Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 442: Kang Mazi attacked the Ming Dynasty in five directions, and President Geng vowed to take Mexico! (Please subscribe, please vote)

"What? 60 large sailing battleships?"

When Admiral Pedro de Zabala heard the news, he immediately jumped up from his chair. He jumped so hard that the chair fell to the ground with it, making a ping-pong noise.

The Dutchman Spielman also started to curse: "The Chinese are the most cunning! They must have pretended to attack the Philippines, lure away the Spanish Armada, and then take the opportunity to send more troops to Acapulco!"

Admiral Pedro de Zabala was already a little frustrated, and loudly ordered to the adjutant outside the door: "Quickly, go and summon all the captains in Edo. In addition, let the Japanese mercenary general Yoritsune Matsudaira be summoned." Invite me!”

"Yes, sir!"

The young adjutant stood at attention, accepted Admiral Sabara's order, turned around and ran away.

Zheng Xi sat there with his arms folded, a "as expected" smile on his face, motionless.Seeing that the Spanish Admiral Zabala had finished his work, he smiled and said: "Admiral, please be patient. Don't panic. Don't panic. Isn't it just a plan to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao?"

He spoke in Hokkien-accented Dutch plus Hokkien, mixed with Chinese idioms.Both Spielman and Admiral Zabala were confused. The Spanish admiral had been an official in the Spanish Netherlands for a long time and could understand Dutch (almost Dutch), but he was not proficient in it. , so he turned to look at Spearman, waiting for him to translate!

Spielman also didn't understand what "Be safe and don't be impatient" or "Surround Wei and save Zhao", so he could only look at Zheng Xi in confusion. Zheng Xi's Dutch was also two-handed, so forget about "Be young and do not be impatient". , it can be translated as don’t worry.But how to translate "surround Wei and rescue Zhao"?Is it "encircling Austria (Austria) to save Spain (Spain)" or "besieging England (England) to save Holland (Netherlands)"?Forget it, let’s explain it to you: “Admiral, don’t worry, the Ming Navy’s 60 sail battleships are just transporting troops to the port of Acapulco in the New World.”

"I know!" Admiral Pedro de Zabala roared, "Sixty large sailing battleships can carry at least 60 infantry across the Pacific. And these are probably two full-formed brigades, which is comparable to zero before. The army that was sent piecemeal to Acapulco was much stronger!”

At this time, there were no division-level units in Europe, and the organic units were brigades.There are already "divisions" (originally called towns) in the Ming Dynasty. A division often has two brigades and several auxiliary combat battalions, such as artillery battalions, engineer battalions, cavalry battalions, and supply battalions.Under normal circumstances, the combat effectiveness of an organized division on the battlefield is definitely stronger than that of a scattered brigade or battalion with the same number of people.

So once these more than 12000 people arrive at the port of Acapulco, they will definitely put great pressure on the Spanish army in New Spain!
Preventing the Ming Dynasty from massively supporting Acapulco was the top priority Juan Jose gave to Admiral Zabala.Now that the task has not been completed, 12000 Ming troops on 60 sailing battleships are passing through the gates of Japan. Can the Spanish admiral not be in a hurry?

However, Spearman, who was just as anxious as him, now noticed the mysterious look of Zheng Xi, the foreign affairs minister, and remembered what he had just said about "the real strategy of the Qing Dynasty", so he stood up and helped After closing the door, he pulled the angry Admiral Sabala back to the chair and sat down before asking Zheng Xi: "Secretary Zheng, please tell me if you have anything to say. Admiral Sabala and I will come The most important mission in Asia is to help the Qing Dynasty defeat the evil empire that destroyed world peace and order - the Ming Dynasty!"

Admiral Zabala also calmed down a little and echoed: "Yes, yes, this is the most important purpose of our Spanish Armada coming to East Asia!"

Zheng Xi smiled and nodded: "Then I will tell you two of the Qing Emperor's real strategy for conquering the Ming Dynasty."

"Please speak!"

"We're all listening!"

Zheng Xidao: "The 'one country and one city strategy' thrown out by the emperor is not completely fake, it is just a final decisive battle strategy adopted when other strategies fail.

