Jiexuan believed that the natives would try to defend Lima, because he had promised him that he would lead his fleet back here within three months, and he would be able to avenge him by then.
Before leaving, Jie Xuan still handed Guzman, who had been played to death, to Poirot, hoping that the latter would take good care of the meat ticket in his hand.
If the Spanish reinforcements dare to attack Lima, this governor is the best human shield.
I believe it should not be difficult to make the other party understand the truth of "the city is with the governor".
Before and after the fleet circled Cape Horn, all members felt that the climate here was completely different from that of Lima.
This also confirmed the knowledge given to everyone by a certain new emperor. It was indeed hot in the middle and cold on both sides. The southernmost part was actually about the same temperature as the North Pole.
Although they haven't reached Antarctica yet, everyone in the fleet knows that it will be colder further south. At least for the time being, no one wants to see penguins in Antarctica.
After passing through the eastern waters of Tierra del Fuego, sailing north for nearly half a month, you can reach the mouth of the Rio de la Plata.
The famous "Trinity City" is located on the south bank of the river mouth. This place may not be well-known.
But that’s how it’s marked on the map, except that the city’s port later became famous as “Buenos Aires”!
Since Madrid required that all trade between the Americas and Europe must pass through Lima, this directly harmed the interests of most ship owners.
This directly led to the "Trinity City" becoming the largest furniture site in South America, especially in the Viceroyalty of La Plata!
Jiexuan took a fancy to this and decided to mobilize the fleet to continue the land scraping activity.
Anyway, even if you return empty-handed, you will only lose some supplies at most.
But if you catch it right, you can make a lot of money...
When the mighty Ming Dynasty expedition fleet sailed into the mouth of the Rio de la Plata, the captains and sailors of all the Spanish galleons that were entering and leaving here were at a loss.
They couldn't believe what they saw. Most of the reason was that the Peruvian Governor Guzman wanted to minimize the matter and did not notify his subordinates on the Atlantic coast who had a bad relationship with him.
Jiexuan has previously intercepted more than thirty Spanish merchant ships heading to Lima at sea, but judging from the current situation, this trip was really not in vain.
There are no less than twenty ships near the river mouth alone, and there may be even more in "Trinity City".
The only doubt is that the map given to him by the emperor marked the Viceroyalty of La Plata, but on the captured map, it still belonged to the Viceroyalty of Peru.
The Viceroyalty of New Granada does not exist on the captive map, and its lands belong to the Viceroyalty of Peru.
In other words, there are only two viceroyalties in the entire America: the viceroyalty of New Spain and the viceroyalty of Peru, the south and the north.
But the management issues are not important. A certain new emperor also said that the map he drew can only be used as a reference.
As long as there are enough merchant ships in the port, Jiexuan's fleet will be lost in the sheepfold...
Due to the very fast speed of the ironclad ship, the speed of approaching the target was beyond the imagination of all Spanish counterparts.
Even if the Spanish merchant ship anchored at the dock realized that something was wrong, it would be too late to raise its sails and escape upriver.
When the Ming Dynasty fleet blocked the river mouth and the armored ships went in to catch the fat sheep, it announced the end of these merchant ships.
Except for the four first-generation ironclads (Zhiyuan) that escorted the merchant ships captured in Lima back north, the remaining ten ironclads lined up in a row and sailed upstream from the mouth of the river like a net.
Followed by the fleet's wooden warships and Zheng Guangying's support fleet, two hundred ships could almost completely block the mouth of the river if they were one nautical mile apart from each other.
Many Spanish merchant ships planned to break through directly, but first received warning bombardments from ironclad ships.
After the opponent was stubborn and planned to go his own way, he approached the target and launched the "Harpoon" anti-ship missile.
Jiexuan will never be merciful to enemies who don't listen to him, especially when the opponent is a Spanish ship.
When fighting overseas, the only thing you don't have to worry about is accidental damage. As long as the opponent flags troops and doesn't listen to warnings, you can fire.
Regardless of whether it is sunk or damaged, it is considered a victory. If it can be captured, there is no doubt that it can make a fortune for the entire fleet.
At the mouth of the river alone, the Ming expeditionary fleet sank six enemy ships and damaged five, forcing the remaining eight armed merchant ships to surrender.
The more than 50 merchant ships that were berthed, planned to berth, or were about to set sail at the Port of Buenos Aires all became the meat of the scandal.
It's done now, the meat is rotten in the pot...
