Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 800 Public Opinion Offensive
The newspaper that Taichang and Wen Zhenmeng talked about was really amazing, and Zhang Zhiji, De Xie La and others were fascinated by it.

What are these guys doing?

Taichang looked up, and couldn't help but said angrily: "What are you doing, have you arranged the leaflets?"

Well, it's really not easy to arrange several articles on a small leaflet and still be able to be seen clearly.

However, the few of them have been working together for nearly half a day, and the flyer is finally arranged.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have stopped to listen to Taichang and Wen Zhenmeng talking about the newspaper.

De Sierra held a densely written piece of paper, handed it to Taichang respectfully, and then asked carefully: "Your Majesty, what do you think?"

In fact, the layout of this flyer has already been decided, but after the original article is arranged, the characters are too small, and it is a bit unclear.

Taichang also asked them to simplify the article as much as possible, delete those dispensable words, and try to make the font bigger so that people can read it clearly when printed.

Of course he didn't know Portuguese, but all he had to do was look at the font size.

Now after being streamlined, the leaflet looks much clearer.

Taichang couldn't help but nodded slightly and said: "Well, that's all right, that's it.

Wen Qi, are you free? If you are free, I will take you to see the power of the public opinion offensive. "

Does this mean that the emperor wants to take me to the battlefield to see?

OK!

Wen Zhenmeng nodded without hesitation and said, "My minister is free."

In fact, he didn't have much time, but he really wanted to see how powerful this so-called public opinion offensive was. At the same time, he also went to see the scene on the battlefield.

Taichang nodded slightly, and then said to Zhang Zhiji: "Take this to the temporary workshop that has been packed, and ask them to engrave and print it quickly, and try to print it within two days."

Printing this small flyer is actually very simple.

Many of the craftsmen that Du Linzheng brought over were above the seventh level, and it was not too easy for them to carve a small wooden block.

During the assessment of their craftsman's level, it basically took an hour to carve such a wood block.

As for printing [-] leaflets within two days, that's easy, just carve a few more woodblocks and print them together.

Naturally, Taichang didn't need to think about these issues. What he had to think about was how to take Victoria, the main city of Espiritu Santo, in one fell swoop, capture the Duke of Braganza, and then completely control the entire Governorate of Brazil.

This time, he was going to use public opinion to attack, but forceful deterrence was also essential.

For this reason, he also specially mobilized 2 soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion, plus De Xie La's [-] horses, that's a total of [-] infantry.

Of course, with so many people relying on the first Emperor and two dreadnoughts in his hand, there is no way to pull them over.

For this reason, they waited for a few days until the Aegis ship that transported the first batch of blacks to Xin'anyang returned, and then they took the printed leaflets and set off.

Victoria is more than 1000 miles away from El Salvador, and it may take a month for the sailboat to go back and forth when the wind direction is wrong.

Moreover, this area was originally occupied by the anti-Habsburg alliance, and there were a lot of warships.

Naturally, the Duke of Braganza would not send his poor warships to die. If they didn't run to beat him, he would be burned.

Therefore, at this moment, the Duke of Braganza must not know that Bahia has been taken by them.

When Taichang drove two dreadnoughts, fifty Aegis ships and five hundred armed merchant ships along the coastline to Espiritu Santo, there were basically no people around the coast.

It seems that the colonists here probably retreated to the area near Victoria to save their lives.

After all, there are not many means of transportation these days, and horses are not affordable for everyone. If the enemy fights and they are still scattered in an area hundreds or thousands of miles away from the main city, it will be no different from courting death.

Therefore, the farms that are far away from the main city here are basically deserted, and there are no people left.

At least on this side of the border with Bahia.

This also happens to be convenient for them to act.

After the fleet sailed for a whole day, they were only about four hundred miles away from Victoria.

At noon the next day, on the top floor of the Emperor.

Taichang turned the binoculars and scanned the faintly exposed city wall by the coast in front of him, and then carefully scanned the coast next to the fleet, and then decisively ordered: "Send the fleet to stop advancing, and the Spike warship will be set up immediately. Temporary pier, ready to land."

The large binoculars equipped on the Monarch were enough to see the scenery fifteen or six miles away, and at this moment he could faintly see the city walls of Victoria City, which proved that they were about twenty miles away from Victoria City.

People definitely couldn't see them at this distance, but it might not be so if they drove further.

After waving the command flag, ten Spike warships carrying gourds immediately left the fleet and headed towards the coast.

Fortunately, most of the coast here is sandy beaches, and there are steep slopes facing the sea, so it is more convenient to build a temporary pier.

After a while, ten Spike warships built ten temporary piers on a steep slope about half a foot high.

