Brother Tian was born on August 23, 1677.
New Spain, Acapulco city, Santiago Castle.
Like the previous two days, Acapulco Mayor Don Fernandez stood on the wall of Santiago Castle at dawn, staring intently at the vast Pacific Ocean.
The blue waters of the Pacific Ocean are like a shimmering blanket, undulating layer by layer. The sun shines on it, and the eyes are filled with flashes of light. It is truly the most spectacular and beautiful scenery in the world!
However, Fernandez has long been tired of seeing the scenery of the Pacific Ocean. He spent so much money to move to this mayor like the deputy king of New Spain, not because the scenery here is better, but because he wants to make money!
The mayor of Acapulco is the most lucrative and secure position in the entire Viceroyalty of New Spain. In terms of oil and water, this may not be the first place, but compared with stable oil and water, this position is definitely the number one.
Even the English pirates who were least afraid of the dangerous sea route would not be able to go around from the Atlantic to Acapulco in North America to rob. This road is too far, and the ports on the Pacific coast of the New World belong to Spanish rule and are not open to the outside world. Although Europeans like to advertise free trade, in fact they prefer monopolistic free trade. We must firmly monopolize where we can monopolize, strive for monopoly where monopoly is possible, and pursue free trade only where our opponents have an advantage.
For example, Spain's possessions on the east coast of the Pacific Ocean in the New World were basically exclusive to Spain and difficult for other countries to access. Therefore, what Spain implemented on the Pacific coast of the New World was a firm monopoly. Foreign ships are strictly prohibited from entering the port!
And since there are not many ports on the Pacific coast, the nearest non-Spanish ports are on the other side of the Atlantic or the Pacific! Therefore, there are no private pirates or smugglers operating on the Pacific coast. In the past 100 years, except for a few expedition ships from Europe or Japan (Japan once), no other foreign ships have visited Acapul. Branch port.
Therefore, the extremely wealthy city of Acapulco has not only never been attacked by foreign enemies, nor even threatened by any foreign enemies. The city's security is also very good, and it is probably the most reassuring city in the entire Age of Discovery. , the citizens are very wealthy, believe in Heavenly Father, are well-educated, and even the Indians on the outskirts of the city are very honest.
Even so, the Governor-General of New Spain still spent huge sums of money to build forts and fortresses for this city, which is surrounded by hills and seas and is extremely safe. It also recruited a Spanish phalanx infantry regiment to be permanently stationed here. Everything is foolproof. The only thing that worries people is the shipwreck of the Spanish galleon that only comes once a year!
It only comes once a year, and it would be tragic if it sank into the sea. Not only will this year's business be lost, but next year's business may also be affected if it goes poorly - because it won't be that fast to transfer ten or eight large sailing ships from the Atlantic coast of New Spain. If you don't, you might miss the few months in the North Pacific that are suitable for sailing. Then you will have to wait until the year after next to see the big sailing ship from the Philippines.
Mayor Fernandez's term ends at the end of next year.
In addition, he also spent a lot of money on this large sailing trade. If the large sailing ship encounters a shipwreck, then he, the mayor, will be bankrupt, and then return to Europe empty-handed and with nothing!
According to the original plan, this batch of large sailing ships should have arrived in early August, but this was 20 days late. Could it be that there was an accident?
When Mayor Fernandez thought about the possible accident, he got dizzy and his heart beat faster. Looking at the horizon of the Pacific Ocean in the distance, there was a double image.
He quickly held on to the city wall, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath of the salty air from the Pacific Ocean. He felt a little better, then opened his eyes again, looked into the distance, and suddenly saw the sea level. A few small white dots appeared. Is this dazzling, or are those big sailing ships carrying his happy life for the rest of his life coming?
Mayor Fernandez quickly took out a monocular telescope, pulled it to its longest position, and looked at the sea level in the distance for a while, and then his whole body began to tremble. Because one sail after another was appearing in his telescope one after another!
"Here they come, they come here." Old Fernandez put down the telescope, his eyes filled with tears from excitement. He quickly wiped away his tears, made a cross on his chest, and then looked at the Indian standing behind him. The servant shouted, "Go and call Captain Rodriguez!"
"Yes, Mr. Mayor."
The Indian bowed respectfully to old Fernandez, but did not wait for him to turn around to find Juan Rodrigo, the commander of the Spanish phalanx infantry regiment stationed in Acapulco and the commander of the Santiago Fortress. Come here. The bell of the fortress has been ringing "bang bang bang", ten times in total, which means that ten large sailing ships have arrived from the Pacific Ocean!
As soon as the bell fell, old Fernandez heard a particularly loud voice shouting: "Haha, the big sailing ship is finally back. Thank you Heavenly Father."
As soon as old Fernandez heard the voice, he knew it was Captain Rodriguez. This guy has a total of three thousand soldiers on paper, but the actual number is only about three to four hundred. The military pay and military expenses saved are used by him to invest in the "free trade" of the Pacific, and the money he earns from trade A considerable part of the money will be used to honor the deputy king of New Spain. Otherwise, would he be worthy of his current position just because he is a civilian and a veteran who has spent his entire youth and adulthood fighting bad wars in Germany and the Netherlands?
