Chapter 3062
The mouth of the Chicano River on the east coast of the bay was the default boundary line between Spain and Haihan's control zone a few days ago, but now it has been occupied by Haihan's army.
Wang Anbang led a large team of people to guard here, responsible for collecting Spanish prisoners of war who surrendered ashore.
The Haihan Army prepared a large number of shackles and ropes in advance, as well as a special Spanish translator holding a tin trumpet to remind the prisoners to put down their weapons and line up to land. Those who resisted or tried to escape would be killed on the spot.
For the Spaniards who were lucky enough to survive the fierce battle, there was no other choice at this time. There were many Haihan warships cruising back and forth on the nearby sea. The small boat they were in had nowhere to escape. They could only follow the instructions given by the Haihan warship and row the small boat to the designated place to dock and surrender.
Every time a person came ashore, Haihan soldiers came forward and handcuffed his hands behind his back. Then, ten prisoners were divided into teams and tied together with ropes to prevent escape.
Occasionally, there would be a few thorny ones who were unwilling to cooperate, and they would be beaten with sticks until they fell to the ground and howled. However, the soldiers would not kill them because their superiors had clearly prohibited killing prisoners without reason, and even sent military doctors to treat the injuries of these prisoners.
Looking at these disgraced guys in front of him, Wang Anbang felt no sympathy in his heart. If he didn't need to keep these prisoners of war as coolies, he wouldn't care about the lives of these people.
The military doctor wearing a white armband and examining the wounds of the prisoners of war was one of Morgan's many apprentices and was several years older than Wang Anbang. However, this apprentice was an art investment master, and he became a disciple of Morgan much later than Wang Anbang, so the younger Wang Anbang was actually his senior brother.
"Junior Brother Zhang, those who are seriously injured and cannot be saved, please leave them alone and don't waste our things." Wang Anbang reminded.
The military doctor surnamed Zhang hesitated slightly, then nodded, indicating that he would act as he wished.
Almost all the various wound medicines and medical equipment used by military doctors are shipped from China thousands of miles away, and their value is difficult to calculate in terms of money. It was fine to use these precious medicines on his own people, but Wang Anbang was really reluctant to use them to treat these foreign prisoners of war.
However, his attention was quickly attracted by a newly arrived boat of prisoners, because there was actually a man who looked like an officer on the boat, who was tied up behind his back and carried ashore by other prisoners.
Wang Anbang called the translator and asked him to quickly ask what was going on.
The unlucky guy who was tied up by his own people was DeSantis who suffered a mutiny on the San Carlos.
DeSantis imagined various scenarios before the war, but he never imagined that he would fall into a mutiny during the war. And those sailors, who were usually humble and humble, dared to rebel at such a critical moment. He couldn't help but wonder whether there were spies from the Haihan people on the ship.
After Wang Anbang learned of DeSantis's identity, he also curiously came closer to look at the Spanish officer, and then called the military doctor over and asked him to check DeSantis's physical condition.
A senior officer like this cannot just be thrown into a pile of prisoners of war and be done with it. The information DeSantis possesses must be extremely valuable to Haihan, and it must be carefully scrutinized.
Although the sailors who tied up DeSantis and asked him to surrender did not receive any special treatment for the time being, Wang Anbang told them that they would be freed as soon as possible after the war and would not be demoted to slaves. In the afternoon of that day, the battlefield was cleaned and the statistics of the results were basically summarized. The Spanish fleet invested a total of 22 ships in this battle, with a total of more than 1,700 sailors and crews. After the war, more than 900 people were captured, and the rest were either killed in battle or missing.
Even if you are lucky enough to swim ashore, the east and south sides of the bay are the territories of Haihan and local indigenous tribes respectively. Without transportation and supplies, the possibility of escaping from San Diego Bay is slim.
As for the Spanish ships participating in the war, except for the part that had capsized and sunk in the bay, the remaining ships also suffered varying degrees of damage. The Haihan Army could only drag a few of the ships that could still move to the coast and beach them, unload the materials on the ships, and then check whether the damage to the hulls was worth repairing.
In order to confirm DeSantis's identity, Magistrate Aragones was also specially invited. He had cooperated with Haihan's battle plan before, and his credibility was obviously much higher than that of the sailors who launched the mutiny.
Aragones did not expect that Haihan would capture DeSantis so smoothly. From his standpoint, he did not want to meet DeSantis again. After all, the destruction of this fleet was inseparable from him. relationship.
Sure enough, the moment DeSantis saw Aragones appear, he suddenly became excited and his eyes were on fire. If there were not two Haihan soldiers holding him down, one on the left and one on the right, he would probably rush over and bite him. A mouthful of Aragones.
Although DeSantis could not move, he still stared at Aragones and cursed. Although most of the people present did not understand Spanish, just by looking at DeSantis's reaction, one could roughly guess how intense the content of his scolding was.
Aragones showed no expression and did not respond to DeSantis. He just nodded to Morgan to confirm DeSantis' identity.
Morgan asked Aragones: "Don't you have anything to say to him?"
Aragones shook his head and said: "There is no point in saying anything now. What should be said has been said before the war started."
Aragones had repeatedly asked DeSantis to take action. Even if he could not defeat Haihan, he should try to divert his fleet away from San Diego Bay to reduce pressure on local colonial settlements.
But DeSantis, intent on waiting for the perfect fighter, turned a deaf ear to Aragones’s request. However, this fleet has been standing still, which has slowly evaporated the expectations of the local people, and their support has gradually turned into resistance.
After witnessing today's sea battle with his own eyes, Aragones was even more certain that no matter what tactics DeSantis adopted, he would ultimately be defeated on the battlefield. Since his original judgment was correct and this fleet could not escape the fate of destruction, he had no guilt in using everything to its best advantage in exchange for the safety of local Spanish immigrants.
But now that Aragones' last reliance is gone, how the situation will develop next depends on whether Haihan will keep its pre-war promise. If Morgan goes back on his word and does not follow the agreement reached between the two parties before the war, then Aragones will not be able to make any resistance at all.
(End of chapter)