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Chapter 1326 Victory in the first battle
"Get rid of the king's lackeys! Let the vampires go to God!"

But today's San Marcos University has changed from its former peaceful academic atmosphere. It is now in chaos, with some students with ribbons tied on their heads gathering together, shouting slogans and attacking other students.

"Carlos, the situation has already been stirred up, should we withdraw first?" Compared to the noisy campus, the library tower was much quieter. Two figures stood on the left and right of the window, looking at the chaos outside and talking in a low voice.

"I don't know if these guys can make things worse... why don't we just give them a push and make the fire burn even more fiercely?"

The man called Carlos seemed dissatisfied with the students' actions. He looked outside, then looked back at the library under the stairs and made a suggestion in a gloomy voice.

"Fire...you are going to burn this place down! Isn't this too crazy?" Another person looked down in the direction Carlos was looking and immediately realized what his companion was going to do. A trace of panic appeared on his face.

"Jesus, you can't take back the dice you've rolled. Since we've received the order and put it into action, why should we give up halfway? You'll have no problem listening to me. As long as we complete this mission, once the Ming army captures Lima, our good days will come!"

Carlos was a little excited, gesturing with his hands to explain to his companions the necessity of doing so. Due to the large movements, the hood slipped off, revealing a face with obvious white features, but darker hair and skin color, probably around 40 years old.

"Can the Ming army really capture Lima? This is not a small fishing village like Guayaquil. The thick stone walls are impassable to naval guns. The Apurímac River is also impassable for large sailing ships, so it is difficult to capture it."

Jesus was not wearing a hood at all. He was slightly younger than Carlos, but had similar facial features. Both were of mixed European and white descent, that is, mestizo.

But there are more detailed divisions among the Mestizos. The mixed-race children of European whites and Indians have the highest status, followed by the descendants of Mestizos and European whites, known as Castizos. The mixed-race children of European whites and African blacks have the lowest status, known as Mulattos.

"If it's really as indestructible as you say, the Governor's wife wouldn't have left the city in such a hurry. When I was cleaning this morning, I heard the professors whispering that the Governor and the Bishop were shipping valuables to Percy, several carriages a day, protected by the army, and it's been going on for a long time!"

Carlos seemed to have made up his mind to burn down the library whether his companions were willing or not, as he walked down the stairs.

"But there are still thousands of troops and hundreds of cannons in the city!" Jesus made excuses not to light the fire and followed him down the stairs.

"Didn't you hear what the sailors on the ship said? The Ming Navy's cannons can fire very far, and the Peninsular's cannons can't reach them at all. Here's the lamp oil. Sprinkle it on the bookshelf and light it, and then meet at the stairs leading to the basement."

Carlos kept talking while he kept walking. He took out two cans of grease from the utility room with ease, gave one to Jesus, and started pouring it on the bookshelf.

"Wait, Carlos! If the Ming army occupies this place, will they be better than the people of the Peninsula?" Jesus quickly grabbed his companion's arm and solemnly raised a key question. They did this to help the Ming army capture Lima, but if the Ming army's life after ruling was not much better than that of the Spaniards, then there was no need to mess around.

"...I have never been to the places ruled by the Ming Empire. I have only heard about it from Portuguese sailors. In view of the uninterrupted funding over the years, I would rather believe that the Emperor of the Ming Empire is more trustworthy than the King of Spain. After all, we have never been to Spain!"

Carlos was really stumped by the question. He stood there and thought hard, but there seemed to be no direct answer. However, he had another way of explaining it. It was a fact that the Spanish were rotten, but it was unknown whether the Ming Empire was rotten or not. Anyway, it was already rotten like this, and there would be no chance of recovery in this lifetime. He might as well give it a try, just in case he came across a less rotten one!
"Okay, see you at the basement stairs!" Jesus agreed with his companion's unconventional explanation. He was very happy and took action immediately after thinking it through. He walked to the other end with the can, pouring grease on the bookshelf as he walked.

Judging from their skin color and appearance, Carlos and Jesus should be from Castile, so they are definitely not college students. This can also be confirmed by their age, but how could they appear in the tower of the university library and set fire to the library?

This is a long story and it goes back many years, but to put it simply, when Wang Datou was in the Statistics Bureau, he developed a non-staff intelligence officer in the Viceroyalty of Peru through Portuguese merchants in Macau.

After so many years, except for a few times of transmitting intelligence, it has never been officially used. If it is not used this time, it is estimated that it will not be used in the future. The Advisory Office simply handed the list to the General Staff Headquarters, and the Military Statistics Department decided whether to use it and how to use it.

Ten days ago, 15 cargo ships and 7 warships quietly entered the Bay of Guayaquil under the cover of night, sailed north along the Guayas River in double columns, and suddenly appeared outside the Port of Guayaquil at : in the morning.

Before the Spanish defenders in Guayaquil could react, the first two hundred soldiers of the army had already landed in small boats and quickly occupied the dock. Then, one cargo ship after another approached, and soldiers and equipment filed off, and after a brief assembly, they immediately launched an attack on nearby high-value targets.

In less than two hours, the port of Guayaquil was declared to have fallen. Most of the 2-plus Spanish defenders were trapped in the barracks and surrendered. An unknown number of mercenaries put up sporadic resistance, but at daybreak they fled the city in a hurry and their whereabouts were unknown.

When the residents of Guayaquil saw the Ming army wearing gray clothes and holding muskets all over the city, they still didn't know what was going on. Because they couldn't move around freely, they had several small-scale conflicts with the army.

It was not until the local bishop was brought out of bed, put on a carriage and traveled through the streets preaching in Latin and the native language for more than an hour that the people in the city learned that the Spaniards had been driven away and the city had changed hands.

It seems to have been occupied by a group of people who claim to be the Ming Empire Army. They look fierce and difficult to talk to. They look very different from Europeans and look a bit like the indigenous people here.

As for where the Ming Empire came from, why it wanted to capture the port of Guayaquil, and who it should listen to in the future, there are definitely still a lot of people who are not very clear.

(End of this chapter)