Although the old Fernandez, who was born in a noble family, looked down upon the veterans who worked with him, he was still very polite. After all, they were all business partners - they were all working together to poach the Spanish world empire. If the Spanish world empire did not have officials like them, it would have serious consequences for the entire world. This means that the military expenditures in the hands of those crazy kings in Spain would be several times higher!
"Captain, you came just in time," Old Fernandez said to Rodriguez. "Those ships are indeed Spanish galleons, right?"
"Let me take a closer look." Captain Rodriguez raised the telescope as he spoke, squinted one eye, and looked through the telescope with the other eye. "It's a Spanish galleon. That's right. One Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. That’s not right!”
Old Fernandez became nervous: "What's wrong? I remember it was eight large sailing ships!"
"It was eight but I saw ten ships!" Rodriguez said. "Two of them seemed to be English galenic ships."
"What? The English Galen Ship? Could it be?" Old Fernandez frowned, "Our warriors must have captured the armed merchant ships of the English East India Company! We in Spain are now at war with England!"
In fact, England and Spain are now allies - during the Franco-Dutch War, the Netherlands organized an anti-French alliance, including Spain, Austria, Prussia, Lorraine, Palatine and other countries, plus the Netherlands, big guy Beat Louis XIV together.
England and Sweden are allies of Louis XIV. Since England and Sweden are both capable of fighting, and Louis XIV's France is also full of martial virtue, the situation is extremely unfavorable for the anti-French alliance. So William III, the hereditary lifelong consul of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, resorted to "bed politics" that could turn things around. He married Princess Mary of England and suddenly became Charles II's niece-in-law.
Because this Charles II has no legitimate children to inherit his throne, his brother James II is the first in line of succession, and James II's daughter Princess Mary is the second in line of succession. If nothing else, it is The future Queen of England.
The future Queen of England will be ruled by the Netherlands. Of course, Britain will change its stance and stab Louis in the back!
However, Acapulco is a bit far away from Spanish Europe, so Fernandez didn't know that the British were already allies of Spain.
Although Rodriguez didn't know that Spain and Britain had turned enemies into friends because the Dutch ruler slept with a British princess, he still couldn't believe that eight Spanish galleons could capture two British Galenines of similar size - The Spanish galleons sailing in the Pacific had 90% empty seats for soldiers. Could this also capture the British ships? Does the British East India Company also have so many vacancies in its armed merchant ships?
I really didn’t expect that! The UK is actually as corrupt as Spain!
When Rodriguez thought of this, he suddenly felt that the future of his beloved Spanish motherland had become much brighter!
Then he looked carefully. At this time, the ten large sailing ships were closer, and he could clearly see the "red cross" on the sails. This was the Spanish "Burgundy Cross" and the symbol of the Spanish army.
Then you can’t go wrong!
"It's the Burgundy Cross, it's our ship!" Rodriguez replied in the affirmative.
"Okay," Fernandez laughed, "then let's arrange the welcoming ceremony!"
The city of Acapulco relies on the annual galleon trade, so whenever a galleon comes to the port, the citizens of Acapulco will organize a welcome ceremony, hold up the icon of protecting the merchant ship, and sing "Germany" .Deune" hymn, singing and dancing to welcome. This business is actually not big, not even a fraction of the Dutch, but it is full of sense of ceremony!
However, the citizens of Acapulco would never have imagined that these ten large sailing ships would bring them not silks and porcelain from East Asia, but heavily armed invaders!
"We're here, we're here, General, we're here!"
"General, if you hold on a little longer, we will reach the shore soon!"
"General, as long as we get ashore, everything will be fine."
"General, you have to cheer up!"
On board the King Louis, a British Galen ship produced in Quanzhou, a group of Geng Jingzhong's men, who were pale, thin, and a little dirty looking, were surrounding Geng Jingzhong who seemed to be dying, reporting good news to him and encouraging him. He cheered up.
Geng Jingzhong really suffered a lot. He was not very able to adapt to life at sea - he suffered from severe seasickness. Others suffered from seasickness for a month or two, and either adapted or were buried at sea. But he fainted for three months and kept vomiting. He could even vomit half of the food he forced into his mouth.
In the beginning, there were people who took good care of him. After a month or two at sea, the whole ship stinked, and no one took care of him anymore. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and was an emperor for a period of time. When had he ever suffered such a hardship?
When the ship drifted to the North Pacific, he had already recognized the reality - he turned out to be Yuan Shu and Yuan Gongdao in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms"!
No, he was worse off than Yuan Jiujiu. Yuan Shu would have died in poverty at most, but he was going to die at sea. After his death, he would not even have a chance to be buried in the earth, so he could only be thrown into the sea.
Just when he was frustrated and thinking about asking for a bowl of honey water, someone came to tell him that the ship had docked.
