Shao Tingda has a painting in front of him, which depicts a mountain surrounded by mountains.

At the foot of the mountain, there is a road that runs through the east and west, and there are high sticks on the open space on both sides of the road every ten or twenty steps, the two sticks are far apart, there are beams in the middle, and there are several such shelves in a hundred steps in the vertical and horizontal directions, and the shelves are covered with thin steps to shade the light, and a piece of rectangular cloth is also laid under the shed.

The reason why Shao Tingda can see where the mine is and where the plantation is not because of how superb Hei Yunlong's painting skills are, but because Lao Hei writes directly on the map.

'Cotton fields', 'sugar cane fields', 'tobacco fields', 'mines'.

Further up, it resembles a watershed, with wooden huts, warehouses, stables, and small towers, and several small figures with sticks.

Even if he didn't ask, the reckless worm understood that the Black Cloud Dragon meant that there were soldiers here.

The shack level is further up and down, there is a towering church under construction on the top of the hill, the black general with the text "It is estimated that Xiyi will not be repaired before he is expelled from Asia", next to the church is the Plaza de Armas, with the text "The garden is very beautiful, red and yellow matching", and there are also a few small people with big heads with wooden sticks.

Underneath the church and the Plaza de Armas, there are rows of two-storey buildings, with the inscription 'white walls and orange tiles', the layout of which makes Shao Tingda, who has seen the Portuguese house in Haojing, feel familiar, this architectural style he has heard from his cousin, Chen Mu said that it is a 'baroque' style building.

But what exactly 'Baroque' meant, Shao Tingda did not understand.

For this reason, he also asked Bishop Haojing, but the old bishop who is proficient in Spanish and Portuguese culture has never heard of it, if it weren't for the old man saying that France has a similar adjective with a pronunciation of 'vulgar and messy' called 'Emote', he felt that Brother Mu was bragging.

It's really messy.

The key to the picture sent back by Heiyunlong is not the picture, or even the location of the mine and plantation, the most important thing for Shao Tingda is the word.

For example, the cornfield grew taller than a man to hide horses, the mountainside to which the artillery needed to be transported to accurately threaten the garrison, the height of each hill, the direction in which the hundred households should be encircled after entering from the official road, and the way the people on the mountain could take if they wanted to escape.

Judging from the map, although this place called Taxco does not have a strong city defense, the two-story small buildings on the mountainside are all natural musket bunkers, which can be called easy to defend and difficult to attack.

It is difficult to knock down such a place, but once it is down, it can overlook more than ten surrounding mountains and control 400 miles of land.

As for the silver, Shao Tingda really didn't take it to heart, even if there was a silver mountain, it was not something they could dig out in a short period of time, at most they could give each of their subordinates a few taels of silver as a reward, as long as they knew that there was a silver mountain.

After the end of the war, Yinshan was meaningful to the Ming army, and now it is enough to look at the military significance of the terrain.

Win the war, win everything; If you lose the war, you will give everything in vain.

"You can try to hit it."

Don't care what you say, the eldest nephew drew very well, Shao Tingda patted the drawings twice, stepped back half a step without a trace and moved the stomach resting on the table, raised his eyes and asked, "What about your general, why didn't you come back?" ”

This question is difficult for the Hei family to answer, the young and sturdy family Ding pursed his lips and looked like an angry little daughter-in-law, and thought for a while: "The general said that he would investigate there for two days and disturb his army's morale, so as to wait for Shao Shuai to send troops to attack." ”

Shao Tingda scratched his head, he didn't plan to attack Taxco yet!

"If you're not tired, if you're not tired, run again, and go back to send a message to your general."

Hearing this, the Hei family was solemn, hugged his fists and said: "Don't be tired, I'm used to drilling in the forests in Liaodong, and it's not in the way for a hundred miles, just change a horse." ”

"Okay, after you have eaten, pick a few riders from the camp to join you, and the two horses will go over to send a letter to your general first, and a hundred cavalry households will follow, and the black general will read Shao's letter and know what to do later."

The Hei family left with their fists clenched, and Shao Tingda was silent at the topographic map.

After a while, the sick Yang'er held the letter and signed up for the account, and presented the letter: "Father, the scouts from the west have returned, our infantry have chased for a hundred and ten miles, and Zhen Baihu has pursued and fought all the way, and in the end only more than forty people fled to the official road. ”

"There's a group going east, mostly to Mexico City, and there's a group going south, I don't know where they want to go—yo, who drew this picture?"

Sick Yang'er's return interrupted Shao Tingda's thoughts, he subconsciously took the letter but didn't read it, put it on the table and moved his hand holding the topographic map, pushed it to Sick Yang'er and said: "You came just in time, this is the topographic map sent by General Hei from Taxco, take a look." ”

"Wow, there's still a word attached to it!"

This topographic map is so chic that Shao Bianjiao, who has always been unsmiling, issued tone words one after another, looked at it twice, and immediately clapped his hands and said: "This is a good place, it is not easy for Westerners to defend, but if it falls into the hands of us, just erect two wooden walls, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack." ”

"Four hundred households are stationed here, and the enemy army is not afraid of another legion."

Shao Tingda frowned, his godson was a little crazy after a battle, and he rolled his eyes and asked, "What do you say?" ”

"The Westerners have few guns and light artillery, and many spearmen and swordsmen, but Governor A said that most of the Westerner mercenaries in the area of Mexico City are filled with crossbowmen, but even so, there are no more guns than me."

Shao Bianjiao really fought with the half-blood army, and he could see clearly which enemy army was strong and which was weak, and said: "Their military formation is really powerful, but if there are more guns, there will be fewer spearmen, and without spearmen, their guns will not be able to prevent cavalry, and the military formation will be useless." ”

"Judging from the map, the mountain city is high, there are only two mountain roads, and the mountain roads still converge in the middle to form a road to the top of the mountain, and the soldiers will fight for the intersection place, only two hundred infantry households, one hundred and sixty poles can keep him three thousand people can't come up."

"The second floor is full of shooting bunkers, and then make some obstacles on the road to resist horses, foolproof."

"As for the enemy artillery, the captured Franco-machine children have seen it, and it is far inferior to the naval guns on the western ship, which are very small, and they are not accurate if they are far away......"

Shao Tingda raised his hand to stop the analysis of the adopted child, and his palm fell to move the topographic map aside, and said: "Our troops have been stationed here for nearly ten days, and the news of Herrera's defeat will be transmitted back to Mexico City no matter how slow it is, but the Westerners have not moved at all, it is too calm. ”

"If the Westerners do not know any movement at this time, it should be to increase the number of troops in Acapulco, if there is no action, the garrison of Acapulco will not come to attack our rear road, and the garrison will have fewer troops...... Brother Mu's fleet and westerner reinforcements are almost here, and if you take the harbor first, you can defend the coast, and maybe you can cause some trouble to the enemy reinforcements. ”

"Therefore I intend to send a hundred cavalry to Taxco, to confuse the public, to return the main force to the coast, to attack the port of Acapulco to the south, to take the battery, and not to attack Taxco first."

Sick Yang'er nodded slowly a little confused, and then his eyes became firm, for him, the retreat is not about attacking the harbor, but about being able to determine whether the Western Army has made a move, if there is no action, it can mean that the Western Army has been beaten by the White Horse War, and the battle situation will be much easier.

"And the Black General?"

"I've sent him a letter, and he's not going to take Taxco down for me with a hundred or ten horsemen, right?"

Shao Tingda said a joke, shook his head and said: "It's okay, when Jing Luo leads the army to help, the silver mine will be ours sooner or later." ”