For Marines, side jobs such as land scraping are not often done, because just working on the main job is already very strenuous.
Fortunately, those participating in this expedition are all experienced veterans, who have served for more than five years, and have participated in at least two Northern Expeditions, especially actual combat with the Donglu, and have no serious violation records, so they are eligible for selection.
The fighting power of the Spaniards in front of the Inca natives was not enough in front of the Marines.
Except for the fact that the local climate makes people feel uncomfortable, in other aspects, they basically lag behind their counterparts on the opposite side.
Due to the heavy armor protection, the battle in the urban area did not cause any casualties. More than 70 Marines were slightly injured.
In addition to the advantage of armor, each marine has a long and short revolver, which gives him an absolute advantage in firepower against Spanish soldiers with matchlocks or flintlocks.
Facing the dense rain of bullets and exploding grenades, those self-righteous Spanish soldiers were completely stunned.
Especially after their officers were killed first, the ordinary soldiers who lost their command were just a bunch of headless flies, and they couldn't tell how powerful they were.
Even if the opponent had the "home field advantage", they were beaten violently by the Ming Dynasty Marines on the streets of Lima. A company of Spanish infantry could not beat a platoon of Marines.
Especially after encountering steam tanks and being bombarded by several rounds, the so-called fighting will disappeared in an instant, and the defenders were busy running away.
Many defenders didn't even know about the existence of tanks, and they didn't bother to look for new things in the East. They didn't realize it until they encountered them and were severely taught a lesson, but it was too late.
Especially after seeing more than twenty cavalrymen falling in front of that armored monster before charging very far, no one wanted to challenge them with their own lives.
What makes them even more frightened is that the Marines will perform more than one touch-up on all enemy corpses, just to prevent anyone from pretending to be dead.
This scene made them shudder, and at the same time, they couldn't help but think of what their predecessors did when they attacked the Inca Empire...
When the victim becomes himself, it will be absolutely unbearable. The other party's barbaric behavior seems to be ten times, a hundred times more brutal than the predecessors.
Before the expedition, a certain new emperor told Jiexuan that there was no need for so-called sympathy and pity to deal with the Spaniards. Steel and fire were the best gifts to them!
A Spanish woman was worth three hundred denarii, and a Spanish man was worth a thousand denarii.
If you have money, use the money to redeem the person. If the other party has no money, you can kill all the meat tickets that are sick or cannot be transported before boarding the ship.
To a certain new emperor, a dead Spaniard is a good Spaniard!
For Ming Dynasty, there was no need for Spain as a country in the world!
This country will not be on the world map in the future!
A certain new emperor will work hard to erase the first generation of the Empire on which the sun never sets through his own efforts.
Then there is the second generation of the Empire on which the sun never sets. Whoever dares to become the third generation will have an obvious end!
After the Ming Dynasty occupied Siberia, mainland China, Southeast Asia, and Australia, there would be no other so-called empire on which the sun never sets...
Jiexuan was satisfied with this battle loss ratio and distributed a Yangma to the injured officers and soldiers.
It doesn't matter if you don't understand Spanish, as long as the other person is willing to cooperate.
Now that we control the entire city except the castle, those who don't cooperate don't deserve to live!
On the other hand, Zheng Jun's side had underestimated the enemy and neglected to carry heavy armor. Twelve people died in the battle, and more than thirty people were seriously injured.
After such a comparison, the gap between daily training and individual soldier quality is reflected.
Zheng Guangying couldn't resurrect his dead men, so he could only remind them first and then train these losers hard when he went back.
"My friends, I have to tell you some bad news?"
"What? There's no harm in speaking up!"
"Some of our compatriots are working for those demons, and there are quite a few of them!"
"how many?"
"At least ten thousand people!"
"Ten thousand puppet troops? Humph!"
"Puppet army? Hmm! This word is quite special!"
Through translators, Jie Xuan and Zheng Guangying also learned about the puppet army from the mouth of the local aboriginal named "Poluo".
However, according to Poirot's account, the Governor of Peru, Guzman, did not seem to trust these puppet troops, so the main force of the puppet troops was not qualified to be stationed in Lima.
Even if these puppet troops are willing to come to help, it will take at least five days from receiving the news to arriving here. If the weather conditions are bad, it will be delayed by one or two days.
Moreover, the puppet army lacks muskets and horses. Except for generals and senior officers, they are almost all infantry and are still in the cold weapon stage.
