open sea

Chapter 1125 Protection
On the rivers and lakes, no, the iron-clad ships that have been famous in the South Seas for a long time have reappeared in the ocean.

It was Deng Zilong's ship that sailed south, the "Son of God" that Chen Mu named as a joke.

However, Deng Zilong was not on the ship. This fleet composed of three fleets of thousands of ships and [-] warships was led by the participating general Lu Feng, and received orders from the Eastern Army to lead [-] sergeants. Rio de Janeiro, the residence of the Governor of Brazil, is considered by the Oriental Army.

Lu Feng is the grandson of Lu Tong, the head of the Guangzhou Jiaowutang and a famous anti-Japanese general. After graduating from the Jiangwutang, he followed the Beiyang Banner Army to Changsheng.

The transfer order given to them by the military government was very strange, saying that the situation in the Brazilian governor's residence was chaotic, and they were asked to protect the local merchants and people.

When Lu Feng received the order, his brain was confused... The Japanese military government does not do business with Brazil. Where do they have any merchants and common people in Rio de Janeiro? Even the limited two contacts were made by Brazilian Portuguese. How many goods come and take away, there is almost no communication.

And the transfer order given to him, three formations of thousands of material ships, which is the same as the formation of the cruise fleet during the Nanyang Military Mansion period, a formation of six ships, three grain ships, two five hundred material warships, and one thousand material warships.

This formation is not for combat or expedition, but for holding a piece of sea area firmly in hand. At any time, there will be one formation resting at the port, one formation offshore patrolling, and one formation coastal patrolling. The full formation is [-]. The six or seven hundred miles along the coast are under control.

It is only used for patrolling the coast of our own country.

The transfer order was issued in a hurry, and Lu Feng was not given much time to prepare. Basically, he received the transfer order to leave Hong Kong, and there were only three days left before the deadline.

But it took him a long time to come back to his senses, and he hurriedly sent out his subordinates to knock on doors in Qilinwei Harbor, asking him: Do you want to do business in Brazil?

He thinks, since the Dongyang military government said to let them go to Brazil to protect the merchants and people, then there must be merchants and people from Ming Dynasty in Brazil, even if there are no... he can just bring them there?
In the early years, Qilin Guard was the place where Li Dan and Chen Jiujing garrisoned troops, and brought a large number of merchants from Ming Dynasty to live here. The most famous ones are Li Dan and Shi Xiaolou. Fortifications and battery lights.

It is not easy to find hundreds of merchants, but it is easy to find some family members of merchants. This group of merchants’ children help pick up goods at home on weekdays, waiting for merchant ships to return to unload and load goods. Longing for a long voyage to make a fortune is the heart.

As soon as Lu Feng's soldiers knocked on the door, the rest of the matter almost came to fruition.

Hundreds of merchants' children, hundreds of local people, and even some aboriginal people who like to follow the immigrants of the Ming Dynasty, boarded for the first time a Ming army warship that could only be seen from a distance, under the ostentatious crane wing sails. With the ups and downs of the sea, go straight to Rio de Janeiro.

At this sensitive time, the news of the Ming Ship going south has frightened all the ports and colonies along the coast of Brazil.

However, the real contact was not as scary as it seemed. Every time they stopped the boat along the way, veterans brought young small merchants ashore to look for Portuguese merchants and manor owners. The unskilled Portuguese inquired about the local specialties one by one, and took out several goods on the ship for exhibition and inquired about the price.

From fear to joy, people summoned slave laborers to move out one after another goods from the plantation, and finally dealt with the joy of the guests and the host... These Ming soldiers raised their hands and greeted them, and a group of young businessmen followed suit, shouting. won't come.

until they arrived in Rio de Janeiro.

The Portuguese soldiers here are much more cautious than those in other places. Everyone knows that the envoy of General Chen of the Ming Dynasty Dongyang Army has been waiting here for more than three months, and no one dares to neglect.

Whether it is the previous envoys or the current fleet, neither can be neglected.

In all fairness, Chen Mu's envoy had a good time in Rio, and the biggest official of the Portuguese here was just a clerk, who was responsible for compiling the requests of the Eastern Army into letters and sending them to El Salvador.

What he says doesn't count, so he doesn't care what the envoy is doing here, he just asks the envoy to stay here honestly, and then have everything he needs.

No matter what is missing, no matter what you want, no matter what you want to do, they are all taken care of.

This is actually not the habit of the Portuguese, but they have no other way... If the envoy is French or English, they will ignore it, and maybe they will tie this person to the boat and wait a few days away from the shore. Ten miles later, throw it down to feed the fish.

Don't think that France is big on the map at this time, but the fight is really terrible. The fleet they sent here to seize the Brazilian colony has already been wiped out by the Portuguese several times, even the so-called Antarctic France.

But this envoy is from Daming.

It doesn't even matter whether Daming is strong or not.

Unlike France and England, Ming Dynasty had to travel across the ocean. They could take a boat to the coast at any time, grab a boat and sail away.

This is different from war.

Just like the southern Japanese and northern captives that the Ming Dynasty faced, the nomads in the north rode across the Great Wall and went south to plunder and left, and the Japanese pirates in the south came from the sea and robbed you wherever they wanted to - this is a problem that cannot be cured. Unless a massive war is launched.

Let the Governor-General of Brazil with less than [-] Portuguese people launch a war against the Oriental Army?
The difference from direct collective suicide is nothing more than that one is fast and the other is slow.

From a distance, I saw a formation of warships sailing over. Six artillery pieces from two forts in Rio fired warning shots at the sea. Afterwards, the warships of the Ming army continued to circle south. To come and display their goods, the merchants docked and disembarked under the protection of a team of flag troops.

Immediately afterwards, a warship of [-] materials sailed into the port, and justly proposed that all warships need to enter the bay to dock to protect the normal trade of merchants.

In Lu Feng's eyes, this step can actually be completely omitted.

There are only six Franco cannons in the port defense artillery. What are these things enough for?It is not even as powerful as the guns of a 500-material warship, especially when the port garrison does not even have [-] people, it is almost no difficulty to capture the port.

Fortunately, the port defenders did not force him to give an attack order.

After the Ming army landed, they swaggered and seized the coastal defense position where the six Fran cannons were located, and issued a joint defense order from the Eastern Army to the Governor's Mansion, but... the Governor did not come out.

It wasn't until Lu Feng ordered his subordinates to bring enough gunpowder to bury the four corners of the outer wall of the Governor's Mansion to clean up the outer wall of this complex building that the clerk of the Brazilian Governor hung his head with a thick cardboard book and slowly out.

The Ming army, who was kept in the dark, finally knew...the governor of Brazil is really not in Rio de Janeiro.

(End of this chapter)