In the equatorial range, the Ming Dynasty was only one step away from connecting the entire world.

This kick was kicked away by Yang Ce and led the pirates.

Fu Yuan was woken up in the middle of the night. The day before, Governor Yang Tingxiang welcomed the general and the commanders to take office and drank too much wine at the banquet where the person was in office. He insisted on pulling people to compete for shooting skills. The shooting skills were too elegant and should not be used.

He took two commanders under his command and two Spanish mixed-race commanders to compete with whom he urinated farther.

You can imagine how surprised the New Spanish general Fu Yuan was when he was in office when he was fleeing businessmen from Havana conveyed the news that the pirates were coming to the Gulf of Mexico.

At least in the narrative of the Western merchants, this group of pirates in strange clothes made a large invasion of bad people.

The merchants were frightened. They met Han pirates in the southern waters of Havana a few days ago. The formation of more than 20 ships on the sea scared the merchants who had never seen the world.

The merchants in Western countries have never seen pirates. They have seen pirates who are much more brutal than Yang Ce, but they have never seen such a huge pirate gang.

Nearly a thousand meters away, the Han fleet flapped across the sea and fired guns to the Spanish armed merchant ship they saw. The merchant ship was so scared that it hurriedly returned, but it was still chased by the Flying Shark Fleet at an extremely fast speed and chased to the eastern gateway of Mexico City. The Port of Veracruz, which was once abandoned by the Spanish and repaired by Yang Ting.

The aggressive pirates made the merchants not even care about the ship and the goods on the ship. They ran away in the shallow sea and rushed to Mexico City to report their news. In their backs of fleeing in a hurry, someone saw the pirates parked the warships upright to the wharf under construction, and divided their troops into two groups.

One entered the repaired port, and the other slowly set up a bonfire on the beach and buried a pot to make rice.

In the imagination of the merchants, it will take no long before the port being built will shine into the sky.

Pirates in the Han Dynasty were not easy to mess with. At least during the Wanli period, the pirate who was most terrified by Europeans was not Drake, but Yang Ce, a pirate general who came from the Han Dynasty who was vassal of the Ming Dynasty.

Even at this moment, only a year after his first voyage to North Africa, during this year, he almost alone made the triangular trade that lasted for decades stagnated.

Fu Yuan, who woke up from the hangover, quickly got into the state. After washing up, he ran out of the city with his armor and horse. At the same time, he also acted with a Ministry of Revenue that was urgently gathered in the middle of the night.

For Chen Mu, the Han State might have something to do with him; but for the Yuan Dynasty, the Han State had nothing to do with him. He didn't know that Emperor Wanli was the king of Han, or even that the Han State was Lin Afeng who once fought side by side with him in Luzon.

They were stationed in the west of the city and gathered in just half a moment, with infantry as the main and engineers as the auxiliary. The Ministry of Households, which was a small cavalry artillery team, carried dry food and carried fire to cross the city of Mexico and advanced towards the long bridge in the east of the city.

The New Spanish Legion stationed outside the city also reacted very quickly. The commander of the mixed-blood legion who lost in the peeing competition vowed to avenge his previous shame. Before the army was dispatched, he ordered his two cavalry companies to march southeast along the official road.

These two cavalry companies took on the mission of exploring the way, but the most important thing was to go to the Puebla Protection Cathedral, two hundred miles southeast.

Yang Tingxiang sent Fu Yuan all the way to Changqiao, Zhonghu, outside the city, and sent twenty yamen runners to accompany him on horseback, intending to repay them at any time so as to get the frontline information as soon as possible; while Deputy Governor Almansa brought these twenty light cavalry runners to Fu Yuan's army.

The two troops gathered together, and immediately took the Eastern Mexican Legion as the front drive, carrying artillery, and rushed towards Puebla every moment.

The quality gap between the two armies was once again fully demonstrated on this night.

After walking for only half an hour, when the Western Army rested on both sides of the stopping road, Fu Yuan's Ming army surpassed them to become the front drive, and the donkeys carrying artillery changed into a batch, and the Ming army actually ran away and walked forward.

It's really like walking, and the cavalry of Fu Yuan's army also led their horses to walk.

