Chapter 1946: Another indigenous siege?
Santo Domingo's offensive and defensive battle was actually a half-true and half-false offensive and defensive battle. Originally, McCas didn't even intend to use whale oil. However, he was frightened by the dispatch of all the indigenous army, so he took out the tactic of whale oil splashing wooden ladders, hoping to retreat to the enemy. But unexpectedly, it was cracked.
Fortunately, he has other trump cards in his hand, otherwise, 500 people are really sluggish against more than 14,000 people. What trump cards does he have? Of course, it is a native grenade! Although there are many natives, they are also afraid of the attack of local grenades. Although local grenades are not powerful, they can only injure a few native soldiers at a time. However, the terrible attack method with damage in the loud noise will have a great blow to the morale of the enemy.
But this time, McCas's main task was to scare the investigation team, so he did not come up with this trump card. Fortunately, he persisted until the indigenous army had no food, so he sent the investigation team away.
Afterwards, McCas found out the reason for Carlos's crazy this time. He just fell in love with the daughter of the leader of the village that McCas sent people to attack this time, and planned to marry him as his second wife. However, before he could marry him, McCas sent someone to slaughter the village, and killed his sweetheart, cutting off his head...
Suddenly, the indigenous leader Carlos was furious. So he launched a large army to siege Santo Domingo and launched a fierce offensive. Unfortunately, although McCas's defenders were few, they had a strong castle and many trump cards. So after playing until they were out of food, they had no choice but to order a retreat.
Of course, Carlos' anger was not gone, and he planned to attack again next time when the food was sufficient.
However, McCas was not afraid. In addition to those trump card methods, he also had a reinforcement of three or four thousand people hidden in Havana. Just when the investigation team left the Americas, the reinforcements would come immediately and cooperate with him to completely encircle Carlos's forces.
Therefore, McCas was not worried that the natives could make any waves. After all, although the natives had a size of ten thousand soldiers, most of them were involved in the fun and had no combat power. Faced with thousands of well-trained armies, they would definitely have to lose one end.
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On the other hand, the investigation team finally escaped from Santo Domingo, which was "flying war" and came to Guantanamo on Cuba. Of course, Guantanamo is not called Guantanamo now, but "Havana", which is clearly fooling people.
At this time, Cuban Governor Tara also personally took charge of Guantanamo New City and received the investigation team.
"Welcome to all the sirs from the investigation team, and welcome to Bishop Rugani!"
On the Long Bridge Pier in Guantanamo Port, Tara personally went to welcome the investigation team. Although he was a serf from the Hoffman family, Marin later forced them to study. So, over the years, Tara also learned Latin. At least, it was no problem to communicate with the people in the investigation team.
In the evening, the banquet was finally no longer cassava and sweet potatoes. Because Cuba is an old colony that has been running for many years, it is natural that the bosses of the investigation team cannot be so neglected. So, here, Tara served black bread to the bosses of the investigation team, including their subordinates, and also served a lot of fish and meat, including red wine.
"Yo, where is the beef?" Rugani was very satisfied when she saw the dishes on the table.
But Tara said quietly:
"Yes, there is beef. Yesterday, two cows were so hot in the manor that they happened to kill them and eat meat..."
"It's so hot... the cow?" The members of the investigation team were shocked. Because, they didn't expect that the cow could still be so hot.
Tara gave them popular science - cattle on the Eastern European prairie adapted to cold climates, but it was difficult to adapt to the hot climate. When summer comes, many cattle are always killed by heat...
In fact, Tara is not completely nonsense. Because before introducing African and Indian cattle, the island of Cuba did burn out of heat every summer. After all, the cattle introduced from Eastern Europe are not resistant to heat. Fortunately, once the work is done during the busy farming season, the accumulated heat is difficult to dissipate, and the water and the environment are not suitable for it, it is easy to burn out of heat.
In fact, the excellent ox that is most suitable for tropical climates is the oxidized cattle from India. Unfortunately, Marin has not many oxidized cattle in his hands now. Therefore, there are many old breeds of cattle on Cuba Island.
Seeing that the investigation team arrived, Tara deliberately "scare to death" of two cows and got a lot of beef to entertain.
After learning about the "real origin" of beef, the investigation team's interest in eating was much lower. If they hadn't seen Tara eating beef himself, they might not have dared to eat "dead beef".
After all, it is the "sugar cane production area", so after the meal, Tara even brought someone to serve sugar water to entertain the investigation team.
However, Baron Mosen and others also realized a problem - it seems that the number of defenders in this "Havana City" is a bit small, with only a few hundred people...
