Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 973
The war between the Kingdom of West Africa and Spain and the Holy Roman Empire finally came to a successful conclusion.

This battle of the Black God Army can be said to be shocking. The Spanish and Holy Roman Empire armies, which are known as the strongest armies in Europe, were almost wiped out by them, and only 2 people fled in a hurry.

Moreover, almost all the equipment of the 60 army was captured by the Black God Army, and the strength of the West African Kingdom also increased dramatically due to this.

However, neither Zhang Mingshi, the commander in charge of the battle, nor Zuma, the king of the West African Kingdom, were overjoyed. On the contrary, they were all distraught at the moment.

Because Liu Shuochuan, the deputy chief coach of the Black God Army and half of King Zuma's mentor, died in this battle.

Zhang Mingshi is too old to lead troops in battle. He can only teach Zuma and Atlante the art of war and help them practice the Black God Army. It can be said that Liu Shuochuan taught Zuma and Atlante everything in actual combat.

The teacher died in battle, Zuma and Atlantina were in tears and distraught.

Although Zhang Mingshi was also distraught, he did not shed tears.

He just took a damp cloth and wiped the blood scabs in Liu Shuochuan's eyes and nose over and over again, muttering in his mouth all the time: "Shuo Chuan, Shuo Chuan, the loyal soul returns, and I will order someone to send your soul back to your hometown."

Love will be killed in battle, Zhang Mingshi is more than ten years old in an instant, his beard and hair seem to have turned white overnight.

He wiped it carefully for a while, then looked at it with reluctance, and then turned around and said: "Don't cry, the horse leather shroud is the glory of a soldier, and Shuo Chuan was loyal to the country, so he deserved his death.

It is inevitable that a general will die before the battle. There is no one who will not die in battle. When you go to the battlefield, don't be afraid of death.

The soldiers of the Black God Army will die, and the generals of the Ming Army will also die. No one can avoid this.

You must cheer up, defend your home and country, and completely drive out the European colonial robbers, so that your future generations can live in peace. "

Of course, Zuma and Atlanta are not people who are afraid of death, they just can't accept the death of their mentor.

Zuma wiped away her tears and nodded solemnly: "We know that we will completely drive out the colonial robbers."

Zhang Mingshi nodded slightly and said: "Okay, you wrap Shuo Chuan in horse leather, and we will send him off together."

Zuma and Atlanta hurriedly picked up the horse leather that had been prepared, carefully wrapped Liu Shuochuan's body, and carried it to the firewood that had already been set up.

This horse leather was originally prepared by Zhang Mingshi for himself, but who knew it was used on his beloved general Liu Shuochuan.

The white-haired man sent the black-haired man, and he couldn't help but two lines of tears flowed from his eyes.

Seeing that Zuma and Atlante had laid out the corpses, he immediately took the torch from the guard, walked slowly to the firewood, and lit it carefully.

Immediately afterwards, Zuma and Atlante knelt down with solemn faces.

With a sound of "wow", hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Black God Army knelt down in circles like the surface of water blown by a breeze.

The raging fire ignited, Zhang Mingshi personally lit three sticks of incense, and led the crowd to kowtow three times, then slowly got up, and said to the back: "Okay, everyone get up, although this battle is over, You have to continue marching into North Africa to take back all the land taken by the colonial robbers."

This time their casualties were really a bit heavy. In addition to the thousands of cavalry killed in battle, more than ten thousand chariot soldiers and infantry were also killed in battle, and hundreds of thousands were injured.

Fortunately, the casualties of the chariot soldiers led by Zuma were not very large, and the chariot soldiers are now the main force of the attack.

At this moment, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire don't have many troops. To recover North Africa, the biggest resistance is the temporary supply points along the coast and the important town of Ceuta in the south of the Strait of Gibraltar.

If they want to make it impossible for the colonial bandits to gain a foothold in North Africa, they must take all the coastal ports and wharfs under the fire of enemy warships.

This seems to be a bit difficult.

