As the deputy leader of the fleet, Lu Fang led a hundred armed men to stay on the ship, and there were also enough sailors and gunners.

Chen Li took 700 armed forces and gathered hundreds of natives, and under the guidance of the captives, he marched towards the town of Sugototo. Among them, 50 were musketeers, 100 were archers, and the rest were melee foot soldiers.

After about forty or fifty miles, we came to the plantations of the Spaniards.

Patches of sugar cane are planted here, and some corn, pumpkins, and grapes are also grown. Sugar cane is ripe, and dozens of indigenous slaves are toiling in the sugar cane fields.

Perhaps it was the Spaniards who had fled back that the news had already spread all around.

The plantation owner here is riding a horse and standing on a hillside outside the plantation to watch the wind. When he saw the Han Chinese and the natives coming, he immediately fled on horseback, and returned to the door of the house and shouted: "Rosa, take the children quickly, and get out of here immediately!" ”

His wife, Rosa, was not white, but an indigenous woman, and she was naturally very beautiful, because the ugly ones were slaves.

They had three sons and two daughters, the eldest of whom was already fourteen years old, and carried a knife to escort his mother and younger siblings out.

The luggage and belongings had already been packed and loaded on the car, and a few henchmen and slaves rushed over, pushing and pulling the two-wheeled wooden cart and escaping quickly. As for the remaining slaves, who cares if they live or die?

Chen Li led his troops to rush to the air, and the valuable things had already been taken away, leaving only crops everywhere and a group of slaves.

The indigenous soldiers who came from the delta took the initiative to run to free the slaves, shouting: "Warriors, the white people are afraid of our friends, everyone follow their friends to kill the white people!" ”

Unfortunately, these slaves had long since been tamed, and most of them stood stupidly in place, seemingly uninterested in regaining their freedom, and only a few cheered to join the coalition.

Continuing on, he came to a strange pine forest, which Chen Li had never seen before.

But there were also slaves in the pine forests, who stood still stupidly, and the slaves still carried baskets with amber rosin in their hands.

"Why, this kind of pine gum is so fragrant!" One of his men came running excitedly.

There was no need for this person to remind him, Chen Li smelled a faint fragrance from afar. He went over and picked up a piece of rosin, put it to his nose and sniffed it, and the rich and long fragrance came to his nose.

This thing gets back to the Ming Dynasty, and it will definitely make money, and it may even be worth more than gold.

Chen Li immediately shouted: "Collect rosin!" ”

This pine tree, called the gum pine, was endangered after a few hundred years.

Dozens of natives were divided to carry rosin for the Han people, and seven hundred armed people continued to advance.

Not long after that, I came to a manor, because I was the owner of this pine forest. But they also packed up and ran away, leaving only some bits and pieces of belongings, and everyone spent the night resting here.

……

The town of Sugototo is located near Lake Ilopango, a dammed lake formed by a volcanic eruption.

The mayor of the town, named Osvaldo, was involved in the conquest of Cuba. He also participated in the fall of the Aztec Empire and was given a large amount of land. They are all native habitats, and they have to recruit their own people to reclaim them, and they have developed for many years and finally formed a small town.

Today, there is a brewery in the town that makes rum from sugar cane. There are also sugar mills, which also make sugar from sugar cane, so sugar cane is the most common crop cultivated here.

Seeing that the town is becoming more and more prosperous, I actually met Chinese a few days ago!

Several plantation owners fled from the south with their families and brought back news of the Chinese invading army.

The people in the town were panicked and almost wanted to flee en masse.

The mayor of the town, Osvaldo, had sent someone on horseback to report the news, hoping to get help from the governor. The Viceroyalty of Guatemala, the center of Spanish rule in Central America, is only 400 miles from the town, but the road is so mountainous that you have to walk in some places.

Osvaldo decided to take the initiative and fight an ambush battle first, and then the terrain of the highlands and mountains was very suitable for ambushes.

Gathering more than 200 warriors and more than 1,000 slave servants, Osvaldo went to a valley to ambush, where the Han Chinese invaders had ended.