So, after Mosen raised his questions, Tara told him that in order to solve the security problem of Santo Domingo, half of his troops had been sent to Santo Domingo. Originally, "Havana" had thousands of troops.
The next day, Tara personally took the people from the investigation team to the church. Next to the church, there were hundreds of syphilis patients in a huge yard. In addition to the hundreds of syphilis patients, there were dozens of local people serving those patients.
This is Guantanamo's important acting "set". In order to show "kindness" to the natives, Marin specially built a temporary place that houses hundreds of syphilis patients.
On the hospital bed, hundreds of local people with severe syphilis were lying. Many of them were covered with abscesses and looked scary.
Tara did not ask the investigation team to approach the syphilis patients, but instead sent someone to a tower next door, making the investigation team condescending and seeing the scene in the big yard.
At the same time, Tara explained to the investigation team:
"These syphilis patients are all from Santo Domingo. Before the rebellion broke out among the local natives, hundreds of people were taken in. At the beginning, we asked the priests in the church to serve them personally. However, due to contact infection, several priests in the church unfortunately became syphilised and died of death..."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! After saying that, Tara squeezed out a few tears, then pointed to the cemetery in the backyard of the church, and pointed to the several tombstones...
"May they get rest in heaven, Amen..." Rugani immediately took the lead in making a prayer move, and the others immediately followed suit.
"Later, in order to protect the safety of the priests, we hired a group of locals who were not afraid of syphilis to take care of the patients." After that, Tara pointed to the natives who were walking among the patients, wearing masks and white coats.
"Because of the terrible contagiousness of syphilis, I have ordered people to block the yard next to the church and prohibit ordinary people from approaching. As for the hundreds of patients inside, they can only be blessed by God. If they can be cured, I will naturally let them go back. If they die unfortunately, they will be buried in the tomb behind the church..."
Rugani and others nodded repeatedly after hearing this. Even if Baron Mosen and others came to find fault, they had nothing to say about this arrangement. Besides, Mosen and others did not dare to enter the yard to check. After all, they were also afraid of death...
In the next two days, accompanied by Tara, the investigation team also inspected the sugarcane fields outside the city and the villages where local serfs planted sugarcane live.
Because of the preparations, these villages where the local serfs lived had been repaired long ago. Moreover, the villages where the local serfs lived were spacious and bright. The serfs were not shackled, and everyone had a smile on their faces - obviously, this was prepared long ago...
In this way, the claims that Marin abused and enslaved local indigenous people were self-defeating...
But on the third day, when the investigation team planned to continue to conduct in-depth investigations, thousands of indigenous soldiers suddenly appeared, surrounding the "City of Havana"...
"What's going on? Governor Tara, why are there a large number of indigenous soldiers siegeing the city?" Rugani and other investigative team officials asked in panic. They had just faced the siege in Santo Domingo, and they still had a shadow in their hearts.
Tara explained with a bitter face:
"Oh, isn't it that damn indigenous leader Carlos? The indigenous people nearby here are also Tainos. After launching a rebellion on Hispaniola, Carlos also sent his men to Cuba in a canoe to encourage the locals to launch a rebellion. Now, taking advantage of the city's troops being transferred to guard Santo Domingo on Hispaniola, many nearby local tribes suddenly gathered thousands of people and came to siege Havana from time to time."
After a pause, Tara also explained:
"Of course, these indigenous savages also knew that Havana Castle was strong and difficult to conquer. Therefore, their main purpose was to loot the villages outside the city..."
As soon as Tara finished speaking, the survey team standing on the top of the city saw thick smoke everywhere in the village where the indigenous serfs they visited and investigated yesterday. Obviously, the indigenous rebels were setting fire to the village...
However, the people in the investigation team did not know that the thousands of "indigenous rebels" this time were actually the "pseudo-army" recruited by Tara in the Havana colony. This time, these "pseudo-army" also cooperated with Tara to act for the investigation team to see...
"The barbarians in this wild area are indeed barbaric and rebellious at any time..." Seeing the "rebels" of the natives "rebels" outside the city, the officials of the investigation team shook their heads, and their views on the colonies in the Americas were very bad...
So, Rugani wrote in the investigation report that the locals are quite barbaric, and once someone incites them, they are prone to rebels. This is true on Hispaniola Island, and on Cuba Island... So, at the beginning, I think that tough military operations are indeed necessary. Perhaps, only when these barbarians believe in the Lord and under the guidance of the Lord can they change their barbaric habits...
Chapter completed!