Beiyang new warlord

"Send a large boat and immediately report the enemy's situation to Qiongzhou!"

These days, there are no telephones or telegrams. Although we got the information, the boat went to the nearest Qiongzhou, and Qiongzhou reported to the Royal Navy Headquarters in Tainan. Half a month passed. At this time, it was enough for the Dutch Navy to fight for a few days. Intelligence is destined to be better than nothing.

However, as expected by the old captain Chen Chuan, a few days later, a puff of black smoke from the flames of war drifted into the air in Damenzhu Port, Palawan Island, Philippines.

The two third-class sailing ships of the East India Company that were guarding here were burning with fire, and they were sinking into the deep sea at an angle. Also without mercy, they fired guns into the sea intensively. After several slaughters, only blood and the shark's churning triangular fins remained on the sea.

Watching this scene, Sir Curt, the chief director of the 13-member shareholder meeting, couldn't help twitching his old face with a gray beard.

Of course, the old Dutch businessman was definitely not pitying these Daming sailors, but he himself was not optimistic about this operation at all.

According to his plan, he intercepted Ming's merchant ships through sea wolves tactics, and curbed the Ming Empire's unification of the world by aiding the Longwu regime. The forces, as for the Dutch navy itself, are defending the vicinity of Batavia, waiting for Ming to come to attack, and waiting for work!

Against a strong enemy, Spain, the most powerful colonial empire in Europe at that time, fought for a full 80 years. In the defensive battle, the Dutch still had two brushes. Facing the attacking Ming from across the sea, they defended the Batavia headquarters and He still has confidence in several important strategic fortresses in the East Indies.

As long as this war drags on, the combined fleets of France and Spain will capture Great Britain, and at the same time put enough pressure on Daming in the western countries of the Mughal Empire, and Cohn is confident that he will force the ambitious northern emperor back into negotiations. on the table.

Afterwards, the focus of the game between the two sides will return to the Mughal Empire. Without the threat of Nanming in the East, and without the restraint of the unscrupulous businessman Britain in the West, the two sides are still standing on the same starting line.

Who knows that man's calculation must be worse than heaven's calculation. The Netherlands has risen for more than ten years and defeated several old colonial empires one after another. As the most powerful maritime power in the West in this era, Curt's plan is too conservative and too passive!

For this attack, the Dutch Parliament passed the war bill, and the entire Netherlands has donated and lost, adding forty main battleships to the East, and two to three hundred large and small function supply ships. Eight battleships were dispatched, engulfing the Portuguese, and the Venetian fleet went around the Cape of Good Hope and went to the Red Sea. When they arrived in India, the Mughal Empire, which had already been torn apart from Ming Dynasty, supplied them with sufficient food and gunpowder, and sent ten Moghuls Warship Warship joins the expedition.

With such sufficient strength, the shareholders of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia were also dazed and supported the domestic war bill.

Now the United is the best admiral Michelgen sent by the Dutch Parliament to take over the command of the navy.

Leaning on the coast, watching the Spanish and Mughal sailors rushing up to the port of Daming excitedly, igniting raging fire everywhere, Curt couldn't help sighing heavily, but this time However, an arm was put across his shoulder all of a sudden, and at the same time a bottle of red wine was handed to him.

"Don't worry! Old man! Marquis Michelgen is the most outstanding general in the Netherlands, and we have the most elite army soldiers under the French Sun King to assist in the battle. An oriental pagan country can't make any waves!"

This French with a strong Paris accent, you don't need to look back to know who you are. During the 30 Years War, you contacted France to fight against the French Marquis Cornelius who you knew in Spain.

To be honest, Curt looked down on this guy quite a bit, he was just a big idiot who came to power by relying on the relatives of the King of France, but this time, Curt sincerely hoped that what he imagined was true, so he took what the Frenchman handed over He filled the wine glass for himself, and Cohen immediately raised it high.

"To France!"

"Respect Holland, and those expensive silks and porcelains from Ming Dynasty!"

The bottom of the glass is engraved with the words "Made in Ming Dynasty". The glass cups touched together crisply. Under the sunlight, the wine also exudes a unique charming purple color. Behind the sunlight, in the entire bay, hundreds of Western Union warships are densely packed forward. With sails, it looks like a salmon swimming upstream.

Chapter 868. The Battle of Manila

If Huang Degong had been beaten to death ten years ago, he would not have believed it, and he would have commanded a complex war involving water and land in the wild and wild outlands that was passed on by word of mouth as the governor of a colony.

In the past, it was enough to have the courage to drill into the enemy's formation and stare at the opponent's biggest fight. Now, the form of this war has become more and more out of the war in Huang Degong's impression.

Is it really old?

Sitting at the white table under the parasol, with the sea breeze blowing, Huang Degong picked up the ceramic cup ponderingly, sipped the bitter but mellow pitch-black liquid in the cup, and then wiped his mouth leisurely with a napkin. It was really like an old man who slowly stood up while supporting the table.

But his coach had already finished his coffee today, and wandered off to work again. His female staff officer, the shrewd and capable Liaodong Army Niang Gu Moyi, was still petrified, with a pair of bright and huge eyes staring round, shocked looking down.

I don't blame her, after all, in one's life, when one wakes up in the morning and opens one's eyes, one can see hundreds of sailing battleships laying guns and pointing aggressively at one's forehead. Such opportunities are really rare.

