Chapter 12 Havana (Part 1)
The next situation is similar to what Chu Feng expected. All larger castles are inhabited, and they are also Miskit.
Chu Feng had not much troops, so he could only occupy some of the planned big cities. By the time he arrived in Havana, fifteen days had passed.
However, there are no larger castles in the northern part of Cuba Island except Havana Harbor. The large castles are all inland and they can sail back to Guantanamo.
After learning the news here, Zhang Henxue, who was still in Guadeloupe, also sent an army of a division. With their support, he quickly cleaned up the Indian "warriors" in the coastal castle.
Except Havana.
Havana was originally the name of an Indian girl, and later became the name of the capital of Cuba. However, all the local Caribbeans on the island had disappeared. You should know that there were still hundreds of thousands of Caribbeans on the island of Cuba at that time.
What did the Spanish commemorate with the name of an Indian girl? This situation is like the Thanksgiving of later Americans, full of hypocrisy and ridicule.
As soon as you enter Havana Bay, there are two castles on both sides of the entrance of the bay. The Morro Castle in the east is in ruins. This was caused by the last attack by the British. The San Salvador Fortress to the west is intact, but it is much smaller. These two castles are the main barriers for the Spaniards to prevent the enemy from entering Havana Bay.
As Katarina expected, the fleet had just entered Havana Bay, and gunfire sounded from both castles!
Obviously, the Spanish dare not offend the Truchens head-on. They must have made this idea-"You haven't come yet, so we naturally have to take a step first, and we will make a handover when you come, but before that, the place was occupied by the Indians and had no choice but to us"
Although it is a bit horrible for Indians to control artillery, people will also say that since they have learned to control the mezzanine, isn’t it a matter of time before they can control the artillery?
Also, if the Truchens asked the Indians how they had crossed thousands of miles of Gulf of Mexico to get here, it would be obvious that it would be difficult to do it in a short time with their own canoe, but the Spanish would use other excuses to make excuses.
After a round of howitzers passed, the Indians in both castles calmed down.
The fleet continued to sail into the bay. At this time, Havana was only built on the peninsula on the west side of the bay. It was not large in area, but it was already the largest castle in Cuba.
In Chu Feng's telescope, he estimated that the size of Havana City was at least equivalent to that of Truqin, with a circumference of about six or seven miles.
Unlike other places, there are more than a dozen flatbed ships of all sizes in the port. These ships are obviously used to sail in the inland rivers. It is not impossible to sail thousands of miles to reach Cuba, but it requires extremely high luck.
And these Indians did it in a short time and used these ships to transport hundreds of thousands of people here. I am afraid that even the Spaniards themselves would not believe it.
Obviously, these ships were transported by Europeans on their large armed merchant ships to cover up their eyes and ears.
Thinking of this, a thought suddenly flashed through Chu Feng's mind.
"In the Caribbean, the most runners are still from the Dutch. They are the owners of the largest number of slave ships in Africa and America. They can also help the Spaniards, British and Portuguese transport large amounts of tobacco, coffee and sugar to Europe"
"In view of the virtues of the Spaniards and the British, they have neither the ability nor the will to draw a large number of ships to transport the Miskits here in a short time. In today's Caribbean, only the Dutch have this ability and freedom!"
"Did the Dutch get involved?"
"The Dutch also has two colonies on the southern coast of the Caribbean, Guyana and Suriname, and their strength should not be underestimated."
Just as he was thinking, the telegrapher sent a telegram.
"Zhang Henxue arrived in person? Have you arrived in Matanzas?"
Along the way, one of his Marine Corps had only one battalion left, and Havana seemed to have much more troops than anywhere he passed by. Although he could still take Havana with the strength of a battalion, since Zhang Henxue was about to arrive, he was not in a hurry.
The fleet was moored in Havana Harbor. After a round of shelling, about a few hundred natives on the pier scattered like birds and beasts.
The remaining naval and marine battalion quickly came ashore. It can be seen that the artillery at the top of Havana still left some of the local people, but their control technology was obviously not good. Under the suppression of the fire of the naval gun, a dock position was built in less than an hour.
At this time, no more natives came out to attack here. They all surrounded the city walls and looked at the dock positions. They looked serious and pointed at the dock positions, as if they were discussing something.
Chu Feng passed it carefully in his mind, and couldn't think of any way for the people to threaten them, so he also came to the position.
In the telescope, the city walls two hundred meters away were obviously much taller than those of Santiago and other castles. According to his estimate, they were at least twenty meters high, and they were all made of neatly cut stones. It can be seen that the city walls were very thick, and there were a large number of native people clustered around the city gate.
