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Chapter 119 Food Iron

The echo of the hoofs on the ground was heard from the canyon, and more than ten riders from Mexico City approached Acapulco.

Acosta, a monk on the horse, looked down at the path where corpses were once everywhere, and stood a huge rock painted with deficits, pondered and read the Chinese characters on it: "Chang, Changsheng County?"

He tied the reins, raised his arms and pointed to the front of the knight who was guarding him, saying, "Sir, that is the Ming army's watchtower. They seemed to have changed Acapulco to Changsheng County."

The hand in the knight's arm armor tightly clutched the reins, put down the mask on the helmet, and raised his head slightly to the entourage wearing padlock mail behind him.

The two entourage riders each held a big flag and drove forward.

The Ming army stationed in the canyon had long discovered them. The troops stationed in the canyon were Chen Mu's personal soldiers, and the leader was Lian Dou. At this time, he was holding a telescope and looking at the dazzling Western Knights in the distance, frowned, and said to his subordinates: "Close the door and the infantry enter the barrier wall, and you go and inform the second master."

The pronunciation in Chinese is a bit stiff, but the personal soldiers speak very coherently.

It is normal for him to dislike the Western Knights. His seven brothers who lived with him day and night were killed in the battle with the Western Knights in the Canyon Battle. Naturally, these people were not happy with the Western Knights.

The subordinates took the order and the personal soldiers stationed in the defense, the militia and a team of patrol soldiers entered the barrier wall, a row of bird guns were set up, and the militia and patrol bows and arrows were lifted, and the feather arrows were held in their palms.

After the Canyon Battle, the trenches here were not only not demolished, but also further reinforced. Two viewing towers were built. The lotus dove waved his hand on it, and the assistant defense chief below held a bright bow and pulled it all over.

The feather arrow rushed to a very fast slanting speed, and the force of the undercutting in the air was reduced by half. Finally, it was nailed to the land a hundred and fifty steps away, and the feathers trembled slightly.

Lian Dou squinted his eyes and looked into the depths of the valley. The arrow worked very well. A group of Western knights stood outside the land where the arrow fell, but he immediately raised his hand and said, "Don't leave for the rider, what's that?"

The rider in charge of the command was about to leave when he heard this sound and hurriedly pulled the horse. Everyone behind the wall looked at the Western Army. He saw two cavalry walking out of the Western Army holding big flags and crossing the feather arrows, and then rode forward for dozens of steps. Then he raised the flag and circled in the valley.

A rider on the left was holding the red cross flag of New Spain. This flag knew the Ming army who had dealt with them many times, but the other rider was different.

Liandou looked at the big white flag with a white circle on it, with two black circles on it, and there were two black circles inside. He raised his fingers like a wise man and stretched out into the depths of the valley, asking, "What is that?"

The personal soldiers who had been by Chen Mu for a long time narrowed their eyes and looked at it, and smiled and said, "That is an iron-eating beast. Before the war, Shao Shuai asked someone to take it for Bernard, so that he could lift it when he wanted to surrender."

"Then what should I do?" Lian Dou was a little bit wood. The situation was very difficult now. He took down the telescope and asked left and right, "Is there a side too?"

"No, no, we won, we won't draw." The old soldier quickly stopped Lian Dou's strange thoughts and said, "Don't worry about them, they must send someone here."

Sure enough, not long after, seeing that the Ming army had no expression, the monk Acosta said a few words to the knight beside him, as if he wanted to dispel their concerns, so he rode alone and walked down the arrow tower with the reins.

However, a hundred and fifty steps apart, Acosta walked cautiously, and his back was wet with sweat. He immediately clasped his fists funnyly and raised his head to the Mingjun on the arrow tower and said, "I am the messenger sent by Spain to negotiate peace, bringing the conditions of the Duke of Alva."

"Oh, the Spanish messenger..."

Lian Dou pointed his knife with one hand and said, "Get down from the horse and wait."

Chen Mu's domineering behavior is obvious to all. Even if a general who looked like a low-level Ming army officer said this, Acosta got off the horse obediently, stood by and waited, and finally bowed to the arrow tower with a smile.

It's not worth getting angry with Chen Mu and Chen Mu's people.

They are not normal people in Acosta's eyes.

Usually, even in Europa, it is impossible to scare others by threatening war. After all, their king Philip is the most powerful and militant king in Europe, and even forced France, François I, the most devout Christian king, to form a saint alliance with the Ottomans.

But Chen Mu is different. The Second Ming-Si War made Acosta clearly realize that Chen Mu was not blindly superstitious about force and blackmail to obtain the role he needed.

In the report Acosta handed over to Duke Alva on the Second War in Mingxi, there is a page of his personal style analysis of the Ming army commander Chen Mu. This analysis is different from the analysis made by Spanish scholars.

Acosta made a conclusion that the commander of the Ming army was actually very real, and even had a little nobility.

This analysis made the nobles beside Duke Alva sneer. Chen Mu, who is known to the public, is an absolute demon. He can't offset his sins if he is nailed to the stake for a thousand years. Acosta actually said that he is very real?

But after Alva read the report, he also supported Acosta's theory. Of course, it was not that the Iron Blood Duke also believed that Chen Mu was noble, but that the old Duke supported the monk's argument that this similar "noble" result had nothing to do with Chen Mu himself.

After research by Acosta's close observation in the enemy camp, the Ming Dynasty people generally had "weakness" in their personalities, they had great "inclusiveness". They always tried to find better ways to turn the situation around before the situation turned bad, and rarely paid attention to things other than themselves.

Chen Mu is a shame for the Ming people. He has extremely low weakness and a very small tolerance. He always likes to stretch his arms to pay attention to things other than himself.

But it is this faint weakness and tolerance that makes Acosta’s conclusion correct, that is, Chen Mu is very real.

In the port occupied by the Ming army, the monk Acosta made many indirect suggestions and had enough evidence to show that Chen Mu had decided to seize land for the Ming Dynasty in the New World before the war began, and even prepared for it for two years before he landed.

Therefore, it is not unfair to lose the war in the Western Army, but even so, Chen Mu still gave the Western Army the best result for both sides before the war started.

During the continued contact between Chen Mu and Ming Kingdom, Acosta’s suggestion to Duke Alva was to refer to Chen Mu’s proposal more, try not to anger him, and use peace means to exchange for the best interests.

Recalling the sigh of the old Duke, Acosta under the Arrow Tower sighed silently: They have become accustomed to the loss of dealing with Chen Mu, or even a big loss. This situation has become a normal phenomenon in everyone's minds, and the purpose of all measures is to try to suffer as little as possible.

This is probably a special experience that Spain has never had before.

Fortunately, Chen Mu didn't ask Acosta to wait too long.

The messenger brought Chen Mu's family team. The horses in the canyon moved away with the sound of horses running and horses, and the door opened for Acosta.
Chapter completed!
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