Before Western colonists discovered the new continent, there were three types of agricultural civilizations in the Americas, including the Mayans and other Central American regions. The Mayans even called themselves corn people, and they also worshiped the corn god. In South America, there was a potato civilization with the ancient Inca countries as the main body. In the Caribbean, although there were no decent powers, the agricultural civilization was the cassava civilization.

The cruel thing is that the Caribbean Sea was the first Spanish colony. The Indians on the archipelago were exterminated due to illness and slavery. In the West Indies, in addition to European colonists, they were black slaves sold from Africa. It is precisely because of this that the empire lost the support of the most important local ally, the Indians, when attacking Havana.

The attack on Havana was very smooth from the beginning, and it was directly converted to a fierce battle. The large fleet returning to the harbor was completely blocked. Because of the early arrangements and the fleet led by Zhao Longcheng always appeared and disappeared, the Spanish did not know the strength of the expeditionary fleet, which caused Spanish ships to dare not leave the port. More than 200 ships, including the Windward Fleet and the Escort Fleet, were hidden in the port of Havana.

The Spaniards arranged iron chains and shipwrecks in the inlet and exit of the waterway, while the turrets and temporary artillery blocked the waterway, resulting in the expeditionary fleet not being able to enter, and the battle turned into a landing war. Zhao Longcheng planned to land with landing power, and then escaped the blocked seaport area of ​​firepower and directly attacked Havana City. However, this plan was very unsuccessful, and the expeditionary fleet underestimated the Spanish's will to resist and combat capabilities.

There were many squire and nobles who fled from Peru on the large fleet that returned to the ship. Their mouths called the Imperial Expeditionary Force a man-eating demon. Although massacre, cannibalism and abuse were all fake, the liquidation activities carried out by the Imperial Expeditionary Force in the Peru Governor's District were real. On the entire Cuban island, whether it was the squire and local colonists who arrived with the ships, they all united to organize troops and resist.

Zhao Longcheng was obviously a little too hasty. The humid and hot climate in the Caribbean Sea made the Empire Expeditionary Fleet seriously unadapted. Scarlet fever even broke out on the Zhuifeng of the Second Expeditionary Fleet, and a bunch of tropical diseases torture the Expeditionary Fleet. Even King Yu Li Junwei was diagnosed with dysentery for a time. These tropical diseases caused the Expeditionary Fleet to be severely reduced. The staff of the Expeditionary Fleet even suspected that if they dragged on like this, the Expeditionary Fleet would fail.

Therefore, on April 12, Zhao Longcheng issued an order to attack Havana because he received support from a black regiment of Boxers from Cape Town. But the problem is that this Boxers are different from the Expeditionary Fleet. After the Expeditionary Fleet arrived, they took some rest in Jamaica occupied by the British, Haiti occupied by the French, and Curacao occupied by the Dutch. The Boxers almost immediately participated in the battle after arriving.

The bigger problem is that this Boxer Regiment is different from the Yi Cong army fighting in Peru. The army is a division of the African Development Company. It was formed by drawing elite troops from the standing troops. However, those who arrived in the Caribbean were recruited and formed last year. Although they had been trained for four months in Cape Town, they had never learned landing operations according to the army training. There was an elite land battle camp in Zhaolongcheng's expeditionary fleet, but they did not enter the battle. Zhaolongcheng chose to temporarily organize a group of pirates recruited in the Caribbean. As the first batch of landing troops, the Boxer Regiment was the second batch. The final result was that all three landings ended in failure.

When the first login was in, the pirates were dispersed by the firepower of the beach heads arranged by the Spaniards, and the main force failed directly without logging in.

The second landing was very smooth. The pirates and the Boxer Regiment successfully landed and developed towards the city of Havana. However, after entering the nearby villages and towns, the unorganized and undisciplined pirates dispersed and robbed and were ambushed. Thousands of Spanish cavalry followed the fleeing pirates and attacked the Boxer Regiment's position, which led to a great defeat.

