The Ming army still landed.

The landing inevitably faced division of troops. The warships and baggage were led by Fu Yuan and 200 troops were transferred northward, and the northern retreat was set for the Puerto Vallarta they had attacked earlier.

Such a small number of soldiers made each ship lose its combat capability only enough to control it. Next, they would sail 700 miles without defense until they arrived at the Lin Huer's headquarters, and then replenish all the wounded and continued to sail northward.

The two thousand Ming troops reorganized after the Battle of Valarta landed on the beach 150 miles north of Acapulco and went deep into the jungle.

"Governor A said that there is an official road facing northwest and southeast to the east twenty miles east, and there is a Western Army Fortress at the intersection of the official road facing northwest forty miles northwest. It combines with two neighboring fortresses and a company stationed in a permanent position to suppress local local people."

Heiyunlong took out another piece of black cake from the leather waist bag and broke it out of the size of a date pit and put it in his mouth. He mixed it with the hard cake and ate it together. He poured two mouthfuls of water and complained: "The military rations for the march are really unpalatable!"

He swallowed it vaguely, and the black cloud dragon squatting under the tree said to Shao Tingda: "Governor A said there are many snakes here, let's be careful...Shao Shuai, send a snake catcher."

The military rations in Heiyunlong's mouth are not eaten, but compared to their usual fish and meat, they consume three times more military rations than ordinary Ming troops. They cannot eat normal military rations on weekdays, and they can only eat these if they leave the baggage ship.

But in fact, the baked pancakes are crispy, salty and fragrant, and the taste is pretty good. This has been the main food for soldiers in the Central Plains long-distance marching since the Tang Dynasty. The roasted pancakes are poked with a small hole in the middle and put them in the backpack with a rope. Mixed with sauce pancakes and can eat one cake for a day.

The black cake he broke apart was a sauce cake. The Ming army's usual method was to mix three liters of soybeans with five liters of salt and mash them into paste and twist them into cakes and dry them, instead of pickles when there was no supplies.

Before landing, Shao Tingda ordered the soldiers to mix smoked fish and dried vegetables into the sauce cake, and he had already tried his best.

This is the real thing that is really unpalatable. After all, in marching and fighting, the first thing that is considered in military rations is not the taste, but the fullness of the food.

"Let's be careful of snakes?"

Shao Tingda ate soup rice, which was dried rice. The brigade prepared a batch of dried meat. When making the fire, the dried meat and sauce cakes were boiled to the soup, soak the rice and eat it softly.

Shao Tingda, who was snoring the rice soup in his mouth, almost choked his throat. He remembered that the saliva of the snake meat with a little sweetness actually grew from his mouth. He put down his bowl and said, "Be careful, we should be careful with snakes. Let the hundreds of families ask their subordinates how many snakes can catch them, so that they can pay attention to it during the march. Unfortunately, I forgot to bring soy sauce."

Humans should not be afraid of animals. Even if there is division of labor in human society, predators in the world are hunters.

Starting from the discovery that wood and stone can be used as weapons, humans carrying stone axes chased the saber-toothed tigers and ran all over the mountain, stabbing one mammoth after another with a spear, and were about to reach the moon in nine days.

Swallowing, Shao Tingda asked: "How much grain does the Western military camp usually store? How about their military food?"

Heiyunlong shook his head and said, "Governor Ah has been moved many times. If the Spanish army had our baggage, the time for conquering the New World could be shortened by twenty years."

"Their military rations are bread. In the battles of the European countries, it would be better if they were in their own country. The grain and fodder officials took the lead and organized the supply of goods in surrounding towns to establish markets to purchase supplies. Some important roads sent troops in advance to set up grain stations on the necessary routes."

"If we were abroad, the army would have to work part-time robbers to rob all places in addition to fighting. This is basically the same as the bandits in China. It seems that the army in any place is the same, and it will be done without supplies."

"But they are a little bit strong. They have many military merchants. These merchants have industries in various countries. The contract is signed and the merchants are supplied, which is similar to our Chen Shuai."

Shao Tingda nodded in disappointment and then said, "Don't alert the enemy. Most of the enemy troops may be stationed around him. It is impossible for them to be unprepared for defenses along the coast. The military rations carried by the flag army are enough. Let's go east first."

Heiyunlong swallowed his last bite of dry cake, drank the kettle and nodded and stood up, "Okay, I'll go back and see the horse team. The Dalinzi horse team and artillery team are too difficult to leave."

He turned around and didn't wait to leave. Two birds cried in the bushes, and then a flag army figure rushed out. The flag army was covered with green cloth blanket on its face and upper body, with only two eyes exposed, and panting heavily before bowing to Shao Tingda.

They were Shao Tingda's family soldiers and scouts. Their dress was the same as the killing team under Lin Manjue, because they were all ordered from the Nanyang Guard Weapon Bureau.

"Thu Ye, there are native villages twenty miles northeast. They seem to be fighting with someone. The village roads are erecting horses and digging trenches, and the local soldiers carrying long bows and swords patrolling back and forth, and their subordinates dare not approach!"

Shao Tingda frowned and looked up at Heiyunlong who had come back and said, "The Spanish informed us of the local people under his rule? No, the Westerners probably don't know the news of our login yet. So what's going on? Have you left someone to guard?"

"Stay away, the official road passes there. If they fight with others and the road is complicated, they send scouts again. It will be difficult for our large group of men to avoid their spies and continue to go east."

Needless to say, the geography here determines that the scouts are closer than the Central Plains. It is the limit to be able to release the scouts twenty miles away, and it is useless no matter how far it is.

But if the two armies fight, the scouts on both sides are at least thirty miles in a radius. If they want to go east, they have to go around sixty miles. Moreover, this is just an optimistic estimate. If they encounter mountains, swamps, and wide rivers, they don’t know how far they will take.

This kind of accident can cause countless troubles.

Shao Tingda closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, and ordered: "I can't go east for a while. I'll send someone to explore the north and south first to see if this place is suitable for camping. This..."

Before he finished speaking, someone came over again. This time there were still a few scouts, but there were more local soldiers wearing Spanish armor, who looked like prisoners.

The scout who captured him said, "I captured a Western scout captive, it was a Western soldier, not a native soldier."

Spanish soldiers?

Shao Tingda looked carefully and it seemed that he looked a little different. He said wonderingly: "This is the mixed-race soldiers mentioned by the Westerners? Why are they here? Let the Western Governor interrogate him."

The camp of Almansa, who led the 200 guards to accompany Shao Tingda, was not far from Shao Tingda, and the prisoners were sent directly to his camp.

He opposed this landing. He, the governor, very much recognized the naval battle between the Ming army. As Heiyunlong analyzed, Spain had never won the battle with the Ming army fleet, so he had no objection even when more than twenty ships were about to attack all Spanish ships on the west coast.

Only when landing for battle, the Ming army and his guards had only 2,000 people. When they got ashore, they were surrounded by more than 9,000 Spanish troops. This was too risky.

However, his opposition was of no use among the generals of the Ming army, so he had to be driven off the ship with a bad face, but this made him even more excited to be the guide of the Ming army, and he wanted to spit out all the information he knew in his stomach.

There is no way, it is related to one's own life.
Chapter completed!