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Chapter 29 Brightness

Francisco de Toledo was the governor of the Spanish Governor General's Governor's District, Spain, and could also be called the king or leader. In short, he was the master of Peru and was only controlled by the Spanish King Philip.

In the Governor's Mansion in Lima, Toledo was carrying a kettle to water the plants in the mansion garden.

Like the Spanish War Bureau, the buildings in the Governor's Mansion have a strong Castile style. Two large yards are for infantry and cavalry training, and there is a garden between the gate and the armed city. All of this was built by Pizarro, the founder of Lima City and the colonist.

There are various plants transported by Pizarro from the Iberian Peninsula in the garden. At present, most of the plants from that time have withered and eliminated. Only this fig tree that had only one stick left in Pizarro's hands. In the past fifty years, Pizarro has long died in internal strife, but it still grows here, becoming a towering tree overlooking the city.

At this moment, the whole city seemed panicked.

Inca Galciso de La Vega, the commander of the Spanish legion, led the guards through the Armed Square with dust. When he entered the gate of the Governor's Mansion, he turned his head and looked at the female worker who was drying potato chips in the distance and whispering.

The movement of Vega passing through the Governor's Mansion into the back garden really scared Governor Toledo. Even the sprinkler in his hand fell to the ground, which made the big dog lazily basking in the sun rise up, and the strong horse in the stable sniffed uneasily.

The horse is an ancient horse with red dates, and the dog is a big thin dog. Even the handle of the jingle of the kettle is marked with the Liu family's work.

What scared Toledo was the face of the Legion Commander. As the son of the last Inca princess, although her father was a Spanish nobleman, Vega still had a face that was almost exactly the same as that of the Ming people.

Suddenly, he saw the tall commander frowning and approaching with his arm on the long sword around his waist, which made the governor suddenly think that the Ming army had entered Lima City.

After coming back to his senses, Governor Toledo walked towards Vega and hugged him hard. He and Vega were good friends.

Vega lived in the New World before he was twenty and received his post-ruling education. After he was twenty, he took a boat to Spain for different education. He then joined the army as an officer until the end of the First Mingxi War and was sent back to Peru to command the army to appease the people. After the Second Mingxi War, he became the commander of the corps in southern Peru. The guard range included the border between the Potosi Silver Mine and Peru and Chile.

The Spanish used him to reverse osmosis.

"What's wrong with the city? I see people are very uneasy. The people who make potato chips are always looking at me, you." Vega's chin always seems to be slightly raised. This proud self-esteem should not appear on the descendants of the conquered royal family, but it is ironic that he still has a good education and a life without worries.

At this moment, he said to Toledo: "You were also panicked when you saw me. What happened?"

"Do you think we have a chance to win if we reopen the war with the Ming Dynasty?"

Vega raised his hand and buckled the corners of his eyes, gasped slightly and looked at the governor with a funny look, as if he wanted to make sure that the governor in front of him was asking questions sincerely or intending to make fun of him. He paused and said: "Given that the Ming army deployed 4,000 island soldiers in northern Chile, my army could quickly break through them. If he could take down the important road before the regular Ming army came out of the desert, the war in Chile should be able to win."

The so-called island soldiers refer to the Japanese army stationed on the defense line. Vega has been stationed on the border for a long time and relies on the people to conduct intelligence to make more familiar with the military deployment of neighboring countries in the south. At the same time, he has long planned in his mind what would happen if a conflict occurred.

In his eyes, the island soldiers who belonged to various nobles lacked cavalry and muskets, and had no artillery. Although the nobles had strong fighting ability with small elite soldiers, they were born with disabilities in front of the phalanx legion with light and heavy cavalry protecting the flanks.

Such enemies, coupled with hiring a large number of Inca infantry who lack regular combat equipment, may not be 0.5 plus 0.2 in combat, but will have a counterproductive effect in defeat... If a small number of elite infantry are used as flanks to join the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, this force can show superman combat capabilities on the battlefield.

Infantry, who also experienced a hundred years of war, the warriors and football players born in the troubled times of the Warring States Period should have received higher evaluations, but the war between countries has never been better than their shortcomings. Their shortcomings seem too prominent in Vega's opinion.

Similar evaluations were also given to them by the city defenses, which were also a good army. However, they had a small number of cavalry, and the disadvantage was that they were not equipped with muskets. However, it seemed that because they were relatively closer to the core area of ​​the Ming Dynasty or the city defense, most of the time they would mix with some regular Ming army artillery soldiers, using lighter large-caliber short-barrel artillery and heavy artillery unloaded on the ship to assist in the defense.

The real shocking ability is the regular army of the Ming Dynasty that penetrated into the desert.

"But it is not easy for the regular army of the Ming Dynasty to make gunpowder in the desert. It's not easy for them to block them in the desert... It's strange, why can the Ming people use sea salt and sand as gunpowder?"

What the Ming army does in the desert is not a secret to the northern neighbors. The same appearance and commonality in words gave Peruvian people a natural ability to spy. According to people from Chile, the Ming Dynasty mastered a ability to refine sea water, but it must be carried out in the desert to turn sea water into gunpowder.

It is worth mentioning that the Peruvian language has some similar words to the Ming Dynasty Mandarin, so it is easy for them to learn.

As he said that, the commander of Vega shook his head and said to the governor: "But I do not recommend starting a war with the Ming Dynasty. Whether we can conquer Chile or not, we will die in the end. It seems that other places cannot gain any advantage except Chile."

It was not until this moment that Vega finally asked the doubts in his heart: "Why do you want to go to war with the Ming Dynasty?"

"It's not that I want to go to war with the Ming Dynasty. Do I think I have lived too long? I want to go to war with the Ming Dynasty." Toledo rolled his eyes unhappily, bent down and picked up the sprinkler kettle, swayed and put it aside. He walked to the stone steps and sat down. He raised his hand and called the big slim dog to come and caress him. He sighed and looked up at Vega and said, "We may all die. In a place called Zhumapo by the Ming people in Colombia, one of our legions attacked their border guards. It is unknown how many of them were killed."

"The commander of the Gordo Legion has the same caliber, and it is very nervous to say that it is confrontation. Someone fired a musket, and the Ming army thought we were attacking them and then launched an attack."

"They use artillery, rockets and the east that will explode..."

Commander Vega reminded: "Thunder and lightning in the palm of your hand."

"Yes, they used artillery, rockets and lightning to fight back, and then retreated. There were two teams in succession during the retreat. The first team consisted of twelve people. They used flintlock guns equipped with straight blades to strike the formation. The legion was almost defeated by them. In the end, because they rushed too deep, they were killed from behind by the soldiers who fled in front."

"There is another small team trying to attack the cavalry with the same means. Fortunately, they failed. I don't know how many soldiers we killed them. Some people say eighty, and some people say one hundred and eighty. In short, including the commander of the Godot Legion, we died 273 officers and soldiers that day, and another 240 soldiers died or withdrew from the army the next day. To this day, more than 200 people are still in service.

Vega stared at the eyes, surprised at the number of casualties in the battle: "Eighty, one hundred and eighty, Your Excellency, I'm sure that even if we only killed eight of them, Chen Mu would not give up. The monks of the parish studied Chen Mu and found that the earliest hostility towards the Spaniards in his heart was probably due to the Portuguese robbing six cows in the area he defended..."

"Stop worrying about these things, look at the flowers and plants in the yard, how good they are growing."
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