open sea

Chapter 759
The Aztec Crown Road is a pillar of ancient history watching everything that happened in this land.

The road vibrated slightly, and two tall and strong Andalusian horses roared forward. Two scouts in dark yellow plate armor stopped the horses one after another. crossbow.

Plate armor focuses on the word plate armor. On the basis of the cotton armor of the Aztecs, large or small pieces of armor are nailed inside, densely covering the entire armor, which is basically the same as the cloth armor.

It seems that this kind of heavy cavalry should not be used as scouts, which obviously needs light missions, but in fact, the scout cavalry in Spain is more than this, and their plate armor knights sometimes serve as scouts Task.

The whole of Europe except Spain does not do this.

There are too many nobles in Spain. The landed knights are nobles, the landless are also nobles, the mestas who raise sheep are nobles, and the explorers of the New World create noble professions in batches. Although the king and the country have gone bankrupt several times , but the Spaniards - just rich!
Even if the biggest profit is made by the Milanese and the Dutch, they are still rich!

Because in most of the time, although Milan and the Netherlands earned most of Spain's gold and silver, Milan and the Netherlands belonged to Spain.

When infantry regiments and sword and shield soldiers replaced dismounted knights, it was no longer a day or two for Spanish bankrupt knights and light cavalry to rob jobs. There was no way, life forced them.

The two heavy cavalry continued to move forward after scanning their surroundings. Within three moments, four scout teams composed of cavalry and infantry passed by here and walked west along the official road. Take the direction of the port of Acapulco.

Then the phalanx came rushing forward with rhythmic steps, the sergeant holding the Habsburg cross and the New Spain cross shouted the password, and the sergeant major who was walking beside the army turned the command stick in his hand, looking sternly from time to time. Swept across the marching army formation.

As the disciplined Spanish phalanx departed, the chaotic pace of the New Spanish levies animated the official route, followed by a procession of nobles or knights.

These people have no military rank, and they are not even Spanish professional soldiers. Although they have trained martial arts since childhood, they were recruited by the West India Committee this time. war.

Every nobleman is followed by more or less cavalry and infantry, some with their retinues, and some simply have their own company of conquerors.

In order to deal with this war that was related to the survival of New Spain, even the colonists who were engaged in a tug-of-war with the huge aborigines in Miami rushed over and joined the war on the opposite side of the Ming Dynasty.

No doubt they were well equipped.

It is difficult to distinguish the army of the nobles from the escort of the merchants. In this era, they still retain the medieval method of logistics supply. When the regular army comes out, the merchants who came to inquire will flock.

Because there are always lonely knights who like to ambush merchants, this will inevitably affect the quality of caravan guards. Some merchants also have their own guard groups like those nobles, and even have their own company in the New World, employing elite soldiers who have retired from the regular army As the guard leader.

When doing business, a guard company that looks armed to the teeth and disciplined can significantly increase the success rate of transactions.

Those who sell weapons, medicine, armor, snacks, horseshoes, fodder, and harness. There will even be merchants driving war horses, black servants pushing old stone cannons, Sitting on the prostitute, he followed the army slowly.

No one noticed that whenever they passed a section of the road, one or several pairs of eyes suddenly opened under the towering trees with dead wood and rotting leaves piled up in the roadside forest, and stared at them indifferently. everything.

These people can stay motionless for several hours without eating or drinking, and only stretch their limbs covered with damp soil and rotten leaves during the march of the brigade, dig out the dry and hard sesame seeds wrapped in the package from the ground, mix them with the pre-broken sauce cake balls Swallow it down.

Then continue to close your eyes, quietly listening to the noisy marching sound on the official road in the distance among the rotten leaves and dead branches.

After it was finally confirmed that the march was over, the men in the plain-colored middle school who were covered with muddy soil or covered with leaves some stood up from the mud, some climbed down from the trees, moved their stiff bodies a few times, and found out from the bushes. Put on the concealed weapons and turn back to hide in the jungle.

Lin Manjue built three houses for himself in the jungle west of Mexico City within a period of ten days. He likes the one on the tree the most, the one under the ground is too damp, and the one on the ground is close to the river for bathing but too vulnerable to bugs. attack.

The old general was throwing a layer of fluffy palm leaves under the sleeping mat of the tree house when the first guerrilla banner reported to him the news that the Western Army was leaving the city in large numbers.

"So fast?"

Lin Manjue slowly climbed down from the tree.

He thought that the guerrilla flag soldiers would live thirty miles outside Mexico City for a month or two, and their new home was packed.

"The situation is not good. The commander-in-chief thinks that we have the talent to be savages, so we don't care if we throw it outside. The current port defense is empty, and the Western Army is in such a big battle."

Lin Manjue said that the situation was not good, but he didn't act in a hurry. He raised his hand slowly to dig his ears, and saw the black dirt on his fingernails bounced off. Then he said to the looking for subordinates: "First Don't worry, go to Tasco to die in the north, the official road of Taxco, the Western Army hasn't left yet?"

"No, this road leads directly to the port. People and horses walked intermittently for two hours. The thousands in front are like an army, and the thousands in the back are like outings."

"Outing Qing, Xiyi is only Qingming, so they can't catch up. They can still try if they stay overnight."

The Western Army walks the official road, and it is not tiring to walk twenty miles a day. They walk through the dense forests in the mountains. If they can walk seven or eight miles a day, they are lucky, and they are prone to accidents. Even if they disperse, the speed is hard to compare with others Large troops are marching on the official road.

Not to mention that the soldiers of the guerrilla army are now scattered in the north and south of the official road, even if they gather in one place, it will be difficult to catch up, let alone fight with the Western Army.

The guerrilla flag army didn't understand what it meant, and excitedly said: "Night attack tonight? General, I think they have both men and women, and the night attack will probably win!"

Lin Manjue shook his head slowly, took out the tobacco leaves from his waist and smelled them, and said: "Report the letter, go and pick a few young people with good physical strength and not get lost, don't rest tonight, run all the way west, be sure to pass this on in the morning Report it to Chen Shuai."

"In addition, pick someone to ride my horse out, let's just ride this one to Taxco, and there will be black general's riders, let them tell Chen Shuai the news on the official road over there... I hope I can catch up .”

Lin Manjue knew that Shao Tingda didn't bring artillery and spears to fight with the Western Army in the field, so he wouldn't let his subordinates suffer the same loss.

Fighting the Spanish Legion?

Fuck it.

"Go and send an order that all the camps will put down the luggage first and store them well. Each person will bring water and food for three days and gather on the official road. Afterwards, three hundred households will go to explore Mexico City. If the defense is empty, they will take it away. .”

"The rest of us, let's take the official road and follow the rut of the Western Army. We will go when he goes, and we will stop when he stops. Wait for him to turn around."

(End of this chapter)