Now I have the advantage. Why did the emperor adopt a strategy of shrinking into a city from the beginning?The emperor's real strategy to defeat the Ming Dynasty was the "Five-Road Strategy to Defeat the Ming Dynasty", which meant dividing the 80-strong army into five routes and besieging the Ming Dynasty! "

"The 80-strong army is divided into five groups? 16 for each group. That's quite a lot." Spearman immediately did a division and divided the 80-strong army equally.

"How can it be divided equally? The 80-strong army is divided into five groups. There must be light and heavy, main and auxiliary. Of course, there are two armies that must bear heavy losses!" Zheng Xi said seriously, "And the emperor hopes The Spanish Armada can transport 60 to [-] Japanese mercenaries to undertake missions that require huge losses! So Admiral, you cannot take your fleet to chase the [-] sails of the Ming Navy that you will definitely not be able to catch up with. Battleship.”

It turns out that Zheng Xi came all the way to Japan just to discuss this matter with Admiral Sabala!
Admiral Sabala is still hesitating - he really has no way to chase the 60 sail battleships of the Ming Navy now, because he can now gather up to 20 battleships immediately, which is only one-third of the opponent's number. How can he chase them? ?
And the so-called "now" will take two or three days to find all the personnel and replenish the supplies.Three days. If it had been a smooth sailing battleship, the sailing battleship would have traveled thousands of miles. Why are you still chasing after someone?
If you want to wait until the fleet heading to the Philippines returns and then chase them together, then don't chase them. They may arrive in Acapulco as soon as you set off.By the time the Spanish Armada arrives in Acapulco, the 60 sailing battleships of the Ming Dynasty may already be on their way back to the Western Pacific. So this "chase" actually means doing everything possible, and most of them will not be able to catch up. I barely managed to catch up (there were only 20 ships chasing me), but most of the time I didn't catch up.

So it would be a good choice not to pursue it at all, but to devote the fleet to the attack on the Ming Dynasty!

If Kangxi's 80-strong army could defeat the Ming in a five-pronged attack, what else could the Ming army in America do?
On the other hand, if Kangxi fails and Ming Dynasty unifies China, a giant empire with a population of 9000 million will emerge. How can Spain with 600 million people fight against the enemy? How could Japan, with a population of 2000 million, dare to fight against a population of 9000 million (1000 million in Ming Dynasty and [-] million in North Korea)?

Thinking of this, Admiral Zabala nodded and said: "Prime Minister Juan Jose told me that completely defeating the Ming Dynasty is the best option among all options. And cooperating with the Qing Dynasty is the only way to defeat the Ming Dynasty. ! As long as the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty gives me a decree, the Spanish and Japanese mercenary groups will fight for the Qing Dynasty to the last man!"

"Sister Shuying, go and tell the Emperor of Zhou and the Prime Minister that the world is either Qing or Ming. The population of Ming Dynasty is three times that of Qing Dynasty, its financial resources are ten times that of Qing Dynasty, its soldiers are well equipped, and there are millions of men with armor and guns. The odds of winning are huge! If the Zhou Dynasty bets on the Ming Dynasty and loses, it will be defeated without a country left. Otherwise, where will the Western Regions, the Mughals, Persia, and Tianzhu go? This general will be satisfied if he can restore the Ming Dynasty’s homeland in the Divine Continent. I have no intention of doing so. Expedition to the land of the Mughals. From now on, when the Great Zhou Dynasty expands its territory to the west, it can be regarded as a great empire!"

Nanjing, Prince of England's Mansion, Wenxin Courtyard.Li Zhongshan was serving wine in the small building to practice for Shang Shuying, and at the same time giving her instructions.

He obviously did not know about Kangxi's 80-strong army five-pronged plan to conquer the Ming Dynasty - in fact, only Kangxi himself knew the entire content of this plan, and others, even Kangxi's most trusted generals, only knew part of it.However, he still took necessary measures, including strengthening coastal defense, distributing flintlocks, ammunition and funds for building forts to the townships in coastal provinces, and made the greatest efforts to stabilize the Zhou Dynasty.

