Chapter 1664: Shaking Spain
The Ming Xiong division swept through Mexico, causing a shock throughout North America, in just one and a half months, Mexico fell to the whole territory, the Spaniards were beaten and fled, more than half of the casualties, and the remaining remnants of the army, fled to the north and entered the territory of North America.
Qin Mufeng brought the Tianwei army of the two towns in one breath, with a full 50,000 troops, all of which were elite forces, and the artillery battalion alone brought six, a hundred artillery pieces, such a force was enough to sweep the entire Americas, and no country's strength could compete with the strong forces of the Ming Empire.
You must know that when Western countries invade colonies, at most, the number of troops dispatched is only a few thousand, and dozens of warships can sweep an area, and sometimes, Western countries can only send a hundred and ten people, one or two artillery, and one hundred and ten rifles to subdue an entire tribe. The troops of Western countries stationed in the Americas, combined, including mercenaries, are only tens of thousands of people, independent of each other, not subordinate to each other, and sometimes they will fight with each other, which is completely scattered.
Even a hundred years later, in the American Revolutionary War, the total number of troops that England and the Americans put into the war was only more than 100,000, which can be said to be a battle of the country, and the army dispatched by the British was only 50,000 people, and it is still in the 17th century. At this time, their strength was built on the navy, and twenty or thirty thousand troops equipped with guns and artillery were enough to defeat all the backward natives, and there was no such powerful army force in the whole of America!
The Spaniards fled, ran back to the Spanish mainland to send a letter, and asked for help from the mainland, the Ming army was too powerful, not to mention the Spaniards, even the most powerful British army in North America, there was absolutely no such strong strength, as for the English, now they are also panicked, and the sudden appearance of the Ming Imperial Army brought too much shock to the Westerners, just an expedition to the Americas, as for the mobilization of so many troops?
The British also urgently sent ships to the mainland to return home for help, but because the British received the news late, they were far away from North America, and even if they received the news, it would not be until a month after the Spaniards returned home.
First of all, the Spaniards got the news of the fall of Mexico, it can be said that Mexico is the largest colony of the Spaniards, in just over a month, the whole territory fell, the shock to the Spaniards is too great, the Spanish King Felipe IV got the news, scared almost fainted, a huge fleet, 50,000 elite army, such a force, enough to annex the whole of Central America and South America, Mexico lost, if the Ming army advances to the south, I am afraid that the whole of South America will not be able to keep!
"What's going on, what's going on? Shouldn't the current Ming Empire be in a big war with our Expeditionary Combined Fleet? What's going on in the Americas all of a sudden? What's going on? ”
Felipe IV roared angrily, the ministers around him were terrified, I don't know what to do, His Majesty the King is right, the five-nation alliance has dispatched more than 500 warships in one go, and mobilized more than 140,000 naval forces, such a huge military force is enough to destroy any powerful country in the Western Ocean, even the most powerful Kingdom of the Netherlands, the main warships are only two hundred, absolutely unable to stop such a powerful force, why, the fleet and the elite of the road army of the Ming Empire will still appear in the Americas?
"Your Majesty, it's useless to say anything else now, for now, is to send our fleet to aid Mexico, this battle, we must win, otherwise in South America, the vast colonies will fall into the hands of the Ming army, our losses are too heavy, the colonies in Central America and South America, but more than eighty percent of all our colonies, we can't afford to lose!"
Chancellor of the Exchequer Caraso said urgently.
"You put it lightly, where did we get such a strong military force?"
Felipe IV said angrily: "Nearly two hundred large and small warships, plus an army of forty or fifty thousand people, such a force is too strong, even if we exert the strength of the country, we have no chance of winning!" ”
Felipe is not stupid, now nearly half of the warships in Spain have gone on an expedition to the South Seas, and even the army has taken away more than a quarter of the strength, and the rest of the country is only more than a hundred warships, and an army of more than 40,000 people, how to compete with the opponent?
Navy Minister Bonnes said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, now we don't have to worry about the problems of the Ming Navy, now the Ming Navy fleet is all concentrated on the west coast of the Americas, and if you want to go around the Caribbean Sea, or the Gulf of Mexico, this distance is more than 10,000 nautical miles, even if you sail day and night, bypass the Strait of Magellan, and then reach the Gulf of Mexico, it will take at least three or four months, so the huge fleet still needs to replenish supplies along the way, they don't understand the language, and they want to reach the Gulf of Mexico smoothly, It will take at least five months, and our fleet will go to Mexico, but only three thousand nautical miles, and it will only take one and a half months to reach Mexico. ”
Felipe's heart moved, Bonnes was right, now the Ming army fleet is still on the west coast of Mexico, from the west coast of Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico, this distance is too far, definitely more than 10,000 nautical miles, when they arrive in the Gulf of Mexico, even the war in Mexico has ended, time difference, beat them a time difference, use the army, defeat the elite of the Ming army, and then recapture Mexico, without the army of the Ming army, relying on the naval fleet alone, they cannot complete the occupation of the Americas!
"Well, Boness, pass the decree, mobilize 40,000 elite troops in the country, and then organize 20,000 mercenaries, mobilize the main fleet of the kingdom, and rush to Mexico to participate in the war in the shortest possible time, be sure to defeat the Ming army and keep our colonies in the Americas!"
Felipe shouted in a deep voice: "Also, immediately send a letter to the Dutch, Portuguese, British, and French, asking them about the war in the Eastern World, informing them of the invasion of the Americas by the Ming army, and asking all countries to join forces to fight and protect the colonies in the Americas.
(End of chapter)