Province of Sinaloa, Guasavi Castle.

The dragon-patterned royal flag of the Jiaqing Kingdom is flying high on the manor house more than ten miles north of the castle.

The soldiers of the Jiaqing Army Brigade have stopped advancing. They are either repairing briefly or digging trenches and building forts outside the manor. More than a month of continuous marching and fighting has made this army look quite embarrassed. The uniforms are in pieces.

The people are also tanned and skinny. If they didn't have East Asian faces, they would look a bit like an Indian army.

The supply of steamed bread can be guaranteed. The climate in Sinaloa Province is much humid than that in Sonora Province, which is more suitable for growing corn, and there are more Indian villages. This group of Indians who farm the land are very interested in Jiaqing.

The king's samurai army had no ill feelings. King Kaki, Shimazu Noyoshi, Hoshina Masaki, and Shimazu Nobu, the upper echelons of the army, had promulgated strict disciplines long before they sent out troops, strictly prohibiting harming Indian farmers, and no entry was allowed without orders.

The Indian village - they are all precious farmers! If you kill them all, how can you become the boss in the future? Haven't you had enough of "one collar and one system"?

Scarcity of people is precious! How many people are there in the entire Kingdom of New Spain? Sonora and Sinaloa provinces are both remote places in the Kingdom of New Spain. Of course, there are not many "leeks", so you have to save some money.

Cut.

Because the new Japanese gentleman looked better than the Spanish gentleman who came first, the Indian villages generally welcomed King Jiaqing's army and were willing to provide them with some corn flour that could be used to make steamed buns. So the steamed buns were still enough.

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A field kitchen for making steamed buns has been set up within the walls of the manor house. Hot water is heated in a large pot, a steamer is set up, and the steam begins to steam.

In addition to steamed steamed buns, broth was actually served today! The tempting aroma of meat was already wafting inside and outside the manor compound.

The warriors, who had not eaten meat for many days, couldn't help but look in the direction of the field kitchen, their Adam's apples rolled up and down, and they looked like they were about to cry.

The broth is cooked with corned beef and lamb produced in the United States. This shows that the supply ship from the United States has arrived at Port Guaymas a few days ago. However, because the transportation from Port Guaymas to here is not smooth, we stayed behind.

Naomi Hoshina there didn't have much manpower available, so there wasn't much to send. It was beef and mutton carried by two to three hundred war horses and the war horses.

Compared with the extremely poor Jiaqing Kingdom, the financial and material resources of the United States of Xinzhou are so rich!

The supply ships currently sailing to Guaymas Port are not sent by the United States government, but are raised by "venture investors" for King Gaqing.

This group of profiteers had little confidence in King Jiaqing at first, so the promised investment was very slow to materialize. But when the news that King Jiaqing’s army was advancing rapidly in Sonora Province reached Kinmen City, everyone was

Became more active.

The day after the news came, a fleet carrying war horses, meat, gunpowder, field guns, and large-caliber mortars left Kinmen Port under the escort of two United States battleships. The fleet sailed at sea for 11 days.

Arriving at the port of Guaymas almost as quickly as the King of Gaqing.

But it is not that easy to move these supplies from the Port of Guaymas to Guasavi... The investors of King Gaqing can give money for the supplies, but it is difficult to recruit enough civilians.

The Garching Kingdom's own manpower is also very insufficient, so it can only be troubled by Naomi Hoshina and several Garching Kingdom officials who stayed in Guaymas Port.

However, Zhu Cihuan stopped advancing, not because the supplies from Guaymas Port had not arrived. It was because he encountered trouble under the Guasavi Castle!

The governor sent to Sinaloa Province by Don Juan Jose was obviously not as confused as the governor of Sonora Province. He did not attack rashly, but followed Don Juan Jose's advice, strengthened the walls and cleared the country, and stayed in the melon.

Savi Castle was waiting for reinforcements. At the same time, light cavalry was sent to harass the Jiaqing Army and block the patrol sent by the Jiaqing Army.

