines of soldiers and fire neat volleys under the command of officers.

The poor accuracy of the muskets of the current era must be compensated by quantity. The captain clearly saw two blood spots on the chest of a middle-aged white man behind the window, and the whole person disappeared from his sight along with the flying wooden frame.

"Aim!"

"Fire!"

Along with the command, a medium-sized rocket flew out of the launcher, and the hot tail flame scorched the ground. When the explosion sounded, a simple roadblock made of carriages, wood, and mud flew up. Just one medium-sized rocket is enough to turn the labor of countless people into purgatory.

"Attack!"

A squad leader raised his saber and swung it forward. More than 20 soldiers with bayonets bent over and rushed to the roadblock that had been blown open in the middle.

The soldiers of the Volunteer Corps successfully crossed the roadblock and entered the rooms on both sides of the roadblock. They found nothing except a pile of corpses behind the roadblock. It was obvious that the people here were either all dead or the living had fled.

"Continue the attack."

The Volunteer Corps would not stop at all. Even though many people were chasing the enemy, they were also actively searching for any valuable things in the room.

Even if it was just a copper pot, some people would put it in the bag behind their buttocks.

The entire city of San Jose was not very big at all. It was about the size of a town in China. When the subsequent cavalry and infantry battalions entered the town, the Volunteer Corps had completely controlled the situation.

In total, they killed and captured nearly 100 resistance elements and confiscated more than 130 long and short muskets.

Unfortunately, they could not continue to attack Guatemala. According to the rules, that was already a dish for other parts. The Japanese Volunteer Corps had taken over San Jose and had taken advantage of it. They could not go out and get anything else.

How much the five infantry and cavalry combat battalions and one logistics battalion could gain in the next few days depended on their ability.

The Volunteer Corps would stay behind to take charge of the safety of the port of San Jose when the main force was dispatched.

"Baga! Where are the others? Are there only a hundred or so people in the whole San Jose?"

"Where are the other residents?"

"That's wealth too."

The veins on the captain's forehead were about to burst. It was like a rich man who suddenly found his treasure room empty when he opened it. All the gold and silver treasures were gone.

San Jose is a port, but there has been no maritime trade here in recent years. It is naturally not an ideal place, but the Japanese Volunteer Corps was still happy to choose it. Not only because they are the guerrillas, but also because they are often the first scapegoats of the expeditionary army. Even if they are now guerrillas on the west coast, the expeditionary army has an absolute advantage. The first shot is not to die, but to make a fortune, but the captain still hopes to get the first place.

In addition to the eternal sentiment of the guerrillas themselves, it is because San Jose is located in the port, and here not only the goods can be counted as their income, but also the local residents.

The superiors have already said that if you take away everything that can be taken away, then aren’t people also "things"?

The captain knows very well how high a price an Indian white slave can be sold in China!

"Even if all residents evacuate, the speed will not be so fast."

"They must be hiding somewhere."

"Go find them, find them all."

The angry captain grabbed the sky with his ten fingers, and the intense emotion made him seem to tear the sky down.

"Captain, Your Excellency Captain."

"Church..., there are people in the cellar of the Port Church."

God obviously didn't want this Japanese volunteer team to lose money. Just when the captain was angry and swung his expensive steel saber to chop a small tree as thick as an arm into pieces, good news came.

When a squadron leader led the troops to recapture the Port Church again, they finally found the San Jose residents hiding in the cellar, as well as a middle-aged priest.

"Catch them all, catch them for me."