The Ming centaurs began to take root on the American continent. The search for the indigenous population alone is a painstaking task, but the good thing is that the European colonizers all landed from the east side of the American continent, and the past ten years have coincided with the period of decline and even extinction of the Mesoamerican tribes, causing their people to migrate to the west coast.

The Ming army is just going in the opposite direction with the American colonists, so you don't have to worry about encountering a vicious battle as soon as you come. With Ah Da and others as guides, as well as Guan Jing and other Ming generals who had swept the American continent, it became much easier to complete an attack inland.

"Sir, shall we sail over?" After Zhu Hao arranged the plan for marching into the army, Lu Song asked Zhu Hao.

Zhu Hao glanced at the stream in the distance, smiled and shook his head: "The main purpose of the ship is to help us reach this land, and it is to transport people and goods to the south and north, and even provide transportation for us to return to Daming in the future, but if we go deep inland to fight a naval battle, the effect is not good, one is that the enemy sets up artillery on the shore to bombard the river, the ship is not easy to dodge, if it is sunk, the gain outweighs the loss, and our main opponent Fran Jiren, on the other side of the continent, it is impossible to drive the ship over to fight with us in a short time." ”

"Then are we going all the way to the East Coast and fighting the Francs?" Lu Song asked with some concern, always feeling that he had not used all his strength, and he was too aggrieved.

Zhu Hao shook his head again: "Let's stand on our feet first, and then talk about something else." Next, we have to capture a city, according to the captured natives, there is a city about a hundred miles away from here, about 50,000 inhabitants in the city, and more than 10,000 soldiers stationed in the city defense, which is quite a difficult task for us. "Come up and attack the city?

Do you still say you want to stand firm first? Lu Song was a little anxious. But soon his son Lu Bing gave him some confidence: "Dad, I have beaten their stockade before, they can only throw stones outside, and they can't even use bows and arrows, it is too easy to defeat them." ”

"It's just an ordinary stockade, if there is a wall to protect it...... How could it be that easy? Lu Song looked incomprehensible.

Lu Bing hesitated a little and said uncertainly: "The situation should be about the same." Zhu Hao unfolded the map drawn in front of him to Lu Song, pointed to the northeast and said: "From here to the north, about a hundred miles, if everything goes well, it can be reached in two days, but it is not easy for horses to pass through the dense forest, give you ten days, five hundred cavalry, can you beat this city down?" ”

"A city of 50,000 men? And 10,000 soldiers? Lu Song's eyes widened, looking incredulous. Just give me five hundred cavalry?

Can you still play like this? Zhu Hao said: "The weapons I gave you are all the best muskets, the bullets are fully distributed, and the other is equipped with ten light Franc cannons." If you find it difficult to capture it when you arrive at its gates, you can send a message back for help, and I will send another 1,000 soldiers and horses. At present, the number of people who can be transferred to you is 500...... There are no horses in this place, and our cavalry is very valuable, so don't let me down. ”

"Yes." Lu Song was embarrassed to receive the order, and he didn't know what to say. Zhu Hao said to Lu Bing again: "Cooperate with your father well." This battle is our first tough battle in the New World, and it all depends on your father and son! ”………… Zhu Hao did not choose to lead the fleet to the south, but first aimed at a bone that looked difficult to gnaw on, and captured a city, which should still be ...... This is only speculation, because the Aztecs are likely to have perished, and there is a good chance that they will encounter European colonists along the way.

Therefore, in the task that Zhu Hao gave to the Lu family father and son, it was clearly stated that if the other party was found to be counterattacking with firearms, he would retreat as soon as possible, and send back the news in time, and Zhu Hao would send the second way of men and horses to reinforce him.

However, Zhu Hao was actually not too worried, because he knew that like the army he brought, the European colonists also liked it

"Less is more", perhaps they all think that the aborigines of the American continent are too easy to bully, and they usually gather a few hundred people and come to claim the king.

………… The Lu family father and son set off. Four days passed, and the Lu family's father and son sent back the news that they had begun to attack the city, but it seemed that it was not as easy as imagined.

"Childe, do you want to send someone to reinforce me?" Lou Suzhen saw that Zhu Hao had been busy leading people to build the camp for the past two days, and couldn't help but ask worriedly.

Zhu Hao said: "If it's just a local resident, then there's nothing to worry about, I need indigenous people very much now, and I hope they can bring them back." After another four days, the Lu family father and son came back with troops.

