open sea

Chapter 724 Good News
The Ming army still landed.

The landing inevitably faced the division of troops. Fu Yuan led the two hundred soldiers to move the warships and supplies northward, and decided that the northern retreat would be Puerto Vallarta, which they had attacked earlier.

With such a small number of soldiers, each ship is only enough to control and loses its combat capability. Next, they will sail for [-] miles defenseless until they arrive at the station of Lin Huer's Department. After replenishing all the wounded, they continue to sail north.

After the Battle of Vallarta, the reorganized two thousand Ming troops landed on the beach 150 miles north of Acapulco and went deep into the jungle.

"Governor Ah said that there is an official road running from northwest to southeast twenty miles to the east, and at the intersection of the official road forty miles to the northwest there is a Western Army fortress, and a company is stationed with the two adjacent fortresses to suppress the local people."

Hei Yunlong broke the baked hard cake used as military rations, took out another piece of black cake from his leather waist pocket, broke it out the size of a date pit, put it in his mouth, mixed it with the hard cake, gulped down two mouthfuls of water and complained: "March The military rations are really unpalatable!"

Swallowing vaguely, Hei Yunlong, who was squatting under the tree, said to Shao Tingda: "Governor Ah said there are a lot of snakes here, let us be careful...Shao Shuai, send a snake hunting team."

Heiyunlongkou said that the marching rations are unpalatable, but compared to their usual fish and meat, they consume three times more military rations than the ordinary Ming army. They can't eat this kind of normal military rations on weekdays. Will eat these.

But in fact, the baked biscuits are crispy, salty, and taste good. Since the Tang Dynasty, this has been the main ration of soldiers in the Central Plains for long-distance marches. They are grilled over charcoal fire with small holes poked in the middle and put into backpacks. One pancake is enough for a day.

The piece of black cake he broke was the sauce cake. The usual method of the Ming army was to mash three liters of soy sauce mixed with five liters of salt, twist it into a cake, and dry it to replace the pickles when there was no luggage.

Before landing, Shao Tingda also ordered the soldiers to mix smoked fish and dried vegetables into the sauce cakes. He had tried his best.

This is the really unpalatable thing. After all, when marching and fighting, the first consideration of military rations is not the taste, but the filling.

"Let's watch out for snakes?"

Shao Tingda ate rice soaked in soup, and the rice was dry rice. The soldiers prepared a batch of dried meat, and when they lit the fire, they boiled the dried meat and sauce cakes into soup to soften the rice.

Shao Tingda, who was snoring rice soup, almost choked his throat with laughter, thinking of the bit of sweet snake meat, body fluid came out of his mouth, he put down his rice bowl and said: "Be careful with snakes, let every household ask how many of your subordinates know how to catch snakes Yes, just let them pay attention during the march, but unfortunately I forgot to bring soy sauce."

People should not be afraid of animals. Even if there is a division of labor in human society, the top predators in the world are hunters.

Since humans discovered that wood and stone can be used as weapons, humans with stone axes chased saber-toothed tigers all over the mountains, stabbed mammoths to death with spears, and it took nine days to reach the moon.

Swallowing his saliva, Shao Tingda asked, "How much rations do Westerners usually store in their army camps? How about their rations?"

Hei Yunlong shook his head and said: "Governor Ah has expressed his feelings many times. If the Spanish army had our supplies, the time to conquer the New World could be shortened by 20 years."

"Their military rations are bread. In the battles of the European countries, if it is safe to say within the country, the food and supply officer will go first, organize the supply of goods in the surrounding towns, establish a market to buy supplies, and send troops in advance to set up grain stations on the roads that must be passed."

"If you were abroad, the army would have to work part-time as bandits to rob various places in addition to fighting wars. This is basically the same as the bandits in China. It seems that the army is the same everywhere. Without supplies and supplies, it will be finished."

"But they are a bit stronger. They have many merchants accompanying the army. These merchants have properties in various countries. They sign contracts and the merchants supply them. They are similar to our Chen Shuai."

Shao Tingda nodded in disappointment, and then said: "It's better not to scare the snakes. Most of the enemy troops may be stationed around. They can't be undefended along the coast. The rations carried by the banner troops are still enough. Let's go east first."

Hei Yunlong swallowed the last mouthful of dry biscuits, drank the water bottle, nodded and stood up, "Alright then, I'll go to the back to see the cavalry, it's too difficult for the cavalry and artillery to walk in this big forest."

He turned around and before he could leave, there were two birdsongs in the bushes, and then the figure of a flag soldier sprang out. This flag soldier was covered with a green cloth blanket on his face and upper body, with only two eyes exposed, panting heavily in front of Shao Tingda. Prostrate before him.

It was Shao Tingda's family scouts, and their outfits were the same as those of Lin Manjue's General Killing Team, because they all ordered equipment from the Nanyang Guard Weapons Bureau.

"Master Hu, there are native villages twenty miles to the northeast. They seem to be fighting someone. The main roads in the village set up horses to dig trenches, and native soldiers with longbows and swords on their backs are patrolling back and forth. Their subordinates dare not approach them. !"

Shao Tingda frowned, raised his head and said to Hei Yunlong who came back again: "The Spaniards reported our news to the natives under their rule? No, the Westerners probably don't know the news of our landing yet, so what's going on? Did you keep someone under guard?"

"Stay there, the official road passes there. If they fight with others, the road is complicated, and they send out scouts, it will be very difficult for our team to avoid their eyes and continue eastward."

Needless to say, the geography here determines that the scope of the scouts is closer than that of the Central Plains. It is the limit to send the scouts twenty miles away, and it is useless to go further.

But if the two armies fought, the scouts from both sides would have a radius of at least [-] miles, and they would have to go around [-] miles to go east. Besides, this was just an optimistic estimate. How far was the detour.

This kind of accident can add countless troubles.

Shao Tingda closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, then ordered: "I can't go east for a while, first send people to explore north and south to see if this place is suitable for camping, this..."

Before he finished speaking, someone came over again, this time there were still a few scouts, but there was an extra native soldier in Spanish armor, who looked like a prisoner.

The scout who caught him said: "A Western scout was caught as a prisoner. He is a Western soldier, not a native soldier."

Spanish soldiers?
Shao Tingda took a closer look, and it seemed that he looked a little different. He wondered, "This is the mixed-race soldier that the Westerners call? Why are they here? Let the Governor of the Westerners interrogate him."

Almansa, who led two hundred guards and marched with Shao Tingda, camped not far from Shao Tingda, and the captives were sent directly to his camp.

He is against this landing. As the governor, he approves of the naval battle of the Ming army very much. Just like Hei Yunlong analyzed, Spain has never won a battle with the Ming army fleet, so even if more than [-] ships want to attack all Spanish ships on the west coast He also had no objection.

Only landing operations, the Ming army plus his guards had only 2000 people, and when they landed, they were surrounded by more than 9000 Spanish troops. This is too risky.

However, his objection was useless among the generals of the Ming army, so he had to be kicked off the ship with a bad face, but this made him work harder as a guide for the Ming army, and he wanted to vomit all the information he knew in his stomach. come out.

No way, it's about my own life.

Not long after, Almansa came back with the captives. His face was gone, and even his footsteps were brisk. The joy on his face was almost overflowing, and he said, "Good news! Good news, Shao Shuai!"

(End of this chapter)