Brother Tian's birthday, August 23, 1677.

Alcazar de Santiago, Acapulco, New Spain.

As in the previous two days, the mayor of the city of Acapulco, Don Brown. Fernández stood on the walls of the castle of Santiago at dawn, gazing intently at the vastness of the Pacific Ocean.

The blue waters of the Pacific Ocean are like a glittering blanket, undulating and undulating layer by layer. The sun shone on it, and the eyes were full of flashes of light. Truly the most spectacular and beautiful view in the world!

However, Fernández has long been tired of seeing the scenery of the Pacific Ocean, and he spent so much money to move to this mayor after the vice king of New Spain, not because the scenery here is better, but to make money!

The mayor of Acapulco was the most productive and secure position in the entire Viceroyalty of New Spain. Compared with oil and water, it may not be the first here, but it is definitely the first place compared to stable oil and water.

Even the most fearless of the English pirates could not have made a detour from across the Atlantic to Acapulco in North America to rob them. It was too far away, and the Pacific coast of the New World was closed to the public, all of which were Spanish ports – although Europeans liked to flaunt free trade, in fact they preferred monopoly free trade, firmly monopolizing where they could, striving for monopoly where they could, and seeking free trade where their opponents had the advantage.

For example, Spain's possessions on the eastern coast of the Pacific Ocean in the New World are basically exclusive to Spain and difficult for other countries to touch. Therefore, Spain practiced a resolute monopoly on the Pacific coast of the New World. Foreign ships are strictly forbidden to enter the port!

And since there are not many ports on the Pacific coast, the nearest non-Spanish port is on the other side of the Atlantic or across the Pacific! As a result, there were no private pirates or smugglers operating on the Pacific coast, and for more than a hundred years, no foreign ships had visited the port of Acapulco, except for a very few expedition ships from Europe or Japan (in one case).

As a result, the rich city of Acapulco has never been attacked by foreign enemies, but has not even been threatened by any foreign enemies. Moreover, the security of the city is also very good, probably the most reassuring city in the entire Age of Discovery, the citizens are very wealthy, and they believe in the Father, they have a good upbringing, and even the Indians on the outskirts of the city are very honest.

Even so, the Viceroyalty of New Spain spared no expense in building forts and fortresses for the city, which was surrounded by hills and the sea, and recruited a Spanish phalanx infantry regiment to be stationed there. And the only thing that worries people is that the Spanish galleon fleet, which only comes once a year, will be shipwrecked!

I only come once a year, and if I sink into the sea, it will be miserable. Not only will this year's business be lost, but next year's business will also be affected, because it will not be so quick to bring in ten or eight galleons from the Atlantic coast of New Spain. If you don't do it, you'll miss the seaworthy months in the North Pacific. Then we will have to wait until the year after next to have galleons from the Philippines.

And the term of mayor of Fernández ends at the end of next year.

In addition, he also spent money on the galleon trade this time, if the galleon was shipwrecked, then he, the mayor, would be bankrupt, and then return to Europe empty-handed and with nothing!

According to the original plan, this group of galleons should have arrived in early August, which was 20 days late. It can't be an accident, right?

Mayor Fernández was dizzy at the thought of a possible accident, his heart beat faster, and the sea level in the Pacific Ocean in the distance was ghosted.

He hurriedly leaned against the city wall, closed his eyes, took a deep breath of the salty air from the Pacific Ocean, felt a little better, and then opened his eyes again, looked into the distance, and suddenly saw a few small white spots on the sea level, is this dazzling, or are those galleons that carry the happy life of the rest of his life coming?

Mayor Fernández quickly took out a monocular, pulled it to the longest, and touched the sea level in the distance for a while, and then the whole person trembled. Because one sail after another is appearing in his telescope one after another!

"Coming, coming, they're coming." Old Fernandez put down his binoculars, his eyes were already full of tears, he hurriedly wiped a handful of tears, drew a cross on his chest, and then shouted to the Indian servant standing behind him, "Go and call Captain Rodriguez!" ”

"Yes, Mr. Mayor."

The Indian bowed respectfully to old Fernández, but did not wait for him to turn to Juan Brown, the commander of the Spanish phalanx infantry regiment stationed in Acapulco and the commander of the Santiago Fortress. Rodriguez came. The bell of the fortress has already struck "clang", a total of ten rings, which means that ten galleons have come from the Pacific Ocean!

As soon as the bell fell, old Fernandez heard a particularly loud voice shouting: "Haha, the galleon is finally back, thank you to the Father"

As soon as old Fernandez heard the voice, he knew that it was the captain of Rodriguez. This guy has a full 3,000 soldiers on the books, but the actual number is about three or four hundred, and the military salary and military expenses saved are used by him to invest in the "free trade" of the Pacific, and a considerable part of the money he earns from trade will be used to honor the vice king of New Spain. Or else, by virtue of his civilian origin, a veteran who had fought in Germany and the Netherlands throughout his youth and in the prime of his life, deserved his present position?

