Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1266 Offensive and Defensive Psychology ([-])

Every country has its own interests.

Every country's diplomacy is also done according to its own interests.

In Europe, what France pursues is hegemony.

Spain, on the other hand, pursues balance.

For France, the biggest dilemma is to take into account land and sea, so that the French navy cannot defeat the United Kingdom, and the army cannot defeat the coalition forces of Austria, Prussia, Russia and other countries, at least not dominant.

Therefore, if Britain can be dismembered and plunged into a new round of religious wars and Scottish wars, then France will be the biggest beneficiary.

From an anti-British point of view, the interests of Dashun and France are the same.

But from the perspective of the post-war situation, Dashun is in conflict with France, but it has a certain resonance with Spain, an old country of the old era.

Dashun's anti-Britain was because Britain was about to become a maritime hegemon, not because of the feud between Dashun and Britain.

Dashun really doesn't like France becoming the hegemon of Europe, because France's industrial foundation is not bad, its own industrial and agricultural production and the tradition of high tariff protection inherited by the Kerberism make Dashun not want France to become the hegemon of Europe overlord.

Therefore, after Dashun and Spain reached some consensus on trade, the "Chinese-Western Secret Treaty", which continued to be supplemented with subsequent clauses in the simplified version, was signed in this way.

Dashun guaranteed that Luzon would not be confiscated.

Spain opened de la Concepcion, also known as the Isthmus of Gibraltar, for Dashun to launch an offensive.

Once Gibraltar is captured, the Dashun Navy will cooperate with Spain to blockade Porto at sea.

After the war, Dashun will conduct docking trade with Spain, with two ports in Cadiz and Manila. Dashun guarantees that its merchant ships will not go to the Spanish colonies for smuggling trade.Spain will build a sailing fleet dedicated to the trade between China and the West.

During the war, Spain opened the ports in the Caribbean, and Dashun's ships could dock and replenish in Havana, and Havana's shipyard was obliged to maintain the damage control and repair of Dashun warships.

During the war, Dashun will send three frigates to serve as escort ships for the Spanish treasure ship galleon trade.

On the west coast of America, China and the West are bounded by 33 degrees north latitude, and each retreats 0.5 latitude. 33.5 degrees north latitude.

The two governments reached a reconciliation on the many massacres in Manila since the Ming Dynasty, but Spain needs to compensate Dashun with 1 peso silver coin to prove that Spain did admit that there was a massacre.

Spain will oppose any canonization of martyrs in China, Japan, Vietnam and other Chinese areas.Spain promised to expel the Jesuits and other missionary groups in Manila within a certain period of time.

The two governments reached an agreement to jointly encircle and suppress the Muslim pirates in Sulu, and after completing the pirate encirclement, they determined the dividing line between the two countries in Nanyang.

Under chartered status, or under special circumstances, Dashun's official merchant ships can go to the Spanish colonies for trade.However, it is not allowed to trade with private businessmen, but to go through normal customs channels, and the Spanish government controls the trade.

Spain will continue to implement the agreement not to send trade ships to Japan since Japan locked the country.

China and Spain have reached a rescue agreement in Nanyang. If merchant ships of the two countries are in distress, they can call at the ports of both sides.If the ship is damaged and the goods cannot be transported away, government officials from both sides can negotiate, the government buys, and private trade is prohibited.

Chinese capital has the priority to mine ores in Spain. If Dashun is willing to invest in the rest of the ores except gold and silver, the Spanish government will levy a July [-] tax.But whether mining is allowed is up to the Spanish government to decide.

In general, there are only so many agreements that the two sides have reached temporarily. For more things, Dashun needs to pass the news back to the capital, and the capital will take the strategic direction.

Everything on the battlefield is of course urgent.

Just after Spain signed the secret agreement, Dashun's army immediately boarded a ship from Menorca and landed on the Isthmus of Gibraltar.

Spain has fortresses and towns here, and Dashun has begun to dig trenches as far as possible on the edge of the towns.

In the direction of Toulon, France, a part of the army and some artillery that were planning to participate in the Scottish landing also temporarily mobilized about 3000 people to begin to enrich the blockade of the Isthmus of Gibraltar.

The navy guards the Strait of Gibraltar, which is why it is necessary to take Gibraltar first before continuing to implement the next strategy.

Because if Gibraltar cannot be taken down, the Navy must always reserve troops near the strait to prevent British rescue and supply troops from replenishing Gibraltar.

With the capture of Menorca by France, Britain only had Gibraltar as a support point in the Mediterranean.Once Gibraltar is taken, the Mediterranean will be a complete fog of war for Britain.

Is the Chinese and French navies going to the Atlantic Ocean?

Or is it in the port of Toulon?

All this, the United Kingdom has no way of knowing.

Moreover, as an important part of British trade, once the trade in the Mediterranean region is cut off, in fact, the domestic silk industry in the UK will be over.

The raw silk of Bengal was cut by Dashun.

Raw silk from Tuscany and Turkey must go to Gibraltar.

Mexican silk is in the hands of Spain, and the UK basically cannot get it.

As the most important silk producer in the world, Dashun has a great interest in crushing the silk industry in Britain.

As for the strategy of attacking or besieging Gibraltar, Dashun decided to wait and see.

