open sea

Chapter 944 Bloodline

In the range of the equator, Daming is only a step away from connecting the entire world as one.

This kick was kicked away by Yang Ce leading the pirates.

Fu Yuan was woken up in the middle of the night. Governor Yang Tingxiang drank too much wine at the banquet the day before to welcome the commander in chief and the commanders. He insisted on dragging people to compete in archery. Archery is too elegant and should not be used. .

He dragged his two command envoys and the two Spanish half-breed regiment commanders to piss farther than anyone else.

It is conceivable how surprised Fu Yuan, the commander-in-chief of New Spain, was surprised by the news that the pirates were approaching the Gulf of Mexico delivered by escaped businessmen from Havana at the beginning of his tenure.

At least in the narrative of the merchants in the Western Kingdom, this group of pirates in strange costumes made a large-scale invasion, and the intruders were not good.

The merchants were terrified. They met the Han pirates in the waters south of Havana a few days ago. The formation of more than [-] ships lined up on the sea frightened the merchants who had never seen the world.

It's not that the merchants of the Western Kingdom have never seen pirates. They have seen pirates who are more vicious than Yang Ce, but they have never seen such a huge pirate gang.

Nearly a kilometer away, the fleet of the Han Kingdom swaggered across the sea and fired its cannons at the Spanish armed merchant ship it saw, scaring the merchant ship back to its voyage, but was still chased by the Flying Shark Fleet at an extremely fast speed, and chased it all the way to Mexico The eastern gateway of the city is the Port of Veracruz, which was abandoned by the Spaniards and then repaired by Yang Tingxiang.

The menacing pirates made the merchants dare not even manage the ship and its cargo. When they were stranded in the shallow sea, they rushed to report to Mexico City. From the backs of their hasty escape, some people saw the pirates park their warships upright to the point where they were under construction. At the pier, the soldiers were divided into two groups.

One entered the port under repair, and the other slowly set up a bonfire on the beach and buried pots for cooking.

In the imagination of the businessman, it won't be long before the port under construction will burst into flames.

Han pirates are not easy to mess with. At least during the Wanli period, the most feared pirate in Europe was not Drake, but Yang Ce, a pirate general from the Han Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty.

Even at this moment, it is only one year since his first voyage to North Africa, but in this year, he almost stopped the decades-long triangular trade by himself.

After waking up from a hangover, Fu Yuan quickly got into shape, washed up sloppily, put on his armor and galloped out of the city. At the same time, he was accompanied by a Ministry of Thousand Households who was urgently assembled in the middle of the night.

For Chen Mu, the Kingdom of Han may have something to do with him; but for Yuan, the Kingdom of Han has nothing to do with him. He didn't know that Emperor Wanli canonized the King of Han, and he didn't even know that the King of Han once fought side by side with him in Luzon. Lin Afeng.

They were stationed in the west of the city, and it only took half a moment to assemble. The Thousand Households, with infantry as the main engineer and supplemented by small cavalry artillery, carried dry food and set fire across Mexico City, marching towards the long bridge east of the city.

The New Spanish Legion stationed outside the city also reacted very quickly. The head of the mixed-race legion who lost in the pissing competition vowed to avenge his shame. Before the army was dispatched, he ordered two cavalry companies to march southeast along the official road. .

These two leading cavalry companies were tasked with exploring the way, but the most important thing was to go to Puebla, two hundred miles southeast, to protect the cathedral.

Yang Tingxiang sent Fu Yuan all the way to the long bridge in the lake outside the city, and sent [-] government servants to accompany him on horseback, with the intention of reporting back at any time so that he could learn the frontline information as soon as possible; while the deputy governor Almansa took the [-] light cavalry Yamen servants joined Fu Yuan's army.

The two soldiers and horses gathered at one place. Immediately, Qianhu of the Ming army with the Eastern Mexican Army as the forerunner and the artillery was adjourned, and rushed towards Puebla under the stars and the moon.

The quality gap between the two armies was once again vividly displayed this night.

After walking for only half an hour, when the western army stopped on both sides of the road for a break, the Ming army of Fu Yuan's tribe overtook them and became the vanguard. The donkeys carrying the artillery changed a group, and the Ming army really let go and moved forward.

It was really walking, and the cavalry of Fu Yuan's department also led the horses on foot.

