Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 999 Lead the snake out of the hole
There is also a reason why the anti-Habsburg coalition wanted to delay time and turn defeat into victory.

They rely on the technology of transforming sailboats, which simply means adding a certain number of water wheels to the sailboats.

This kind of transformation technology is not very difficult, because the water wheel is above the water surface, and the rubber seal waterproof effect is also good.

All they had to do was make a few sets of holes in the middle of the sides of the ship, add the steam engine and the water wheel, and then seal it with rubber.

This kind of transformed ship is called a sail steam engine hybrid ship, referred to as a sail ship.

Although the name of the sailing ship sounds a bit silly, the speed is actually not fast. If the wind is not smooth, its speed is basically less than fifty miles per hour, that is, about ten kilometers per hour.

This speed is simply crawling!
But for the anti-Habsburg alliance, this sailing ship was enough.

Because the biggest disadvantage of sailboats in front of ships is not speed, but flexibility.

In naval battles, the slow steering of a sailboat was a fatal weakness. Now, after adding a steam-powered waterwheel, although the speed is not fast, the steering is comparable to that of a real ship.

In this way, the sailboats will not suffer a big loss in naval battles, at least they think so.

As for speed, it really doesn't matter.

Because they are quite familiar with monsoons and ocean currents, they can just follow the monsoons and ocean currents when they need to travel.

In this way, the speed of the sailing ship is not much slower than that of ordinary ships.

Moreover, this thing does not take much time to transform, and there is no need to rebuild any docks and waterways.

They can completely use the original docks and waterways to transform, and it will take ten days to transform a sailboat into a sailboat, and both Britain and France have the ability to transform hundreds of sailboats at the same time.

If the Dutch dock waterway is still there, it will be incredible, and it will be no problem to transform thousands of ships at the same time in a day!

It is a pity that at this moment the Dutch docks and waterways have been destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, and the Dutch have also been driven to the Cape Town colony.

France and England now have a thousand or so galleons, and they have reserves of copper, iron, and rubber.

After all, they have been invading Africa for more than a year. Copper mines and iron mines, etc., they are directly pulled back, and they have not been smelted in Africa at all.

For more than a year, they don't know how many copper and iron ore they have brought back.

As for rubber, basically pulling dozens of boats is enough for them to use them for a year or two.

That is to say, they can transform more than 2000 sailing ships in just a few hundred days. If they add the original hundreds of real ships, they can pull out a huge fleet of more than [-] ships.

The Duke of Richelieu thought that they were doing something unknowingly. They didn't even tell Spain and the Holy Roman Empire this secret. When they remodeled the sailing ship, they also blocked the shipyard, and even the dock waterway was covered with wooden boards. blocked.

It has to be said that they are almost like stealing the bell.

Because the sailing steamship will always be driven after it is remodeled. At this time, the spies and spies of the Daming Empire are all over the European continent, and they cannot hide this little trick.

Taichang had received the news long ago, and he even calculated the approximate start time of the anti-Habsburg alliance based on the progress of other people's transformation.

It takes about [-] days for people to be fully prepared, and it will take at most two months to build the Nile defense line in Atlanti.

Everyone is deliberately delaying time, but Atlanti is obviously much faster than the anti-Habsburg alliance.

After all, there are more than two million Black God's Army near Cairo, and they don't need to prepare cement, steel bars, wood, stone, and even food, weapons and equipment, city defense guns, and ammunition.

Taichang specially mobilized [-] armed merchant ships to constantly take turns to pull over, and the materials pulled over in two months were enough to build two Nile defense lines.

When Zuma ran over to negotiate with others, Atlanti had already built the Nile defense line.

Atlanti did not wait in Cairo at this time, Taichang had already made a plan for him to lead the snake out of the hole.

As for why they wanted to lead the snake out of the hole, it was naturally to disrupt the plan of the anti-Habsburg alliance, so that they were underprepared and rushed out.

While Duke Richelieu was rushing back by boat, Zheng Hongkui and Lin Chaojie had already set off for the expedition with the army of one million Black Gods and two thousand warships.

They pushed across from north to south directly along the banks of the Nile River, and at the same time, they also recovered the territory of East Africa.

This can frighten Tsarist Russia, because the south of Egypt is their territory.

They only have a total of 10 horses, and most of them are infantry. There are very few horses, and their moving speed is very slow. At normal marching speed, they can travel forty or fifty miles a day, and even if they run desperately, they can run a hundred miles at most. inside.

The Black God Army is all chariot soldiers, and they can easily advance 150 miles a day. Coupled with the help of the Spike warships to help transfer food and supplies, their advance speed can even reach [-] miles a day.

As for weapons and equipment, the 10 troops of Tsarist Russia are no match for the Black God Army.

The 100 million black god army is the main force of Zuma's subordinates, and they already have a lot of muskets and artillery equipment.

Coupled with the seizures after they defeated Spain and the Holy Roman Empire and the follow-up supplements from Ming Dynasty, the 100 million Black God Army now has 50 matchlock guns and [-] field cannons!