Although the old Fernández, who came from an aristocratic background, looked down on the veterans he worked with, he was still very polite, after all, everyone was a business partner - they all dug into the corners of the Spanish world empire together. If the Spanish Empire did not have officials like them, it would have serious consequences for the whole world. This means that the military budget in the hands of those crazy kings of Spain is several times more!

"Captain, you have come just in time," said old Fernandez to Rodriguez, "and those ships are indeed Spanish galleons, right?" ”

"I'll take a closer look," said Captain Rodriguez, raising his binoculars, squinting one eye, and looking through the telescope with the other, "it's a Spanish galleon, that's right, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Wrong! ”

Old Fernandez was nervous: "What's wrong?" I remember eight galleons! ”

"It's eight, but I see ten!" Rodriguez said that "two of them appear to be English Galen ships"

"What? England Galen ship? Could it be," old Fernandez frowned, "it must have been our warriors who captured the armed merchant ships of the English East India Company!" We in Spain are now at war with England! ”

In fact, England and Spain were now allies - in the Franco-Dutch War, the Netherlands organized an anti-French coalition, Spain, Austria, Prussia, Lorraine, Palatine, and other countries, plus a Dutch, and the big guys beat Louis XIV together.

England and Sweden were allies of Louis XIV, and since England and Sweden were quite capable of fighting, Louis XIV's France was also full of martial virtues, and the situation was extremely unfavorable to the anti-French alliance. So William III, the hereditary consul of the United Republic of the Netherlands, sacrificed a "bed politics" that could turn things around, married Princess Mary of England, and suddenly became the niece and son-in-law of Charles II.

Because this Charles II has no legitimate children to inherit his throne, his younger brother James II is the first in line to the throne, and James II's daughter Princess Mary is the second in line to the throne, and if nothing else, the future Queen of England.

The future Queen of England will be the ruler of the Netherlands, and of course this Britain will change its position and backstab Louis!

However, Acapulco is a bit far from Spain, and the old Fernandez did not know that the British were already allies of Spain.

Although Rodriguez didn't know that Spain and England had turned enemies into friends because the Dutch ruler slept with the English princess, he still couldn't believe that eight Spanish galleons could capture two English gallenes of about the same size - the soldiers on the Spanish galleons running the Pacific Ocean were ninety percent empty, and this could also capture the British ships? Could it be that the British East India Company's armed merchant ships were just as empty?

I really didn't expect it! United Kingdom. It's as corrupt as Spain!

When Rodriguez thought of this, he immediately felt that the future of his beloved Spanish motherland was much brighter!

Then he looked closer, and at this time the ten galleons were a little closer, and he could clearly see the "red fork" on the sails, which was the Spanish "Burgundian tenth", the symbol of the Spanish army.

You can't go wrong!

"It's Burgundy, it's our ship!" Rodriguez replied in the affirmative.

"Alright," Fernandez laughed, "then let's arrange the welcoming ceremony!" ”

The city of Acapulco made its fortune from the annual trade of galleons, so whenever a galleon arrived, the citizens of Acapulco organized a welcoming ceremony, holding icons to protect merchant ships and singing "De. Deounn", singing and dancing to welcome. This deal is actually not big, not even a fraction of the Dutch, but the sense of ceremony is directly full!

However, the citizens of Acapulco would never have imagined that these ten galleons would not have brought them silk and porcelain from East Asia, but heavily armed invaders!

"It's here, it's here, General, we're here!"

"General, if you hold on a little longer, we will be on the shore soon!"

"General, as long as you go ashore, everything will be fine."

"General, cheer up!"

On the King Louis the Great, a British Galen ship produced in Quanzhou, a group of pale and emaciated Geng Jingzhong's subordinates, who looked a little dirty, were surrounding Geng Jingzhong, who seemed to be dying, reporting good news to him and encouraging him to cheer up.

Geng Jingzhong really suffered this way, he couldn't adapt to life at sea - seasickness was particularly bad, others were seasick for a month or two, and they either got used to it, or they were buried at sea. But he was dizzy for three months, vomiting all the time, and he could vomit half of the food that was forced into his mouth.

At first, someone took care of him, but after a month or two at sea, the whole ship was stinking and no one cared about him. He was born with a golden soup spoon in his mouth, and he was an emperor for a period of time, when did he ever suffer such hardships!

When the ship drifted to the North Pacific, he had already recognized the reality - he turned out to be the Yuan Shu Yuan Highway in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"!

No, he is worse than Yuan Highway, Yuan Shu is at most poor and dies, and he is going to die on the sea, and he doesn't even have a chance to go into the soil after death, so he can only throw it into the sea.

