open sea

Chapter 786
When General Bernal got on the boat leaving Mexico City, the Spaniards who watched him booed loudly. This is already the most polite and restrained action of every Mexico City citizen.

Naturally, the citizens of Mexico City do not include real Mexicans. The citizens are all Spaniards. Their parents came from the Old World to the New World, and they themselves grew up in the New World. They are used to life and death.

So when the Duke of Alva tried to stop the young men throwing stones along the shores of Lake Texcoco, his adjutant whispered: "In the Old World, a man like him would be killed in a dream."

"There are thousands of families behind thousands of soldiers."

The adjutant wanted to say more, but was interrupted by the indifferent eyes of the old prince who turned his head: "Put these words away, even if these thousands of people don't die, the 2 people who died in Guam will never come back."

"Our war with the Ming Dynasty started a few years ago. It didn't start because of Bernal's declaration of war. If he is wrong, he only did one thing wrong."

Before the boat was far away, the Duke of Alva had already turned around, walked towards the governor's mansion at the end of the street surrounded by guards, and left a word.

"Send a letter to Acapulco and ask that madman if he would like a truce."

In the eyes of the old Duke, Bernal really only did one thing wrong - he didn't win.

The Duke of Alva has been in the army for 30 years, and he has smoked almost all of Europe, especially France, which is also huge. He has turned over several times. He has a clear understanding of war and interests.

There is no war in this world that is sure to be lost. If you lose, it means that the war is not over yet.

They lost in Guam a few years ago, and now Mexico seems to have lost again, which proves that what they lost was not the war itself, but something else.

Now the old Duke urgently needs to find out what it is.

When the messenger arrived at the port of Acapulco, the entire port village was still mourning.

But what scares him more than sadness is the cleared canyon battlefield. The situation of the canyon battle has now spread in Mexico City. He knows very well that an extremely tragic war broke out here just a few days ago, but now It's as if it never happened.

But in the forest not far from the mouth of the canyon, one can faintly see low hills, the hills are covered with straw mats, and the bottom of the hills seems to be stacked large water tanks.

"Out of consideration for the monk's safety, I do not intend to inquire about the deployment of the Ming army's troops in the port after the war in the letter. I hope the monk can pass the contents of the letter to General Chen Mu of the Ming army."

"First of all, please introduce to him. I am Fernando Alvarez de Toledo who is loyal to His Majesty Philip. I was appointed by the king to handle the trade agreement from the Old Continent."

Under the great mourning hall set up in the port, soldiers of the Ming Dynasty wear ruler cloth around their heads and tie it to the edge of their helmets. On the high altar, there are layers of spiritual tablets and urn lacquer boxes. The spirit-calling flags dance in the wind. Chen Mu sits in the hall and listens to Akos. Ta slowly read Duke Alva's letter.

Seeing that Chen Mu didn't say anything, he raised his finger and tapped lightly, and Acosta continued to read: "After docking, I already knew that New Spain and the Ming Dynasty had entered a state of war. This was a misunderstanding, just like my intention to come. , The king did not issue an order to start war with the Ming country, on the contrary, His Majesty is happy to see trade with the Ming country."

"Continuing this war is of no benefit to either of us. I did not go to the New World to fight with you. I have prepared to send orders to Peru and other places not to send troops. If you are willing to cease fighting, please also stop the march of troops from all over the world. Do not fight with our army any more."

"Inform Brother Acosta of Ming Dynasty's exact regulations on the agreement, and let him return to Mexico City. I will send someone to inform Spain's opinion later. Don't worry, we can talk for a long time."

Brother Acosta is a sincere person, he even read out the last sentence intact: "Give my regards to General Chen."

After all, the monk obediently stood aside and lowered his head slightly. Since the battle a few days ago ended, Acosta clearly felt that every time he saw Chen Mu, the Marshal of the Ming Dynasty was shrouded in gloom.

This made the monk a little worried that he would be killed.

Especially like this time, Duke Alva snatched the message Chen Mu wanted to send to Mexico City.

After this period of research, Acosta found that the people of the Ming Dynasty were very particular about dignity, up and down, front and back, and face. If they did well, they would be very happy, but if they did not do well, they would be very unhappy.

For example, this time, Acosta knows without guessing that the letter sent by Alva to discuss peace will definitely make Chen Mu very unhappy.

Besides, the job Alva assigned to him was definitely not a good job, so I didn't say who Chen Mu was to Acosta.

The Duke of Alva is not a good person either. In order to suppress the rebellion in the Netherlands, he served as governor twice and set up a special court called the "Blood Committee". Convicted in court, property confiscated, and executed.

If these two people were put together, Acosta would be more happy to stay with Chen Mu - at least Chen Mu would ignore him if he had nothing to do.

Alva actually wanted Acosta to go both ways!

Imagine what it feels like, a nightmare!double!

"Fernando Alva."

Chen Mu lowered his head and read the name. He knew this person. When he met the Spanish envoy Don Juan last time, he had heard about the great achievements of the Duke of Alva to the Spanish royal family.

But it doesn't matter, he curled his lips and looked up to Acosta: "Don't worry about it, I just plan to negotiate a peace, you go down and rest, I will have someone give you the prepared treaty later."

Obviously his answer surprised Acosta, he didn't realize it for a while, and after a pause, he arched his hands awkwardly. Chen Mu didn't speak, but waved him gently to let him leave.

When the outsiders left, Chen Mu got up from the seat, squatted down slowly in front of the mountain of spiritual tablets, picked up the yellow paper on the ground and put it into the brazier, muttering to himself: "Brother's hatred, I will pay you back later." Reported."

Even if Alva didn't send a messenger to negotiate a peace, he would still send someone to Mexico City to find Bernal to negotiate a peace. After this battle, there was nothing for Chen Mu to support him to continue fighting.

The plan to further rely on war to snatch the New World was aborted when the storm hit Deng Zilong's fleet. The army with a large number of fleets swept across Panama after docking in Panama and seized the land transportation hub. However, the fleet was unable to move southward when it docked in the bay.

Because the heavy rain season on the west coast of the southern part of the New World is coming, the consequence of insisting on going south is to risk your life.

And take a step back, the goal of deterring the Western Army has been achieved by relying on the Battle of the Canyon, and the Spaniards can clearly know what kind of enemy they are facing.

And in terms of objective conditions, Chen Mu's subordinates suffered heavy losses. There were a total of 27 spiritual tablets and urns in front of him. The situation of being outnumbered and the unprecedented input of firearms made injuries and deaths very close. Wei came out and suffered the biggest casualties so far.

The casualties of soldiers are a tragic result that no amount of killing the enemy can make up for.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)