Why are the Spanish so untimely delivering messages?

In fact, the reason is very simple. First, the terrain is limited. The endless Andes Mountains stretch along the west coast, resulting in discontinuous small plains at the foot of the mountain in the western coastal areas of Peru. If you want to go to Lima by land from several port cities, you must cross the dangerous Andes Mountains.

The Spanish knew very well what they had done. The Indians in the mountains hated them to the core. When they saw a small group of Spanish entering the mountains, they would definitely kill them.

So these southern cities and Lima were connected by sea, but they were all caught in the urn by Lin Feng's fleet. Before leaving, they set fire to them all the ships, shipyards and docks. I really couldn't help but report the news.

So on June 1, 1576, the unprepared West Coast city of Lima was robbed by evil Ming pirates. Twelve ships, including the deputy king's ship "The Great Pizarro", were robbed, and the loss was more than 10 million pesos!

In addition, the port, shipyard and all ships were burned, and even the city of Lima suffered a serious fire.

In fact, Lima City is one liga from the harbor, and less than one-third of the rockets landed in the city, causing only three or four fire points.

For other cities, such as El Salvador, Brazil, it is not scary to catch fire in broad daylight. If you find it early, you can put it out with just a little trouble.

But Lima is dead. This is a world-famous "rainless city"!

The subtropical high-pressure zone, southeast trade winds and Peruvian cold currents have jointly created the tropical desert climate of Lima. There is no thunder and lightning all year round, and it is dry and rainy all year round, so that everything in the city can catch fire can be reached at a glance.

The people in the city quickly extinguished several fire points, but the fire inevitably spread and all the fire was futile.

The raging fire soon swallowed the entire city of Lima. People had to gather in the square of weapons to avoid the fire and hugged each other and cried. A poet who experienced this scene wrote an immortal verse:

‘On June 1, Lima died.’

Because he couldn't avoid it, his hair was burned, and his deputy king, who had to plunge into the fountain, was furious. Until now, he still couldn't figure out who these pirates suddenly came out.

Until the government officials reminded him that it was said that on the east coast of New Spain last year, a group of Ming pirates had robbed His Majesty's treasure ship.

"Flying Dutchman, that ghost ship?" His Highness Jose also remembered this and quickly asked someone to get the king's wanted order issued last year.

After a long time, the clerk reported that the wanted order was burned...

This is normal, because documents are the most likely to catch fire. Every time a fire occurs, it is a good time to check the evidence and write off the bad debts.

Governor Jose was furious again. He waved his hands exaggeratedly, and the hair on his head trembled, and he cursed excitedly in Andalusian slang.

"I don't know who the other party is, nor do I have the ability to pursue and retaliate. I was even stolen from the ship and Nima's harvest in one year! I... Nima!"

The official and the servant looked at each other and could only let him squirt his head and face.

When the deputy king was tired, the government officials reminded him that he had to find a way to notify Colombia and China and the United States to guard against each other and report it to General Leon in Port Hambre.

"I... Ni... Ma... Isn't this nonsense?!" The deputy king kicked the government official's ass. "Hurry up and want to go!"

After all, Lima is a big city, so there are still ways. The government officials took people to the dock and found several ships that were not burned. They quickly sent people to take action separately.

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A few days later, cities such as Trujillo and Tombes in the north of Lima received alarms one after another, closing their doors and ships also left the port and heading north to avoid danger.

However, the pirate fleet seemed to have disappeared, and for a long time it did not attack any city or rob any ship.

This relaxed the Spanish's tense nerves. He thought to himself that the pirates in the East had already returned along the ocean current. So everything was the same, and the ships heading north also returned.

Inertia is so terrible. When people get used to relaxing and comfortable, it is difficult to make changes because of an accidental event.

Of course, it cannot be said that there has been no change at all. Members from all over the country have proposed proposals to the council to strengthen coastal defense, and they will be able to start working after a few years of disputes.

These Spanish and native whites on the West Coast are obviously too stupid and naive. How could the wolves be willing to leave the grassland with abundant prey? The reason why they disappear temporarily is because they really can't eat it anymore, so they have to find a way to make it easier.

Lin Feng now has less than a thousand men. Although each of them can do the boat, after looting Lima, he could no longer leave any manpower to drive more boats.

In order to maintain basic combat effectiveness, the minimum number of crew members on the Liu Daxia is 250, each of the three frigates is 75, each of which is 60 transport ships, and the 800-ton sailboat captured by the newly captured 800-ton sailboat also requires at least 100 people. This is 635 people.

There are only about 340 people left to move, and 21 boats are required to drive, which is not enough to have the lowest number of crew members. Only one boat can be towed one boat, which can save a lot of people, such as navigators, lookouts, etc.

Like Liu Daxia and the Spanish sailboat named "Xiao Ming", they all towed three cargo ships.

Although the breeze at the sea is not as good as the name of the "Pacific Ocean", it is like having a family with you like escaping, and no one has changed shifts, which greatly damages the crew's physical and mental strength and cannot sail far.

Moreover, the Spanish territory on the west coast of America is full of Spanish territories, and there is no place to sell stolen goods!

Lin Feng was reluctant to throw away any ship. In her words, I just robbed it by my ability, so why should I get it for others?