"Gege, if you see Sizhen and talk to her, I really miss her and Ji Qing!" The person speaking now is Li Zhongshan's father Li Fuchen. When he should have denied his son, he resolutely refused. When a father is kind, that is called kindness!

"Yes, Sister Shuying, go and tell my aunt Zhen and my third brother that my father has missed them these past few years. It is really sad to shed tears every time!"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" Li Fuchen's acting skills are nothing to say, and tears come at every turn!
Li Zhongshan added: "And I didn't kill Sun Yanling! I never saw Sun Yanling from the beginning to the end that time. Sun Yanling was killed by Wu Shijue!"

What a good brother, he sold Wu Shijue directly. This Wu Shijue has almost reached the New World now. If Li Jiqing wants to take revenge, he should go to the New World!

Of course, Li Zhongshan would not tell Shang Shuying that it was he who kidnapped Wu Shifan and forced Wu Shijue to kill Sun Yanling.
Shang Shuying looked at the father and son in front of her, and she could only sigh in her heart: These two are both human beings!Kong Sizhen was also a fairy, so why did she give birth to a stupid son like Li Jiqing?Dad can admit his mistakes!
"Zhen Gege's situation is not very good," Shang Shuying said. "She has little savings, and she is generous with her wealth. She quickly wiped out all her savings. Now she can only rely on a little land to live a tight life. In fact, she also misses her life in Nan." The days when you are by your side are the happy days!"

"Life is tight?" Li Fuchen was stunned for a moment, then wiped his tears and said to Li Zhongshan: "Second son, your Aunt Kong has always been kind to you. She is having a difficult life now, so you can't just give her a hundred and eighty thousand. Bar!"

One hundred and eighty thousand is so generous!

But should I pay for this?Li Zhongshan thought about it carefully and asked Shang Shuying: "Sister Shuying, are the generals in the Zhou Dynasty very poor now?"

"That's right," Shang Shuying said, "the territory of the Great Zhou Kingdom is not large, and it has a lot of troops to maintain. Now it is necessary to organize the army and civilians to move westward, which is a waste of money. They are not poor. Who is poor?”

Li Zhongshan smiled and said to Shang Shuying: "Sister Shuying, I will give you 100 million first. I don't ask how you spend it. If you don't spend it all, you don't have to pay me back! If it works, the Shang family can have a seat at the Indian Trading Company in the future. !” He didn’t say “Mongolian East India Trading Company” here, but “Indian Trading Company”. You have to decide what you mean!
And this "one-seat review" is amazing. He has been a board director of a Mongolian trading company for generations!
Currently, the Mongolian East India Trading Company has only 18 reviews in total, and the Shang family will be one of the 18 in the future.

Although it is not comparable to King Pingnan in the past, the reward is still huge, and all Shang Shuying has to pay is to "give the money well", and don't just keep all the money in her own pocket.

Shang Shuying patted her chest and said, "Don't worry, King Ying, I'll take care of this matter for sure!"

Aztec Republic, Acapulco, Presidential Palace.

On August 1682, 8, President Geng Juyi was receiving "foreign guests" - the real "foreign guests", Cardinal Juan Don Sandoval from Mexico City.

Although the Spanish Habsburg dynasty has been expelled, the subjects of the Kingdom of Spain and the Spanish World Empire no longer have the obligation to be loyal to them, and Spain has also lost the legal authority to rule the New Avenue Colonies.

But this is no longer the Middle Ages. The religious weapon of excommunication (which is more serious than breaking a house) is completely useless to an old white European man like Juan Don Sandoval who comes from the European continent and has witnessed the 30 years of war. Outdated stuff.

Therefore, the cardinal archbishop of the Archdiocese of New Spain is still loyal to the Spanish royal family and opposed to the Aztec Republic.

And this time he came to Acapulco as the envoy of the Marquis of Ascenta, the deputy king of New Spain, and the Duke of Villahermosa, the commander-in-chief of Spain's new continental army, to persuade the Aztec Republic to surrender. Of course, it was not an unconditional surrender, but It's a conditional surrender!
President Geng’s hard work in the past five years has finally won him a qualified opportunity to be a dog...

