As scheduled in the seventh year of Wanli, Changsheng County was decorated with lanterns, and the orders of the Oriental Military Government were reported to various places along the west coast as early as the previous year, and all the officials and soldiers took turns to rest in January to ensure that no one could get 15 days of leave, and also to ensure that each yamen was on duty during the New Year.

Cheng Baihu, the captain of the shark ship of the Caribbean escort fleet, was satisfied with a battlefield record titled 'Puerto Rico is rampant, and the true monarch of the Caribbean Sea is manifested' framed and hung in the temple of the ever-victorious dragon and tiger Daojun, and then set off for the military palace to report to the commander what he had seen and heard at sea.

Chen Mu has often gotten together with military preachers recently to study how to further deepen the idea of the Oriental Flag Army fighting for the country, after all, the Ming Dynasty's current expansion war is more demanding than the domestic war of counterattacking the invasion.

Of course, if this is used as a recruitment, I am afraid that Chen Mu is thinking a little far, in fact, he just wants to rely on spiritual construction to keep the combat effectiveness of the flag army from declining, and he is still doing his best in training - in a short period of time, the Oriental Military Government did not plan any war.

In the early morning of the twelfth day of the twelfth day of Yang Tingxiang's past, two companies of soldiers stationed southeast of Mexico City, led by officers of the Western Army, attempted to attack the laxly defended Governor's Palace.

As a result, before they could lead the troops to cross two streets, they were caught up by friendly troops behind them, and after some infighting, they waited for them to reach the armed square, and were shot and routed by the 60 Ming army banner soldiers who had been waiting for a long time after hearing the news.

In the report that was sent back to Chang Sheng, Yang Tingxiang mentioned very seriously that the combat effectiveness of the Western Army is not as good as it is year by year.

Whoever loses to an army one after another for several years, never wins even a single one, panic continues to spread among the army, and the Spaniards have no experience in containing this situation, the first thought of the soldier when he sees the flag army raising his weapon is to drop his weapons and flee for his life, and the originally strict formation will be scattered in one face, and the combat effectiveness is not low.

Alva was clearly aware of the situation, and only when Yang Tingxiang learned that Alva had sent three messengers to Madrid a year ago to inquire about the attack on the Portuguese succession.

Not only did the original Spanish army suffer from this problem, but even the army he brought with him from Spain was infected by this fear, and he desperately needed to pick a soft persimmon and pinch it to restore the morale of the army of the king of European lands.

In fact, the old iron-blooded duke of the Western Kingdom has been consulting war reports and documents for half a year, and has obtained information from every lucky person who has experienced the war that allows him to deduce every conflict in the Mingxi War.

The result made him a little doubtful that the Spanish army, which had once dominated the world, could still fight, and he needed to prove it to the Portuguese army.

Fifty plate knights with hundreds of ironclad guards can defeat from the assault of hundreds of infantry without spears?

In Europe, a few knights standing on the battlefield with their horses on their shoulders could scare the peasant soldiers recruited from the mud legs into scattering and fleeing.

In the end, the Duke of Alva could only attribute the outcome of this war to the fact that the Ming Dynasty had no knights, and the knights were naturally not their rulers, and their soldiers only had a simple fear of horses and no fear of knights on horses.

Maybe it would be much better to replace fifty county magistrates with their horses and attack the Ming army's front.

In view of the relatively stable situation in the New World, Chen Mu did not have a plan to send the Beiyang Army of the Second Guard to the battlefield in the near future, but sent them to the masses.

How to make the flag army not slack off in this situation has become the biggest problem in the training of the battle array skills.

"Pirates of France? Go back and tell you General Li, if there is a living mouth, I will give him a boat, let him go back and bring a message, and if he dares to approach the New World, he will sink as much as he wants. ”

Chen Mu stared at the map behind him, his eyes kept wandering between the New World and the Old World of Europe, and he heard Zhao Shizhen beside him ask with some excitement: "There is another war?" ”

Zhao Shizhen still couldn't hold back, and last month in the Ordnance Bureau of Changsheng County, he built the Thunderbolt he designed a few years ago.

It is a large shield with eight guns, the range and power are slightly closer than the bird's guns, but the firepower is strong, if necessary, it can be fired eight times within ten breaths, and it was ridiculed by Chen Mu and Juniper as a new type of individual firearm for ugly guys.

Chen Mu only approved the construction of thirty corpses and sent them to the front line under the command of Xu Jin, a hundred households under Fu Yuan's subordinates, and waited until there would be another skirmish to see the effect, and as a result, the Ming army and the Western army seemed to be in a long-term peace, which made him impatient.

At this time, when he heard that there was a familiar Europa country on the east coast that had a conflict with Li Dan, he immediately became overjoyed, and he didn't ask what was going on, he immediately hugged his fists and said: "Dashuai, let Xu Baihu go, let Xu Baihu go!" ”

Chen Mu, who was staring at the map, turned his head and looked at the technical nerd who pretended to be a war maniac for a long time in surprise, and then raised his eyebrows on the table and said, "Go and check, what is the name of the King of France." ”

The smallest mechanical unit was no match for the largest mechanical unit, so he immediately died down, went to the table to rummage through the books with his head down, and said weakly for a moment: "Call the third one." ”

Don't forget to complain about arranging Chen Mu: "Hmph, Fei, Fei, Chen." ”

As soon as Zhao Shizhen said this, Chen Mu remembered, raised his hand and pointed a bamboo whip on the map of France, and said: "The name is Henry III, but the name Fei Lao Er is good." ”

"I'm disappointed to you, I can't fight, the first thing to fight pirates is not to declare war with the pirate country, we don't have the ability to cross the sea to find the bad luck of France now, not to mention that even if we sink their warship in the Caribbean, Henry III will not declare war on us as long as his head is not broken."

Spain is not far away, the Habsburgs still have overseas colonies to lose, France has no colonies to lose, but as long as the Ming army kills the other side of the war, although the drifting past may not have the ability to start a battle, so many towns along the coast of France are all the first to bear the brunt, not to mention that this is destined to be a war where only I fight you, and I don't have you to fight me.

Philippe would not allow the French fleet to cross the Atlantic to cut off his treasure routes, let alone allow France to get their hands on the New World, even if only a third of the New World belonged to Spain.

"Guess what Fei Lao Er is willing to do to keep the Viceroyalty of Peru?"

Chen Mu was originally showing off his geographical location to replace England as a big European-stirring stick, but when he followed this line of thought, his thoughts became clear, and he raised his hand to polish his beard and said: "Eh, in this way, it seems that France is at war with us, which seems to be a great good thing." ”

"The French fleet is sailing into the Caribbean, Fei Lao Er will definitely fight him, and the troops that pack up the Portuguese Alva will turn around and go north, will we have a lot of orders for birds, artillery and even warships?"

"Spain's wealth will enter the constant victory, exchange a large number of birds, artillery, this kind of meaningless war will make the West and France weak, not to mention the Ming Dynasty, we can also buy a lot of raw materials from it, and accept the technical talents displaced or disgusted by the war, right!"

"That's right, this is the role that Da Ming will play in the future, I need people, I need a sophisticated pirate army, is there any way to contact Lin Afeng? We're going to have a good plan! ”