Chen Mu strode into the two doors with intricate baroque decorations pushed open by the soldiers, and looked past the generals who stood up on both sides of the long table to salute, and the wall at the end was placed with Trinity stone carvings, making the whole room full of religious atmosphere.

He asked the mestizo natives who used to serve the tax collectors in the port, which used to be the tax collector's dining room and banquet room, entertaining merchants and captains from the southern New World at this time of year.

Of course, in more recent times, it was mainly used to entertain royal galleon nobles returning from the Philippines.

These were two of the most important shipping routes of the Spanish Empire, both of which were annihilated at the hands of Chen Mu, leaving only this Spanish-style port mansion to symbolize the former suzerainty here.

Standing next to the main seat around the long table, the generals on both sides of the long table in the room bowed their hands, Chen Mu returned the salute and sat on the chair pulled by the pro-soldiers, and the generals sat down in turn, and the pro-soldiers holding the map tube behind them hung on the wall, just covering the Trinity sculpture.

"General Lin sent someone to send a letter, and the three hundred guerrilla flag troops under his command went to Mexico City after discovering Bernal's troops, and the news has not yet been sent back at this time, there are two possibilities."

"Either they are attacking Mexico City, which is empty in defense, whether by infiltration or by force; Either they have been surrounded by the remaining Spanish forces - this is very unlikely. ”

As soon as Chen Mu's words fell, Shao Bianjiao laughed out loud, and was glared at by Shao Tingda, who was in the second seat, and immediately retracted, and then General Manghu hugged his fist at Chen Mu and said, "What the big marshal said is extremely true. ”

This sentence really made Heiyunlong and the others laugh.

"What, it's true, even if there are defenders in Mexico, the defenders will be killed by the guerrillas in the blink of an eye."

Chen Mu hooked the corners of his mouth, and specifically distinguished the killer gun from the ordinary bird gun for this purpose, in order to select the killer soldiers who have mastered professional skills in training, on the other hand, the ordinary bird gun is used by a large number of line infantry, commonly known as line infantry.

When this kind of rule is set and becomes common knowledge in the empire, it has a good advantage in enhancing the country's ability to mobilize troops.

As for the sniper itself, it is not much of a innovation, this era was long before him, whether it was European countries or the Ottomans, there were snipers on the battlefield who carried out accurate shooting, and even the appearance of muskets themselves was used for accurate shooting.

Faced with the poor accuracy of early firearms, Europe chose to make up for it with phalanxes and numbers, while the Ottoman Empire took a different path, improving accuracy and range.

The performance of the Ottoman musket was so superior that soldiers acting as snipers appeared in the trenches during the siege of Malta more than a decade earlier.

However, there was no concept of snipers, they were more like skirmishers in the trenches, and the Sudanese guards used arquebuses to kill the defenders from a long distance during the siege blockade, and the defenders recorded dozens of people being shot in a day.

But for Chen Mu, his precision shooter has already made the purpose of the weapon very clear in the name of the weapon - killing generals.

The lads equipped with glass binoculars should be worthy of the high cost of using weapons.

And the most equipped killer guns in the Oriental Expeditionary Force is Lin Manjue's department, 300 people are sent to Mexico City, and there are at least 30 killer guns, who can stand it?

"Don't worry about the three hundred rangers for now, General Lin has sent news that he has nine hundred good men stationed ten miles behind the Western Army, and now he has sent a message to the cavalry of the Black Cloud Dragon Department left in Yincheng Tasco, hoping that they will go to help."

Chen Mu looked at Heiyunlong, the 'eldest nephew', trying not to raise his eyebrows, and said, "You still have cavalry in Taxco?" I thought they were all withdrawn. ”

"Back to Dashuai, I didn't want to retreat, but Shao Shuai said that he was going to come and attack the port, and it happened that I scared the enemy troops in Yincheng away, so I occupied it, and left sixty horsemen as a sentry when I retreated."

Heiyunlong was so angry that he thought of the sixty horsemen who stayed in Taxco, and he turned his head and said: "This Bell coaxed, then he didn't dare to attack, if Governor A leaked the news to him, he could defend in Mexico until next year!" ”

"Humblely seconded."

Shao Bianjiao, who was glared at for a while, raised his hand and said, "As soon as the White Horse of the Herrera Legion was destroyed, Bernal was frightened by us. ”

"Frightened, I'd rather accept the idea that he has his own business to consider, and that it would be wise for him to defend, especially if his king has not made it clear that he wants to go to war with us."

Chen Mu also found that his eldest nephew was a little crazy after winning a battle, and in the face of Shao Tingda's helpless look, he reminded the sick Yang'er with words, and then raised his hand to signal Zhao Shizhen to speak: "Tell me about the information." ”

Zhao Shizhen felt that he was still Chen Mu's personal secretary, he laughed silently and lightly laughed self-deprecatingly, lifted the notebook in front of him, and said to the generals with a pair of dark circles under his eyes that had not slept enough: "The general of the Western Army may be the leader Bernal and the deputy general Jesus, and our painter will draw a portrait according to the oral description of the Western captives and send it down." ”

The military clerk behind Zhao Shizhen sent a stack of portraits to everyone, Zhao Shizhen said: "Western oral narration, painter hand-painting, craftsman engraving, the three processes are not accurate, the portrait may only be three points similar, now we know that Bernal is a young general, often wearing black lacquer gold line armor diagonally across red silk; Jesús has long hair with a shawl and that's it. ”

"If you can observe an enemy who is suspected of being two people on the battlefield, I hope that the generals must use all means to kill them first to lay the foundation for victory."

Zhao Shizhen put down his arched hand, got up and walked to the map behind Chen Mu, and said: "With the available information, the Western Army has nearly 10,000 troops, more than twice as many as our army. ”

"There are more than 1,000 commanders in our department, and they are all on foot; There were nearly 2,000 infantry and 800 cavalry, but fortunately, the enemy also had a 900 guerrilla of General Lin on the back. ”

Zhao Shizhen said and glanced down at his notes, and said: "According to General Lin's report, the Western Army has two thousand miscellaneous soldiers and hundreds of iron cavalry mixed in the middle, and the rear ranks are complicated, including merchants, miscellaneous servants, and prostitutes, and the baggage is chaotic. ”

General Fu and Shao Shuai, who had fought against the Western Army, provided two other pieces of information, one was that some of the native archers in the Western Army who used bows and arrows and lacked armor were strong in morale but poor in combat effectiveness; Second, the Western Army's iron cavalry is very powerful, and even if they fall off the horse, they have the ability to be ten of them, so as to prevent them from gathering and trampling on our formation. ”

"One more." Zhao Shizhen closed the note as he spoke, handed it to Yu Congren, and said with his hands in his sleeve: "The fortifications that our army is building now will become an obstacle when attacking, and the two sides of the official road are densely covered with thistles and cannot pass through people. ”

"Our army has a narrow section of 200 paces out of the fortifications and cannot be dispersed in formation, and it takes 26 breaths, 26 breaths, and 54 breaths for 100 cavalry, foot and artillery to pass quickly according to the drill code, I hope you generals are ready."

"In addition, there is nothing to say in the next place, I hope that the monarchs will be victorious, Zhao no longer wants to continue to sit in the official hall and listen to the cannons, and when the victory is won, Zhao is willing to escort grain and grass for the monarchs, all the way to Mexico!"