On May 18, 1960, the hot air on the west coast of the New World seemed to ignite together. The Ming Dynasty's Eastern Military Office and the Bernal army, which defended the glory of the king and the land of New Spain, went to full war after a long standoff on the entire west coast.

Also on this day, the huge fleet from Gibraltar, Spain sailed into the Gulf of Mexico through Havana, Cuba. On the magnificent Spanish Grand Garen ship, the Duke of Alva assigned the nobles dressed in neatly armor to dock on a small boat and ordered the port cavalry to send messages to the city of Mexico, two hundred kilometers away.

"Before meeting Bernard, I would not land with ten thousand warriors from Madrid. He must give me a reasonable explanation within a week why things have developed to the point of going to war with Ming."

The old and strong Duke Alva was ready to wander on the ship for another week to express the royal dissatisfaction with Bernard. He said to the little nobles who followed him: "His Majesty the King asked me to solve the problem with the Ming Kingdom. When we set off, the Portuguese army was also preparing to set off. We will force Chen Mu to discuss peace and then send troops to Lisbon."

The shortage of troops made the old duke anxious, and the empire was decayed everywhere, and even mobilizing 20,000 troops became extremely difficult. It was even impossible to collect ships that could allow another 10,000 troops to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a short time.

Whether it is waiting for new warships in Seville or Valencia's ports or directly allocated from the Netherlands, they still have to use troops everywhere.

The other ten thousand troops prepared by the king could only be scattered between Seville and Merida, in order to wait for his fleet to return to attack Lisbon and attack Lisbon within one month.

The smooth sailor and army sincerely thanked the God's gifts. Most of the voyages were slowed down by at least one week, and even fewer people in the fleet of forty ships have suffered from scurvy.

There are not many because some people already had scurvy before boarding the ship.

The nobles of the old road often had an indescribable arrogance towards everything about the New World. Although their food, clothing and expenses were inseparable from the New World, they were still arrogant.

The little noble who was sent to land was no exception. He took a entourage with an iron helmet on his head and a servant in a single robe, rowed a small boat and looked at the earliest conquered port with a scrutiny after landing.

Because no one came to greet him, the little nobles were even more dissatisfied with this. They also regarded the Spaniards who worked here as "lazy" and "unfaithful to their duties" idiots.

He knocked on the door of the harbor residents patiently and asked where the people had gone, but was told by the mixed-race hostess who were closed to the door that all the men who could pick up weapons in the port were summoned to fight against the enemies occupying Mexico City, which made the coldness behind the little nobles rise from the soles of their feet to the top of their heads.

“Mexas City was occupied?”

Duke Alva, who learned the news, did not care about any reservations and issued countless orders in just three minutes.

The Spanish light cavalry, dressed in heavy armor, investigated from the road to the west of Mexico City to determine the combat situation on the front line; four infantry companies, three musketeers, and one cavalry company settled in the port to build fortifications, and sent two teams of cavalry to towns and tribes of surrender to issue conscript orders.

In addition to strengthening defense at the port, the Duke of Alva also sent ships to the West Indies, Havana and Santiago, Cuba, Spain City, Haiti Island, San Juan and other cities to issue martial law orders.

"I have to know how bad things are in Mexico City in one week!"

In the view of the Spanish veteran who had been fighting for decades and the most outstanding commander of the same period, the fall of Mexico City was very unfavorable to Spain, and it was even better to give the city to the Ming Dynasty directly in negotiations.

This is like the attack of Fenghuang Port in Lindaogan or Majia Port in Magui. There will be no problem for the Ming Dynasty's capital, but once the Luzon Macheng or the Military Palace Island are captured, the news will be different immediately when it reaches the capital.

Neither God's perspective nor is it limited by the timeliness of the communication process. For the Duke of Alva, the fall of Mexico City meant that he had to transfer all towns along the coast that belonged or did not belong to Spain, and to transfer all property, population, weapons and equipment to the West Indies.

If Mexico City is all fallen, then his ten thousand troops will not solve the problem even if they fill all the new world.

What can determine all this now is his judgment of the situation.

Interestingly, the Duke of Alva also chose the port residence as a temporary command post, and the command locations of the enemy's armies were in this building. The architectural style, color and layout were almost exactly the same, except that one was on the west coast and the other was on the east coast, separated by five hundred kilometers.

On the attic, a side portrait of the ancestor of the former port owner was taken off and placed in front of the Duke of Alva. This portrait, painted in the thirteenth century, during the Kingdom of Castile in Spain, is much more expensive than people think, but at this moment, it is just a canvas of the old duke.

It's meaningless other than that.

The old duke closed his eyes, and the war-torn port of Tunisia appeared in his mind. It was his deepest memory during his expedition as the commander under Charles V. As the appearance of the port of Tunisia became clearer, the old duke kept drawing accurate New Spain road maps on the wooden boards on the back of the framed bust.

This is Aristotle's association, which has been passed down throughout the Middle Ages and was basically forgotten by the Renaissance. Now, except for some nobles with family backgrounds who were trained in ancient ways when they were young, only some heresy are used in new ways.

For example, the Neoplatonists who were influenced by Eastern philosophy to regard "Taiyi" as the source of all things and the heretic believers of Hermismithism, who were actually heretical, used star maps as mnemonic images to also enhance their understanding of the universe.

When the road map was drawn, the Duke of Alva soon concluded that the Ming army captured Mexico City, indicating that three cities in Acapulco, Port Barta, Tasco City and Dequeretaro must be occupied by the Ming army.

The situation he faced was that he had to recover the huge and densely populated Mexican city before he could continue to fight the Ming army in several other towns.

Although he was anxious and it was inevitable to negotiate peace, Duke Alva had set a firm goal for himself to negotiate peace, which was not surrender. Not only did he not surrender, he also had to rely on military means to regain several occupied cities from the Ming army during the peace talks.

Fortunately, on the second day of the landing, the information sent back from Ximeng proved that the facts were much better than he thought...
Chapter completed!