Herrera is a professional soldier with a strong sense of self-esteem. His father was the first member of the Coronado expedition team in the New World. It is said that this is the case.

In fact, everything about his father was the only name Herrera, except for part of the blood flowing on his body.

After his search over the years, he speculated that he might have more than a thousand brothers and sisters in the New World. After all, after his father became a new noble, he brought all fourteen brothers in the family, regardless of their status.

Some people are lucky and can be recognized and valued by their families, but more people are like him, lonely ghosts, join the army and serve the army for the rest of their lives. It seems that people should spend their lives like this.

What he had contacted throughout his life was fighting and shock. He knew before killing those chiefs that this would cause greater unrest.

But the more this happens, the more it is.

New Spain is already in chaos.

This land has been very chaotic since his birth. Forty years have passed, the chaos here has been calmed down, and the arrival of the Ming people has broken everything in peace.

He personally received the order from Bernard to mobilize troops and ordered him to lead his army to Mexico City as a commander of the same level. He and another mixed-race commander naturally accepted the order.

Then, he watched Bernal take over Mexico City with his own eyes and be appointed as acting governor of the West India Commission to control the New World.

Herrera always thought that Bernard was loyal to Armanza, and at one time he thought that he was loyal to Bernard until the commission of the acting governor of New Spain was issued by the committee.

Maybe he was wrong.

Compared to bloodline, it seems that troops, guns and things are more important.

"The commander of the legion, the body of a team of scouts was found in the west of the camp. They were shot to death by powerful bows and arrows. The armor and weapons were taken away, and their heads were also taken. The monk said it would be two days."

"Take the head?"

Herrera has big eyes, which not only doesn't look like a Spaniard, but it seems to confirm the name Indian.

When the soldier entered the camp, he was meditating with a silver wine glass. He frowned with surprise when he heard the news, and asked, "Cut off the head, the Aztecs do not have such a custom, is their heart still there?"

The soldier in charge of sending the message nodded and said, "The heart is still there, and the monks accompanying the army suspect that there are others on this battlefield."

The indigenous peoples in the former land of Aztec near Mexico had the custom of cutting open the enemy's heart to worship the sky, but no one had ever intentionally cut off the enemy's head.

"When I was a child, I heard that some small tribes on islands in the north were used to cutting off the enemy's heads. How could the white horses gather troops to such a distance? If they could summon Indians so far, there would be no more than six thousand."

Herrera put down her wine glass, stood up and looked at the map spread on the table, and said to the soldiers: "Send scouts to the west, be careful, the Ming army also has the habit of cutting their heads or ears."

On the map, there are large Indian camps circled with ink pens in the north of Herrera Legion's headquarters seven miles away, and five Indian camps are marked in the depths of the front and back.

The scout war between the two sides is very simple but also very cruel. Herrera will ask the subordinate Indian indigenous people to investigate the north, and the Indian tribe leader White Horse will also let the tribe warriors wear Spanish armor to investigate here.

The two sides look similar, and they are far apart and cannot tell who belongs to them at all, so they often kill each other in the dense forest.

The Herrera Legion first discovered this problem, so he simply let his subordinates wear armor back, which significantly reduced the chance of scouts being killed in one day, but it would not work the next day.

During decades of colonial and struggle, the two sides were almost almost the same in equipment.

The two sides changed the secrets of clothing, armor and tools that only their own people knew. In the end, they simply wore armor and changed their identity decorations every day to detect the other party's movements.

Even though the Indian Chief White Horse had found that the Indian Chief White Horse had assembled more than 6,000 troops, Herrera remained optimistic about the battle situation and even believed that this would help defeat the recruitment after the victory.

But what if the Ming army comes?

Herrera shook her head, how could the Ming army come?

There were only more than 2,000 people in total, and there were also craftsmen and boatmen. They knew very well that we had contracted our defense and gathered more than 8,500 troops near Mexico. Unless the Ming army was crazy, they would not have boarded the land of New Spain at this time.

"It took a lot of effort to lure the white horse here. You must not fail. Let the Ibi company guarding the bridge be energetic. The two cavalry companies deviate from Hedong to behind the white horse. Their logistics are very bad. The decisive battle will take these two days."

"Although they have muskets and war horses, they will not be our Spaniards' opponent!"

In fact, Herrera is also trying to change his identity. He has always been a military general. In the words of the Ming Dynasty, he has "achieve great achievements". But since Bernard became the new acting governor, he seems to have seen a higher room for ascent.

I can’t help but think more in my mind. Of course, this also involves a different cultural difference, that is, the Western military achievements of this era are different from those of the Eastern military achievements.

Just like Spain has not cut off its head and the habit of cutting off its ears is because it has no military merits.

The lower-class soldiers will never become the commander of the legion in their entire lives. The reason why the commander of the legion is not because of their outstanding soldiers, but because he is an outstanding officer.

The general reason is like Liu Xian's two guillotines that cut out the general officer, which is impossible in Spain. Even if he can cut, he will only be a mercenary captain in Spain.

Just like Western soldiers and above are basically from nobles of all sizes, they will most likely choose to surrender if they run out of ammunition and food, because surrender can avoid death and give the other party the right to ask for ransom.

In China, the head level is the only channel for soldiers to be promoted. The higher the official position, the more valuable the head level is. The poor man is not useful at all and consumes food.

But Herrera's difficult decision time has come.

Not long after, the cavalry who detoured along the east bank of the river to the rear of the White Horse Chief came to the return of the four companies of the Bernal Legion who had retreated from the north.

"In Port Vallarta, the Ming fleet attacked the port more than ten days ago, sank and burned all ships at the port, and did not land. The fleet followed suit and sailed southward and disappeared into our eyes."

"We want to salvage the cannons from the wreck, but there is not a single ship. The commander of the Legion did not receive any news from the Ming fleet? They should be coming here."

Ming Jun is really here.

This news made Herrera feel that the thorn was on her back. Combined with the deaths of two scout squads, it was easy to remind people of the Ming army that had quietly advanced to his left wing and could launch an attack on him at any time.

"Has the Legion Commander discovered the traces of the Ming army?"

The rider who came to convey the message was a lower-level officer in the Bernal Legion, from a mercenary squad. He told Herrera: "Then you should retreat now, quickly retreat from the east coast to outside Mexico City. There are few Ming soldiers, so we have enough opportunities to ambush them on land."

"But the retreat will allow them to meet with the Indians, causing us greater trouble. How far is your four companies away?"

"Sanlig, the infantry and cavalry companies will be able to cross the river tomorrow morning."
Chapter completed!