Lord of Ming Dynasty

Where there are not only the guards stationed, the garrison guards the pass, and even a part of the field army is stationed. The ordinary garrison, whose current function is similar to the police of later generations, or the guards of the Ming Dynasty, cannot approach these areas at will. Ordinary people can pass through, but the army, even if it is a company, must report first, and there will be guards along the way to monitor.

Outsiders such as Spaniards are even less able to go deep into the mainland to investigate. They can only visit within the coastal trading port area, and they can also go to Jinling Mansion, Yanjing, Vladivostok and other places at will, but if they want to go deep, they can’t do it. To go to the Western Regions, you have to hold the warrants issued by Jinling Mansion or Yanjing Prefecture, as well as the warrants stamped by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Supervision, as well as the warrants reviewed by the local field army and guards, and dispatch the garrison and garrison troops. Soldiers follow.

Therefore, the Spaniards' understanding of the Chinese Empire, after a few months, is also superficial, swept away, and then led the fleet and caravan on the journey back, but under the instigation of the intelligence officers of the Ministry of Military Intelligence, they turned to the British colonies The port of India, and then called on the British governor, and proposed to buy a port or a place to station, of course the British would not agree.

So they pretended to be disappointed and returned. After driving a long way, they turned around and attacked the British port. They did this in the west, such as the Caribbean, and everyone did it.

India's coastline is also very long, and it is impossible to station too many people in any small port. In addition, after decades of Chinese empire's sea blockade by the British, after some people came over by land, there was no extra manpower to come here and stationed in the local area. All of them are native Indian soldiers. Facing the powerful navy and troops of the Spaniards, they will collapse at the first touch.

When the news reached the colonial governor for more than half a month, the British were furious and very depressed. Everyone in the West was like this. This situation intensified, and they had nothing to do. The 5000 army soldiers who came with the Spanish fleet are just about the same as the remaining British soldiers in India in Britain.

Chapter 96 The Stubborn Spaniard

The arrogant Spaniards rushed into the Bengal area. This area is a weak area in the British colonial management. In the Mughal Dynasty, it belonged to the Han Dynasty and the south in the Qing Dynasty. It was a wasteland and trouble. The land seems to belong to the dynasty, but the geographical environment, population beliefs, and ethnic environment there all caused headaches for the Mughal dynasty. The British control here, except for the port, is basically a state of sheep herding, which also makes As long as the Spaniards occupy the port city, it is tantamount to grabbing the land of Bangladesh from the British.

More than 30 warships and a dozen merchant ships, even if all the warships docked by the British along the coast of India came, it would be impossible to fight the Spaniards in the Indian Ocean, because this place is under the jurisdiction of the Chinese Empire, without the permission of the Chinese Empire, any Fighting in the sea area will be punished.

When did the British navy, which used to show off its power, become so frustrated, and it was not just a day or two, it was a full 20 years. During these times, the British had not fought for their rights in the sea, from the Atlantic Ocean to the In the Indian Ocean, they lost too many warships and personnel. Through many negotiations, they only managed to have warships on the coast of India, but not too many. They had no chance at all in the first ten years of commercial ships and warships, and later they were completely Docked in the seaport on the coast, if you go out to sea for a hundred nautical miles, you will be attacked by the Huaxia Navy fleet that is ready to go.

The Spaniard's attack was an accident. Even the Chinese Empire didn't receive the news, because it was planned by the Military Intelligence Department. Similarly, they are independent and unknown to many people in the Chinese Empire, and although the Military Intelligence Department participated, the attack did not participate. They were just fooling them into trouble for the British, but the Military Intelligence Department planned to attack the entire colony and help Spain Where do people stand.

So when the British found Xue Hong, the new official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to protest, Xue Hong, as a cabinet diplomat, did not know whether the Military Intelligence Department of the Privy Council was involved in this matter. There are many things that the Military Intelligence Department will not report to the cabinet. Only the prime minister or the first deputy prime minister knows the details of the major events that break out or that require the cabinet to participate in. Sometimes the deputy prime ministers in charge don’t know at all. Know.

Moreover, the Ministry of Military Intelligence, as a department of the Privy Council, actually has a lot of power and is very independent. It operates independently, is directly responsible to the emperor, and is indirectly managed by the Privy Council. Many things will not even be reported to the Privy Council. Of course, most of them are important. Events or major daily events will be reported to the Privy Council’s staff, the Ministry of National Defense, and other departments, or they will act jointly. Most of the time, everyone will do it separately.

