The sun never sets in America

Chapter 105
Boom...boom...

Outside the outer defense line of Nogales City, intensive artillery fire covered the entire defense line.

Hiding inside, looking at the dusty artillery fire outside, the Mexican defenders inside were trembling like a mouse cornered by a cat, not knowing what to do.

As for their artillery, don't be ridiculous. Those Mexican artillerymen whose training quality was extremely poor and whose shells often hit their own people had disappeared from the planet 10 minutes ago.

What was left on the battlefield that had been baptized by artillery fire was just a pile of flesh and blood and iron blocks glued together. The combination of flesh and blood and the debris of the artillery truck made people feel like vomiting when they walked over.

Due to the climate, it was extremely hot today. A large number of flies appeared on the battlefield, and many corpses were bitten by flies.

It looks very disgusting! !
"Organize manpower and launch an assault to the south..." Tao Wang, leader of the 1st Mixed Regiment, who was responsible for the frontal attack, looked at the scene ahead with his binoculars, especially the gap that had just been made in the south of the battlefield, and immediately issued the order to attack. "What are the Second Battalion doing? Why don't they continue to move forward and encircle them??" Tao Wangzhi shouted in confusion when he saw that the west side of the Second Battalion, where the Second Battalion was located, did not continue to attack and cooperated with the surrounding teammates in encircling them.

"Report, Battalion Commander Sun said that the Mexican army on the west side wants to surrender, and hopes that we will allow them to withdraw in an orderly manner..." At this moment, the messenger sent by the second battalion ran to Tao Wang to report what had just happened. So reason to stop.

"Surrender??" Tao Wang frowned after hearing this. "They are allowed to surrender, but they are not allowed to leave their positions without authorization and wait for us to receive them." Tao Wang had no objection to the surrender of the Mexicans. After all, Along the way, more Mexican soldiers surrendered than expected.

The main reason why they were allowed to stay where they were was because they did not want to alert the enemy, because the sudden retreat of the Mexican army on the west side alerted the Mexican army at the rear. The best way was to garrison, that is, to fight in.

Of course, this fight was a fake fight, just to delay time.

"Yes..." After receiving the order, the messenger immediately ran back to the west side.

On the west side, Sun Kenan, the commander of the Second Battalion, was worried about how to place these Mexican prisoners. After all, there were only a few people, but there were thousands of them. Just eating and drinking these people was enough to give the Second Battalion a headache.

At this time, the messenger who had just been sent ran back. After listening to the report of the messenger and the order Tao Wang had just given, Sun Kenan hesitated at first, and then issued the handover order.

As for the management of prisoners, that is a matter for later. Finishing the battle first is more important than anything else.

"Commander Santella of the Eighth Mexican Regiment surrenders to you, Mr. Major." In a school playground on the west side, the regiment leader Santella handed over the Western saber he carried with him and the gun on his waist. Sun Kenan, who came to hand over, looked a little lonely but also a little relieved.

They were lonely because they lost this war, completely, and they lost to the pagans they usually looked down upon the most.

Relief was because they no longer had to experience the pain they had just experienced. To this day, Sandra could not forget the wails of those injuries and those cold bodies.

They were so young and their families were still waiting for them to go back, but now, they are just a pile of corpses and they will never see their families again.

Of course, what prompted Sandra to surrender was more than just what he saw. The key point was the words of his officer: "Your Excellency, the regiment commander, none of my soldiers are from here. Many of them are not married yet, but now they are about to Die, die on this dirty battlefield...What can we do for them??"

"Yeah, what can he do for these people??"

This is what Sandra asked herself at that time.

Now, the war is over and so is his mission! !

"Mr. Sandra, you are a real soldier..." Sun Kenan accepted the saber handed over by Sandra, but when faced with the flintlock pistol, he hesitated, and then took the sword engraved with San The gun with Della's mother's name was pushed back, "Good luck to you, Mr. Sandra!!" Sun Kenan patted Sandra and left here.

Only Sandra was left holding the pistol and was at a loss. Sandra's eyes were red when she reacted.

He knew that this was the last dignity given to him by Sun Kenan as a soldier.

Soon, the [-]th Regiment to which Sandra belonged slowly completed the handover with the soldiers from the [-]nd Battalion who came to hand over. The handover process was very smooth, just like the changing of the guard between colleagues.

And with the opening of the Western Front, the balance of the entire war situation began to tilt seriously.

This war also brought about the climax and final rhythm.

"We can order a general attack..." When he saw that a large area outside Nogales City had fallen, a smile appeared on Li Zhaowu's lips. "Order the artillery to increase the intensity of the bombardment. This afternoon, I will go into the city for dinner. ..." Li Zhaowu immediately issued an order to mobilize artillery.

