Acapulco did not resist for long under Lin Manjue's onslaught, and the Ming army successfully entered the port that night.

This port was different from Chen Mu's imagination, except for the Spanish military camp, he couldn't even find a place where the soldiers could rest well.

Except for the makeshift military buildings, it resembles a large fishing village, with either collapsed forts or low, ugly houses, and even the warehouses in the port are very poorly built.

As he rode through the narrow and muddy streets, Chen Mu casually dragged a handful of mud hut walls that were pasted outside the wooden frame, and he dragged off a large piece of mud wall skin, and grabbed a foot-long wheat straw in his palm.

The port was emptied, and Fu Yuan rode a horse to catch up with Chen Mu and reported: "The port warehouse is out of stock, only some gunpowder and stone shells, and the ruins of the four forts have been ordered to be sorted out by the banner army under his command overnight, all of them are wooden mud guard towers, and the artillery can be dug out before tomorrow morning." ”

Chen Mu on horseback slowly bowed his head, there was no cargo in the port He expected, and the westerner monk Acosta who accompanied him south from Majia Port when the battle to attack the port began, said that this port is only the most prosperous in January every year, and it is not worth mentioning.

At the door of those dilapidated houses, the women and children who had not had time to escape opened the wooden door slightly to reveal the cracks, and watched in horror as the Ming army marched through the market with high spirits, waiting to accept their unknown fate.

The Spanish garrison's camp was north of the port, which was first breached by Lin Manjue's guerrilla flag army, and became an important place for the Ming army to deal with post-war problems.

The number of defenders was much larger than the Ming army imagined, and the open space outside the camp was full of sitting or kneeling prisoners and surrenderers, who looked like nearly a thousand, and they were disarmed and guarded by a hundred banner troops under Lin Manjue.

Chen Mu, who was pacing the horse close to the camp, picked his eyelids fiercely, and said to Lin Manjue, who came up: "So many people? ”

Lin Manjue could only smile bitterly and said: "My subordinate Black King Kong has asked about the situation, the Westerner garrison originally had six hundred, and a few days ago he obeyed the order of Mexico City to recall more than five hundred, and only less than a hundred people remained here. ”

"In order to deal with the Ming army that invaded the northeast, the Westerners left behind the officers gathered all the men in the port village, pulled up nearly 2,000 troops to guard, sent wooden spears, bows and arrows, and guarded our army, and only more than 100 banner troops of our department attacked the port ......"

Lin Manjue said and glanced back at the crowd that had surrendered or been captured, and said, "That's it, the subordinates didn't tie them up, and those who were tied up were tied up by themselves." ”

Chen Mu realized that he let the people who had no training and no weapons participate in the war, and against Lin Manjue's department, which had artillery and birds, he was naturally defeated at the touch of a button.

"Those who can run have run away with the remnants of the Western Army, and the families who didn't run are here, and most of them stayed voluntarily."

In the end, Lin Manjue added: "They are all half-bloods, and they are too lax in their defense here." ”

Lax?

"It would be strange if they had built fortified cities on the west coast and erected them with artillery, and the Spanish enemies were all on the east side, so what was the use of reinforcing the defenses here? Just like the Ming Dynasty did not build a strong city in the Xinming. ”

In fact, Chen Mu has another vicious metaphor for the Spaniards on the west coast of the Americas, just like the successive dynasties have lax coastal defense, because cognitively, the enemy will not come from the sea!

By the time you realize it, it's too late.

Lin Manjue nodded, it seems that this is indeed the truth, but even so, Spain is too lax on the West Coast, and the tension with the Ming Dynasty has been several years since Luzon, and they have not been prepared at all, which is strange.

'Perhaps, the two courts are about the same, and they are slow to do anything. ’

Lin Manjue thought so, clenched his fists and asked the boss: "How to deal with these people, please show the marshal." ”

Chen Mu took a deep breath, looked at the crowd in the clearing, and said after a moment's silence: "There's nothing to deal with, settle their minds first." The military government staff is preparing a notice to reassure the people, telling them that as long as they do not cause chaos, the heavenly army will not harm people's lives. ”

Ci is not in charge of the army, and Ci is not in charge of the army, and he cannot compete with the common people, and more importantly, his subordinate banner army cannot use slaughtering, killing, and looting as a means to encourage morale.

It is more difficult to restrain military discipline in expeditionary operations than in local operations, and it is more difficult for the navy to restrain military discipline than in land divisions, and the military discipline of the soldiers of the Oriental Military Government is already even more difficult, and it all depends on the honor and discipline of Beiyang drills.

Once the mouth is opened, the honor and pride accumulated in the past will be gone, Asia is far away from the Ming Dynasty, and there will definitely be separatism in the future, but whether this time is three or five years or three or five hundred years depends on the military discipline of their army to set the tone.

"When the notice is issued, the people's tax laws are basically set, and it will be about tomorrow morning, and then they will be told the news of their release."

"Those who are willing to go are allowed to go home and take their wives, children, and food east to Mexico City, and those who are not willing to go are the people here."

Lin Manjue nodded in response and said approvingly: "The commander is smart, these people going east to Mexico City will definitely disturb the hearts of their troops and the people, and even if the defeated soldiers are called up again, they will still be scattered in battle." ”

This is completely the normal train of thought of a middle-level officer, so Lin Manjue got out of the way and led Chen Mu's headquarters into the camp, and said as he walked: "Marshal, this battle will be a meritorious service." ”

"Oh?"

"In the end, the fort was blown up by itself, and the torches were knocked out by our flag army with a killing gun 90 paces away, and I wanted to extinguish its fire and cause chaos to it for the banner army to attack, but I may have ignited the gunpowder on the platform and exploded."

That's how the Killer Gun is used?

Chen Mu held back a smile, and then thought about it, even if the black light blinded the fire, even if the killer gun was equipped with a god goggle, what could he see, and he could shoot accurately with a torch.

But the distance is very pleasant, very long accurate shooting.

On the way into the camp, Lin Manjue conveyed Chen Mu's orders to his subordinate flag officers, asking them to calm the hearts of the captives and make a promise to them that they would not be killed without disorder.

What happened after the battle was much more troublesome than the battle itself, and in the commander's tent spread out in the camp, Chen Mu issued one order after another: "General Shi's fleet cruises the bay, and the various fleets are scattered along the coast and sail south for a hundred miles, with patrols at intervals of five miles, and when the enemy situation is discovered, fireworks will be set off in the air to warn the rear." ”

"General Erma will lead the fleet south successively, and the forbidden army and the net army will dock at the Zhuangyuan Bridge to garrison, I don't dare to let those landlubbers fight a naval battle, but they can still guard a large number of baggage to prepare for land battles, and the return of the baggage ship cannot be delayed."

"General Wuqiao, in recent days, you have led the fleet to protect the baggage ships and sailed westward, escorted three hundred miles, and returned without risk."

Wuqiao is Deng Zilong, he still thinks about Chen Mu's sentence 'Westerners are longer than land battles and shorter than naval battles', at this moment, seeing the order about himself, he finally couldn't help but ask: "Marshal, isn't our army's land war as good as Xiyi?" ”