The coast of Mexico seems to have changed from more than a hundred years ago, it is still so winding, the reef is dense, the waves are violently lapping on the shore, startling the white waves, as far as the eye can see, only seabirds are wandering around, and the traces of human development have not changed much here.

It's just that there are still some changes from a hundred years ago, that is, there are a lot of annoying Spanish sailing boats!

"Barbarian sailboat!"

In the midst of his roar, the sailors were busy like ant nests before a storm, some climbed the mast and hung the sails full, some shook the creaking turntable under the cabin, and stretched the swarthy cannon out of the gun hatch.

Looking at it in a daze, a foul smell suddenly came into his nose, put down the binoculars, Song Yongzhong looked at the brave General Li with a headache holding on to the mast and vomiting, and finally vomited, this guy still shouted indistinctly to start a war, but half of the shouting, and leaned on the side of the ship and then vomited, and the yellow bile water was spit out.

I really don't know how Daming survived the six months he sailed to the New World.

Shaking his head helplessly, Song Yongzhong directly replaced him and ordered loudly.

"Flag waving, the fleet maintains a straight formation, marching close to the open sea, full sails, muzzles up, hanging grape ammunition, and the head ship keeps three hundred yards from the enemy ship!"

He only rolled his eyes when he vomited, Li Dingguo also slapped him helplessly, and then lay on the side of the boat and then vomited, as if he had been amnestied, Feng Shuangli, who was at a loss, ran down in a hurry as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw, several red flags swayed, and the Ye Shang at the forefront had just deflected the bow angle, and it had already been aligned with the front corner of the first Spanish ship, and suddenly, the deafening cannon sound rang out one after another, and white columns of smoke erupted violently from the dark muzzle, The hard wood shattered like popcorn.

I really don't know how Mao Jue was taught, as the eldest man, the prince does not yearn for martial arts, he is a full Confucian scholar, but the princess is a complete violent maniac, looking at the fierce naval battle, Mao Yuer's excited little face is red, her little fists are clenched tightly, and she can't stop eagerly trying it.

It's just destined to disappoint her, Song Yongzhong didn't plan to fight, the ship crossed to the south in a zigzag, but the striking surface of the two fleets was different, the Spaniards still destroyed the ship with heavy artillery, and the shells smashed into the Daming gun compartment one after another, smashing the fleet like pockmarks, and the Ming army focused on the mast, and the grapeshot bombs connected together were fired out one by one like boomerangs.

There were more than twenty cannons on one side, and there was always a concentration, and in the frightened but angry shouts of the Spanish sailors on the deck, the foremast of the first ship happened to be concentrated by a string of such boomerangs, and the rapidly spinning grapeshot was entangled together like a chainsaw under the terrifying chemical energy, and in the sound of clicking, the foremast several meters high in the tooth-aching sound of breaking wood, pulled off one cable after another, and smashed heavily into the sea.

This is followed by the second one.

...........

In this naval battle, it is impossible to say who won, in terms of ship losses and casualties, it must be that the Ming army is more miserable, after all, it is directly facing the heavy artillery attack from the side, but strategically, Song Yongzhong should have won.

The nine sailing ships he was on were entirely for transporting troops rather than naval battles, and the Ming artillery that passed by destroyed the eleven masts of the Spaniards' seven colonial warships, and after bearing the first round of artillery fire, the expeditionary force with full sails went straight away, leaving the Spaniards far behind, who had only half a sail left.

After an eight-day voyage to the south, and an encounter on that day, the expeditionary fleet finally rounded the narrow Baja California Peninsula and landed on the Mexican mainland.

Different from the flat plains along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, most of the southwest and north of Mexico are rugged mountains, in the night, the scarred Ming sailing ship ran aground near an unknown tidal flat, a large sand boat on the flat land was thrown off the boat, and the soldiers who were wet and full of salt water took advantage of the shallow tide to row towards the shore with field guns and supplies, and set up the first camp on the beach.

Song Yongzhong and his entourage were the second group to go ashore on a boat, an oil lamp was flickering, Mao Yu'er, who was so excited that she was even a little trembling, was still holding her map information, judging that the landing location was about there, and Song Yongzhong was holding a telescope high, looking into the distance before the night was completely thick.

This is Song Yongzhong's first arrival in Mexico, the terrain here is really peculiar, near the sea is a narrow and desolate small plain, to the east is estimated to be less than ten miles, it is already a black and endless mountain range, but here not far to the south, the mountains running through the north and south are exposed to a gap, it seems that from here you can launch an attack inland, but what the future is, it is still unknown.

