the population of the north resisted and osorio had to ask for reinforcements to comply with the royal order. the help came from the governor of puerto rico, sancho ochoa de castro, who in september of that same year 1605 sent an infantry company to santo domingo to help out the forces of hispaniola. the contingent, composed of 159 soldiers under the command of captain francisco ferrecuelo, went to the north of the island, where the orders of osorio were forcibly imposed, and the residents of the region obliged to abandon their farms and homesteads. in order to achieve their objective, the soldiers destroyed sugar plantations, burned huts, ranches, haciendas and churches, and dismantled everything that the villagers needed to live in those places. the main depopulated areas were puerto plata, montecristi, bayajá and yaguana. at the end of january 1606, antonio de osorio wrote to the king, communicating that the devastation had ended and that he only needed to go through the herds of cattle of the north, and those of santiago, san juan and azua. the process was however delayed until the middle of the year. eventually, the governor established a border that stretched from azua in the south all the way to the north coast, and prohibited the hispanic inhabitants from crossing it. the inhabitants of bayajá and yaguana were concentrated in a new town that received the name of bayaguana, and the inhabitants of montecristi and puerto plata were relocated to monte plata.