The Sun Never Sets In Spain

Fortunately, Mayak's administrative system was still able to function, and with the severe suppression of the soldiers, the city was restored to order two hours after the army entered the city.

In fact, all the people are driven to their homes.

This is not only to prevent them from making trouble, but also to protect them.

Assania could already see the soldiers under his men about to move.

In this era, one of the important income items of the army is looting, and they can bear it in Spain. Now when they arrive in Cuba, many soldiers have the desire to make extra money.

In fact, if it is not a domestic order, he doesn't care about it. Who told you to support the rebellion?

However, in order to implement the principle of Alfonso's three orders: "Don't provoke national hatred", he can only do his best to restrain his soldiers.

Some thieves who snatched bracelets and earrings were not seen by Assania, but when faced with acts such as robbery, he gave the most severe blow.

It will not be shot, but corporal punishment and salary deduction are inevitable.

Fortunately, the Spanish military pay has always been paid on time. The soldiers did not rely on this for food, and Assania managed to save this port city that is considered prosperous in Cuba.

After Mayak’s upper-level leaders ran away, the one who could speak the most was a city councillor named Gerardo.

Gerardo is a mulatto. You must know that Cuba is dominated by white people and can become a parliamentarian as a half-blood. Even if it is just a city parliamentarian, this shows that this person is quite difficult.

"Gerardo, right? You come to be the mayor. Someone will help you later. Behave well. There will be more positions after the war." In the city hall, Assania patted Gerardo on the shoulder. , Encouraged.

The management of the city certainly cannot be done by the army, and there are no government officials on the scene, so Gerardo can only be appointed as the interim mayor.

The advantage of having a local mayor is to make the city run faster, provided that the mayor is obedient.

Gerardo is obviously obedient, his identity as a mixed-race has been squeezed out, and he doesn't have a strong sense of belonging.

And the Second Army’s style of work can make people feel good about everything. From the time the army entered the city, there hasn’t been any vicious incidents, which is far beyond everyone’s expectations.

This is a war in which the European powers suppressed the colonial uprisings. Unlike European countries that have to talk about rules when fighting each other, European newspapers are too lazy to report on how many people have been killed here.

This is also the reason why high-level officials fled in large numbers, thinking that they would die if they were caught.

In fact, they were right. In normal history, Spain developed a concentration camp system, and basically all the people caught were dead. They can only say that they were lucky on this timeline.

After handling Mayak’s affairs quickly, Assania left 1/3 of his army to garrison the city, waiting for the fleet to bring the next batch of soldiers and supplies over to prevent the landing operation from becoming a lone army.

And he himself took the rest of the army to blossom on all sides, and quickly moved closer to the south, trying to divide the Republic of Cuba in two before the enemy reacted.

The soldiers are extremely fast, especially at this time. As long as they can achieve the established strategic goals, they can isolate the province of Camaguey from the provinces further east. Without subsequent materials and troops, this war will soon end.

For this reason, they prepared as many horses as possible. However, the landing fleet has reached the limit of transporting tens of thousands of people at one time. There is not much capacity to transport horses. Even if the horses searched in Mayak city are added, there are only less than 1 /3 people can ride the mount.

In desperation, Assania decided to adopt the tactics of the cavalry go first and the infantry to consolidate, which he called the tactics of horse racing.

Although it sounds a bit ridiculous, any general of sound mind will not let the cavalry break away from the infantry and artillery and attack alone.

However, the facts proved that this tactic was effective. Since most of the troops were transferred to the front, the defense forces in Holguin Province were extremely empty, especially in the interior.

Not only that, before the Mayak siege, the leaders tried every means to mobilize the nearby army, including the militia, to go to Mayak for defense. As a result, a total of 5,000 people were wiped out. These people are now being strictly guarded. .

This action completely eliminated the resistance in Holguin Province. During the entire march, the second army encountered the police force the most, and it goes without saying how corrupt the police in the colony were.

It's okay to rely on them to control the escaped slaves, and they don't have the ability to fight with the regular army.

Usually the police noticed the movement in the distance and threw down their weapons in advance and surrendered, so that Assania said a famous saying that accompanied his life: "I don't have time to capture you! You have to lay down your weapons and leave the road."

The police also retreated to the side of the road obediently, waiting for the infantry who came to take him prisoner. Of course, they were also smarter, leaving the army on the spot and becoming civilians.

On the contrary, the resistance of ordinary people is even more intense. Cubans who have seen the military disaster are pessimistic about their future.

Some of them were full of rebellious spirit, or were brainwashed by the propaganda slogans of the Republic. They brought their own dry food and used their own hunting guns to fight back. In a short period of time, they even formed a group of young people from several manors and villages. Township protection group.

Without a soil gun, they even used bows and arrows, and set many traps along the way.

These counterattacks caused some trouble to the Second Army, but the final result showed that ordinary people are indeed not opponents of the regular army.

"The township" is not doing well, but the township protection group has an accident. Assania appreciates these brave people, but he can only say sorry for the different positions.

The only thing he can do is not to kill the prisoners after defeating them, but the Second Army is distributed throughout Holguin Province, and he can only control his direct subordinates.

Relying on this staking tactic, the Second Army regained the entire Holguin Province in just two days, and even controlled half of the nearby Grama Province, and could cut off eastern Cuba in just a few days.

Two days later, reinforcements at the front and rear were delayed. The former was due to the difficulty of drawing out troops under the rapid offensive of the Fifth Army, and the latter was due to the lack of weapons and ammunition.

Facing the 18,000 people from the front to support the rear, and the 50,000 army (known as) coming from the east of Cuba, the Second Army took a defensive position on both lines of defense.

Only waiting for the reinforcements of the Fifth Army to be transported to Holguin by sea, and then both sides destroyed the Republican troops in the provinces of Camaguey and Las Tunas.

At that time, if the eastern part of the recruits can't even hold a handful of guns, the republic's demise will only happen overnight.