open sea

Chapter 1212 Light
Francisco de Toledo is the viceroy of the Viceroyalty of Peru in Spain, he may also be called the king or the chief, in short, he is the master of Peru, subject only to the Spanish King Philip.

In the Governor's Mansion in Lima, Toledo is watering the plants in the garden of the mansion with a kettle.

The building of the Governor's Palace of the Spanish War has a strong Castilian style. There are two large courtyards for infantry and cavalry training. There is a garden between the gate and the armed city. All these are the establishment of the city of Lima. Built by the settler and colonist Pizarro.

In the garden are various plants brought by Pizarro from the Iberian Peninsula. Up to now, most of the plants of that year have withered and been eradicated, only this tree that crossed the sea in the hands of Pizarro has only one tree left. The sticky fig tree, nearly 50 years ago, Pizarro had already died in civil strife, but it still grows here, becoming a towering tree overlooking all living beings in the city.

At this moment, the whole city appeared to be panic-stricken.

Inca Garciso de la Vega, the commander of the Spanish Legion in helmet and armor, led the guards through the Plaza de Armas in a dusty manner. When he entered the gate of the Governor's Mansion, he turned his head and watched the potato chips drying in the distance and whispering. female worker.

The movement of Vega passing through the Governor’s Mansion and entering the back garden really startled Governor Toledo. He even dropped the watering can in his hand on the ground, which made the big dog sitting lazily basking in the sun stand up. Jianma also snorted uneasily.

The horse is a bay red ancient horse, the dog is a big and thin dog, and even the handle of the tinkling watering can is written with Liu's craftsmanship in Chinese characters.

What surprised Toledo was the face of the head of the legion. As the son of the last princess of the Incas, Vega still had a face that was almost exactly the same as that of the Ming people, even though her father was a Spanish nobleman.

Unexpectedly, he saw the tall army commander approaching with his frowning frowning and his arms on the long sword at his waist, which made the governor suddenly think that the Ming army had already entered Lima City.

When he recovered, Governor Toledo went to Vega and hugged him fiercely. He and Vega were very good friends.

Before the age of 20, Vega lived in the New World to receive education after being ruled. After the age of 20, he took a boat to Spain to receive different education, and then joined the army as an officer. He was sent back to Peru to command the army until the end of the First Minnesota War. To appease the people, Mingxi served as the army commander in southern Peru after the Second World War, guarding the Potosí silver mine and the Peru-Chile border.

The Spaniards used him for reverse osmosis.

"What's wrong in the city, I see people are very disturbed, the person who makes potato chips has been looking at me, you." Vega's chin seems to always be slightly raised, this kind of proud self-esteem should not appear in the conquered The descendant of the royal family, but the irony is that he still gets a good education and a comfortable life.

At this moment, he said to Toledo: "You were also panicked when you saw me, what happened?"

"Do you think we have a chance of winning if we start a new war with Daming?"

Vega raised his hand and buttoned his eyes, gasped slightly and looked at the governor with a funny look, as if he wanted to make sure whether the governor in front of him was sincerely asking a question or was deliberately teasing him, so he paused and said: "Since the Ming army is in There are [-] island warriors deployed in the north of Chile, and my legion can break through them quickly, and if we can seize the main road before the regular army of Ming Dynasty comes out of the desert, the war on the Chilean side should be won."

The so-called island warriors are referring to the Japanese army stationed on the defense line. Vega has been stationed at the border for a long time, relying on the common people to carry out espionage. He is familiar with the military deployment of the neighboring countries in the south. At the same time, he has long planned in his mind what will happen if a conflict occurs .

In his eyes, the island warriors belonging to various nobles lacked cavalry, muskets, and artillery due to inferior weapons and equipment. Are born with disabilities.

With such an enemy and the employment of a large number of Inca infantry lacking regular combat equipment, the combat power that can be displayed in battle may not be [-] plus [-], but it will have the opposite effect in a rout... If only a small number of elite infantry Joining the regular army of the Ming Dynasty as a flank, this armed force can demonstrate superhuman combat capabilities on the battlefield.

The infantry who have also experienced a century-long war, the samurai and ashigaru who were born in the troubled times of the Warring States period should have received a higher evaluation, but the comparison between countries has never been a long board but a short board. Their short board Too prominent in Vega's eyes.

Similar to them are the mountain infantry with rattail hair garrisoned in various city defenses. They are also a good army, but they have a small amount of cavalry. The disadvantage is that they are not equipped with muskets, but it seems that they are relatively far from the core area of ​​Daming It is closer, or because of the city defense, most of the time they will mix with some Ming regular army artillery, and use lighter large-caliber short-barreled artillery and heavy artillery unloaded from the ship to assist in defense.

The real deterrent is the regular army of Ming Dynasty who entered the desert.

"But the regular army of the Ming Dynasty made gunpowder in the desert. It's not easy to block them in the desert... It's so strange, why can the people of Ming Dynasty use sea salt and sand to make gunpowder?"

What the Ming army did in the desert is no secret to its neighbors in the north. The same appearance and similarities in words give the Peruvian people a natural spying ability. According to people in Chile, Ming has the ability to refine seawater, but it must It has to be done in the desert to turn seawater into gunpowder.

It is worth mentioning that the Peruvian language has some words similar to Ming Mandarin, so they are easy to learn.

As he said that, Vega's army leader shook his head and said to the governor: "But I don't recommend going to war with Ming Dynasty. Regardless of whether Chile can be captured or not, we will die in the end. It seems that apart from Chile, no other place can gain any advantage."

Until this moment, Vega finally asked the doubt in his heart: "Why do you want to go to war with Daming?"

"It's not that I want to go to war with Daming, do I think I've lived too long? I want to go to war with Daming." Toledo rolled his eyes angrily, bent down to pick up the watering can, shook it, put it aside, and walked Step up to the stone steps and sit down, raised his hand to call the big dog to pet him, sighed and raised his head to Vega and said: "We may all die, in a place in Colombia called Zhumapo by the Ming people, One of our regiments attacked their border guards, and how many of them were killed is not yet known."

"In the troops of the head of the Gordo army, several captains have the same caliber. They said that the confrontation was very tense. Someone fired a musket. The Ming army thought that we were attacking them, and immediately launched an attack."

"They use artillery, rockets, and things that explode..."

Captain Vega reminded: "The thunder and lightning in the palm of your hand."

"Yes, they returned fire with artillery, rockets, and lightning from the palms of their hands, and then retreated. On the way to retreat, there were two squads in succession. The first squad consisted of twelve men. The spears hit the formation, and the legion was almost defeated by them, and finally they were killed from behind by the fleeing soldiers in front because they charged too deep."

"There was another squad trying to attack the cavalry in the same way. Fortunately, they failed. I don't know how many soldiers we killed. Some said 180, and some said 270. In short, including the commander of the Gordo Army, we 240 three officers and soldiers died, another 200 soldiers died the next day or were discharged from the army due to disabilities, and more than [-] people are still in service today, and more than [-] people were injured."

Vega stared, surprised at the number of casualties in the battle: "Eighty, 180, sir, I am sure, even if we only kill eight of them, Chen Mu will not let it go, the monks in the diocese study Chen Mu Mu found that the earliest hostility towards the Spaniards in his heart probably stemmed from the fact that the Portuguese robbed six cows in the area he was defending..."

"Don't worry about these things, look at the flowers and plants all over the yard, how well they grow."

Sitting on the steps, the governor looked sad like an old farmer whose fields had failed. He hesitated to speak, and finally raised his head and said, "Have a drink with me, and let the bright years go away."

(End of this chapter)