"Whoosh-" A deafening explosion rang out in quick succession among the expeditionary cavalry and the Indian cavalry group behind them.

It's not Querétaro anymore, it's Mexico City.

It had been half a month since the end of the war in Querétaro, and the expeditionary force had organized a cavalry infantry with the horses they had collected and captured, and then this cavalry infantry began to gallop all the way south. More than 100 miles from Mexico City, they easily took Tula, the only city north of Mexico City, and three days later appeared outside Mexico City, in front of the highland city at an altitude of more than 2,000 meters.

"Whoosh-" The sound sounded in his ears, and a broken iron grazed Zhang Dashan's cheek, and he immediately felt a heat on his bearded left cheek, and the blood dripped onto the breastplate on his chest.

Cavalry, among the cavalry infantry attacking south, a cavalry was formed, although it was a mixture of expeditionary forces and Indians, although it was a rabble, it was not much stronger than the Spanish cavalry in the original battle of Querétaro, but it was a cavalry after all.

When bombarded by the Spaniards' rockets, the sudden slaughter of cavalry units is indeed a good way to contain the rockets.

- The question is only whether this cavalry unit can withstand the bombardment of rockets, whether it can move forward!

The main thing is that there are very few troops on the opposite side, can there be two thousand people in the whole of Mexico City? And most of these people are still defeated soldiers after the First World War of Querétaro, and even the regular cavalry that originally suppressed Mexico City is now implicated and their morale has been greatly reduced, where do they still have much military morale.

Of course, the cavalry infantry did not have a lot of troops, and they had only about 2,000 men in total.

Among the 2,000 or so people, more than 300 good horsemen were selected, of which the Indians accounted for two-thirds, and the eardrums of the horses on which these people rode were all punctured, and the sound of rocket explosions could not be heard at all.

This cavalry unit really has the courage to move forward!

They ran from behind a small hill, where the coalition forces were in the second line, and there was a small hill to shield them from shelling.

That place, which had been an outpost for the Spaniards before it became a sortie for the Coalition forces, was easily captured by the Coalition forces. Because there are continuous mountains to the north of that place, the distance between them is not four or five hundred meters, even two or three hundred meters, and the height is different, so it is not the best place for defense at all.

But for the Coalition forces in an offensive position, it was a perfect hiding place. The hill was also no more than a kilometer from the Spanish defensive position. And the coalition forces pushed the forward position to a place only about 500 meters away from the Spaniards, and the back of the hill became the second-line position of the coalition army, not only the troops, but also a lot of materials were stored here.

Although the current battle was a battle without long-range firepower, neither side nor the enemy had large artillery groups, the Spaniards were lost, and the coalition forces were unable to carry them. So in terms of artillery firepower, there are big cats and small cats on both sides. Only on the rocket artillery, the coalition southbound troops carried a lot of them, some of which they even captured from Querétaro, and the Spaniards had no shortage of rockets with their backs to Mexico City.

In this case, taking advantage of the last rays of sunset, the coalition forces moved the cavalry units to the second-line positions, and after the sky darkened, the fist troops of the coalition army came in handy.

- Get as close as possible to the front-line position, and launch a surprise attack when discovered.

"Don't stop, don't stop, the big duck is right in front of us. If we just rush forward, we'll tear them all to shreds, leaving them all dead with no place to bury—"

Zhang Dashan was fearless, his face was covered with blood and he still shouted loudly to the coalition cavalry behind him, and always charged at the forefront.

The sound of gunfire rang out like fried beans, and when the distance was a hundred meters, the Spaniards' muskets also fired, and the speed of the cavalry was slowly accelerating, and when they reached fifty meters, they could sprint.

These horses are all war horses in their selection, from cantering to speeding up and then to sprinting, and the physical strength is fully supportable.

The cavalry rushing to the front fell one by one, and the bloody corpses fell to the ground. But it was dark, just like in the offensive battle in Querétaro, and the pressure was not very great because there were no dead bodies everywhere in sight.

