When General Bernal boarded the ship leaving Mexico City, the Spaniards who watched it let out a loud boo, which was already the most polite and restrained action of every citizen of Mexico City.

The citizens of Mexico City, of course, do not include real Mexicans, but are Spaniards whose parents came from the Old World to the New World, and they themselves grew up in the New World and are accustomed to life and death.

So when Duke Alva tried to stop the young men who were throwing stones along the shores of Lake Texcoco, his lieutenant whispered, "If it were in the Old World, people like him would have been killed in their dreams." ”

"Behind thousands of soldiers there are thousands of families."

The adjutant was about to say something more, but was interrupted by the old duke's indifferent eyes when he turned his head: "Put away these words, even if these thousands of people don't die, the 20,000 people who died on Guam won't be able to come back." ”

"Our war with the Ming Kingdom started a few years ago, not because Bernal declared war, if he was wrong, he only did one thing wrong."

Before the ship had gone far, the Duke of Alva had turned around and walked towards the governor's residence at the end of the street, surrounded by guards, leaving a word.

"Send a letter to Acapulco and ask if the madman is willing to negotiate an armistice."

In the eyes of the old duke, Bernal really did only one thing wrong - he didn't win.

The Duke of Alva has been fighting horses for 30 years, and he has almost smoked all of Europe, especially France, which is also huge, and the car has been overturned several times, and he has seen the war and interests thoroughly.

There is no such thing as a war that is guaranteed to be lost, and if it is lost, it means that the war is not over.

They lost Guam a few years ago, and Mexico looks like they have lost again, which proves that they are not losing the war itself, but something else.

Now the old duke urgently needs to find out what it is.

When the messenger arrived in the port of Acapulco, the entire port village was still in mourning.

But what scared him more than his grief was the cleared battle of the valley, the battle of the valley was now in Mexico City, and he knew very well that a terrible war had broken out here just a few days ago, but now it was as if it had never happened.

But in the woods not far from the mouth of the canyon, you can faintly see low hills, the hills are covered with straw mats, and the bottom seems to be stacked large water tanks.

"Out of concern for the safety of the monks, I do not plan to ask about the deployment of the Ming army in the port after the war, and I hope that the monks can convey the contents of the letter to General Chen Mu of the Ming army."

"First of all, please introduce me to Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, a loyal to His Majesty Philip, who has been appointed by the king to come from the Old Continent to deal with the trade agreement."

Under the large mourning hall set up in the port, the Ming soldiers tied their heads with cloth tied around their helmets, and the tall altar was placed with layers of spiritual seats and ashes lacquer boxes, and the spirit flags danced in the wind, and Chen Mu sat under the hall to listen to Acosta slowly read the letter of Duke Alva.

Seeing that Chen Mu didn't say anything, he raised his finger and tapped it, Acosta continued: "After landing, I already know that New Spain and the Ming Kingdom have entered a state of war, this is a misunderstanding, just like my intention, the king did not give the order to start a war with the Ming Kingdom, on the contrary, His Majesty is happy to see trade with the Ming Kingdom. ”

"It is not in our interest for either of us to continue this war, and I have not come to the New World to fight against you, and I am ready to convey to Peru and elsewhere the order not to send any more troops, and if your Excellency wishes to cease fighting, please likewise have the troops everywhere stop marching and no longer engage our army."

"Inform Brother Acosta of the precise terms of the agreement of the Ming Kingdom, and let him return to Mexico City, and later I will send someone to inform Spain of its opinion, and there is no need to hurry, we can talk for a long time."

Brother Acosta was a sincere man, and he even pronounced the last sentence as it was: "Say hello to General Chen on my behalf." ”

After that, the monk stood obediently to the side and bowed his head slightly, since the battle a few days ago, Acosta obviously felt that every time he saw Chen Mu, this Marshal of the Ming Kingdom, was shrouded in gloom.

This made the monk a little worried that he would be killed.

Especially like this time, Duke Alva snatched the message that Chen Mu wanted to send to Mexico City.

After this period of research, Acosta found that the Ming people are very respectful, up and down, front and after, and face-oriented, and they will make them happy if they do it well, and they will be very unhappy if they don't do it well.

For example, this time, Acosta didn't have to guess to know that Alva's letter to negotiate peace would definitely make Chen Mubu very unhappy.

Besides, Alva's assignment to him is definitely not a good job, so Chen Mu won't say what kind of person Acosta is.

The Duke of Alva was also not a good man, and in order to suppress the Dutch rebellion, he became governor twice, and set up a special court, the 'Anti-Riot Committee', known as the 'Bloody Committee', and it was rumored that at least 18,000 Dutch people had been convicted, confiscated and executed in court.

If these two people were put together, Acosta would be more willing to stay with Chen Mu - at least Chen Mu would have nothing to do and ignore him.

Alva actually wants Acosta to run at both ends!

Think about it, nightmare! Double!

"Fernando Alva."

Chen Mu hung his head and pronounced the name, he knew this person, the last time he met with the Spanish envoy Don Juan, he had heard about the Duke of Alva's great achievements to the Spanish royal family.

But it didn't matter, he pouted and looked up at Acosta and said, "Don't hang your heart, it just so happens that I also plan to negotiate peace, you go down and rest, and I will have someone give you the prepared treaty later." ”

Obviously, Acosta was surprised by his answer, and he didn't react for a while, and only after a pause did he arch his hand unfamiliarly, Chen Mu didn't speak, just waved his hand lightly to let him leave.

Waiting for the outsiders to leave, Chen Mu got up from his seat, slowly squatted down in front of the mountain of spiritual seats, picked up the yellow paper on the ground and put it into the brazier, and muttered to himself: "The revenge of the brother will be avenged later." ”

Even if Alva didn't send a messenger to negotiate peace, he would send someone to Mexico City to find Bernal to negotiate peace, and after this battle was over, there was nothing for Chen Mu to support him to continue fighting.

Plans to further rely on war to seize the New World were aborted when a storm struck Deng Zilong's fleet, and the large army force swept across Panama after docking in Panama to seize the land transportation hub, but the fleet docked in the bay and was unable to advance south.

Because the rainstorm season on the west coast of the southern New World is approaching, the consequence of insisting on going south is to put oneself at risk.

Taking a step back, the purpose of intimidating the Western Army had been achieved by the Battle of the Gorge, and the Spaniards could know very well what kind of enemy they were facing.

And in terms of objective conditions, Chen Mu's subordinates suffered heavy losses, there were a full thousand and twenty-seven spiritual positions and ashes in front of him, and the situation of being outnumbered by the enemy and the unprecedented firearms investment made the injury and death very close, which was the biggest casualty he suffered since he came out of Qingyuanwei.

The casualties of the soldiers were a tragic result that no amount of enemy killed could make up for it.