If the other party does not use poison to smear their weapons, Jiexuan believes that these puppet troops are not a substantial threat to themselves.
"How many Spaniards did we capture?"
"Report to the commander, there are 2,682 people on the list, and many people fled or hid in the castle after the war."
"Ah, very good!"
One thousand silver coins per person is more than two million silver coins.
Jiexuan felt that if the Spaniards were willing to pay the ransom, he would not deliberately embarrass them.
Earn a sum from the natives and another sum from the Spaniards, and you can eat the difference on both sides.
"How much did we seize from the Treasury at the Governor's Palace?"
"The gold that was weighed reached 125 kilograms and the silver was 844 kilograms. According to the captured booklet, the semi-finished copper in the port warehouse weighed more than 100,000 kilograms. Unfortunately, the saltpeter in the warehouse was detonated during the shelling. …”
"It doesn't matter. The governor must have taken a lot of gold and silver jewelry with him when he escaped. If he didn't run far away, these things must still be in the castle!"
"You mean..."
"Don't worry, we can stay here for a few days, and we can play with the Governor inside!"
Starting from the next day, Zheng Guangying asked Poirot to take his indigenous men to collect coconuts everywhere. The more the better.
The purpose is simple, this thing quenches thirst and replenishes sugar, and it’s time to use coconut bombs again!
Anyway, until the reinforcements arrive to relieve the Governor, everyone is idle. Why not disgust the defenders in the castle?
The climate in Lima is good, it rains a lot, but unlike in Jelanja or Manila, there are no storms here.
Without strong winds, it would be difficult to blow away the terrifying coconut bombs.
It is Zheng Guangying's purpose to make the castle "smells fragrant" at all times.
The arsenal that was too late to be destroyed when the opponent retreated was also seized by the Marines. In order to prevent the gunpowder from getting damp, Zheng Guangying decided to hold a grand performance for the governor opposite.
There is no doubt that the Governor is the protagonist!
All the mortars were moved out, and Zheng Guangying asked Poirot to find a metal craftsman to recreate as many of the mortars as possible.
Once everything is ready, you can start performing.
A thousand mortars were aimed at the castle and fired a salvo.
Fire it every ten minutes, six times an hour, and fire it for ten hours a day!
The output of firepower was so intense that there were not enough coconuts on the day of the performance...
According to incomplete statistics, at least more than 50,000 coconut bombs were fired into the castle!
Jiexuan and Zheng Guangying's men combined cannot produce so much ammunition, but Poirot can do it!
How many indigenous people are there?
Each person pays tribute once and puts it in a coconut and punches it in. It is guaranteed to make the governor inside smell "relaxed and happy"!
The then chief officer, Berg, relied on frequent storms and great perseverance to resist for hundreds of days.
If 50,000 coconut bombs are fired in one day, it will be 500,000 in ten days!
Now that there is no storm in Lima, Jiexuan and Zheng Guangying both want to see how long Guzman can resist!
Sending all the garbage to the castle is equivalent to helping the locals in the city clean up their domestic garbage.
From this point of view, Master Wang Shi of the Ming Dynasty is really a teacher of benevolence and righteousness!
As for whether Guzman agrees, Jiexuan and Zheng Guangying don't care that much.
If the other party disagrees, you can come out and talk!
Let’s drink and talk freely and talk freely!
Dare you?
If you don’t dare, then try the powerful power of coconut bombs!
Zheng Guangying's men also had a small number of veterans who had participated in the siege of Relanja Castle that year, and were familiar with using coconut bombs.
Soon young soldiers, under the guidance of veterans, became enthusiastic about this weapon.
The indigenous people were also amazed by this wonderful function of coconut, and they all exclaimed - "My God"!
It seems that those extremely cruel white-skinned demons have finally met their natural enemies!
"Mr. Colonel, if we don't launch a counterattack, the castle will become a toilet!"
Guzman was almost knocked unconscious by the overwhelming stench. He had to deal with it before he passed out.
"My governor, with all due respect, if you go out now, you will die! The yellow-skinned monkeys have much more artillery than we do. There are thousands of artillery pieces on the shore alone, not counting the warships in the sea. Do you think their artillery? Can it shoot coconuts? If it were replaced by artillery shells, with this intensity of firepower, I’m afraid we wouldn’t even be able to leave a complete corpse!”
