Almost all cities with a population of more than 10,000 people south of Monterey were captured by the expeditionary force, including New Madrid.
Under the strong support of the new Inca emperor Polo, his army also cooperated with the Ming army stationed in Panama to continuously advance from south to north.
With the help of 50,000 Allied troops, and the narrow terrain of the area, it was easy to supply and land from the sea.
The pace of progress was greatly accelerated, and most of the Spanish strongholds in Central America were destroyed in one fell swoop.
It can be said that by the autumn of 1688, Carlos III's control of the area south of Monterey no longer existed.
The local defenders were completely powerless to fight back against the anti-Spanish coalition forces who concentrated their superior forces to attack.
According to battle report statistics, the coalition forces have destroyed 185 strongholds and killed more than 14,700 enemy soldiers.
It is estimated that Carlos III deployed about 30,000 people in the area, and nearly half of them became deserters after the war.
These soldiers did not give up resistance, but when they saw that the situation was not good, they gave up their mission and tasks.
The attack on Panama has become a failure, and it is impossible to hold on to the original stronghold.
For the rest of the day, we can only crawl into the rainforest, hiding in the nooks and corners to avoid the limelight.
Because the Spanish deserters did not want to be caught as miners and would rather hide and become savages.
Leniency for Spanish deserters was possible, but not possible in the near future.
Once this is done, what treatment will the officers and generals who surrendered with their soldiers receive?
In the short term, amnesty is not suitable for large-scale prisoners, but only for those who provide valuable clues and intelligence.
All generals on the front line have the right to grant amnesty to barbarian prisoners. Firstly, the number cannot be too large, and secondly, all must be reported without any concealment.
Including oneself or a subordinate falling in love with a certain Yangma and wanting to stay with him, this is completely reasonable, reasonable and compliant, but must be reported truthfully to avoid being held accountable.
The purpose of this is to avoid hiding people secretly and causing unnecessary trouble.
In return, Emperor Haojing allowed the expeditionary force to take them into battle while riding ocean horses.
This is not a battle in the Ming Dynasty itself or in the surrounding areas. It will take a year to come and go.
Especially since this time it was about annihilating Spain, rather than unveiling several previous expeditions and plunders.
The most optimistic time limit is to start in five years, and it may take more than ten years to clean up the interior of North America.
Therefore, the rotation of troops is also based on a period of five years, unless officers and soldiers who have lost combat effectiveness or living ability due to serious injury or illness will be replaced.
The court did not need to worry about frontline soldiers asking to go home early due to war weariness.
With the installation of a large number of advanced weapons, the Ming Dynasty King Division already has a crushing advantage over its old enemies.
As long as the generals do not underestimate the enemy, command properly, and take full advantage of their own tanks, aircraft, heavy artillery, ironclads, etc., the casualties to the troops will actually be very small.
On the contrary, there are many benefits to the expeditionary force going overseas to fight.
First of all, the monthly salary includes an additional expedition subsidy than usual, starting with two silver coins. As the military rank and position increase, the subsidy amount becomes higher.
Secondly, combat troops can receive half the amount of captured trophies. Soldiers do not need to turn in items obtained from corpses, except for extremely special items.
Then there are the real benefits. Those stupid people who can't find a wife in their hometown are now like entering the cafeteria. They can ride the Ocean Horse instead of the one they fancy above.
Previously, after Wang Yong ordered the retreat from New Madrid to Acapulco de Juarez, his troops were repairing while riding Ocean Horses, so that some soldiers thought that riding horses was more tiring than fighting...
In the local area, Ocean Horse is a daily necessities.
In war zones, Ocean Horses are considered military supplies.
The level of enjoyment of the Japanese army was a little worse. Except for generals and high-ranking warriors, others who wanted to satisfy their cravings could only ride native horses, that is, indigenous women.
In order to prove that the expeditionary force was civilized and cultivated, the indigenous women who were attacked by the Japanese army were usually the family members of the Spanish barbarians who worked as puppet soldiers or lackeys.
For this kind of woman, the Japanese army has nothing to say. They must use their own strength to make the other party realize their mistakes.
But at some point, this act of justice turned into finding shortcomings for some Japanese soldiers.
A certain class of Japanese soldiers lost their combat effectiveness due to excessive physical exertion due to excessive horse riding...
After this kind of thing spread, it almost became a joke to everyone in the expeditionary force for the first half of the year.
Because it was impossible to cover him up, his legs would become weak when he was pulled out to sweep him away. The reason was self-evident and made Abe Shinichi feel helpless.