To be precise, Zhang Qiang gave too much power to the Ministry of Military Intelligence. There are only reasons. First, he is a lonely emperor. Third, he is a transformation of the original feudal dynasty. He does not want to see his sons or descendants Following the old path of previous dynasties, once the dynasties change, the blood of these families will either kill each other, one by one stupid like pigs will be manipulated by powerful officials, or one by one will be slaughtered like pigs, or brothers will kill each other, What he needs is a royal family that can be stable for thousands of years like the Emperor of Japan, and of course he will not be as useless as Japan and be used as a puppet by the shogunate.

Either like the United Kingdom, I enjoy happiness and you fight for yourself, or the responsible cabinet system like Germany during World War II. I am the president, and you can do whatever you want. In the end, I will crown you, and sometimes my opinion You still have to listen, all the arrangements are to maintain a detached status of the royal family.

This is a plan, but the final result depends on the development of history. If it is like the early stage of the rise of our party and the Soviet Union, let alone the royal family's detached status, it will be fine if you can escape to save your life. Of course, for this Zhang Qiang also expected this result, that is, to set up countless governor-general districts, and there would always be a place where he could settle down.

With the development of the situation, there is always a place in each place that is developing and not affected by the change, and where the family can continue.

Looking back at the current situation, the Ministry of Military Intelligence actually didn't know what happened to the ground, because they didn't know that Zhang Qiang had another capable and efficient intelligence department in his hands, similar to the East Factory in the Ming Dynasty. A West Factory, but the Ming Dynasty put things in the dark on the bright side, so the West Factory cannot play a supervisory role, and the Military Intelligence Department does not supervise the Military Intelligence Department, but many intelligence personnel in the Military Intelligence Department will be secretly reported to Zhang Qiang's desk Then, Zhang Qiang used various means to warn or directly asked the Military Intelligence Department to kill the traitorous Military Intelligence agents to eliminate hidden dangers.

After learning what happened and the British reported it, Zhang Qiang contacted the cabinet's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Yes, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had been transferred to the cabinet for management.On the one hand, an order was issued to ask the Privy Council to send the Military Intelligence Department to thoroughly investigate the matter, and to punish the Spaniards to give the British an explanation, but also agreed to the Military Intelligence Department's actions to divert disasters and disrupt the British colonies.

Because although the Chinese Empire has been advancing and occupied many places in Bangladesh, the ethnic groups there are too complicated, and the relationship is also very complicated. There are people from the British, people from various ethnic groups, people from Indian princes and nobles, and people from India. People who want to unify India, and people from the old Bangladesh. This place has been conquered, but it has been unified again. The various forces are me in you, and you in me. Maybe the center of a village was once The officials of the Mughal Dynasty managed to think about the good of the Mughal Dynasty, and hoped that India would restore the Mughal Dynasty again. There were also tribal people who were absent-minded and wanted to live freely, and the few people surrounding them This village is also the power and tribe of various princes and nobles.

Not far away, there are even British merchants or tribes who are good to the British, while most of the other areas are tribal groups that used to be loyal to the dynasty ruled by Bangladesh, or a small number of Southeast Asian Han people, or Du Ge and others The remnants of the rebellion, or the tribes or people's forces and villages loyal to the Dutch.

In short, it is difficult for this place to be unified under one country. Of course, there is another method, the method of the rise of the Chinese Empire, similar to the method used by the United States to clean up the Indians. Now the Spanish fleet recruited by the intelligence officers of the Ministry of Military Intelligence is doing this. Yes, but they can clean up here, but they don't have the manpower to fill it. It would be even better if some pure Western Spaniards come. Civilized people are better than scattered tribes to talk to each other, and they can be invited out in a civilized way in the future.

Why is it so troublesome, because the efforts of the Ministry of Military Intelligence have failed here. Although it has occupied many places, the Huaxia Empire has also found a trouble for itself. It cannot be cleaned up by the method of the Naga Mountains. The British are watching, Huaxia The empire is also looking for a complete solution, including persecuting them quietly, allowing them to go to India without bloodshed, so as to find troubles with other people and create troubles for the British.

But this effect had little effect, so when the Spaniards came, the people under the Ministry of Military Intelligence, mainly the person in charge of this area, fooled the Spaniards in private.

In October 1706, just after the rainy season ended, [-] Spaniards continued to advance inland in Bengal, along the rivers to clean up the tribes or Indian princes and nobles here, and the forces stationed by the British, as colonists, They want to control everything in their own hands.

