open sea

Chapter 863 Weak
The sergeants of the Fusang and Baishan [-]nd Battalions didn't waste any time in boarding the ship. On the first night when the fleet circumnavigated South Asia and arrived at Sanctuary Bay, the entire Fusang Battalion held their feet lightly for half an hour, and mixed the rice The steamed rice was kneaded into rice balls, and all the supplies were packed and boarded on their warship.

They boarded the ship not to set sail, but to escape the moisture from the ground.

Li Dan and Chen Jiujing were not in a hurry to board the ship. They used Li Dan's military tent to set up a command room on the beach. After receiving the information from the Qilinwei navy to find out the offshore information, they collected the island information submitted by the Spanish in Mexico and called The generals of the second battalion discussed matters.

Mainly four people were summoned.

Qi Zhengyan, the deputy general of the Fusang Battalion, and Ma Liangbi, the guerrilla; Nala Kanggulu, the deputy general of the Baishan Battalion, and Huang Jin, the guerrilla.

All four have prominent backgrounds and now wield great power.

Fusang Battalion guerrilla Ma Liangbi is the son of Ma Shunde, an important minister of the Ryukyu Kingdom. Only in the Ryukyu military training does the government ignore the cost, and now it is leading the army to go out. All the [-] infantry under its command are Ming army, equipped with matchlock guns, chain armor, Qi's knives, and proficient in mandarin duck formations.

Nala Kanggulu, deputy general of the Baishan Battalion, is the son of Wangtai, the leader of the Haixi Jurchen Hada tribe. Hada is one of the four Haixi tribes. It reached its peak in the Wangtai era and was attached to the imperial court to lead Haixi. Many tribes had the practice of defecting from the Yehe tribe, and the princes were also fighting openly and secretly for the succession of Wangtai after his death. At this time, Kang Gulu was called by the court to lead the elite tribe to join the journey of the Eastern Army.

Huang Jin, a guerrilla in the Baeksan camp, is a young man whose fifth ancestor is Hwang Hee, the prime minister of North Korea, and most of his family members belong to the Western Party.He was born in the humanities but was familiar with martial arts. He was dissatisfied with the party struggle and felt that his official career was difficult to advance, so he responded to the emperor's call to recruit soldiers to board the Ming Dynasty's warship.

As for Qi Zhengyan, needless to say, his background is the most prominent, he is the family soldier of Chen Mu, an important minister of Beiyang, and he has won military exploits in pacifying the princes from all walks of life and supporting Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who can afford it?

He really deserved it, his immediate boss was Li Dan, Chen Mu's godson, otherwise he wouldn't be a lieutenant general.

Comparing my heart to my heart, Qi Zhengyan's experience is actually quite annoying. He was captured by Japanese pirates, and he finally got familiar with the situation, and was captured by the Ming army again. Career, but did not expect to follow Daming.

Thanks to the feudal relationship between the generals and soldiers of the Second Battalion itself, Li Dan and Chen Jiujing, together with these four people and two thousand generals under each of them, these 18 people constitute the Caribbean escort with a total strength of more than [-]. The command center of the fleet.

The map of the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea obtained from the reluctant Spaniards was spread on the table. The yellowed picture scroll and the old ink marks showed the age of the map. Chen Jiujing named the names on the map one by one. Marked in Chinese transliteration, pointing at the chart and frowning: "Xi Yi uses this thing to fool the adoptive father? This picture looks older than me!"

"It's hard for Westerners to find out this chart for me." Li Dan chuckled: "They are shooting themselves in the foot. The sky army sweeps across Asia and travels eastward. I wait for them to suppress the bandits, and I am arrogant."

The second part of the treaty being signed is that Ming entered the Caribbean Sea as an ally of Spain, and sailed westward to the Spanish merchant ships that transported goods between the West Indies. This was originally a strategy to consume the Ming army. Duke Alva did not intend to mention this matter any more.

But Chen Mu still remembered.

Negotiations are negotiations. These days, whoever has the largest artillery caliber has more bargaining chips, and whoever has the final say.

For Chen Mu, sending a fleet into the Caribbean Sea was exactly what he wanted. The Dongyang Military Mansion lacked everything, but at this moment there was no shortage of troops, so he could easily create a fleet.

More critically, it was an excellent excuse to implement intelligence sharing in the West Indies, which was originally included only in the New World in the treaty.

But now that I send a fleet into the Caribbean Sea, I don’t ask you for money or food, and I even help you fight the enemy when I’m done. You have to give me information, right?
Several vassal generals had expressions, but they didn't speak. Only Qi Zhengyan was familiar with Li Dan and Chen Jiujing, and he was much more courageous. He clenched his fists and said, "Don't care about respect or not, my people really need to fight." After a few battles, if you let them eat sand, they will go crazy, the general should send a letter to Shao Shuai first."

"Shao Shuai?" Shao Tingda had already gone to Chile, and Li Dan turned his head in surprise: "What letter?"

"Casualty and casualties are inevitable in war. My people are all with Shao Shuai. Please Shao Shuai send some people over. I can come back and add 200 people after I wipe out the pirates."

200 people?
Li Dan felt that Qi Zhengyan's judgment on the situation was a little optimistic, and he warned: "They fought differently from Japan, and they had heavy artillery on board. This battle is not that simple. Don't think too easily. How did the gunboats of the Kizugawa Heavenly Army take care of the Anzhai ship?" .”

"They're tough to deal with."

When Chen Jiujing heard this, he raised his hand and hesitated to speak. When Li Dan looked over, he pursed his lips in embarrassment and said: "Brother, this sentence is a bit familiar. I remember the last time I said 'they are difficult to deal with' or Oda Shinobu Is it long?"

As he said that, Chen Jiujing laughed: "Then he stayed at the Benneng Temple."

It's not that this made Li Dan laugh, it's not that he didn't laugh.

Chen Jiujing calmly relieved his brother's embarrassment, saying: "The pirates operating in this area are indeed very powerful. As long as there are English navy and French navy, and merchants and pirates from the Netherlands, Portugal, England, France, and Spain, they have the same goal. , mainly looting the treasure ships of the Western royal family.”

Qi Zhengyan, who had just arrived, frowned, and was about to raise his hand to ask a question, but was interrupted by Chen Jiujing. He knew what Qi Zhengyan wanted to ask, and said, "Yes, Spain robs Spain, and they are sometimes merchants and sometimes robbers. It is difficult to distinguish. so……"

Li Dan took the words, put his hand on the chart, and said: "We will take over this sea area. We will search every port on land and every ship at sea. Whoever refuses will be a pirate."

Several battalion generals looked at each other. To be honest, they heard the sound of coins clinking from this sentence.

Qi Zhengyan smacked his lips, clapped his hands and said, "That treasure ship from the Western Kingdom, can you check it?"

Li Dan first raised his index finger and said: "It's not the West Country, my adoptive father told me that it is better to call it a single character, for example explain! Three characters, like Spain, Portugal, France, England, Netherlands... In short, that's all. Both are weak."

After the science popularization, he raised his middle finger again: "Don't worry about any ship, it's all bad, but we are not pirates, so we don't check those with flags and seals."

(End of this chapter)