Wang Dong was right. News about the complete defeat of the Spanish West Coast fleet and Manzanillo was lost a few days later.

Although I had learned about this from Wang Dong, when the news reached Louis, it still couldn't accept it.

"Trouble..." Holding the letter in his hand, Louis felt as if he was surrounded by endless vortexes, and he was in the middle of the vortex.

Louis never expected that the Spaniards would be so incompetent. If it were just a stalemate on land, then Louis's previous planning success rate was very high. But now it is different. The Spaniards' offense on land has not been able to make progress, but they were defeated in the ocean, and more importantly, they lost Manzanillo.

Originally, Louis thought the Governor of New Spain was a fool, and now he could not even describe the stupidity and incompetence of the Governor of New Spain. In his opinion, even a pig sitting on the throne of the Governor of New Spain would probably be more suitable than this Viscount.

The loss of Manzanillo indicates the expansion of the New World War. The Ming Dynasty is not a weak country, it is a powerful country comparable to France.

It would be fine if the battle was stalemate, but it would be a fool to let the Ming Dynasty withdraw from Manzanijo now. Anyway, if it were Louis, he would never return Manzanijo to the Spaniard.

If Manzanillo is not returned, Louis will not be able to guarantee the end of the war. Paris will definitely not allow the Spanish Kingdom to be eroded by the Ming Dynasty in the territory of the New World, even if the initiator of this war was not the Ming Dynasty but the Spanish.

In this way, the situation was deadlocked, and Louis could only hope to continue negotiations with the Ming Dynasty, hoping that the Ming Dynasty would return Manzanillo in another way, which was to redeem it with money.

But did the Ming Dynasty accept it? Or whether the Spanish were willing to take out the money, Louis had no idea at all. But no matter what, Louis had to give it a try, and maybe a miracle would happen?

The meeting between the two sides reopened the sixth day after the temporary suspension. After seeing Wang Dong, Louis directly proposed to Wang Dong to end the war and return the occupied Manzanillo.

This opinion was decisively rejected by Wang Dong. As Louis expected, the Ming Dynasty would not give up its right to obtain it unless the Spaniards could come up with something worth exchanging.

But can the Spaniards take it out? This is obviously unrealistic. If the wealth in the Manzanillo treasury was still in the hands of the Spaniards, perhaps the Spaniards could use this wealth to trade with the Ming Dynasty, but now these wealth, together with the entire Manzanillo, have been in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

Besides, that idiot Governor has no right to trade the wealth of the kingdom with the Ming Dynasty. No matter how stupid a fool is, he is not stupid at all about money, so Louis's request is unrealistic and difficult to establish.

"Hisser Duke, if this is the case, I would be very sorry, because France will use force to guarantee the interests of Spain, which is a result that we are unwilling to see." Louis, whose mentality changed, began to change his way of speaking and directly threatened Wang Dong with this attitude.

Who is Wang Dong? He is a general who came out of the sea of ​​blood with Zhu Yicheng. How could he be scared by Louis' words?

"I also feel regretful, respected Earl." Wang Dong's tone was plain, as light as explaining a fact, but he said without doubt: "The outbreak of the war was not initiated by the Ming Dynasty. Since the war was provoked, he had to bear the result of defeat."

"So, are you planning to reject France's friendship?" Louis stared at Wang Dong and asked word by word.

"The war begins to decide the beginning of the war, but the right to choose to end the war is in the hands of the Ming Dynasty!" Wang Dong replied directly without fear at all.

"Well, it seems that we have different opinions, which makes me feel regretful." Louis sighed and nodded and stood up: "Go farewell, Lord Duke."

"Goodbye, Lord Earl."

The meeting was very short, and the two sides did not have the harmonious atmosphere of the first meeting, and they ended up in an unhappy manner.

After each returned to their own places, Wang Dong told Zhu Yigui that the negotiations broke down and that the French would not fight a "friendship war" with the Ming Dynasty like this, and a real war was about to come.

Zhu Yigui didn't care about this. He had never relaxed his vigilance about the French war. If he wanted to fight, just fight. Who have you been afraid of since the Ming Dynasty restored? Even if France was the overlord of Europe, the Ming Dynasty was not bad. The last war did not really determine the outcome, so let's fight in this war.

Wang Dong was right. After the meeting ended badly, the French army on the opposite side quickly made adjustments. Two days later, France began to launch a real attack on the Ming Dynasty. For a moment, the two sides changed from the previous friendship war to a cruel formal battle, and the border became a real battlefield in an instant.

Facing the powerful French army, Zhu Yigui did not face the front line. Since the Ming Dynasty had the opponent of Spain, the Ming Dynasty was slightly weaker than the opponent in terms of military strength. In addition to the high morale of the French army and the strong artillery attacked rapidly, Zhu Yigui decided to avoid his edge first. Except for several key points, the rest of the main forces took the initiative to retreat after a preliminary battle with France.

Zhu Yigui has never been a person who fought to death. He was known for his flexible and versatile tactics in the Ming army. Both sides formed formations and had a head-on battle against the iron head. Zhu Yigui never did this.

Under Zhu Yigui's command, the Ming army was flexible and changeable, and the main force did not fight head-on with the French army and adopted roundabout battles.

This tactic made France extremely uncomfortable. In desperation, France could only slow down to avoid the elusive Ming army siege and concentrating its efforts to attack several key points of the Ming Dynasty to break the deadlock.

Although the tactics of both sides are different, both sides are outstanding in this era, from generals to soldiers, and their respective equipment is almost the same, and it is difficult to distinguish for a moment.

France started to take it seriously, but Spain was in big trouble.

The Spanish army was not attacking well and could not take over the Ming army fortress blocking in front, and the Sanhe Town in the rear was still in the hands of the Ming army.

As time went by, Spain's logistics began to have problems, and the unfavorable war situation led to the morale of Spain. What's even more terrible is that the defenders of Sanhe Town did not lose their positions under the attack of Spain. On the contrary, after more than a month of cruel battle, the Ming army became more and more comfortable. Not only did they firmly defend Sanhe Town, but they also cooperated with the outside troops to launch counterattacks on the attacking Spanish troops from time to time, sneaking into the opponent's logistics transportation, cutting off the food route, causing Spain's losses and casualties to rise.
Chapter completed!