After listening to De Bescola's suggestion, Don Juan Jose was silent for a moment, then nodded and said: "I think so too... But I'm not sure yet. Will the fleet suddenly transport a large number of landing troops to Acapulco or Colima while I am concentrating my forces to destroy the Garching Army?"
De Bescola thought about it seriously and said: "Your Highness the Regent, it depends on how much time you need to destroy King Jiaqing's army... As far as I know, the total number of warrior armies owned by King Jiaqing But there are about 10,000 people. How much time do you need to defeat them?"
Don Juan Jose laughed, "To be honest, I'm not sure whether I can defeat them... But one thing I'm sure of is that the battle between the two sides will not last long. There is a high probability that it will happen within a day. To determine the winner, it may last until the next day, but not longer.”
In this era, the army's field battles would not last long. A battle involving tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people would often determine the winner in one day or within a few days.
During this time, it was impossible for the Grand Fleet in Golden Gate Bay to go south to Acapulco or Colima. Even if the Ming Dynasty's fleet left Kinmen Bay ahead of schedule, it would be impossible to complete the landing operation within a few days - it is quite easy to march by sea, but landing is more troublesome. It was impossible to land at a port heavily guarded by the enemy. We could only find a beach to land near the port, not too far or too close.
If it is too far, the landing force will have to travel many roads to capture the target port, and it will also be difficult to provide their own logistics. Before seizing the port, all they could rely on was beachhead supplies. If the supply beachhead was too far from the front line, transportation between them would be a problem.
Of course, it won't work if it's too close. The troops who have just landed on the beach are relatively fragile and can easily be killed by the enemy on the beach. It would be very dangerous if the landing site was too close to the enemy's fortress. The Spanish's previous landing on the beach of the Kinmen Peninsula was purely to cooperate with the navy's sneak attack, and the effect was not satisfactory.
"If it only takes a few days, then the defenses at the two important ports of Acapulco and Colima are sufficient." De Bescola said, "After the Battle of Golden Gate Bay, we have strengthened the defenses there. , even if it is attacked by the enemy's large fleet, it will not fall in a short time. And it is not close to Mexico City. Even if it falls, the enemy will not reach Mexico City quickly."
Acapulco and Colima are both ports that the Spanish have worked hard for many years, and the terrain is very dangerous. They are surrounded by mountains and a bay, and the entrance of the bay is very narrow. The entrance of Acapulco Bay is about six meters wide. inside. The entrance to Colima's harbor is very narrow, less than half a mile, and it's basically impossible to get in if you block the entrance.
Moreover, the Spanish built forts at the entrances of the two harbors, protected the city with city walls, and stationed heavy troops. 5,000 troops were stationed in Acapulco, and 3,000 troops were stationed in the very small Colima.
These 8,000 people are not the knights of Count Iturbide, but the regular New Spanish Legion! Most of the officers are from Europe, half of the soldiers are also from Europe, and the rest are native whites. The officers among them were all knighted, or at least knights, and the soldiers also received a promise from Don Juan José that after their term of service expired, they could all be knighted and receive estates—New Spain was a very large territory. And he also rules over countless Indians, so he still has the conditions to become a knight.
Don Juan Jose finally made up his mind, nodded and said: "Count, I am going to personally lead 30,000 of the most elite soldiers of the Kingdom of New Spain to fight against the invading army of the Kingdom of Jiaqing.
I hope you can join me in the attack and serve as my temporary adviser...after all, you have spent a lot of time with those Asians and understand their strange way of thinking. "
DeBesco stood at attention and said, "It is my greatest honor to be able to follow His Royal Highness the Regent!"
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The footsteps rumbled and seemed to never stop. From top to bottom, there seems to be only one thought, move forward! go ahead! go ahead!
The warriors of Jiaqing Kingdom were crowded on the narrow and primitive road. Everyone was carrying their own weapons, armor, twenty days of rations, and some miscellaneous things, and weighed dozens of kilograms!
The troops rolled forward like an iron stream. After walking out of the Sonora Desert, these troops, who had traveled more than a thousand miles, had no intention of slowing down at all. They rushed straight to the Port of Guaymas like flying, once again Caught New Spain off guard.
The small number of knights and militiamen guarding the port of Guaymas didn't even know what was happening, but they were invaded by more than 10,000 heavily armed Gyeongju warriors.
After taking the castle, Jiaqing King Zhu Cihuan left Naomi Hoshina and hundreds of lightly wounded and sick people to guard the port, waiting for supplies to arrive. He led the main force to continue advancing. Because he could not wait for supplies, before leaving the port of Guaymas, Zhu Cihuan's main force took the corn flour stored in the port warehouse by the New Spaniards and made millions of steamed buns. .
More than 10,000 people galloped all the way south. When they were tired, they would rest on the roadside, and when they were hungry, they would eat steamed buns. Although they were tired and miserable, no one said a word, and their morale was getting higher day by day!
Their Los Angeles (Angel City) household registration will soon become a Mexican household registration. Can their morale not be high?
It is true that this Angel Castle (Los Angeles) will be a good place in later generations, but now it is a miserable and dry place!
The climate, water and soil of Angel Castle and Gyeongju City are not as good as those of the relatively humid areas in the Sonora Desert!
After leaving the Sonora Desert, the climate, water and soil are even more nourishing. Everywhere the army passed was green, and Indian farmers sowing corn could be seen from time to time on both sides of the road. The white people and Indo-Europeans all fled after getting the news that Jiaqing's army was invading, and the towns and manors that could be burned were also gone. All burned. But the local Indian villages still do what they should do...it's nothing more than changing a group of people to harvest corn!
Seeing this group of hard-working Indian farmers, the Jiaqing warriors became energetic again... These are all the barbarians among the "Xiajun barbarians"!
With them, the samurai master is the real master who does not have to do farm work but can still eat steamed buns!
If you work hard now, your children and grandchildren will have enough to eat!
Of course Zhu Cihuan was also very excited. Although he was born in an imperial family, his life was really not easy! When he was very young, he was captured by Li Zicheng and made a prisoner. After finally escaping, he was inexplicably involved in the "conspiracy to seize the legitimate son" and became a person that his eldest brother Zhu Cixang was afraid of. Even if he is granted the title of a county king, there will be no glory or wealth. Later, because of his failure in stock trading, he had to flee to New Zealand to avoid debts. By chance, he was elevated to the position of king of a country by a group of Japanese samurai who had no rich future.
But Jiaqing is poor!
He, the king of a country, is also a poor king. He has not lived a happy life for more than ten years.
Of course, these poor people in the Jiaqing Kingdom were not willing to be poor for the rest of their lives, so they set their sights on New Spain next door early on.
They don't even think about the rich Mexican Valley, and it's all in vain... The Jiaqing Kingdom has such a small population, how can it feed the Mexican Valley? Even if you succeed for a while and break in, you will get a handful and then leave.
According to Zhu Cihuan's thoughts, he would be satisfied as long as he had Sozhou (Sonora), Xizhou (Sinaloa), Nazhou (Nayatri) and hundreds of thousands of Indians to rule for him.
This goal now seems to be achieved soon!
But he also knows the truth about long nights and long dreams. The variables are not only the Spanish, but also the gang of profiteers in the United States... That's why he led the army to rush forward day and night. Now we just need to occupy more space. The more we occupy, the better!
(End of chapter)
