Beiyang new warlord

Squeezing the beard on his chin, Michelle, the sea tiger, couldn't help but relax a bit, but always at this time, Da Ming always brings new surprises for him.

With a bang, the bow of the sailing Venetian Carville clipper bounced off, and the mercenaries with matchlock guns and shield axes on their backs were violently thrown out and scattered in the sea, horrified and unbelievable Crying for help in horror, more than a dozen people were blown off their legs by the explosion, and the blood-stained sea level was red. The fins protruded hideously from the water.

But when the fast sailing boat next to it was looking at this scene in horror, one after another explosions suddenly exploded in the formation of the assault fleet, and the light but brittle fast sailing boat was torn to pieces by the violent explosion, fully A row of landing craft lay directly on the sea level, and the rest turned their bows in fear, turned around and ran away.

This scene was too sudden and unbelievable. For a moment, even Michelgen, whose blood was soaked in seawater, was stunned in disbelief. After a few seconds, the stinky and hard-tempered veteran of the navy roared in Dutch. stand up.

"Hurry up and find Mingren's fast artillery formation, and take them away!"

However, a few observers looked anxiously with binoculars, but for a long time they could not find this artillery position with an extremely fast rate of fire and an extremely accurate hit rate. ran over.

"Commander! It doesn't seem to be a cannon, the sound of the explosion came from the water!"

"How is it possible to explode in the water?"

The old face was distorted again, and Marquis Michel yelled in disbelief.

It seems that nothing is impossible in this magical land in the east. Under the heavy artillery fired from Manila, under the watchful eyes of a group of experienced and battle-hardened Dutch and Spanish naval generals, several smaller flat-bottomed Er Chuan tremblingly rowed back to the horrible ship cemetery, and salvaged it in the water with a bamboo pole. Twenty minutes later, a large circle of half-submerged clay pots was pulled by floating wooden barrels. Pulled back by them.

Daming mines!

This thing used to shine during the Anti-Japanese War, and now in the hands of Mao Jue, it has increased its power by a few points. It is also filled with the formula left over from the Liaodong Xuankong veteran who has already ascended to the sky. According to the legend, two kinds of substances that Mao Jue didn’t understand were filled in clay pots in one large and one small chambers, and the rushing bottom of the boat hit the pulling rope, and the clay pots were knocked against the bottom and bow of the boat violently, The explosives mixed together exploded with frightening lethality.

The clay pot was put in the wine barrel, and a sailor took a big stone and smashed it from a long distance. There was a bang, and the wine barrel with the iron hoop was instantly torn to pieces, and even the deck was blown apart. One piece, the sailor who was a few meters away was blown by the explosive force and sat on the ground. The fragments of the barrel and pottery pierced his body, blood dripping, covering his face, the unfortunate sailor rolled on the ground in pain.

Watching this scene from a distance, a group of western naval generals, including Michelle, all gasped.

It is 500 meters from here to the harbor, and there are so many densely packed mines floating up and down.

Amidst the whistling sound, another fixed shell of the Overlord Cannon slammed down. After stirring up a water column several meters high, it exploded underwater again. The Spanish admiral Placido, who looked down on the Dutch, turned his head tremblingly, and asked Michele with a pale face.

"Commander, what should we do?"

Among the dazed eyes, an extra ferocity bloomed on Michelle's face again.

Boom~Boom~

The mines exploded one after another, water jets splashed on the side of the ship one by one, thick explosion smoke even rose from the water, and the wood fragments that exploded and flew were delayed tragically, but this time, the densely packed mines did not Can stop the Dutch, the Spaniard's progress.

Because once again, Michel threw the main battleship into the battlefield as cannon fodder.

The three main battleships rushed forward with the captain's fear and blood dripping from his heart. Although the heavy battleship was scarred by the mine blast, it could not sink for a while.

Following them, dozens of Carville Clippers once again rushed towards the city of Manila ferociously.

click~

Amidst the huge impact, the three thundering giant ships directly plunged into the body of the slowly sinking Manila with their sharp bows, but their journey came to an end!The water-tight compartments on the front half were all broken, followed by the two opponents, and they sank slowly.