"Mr. President, the situation is completely different now. The expeditionary regiment from Spain has arrived in Mexico City. They are not comparable to the mixed-race army here in New Spain. Those warriors have participated in the Franco-Dutch War and have competed with the strongest in the world. The army fought with the generals!”

Geng Juyi could now understand the cardinal's Spanish, and he also knew about the Franco-Dutch War.

So he immediately laughed a few times and said in Spanish: "Bishop, when you talk about fighting with the strongest army and generals in the world, do you mean being beaten up by the French? If I am not mistaken, France is now standing behind me. This side, right? Besides, I’ve fought against the strongest armies and generals in the world!”

He did fight and was beaten miserably!
But both sides failed miserably, so no one should laugh at anyone.

The cardinal still did not give up: "Mr. President, I hope you can understand that it is impossible for your army to withstand the elite troops from the European continent. If you don't want you and your men to all die tragically in the New World, you can still do something now Make a wise choice!

The Marquis of Ascenta, the deputy king of New Spain, and the Duke of Villahermosa, the commander-in-chief of the new continental army in Spain, are willing to be generous. They can give you a principality!As long as you and your people return Acapulco to the Viceroyalty of New Spain, you can go and establish a principality somewhere else, California or Chile or somewhere else.Anywhere! "

Apparently, the Spaniards had realized that it would now be difficult to destroy the Aztecs and the Republic.

So they changed their strategy and wanted to buy President Geng with a principality.

In the past few years, the Spaniards have managed to find out the background of President Geng - he should be the royal family of the Dongjing Kingdom that was destroyed by the Ming Dynasty a few years ago... He took the remnants of Dongjing across the ocean. The purpose of coming to the New World should be to find a land where you can take refuge.

At least that's how it started!But as things progressed, so did his ambitions.

However, the New Spanish authorities are now willing to give him generous terms - a hereditary principality.

As long as he agrees... then it won't be difficult for the Spanish Expeditionary Force to eliminate him!
"Anywhere?" President Geng laughed, "Then I want the Mexica Valley."

The Mexica Valley is the area where Mexico City is located and the center of New Spain and even Spanish rule in the entire New World.

"Mr. President, are you kidding?" the cardinal said to Geng Juyi in a protest tone, "The Marquis of Ascenta and the Duke of Villahermosa are sincere in their stance on peaceful settlement of disputes."

"The Republic's request for the Mexica Valley is also sincere." Geng Juyi said, "The Aztec Republic must regain her old capital...and victory will definitely belong to us!
Because we are the real owners of this land! "

Are you the real owner of this land?Cardinal Sandoval was infuriated by the shamelessness of the president in front of him.

This president is a real Asian!
What if the Spaniards were colonizers?So what's different about him?Didn’t he also want to establish his own country in the New World?
Now that they have agreed to establish a country for him, why is he still so stubborn?
Could it be that he has read our minds?
The assistant coach in red has fallen into self-doubt, but his face is still sacred and solemn.

The cardinal said: "President, I think you should understand this fact... Ming Dynasty will not really provide you with much support. And the Kingdom of Spain will endlessly assist New Spain - because this is the entire kingdom s future!"

His words really touched Geng Juyi's heart... He and Li Zhongshan were indeed not of the same mind.

Although Li Zhongshan will continue to assist him now.

But it’s hard to say what will happen in the future!

Now that Wu Guogui has arrived, Wu Shijue will probably arrive soon...

Thinking of this, President Geng raised his voice so that everyone in the living room could hear him: "The Ming Dynasty's reinforcements will arrive soon! So the final victory must belong to us.

And I...will remain committed to the liberation of the Aztec Republic.I will never be the monarch of a principality, a kingdom, or an empire. "

While he was speaking, there was a commotion outside the door of the living room, and someone shouted loudly: "President, they are coming, Ming Dynasty's reinforcements are coming!"

Geng Juyi was overjoyed when he heard this and said to the cardinal: "Bishop, please tell the deputy king and commander-in-chief of New Spain that I will go to the Mexica Valley to find them after the New Year!"

(End of this chapter)