Although it was reasonable for the Tang army to take Fort San Diego without casualties, it still surprised Serra and others, and strengthened their understanding that the Tang army could fight against the Spanish army several times their size. In fact, in such a low-level and low-intensity battle, it is completely sufficient to use an infantry company, but the army command hopes to test whether the newly established Tang Army can achieve better infantry and artillery coordination, after all, in the era when there are no armored troops, infantry and artillery coordination is the most important tactic of the army.www.biquge.info

Spain couldn't even organize an expeditionary force of more than 500 people to come to Datang to fight, and as far as Serra and others saw, there were obviously more than 1,000 people. The number of people is smaller than that of the Tang army, and the equipment is much worse than that of the Tang army, and this kind of battle will definitely not be able to be fought.

The tragedy of San Diego cannot be repeated, this is the consensus of the Spaniards. In this era, there is no later generation that attacked each other, and then the two sides began to go to war because of domestic pressure and other things, at this time the politics were more realistic, especially Europeans, often found that they could not fight and then retracted without hesitation, and even in the Seven Years' War, it happened that they exchanged allies halfway through the fight and then fought like this.

After the deliberations of the Spanish delegation, Rivera led several Spanish officials to stay in Los Angeles to make contact and try to gather more information, while Serra and others returned to Mexico with the priests and soldiers who had peacefully evacuated from Monterrey. Since the capacity of the Favorita was simply not enough to carry the additional dozens of priests and soldiers, the Spaniards had to turn to Don for help.

Promised to give the Datang Shipping Company up to 5,000 yuan for the lease fee, the Spaniards rented a 1,500 Ming Dynasty hard sailing ship, Captain Heseta originally wanted to try to lease a steamship, and then to San Blas after the seizure of the ship, to study the mystery of the fast sailing of the steamship, but the Tang people will not be fooled at all, the Datang Shipping Company said that the steamship is not among the leases.

As for an ordinary hard sailing ship, the Spaniards looked down on it, the backward hull design, coupled with the hard sail operation that the Europeans were not familiar with at all, such a ship was of little interest to the Spaniards and could only be a simple means of transport. The living conditions of the hard sailing ship are far worse than the passenger ships of the Republic of China, there are beds on the passenger ships, while there are only a few beds on the hard sailing ships, and most people still need to sleep in hammocks or on the ground.

The Dons would not fully trust the Spaniards either, all of the Spaniards' weapons had to be confiscated on board, and there were Marines armed with Thompson submachine guns seconded to protect the transport.

The day after the fall of San Diego, the construction team of Datang No. 2 Construction Company arrived by boat. From Los Angeles to San Diego, the overland distance is not far, but in order to save fuel, the truck will not be lent to the second builder. However, it is more convenient to ship and can carry a large number of supplies and equipment at one time.

Erjian was ordered to come to San Diego, first to build a port in the area and to build a colony near the port terminal. It was also the first colony to be built on the seaside, starting with the construction of other colonies in Los Angeles. Naturally, a name like San Diego with obvious Spanish overtones would not be used by the Tang Dynasty, and the cabinet gave San Diego a new name, Weihai County.

On the other hand, San Diego is the largest naval base of the U.S. military on the West Coast and the home of naval aviation, defending the U.S. mainland. It is also a deep-water port with excellent port conditions, and the Navy also intends to make it a naval home port after expansion, so as to avoid conflicts with the future main civilian Port of Long Beach. Therefore, the name Weihai is also a good sign.

Monterrey, north of Los Angeles, will also be developed, where the construction team will build a village that can accommodate hundreds of people, but Los Angeles will not send many immigrants, and the cabinet hopes to build a small fishing port mainly for local naturalized Indians. Of real interest to Los Angeles is the Salinas River Valley, not far from Monterrey, which is an area of great agricultural interest in addition to the Central Valley, along which the Department of Agriculture plans to build commune farms.

Because the location of Monterrey is inhabited by the Chumash people, who are more friendly to Los Angeles, Los Angeles also named this place Chucheng County.

The soldiers who participated in the battle of San Diego triumphed and were welcomed by the citizens of Los Angeles, and the Ministry of Culture, Education and Propaganda believed that the victory could inspire the people of the Tang Dynasty and promote the joint construction of the military and the people. When the high-spirited soldiers carried their rifles and marched through the streets to the cheers and cheers of the people, everyone felt a sense of honor in their hearts. Those soldiers who did not participate in the battle also looked a little envious and jealous, and they wished that they would appear in the next battle.

The artillery behind the infantry also pulled out the artillery, and a horse pulled it in front, and several gunners next to him followed, and some guys waved at the girls in the crowd.