They were not the walled cavalry of Europe either, and the scattered queues limited the number of soldiers they could notice.

Several soldiers in front of Zhang Dashan suddenly fell off their horses without snorting as if the bones of their bodies had been extracted. Through the firelight, Zhang Dashan could already see the Spanish soldiers who were kneeling dozens of meters in front of him and holding a musket at his side.

The sound of the clattering horses' hooves also sounded in the dark night opposite—

The best class to deal with cavalry is cavalry. The Spaniards still had a regular cavalry in their hands, and even if their fighting spirit was low, it was already at this time, and the attack power that erupted was not at all something that the rabble of the coalition army could withstand.

"Charge quickly, charge quickly—" Zhang Dashan realized the crisis of the situation. The cavalry of the Spaniards was coming, and there was only one chance. This time they had to break through the positions ahead.

If you miss this opportunity, you can only rely on the infantry behind you to charge and kill. That way, the battle is much more dangerous.

There weren't many Spaniards, and there weren't many horseback infantry going south.

While beating the horse and waving his hand, Zhang Dashan continued to roar loudly.

No one can say for sure how many of the more than 300 cavalry died before they rushed to the Spanish position, but anyway, when the time came to count the personnel at dawn, there were only 100 of the more than 300 cavalry left yesterday evening.

Zhang Dashan is still alive, but the man is lying on a stretcher and has been sent back to the rear. The casualties accounted for almost half of the troops, and more than 600 of them were killed on the spot. The result of such a high casualty rate was the collapse of the entire Spanish army.

Half of the coalition vanguard will continue to fight, but the Spanish army, which may have suffered less than 20 percent casualties, will be scattered. Last night's battle ended up being overwhelmed and the gates of Mexico City were opened.

"Damn, how can this be?" Fernando López clutched his head and cried out in pain.

The only army in his hands was shattered, and the whole of Mexico City became an undefended city, and Pelos was the supreme ruler of Mexico City - he was the governor of the Viceroyalty of New Mexico. At the same time, it is also the main initiator and supporter of the counterattack against China!

Now that this war has been going on, there is no need to think about the outcome anymore.

Mexico City will fall into the hands of the Chinese, the communication between the north and south of Mexico has been cut off, and the front-line corps that quickly turned back from the northern front line could not reach Querétaro in time, and arrived there before the Chinese captured Querétaro, and Spain had already lost this war.

The Chinese attack on Mexico City was only to ensure that their own interests were maximized, and López did his best to defend Mexico City, which was also to keep Spain from falling to the point of being slaughtered. But now all this does not need to be said again.

But Fernando López no longer had the heart to grieve over Spain's impending defeat, and now he looked straight at the cross in the church, racking his brains to figure out how to save himself from the swamp.

He is not afraid of losing his official position, he has suffered such a big failure, and losing his official position is already the lightest punishment. What Pelos has to think about is saving his head and saving his life, he doesn't want to be taken to court on the day he returns to Madrid!

I should have kept the cavalry on the front line, but it was a few minutes late.

If the infantry on the front line had not been rushed by the Chinese cavalry first, last night's war, who won and who lost, there would still be a fight. But just a few minutes away. By the time the Spanish cavalry arrived, the infantry at the front was already in disarray.

The Chinese drove the Spanish soldiers to block the cavalry's offensive line, and before the Spanish cavalry was completely powerful, the Chinese infantry caught up again, and after a brutal battle, everything was over.

"Your Excellency the Governor! The vanguard of the Chinese entered the city. ”

The door of the church was pushed open by a Spanish officer, and the officer's hurried voice and the panicked noise of the whole city poured into the church at once, and López's face instantly turned pale, and Chinese he entered Mexico City directly without even sending someone......

This is to completely trample on the dignity of Spain. "We're back—" Fernando López snapped. It was already a shame that Mexico City was occupied by the Chinese, and if he, as the governor of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, was also captured by the Chinese, then Spain would be too humiliating.

