The atmosphere in Mexico City has been terrible recently.

First, it was captured by hundreds of Ming troops, and then Indian slave workers started a war. Although Mexico City changed hands twice on the level of war, it was inevitable that the people of Mexico City would be in a state of unavoidable.

It was fine if the Ming army captured the city with a green cloak. The defenders and the citizens had almost no resistance. When they saw the Ming army appearing, news of Bernard being annihilated in the city was rumored. The morale of the defenders collapsed and a large number of nobles fled, but it did not cause much damage to the town.

It was different for Indian slave workers to rise up. They were the property of the Spaniards themselves. Moreover, the long-standing resentment broke out and died in chaos. More than a thousand Spanish people were killed. The fires ignited from the Mexican silk factory almost burned half of the city.

The Duke of Alva, who led his army into the city to suppress the uprising, even felt doubt from the bottom of his heart: what made these Indians burn their own city.

This did not happen when Hernan Cortez captured Mexico City more than sixty years ago.

The Duke of Alva was not only a Spanish military strategist, but as a feudal nobleman, he naturally had multiple identities, generals, nobles, and politicians. He had gone to and from the palace as one of the two most important ruling ministers in the whole of Spain, and also sent troops to the Netherlands as the governor of the Low Countries. In just a few months, he suppressed the rabble composed of butter manufacturers and cheese dealers.

He was the most professional in suppressing the merchants and citizens who opposed His Majesty Philip, and there was no second good player like him in Spain.

The situation in Mexico City will not be more complicated than that in the Netherlands, at least he thought so when he led his army to Mexico City.

But the real situation is much more difficult than imagined.

On the one hand, Duke Alva wanted his entourage to summarize the reasons for the several defeats of Bernal and find the shortcomings of the Spanish Legion in it to deal with the more complicated world situation after the Ming Dynasty ended in the future.

He did a good job and found the problem: the Spanish army's firearms were too low. From the deserter's engraved muskets, which were built in the first year of Wanli in the Qianhu Army Bureau of Xiangshan, it can be seen that the Ming Dynasty added short swords to the muskets in order to fight against the short swords in close combat.

The clerk around the duke wrote a report on this matter. The monks who read a lot of books suggested that this was a variant of ancient muskets in China. Portuguese monks who lived in Shuangyu in their early years had seen the Ming army's standard long-bar musket "quick gun", which was a structure that stuffed the spear into the barrel and increased melee ability.

After reading this weapon, the officers of each legion submitted reports on the tactics of the Ming army. Their reports were of different focus, but the same thing was that they pointed out that the Ming army and the Western Army were more similar to those of European countries in terms of land warfare. They also used legions to fight, but their organization was different.

The report stated that the Western Legion has 3,000 people, which can be divided into ten small square formations of 300 people or three large square formations to fight; the Ming Legion has 5,600 people, which can be divided into five units, fifty fire squads.

All military reports ultimately point to one point, muskets equipped with guns and the general heavy armored musketeers greatly enhanced the close combat capabilities of the Ming Dynasty musketeers, making their spears only used to deal with cavalry, and more musket volleys allowed the Ming army captains to have more firepower when fighting against the Western military formations.

Acosta's report institutionally points out the root of high military morale, cruel first-class merit and strict military law.

Through conversations with the people, flag soldiers and bureaucrats in Changsheng County, the monks concluded that the first-level merit system followed by the Ming Dynasty provided common opportunities for ordinary soldiers to become nobles, so they usually showed extraordinary courage from bottom to top in battles that gained the upper hand.

The weakness of this system is that the Party and theirs face disadvantages, and they will cause a large number of escapes to save their lives. Only by cutting off their survival after the harsh military laws can they maintain high combat power.

Dozens of legion infantry who escaped in the Battle of Baimahe are still scared of the scene of the Ming army experiencing guns and bullets when they hear the war drums silently moving forward.

Duke Alva believed that the Ming army's tactics and systems could be learned because the combat target of his troops was Portugal, and the Portuguese tactics were almost the same as those of Spain. If the Ming army could defeat the Spanish, then using the Ming army to deal with the Spanish legion would definitely be easier to deal with the Portuguese.

If you find the problem, you have to solve it. There is a lack of artillery and different systems. This will not be changed in a short time. The Duke decided to start with firepower first.

The Duke of Alva did this very well. In the past two months, the workers in Mexico City have rushed to make 2,600 light muskets and 400 heavy muskets, greatly enhancing the firepower of the Spanish Legion.

However, I encountered some difficulties in the gun piercing. This land lacked iron, and all the iron that could be collected was used to make muskets. After trying every means to overcome the difficulties, I found that the musketman's breastplate was not enough. I finally got some mail and cotton piercings. After the gun piercings were made, I found that they were not suitable for use.

Their muskets have different calibers. They either cannot be inserted into them or put them in and sway them, and they fall off after a bucket of them.

And even if the size is very suitable, it will fall out if it doesn't hurt twice.

Later, the witty Duke of Alva snatched half of the Spanish citizens of Mexico City. Their insoles were made of cork. The craftsmen crushed the insoles and remade them with the wooden sword hilt. This time the gunslings produced can finally be put in, but they cannot be pulled out.

If you can't pull it out, you can't pull it out. The sword blade is still broken. The disheartened Duke Alva finally felt that his people could not use guns and pierces in Portugal, which had never seen before. He simply packed the report and sent it back to Spain and asked King Philip to order the Spanish sword-making center Toledo to create qualified steel guns and pierces.

He had sufficient confidence in defeating Portugal, and now that he has seen the excellent aspects of the Ming army, his confidence has become stronger.

But in contrast, things in Mexico City are becoming increasingly difficult to handle.

How do you say that? There is no harm without comparison.

Without the Ming Dynasty border, all Indians would have been content with the status quo. The tribes that resisted the Spaniards were suppressed and annihilated everywhere in the south and north. The impression of the invincible Spaniards had long been deeply rooted in the minds of every Indian, and they could not think of the word resistance.

But now it is different. The successive defeats against the Ming Dynasty caused the trouble to Duke Alva not only to deal with Chen Mu, who had a horned head and a butt and a tail, but also to deal with the turbulent storm in Mexico City.

Ming Dynasty made the Indians live a great life. Today, they fled to the west of the border with their butts and pockets. Tomorrow, they would wear cotton clothes and tie their hair up with their hair. They would hold Ming Dynasty's name, resume, village, and work in the wooden signs appeared swaggeringly on the border, and bought their relatives from the planter with their Tongbao in their arms.

Of course, planters can choose not to sell, but those green cloaks holding muskets are right next to you, looking at you with a smile, who dares not sell them?

Alva didn't even know how it was reported. It was eclipsed by the fact that slave workers lived a lot of life after they fled to the border. Even he had heard that the court who was willing to farm rented a certain amount of land and planted whatever they liked. As long as they paid the emperor's "rental tax" and "eleventh tax", they were completely free people, and they were no different from immigrants from the Ming Dynasty.

Even if you are unwilling to farm, there are countless jobs waiting for them, and you can earn Tongbao if you raise them.

Alva's three winning treasures against the Netherlands: extermination, massacre, and riot committee. He was almost driven crazy if he was not good here.
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