It is impossible to succeed if you want to escape. If you want to resist, after about half an hour of fighting, the Spanish fleet in the port was beaten into a mess.
If Jiexuan could not bear to sink so many ocean-going merchant ships at once and planned to compensate Zheng Guangying, the other party would have died without even half an hour to fight back.
However, in order to kill the prey as soon as possible, Jiexuan still ordered the firing of the "harpoon" to scare his opponents with his strength.
This trick really worked. After witnessing the legendary "Sea Devil" and the fate of the merchant ships destroyed by it, most captains and sailors gave up resistance and chose to escape to the shore.
There is no doubt that only one country in the world can create such a devilish weapon.
As for how the yellow-skinned monkey came here, no one knows and has no time to guess.
Jiexuan did not let the fleet bombard Lima on a large scale before Jiexuan. He planned to establish a foothold on the east coast of the Pacific and support the local indigenous people.
But there are not so many scruples here. Trinity City happens to be built on the shore, and the defenders have no intention of surrendering, so don't blame yourself for being ruthless.
Thousands of naval guns fired wildly at the target. Due to their absolute advantage in firepower and rate of fire, it took less than a quarter of an hour for the city's firepower to be silenced.
After assembling eight steam tanks on the beach, Jiexuan immediately ordered a thousand marines and two thousand Zheng troops to attack the city.
Although there are only a small number of steam tanks that can be put into combat, actual combat shows that as long as they rely on this land warfare weapon, a thousand marines can compete with the opponent's 500 to 1,000 cavalry.
Especially in places like ports where there are many buildings, it is not suitable for cavalry to charge.
Once the attack channel is blocked by a steam tank, the fate of the enemy cavalry is comparable to that of a car accident...
The defenders were not just freeloaders. After seeing the Ming army landing, they sent a large number of cavalry with the intention of driving the target into the sea to feed the fish.
But it was exactly the same as the battle in Lima. The garrison cavalry had never seen a steam tank, let alone fought with such a steel monster.
There was no way to find a way to fight a tank. Under the violent bombardment of the Franco machine and the strangulation of the revolver rifles of the Ming army soldiers, they soon suffered heavy losses.
More than three hundred cavalrymen were knocked down, and the rest could only turn around and run away in embarrassment, ignoring the desperate calls for help from their injured comrades.
Seeing these merchant ships seized at the port, Jiexuan thought that half of the harvest from this trip had already been pocketed, and the remaining half was in the city.
Can Trinity City be defended?
Jiexuan thought it was unbearable!
Because the city is not a bastion in the standard sense, its biggest disadvantage is the seaside.
Facing the fierce bombardment of more than 200 ships, it will be captured by the Ming Dynasty's army in at most three days.
Jiexuan sent captured natives who could speak Spanish into the city to spread the word that as long as they surrendered, the Ming Dynasty King's Army would ensure their safety.
Otherwise, the outcome will not be much better than that of a sunk merchant ship!
The ultimatum was considered for twenty-four hours, but the other party did not respond within the stipulated period.
Obviously, this is still a fluke mentality and hopes to turn defeat into victory.
Then the Ming Fleet will make these idiots understand that after the timeout, your life and death are not decided by you.
As more and more Ming troops landed, within twenty-four hours, Trinity City was surrounded.
There is no need to blockade the side near the sea, because there is fleet surveillance, and the army can be responsible for the other three directions.
The Spanish defenders tried three times to break through, but all ended in failure. In the end, they could only huddle inside the city.
In order to avoid further artillery fire, the defenders sent indigenous people to ask for a ceasefire.
In addition, they also demanded compensation for the loss of 10 million silver coins and the retention of all ironclad ships as compensation.
In response, Jiexuan thought this was a very reasonable request, but he would not accept it at all, and responded with a new round of artillery fire coverage!
As long as they do not surrender, the bombardment will continue. A lot of gunpowder was also seized from the armed merchant ships in the port, which can be used for bombardment.
Before the captured gunpowder was used up, Jiexuan would not consider any other unfeasible suggestions at all, unless the defenders voluntarily surrendered.
Emperor Hao Jing has a wise saying - in front of the truly strong, the weak can just play with their requests, whether they are reasonable or not!
The weak are aware of the current situation and can survive without restraint.
On the contrary, you are seeking death, and you will not regret it!
Two days later, nearby Spanish reinforcements arrived, numbering about a thousand.
Since the Pampas grassland is very suitable for grazing, the reinforcements coming are all cavalry.
But in front of the steam tanks, all the Western cavalry encountered their natural enemies and were beaten to death by the Ming army.
