The sound of hooves on the ground was heard in the canyon, and a group of more than a dozen rode from the direction of Mexico City to approach Acapulco.

Acosta, a monk on horseback, looked down at the boulder painted with deficit on the side of the road that was once strewn with corpses, and muttered and read out the Chinese characters on it: "Chang, Changsheng County?" ”

He grabbed the reins, raised his arms and pointed ahead to the knight beside him as a guard, "Sir, that is the watchtower of the Ming army, and they seem to have renamed Acapulco Changsheng County. ”

The hand in the knight's gauntlet clutched the reins tightly, and he lowered the visor from his helmet and raised his head slightly to the guard in the padlock mail behind him.

Two riders each carry a large flag to drive forward.

The Ming army stationed in the canyon had already discovered them, and the troops stationed in the canyon were Chen Mu's own soldiers, and the leader was Lian Dou, who was holding a telescope at this time looking at the knights of the Western Army who were very dazzling in the distance, frowned, and said to his subordinates: "Close the door, the infantry enter the barrier wall, you go and report to the second master." ”

The Chinese pronunciation is still a little stiff, but the pro-soldier leader speaks very coherently.

It was normal for him to look at the knights of the Western Army who were not pleasing to the eye, and seven of his brothers who got along with him day and night were killed in the battle with the knights of the Western Army in the Battle of the Canyon.

The subordinates received the order, and the garrison's personal soldiers, the auxiliary defense militia and a team of patrol soldiers entered the barrier wall, a row of bird guns was erected, and the militia and the patrol each bow and arrow were wound, and the feather arrows were held in their palms.

After the battle of the canyon, the barrier wall and trench here were not only not demolished, but also further strengthened, and two watchtowers were built.

The feather arrow slashed extremely fast, and the force of the upward and downward strokes in mid-air was reduced by half, and finally it was nailed to the ground one hundred and fifty steps away, and the arrow feathers trembled slightly.

Liandou squinted his eyes and looked into the depths of the valley road, this arrow was very effective, and a group of knights of the Western Army were stationed outside the place where the arrow fell, but then he raised his hand and said, "Don't go, rider, what is that?" ”

The rider in charge of the herald had just beaten his horse and was about to leave, when he heard this sound and hurriedly reined in his horse, and everyone behind the barrier looked at the western army, and saw that two horsemen came out of the western army horse team with a big banner and crossed the feather arrows, and rode forward to ride their horses forward for dozens of steps, and then they raised the banner and circled in the valley.

The rider on the left carries the red fork flag of New Spain, which he knows from the Ming army with whom he has dealt many times, but the other rider is different.

Liandou looked at the big flag with a white background, a white circle on it, two black circles on the top of the white circle, and two black circles on the inside, he raised his two fingers like a bright man and stretched out to the depths of the valley road, and asked, "What is that?" ”

The soldiers who had been following Chen Mu for a long time narrowed their eyes and said with a smile: "That's the iron-eating beast, Shao Shuai asked him to bring it to Bernal before the war, so that he could raise it when he wanted to surrender." ”

"So what should I do?" Liandou was a little wooden, and the current situation was very tricky, so he took off the telescope and asked left and right, "I also draw one side?" ”

"No, no, no, we won, let's not paint." The old soldier hurriedly stopped Liandou's strange thought and said, "Don't worry about them, they must send someone over." ”

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the Ming army to say nothing, and the monk Acosta said a few words to the knight beside him, as if to dispel their concerns, and then he walked down the arrow tower on his horse and holding the reins.

However, one hundred and fifty paces away, Acosta walked cautiously, his back was soaked with sweat when he came over, he clenched his fists comically on his horse, raised his head and said to Ming Jun on the arrow tower: "I am an envoy sent by Spain to negotiate peace, bringing the conditions of the Duke of Alva." ”

"Oh, the Spanish messenger......"

Liandou pressed the knife with one hand and pointed down with the other, and said, "Get off the horse and wait." ”

Chen Mu's domineering is obvious to all, even if there is a military general who looks like a low-level officer of the Ming Army on the arrow tower and says such a thing, Acosta obediently dismounts, stands aside and waits, and finally arches his hand towards 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 the eyes of Acosta.

Normally, even if the threat of war in Europa could have frightened others, it was impossible to frighten Spain, after all, their king Philip was the most militaristic king in Europe, and even forced François I, the most devout Christian king of France, to form a blasphemous alliance with the Ottomans.

But Chen Mu is different, the Second Mingxi War made Acosta clearly realize that Chen Mu is not blindly superstitious about force to obtain the role he needs by blackmail.

In Acosta's report to the Duke of Alva on the Second War of the Ming Dynasty is interspersed with a page of his analysis of the personal style of Chen Mu, the commander of the Ming army, which is different from the analysis made by Spanish scholars.

Acosta came to the conclusion that the commander of the Ming army was actually very realistic, even a little noble.

This analysis made the nobles next to Duke Alva scoff, Chen Mu in the public perception is an out-and-out demon, nailed to the stake and roasted for a thousand years can not offset the sin, Acosta actually said that he is very real?

But after Alva read the report, he also supported Acosta's theory, of course, not that the Iron Duke also thought Chen Mu was noble, but that the old duke's argument for supporting the monk - the result of this similar 'noble' had nothing to do with Chen Mu himself.

Through Acosta's close observation in the enemy camp, the Ming Dynasty generally had a 'weakness' in character, they had a great 'tolerance', always trying to find a better way to turn the situation around before it turned bad, and paid little attention to things outside of themselves.

Chen Mu is the shame of the Ming people, he has a very low weakness, a very little tolerance, and always likes to stretch out his arms to pay attention to things other than himself.

But it is this slight 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 pushed sideways in many ways, and there was enough evidence that Chen Mu had decided to seize land for the Ming Dynasty in the New World before the war began, and had been preparing for this for two years even before he landed.

Therefore, it was not unjust for the Western Army to lose the war, but even so, Chen Mu still gave the Western Army the best result for both parties before the war - a trade treaty in exchange for land.

Regarding the continued contact between Chen Mu and Ming Guo, Acosta's advice to Duke Alva was to refer to Chen Mu's proposal more, try not to provoke him, and exchange peaceful means for maximum benefits.

Thinking of the sigh of the old duke, Acosta under the arrow tower also sighed silently: they have become accustomed to dealing with Chen Mu will suffer losses, and even suffer big losses, this situation has become a normal phenomenon in everyone's minds, and the purpose of all measures is only to suffer as little as possible.

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

Fortunately, Chen Mu didn't let Acosta wait too long.

The herald brought Chen Mu's horse team, and the horses in the canyon moved open to the sound of galloping horses' hooves, and the gate was opened for Acosta.

More than a dozen cavalrymen of the Western Army walked out less than a hundred steps, and Acosta, who was standing at the mouth of the canyon, looked at the port village, and his mouth was too wide to close.