Dominate the Country

Just when Zhu Xun met the Chinese people in the Mediterranean Sea, under China and the United States, outside Panama City.

A Chinese warship with billowing smoke was struggling on the sea.

The garrison army has now successfully captured Mexico City. The Spanish troops are all fighting hard, and the prisoner-of-war camps of Cai, Xu, and Deng are already numbered in the hundreds. But annexing the entire Mexico is not the purpose of the garrison. Their purpose is to completely capture the Mesoamerican Isthmus - a narrow strip of central America located south of Mexico and north of Colombia, with the Caribbean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. A natural bridge between the North American and South American continents.

In addition to finalizing the Suez Canal, Chen Ming also set his sights on the Panama Canal.

Put it this way. If Chen Ming wants to completely engulf the Americas, he must consider the reaction of the Europeans. It is much more convenient to attack Europe from the east coast of the Americas than from China itself.

And after occupying the entire America, it became necessary for Chen Han's naval fleet to move to the east coast of the Americas on a large scale. The entire Pacific Ocean has completely become China's inner lake. Under this situation, if Chen Ming is not willing to divide the fleet in his hand into two or three parts, he must open the Panama Canal, the 'main artery' of the Americas.

Otherwise, the fleets on both sides of the Americas will only be independent squadrons instead of a large fleet integrated into one, which will greatly weaken the deterrence of the warships.

Whether it is strategically or in terms of the future development of the Americas, the construction of the Panama Canal is of extremely great significance.

Of course, Chen Ming also knew that the canal was much more difficult than the Suez Canal.

Today, there are still many cities on the east coast of Mexico controlled by the Spanish. Although there are also Spanish cities on the west coast such as San Jose, Leon and Granada, how can those places be as important as Panama's topography?

As long as Panama is captured, the door to North America can be said to be closed.

Will it be difficult to move east from Panama and capture the Port of Colon?

For this battle, the garrison army invested a total of more than 30,000 troops, which can be said to have spent a lot of money.

There are no less than 200 transport fleets alone, and there are more than 30 large and small warships. Including the flagship of the American Fleet, the first-class sailing battleship Ming Chengzu, also participated in this battle.

Hundreds of naval guns kept bombarding outwards. A Spanish fort not far away is the key bombardment target of Chinese naval gunners.

On the Chen Han IV-class sailing battleship that was hit by a Spanish coastal defense gun and exploded, Chinese sailors were busy in a panic. The engineers tried their best, but the one on the ship The huge hole is always filling the hull with waves of sea water.

Ye Tingyang looked at the battleship struggling on the sea, feeling extremely annoyed. It was really unlucky, I just took a few shots, and suddenly the battleship exploded. The entire side of the ship was blown to pieces, and the 'cracks' extending from the deck to the waterline were as dense as spider webs. How could anyone stop it?

The American fleet's bombardment was full of superiority, because their warships were also equipped with hexagonal guns, although only the bow part. But relying on the advantages of hexagonal guns in range and accuracy, they should completely defeat the Spaniards. Just like the previous battles!

Who would have thought that today's luck would be so bad!

Finally, seeing that the warship could not be saved, the commander had to issue an order to abandon the ship. Groups of Chinese sailors jumped from the tilting deck of the warship into the sea, and a few sailors tried to free the small boats!

Twenty minutes later, the bow of the battleship was completely submerged in the sea water, and the angle between the entire hull and the sea level exceeded 30 degrees. The 'wound' on the side of the ship began to show its force, and the warship kept making 'click-click' sounds, and finally there was a loud 'boom' sound, and the entire warship broke into two pieces. The second half was heavily photographed toward the sea...

There were two hundred exhausted Chinese sailors floating on the sea. While they shouted, many of them were crying. This 'nightmare' experience can be remembered for a lifetime.

At this moment, on the Spanish fort, it was also as tragic as hell. It was something that people would remember for a lifetime and could not bear to witness.

Since the fighting, this coastal defense fort mainly operated by the Spanish has been hit hundreds of times by shells fired from hexagonal guns and large-caliber long-barreled smoothbore cannons. The protective walls of the fort have been badly beaten, and many open-air gun positions have been damaged. Completely wiped out. The whole fort was filled with the smell of burnt blood that had been evaporated!

"Load, load quickly!"

The gun crews in the open-air gun emplacements have turned into minced meat, but the safety of the gunners in the semi-enclosed and closed gun forts is still guaranteed. As long as the logistics personnel can transport ammunition to them among the broken corpses, they can participate in the continuous battle. Regardless of whether it was effective or not, the Spanish fort's shore defense guns were still bombarding.