Ju Guochong, as an officer, rode on a horse and thought: "Lu Ming has a lot of cars that can be used, but he is afraid that he will not take them out to drive, if our artillery can be pulled by a car, and I also sit on the car, it will be much more majestic." ”

In this operation, the artillery led by Ju Guochong performed well, the artillery strike effect was very good, and it also covered the advance of the infantry well. This performance allowed Ju Guochong to receive at least a second-class merit. When the Tongwa people were first fought, Ju Guochong had not yet joined the army, and the army had not yet been formed at that time, so theoretically Ju Guochong was the first batch of officers and soldiers to receive military merits after the founding of the Tang Dynasty.

To say that Ju Guochong is the eldest son of the landlord's family, and he belonged to the "front line of anti-dove rebellion" back then, after crossing over and knowing that the modern people in power are some future juniors, he was still very worried for a while. At the beginning, Ju Guochong was also a goods moving bricks at the construction site, and at that time, he was afraid that one day he would be liquidated, so he directly killed him, an "anti-dove fighter". That day, when a few people in military uniforms came to his dormitory to look for him, Ju Guochong almost shouted that he would be a good man again after eighteen years.

As a result, who knows, these people let him join the Tang Army. Although Ju Guochong is a cultural person, he has a relatively muddy personality and does not have much opinion on things like ideology. When he participated in the Liberation War, he was also his own master, and he admired and feared the army's special ability to fight and strong will. Now that he has crossed, there is no difference between red and blue, and Ju Guochong does not have much of a knot to serve the Tang Army.

Ju Guochong has beautiful qualifications, serious Whampoa officers and students, and there are few people in the entire Guofu army who have crossed to catch up with him, and after some assessment, the superiors think that Ju Guochong is very capable, and his willingness and obedience to join the army are relatively good, so he directly promoted Ju Guochong to the captain and company commander of the artillery company. Being an officer is naturally better than moving bricks, Ju Guo rushed to the army and was like a fish in water, from being called by the foreman to being able to call dozens of soldiers, it was also a major breakthrough in life.

Back at the station, a celebration banquet was also held within the Light Transmission Troupe. There was nothing to do with the cavalry hunting regiment in this battle, and the cavalry hunting regiment could only stare dryly, after all, this kind of battle was really not suitable for the cavalry and chasseur regiment to participate.

At the celebration banquet, all the officers who fought and did not fight sat at one table, and the good wine and food were served at the same table, and the atmosphere quickly became lively. After a few glasses of wine, the young officers began to run the train with their mouths full. Huang Chao, the battalion commander of the artillery battalion and Ju Guochong's top boss, began to talk nonsense.

"The strength of our army is much stronger than that of Spain and Britain. Not to mention that this time it is a fortress of a few dozen people, that is, a city of tens of thousands of people, I also believe that our comrades will be able to successfully complete the task. ”

Xu Daorun, the commander of the second battalion, said with a sigh: "Huang Chao, you guy will be foolish, where are we going to fight his city of tens of thousands of people, there are only a handful of cities with tens of thousands of people in the Americas, and they are all thousands of kilometers away from us, take 10,000 steps back, what's the use of fighting down, can we control it?" With a population of more than 100,000, it is very difficult to develop California, and we want to go somewhere else. ”

Ju Guochong didn't feel that he was a small official in front of a bunch of majors, and what should he say was correct: "It's a pity that Datang is a small country now, and the scale of the army is not large, otherwise we can fight a few wars in the future, and we can do it with what brigade commander and division commander with military merits." ”

Xu Daorun patted Ju Guochong and said with a smile: "This military achievement is indispensable to you." ”

Huang Chao drank a glass of wine, and began to open his mind, he said: "How good our conditions are now, on the west coast of North America, there is no direct threat, and there are large tracts of undeveloped land, and none of the European powers can beat us." The shortcoming of population can't just rely on giving birth to children from generation to generation, we have more than 100,000 people, how many can we give birth in a hundred years? But in this hundred years of work, other countries may occupy a large area of land around us, which is the living space of future generations. If you want me to say, let's just drive the boat directly to our hometown in China, the 100,000-ton ship of Changmao will pull tens of thousands of people in one go, keep pulling, keep pulling, and we can get hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of immigrants a year, and we can develop everything we want! ”

When Ju Guochong heard this, his eyes lit up. He wanted to climb up, but now the artillery is up to a battalion commander, if the population of Datang is larger and the army is larger, he can become a battalion commander, regiment commander, and even a brigade commander and division commander step by step.

He also clapped his hands and applauded: "Battalion Commander Huang is of a high level, I didn't know which comrade I heard before, now that the population of the Great Qing Kingdom is already 300 million, we don't need to pull more, pull 70 or 80 million people over, and most of the United States will be said in the future." ”

Xu Daorun looked at these brain-opening goods, and was speechless, so he could only drink violently.