And use the materials purchased from the Chinese Empire this time to repair the ports and castles that were destroyed by them, and rectify the people here, and at the same time argue with the British. The British are also Westerners. The Spaniards took the initiative to attack them and destroyed the Chinese in this area. In accordance with the rules of the empire's no-hands-on, they also angrily organized the warships they had brought from the West in the past few years, and at the same time mobilized tens of thousands of troops from land to attack here under the organization of [-] British.

The two countries returned to the Far East after 30 years, and once again attacked and competed with each other in the Far East because of the colonial interests, while the Chinese Empire Navy was watching calmly, because the envoys of both sides were negotiating with the Chinese Empire in Yanjing, and the Chinese Empire also temporarily No agreement will be reached with the two parties for a while.

This is deliberate, making trouble on your own, of course you have to see the result, although this is breaking the rules you set, the French and Americans will come here to make trouble in the future, but now the Chinese Empire is the only one here, it won't What happened, the coast of the Chinese Empire was opened up, allowing them to do business with the Chinese Empire, in order to improve the communication, contact and relationship between the Chinese Empire and the West.

After all, it is impossible for the Huaxia Empire to cover the whole world, and it would be too troublesome to manage. Even if they want to be there, the Huaxia Empire only dares to set up a core area and a governor's area to distinguish those that have not fully integrated into or drive them to join the economy of the big family of China. , because it is too difficult.

Although the core area is developing rapidly with the development of science and technology, agriculture, and economy, and even has the taste of rural areas and county towns in the later 80s, but in comparison, the development is still very uneven and unreasonable. Many places In fact, they are still very poor, and the problems that cannot be solved by such a rapid development in later generations cannot be solved now.

Facing the aggression of the British, the Spaniards withdrew the troops they sent, and also recruited people in the Bengal area. They pulled more than 1 balls. If nothing happened, the tribal fighters who liked to fight and the remnant soldiers of the Chinese Empire's rebellion , organized a native army to fight against the British.

The Spaniards would never yield to the British, especially in the Far East.

Chapter 97 Help

This is another internal strife in the Indian Ocean since the Spaniards, British, Dutch and other coalition forces were driven out of the Pacific Ocean by the Chinese Empire fleet in the Far East 30 years ago. The Chinese Empire is very happy to see their internal strife.

However, the Huaxia Empire wanted to show its existence anyway, so Tianying and Ruan Tian were sent to the battlefield as observers and mediators to contact both sides.

Before arriving, the battle between the Spaniards and the British was already in full swing on land.

The agents of both sides, the Indians and the natives of Bengal, fought in full swing with flintlock guns in the dense forest and on the river bank. You came and went, but in just one week, there were hundreds of battles, and the natives of Bengal suffered two thousand casualties. , the original Indians suffered more than 3000 casualties.

Of course, the guns and ammunition that the two sides can provide to the indigenous people cannot be too advanced, even the various antiques that the Indian governor dug out from the warehouse. To provide the local aborigines with too good equipment, they gave the locals the guns and ammunition seized from the attack on the British and Dutch merchant ships and some old guns and ammunition they transported for sale.

At the same time, some old guns and ammunition of the British colonial army seized from the British warehouse were given to the locals to arm them against the British.

The fleets on both sides are trying to maintain restraint. Although it is inevitable that one or two ships will chase and fight at sea, and then four or five ships will rush to rescue them, but there has been no larger-scale naval battle because the British do not have enough ships. They only have fifteen or six ships Although the slightly older sail warships are also iron-clad warships, they are still inferior to the Spanish fleet in terms of artillery performance, speed, and combat effectiveness.

Only five or six warships during this period were better than the Spanish warships and the most recent domestic warships.

Seeing that they suffered heavy casualties, the British did not give up, adjusted their deployment, stretched the front line, and attacked the Bengal area in many areas, and the agents of the Chinese Empire's intelligence department in the Bengal area also supported the Spaniards and helped them mobilize the local tribes. And provoke the local tribes to attack each other, so that the Spaniards can act as peacemakers and good men, and let them send personnel to fight back against the British, acting as liberators.

This enabled the Spaniards to recruit more troops to deal with the Indians who were driven by the British who were familiar with the terrain and population.

The British have an advantage in military strength, and they have ruled for a long time. They can incite more Indian princes or tribes to provide them with a steady stream of soldiers at a small cost. This is the shortcoming of the Spaniards.

The British have their own soldiers and officers to command those Indian soldiers, while the Spaniards are relatively pure. They let their men attack or defend directly by herding sheep, while their soldiers mainly defend some important areas, at most they send some people Contacting the natives with military officers, or acting in a similar role as a military adviser, of course, this kind of participation cannot win against the British.