After all, the ten armored warships caused tens of thousands of casualties to the cavalry, and tens of thousands were killed directly.

If someone gathers a hundred or even two hundred armored warships for a burst of bombardment, then going to seize someone's port is courting death.

After much deliberation, Zhang Mingshi decided to urgently report to Sun Chuanting, the governor of Dongdaying, and ask this strategist to arrange the next strategy.

In the Governor's Mansion of the Western Yin Capital City, Sun Chuanting looked at the urgent report and the ashes urn sent back by Zhang Mingshi's order, and couldn't help but look solemn.

In order to prevent the enemy from escaping on a battleship, Liu Shuochuan, the deputy head coach of the Black God Army, led his army to attack the dock against the artillery fire of the iron-clad battleship, but unfortunately was shot and died!

This is his mistake!
The enemy is not as simple as he imagined, and there seems to be a big problem with the strategy of luring the enemy to go deep. The enemy's iron-clad warship is even a big killer for the Black God Army.

This time, they only had ten iron-clad warships staying there. If they assembled hundreds of iron-clad warships to guard the port, the Black God Army would not be able to attack at all.

How to do it?

To be honest, he couldn't handle it either.

If you want to deal with other people's ironclad warships, you must attack with Ming's Aegis ships, and you must send at least a hundred of them at a time, otherwise you will be in danger of being surrounded and beaten by others.

The emperor did not authorize him to turn against the European Union, and he could not send Aegis ships to help out without permission.

If the Aegis ship can't go to help out, it is necessary to strengthen the naval forces of the West African Kingdom.

In other words, they must help the West African Kingdom build enough Aegis ships, and he can't decide this.

He could only send a report to Taichang for instructions.

Taichang was about to leave to visit the Western Regions. Unexpectedly, when he was calling for the assembly of the Flying Dragon battleship, a director of the Ministry of Industry hurried up to the flagship with a telegram, bowed his hands and said, "Your Majesty, the governor of Dongdaying! Sun Chuanting, Master Sun urgently reported."

Sun Chuanting's urgent report?

Could it be that something happened to the African battlefield?
He took a look at the telegram, and couldn't help but his face changed drastically.

The Black God Army has almost wiped out the coalition forces of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, which is a good thing.

However, during the battle, in order to prevent the enemy from escaping on a battleship, Liu Shuochuan, the deputy head coach of the Black God Army, led his army to attack the pier against the artillery fire of the iron-clad battleship, and unfortunately was shot and died!

Next, Sun Chuanting carefully reviewed his own strategic mistakes, and suggested to change the strategy, strengthen the naval forces of the West African Kingdom, so that the fleet of the West African Kingdom and the fleet of the European Continental Union can compete with each other, so as to successfully achieve their strategic goals.

This really surprised Taichang, the deputy chief coach of the Black God Army, this is already the highest rank general who died in battle of Ming Dynasty!

Liu Shuochuan is equivalent to commanding 200 million black gods to fight on behalf of Sun Chuanting and Zhang Mingshi, and his actual power is faintly equivalent to that of the four major battalion governors.

Such a high-ranking general died just like that?
Sun Chuanting should review the strategic issues, but he should be reviewed more!

Because the basis for their strategy was determined by him, the weapons and equipment of the Black God Army, including the military production scale of the West African Kingdom, and even the strategy of luring the enemy into encircling and annihilating them were all determined by him.

It was he who miscalculated the strength of the enemy, and he was the one who killed Liu Shuochuan!

He did not equip the Kingdom of West Africa with enough ships, forcing Liu Shuochuan to attack the dock with the gunfire of the armored warship, which was a huge mistake in itself.

Liu Shuochuan and the tens of thousands of soldiers of the Black God Army died entirely to accomplish the strategic goals he set!
If he hadn't asked the Black God Army to encircle and annihilate the European Union's invasion of Africa as much as possible with such a huge disadvantage in equipment, would they have died in battle?
It seems that he can't go to the Western Regions, he has to go to the Americas or even Africa to sit in town, otherwise, the war in Africa will not be able to continue.