Then the Ministry of Households among the Ming army rested alternately, and the New Spanish soldiers of the East Mexican Legion were left behind and could not catch up.

Two hours later, the sky was covered with white belly, and the first hundred households of Fu Yuanmen had already caught up with the Spanish light cavalry that had been shipped early.

Walking further back, when the next evening was only forty miles away from Puebla, even the infantry of the Eastern Mexican Legion surpassed the vanguard cavalry, but the Spanish Light Cavalry finally arrived at Puebla, the important town of New Spain.

The Ming army infantry followed closely, followed by the Ming cavalry leading horses and the Ming army artillery leading donkeys, and then the seven vanguards of the Eastern Mexican Legion and a hundred households that fell behind in the middle of the night.

When the last company of the Eastern Mexican Legion arrived in Puebla, it was already the afternoon of the third day. The Ming army not only slept with a full sleep, but also had two meals in the square at the entrance of the church.

There are more than 400 miles away from the east coast, and Fu Yuan and Almansa think that there is no need to continue to march eastward.

From Puebla to the east coast, there are two tribute routes in the past that the Aztecs stepped on with their feet. The road conditions are like the tribute road conditions of the savage Jurchen in the northeast of the Ming Dynasty. Even after the Spanish landed, they repaired the transportation supplies slightly, which was still not conducive to rapid progress and extremely desolate.

The northern route is 480 miles long and the southern route is 440 miles long. The distance is close and the terrain is similar. You have to cross the valleys in the mountains to reach the east coast.

There are indeed many indigenous villages and sporadic planting circles in the middle of these two roads, but they are far from the prosperity of Puebla to Mexico City, and there is not much significance of sticking to them.

They are on the plateau at this time, which means that they go east to go down the mountain road and pirates go west to go up the mountain road, and they can wait for their hard work.

Therefore, Fu Yuan's army was busy relying on important towns to mobilize the nobles and the people to build moats, and only sent cavalry to the east to explore the enemy situation.

The general Fu Yuan's idea was very simple. If the so-called pirates did not come and instead went to the land in the north that belonged to the Ming Dynasty but the Ming people had never walked through, then they would let them open up the land. When they were almost done, they would learn from Chen Mu's method of driving the monks to farm in the early years to pick fruits.

As for Puebla, its strategic significance is extremely important. Fu Yuan has decided to set up a guard here after the war to guard the important areas.

The ranger released no news until the fifth day, Fu Yuan secretly guessed whether his ranger was completely wiped out by the pirates. Then the scattered cavalry returned and brought news that the pirates were approaching.

Their tactics of waiting for work are correct. The pirates have worked very hard all the way, but the news is not all good. In the description of the scout, although the pirate was messy and old, he was well-trained and silent, and was equipped with more than 30% of the firearms, which was even more knowledgeable than the Spanish Legion.

In addition, they also brought artillery with the army. The scouts discovered several guns with telescopes from afar, including large bowl guns, small Francs, and other gates, which had strong firepower.

This news made Fu Yuan order the people to recruit them again to strengthen their ability to defend against artillery in the last two days.

On the 11th day after the pirates sent troops in Mexico City, they barely arrived at the outer road of the eastern Puebla, and could see sneaky figures appearing in the forest from afar.

But they did not enter the defenders' attack range as soon as possible. They rested for a day and a night before finally gathering their troops in the early morning of the 13th, forming a horizontal lineup to press forward towards the city.

Fu Yuan also assigned the former army to enter the fortifications. He wanted to give these pirates who didn't know how high the sky was, and the earth was a little bit more.

As a result, when the two armies were facing each other, Fu Yuan was stunned.

The Dongyang Flag Army and the pirates formed the same horizontal formation, and the artillery was also set up outside the enemy's attack range. The flag Army and the pirates were carrying bird guns, walking slowly towards the other side with a huff. The drums and music that were particularly familiar to the Beiyang officers sounded at the other end of the battlefield, and they stopped when they were about to reach the range of the other party's artillery.

Fu Yuanming Jin.

The pirates on the opposite side used the same tactics and mastered almost the same skills. The drums and music of Chen Mu formulated in the infantry rituals in the Nanyang Guard era, while his military band called the general order of Beiyang to set the new infantry rituals in the previous year.
Chapter completed!