The New Castle of the Americas Province is the location of the Yamen of the Governor of the Americas Province and the Yamen of the Commander-in-Chief of the Governors of the Americas Province, and is also the political and military center of the Americas Province, which governs eight colonial strongholds, including Peanutun County, Sanchahekou County, Xiaohekou County, Nanwankou County, Dashandao County, Beiwantun County, Zhongwantun County, and Nanwantun County.

Among them, Peanutun County is the earliest colony and the political, economic and military center of the Americas. It is located about the southwest of what is later the city of Seattle, which has many flat islands and peninsulas, and is easily accessible by water due to abundant rainfall, dense forests, and several rivers running through it.

About 20,000 immigrants, officials, soldiers, etc. from the Ming Dynasty and Japan live in the jurisdiction of Peanutun County, mainly distributed in four places, Peanutun is one of them, the other three are Peninsula City, Qilitun and American Mansion Castle.

Tunhe City is also the most basic administrative unit in the Americas Province, and there are also county and government levels above.

Among them, the tun is generally named after the tun reclamation area, and the city is named after the market town.

The castle is a military unit under the jurisdiction of the Yamen, the chief soldier of the American Prefecture.

After three or four years of reclamation and construction, the Peanut Reclamation Area is now quite large, with more than 7,000 residents living in seven villages with moats and civil walls. Around these villages, there are more than 200,000 acres of wheat and meadows! These wheat fields and grassland fields belong to nearly 1,000 private farms, which can produce more than 200,000 stone wheat and a large amount of forage every year, and are the granary and foundation of the entire colony of the Americas Province - the bottleneck of the Ming Dynasty's sending troops and immigrants to the Americas Province is not the transportation capacity, but the local food supply capacity of the Americas!

Don't look at the natural resources here in the Americas, which are bison and seafood, it seems that there is no shortage of food. But how many people have to eat!

One of 35,000 may be fine, but with three years of continuous migration and multiplication, by the summer of the thirteenth year of Hongxing, the total population of the province of the Americas has exceeded 43,000, and it is still growing at least 15,000 every year.

Therefore, the food supply in the Americas Province is not as abundant as imagined......

Peninsula City is where the firm name of Xu Liu Liang is located, and it is still under construction, and when it is completed, it will be the industrial, commercial and financial center of the Americas! The number of immigrants now settled in Peninsula County is about 5,000, most of them merchants, sailors and artisans.

Qilitun is not a tunzi seven miles long, but guards an isthmus seven miles wide - there are many peninsulas and islands in the Gulf of America, and the terrain is very fragmented, but it is also conducive to defense. To the north of this Qilitun Isthmus, there is a large peninsula, and the terrain is also flat and densely forested.

Flat terrain means large-scale reclamation, while dense forests indicate fertile land. As long as the trees are cut down, a large area of wheat and grassland can be carved out - the peninsula north of Qilitun (known as the Qilitun Peninsula) is the focus of the next phase of development in the county.

However, there are not many immigrants living in Qilitun now, less than 3,000, most of whom rely on logging and hunting for their livelihood, and some farmers have carved out thousands of acres of wheat fields and grasslands.

The Castle of the Americas, on the other hand, is a large fortress made of sandbags, timber, rammed earth, and a wide and deep moat on the perimeter. However, the interior of the fortress was very empty, and the garrison, plus the officials' families, and some women accompanying the army, totaled no more than 5,000. The barracks, mansions, offices, and storehouses where they lived occupied only about one-third of the fort's interior area, and as many as two-thirds were empty.

These vacant lands were not kept for the purpose of speculating on land, but for the purpose of protecting all the residents and garrisons of Peanutun County, Xiaohekou County and Dahekou County south of Peanutun County when necessary, about 30,000 people!

Although in the past two or three years, the colonies of the Americas have not been attacked by the powerful Kingdom of New Spain, the prefect Wei Zhongzhong and the general soldier Yu Daren are always worried and fearful, for fear that tens of thousands of Spanish soldiers will be killed.

