The Ming army still landed.

The landing inevitably faced a division of troops, and the warships and baggage were transferred north by Fu Yuan with 200 troops, and the northern retreat was determined to be Puerto Vallarta, which they had attacked earlier.

With such a small number of soldiers, each ship was only capable of handling and incapacitated, and then they would sail seven hundred miles defenselessly until they reached the station of Lin Hu'er's department, replenished all the wounded, and continued to sail north.

The 2,000 Ming army, reorganized after the Battle of Vallarta, landed on a beach 150 miles north of Acapulco and went deep into the jungle.

"Governor A said that there is an official road to the northwest and southeast twenty miles to the east, and there is a Western Army fortress at the intersection of the official road forty miles to the northwest, and a company with two neighboring fortresses is stationed to suppress the local people."

Heiyunlong broke the baked hard cake as military food, took out another black cake from the leather waist bag, broke out the size of a jujube kernel and put it in his mouth, mixed it with the hard cake and ate it, poured two mouthfuls of water and complained: "The military food for the march is really unpalatable!" ”

Swallowing vaguely, the black cloud dragon squatting under the tree said to Shao Tingda: "Governor A said that there are many snakes here, let's be careful...... Shao Shuai, send a snake catcher. ”

The marching food in Heiyunlong's mouth is unpalatable, but compared to the fish and meat they usually have, they consume three times more military food than ordinary Ming troops, like this normal military food they can't eat on weekdays, only when they leave the baggage boat, they will eat these.

But in fact, the baked cake is crispy and salty, the taste is not bad, this has been the main ration of the long-distance march of the Central Plains soldiers since the Tang Dynasty, the charcoal grill pokes a small hole in the middle and wears it with a rope and puts it into the backpack, mixed with sauce cake and eats together, a piece of cake is enough for a day.

The black cake he broke was the sauce cake, and the Ming army's usual practice was to mash three liters of soy bean mixed with five liters of salt and twist it into a cake to dry, replacing the pickles when there was no baggage.

Shao Tingda also ordered the soldiers to mix smoked fish and dried vegetables into the sauce cake before landing, and he did his best.

This is what is really unpalatable, after all, when marching and fighting, the first consideration of military food is not the taste, but the use of the top.

"Let's watch out for snakes?"

Shao Tingda ate soup and rice, and the rice was dry rice, and the soldiers prepared a batch of dried meat, and when they made a fire, they cooked the dried meat and sauce cakes into soup, and soaked the rice to soften it and eat it.

Shao Tingda, who was snoring rice soup in his mouth, almost choked his throat with laughter, remembering that the snake meat with a little sweetness actually gave birth to jin liquid in his mouth, put down the rice bowl and said: "Snakes are careful, let each hundred households ask their subordinates how many can catch snakes, and let them pay attention to them during the march, but unfortunately they forgot to bring soy sauce." ”

People should not be afraid of animals, even if there is a division of labor in human society, the predator in the world is the hunter.

From the time humans discovered that wood and stone could be used as weapons, humans with stone axes chased saber-toothed tigers all over the mountain, stabbed mammoths one after another with spears, and it was nine days away from reaching the moon.

Swallowing his saliva, Shao Tingda asked, "How much grain does the Westerner military village usually have?" How about their rations? ”

Black Cloud Dragon shook his head and said, "Governor A has already lamented many times, if the Spanish army has our baggage, the time to conquer the New World can be shortened by twenty years. ”

"Their military rations are bread, and in the war in the countries of Europa, if it is within their own country, it is better to say, the grain officer takes the lead, organizes the supply of goods from the surrounding towns to establish a market to buy materials, and some important roads send troops in advance to set up grain depots on the roads they must pass."

"If you are abroad, in addition to fighting, the army has to work part-time robbers to rob all places, which is basically the same as the bandits at home, it seems that the army is the same everywhere, and it will be finished without baggage and supplies."

"But they are a little strong, they have many merchants with the army, these merchants have industries in various countries, and they sign contracts to supply by merchants, which is similar to our Chen Shuai."

Shao Tingda nodded with some disappointment, and then said: "Don't startle the snakes, most of the enemy troops may be stationed around, and it is impossible for them to be undefended along the coast, and the military rations carried by the banner army are still enough to eat, let's go east first." ”

Heiyunlong swallowed the last bite of dry cakes, drank the empty kettle and nodded and got up: "Okay, I'll go to the back to see the horse team, this big forest horse team and artillery team are too difficult to walk." ”

He turned around and didn't want to leave, two bird calls in the bushes, and then a figure of a flag soldier came out, this flag soldier was covered with a green cloth blanket on his face and upper body, only two eyes were exposed, panting and bowing down in front of Shao Tingda.

It was Shao Tingda's family scouts, and their outfits were the same as those of Lin Manjue's killing team, because they were all equipment ordered from the Nanyang Guard Ordnance Bureau.

"Tiger Master, there is a native village twenty miles away in the northeast, they seem to be fighting with someone, the main road between the villages is erected to prevent horses and dig trenches, and the native soldiers with longbows and swords patrol back and forth, and their subordinates dare not approach!"

Shao Tingda's brows furrowed, and he raised his head and said to the black cloud dragon who came back again: "The Spaniards have informed the natives under their rule of our news? No, the Westerners shouldn't know the news of our landing by now, so what's going on, are you left to guard it? ”

"Stay, the official road passes through there, if they fight with others, the road is complicated, and they send scouts, it will be difficult for our brigade to avoid their eyes and continue to the east."

Needless to say, the geography of this side determines that the range of scouts is closer than that of the Central Plains, and it is the limit to be able to release scouts for twenty miles, no matter how far away it is.

But if the two armies are engaged, the scouts on both sides are at least thirty miles away, and if they want to go to the east, they will have to make a detour of sixty miles, not to mention that this is only an optimistic estimate, in case they encounter mountains, swamps, and wide rivers, then they do not know how far they will have to detour.

This kind of accident can add to a lot of trouble.

Shao Tingda closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, then ordered: "You can't go east for a while, first send someone to explore the north and south to see if this place is suitable for camping, this is ......"

Before he could finish speaking, someone came over again, this time a few scouts, but there was an extra native soldier wearing Spanish armor, who looked like a prisoner.

The scout who captured him said: "I captured a Western scout prisoner, it is a Western soldier, not a native soldier." ”

Spanish soldiers?

Shao Tingda looked at it carefully, as if he did look a little different, and he said curiously: "This is what the Westerners call the hybrid soldiers?" How did they end up here? Let the governor of the westerners interrogate him. ”

Almansa's camp, which led the march of the 200 guards with Shao Tingda, was not far from Shao Tingda, and the prisoners were sent directly to his camp.

He was opposed to this landing, and his governor-general was very supportive of the Ming naval battle, as Heiyunlong analyzed, Spain had never won a war with the Ming fleet, so he had no objection even if more than two dozen ships were going to attack all the Spanish ships on the west coast.

Only for the landing operation, the Ming army plus his guards were just 2,000 people, and they were surrounded by more than 9,000 Spanish troops when they went ashore, which was too risky.

However, his opposition was of little use among the generals of the Ming army, so he had to put on a stinky face and be thrown off the ship, but this made him more energetic as a guide for the Ming army, and he was eager to spit out all the information he knew in his stomach.

No way, it's about your own life.

It didn't take long for Almantha to come back with the captive, his stinky face was gone, even his steps were brisk, and his face was almost overflowing with joy, and said, "Good news! Good news, Shao Shuai! ”