When Shao Tingda ordered the Black Cloud Dragon's subordinate horses to send scouts to the silver city of Taxco, one hundred and sixty miles north-east, to investigate the military situation and terrain, Governor Almansa's face seemed to be spasmed.

Smoke and draw.

"This person is Chen Mu's brother!"

Almansa had always known that Silver City was not far from them, and that it was on the high ground, with towns but few guards, and enough people for mining and smelting, it was undoubtedly the most suitable strategic location for the Ming army.

But he couldn't tell Shao Tingda, and even hoped that the Ming army would march south and march quickly through the avenue to approach Mexico City.

The less the Ming army knew about this land, the better.

For this reason, he also specifically told Fu Ge'er not to use the name Silver City, not even the name Taxco, just say that it is a plantation.

As a result, he was still said by Fu Ge'er's servant, first said the word Yincheng, and then talked about Taxco when Shao Tingda asked carefully, which made Shao Tingda more interested.

Taxco, which means tax in Spanish.

Silver City, taxes, it's hard not to think of wealth.

This time, the black cloud dragon personally went out on horseback, and the advance infantry scouts spread out in a fan shape to investigate, and he led a team of more than ten horsemen to go straight to Taxco.

Black Cloud Dragon wanted to see if that Taxco was really worthy of the name Silver City.

In fact, at this time, Bernal still had no intention of sending troops to attack Shao Tingda, and his mind was hovering between guarding Mexico City and waiting for reinforcements and gathering troops to attack Shao Tingda.

There was nothing to linger about, but after his wife had given him verbal and strategic help, he had made up his mind two nights earlier to recruit mercenaries roaming in Mexico City, replenish the two legions, and use superior forces to clear out the Ming army that had landed in Shao Tingda.

But his wife said she was pregnant.

It's scary, like putting up a flag.

Although there was no such thing as a flag during the Wanli period.

In Spain in this era, knights were almost crazy about circulation, and as a knight, I naturally liked knights, but the problem was that those unlucky writers used almost all means to buy them after publication.

For example, the valiant knight learns of his wife's pregnancy before he sets out, and then those who say they will wait for him to return never return.

Bernal felt that it was too unlucky for him to go on an expedition at this time, and he was unwilling to give up the fighters at his fingertips, and kept swaying from side to side - he wanted to be the governor, make a name for himself, and drive away the foreign invaders of the Ming Kingdom, but he didn't want to die.

With this mentality, it seems more appropriate to stick to Mexico City.

Anyway, counting the days, it was only a few days before the reinforcements from the Peruvian Viceroyalty arrived.

Taxco is not a 'city' in the eastern sense, but a mountain, a mountain surrounded by mountains.

An Aztec road connects east and west from here, and is paved with black stones from the mountains, and narrow canals dug for irrigation are dug on both sides, and there are low fences of white stones between the roads and canals.

It's only knee-high.

After getting the news of the approach from his subordinate scouts, Black Cloud Dragon did not dare to take the official road, and ordered his subordinates to wait next to the temporarily safe official road, and he took two followers from the jungle to the halfway up the mountain, but he was not in a hurry to inspect the mountain city from a very long distance.

The Black Cloud Dragon was busy pulling out the thorns.

Ever since they had landed north of Acapulco, everywhere they could see a strange plant of green, some tall, some short, some round, some long, covered with thorns, and some bearing red fruit.

"How dangerous is this thing, dare to pierce Lao Tzu, do you think it can be eaten?"

There were several thorns on the trouser legs and armor skirt of the black cloud dragon, and as he was talking, he pulled out the thorns, took out the boot short knife and shaved the thorns of a strange thing next to him, picked a red fruit and held it in his hand, and sniffed it between his nose: "It's not a strange smell." ”

I didn't know what to do, so I watched the black general's throat swing up and down, making a 'grunt' sound of swallowing saliva.

There was no time to dissuade him, this black guy had been playing with knives for half his life, and his movements were fast, and the red fruit was opened in pieces, revealing the juice-rich red flesh inside.

After licking it, the expression on the face of the black general was extremely exciting, originally he pursed slightly and hooked the corners of his mouth to test seriously, and then his eyes quickly went up, swallowed saliva and nodded one after another, his eyes lit up, and he was as happy as a child of one hundred and sixty pounds, so he almost clapped his hands and danced for a while.

"Huh! Sweet and sour! Delicious! This thing goes back and finds a captive to feed him for three days, and he can eat it without dying, the ancestors are above, and we have food to eat! ”

Alas.

The young soldier sighed silently in his heart, and the two soldiers glanced at each other, and they both clearly saw the lovelessness on each other's faces.

But the Black Cloud Dragon, who was afraid of eating sauce cakes all day long, was happy for a while, and since he entered the Xuanfu Lecture Martial Arts Hall, the Black Cloud Dragon had never eaten food like this expedition after passing through the Black Water Jar Islands.

Before crossing the archipelago, there were still bean sprouts to eat, and after the archipelago, all day long was meat, rice, salted fish, sauce cakes, and baked cakes, and the infinite loop.

Finally, the aborigines got some yellow sticks, and asked the stupid guy to grind the noodles into flatbread, not to mention how much he missed the food before the voyage.

After enjoying himself for a long time, Hei Yunlong found that the two pro-soldiers didn't follow the music together, pouting and frowning from left to right: "Is there anything wrong with Ben General?" ”

"General, we are afraid that you are inappropriate, what is this, you will stuff it in your mouth if you are stabbed, where can I treat you if you are sick, and find a military doctor who is not afraid that Chen Shenxian will dissect you?"

In the camp on the bank of the White Horse River for less than ten years, it can be regarded as letting the military doctor make a name, and on weekdays, the kind and kind military doctor does not say a word, and if he does nothing in the military medical camp, he dissects people, and carries hundreds of people in a day, and carries out twenty or thirty baskets.

These Beiyang Banner Army, who were trained to kill people, all had a sense of awe for military doctors.

"Don't talk nonsense, they are all children of good families, there are people in the banner army who are unwilling to let go of their guns and kill people, and ordinary people are willing to do those things that Dr. Chen did, they are all orders of the strategy, and they can't help themselves."

"Go back and tell the mark, who dares to pass on the military doctor again, one of those who put this kind of fart is counted as one, and the whole bolt is tied to the horse's ass and circulates the camp three times."

Heiyunlong said, the short knife rubbed on the clothes of the soldiers, stuffed back into the boots, sharpened his chin and beard and frowned: "But Doctor Chen's is really not a problem, I heard that there are people in the military medical camp who have nightmares every night, and I saw him stand by the river for a long time yesterday out of the camp." ”

"That look is like a hungry wolf, don't look back and go crazy again, people suffer these hardships so that we can all survive - go back and see if this thing can be eaten, if you can eat it and send some to the doctor, the sweet and sour taste is good."

The soldiers were reprimanded, and they didn't bow their heads until this sentence and said, "Can you eat this and ask the people of the White Horse Department to know?" ”

"Eh, your grandfather's, why didn't I think of it, you're smart? Clever you didn't tell me earlier? ”

Syllable!

The slap on the brain is doubly loud.

Seeing this, the soldiers hurriedly erected the three-legged bracket under their feet, put a telescope on the top of the shelf, and stretched out a wooden board next to it.

General Hei clapped his hands and said, "Work!" ”