The person in the lead looked about thirty or forty. In addition to the mosquito ornament on his forehead, he also wore a feather crown on his head, but a white shirt on his body, but another string of ornaments on his chest.
This person is probably King Miskito, who was canonized by the British king, and the great leader of the Miskito tribe.
The Truqins' artillery fire stopped just now, so they could only show up again. Chu Feng thought to himself: "If we fire again at this time, we don't need naval guns, and we can use medium-sized mortars to get there. There is no need to do too many, and we can kill their king by concentrating three mortars."
Thinking of Zhang Henxue's previous words, he finally gave up.
"Maybe Zhang Henxue has other ideas"
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So he held up his telescope and looked around.
In the end, he set the camera at a place on the other side.
There is obviously a small peninsula that extends from the east side of Havana Bay, with a tall Catholic church, but now the top of the Catholic church looks very strange.
Generally speaking, the top of the Catholic church is sharp, mostly with sharp angles less than thirty degrees, but the top of the church has become a wooden pyramid-shaped structure, with the whole body of the pyramid covered with white paint, which looks incompatible with the overall cold and dark style of the church.
There is also a circle of ornaments hanging at the top of the pyramid, which is a big snake woven with red ropes, and a huge mosquito ornament is embedded at each edge of the pyramid.
The snake was obviously coiled in a circle, with its head in the middle, tilted upwards, and the letter in its mouth was vaguely visible.
"Is their totem the big snake?"
When he looked again, there was a pier on the coast near the church, and there was a small boat parked there. He thought about it and decided to take a look.
Not long after, the Bogda arrived there. After stopping at the pier, Chu Feng and Adil took a platoon of Marines.
They obviously thought too much, and until they entered the church, they did not see a local soldier. Instead, they were panicked, and women wearing all kinds of strange ornaments ran into the church.
It can be seen that these women are all young and beautiful, with half-exposed breasts and barefoots. Some people run into the church, while some people run up the spiral stairs in the church.
Chu Feng thought to himself: "Is this the residence of the high priest?"
Thinking of this, he hesitated and retreated, and then returned to the ship.
"Go back and make plans after the Governor comes"
He didn't want to destroy Zhang Henxue's "plan" because of his recklessness. Matanzas is not far from here, and Zhang Henxue should have arrived soon.
Sure enough, after about an hour, five Tengis slowly sailed into Havana Bay under the escort of a wooden squadron.
There are many docks in the inner port of Havana Bay. Not long after, Zhang Henxue's fleet stopped everywhere, and then Zhang Henxue took about a battalion of soldiers to the shore first.
Chu Feng and Adil quickly met.
Zhang Henxue nodded, "We have already taken down some key ports on the north bank of Cuba Island, so there is no need to work for you."
He is naturally referring to the ports close to the inland cities of Orkin, Camagui, and Santa Clara. There are many islands and reefs on the north bank of Cuba. In addition to Havana and Matanzas, there are not many places suitable for building large ports, but it is still possible to build some small ports.
"Then we..."
Zhang Henxue thought for a while and said to Katarina: "It is said that their king is Oldman. Please let me shout and say we are willing to make peace with them, but the prerequisite is that they must surrender"
Katarina nodded, carried the loudspeaker and walked towards the city gate. Since she was the only woman, the natives on the wall did not shoot, but the words suddenly appeared in the loudspeaker still shocked them.
However, the natives are obviously very unfamiliar with the sudden emergence of Truchen, and it is obvious that both the Spanish and the British have made very bad publicity to them before, so they are still indifferent to Catalina's shouting.
Seeing this, Zhang Henxue said, "We have been so kind and righteous. I originally wanted to live in peace with them. Oldman could continue to be his king, but now it seems out of place. I have to choose Plan B."
“Plan B?”
"Yes, that is, kill all the warriors in their country, leaving only ordinary people behind, and then hand over the high priests to let the high priests come forward to stabilize them. Now the big city lives in the warriors and above, and kill them without any obstacles."
"There are at least 10,000 warriors here, each with at least five wives and concubines, that is, fifty thousand. When their husbands die, they can be assigned to the people we bring."
It turned out that this time, the immigrants selected by Zhang Henxue, whether they were the army, craftsmen, farmers, or herdsmen, were not married, and they could be betrothed to them.
"Each person is divided into two, and the rest are waiting for the arrival of subsequent immigrants"
Chapter completed!