Immediately afterwards, more than [-] Spike warships began to transfer the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion and the Portuguese Legion.

Those who got off the boat and landed here were [-] soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion and [-] soldiers of the Portuguese Legion, including the Portuguese merchants that Desilao pretended to be.

After landing, the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion and the Portuguese Legion quickly spread out in the northeast direction of Victoria, faintly surrounding the north and west of Victoria City.

And after landing, Desi Lau did bring more than [-] men, pushing five carts of leather goods, and headed straight for Victoria City.

As soon as they set off, the naval fleet sent [-] Aegis ships and more than [-] Spike warships directly to the endless sea to the east.

Naturally, the divided fleet is not going to go to sea. They are going to detour to the open sea for a distance of about [-] to [-] miles, a semicircle, bypassing the city of Victoria, and send the remaining [-] soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion and [-] soldiers of the Portuguese Legion to Victoria. About [-] miles south of the city to land.

Naturally, they couldn't let the Duke of Braganza escape after spending so much effort.

This time, they want to surround the city of Victoria, including the port, and directly arrest the Duke of Braganza.

After the squadron set off, the remaining warships remained silent.

Because they had to let Desilao sneak into the city with the convoy to activate it. Otherwise, they would definitely close the gate of the city once they surrounded it, and it was unlikely that Desilao would enter the city.

At this moment, Desilau is pretending to be a businessman who buys and resells leather goods. The weapons they carry are all European-style swords found in the military factory established by Prince Condé.

The whole team looks like a pure Portuguese caravan, and they are also Portuguese themselves, so naturally there is no flaw at all.

The group of people pushed the five flatbed carts for less than ten miles, when Desilao suddenly raised his hand and said solemnly: "Now, proceed at a normal pace."

Because he has already seen the road leading to Victoria in the telescope, and there are many convoys like them on the road.

Of course, most of what people pull is not leather goods, but food, fruits and vegetables.

The city of Victoria has suddenly increased by more than 5000 people. With the addition of the original residents, the consumption of food, fruits and vegetables is naturally not a little bit.

It is a good thing to have a convoy. It seems that the farms near Victoria City should still be operating normally, and the presence of their group on the road will not arouse suspicion.

Soon, he and his men pushed the cart onto the road leading to Victoria City.

Along the way, he even smiled and greeted the convoy passing by, flirting with each other, with the face of a businessman.

His family was already in business, so he didn't need to pretend.

After about an hour, they finally arrived outside the north gate of Victoria City.

Although the city gate was open at this time, there were two teams of guards standing on both sides. It seemed that all the passing convoys would come up to question them before letting them go.

Well, if someone can go in, he can go in.

Gritting his teeth, Desilau led the convoy towards the city gate.

Soon, an officer came up with a few soldiers and asked loudly, "Where did you come from?"

Desilao hurriedly laughed and said, "We went to the northern jungle to find the natives here to buy furs."

The officer looked at the leather goods and tents on the car, and then said calmly: "It costs one pound of silver to enter the city."

Fuck, why don't you grab it?
There's no way, he can't blame others, it must be accepted by the noble master above.

He was pretending to be a businessman, so he naturally carried silver with him. Moreover, the silver he brought was exchanged from a Portuguese merchant in El Salvador, pure Portuguese standard silver ingots.

He directly took out a one-pound silver ingot from his pocket, pretending to be in pain, and held it in the hands of the reluctant Sena officer.

The officer immediately waved his hand and said, "Hurry up and enter the city, don't block the convoy behind."

Haha, it's so easy to sneak into the city!

Desilau couldn't help but secretly rejoice.

He hastily pretended to be actively cooperating, waved his hands and shouted: "Hurry up, hurry up, don't block people's way."

This city of Victoria seems to be quite normal, but there are a lot of tents. There are military camps under the Duke of Braganza, and there are also tents where traders gathered together.

Desilau pretended to be selling leather goods, walked through several shops, bargained with others, and sold roughly average fur goods until the sun went down, and then recruited outside the area where the merchants gathered In a fast place, four tents were set up, and five carts of leather goods were surrounded in the middle.

After they entered the city, their behavior couldn't be more normal, so naturally no one suspected them.

However, in the dead of night, these guys are not normal.

They all put on dark night clothes, hid in the night, slowly touched the surrounding city walls and the vicinity of the military camp that had been scouted during the day, and then spread the leaflets in their hands to the military camp and the city wall as silently as paper money go.

Everyone in this pitch-black place must have fallen asleep, so the leaflets they spread were naturally not read by anyone.

However, they are not in a hurry, anyway, the sky will always be bright.

At dawn, it will be wonderful!
(End of this chapter)