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Chapter 275 The Whip of God (please subscribe for monthly tickets)

China's Atlantic Fleet wreaked havoc on the British coast, directly destroying the British shipyards.

Several sailing battleships under construction were directly burned.

Of course, compared to warships, shipyards and skilled shipbuilders suffered greater losses.

Because of what the Chinese did, Britain would not be able to rebuild its ships within a year and a half.

However, Deng Gang knew very well that their biggest target at this time was not Britain, and their top priority was to support the East India Company in Amsterdam.

The third prince Li Xingzu was also there. After all, guns have no eyes. How should I explain to His Majesty if something happened?

After giving the British a lesson, they headed straight for Amsterdam.

Although in order to deal with the Chinese, several European countries formed a joint fleet in the Netherlands.

However, in order to deal with Mayton Castle, where the East India Company is located, the combined fleet dismantled seven or eight hundred artillery pieces. Now many warships lack firepower.

At the beginning, Commander Wilson of the Combined Fleet Navy did not agree to dismantle the naval guns and attack the city. Now when the enemy came to attack, they could only bite the bullet and fight.

Fortunately, Wilson still had a hand and did not touch the artillery on the sailing battleship.

Otherwise, they would all be targets now.

Although the United Kingdom and the Netherlands are also desperately building sailing battleships, their national strength is no longer on the same level as China.

Even with all their efforts, only 13 sailing battleships have been built in total, and the maximum displacement is only 3200 tons.

Neither the quantity nor the quality of the sail battleships are China's opponents.

Soon the Chinese battleships took advantage of their range and took the lead in launching artillery attacks on enemy ships.

The 40-pound naval guns on the "Moscow" and the "Kiev" were almost indestructible. Just one salvo severely damaged the British "Sea Sovereign".

This huge gap cannot be made up by tactics, not to mention that there are still many warships in the combined fleet that lack artillery.

Less than half an hour after the war started, eight sailing battleships of the United Fleet were sunk, and countless other warships were sunk.

The sea was littered with debris from sunken warships and sailors struggling in the sea.

Wilson and others were unable to break through and eventually had to retreat to Amsterdam Port.

Although the Dutch built some protective forts at their ports, these forts were like toys in the face of China's powerful ships and cannons.

Soon Deng Gang issued an ultimatum to them. If the remaining forces of the combined fleet did not surrender, the Chinese fleet would sink them all.

Amsterdam will also be reduced to ruins.

After some deliberations, Wilson finally surrendered on behalf of the United Fleet.

After taking over the remaining enemy warships, the landing force occupied the Port of Amsterdam without any blood.

The Netherlands' mainland area is very small, and all their energy is focused on maritime hegemony, so there is not much domestic army.

Even if reinforcements from other countries are included, the total number will be more than 3.

In their opinion, these troops were more than enough to deal with a bastion of the Eastern Ryukyu Company.

But I never expected that the Chinese army would be equipped with such a powerful weapon as a machine gun.

If the machine gun is combined with the bastion, no matter how many troops are sent up, it will all be "killed"!

The coalition forces under the command of the Duke of Hesse had killed tens of thousands of people, and now there were only more than 2 people left in total, and their morale was completely lost.

Facing the attack of the 20,000 Chinese troops who landed, they could only defend passively.

Although the rifles of the Chinese landing force are more advanced than those of the coalition forces, the coalition forces have many heavy artillery that were previously removed from the battleships.

The 12-pound Napoleon cannon completely overwhelmed the Chinese landing force in terms of firepower.

After all, the casualties of a forced attack will be huge. The Chinese army rarely fights this kind of battles that involve forcible attacks regardless of casualties.

Therefore, the two sides fell into a stalemate, and the Chinese army would not be able to capture the coalition forces for a while.

The Duke of Hesse is not stupid. He knows that the East Ryukyu Company in the bastion is likely to send troops to attack from both front and rear.

Therefore, he reserved 5000 troops to block the East Ryukyu Company behind him.

But what he didn't expect was that the Chinese artillery, which had been extinguished long ago, suddenly became powerful again.

The fierce artillery fire in Mayton Castle not only blew up his preset blocking position to pieces, but also blew up their artillery position.

At this time, all the artillery muzzles of the coalition forces were aimed at the landing Chinese army, and it was too late to temporarily turn the muzzles.

