The Rise of the European Emperor

On the first night of their arrival in Santo Domingo, the survey team had a good time. That is, the food supply on the island seems to be very tight, so they can only eat sweet potato rice. Of course, the leading gangsters still ate black bread.

The Governor of Santo Domingo, McCas, solemnly told the head of the investigation team, Bishop Rugani (a bishop of a certain region of the Papal State, not a cardinal), that this is what we have saved to entertain distinguished guests...

The other officials of the investigation team were dumbfounded! When did ordinary black bread become a thing for entertaining distinguished guests?

Then, McCas cried out to all the nobles, it's really not that we treat you poorly. Rather, something big happened here last year! There was an indigenous boy named Carlos, who learned some cultural knowledge from Spain, and also learned to make weapons such as bows and arrows. Then, this restless guy "revolted" last year, led thousands of indigenous people to launch a rebellion, and also established a "Kingdom of Carlos" (Karos guy didn't know what name to use for the country, so he just used own Spanish name).

Moreover, this year, this guy has continued to grow, and there are already tens of thousands of natives under him, and there are tens of thousands of strong men who can fight as soldiers...

The members of the investigation team naturally didn't believe it. In their opinion, a tribe with a maximum of a few hundred indigenous people, thousands of people would be scary. Where did the tens of thousands of soldiers come from? Therefore, except for Bishop Rugani, the head of the investigation team who was ordered by the Pope to pretend to be stupid, everyone else showed a look of disbelief.

But the next morning, they had no choice but to believe it... because there were thousands of natives surrounded outside Santo Domingo Castle, and the number was still increasing...

Last night, the people sent by McCas killed more than a dozen people from the village under Carlos's command closest to the castle, which suddenly angered the native chief Carlos.

So, early the next morning, he gathered a total of three or four thousand strong men from several nearby villages, armed with recurve bows and spears and other weapons, and surrounded the Santo Domingo Castle. Moreover, Carlos also sent people to inform the village chiefs farther away, asking them to send troops to support...

Therefore, the members of the investigation team saw more and more native Indian fighters outside the castle of Santo Domingo the next day. By the afternoon, there were already seven or eight thousand people...

The gentlemen of the investigation team who had a good night's sleep last night were terrified when they saw this situation. After all, there are tens of thousands of people, boundless. Although the seven or eight thousand native soldiers outside the city are not in the tens of thousands, the number is not too much. Moreover, the formation of the natives is loose and not as concentrated as the European army. From the perspective of laymen, there are more than tens of thousands of troops...

"I'm afraid there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses?" Bishop Rugani said with chattering teeth.

But Baron Mawson, who came from the Duchy of Lorraine, frowned and explained,

"It's not ten thousand, but it's close..."

After all, Lord Mawson was also a nobleman. But in this era, most nobles are military nobles, and Baron Mawson still has this vision. But the native soldiers outside the city were too chaotic, and there was no neat formation to calculate. Therefore, Baron Mawson could only use his experience to estimate that the number should be less than 10,000.

But what happened next made the members of the investigation team start to despair. In the afternoon,

It seemed that more people came from distant villages to join the siege.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Baron Mawson said solemnly

"The number of people must exceed ten thousand now..."

In fact, until the next morning, follow-up people came from afar. McCas secretly observed with a telescope, and estimated that the total number of people reached more than 14,000.

This is already the most soldiers that the native leader Carlos can mobilize. After all, he only has tens of thousands of people under his command. In order to demonstrate and fight, he called all the men here.

At this time, there were only 500 defenders in Santo Domingo Castle...

However, the governor of Santo Domingo, McCas, was in no hurry. Because, he knows that they have the advantage in weapons. Moreover, when Carlos's native army began to attack at noon the next day, McCas's men smiled and gave an order to scatter broken glass and nails under the city wall...

Then, the big bosses of the investigation team were surprised to find that the first batch of native fighters who rushed up jumped back covering their feet...

why? Because the aborigines don't wear clothes, and they don't have shoes...

As long as you sprinkle broken glass and nails on the ground, you can hurt the bare feet of native warriors. Therefore, the first wave of attacks by the natives ended without a problem.

But after all, Carlos had worked under the Spaniards for several years, and he was not comparable to ordinary natives. After thinking hard for two days, Carlos finally came to his senses, so he sent his men with brooms to clean up the glass shards and nails in the city...

Although the soldiers on the top of the city used matchlock guns to shoot and kill the aborigines who cleaned up the glass slag and iron nails, they were still cleaned up a lot. In particular, the natives often come to clean up at night.

In this way, after two or three days, the natives finally cleared the way to attack. And in the city, McCas didn't have any extra glass shards and iron nails to scatter.

Of course, McCas didn't expect this trick to defeat the enemy. So, go ahead and prepare for the defense step by step.

The natives carried a simple wooden ladder built by Carlos according to memory, and planned to climb the top of the city to attack. However, they didn't see that a cauldron had already been set up on the top of the city, and it was steaming...