Knowing nothing about this land made Song Yongzhong extremely uncomfortable, if he was to command this battle, I am afraid that he would not launch an invasion war at this time anyway, but it was not him who was in charge.

Tomorrow will go east anyway!

Just when Song Yongzhong secretly made up his mind, on the shore, an ugly roar like a wolf's howl suddenly sounded like a flat thunderbolt.

"Woohoo, a certain Xichuan Li Houye is back, wahahaha....., wow~~~"

Handsome for only three seconds, the clear sound of vomiting made Song Yongzhong smile again.

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The difference between having a port and not having a port is vividly revealed, in the small cement dock of San Francisco, the loading was completed in one day, but here it took more than three days to transport back and forth by small boat, a contact battle, so that the Ming army was killed and wounded more than 100 people, and finally succeeded in landing more than 1,400 horses, and more than 4,300 people, about 600 barrels of gunpowder is estimated to support two or three major battles, and the rations are about a month.

Relying on this strength to conquer a country with a population of tens of millions, Song Yongzhong felt a bit nonsense, but whether it was Li Dingguo, the commander-in-chief of this army, or Mao Yuer, who could be regarded as the chief of the general staff, they were all idle and confident, and everyone came, no matter what, they had to go on hard.

But there is still a little good news, first of all, this Li Dingguo is really a landlubber, the sea vomits like a weak chicken, only a day after going ashore, it is like eating Liuwei Dihuang pills, it is immediately a cure for kidney loss, no sugar, three hundred years of Jiuzhitang is good, the commander of the army is excited, for the whole army, it is a good thing.

Another thing is that they have a good place to spawn on this map, the narrow Sierra Madre came to an abrupt end, and a road to the inner Mexican plateau was close at hand, and not far from here, there was this Mexican city of Tepic, from which it drove straight inland, only three or four hundred kilometers away, is the core of Spanish rule over this land, Mexico City!

Hernan. It was from here that Colster marched and destroyed the entire Inca Empire.

Over the years, the city of Tepic seems to have retained its original form during the Aztec Empire, with the town sitting on a gentle hillside, surrounded by low cyan limestone rocks, and dense cornfields nearby, where for more than a hundred years the only thing that has changed is that the Aztec temple has been replaced by a Christian church from the West.

There is not much change in the town, but the biggest change is still people, this is a town with a deep degree of Westernization, and the Ming expeditionary force that suddenly drove to the bottom of the mountain obviously made the town panic, followed by about four or five hundred young men under the leadership of the priest in the city, formed a dense formation, and drove to the front of the town, and the wide small square on the side of the avenue responded to the battle.

The brown-and-yellow skinned natives still occupy the majority, but the commanders are all white officers, and the whole formation is exactly the same as the Spanish phalanx, with wooden spears held high in front, and there are more than a hundred honest muskets in the back, Christianity has spread here, and it is actually slightly localized, and the morale-boosting priest in the middle of the military formation wears a colorful and green like a pheasant, which is more similar to the indigenous wizards than his European counterparts.

This terrain gave Li Dingguo a little headache, Tepic City is located in the middle of the mountain, and the valley road level where he marched is almost ten meters high, the cavalry feint is facing the hedgehog-like spear formation advantage is not big, the musketeer takes the lead and the other party bombards, the victory is definitely his own side, but the price paid, he is reluctant, hesitated, Li Dingguo, who is holding back a momentum, is also calm and first set down the formation, the cavalry is arranged on both wings, the sword and shield infantry and spearmen in the vanguard cross to tie up the Chinese army, Waiting for the rear infantry of Governor Song Yongzhong to transport artillery.

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However, the Spanish barbarians on the mountain were more like the state of etiquette than their Ming dynasty, and a priest-like fellow ran down the mountain and shouted loudly in English.

"Don't shoot! I was sent by God's people to negotiate! ”

The two armies are fighting, and they don't come to make it! Although he was born in the peasant army before, but now he is also learning from Gongming's brother Song Jiang to accept Zhao'an, Li Dingguo naturally positions himself as a civilized official and soldier in his heart, seeing this scene, he also tilted his head: "Bring that feudal envoy over, and then bring the military interpreter Mr. Dead or Dead!" ”

The two cavalrymen galloped over and brought the fat running panting penguin-like guy over, in order to contact the British New World colonies, and the British big-nosed interpreter was also found, and the first official contact between the Ming New World Governor's Mansion and Spanish Mexico was spread out in the eyes of the two big-nosed foreigners.