Chapter 899. Insert a horizontal bar
If you want to say that the house is really bad, if you stay at home for a long time, you will be out of touch with society, you will be left behind by the times, you will not understand the sinister nature of the outside world, and it will be easy to read and be deceived by the evil forces, just like a typical Aztec little brother, a hundred years ago, he was cheated by the Spanish ruffian and deceived by money, but now he is deceived by Da Meng, a young man in literature and art.
In later generations, Mexico was completely Christianized, but one of its three important festivals is still the Day of the Dead from paganism, and the witch culture street is also talked about by tourists all over the world, which shows the influence of its traditional culture, even if it has been colonized by Spain for more than 100 years, Mao Yuer came with a crystal skull in one hand, and it was like driving a supercar to blow up the street, causing an uproar in the three major civilizations of the New World.
After hearing the news, a large number of natives from nearby tribes took refuge in them.
The occupation of the city of Tepique, on the one hand, let people spread the news of the crystal skull, and on the other hand, Li Dingguo was not idle, gathered some food, and continued to march along the gap in the mountains to the inland Mexican plateau.
At the beginning of October, the Ming army captured the central town of Aguasca, and on October 11, it captured the southern town of León.
Unlike the British, the Spanish rule of the colonies was a complete plunder, in the Spanish occupation of the land, the original Indian natives regardless of high or low were beaten into serfs, enclosed in the Spanish slave owner's estate to grow corn and other grain, even those tribal areas that were not directly invaded, every year was also levied high taxes and offerings, when Cortés overthrew the Aztec tyranny, the banner of ending the bloody sacrifice, coaxed the hostile tribes to help them destroy the Aztec Empire.
But now it's good, the bloody sacrifice is indeed gone, the granary of the big guy is empty, and the Spaniards, who call themselves civilized people, are not much more merciful than the Aztec Empire, in the name of Christianity, for those tribes who do not want to be weird, I don't know how many people have been slaughtered.
Coupled with the diseases they brought, in more than a hundred years, the Indian population of Mexico has plummeted by 12 million to 15 million, and the situation in Mexico is now the world's suffering for a long time, and fortunately, these big-nosed vampires are so hated that the two important cities were taken down without much resistance.
By November, relying on the crystal skull as a stepping stone, Li Dingguo's expeditionary force had begun to take shape, and there were almost more than 20,000 tribal warriors who came to fight directly after those local tribes, and the population of the territory conquered exceeded 200,000.
It's just that the meat that is easy to gnaw is almost eaten here.
When it comes to Mexico, most of the later generations have the impression of drug dealers, and the desolate Gobi Desert has patches of cacti, but Mexico City, which can give birth to the Aztec Empire, is really located in a good location, although it is located on a plateau, it can be nourished by Lake Corvic, and the land near this is quite fertile and rich in grain.
But because of this, this is also the core of the Spanish rule in North America, the capital of New Spain, the defense is really strong, according to the information of the escaped Indians, there are as many as 40,000 Spaniards and other ethnic immigrants in the city.
Standing on the slope of the nearby Cortril Volcano and looking down, Li Dingguo couldn't help but have a headache, and now he understood why Adriana didn't act rashly, but tried her best to cooperate with Mao Xingjian to expand the power of the Ming colonies in North America, which was really a hard bone.
First of all, Mexico City itself is located on an island in the middle of Lake Corvic, only a narrow road connects to the land, and on the ruins of the remaining two cities of the Aztec Tri-City Alliance, which were razed that year, the Spaniards also built satellite cities, typical western castles, and in the telescope, the pitch-black body of the twenty-four-pounder fortress cannon is clearly in his eyes.
Even in terms of military strength, the Spaniards here are superior to themselves, with 6,000 mercenaries composed of Spanish immigrants and more than 20,000 local alliance troops recruited, these people are the first tribes to submit to the Spaniards, and in the past 100 years, they have continued to intermarry with Western immigrants, and the mixed race people born are not low, and they are well-trained, and the quality of the 20,000 people who are their vassals is definitely one heaven and one underground.
In addition, the Spaniards also had a series of colonial cities in the Gulf of Mexico near the Atlantic, and their military strength there was also considerable.
However, it is really difficult to capture Mexico City in a short time.
After observing the enemy situation in a circle, Li Dingguo went down the mountain with some heaviness, but when he returned to the camp, he was not happy.
At this time, the army was made into a miasma, if you compare the image of the metaphor, it looks like the White Lotus Sect, a large tent in the center of the crystal skull, those who took refuge, the local nobles with heads and faces got into the tent and prayed constantly, the common people were not qualified to enter, so they had to form a big circle outside, kowtowing incessantly, looking at the past from a distance, just like a large group of kowtow insects suddenly appeared.
Although he was also born in the peasant rebel army, Li Dingguo looked down on the White Lotus Sect very much, pretending to be a ghost but had no real skills, fooling a large group of foolish people seemed to be overwhelming, and a big battle collapsed directly, and more than 20,000 tribal warriors were similar, unorganized, undisciplined, and without formation, and when they fought as cannon fodder, Li Dingguo had to worry about whether they could rush their own formation.
