The sergeants of the 2nd Battalion of Fusang and Baishan did not delay for a moment in boarding the ship, and on the first night of the fleet's arrival at Shelter Bay after rounding South Asia, the entire Fuso Battalion took half an hour to knead the steamed rice mixed with millet into rice balls, and packed up all the supplies and boarded the warship that belonged to them.

They boarded not to set sail, but to escape the moisture from the ground.

Li Dan and Chen Jiujing were not in a hurry to get on the boat, they used Li Dan's military tent to set up a command room on the beach, and after getting the information about the coastal waters of the Qilin Guard, they summarized the island information submitted by the Spaniards in Mexico, and convened the generals of the second battalion to discuss the matter.

The main one summoned four men.

Qi Zhengyan, deputy general of the Fusang battalion, and Ma Liangbi, guerrilla; The deputy general of the Baishan battalion, Nala Kangguru, and the guerrilla Huang Jin.

All four of them have prominent backgrounds and are now in power.

Fusang battalion guerrilla Ma Liangbi is the son of Ma Shunde, an important minister of the Ryukyu State, who participated in the training of the Ryukyu Guard by the Nanyang Military Government as a general, whether it was Chen Mu earlier or Gao Gong later, the most loyal vassals of the Ming Dynasty are very concerned, the Nanyang Military Government only in the Ryukyu training regardless of the cost, and now leads the troops to the expedition, and all the 1,000 foot soldiers under his command are the Ming army, equipped with arquebus, chain mail, Qi family knife and proficient in the Mandarin Duck Array.

The deputy general of the Baishan battalion, Nala Kangguru, is the son of Wang Tai, the leader of the Jurchen Hada Department of Haixi, Hada is one of the four departments of Haixi, which reached its peak in the Wangtai era, and is dependent on the imperial court to lead Haixi, but now Wangtai is old and mediocre and weak, and many of the tribes have defected to Yehebu, and the sons are also fighting openly and secretly for the succession of Wangtai after his death.

Huang Jin, a guerrilla in the Baishan Battalion, was a young man, whose fifth ancestor was Huang Xi, the minister of North Korea, and most of his family members were Westerners. He was born in the humanities but was familiar with martial arts, and he was dissatisfied with the party struggle and felt that it was difficult to rise to the ranks, so he responded to the call of the Son of Heaven to recruit family soldiers to board the Ming Dynasty's warships, and he was the only one among the many generals who was recommended by the Korean military to become a middle-level general.

As for Qi Zhengyan, needless to say, he was born in the most prominent background, he was the family soldier of Chen Mu, an important minister in Beiyang, and he fought for military exploits in pacifying all the princes and supporting the benefits and righteousness, who can afford to provoke this?

is really worth provoking, his top boss is Chen Mu's godson Li Dan, otherwise how could he be a deputy general.

Comparing hearts to hearts, Qi Zhengyan's experience is actually quite annoying, he was captured by the Japanese Kou, and finally got familiar with the situation, and was caught by the Ming army, and became familiar with the situation under Chen Mu, and went to Japan again, thinking that he could make a career in Japan, but he didn't expect to come after Daming.

Thanks to the feudal relationship between the generals and soldiers of the second battalion itself, Li Dan and Chen Jiujing, together with these four people and two thousand commanders under each command, these eighteen people constitute the command center of the Caribbean escort fleet with a total strength of more than 6,000 troops.

The map of the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea from the reluctant Spaniards was spread on the table, and the yellowed scrolls and old inkblots all showed the age of the map. This picture looks older than me! ”

"It's hard for a Westerner, so I'll dig out this chart for us." Li Dan chuckled: "They are lifting stones to shoot themselves in the foot, the sweep of the heavenly army across Asia is the general trend, and they also want to drive us to suppress bandits for them, arrogant." ”

The second part of the treaty being signed was that the Ming Dynasty entered the Caribbean Sea as an ally of Spain and transported goods between the West Indies to the west.

But Chen Mu still remembers.

Negotiation is negotiation, and whoever has a larger caliber of artillery in these years has more bargaining chips, and whoever has the final say.

For Chen Mu, sending a fleet into the Caribbean Sea is exactly what he wants, the Oriental Military Government lacks everything, but at this moment, there is no shortage of troops, and it is easy to get a fleet.

More critically, it was an excellent excuse to implement intelligence sharing in the West Indies, which originally included only the sharing of intelligence in the New World.

But now that I'm sending a fleet into the Caribbean, I don't ask you for money, I don't ask you for food, and I help you fight the enemy when I'm done, you have to give me information, right?

Several generals of the clan had their own expressions, but none of them spoke, only Qi Zhengyan was familiar with Li Dan and Chen Jiujing, and his courage was much greater, and he clenched his fists and said: "Don't care about disrespect, my people really need to fight a few battles, and if they let them gnaw sand, they should go crazy, and the general should send a message to Shao Shuai first." ”

"Shao Shuai?" Shao Tingda had already gone to Chile, and Li Dan turned his head in surprise: "What kind of letter?" ”

"Death and injury in the war are inevitable, my people are all at Shao Shuai's, please send some people over, and when I wait for the pirates to be wiped out, I can come back and add one or two hundred people."

One or two hundred?

Li Dan felt that Qi Zhengyan's judgment of the situation was a little optimistic, and advised: "They are fighting differently from Japan, they have heavy artillery on board, this battle is not so simple, don't think too easily, how did the Muzugawa Heavenly Army gunboat pack up the Ataka ship." ”

"They're hard to deal with."

Chen Jiujing raised his hand when he heard this, and when he saw Li Dan looking over, he pursed his lips embarrassedly and said: "Brother, this is a bit familiar, I remember the last time I said 'they are difficult to deal with' or Oda Nobunaga, right?" ”

As he spoke, Chen Jiujing laughed: "Then he will stay in the Instinct Temple." ”

It is not for Li Dan to laugh at these words, nor is it for him not to laugh.

Chen Jiujing relieved his brother's embarrassment and said: "The pirates who are active in this area are indeed very powerful, as long as they are English sailors and French sailors, and merchants and pirates from the Netherlands, Portugal, England, France, and Spain, they have the same goal, mainly to plunder the treasure ships of the Western royal family. ”

Qi Zhengyan, who had just arrived, frowned, and was about to raise his hand to ask, but was interrupted by Chen Jiujing's words, he knew what Qi Zhengyan wanted to ask, and said: "Yes, Spain robbed Spain, and they sometimes do business, sometimes they steal, it is difficult to distinguish, so ......"

Li Dan took over the words, put his hand on the chart, and said: "This sea area will be taken over by us, and every port will be searched on land and every ship on the sea, and whoever refuses will be a pirate." ”

Several battalion generals glanced at each other, and to be honest, they heard the sound of coins clanging from these words.

Qi Zhengyan smacked his lips, clapped his hands and said, "What kind of treasure ship is the Western Kingdom, can you check it?" ”

Li Dan raised his index finger first and said: "It's not Xiguo, my father-in-law told me that it is called the strength of a single word, for example!" Like Spain, Portugal, France, England, the Netherlands...... In short, that's all, it's all weak. ”

After the popularization of science, he raised his middle finger again: "Don't care about any ship, it has to be bad, but we are not pirates, so we don't check those who hang clear flags and have seals." ”