However, next to them, small boats were also slammed into the shore. The Spanish army carrying western halberds and flintlock guns jumped ashore violently and fiercely. The Mongol descendants of the Mughal Empire carried Shields, scimitars and axes, the French army also abandoned the so-called elegance, brandished a thin sword and spear with a ferocious face, and rushed towards the city of Manila viciously.

"Sure enough, he is a ruthless person!"

On the St. Philip Fort, put down the binoculars, Huang Degong couldn't help feeling emotional, but in the next second, his eyes that were also slightly dim also burst out with an extraordinarily hot fighting spirit, and he fisted the handle of the command knife at his waist cluck!

Chapter 873

When the artillery thundered at sea, the Ming Empire, which had no distinction between the north and the south, was not at peace. Half a month after Luo Yu set off, Mao Jue had to bid farewell to Hangzhou, where singing and dancing was peaceful, and headed south to the battlefield with his luggage on his back.

To be honest, Ming Dynasty was not ready for war at this time. Although the terrain in the south of the Yangtze River is flat, there are many rivers. The emergency repairs in one winter only completed more than 200 kilometers before connecting Shaoxing and Hangzhou. According to this progress, It takes at least two years to walk around the coast to reach Fuzhou. This is still a simple railway built, which is very different from the super engineering of later generations.

However, he really didn't do it first!

Receiving the assistance of the Dutch, I don't know how many guns and artillery they took. The Longwu regime's waist became stiff again, and it actually launched an attack on Fuzhou for the second time.

I really don’t know what equates Jie Lie with death in the dictionaries of these scholars and gentry! The Neo Confucianists in the late Southern Song Dynasty more than 400 years ago are like this with the ancestors of Jiangnan scholars today.

At that time, the Mongols felt unfamiliar and unaccustomed to the paddy fields and river networks in the south of the Yangtze River. In addition, the Mongolian Great Khan Mengge was killed under the Diaoyu City, and Kublai Khan once sent envoys to the Southern Song Dynasty to discuss peace.

However, this dawn of peace was actually assassinated by a group of passionate scholars! It is rare that the Mongols are easy to talk, and they sent it again, but once again, they were cleaned up by these scholars, just as they celebrated their heroic feat happily At that time, the tragic war between the Yuan Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty began without compromise.

Then, the Mongols conquered the Southern Song Dynasty and slaughtered an unknown number of cities. Those Confucianists who were full of Cheng Zhu's Confucianism changed suddenly and became Confucian households in the Yuan Dynasty.

This time, a group of passionate scholars waved their flags and shouted for the Northern Expedition. He Tengjiao was also a scholarly spirit. Without the Zheng family pirates in history as the military backbone, a group of scholars who fled to the south, and the remnants of Donglin shouted. Just a few months after the war, he once again mentioned "one hundred thousand troops" to surround Fuzhou.

Moreover, after the disastrous defeat brought about by "attacking" Fuzhou City last time, He Tengjiao has learned how to besiege but not attack. If someone comes out of the city, use the musket array to fire to stop it.

Needless to say, this is really suppressing Fuzhou's Achilles' heel. Pirates are pirates after all. Let him be brave and ruthless, let them form a majestic formation, and go face-to-face with the enemy army. Don't say that Zheng Zhilong can't do it I realized that even if the old man did it, Mao Jue wouldn't be at ease. He already covered the sky with one hand in Fujian, and he had an elite pirate army in his hand. Would he rebel?

Ever since, the Guangzhou army succeeded in engulfing the outskirts of Fuzhou Dagang like mosquitoes. Under He Tengjiao's "beautiful" command, it finally succeeded in angering the Ming government and the opposition!

Fuzhou is one of the top seven international ports in the Ming Dynasty. There are big merchants here who are interested in investing. There are countless big families. Even Zhu Yanyu can't bear the pressure. Other newspapers are full of reports about the war in Fuzhou. The "Emperor Capital Daily" didn't mention any economic losses that it caused, so the authority of the newspaper that she had managed so hard to run would no longer be there.

The current Daming is not the same as the Daming that was bullied by others. The continuous brilliant victories, the expansion of tens of thousands of miles, and the real dividends, the patriotism and self-esteem of the people have also exploded. The "Emperor Capital Daily" also published the headlines on the front page for many consecutive days that the Longwu Dynasty bombarded and sieged Fuzhou City, and public opinion across the country was completely ignited.

