The Rise of the European Emperor

The offensive and defensive battle of Santo Domingo is actually a half-truth and half-false offensive and defensive battle. Originally, McCas didn't even plan to use the whale oil. However, he was frightened by the mobilization of all the native troops, so he took out the tactic of splashing whale oil on wooden ladders, hoping to defeat the enemy. But unexpectedly, it was cracked.

Fortunately, he still has other cards in his hand, otherwise, 500 people against more than 14,000 people, it is really enough. What cards does he have? Naturally, it is a soil grenade! Although there are many natives, they are also afraid of the attack of native grenades. Although the power of the native grenade is not strong, it can only injure a few native soldiers at a time. However, that terrifying attack method with damage in the loud noise has a great blow to the morale of the enemy.

But this time, McCas's main task was to frighten the investigation team, so he didn't show his hole card. Fortunately, they persisted until the native army ran out of food, and sent the investigation team away.

Afterwards, McCas knew the reason for Carlos' madness this time - he had just taken a fancy to the daughter of the leader of the village that McCas sent people to attack this time, and planned to marry him as his second wife. However, before he got married, McCas sent someone to slaughter the village, and even killed his sweetheart, cutting off his head...

Suddenly, the indigenous leader Carlos was furious. So, all the troops besieged Santo Domingo and launched a fierce offensive. It's a pity that although McCas's defenders were few, they had a strong castle and a lot of hole cards, so after they ran out of food, they had no choice but to order a retreat.

Of course, Carlos was still angry, and planned to attack again when the food was sufficient next time.

However, McCas was not afraid either. In addition to those hole cards, he also has a reinforcement army of three or four thousand people hiding in Havana. As long as the investigation team leaves the Americas, the support army will come immediately and cooperate with him to completely encircle and suppress Carlos' forces.

Therefore, McCas didn't worry about what waves the natives could make. After all, although the aborigines have tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, most of them are just joining in the fun and have little combat effectiveness. Facing thousands of well-trained troops, there is absolutely only one end to defeat.

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As for the investigative team, they managed to get away from Santo Domingo, where the war was raging, and came to Guantanamo Bay on the island of Cuba. Of course, Guantanamo is now called "Havana" instead of Guantanamo, which is clearly deceiving people.

At this time, Cuban Governor Tara also personally sat in Guantanamo New City to receive the investigation team.

"Welcome to the adults of the investigation team, welcome to Bishop Rugani!"

On the Long Bridge Wharf of Guantanamo Port, Tara went to meet the investigation team in person. Although they were serfs of the Hoffman family, Marin later forced them to study. So, over the years, Tara also learned Latin. At least, communicating with members of the investigation team is not a problem.

In the evening, cassava and sweet potatoes were finally no longer served at the banquet. Because Cuba is an old colony that has been in operation for many years, it is natural not to neglect the boss of the investigation team so much. Therefore, here, Tara served black bread to the big bosses of the investigation team, including his subordinates, and also served a lot of fish and meat, including red wine.

"Hey, where's the beef?" Rugani was very satisfied when he saw the dishes on the table.

But Tara said quietly:

"Yes,

There is beef. Yesterday, it happened that two cows died of heat in the manor, and they happened to be used to kill and eat meat..."

"It's so hot...cow?" The members of the investigation team were all shocked. Because, they didn't expect that the cow could still starve to death.

Tara gave them popular science—cattle on the Eastern European prairie are adapted to cold climates, but it is difficult to adapt to hot climates. When it comes to summer, many cows are always heated to death...

In fact, Tara is not completely nonsense. Because, before the introduction of African cattle and Indian cattle, the Cuban island would indeed die of heat every summer. After all, cattle imported from Eastern Europe are not heat-resistant.

In fact, the most excellent farm cattle adapted to tropical climates are zebu from India. It's a pity that Marin doesn't have many zebu in his hands now. Therefore, there are still many old breeds of cattle on the island of Cuba.

Seeing the investigation team arrive, Tara deliberately "heated" the two cows to death, and brought a lot of beef to entertain them.

After learning the "true origin" of the beef, the investigation team's interest in eating has dropped a lot. If they hadn't seen Tara eating beef with big mouthfuls, they might not have dared to eat "dead beef".

After all, it is a "sugar cane producing area", so after the meal, Tara also had sucrose water served to entertain the investigation team.

However, Baron Mawson and others also realized a problem-it seems that the number of defenders in this "Havana City" is a bit small, only a few hundred people...

So, after Mawson raised a question, Tara told him that in order to solve the security problem of Santo Domingo, half of the soldiers and horses had been sent to Santo Domingo. Originally, "Havana" had thousands of troops.

The next day, Tara personally took the members of the investigation team to the church. On the edge of the church, in a huge yard, lay hundreds of syphilis patients. In addition to the hundreds of syphilis patients, there were dozens of locals who attended to those patients.

