Shao Tingda's notebook was painted with many simple fish, but he has crossed out twenty-five of them.

When the personal soldiers asked what it was, General Shao always shook his head inexplicably. At this time, he empathized with Chen Mu's burning of his notebook. He really didn't want to tell others that this was a ship.

The boat is really hard to draw!

According to the Black Cloud Dragon's summary, the number of Spanish ships north of Peru is 63 to 85, and twenty-five have been cleared out. The Ming army lost four ships and two damaged two warships, and the Westerners still have an overwhelming absolute advantage in the number of ships.

In the waters near Acapulco, the Ming fleet spread out to patrol dozens of miles of waters, and the commanders of each fleet took a small boat to the flagship cabin to agree on military affairs.

"No ship?"

Several admirals' deputy Qianhu, the Qianhu, stared at the fleet, widened his eyes, Shao Tingda nodded and said, "There is indeed no ship. The scout captain is an old officer under our command. Recently, he has been forced to the port six miles away, almost within the range of the shore artillery - there are no ships, large and large warships and merchant ships, nothing."

The surprise attack ended before it even started. The voyage of three thousand miles was suddenly learned that there was no enemy ship found in the largest port in Mexico and even New Spain. The former fleet officers were panicked.

Shao Tingda once saw a large number of western ships sailing north through Guatemala. These ships did not pass through the Dividing Peninsula. The Ming army's intelligence has always believed that the warships were anchored in the Port of Alpurco, and there is nothing here now.

Where are the enemy troops?

Have you set up an encirclement at the sea or will it suddenly appear behind them?

No one knows.

"Or...go back to the Dividing Peninsula?"

Seeing that the situation was different from intelligence, Heiyunlong carefully proposed: "The information is not clear and the enemy ship can no longer be eliminated at sea. If you land in a hurry, you may be intercepted by the enemy's troops. It is better to retreat to the north."

But unexpectedly, the first person to raise an objection was Fu Yuan, who had been determined to retreat before. He said, "I said to retreat directly. If you don't retreat, now you can touch the port of the Western Army in a few steps but you have to retreat. What is the reason?"

"In my opinion, the Western Army ships are not here. We sent scouts to investigate the location of their shore artillery, and the rockets were removed, and we directly seized the harbor. If the Western Army ships attack the Dividing Peninsula, we will retreat to others and wait for the rabbit, and we will suffer a great loss at that time!"

Bang!

In the cabin of the lower captain of the flagship, Shao Tingda clapped his hands to stop the generals and said, "It's over here, it's not like our troops, but it depends on how the Western Army transfers the fleet away. What are they thinking and what are they going to do?"

Shao Tingda did not believe that the Spanish fleet headed north to attack the Dividing Peninsula.

If the western ship had traveled north, they would have met it on the way. He thought the Spanish fleet had sailed to the south, but no one knew how south this south was.

Should the Spaniards avoid war or save the fleet as the last killer weapon for the war?

Are the rebels ready to fight the Ming army? Or are they planning to seek peace?

The so-called war means that "one person dies" is repeated thousands of times without distinction between victory and defeat.

"We want to win the war. This is our mission, but we must also save the lives of soldiers, leave a man for women and a father for children. No decision should be made hasty."

As soon as General Mang said the most literary and logical words in his life, he was interrupted by the contemplative black cloud dragon.

"Uncle Sixteen, will they let the boat run away?"

"Let the boat run away? What does it mean?"

The black cloud dragon frivolously closed his face and said in a solemn manner: "I have read the history of war in the martial arts lecture hall. Since the Ming army of West and Portugal went to Southeast Asia in the year of Longqing, we fought more than ten major and large sea battles. Westerners met me at sea, but never won the victory."

"I am not a naval general, and I also studied cavalry in the martial arts hall. But it is because I am the generals of the mainland division that I understand the tactics of the Westerners better. They use large ships as fortresses and shipboards as city defense at sea. In the final analysis, they still treat naval warfare as sea land warfare."

"Now the enemy's land division has several times the strength of me. I am not afraid of our army landings, but only fear of Chen Shuai reinforcements. It is difficult for me to defeat me in naval battles. Even if I have few soldiers, if I fight with naval battles, even if I am optimistic, our troops will destroy more than 20 warships. In this way, they only have thirty ships left, so how can they defeat Chen Shuai?"

"Just as we know the approximate number of ships in the Western Army, they know the number of ships in our army. If Hei is the general of the Western Army... wait!"

Heiyunlong said with great enthusiasm, clasped his fists to Shao Tingda and his colleagues to accuse him, got up and took paper and pen from the table that Shao Tingda often used in the cabin, roughly drew the general appearance of the New Spain coastline, and then drew two large circles and a small circle on the picture.

"The north circle is Valarta, the south circle is Acapulco, and the middle is the garrison of our wounded soldiers. If the ship retreat order is issued by Mexico, Aca can be ordered day and night, and Valarta will take at least three days by sea and four days by land before it can arrive."

"The west ship retreated south one to three days ago, which is one of many possibilities."

Shao Tingda thought about it and did not agree with this reason. It was a coincidence. He reminded: "Even so, the enemy ship of Acapulco may have gone earlier. Valarta is very close to the demarcation peninsula. The warship may have shocked us and did not retreat south."

Heiyunlong hand, who was holding a charcoal pen and lying slightly on the meeting table to draw a situation chart, nodded and responded, "There is another possibility that the Westerners will have no more ships on the entire west coast of Asia."

While speaking, he added a curved coast in the direction south.

"In order to prevent our army from coming to New Spain when we wait for Mr. Chen to consolidate his army, the warships moved to New Spain a few days ago were transferred south to the Peru Governor's District, and quickly dispatched three legions over there to reinforce."

Heiyunlong said, lifting his body and saying to everyone: "This is a good situation. As for the bad situation, it means that the enemy has surrounded our troops, or has predicted that our troops will attack the port, and the fleet set up an ambush in the southern bay and is ready to blockade outside."

"I think that I really have to think from the perspective of the enemy now that I am in my shoes, but I should not only focus on the sea, but also on land."

I saw that the Black Cloud Dragon drew several main roads on the picture and the location of Mexico City, saying: "Our army has a disadvantage in military strength. The advantage is that from Governor Ah, we not only get three Western Army Corps stations and defense areas, but also a complete map of the New Spain official road."

As an intermediate officer from the martial arts lecture hall, Hei Yunlong has as many talents as his relatives. He waved his hand and even drew some rough topographic maps.

"The legion's garrison should have been dispatched at this time, and the virtual and real are unclear, but the roads were built in the Aztec era and there was no change."

"If you want to withdraw your troops, it is recommended to retreat directly to the Zhuangyuan Bridge. If you do not retreat, it is recommended to avoid the port with shore artillery, land from the north side of the town, bypass the military center, and take the Herrera Legion garrison 140 miles east of the coast. At this time, their main force should be deployed on the coastline. Our army can calmly rest after landing and further collect enemy intelligence."/14_14088/
Chapter completed!