Outside the church, there was also a group of López's guards, who escorted López's carriage to 'cut through the wind and waves' in the chaos of Mexico City, in the flow of people fleeing Mexico City.

Of course, the Allied army's entry into the city was not without its challenges, with a handful of Spanish soldiers and residents of Mexico City spontaneously resisting.

This is normal, after all, Mexico City is the heart of the entire Viceroyalty of New Spain, a place that the Spaniards have been operating for more than two hundred years. Spain always has to be influential here.

There are still three catties of nails in the rotten ship, and Qin Hui still has three friends.

It's normal for people to resist in Mexico City.

"Fire, fire." A major gave orders to his soldiers. As the battalion commander of the artillery battalion, he now had to take on even heavier responsibilities.

Although he did not have even a company of regular soldiers, there were many infantry in it, and although the cannons in his hands were old city defense guns, the production date was even pushed back to a hundred years ago. The shells used were all solid.

The block looks very big, and the barrel is quite thick, but in fact, even if it can't hit far, it can't hit accurately, and the size of the shell fired is still small, and the thick barrel doesn't mean that the caliber is also thick, but this is also a cannon in the end.

Just listening to a loud sound can give them confidence.

The Major's face was pained.

He could choose to escape, didn't he see that even His Excellency the Governor had run away. No one will blame him for the fall of Mexico City.

But he did not want to see Mexico City, a place ruled by Spain for more than two hundred years, like a naked maiden, occupied by the enemy without the slightest hindrance of her precious delicate body.

It's a bit like a spiritual saint who knows that his actions will eventually be death, and he has no fear. Just like Tan Sitong on the original plane of time and space, after the failure of the Hundred Days Restoration, he was determined to die to martyr the Dharma.

This kind of person, this inner force is very powerful. It's not even 'death' that can be shaken.

"Save your people, O God." The church bell rang, and priests, clergy, nuns, and believers knelt down in the churches, desperate for help but pray to their faith.

Everyone's backbone is so gloomy

……

The shouts and gunfire were loud for most of the day.

Finally, the roar of the tide ceased, and the fierce gunfire and explosions also subsided. Calm has returned to Mexico City. It's just that there are painful moans and cries from time to time in the calm, reminding everyone......

When night once again covered Mexico City, a gloomy atmosphere spread through the Doge's Palace. The latter has been carved out as one of the two strongholds of the coalition forces, the other being an arsenal.

All the wounded were transferred to the Doge's Palace, which was suspended in and around the Doge's Palace.

In the distance, the torches were bright. The captured Spanish military doctors, led by the accompanying military doctors of the vanguard team, did their best to treat the wounded.

In just one day, more than twenty of the wounded last night had already taken their last breath.

Early the next morning, the loss data collected by the various departments were collected and distributed to the leading officers. Eighty-five lives, one hundred and fifty wounded, thirty of them seriously, and sixty or seventy more are expected to be killed in the next few days.

Although this vanguard captured Mexico City, it paid a heavy number of casualties, which was staggeringly large. It was also fortunate that the victory encouraged them, otherwise after the previous heavy losses, they would not have mustered up the courage to bite the resistance in the city, and they had to say both.

……

Paris. Embassy of Spain in France.

After a feast, the entire embassy fell into a deep sleep. Only Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, now Spain's ambassador to France, still can't suppress his anger and can't sleep.

Just now, a friend of his told him about the Chinese's conditions, that China would get all of California, Nevada, and Utah, as well as parts of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming, which is a big, large piece of land. Although mostly desolate and worthless areas, this is a great shame for Spain.

"These damn Chinese!"

Zapatero was eager to hold a duel with Gao Yanming, the war in New Spain had not yet come to the final results, and the Chinese who attacked from Manzanillo had conquered several important cities in a row, but as long as Mexico City was not lost, Spain had hope of turning the tables.

But what about these Chinese in Europe? Do you already think you have victory in your hands?

To slaughter the great Spain as a fat pig!!

Such conditions are the greatest humiliation for Madrid.