He frowned and pondered for a while, then said loudly: "Chuan Zhisheng, Li Qing, Yan Ru, Wen Zhao, and Yuan Fang are here to see you."

After finishing speaking, he ordered someone to call the emperor's grandson Zhu Cihong to sit beside him.

It didn't take long for Sun Chengzong, Yuan Keli, Peng Bin, Cao Wenzhao and Zhang Yuanfang to arrive on the flagship one after another.

Taichang directly circulated the telegram sent by Sun Chuanting to them.

Liu Shuochuan, the deputy head coach of the Black God Army, was killed!

When everyone read the telegram, their faces were full of solemn expressions.

The battle in Africa does not seem to be so easy to fight, and the Continental Union is not a vegetarian.

If Zhang Mingshi hadn't acted decisively and launched the siege ahead of time, and Liu Shuochuan led his army to destroy their docks, it is very likely that most of them would have escaped this time.

How do you say such a thing?

When Sun Chengzong saw the end of the telegram, he couldn't help but sighed: "Your Majesty, I dare you, should we consider the issue of compensation for the fallen soldiers?"

This should indeed be carefully considered.

Taichang frowned and pondered for a while, then said decisively: "Decree ordered Sun Chuanting, governor of the East Day Camp, to distribute 1000 taels of silver as a pension to every soldier of the Black God Army who died in battle.

In addition, ships were sent to bring the families of these Black God Army soldiers to Xinma City for training. After the training, they directly joined the branches of Daming Bank, Daming Medicine and Daming Western Company in the African continent. "

This is Zhang Mingshi's promise to the soldiers of the Black God Army. The soldiers of the Black God Army are defending their home and country and at the same time consuming the strength of the European Union for Daming. He cannot let people feel chilled.

Immediately afterwards, he solemnly said: "Decree, Liu Shuochuan, the deputy chief coach of the Black God Army, will be granted the first-class loyalty to the country by the Jin Dynasty, and he will be granted the title of Weiguo, the capital of Cheshi in the Western Regions. His title and fief will be hereditary to his descendants."

Originally, Liu Shuochuan could at least be named a first-class earl after the war in Africa, but now he is loyal to the country before the war is over, so he should make an exception and be named.

After he arranged these things, he said solemnly: "Mr. Li, how do you think we should improve the strength of the West African navy so that they can compete with the European Union combined fleet?"

Uh, is this possible?
Yuan Keli frowned and pondered for a while, and then said carefully: "Your Majesty, unless we build factories for the West African Kingdom, so that they have the ability to build at least fifty Aegis ships a year, otherwise, they will not be able to unite with the European Union at all. The fleet contends.

Because the combined fleet of the European Continental Alliance already has thousands of warships, and the number of iron-clad warships has reached two hundred.

Moreover, people can build hundreds of ironclad warships a year.

If the navy of the Kingdom of West Africa does not have Aegis ships or more advanced dragon battleships, they will not be able to fight sea battles with others. "

Build factories for the West African kingdom to build Aegis ships?

This seems to be a bit difficult.

Because the foundation of the West African Kingdom is too poor, unless he moves all the shipbuilding equipment and smelting and processing equipment from Dongfan Shipyard, including a large number of craftsmen, to the West African Kingdom, otherwise it will be impossible for them to build the Aegis ship.

What is the difference between this and the construction of Aegis ships in Dongfan?

The key is that he still can't let the Aegis ship directly participate in the battle.

If the Aegis ship is allowed to directly participate in the battle, it will be a tear with the European Union, and their strategic intentions will also be exposed, and the African strategy will not be able to be implemented.

Taichang frowned and pondered for a while, then slowly shook his head and said: "This is very unlikely, the current level of the West African Kingdom simply cannot build Aegis ships, and I can't tear myself apart and let Aegis ships participate in the battle, Li Qing , do you have another way?"

This one.

If the Aegis ship cannot be boarded, how can the navy of the West African Kingdom compete with the combined fleet of the European Union?

(End of this chapter)