Yang Zhong learned from General Mazatlan of the Viceroyalty of New Spain that since last year, the British army had mobilized about 50,000 troops to land on the Caribbean coast and began to seize the colonies of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

Seeing that the British army was strong and the local reinforcements were nowhere to be found, Governor Cortés retreated to Mexico City to hold out and ordered the Spanish defenders everywhere to hold on to their positions and wait for reinforcements.

At present, the main force of the British army is more than 30,000 men and horses are besieging Mexico City, the capital of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, and the other 20,000 men are besieging other fortresses on the east coast to seize the resources of the colony, while the British army on the west coast has not set foot.

50,000 troops are nothing in Yang Zhong's eyes, even if there are no allies from Spain and Portugal, just his 60,000 cavalry can easily pack up the 50,000 British troops.

The main problem now was the route of the march, since the Viceroyalty of New Spain did not have any railroads and could only be carried on horseback.

You must know that the 90,000 army can't carry a month's worth of grain, grass and baggage, and 90,000 war horses, not to mention weapons, ammunition and artillery.

According to the current situation, only by moving lightly and quickly to attack the main force of 30,000 British troops outside Mexico City and annihilate them in one fell swoop can the tide of the battle be quickly turned around.

If the main force of the 30,000 British troops outside Mexico City is allowed to escape, then it will be protracted to clean up the situation in the entire Viceroyalty of New Spain.

Mazatlan was not an ideal starting point for raid tactics, as it was more than a thousand miles from Mexico City, and there was no ready-made path in between, and it took at least four or five days to trek through mountains and rivers.

After four or five days of continuous running, the men and horses will be exhausted, and the grain and grass they carry will also be exhausted, if they cannot defeat the enemy army in one fell swoop, their own side will run out of food and grass, which is obviously not advisable.

After carefully checking the map near Mexico City, Yang Zhong selected Acapulco, a small port only about 500 miles away from Mexico City, which is also on the west coast, and there is a small road to Mexico City.

Once you're on the outskirts of Mexico City, hide and rest for the night, and then launch a surprise attack the next morning, even if the raid doesn't work out and you can go back.

The Spanish and Portuguese generals, including the defenders of Mazatlan, naturally had no objection to this.

The next day, Yang Zhong continued his fleet with his fleet to the port of Acapulco, accompanied by several officers selected by General Mazatlan, who were familiar with the situation there.

The fleet had sailed along the coast for less than a day, and the port of Acapulco was already in sight, and there were no signs of battle here, and more than 100 Spanish defenders were still there, but there was a little panic.

Now, the Ming Empire is coming with the Three Kingdoms Alliance, they are naturally ecstatic, you must know that after waiting for nearly a year, they are almost desperate, if there are no reinforcements, after the British army captures Mexico City, they will definitely come to clean them up.

After resting for the night in the port of Acapulco, Yang Zhong led 90,000 cavalry and attacked Mexico City under the guidance of the local defenders.

Because it was a surprise attack, they didn't even bring tents, only dry rations and quilts for five days, and all other food, grass, and baggage, including artillery, were left on the ship.

The Viceroyalty of New Spain covered an area of four or five million square kilometers, and it was naturally impossible for 50,000 British troops to disperse everywhere, and their main attention was still focused on Mexico City and the Caribbean coast, and further west of Mexico City, they had little energy to take care of.

In other words, there are actually no British troops along the way, the only thing to pay attention to is to get close to Mexico City, don't make too much movement, after all, there are 30,000 British troops gathered there, if the movement is too big and the British army detects it, it will be in vain.

With the local defenders leading the way, there was naturally no problem in the process of marching, they even went to reconnoiter the situation of the British army, and even the general layout of the British army was clear, for the sake of insurance, when there were still fifty miles away from the encirclement of the British army, Yang Zhong ordered the whole army to dismount and rest, so as not to be detected by the enemy.

The British army in this period is not as strong as the imperial period in which the sun never sets, and their thermal weapons have actually just been developed, and the national strength is far from being strong, to say that the navy has hundreds of super battleships as the base, and the combat effectiveness is okay, as for the army, it is far worse than the Spanish army, and it is even inferior to the Portuguese army.

Besides, now that the more than 10,000 main forces of the Spanish Viceroyalty were all surrounded by them in Mexico City, the Spanish defenders in other places were already so frightened that they hid in the fortress and did not dare to come out, and they did not expect that the enemy army would suddenly appear behind them.

Early the next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, Yang Zhong ordered 90,000 cavalry to lead the war horses and slowly disperse into a huge arc, faintly surround the 30,000 British troops, and slowly approached the British army until they approached their sentry and then mounted their horses to launch a surprise attack.

After all, the British army is not a rookie, and they still know about the arrangement of sentry posts on the periphery, but because the Atlantic Ocean has been blockaded by the anti-Habsburg coalition, they have no idea that the enemy will have reinforcements, so the sentry posts are not very dense, and the farthest distance from where they camp is only about four or five miles.

At a distance of four or five miles, it was only a matter of minutes for the cavalry to charge, and by the time their sentry found out about the situation, it was too late, and even more coincidentally, at this time, their 30,000-strong army had just lined up in formation, preparing to carry out a routine artillery bombardment of the Spanish defenders in Mexico City, and they did not pay attention to their backs at all.

So, in an instant, 90,000 cavalry suddenly appeared behind the British army, overwhelmingly pressing up, and the British army was drowned by the tide of cavalry without even turning the muzzle.

The Ming cavalry, the Spanish and Portuguese cavalry were equipped with revolver rifles and grenades, while the British were single-shot front-loading flintlock muskets, and the weapons of both sides were not on the same level at all.

If their artillery can turn the head of the gun in time, maybe there is still a chance, now, the coalition cavalry charged down, and the British army collapsed directly.

Ninety thousand grenades, hundreds of thousands of bullets, poured on 30,000 people, the result can be imagined, many British troops were beaten into a sieve before they even understood what was going on, and most of the rest were blown up by grenades and rolled on the ground, even if they were lucky not to be blown up, they threw their guns in fright, and they didn't dare to move when they lay on the ground.

Just kidding, I didn't see that the people who just raised their guns and shot were all beaten into a sieve by the rain of bullets, and they didn't want to be a sieve!

This was a textbook raid, the total of 90,000 cavalry of the Three Kingdoms Coalition led by Yang Zhong was as fast as lightning, from the launch of the charge to the end of the battle, a total of less than a quarter of an hour, the British army did not organize any decent resistance in a panic, the number of 90,000 cavalry killed was only a handful, and the wounded were not many.

The British army was miserable, a round of bullets rained down enough to kill and wound tens of thousands of people, plus a wave of grenades, only a handful of people were not injured!