Zhang Xiao then led his troops and drove to the northwest.

At this time, in the governor's palace, Nelson no matter how stupid he was, thought that the Ming army might have to land and fight.

He urgently ordered that all the soldiers and horses stationed in various places be transferred back to the vicinity of the governor's palace for defensive operations.

He knew very well that if this battle was fought, his chances of winning would not be great.

Because Portugal is 108,000 miles away from here, it will take almost a year to go back and forth to ask for help, and it will only take two months for the Ming Kingdom to go back and forth from here, so it is conceivable who has a stronger long-lasting combat capability.

To make matters worse, his forces were quite scattered, all of them stationed on various batteries and important islands in the Manraka Strait.

In the vicinity of the Governor's Palace, he could now call on only 3,000 troops.

This is enough to frighten the locals, or to defend against the invading armies of other European countries that are also coming from afar - after all, no European country would send tens of thousands of troops to the Far East, would it?

But in the face of the Ming army in Asia, God knows how many troops they can send over.

There are tens of thousands of people in this country, and they only need a month to get here!

Despite this, Nelson decided to stay here.

If defeated, he would not have lived up to his position as governor and saved the face of the nobles.

If it can drag on for a few months, that's even better.

Nelson believed that as long as he could hold on to this place for a few months, he would have the opportunity to unite Spain, the Netherlands, Britain and other countries to collectively put pressure on the Ming Court and force them to abandon their crazy maritime hegemony.

He believed that the Far East was the common interest of all European countries, and that if the Ming wanted to monopolize it, it would inevitably be unanimously opposed by all.

No matter how strong the Ming Kingdom is, will it dare to compete with the whole of Europe?

If Nelson's thoughts were known to Qin Shuhuai, Qin Shuhuai would probably laugh.

What's more, Lao Tzu's war mobilization ability, shipbuilding and artillery building ability, and economic strength are higher than your entire Europe, plus the Far East is at Lao Tzu's doorstep, I will be afraid of you as a Europe?

What if the whole of Europe unites to form an expeditionary fleet? If Lao Tzu doesn't beat you up and cripple you, it will be considered a trip for nothing!

What's more, who is going to be idle now, spending money and effort to organize the Far Eastern Fleet to fight a powerful empire that can build 50 battleships a year? It is too late for them to colonize the Americas and Africa, and they really think that they have too much money or too many warships?

Therefore, what Qin Shuhuai wants is arrogance, that is, unreasonable-less than the bandits in Europe.

In these days, whoever is strong will make the rules.

And the rules of the Far East must be set by the Ming Dynasty!

It is said that after Zhang Xiao led his troops ashore, he ran rampant all the way, and soon killed in the Maibasen area, which was only ten miles southeast of the governor's palace.

Mebason is a small local village, but there are two small hills on either side of the road that choke the throat leading to the Doge's Palace.

Nelson was short enough to fight the Ming army in the field, but he ambushed about 800 soldiers in these two small hills, hoping to delay the Ming army's attack and buy him time to mobilize more troops to defend the governor's palace.

Of these 800 men, about 400 were pure Portuguese soldiers, which shows that Nelson took this attack very seriously—you must know that the total number of pure Portuguese soldiers he can collect now is only 1,200.

However, this kind of ambush, for an old soldier like Zhang Xiao, can be guessed even with his eyes closed.

didn't even have to wait for Zhang Xiao to say, Lai San'er jumped out first.

"Lao Zhang, the two hills in front of you are stuck on both sides of the road, and they look a little infiltrating! With my many years of experience in marching, there is likely to be an ambush here. ”

Lai San'er's analysis made Meng Wei, Meng Hu, Zhang Xiao and others laugh.

Zhang Xiao nodded and said, "What Dingbei Bo said makes sense. ”

Meng Hu teased, "Uncle Dingbei is really Uncle Dingbei, it's really a clever calculation." ”

In fact, in addition to Lai San'er, Zhang Xiao, Meng Hu, Meng Wei, and Li Jingting were also sealed, but because of habit, they usually call each other according to the old one.

But it's different for Lai San'er, since he sealed Dingbeibo, his nostrils are facing the sky, so everyone always makes fun of him with "Dingbeibo".

Lai San'er was not angry when he saw this, but put his hands behind his back and said more seriously, "Since everyone agrees with Benbo's judgment, then ask General Zhang to send scouts to investigate." ”

Zhang Xiao nodded again, and then said, "Then I'll bother Dingbei Bo to bring some good hands to take a look." ”

Lai San'er was still immersed in the pleasure of strategizing, but he didn't expect Zhang Xiao to stop thinking about it.

I could only sigh and say to Zhang Xiao, "Hey, Lao Tzu is a dignified uncle, I didn't expect to run errands!"

"Hahaha!" Meng Wei and Meng Hu couldn't help laughing.

Everyone joked and joked, although there is no distinction between superiors and subordinates in normal times, but at this time Zhang Xiao is the commander appointed by Qin Shuhuai, the so-called no jokes in the army, Lai San'er has been fighting in the south and north for so many years, he knows the severity, and he didn't bargain at all, so he was ordered to go out.

Two hundred good players were ordered, and they were divided into two teams equally. One team was led by himself, the other was led by Chen Jing, and both teams carried shields and went up two hills in two ways.

Both hills are not big, and there are vegetation on the mountains to hide. However, it is easy to hide ten or eight people, but it is not so easy to hide a few hundred people.

Lai San'er took 100 of them to form a "one" formation and conduct a dragnet search.

Knowing that Furlong's red-haired gun was powerful, each of them had a big shield in his hand and walked forward without hurry.

Not only did they have shields, but they wore three layers of light armor—borrowed from the Tartar Baya soldiers.

In addition, not only did they carry swords and other common weapons, but they also carried strong crossbows on their backs, and even carried two thunderbolts each.

It stands to reason that as a scout, carrying so many things, doesn't it affect your speed?

Indeed it is.

However, this point was raised by Qin Shuhuai.

Qin Shuhuai believes that Westerners are good at using guns, and the rate of fire of bullets is faster than that of bows and arrows, and if they are fired at once, no matter how good the kung fu is, unless it is possible for a master of his level to avoid it, ordinary masters will definitely not be able to dodge.

In order to reduce casualties, he demanded that an operation similar to the search of the mountain should be at least 100 people in size, and fully armed, and the time was not important, but the important thing was to ensure that there was enough strength to protect themselves after the attack.

Straight to the point.

After searching for less than a quarter of an hour, they came to a place near the top of the hill where the vegetation was very vigorous.

Lai San'er said in his heart, if he wants to ambush, this place is probably the best - he has done this kind of thing a lot, and he is full of experience.

So he whistled to remind everyone to pay attention.

At this moment, suddenly a bunch of heads appeared about fifty meters ahead, and then the gunshots rang out in unison.

Accompanied by rows of white neat smoke, countless projectiles roared at them.

But the reaction of the Ming army's good hands was surprisingly fast, and they raised their shields just when the other party had just emerged.

"Dangdang!"

Countless bullets hit the shield, and although the momentum was quite expensive, none of them could penetrate the shield - after all, this was just an arquebus, and it was strange that it could penetrate the Jianghe Gang's special 100-for-steel shield.

Seeing that the enemy army was discovered, Lai San'er smiled and shouted, "Gather and defend!"

So a hundred good hands immediately held their shields and gathered around Lai San'er.