While the monks of Madrid and the kingdom's advisors had gathered at the court to study the exact operation of the tribute, Magui's army had reached Acapulco in the New World.

This means that the Ming army has gathered more than 6,000 troops 600 miles away from Mexico City.

Fifteen hundred pure armies and artisans are not included.

There are a small number of errant eunuchs in the pure army, but more are eunuchs who illegally fill the army, and the court law prohibits the people from self-castration, so most of these people are hard-working people, compared with the forbidden army and the Beiyang army, they do not have tenacious combat power.

Under Chen Ju, they served on missions similar to those of heavy soldiers and civilian soldiers, and although they were with the army, they were not counted among the elite troops.

The generals of the Ming army were also studying, and they were studying how to take advantage of the time difference between the assembly and transportation of the Western army to defeat all the enemies.

"The former army encountered not many birds and guns of the Western Army Corps, with Franc machine guns, and they suffered losses in shooting at our troops, but there were a small number of armored cavalry and light horses, who were not afraid of death and wounds and charged fiercely."

"The battle was together, and when the formation was firing at each other, the horse army armored cavalry broke in, and the light cavalry guerrilla attacked, squeezing our troops to one place, and the distant artillery team fired in unison, and the tactics were sophisticated."

Shao Tingda brought back the information he knew, and he still has lingering palpitations when he mentioned that great victory: "If it weren't for Lao Hei leading the horse army to copy his artillery team, it would have been a moment late, and the result of the battle would have been a great defeat for our army." ”

Chen Mu and many generals have already obtained all the battle reports of the Battle of White Horse, and the whole process is very clear in the battle report, the infantry contributed the most in the whole battle, but it is not the infantry that determines the outcome of the war.

Battles are often not evenly matched, and tend to be asymmetrical, with the strength of the banner army in infantry combating gaining the upper hand, but the inherent weakness of its artillery and spears will be known to the enemy in a tentative attack, which can lead to a rout.

Shao Tingda used the blood and life of his banner army to tell the Oriental Military Government a truth.

Chen Mu put down the battle report and ordered the flag officers of the various ministries: "The generals of all ministries must carry armor and artillery in the future war, and they must not rush in, and those who violate the order will be killed regardless of their official position." ”

The Battle of the White Horse was a victory in terms of losses, strategic intentions, and allies, but it was by no means a big victory, but a crushing victory.

Either their strength or luck was the slightest worse, the infantry would be routed by the Western army, and once defeated, the outcome of the battle could easily be reversed in the face of an enemy army with cavalry.

In the spacious meeting room, almost all the generals of the Ming army with more than 1,000 households sit, of course, in addition to the Ming army, there are two chiefs of the White Horse tribe named after the tiger and the eagle in Spanish, as well as the governor of Almansa and the monk Acosta in Spain.

Yang Tingxiang walked into the conference hall at the right time, walked quickly to Chen Mu's side and whispered: "Dashuai, the craftsman has already made the map stereotyped, now send it down?" ”

As Chen Mu nodded, the two banner soldiers entered the hall and handed out two engraved maps on the table in front of each person, one drawing the Spaniards' understanding of the entire New World, which came from Acosta, and the other was more detailed, with Shao Tingda and Lin Manjue drawing most of the map between the northeast of the port and Mexico.

"We will have three theater of operations, the waters off Acapulco, the field and siege of Mexico City, and the occupation of Peru."

As soon as Chen Mu's words fell, he informed the governor and the monk in Spanish through an interpreter, and their expressions stiffened, and Almantha said: "General, we don't have to occupy Peru, as long as we get Mexico City, I can let them go back." ”

The generals were a little embarrassed, and many felt that they were using Almansa, and they felt that they were at a loss, so they had to turn their heads away.

But Chen Mu won't.

"What if you can't? If, in the course of our assault on Mexico, the three Peruvian legions landed and cut off our rear, the Doge intended to have my army die for you? ”

Almansa was a little afraid of Chen Mu, after all, it was this person who caused New Spain to bury 20,000 troops in the Battle of Guam, and he had long been notorious.

When Shao Tingda was with him, Almansa often sat next to Shao Tingda, very forward.

But now that Chen Mu is in front, Shao Tingda can only sit in a position close to the back, behind him is Acosta, and then there is the chief of the White Horse Department, and even the Spanish military merchant who is called Fu Geer by the Ming people is higher than him, and such a seating arrangement will bring him great pressure.

"Although I am personally very sympathetic to your efforts and the price you have endured in reaching an agreement with the Ming Dynasty, and am willing to help you regain control of Mexico City by force, we are not mercenaries."

"I am equivalent to the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Empire, and I am ordered to pass through Asia, give your monarch enough respect diplomatically, try to open up territory for the emperor with a mutually beneficial agreement, and try to avoid war with the western kingdom."

"I know that most people in Spain and Portugal think that Chen is arrogant, but they have enough respect for your king Philip, so what is it that gets us involved in the war, huh?"

Chen Mu put down the bamboo whip pointing to the map, got up and said: "Your Excellency has no ability to restrain New Spain, and even wants to use the Ming Dynasty to deal with the new nobles of your country here, and has not exchanged the banner awarded to the leader of Zheng Tu by our army, so as to cause this disaster, the two sides confronted the demarcation peninsula on the west coast and started a war. ”

"At the beginning of the negotiations, Your Excellency knew that such a thing would happen, so he fled to the demarcation peninsula in order to seek refuge from our army, and now our army has suffered more than 500 casualties, and Spain has suffered unwarranted losses several times more than ours."

"With such an unwarranted calamity imposed on the two countries, do you still think that the Ming army is a mercenary army hired to clear the stubborn disease of Spain?"

"IMHO."

Chen Mu paced past the long table, walked to the opposite side of Governor Almansa, leaned forward slightly with both hands on the back of the chair of General Hei Xiao, looked directly at Almanza, and said: "The war at this moment, whether it is the Ming Dynasty helping Spain to stabilize the rebellion, or the war between the Ming Dynasty and Spain, does not depend on you and me. ”

"Whether it is war or the suppression of rebellion, whether or not to be an enemy of the heavenly army depends on the decision of your king. Before that, Chen had to think about my brother's life and destroy the enemy, all enemies. ”

"If the Peruvian legions were near my shores today, I would have sunk them at sea today; If His Highness Philip decides to send a large army to land tomorrow, I will annihilate them on land tomorrow. ”

"As long as anyone dares to raise their weapons against my banner army, I will let them swallow their weapons, no matter who the enemy is, no matter how many enemies there are, I will fight with them until the victory belongs to my emperor!"

Chen Mu's hand slammed heavily on the table, and Almansa couldn't even breathe out of the atmosphere, so he could only watch without saying a word as the commander of the Ming army turned around and walked to the main seat, grabbed the bamboo whip again, and pointed and gave orders on the map of the west coast behind him.

"Our army is on the defensive against the attack of Mexico City, and at sea meets its northbound Peruvian fleet, which is 30 to 60 merchant ships, large and small, and tries to force it to divide its forces and sink them during the voyage."

"The campaign can be divided into three areas, weakened in the far sea, ambushed in the near sea, and decisive battle in the bay, and not a single ship will let them leave......"

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