open sea

Chapter 743 Lookout
Shao Tingda's words became a prophecy.

Heiyunlong led more than a hundred riders on the west mountain and stared at Taxco with binoculars for a whole day. The lax defense of Tacheng made him more and more excited.

The place where he was located was less than four miles away from the foot of the mountain, and it was run through by an important road, but no scouts from the Western Army came here for a whole day, not even a patrol team.

At noon, he even saw shirtless patrolling soldiers carrying guns outside the small Spanish-style buildings with white walls and orange tiles.

The weather in Mexico is very hot, but it is the coastal plain area, which has not been so hot since the Ming army moved eastward and crossed the mountains.

The Ming army has not been disarmed collectively since they landed. They have long planned in their hearts to be covered with prickly heat, but in fact, due to the increasing terrain and the influence of mountains, the temperature in this season is similar to the spring in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.

And the people from the White Horse Department patted their chests and told the Ming army that the temperature on the east side of the mountain was like this all year round, not to mention the large temperature difference between day and night, so wearing cotton armor and a breastplate is completely fine.

For the Ming army, it was the hottest time at noon, so they hid in the shade of a tree and endured it. After all, they were in the hinterland of the enemy army, but these Western troops in Tacheng took off their only cotton armor.

'The spirit is lax and the military discipline is chaotic' - Hei Yunlong recorded this in his notebook.

In his notes, one page is divided into two sides. The left side writes the advantages and disadvantages of his own side, and the right side writes the advantages and disadvantages of the enemy, including terrain, troop strength, combat power, logistics and other aspects.

Among the advantages of one's own side, the first line of Hei Yunlong impressively wrote the four characters of "Wise General" in large fonts, and the evaluation behind it was worlds apart.

That's right, he was simply boasting about himself.

"The enemy's troops are more powerful than ours, but their morale is low. They were defeated by us earlier, so they should be frightened at this time. I think——Can we scare them away?"

Hei Yunlong didn't want to attack Tacheng recklessly, it would be too difficult for them, a cavalry team of no more than a hundred, without long guns, it would be better to fight in the plains, but in this kind of terrain, if you blindly attack even if you finally win The loss of the town's own battle is not worth the loss.

Anyway, these people have already been chased and retreated here, and Hei Yunlong didn't think it was too difficult to make them retreat.

Hundreds of cavalrymen held lighters and two general flags under the cover of bushes and looked at the commander's clear analysis on the ground. Naturally, they ignored the advantage of "wise generals" and focused on other more pertinent advantages and disadvantages of both sides.

"How to scare them away?" Hundreds of cavalrymen came closer with their lighters, and the light and shadow shone on their faces in mixed shades: "Like Zhang Yide's Dangyang Bridge, the horse's tail is raising smoke and dust?"

Hei Yunlong waved his hand and said: "It doesn't have to be so complicated. There are too many trees, and the dust can't get out. Besides, we don't want the enemy to dare to come over, but to make them retreat."

"Just as if there is an army coming from behind, I will wait for the advance cavalry scout."

As soon as Hei Yunlong finished speaking, the cavalry Baihu nodded and said, "Exactly."

They are indeed the advance scouts!

Hei Yunlong was held back by this response, and continued: "But we don't have a large army behind us, so we have to act as if we have a large army. We will send [-] cavalry ahead, spread out on the north, south, and west sides of the mountain, and approach the mountain with a big swagger."

"It's best if you can lure the enemy army down the mountain to fight. If the enemy army doesn't move, you can ride out another [-] horses in half an hour. This time, you can walk on the mountain road and talk to those native slaves. We have news that [-] troops are coming soon."

"If the natives don't live up to it, call them by name and let them go up the mountain and tell the Western Army to surrender."

"At the same time, find out from the natives the number of defenders on the mountain and the quality of their armor."

"When more than a hundred of our cavalry have come out of the mountain road, there is only a gap in the east. If they are smart enough, they should leave. If they are fools, there is nothing they can do."