Holland, France, Spain, Portugal, Wei, plus the Mughal Empire, the combined fleet of six countries has been blocked outside Manila Bay. The sea is covered by densely packed warships. After blowing, the national flags of various colors were blown violently by the sea breeze, and the swaying masts were densely packed like a forest, which was really spectacular.

But at this time, Manila Port, which used to be a bustling international port, was empty like a street during the Spring Festival, with no sign of large and small merchant ships, even an escort fleet of the East India Company that was originally stationed here was also gone. , only the two gunboats belonging to the Governor's Mansion, the Luzon and the Pinghai, stood alone on the edge of the cement port.

Although Chen Chuan's information did not arrive in time, the Manila colony is so important. After all, Ming Dynasty still has a set of early warning agencies. , The women, children and poor people who could not fight were evacuated backwards.

Here only the Manila Garrison Corps and more than 1 strong civilians who have the courage to defend their homes are left to face the combined fleet at least four times their size.

Even if he had personally experienced the military meeting the night before yesterday, Gu Moyi still felt intimidated when he saw the huge military appearance of the other party. It wasn't until the coffee in his hand was half cold that he woke up in shock. He drank half a cup in one gulp, and then ran upstairs in a hurry.

Down the mountain, in the stair-like city of Manila, the tinkling bronze bells have already rang.

Compared to the woman's shock, Chen Xinghua was much more excited when he was led by Yi Tuan Tuan, and his position was much more forward than Gu Moyi on Fort St. Philip. The area outside Manila Bay had been renovated by Daming On the tall city wall of the bridgehead, facing the Western coalition forces right under his nose, he excitedly pounded his fists on the cold and sturdy cannons guarding the fort.

In another two months, his service period in the Manila Corps will expire, and he will be transferred from this newly developed and promising land, and return to the capital to report on his duties. According to his past achievements, if he does not retire, he will be the commander of the Corps It is more than enough. If you go to the northernmost Stormwind Army, it is not impossible to serve as a command staff at the corps level.

However, this is also his sad place. The positions in all the regiments going south are full. He has no chance to participate in the Great Ming Dynasty’s Unification of the Country. The trajectory of other people's lives, he will work between these two positions until he is 50 years old and retire to the second line. Soak in hot springs and play cards.

This is a life that can't be more comfortable for ordinary people, but for him, it lacks a little passion.

At this time, the Western Allied Forces formed a group to kill him!

Perhaps the peak battle of his life is just around the corner, his fists were flushed red from the excitement, and he growled in a low voice with excitement.

"Goofy, come on!"

However, there is a military proverb in Rome that naval warfare can ruin your whole day! It is said that the naval warfare is long and boring. While Chen Xinghua waited with enthusiasm, he lined up like cars parked in the parking lot. The coalition forces did not attack. Instead, a magic stick wearing a priest's white robe and holding a cross took the lead in rowing the boat to the edge of Qiandao.

These days, with the rise of the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese language has also risen like the later generations, and more Westerners have learned it. They follow the pastor, wearing a melon cap and a book long robe, but the brown-haired and blue-eyed guy is talking. shouted.

"The two armies are at war, don't kill the envoy! The Dutch envoy Patia Bishop Morpheus is ordered to meet with your general Lord Huang."

Curt is a businessman, and the ones promoting this war are also a group of big businessmen. Naturally, all actions are based on interests. The cost of war is too high. If it can be resolved by words, he is naturally unwilling to use a knife easily. Besides, the Spaniards massacred Ming people Afterwards, the bloody revenge he encountered was also a lesson for the past. In this first hand, he actually played the card of surrendering without fighting.

Located in the newly built three-story fortress building in Fort St. Philip, the door of the governor's office was opened with a creak, and he was a little uneasy. Gu Moyi led the man in with his straight military boots.

"Captain, the Dutch envoy has arrived."

"Oh."

At this juncture, Huang Degong was still reading. He put down the field draft of the Jilin Ula World War I compiled by the Acheng Military Academy, and took off his glasses. Huang Degong raised his head.

"What is your mission, please tell me."

"God is merciful. There is also a saying in the East that God has the virtue of good life. God's people are also civilized people. Therefore, as God's servant, I brought a proposal from His Excellency Curt."

Obviously prepared, God has the virtue of good life, and this white robe "Gandalf" said that he is extremely agile. Seeing Huang Degong leaning on the chair and not moving, looking up at him so calmly, Murphys is brisk again And hastily narrated.

"Our army has God's blessing and is invincible! And it has 43 first-class sail battleships, 150 five second- and third-class battleships, more than 7000 cannons, and 7000 French troops and 1 mercenaries. There are [-] warriors in the Wo'er Empire, your army can't resist our army!"

"Sir Curt suggested that the coalition forces are willing to pay your army 50 taels of silver and a decent retreat, and your army give up Manila, how about it?"

A smile appeared on Huang Degong's aging face, and when Murphys also smiled, Huang Degong stood up and led him to go outside.

"Your Excellency, Mr. Huang will show you a place!"

Mao Jue is a construction fanatic, so much so that his subordinates have also contracted this problem. After the establishment of the Governor's Mansion in Manila, the Fort San Philip building was completely demolished and rebuilt, which is completely the way of building decoration in the new Ming Dynasty.

He thought he was going to see something special with Huang Degong, but he followed him out of the small office building and entered another second-floor building that looked spacious and bright, but he couldn't help showing a wry smile.

This is actually a prison!

"Thank you, Sir Cote, for your concern. This place was built according to my first-class prison in Daming. Please go back and tell Sir Cote. This commander will leave the best prison in Xiangyang to him."