African Nationhood

After occupying Faro, Minister Cuseiro came out to appease the residents of the fishing port.

He informed people that the Nanhua soldiers were invited by His Majesty the King to put down the republican rebellion.

The lives and properties of any citizens loyal to His Majesty the King will be protected and they will not run around. Faro has been placed under martial law.

After being appeased here, Minister Kusero immediately called in the civil affairs officials of Faro Port and asked them to collect military food and materials, otherwise the mercenaries would run out of food.

Civil affairs officials in Faro Port did not dare to disobey and could only try their best to raise food supplies.

Ou Haiwa led two battleships to continue to be stationed in Setubal Bay to contain the Lisbon defenders.

Sha Wenzai temporarily acted as the commander of the landing force. This time, a total of three cruisers arrived and 3 soldiers were forced to land for defense.

The two submarines and the cruiser "Huang Zhong" returned to the Madeira Islands to escort the four troop-carrying cruise ships there safely.

In addition to planning their continued march with their colleagues, Shawenzai and the others also need to do a good job in the defense of Faro Port. When the follow-up soldiers arrive, they can launch an advance war.

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Three days later, four troop-carrying cruise ships arrived, and groups of marines disembarked in an orderly manner.

After allowing these marines to rest for a day, 5000 marines began to advance north along the railway lines.

The three cruisers also left Faro Port one after another, and together with the submarine, they went to Setubal Bay to join the Haiwa Department in the same area.

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The leader of the 5000 marines is Huang Jiacai, 40 years old this year. He was a member of the early guard company.

Now he has been promoted to the commander of the regiment, and is on the same level as Shi Ming of the guard regiment.

They have a close relationship with the old men of the security company. When he sent out troops this time, Shi Ming had informed him that Portugal would help Chairman Shi with some private work during this attack.

When the Huang family heard this, they immediately became interested and approached Shi Ming to listen to his secret instructions.

After receiving Shi Ming's advice, the Huang family immediately started thinking.

When he was in the Madeira Islands, he ordered his soldiers to pack all the historical artifacts on the island, such as some ancient nautical charts and sextants, and put them on the troop ship.

The island is under military control, so just setting a fire where the antiquities were lost can cover up the traces.

After arriving in Faro, he instructed his men to visit the area first. After inspection, they found that there were almost no antiques here, so the Huang family stopped thinking about it.

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Next, they advanced very quickly. The Portuguese's armaments were very poor. Their local soldiers had poor individual weapons and their artillery was outdated.

The vanguard of the Marine Corps relied on 80mm caliber mortars and SP-09 mountain cannons to directly defeat the Portuguese defenders.

The subsequent brigade then relied on trains to transport large quantities of soldiers and supplies towards Lisbon.

While marching, Huang Jiacai discovered that although this town in southern Portugal was very old, there were indeed very few antiquities. He harvested nothing in the towns he passed along the way, but there were no antiquities at all.

He complained a little that the Portuguese here were too poor. He could only hope to gain big results from this trip in Lisbon and several large cities in the north.

So he no longer delayed, led the troops to attack quickly, and in ten days he brought the troops outside Setubal Port.

The Ou Haiwa tribe that was swimming in the bay also took advantage of the situation and launched an attack. A fierce attack directly captured this important seaport town, which was only 32 kilometers away from Lisbon in a straight line.

After Ou Haiwa landed at the port, he took over the command of the mercenaries. Minister Kusero immediately used his reputation as the king's envoy to summon the gathered royalists.

For a time, the port of Setubal became the focus of the Kingdom of Portugal, and politicians in the Lisbon area began to think about their future and whether to escape.

Ou Haiwa sent his troops to continue north and captured the port city of Barrelu at the end of the railway line.

This city is located on the south bank of the Tejo Bay, 7 kilometers northwest of Lisbon, and has a population of only 2.1.

There are two directions of attack next. One is to attack the city of Lisbon by bypassing the Tejo River harbor, and the other is to suppress it with gunboats at sea. While Ou Haiwa dispatched Huang Jiacai to lead the Marine Corps soldiers on a detour, he also dispatched nearly 10,000 Portuguese civilians to serve as a transport team to transport combat supplies to the Nanhua mercenaries.

On the other hand, Minister Kusero persuaded the Republicans in the city to surrender through telegrams, promising that as long as they surrendered, His Majesty the King would be lenient.

Except for the wavering Republicans, the rest are die-hards.

They refused to surrender and vowed to hold on to the end.

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Since the rebels refused to surrender, there was only one way to attack.

The Huang family set out early, and five days later they captured the Free Town of Hilla, a peripheral town northeast of Lisbon.

This stronghold is only 32 kilometers away from Lisbon, and the Marines can attack here with a quick march.

However, Ou Haiwa instructed the Huang family not to be impatient and to let their soldiers rest completely before attacking Lisbon.

The Huang family obeyed the order to rest, and then ordered their men to start stepping into the area.

After being identified as "Portuguese traitors", most of the wealthy households in the city were die-hard Republicans, so the mercenaries who had nothing to negotiate with directly ransacked their homes.

Valuable and antiquities are all "evidences" that need to be screened.

Other properties that could not be taken away, such as land, castles and women's families, were all given to the powerful "Portuguese traitors" and "guide party members".

As a result, the entire Hilla Free Town became a paradise for carnivals.

A large number of leading party members sang and laughed happily, praising the South China mercenaries for bringing them peace and new life.

Huang Jiacai doesn't care about this, he cares more about the local evaluation of him.

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After resting for three days, in the early morning of March 3, Huang Jiacai took the information about the deployment of the Lisbon garrison sent by the navy and led his troops to launch a general attack on Lisbon.

Ou Haiwa also used the battleship's giant naval gun to attack Lisbon's coastal defense artillery to contain Lisbon's defenders.

Lisbon was suddenly caught in a two-sided attack. In order to alleviate the predicament, the Lisbon Navy had to bite the bullet and drive their "Da Gama" battleship and two new cruisers to fight.

The battle at sea lies in the range. Seeing the enemy battleship attack, Wang Li, the main gunner on the "Shu King", first aimed at the opponent's flagship and continuously test-fired to correct the design parameters.

When the correction is completed, each gun fires a salvo, and the submarine cruising nearby directly launches torpedoes to greet the enemy ships.

A round of torpedo attacks from four submarines quickly hit a cruiser. The cruiser immediately tilted and it was only a matter of time before it sank.

(In the original time and space, the Portuguese Navy only had an old ironclad ship as a facade, which was unchanged from the 1890s.

The battleship here is completely caused by Chairman Shi's butterfly wings. )
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According to the defense map of the defenders detected by the seaplane, the Huang family arranged for their men to attack Lisbon's outer strongholds head-on.

And he led his men to insert through the gaps between the two defense points outside Lisbon, and then asked his men to cautiously enter the core area of ​​Lisbon.

The combat effectiveness of their thousand-man team was very high, and they defeated the Republican defenders steadily. They also successfully attacked the city of Lisbon.

At this moment, Lisbon has completely fallen into anarchy. Because of the panic of the war, gangsters in the city have taken advantage of the chaos to attack innocent civilians, and all kinds of chaos including robbery and rape broke out.

Huang Jiacai didn't care about this. His target was the museum in the city and the bank vault.

Before Minister Kusero arrives, he needs to pack the high-value items here.

The more chaos there is in the city, the better, which will help the Nanhua mercenaries clear their suspicions. (End of chapter)