Then the hundreds of households in the Ming army rested alternately, and the New Spanish soldiers of the Eastern Mexican Legion were left behind and never caught up.

Two hours later, a white belly appeared in the sky, and the first hundred households of Fu Yuan's department had already caught up with the early Spanish cavalry.

Going further, when there were only forty miles away from Puebla in the evening of the next day, even the infantry of the Eastern Mexican Legion surpassed the leading cavalry, but it was still the first to arrive at the important town of Puebla in New Spain. Spanish cavalry.

The infantry of the Ming army followed closely behind, followed by the cavalry of the Ming army leading the horses and the artillery of the Ming army leading the donkeys, and then the first seven companies of the Eastern Mexican Army and a hundred households who were left behind by the Ming army on the way to the night.

By the time the last company of the Eastern Mexican Legion arrived in Puebla, it was already the afternoon of the third day. The Ming army not only had a good sleep, but also had two meals in the square in front of the church.

There are still more than 400 miles away from the east coast, and both Fu Yuan and Almansa think that there is no need to continue marching eastward.

From Puebla to the Port of Veracruz on the east coast, there are two tribute routes that the Aztecs stepped on in the past. The transport baggage has been slightly repaired, but it is still not conducive to fast travel, and it is extremely desolate.

The northern route is 480 miles long, and the southern route is 440 miles long. The distance is similar and the terrain is similar. They have to cross valleys in the mountains to reach the east coast.

And there are indeed many aboriginal villages and sporadic plantation circles between these two roads, but they are far from the prosperity of the area from Puebla to Mexico City, and there is not much meaning of sticking to it.

They were on a plateau at this time, which meant that they walked down the mountain road to the east, and the pirates walked up the mountain road to the west, so they could wait for work with ease.

Therefore, the Fu Yuan Department was busy relying on important towns to mobilize nobles and common people to build moats, and only sent rangers to the east to search for the enemy.

The commander-in-chief Fu Yuan's idea is very simple. If the so-called pirates don't come, but go to the northern lands that belong to the Ming Dynasty but the people of the Ming Dynasty have never traveled, then let them open up wasteland and wait for them to open up. It's almost time to learn how Chen Mu drove monks to farm in the early years to pick fruits.

As for Puebla, its strategic significance is extremely important. Fu Yuan has decided to set up a guard here after the war to guard the important areas.

There was no news from the ranger until the fifth day, Fu Yuan secretly wondered if his ranger had been completely wiped out by the pirates, and only then did the scattered riders gallop back, bringing news that the pirates were approaching.

Their tactic of waiting for work is correct. The pirates have traveled extremely hard, but the news is not all good. According to the scouts, although the pirates are dressed in messy clothes and old armor, they are well-trained and march silently. More than [-]% of the firearms, know how to use firearms better than the Spanish Legion.

Moreover, they also brought artillery with the army, and the scouts alone discovered with binoculars from a distance that there were several large blunderbusses, small Francophones, etc., with powerful firepower.

This news made Fu Yuan again order to recruit the people to strengthen the ability of the fortifications to defend against shelling in the last two days.

On the 11th when the pirates dispatched troops in Mexico City, they barely reached the official road in the eastern periphery of Puebla, and furtive figures could be seen haunting the forest from a distance.

But they didn't enter the attack range of the defenders in the first place. After resting for a day and a night, they finally assembled their forces in the early morning of No. 13 and formed a horizontal line to press down on the city wall.

Fu Yuan also assigned the former army to enter the fortifications, and he wanted to show these ignorant pirates a little color in the first battle.

As a result, when the two armies confronted each other, Fu Yuan was dumbfounded.

The Eastern Banner Army and the pirates set up the same horizontal formation, and the artillery was also set up outside the enemy's attack range. The soldiers of the Eastern Banner Army and the pirates holding bird guns also walked towards each other with high spirits. At one end, the drum music familiar to Beiyang military officers sounded, and at the same time, it stopped when it was about to reach the range of the opponent's artillery.

Pay Yuan Mingjin.

The pirates on the opposite side and his banner army used the same tactics and mastered almost the same skills. The drums in the formation were played by Chen Mu in the infantry drill code formulated by Chen Mu in the Nanyang Guard era, while his military band was played by the Beiyang soldiers from the previous year. A general's order to establish a new infantry drill code.

"Damn it, this pirate is more related to our Ming army than Lao Tzu and Dan'er's family!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)