The battle outside Mexico City didn't take much time to come to an end, and what seemed to be a must-win battle was thwarted in the face of sheer quality of combat power. Of course, because the disparity in strength is too great, there are still Spaniards who have sporadically launched assaults to approach a relatively close distance, but from the beginning of that year, the main force of the volunteer army is different from the traditional sense of the Central Plains elite soldiers, and in terms of melee ability, it has also made up for many shortcomings with modern training methods.

After seeing the corpses left behind by the retreating defenders outside the city, Shi Yong could be roughly convinced that the defenders should not have enough troops to launch another large-scale counterattack. Having learned the lessons of the previous battle of the port, the attack did not take place at night, but after a short break it began with a fierce assault during the day.

In this case, at least six of the blasting attack defenses around Mexico City that had been arranged had to be bombarded in advance, perhaps because the attacking team's offensive rhythm was far beyond expectations and there was no time to make major adjustments to the originally arranged dosage. Moreover, there were many heavy shotgun attacks during the day, because the officers and soldiers who were attacked dodged or carried out targeted defense in time with small shields attached to the team, reducing casualties and losses.

However, even so, the team of more than 1,000 men lost nearly 100 men in this round of blasting attacks by the defenders. Shi Yong didn't dare to be completely sure whether the defenders had any other preparations, but he was roughly convinced that there should be no large-scale back-up for the defenders' explosive defensive attack this time, which cost a lot of money. And: the more rapid the offensive action, the easier it is to achieve victory and breakthrough before the enemy can respond effectively.

When the smoke of gunfire near the fortified area gradually cleared, the battle line formed by nearly 1,000 elites was further condensed and launched a projectile on the perimeter of Mexico City, and the combat engineers had the opportunity to carry out explosive attacks and ascending operations in the face of a precise rain of arrows, and almost in a short time controlled the defense line of more than 100 steps.

The ensuing battle did not stop quickly, because Mexico City was not a city with the traditional layout of northern China, and many of the tall buildings in the city were like multiple fortified pillboxes, which were not so easy to breach. After several successive blasting attacks that blew up three fortified forts, the black powder carried by the team was also a little nervous at this time due to the small number of troops and the fact that the operation was mainly cavalry. After all, more than 1,500 light soldiers carrying weapons and armor and overdrawing horsepower carried a total of only 20,000 catties of black powder, and the total amount of black powder or ammunition was only about tens of thousands of catties.

In this case, Shi Yong could only give up the purpose of annihilating the opponent in a short period of time, and use the captured gunpowder to launch a blasting attack as much as possible. In this case, the pace of the battle gradually became faster and faster.

In order to maximize the blasting ability of black powder, which is not very effective, many special equipment equipped with combat engineers have also been developed. For example, the special recoilless cannon that digs a pit in a short period of time at close range, and the copper body tube with a steel-clad inner body tube of about 60 catties to fire a steel lead-filled steel spear with a hardness that is not low, it is easy to open a deep hole with a depth of more than one foot on the relatively solid stone wall, and use it intensively and continuously to make a blasting hole in a short time to blast left and right. When the cavity becomes larger, it is loaded with hundreds or even hundreds of catties of black powder on a larger scale, so as to decisively destroy the entire wall of the opponent's strong building.

Under this type of attack, the demolition attack also made rapid progress, and many strongholds, which seemed to be quite strong, were also continuously trampled down by the combination of the close suppression of the elite archers and the blasting of the combat engineers.

However, what is surprising is that the defenders of Mexico City seem to resist exceptionally resolutely, and not many people take the initiative to choose to surrender, which makes the 1,500 elite soldiers led by Shi Yongshuo pay the price of 1,200 people from the beginning of the siege to the end of the battle, from outside the city to inside the city, a total of nearly 100 people killed, and the casualties and losses of as many as 350 people gradually subsided.

After the enemy seemed to show little determination to surrender after losing more than half of their casualties, the attacking team largely rejected most of the Spaniards' prisoners in the ensuing battle, and only about 200 or so men survived who were not too wounded and did not appear to be too stubborn in their resistance.

Of course, because the light force attacking Mexico City was limited and did not form a relatively tight encirclement, the defenders around Mexico City eventually fled eastward with about 5,000 men. Shi Yong was also very clear about the strategy of the landing force, so he did not mobilize a limited number of troops to pursue it later, but began to clean up the results of this operation.

Unlike the port of Acapco, but because it is equipped with hundreds of light field guns, the whole of Mexico City still has about 200,000 catties of gunpowder and even more than a million catties of ammunition captured after fierce fighting. As for the reserves here, the scale is as much as 30 million taels, and the huge scale of silver only began to be discovered after this.

Although the East at this time was no longer as lacking in gold and silver as before, such a scale of gold and silver currency could at least reduce the cost of a series of counterinsurgency from land to sea in this round of western expeditions to a large extent.

About five days later, the follow-up troops other than the light cavalry also began to gradually reach the area around Mexico City, and after having a large enough number of remaining troops, Shi Yongyong began to lead about 1,000 elite soldiers and 1,300 horses without hesitation to start advancing towards the Potosí silver mining area, striving to control the silver mining area there.

One of the objectives of this land route was to control the port of Acapcol and even Potosí and Mexico City, and as for the more important enemy strongholds to the east, it was clear that they could not be effectively defended by the troops that had landed today, since the Spaniards were not Indians.

(End of chapter)