There seemed to be a fire burning inside Monclova's chest! The arrival of the Chinese destroyed his family and his life.

He originally had a happy family, and he owned a medium-sized plantation, which was enough for his family to live a happy and happy life. But all this changed with the arrival of the Chinese.

War and Indian riots, the former caused him huge loss of profits, and he had to pay a large sum of money to the authorities; the latter made his happiness leave him. His wife, his children, his plantation, his everything~~

With a raging fire that started one night, everything turned to ashes. When Monclova heard the news and rushed back home from Belize, all he could find were the charred remains of his relatives.

Hatred made Monclova a staunch anti-China faction, and he has always been on the front line in the past year. Perhaps it was because his relatives in heaven blessed him that Monclova fought bravely and charged forward again and again, but he was unscathed.

Now he is a major in the colonial army, responsible for guarding a battery of artillery.

"Boom..."

The battery shook violently, and Monclova woke up from his anger, and the main gun fired. He looked in the direction of the main gun.

At a distance of 1,200 to 1,300 meters, a column of water flush with the deck of a Chinese navy ship called the third-level sailing battleship rose around it. Monclova's heart darkened, "It missed again!" There was a distance of 100 to 200 meters in between.

...

Time passed little by little. The sun set from the sea level, and the sky darkened.

In Panama Harbor, the artillery battle that lasted for a day also came to an end.

The tense atmosphere in the coastal defense artillery gradually dissipated, and the white sails that could be seen in the distance were moving away. The sails represented warships, and also represented that the fierce battle was really far away from Panama.

Of course, this time was limited to the rest of the day.

Colonel Villael, the highest commander of the artillery, remained silent. He could not forget the miserable state of the artillery he had just arrived at.

The breast wall was almost flattened. Villael just walked over to take a look at the less solid C area artillery. A shocking hole was hit on the front of the C5 artillery, and the cannon inside was completely twisted. The remaining wall was still black, and it was obviously exploded...

All these made Villael feel heavy in his heart.

Fortunately, many gunners on the fort turned around and sat on the ground, on the gunpowder barrels, to rest after the battle. They did not see the scene behind the fort - the soldiers transporting shells and gunpowder barrels.

A group of disheveled colonial soldiers with bandages or crutches limped and carried their injured companions down the fort.

Corpses were placed under the fort, and many of them could not even find complete parts, so they could only be put in like garbage in a bag.

Blood, silence, and oppressive atmosphere filled the entire fort. The bodies of the dead soldiers wrapped in shrouds or covered with only a small piece of waterproof oilcloth were densely packed and piled up in the silent open space under the fort.

Biel also found soldiers to clean up the remains of area C. One by one, the collapsed forts or semi-enclosed forts were "opened", and the bloody and tragic bodies of the gunners were neatly placed on the ground.

Each of them died miserably. Blood covered their bodies, and countless pores turned into blood holes. Two gunners' eyes bulged out of their eye sockets, and the yellow-white brain matter was disgusting. Many people's internal organs were vomited out, and their bodies were like meat patties beaten by a forging hammer, with all their bones broken!

On a new day, the smoke continued to fill the sky over the port of Panama.

"Fire, fire--"

"Destroy the Spaniards--"

Ye Tingyang's eyes were bloodshot. He hadn't slept well in the past few days. The significance of the Panama War was great, and he was under great pressure.

Ye Tingyang not only had to organize the fleet to blow up a series of artillery forts built by the Spanish in Panama, but also arranged for the Marine Corps to open up the positions, while also taking into account the logistics and transport fleet. Who made Ye Tingyang one of the two deputy commanders in chief of this battle?

"Boom boom boom..."

Cannonballs of various calibers fell on the Spanish artillery forts like raindrops. A new day and a new beginning. Smoke billowed on the sea, and the tense atmosphere of the battle enveloped this small port city at a very fast speed.

Bier put down the telescope in his hand, and his sight was gray and dark, and he couldn't see the warships on the sea at all.

"With such dense artillery fire, the Chinese are probably within 1,000 meters." The words of the deputy sounded in Bier's ears. His tone was full of emotion.

But this sentence was useless. Even with the sea breeze, the smoke blocked Bier's sight.

But the tall watchtower erected behind them had a very clear view. But it was useless.

The main reason was the limitations of instant communication and optical instruments. Whether it was flag language or other methods, it was not efficient instant communication. And whether it was a high-powered telescope or a measuring instrument, it was still in a very primary stage in this era, otherwise the distance would be much larger.

"Boom boom..."

The Spanish artillery continued to roar, and they didn't care whether it was useful or not. Anyway, it would be a good opportunity to boost the morale and calm the citizens and army troops in Panama City.