Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 1020 Cape Town Retreat
If the colonial robbers felt that they couldn't be defeated, and the enemy didn't negotiate with them, they just covered their heads, what would they do?

Will they resist desperately?

Don't think about it.

Colonial bandits are not so naive, even if they can't defend their homeland, they don't necessarily fight desperately, and they don't fight the enemy desperately for overseas colonies.

If it really fails, they have only one way, and that is to escape!
There are many examples of colonial robbers fleeing in history. However, they would not say that they were fleeing, they would call it a retreat.

Not to mention France, it has "retreated" its own country in more than 40 days, and that is still called a retreat.

The most famous in history is the Dunkirk retreat.

That guy, with an army of more than 40, he escaped more than 30 in a few days, and he escaped so fast.

The protagonists of the Dunkirk retreat were not the French, but the British. Among the more than 30 troops who escaped, more than 20 were British troops.

Therefore, the United Kingdom and France are the same. They feel that they can't beat them. Their choice is to flee. Desperate resistance basically does not exist.

As for the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark, they generally followed the British and French powers.

This time it is the Netherlands, which is facing the disaster of national subjugation, who is in charge this time, so there is no need to think about it.

They managed to gather 60 or [-] civilians with great difficulty. If they didn't run away, it would be a catastrophe for the country to die.

After Moritz, Prince Hendrick, and the Duke of Weimar had finished their discussions, they each issued summoning orders, ordering the civilians and army scattered all over South Africa to try their best to gather in Cape Town and prepare for a "retreat."

In a broad sense, Cape Town is a South African colony developed by the Netherlands. In a narrow sense, it is the city of Cape Town. Cape Town actually means the city of the Cape.

It is close to the Cape of Good Hope, and there is also a natural deep-water port. Therefore, after the Dutch became the overlord of the sea, they began to build ports and cities here, and continued to expand their colonies around in an attempt to block this important point from the European continent to the Far East.

At this time, the Netherlands even regarded Cape Town as a temporary capital, wantonly expanding the port and city, building docks and waterways, trying to use this place as a nest, develop and return to the European continent again.

Unfortunately, this dream is now shattered.

They wanted to go back to Europe, but they didn't fight back to Europe, but fled back to Europe.

The colonial robbers were notoriously quick to escape. In less than ten days, Cape Town had assembled more than [-] civilians and more than [-] troops.

How did these nearly one million people escape back to Europe?

Fortunately, although the mainland of the Netherlands is occupied at this moment, they still have a lot of sailing ships overseas, and in order to transform all these sailing ships into sailing ships, the Dutch have already ordered tens of thousands of sailing ships to gather at Cape Town Port.

Tens of thousands of sailboats carry less than a million people, and each sailboat has less than a hundred people. Their transportation capacity is enough.

The key problem was that the sailboat had to be windy to move, and it had to be southerly for them to head northwest.

At this moment, Cape Town is already overcrowded. The flat ground outside the city and near the port and even the hillsides are full of people. There are all kinds of tents, thatched houses, and even awnings inserted by tree branches. There are countless people. .

The evacuation of millions of people can be said to be unprecedented. Although the evacuation has not yet arrived, the Dutch civilians gathered in Cape Town and the British, Swedish, and Danish armies are already in a hurry.

Everyone is looking forward to it, hoping that the wind will deflect quickly so that they can escape.

Moritz, Prince Hendrick, and the Duke of Weimar were also pacing back and forth on the pier like ants on a hot pot at the moment, unable to stop at all.

They didn't even dare to look at the anxious and frightened eyes around them.

It's been almost ten days, why the wind direction is still the same, if the Kingdom of West Africa or the Kingdom of Daming takes Angola and marches here by boat, it will be here soon!

Fortunately, the ships and warships in charge of guarding in the north have not come to report, which proves that the enemy has not come yet.

The problem is, if the wind direction does not change, they will not be able to set off to retreat!
They couldn't even imagine what would happen if they waited another ten days.

"Wow", suddenly there was a burst of pleasant cheers from all around.

Moritz, Prince Hendrick, and the Duke of Weimar couldn't help but look up at the weather vane on the nearby mast.

The wind finally changed, and it happened to be from the southeast!

The three of them stared at the weathervane for a while, and then began to discuss.

Moritz said anxiously: "Hendrick, Duke of Weimar, organize people to board the ship immediately.

When the wind direction changes, although it usually blows for a day or two, who knows how long the southeast wind can last this time.

We can't wait any longer, even if you take advantage of this wind direction to leave Cape Town for a few hundred miles, it is too dangerous here. "

Prince Hendrick couldn't help persuading: "Brother, why don't we go together, just leave a few hundred ships here, anyway, there are only tens of thousands of people who haven't come here."

Duke Weimar also nodded and said, "Yes, let's go together, it's too dangerous to stay here."

Moritz insisted: "I can't go with you. If I leave, there will be chaos here. What if the hundreds of ships left behind secretly followed us?"

This is indeed very possible, who wants to stay here and be afraid.

If there is no one who can live in town here, it is really possible for others to follow in a boat.

No way, most of the tens of thousands of people who haven't gathered yet are Dutch civilians.

The Netherlands has a total of tens of 10 people, and those who have not rushed over are almost equivalent to one-tenth of the population of the Netherlands. Moritz really can't leave them alone.

Prince Hendrick hesitated for a moment, but still gritted his teeth and said, "Then hurry up and organize people to board the ship."

Duke Weimar nodded without hesitation and said, "Okay, you command the civilians to evacuate first, and I command the army to maintain order."

With the sound of an order, cheers erupted all around, and an unknown number of civilians flocked to the pier.

