After the conquest of Lima, the cavalry of La Plata, as before, quickly swept through the surrounding plantations and mines, contacting the native white class and even the mestizo class, inviting them to establish a state.

But there was a contradiction between the La Plata and the Chileans, both wanting Peru to join them, Chile believed that Chile and Peru had always belonged to a Viceroyalty, that they should form a country, that Chile was already independent, that Peru should enter Chile; The people of La Plata believed that all Spanish colonies should unite and form a single nation.

In the end, the Peruvians chose to join Chile, but on the condition that the capital of the new country should be Lima, not Santiago, and that the new country should be called Peru, not Chile.

Unable to negotiate with the Peruvians and Chileans themselves, the ideals of the native-born white leaders of the Río de la Plata were once again disillusioned, and they chose to withdraw from the next military operation, focusing instead on the liberation of the former Viceroyalty of La Plata, and they decided to enter Bolivia from Chile on an expedition deep into the interior.

The Chinese army left 1,000 men to garrison Lima, and the rest went north to Mexico, Zhu Li has been lobbying Zhang Shun to launch a campaign to sweep through Mexico, he told Zhang Shun that Mexico has always maintained close trade ties with China, and has basically no contact with China's other Spanish colonies, so the focus should be Mexico.

Zhang Shun accepted this suggestion and marched north, intending to capture Mexico.

The men left behind by Zhu Li actually held the port of Acapulco, not because they were strong enough, but because there was also a revolution in Mexico. Hidalgo rang the church bells in advance and gave Dolores a call.

The Spanish garrison had already marched towards the port of Acapulco and launched two attacks, both of which were repulsed by Zhu Li's men, and just as they were about to plan a third attack, the Mexican governor asked them to suppress the revolution first. Because the rebel army composed of Indians has set out from Dolores and marched towards Mexico City, and new Indians have joined along the way, and the ranks have grown to nearly 100,000 people, and these rebels who want to attack Mexico City are much more dangerous than the Chinese who occupy remote ports.

Soon after Zhu Li and they arrived in Acapulco, reinforcements from the Pacific Ocean also arrived, 20,000 reinforcements, led by Zhao Wen, plus the 10,000 who came with Zhang Shun, and now the total strength of the main force reached 30,000.

After the 30,000 Chinese troops were stationed in the port of Acapulco, there was no need to worry about the security situation here.

Because the Spaniards in Mexico did not have a few soldiers, they could have transferred troops from the suzerainty, but now their old king was exiled by Napoleon to France, and sent his brother Joseph to be the king of Spain, but the Spaniards were not convinced, and the Spanish army and the common people began to revolt everywhere, who sent troops at this time? Whose soldiers are sent?

Let Napoleon send French soldiers, he is still busy helping his brother suppress the Spanish rebellion, let Joseph send troops, the Spanish army has rebelled.

In short, the British are right, Napoleon is the source of the world turmoil of this era, and although he is a hero, he does make many things bad, at least in the matter of the occupation of Spain, he is very wrong.

Before the occupation of Spain, Spain was increasingly degenerated under the rule of the decaying Bourbon royal family, but they were willing to give in to Napoleon, and handed over 6 million francs of aid to Napoleon every month, which was the wealth they had squeezed from the colonies; When Napoleon sent troops through Spain to attack Portugal, Spain did not resist and allowed the French army to pass. But after taking Portugal, the French army took advantage of the situation to occupy the fortresses of Spain that did not resist, and then the French army drove straight in, captured the Spanish royal family, and sent Napoleon's brother as king.

As a result, the Spaniards rebelled, this is a country that has recovered in the revolt, it is the first nation-state in Europe, unlike the rest of Europe, which was basically born under the invasion of Napoleon, in contrast, the national consciousness of the Spaniards has been born for hundreds of years, although there are some people who do not consider themselves Spaniards, such as Barcelona, Basque and other places who feel that they are a single nation.

But most Spaniards have self-identification, their king is a bastard, but that's their king, what is it when the French come? Count the aggressors!

Napoleon is now not only unable to get 6 million francs a month from Spain, but also has to pay an additional 30 million francs per month to Spain's French occupation army, which is really the most unwise thing Napoleon has done, and since the occupation of Spain, Napoleon's IQ seems to have dropped too much, Spain has not yet calmed down, so he can't wait to run to conquer the Russians, and as a result, he is defeated and can no longer be supported.