On the third time, Zhao Longcheng and his Marine Corps officers formulated a more careful plan, from stranding a cruise ship (seied from Spain) to providing fire support, to attacking, defending against impact, advancing and seizing, the fleet blocked the port, and covering the landing ground, all of which were well-developed.

This time it went even smoother. The entire army had to go to the shore and attacked Havana step by step. As a result, a heavy punch hit the cotton. The Spaniards only resisted a small amount. After the Expeditionary Force advanced towards Havana, the Spanish infantry attacked the landing ground at night, causing the main force to lose supplies. Although the pirates and Yizong blacks on the shore, in order to avoid the destruction of the entire army, Zhao Longcheng still sent a land battle camp to the ashore to support the main force.

"At present, the Spaniards have a regular army of phalanxes, that is, 1,250 people, and the rest are local militia units, especially those cavalrymen, who were recruited from all over the country, while the armed forces on the merchant ships are responsible for protecting the Port of Havana. These troops together, about 1,400 cavalry and more than 6,000 infantry, and artillery is just average..." After three failures, Li Junwei took the initiative to come to the front line, and Zhao Longcheng introduced the situation to Li Junwei.

Li Junwei frowned. He didn't expect to fight to this point, but then he thought that the biggest advantage of the Spaniards at this time was that they were in a state of unity against the enemy. Li Junwei said: "I have ordered Cape Town to transport another Boxer here. I directly asked for the Junfu Group and should arrive next month."

The Junfu regiment is one of the most elite troops of the African company and one of the four standing regiments, which is very capable of fighting. However, Zhao Longcheng said: "The situation of the fleet is not very good, and we still hope to fight quickly. My plan is like this: first block the port of Havana with mines, and then organize the fleet's garrison Marines and armed sailors to go ashore to support them, so that we can have another 2,500 people, which is enough to defeat the Spaniards. However, the mines are transported from the South Port and will take three to seven days to arrive."

"I really don't understand these, but you'll be sure to have confidence. But I can only give you another chance. If it cannot be resolved next time, you must wait until the battle between Junfu and Panama is resolved, and all the troops will unite before attacking." Li Junwei said.

"It's the prince, thank you for your trust." Zhao Longcheng was quite ashamed. After all, he was indeed responsible for his fight in this way. The quality of his army was on the one hand and his personal ability was on the other hand. He was not familiar with land combat, and these factors together led to several failures.

When Li Junwei was about to ask about Zhao Longcheng's detailed plan, suddenly there was a sound of cannons coming from the sea. Li Junwei was surprised, opened the blinds and looked out. The sky outside was almost completely dark. Orange-red sparks lit up from time to time on the sea in the distance. Just in the direction of Havana, Li Junwei was surprised: "Is the Spanish ship breaking through? It would be better if that was the case."

Li Junwei was actually a little worried that Zhao Longcheng would dispatch the Marines and sailors to the ship, because once the Spaniards broke through, the fleet would be difficult to deal with. Zhao Longcheng looked carefully for a while, listened and said, "No, prince, it's not artillery battles, it's our warning ship that is warning the cannon sound. Listen, the circumferential cannon on the side of the ship is not loaded with shells. According to the rules, the next round will be three solid shells to warn and shoot!"

Sure enough, before Zhao Longcheng finished speaking, three relatively dull sounds of cannons sounded, which were issued by the short and heavy cannons. The alert ship had a light contact with the flagship. Soon, the staff on duty outside came in and said, "Your Highness, General, I found a flying scissor ship on the outside. The Red Hare sent a small boat to board the ship. The opposite was the Spanish, but he claimed to be a diplomatic ship. There was a Spanish officer on it, who wanted to see His Highness Yu."

"Who is it, what is it?" Li Junwei asked.

The staff officer said, "Your Highness, contact us with lights, and we cannot tell the name."

Li Junwei nodded, Zhao Longcheng said: "Send a small boat to come immediately, bring people, send Marines to board the ship, control the enemy ship, and those who come must search them completely."

Almost an hour later, Li Junwei finally saw the person coming. It was Antonio. Li Junwei smiled and said, "Mr. Antonio, you seem to have come too early."

