In the equatorial range, the Ming Dynasty is only one step away from connecting the whole world into one.

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

Fu Yuan was woken up in the middle of the night, and the first day the governor Yang Tingxiang drank too much wine at the banquet where the commander-in-chief and the commanders took office, and he had to pull people to compete in archery, archery was too elegant to use this word.

He was pulling the two commanders under his command and the two Spanish half-blood captains to pee farther than anyone else.

One can imagine how surprised Fu Yuan, the commander-in-chief of the New Spain Army, was surprised at the arrival of a fleeing merchant from Havana with the news that the pirate soldiers were coming to the Gulf of Mexico.

At least in the accounts of the Western merchants, the strangely dressed pirates invaded the incursions in a bad way.

The merchants were frightened, they had met the Han pirates in the southern waters of Havana a few days earlier, and the formation of more than two dozen ships 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 all seen pirates who are more ferocious than Yang Ce, but they have never seen such a huge pirate gang.

Nearly a thousand meters away, the swaggering Han fleet fired cannons at the Spanish armed merchant ships they saw, and the merchant ships hurriedly returned home, but they were still closely pursued by the Flying Shark fleet at a very fast speed, and chased them all the way to the port of Veracruz, which had been abandoned by the Spaniards and repaired by Yang Tingxiang at the eastern gateway of Mexico City.

Stranded in the shallow sea, the merchants hurried to Mexico City to report the news, and in their hasty escape, the pirates were seen to park their ships upright at the dock under construction, and divide them into two groups.

One group enters the port under renovation, while the other slowly builds a campfire on the beach and cooks food.

In the imagination of the merchants, it would not be long before the port under construction would burst into flames.

Han pirates were not easy to mess with, at least during the Wanli period, the most feared pirates for Europeans were not Drake, but Yang Ce, a pirate general from the Han State of the Ming Dynasty.

Even now, less than a year after his first voyage to North Africa, he almost single-handedly brought the decades-long triangular trade to a standstill.

Fu Yuan, who woke up with a hangover, quickly entered the state, scribbled up and galloped out of the city after scribbling his armor, and at the same time he acted with a thousand households who were urgently assembled in the middle of the night.

For Chen Mu, the Han Kingdom may have something to do with him; But for Fu Yuan, the Han State had nothing to do with him, he didn't know that the Wanli Emperor had canonized the Han king, and he didn't even know that the Han king was Lin Afeng, who had fought side by side with him in Luzon.

They were stationed in the west of the city, and assembled in only half a moment, and the thousand households with the infantry as the main engineer and the small cavalry and artillery were mixed with small units of cavalry and artillery carried dry rations and carried fire in a procession across Mexico City and marched towards the long bridge to the east of the city.

The New Spanish Legion stationed outside the city also reacted very quickly, and the commander of the half-blood regiment who lost the pee game vowed to be disgraced, and ordered two cavalry companies under his command to march southeast along the official road long before the army was dispatched.

The two leading cavalry companies were tasked with finding the way, but the main thing was to go to Puebla, two hundred miles to the 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 another twenty officials to accompany him on horseback, intending to report at any time, so as to get the information on the front line as soon as possible; The lieutenant governor Almanza joined Fu Yuan's army with these twenty light cavalry officers.

The two armies gathered in one place, and immediately the Ming army with the East Mexican Army as the lead and the artillery carried thousands of households were postponed, and rushed towards Puebla with the stars and the moon.

The difference in the quality of the two armies was once again vividly manifested on this night.

After only half an hour, when the Western Army stopped on both sides of the road and rested, the Ming army of Fu Yuanbu surpassed them to become the forerunner, and the donkeys carrying the artillery were replaced, and the Ming army really spread the girl and walked forward.

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

Then the Ming army rested alternately, and the New Spanish soldiers of the East Mexican Army were left behind.

Two hours later, the sky was white, and the first hundred households of Fu Yuan's department had caught up with the Spanish light cavalry that had left early.

Further back, by the evening of the next day, when Puebla was only forty miles away, even the infantry of the Eastern Mexican legion outnumbered the vanguard, but it was still the Spanish light cavalry that reached Puebla, the important town of New Spain, first.

The Ming infantry followed, then the Ming cavalry leading the horses and the Ming artillery leading the donkeys, and then the first seven companies of the Eastern Mexican Army and the Ming army fell behind in the middle of the night.

By the time the last company of the Eastern Mexican Army arrived in Puebla, it was already the afternoon of the third day, and the Ming army had not only slept well, but also had two meals in the square in front of the church.

There were still more than 400 miles to go to the east coast, and both Fu Yuan and Almansa felt that there was no need to continue their march eastward.

From Puebla to the port of Veracruz on the east coast, there were two tribute routes that the Aztecs used to tread with their feet, and the road conditions were similar to the tributary road conditions of the Jurchens of the northeastern savages of the Ming Dynasty.

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

There are indeed many indigenous villages and scattered planting 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 point in sticking to them.

They were on the plateau at this time, which meant that they were walking down the mountain road to the east, and the pirates were walking up the mountain road to the west, and they could work at ease.

Therefore, Fu Yuanbu was busy relying on the important town to mobilize the nobles and the common people to build moats, and only sent rangers to the east to explore the enemy's situation.

Fu Yuan, the chief military officer, had a very simple idea, if the so-called pirates did not come, but preferred to go to the land in the north that belonged to the land of the Ming Dynasty but the Ming Dynasty had never walked, then they would go to open up the wasteland, and then learn the method of Chen Mu driving the monks to farm in the early years to pick fruits.

As for Puebla, it was of great strategic importance, and Fu Yuan had decided to set up a guard here after the war to defend the important place.

The ranger released no news, and it was not until the fifth day that Fu Yuan secretly wondered if his ranger had been wiped out by the pirates, and then the scattered cavalry galloped back, bringing the news that the pirates were approaching.

Their tactics of waiting for work were correct, and the pirates had had a hard time, but the news was not only good, but in the scout's description, the pirates, despite their disheveled clothes and old armor, were well-trained and silent, and were equipped with more than 30% of firearms, and knew how to use firearms better than the Spanish legions.

Moreover, they also brought artillery with the army, and the scouts alone found several guns with telescopes from afar, such as the bowl mouth big gun and the small Franco, and the firepower was strong.

This news made Fu Yuan order the requisition of the people again, and in the last two days, he strengthened the fortifications' ability to defend against artillery bombardment.

On the eleventh day of their march in Mexico City, the pirates reached the eastern outskirts of Puebla, where they could see sneaky figures in the woods from afar.

However, they did not enter the range of the defenders at the first time, and rested for a day and a night, before finally gathering their forces in the early morning of the thirteenth day, and set up a horizontal formation to press the city.

Fu Yuan also assigned the former army to enter the fortifications, and he wanted to give these pirates who didn't know the height of the sky a little bit in the first battle.

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

The Oriental Flag Army and the pirates formed the same horizontal formation, the artillery was also set up outside the enemy's attack range, the Flag Army and the pirate soldiers with bird guns also walked slowly towards each other with high spirits, and the drum music at the other end of the battlefield sounded familiar to the Beiyang officers, and at the same time stopped when they were about to reach the range of the opponent's artillery.

Fu Yuanming gold.

The pirates on the opposite side and his banner army used the same tactics and mastered almost the same skills, and the drum music in the formation was the drum music in the infantry drill code formulated by Chen Mu in the Nanyangwei era, and his military band was the general order of the new infantry drill code set by Beiyang the year before last.

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