Boom...boom...

After Li Zhaowu's order was issued, dense and scattered artillery fire was heard everywhere on the outer line.

The reason for this is that some areas are not suitable for large-scale shelling. Because the area is small, the two sides are intertwined, and it is easy to bomb their own people.

tread... tread...

"Block this street..." The vanguard troops who first entered the inner city were nervously blocking the entrances and exits from the outer perimeter to the inner city to prevent a Mexican from escaping.

bang... bang...

Of course, firing was indispensable during this process, and dense gunfire continued to resound in every corner of the street.

The previous joint volley and gun operations have lost their effectiveness. In this small area, most hunting is done in groups of several people.

There are only a few places, such as the center of the street, where there are about a hundred people shooting guns. As for the higher number of people, there is no such thing.

After all, the battle has reached this point, and it is no longer possible for the Mexicans on the opposite side to organize a large-scale field force. Without talking about the specific number of losses, let’s just say that the entire city of Nogales has been beaten into a sieve inside and outside, and the organization Military strength also means giving up on other directions.

Under many constraints, even in core areas like the inner city, there were not many Mexican troops defending. After most of them failed, they immediately retreated without any thought of resistance.

As the war continued, more and more Mexican troops surrendered on the battlefield.

There are even some Mexican people who were driven out to serve as human shields while hiding in their homes.

Regarding the atrocities committed by the Mexican army, the Han army would certainly not let go of such a God-given opportunity.

A large number of articles about the brutality of the Mexican army and the government of the Republic of Mexico were written by reporters who accompanied the army during the war.

There were even painters who painted the tragic situation of the entire city of Nogales at that time, including the Mexican people who were driven out, trembling and looking at the Han army opposite.

If it weren't for the later scenes, which are so bloody, maybe these paintings would be more artistic.

The Nogales headquarters has now lost the glory it had when it was first built some time ago.

Although the headquarters cannot be harmed for the time being due to its location in the rear, everyone, even those soldiers still standing guard, know that this glorious headquarters is only one step away from falling! !

But before that, he was the safest in the entire city of Nogales, safer than most Mexican homes, which I have to say is an irony. "Your Excellency, Commander, we should evacuate. It is too dangerous now." Courtnor suggested to Newt with an anxious look. In his opinion, this moment is the only chance to retreat, while the heretics are still there. It is completely possible to organize superior forces and escape through a gap without entering the city.

"Courtnor, do you want to live?" Looking at Courtnor, who originally asked for a fierce confrontation with the Han army, Newt's eyes showed a trace of disgust. If it weren't for this guy, they wouldn't have been defeated. awful.

At this time, Newt had completely forgotten how he had praised Courtnor's two-line defense plan, and even said that the key to victory in this war lies in whether he can severely damage the pagan army at the front line. Such words …

But now when he encounters a failure, Newt puts all the blame on Courtenay. Isn't this an irony? !
"Commander, there is no one who doesn't want to live." Courtnoy was very magnanimous at this time, which was in sharp contrast to his usual hypocrisy, "But we should understand that we live for a better future. To avenge those dead Mexicans, to fight against those infidels..." Although Courtnoy acted very sincerely and looked like the same thing, Newt had already seen through his thoughts.

I say a thousand words and ten thousand, but I just want to run away.

I want to leave this dangerous battlefield.

"Courtnor, I have decided that I want to surrender to the infidels outside." Newt said something that stunned Courtnor, "I no longer have any hope for this war. In this war, no matter how we prepare, more Mexicans will die in the end...Listen, I've had enough of this shit, it's time to end this disaster." Newt made up his mind to tell Han The Chinese army surrendered.

In Newt's view, if they continue to fight, there are only two results. One result is that they are all killed, and the Han army on the opposite side is not much better. The second result is surrender, and most of the people's lives will be lost. All well preserved.

There is no doubt that the first type best embodies the dignity of a soldier, but dignity cannot be eaten, let alone save everyone's life, so surrender becomes the only option.

"Your Excellency Commander..."

"No need to persuade, I have already sent people to negotiate with those Han troops."

Courtnor wanted to say something else, but he was quickly interrupted by Newt, who told him the cruel reality that surrender had already begun before this conversation, and maybe it was over now.

When the Han Dynasty's dragon flag was raised from the top floor of the headquarters, it also represented the end of the war that lasted for a day and a half.

After the war, except for the central area and some remote areas of the city of Nogales, which remained intact, other areas suffered varying degrees of damage.

In fact, damage is a bit flattering. Three-tenths of the buildings in the city were destroyed by artillery fire, and the remaining half of the buildings suffered varying degrees of damage.

