open sea

Chapter 884 Characters
The seventh year of Wanli arrived as scheduled, and Changsheng County was decorated with lanterns and festoons. The order of the Dongyang Army Mansion was notified to various places along the west coast as early as years ago. The officials, officials, soldiers and soldiers of each government took turns to rest in January to ensure that no one could get [-] days. It is also necessary to ensure that each yamen is on duty at the end of the year.

Cheng Baihu, the captain of the shark ship of the Caribbean Sea Escort Fleet, was satisfied to frame a battlefield account titled "Puerto Rico's Fayi Rampant, the Caribbean Sea's True Monarch Shows His Holiness" in a fir frame and hang it in the Changsheng Dragon and Tiger Daojun Temple , Then set off to the military mansion to report to the commander what he saw and heard at sea.

Recently, Chen Mu often got together with the military preacher to study how to further deepen the thinking of the Eastern Banner Army to fight for the country. After all, the Ming Dynasty's current expansion war has higher requirements on the Banner Army's thinking than the domestic counter-invasion war.

Of course, if we say that this is the recruitment, I am afraid that Chen Mu is thinking a little too far. In fact, he just wants to rely on spiritual construction to keep the combat effectiveness of the Banner Army from declining, and he is still doing his best in training. In a short period of time, the Eastern Army The government is not planning any war.

Since Yang Tingxiang led 12 banner troops to Mexico City, New Spain was not without restlessness. In the early morning of the No. [-] day past Yang Tingxiang, two companies of soldiers stationed in the southeast of Mexico City, led by the Western Army officer, tried to attack and defend Lax Governor's Palace.

As a result, they were overtaken by the friendly troops behind them before leading the soldiers across two streets. After some internal strife, when they reached the Armed Forces Square, they were defeated by rounds of rounds of fire from the [-] flag troops of the Ming Army who had already heard the news and waited for a long time.

In the report sent back to Chang Sheng, Yang Tingxiang mentioned very seriously that the combat effectiveness of the Western Army has been declining year after year.

Anyone who has lost to an army one after another for several years has never won a single game. Panic continues to spread in the army, and the Spaniards have no experience in containing this situation. The idea is to throw down the weapons and run for their lives. The originally neat formation will be disintegrated as soon as they meet each other. It is no wonder that the combat effectiveness is not low.

Alva obviously saw this situation in his eyes. According to Yang Tingxiang's news alone, Alva sent messengers to Madrid three times a year ago to inquire about attacking the succession of the Portuguese throne.

Not only did New Spain's original troops suffer from this problem, but even the army he brought from Spain was infected by this fear. He urgently needed to pick a soft persimmon and squeeze it so that his army could restore the status of the king of European land warfare. morale.

In fact, the old Iron-Blooded Duke of the Western Kingdom has been consulting battle reports and documents for the past six months, and obtained information from every lucky person who experienced the war that allowed him to deduce every conflict in the Mingxi War.

The result made him doubt himself a little, doubting whether the Spanish army, which once ruled the world, could still fight. He really needed to find the Portuguese army to prove it.

Fifty plate armored knights lead hundreds of armored retinues to attack hundreds of infantry without spears and lose?

In Europe, just a few knights standing on the battlefield with their horses on their shoulders can scare the peasants and soldiers recruited in those mud legs to flee.

In the end, the Duke of Alva could only attribute the result of this war to the fact that there were no knights in the Ming Dynasty, and knights were naturally not their rulers. Their soldiers had only pure fear of horses and no fear of horse riders.

Perhaps it would be much better to replace fifty county magistrates with horses and horses to attack the Ming army's front.

In view of the relatively stable situation in the New World, Chen Mu has no plan to send the Second Beiyang Army to the battlefield in the near future. In the villages of the common people in Shengxian County, the methods of using bows, crossbows, blunderbusses, spears and mandarin duck arrays were popularized and practiced by the common people.

How to make the banner army not slack in practicing the skills of the battle formation under such circumstances has become the biggest problem.

"French pirates? Go back and tell you General Li, give him a boat if there is anyone alive, let him go back and tell the story, and if he dares to approach the New World, it will sink as much as he comes."

Chen Mu stared at the map behind him, and his eyes continued to travel between the New World and the Old European World. He heard Zhao Shizhen beside him asking excitedly: "Are there going to be wars again?"

Zhao Shizhen still couldn't hold back, and last month he made the Thunderbolt he designed a few years ago in the Military Weapons Bureau of Changsheng County.

It is a large shield with eight gun barrels. Its range and power are slightly shorter than those of bird guns, but its firepower is strong. If necessary, it can be fired eight times within ten breaths. Chen Mu and Juniper unanimously ridiculed it as a new style of ugly guy. Individual firearms.

Chen Mu only approved the construction of [-], and sent them to Xu Jin, a hundred households under Fu Yuan's subordinates on the front line, waiting for when there would be another small-scale conflict to see the effect. As a result, the Ming army and the Western army seemed to be in a long-term peace. It made him impatient.

At this time, when I heard that there was a conflict between a familiar Europa country on the east coast and Li Dan, I was very happy, and without asking what it was, I immediately clasped my fists and said: "Commander, let Xu Baihu go, let Xu Hundreds of households go!"

Chen Mu, who was staring at the map, turned his head and looked at the technical nerd who pretended to be a war madman in amazement for a while, then raised his eyebrows on the table and said: "Go and find out, what is the name of the King of France."

The smallest mechanical unit was no match for the largest mechanical unit, so it immediately died down, went to flip through books on the table dejectedly, and said weakly for a moment: "Hum, third."

Just like this, I still don't forget to complain about the arrangement of Chen Mu: "Huh, third, second, old, boss Chen."

As soon as Zhao Shizhen said Chen Mu, he remembered it. He raised his bamboo whip and tapped on the map of France, and said, "He is called Henry III, but Fei Lao Er is a good name."

"I'm disappointed, I can't fight. First of all, fighting pirates is not declaring war with the pirate country. We don't have the ability to cross the sea to find France's bad luck. What's more, even if they sink their warships in the Caribbean Sea, Henry III only needs to lose his head." Bad, they won’t declare war on us.”

Spain is not far away. At any rate, Habsburg still has overseas colonies to lose, but France has no colonies to lose. Whenever a war starts, as long as the Ming army ruthlessly fights to the other side, although it may not be able to start a battle in the past, there are so many coasts in France. The towns and cities are all bearing the brunt, not to mention that this is destined to be a battle where only I fight you, and you don't fight me.

Philip would not allow the French fleet to cross the Atlantic to cut off his treasure transport route, let alone let France get involved in the New World, even if only one-third of the New World belonged to Spain.

"Guess what Fei Lao Er is willing to do to keep the Viceroyalty of Peru?"

Chen Mu originally wanted to show off that he replaced England's geographic location and became a large European shit stick, but when he followed this line of thought, his thoughts suddenly became clear, and he raised his hand and rubbed his beard and said, "Hey, such a Say, it seems like a very, very good thing for France to go to war with us."

"French fleet enters the Caribbean Sea, Fei Laoer will definitely fight with him, and after clearing away Portugal's Alba's troops, they will head north. Will we have many orders for guns, artillery and even warships?"

"Spain's wealth will enter into permanent victories, exchange a large number of guns and artillery, this kind of meaningless war will make the West and France weak, not to mention fattening Ming, we can also buy a lot of raw materials from it, and accommodate the war. Displaced or war-hated technical talent, yes!"

"That's right, this is the role that Daming will play in the future. I need people, and I need an experienced pirate force. Is there any way to contact Lin Afeng? We need to make a good plan!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)