Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 774
The fortress of Petrolina was taken, and even Aveiro, the fortress guard, was taken.

This win refers to persuasion. Aveiro was persuaded by Hangoria to join Desierra's team.

Aveiro is the number one general under Greyrose, and he is even more familiar with Pernambuco than Greyrose.

Moreover, he led the army to fight several battles against the anti-Habsburg alliance army, and he also has a good understanding of the situation in the south. It is better to interrogate Grey Ross directly.

Hangoria discussed with the leader of the Shenwu Battalion, and took Aveiro back first, and they arrived in Olinda the next afternoon.

When Luo Sigong heard the news, he was naturally overjoyed.

He immediately summoned Desierra, Hangoria, and Aveiro to the conference room, and started to inquire about the map.

Naturally, what he was most concerned about at this time was the situation of the anti-Habsburg alliance army.

After everyone sat down, he couldn't wait to ask: "The anti-Habsburg alliance army has attacked the Petrolina fortress a total of several times, and how many people are there each time?"

Aveiro said without hesitation: "They attacked the Petrolina Fortress three times last year, each time with about 1 horses."

1 troops are almost ten times that of the defenders. With the same weapons and equipment, even if they cannot be defeated, they can be besieged. If the defenders in the city are completely out of ammunition and food, they can easily be captured.

Luo Sigong was a little puzzled and said, "Are their weapons and equipment inferior to yours?"

Aveiro shook his head slightly and said, "It's not that their weapons and equipment are inferior to ours, but that their artillery can't cross the river."

Cannons can't cross the river?

Luo Sigong stared at the map for a while, and couldn't help asking curiously: "Is there a big river south of Petrolina Fortress? Why isn't it on your map?"

Aveiro pointed directly at the border between Pernambuco and Bahia and said: "This is a big river, the upper reaches of this big river are very wide, there is no way to build bridges, and it gradually narrows until near Petrolina.

Moreover, there is a wide island in the middle of the river south of Petrolina, which can be bridged.

It turns out that we built two wooden bridges there, and these two wooden bridges are also the only land passage between Pernambuco and Bahia.

Later, the anti-Habsburg coalition army occupied Bahia, and we directly burned the two wooden bridges.

Therefore, if the Habsburg Alliance army wanted to attack Petrolina, they had to build a pontoon bridge by themselves, and artillery weighing hundreds of pounds would definitely not be able to cross the pontoon bridge.

They attacked several times, but seeing that we were well defended, they never came again. "

It turns out that this junction is a big river!
The Portuguese are too unreliable to draw maps.

Greyrose was even more outrageous. After interrogating several times, he didn't know why the anti-Habsburg alliance army didn't come to attack Pernambuco.

Obviously, the big river is one of the main reasons.

Luo Sigong stared at the map for a while, and then said to De Xieira: "Ask him, how wide is this big river, I mean how wide is it in terms of our Ming Dynasty."

Hearing this, De Sierra quickly asked Aveiro, calculated carefully, and then estimated: "He said that the mouth of this big river is more than ten miles wide, even if it reaches the south of Petrolina, It's more than a mile wide.

However, where there is a small island in the middle, the river channels on both sides are only about ten feet wide. "

That's right, with such a wide river, it is basically impossible to build bridges in other places, at least the anti-Habsburg alliance army certainly cannot.

If there is not an island in the middle of the river south of Petrolina, it is estimated that no one can build a pontoon bridge.

Obviously, it is unrealistic for the infantry of the anti-Habsburg army to cross this river to attack Pernambuco.

Question, why didn't the anti-Habsburg coalition launch an attack by sea?

He had already sent someone to look at it, and there were only a few small sailboats of less than a thousand materials parked in the port south of Olinda.

This kind of small sailboat is vulnerable in front of the anti-Habsburg alliance army's large ships and gunboats. Why don't they send a fleet to pull the infantry over and land directly from the port pier south of Olinda.

Although Olinda is not easy to attack, it is not necessary to win Olinda to win Pernambuco.

They only need to send people to surround Olinda and even the Petrolina fortress.

This question is really puzzling.

So why did the anti-Habsburg coalition army launch an attack by sea?
The reason is actually very simple, because they are too busy.

As for what they are busy with, the colonial robbers are naturally busy stealing money!

This time, the one who led the anti-Habsburg alliance army to attack the Governor-General of Brazil was the defeated general of Ming Dynasty, Prince Condé of France, and his two younger brothers, the Governor-General of the Netherlands, Minuit, and the Earl of Black of the United Kingdom. .

After the three of them were fooled back to the European continent by Taichang, they began to fool the countries of the anti-Habsburg alliance according to the routine set by Taichang.

The Ming Empire is too powerful.

The army of the North American Indian Tribal Alliance has millions.

What Spain has been using the resources of the American colonies in exchange for the support of the Ming Empire.

What if the Ming Empire used the resources of the American colonies to equip millions of troops from the North American Indian Tribal Alliance, the anti-Habsburg alliance would be over.