This is the important acting "set" of Guantanamo. In order to show "goodwill" to the indigenous people, Marin specially built this temporary place to accommodate hundreds of syphilis patients.

On the hospital beds were hundreds of locals suffering from severe syphilis. Many of them were covered with abscesses and looked horrific.

Tara didn't let the investigation team get close to the syphilis patients, but let people go up to a tower next door, allowing the investigation team to look down and see the scene in the big courtyard.

Meanwhile, Tara explained to the investigative team:

"These syphilis patients are all from Santo Domingo. Before the local natives broke out in rebellion, hundreds of people were taken in. At the beginning, we let the priests in the church serve them personally. However, due to contact infection, several people in the church A priest unfortunately contracted syphilis and died..."

After speaking, Tara squeezed out a few tears, then pointed to the cemetery in the backyard of the church, and pointed to some of the tombstones...

"May they rest in peace in heaven, Amen..." Rugani immediately took the lead in praying, and the others immediately followed suit.

"Later, in order to protect the safety of the priests, we hired a group of local people who were not very afraid of syphilis to take care of those patients." After speaking, Tara pointed to those who shuttled among the patients, wearing masks and white coats of the aborigines.

"Because of the terrible contagiousness of syphilis, I have ordered people to seal off the yard next to the church and forbid ordinary people from approaching. As for the hundreds of patients inside, I can only rely on God to bless them. If they can recover, I will naturally release them Go back. If you die unfortunately, you can be buried in the cemetery behind the church..."

Rugani and the others nodded after hearing this, even if Baron Mawson and others came to find fault, they had nothing to say about this arrangement. Besides, Mo Sen and others didn't dare to enter that yard to check. After all, they are also afraid of death...

In the next two days, accompanied by Tara, the investigation team also inspected the sugarcane fields outside the city and the villages where the local serfs who planted sugarcane lived.

Because of the preparations, the villages where these local serfs live have been repaired long ago. Moreover, the village where the local serfs lived was spacious and bright. The serfs were not in shackles, and everyone was smiling—obviously, this was well prepared...

In this way, the claim that Marin abused and enslaved the local indigenous people is self-defeating...

But on the third day, when the investigation team was going to continue their in-depth investigation, thousands of indigenous soldiers suddenly appeared and surrounded the "City of Havana"...

"What's going on? Governor Tara, why are there a large number of indigenous soldiers and horses besieging the city?" Rugani and other investigation team officials asked in panic. Not long after they had faced the siege of Santo Domingo, they still had shadows in their hearts.

And Tara explained with a bitter face:

"Hey, don't you blame the damned indigenous leader Carlos? The indigenous people around here are also Taino. After that Carlos launched a rebellion on Hispaniola Island, he even sent his men to come here in a canoe. Cuba Island, encouraged the locals to launch a rebellion. Now, taking advantage of the fact that the army in the city was transferred away to guard Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola, several local tribes nearby suddenly gathered thousands of people, and from time to time Come and lay siege to Havana."

After a pause, Tara also explained:

"Of course, these native savages also know that Havana Castle is strong and difficult to conquer. Therefore, their main purpose is actually to loot the villages outside the city..."

As soon as Tara's words fell, the investigation team standing on the top of the city saw thick smoke rising from the village where the aboriginal serfs they had visited and investigated yesterday—obviously, those aboriginal rebels were setting fire to the village. village...

However, the members of the investigation team did not know that the thousands of "indigenous rebels" this time were actually the "puppet troops" of indigenous people recruited by Tara's men in the Havana colony. This time, this group of "puppet soldiers" also cooperated with Tara to act for the investigation team...

"The barbarians in this wild area are really barbaric, and they rebel at every turn..." Seeing the "rebels" of the natives "raiding" outside the city, the officials of the investigation team shook their heads, and their views on the colonies in the Americas were very bad... …

Therefore, Rugani wrote in the investigation report-the local people are quite barbaric, and it is easy to launch a rebellion as soon as someone instigates it. This is true on Hispaniola, and it is also true on Cuba... So, at first, I thought that military action was necessary, and it was indeed necessary. Perhaps, after these barbarians believe in the Lord, under the guidance of the Lord, they can get rid of their barbaric habits...

Peeking at what Rugani wrote, Tara nodded secretly. In fact, Tara had known for a long time that the leader of the investigation team was from the Papal State and was arranged by Pope Julius II. In the end, Bishop Rugani will definitely make a judgment in favor of the North Sea State. However, this requires the cooperation of the North Sea country in acting. Otherwise, it is not good for people to draw random conclusions. After all, there are still a few representatives of Germany's hostile states watching there...

The Rise of the Emperor

The Rise of the Emperor