"How?"
Just when Li Dingguo was on fire, a crisp and pleasant voice suddenly came, still carrying the sad Song Yongzhong, and Mao Yuer, who was dressed like a tomboy, was full of urgency, and ran over in high spirits.
"General Lee, when is the attack on Mexico City, tomorrow?"
was already in a bad mood, Yu'er's words made him depressed for a while, and he didn't care if the princess was a princess or not at this time, Li Shuai's tone shook his head a little impatiently: "Mexico City is very well guarded, there are many artillery fires, with our army can't attack it now, tomorrow I would have planned to abandon Mexico City and go north to sweep the Spanish barbarian strongholds in the coastal areas first." ”
"Why! As long as the city in front of you is captured, the overall situation of Mexico has been decided, and now going north, not to mention the loss of China and Mexico, which was finally defeated, let the Spanish barbarians have defense, and the war will be protracted. ”
After a pause, Mao Yue'er's voice was also a little quieter, a little weak.
"Besides, if the crown prince boss leads the army to fight during this time, we will fall short!"
If she Mao Yu'er oversaw the army sweeping through Mexico, she could proudly show off to Mao Jue and plain clothes when she went back, her eldest Miss Yu'er is also a leading genius, a famous general of the empire, it is a tyrannical thing for you to stop me from joining the army, but if Mao Xingjian leads the army to keep up, no matter how many feats she has made in the early stage, you can imagine the appearance of the old man in Su Yi with a strict mother's face, pointing his finger at her head.
"It can make a mess!"
What Mao Yuer said is also what Li Dingguo is worried about, now he has more than 200,000 people in his hands, and the land of half a province is enough for him to build a country.
However, after so many years of career in the exile army, Li Dingguo's biggest advantage is that he knows how many catties and taels he has, with these thousands of people in his hands, even if he really breaks the kettle and defeats Mexico City, he will have to suffer heavy losses.
It is better to raise troops to the north now and grab a piece of territory along the coast of Mexico, even if the prince comes in the future, he can collect part of the population and return to San Francisco, which can be regarded as a drought and flood to ensure the harvest.
So it was very painful to be entangled for a few seconds, Li Dingguo still shook his head firmly: "The last general is incompetent, he can't beat this city, if the princess has a way to win, the more than 20,000 people will be handed over to His Royal Highness, although the princess will go to the conquest, the last general will wait for His Highness to win!"
This is the talk collapsed, watching Li Dingguo return to his tent with a hard bang, Yu'er was so angry that her little face turned white, and her little man's boots stomped on the ground angrily.
"Elm head! Coward! I deserve no girl to like it!"
"That's right, because he was so boastful before General Li went out on the expedition, it turned out that he was also a small man with a lot of words!"
Now it's time to find out the temper of Miss Yu'er, follow the donkey, follow the hair, Song Yongzhong also nodded there with joy.
Not to mention, the little girl's friendship is often built on talking about someone, listening to Song Yongzhong's approval of her, Yu'er looked at his black-faced monster's expression, which was obviously a lot more pleasing to the eye.
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Thousands of miles to come here just to take a look, and she had to go back in vain, but Mao Yuer is not a vexatious woman, and her military background makes her also clear that without Li Dingguo's cooperation, driving these people to fight is tantamount to fighting a tiger with a sheep, although she is depressed, she still packs her bags at night and plans to follow north.
But just when this little chick was humming and chirping and folding her clothes, she had no idea, just behind her, under the flickering candlelight, a dark and huge, seemingly hairy shadow suddenly appeared, and the huge black hand stretched out from behind to the unconscious Princess Yu'er.
Airplanes~
The sound of the sword suddenly sounded.
The outstretched hand stopped abruptly, and suddenly broke in from outside the door, the long sword pointed coldly at the throat of the uninvited guest, his eyes were like electricity, and Song Yongzhong asked murderously in the native language.
"Who!"
Only then did she find that there were two more big men in her tent, Xiao Duo was so frightened that she screamed and sat directly on the ground, Yu'er was also surprised and scared, but then she pulled out the left wheel, stood with Song Yongzhong, pointed to the guy's head, and shouted angrily.
"Where did the pervert come from! Dare to break into my aunt's tent, don't die? ”
But the old Indian, who was covered in bearskin, with a face as old as the bark of a tree, did not panic at all, not even the slightest expression, and his eyes, like those of a dead man, sounded as piercing as rusty iron bars falling together.
"It is worthy of the New World Expedition, the most ferocious dog of the Ming people in the land!"
Seeing a trace of anger on Song Yongzhong's face, the old Indian suddenly ripped open the bear skin wrapped in his chest, two hideous scars and a gun hole clearly appeared on the old guy's chest, and his mouth was even more cruel and difficult to explain his identity.
"Heavenly Witch!"