Hei Yunlong said so, and said to his subordinates: "Tell the order to all the small flags under your command, and go to bed now, and scare them tomorrow morning!"

The faint light in the dense forest on the mountain in the distance was extinguished, which did not cause any trouble to the night-duty soldiers of the half-blood rout army. In his eyes, all directions were quiet.

They are already very good, and at this time they can still place night soldiers on various towers, all because their lives are in danger.

The group of rebels entrenched in Taxco focused on defending not the west, but the east.

It is true that the Ming army is the enemy, but now they have robbed the silver mine belonging to Philip, the merchant's plantation industry, and made a series of outrageous things such as sleeping with the daughter of the royal tax official. Spain is also the enemy.

Anyway, I don't know how long I can live, so I simply indulged while I was still alive, and this group of defeated troops turned Yincheng into a hell on earth.

But they didn't affect the Indians down the mountain much in comparison-isn't bullying Indians as normal as eating and breathing?
Can eating and breathing count as self-indulgence?
If you want to bully, you have to bully those pure-blooded peninsula nobles!

The soldier on duty at night held his spear, reminiscing about what he had done during the day, and fell asleep with a smile on his face.

Until the little bell on the tower is rung, it is another day.

Accompanied by the soldiers walking down the tower with their misty eyes, he glanced at the bright red on the official road in the distance from the corner of his eye, his pupils dilated immediately, and his lazy figure was fixed on the spot.

cavalry.

An unprecedented defeat made them know this cavalry. Their horses are not strong. Even the tallest horses are only average in stature compared to Spanish horses. They are not fast when running, but their limbs are thick and powerful.

The cavalry on horseback wore red-tasseled iron pockets decorated with hanging behind their heads, and their shining breastplates were painted with gold trim. They scattered from the official road with all kinds of weapons, and the leading cavalry captain held up the red bird The flag came with a wild whistling sound, which scared the hysterical soldiers with red eyes until they were very awake.

Ming army cavalry came.

It was these costumed cavalry that completely defeated their army formation in the battle with the White Horse Tribe!

He first glanced at the direction to the top of the mountain, and just took two steps, then stopped, looked around at the panicked Indian slaves, slowly put his hands into his pockets, touched the cold and heavy silver coins, and threw away the long Spear clutching the sword at his waist, Sa Ya ran towards the official road to the east.

If you go up the mountain and try to run down, you will be surrounded by cavalry!
Hei Yunlong, who was stationed beside the official road in the distance, stared blankly with his binoculars. In his field of vision, he clearly saw a figure swaying down from the watchtower suddenly stopped, took two steps towards the mountain, and then somehow He simply dropped his weapon and ran eastward.

Not long after that, people ran away from everywhere up and down the mountain, from east to north, people ran in any direction.

Almost swarming.

When they ran, the cavalry chased them. A dozen cavalry drove hundreds of people to run in the fields. Very few had the courage to fight against the Beiyang cavalry with weapons. In fact, even if they had courage, no one could defeat the cavalry without forming an formation. .

"Brave people died in the White Horse River, um."

Hei Yunlong put away the binoculars, he thought it was this sentence, he had to remember this sentence, and write it down in his notes when he went down the mountain, and in the future, when he was old and weak, he returned home and left the story of following Chen Jinglue to conquer the world for future generations to read .

"Let's go, it looks like they plan to give us the city."

The soldiers laughed, and their faces were full of indescribable pride, making the enemy flee, which is something to be proud of.

As soon as Hei Yunlong kicked the horse for two steps, he heard the sound of the horse's hooves kicking from behind, accompanied by his servant's familiar call: "General, Shao Shuai's letter!"

General Hei stationed his horse, took the letter and opened it with his head bowed. He looked up at the tired servant and said, "He didn't ask you to sleep. You will enter the town later...retire?"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)