Vidal had a relatively objective understanding of the current situation. He also knew that the governor kept urging him to launch a counterattack because he was actually worried about the gold and silver that had not been transferred away from the governor's palace.
But what's the use of worrying?
Will those yellow-skinned monkeys ignore the gold and silver after occupying the Governor's Palace?
"Are you still waiting for reinforcements to arrive?"
"Otherwise? Expect angels to come down to earth?"
"If you...continue to hold on, we will all be suffocated to death!"
"How about using Pizarro's trick?"
"What? Be more detailed!"
"Senior Pizarro's way of dealing with Atta Parva!"
"...Yes! But how to implement it?"
"We will negotiate as a condition and invite the other party's generals to enter the castle, and then..."
"What if the other party disagrees?"
"Then there's nothing I can do!"
"..."
Since the castle had become an isolated island at this time, Guzman had no other choice but to agree to Vidal's proposal.
So two people were sent out to go to the other party's camp, and then...
Both of them were detained, and Jie Xuan photographed an Inca native captive loyal to the Spanish to deliver the message!
One for two, the gift is worthless, and I earn two meat tickets for nothing, perfect!
Jiexuan saw a similar story in a letter from a certain new emperor, so he decided to take advantage and not suffer any loss.
Guzman's reply was that the two men were engaged in espionage activities to spy on the military situation of the Ming Dynasty King's Division, so they were temporarily detained and would be released after the negotiations were completed. If the other party is really sincere, please send high-level personnel to negotiate!
Guzman felt extremely depressed when he read the reply written in Spanish.
Those yellow-skinned monkeys were more than a hundred times more difficult to deal with than the natives here, and I lost two people in vain.
The other party did not agree to the request to stop the shelling because the negotiations had not officially begun.
As a result, the castle was also violently bombarded the next day. No one died, but everyone was almost smoked to death.
It’s hard to imagine that things would continue like this. Ten days later, there would still be a few living people in the castle.
Vidal believed that reinforcements would arrive within ten days, and by then they could cooperate internally and externally to attack those nasty yellow-skinned monkeys.
But before that, how to continue to persevere...
After holding on for another three days, Guzman thought he had reached the limit of what he and the people in the castle could endure.
Just when he was about to order Vidal to lead his troops to break out, gunfire suddenly rang out outside.
"That must be our reinforcements! Hahahaha! We finally made it!"
Guzman swept away the previous decline and showed extremely excitement. His patience was finally rewarded.
After receiving the emergency letter from the Governor, the Spanish troops in the surrounding strongholds quickly gathered their troops and marched towards Lima.
On the sixth day, after the five supporting armies converged and their strength reached nearly a thousand people, they decided to launch a relief operation.
The commanders of the reinforcements believed that the troops on hand were enough to repel about five thousand yellow-skinned monkeys.
Although the naval battle is still relatively difficult, as long as the battle occurs around Lima, you will be victorious.
This is mainly due to the fact that the reinforcements are all cuirassiers and have extremely strong assault capabilities.
But when the fight started, they discovered that the troops they were so proud of were useless in front of steam tanks!
Facing twelve steam tanks and a mixed force of two thousand Marines and Zheng Army infantry, more than five hundred Spanish cavalry were knocked down on the spot!
The reason why such heavy losses occurred was because the reinforcements used wall-mounting tactics.
Wait until the distance is reduced to a thousand feet before launching the final sprint.
The Marine Corps and Zheng Jun used their tactics to avoid charging, and their own side did not fire.
After the distance is close enough, the tank gun and the revolver long and short gun fire at the same time.
The Spanish cavalry, charging at full speed, found that the opponent's firepower was too fierce, but they were unable to retreat immediately.
In the end, everyone became a target, and those who managed to escape from the battlefield were basically injured.
Without a revolver, the Ming Dynasty would have been in a tough fight just with flintlocks or matchlocks.
However, Marines have already popularized revolvers. Each person still has two guns, and their explosive power at close range is extremely powerful.
Everyone also asked the natives to dig a two-foot-wide horse trap area for themselves, just in case.
In general, just wait and see.
To be precise, they are using their governor to fish for reinforcements!
Poirot took his native men to see the whole process of the battle. Afterwards, he was so impressed with the Ming Dynasty that he almost paid homage to him.
Because he could defeat the Spaniards who were suffering from blood debts many times, he gave the Ming Dynasty King's Master a nickname - the God-given Army!