Only about four-tenths of the buildings were intact, and even so, if Newt had not surrendered in time, these four-tenths of the buildings would have been destroyed and damaged.

It can be said that Newt's surrender was absolutely meaningful. At least it saved only part of the city and the lives of most of the soldiers who participated in the war.

After the war ended, there were [-] more prisoners in the prison camp.

Most of these prisoners were local whites who were temporarily captured at the beginning of the war, while the rest were local mixed-race people and even Indians.

From this we can see how panicked and short of manpower the Nogales defenders were at that time.

Even the Indians were not spared.

When Han soldiers lined up in neat formation and marched through a street, the Mexican people inside the house looked at everything outside in fear through the windows.

For them, the Han country and the Han people are all so strange that they still only have the propaganda of the Republic of Mexico in their minds.

The Han army had the habit of cannibalism. They liked to eat living people, raped and looted, and committed all kinds of evil. They would kill Mexicans on sight! !
Therefore, even if the Han army did not break into their homes privately, but only stood guard on the streets, they were so frightened that they did not even dare to go out.

The Han army didn't care about the reaction of these Mexicans. After all, to the conquerors, everything the conquered said was no longer that important.

And as time goes by, the lies spread by the Mexican Republic will sooner or later collapse without a fight. After all, people are not fools! !
Can tell who is good and who is bad...

The original Nogales Front Headquarters has now been transformed into the Second Military Headquarters.

The conference room of the original Nogales headquarters was now filled with officers of the Second Army at battalion level and above.

"Everyone, according to our initial plan, we are to occupy Nogales, the gateway to Mexico..." Li Zhaowu pointed to the location of Nogales on the map and said to all the Second Army officers present, "According to the information from the base camp, The combat policy is that after we occupy Nogales, we will first clear the surrounding Mexican towns..." Li Zhaowu drew a semicircle of about [-] kilometers south of Nogales City, which means that they The Mexican army and towns within the [-] kilometers range must be occupied.

"The follow-up combat plan is expected to be launched three days later, after the large force led by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince arrives..." Li Zhaowu then talked about the follow-up combat plan.

Basically, we are waiting for Liu Peng to arrive and see Liu Peng's decision. After all, the war has reached this level.

If the fight continues, it will basically be fought in the direction of Mexico City, the capital of Mexico. With such a long distance, it is easy to stretch the front too long, causing logistical supply difficulties.

Therefore, many officers, including Li Zhaowu, hoped to control the war within a controllable range.

What is controllable is that it guarantees victory in this war and gets what Han wants.

Of course, these are just the officer's wishful thinking. Mexico cannot propose peace talks before losing all its troops. This is no less than giving up the war.

This is something that no Mexican president can agree to, let alone President Santa Anna, who has been organizing an army.

For him, the failure of the war meant the end of his political career. He could not compromise with the Han State at the risk of being regarded as a traitor.

Peace will only come if the Han country beats the Mexicans enough to hurt them and make them unable to fight back, otherwise it will all be a joke! !

"Captain Tao, how is the organization of the Peace Army going?" Li Zhaowu then asked Tao Wang, who was sitting below, about the Peace Army.

The so-called Peace Army is actually the servant army selected by the Han army from those Mexican prisoners, that is, the puppet army.

He is responsible for maintaining local security and taxation. After all, Han's national strength is not sufficient, so he can get a little from Mexico, even if it is a little.

And more importantly, taxation also means completing local rule. A conqueror without the ability to tax is not considered a qualified conquest at all. It also means that their so-called conquest is only superficial and relies on violent deterrence. That’s all.

Such conquest is very expensive. As long as the local people do not cooperate, the conquering party will have to invest more political and military resources to ensure local rule.

This also creates a burden.

The best way is to use the local people to govern the local people, use the barbarians to rule the barbarians, and use the most efficient means to rule the Mexicans...

"The current organization is pretty much the same, and the frameworks of several regiments have been established." Tao Wang answered Li Zhaowu about the Peace Army, "Some officers in the prisoner-of-war camp chose to cooperate with us. Framework, because the required soldiers have not been recruited yet..." Tao Wang continued to answer Li Zhaowu.

The first Mexican prisoners were very resistant to the establishment of the Peace Army, but after some coercion and inducement, some of them finally compromised. The main reason was that they were too tired from hard labor and had not enough to eat at all. Joining the Peace Army not only means getting rid of heavy hard labor, but also means an improvement in food and treatment. Some officers, for example, have begun to provide them with luxuries including cigarettes and rum.

And all of this was specially requested by Tao Wang in order to create differences among the Mexican prisoners, so that the Mexican prisoners would yearn for this so-called Mexican peaceful mixed army! !
(End of this chapter)