He left behind three to four hundred corpses and wounded soldiers and ran away, probably never intending to come back to die.
Being bombarded, threatened, cut off from foreign aid, and reduced to an isolated city, this is the true "trinity"!
Seeing the disastrous defeat of the reinforcements and recalling their previous experiences, the defenders had lost their determination to hold on and break through.
After a week of continuous shelling, the defenders in the city had to surrender, because if they did not surrender, the city walls would be wiped out by artillery fire.
If those moving steel monsters rush in, what awaits them is crushing them!
The muskets in the hands of the invading enemy could actually fire continuously, which the defenders never expected.
Originally, when breaking through, I planned to use the opponent's reloading time to break through their defense line in one go.
The result was five consecutive shots, which caused the fighting will of the defenders to collapse directly.
At a distance of less than a hundred feet, a six-shot revolver will really destroy the morale of any enemy cavalry.
If some fifteen-round magazine-type bolt-action rifles are added, it can basically cause a devastating blow to the Western cavalry.
Participants can watch as large groups of enemy riders are knocked to the ground one after another as if they hit a wall of bullets.
Then the soldiers of the Ming army changed positions back and forth, over and over again, and finally eliminated any enemy cavalry within the range of their rifles!
This is not a killing machine, but a horse-killing machine.
For cavalry, as long as the horse dies, the rider will be in danger.
When the Ming army infantry carried out a critical attack, any movable target that was higher than the ground was a living target.
It was not uncommon for people and horses to be beaten into sieves. As long as they could still move, Ming soldiers would fire instinctively.
Of course, fighting like this consumes a lot of ammunition. As long as the battle can be won and the battlefield can be cleaned after the war, the copper bullet casings will be directly recycled.
The purely consumed part is nothing more than some warheads and propellants, and the recovery rate of cartridge cases can generally reach more than 80%.
For a certain new emperor, the most expensive part of a new bullet is the shell.
As long as the bullet casings can be recovered efficiently, the cost of equipping the losers with revolvers or even magazine-type rifles is affordable.
It has been shown through many actual battles that both revolvers and magazine-type rifles are powerful weapons against cavalry.
If the Ming Dynasty king's division often carried out expeditions, the number of its own cavalry would be very small, and the infantry would often have to fight on its own.
Without a high-performance rifle, the infantry team will suffer heavy losses.
Jiexuan combined with actual combat believes that revolver rifles have fewer malfunctions and magazine-type rifles have a large ammunition capacity.
It is more reasonable for the two to cooperate at a ratio of three to one or four to one, and reliability must be a prerequisite.
If magazine-type rifles can be continuously modified in the future to bring their reliability up to the standards of revolvers, then it will be logical to replace them.
The expeditionary force naturally enjoyed the opportunity to use live targets to practice marksmanship and test new weapons in Lima and here, and the Spanish barbarians were very cooperative.
If the opponent had not resisted, it would have been difficult for the Ming Dynasty King to make a move.
This is so good, no matter where the fleet lands, the defenders will not shed tears until they see the coffin.
In the end, they were killed with corpses all over the place, and they had to kneel down and beg for mercy. They were really a bunch of bastards, they would beat no one left if they had the guts!
All the previous requests were invalidated. Jie Xuan's order was his will, and all prisoners must obey it.
In view of the resistance he had made before and the fact that he had killed many soldiers of the Ming Dynasty King's Division.
Jiexuan then took all the local Western troops to the Ming Dynasty for trial, except for the old, weak, sick and disabled who had no use value.
The age-appropriate Yangma is responsible for appeasing the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. It is best to talk all night long...
If there is an assassination, ten ocean horses will be buried with him!
Those present can object, but the objection is invalid!
The fleet captured a total of fifty-two merchant ships at the mouth of the Rio de la Plata and the Port of Buenos Aires, plus the thirty-three ships previously seized at sea, for a total of eighty-five ships. Zheng Guangying was very satisfied.
In Trinity City, the entire army also had a feast of beef.
Because of the Pampas grassland, cattle here are a local product.
Unlike the Ming Dynasty where animals are protected, soldiers can eat whatever they want here.
Stir-fried beef tenderloin, stewed beef, grilled tendons...
As long as the soldiers can come up with dishes, the cooks can try them.
Each person must eat more than two kilograms of beef per meal, and there is no need for staple food.
The second land scraping operation allowed Jiexuan and Zheng Guangying to scrape more than 300 kilograms of gold and more than 600,000 silver coins.
