"Your Majesty, Mexico City is more than 7,000 miles away from Xin Chaoge. If Your Majesty personally leads the infantry and cavalry troops to attack, it will take a hundred and dozens of days to arrive. By the time Your Majesty's troops arrive, Mexico City will have been restored for many days. Your Majesty is still here. Let’s enjoy peace in Chaoge City!”
"Yes, Lutai Palace has just been renovated. The palace also houses a collection of orchids that were paid tribute by King Montezuma of the Aztecs. They are all Western orchids captured by the Aztecs. All of them are enchanting... ..."
"Your Majesty, although our Shangfang Kingdom is located in a remote place, it is rich in gold and mink skins. If you think there is anything missing in Lutai Palace, I will send someone to the Ming Dynasty to buy it immediately!"
"Your Majesty, please don't worry about money. After this victory in the attack on New Spain, the second largest silver mine in the world belongs to our Shang country. Moreover, there are many white technicians and Indian slave workers in the big silver mine. They captured Xinchaoge Mansion and Haiyuan Mansion to mine gold, and your Majesty will be even richer!"
I have to say that Li Guangdi and Chen Tingjing are really loyal ministers who know how to do things. It makes sense for them to be regarded as important ministers of the Kangxi Dynasty in history. They have long known that Zhu Yimei is good, so they have been working hard for the king in the past two years - there are wine pools, meat forests, deer terraces, palaces, gold and silver mountains, Zhu Yimei can just be comfortable as the king!
This is not to teach Zhu Yimei to be a coward, but this is the national condition of Shangfang - today's Shangfang country is equivalent to the oil tycoon country in the Middle East in later generations, and there are not thousands of princes who have lost their fortunes together, and only Zhu Yimei and Zhu Celing are the only ones in total. both. Do we still need to fight for this national condition? This national condition makes Zhu Yimei and Zhu Celing lose themselves in wine and meat every day. The more they lose, the richer they will become.
On the contrary, these two brothers have to work hard and do something earth-shattering, which will cause trouble... Doing great things will kill people! Now the Yin family of Shang Fang is neither short of money nor short of territory, but they are short of people, and they are short of too many.
Moreover, Zhu Heji had already drawn a red line for the Seven Marquises of the Yin and Shang Dynasties - if they are not of my race, their minds must be different! Therefore, the Shang Kingdom and the Yin Khanate must ensure that the Yin Shang people have a numerical advantage, even an absolute advantage!
All expansion actions of the Shang Kingdom and the Yin Family must follow this principle, and they must not swallow too many New World natives and white people because of external expansion.
So the Seven Marquises of the Yin Shang Dynasty, who presided over the affairs of the Shang Dynasty, did not even plan to annex the Zacatecas Silver Mine. This silver mine was more than 2,000 miles away from the Tongnan Fortress. If they wanted to annex it all the way, they would not have to eat two to three million Indians? This suddenly reduced the "Yin merchants" (East Asians) to a minority. All they wanted was the rights to the silver mines.
Therefore, the Shang Kingdom did not need a wise and accomplished king at all. But Zhu Yimei was not happy anymore. He was still young and it was time to start his career! How can I lie down in the wine pond and meat forest every day? Besides... Spanish Orchid or something like that, it's interesting if you coax it yourself!
Thinking of this, Zhu Yimei said to Li Guangdi and Chen Tingjing with a stern face: "On my father's order, I came to the New World to take the life of the Spanish Emperor Leopold. Is this Leopold still in Mexico City?"
Li Guangdi replied uncertainly: "This...should still be there, right? The news came back last month that Leopold wanted the king to defend the country."
Zhu Yimei was stunned, "Last month? It's almost the end of the month."
Chen Tingjing quickly explained: "Your Majesty, you don't know something, and we don't know much about the situation in Mexico City. Because Xinchaoge is more than 7,000 miles away from Mexico City, and the situation along the way is complicated, and we are short of manpower, and many castles are still there. Under the control of the Spanish, the army just went around. Even if the castle was taken easily, there would be no troops stationed there. So... it is not easy for the king to lead the troops and drive over, and it is not very safe. Now we have There are not many available troops. Excluding the garrison troops from Xinchao Gefu, Shangdufu, Yindufu, Haiyuanfu, Tongnanfu, Xibofu and other prefectures, they can only draw out four to five thousand people at most. This is a long way away. Afraid of what might happen..."
After hearing this explanation, Zhu Yimei nodded and said: "In this case, it is even more important for the Gu family to send troops!"