From this, the expeditionary force also obtained a scientific and reasonable inference.
That is Spanish women are better than men!
Spanish women could disable hundreds of Japanese soldiers in a short period of time, but Spanish men had never been able to do so.
Carlos III would never have dreamed that if he could send 100,000 Spanish women of appropriate age, he would be able to paralyze four expeditionary forces in one fell swoop!
What does this mean?
Of course the tactics are wrong!
The Expeditionary Force is the master of accepting softness and not taking hardness!
If you are hard, I will be harder than you, and I will beat you until you break!
You are soft, just after that, I am softer than you...
When Zheng Chenggong led his troops on an expedition to the Spanish mainland, their troops encountered such a strange thing.
As a result, a large number of Mingxi mixed-race children in the families of generals and commanders are now adults. In addition to having little status in the family, they have the same basic needs as their mothers.
After these mixed-race children joined the army, Zheng Zhilong sent them to the battlefield in South Africa to clean up the local tribal armed forces.
On the battlefield in Southeast Asia, it is easy to be accidentally injured, but in South Africa, there is no such concern.
These mixed-race soldiers received formal education when they were young, and they all knew Mandarin. After attending school, they became attentive and understanding.
Nowadays, whether in the Ming Dynasty or in the West, if you see a white person or a black person, you will always call each other "foreigner"!
After Emperor Haojing sent troops to conquer Rakshasa, a group of mixed-race children were born, but most of them were not old enough to enlist in the army.
When the Mingxi mixed-race children born in Mexico grow up, they can just be used to maintain the local pro-Ming population, and the indigenous population cannot be allowed to grow too large.
This is the fundamental reason why Emperor Hao Jing allowed the expeditionary force to ride foreign horses and even bring Spanish women to fight.
By the way, there is another advantage, that is, Spanish men can no longer give birth to children...
Except for a few used to train the next generation of purebred Ocean horses, others do not need to be retained.
There was no need to consider the feelings of Carlos III. The expeditionary army captured Monterey in June 1688.
Lin's troops captured Juarez five months later, forcing Carlos III to flee again.
By Christmas, the North American emperor was already in the Viceroyalty of California.
His previously appointed governor of California had been forced to retreat from Fort Long Beach and had been fighting guerrillas in the mountains for more than three years.
Two strategic locations in the Governor's District of California, Fort Bay Area and Fort Long Beach, were both controlled by the Ming Marine Corps.
The expeditionary fleet had not previously delivered land forces to the area, and this was a consideration.
The main reason is that there is a serious water shortage in the interior of the area. Thousands of miles deep into the hinterland, there are endless borders and deserts.
The biggest enemy of the expeditionary force is not the Spaniards, but drinkable fresh water. The situation is similar to the king's army's recovery of the Western Regions!
For this reason, Emperor Haojing did not plan to start in California in the early stage, but focused his operations on Mexico.
Based on this situation, it is relatively easier to fight from south to north than from north to south.
In July of the forty-fifth year of Haojing (1688), Zhou Yuji, a professional in desert warfare, also arrived in California from the mainland.
The 15,000 Ming officers and soldiers in the three armies brought by Zhou Yuji were all transferred from the Western Regions. They first rested in the mainland for half a year as a reward for these soldiers, and then sent them to North America for a second reward!
The soldiers had an impression of North America as one with sea-like forests and dense vegetation. However, when they arrived in California, their joyful mood had not lasted for half a month. They went into the mountains to encircle and suppress the Spanish barbarians, and then they discovered that the geographical conditions of this place were almost the same as those of the Western Regions.
No wonder...
Your Majesty is truly a god!
Although the Spaniards far surpassed the natives in the Western Regions in terms of the popularity of firearms.
But in terms of hit and run ability, it is obviously far inferior to the latter.
They are really good at running away with those things, and even the king's soldiers are ashamed of themselves.
Along with Zhou Yuji came 60,000 Japanese troops, who cooperated with 15,000 Ming troops to encircle and suppress the local Spanish guerrillas.
Due to the limitations of California's terrain, the encirclement and suppression work went very poorly.
Until the middle of winter, there were about 75,000 troops in the three armies. Under the command of Zhou Yuji, they only killed and captured less than 20,000 enemies.
The results looked very funny, and even Zhou Yuji himself found it incredible.
According to the information provided by the prisoners, the Spanish troops in the Governor-General of California consisted of about 20,000 regular troops and about 50,000 private soldiers.
The Marine Corps had killed nearly 10,000 people before, which meant that there were at least 40,000 others who had slipped through the net.
