Fu Yuan went back with the sheep, and the flocks of Merino sheep left a piece of sheep dung for the governor of New Spain as a souvenir.

Poker is quite fun, all kinds of cards are easy for Fu Yuan to have a basic understanding of the medieval Western class, but familiar or unfamiliar is another matter, and win or lose has little to do with it, compared to Almanza, who is very familiar with poker, Fu Yuan has another identical poker on his body is the trick to winning a hundred battles.

In fact, generally Fu Yuan will not cheat, only when he really wants to win.

It's interesting to think about it, Fu Yuan and Almansa bet on sheep, but in fact, the sheep is neither Fu Yuan's nor Almansa's, and it doesn't matter who the sheep is - at least neither of them cares.

Compared with the idle Fu guerrilla, Shao Tingda and Heiyunlong are much more serious here, Heiyunlong led his subordinates to build a harbor while arranging a fleet of ships to patrol the sea on the east side of the peninsula near the west coast of Mexico, to ensure that all their warships can move at sea in the event of an accident.

Shao Tingda's work is more, but it has nothing to do with his headquarters, and the aborigines of the various tribes who went south with the Ming army will re-demarcate the tribal areas for them according to the number of troops sent - these people originally lost all their land south of the Zhuangyuan Bridge, and now they are re-handed over to them by the Ming Dynasty, so it is naturally planned by Shao Tingda.

The former army fleet divided nine large tribal alliances with more than 100 troops according to the regional population, and at the same time assigned flag troops to the nine tribes to teach basic Chinese, and at the same time, each department sent teenagers of appropriate age to Majiagang to study in schools after returning to the territory.

Of course, the aboriginal armies of the various tribes on the boundary peninsula did not withdraw, and they spontaneously followed the Ming army under the command of hundreds of households, learning from the Ming army's use of building camps, arranging defenses, and even using bird guns.

In terms of situation, the Ming army in the south of the demarcation peninsula and the Spanish army on the opposite bank were close to sabre-rattling, and three of the four army corps of New Spain were moving to the coast in case the Ming army suddenly launched a landing battle on Mexico.

The fleets of the two sides cruised in a sea area of 500 miles in a straight line, expelled each other, explored the deployment of each other's coastal defenses, and also protected their own coastal defenses from being known to the other side.

At this point, the Ming army had a slight advantage, and the presence of telescopes allowed them to observe the approximate deployment of the opposing side from a greater distance, in order to gather intelligence before the western warships were about to be on high alert or even launch a collision to leave the dangerous sea.

"Once we fight, I'm afraid we won't be able to bargain."

In the southern part of the demarcation peninsula, the confrontation between the two sides has lasted for more than ten days, and Heiyunlong is still patrolling the fleet under the jurisdiction of the port on the shore, Shao Tingda and Fu Yuan have a military discussion, pointing to the map and saying: "At least 6,000 people, stationed on the 500-mile coastline on the other side, can get support from each other in five hours at most." ”

"There are only more than 4,000 people in our department, and more than 2,000 of them are still untrained natives, although the morale is not bad, but they are not subordinate to each other, and they are different from my tactics, and it is difficult to train without understanding the language, and half of the more than 900 people in the Xuanwu outpost can't even skillfully load the bird gun."

The Xuanwu post is an aboriginal army led by the long-legged bear under Shao Tingda's subordinates, armed with all Western-style armor ordnance received, and has four teams of light soldiers, heavy soldiers, gunners, and artillery, with thirteen small Franco machine guns, and the armament is extremely excellent.

Light soldiers were unarmoured archers and crossbowmen, heavy soldiers were spears, halberds, and swordsmen wearing cuirassier and helmets, and gunners were armed with Spanish light muskets and heavy muskets.

The soldiers accounted for only one-ninth, and in fact, Shao Tingda had a lot of idle muskets in his hands, but there was no suitable person to use them.

"When fighting, the native troops cannot fight alone, let alone mix with our troops, 800 under your command, 12 under my command, a total of 2,000 people is all the forces that can be used, avoid a decisive battle with it, but to gather a fleet at sea to eat the enemy ships is the only chance to win."

Fu Yuan sat cross-legged on the simple log pier of the camp, he also took out a sketch, and said to Shao Tingda: "I have seen the terrain in the southern part of the peninsula these days, and there are many mountains running through it. ”

"If we really let the enemy go to the island, a decisive battle with them will be inevitable, we think that it is better to sink their ships at sea, as long as they can sink the enemy's ships without heavy losses, they will not dare to attack us even if they assemble in the port near here."

Fu Yuan didn't pay attention to these, he waved his hand and said: "Relax, once the negotiation collapses, the second master will definitely lead the army to go down, you and I are just a little vanguard, if you can fight, you will fight, if you can't fight, you will withdraw-two thousand against six thousand, and there is no shame in withdrawing." ”

"Why don't you be ashamed, when did Brother Mu fight and I wasn't a pioneer, and when did I withdraw again? They have more than 30 warships, large and small, and you and I also have 14 warships, not to mention two big ships, as long as they sink nine or ten of them first, the battle will be easy to fight. ”

It's ideal.

Fu Yuan glanced at Shao Tingda, knowing that he was used to bullying people in Nanyang with his strong ships and guns, and said: "Have you seen the big worms, their warships are no worse than ours, the second master recognizes Yu Shuai's words the most, only big ships are better than small ships in sea battles, only more ships are better than fewer ships, not to mention that the gains and losses of this city and a place do not have much to do with the overall situation, in my opinion, don't bump into them." ”

"I've been playing cards with the governor of New Spain these days, but I've asked a big secret, which is much more useful for the second master's strategy in Asia than for a few ports along the coast!"

Shao Tingda glanced at Fu Yuan and said, "What can you do when you play cards with that fat old man, the king is bigger than the little soldier?" ”

"Where do you want to go, didn't you notice that we came all the way to receive the armament of nearly four companies of the Western Army, among which there are a lot of arquebuses in their hands? Some companies can account for sixty percent? ”

"That's what you say, what does that mean?"

Shao Tingda thought for a while and said to Fu Yuan: "Where did they buy a batch of bird guns?" ”

Fu Yuan shook his head slowly, with a smug look on his face, raised two fingers and said: "First of all, their legion is like our guard, but a legion usually has ten companies under its jurisdiction, and the number of soldiers in the company is between two hundred and five and three hundred and five, among which there are companies that specialize in using bird guns, and they use bird guns more than others." ”

"Secondly, they have a lot of arquebuses in their hands, because there is a general in the western kingdom who is as prestigious as the second master Yu Daming, known as the Duke of Avar, and it is he who gave rise to the tradition of using muskets throughout Spain, increasing the proportion of muskets in the legions, and six years ago, there were already 2,000 soldiers with bird guns out of the 7,500 soldiers stationed in the Netherlands."

"Now there are more of them, and that's the army we're going to deal with...... In comparison, I hope that the second master can reach a negotiation with the Westerners. ”