open sea

Chapter 1209 Frontier Defense
Lautaro's injury was serious.

Before the siege of Cali was lifted, Lautaro was sent by his soldiers to Medellin, which is now the southern border of Youjing of the Ming Empire, for medical treatment.

However, there are only ordinary military doctors in Maicheng, and Lautaro's subordinates have sent riders to Panama to seek better help from Deng Zilong.

This is also the point that most criticized the Viceroy of Peru in Spain.

There is no capture of cities and land in Colombia. As long as Lautaro lays down a piece of land and drives out the Spanish Legionnaires, they will never have a chance to take it back.

Because behind Lautaro, the Ming Youjing Defender Banner Army will move the border markers over, and the Banner Army will drag the tiger squatting cannon with the bird guns to pull out the alert. All helpless.

As long as Lautaro's soldiers retreated thirty miles back, they would flee into the territory of Daming. Every Daming athlete, who was stronger than a calf, would show his guns and muzzles when the Spanish pursuers approached, pointing at the boundary markers to let the west The army retreated ten miles.

Give Lautaro time to calmly organize his army on the border, and accumulate strength to go out again.

The Ming army said that this land was given to Daming by Lautaro. They didn't say anything else to the Spaniards, so they asked: If I give you the land, would you like it?So I want, he gave me land, why should I destroy him?You want me to destroy him, at least give me the same benefits, right?In this way, you divided me half of the land of Peru, and I cleaned it up for you.

The fact that the Viceroy of Peru has no right to dispose of Peruvian lands does not stand in itself.

What is the most annoying thing?
It was the Ming army who did not fight with them, they just stood there to scare people; they did not object to the Spanish legionnaires crossing the border, and even introduced the terms of the "Mingxi-Mexico Treaty" to the Spanish soldiers in both Chinese and Western languages. According to the regulations, as a friendly As an ally, any Spaniard can enter Daming's three places in Asia, Youjing, Changsheng, and Mexico at a fixed position—as long as you pay taxes.

"Everyone doesn't know, Ukyo is a commercial hub, and merchants in the southeast and northwest all have to leave here." The general banner guarding the tax card talked eloquently, facing the commander of the Spanish Legion and the Western Army who could not see the side behind him. The Peruvian Legion stretched out their sinful hands with their palms facing upwards: "Three and a half two for customs duties, thanks for the benefits."

The head of the legion stared at the general flag officer of the Ming Dynasty who was covered with a thick armor and was sweating profusely for a long while. He used his mathematical ability to quickly calculate this complicated math problem in his mind. Dividing three thousand by three equals ...Equals to one hundred, no, equals to one thousand!
The full-strength Peruvian army sent from Cali to pursue the wounded Lautaro was not deterred by the landmines and cold-fired wooden cannons on the way, but was intimidated by the one thousand and a half taels of travel expenses.

It's not that the legion commander has no money. The Western Legion stationed in Peru is the richest army. Their salary is only three months in arrears at most, and they are much richer than others. Every soldier can afford this travel expenses.

But the head of the legion knew very well that as long as he asked his subordinates to pay the import tax in the name of borrowing money, regardless of whether he could catch Lautaro, the governor of Peru would not reimburse him for the money.

Ever since the land in the south was handed over to Shao Tinda of Chile, Peru's finances have gone from bad to worse... Although they don't know what's going on, it should be related to Chile in the south. Their prices are always more expensive than Chile, and some people will bring things from Chile When sold to Peru, some people will come here to buy slaves to take back, and more slaves will escape to Chile.

Those short Japanese soldiers that Shao Tingdab placed on the border would always talk to them and talk to them like "how about the southern barbarians" would use all kinds of excuses to say that they were lost, and take a few slaves across the border-at all There is no way to reason with them.

Under such conditions, in order to ensure the production of silver mines and transport for the king, other expenses in Peru have been reduced to the extreme. The head of the legion is very sure that no one will check off this extra expense for him.

This is almost his living expenses for two years.

Deliberately send three scouts into the customs to track down the enemy, and hand over one and a half taels, before the soldiers could go in, the soldiers behind the general flag of the Ming army fell down again: "Don't go through the customs, please dismount and untie your weapons The armor is stored here, and the tax for large animals is one and a half taels, and for three horses, it is three and a half taels."

"What if my people without weapons died in the past?"

The head of the legion was going crazy with anger. He felt that the captain of the Ming army on the opposite side was teasing him. He suppressed his beating heart and said angrily: "I am the head of the Peruvian legion, a Spanish nobleman. Three thousand soldiers, you are only a small captain of the Ming army, how dare you stop me!"

Unexpectedly, he was not in a hurry to say this, the Ming Army Xiaozongqi on the opposite side sneered first, rolled his eyes and at the same time slowly covered his outstretched hand, and the half tael made by Changsheng fell into his palm. When he got to the ground, he retracted his arm and pressed it on the handle of the knife at his waist. He tilted his head and spat: "It doesn't work if you say it right? Nobles, legion commanders, three thousand troops?"

"I am the defender of Daming Youjing, Tang Dazhang, the general banner of frontier defense, and my brother is 55."

As he spoke, Tang Dazhang pulled out his mirrored waist knife and drew a line on the ground with the tip of the knife: "At the border of Ming Dynasty, if you don't pay taxes, even if you are the governor of Peru and bring 3 people, get out of the same way. Today You are the head of the legion, if you dare to step forward, we will see who you are tomorrow!"

The low sound of buffalo horns came from the sentry tower erected on the tree. The bannermen came out of the army tents, and the small banner officers competed to form a team. , Two flag soldiers carried tiger squat guns as if nothing happened, trotting past the commander of the Western Army and Tang Dazhang, the general banner of the Ming Army, nailed them in front of the two sides, and began to reload the ammunition.

There was no sign of anyone in the simple watchtower temporarily set up on the tree. After the horn sounded for a while, a general flag quiver was stretched out.

The response from the Western Army was similar. Accompanied by the sound of orderly footsteps, the three rows of spearmen set up their spears in different postures. The front was ready to stab, and at the edge of the road congested by soldiers, a column of arquebus soldiers was trying to move to the front of the formation.

The legion commander's throat shrouded in the armor moved vigorously astride the horse.

Although he didn't want to admit it, the Ming army captain in front of him was telling the truth.

Of course, he can break through this line of defense composed of 56 Ming troops without any effort; this may not lead to a war between the two countries, but who will he be tomorrow?

I'm afraid the governor will tie him up and send him to Chen Mu in order to avoid war.

He nodded fiercely, took a deep look at the general flag of the Ming army, turned his horse's head and gave his subordinates an order to retreat.

The soldiers were aggrieved and helpless, so they could only reluctantly turn back.

At this moment, for some reason, an arquebus shot towards the sky in front of the Western Army's formation... and fired.

(End of this chapter)