Due to the rapid march for more than a month before, the expeditionary Kaqing Army not only suffered a large reduction in personnel, but also suffered serious losses in the horses attached to the Takeda Cavalry. Now it is no longer possible to send out the cavalry for reconnaissance and search.

Therefore, King Jiaqing's army is now confused about the enemy's situation, and is blocked by Guasavi Castle. Therefore, it is blocked in the area north of Guasavi Castle. While recuperating, it is waiting for the baggage and artillery to be transported -

To attack the Guasavi Castle, you can't do it without a sufficient number of artillery, and you also need to use nail-head explosive shells!

In the big house of this manor, King Kaqing, Shimazu Nokichi, Shimazu Nobu, Hoshina Masaki and other retainers sat around the table. This house was also burned down, and the roof was open with grinning teeth.

You could look up at the stars when you were there. Now it is the location of King Jiaqing’s palace!

From the Jiaqing King Zhu Cihuan to the grass-roots army commanders (equivalent to battalions) and ashigaru captains, they are all in this shabby room. Today, the king is treating guests, all of which are Japanese dishes, including Kyushu meat buns and Satsuma water basins.

Retainers at all levels ate the salted mutton, Aizu soja noodles, and boiled cactus as vegetables without even raising their heads.

Zhu Cihuan also looked a lot more haggard, with a deep beard and sunken eye sockets. He was the first to finish eating, and calmly watched the senior warriors under him and his wife Shimazu Noyoshi, who had been with him for more than ten years, finish eating and finish.

He nodded lightly: "I've wronged you all. It will be fine once we capture Guasavi Castle and Gulakan Castle. Then we will divide the manors for everyone, and you can start living a good life...

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His wife Shimazu Noyoshi also suffered a lot along the way, and now she has become a black-faced woman. She looks a little skinny, but she is still thinking about the good things about snakes swallowing elephants. Listening to what her husband said, she immediately

He put down his job and said: "Your Majesty, the situation is very good now. It is the time for us to work hard. Why not defeat the Western barbarians in one fell swoop, save the Indian people from fire and water, and spread the power of heaven in all directions..."

"Shut up!" Zhu Cihuan shouted, and immediately turned his face down. All the warriors present put down their jobs and looked up at the king and princess of Jiaqing Kingdom.

King Jiaqing looked a bit scary. Shimazu Noyoshi had never seen such a fierce Zhu Cihuan, and he was a little dazed for a moment.

Zhu Cihuan scolded: "We are gambling with our lives...Although we keep winning, our strength is still weakening. When we left Gyeongju, we had 14,000 troops. Now we are here in Guasavi, and there are

How many can fight? 10,000 people are barely enough. And Don Juan Jose’s army must be on the way. The distance from the Basin of Mexico to Guasavi is only 2,000 miles, and the roads are relatively wealthy areas with good roads.

There are plenty of supplies, so they won't be as tired as us, and their number is probably several times ours!"

"But we can defeat them!" Shimazu Noyoshi was still a little unconvinced.

Zhu Cihuan said calmly: "What happens after defeat? How many more people can we have? 5,000? Or 6,000? Naiji, our strength is very weak. Now we are just trying to scare people...so we must have a meeting."

It’s a plan to stop when it’s good! I just didn’t know how to stop when it’s good, so..."

Shimazu Noyoshi looked at King Kaqing and thought: Are you so bad now? You are already the king of a country!

Zhu Cihuan didn't think so. If he hadn't been too greedy and stopped early, why would he have worked so hard? The lesson was profound! Now he has the feeling of being the stock king in Shanghai again, but the bets are bigger and he wins more!

He paused and then said: "Since this battle is a bet on the fate of the country, we should have the awareness to stop when the odds are good. Because if you bet for a long time, you will lose...and our capital is too small, and we can't make it over once we lose."

Book!

In addition, don’t forget that our opponents are not just New Spain! If we win too much, the country in the north will be wary of us... We have to accept it as soon as possible, and then serve the north in a low voice, secretly
Chapter completed!