What is the only way to turn defeat into victory by taking down the Spanish colonies in America and cutting off the resource supply of the Ming Empire.

Etc., etc.

The countries of the anti-Habsburg coalition were indeed terrified.

How to do it?

If Ming was really equipped with millions of Indian tribes in North America, plus the strength of the Ming Empire itself, plus the strength controlled by the Habsburg Dynasty, how would they fight?
Originally, the strength controlled by the Habsburg dynasty was not much worse than them!

Once these two powerful armies of millions rush to the European continent, they are really finished.

As for the Spanish colonies in America, of course they want to take them down.

There is no country in Europe that does not envy Spain's colonies in America.

The problem is that the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom have all tried it, and they alone can't beat Spain at all!
Even if they can temporarily win a colony, as long as Spain organizes reinforcements to counterattack, they will be beaten to the ground.

In this case, the only hope is to unite and snatch the Spanish colonies in America together.

The problem is that no one dares to lead the army to go.

The strength of Spain is not a joke, and in addition to America, there is the coalition forces of the Ming Empire and North American Indian tribes, who would dare to seek death!

At this time, Prince Condé stepped forward again at the right time, expressing his willingness to lead an army to the Americas to open up a second battlefield in the Spanish colonies.

He also drew in Minuit, the governor of the Netherlands, and the Earl of Black in England.

The three of them flickered together, and neither the French royal family nor the Duke of Richelieu could hold back this guy.

Everyone is willing to go, but if you don't let them go, is it really waiting for the coalition forces of the Ming Empire and the North American Indian tribes to rush over and wipe out everyone?

No way, France can only come up with roughly one-tenth of its troops, which is [-] troops and a dozen warships.

The Netherlands and the United Kingdom also sent more than [-] ships and [-] infantry to join forces under strong pressure from other countries in the anti-Habsburg alliance.

As for countries such as Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, it is of course impossible for them to send people to serve as subordinates to others.

However, they also give money to those who have money, food to those who have food, and weapons to those who have weapons.

Thus was organized the army of the anti-Habsburg coalition.

Prince Kong Dai did not break his promise, and immediately headed for America with [-] troops and more than [-] ships.

As for why he chose the Governor-General of Brazil, it was naturally to avoid the Ming Empire.

Because the Governor-General of Brazil is far away from the North American continent, it is basically impossible for the Ming Empire and the North American Indian Tribal Alliance to come to support them.

Moreover, the Viceroyalty of Brazil was originally a Portuguese colony, and its defense was originally the worst.

He can also use the hatred of the subjugated people of Portugal towards Spain to fool them into working under his own hands.

As a result, it is conceivable that the motley army under the Duke of Bragança was naturally no match for the anti-Habsburg alliance army. Bahia, the capital of the Brazilian Viceroyalty, was quickly captured by the army led by Prince Condé.

However, Prince Condé did not attack other colonies under the jurisdiction of other Brazilian governors.

Because he wants to start anew!

He wants to get rid of the control of the French royal family and the Duke of Richelieu, establish his own country, and be the king himself!
In this case, the [-] troops and more than [-] ships he had fooled around were his starting capital, and he was naturally reluctant to use them to fight with others and waste them in vain.

He is preparing to gain a firm foothold in Bahia, grab enough money and resources, and then recruit people, and after growing stronger, he will launch a crazy attack on other colonies under the Governor's Administration of Brazil.

Of course Luo Sigong didn't know what this guy was thinking, and he didn't know what the anti-Habsburg alliance army was doing in Bahia right now.

However, it was good news for him that there was a big river to the south.

People can't build a bridge, and it's inconvenient to cross the river, but it's very convenient for them to cross the river.

In the early morning of the next day, he took Desierra, Aveiro and others with him, gathered more than [-] Spike warships and thousands of elite warriors, and set off from the port south of Olinda, heading straight for the dividing line. The great river where it is.

The mouth of this big river is more than three hundred miles away from the port south of Olinda, and they arrived at their destination around noon.

Luo Sigong couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw the river channel more than ten miles wide.

Because European countries don't have high-precision telescopes at the moment, as long as they walk along the north bank of the river, they can't see their fleet clearly at all.

This big river is really very wide, not to mention the width of more than ten miles near the mouth of the sea, and the width of more than a hundred miles behind it is also about five miles.

Moreover, after going in for more than a hundred miles, the river suddenly became more than twenty miles wide!

The twenty-mile-wide river channel is almost a hundred miles long. After passing through, although the river channel began to narrow, it was still more than one mile wide until it reached the vicinity of Petrolina.

After Petrolina passed, there were mountains, and the river was still about a mile wide.

In other words, except for the unique terrain south of Petrolina, the anti-Habsburg alliance forces in other places simply cannot get through.

But they can use the Spike warships and binoculars to find a place where there is no one, and secretly send the scout teams across the river to Bahia to investigate the specific situation of the anti-Habsburg alliance army.

(End of this chapter)