He turned to look at his military advisor Yu Renying: "Really. Are you here? Do you have honey water to drink now?"
"Honey water?" Yu Renying was stunned and asked, are there bees in this new world?
"Yes, yes, as long as we capture Acapulco, everything will be possible!" His confidant Zeng Tianyang had to be taken away from Damuan Island by Zheng Jing and sent to Ryukyu Island. He also suffered a lot along the way, but at least he Having seen the New World alive, I feel confident now.
This new continent is really big! They had already seen the coastline of the mainland. After seeing the coast, they sailed all the way south. If they could capture it for ten thousand miles, wouldn't they have everything they wanted? Not to mention drinking a bowl of honey water, there is a wine pond and meat forest every day!
"Can we defeat it?" Geng Jingzhong was still a little doubtful, "How many of us still have to disembark to fight?"
This long voyage was very difficult for Geng Jingzhong and his men, as hundreds of them died of seasickness and acclimatization! Nowadays, there are probably not even a thousand people who can still carry weapons to fight, and some of them have to spend some time looking at the Spanish sailors on the eight large sailing ships.
"Eight hundred!" Zeng Tianyang said, "There are eight hundred warriors!"
After all, there are three thousand defenders in Acapulco, and there is also a fortress!
It seems that the New World is about to be destroyed!
When Geng Jingzhong felt that his life was coming to an end, he suddenly heard the singing of "De. Dewuen" and the cheers of people.
He quickly got up from the bed, and then with the help of others, he staggered to the window of the cabin. He found a sea of people outside the pier, at least tens of thousands of people gathered. Among them, there were two to three hundred people carrying muskets lined up on the pier. There were also a dozen people who looked like they were officials and priests, standing These musketeers are in front.
Geng Jingzhong discovered that the "King Louis" he was on had docked at the dock, and the cable had been thrown down. The Spaniards on the dock had picked it up and tied it to a pillar. It seemed that he couldn't run away!
Since you can't run away, you have to fight!
Geng Jingzhong gritted his teeth and ordered: "Everyone who can hold a flintlock gun should go on the deck and fight the Spanish!"
"yes!"
Zeng Tianyang became excited when he saw that Geng Jingzhong had become energetic. He replied, then strode out of the cabin to arrange a surprise attack.
However, Geng Jingzhong had already forgotten at this time. He had long given the task of commanding the dead soldiers to raid the port of Acapulco to the two young Japanese, Hisuchika Huashan and Kiyoshi Kasho, and their samurai.
Just when Zeng Tianyang walked out of the cabin, on the King Louis and another English-style Galen ship named the French King Edward III, Kiyohisa of Kashan Hisuchi and the Adjustment Institute had already arranged a surprise attack.
They each led a team of Japanese warriors to lead the charge, and hundreds of musketeers were arranged on each ship to shoot with flintlock guns and hollow-cavity ammunition.
The raid was first launched by Master Yaumaru's disciple, the swordsman Hisuchi Kayama. I saw him holding a flintlock gun with a bayonet and shouting to the two little warriors beside him: "Togo-kun, Yamamoto-kun, the time has come to conquer the New World!"
"Hai!"
The two little devils roared, each picked up a flintlock rifle, climbed onto the springboard, and rushed towards the land of North America one after the other. Following them, there were a dozen other little devils who charged with them. Devil.
These little guys are all from Satsuma, and they often travel between Kyushu Island and Ryukyu Island, so naturally they don't get seasick. And at this moment, when I thought that they were going to land in America, my spirits immediately reached the peak, and I yelled "Half a year! Half a year!" and started to charge.
The Spaniards on the dock were shocked by this scene - where did the child come from? Still holding a gun. Where is your Excellency? Don't care? No, they are East Asians!
This is the invasion of East Asians!
Rodriguez, a veteran of the war in the 1930s, reacted very quickly. He immediately knew that he was going to play, so he grabbed Fernandez, the mayor of Acapulco next to him, and blocked him in front of him. That Fernandez didn't understand what was going on. He was grabbed by the people around him and still asked: "What are you doing? What are you doing?"
The unlucky mayor of Acapulco had just asked the question when something hit him hard on the chest, followed by a burst of cramping pain. Why did he look down and saw blood pouring from his left chest? The clothes leaked out and instantly turned a large area red! Immediately afterwards, he was thrown away by Rodriguez, and he fell limply to the ground. Gunshots, shouts, exclamations, and screams were heard in his ears, but he could not make any sound. .
In the end, he only heard a series of exclamations from Captain Rodriguez: "Here they come, they come, they come to compete with us for the New World."
them? They were Fernandez. Before he could figure out who they were, his vision went dark and he lost consciousness.
Rodrigues, who had fought in the Thirty Years' War, was much better than the good-for-nothing mayor who came from a noble family. He knew something was wrong at the first moment, and knew that Acapulco could not be defended - he took 90% of the empty quota. What the heck are you doing? Gotta run!
(End of chapter)