Just when he was disheartened and wondered if he wanted to ask for a bowl of honey to drink, someone actually came to tell him that the ship had docked.

He turned his head to look at his military advisor Yu Renying: "Really. . . Arrived? Do you have honey to drink now? ”

"Honey?" Yu Renying was stunned for a moment, and said in her heart, are there bees in this new world?

"Yes, yes, as long as you lay down Acapulco, anything will be there!" His henchman Zeng Tianyang had to be brought out by Zheng Jing from Dayuan Island to Ryukyu Island before, and he also suffered a lot along the way, but he finally saw the New World alive, and he was full of confidence at this time.

This new continent, that's really big! They had already seen the coastline of the mainland, and after seeing the coast, they sailed all the way south, and there were always 10,000 miles, if they could shoot down, they didn't want anything, what did they want? Don't talk about drinking a bowl of honey water, every day Jiuchi Meat Forest!

"Can you beat it?" Geng Jingzhong was still a little skeptical, "How many more people do we have to get off the ship to fight?" ”

This voyage can make Geng Jingzhong and his men suffer, because hundreds of seasickness and water and soil diseases have died! Now there are still those who can still fight with weapons, I am afraid that there are not even thousands, and they have to shed some to watch the Spanish sailors on the eight galleons.

"Eight hundred!" Zeng Tianyang said, "There are 800 strong men!" ”

Acapulco has 3,000 defenders and a fortress!

It looks like it's going to die in the New World!

When Geng Jingzhong felt that his life was about to come to an end, he suddenly heard the words "De. Deun" and the cheers of the people.

He quickly got up from the bed, and then staggered to the window of the cabin with the help of others. He found that there were at least tens of thousands of people gathered outside the dock, including two or three hundred muskets lined up on the dock, and a dozen or so people who looked like officials and priests were standing in front of these musketeers.

Geng Jingzhong found that the "King Louis" he was on had docked, and the cable had been lost, and it was picked up by the Spaniards on the pier and tied to a pillar, and it seemed that he couldn't run!

Since you can't run, you have to fight!

Geng Jingzhong gritted his teeth and ordered: "All those who can hold flintlock pistols will go to the deck and fight with the Spaniards!" ”

"Yes!"

Zeng Tianyang saw that Geng Jingzhong was coming to the spirit, and he was also excited, replied, and then strode out of the cabin to arrange the raid.

However, Geng Jingzhong had forgotten at this time, he had already given the task of commanding the dead to raid the port of Acapulco to the two little Japanese and their samurai.

Just as Zeng Tianyang walked out of the cabin, on the King Louis and another English-style Galen ship named King Edward III, Birch Mountain Hisashi and Kiyohisa had already arranged a surprise attack.

They each led a group of devil warriors, and hundreds of musketeers were assigned to each boat to shoot with flintlock muskets and cavity rounds.

The raid was first launched by the high disciple of the pill master and the master of swordsmanship, Hisashi Kayama. I saw him holding a flintlock pistol with a bayonet on it, and shouted to the two small samurai beside him: "Togo-kun, Yamamoto-kun, it's time to conquer the New World!" ”

"Hay!"

The two little devils roared, each picked up a flintlock pistol, boarded the gangplank, and rushed towards the land of North America one after the other, and with them a dozen other little devils.

These little devils are all from Satsuma, and they often travel between Kyushu Island and Ryukyu Island, so naturally they don't get seasick. And at this moment, when they thought that they were going to land on the land of America, their spiritual head immediately reached its peak, and they shouted, "Half a load! Half load! "The charge began.

And the Spaniards on the dock were stunned by this scene - where did the children come from? Still with a gun. What about adults? Anyway? No, they're East Asian!

It's an invasion of East Asians!

Rodriguez, a veteran of the war in the thirties, reacted quickly and knew immediately that he wanted to play, so he grabbed Fernández, the mayor of Acapulco, next to him, and blocked him. That Fernandez didn't understand what was going on, and was still asking by the people around him: "What are you doing?" What are you doing? ”

As soon as the hapless mayor of Acapulco asked the question, he was struck in the chest by something, and then there was a burst of colic, why did he look down and see blood flowing from the shirt on his left breast, and in an instant it was stained red! Immediately after that, he was thrown away by Rodriguez, and the whole person fell to the ground limply, and there were gunshots, shouts, exclamations, and screams in his ears, but he couldn't make any sound.

In the end, all he could hear was the exclamations of the Rodriguez commander: "Here they are, here they are, they have come to fight us for the New World."

They? They weren't even able to figure out who they were, and it was dark before their eyes, and then they lost consciousness.

Rodriguez, who had fought in the Thirty Years' War, was much better than the aristocratic waste mayor, and he knew immediately that something was wrong, and he knew that Acapulco couldn't hold it - he ate ninety percent of the empty quota, and he still kept a fart? Gotta run!

(End of chapter)