Chapter 35: Disappearing
Zou Zhixian private message?
Chen Mu only thought about one thing in his heart when he heard the words of his own soldiers: Why did Zou Yuanbiao send me a private message?
Unfolding the letter, the content of which is related to the governor of Peru, and the envoy of the governor of Peru was met soon after the change in Zhumapo, Zou Yuanbiao, who was victorious.
As soon as the envoy disembarked, he was detained by the flag army of the garrison of Changsheng Port...... Whether it was a Westerner or an Asian native who disembarked from Changsheng Port, he was allowed to visit the county government, and the reason why this envoy was detained was that he wanted to hide his eyes and ears.
Wrapped in a burlap robe, which in Peru might make him look like an ascetic without many interruptions, but everywhere in the sea of clothes of the constant victory? It just makes him look like a sneaky thief.
Zou Yuanbiao said in the letter that the Peruvian governor Toledo sent people to Changsheng to seek refuge, and asked the Ming Dynasty to accept his family of 64 members of two generations to live in Haojing, and if he could get Chen Mu's permission, he would give 40,000 catties of silver to the Oriental Military Government.
The letter was very long, but Chen Mu was no longer in the mood to look down carefully, he slowly sat behind the low table of the Zhongjun tent, put Zou Yuanbiao's letter on the case, put his hands on the armor skirt and looked at the nowhere in the tent, his eyes straightened.
How much does Toledo say is paid?
40,000 catties.
Six hundred and forty thousand taels.
How many members of his family are there?
Two generations.
Sixty-four mouths.
Look what he found, find someone richer than he is.
And this guy is so capable, all the governors sent by Spain to the New World are prominent nobles in the Iberian Peninsula, and Toledo is even more so, his surname means that he came from the city of Toledo, the center of the steel industry in Spain, where all the small round shields and well-made steel swords of the Spanish sword and shield infantry were made.
It was a rare and good weapon made by fine craftsmanship, and most of the trophies of the junior officers of the Oriental Military Government had one or two as a collection.
Chen Mu also had one before, which he got during the Battle of Luzon, but was later taken away by the emperor and taken to the Qianqing Palace.
Just as the high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty did not bring their families, the governor of Spain did not bring his family members, at least it was impossible to move the entire family to the New World, so the problem arose...... As the ancestor of the Toledo family in the New World, how did this thing turn the family into two generations of sixty-four?
The amount of information is too large, and Chen Mu is slow.
Deng Zilong suddenly opened the curtain and came in, and immediately saw Lin Hu'er, the commander who was still sketching according to the map on the ground, and then saw Chen Mu, who was sitting behind the march, with a stunned face.
Deng Dashuai's eyes roamed in front of Lin Hu'er and Chen Mu, and it was obvious that these two people would not have time to deal with him at this time, so they had to give their hands meaninglessly first, and then greeted Lin Manjue who was standing next to him: "Let's transfer the guerrilla army out first, the western army in Cali City has also retreated, and we can attack from the southwest." ”
Deng Zilong didn't bother to care what the Spaniards thought, he and Lin Manjue were just like those South Asian rebels, simple and direct, only staring at one target, and nothing else was important.
It doesn't matter if the city of Cali is defended or unprepared, withdrawn or not, they will lead their army to occupy it.
The countryside is the territory of the rebel army, and the town will be the main battlefield of the Beiyang Banner Army.
Now he is only waiting until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Deng Zilong wants to let his banner army run away with all his strength to see how fast the offensive march of the Beiyang Flag Army can be.
But the world in front of Chen Mu is different.
In this letter from Zou Yuanbiao, the Spanish governor of Peru arranged everything.
Chen Mu patted the letter on the table and spoke: "The Western Army has a total of three legions in Peru, among which the Godot Corps is the general banner Tang Dazhang led the troops to block the attack and suffered heavy casualties, and now there are still 27 companies and more than 8,100 people without reorganization. ”
"Twenty-seven companies gradually narrowed their defensive lines, and arrived in Lima City and were evacuated in three batches, the first of which were old and new aristocratic plantation owners in the Viceroyalty of Peru; The second, third, and fourth batches are integrated corps; The fifth group consisted of governors, missionaries, and members of the Indian Affairs Committee. ”
"The governor of Peru himself sent someone to find Zou Yuanbiao and informed him of the situation in Peru, and the Peruvian Western Army is fully withdrawing."
Following Chen Mu's words, Deng Zilong stepped forward in disbelief, and even with the decisiveness of discussing the battle strategy with Lin Manjue before: "Full evacuation, five fleets, what does this Peruvian governor want to do?" ”
Deng Zilong thought, as a governor, it would be a dereliction of duty to lose a battle and humiliate the country, and he was afraid that he would be punished when he returned to Spain; But isn't it a greater culpability to let more than 8,000 troops retreat without firing a single shot? Defeating the second child may not do anything, after all, victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, he has never won in the hands of Daming, and he should have a plan in his heart when he knows the moment the conflict occurs.
"He is afraid of war himself, and he has to pull more than 8,000 people from the entire Peruvian Western Army to retreat...... Deng Zilong seemed to want Chen Mu to confirm the content of the letter again, and said: "When he returns to Spain, Fei Lao Er can leave him a whole corpse, which is considered merciful, handsome, this is too fake." ”
Where in the world is there such a search for death?
"You're right, so he didn't plan to go back, Lin Shuai's native spy intelligence is accurate, he did have a lot of greed for ink during the period of governing Peru, the envoy told Zou Yuanbiao in Changsheng that he planned to take refuge in the Ming Dynasty, not high-ranking officials, just to be able to live in a square inch in Haojing, and take a look......"
Look at the word Zou Bald used: a place to live.
"He has a family of sixty-four, and the abbot doesn't have enough shelter, so how much land will be wasted to feed them."
Chen Mu was actually quite embarrassed in his heart, and spread his hand and said: "I won't let him go to Haojing, but the deal he proposed is also quite exciting, 40,000 catties of silver, if his belongings do not exceed 60,000 catties, I plan to agree to him." ”
Even Lin Hu'er couldn't patiently paint on the ground, she raised her face to look at Chen Mu, her eyes blinking and her mouth open to swallow an egg.
It turns out that after I slept a few times and reached the position of commander and envoy that I couldn't even dream of in the past, is everyone talking about things like this? Silver is counted as 10,000 catties?
It's an exaggeration.
"Can't be in Haojing, that Shangchuan Island, Xiachuan Island, or ......" Deng Zilong racked his brains and said, "Chicken coop? ”
Chen Mu still shook his head and said: "It's not that simple, he plans to create the illusion of his fake death to deceive Philip, the fifth fleet will arrive on Tierra del Fuego in three months, he wants our flag army on Tierra del Fuego to help him sink two of the boats, one boat is the Indian Affairs Committee personnel who are tracking him, and the other boat is a Peruvian official, he should have been on that boat." ”
"Actually, I want to sink him into the sea, sixty-four people, in the future, multiply, take away resources, and the people of the Ming Dynasty will have no shortage of people to reproduce themselves."
"Since what he asks is not to let others find him, then depending on his performance, how well he behaves, we will send them to the lion country, Spain will never find him; If he doesn't perform well, then even Da Ming will never find him. ”