After losing the first battle, quarrels broke out within the town of Sugototo.
Some residents clamored to evacuate and fled hundreds of miles away to Guatemala, asking the governor to lead troops to help them find their place.
Some residents insisted on holding on and wanted to use the town's wooden fence to unite and repel the Chinese invaders.
The die-hards had the upper hand because they were richer and naturally spoke louder. Most of them were plantation owners and workshop owners. They were afraid that after they evacuated the town, the Han people would burn down their plantations, burn down their workshops, and take them away.
As a slave, many years of accumulation were suddenly wasted.
In particular, several plantations in the south were located on the marching route of the Han people. Although their families successfully escaped, most of the indigenous slaves had been separated. They clamored to fight back and wanted to take back their slaves, looking like they wanted money rather than their lives.
Look!
Another day passed, and the Han and indigenous coalition forces finally slowly approached the town.
The wooden fence outside the town has been temporarily upgraded to a simple wooden wall, and the old, weak, women, children, and slaves have been mobilized to defend the "city".
Osvaldo said to the more than a thousand slaves: "As long as you defeat the enemy, I will give you freedom, reward you with land, and capture more slaves to help you plant. You will have your own family, your own wife, and your own slaves in the future.
And plantations! If you don’t have to work every day, there will be endless food to eat and endless rum to drink!”
The slaves were very happy and took up arms with high morale.
Lies can't fool ghosts, but they can fool Indians!
Chen Li looked at the town from a distance and suddenly felt a headache. Although the defenses of this poor town were simple, the terrain was easy to defend and difficult to attack. It was located on a hilly highland. When attacking, you must rush from bottom to top.
"Da Na, how to fight?" Zhou Hong asked.
Zhou Hong was also a pirate before, but he was a pirate privately raised by Fujian maritime merchants. After he opened the sea, he became a private soldier of maritime merchants. More than 100 of the 700 armed forces who disembarked from the ship to fight were dispatched by Zhou Hong. Chen Li was just one of them
The nominal leader.
Chen Li smiled and said: "Don't worry, we have robbed several manors along the way. We have enough food."
A bunch of indigenous people and a bunch of Han people rested on the spot. They also lit grass and vines to use thick smoke to drive away snakes, insects, rats, and ants. This kind of grass and vines were found with the help of local indigenous people.
The residents of the small town were hiding behind the wooden walls with weapons, waiting fearfully for the enemy's attack.
The Han and indigenous coalition forces only sent a few people to stand guard, while the rest sat down to eat sugar cane to enjoy the coolness, and then made a fire to cook to fill their stomachs.
Osvaldo sent his eldest son and more than a dozen knights to sneak away from the side of the town. He planned to suddenly attack from the rear when the Han attacked, and perhaps defeat the Han.
Don't use modern thinking to measure ancient wars.
Regardless of whether they are in the East or the West, morale is frighteningly low, and any situation may cause the enemy's army to collapse.
It was getting dark, but the Han people still did not attack. The mood of the town residents changed from anxiety to impatience, and the slaves also calmed down from the excitement of regaining their freedom.
Arancha, the son of the mayor, had returned with the cavalry before dark. At this time, he suggested: "Father, maybe we can choose to fight at night. The enemy has already begun to sleep."
Osvaldo shook his head and said: "The other side had an excellent military general. They marched very cautiously and used Indians as bait to open the way. When encountering an ambush, that general could decisively kill the fleeing soldiers, allowing them to
Their troops quickly stabilized. Would such a general sleep with the whole army unprepared? No, they deliberately lured us away from the wooden wall and fought with them outside the town."
Arancha still refused to give up: "What if the night battle raid can succeed?"
Osvaldo patted his son on the shoulder and said earnestly: "We have too few soldiers, and the defenders are mainly Indian slaves. These slaves cannot be released to fight, otherwise they are likely to collapse. Moreover, the slaves cannot see at night
To clear things out, do we need our own soldiers to conduct night raids?"
Arancha said: "But..."
"Don't be hesitant," Osvaldo said, "We cannot take the initiative to fight at night, and we must be prepared for the other side's night fighting. As long as we can hold on for a few more days, reinforcements from His Excellency the Governor will arrive, and victory belongs to us."
It's midnight, it's pitch black.
Chen Li took out his pocket watch and looked at the time by the light of the fire. After waiting for another half hour, he slapped several leaders awake, and everyone took out their pocket watches and aligned the hour and minute hands.
There were 700 armed Han people, and the 400 people behind them used the cover of bushes to quietly move around to the side of the town.
Most of the garrison in the town fell asleep leaning against the wooden wall. They had been nervous for a day, and it was already midnight. They were physically and mentally exhausted. Even those who were standing guard fell asleep for most of the night.
"Enemy attack!"
A sentry who was doing his duty suddenly shouted in terror.
The rest of the defenders immediately woke up from their dreams and hurriedly picked up their weapons. They saw more than a thousand torches lighting up in the south outside the town.
These torches were made during the march, and Chen Li had been thinking about a night attack from the beginning.
Most of the indigenous friendly troops have night blindness, so we don't expect them to charge at night. One person can just pick up two torches and stand there and roar as hard as he can.
50 gunmen stand outside the town and shoot freely. It doesn't matter whether they can hit the target or not. They just use the sound of gunfire to create momentum. Similarly, 100 archers are also shooting randomly. Whether they can kill people depends on the secret.
fate.
The attention of the town defenders was all drawn here.
Some of the remaining garrison troops on the three sides were transferred over, and the remaining ones who had not left subconsciously looked towards the south.