Tianying, who has experience in military command, quickly saw what was wrong, but he couldn't make a sound, and the Spaniards would not talk to him. Although they gave the Chinese Empire face, compared to the British, the Spaniards were not familiar with the Chinese Empire. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been driven out by the Chinese Empire, at least he didn't pay much attention to him. Because the British had dealt with the Chinese Empire early and had been oppressed by the Chinese Empire for a long time, they knew the pride of the Chinese Empire and their attitude towards them, so The British are very cooperative on the surface, but they still do their own things in private. This is their battle with the Spaniards.

British men wearing bearskin hats and red suits, and Indian soldiers wearing brown red coats, turbans and flintlock guns, lined up neatly in front of the Spaniards. Come and change the past, the British officer riding a tall horse with a long command knife, amidst countless whistles and trombones, the roar of cannons, volleys of guns, and the confusion of gunpowder smoke.

Wearing a blue military uniform, wearing a white armed belt, and wearing a tall hat like a conical blue tube, the drums are loud, the horns are sounding, and the shouts are messy. Counting the long guns and guns, there are countless queues of soldiers on the left and right for protection. Or a native Spanish soldier in a black uniform with a white line on his trousers pushing a dismantled cannon from a battleship.

The two sides lined up in a plain and hilly area of ​​the two widest rivers in Bangladesh and fought a decisive battle.

This was the first large-scale battle in India with tens of thousands of people. The Spaniards assembled 230 natives, [-] troops brought by themselves, and nearly [-] artillery pieces. The British assembled [-] Indian natives. [-] own British colonial troops, [-] two artillery pieces.

In such a form, the Spaniard seems to be a doomed outcome.

However, Tianying and the others still watched the entire battle. The battle continued in sunny weather. The Spaniards' artillery beat the Indians in the front row and fled in all directions. The British had to use their cavalry to suppress those fleeing Indians, and then used their artillery to retaliate against the Bengali native coalition forces. In the eyes of the Bangladeshi native coalition forces, who were more mixed than the Indians, they were excited for a while, and then rushed forward quickly regardless of the command of the Spanish officers. , the formation was in disarray at the beginning.

In this era of platoon shooting, such a formation and firepower will only make the organization higher than them, the training and running-in degree longer than them, and the Indians who are accustomed to obeying the British are massacred one-sidedly.

There were no scattered Indians and native federal troops lined up the scattered soldiers. Under the command of the British officers, they marched meticulously and steadily under the command of the Spanish artillery. They suffered heavy casualties, and they had almost no combat effectiveness before they came into contact with the unscattered soldiers and horses of the Bengal natives.

The casualties were too heavy. Even when the British officers were standing in their ranks in fear, they raised their flintlocks with trembling hands in the face of the scattered and excited Bengali native soldiers and horses rushing towards them. , arquebus, volley fire.

The first round, the second round, and the third round of shooting did not stop the crazy Bengali native army, but caused more Indian native state troops to chaos and flee, and then they were shot by their own army After shooting, they had to return to their posts. After a whole morning of shooting, the Bengal indigenous army suffered heavy casualties in exchange for the enemy's almost complete collapse and weak casualties, but it was still exciting. At least, they won the battle in the morning.

The battle suffered heavy casualties. There were more than 1 wounded, more than 2000 sacrificed, and more than 5000 people fled. Among them were three Spanish soldiers. It is true that the British were more stable than the Spaniards. Although they faced the same big collapse, the Indian natives After all, they have accepted the rule of the British for a long time and learned to obey. The British have stronger control over them than the Spaniards.

The British also suffered. More than 200 British soldiers and dozens of British officers were injured. Most of them were injured by the trampling of the Indian natives. A dozen soldiers were killed by artillery fire, and more than 1 natives were injured. , More than 1000 died, and more than 3000 escaped, but most of them were eventually chased back and detained in the rear for punishment. Unlike the natives who were befriended by the Spanish, more than 5000 people actually escaped.

This result is still very acceptable to the British. They have more than 8 troops, and the loss of one-sixth of their troops is not too much, while the Spaniards are very embarrassed. Almost half of their troops are lost. In the face of the enemy's superiority, morale is not high.

Now the strength and morale of the Spaniards are not as good as those of the people. The Spanish army has only more than 4000 regular troops and 1 indigenous coalition forces. The artillery is more than 100 more than the enemy. However, the British occupy the local geography, and India can be regarded as the British. Well, the British have been operating for more than half a century. Even though the Bengal area has always been on the edge of British control, it still has some influence, and it is stronger than the Spaniards.