Francisco de Toledo was the governor of the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, which can also be called a king or chieftain, in short, he was the master of Peru, subject only to the control of King Philip of Spain.

In the Doge's Palace in Lima City, Toledo is carrying a kettle to water the plants in the garden of the mansion.

For example, the building of the Governor's Palace of the Spanish War Bureau has a strong Castilian style, with two large courtyards for infantry and cavalry training, and a garden between the gate and the armed city, all built by Pizarro, the founder and colonist of Lima.

The garden is full of plants that Pizarro brought from the Iberian Peninsula, most of which have withered and eradicated, except for this fig tree, which was left with only one stick in Pizarro's hands to cross the sea.

At this moment, the whole city seemed panicked.

The helmeted and armored commander of the Spanish legion, Inca Garciso de la Vega, led the guards through the Armed Square, and as he entered the gates of the Doge's Palace, he turned his head to watch the whispering women drying potato chips in the distance.

The movement of Vega through the Doge's palace into the back garden really startled Governor Toledo, and even the watering can in his hand fell to the ground, startling the big dog that was lazily basking in the sun under his feet, and the healthy horses in the stable snorted uneasily.

The horse is a jujube red ancient horse, the dog is a big and thin dog, and even the handle of the tinkling watering can is engraved with Chinese characters to write Liu's craftsman.

What scared Toledo was the face of the Legionnaire, the son of the last princess of the Incas, and despite the fact that her father was a Spanish nobleman, Vega still had a face that was almost identical to that of the Ming people.

Leng Buding saw the tall legion commander frowning and putting his arm on the long sword at his waist approaching, making the governor suddenly think that the Ming army had entered the city of Lima.

When he came to his senses, Governor Toledo walked up to Vega and hugged him fiercely, and he and Vega were very good friends.

Vega lived in the New World until the age of 20 to receive a post-rule education, after the age of 20 he sailed to Spain to receive a different education, and then joined the army as an officer, until the end of the First Mingxi War, when he was sent back to Peru to command the army to pacify the people, and after the Second Mingxi War, he became the commander of the army in southern Peru, including the Potosi silver mines and the Peru-Chilean border.

The Spaniards used him for counter-osmosis.

"What's going on in the city, I see that people are very upset, and the people who make potato chips keep looking at me, you." Vega's chin always seemed to be slightly raised, and this kind of proud self-esteem should not be seen in the royal descendants of the vanquished, but the irony was that he was still well educated and fed and clothed.

At this moment, he said to Toledo: "You see that I am also panicking, what is wrong?" ”

"Do you think we have a chance to win if we restart the war with Daming?"

Vega raised his hand and clasped the corners of his eyes, panting slightly and looking at the governor with a funny look, as if he wanted to determine whether the governor in front of him was really asking questions or deliberately teasing him, and paused before saying: "In view of the fact that the Ming army has four thousand island warriors deployed in northern Chile, my legion can quickly break through them, if we can take the key road before the Ming regular army comes out of the desert, the war on the Chilean side should be won." ”

The so-called island warriors are talking about the Japanese troops stationed in the defense line, Vega has been stationed on the border for a long time, relying on the people to carry out espionage activities, and is more familiar with the military deployment of the southern neighbor, and at the same time has long planned in his mind what will happen in the event of a conflict.

In his eyes, the island warriors who belonged to the various nobles were inferior in weaponry, lacked cavalry, muskets, and artillery, and although the nobles were capable of fighting alone with small groups of elite soldiers, they were born with disabilities in front of the phalanx legions with light and heavy cavalry to protect the flanks.

Such an enemy, combined with the hiring of a large number of Inca infantry who lacked regular combat equipment, would probably not be able to show zero point five plus zero point two in battle, but would be counterproductive in a rout...... If only a small number of elite infantry were used as flanks to join the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, this force could show superhuman combat ability on the battlefield.

The infantry, who also experienced the centuries-long war, and the samurai and ashigaru who were born in the troubled times of the Warring States should have been rated higher, but the war between countries was never compared to the long board but the short board, and their shortcomings were too prominent in Vega's opinion.

They also received similar evaluations to the mountain infantry with rat-tail braids stationed in various city defenses, which were also a good force, but they had a small number of cavalry, and the disadvantage was that they were not equipped with muskets, but it seems that because of their relative proximity to the core area of the Ming Dynasty, or because of the city defense, most of the time they would mix with some regular Ming army artillery, using lighter large-caliber short-barreled artillery and heavy guns unloaded from the ship to assist in the defense.

The real deterrent ability is the Ming regular army that burrowed into the desert.

"But the regular army of the Ming Dynasty made gunpowder in the desert, and it was not easy to block them in the desert...... It's really strange, why were the Ming people able to use sea salt and sand to make gunpowder? ”

What the Ming army did in the desert was no secret to its northern neighbors, the same looks and words in common gave the Peruvian people a natural ability to spy on them, and according to the Chileans, the Ming had the ability to refine seawater, but it had to be done in the desert to turn it into gunpowder.

It is worth mentioning that the Peruvian language has some words similar to the Daming official dialect, so they are easy to learn.

Saying that, the Vega Legion Commander shook his head and said to the Governor: "But I don't recommend going to war against the Great Ming, whether we can capture Chile or not, we will die in the end, it seems that except for Chile, there is no other place to gain any advantage." ”

It wasn't until this moment that Vega finally asked the doubts in his heart: "Why do you want to start a war with Da Ming?" ”

"It's not that I want to go to war with Da Ming, I'm too long to live, I want to go to war with Da Ming." Toledo rolled his eyes angrily, bent down to pick up the watering can, shook it and put it aside, walked to the stone steps and sat down, raised his hand and called the big dog to come and pet it, sighed and looked up to Vega: "We may all die, in a place in Colombia called Zhumapo by the Ming people, one of our legions attacked their border defenses, and it is not known how many of them were killed." ”

"The troops of the Captain of Godot, several captains of the same caliber, said that the confrontation was very tense, someone fired muskets, and the Ming army thought that we were attacking them, and immediately launched an attack."

"They use artillery, rockets and ...... that will blow up"

The Vega Legion Commander reminded, "Thunder and lightning in the palm of your hand." ”

"Yes, they returned fire with artillery, rockets, and lightning from the palms of their hands, and then retreated, and on the way there were two squads, the first of which consisted of twelve men, and they used flintlock pistols with straight-edged knives to pick out their spears and charge into the formation, and the legion was almost routed by them, and finally they were killed from behind by the fleeing soldiers in front of them because they rushed too deep."

"There was also a squad that tried to storm the cavalry in the same way, but fortunately they failed, I don't know how many of their soldiers we killed, some say eighty, others say one hundred and eighty, in short, including Captain Godot, we killed two hundred and seventy-three officers and soldiers that day, and the next day another two hundred and forty soldiers died or quit the army due to disability, and more than two hundred others are still in service."

Vega glared at the number of casualties in the battle: "Eighty, one hundred and eighty, Your Excellency, I am very sure, even if we only kill eight of them, Chen Mu will definitely not give up, the monks of the diocese studied Chen Mu and found that the earliest hostility towards the Spaniards in his heart probably came from the Portuguese robbing six cattle in the area he defended......"

"Don't worry about these things, look at the flowers and plants in the yard, how well they grow."

The governor sitting on the steps was full of sorrow like an old farmer in a field with a bad harvest, and he opened his mouth to stop talking, and finally tilted his head and said, "Have a drink with me, and pay tribute to the departure of the bright years." ”