"kill!"
Three sides launched a sneak attack at the same time, and the temporary wooden wall was easily browsed by using a ladder. For the convenience of movement, they even took off their cotton armor and only wore single clothes to fight these guys. They were either pirates or sailors in the past, and they had been playing for a long time.
I am used to jumping and climbing masts, and I am very skillful when climbing over wooden walls.
The largest slave garrison could not see the enemy clearly at night. When they heard shouts of killing nearby, they were so frightened that they dropped their weapons and ran away.
Let's put it this way, without slaves to help defend, the total number of old, weak, women and children in the town is only six to seven hundred who can use weapons, and there are also a large number of children around ten years old among them. This is because the town's population composition is extremely special.
, there were not many real Spanish colonists. They married local indigenous women and gave birth to a large number of mixed-race children, and due to time issues, these mixed-race children were basically under the age of fifteen.
After the night attack began, the frontal feint attack restrained too many defenders and diverted their attention. The remaining three sides were attacked in the dark. The slave soldiers collapsed immediately, and the children were so frightened that they ran away. The Han attackers encountered extremely heavy resistance.
weak.
"My sons, follow me to kill the enemy!" Chen Li passed into the wooden wall, opened the wooden door, and led his men to charge into the town.
Everything was in chaos, the town was filled with cries, and the slaves, old, weak, women and children had no choice but to run away.
Most of the main force of the defenders was on the front. When they discovered that they were being attacked by the enemy, they became panic-stricken and didn't know which way to attack.
The mayor of the town, Osvaldo, ordered the defenders to continue to defend. He led more than a dozen knights and rushed towards the enemy behind them. However, after they rushed a certain distance, they were blocked by the defeated slaves, and the war horses were crowded in the crowd.
Doesn't work.
The front was still feinting and firing muskets and arrows. The defenders panicked, gave up their defense and fled in all directions.
"kill!"
The feint immediately turned into a real attack, and the town's frontal defenses were breached.
The massacre lasted from dawn until early morning. Under the morning sun, corpses were everywhere, and there were countless people kneeling down to beg for mercy. There were also many Spaniards, mestizos and slaves who escaped from the town.
"Haha, we got eight horses!" Chen Li laughed.
Zhou Hong said: "It's a pity that three horses were killed, otherwise there would have been 11 horses."
Chen Lidao: "Someone took advantage of the chaos and ran away on horseback. They must have more than eleven horses."
Lin Dasheng, another leader sent by the maritime merchants, came over and said to Chen Li: "Chen Da, not much gold and silver was found in the town, only tobacco leaves, cane sugar and sugar cane wine are relatively valuable, and there is also a lot of corn and the like.
of food.”
"Where's that rosin?" Chen Li asked.
Lin Dasheng said: "We found several kilograms."
Chen Li smiled and said: "This thing may be worth more than gold. I have never seen it in Ming Dynasty or Nanyang."
Zhou Hong asked: "How to deal with the prisoners?"
Chen Li thought for a while, gritted his teeth and said: "Let the indigenous slaves go, kill all the remaining men, take away all the women, and take them back on ships to be wives for our immigrants. Well... take away the women among the slaves as well."
"Where's the boy? We can't kill him too." Zhou Hong still has some humanity.
Chen Li said with a smile: "Leave the boy to our friendly forces. If they want to raise him, it doesn't matter. If they don't want to, it doesn't matter. Anyway, life and death have nothing to do with us."
After resting for a day and night, Chen Li fled with the loot.
War horses, cane sugar, rosin, tobacco leaves and rum were all owned by the Han people. Some grains such as corn were taken away by the Han people, and most of them were given to the indigenous friendly troops.
The Han people are happy, and so are the indigenous people.
More than half a month later, reinforcements sent by the Governor of Guatemala finally rushed to the town, and what they saw in front of them was ruins.
These reinforcements pursued southward. Even if the Han people escaped by boat, they would still wipe out the indigenous tribes in the delta.
On a high hill, someone put down his telescope and said with a smile: "Go back and report the news. Thousands of white dogs have arrived, and they also brought four small cannons. There are about one or two hundred firecrackers and thirty or forty cavalry."
, and there are two to three thousand savage auxiliary troops."
This is already the largest force that the Governor of Guatemala, who rules the entire Central America (except Panama), can dispatch in a short period of time!
As for Mexico in the north, they listen to the tune but not the propaganda.
Cortes, who destroyed the Aztec Empire, was a brother-in-law with the governor of Cuba. He took hundreds of people to attack the Aztec Empire. The governor of Cuba directly sent 1,500 people to reinforce him. The name was reinforcements, but in fact it was
to seize command of the troops.
Before the Spaniards could fight the natives, they started fighting among themselves. Cortez killed the cronies of the Governor of Cuba, went through another fight, devoured some of the Governor's people, drove away some of the Governor's people, and completely broke out with the Governor of Cuba.
turn.
As for the newly established Viceroyalty of Guatemala, the governor was also sent by the king. As soon as he came here, he parachuted in to seize power and killed Cortez's old buddy. This guy fell out with the governor of Guatemala. Anyway, Mexico is now semi-independent.
Due to his condition, he has a bad relationship with the two governors around him.
Chen Li, who had made a huge profit, was so bold that he did not take the goods and escape by boat. Instead, he planned to ambush the opponent's reinforcements. He wanted to loot Guatemala City, the core of Central America's rule!
Because, Chen Li learned from the captives that most of the gold and silver treasures acquired in Central America had to be sent to Guatemala City, transported by land to the east coast, and then shipped back to the King of Spain.