This is of course not the stench of "golden juice", but cooking oil...

This is also the traditional way of defending the city in ancient China, pouring boiling oil down...

However, this trick was very rare in ancient Europe, why? Because there is no vegetable oil or cheap tung oil in Europe, only expensive olive oil and linseed oil, as well as butter and sheep oil. However, these oils are very expensive, and generally no castle is willing to pour oil down.

Of course, the defenders of Santo Domingo were not splashed with expensive olive oil or linseed oil, but cheap whale oil...

Whale oil is also liquid when boiled. Rugani and other members of the investigation team were curious about how extravagant the defenders of Santo Domingo were, and they poured oil on them...

But when they got closer, they smelled a fishy smell. Obviously, these oils are raw whale oil that has not been processed much. McCass explained that these are fish oils extracted from fish caught nearby. Rugani and others didn't know how to do it, so they didn't ask any more questions. And Baron Mawson, who knows military affairs, and others, because they are inland people, don't know how to fish and can produce oil, so they didn't ask anything.

Moreover, Baron Mawson didn't understand what the defenders were doing. Even if you pour oil on them, how many can you burn? Isn't this a waste of oil?

But soon, he understood that the main purpose of this oil is not to burn people...

After the aboriginal army beat hundreds of simple wooden ladders on the city wall, the defenders on the top of the city unhurriedly scooped up boiling whale oil with a wooden spoon, and poured it on the aboriginal people who climbed the ladder first... …

"what"

Suddenly, the group of native warriors who climbed the stairs the fastest let out a miserable howl...

They don't have any armor, only leaves and other things around the waist are covered, which are basically half of the almond fruit. Suddenly being splashed with boiling whale oil, it's no wonder...

But the real trouble came after the first batch of indigenous soldiers who were scalded by the boiling oil fell, and the soldiers on the top of the city continued to use wooden spoons to scoop up hot oil and pour it on the wooden ladder. Then, hundreds of wooden ladders were covered in oil...

This is going to be bad, the native warriors are barefoot anyway. If you wear shoes, there is no problem with oil on the wooden ladder. But those without shoes... stepping on the oily wooden ladder, it's hard to stand still...

So, the indigenous warriors who climbed the ladder could not keep slipping and fell down the wooden ladder... Occasionally, a few climbed up, but were also stabbed down by the defenders with spears...

The investigation team on the top of the city was stunned, but when Mo Sen and other nobles saw it, their eyes lit up first, and then their eyes dimmed...

They also saw that the defenders of McCas knew that the natives had no shoes. If the aborigines have non-slip leather shoes, the oil on the ladder will not affect them climbing the ladder. Therefore, pouring oil on wooden ladders is only suitable for dealing with natives without shoes, not for use in European battlefields.

If you were an ordinary native, you might have to retreat. After all, it is really difficult to understand. However, Carlos was someone who had been in the Spanish castle after all. He thought hard and came up with a countermeasure to clean the ladder...

He sent people to take the ladder back and wash it in the river. Although it was not completely cleaned, it was not so greasy. Then, he had someone smear mud on the ladder, which was still a little greasy. After the sun dried it, the ladder was no longer slippery.

After several confrontations, the whale oil in the castle ran out. McCas was also a little nervous. He thought he could conquer the natives, but he was cracked twice.

So, next, the two sides started a real offensive and defensive battle...

Fortunately, the defenders have castles as their backing, so they can avoid the bows and arrows of the natives. However, the native warriors could hardly escape the muskets on the top of the city.

After a few days, the city was covered with blood. Most of them belonged to the natives, and there were also a few unlucky defenders. The few unlucky ones were all inadvertently hit by the arrows shot up from the city. Fortunately, only two people died, and the others were rescued.

After more than ten days of mad attack by the indigenous army, Carlos finally discovered an embarrassing problem. The food was gone...

Then, the indigenous army had to disband and go home. The women continued to plant cassava and sweet potatoes, and the men went into the mountains to hunt...

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This is also the reason why McCas dared to provoke a fight to scare the investigation team. The two sides had fought many times before. McCass also knew of the Aboriginal weakness of having insufficient food reserves. Just like this siege, the indigenous warriors brought cassava and sweet potatoes from their homes to participate in the battle. After eating, you have to go home to get it, or go hunting to get it. Therefore, the natives simply did not have the ability to siege the city for a long time.

But when did the aborigines become so manic? Why do you attack like crazy for more than ten days? In the past, even if he provoked them, he would attack them at most... This time, if he didn't have a hole card in his hand, he would have been frightened by the aborigines' offensive.

At this time, the investigation team, which had been frightened for more than ten days, also took the opportunity to propose to go to Cuba Island to continue the investigation. As for Haiti Island, after witnessing the brutal siege battle, several representatives of the investigation team had to admit that the Taino people on the island were indeed barbaric and powerful, and they could not be "tamed" without resorting to violence...

The Rise of the Emperor