But it would be too dangerous if this continues.

Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

She was so worried that she was about to grow a beard. At this time, Zhang Xiaojing gave her an idea, saying that she could learn from squirrels, and hide the spoils in a safe place first, and then pick them up in the future.

Lin Feng's eyes lit up at first, but his eyes immediately dimmed.

"This South America is also amazing. The coastline is like a knife cut. I haven't seen an island in more than a month."

"There are still islands." Zhang Xiaojing smiled and pointed to the chart seized from the deputy king's ship and said, "I think Devil Island is quite suitable."

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The so-called Devil Island is the name given by a trekking Spanish missionary, located 1,880 kilometers away from the northwest sea of ​​Lima. It is a string of rare pearls on the smooth and mirror-like sea of ​​the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

However, for half a century, the Spaniards regarded it as a forbidden area and never set foot on this island.

One is because of the highly respected bishop’s records:

‘It’s like God’s rain of stones, the ground was covered with magma and no grass grew. The land and creatures here seemed to come from hell, and the ground water was saltier than the sea water.’

Second, it is on the equator, and it is 1,000 kilometers away from the South American continent. The Spaniards changed their color when they smell the equatorial windless belt. Who would go to such a worthless devilish land to seek death?

However, according to the top-secret version of the ocean current map drawn by Zhao Hao, the location of this archipelago is at the intersection of cold and warm ocean currents - the Peruvian cold current and the equatorial countercurrent converge here, so there is no need to be afraid of wind, and it saves sailing drivers. As long as you hand over the boat to the ocean currents, you can go to the island smoothly and return to the American continent.

So Lin Feng happily adopted Zhang Xiaojing's suggestion, followed the guidance of the chart, and sailed northwest for ten days, a large area of ​​islands appeared in the sight of the Beidou Squad.

According to aerial measurements, this archipelago consists of 13 large and small islands and 19 reefs, with a range of about 300 kilometers east-west and about 200 kilometers north-south, scattered in nearly 60,000 square kilometers of sea areas. It is simply a strange thing in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, which is not even Mao.

After confirming that there were no traces of human activities on the island, a huge fleet of twenty-seven ships slowly drove into the archipelago.

At this time, Zhang Xiaojing became obviously excited. She asked Lin Feng to put down the boat for herself and took the scientific expedition team to ashore as soon as possible. Lin Feng muttered secretly that she strongly advocated whether to come to Devil Island to stolen houses or to visit?

Shaking his head, Lin Feng also released the expedition team, allowing them to explore this sea area as quickly as possible. While updating the navigation chart, it is more important to find a place where they can properly settle the stolen goods.

This is Ma Yishan's old job. Every time Lin Feng succeeded in robbery, he would have been the one who had been to trap the stolen goods and never missed it.

Lao Ma took his men out there, and Lin Feng was not idle here. She directed the crew to transport all the gold and silver on the cargo ship to six ships including the Xiaoming, using the cranes on Liu Daxia and Gaoyou Lake.

When reviewing the reasons for the Tianbao shipwreck, someone asked if we gave the name too big and the ship could not be suppressed? In view of this, when naming the newly found sailboat, he specially named the name "Xiao Ming" that was a little cheaper and easier to support.

Because the tonnage of the Xiao Ming is larger than that of the crashed Tianbao, the ballast stones of the six ships combined are exactly one thousand tons.

As a result, there were only 6 tons of gold and 300 tons of silver on all cargo ships. It was still nearly 200 tons before Commander Lin could achieve the goal of changing the ballast stone into gold and silver.

"It's so difficult for me. It's really not easy to achieve a small goal..." Lin Feng sighed to the sky, and could only agree depressedly, and first used 200 tons of pure copper to make up the number.

But when the crew members suggested that they would decorate more pure copper, they were completely rejected by her.

"Is it okay to pursue it? We don't plan to go home right away!"

Everyone laughed and held back.

But Lin Feng accepted all the two hundred tons of sweet potatoes, two hundred tons of corn, one hundred tons of wheat and one hundred tons of beans, ten tons of soybean oil, and one hundred tons of fire and salt on those cargo ships. It is not easy to replenish supplies in the enemy area. Besides, when crossing the ocean, these were much more expensive than gold and silver.

The remaining 4,000 tons of goods will be hidden on the Devil's Island first. These include 2,000 tons of pure copper, and a considerable amount of lead and tin. The skin and hair of grass mud horses, as well as thousands of tons of bird droppings...

At this time, Lao Ma also selected the second island on the west side of the archipelago. There was a very hidden lagoon to the west of the island, and there was a large island at the entrance of the lagoon. If you didn't drive to the strait between the two islands, you would not be able to find a different world.

Lin Feng was very satisfied with this, so he ordered his subordinates to drive the remaining cargo ships into the lagoon one by one. After stopping and anchoring, they were firmly fixed together with ropes.

She was not at ease and directed the crew to use the tide to use the stones and wooden piles to hit the hull and securely fix them to prevent the seawater from pushing the ship down.

In fact, there have never been strong winds and waves here, but you are always right to be careful. What if the boat leaks water?

These are all General Lin’s treasures.
Chapter completed!