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Chapter 701 Boundary Monument
The order from the Governor of New Spain in Mexico City was passed to Zhuangyuan Bridge, ending the worries of the Spanish soldiers stationed here.

After Zhuangyuanqiao aboriginals pulled out one of their military depots, the captains of the company who found that they had lost contact with their subordinates marched north and found that their depots had been razed to the ground. On the ruins of the original depots, the aborigines erected a sun worship mound.

In the shortest time, the company commander contacted the mercenaries belonging to the captains of the two companies under the Bernal Legion and the merchants accompanying the army, and assembled nearly [-] troops to sweep north.

The result is self-evident. After the military depot was turned into ruins, mounds were erected, and after the mounds were destroyed, the military depots were re-erected.

Originally, the matter would be settled with a massacre, and they were not even interested in paying attention to the original name of the land or who the original owner was until the imperial flag appeared among the trophies.

The aborigines would not have such an exquisite flag. The Huangming flag was presented to the colonel of the column as a treasure by the captain of the company, and the colonel gave it to the legion commander Bernal in Mexico in the same way. The news that a company attacked the Ming army in the north of the New World caused an uproar in Mexico.

In two months, apart from one column stationed in Mexico City, the two columns of the Bernal Legion scattered in the north of Mexico with a radius of one thousand leagues shrank their defenses.

More than [-] soldiers briefly gave up their exploration in the north and east, and narrowed their activities to a hundred leagues inland from the coast. At the same time, Mexico City urgently assembled three legions composed of second-generation Spanish-Indian mixed blood.

At the same time, the Governor of New Spain issued an order to the Viceroyalty of Peru through the church to intercept all armed merchant ships stationed in the New World to form a fleet and deliver war needs to Mexico City, most of which were tools and food for defending the city.

With Mexico City as the center, the entire New Spain Governor's District is full of wind and rain.

The governor, the church, the trial court, the legion commander, and the businessman reached an unprecedented agreement on the preparations for the Second Western Ming War.

A few years after the first war, although their information on the Ming country is still pitiful, it has made great progress compared to that year.

For example, Legaspi, the governor of the Philippines, fled back to Madrid from the western route, letting them know the terrible control of the Ming Empire over Southeast Asia—a Ming pirate could easily recruit two thousand soldiers in their colony, and Not because he is a pirate, but simply because he has a foster father who is a Ming official.

After Halloween, the two governorships of New Spain and Peru were in chaos. The number of intercepted merchant ships fleeing to the Old Continent increased day by day. On the coast of Peru, a passenger seat could even be sold for a high price of [-] silver coins.

The benefits are big enough for the captain to take risks. If you stay here, you may not get anything or you may make a fortune in the war, but leaving now will definitely make a fortune-for many people, this is a multiple-choice question. Not too difficult.

The reason for further exacerbating the turmoil is that although the attitude of the top figures towards the crisis has reached a consensus, there are greater differences in more detailed aspects.

The businessmen who decided to stay in the New World tried their best to lobby the governor to send negotiating envoys to the north to find the traces of the Ming army and try to negotiate with them, so as to eliminate the misunderstanding of the Zhuangyuanqiao battle and further obtain more trade.

The army and the church don’t think so. The church has a very tough attitude and believes that there is no need to make any preparations other than war, so as to shed more glory for God to remain in the world.

The military is not tough, and they agree to try to muddle through. For example, there are not many Ming troops in the New World, and for example, the news will not spread to the Ming country. As long as everyone doesn’t talk about it like those stupid businessmen If it gets out, Ming people will never know.

They are indeed preparing for war, and preparing very seriously, but most of them have no real intention to devote themselves to this war.

The most tacit situation is that no matter the governor or the army commander, they made all preparations for a possible war, but neither of them ordered the front-line officers to attack the possible Ming army.

On the contrary, the orders received by the frontline officers were to try to avoid attacking the Ming army when the situation was not yet clear. For example, if the Ming army did not come to fight, do not attack them.

Then the Ming army came.

The news entered Mexico City after Christmas with the galloping hooves of Andalusian war horses. The fleet of the Ming army and countless aborigines on land entered Marin, which is also known as the Zhuangyuan Bridge in the population of the Ming Dynasty. The newly built military depot launched a siege.

After half an hour of lobbying, ten infantry squads, fourteen cavalrymen, and a chaplain from the fifth company of the second column of the Bernal Army burned the supplies in the depot under the leadership of the supreme officer sergeant, and safely withdrew from the depot. South exit Marin.

On the third day that followed, the Ming army passed through Santa Cruz and Carmel, which were [-] miles away from Marin. Not only were all the weapons, armor, and horses of the soldiers of the two companies untied by the Ming army, but even the supplies and warships in the port hoarded in the military depot were all taken over by the Ming army.

On the sixth day and the eighth day...the Ming army's southward march did not stop, and even the aboriginal hunting regiment following on land was supplemented by the Spaniards giving up the coastal military station, and the scale was even larger.

Zheng Tu, who encountered the Ming fleet in the north of the Zhuangyuan Bridge, joined the expedition to regain the lost territory. With the prestige left behind and continued to attack the Spanish military station, his forces did not decline but rose. He quickly had a team of more than [-] people and became a coalition of various ministries. The larger one.

There was almost no risk along the way. The Ming army fleet led by Fu Yuan and Shao Tingda went south to make peace. The only accident encountered happened near the military station called the City of Peace in Spanish.

At that time, Fu Yuan had already completed the task of going south for two thousand miles requested by Chen Mu, and he traveled southward for nearly three thousand and five hundred miles. If this place did not belong to the peninsula, he had actually entered the vicinity of Mexico City.

The military depot here is also a company. As a horse ranch in New Spain, a company here has at least five squadrons of cavalry. Because it is very close to Mexico City, Fu Yuan was not too presumptuous, which caused the Spanish soldiers to be angry after leaving The missionaries rode their horses and held arquebus guns with lit matchlocks, leading more than [-] cavalrymen to gallop back, shooting at the aboriginal soldiers on land from a distance.

The brief conflict ended with the missionary ordering his subordinates to flee before the Ming army disembarked. The tribal allied forces lost seven good men before dismounting a Spanish cavalry who had gone mad and charged the crowd.

After that, Fu Yuan's fleet was moored in the harbor, and Shao Tingda led the fleet around the peninsula and sailed north from the other side, leaving a fleet at the end of the bay to drive down the boundary marker according to Chen Mu's order.

This is indeed two thousand miles, if you don't count the peninsula where Fu Yuan is stationed only a thousand miles away from Mexico City.

At the same time as the huge stone boundary tablet engraved with the word "Huang Ming" was plunged into the ground, Te Guangming, as the messenger, finally stood in the Governor's Palace in Mexico City, and was summoned by the Governor Almansa.

"You mean, the Ming army has [-] ships and [-] soldiers? Could it be that one of their ships can only carry ten people?"

Tuo Guangming shook his head as it should be, and resolutely overturned his previous words, and said seriously: "That may be one hundred thousand? Your Excellency, I don't know, their ships are as many as their people, too many to count."

As he spoke, Captain Tyreusius took out the lacquered wooden box and opened it in front of Governor Almansa, and took out the letter: "Your Excellency, this is a letter from General Chen of the Ming Empire. My mission has been completed." , I am ready to continue to join the army to serve His Majesty the King and the Pope no matter whether I want to go to war with the Ming Empire!"

(End of this chapter)