The British colonists had no idea that the Ming army would suddenly emerge from the west, and it was already approaching the European New Year, and they were preparing to celebrate the New Year.

As a result, before the New Year, the Ming army arrived, and the two Ming armies, 200,000 horses, suddenly appeared in the northwest of the Maryland colony and the southwest of the Connecticut colony, and the British army had not even had time to assemble before the Ming army's offensive began.

The low city walls and ordinary castles were like paper paste in front of the artillery and armored chariots of the Ming army, basically after a few rounds of artillery, and then use the armored chariots to dig a few gaps in the city wall, and the British troops and colonists inside were frightened to surrender.

The British troops in these colonies were actually equivalent to the militia of the Ming Garrison, and they could also bully the Indian tribes who did not have gunpowder weapons, and in the face of the well-equipped Ming army, they had no power to fight back at all.

In less than ten days, all the towns and ports in the six colonies were basically occupied by the Ming army, a large number of British troops and ordinary colonists were captured, and only a few people escaped on the British warships that heard the news.

The whole of North America was occupied by the Ming Empire, and the local Indians were running to celebrate, but the British colonists wanted to cry without tears.

It's not that they don't have regular troops, and the strength of the British Army is not to this extent, it's just that they didn't expect the Ming army to suddenly appear, so they didn't take any precautions at all.

Lu Xiangsheng didn't expect to defeat the British army so easily, they didn't even send any reinforcements, everything was like child's play!

In fact, it's not that Britain doesn't want to send support, at this time their main army force is attacking the colonies of Spain and Portugal, and they can't be transferred if they want to, so can they use the navy to be tough with the Ming Imperial Army? That's simply sending food to the Ming Empire!

Regardless of the reason why the British army did not support, Lu Xiangsheng was not negligent, and after occupying all the colonies, he immediately ordered the vassal army to build the railroad to the ports on both sides, and at the same time ordered people to escort the prisoners to build fortresses in various ports and land and water fortresses, preparing to resist the counterattack of the British army.

A winter had passed, and the east coast of the entire North American continent was already full of forts, impregnable, but the British army never came to counterattack, interrogating the prisoners, and could not ask why.

What's going on here?

Just when he was puzzled, the emperor's telegram came from Jinshan City on the west coast, ordering him to continue to lead the 140,000 infantry of the two legions to defend on the east coast, while Yang Zhong led 60,000 cavalry to rush back to Jinshan City by train and wait for dispatch.

Lu Xiangsheng is inexplicable, he can't figure out what is going on at all, but he still doesn't dare to disobey the emperor's will, after receiving the telegram, he immediately ordered Yang Zhong to lead 60,000 cavalry on the road, as for what to do on the west coast, the emperor didn't say, he didn't dare to ask.

Zhu Cijiong's purpose in letting Yang Zhong lead the cavalry back to the west coast was actually to let him assist Spain and Portugal in regaining their colonies in the Americas.

Of course, he knew that the British army could not be like this, and he also knew that Britain could not have such an army, and judging from the information sent back by Lu Xiangsheng, the British should have taken the main forces to rob the colonies of Spain and Portugal.

The main purpose of the Ming Dynasty's march into the Americas was to drive the anti-Habsburg powers out of the Americas and cut off their overseas resource supply.

Otherwise, it would be more than worth the loss to drive them out of the North American colonies, which were relatively resource-poor at this time, but to let them occupy Central America and South America, which were relatively rich in resources!

As soon as Zhu Cijiong informed his allies Spain and Portugal of the idea of recovering the American colonies, they received an eager response, and both Philip IV and João IV said that they would send troops to cooperate with the Ming army.

The three of them briefly negotiated in the telegram, and finally decided to send pure cavalry teams to their respective colonies to support, Spain sent 20,000 cavalry, Portugal sent 10,000 cavalry, a total of 30,000 horses, from the Mediterranean, through the Eurasian Canal, to Daming, and then with the fifth batch of Daming's colonial fleet to Jinshan Port.

At this time, the 30,000 cavalry of Spain and Portugal were waiting in Jinshan Harbor, waiting for Yang Zhong to lead them to the Viceroyalty of New Spain to clean up the British troops there.

Most of the so-called Viceroyalty of New Spain are in the Americas, and its jurisdiction includes Mexico, the southern United States, Central and North America and other places.

The Spanish colonization fleet arrived in the Americas as early as 1509 and occupied some islands in the Caribbean, and later gradually expanded into North and Central America, successively occupying all of Central and North America, Mexico, the Florida Peninsula, Texas and Louisiana.

The Viceroyalty of New Spain was arguably the most important part of the Spanish colonial empire, and what was happening there at a time when Spain itself had lost contact with the Spanish Viceroyalty for almost a year due to the blockade of the Atlantic Ocean by the Anti-Habsburg Alliance?

After Yang Zhong arrived at Jinshan Port, he listened to the introduction of the situation by the officials of the Ministry of War, and according to the emperor's will, he took a total of 90,000 cavalry of the Ming Empire, Spain and Portugal, and 500 armed ships to the south along the west coast of the Americas and rushed to the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

Their first stop was Mazatlan, the nearest port on the west coast to the port of Jinshan, because there was a fortress built there, and there were nearly 3,000 men stationed there, and it was unlikely to be conquered anytime soon.

The fleet sailed south along the coastline for about two days before arriving at the port of Mazatlan, where the red flag of New Spain was still flying, and there seemed to be no sign of a battle, as if it had not been attacked by the British at all.

What's going on?

Thinking that he couldn't figure it out, Yang Zhong directly ordered the fleet to enter the port, and then took the Spanish liaison officer to understand the situation.

The port of Mazatlan was originally an important seaport connecting Mexico and Luzon, but since Luzon was transferred to the Ming Dynasty, there were not many ships coming and going, because Spanish ships had to cross the Atlantic Ocean and bypass the bottom of South America to get here, which was very troublesome.

Unexpectedly, hundreds of large sea ships would appear outside the port on this day, which could have taken the Spanish guards here by surprise.

Fortunately, he still knew the Sun Moon Dragon Banner of the Ming Empire, so he did not launch an attack when the fleet entered the port.

After Yang Zhong got off the ship, he learned in detail that at this time, the main force of the British army was besieging Mexico City, the capital of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

After losing the support of the navy, the Caribbean coast of the Viceroyalty of New Spain near the east had been completely occupied by the British, which had become a British colony, but the British had not yet conquered the places where the forts had been built, such as Mazatlan and Mexico City, and the British army in Mazatlan on the west coast had never come.