This is not a small sum. Once it causes trouble in the hinterland, it will be a serious matter.
To this day, California Governor Ariola is under a lot of pressure.
As one of Carlos III's most valuable and trusted ministers, Ariola had not been without glory before.
It was his masterpiece to hunt the yellow-skinned monkeys from Long Beach to Mount St. Helens.
But now, the yellow-skinned monkey has made a comeback.
At first, they only captured two forts in the Bay Area and Long Beach with the help of ironclads, which made Ariola think it was only temporary.
It won't be long before the yellow-skinned monkey's fleet retreats, and he will be able to regain the lost territory in a big way, and he will also have an explanation to His Majesty the Emperor.
But after waiting for three years, there was no sign of the other side's retreat. Instead, this year they brought in an army of 100,000 troops!
For Ariola, this is nothing less than a disaster!
Although he also has 70,000 troops in his hands, they are 20,000 regular troops plus 50,000 minions.
And in terms of weapons and equipment, I have to admit that the yellow-skinned monkey has a huge advantage.
There are those flying things in the sky, and there are armored chariots running rampant on the ground.
Thousands of elite Spanish cavalry were no match for these weapons, let alone those minions with low fighting spirit.
Ariola tried hard to counterattack, but the counterattack was met with overwhelming counterattack by the opponent.
After losing nearly five thousand soldiers, he immediately ordered a retreat, which was considered a timely stop of losses.
Then they can only give up frontal cluster operations and use the special terrain of the region to conduct hit-and-run guerrilla warfare.
Especially after the army of yellow-skinned monkeys landed in California this year, they were unable to even carry out guerrilla warfare deep into the coastal areas.
We can only retreat inland, first lure the enemy deep, and then continuously send troops to attack the opponent's supply line, forcing them to be unable to advance straight in.
This tactic can only be implemented in mountainous areas with poor terrain. In an open area, a few armored chariots can defeat hundreds of cavalrymen.
After repeated setbacks, Ariola decided to withdraw his troops to the Colorado River and use the river as the main battlefield for guerrilla warfare.
To the west of the river are mountains and plains, and to the east of the river is the Gobi desert.
If the yellow-skinned monkey dares to go deep into the desert to pursue his troops, then he can order the cavalry troops to revisit their old places.
Zhou Yuji had received intelligence about the enemy's frequent activities in the Colorado River Basin, and he thought this move was very abnormal.
In the past, the other party was afraid of being found by me, but now it seems that they are eager to find them by themselves.
In view of the fact that the distance between the front line and the rear is increasing, Zhou Yuji will also prevent the other party from using the strategy of diverting the tiger away from the mountain.
The forts in Long Beach and the Bay Area were guarded by Marines, and ironclads provided fire support, making them almost foolproof.
The only thing those Spanish barbarians could do was to use the mobility of the cavalry to do things that only horse bandits would do.
Thinking of this, he wrote a letter and sent it to the naval liaison personnel, hoping that the expedition fleet would send some ships to supply his troops from the northern Gulf of California.
Once this plan is realized, the supply line will be shortened by half, and the terrain on the road will basically be the Gobi Desert.
On flat terrain, it was just a dream for the Spanish cavalry to defeat the King's tank troops.
If possible, Zhou Yuji even hoped that the Navy's warships would sail into the Colorado River.
In the past, the tanks of the King's Division bombarded the Spanish cavalry, but in the future, the armored ships of the King's Division might bombard the Spanish cavalry!
Since you want to play, why not play bigger?
Zhou Yuji will stay with him until the end, but it's hard to say how the other party will place the bet!
His troops have rich combat experience in desert areas, and because of the presence of aircraft, at least they will not die of thirst.
When fighting in desert areas, troops are not actually afraid of the desert. What they are really afraid of is getting lost and losing direction.
After the plane takes off, the expeditionary force will not be afraid of this fatal problem at all.
The pilot will fire a flare at high altitude to calibrate the direction, and use a predetermined color to indicate the approximate distance to the water source.
In the past, the troops used airships in the Western Regions, but now it is much more convenient to have airplanes.
The Spaniards will soon taste the feeling of being trapped in a cocoon. Let's see who dies of thirst in the desert first!
The most terrifying thing is that Emperor Haojing has ordered that the construction of the railway from Long Beach to the interior will begin within three years.
Railways and artillery towers were the Ming Dynasty's established strategy for controlling new areas. There was no need to build bridges when building railways in desert Gobi areas.
The Rakshasa people have experienced this kind of pain. Railways are actually more terrifying than tanks...
