Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1586, completely torn skin

The news of the looting of Marseilles spread quickly throughout Europe as if it had grown wings. All of a sudden, European countries were terrified, and many coastal ports and cities were silent like cicadas, taking strict precautions.

Who would have thought that the pirates would have such great strength that they could loot a large city guarded by thousands of people and have a population of hundreds of thousands.

A city of the level of Marseille is considered a big city in the whole of Europe, and it has been looted clean, let alone other cities.

The shadow of pirates hangs over Europeans for a while.

King Louis XII of France declared extremely angrily that they would investigate the matter thoroughly, and they would surely drown all the pirates in the sea.

For this reason, France is still fighting on the border with Spain, and bluntly found that pirates have entered Spain and wants to enter Spain to arrest pirates.

It's just that Spain is not easy to mess with. Spain is now in full swing and considers itself the big brother of Europe. The navy and army are powerful. How can the French be allowed to do so.

Not only did the French not take advantage of the slightest advantage, but they were also severely beaten by the Spanish army. The two sides also fought one after another in the border area. Although the scale was not large, it still caused thousands of people At the same time, the relationship between France and Spain entered a freezing point.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the French are obviously looking for trouble with Spain, and what happened in Marseilles must have been done by the Spaniards.

Just relying on France alone, how could it be the opponent of the Spaniards, and the French did not take advantage of the few border troubles.

The Spanish army, which has a good relationship with Daming and is also very rich, is armed with a large number of Miyun [-]-type muskets and Miyun cannons imported from Daming. The muskets in the hands of the French army are all self-made. Can't take any advantage.

The hundreds of thousands of people in Marseille seem to have evaporated from the world, and there is no news about them anymore, but some news comes back occasionally from the far east. In the tropics, sugar cane was planted.

In the anger and helplessness of the French, it seems that this is about to be introduced.

However, when Egypt, the Ottoman Empire and the Persian Empire broke out again in the Mesopotamia to compete for the ownership of the Mesopotamia, the Egyptians and the Spaniards had a war here in Alexandria, and the angry Cansu II even directly Declares war on Spain.

Compared with these things, the things in Marseille seem to become less important all of a sudden, and they will soon be forgotten like this.

However, the Spanish and the Japanese did not mean to stop at all.

The looting of Marseilles gave the Spaniards and Japanese a complete taste of the sweetness.

Only hundreds of thousands of people were sold as slaves to the Ming people, and they obtained nearly three million taels of silver, plus the massive goods looted from Marseilles, a large amount of gold and silver treasures, etc., it was only After sacking Marseille, they obtained a huge wealth of nearly tens of millions.

The cost paid for this is almost negligible. This kind of no-cost business, the money comes in too fast. Whoever does it will know, and whoever does it will become addicted.

The wealth that others have worked so hard to accumulate, you can just rob it all at once, and even sell people as slaves. This business is simply not too high.

With the successful experience of Marseille, in less than half a month, the Spaniards and the Japanese made trouble again, this time it was Brighton in England.

Compared with Marseille, Brighton's population is even smaller, only tens of thousands of people, and because it is located in Western Europe, it is far less wealthy than the port of Marseille in the Mediterranean.

But looting is relatively easier. It is still the same tactic, dispatching some ships in advance to lurk in, and then taking advantage of the arrival, when the sky is bright, it is to close the door to catch cattle and sheep.

Almost overnight, Brighton, with tens of thousands of people, was ransacked. Like Marseille, not even a single chicken was left behind.

After Marseille in Brighton, Henry VII of England was as furious as Louis XII. After some investigation, everything pointed to the Spaniards and the Japanese from the far east.

These Japanese people are very good at lurking. They have a specially trained ninja who is very powerful and can sneak in quietly and assassinate you.

Brighton has been strictly guarded, but it was still ransacked without any notice. Tens of thousands of people have never heard from them, and they don't know that they have been trafficked to that corner of the world.

The angry Henry VII led the newly trained army to surround the Spanish colony in England, saying that pirates entered it, and they wanted to enter it to catch the pirates.

The excuse is still the same as the French, wanting to vent and express their anger, but the Spaniards pushed the matter to the pirates, and they pushed it cleanly, threatening that as long as there are pirates, the Spaniards will drown them in the sea , will never tolerate.

The angry Englishman had nothing to do and gritted his teeth angrily.

Marseille and Brad were looted by pirates one after another. The French and English were extremely angry. On the one hand, they began to find trouble with Spain. On the other hand, the Pirate Alliance also began to launch a counterattack.

In the past, the Pirate Alliance only targeted Spanish colonies and treasure ships overseas, but now the Spaniards don't speak martial arts, and they are also starting to attack cities and ports along the coast of Spain.

Sometimes the pirates even stared directly at these ports. As long as a ship came out, they would kill them without hesitation, and they would run away immediately after the Spanish warship came out.

All of a sudden, from the Mediterranean Sea to the coast of Western Europe, from West Africa to North Africa, there are rampant pirates everywhere. From time to time, there will be news that a certain place has been looted by pirates. deep looming.

Spain has always claimed to be the big brother of Europe, so it is naturally impossible to just swallow it like this.

The Pirate Alliance continued to find trouble for Spain, and Spain responded unceremoniously. Soon, after Brighton, Porto in Portugal and the Netherlands were frantically attacked and looted by pirates.

At the same time, outside the main ports of England, Portugal, France, the Netherlands and other countries and regions, a large number of Spanish warships were disguised as pirates. As long as they saw ships from these countries coming out, they would be looted immediately.

You come and go between the two sides, almost completely tearing the skin apart. When it came to the end, they didn't even bother to raise the flags of the pirates. They just hung their respective flags and started doing these things.

At the same time, the two sides continued to have friction on land. On the border between France and Spain, the French sent troops to try to recover Bordeaux, which was taken by Spain, but ended in failure.

Portugal also tried to send troops to recover the area robbed by Spain. For this reason, a large-scale war broke out. With the support of the local Portuguese, it was successfully recovered.

It was only quickly suppressed by the Spanish army. Under the attack of cannons and muskets, the Spaniards quickly regained these areas.

Henry VII of England tried to take back Hampshire ceded to Spain, but was beaten back by the Spaniards who had been prepared.

At the same time overseas, the French seized Accra, an important Spanish colony in North Africa, in retaliation against Spain, and Portugal took the opportunity to seize the most important Cape Verde Islands in West Africa, trying to control the route from West Africa to Europe in order to loot Spain Treasure ships, and at the same time combat the rampant plundering of the Wa Kingdom in Western Europe.

All of a sudden, both sides were doing these shady things in the cloak of pirates, but now they have torn their skins openly.

From the coastal areas of Europe to the colonies of West Africa and North Africa, from the land to the seas everywhere, the two sides are coming and going, the smoke is full of gunpowder, swords are on the verge of breaking out, and a war is constantly brewing.

Both sides are accumulating strength and preparing to give each other a fatal blow. They have already reached this point. The third Western European war has also reached the point where it is inevitable.

Even Italy, the Holy Roman Empire, and countries in the Nordic region will also be involved, plus North Korea and Persia in West Africa, Egypt, and the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East. It's brewing, and the situation is stirring!
(End of this chapter)