A group of high-ranking military officers boarded the fortress of the Spanish town, and when they raised the hot air balloon to conduct reconnaissance, the officers also held binoculars from high places to observe the defense of the British army.

The blockade on the sea is definitely no problem, and the blockade on land is even more no problem. The isthmus is so narrow that even a mouse can't get through it.

After observing the terrain for a while, Li Yan said: "This place is really easy to defend and difficult to attack. It's like this from a small terrain, but it's even more difficult from a large terrain. How can Spain lose this place to others?"

"The British army had stockpiled a lot of supplies here before. Especially after the fleet arrived, they were probably going to fight. According to the French, the Jews and Moors here must have stored enough food and wine for the British. "

Chen Qinghai was also troubled by the terrain here. If he really attacked by force, he would have to be prepared to pay a very heavy price.

"Fortunately, the plan of the Privy Council is to let us besiege. We also specially prepared the secret weapon of the Academy of Sciences for us, the large sky-hopping monkey..."

"It's filled with oil from Xijing, which is mixed with rubber. It will stick to it, and it's hard to get rid of it with water."

Speaking of this secret weapon, Li Yan said with a smile: "If you put [-] of those big sky-swapping monkeys, it's hard to say that one of them will be able to shoot accurately. Even if you don't handle it well, it will fly randomly and even fly on top of your head. Not impossible."

"But speaking of it, this thing really works here."

He stretched out his finger and pointed to a small town in England in the distance: "There are wooden houses there. I asked, and they said that the winter here is also very cold. I guess the staff of the Privy Council have also studied it, otherwise they would not give These engineers prepare autumn and winter clothes in advance."

"That kind of big sky-swapping monkey is not accurate. But the flying one is farther than the shell, and it has a lot of charge, so you don't have to worry about the pressure of the chamber."

"It's suitable for setting fires and burning everywhere. In my opinion, ask about the climate here, choose a good weather, and when the wind direction is right, shoot out all the giant sky monkeys and burn the town there directly."

The so-called secret weapon, the large Sky-Changing Monkey, is really the big Sky-Changing Monkey.

Use the rear wood as a stabilizer bar.

It is filled with a mixture of sucrose and saltpeter as a propellant.

The outer shell is made of thin copper or cardboard.

It depends on luck where you can fly.

The biggest advantage is that it breaks through the pressure limit of the shrapnel at this time.

Dashun's blooming ammunition is not dared to be used on the cannon, because the chamber pressure is too high, and it is estimated that the artillery is forced to use it, and the artillery will really mutiny.

Therefore, Dashun's blooming ammunition can only be used on some parabolic ballistic guns, and the range is not far, which is very limited.

And this kind of large sky-swapping monkey has a long range and a very large charge. It is mixed with Shaanxi petroleum extract and rubber dissolved jelly. Once it hits the ground, it will be a sea of ​​flames.

This is not the standard equipment of Dashun, and the Dashun court actually banned large-scale equipment of this weapon.

The main reason is that this thing is too lethal to Dashun.Because the cities in Dashun are all made of wooden buildings, it would be like hell if any city were to be shot in such a volley after it was besieged.

Therefore, these large sky-swapping monkeys are basically specialized weapons for participating in this war.

Because the staff members of the Privy Council have been thinking about the battles to be fought today, how to fight, what the terrain is, whether they can be captured, and how much loss will be required to capture them, and they basically know it well.

Gibraltar is not easy to fight, it is really difficult to fight, it is just a rocky mountain, a huge stone block by the sea, this kind of terrain, engineers and soldiers can't dig holes.

If you say it's easy to fight, it's actually easy to fight.

As long as Spain entered the war, the isthmus was blocked; the navy was able to block the strait, preventing British supplies and rescue.

Using the volley of the large sky-changing monkey, create a great psychological pressure.

At the same time, taking advantage of the characteristics of wooden buildings and towns here, a large-scale burning method was adopted to burn the towns and docks of the Gibraltar fortress to ashes.

It should be said that within three months at the most, human tragedies must happen inside.

The winter here is also very cold, all the wood is burned, and heating in winter is a problem.

The rocky terrain here is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but there is also a place where they can't even eat a green leafy vegetable, and even the leaves of the trees can be burned.Only eating staple food and bacon jerky, scurvy can collapse the defenders of Gibraltar for up to three months.

Therefore, the tactical guidance on the side of the Privy Council is three steps.

One: blockade.

Two: Burn the city.

Three: Take precautions against the British army’s desperate counterattack, because the isthmus area is a Spanish town. Once the British army suddenly counterattacks and the long-term siege here becomes paralyzed, the siege is likely to fall short. The British army robbed a lot of supplies and can last for a long time.

But conversely, if the standardized siege and camp prevention regulations can be implemented, then the British army will be forced to go out of the city to fight back, so as to lure them outside the city to leave the fortress and annihilate them in the trench warfare that combat engineers are good at. Can greatly promote the surrender speed of the British army.

That is: the use of monkey volleys and naval blockades caused great psychological pressure on the British army, luring the British army to raid the isthmus to counterattack during the siege, using the trench warfare of combat engineers to intensify the British army's vital forces in the trenches, and achieving human If the land is dead, everyone will lose the land.

(End of this chapter)