So they've been preparing for the worst!

And when the summer of the thirteenth year of Hongxing came, there was bad news that made their hearts beat violently every three or five months...... Liu Liang and Liang Youxin's report is one of these bad news.

"The navy is really, why don't you stop the Spanish ships?" After sending two "righteous people" who reported the news, Wei Zaode's son Wei Zhongzhong's tense expression fell.

Of course, he knew that the Spaniards who were transported from Japan could not be ordinary people, they must be veterans who participated in the Toyotomi Fall War!

The arrival of these Japanese veterans will greatly strengthen the military strength of the Kingdom of New Spain!

"I can't stop it!" Yu Daren shook his head, "How big is the Pacific Ocean...... As long as it leaves the coast of Japan, it will be difficult to catch, and the navy will not be able to stop a hundred percent of the Spanish transport ships due to exhaustion. ”

"And how many people do we have?" Wei Zhongzhong asked, "How many can fight?" ”

Yu Daren said with a smile: "There is a cavalry regiment and a naval detachment in service, less than 3,000. As for the township soldiers, there are more than 10,000...... But those people can only guard the fortress, and they can't be pulled out to fight. ”

This cavalry regiment in service was a regiment of black lance and mules, and most of the officers at all levels were scumbags from Laoshan-Pukou, that is, the "minority shareholders" of the United States, and everyone had the title of the United States of New Continent. Most of the soldiers below were selected from the captured Qing army or the Ming cavalry who violated military discipline. This kind of composition also determines that the combat effectiveness of this cavalry regiment cannot be compared with the real black spear and mule soldiers in the local area.

But the territory of the Americas is too large, and the need for "miscellaneous cavalry" is far stronger than the need for elite infantry. Moreover, this group of "miscellaneous cavalry" was willing to settle down in the American Mansion, so Yu Daren chose the former between the "Nine-sided Youth Army" and the "Miscellaneous Cavalry".

The naval detachment was built by Zheng Xi, and the main personnel were all officers and soldiers of the former Dongning Army who came with him. It is said that it is a navy, but in fact it is a "Gulf Army" that cannot get out of the Gulf of Americas.

Because this detachment was equipped with four galleys converted from large bird boats.

Like the "miscellaneous cavalry", the personnel of the detachment were also professional soldiers who had settled in the Americas.

In addition to these 3,000 professional soldiers, all the strong men in the Americas were village soldiers, everyone had guns, trained regularly, and the total number of registered soldiers was 13,400. However, these people cannot be pulled out to fight in the field, that is, to guard villages, towns, and fortresses to maintain law and order.

"That's still so little!" Wei Zhongzhong's brows were about to twist into a ball, "Chief Yu, hurry up and ask the imperial court for help...... At least two regiments of the Young Guards must be transferred to the Americas! ”

"How can two be enough?" Yu Daren shook his head, "Either you don't adjust, or you have to adjust at least one division!" ”

"Then, hurry up!" Wei Zhongzhong said, "There happens to be a navy clipper on the dock, send it to deliver the letter!" ”

Yu Daren paused and said, "Wait a little longer...... Can wait a little longer! ”

"Still waiting?" Wei Zhongzhong looked at Yu Daren, "Maybe the Spaniards have already marched on us!" ”

"Not so fast," Yu Daren said, "There is no trace ......of the Spaniards in Sanchahekou County, and the riverside fort in the south of Sanchahekou County is our southernmost outpost." If the Spaniards get there, then there will only be 700 miles left from us. At that time, it will be too late to send a clipper to call for help! ”

"By then......" Wei Zhongzhong thought to himself: This Chief Yu is too calm, right?

Yu Daren glanced at Wei Zhongzhong and said with a smile: "Dafu, don't worry. A division of men and horses is carried by at least 200 large ships. That's a year's worth of transports...... If it is used to transport migrants, we can have 15,000 to 20,000 more people, and how many fields can these people cultivate? How much work can you do? How much can we increase our strength? ”