The surrounding armies and the defenders on the pier shouted desperately: "Everyone, don't worry, there are plenty of boats, everyone can get on the boat, don't squeeze!"

The shouting seems to have no effect, who will give way when fleeing for their lives, everyone just wants to get on the boat quickly.

The pier suddenly became a mess.

But fortunately, they really have a lot of sailboats, and after the Cape Town Port has been expanded, there are hundreds of piers, which can dock thousands of ships at a time.

Although this scale is not half of the original Port of Amsterdam, but the speed is still very fast if the master does not load the goods.

Prince Hendrick saw that the first batch of sailboats carried hundreds of people and left the dock. He couldn't help but took a deep look at his brother, and then choked up and said, "Brother, take care, I'll wait for you in Europe."

After speaking, with tears in his eyes, he turned around and quickly stepped onto the flagship next to him.

No way, he is the only one who has traveled this channel, and he has to lead the way ahead.

Just as the flagship and dozens of ships and warships slowly left the port with more than a thousand sailboats, more than a thousand sailboats slowly left the dock. The long fleet quickly stretched for dozens of miles.

Everyone is running for their lives at the moment, but there is no need to be urged. The speed of civilians boarding the boat is surprisingly fast. In less than two hours, more than 50 civilians miraculously boarded more than 5000 sailboats, and all left the port terminal.

Next is the armies of various countries. They have been drilled anyway, but they are not as chaotic as civilians.

And they don't have to drag their families with them, and the speed of boarding the boat is even more astonishingly fast.

About an hour or so, more than 40 troops actually boarded more than 4000 sailboats and left the port.

At this moment, the originally densely packed port and the crowded wharf were almost emptied, and there were only five hundred sailing ships and one ship and warship left in the entire Cape Town port.

The Duke of Weimar looked at the fleet of sailing boats that could not be seen at a glance, and then solemnly said: "Your Excellency, I am leaving first, and hope to meet you again in Europe."

After speaking, he turned around and hurried onto the last ship and warship.

Moritz watched the fleet going away, he couldn't help but sighed slightly, and then murmured: "Ming Empire, Kingdom of West Africa, come slowly, I hope you can give us a way to survive."

Did Taichang want to leave a way for these colonial bandits to survive?

Of course not, he has never been merciful to his enemies.

However, Angola and even the whole of Africa did not have enough ships, so he had to send people to transfer them from America.

Moreover, Luanda is tens of thousands of miles away from the capital of Western Yin, even if it is a flying dragon battleship, it will take more than ten days to go back and forth.

In addition, Sun Chuanting had to mobilize armed merchant ships and prepare supplies. By the time [-] armed merchant ships arrived, almost a month had passed.

Taichang thought that he had no place to run anyway, so he was not in a hurry.

This time he did not intend to wait for news in Angola.

Because the last time he stayed at the mouth of the Congo River waiting for news, he was directly delayed for nearly a day, and as a result, more than half of the enemies escaped.

Of course he would never make this mistake again.

Anyway, this time he brought hundreds of Aegis ships and more than 200 Wyvern battleships, and there were only a hundred Dutchman ships and warships, and the rest were sailing ships, which could not threaten him at all.

He doesn't have to worry about any danger.

After millions of soldiers and chariots and horses boarded the boat, Taichang said to Nan Juyi, Zhang Mingshi, Zuma, Atlante and Prince Kong Dai, "Okay, let's all go back.

You clean up the colonists in Angola. I estimate that the war in Africa will be completely over in less than a month. "

Alas, the emperor just won't take them there, what can they do.

Nan Juyi could only take the lead and clasped his hands and said: "My minister wishes the emperor smooth sailing, a successful start and the recovery of South Africa in one fell swoop."

After that, he bowed and retreated with everyone.

Taichang drove and they all disembarked, and the hanging ladder was also put up. Immediately, he waved without hesitation: "Let's go!"

This time they had nearly [-] ships. Although most of them were Spike warships and armed merchant ships, the scene still looked spectacular.

Although the huge fleet is lined up in more than ten rows, the length is still more than a hundred miles, and a large sea area is filled with densely packed ships.

Taichang originally thought that the Netherlands, Britain, Sweden, and Denmark would fight against them desperately, so he specially asked Zheng Hongkui to lead a hundred Aegis ships to open the way ahead.

If you encounter a port dock, let the Aegis ship go bombing for ten rounds first, and clean up the forts and fortresses on the shore first.

Unexpectedly, when they arrived near the first port pier, the Aegis ship that entered ahead of time did not fire a single shot, as if it had misfired.

What is going on here?
Soon, a Flying Dragon battleship in charge of liaison galloped in. The two warships were connected by the Spike, and an orderly walked up quickly, bowed his hands and said, "Report, Your Majesty, there is no one at this port. Not a single ship either."

what?
Taichang froze for a moment, then frowned and pondered for a while, and then gave the order: "Order to order [-] armed merchant ships carrying horses and cavalry to dock here, and send [-] cavalry and horses up."

At this moment, there are less than ten ports and wharves along the coast of South Africa on the map. Since he gave up one for nothing, he will naturally send someone to occupy it.

This is actually not surprising, because this port is the closest to Angola, and if people are not sure about keeping it, they will naturally give up.

However, what happened next left Taichang dumbfounded.

Because after they passed through three port cities, they didn't even see a single enemy!
What's the matter?

In front of them is Cape Town, the temporary capital of the Dutch. Could it be that all these guys have gathered in Cape Town to prepare for a decisive battle with them?
The result was that his jaw almost dropped in shock, and Cape Town didn't even have a single enemy!
Are these guys running away?

He looked at the vast sea with a blank look in his eyes.

This sea area is several times larger than the African continent, where can he find someone else!

(End of this chapter)