At the same time brought less than four thousand

"Captive", Lu Song went on a trip, and when he came back, his eyes were bloodshot and he felt extremely haggard, but his return still made the camp on the coast cheer, after all, this was the first decent battle after the landing, and it was a victory.

What a sign! Seeing a large number of captives being escorted into the camp, soldiers and craftsmen who had built a makeshift city on the coast all ran out to watch.

"Sir, when we entered the city, we thought there were a lot of inhabitants inside, but we found out after entering the city...... The city was in a state of gloom. When Lu Song spoke, there was some worry in his words,

"Through the guide, I probably inquired about the situation, and they made a comparison, saying that last year there were also people who killed in the city, and their inhabitants died eighty or ninety percent, and the rest of the residents had fled, but then they had nowhere to go, so they returned to the city. Subsequently...... We'll kill it......" Lu Song was a little unbearable.

Initially, he feared that the Ming army would encounter fierce resistance when attacking the fortresses of the natives. But when the natives in the fortress found that the colonists were gone and returned, and that the weapons were more advanced than before, they only made a symbolic resistance, and then surrendered the city, and these people were very docile, and seemed to be willing to be slaves as long as they could save their lives, or even just leave the blood of their race.

"It's miserable." Lu Song Road. Zhu Hao said: "Lu Qianhu, you should let go of all your prejudices, I said that the purpose of our coming here is to cooperate with them, otherwise with the people and horses we bring, we want to open a mine, and build a city-state from scratch, which is unrealistic." At this time, Ah Da was brought to Zhu Hao.

"The lord of the city wants to see you......" Ah Da didn't know how to express it, in fact, Ah Da and the inhabitants of this indigenous city-state did not fully understand the language.

This reflects a unique feature of Central America, that is, the aborigines living here are divided into different tribes, and different tribes continue to fight each other, which is equivalent to the end of the primitive society in China, today you fight me, tomorrow I fight you, continuous conquest but no common language and culture have been formed, and because the land is fertile, the climate is pleasant, the resources are abundant, there are corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes, the people can eat enough with a little effort, so there is no willingness to climb the science and technology tree, resulting in extremely backward productivity.

As the center of the world, Europe and China, from ancient times to the present, have been in constant trade, and even the exchanges with science and technology are also frequent, and with the mutual promotion of each other, the productivity has long been far ahead of the isolated continent of the Americas.

………… Zhu Hao met the so-called city lord, or the indigenous king. I didn't know its name, it was too verbose to pronounce, so Zhu Hao directly asked people to name it

"Jing Jing Er", it is not necessary to have such a name, but Zhu Hao listened to the complicated and awkward title, his head was big, and he simply abbreviated it according to its pronunciation.

The majority of the city-state was not Aztec, but rather a small vassal state outside of Aztec rule.

The way of communication between the two sides is almost entirely done by drawings, as if Kyokyo is very

"Good at" this, based on his paintings and the content relayed by Ah Da, probably know that they had contact with European colonists, and paid certain taxes and gold and silver in exchange for temporary peace for European colonists.

But two years later, when the European colonists returned, they directly led troops to wash their city-states in blood.

"Miserable!" Ah Da also said this word like Lu Song. To be exact. It is that the European colonists did not intend to take root here for a long time, and there may not be any gold and silver mines around this city-state, so they chose to slaughter the city directly, according to Jing Jingji's description, the European colonists were about 2,000 people, and the weapons they brought were very similar to the Ming Dynasty army, but they were obviously backward.

In short, the number of inhabitants of this city-state has been directly reduced from 50,000 or 60,000 to only four or five thousand today. Fortunately, there is one point, the young and strong among them escaped, and more of them were slaughtered by the old and weak women and children, and they also had a small city in the deep mountains and dense forests, in which hundreds of people lived, saying that they could take the Ming army to take down the small city when they turned back.

"I'm afraid the people inside have already run out, right?" Zhu Hao said to Lu Song, who was lamenting the cruel living environment in the New World.

Lu Song was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "I didn't understand what they meant in time, otherwise I should take down that small city first." ”

"It's okay, these four or five thousand people are also a good supplement for us." ZHU Haodao,

"Ask him, how many families are there for the rest of the people, if they are based on family units?" After complicated communication, it was probably concluded that more than 3,000 of the 4,500 people were men, and only about 1,000 women remained, plus a small number of children and the elderly...... In fact, it is difficult to build a family, and many of them are also families that have been reformed after the destruction of the city.

After being baptized in the blood of the Franc machine, they did not need Zhu Hao to reorganize the order, and they completed the reconstruction of the internal order by themselves.