readx(); Tucson, the two largest cities built by the Tang Dynasty in New Mexico, quickly became an important advance base for the Tang army, like Phoenix, after the war. In fact, when the Tang people built the city, they had already taken into account its military needs, and built a large number of military facilities in the name of building freight warehouses. The Spaniards didn't know what the Tang wanted to do, and of course they couldn't stop it.

After the outbreak of the war, the city of Tucson accumulated a large amount of war materials and soldiers. Although the Loau Line was mainly fought against the Apaches, Tucson also built a road south to the Tang without the consent of the Spaniards, extending hundreds of kilometers south. In the deployment of the Tang Army, a Tang Army will attack the Mexican colony of Sonora from Tucson southward, and expand its control to the inland provinces of Chihuahua and Durango. This area was one of the more remote areas of the New Spanish colony, not very populated, not very developed, and the Spanish garrison was relatively inadequate, so it was not expected that there would be too much fighting.

The most troublesome part is that the Tang army needs to overcome the terrain difficulties of the Mexican plateau, their mechanized troops cannot successfully exert their strength on the Colorado plateau, and the same is true in the Mexican plateau, so except for a limited number of areas where mechanized troops can be used, so the Tang army still has to be dominated by mule and horse light infantry.

Although mechanized troops were the general trend in the development of the Tang Army, the pragmatic spirit of the Tang people still made them pay equal attention to the development of military forces that could adapt to a variety of combat environments. In addition to the elite cavalry of the Tang Dynasty, the infantry actually had corresponding horse farms and domesticated a large number of animal power animals, including horses and mules. In some mountainous plateau areas with rugged terrain, these mules and horses were able to carry the baggage of the Tang army, allowing the Tang army to go on expeditions and fights without leaving the base.

The main attack in this direction is the 7th Brigade of the Army. Compared with the ace units such as the First Brigade and the Second Brigade that had made great achievements in the previous battles, the Seventh Brigade is a bit like the status of accompanying the prince to study in the army, and it can even be seen that the status is not pleasing in terms of formation. For example, the second ace brigade of the Datang Army stationed in Jiazhou. It is a five-regiment type A brigade with more than 7,000 people. With as many as three infantry regiments, one cavalry regiment and one artillery regiment, the combat power is the highest in the whole army. The Seventh Brigade formed in 1781 had only three light infantry regiments, and the artillery battalion of the brigade unit was not even equipped with the 155 mm howitzer that Datang is now arrogant about, and it was still a 105 mm howitzer, but it had been improved. The firepower of the whole brigade has few heavy equipment, and most of the equipment is easy to transport, so the Seventh Brigade actually has the obvious operational characteristics of a mountain brigade, which is why the Seventh Brigade was entrusted to make a breakthrough in this direction.

Officers and men of the 7th Brigade. I also have the intention to use this opportunity to wash off the label of second-class combat power on my body, so I am full of energy, high morale, and determined to fight a beautiful battle.

It's just that sometimes you think well, but things don't necessarily go the way you expected.

The Seventh Brigade marched into New Spain one after another, advancing about 300 kilometers south from Tucson without a single decent conflict. There were a few Indian villages along the way, but most of them kept their distance from the Tang people, and the Tang people drove there. And they fled. The rest were actually the majority of the leading party, and some people heard that the Tang people were going to fight the Spaniards, and they actually volunteered to join the Tang army. The Spaniards' harshness towards the natives of the colonies had an explosive effect at this time. However, it was impossible for the Tang people to use these aborigines who had no military training, but only told them that if they found any movement of Spanish colonists, they must inform them.

The Seventh Brigade had driven all the way to the outskirts of Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora, when it came across a real Spanish colonial army. This army, which was mainly composed of peninsulars and native-born white people, was small in number, and they did not even know that the Tang Dynasty had submitted a declaration of war to Spain. The vanguard of the Tang army was a battalion, and the other side only had more than a hundred troops, which was even more surprising to the Tang people. After informing the other side that more than 5,000 troops were approaching in the rear of the Don army, the Don army was going to attack the Mexican colony. The officer who led this Spanish colonial army actually proposed it to the Tang people. Surrender with dignity and save his life and that of his soldiers, and then he would go to Hermosillo to persuade the Spanish officials there to surrender to the Don army and avoid causing human suffering.

Although he was a little surprised by the Spaniard's brains, Huang Dayong, the commander of the 7th Brigade, knew very well that this Spanish officer was absolutely rational. On the couch side of Datang, looking at Datang Rusi's strong military ability and national strength, it is impossible for the Spaniards to be unafraid. Just by the troops coming in person, this officer saw several times the strength of the Don Army on his side. There was no doubt about the horror of the Don army in the eyes of Europeans, and it was nothing for his soldiers to suppress the Indians in normal times, but when he saw that this group of Don troops had begun to lay artillery positions after arriving at the periphery of his troops, he immediately sent people to inquire about the situation, and then put forward such a suggestion to surrender and help persuade him to surrender.

For this Spanish officer, a native of the peninsula, he came to Mexico to mix his qualifications, not to send him to death. He must not be able to defeat the Tang army, and half of their troops are still equipped with old-fashioned flintlock pistols, and only half are crude paper-shelled rifled guns made by local military factories in Mexico, while the weapons of the Tang army are obviously more sophisticated. From a distance, he looked at the Tang people's marching formation, and knew that the two sides were not on the same order of magnitude at all, and it was completely stupid to fight the Tang people for the so-called honor and pride of God, so he surrendered directly.

His subordinates were also relieved to know that the company commander had chosen to surrender, and no one would be willing to engage the already powerful Don Army when they were inferior. Similarly, the Spaniards in Hermosillo were no different, and at first they had the heart to resist with fortresses or the like, but in the afternoon more Don troops began to prepare for an attack outside the city, and the Spaniards immediately threw away all their pride and surrendered to the Don army.

Their condition was that they could be allowed to leave Hermosillo, which is also a common situation in many wars in Europe, where the inferior side surrendered, gave up territory, and then demanded that they be released, although if they were released and contacted again, the two armies would continue to fight. The Tang army did not have much strength to control the prisoners of war for a while, and even if they were to be let go, it would not pose much of a threat, so Huang Dayong agreed to the Spaniards' terms and took Hermosillo without bloodshed. (To be continued.) )