Daming Greedy Wolf Star

Chapter 441
After going around half of Europe, Wang Jinghong, who started from Fortress and Suez, entered the Strait of Gibraltar through the Mediterranean Sea, and then entered the English Channel around Cape Roca and the Bay of Biscay.

This was the destination of his trip, but he was not in a hurry. Instead, he chose to pick a small island in the Channel Islands at the entrance of the English Channel, stationed there and observed the situation in the English Channel.

Wang Jinghong is not a general, and he is not good at marching and fighting, but not being good at it doesn't mean he doesn't understand anything.

Anyway, Wang Jinghong also fought in battles. On his third voyage with Zheng He, he accompanied the army and wiped out Mount Ceylon, which was trying to ambush the ocean-going treasure fleet.

Besides, not just fighting, but understanding the situation is the most important thing before doing anything.

However, Wang Jinghong didn't expect that just when he had just figured out the situation in the English Channel and the time for the English supply transportation, he received Zhu Zhanhe's order.

This order naturally made him suspend his entry into the English Channel. The reason was that Yolanda was making small moves behind Zhu Zhanhe's back, which made Zhu Zhanhe feel dissatisfied.

Originally, after receiving this order, Wang Jinghong should have turned around and headed south into the Bay of Biscay. After all, it clearly belonged to the Kingdom of France, and he could still get supplies from the Kingdom of France when entering the southern part of the Bay of Biscay.

Even if they didn't enter the Bay of Biscay, at most they would be stationed in the Harsha Islands or the Scilly Islands at the entrance of the English Channel, waiting for Zhu Zhanhe's order.

However, Wang Jinghong made a decision that no one expected. It was precisely because of this decision that he accidentally helped the Ming army in the Eastern European battlefield to relieve a great deal of pressure.

Through the map given to him by Zhu Zhanhe before departure, Wang Jinghong keenly discovered that the European continent is actually a peninsula protruding from the land, but compared with other peninsulas, the European peninsula has reached enough to be called a continent. Degree.

After seeing the distribution of the Kingdom of France, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Lithuanian-Polish Kingdom Union on the map, Wang Jinghong disobeyed Zhu Zhanhe's order for the first time and swaggered into the English Channel with the entire fleet.

However, he didn't stop there. When the English were trembling with fright, Wang Jinghong let the fleet go on and sailed into the Baltic Sea, and fought a battle with the Danish Vikings along the way.

When it comes to the Vikings, you have to mention the Nordic League.

Viking pirates can be said to be known to everyone. Even if you don’t know their cultural history, you have at least heard of this name. The Odin myth of later generations is the Nordic myth, that is, the Viking myth.

What about Odin, Thor, the god of lies and tricks, Loki, etc., are all Norse mythology, that is, the mythology of the Vikings.

However, the heyday of the Viking pirates was from the 8th to the 11th centuries, and the heyday of the Viking pirates has passed at the beginning of the [-]th century. Part of the nation that once made the whole of Europe tremble gave up Odin, which it had always believed in, and devoted itself to embraced the Catholic Church and integrated into the society of Western Europe.

Some of them started to embark on trade routes, and their footprints were not only all over Northern Europe, but also in places such as the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea.

The last remaining part returned to their native lands, where they were later formed in the Nordic Union.

The reason why Wang Jinghong had a conflict with them was because of this Nordic alliance.

At the end of the fourteenth century, the Nordic Union, the Kalmar Union, was established. This alliance linked the Kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and even included Iceland and Greenland.

However, although the Kalmar Union can be said to have united the whole of Northern Europe, its actual population is only 150 million, of which Danes account for more than half.

The founder of the Kalmar Union was Princess Margaret I of Denmark, who was later the queen regent of the Kingdom of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The life of this woman was legendary, but the ending of this legendary woman was not very good.

As a Danish princess, Margaret I married Prince Haakon of Norway, who was 15 years older than her, at the age of ten. However, this combination that seemed to be at the top of society was actually not so beautiful.

The medieval Kingdom of Norway was a poor country. As the concubine of Prince Haakon, Margaret I almost froze to death when she was 17 years old because she had no firewood for three days.

However, life got better later on.

Prince Haakon's father was the king of the Kingdom of Sweden, and his father's maternal grandfather was the king of Norway. Later, the thrones of these two kings fell on his head, and he became King Magnus VII of the Kingdom of Norway at the same time. and King Magnus II of the Kingdom of Sweden.

Similarly, Margaret also became the princess of the Kingdom of Norway and the Kingdom of Sweden at the same time.

However, Margaret I was a very ambitious woman, and the status of the two princesses did not satisfy her.

In 1375, her father, King Valdemar IV of the Kingdom of Denmark, died. After seeing this opportunity, the woman took the first step and returned to the Kingdom of Denmark with her children.