As he spoke, he turned around and pointed at the huge fleet of ships that were lowering their sails and anchoring on the sea of Fugui Bay, and said with a smile: "There are a total of 108 Pacific-type and New Continental-type ships here, and there are more than a hundred people on each ship. Half of the sailors are officers and soldiers of the Eastern Fleet... This is an army of ten thousand, plus the retainers of the Gu family and the soldiers we can draw from the Shang Fang Kingdom, it is an army of more than 20,000!
We take the sea route south to the port of Acapulco. Although we have to walk more than 7,000 miles, the sea voyage can be done day and night. If the wind is smooth, it will be a thousand miles per day, and the journey will only take ten days and a half. The journey from Acapul Port to Mexico City is only 600 miles and can be completed in ten days and a half.
The port of Acapulco is an important place! In the past, the Spanish were heavily guarded and built coastal defense bastions. If we want to attack and seize it by force, we will suffer heavy casualties. And now that the capital of the Spanish Empire is almost undefeated, where can we deploy troops in the port of Acapulco? This is a God-given opportunity to capture the port of Acapul! "
At this time, Li Guangdi and Chen Tingjing could no longer persuade Zhu Yimei to continue the wine pool and meat forest. Because the Port of Acapulco is indeed very important! The port of Acapulco was the starting point of the early galleon trade routes used by the Spaniards to do business with East Asia.
In addition, this port is only 600 miles away from Mexico City... If this port is in the hands of the Ming Dynasty or the Shang Dynasty, the future capital of the Aztec Kingdom will be under the attack of the merchant army!
Moreover, the terrain of this port is very dangerous. It faces the sea and has mountains on its back. It is composed of two bays, one big and one small. They are all the kind of bays with small mouths and big bellies. With a cannon at the "mouth", it will be difficult for others to rush in. The other side of the port is surrounded by mountains, making it difficult to capture it from land.
After the Shangfang Kingdom and Spain became enemies, they also wanted to seize the port of Acapulco, but after sending spies to conduct some investigations, they found that there was really no way to do it, so they had to give up.
And now, a golden opportunity to seize the port of Acapulco is right in front of us. It would be a pity to give up!
"Your Majesty," Li Guangdi looked at the large fleet on the sea and asked a little uncertainly, "Can the Ming Dynasty's Eastern Fleet help us seize the port of Acapulco?"
Zhu Yimei nodded and said with a smile: "My father gave me an edict, allowing me to call the Eastern Fleet once... In addition, after the Acapulco Port was taken down, it will be shared by the Ming Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty. As far as I know You know, the Port of Acapulco has two bays, one big and one small, and we and Daming happen to have one!"
Chen Tingjing clapped his hands: "Okay! Since the Dongyang Fleet can obey the king's control, it might as well go to war!"
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September 20, 1696.
The morning breeze blew coolly from the walls of Chapultepec Castle. Everyone standing on the not-so-high city walls, including Spanish Emperor Leopold I and Mexico City’s defense commander Stallenberg The counts and other dignitaries of the Spanish Empire also had cold hearts.
The reason for their chills was not the cold weather, but the shuddering scenes they saw with their telescopes - the devil's army was marching into the Mexica Valley and into the north of Mexico City. The city of Turtitlan!
This "Demon Army" is mainly composed of cavalry and horsemen, with more than 20,000 people. Half of them are wearing leather robes, braids, and leather hats. At a glance, they can tell that they are the soldiers who almost annihilated Luo in the Battle of Texas River Bend. Duke Lin’s “Devil Army”!
The other half of the "Devil Army" were all dressed in civilian clothes with cross-collars, upper shirts and lower skirts, with their hair in a bun and wrapped in a red handkerchief. These "Demon Army" all carry long flintlock guns on their backs. They should be the ones who annihilated the "Demon Army" led by Earl St. Chris on New Maling Road!
These two demonic armies not only had cavalry and mounted infantry, but also carried horse-drawn bronze field artillery and rocket launchers, as well as many large carts of mules and horses carrying baggage.
Although the two demonic armies together only numbered 20,000 people, they seemed to be nothing compared to the 200,000 to 300,000 Aztec troops gathered under Mexico City. But all the Spaniards who saw them had the urge to fall into the ice hole - their whole bodies, inside and out, were freezing!
Because they all know that with the 20,000 "Demon Army", the troops of General Eugen and Don Diego will never come to the Mexica Valley again, because if they come, they will be killed.
