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Chapter 802 Eating Iron
The reverberation of hoofs treading on the ground came from the canyon, and a group of more than ten riders approached Acapulco from the direction of Mexico City.

The monk Acosta on the horse's back looked down at the huge red-painted boulder standing beside the road where the corpses were once strewn across the field, and read out the Chinese characters on it: "Chang, Changsheng County?"

He reined in the reins, raised his arm and pointed forward to the guarding knight beside him, "Sir, that's the watchtower of the Ming army. They seem to have renamed Acapulco Changsheng County."

The hand in the knight's gauntlet held the reins tightly, put down the visor on the helmet, and slightly raised his head to the entourage wearing mail armor behind him.

The two retinue riders each held a banner and drove forward.

The Ming army stationed in the canyon had discovered them a long time ago. The troops stationed in the canyon were Chen Mu's personal soldiers, and the leader was Lian Dou. He was looking at the dazzling Western army knights in the distance with a binoculars, frowning, and said to his subordinates. Said: "Close the door, the infantry enters the barrier wall, you go to inform the second master."

The Chinese pronunciation is still a bit blunt, but the leader of the soldiers speaks very coherently.

It's normal for him to dislike the knights of the Western Army. Seven brothers under his command who lived together day and night were killed in battle with the knights of the Western Army in the Battle of the Canyon.

The subordinates led the order, and the garrisoned soldiers, militiamen and a team of inspectors entered the barrier wall. A row of bird guns was set up, and the bows and arrows of the militiamen and inspectors were stringed, and the feather arrows were held in their hands.

After the battle of the canyon, the barrier walls and trenches here were not only not dismantled, but were further strengthened, and two watchtowers were built. Lian Dou waved his hand on them, and the assistant defense chief below filled them with bright bows.

The feathered arrow slanted at an extremely fast speed, and the strength of the downward stroke in mid-air was reduced by half. Finally, it was nailed to the ground a hundred and fifty steps away, and the arrow feather trembled slightly.

Lian Dou squinted his eyes and looked deep into the valley road. The arrow was very effective. A group of knights from the Western Army stationed their horses outside the place where the arrow fell, but he immediately raised his hand and said: "Riders don't go, then What is it?"

The rider in charge of delivering the order was just about to start his horse and was about to leave. Hearing this sound, he hurriedly reined in his horse. Everyone behind the barrier looked at the Western Army. He rode his horse forward and galloped dozens of steps before circling in the valley with the flag raised.

A rider on the left holds the red cross flag of New Spain, which is familiar to the Ming army they have dealt with many times, but the other rider is different.

Lian Dou looked at the big white flag with a white circle on it, two black circles on top of the white circle, and two black circles inside. Like a wise man, he raised his two fingers and stretched into the depths of the valley road, and asked, "Where is that?" what?"

The soldiers who had been with Chen Mu for a long time squinted their eyes and said with a smile, "It's an iron-eating beast. Before the battle, Shao Shuai asked someone to bring it to Bernal, so that he could hold it up when he wanted to surrender." .”

"Then what should I do?" Lian Dou was a little embarrassed, the current situation was very difficult, he took down the binoculars and asked to the left and right: "Shall I draw a side too?"

"No, no, we won, we won't draw." The old soldier quickly stopped Lian Dou's strange thoughts, and said, "Don't worry about them, they will definitely send someone over."

Sure enough, not long after, seeing that the Ming army did not express anything, monk Acosta said a few words to the knights beside him, as if trying to dispel their worries, and then he walked down the archery building alone, holding the reins Come.

However, a hundred and fifty steps away, Acosta walked cautiously, his back was wet with sweat, he clenched his fists funny on the horse, raised his head and said to the Ming army on the arrow tower: "I am the envoy sent by Spain to discuss peace, Bring the terms of the Duke of Alva."

"Oh, the Spanish messenger..."

Lian Dou pressed the knife with one hand and pointed downwards with the other, "Get down from the horse and wait."

Chen Mu's domineering was obvious to all, even if a general who looked like a low-ranking officer of the Ming army said such a thing, Acosta obediently got off his horse, stood aside and waited, and finally bowed his hands to the arrow tower with a smile.

It's not worth being angry with Chen Mu and Chen Mu's people at all.

They are not normal people at all in Acosta's eyes.

Under normal circumstances, even in Europe, the threat of war can scare others, but it is impossible to scare Spain. After all, their king Philip is the most militaristic king in Europe, and even France Francois I, the most devout Christian The king was forced to form a sacrilege alliance with Osman.

But Chen Mu is different. The second Mingxi war made Acosta realize clearly that Chen Mu did not blindly believe in force and use blackmail to obtain the desired role.

In the report that Acosta gave to Duke Alba on the Second War in Mingxi, there was a page of his personal style analysis of Chen Mu, the commander of the Ming army. This analysis was different from the analysis made by those scholars in Spain.

Acosta came up with a conclusion—the commander-in-chief of the Ming army was actually very down-to-earth, and even a little noble.

This analysis made the nobles around the Duke of Alva sneer. In the public perception, Chen Mu is an out-and-out devil, and being nailed to the stake for 1000 years can’t offset the crime. Acosta actually said that he is very real. ?

But after Alva read the report, he also supported Acosta's theory. Of course, it didn't mean that the Jagged Duke also thought that Chen Mu was noble, but that the old Duke supported the monk's argument—causing this kind of 'noble' result to be different from Chen Mu's. Mu himself has nothing to do with it.

After Acosta’s close observation in the enemy’s camp, people in the Ming Dynasty generally had “weakness” in their personalities. They had great “tolerance” and always tried to find a better way to deal with the situation before the situation deteriorated. Turn things around and pay little attention to anything outside of yourself.

Chen Mu is a disgrace to a wise man. He has very little weakness, very little tolerance, and always likes to stretch his arms to focus on things other than himself.

But it is this weak weakness and tolerance that makes Acosta's conclusion correct, that is, Chen Mu is very real.

In the port occupied by the Ming army, the monk Acosta made many insinuations, and there is enough evidence to show that before the war, Chen Mu had already decided to seize land for the Ming Dynasty in the New World, even before he landed. Up to two years.

So it is not wrong for the Western Army to lose the war, but even so, Chen Mu still gave the Western Army the best result for both sides before the war-a trade treaty in exchange for land.

Regarding the continued contact between Chen Mu and the Ming Kingdom, Acosta's suggestion to Duke Alva was to refer to Chen Mu's proposal more, try not to provoke him, and use peaceful means in exchange for the greatest benefit.

Thinking back to the old Duke's sigh, Acosta under the Arrow Tower also sighed silently: They are used to dealing with Chen Mu and will suffer losses, or even suffer big losses. This situation has become a normal phenomenon in everyone's mind, and the purpose of all measures It's all just trying to suffer as little as possible.

This is probably a special experience that Spain has never had.

Fortunately, Chen Mu didn't keep Acosta waiting too long.

The messenger brought Chen Mu's family cavalry, and the horses in the canyon moved away amidst the sound of running horses' hooves, and the gate opened for Acosta.

More than a dozen cavalrymen of the Western Army walked out within a hundred steps. Acosta, who was standing at the mouth of the canyon, looked at the port village, his mouth was so open that he couldn't close it.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)