Chapter Ninety-Four: Supporting Role

The Ming army did occupy Mexico City, and such a feat did not fall into the pockets of any well-known generals.

On the contrary, it was a group of unknown men who seized the capital of New Spain, 300 guerrilla flag soldiers from Pingyuan County, on the border of Guangdong, Fujian, and Huguang provinces.

Their leader is called Zeng Xishun, who holds many positions and has many honorary titles, such as Pingyuan County Township Yong Qianchang, Zhongwu Lieutenant, Guangdong Xiaolin Battalion Deputy General, etc., or the supporting role in the hottest coastal book "Nanyang Heroes" in recent years.

In the book, the five "Pingyuan Five Tigers" Lin Xiao, Zeng Xishun, Han Jinhuan, Chen Yuhan, and Lin Dayuan fought bravely under the command of Lin Lai and Lin Manjue, and defeated the enemy, which was very powerful.

In fact, Zeng Xishun really landed on Linlai Island, and the war was almost over. Before landing on the island, he was sent by Lin Manjue to leave the fleet and return to the rescue, and did not kill a single enemy in that battle.

After that, as Lin Manjue's subordinate, as Chen Mufeng raised his family, he gradually promoted the Nanyang story in the market by implementing the script, and he undertook a lot of extraordinary praise, and he often had an unspeakable sense of unworthiness in his heart.

It is precisely for this reason that when Lin Manjue proposed to visit Mexico City separately, Zeng Xi Shun readily accepted the mission and led his troops to the legendary Mexico City.

In Mexico's Giant Valley, a large lake surrounded by mountains stretches as far as the eye can see, with a majestic city in the middle of the lake, surrounded by farmland with corn, amaranth and flowers, and the city is connected to the land by boats and bridges.

As the capital of the past, this city in the middle of the Great Lakes once had a population of 200,000.

The Aztecs were once an extraordinary civilization, but they were not weak, and this behemoth died in the hearts of each state.

The city had no walls, and its past owner, the Aztec emperors, did not think that there was a need for walls, and that the lake and his warriors were the best walls.

Unfortunately, the last time the lake and the Aztec warriors failed to stop the Spaniards.

This time, it didn't stop the Ming Dynasty either.

Not everyone of the natives wanted to participate in the 'Spanish war', and they always believed that the war between the old governor and the new governor of New Spain was not something they could reconcile, but when the Ming army entered the vicinity of Mexico City, the situation became very different.

The aboriginal hunters on the western shore of the Great Lake spotted the Ming army and gathered men, and the aboriginal army, several times their size, surrounded Zeng Xishun's troops in the riverside jungle, but the battle did not start - Lin Manjue had jaguar warriors under his command.

Through a simple few words of 'overthrow and liberation', the two sides reached a consensus, and the aborigines called for the opening of the drawbridge, gathered more manpower, and easily made the Ming army enter the city and take all the key passes.

There were many Spaniards in the city, but not many could fight, and Bernal gathered almost all the Spaniards who could pick up weapons to go into battle with him.

Zeng Xishun's Ming guerrilla flag army advanced into Mexico City like a signal, I don't know which street Zeng Xishun led the army to capture, the first aboriginal slave broke free from the shackles, strangled the master who was about to escape with an iron chain, and everything in front of the guerrilla flag army was chaotic.

The sudden attack made it impossible for the Spaniards in the city to form an effective organization, and chaos occurred in every street, where people fought and killed each other, regardless of color or race, and no one was safe.

Even Zeng Xishun couldn't control all this, and it wasn't until the bell of the cathedral on the Armed Square rang that the Spaniards finally organized an effective defense and assigned various squads to go deep into the streets and alleys to rescue the Spaniards trapped everywhere.

Those crazy aborigines don't care about the Ming army, they have their own goals, some people take advantage of this opportunity to vendetta revenge, in the robbery to make a profit, these people do not dare to attack the Ming army, the Ming army does not pay attention to them, they meet on a narrow road and they will hide in the place where the Ming army has not yet been, for the next revenge.

But where the Indians gathered, they had their own chiefs and even had extremely clear claims.

In Mexico City's prestigious Spanish royal silk factory, more than 4,000 indigenous weavers killed the Spanish administrator, stripped Chinese silk shirts from him to make flags, and marched to the cathedral chanting the name of the last emperor, Guatemus, who wanted to take revenge on every Spaniard.

But many more are not as brave as they are, and despite all the oppression, the vast majority of the indigenous people will close their doors and pray to Quetzalcoatl and Jesus that this chaos will not affect their lives.

There is no clear claim, even if it is outnumbered, it is only a rabble, and at this point even if the Spaniards are much less numerous than they still have a huge advantage.

On the armed square outside the cathedral, the remaining Spanish sergeant major gathered his troops to form a phalanx, and the infantry corps, a new form of organization that replaced the feudal knights in the Old Continent, had almost perfect resistance to pressure in the face of this situation, and any Spaniard who picked up a spear and musket was a good phalanx soldier.

In addition, some of the half-blood soldiers who were ignorant and didn't know what to do in the chaos naturally surrendered, and without external intervention, even the strongest rebel team could not achieve the final victory.

However, the sergeant major who held high the banner and gave orders before the Spanish legion was killed when Zeng Xishun led his troops to approach the cathedral, and shot the gun from 200 paces away into a sieve, and then the phalanx commander, chief priest, and company commander who took over the banner.

Everyone who tried to raise the flag of New Spain was killed by a musket as it was raised, and when the last monk in the cuirass died under the flag, the phalanx of ordinary citizens crumbled, and it took less than five minutes for the first soldier to drop his spear and flee, and the whole phalanx fell apart.

The Spaniards who fled from Mexico City to the east coast were hunted down by the natives, scrambling for canoes and galleys on the lake, drowning an unknown number of them, and only a few hundred managed to escape from the megacity in the middle of the lake, but the chaos in this magnificent city was not restored by the departure of the Spaniards.

The aborigines who had driven out the colonists set their eyes on the Ming army and their own people who remained in the city, and after only one tiring night, they began to set fire to the cathedral where the Ming army rested, loot about food, and try to steal the firearms of the Ming army.

Compared to the aborigines, Zeng Xishun's subordinates were too few to suppress this red-eyed city without the slightest sense, and although the aborigines' malice towards them did not form a high-intensity battle, this situation clearly revealed a dangerous signal to Zeng Xishun.

If they stay here, they won't be able to make it out of the city alive.

The actions of these people made Zeng Xishun feel their thoughts very obviously, as if after driving out the Spaniards in the city, and then driving out the Ming Dynasty people in the city, the city would belong to them forever.

Zeng Xishun withdrew from Mexico City on the night of the third night after the capture of the city, and the day after he left, a Spanish garrison from the east coast descended on Mexico City.

At the same time, the Duke of Alva of the Old Continent landed on the east coast with his mighty fleet.