Fu Yuan took the sheep back, and flocks of merino sheep left a piece of sheep dung for the Governor of New Spain as a memory.

Poker is quite fun. Various cards can easily make Fu Yuan have a basic understanding of the Western class in the Middle Ages, but being familiar with or not is another matter and has nothing to do with winning or losing. Compared with Almansa, who is very familiar with poker, Fu Yuan has another pair of exactly the same poker on his body, which is the secret to winning every battle.

In fact, Fu Yuan generally doesn’t cheat, only when you really want to win.

It's interesting to think about this. Fu Yuan and Almansa used sheep to bet, but in fact the sheep was neither Fu Yuan nor Almansa's. It doesn't matter who the sheep was originally - at least they didn't care.

Compared to Fu Guerrilla who is idle, Shao Tingda and Heiyunlong are much more serious. Heiyunlong leads his subordinates to build a harbor and arrange fleet patrols at the sea on the east side of the peninsula near the west coast of Mexico to ensure that all their warships can move at sea when an accident occurs.

Shao Tingda had more work, but it had nothing to do with his headquarters. According to the number of troops sent by the Ming army, Shao Tingda redefines the tribal areas for them. These people originally lost all their land south of the Zhuangyuan Bridge, but now they are re-entered to them by the Ming Dynasty, so naturally they have to be planned by Shao Tingda.

The former army fleet divided nine large tribal alliances with more than 100 troops according to the regional population, and at the same time, the flag army was assigned to the nine tribes to teach basic Chinese. At the same time, after returning to the territory, each department sent teenagers of appropriate age to Majiagang to study.

Of course, the indigenous armies of the tribes on the Dividing Peninsula did not withdraw. They spontaneously followed the hundreds of Ming army households to learn from the Ming army's use of construction camps, deployment of defense, and even the use of bird guns.

In terms of the situation, the Ming army in the southern part of the Dividing Peninsula was close to the tension between the Spanish army on the other side, and three of the four New Spain legions were dispatching along the coast to prevent the Ming army from suddenly launching a landing war on Mexico.

The fleets of both sides swam in a straight-line distance of 500 miles, expelling each other, exploring the deployment of each other's shore defense, and protecting their own shore defense from being known to each other.

At this point, the Ming army had a slight advantage. The existence of the telescope allowed them to observe the general deployment of the other party at a longer distance to collect intelligence and leave the dangerous seas before the Western Army ships were about to be on high alert or even launch a collision.

"Once we fight, I'm afraid we won't get any advantage."

In the southern part of the Dividing Peninsula, the confrontation between the two sides has lasted for more than ten days. Heiyunlong is still patrolling the fleet under the jurisdiction of the shore port. Shao Tingda and Fu Yuan held a military discussion and pointed to the map and said: "At least 6,000 people are stationed on the 500-mile coastline on the other side, and they can get support in up to five hours."

"Our division has only more than 4,000, and more than 2,000 of them are untrained local people. Although their morale is good, they are not subordinate to each other and are different from my tactics. It is difficult to train if they cannot speak. Half of the Xuanwu whistle of more than 900 people cannot even skillfully load the bird gun."

Xuanwu Shou was a native army led by the Long-legged Bear under Shao Tingda. He was armed with all the Western armor and armor he received. He was under the jurisdiction of four teams of light troops, heavy troops, gun soldiers and artillery. He had thirteen small Fran machine cannons and had extremely excellent military equipment.

Light soldiers are archers and crossbowmen who do not wear armor, heavy soldiers are spears, long halberds, long sword soldiers who wear breastplate and helmets, and gun soldiers are equipped with Spanish light muskets and heavy muskets.

The gunmen accounted for only one-nineth of them. In fact, Shao Tingda had a lot of idle muskets, but there were no suitable people to use them.

"When fighting, the local people's troops cannot fight alone, nor can they be mixed with our troops. You have 800 troops under your command, 1,220 troops under your command, and 2,000 troops, which is all the troops that can be used. Avoid a decisive battle with them, but gathering fleets to eat enemy ships at sea is the only chance to win."

Fu Yuan sat cross-legged on the simple log pier of the camp. He also took out a sketch and said to Shao Tingda: "I have seen the terrain of the southern part of the peninsula these days. There are many mountains running through this place. If the sea is not good, the shore can be dragged for a while."

"If the enemy really goes to the island, it is inevitable to fight the decisive battle with them. We think it is better to sink nine of its ships at sea. As long as they can sink nine of its enemy ships without major losses, they will not dare to attack us even if the warships gather in the nearby port."

Fu Yuan didn't pay attention to these things. He waved his hand and said, "Go relax. Once the negotiations collapse, the second master will definitely lead the army to rush down. You and I are just a small vanguard officer. If you can beat them, you will fight. If you can't beat them, you will retreat. If you can't beat them, you will retreat. If you can't. Two thousand to six thousand, it's not embarrassing to withdraw."

"Why isn't it embarrassing? Brother Mu was not a vanguard in war? He withdrew again? They have more than 30 warships of all sizes and sizes, and you and I have fourteen warships. Not to mention two large ships, as long as they sink nine or ten of them first, the battle behind them is easy to fight."

Too ideal.

Fu Yuan glanced at Shao Tingda, knowing that he was used to bullying people with the power of ships and cannons in Nanyang, and said, "Have you seen the big insect? Their warships are no worse than ours. The second master most agrees with Yu Shuai's words: only large ships beat small ships in sea combat, but only the number of ships beats fewer ships. Moreover, the gains and losses of this city and one place cannot have much connection with the overall situation. In my opinion, don't fight them head-on."

"I have played cards with the New Spain Governor these days, but I have asked a big secret. This is much more useful for Erye's strategy in Asia than for several coastal ports!"

Shao Tingda looked at Fu Yuan with ridiculousness and said, "What can you get when playing cards with that fat old man? The king is bigger than the soldier?"

"Where do you want to go, you didn't notice that we were all the way here and received the military equipment of nearly four Western Army companies. Among them, there are many mechatronic bird guns in their hands? Some companies can account for 60%?"

"If you say this, it's true. What can this mean?"

Shao Tingda thought for a while and said to Yuan: "Where did they buy a batch of bird guns?"

Fu Yuan shook his head slowly, with a complacent look on his face, raised his two fingers and said, "First of all, their legion is like our guards, but a legion usually has ten companies under its jurisdiction, with a company ranging from 25 to 35. Among them, there are companies that specialize in using bird guns, which use more bird guns than others."

"Secondly, they have many fire ropes and bird guns in their hands because there is a general in the Western Kingdom who is as prestigious as the second master Yu Daming. He is known as Duke Aval, which is why he made the whole of Spain a tradition of using muskets and increased the proportion of muskets in the legion. Six years ago, there were already 2,000 soldiers using bird guns among the 7,500 soldiers stationed in the Netherlands."
Chapter completed!