When the news of the Tang Army's siege of Mexico City reached Europe, almost no one in Spain dared to openly speak out against the Tang Army, and the Spaniards now fully realized that they did not have the strength to fight the Tang Army. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info That being the case, it is undoubtedly imperative for the Kingdom of Spain to obtain the best possible terms for peace talks. Carlos IV, who has just ascended the throne, is a typical strict wife, and she is almost obedient to her wife Princess Louisa, and this Princess Luisa obviously has no political ability, she colluded with the courtier Godoy, and after a period of political struggle, she has basically controlled the power of the court. Princess Louisa and Godoy's party did not want war with Don, they were afraid of such power, and they wanted to live a peaceful life of looting and pleasure.

For this reason, at the instigation of Princess Luisa, Carlos IV sent his minister Gutierrez to France to meet with Chu Bai, the plenipotentiary of the Tang Dynasty for European affairs, hoping to discuss peace with him. There used to be Datang's embassy and consulates in Madrid, but after the declaration of war, Datang withdrew all diplomatic personnel, and even didn't even want many things in the embassy, and directly withdrew to China or France. Chu Bai is the highest diplomat in charge of Datang's European foreign affairs, with the rank of vice minister, and is directly responsible to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In recent years, when Datang signed various treaties with European countries, when discussing some major issues, it was basically Chu Bai who came forward. So in Europe, Chu Bai is a face representing the Tang Dynasty. As far as France is concerned, they belong to the same Bourbon family as Spain, so they also hope to be able to make a truce between the two countries as Chinese.

Gutierrez crossed the Pyrenees and arrived in Paris by train from within France. However, as soon as he arrived in Paris, he ate a closed door. Datang's embassy said. No domestic instructions have been received. It is possible to make contact with the Spanish side. Even if the French side came forward to beg, Chu Bai was bitten to death, and he had to get the official authorization of Datang.

Of course, there is a reason for Chu Bai's toughness, that is, the Tang Army is preparing to attack Mexico City.

In another plane, before Bai Nan and the others crossed over, Mexico City was the most populous city in the Americas. Mexico City is, after all, one of the first cities in the Americas to be developed, though not as horrific as it was in the twentieth century. But at this time, it can be regarded as having a population of hundreds of thousands, except for a giant city like Los Angeles in Datang now, it is also the largest city in the Americas.

Spain has been in charge of the capital of New Spain for 200 years, building many fortifications and investing a lot of defensive forces, and it is also the place where the Spanish colonial army has the largest number of defenders. In order to hold Mexico City, the governor of New Spain, Flores, who was already in disarray, not only withdrew soldiers from elsewhere and returned here, but also temporarily armed some royalist people and distributed weapons to them to prepare for battle.

But Flores knew it, too. Relying on these armed civilians and demoralized defenders, it was basically impossible to confront the Tang army. With the approach of the Don army. Flores also gradually got the information: the Tang army was killed by a five-way army, and it had formed a joint siege of Mexico City, and even if Flores wanted to abandon Mexico City and retreat to another place, he basically couldn't do it. Tens of thousands of Don troops have already covered Mexico City in their own upside-down frame, and no one can escape.

Besides, what if Flores escaped? He fled to South America, where the revolution might break out, and he went to sea to return to Spain, not to mention that he might be punished for such behavior, but the Tang Navy, which ruled the Gulf of Mexico, made him feel that the hope of a successful retreat was extremely slim.

So, in the end, he could only choose to stick to it as much as possible.

In a castle in Mexico City, in a dimly lit hut, Governor Flores pushed the door open with his attendants. There was only a narrow bed in the narrow room, and a little swaying drink, and the window was small, and a ray of moonlight shone in from outside, which looked particularly cold.

A white man with a somewhat charred and haggard face sat on the edge of the bed, holding a long black loaf of bread in his hand, and beside the bed lay a fairly delicate cowhide kettle. Seeing Flores walk in, the white man showed a mocking smile and said, "I didn't expect that our noble governor would personally come to visit me, a prisoner, why are you going to sell me to the Tang people as a bargaining chip for you to endure humiliation and seek peace?" ”

Flores looked at him blankly and said, "If I could, I would like to do so." ”

The one trapped in the cell was the Spanish officer Pérez who assisted the Apache in blowing up the Tang Railway, and he returned to Mexico City after making this ticket, but he didn't expect that the Tang people had already investigated the situation and told the world. Flores immediately detained him, and whatever might happen in the future, he could come in handy to some extent.

However, no Spaniard could have imagined that the Tang army would be so thoughtful, and it took the Tang people more than two months to fight all the way from Jiazhou and New Mexico to Mexico City. The Spanish authorities were unable to react even properly, and Flores had too few cards to play any tricks. So far, he has not even been able to make any contact with the country, because the Don army has begun to attack all Spanish ships in the Gulf of Mexico without restrictions, whether merchant ships or warships. The two sides did not establish transoceanic communications, so Flores even the news of Carlos III's death came from the Tang newspapers from outside.

Flores said: "I just want to tell you that due to your stupidity, the Don army has already arrived in the city, they have an army of more than 30,000 people, and they have all kinds of heavy weapons enough to destroy Mexico City. Now, I don't know how many people are going to bury you, you damn bastard! ”

Hearing the news, Perez was stunned for a moment, then laughed and applauded: "Hahaha, great, you people who only think about compromises, how do you know, the Tang people have actually calculated us for a long time." Even if I hadn't helped the Apache people get them this time, the Tang people would have done it. You don't understand my desire to think about Spain, but I just blindly subservient and hope to live a modest life under the strength of the Tang people. It's impossible, it's all impossible! Now, you idiots can only destroy with me! Mexico is going to be finished, and so is Spain! (To be continued.) )