Chapter 925: The Five Nations Alliance
He captured Mexico City and captured about 37,000 Spanish soldiers, including the Duke of Tribves, the governor of Spain and Mexico, of whom 3,000 were captured inside the city and 34,000 in the woods outside the city.
Counting the 20,000 Spanish soldiers who were completely annihilated in the border battle, as well as the other Spanish troops and Spanish immigrants who were defeated along the way, there were no less than 20,000 armed men, and the Spanish army that was broken and annihilated by the Ming army has reached more than 80,000 people.
The Spanish army originally had about 70,000 soldiers, and if you count all the emigrant estates, the Spanish army could have a maximum of 110,000 troops in Mexico, but now more than 80,000 people have been annihilated by the Ming army, which is almost the limit of all the Spanish forces in Mexico.
In the vast territory of Mexico, only about 20,000 soldiers and immigrants were left to resist the Ming army at this moment.
But the more than 20,000 Spanish soldiers and migrant forces were scattered elsewhere in Mexico, and now they may not be able to suppress even the Aztecs, let alone resist the Ming army.
After occupying Mexico City, the Ming army did not continue its attack to the south, but turned back to the north and captured the area north of Mexico City.
After all, Mexico has a very wide territory, and the Ming army has less than 30,000 people, even if the main force of the Spanish army in Mexico is defeated and the Duke of Tribweis, the governor of Spain and Mexico, is captured, the limited number of Ming troops cannot occupy the whole of Mexico.
With Mexico City as the boundary, the Ming army targeted the area north of Mexico City.
The main force of the Spanish army in Mexico has been annihilated, and the vast Mexican territory north of Mexico City has only a very small number of scattered Spanish soldiers except for the Aztecs.
In addition to 3,000 Ming troops left in Mexico City, the remaining 27,000 people were divided into more than 20 roads, each with a small number of people, around 1,000 people, under the attack of more than 20 Ming troops, the area north of Mexico City was like a fallen leaf swept by the autumn wind, and the Ming army passed, either surrendering to the wind or being forcibly broken by the Ming army, even if each Ming army only had about 1,000 people, it was not a rabble of Aztecs, or a very small number and too scattered Spanish remnants of the armed forces could resist.
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At the same time that the Ming army divided its troops on a large scale to occupy the Mexican territory north of Mexico City, the news of the capture of Canada by the Ming army and the invasion of Mexico by the Ming army also spread to South America as quickly as possible.
"That idiot of Tribwes, he really buried tens of thousands of Spanish troops in Mexico City, damn idiot!" About a thousand miles south of Mexico City, Duke William, the commander of the British army, led more than 20,000 British troops all the way south to South America.
In the Gulf of Mexico, the French fleet also left the coast and sailed from the sea in the direction of South America.
Regarding the news that the governor of Spain and Mexico not only lost Mexico City, but also that he and tens of thousands of Spanish soldiers were captured by the Ming army, the Marquis of Orrand also had a very bad face, and he scolded Tribweis for being a fool in his heart, just like Duke William.
On the American continent, in addition to Canada in North America, France also has a colony in the northern tip of South America, the colony of Guyana, about 200,000 square kilometers in size, which France has just seized from the Portuguese in the past ten years, and is garrisoned by 12,000 French soldiers.
On 10 November, Orrand and the French fleet arrived in Guyana to make peace with the French garrison above Guyana.
Duke William and other British troops also reached the South American continent.
To say that in the South American continent, the British also have a colony, but it is very small, only about 20,000 square kilometers in size, and it was only taken from the Dutch in the past two years, with few resources, and the British army does not have many garrisons on it.
However, although it was small, it was also a place where Duke William and his British troops could settle down, and after making peace with the British garrison above, the British army also recovered to the size of 30,000 men.
On the Spanish side, the loss of Mexico City, as well as the capture of the Viceroy of Mexico, Duke Tribves, and tens of thousands of soldiers of the army, dealt a great blow to the other Spanish colonies.
The Spaniards and the Portuguese were the first to discover the American continent, so the colonies of the two countries in the Americas are really the largest of the five major sea powers in Europe, and Mexico is only one of Spain's colonies on the American continent, not all of them.
In addition to Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, etc., are all Spanish colonies.
Mexico may be the largest group, but the other colonies combined are much larger and more powerful than Mexico. If Spain had a force of 100,000 men in Mexico, including all the colonial armies and the emigrant estates, then Cuba, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, and so on together had at least 120,000 troops.
As the Anglo-French forces retreated to South America, the Spanish forces retreated north of Mexico City to Central and South America.
The threat posed by the Ming army was too great.
In addition to England, France, and Spain, which were directly attacked by the Ming army, the Dutch and Portuguese also felt a deep threat once again, much deeper than the last time the Ming army captured the thirteen states of North America, and they knew that they could not continue to tolerate the ambitions of the Ming army.
After all, the last time the Ming army only occupied the thirteen North American states of Britain, but this time, not only Canada, which occupied France, but also captured Mexico City of the Spaniards, expelling all the power of the Spaniards to the south of Mexico City.
No one dared to say that the army had no intention of continuing south to South America.
On 14 November, while the Ming army had not yet completely captured the Mexican colony north of Mexico City, the Supreme Commanders of the Americas of Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal gathered in Columbia City, a Spanish colony, to discuss the formation of a five-nation alliance to counterattack the Ming army.
This time the alliance was formed, and there was no longer any opposition, and the will of the five countries was unprecedentedly unified, that is, it was necessary to defeat the army of the Ming Empire and completely drive the forces of the Ming Empire out of the American continent.
At this moment, the only thing that is still worth arguing about is who among the five nations will be the supreme commander of the Five Nations Alliance Army.
Although this is only in name, and it is impossible for the so-called supreme commander of the five-nation alliance army to really command the armies of the five countries, this is an honor after all, and everyone in the five countries wants to be the supreme commander of the Americas.
Especially on the Spanish side, the Spaniards have always been arrogant, even if they lose most of Mexico's territory, the entire American continent only occupies the Portuguese colony of Brazil is slightly larger than his Spanish colony, but Portugal was originally split from Spain, these years, Spain has been to re-incorporate Portugal into the rule, the relationship between the two countries is not good, the Spaniards in any case it is impossible to let the Portuguese hold the post of supreme commander of the Five Nations Alliance.
The same was true for the Portuguese, who could not have put the Spaniards in the position of supreme commander of the Five Nation Alliance.
The Spaniards and the Portuguese argued the most, and finally let the British commander-in-chief, Duke William, take advantage of it, and with the unanimous consent of the five countries, Duke William, who was British, assumed the position of nominal supreme commander of the Five Nations Alliance.
Faced with the threat that the Ming army might continue to move south at any time, the Five-Nation Alliance Army was initially formed at the fastest speed.
In order to facilitate the resistance to the Ming army, the five countries unanimously agreed to gather all their armies in Colombia, and finally the coalition army would go north from Colombia through Panama to counterattack the Ming army, and finally defeat the Ming army and completely drive the Ming army out of the American continent.
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