Chapter 30: Stay
Chen Mu rushed to Panama as soon as he received the news.
The ones who arrived in Panama with him were still 1,120 well-equipped Beiyang Banners of Juniper's headquarters.
At least from this perspective, the monks in Lima City have the correct research direction.
The soldiers of the Qilin Guard joined the sea flag army at the dock and unloaded the ship artillery and carried the baggage. Chen Mu was already rushing towards Panama City under the escort of his personal soldiers.
To be honest, when he first reported to Chen Mu, he really thought it was a little joke made by Deng Zilong.
Just as Deng Zilong learned in front of Lin Manjue, Chen Mu thought so in his heart. Not to mention shooting and fighting, even with his fists, the Spaniards would not dare to attack his soldiers!
After confirming that this was a fact that happened in Colombia a few days ago, Chen Mu was almost angry.
The Beiyang Banner Army scattered in Asia and Europe is no exaggeration to say that he has seen everyone. Although he has no deep impression of everyone, including Tang Dazhang, everyone has seen it and has said at least one sentence.
Now thirty-seven flag troops, including officers, have been killed in battle, and from their actions, they are all good officers and good flag troops.
When the officers are bound to die, they take the lead, small flags, deputy flags, and propaganda take the lead. When the flag army can survive, the flag army protects the officers' lives. After effective mobilization, organization, management, living together day and night, their cohesion is even greater than that of the father-son soldiers and brother soldiers of the old army.
They almost showed Chen Mu's highest requirements for the Beiyang Banner Army.
This is almost probably Chen Mu's demands, and he was very unwilling to accept it: How could a unit composed of fifty-six people block the 3,000 troops of the Western Army?
The source of unwillingness was not to blame Tang Dazhang and others, but to believe that if Tang Dazhang's troops resolutely form formations to resist or form formations to retreat, there would be fewer casualties.
The suicide squad formed by the two small flags is tragic and kind enough, but it ruins the already insignificant organization of the General Banner. If the entire General Banner takes advantage of the opportunity to gather for a charge, it may not be impossible to retaliate against the enemy in the narrow area of the tax card to force it to retreat... But this is the rear-end of the two General Banners on the flanks and the aboriginal rebels who were resting nearby when they heard the sound of cannons.
Chen Mu knew very well that humans were not machines.
It is also very clear that the ultimate goal of the organizational form of the army is to organize individuals scattered like adults into dragons.
The personal strength is small and the collective strength is great. A general flag team that is well-trained, morale is rainbow, full of honor, sacrifices one's life and is willing to break the rear may not be unable to defeat a inferior unit composed of three thousand people, but the people's hearts are uneven and the fighting spirit is dispersed. A sound of turning back can fire the musket.
"No need to read it. I read the information seventeen or eighteen times on the ship. Where is Tang Dazhang?"
As soon as Chen Mu arrived in Youjing, Deng Zilong had prepared all the necessary information, but compared with the information delivered to the military office before, there was nothing surprising. Deng Zilong and Lin Manjue, the Ujing area, gathered in the city to prepare for the matter, just waiting for Chen Mu to arrive.
There is no need to inform these things. People know that Chen Mu will definitely come, and even more know what he will do when he comes.
This person's thoughts and consistent style are too easy for subordinates to understand, which is almost impossible to see in people of this level in the past, but in this era - it is possible.
In a sense, he is no longer a person, but a manifestation of the rise in the status of military personnel in the Ming Empire and the embodiment of the highest honor of military personnel in the imperial army.
"I'm in a humble position!"
Tang Dazhang did not expect that the first thing the general had done to enter the conference hall was to find him. Standing in the penultimate seat near the door, he hurriedly left his seat and bowed. The last one was Xiang Denghu, who knocked him unconscious on the battlefield with a pier arrow. The two of them had no chance to discuss with the military here, but as witnesses of the conflict, they had to be present. Deng Zilong believed that there was no need to let him wait outside... As for Xiang Denghu, he was specially asked by Chen Mu.
"The war was fought very well. Your subordinates were all warriors. Chen had already rushed to Xiazhou with the war report. The court will reward you at the beginning of next spring, Xiang Denghu."
As soon as Chen Mu finished speaking, Xiang Denghu, whose bandage was wrapped around Tang Dazhang's neck was exposed, also left his seat and saluted: "I am humble!"
"I was disrespectful to the superior's orders that should have been dismissed from office and sent back to the countryside. I was eager to guard the chief, and I would be fined for one year for a salary, and then I would be punished for the imperial court to reward him before I could implement it."
The two of them clasped their fists together and said, "I am grateful to the general!"
Chen Mu looked at many officers in the hall and then said with a deep breath: "Can the dead flag army be taken away by the Western Army?"
This time it was Lin Manjue's turn to answer, and he bowed and said, "The Western Army retreated urgently. Not only did it not take away our army's corpses, but some of their own corpses were not taken away. There are still fifty-five corpses, including the commander of the Legion, Godot, on the front line.
"The Western Army once sent people to ask for it, but the border guards did not give it to us. However, our army's twelve world-class Taiping guns, each flag army carried property, a water bottle, a tiger squat cannon, and a 40 kilogram of gunpowder and other equipment were taken away by the Western Army." Lin Manjue finished speaking in anger, took a breath before continuing: "Now the equipment has been gathered for the Western Army and is waiting for me to receive it."
Chen Mu didn't say anything, and no one dared to return the corpse... Who knew how much money this rich-minded general would use these corpses to find the Spaniards.
Chen Mu did not answer any corpse or equipment, he just asked: "What is Peru doing now?"
"On the third day of the Zhumapo Incident, the Governor ordered the transfer of southern Chilean troops to gather the soldiers of the Godot Army to Lima City. Six days later, the garrisons in various places contracted completely, and the Potosi Silver Mine was also suspended at the same time."
Lin Manjue said in memory, looked down at the intelligence and looked up and said, "There are more than 8,000 troops gathered near Lima, 30 small boats in the port and two large ships to deal with the conflict."
"Okay, I won't apologize if something happens. I guess I know that apologizing will not work. I might as well stop struggling to death. It's OK."
Chen Mu nodded one after another, but finally sneered, then nodded and said, "Thirty-two ships, then their ships will be stuffed in the port and don't come out."
"Receive and return the corpses to them. There is nothing to keep the corpses of the Po Legion. I sent a document to ask them to take all the corpses away by themselves before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the Ming Dynasty, including the mummies of Lima Church Lipizarro, Peru, Eleguado, and Colombia, all the Spanish ancestral tombs in the coffin and board the boat. Before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the coastal defense will allow these ships to leave the port and sail from the southern route to return to Spain... In addition, the Spaniards who want to continue to stay in the New World will stay here."
"The Grand Marshal is going to start a war?"
Chen Mu shook his head: "I didn't say that the war will start. Try their reaction. Let's ignore them for now. Youjing doesn't have to worry about the matter at sea. Between Panama and Medellin, three thousand Beiyang Banners and one thousand Linsen guerrillas will be dispatched by Deng. Chen also has a thousand servants landed and immediately went to the border line to prepare for the occupation of Cali City and the passage to Erguado."
"Chen is ready to pay the Potosi miners. Now he gives them the right to choose, whether everyone leaves before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, or fight a war before leaving."
Chapter completed!