Tsarist Russia's 10 troops, even with a matchlock gun and 100 artillery pieces, are no match for the [-] million Black God Army.

What's more, the weapons and equipment of the Tsarist Russia are not so good. The number of their arquebuses is less than [-], and the artillery is even more pitiful, only a few hundred in total.

Under the frantic advance of the Black God Army, the 10 people in Tsarist Russia didn't even have time to run.

In less than half a month, Sudan, Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia were successively occupied by the Black God Army.

Tsarist Russia's 10 horses were almost wiped out, and hundreds of people fled to the French colony on horses.

This time Turena was also terrified. There were millions of men and horses, and they were well-equipped and well-equipped.

And he has only 40 people in total, and the ammunition is limited, and they have to collect food by themselves.

At this moment, he even had to scatter 40 horses to grab food from nearby tribes, go hunting in the grasslands and jungles, and even go fishing in the river, so that they could barely maintain the livelihood of the 40 troops.

He couldn't even gather 40 horses to fight against others, because once the 40 horses were gathered together, it would not take long for them to run out of food, and a lot of them would starve to death by then, so how could they fight against others?

In desperation, he could only command the army to move to the southwest, while sending a clipper from the Congo River across the Atlantic to Europe for help.

Duke Richelieu received the news that it would be another half a month later.

At this time, their sailboats have not been rebuilt, the newly recruited army is also gathering and training, and the weapons are not even fully equipped.

In a huge hall of the French Royal Palace, Louis XIII, Queen Anne and Duke Richelieu stood at a round table, all looking a little lonely or desolate.

Queen Anne and Duke Richelieu's expressions changed a little with anxiety, but Louis XIII still looked indifferent.

The Duke of Richelieu stared at the map for a while, and finally couldn't help but anxiously said: "Your Majesty, if we don't send troops quickly to rescue, Turenne's 40 troops may be finished.

At the advancing speed of those mercenaries, in about a month, they will probably hit Central Africa, and there will be nowhere for the 40 troops to escape. "

Aren't you talking nonsense?

Louis XIII said indifferently: "Then quickly send troops to rescue."

Uh, sending troops is not a matter of one sentence.

The Duke of Richelieu almost choked to death by this sentence.

He was stunned for a moment, then simply said to Queen Anna, "Your Highness, is Spain not willing to send troops to help us?"

Alas, you have wiped out their 60 troops. It would be nice if they didn't turn around and beat us.

Queen Anna said helplessly: "I have tried my best, but Felipe is still only willing to send two hundred iron-clad warships to support him.

As for the army, almost all of the army they can mobilize has been transferred to attack North and West Africa.

This time they lost nearly 60 horses, and the Spanish defense force was not enough.

They had recruited all the young and strong a long time ago, but they barely expanded the army by 40. At the moment, those troops are still practicing and cannot be put into battle at all. "

Their army is training, our army is also training, and our training time has not been as long as theirs.

The Duke of Richelieu also said helplessly: "Our troops are not enough at all, even if we send all the newly recruited troops, there are only 40.

The mercenaries advancing southwards have numbered in the millions, and the number of people left behind near Cairo is estimated to be at least a few hundred thousand.

40 troops attacking a fortress stationed by tens of thousands of horses is no different from courting death! "

Aren't you talking nonsense again?

Louis XIII said angrily: "There are not enough people to call them. Haven't Britain, Sweden, Denmark, Tsarist Russia, and the Ottoman Empire expanded their armies?"

I!
Duke Richelieu explained helplessly: "Your Majesty, there is no need to think about Sweden, Denmark and Tsarist Russia, the journey is too long and it is too late.

Britain has only expanded by 20 horses. It is not known whether they are willing to help with all their strength.

In order to regain Cairo, the Ottoman Empire may send all the newly recruited 10 horses. The problem, even if we add the 10 horses, we only have 50 horses.

50 vs. hundreds of thousands, people are still guarding the fortress, we have no chance of winning at all. "

There's no chance of winning, that's a fart!
Louis XIII said without hesitation: "Since there is no chance of winning, then let Turena lead the army to run quickly.

Didn't he open the road to Angola and let them run to Angola.

Isn't Angola the residence of Prince Condé? He won't let our own 40 troops pass by, right? "

Angola?
When Queen Anna heard the words, there was a glint in her eyes.

Prince Kong Dai is the biggest threat to his precious son's succession to the throne. If Prince Kong Dai can be taken care of this time, there will be no problem with his precious son's succession to the throne.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but look at Duke Richelieu with a solemn face.

The Duke of Richelieu understood from the look in her eyes.

This woman is more poisonous than me!

However, winning Angola is also a good choice. After all, there is rubber, the most important resource, and Prince Condé is indeed a huge threat to the stability of France.

He thought for a while, and then said decisively: "That's fine, Your Majesty, I'll write a letter to get Turena ready.

If we can't retake Cairo, he will quickly withdraw his army to Angola. "

(End of this chapter)