After completely conquering the French colonies of Canada, the Ming Dynasty's power in the North American 6 occupied half of the North American 6 at once, and now only the Indian settlements in the central and western parts of the Canadian colonies remained, and the Spanish and Mexican colonies in the south of the thirteen states of North America. Tian Lai Xiao said.2

As long as these two places are resolved, there will be no other forces in the entire North American Big 6, and the Ming Dynasty will completely occupy the entire North American Big 6.

On the Indian side, there is almost no threat, and it is not big to solve the problem at any time, besides, Da Ming has just settled the three million Indians captured at the beginning, and there are at least more than four million Indians in the central and western parts of Canada, which is a large number, and Da Ming has not yet figured out how to deal with them, so he doesn't want to pay attention to them for the time being, and will deal with them after thinking about them in the future.

Therefore, the current target of the Ming Dynasty can only be the Spanish and Mexican colonies in the south.

Outside New York, there were a large number of Ming cavalry galloping, and there were also many Ming infantry training.

After conquering Canada, Yan Yingyuan only left 20,000 Ming soldiers in Canada to garrison Canada, and the remaining nearly 30,000 Ming soldiers were brought back to New York State for a short rest and preparation for the next stage of the offensive, which was to attack the Spanish and Mexican colonies in the south.

"Now, we have expelled the French and conquered the colonies of Canada, counting the thirteen states of North America, which is a very large area, and we need at least 70,000 soldiers to garrison, which means that we can now use less than 30,000 soldiers to attack the Spanish and Mexican colonies." Yan Yingyuan said to a group of Ming army generals.

Because Yan Yingyuan asked the imperial court for war horses, the imperial court completely stopped the transportation of soldiers and made every effort to transport war horses and materials, which made the soldiers of the Ming army Deng6 American 6 still the original 100,000 troops, which have not been replenished.

After many major battles, although each Ming army was an overwhelming victory, it also suffered about 1,000 casualties.

In fact, in addition to garrisoning the captured areas, Yan Yingyuan was also able to mobilize roughly 28,800 Ming troops.

"Marshal, the imperial fleet has just turned back for less than a month, even if the next supply fleet arrives, it will replenish a certain number of soldiers, but it will take about a month and a half for the supply fleet to reach the North American Big 6." One of the Ming army division commanders said.

"Marshal, I don't think we can afford to waste time doing nothing in the month and a half before the next supply fleet of the imperial court arrives. Although the number of soldiers that our army can mobilize at present is less than 30,000, but the European barbarians have backward weapons and low combat effectiveness, our 30,000 troops can still attack them fiercely, and it will not be a problem to fight a few more major battles, at least to defeat the Spaniards in Mexico, and it should not be much of a problem to capture Mexico. Feng Houdun put forward his own opinion.

If you really want to calculate it, the combat effectiveness of nearly 30,000 Ming troops is by no means weaker than that of 150,000 European soldiers, and the Spaniards in Mexico do not have so many soldiers.

Yan Yingyuan did not immediately answer Feng Houdun's suggestion, but was silent and thought there, in fact, in the past few days since returning from Canada, Yan Yingyuan has been thinking about this question.

After a while, Yan Yingyuan suddenly spoke.

"Our army previously attacked the French colony of Canada, and soon expelled the French and captured Canada, in such a short period of time, in addition to the French themselves, other European countries in South America should not have received the news, and the Spaniards in Mexico should have also not received the news, at this time, if the army continues to attack Mexico in the south, the Spaniards must not have time to take precautions."

Previously, the Ming army suddenly attacked Canada, the whole battle was only ten days, the Spaniards in Mexico were in the south of the thirteen states of North America, separated by the thirteen states of North America, no matter how great the Spaniards in Mexico were, it was impossible to get the news so quickly, if the Ming army continued to attack Mexico after the capture of Canada, the Spaniards would inevitably have little defense like the French.

In any case, it was inevitable that the Ming army would go south to attack the Spanish and Mexican colonies, and the difference was only to wait for the next fleet of the imperial court to arrive and replenish a certain number of soldiers before attacking, or to rely on the less than 30,000 troops that could be mobilized to attack immediately.

The Spanish and Mexican colonies are very large, not much smaller than the British colonies of the thirteen North American states and the French Canadian colonies combined, although the strength of the Mexican Spaniards is much weaker than the British in the thirteen states of North America, but such a large Mexico, if it only relies on less than 30,000 Ming troops to attack, maybe there is not much problem in defeating the Spanish army, but it is more difficult to occupy Mexico.

And if it is to wait for the next replenishment fleet of the imperial court to arrive, after replenishing a certain number of troops, and then take more troops to attack Mexico, it will be easier to occupy.

This is the reason that Yan Yingyuan has been considering.

It's just that it will take a month and a half to wait for the arrival of the imperial court supply fleet, and now the Spaniards in Mexico may not have received the news that Canada has been captured by the Ming army, and if they don't have much defense, then wait for a month and a half before attacking, then for such a long time, the Spaniards in Mexico will definitely be able to get the news and take precautions.

Either the Spaniards in Mexico were unprepared and attacked Mexico with less than 30,000 troops. Either the supply fleet arrives to replenish more troops, and the Spaniards in Mexico are well prepared to attack Mexico.

Yan Yingyuan was not a hesitant person, he had been thinking about it for several days, in fact, he had already made a decision.

That is, instead of waiting for the supply fleet to arrive to replenish more troops, and now relying on less than 30,000 soldiers to attack Mexico.

Thinking about it, Yan Yingyuan stood up and decided: "Okay, Ben Shuai agrees to continue to let the army go south to attack the Spanish and Mexican colonies, and defeat the Spaniards to capture Mexico before the supply fleet arrives!" ”

Even if nearly 30,000 troops were not enough to occupy the whole of Mexico, Yan Yingyuan hoped that if the Spaniards had little defense, he would first defeat the main force of the Spaniards, and then slowly occupy the whole of Mexico after the supply fleet arrived and more troops were replenished.

"Yes, Marshal!" Seeing that Yan Yingyuan finally agreed to his suggestion, Feng Houdun looked excited.

With a decision, Yan Yingyuan no longer hesitated, the twenty-fourth year of the Ming Dynasty, October 16.

After expelling the French and taking the Canadian colonies, Yan Yingyuan led the remaining nearly 30,000 Ming soldiers who could only be mobilized to attack Mexico.

Nearly 30,000 Ming troops, including 17,000 cavalry and more than 11,800 infantry.

Because it was necessary to invade Mexico before the news of the capture of Canada arrived, the Ming army advanced very quickly.

It took only four days to get from New York State to the Spanish-Mexican colonial border.

"There's Mexico ahead, get in!" Yan Yingyuan did not hesitate to order the Ming army to enter Mexico and start an attack on the Spanish colony of Mexico.

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