An order from the Viceroy of New Spain in Mexico City reached the Ponte de la Prime, putting an end to the worries of the Spanish soldiers stationed there.

After the natives of Zhuangyuanqiao uprooted one of their military stations, they found that the company commanders, who had lost contact with their subordinates, marched north, and found that their military stations had been razed to the ground, and on the ruins of the original military station, the natives erected a mound in the form of sun worship.

In the shortest possible time, the company commander contacted the captains of the two companies belonging to the Bernal Regiment and the mercenaries who accompanied the merchants, and gathered nearly 700 troops to sweep north.

The results speak for themselves, the station was reduced to ruins and a mound was erected, and the mound was destroyed and re-erected.

It would have been settled with a massacre, and they didn't even bother with the original name of the land or who its original owner was, until the Imperial Banner appeared in the spoils of war.

The aborigines would not have such a beautiful banner, and the Imperial Banner was presented as a treasure by the captain of the company to the colonel of the column, and the colonel gave it to Bernal, the commander of the regiment in Mexico, by the same means, and through the mouth of the legion monks who knew the goods, the news that a company was attacking the Ming army in the north of the New World caused an uproar in Mexico.

Over the course of two months, in addition to one column stationed in Mexico City, Bernal's corps was scattered across two columns of a kilometer north of Mexico to shrink its defenses.

More than 2,000 soldiers briefly abandoned their exploration to the north and east, narrowing their activities to a hundred leagues inland along the coast, while Mexico City urgently assembled three legions of second-generation Spanish Indian blood.

At the same time, the Doge of New Spain, through the Church, issued an order to the Viceroyalty of Peru to intercept all armed merchant ships stationed in the New World to form a fleet to transport to Mexico City the necessities of the war, a large part of which were tools and food for the defense of the city.

With Mexico City as the center, the entire Viceroyalty of New Spain is full of mountains and rains.

The Governor, the Church, the Inquisition, the Legion Commanders, and the Merchants reached an unprecedented consensus on the preparations for the Second Western Ming War.

In the past few years of the first war, although their intelligence on the Ming Kingdom is still pitiful, it has made great progress compared to that year.

For example, the Philippine Governor Regasby fled back to Madrid from the western route to let them know the terrible control of the Ming Empire over the South Seas - a Ming pirate could easily recruit 2,000 soldiers in their colony, not because he was a pirate, but simply because he had a Ming official father.

After Halloween, the Viceroyalty of New Spain and Peru was in turmoil, and the number of stranded merchant ships fleeing to the Old Continent increased, and on the Peruvian coast, a passenger seat could sell for up to 200 silver coins.

A sufficiently large stake for the captain to take a risk, and staying in which he may not gain anything may also make a windfall in the war, but leaving now is bound to make a fortune - a multiple-choice question that is not too difficult for many.

Further exacerbated by the instability is due to the fact that while there is a consensus on the attitude of the upper echelons towards the crisis, there is a greater divergence in the more granular aspects.

The merchants, who had decided to stay in the New World, persuaded the governor to send negotiating emissaries to the north, looking for traces of the Ming army and trying to negotiate with them, to clear up the misunderstanding of the Battle of Zhuangyuanqiao, and to obtain more trade.

The army and the church do not think so, and the church has a very tough attitude, believing that there is no need to make any preparations other than war, and that there is no need to shed more of the world's glory for God.

The military is not tough, they are more willing to try to fool the pass, for example, there are not many Ming troops in the New World, and for example, the news will not reach the Ming Kingdom at all, as long as everyone does not poke this matter out like those stupid businessmen, the Ming people will never know.

They are indeed preparing for war, and they are preparing very seriously, but most of them do not really intend to devote themselves to it.

The most tacit situation is that neither the governor nor the corps commander made all preparations for a possible war, but no one gave the order to the front-line officers to attack the possible Ming army.

On the contrary, the officers at the front received orders to try to avoid attacking the Ming army when the situation was not clear, for example, not to attack the Ming army if they did not come to fight.

Then the Ming army came.

After Christmas, the Ming fleet and countless natives on land entered Marin, known as the Ming Dynasty's Zhuangyuan Bridge, and laid siege to two newly built military stations next to the ruins of the mound.

After half an hour of lobbying, 10 infantry squads, 14 cavalrymen, and a clergyman of the 5th Company of the 2nd Column of the Bernal Regiment burned the supplies in the barracks under the leadership of the highest commander, Sergeant Major, and safely withdrew from the barracks and exited Marin to the south.

On the third day of the following, the Ming army passed through Santa Cruz and Carmel, which were thirty miles away from Marin, and this time the soldiers of the two companies withdrew from the garrison without fighting, because there was no senior commander to lead, not only all the weapons, armor, and horses of the soldiers of the two companies were removed by the Ming army, but even the materials hoarded in the military station and the port warships were all received by the Ming army.

Day 6 and Day 8...... The Ming army's southward march did not stop, and even the aboriginal hunting regiments that followed on land were supplemented by the Spaniards who ceded coastal military stations, and the scale was even larger.

Zheng Tu, who met the Ming fleet in the north of Zhuangyuan Bridge, joined the expedition to regain the lost territory, and with the prestige of leaving behind to continue to attack the Spanish military station, his power did not decline but rose, and he quickly had a team of more than 200 people, becoming a relatively large part of the coalition army.

Almost completely risk-free along the way, Fu Yuan and the Ming fleet under Shao Tingda headed south, and the only accident they encountered occurred near the station called the City of Peace in Spanish.

At that time, Fu Yuan had already completed the mission of two thousand miles to the south that Chen Mu requested, and he walked nearly three thousand five hundred miles to the south, if it was not for the peninsula, he had actually entered the vicinity of Mexico City.

The military station here is also a company, as a horse ranch in New Spain, a company here has at least five squads are cavalry, because it is very close to Mexico City, Fu Yuan is not too presumptuous, causing the angry missionary to ride a horse with a lit arquebus and lead more than 20 cavalry to gallop back after the Spanish soldiers left, shooting at the aboriginal soldiers on land from a distance.

The brief clash ended with the missionary ordering his men to flee before the Ming disembarked, and the Horde Coalition lost seven men before pulling down a Spanish cavalryman who had gone mad enough to storm the crowd.

After that, Fu Yuan's fleet anchored in the harbor, and Shao Tingda led the fleet around the peninsula to sail north from the other side, leaving a fleet at the end of the bay and nailing the boundary monument according to Chen Mu's orders.

This is indeed two thousand miles, if you don't count the peninsula where Fu Yuan is stationed only a thousand miles away from Mexico City.

At the same time that the giant stone boundary monument engraved with the word "Emperor Ming" was pierced into the ground, Teguang, who was the messenger, finally stood in the governor's palace in Mexico City and was summoned by the governor Almanza.

"You mean, the Ming army has a thousand ships and 10,000 soldiers? Could it be that they could only carry ten people in one boat? ”

He shook his head as he should, decisively overturned his previous words, and said seriously: "That could be one hundred thousand?" I do not know, Your Excellency, that their ships are as numerous as their men. ”

As he spoke, Captain Tirlusius took out the wooden box in lacquerware and opened it in front of Governor Almansa, took out a letter and said: "Your Excellency, this is a letter handed over to you by General Chen of the Ming Empire, my mission has been completed, whether I want to go to war with the Ming Empire or not, I am ready to continue to join the army to serve His Majesty the King and the Pope!" ”

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