Since it was impossible for the suzerains to send reinforcements, the Spanish army in the colonies was unstable due to the turmoil in the country, and Mexico began to be besieged by the Indian rebels, making it difficult for them to counterattack Puerto Acapulco.

They don't think about it now, because the Chinese army has come over, and there is a road between Mexico City and Puerto Acapulco, called China Avenue, which is prosperous because of Chinese trade. In the past, Chinese silk, porcelain, and Nanjing cloth were walked on this road, and now the Chinese army is coming.

Zhang Shun was a naval general, he was stationed at the port, and it was Zhao Wen who was responsible for leading the troops.

Zhao Wen found that the situation in Mexico was too different from that of La Plata, where the army passed, the Spanish stronghold was scattered, and all kinds of characters around it immediately became active, really all kinds of characters, including whites, mixed races, and Indians.

Unlike La Plata, which is predominantly white Spanish, the ethnic composition here is more complex, with Spaniards and Mestizos (mixed race), accounting for about 40% of the population; Native Americans account for sixty percent. In addition to the complexity of the human race, the social structure is also more complex, mainly because Mexico has always been the richest, most populous and most developed region of the Spanish American colonies. The population here can support its own textile industry and even the silk industry, obviously it cannot be only a few hundred thousand people.

It was the only Spanish colony that once had a larger population than Spain, with a population of more than 10 million before the arrival of the Spaniards. But during the Spanish rule, war and disease, mainly disease, caused the population to drop by ninety percent. But it has now recovered to 7 million people, the only area in the Spanish colonies with a larger population than the United States.

With a large population, the social structure becomes more complex, with vagabonds, poor tenant farmers, artisans, workshop owners, wealthy merchants, officials, and aristocrats. The complex social structure, coupled with the complex ethnic composition, all kinds of contradictions are like a pot of fragments, and they cannot be distinguished.

Zhao Wen found that as soon as they left the Spanish stronghold, all kinds of characters occupied the place, and then they themselves even began to fight.

This situation worries him, which means that the road from Acapulco to Mexico City will become unsafe and disorderly.

It's not like in La Plata where they can even get supplies from local farmers and ranchers, where they not only have to transport supplies from other places themselves, but they also have to take care of the security of the transportation routes, wasting more troops, which is difficult to do by capturing too many cities.

If Zhao Wen made his own decision, he would even choose to stay in the port and wait for the various forces in Mexico to come up with a result.

But now he had to attack Mexico City, a million-strong city that locals say is home to one-fifth of Mexico's population. But the Spanish defenders were very few, only a few thousand men.

Zhao Wen divided his troops all the way to occupy important places, and advanced all the way, with fewer and fewer soldiers in his hands, and the local rebel army could not contact at all, because language communication was a problem, which made Zhao Wen, who had never been abroad, feel deeply uneasy.

After more than three months of slow marching, they passed through steep valleys, rushing rivers, reckless jungles, many places the roads were rugged, deserted, to walk one or twenty miles to meet a small inn or Shengfan (Indian) village, the daily march was often only one or twenty miles, occasionally more than thirty miles, at this time Zhao Wen had only more than 10,000 soldiers left, he was going to use these 10,000 to attack the Mexican fortification.

Fortunately, he had allies, nearly 100,000 Indians were active around, but unfortunately, they had no weapons and had no way to deal with Mexico City.

Zhao Wen soon got in touch with Hidalgo, the leader of the Mexican uprising.

He was also a miraculous man, he was not a poor man, but the son of a large manor, but he sympathized with the Indians, because he was a priest, and he thought that the Spanish rule over the Indians was inhumane, so he had the idea of overthrowing the Spanish rule.

So when he heard that the Chinese had captured Puerto Acapulco and the Spanish defenders had been transferred from Mexico City, he began to plan an uprising, he was the pastor of the church in the small town of Dolores, a local social elite, with strong influence, and had been secretly carrying out anti-Spanish activities for many years, gathering a large number of rebels around him.

Finally, after determining the weakness of the surrounding Spanish forces, the 60-year-old priest Hidalgo led the rebels to release the prisoners in prison first, and then arrest all the Spaniards in the city at dawn.

When all this was done, Hidalgo rang the church bells. He said to the assembled Indians, "Will you be free?" Three hundred years ago, the hateful Spaniards took the land of our ancestors, are you willing to take it back? The people replied in unison: "Hang these Spanish robbers!" He then led the crowd in chanting: "Long live America!" Down with the bad government! ”

This is the famous "Dolores Cry"!