Through various means and operations, including promising that she herself would not be a monarch, and exchanging land for power, etc., she bought off the Danish aristocracy, excluded her sister's son who was supposed to be on the throne, and pushed her son Olaf to the throne. The throne of the Danish king.

However, Olaf was only six years old at that time, and Marigette I naturally became the queen regent who listened to the government behind the curtain.

Later, her husband Prince Haakon died, and her son Olaf inherited the thrones of the Kingdom of Norway and the Kingdom of Sweden.

So far, Margaret I's son Olaf has become the king of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and she herself has become the regent of the three countries, and the Kalmar Union was born.

However, the good times didn't last long. Olaf, who devoted his whole life to Margaret I, died suddenly at the age of 17. As the only son of Margaret I, it also meant that Margaret I had no successors.

In desperation, Margaret I turned her attention to her sister's grandson, the son of the person she had once pushed off the throne: Eric.

Margaret I adopted Eric and cultivated it carefully, and Eric finally took over this huge inheritance after Margaret I passed away.

However, Eric, who was carefully cultivated by Margaret I, was not a wise king. He often waged wars with the earls of Holstein because of the issue of dominion, which eventually led to his rule going from bad to worse.

Eric's stupidity is not only reflected in his lack of political ability, he also created various taxes, which greatly increased the burden on all classes.

Among them is a kind of tax, which was nothing in history, but now, it has become the biggest reason for his rule to decline.

Channel tax.

The Kalmar Union occupies the Skagerrak, the only outlet from the Baltic Sea into the Atlantic.

Strait tax, as the name suggests, enters and exits the strait, whether it is from the Baltic Sea to the Atlantic Ocean or from the Atlantic Ocean to the Baltic Sea, a tax needs to be paid.

This tax not only greatly hurt the business of the Kalmar Union, but also conflicted with Wang Jinghong's trip.

In the Kalmar Alliance where the ruling power has not yet collapsed, even if there are complaints, no one will resist Eric in a short time, but Wang Jinghong is not used to you.

Treasure ships that were several times larger than those of the Kingdom of Denmark, powerful fire suppression, coupled with unsolvable white phosphorous eggs, the Kingdom of Denmark's not particularly strong sea fleet was beaten to pieces by Ming's treasure fleet at the beginning of the confrontation, and even Even Gotland was lost.

On the other hand, Wang Jinghong took advantage of the opportunity to occupy Gotland and thoroughly cleaned the people of the Kalmar Alliance on the island, making this island with an area of ​​more than 3000 square kilometers a place for the treasure fleet to rest.

However, the blood of the Vikings still exists after all, and there are Vikings in the Kingdom of Norway, the Kingdom of Sweden, and Greenland. If the Kingdom of Denmark is not resolved, it will eventually be a problem.

However, Wang Jinghong couldn't care less now.

In any case, the sea is the main battlefield of the treasure fleet, and at sea, Wang Jinghong is confident that he can beat all European sea fleets.

When he received the news from the Teutonic Knights that the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Golden Horde would jointly encircle and suppress the invaders from the east, Wang Jinghong occupied Königsberg even though he was confident that the Ming army would not lose on the frontal battlefield.

This move by Wang Jinghong not only made the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Knights feel a strong sense of threat, but also made the Holy Roman Empire throw a mouse.

Sigismund never imagined in his dreams that the Deming Fleet, which should have nothing to do with him, at least in a short period of time, should not have intersected with him, unexpectedly ran over his head unknowingly.

Constantinople.

Zhu Zhanhe looked at the secret letter in front of him, his brows were tightly frowned, and his eyes revealed deep puzzlement.

Deploying a large number of soldiers to the Eastern European battlefield is a bureau he set up, not only for the temporary alliance formed in Eastern Europe, but also for the Holy Roman Empire.

The status quo of the Ming army is no secret anymore. After two years of war, as well as large and small losses and supplements, the number of soldiers under Zhu Zhanhe’s command has now reached 20, of which more than 14 are Asan .

However, this time on the battlefield in Eastern Europe, Zhu Zhanhe dispatched 15 soldiers directly and divided them into three teams, led by Jian Xiao, Chen Mao and Zhu Sanfeng respectively.

In other words, on the Central European battlefield where the Holy Roman Empire was facing each other head-on, the Ming army had less than 5 people left.

With a sharp drop of more than 60.00% of the enemies, Zhu Zhanhe believes that Sigismund will definitely seize this opportunity to come out, because after losing the middle and lower reaches of the Danube one after another, and even the Holy See has been breached. , he needs a victory too much.

If he keeps losing, his reputation will slowly fall to the bottom.

However, Sigismund did not move for a long time, which made Zhu Zhanhe a little puzzled.

(End of this chapter)