Although the coalition gunners pushed the cannons hard, the second round of bombardment from Mayton Castle soon came as scheduled.

When the Chinese landing troops saw that the coalition position was under bombardment, they immediately organized their troops and launched a charge.

Without the support of heavy artillery, the coalition forces would naturally be unable to stop the Chinese army's attack.

Finally, under attack from two sides, the Duke of Hesse led more than 10,000 remaining soldiers to evacuate the battlefield and retreated to the province of Utrecht south of Amsterdam.

However, at this time, the Chinese army's strength in the Netherlands was relatively weak, with only more than 2 troops.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong did not choose to occupy all the provinces of the Netherlands, but only occupied the province of North Holland where Amsterdam is located.

Now he only needs to hold the bridgehead of Amsterdam, and then wait for Li Shizu's reinforcements to set off from the Polish port of Danzig.

Although the Netherlands does not have many domestic troops, France is close at hand after all. If Louis XIII sends an army north, he is likely to lose sight of one thing.

Zheng Zhilong's judgment was indeed correct. When the British learned that the Chinese had occupied Amsterdam, they indeed asked France to immediately send troops to support the Netherlands.

To be honest, France did not have many conflicts with China. The reason why Louis XIII sent troops was to gain benefits.

Unexpectedly, the ports along the coast such as Bordeaux, Nantes, and Calais were directly destroyed by the Chinese Navy.

Moreover, the coalition forces participating in France were also repelled by the Chinese army on land.

Therefore, the King of France was hesitant about the British request.

Now that the Chinese navy has complete control of the sea, even if the French army wins, it will be difficult to regain Amsterdam.

What's more, the Chinese navy can transport the Chinese army from Poland to the Netherlands at any time.

Now that France is asked to send troops alone, he will definitely not be happy!

So Louis XIII said that the mobilization and assembly of the French army would also take time. China's military strength was too strong and the French army could not do it alone.

The Spanish army was too far away from the Netherlands, but the British army was only separated by the English Channel.

Louis XIII demanded that Britain must join forces with him before he could send troops.

Now that the Chinese control the sea, if Britain wants to send troops, it must sneak across the English Channel. Once discovered by Chinese warships, the consequences can be imagined.

But if the Chinese occupy the Netherlands, their next target must be London.

In the end, Charles I decided to send 12000 British soldiers to sneak into Calais, France.

On a stormy night, hundreds of small boats began to cross the strait under the moonlight. Although the Chinese patrol boats discovered it, because most of the British were in small boats, nearly 6000 British troops eventually managed to sneak into the Calais area.

Since France did not send troops immediately, it gave the Chinese army ample time to build a defense line.

Now they have built several lines of defense on the road from Utrecht to Amsterdam.

5 coalition troops have been attacking for half a month, but they are still unable to move forward.

Moreover, the Chinese naval guns were farther away than they imagined. The Chinese made precise calculations when building their positions. The attacking coalition forces were often attacked by naval guns.

At this time, the Kingdom of Denmark also concluded a non-aggression treaty with China through the mediation of Sweden.

In this way, warships can enter the waters of Jutland Peninsula, completely opening up the Baltic Sea route.

And 1 Chinese soldiers also came to Amsterdam Port from Danzig Port.

With these 1 people, Zheng Zhilong was enough to control the situation in the entire Netherlands.

The reason why Li Shizu did not send more soldiers was not because of insufficient troops, but because he was prepared to directly open a land passage.

Danzig is not too far from the Netherlands, less than a thousand kilometers.

Although there were hundreds of states in the Holy Roman Empire at this time, there were only a few major states.

As long as the Chinese army takes over the three states of Brandenburg, Saxony, and Lorraine, it can open up the entire North German region.

In order to prevent Austria, the largest state of the Holy Roman Empire, from causing trouble, Li Shizu took the initiative to contact the Ottoman Empire and asked them to continue the siege of Vienna.

Then he led an army of 12 people and began to attack the Kingdom of Brandenburg.

When they annexed Prussia, the Chinese army had already eliminated 12000 Brandenburg's main cavalry.

Frederick II of the Kingdom of Brandenburg knew that he was no match for the Chinese, so he united a dozen of the Holy Roman states to form a 5-strong North German coalition.

The North German Allied Forces were dominated by the armies of Brandenburg and Saxony.

The two sides started a fierce battle in the city of Berlin.