There is no problem that the 20,000 "Magic Army" can defeat more than 50,000 of the most elite Spanish Imperial Army in a field battle, and with them acting as sharp knives and controlling the battlefield, Montezuma's 200,000 to 300,000 weak Aztec soldiers can also Able to display strength beyond ordinary... Even if General Eugen, Don Diego and the Duke of Lorraine join forces, there is no chance of victory.
And I don’t know where the troops of General Eugen, Don Diego and the Duke of Lorraine are now!
Since these three Spanish imperial armies were not in the Mexica Valley, the Aztec-Business coalition first completed the decisive battle deployment in the Mexica Valley!
This merchant army actually did not go to seize the Zacatecas silver mine. Instead, it walked in a big circle for at least 200 Spanish miles, all the way to the east of the Mexica Valley, and Leopold regretted it. Too late - if I had known this, I should have run away!
But there is no regret medicine in the world, and he can't run away now. Mexico City will soon be completely trapped, and all the castles in the valley that are guarded by the Spanish Imperial Army, except Mexico City, will definitely be captured by the Aztec-Business coalition in a very short period of time.
By then, Mexico City will become a lonely city!
If the troops of General Eugen, Don Diego and the Duke of Lorraine dare to come to relieve the siege, they will most likely be destroyed by the Aztec-Shang coalition forces!
If they don't come...the reserves in Mexico City will be exhausted sooner or later. At that time, Emperor Leopold will either commit suicide and go to hell, or he will be captured by the devil and tortured until he commits suicide and then go to hell!
In short, I’m afraid I have to go to this hell!
While Leopold I was feeling deep despair about his future, in the city of Turtitlan, King Mengchuang had just welcomed Zhou Peigong, Su Zhanyang and Ceringdun Dobu into his palace.
"King Meng, have you ever sent someone to persuade him to surrender?"
After the two sides exchanged a few words, Zhou Peigong went directly to the topic and asked about persuading surrender.
"Persuading to surrender?" King Montezuma was stunned, "Xibohou, who do you want to persuade to surrender?"
"Who else? That Emperor Leopold!" Zhou Peigong said proudly, "Now, he is a turtle in the urn! If you don't want to die, then you have no choice but to surrender to us."
"Surrender?" King Montezuma shook his head repeatedly, "He refused to surrender."
"You haven't even tried to persuade him, so how do you know he won't?" Su Zhanyang interjected, "Even if he really refuses, we still have to persuade him... Only in this way can the people in the city know that they have a way to survive."
"Su Hou means... to persuade you to surrender by false pretenses?"
"Hahaha," Celing Dunduobu laughed, "King Meng, that's right...it's just a lie to persuade him to surrender! Let's deceive him. Even if we don't succeed, we won't lose anything."
King Montezuma asked: "Then...how can we deceive him?"
"Isn't that easy?" Zhou Peigong said with a smile, "How Spain deceived your ancestors back then, you can deceive the Spanish emperor now! This is called a causal cycle!"
He was talking about the time when the Spanish adventurer Cortes was regarded as the messenger of Quetzalcoatl by Montezuma II, received a grand reception, and was able to kidnap and kill Montezuma II in the Aztec palace. .
Now, it is the descendants of Montezuma II who want to trick the Emperor of Spain!
"Okay!" King Montezuma nodded heavily, "I will immediately ask Walzin to persuade him to surrender, just say..."
As he said that, he looked at Zhou Peigong, Su Zhanyang and Cering Dunduobu again.
Zhou Peigong said: "As long as he is willing to return Mexico City to the Aztecs, surrender to the Great Tomorrow, and pay compensation of 100 million pesos, then we will spare him and the Spanish Empire."
Celing Dunduobu smiled and nodded: "Yes, it's not easy for us to come all the way. We can't return empty-handed, so we need money rather than our lives."
"Spare him?" King Montezuma asked, "Can Emperor Ming really spare Leopold?"
Su Zhanyang smiled and said: "I don't know. The one who can spare him is the Ming Emperor...but the one who can't spare him is you and thousands of Indian souls! I think he must go to this hell." Yes! Prince Meng, do you think this is true?"
The Marquis of Jizhou didn't know that Zhu Heji had decided to kill Leopold! However, he still knew Emperor Zhu's principle of non-alignment and not accepting a younger brother indiscriminately - Emperor Zhu would never accept Spain's younger brother under any circumstances.
"That's right!" Montezuma waved his fist, "Leopold must die! Deceive him out of the city and kill him!"
Even so, King Montezuma still didn't believe that Leopold would be tricked out of Mexico City... The Spanish emperor regarded Zhu Heji as a devil!
Can he believe the devil's words?
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