It's a pity that their strength is very shabby, only a dozen smoothbore guns, more than a dozen horses, more than a hundred swords, and the rest are all rubbish, and the slave army even brought dung forks.

After a day and a night in ambush, bitten by mosquitoes, and even unlucky eggs bitten to death by poisonous snakes, they finally saw the shadow of the invading army.

Two hundred natives walked in the forefront, two hundred aborigines separated by two hundred aborigines, and then two hundred indigenous people...... The Han Chinese army turned out to be at the rear.

"These bastards!" Osvaldo cursed, "Put all the natives in there and attack the troops at the rear." ”

The idea is good, but the execution is problematic.

Only a group of natives was released, and some slaves rushed out screaming, completely exposing the ambush of the Spaniards, and Osvaldo could only be forced to order an early attack.

More than a dozen Spanish knights wielded swords and slashed out of the dense forest, and they attacked from top to bottom, scaring the two hundred natives to collapse in an instant.

The two hundred natives scattered and fled, most of them returning the same way along the valley, directly crushing the group of natives behind. It was like the dominoes collapsing, one team broke up one team, and hundreds of natives broke up and rushed towards Chen Li's 700 Han Chinese team.

Although these 700 Han people are well-armed, they also belong to the rabble. A small number of former pirates, most of them sailors, encountered an ambush and the collapse of friendly forces, and did not know how many enemies there were, and they also turned and fled in fear.

"Don't run away, go back!" Chen Li took his henchmen and cut down several people one after another, and finally suppressed the rout of the troops.

Chen Li shouted: "Leader Zhou, you take a hundred people around the left; Leader Lin, you take a hundred people around the right. The rest will be with me, and the archers will obey me! ”

The valley was not too wide for seven hundred men to fully unfold. However, the slopes on either side were not steep, and the Spaniards could even ride their horses down. Chen Li ordered two hundred-man teams to rush up the slopes on both sides to occupy the high ground, and the rest stayed in the valley to form a defensive formation.

Seeing hundreds of indigenous friendly troops rushing towards him, Chen Li shouted, "Shoot the arrows!" ”

A hundred Han Chinese archers fired a volley at the friendly army, knocking down more than a dozen people in an instant, and frightened the routed army to flee towards the slopes on both sides.

Osvaldo rode forward on horseback, and when he saw this, he immediately reined in his horse and shouted: "Don't charge again, quickly withdraw to the town to defend, this battle cannot be won." ”

If you can't rely on an ambush to defeat the enemy, you really can't fight, after all, you have to face 700 heavily armed Han Chinese.

"Kill!"

As soon as the Spaniards withdrew, the Han people were greatly boosted and pursued in a swarm, without any formation at all. If there is an ambush ahead, it doesn't need too much, just ambush a hundred people, and rush out at a critical time to kill the Han people.

Chen Li was angry and helpless, he was a child of a pirate in distress, it was already commendable to be able to gather hundreds of warriors, how could he expect them to ban it?

Chen Li could only follow the charge, completely losing control of the troops, and he admired more and more the generals who could command tens of thousands of troops.

The natives who had fled in all directions, seeing the momentum of their allies, also ran back to help, and chased after the Spaniards and their slave servants.

Chasing and killing all the way, killing and capturing more than 100 enemy people, the Han warriors finally stopped.

It's not that I don't want to continue, it's that my physical strength can't keep up.

They wore cotton armor and marched all the way, the temperature was nearly 30 degrees, and now they were chasing and killing frantically, they were tired and hot and were about to collapse, and many people directly took off their cotton armor to breathe on the spot.

Those indigenous friendly troops performed brilliantly, fleeing quickly when they fled, and chased fiercely, most of the results were obtained by friendly troops, and the Han people really couldn't chase in cotton armor.

The Han Chinese stopped their pursuit, and the indigenous friendly forces were still in pursuit, and were defeated by the Spanish knights who turned back.

For both sides, this battle was fought in a mess and miserable!