Although the Chinese artillery was extremely sharp, the bombing of Berlin's city wall was crumbling.

However, the North German Allied Forces' fighting will was very strong. Even if the soldiers on the city wall were wiped out by Chinese artillery and snipers time and time again, they still rushed up the city wall again and again to fight with the Chinese soldiers.

Even the battle-hardened Wu Sangui admired this scene.

The city of Berlin, which was originally thought to be easily won, actually took many days of hard fighting.

Wu Sangui was preparing to personally lead the troops to attack the city, guaranteeing that Berlin would be captured today.

However, Li Shizu stopped him. The advantage of the Chinese army was to kill the enemy through positional warfare and use the advantages of cavalry to eliminate the opponent.

This kind of forced siege warfare was indeed fought infrequently.

Since Berlin was so difficult to attack, they simply changed their tactics and pretended to attack Berlin, thereby encircling the enemy and calling for reinforcements.

The Battle of Berlin really aroused the desire of the German nation to fight, and more and more Holy Roman states sent troops to support Berlin.

But soon they became the targets of Cossack cavalry.

Reinforcements from Bohemia, Thuringia, Nuremberg and other places were massacred one after another, and more than 4 people were killed by the Chinese army.

Seeing that the goal of encirclement and reinforcements had been achieved, the Chinese army began to attack Berlin.

Despite the bombardment of hundreds of artillery pieces, Berlin's Brandenburg Gate was still destroyed.

Since this battle encountered fierce resistance from the North German Federation, Li Shizu issued a rare "City Massacre Order" in China!
The fire burned for more than ten days, and the entire city of Berlin was almost razed to the ground!

The brutality of the Chinese army shocked all the states in North Germany.

Afterwards, wherever the Chinese cavalry went, the city-states along the way surrendered and opened their city gates.

The Chinese army reached the Rhine River directly, and Hanbao, Cologne, Aachen, Brussels and other places directly surrendered.

Finally, the Chinese army entered the Netherlands.

Grogening, Gelderland and other provinces surrendered to China.

The Cossack cavalry even waved their sabers towards the British and French forces in the Netherlands.

The British and French infantry who were unable to retreat were killed by the Cossack cavalry who suddenly came out, leaving no trace of their armor behind.

In the end, only a few thousand people escaped back to France.

In this battle, the Chinese army annihilated more than 100,000 people from the Holy Roman Empire and the main force of the British and French coalition forces.

It made the whole of Europe tremble.

Europeans lamented that the "Whip of God" that frightened them back then was back.

This group of demons from the east will make Europe doomed.

Brothers Li Shizu and Li Xingzu have not seen each other for many years.

Li Shizu has not returned to China for nearly five years since he followed his father to the Western Regions in the 4th year of Qianxi.

He never imagined that his third brother, who was still a child back then, would now turn into a "European vampire" that made Europeans talk about it with disgrace.

In particular, it directly took over the Dutch East Indies by acquiring the Dutch East India Company.

This operation is really unbelievable. Even my father may not have thought that a prince would not be able to escape.

Li Xingzu said: "The second brother doesn't know, but the fourth brother is also very powerful. The machine gun he invented is the real murder weapon."

"And he also built a steam engine. My father told me that with the steam-powered locomotive, as long as China completes the construction of the railway, it can run three to four hundred miles a day."

Li Shizu understood what this meant. If this railway was really built, it might only take three months to return to the capital from Europe.

This means that the ruling efficiency of the Chinese Empire will be greatly improved.

Although there are still many European countries that have not been directly conquered by China, Li Shizu knows that as long as he defeats France, the powerhouse of the European army, then there will probably be no rivals in the whole of Europe.

However, it may no longer be necessary to rely on the army to conquer Europe. Many European royal families, including Britain and France, have proposed marriage with China.

Li Shizu had already married the Mughal Queen, so naturally he could only say sorry to these European royal princesses.

However, the third prince Li Xingzu had not yet married, so he was naturally the first choice of these European kings.

In addition, this "European vampire" is the richest man in Europe, and there is an endless stream of people proposing marriage.

It's a pity that Li Shizu is only his second brother and cannot make decisions for him.

Who you marry in the end depends on your father's wishes.

Nowadays, there is no financial war in Europe, so Li Xingzu boarded the battleship and returned to the capital with the letters of credence from the envoys from various countries.

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