Although Li Junwei sent Antonio back to Spain early and expressed his willingness to negotiate, according to his plan, the formal negotiations will be made at least after the de facto occupation of the Panama region, and the large Havana fleet also delayed Li Junwei's plan a little further.

"The later we come, the more the kingdom will lose." Antonio said seriously.

Li Junwei said, "Some things I want to get must be obtained."

Antonio stepped closer and said to Li Junwei seriously: "Your Highness, I have no intention of disturbing your plan. This time I came here, not to fully represent the Kingdom to talk to you, but to protect the things that must be kept for the Kingdom. Please don't doubt that your guard just now found a box from me. The things in the box are the sincerity I brought, and my father's sincerity, and the sincerity of the Kingdom. Please make sure you make up your mind after seeing that thing."

Li Junwei nodded and signaled the guards to bring the things in. After careful inspection, the box was sent in. There was only a roll of parchment inside. It was written in Chinese, and it was written in Zhu Ming vertical format, or in traditional Chinese. It said: As the only heir of the empire, God's spokesperson in the East, the protection of Eastern Christians, the prince of the Central Plains emperor, the North Korea, Uszang, the protector of Sari Uyghur, the guardian of the kingdoms of East Asia, the friend of Chaharlindan Khan, the Tiankhan on the Mongolian grassland, and the prince of the Eastern fantasy town in the hearts of European countries.

I would like to extend my greetings to His Excellency Innozengxen X. There is an unfortunate news that tells you that under the great power of our great nation that respects Catholicism as the state religion, the Ming Empire, under the joint attack of the Tatars invasion of the south, peasant riots, military aristocratic rebellion and Dutch attacks, the empire is now about to be divided, and the barbaric Tatars who do not believe in God are slaughtering the Lord's lambs everywhere in the empire.

These pagans in the East are still spreading their heretic faith in a steady stream, trying to get the Lord's flock into the arms of the devil, so they ask the Pope to form a crusade to launch a victorious battle, so that the glory of God will shine on the East again, and may God bless the Ming Dynasty to revive peace.

Crown Prince Constantine, Empress Dowager Maria, and Empress Helena of the Central Palace.

yours truly!

After reading it, Li Junwei passed it to the generals around him. Everyone understood it. This was a letter of help from Yongli, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, sent to the Roman Catholic Church in the name of his son, mother and wife. Yongli's harem had converted to Catholicism during the southwest migration. Yongli did not choose to convert because he was unwilling to give up his harem. But just the sentence "In our great country where Catholicism is respected as the state religion" made people who saw this letter feel shame.

"This is a shame in Chinese history. Now we have cleaned it up. I want to send this letter back to the empire and let people all over the world see it. It is not only the barbaric and cruel Manchuria, but also the ignorant Catholic Church. It also allows those who intend to restore Zhu Ming to see who is the orthodox civilization of this civilization." Li Junwei said to everyone calmly.

Everyone responded in unison, and Li Junwei asked everyone to retreat and said to Antonio: "Anton, you gave me a very good gift. This gift alone has touched me. I am willing to listen to your demands and lower my bottom line to a certain extent. But all this comes from the friendship between your Fahado family and our Li family, so please do not mix too much interests to hurt these friendships, is it OK?"

"Of course, my request is not too much." Antonio said a little excitedly, "You know, in the fleet trapped in the port of Havana, there are the property of the entire Spanish nobles, and we can give up the rest. Now we only ask for the property belonging to the king to us, and of course, there is a private request, which would be better if you are willing to sell the interests of the Fajado family."

Li Junwei thought for a while: "This requirement is indeed not that excessive, but you have to tell me why."

Antonio said: "If the king's wealth cannot reach Seville, then our loan in Amsterdam will be overdue. You should know that we have finally rebuilt the credit of the kingdom. If it is finished at this time, the Kingdom of Spain will go bankrupt. But the Kingdom is in war now, and bankruptcy means the destruction of the kingdom. I thought about it carefully. The destruction of the kingdom will not be of any benefit to your country, right?
Chapter completed!