Amidst the cries of the people, even the emperor had no choice but to submit. No matter how much Mao Jue's railway construction plan was carried out, the war against the Longwu Dynasty was also ignited.

Guangzhou Bay.

This place has almost become a replica of the war in Manila Bay. The same hundreds of tall and heavy sailing battleships crowded in, and the thick gun barrels protruded from the gun bays. The same gunfire fell fiercely into the sea.

In the harbour, He Tengjiao finally managed to organize a navy composed of Guangzhou Shipbuilding and Qingchuan Ships, not to mention being blasted into pieces of wood, and a second-class battleship of a squadron was still going upstream along the Huangpu River, meeting with Yuexiu Mountain. The artillerymen of the Longwu Dynasty bombarded each other, with light smoke and dust flying, and the towering ancient trees that had grown for an unknown number of years fell down with a groan under the attack of the artillery fire.

To destroy the Longwu Dynasty, the Ministry of War originally estimated that at least one regiment of [-] troops should be dispatched. However, due to preparation problems, Mao Jue only dispatched two regiments from the capital to Hangzhou to attack Guangzhou.But now it seems that two corps seem to be enough.

Under the cover of the fleet's artillery fire, the transport fleet landed at the Dawutou Wharf along a tributary of the Huangpu River. After several rounds of shelling, Zhao Jie and Liu Heng, the new generation descendants of the Liaodong Military Academy, personally waved their command sabers forward. , the privates formed a neat row, holding their flintlock guns obliquely forward, striding towards the ancient city of Panyu City in Guangzhou, which was cast by Zhao Tuo, Emperor Wudi of South Vietnam. Basically being defeated, he abandoned the cannon in embarrassment and fled towards Guangzhou Mingcheng.

However, just as the passionate siege battle was in full swing, at this juncture, Manila was attacked by the Western United Fleet. This bad news suddenly reached the headquarters, Mao Jue's ears.

The Emperor's Walk is located on the coast of Dongguan, the paradise of future generations of men, but in this era, it is only a small fishing village. The flagship Black Pearl has been given to the prince. Now Mao Jue's flagship has been replaced with a more magnificent one, but the battle function The Dragon Chariot was lowered a lot.

But it should be. At Mao Jue’s age, it’s time to replace the sports model with a business and comfortable model. It’s reasonable to give the prince a sports version with more combat effectiveness.

In the spacious imperial parliament room, the following important ministers all had serious expressions on their faces. Mao Jue was staring at the map as if he had a toothache, hissing and breathing, familiar with this Everyone who is a cheapskate emperor knows him. The more he hurts, the more angry he is. Now this expression is absolutely angry.

Can it not be popular! The three islands of Luzon can bring 400 million taels of tax revenue to the empire every year, and the trade dividends of Luzon bring Mao Jue his own income of more than 100 million every year. These guys are related to the empire and the emperor My money bag can't get through!

However, as Cao GUI said in the debate, go all out! Decline again! Exhaust three times! The military order is like a mountain! Now it is fighting with the Longwu Dynasty in Guangdong and Guangxi. Suddenly withdrawing troops and turning south, what is the majesty of the Ming army?More importantly, what kind of uproar will it cause in the national public opinion?

But in terms of income, Luzon definitely surpasses Guangdong and Guangxi, and the Mu family in Yunnan is not an easy generation, and Yunnan and Guizhou provinces are also dangerous and tough. In history, the Qing army conquered Yunnan and Guizhou for decades. Repeatedly, let Li Dingguo counterattack Huguang. If it wasn't for Sun Kewang, a short-sighted rat who rebelled against the Qing army because of jealousy, the situation in the south of the Yangtze River is still unknown! Even if the Longwu Dynasty is destroyed, the Yongli Dynasty that will appear soon will still have to wait for the railway to be completed. During this period, the loss of Luzon's trade will be astronomical.

For a while, Mao Jue really couldn't make a choice!

Not only for him, but also for the important officials of the empire present, even Sun Chuanting, Fan Wenju and others all had stern faces, repeatedly weighing the pros and cons, and how to launch propaganda, so that public opinion tends to follow the direction of the court. After a long time, Mao Jue coughed lightly .

"Gentlemen"