Extraordinary Voyage

2020-11-11

Chapter 446 Flaming Changqi Flag and Southern Continent

The high autumn air is the most favorable season for sailing on the Black Sea.

On the endless blue sea, snow-white waves bloom.

A huge fleet with a total of thirty-one, flaming flags flying on the mainmast, was propelled by the cold Canary current and the warm Benin current, along the Sea Territory on the west coast of the Southern Continent. southward.

Huh——

The snow-white sails are full of swells and form a magnificent white cloud, and the mighty imposing manner seems to be able to crush everything in front of me!

In the huge fleet, the lowest level is at least Level 5 cruisers, even if the Level 3 battleships that are rarely seen elsewhere are not unusual.

And the most eye-catching thing is that the bowsprit is covered with the flag of the general, the flag of the nobles, the flag of the fleet, and the flag of the commander, the flagship of the fleet that leads the entire fleet forward.

The brightly-colored red sails on the battleship, like flaming maple leaves, are Cyrus’s quasi-Legendary battleship “Red Maple”.

The shrewd adjutant pushed the door into the captain’s room.

“Report to Your Excellency Commander! The navigator just reported that the fleet is about to leave the Benin warm current, which is moving forward, and enter the cold Benguela current, which is retrograde. It is estimated that it will take three days to reach the destination.”

Lieutenant General Doyle Griffiths, the pinnacle of his beloved long sword, is using sword oil and fine velvet to maintain his beloved long sword. He stared at the long sword of the light and did not lift his head, and replied:

“I see.”

Seeing his boss’s inattentive look, the loyal adjutant was hesitant to say anything:

“Your Excellency, we”

The worries in my heart are a little sensitive, and it is difficult to express them.

This military operation in the Southern Continent did not use the original colonial garrison at all, but all increased domestic troops. The purpose is to surprise, taking advantage of the weak links in the opponent, to expel their forces from Southern Continent in one fell swoop.

While shifting the focus of domestic conflicts, obtaining huge economic benefits to supplement the country’s increasingly deficient body can make Cyrus fiercely breathe a sigh of relief.

And Lieutenant General Griffiths, who was directly responsible for the loss of the entire Treasure Fleet not long ago, is the commander-in-chief of this fleet.

Lieutenant General Griffiths, who caused heavy losses to the kingdom, has now walked away from the court-martial. .

Even if there is no temporary punishment, if he loses this war, he can imagine what will happen to him after returning to China. even more how, from the people who participated in this war, it can be seen that there is another unknown war hidden in it.

Because 70% of the fleet is a staunch church faction, and the deputy commander is another Great Knight of the royal party.

Of course they knew exactly what the top officials of the kingdom had in mind, and it was more appropriate to say that it was an assistant rather than a supervising team.

Seeing the adjutant’s concern, the Great Knight smiled slightly:

“Don’t worry, with the protection of the great ‘Fire of Eternal’, victory will eventually belong to us!

Besides, enjoying the light bestowed by God, the secular kingdom should serve God.

In any case, I will not let this fleet suffer unnecessary losses, because they are God’s most loyal warriors.

This is what a ‘Fire of Eternal’ knight once promised to Pope Your Majesty!”

Raising the long sword in his hand, Griffith stared at him The straight ridge of the sword, the quality of “it would rather break but cannot be bend” seems to be on display in him as well, and nothing can shake his faith a little.

Even if the other end of the scale is the king’s order, it’s his own life!

Across the treacherous sea of treasures, Southern Continent and the source continent where civilized countries stand side by side are far away.

The overall shape is like an animal tooth with a wide upper and a lower point, extending to Cape Hafon in the east, Cape Agulhas in the south, Cape Verde in the west, and Cape Gilan in the north.

Until the first adventurers crossed the Sea of Treasures two hundred years ago, Southern Continent was home only to the Anuma.

However, with the arrival of the forerunner, the Kingdom of Cyrus, the Kingdom of Heimar in the desert, and the colonists from the countries on the northern shore of the Sea of Treasures. The Anuma natives gradually fell into the abyss of second-class citizens and even slaves of blood and tears, slowly and uncontrollably.

It marks the collapse of the last Anuma empire, the Songhai Empire, located near Cape Verde!

However.

At that time, the main force that really destroyed the “Songhai Empire” was not Cyrus, the pioneer, but the desert kingdom Heimar.

The Heimar Kingdom two hundred years ago, because it held the only road trade route with the eastern Peacock Islands, for tea, spices and other necessities of life, many more western continent countries have to look up to it. .

It was by virtue of this unique geographical advantage that they accumulated huge wealth and were one of the most prosperous and powerful countries on the continent at that time.

As for Cyrus, who had just started to explore the ocean, he was simply a younger brother at that time, and he was a younger brother who did not even have a unified Alfonso Peninsula.

However.

In that era two hundred years ago, the development of firearms was far from the current level. Although the prototype of the arquebus has been invented, it is still used in a mix of muskets and lance soldiers. The reliability, range, and formidable power of muskets are lacking.

Therefore, in the battle with the natives, the advantages of the so-called “civilized people” relying on technology are not obvious.

And it’s very easy for even a younger brother to want to do bad things to others.

Cyrus, who reached the Southern Continent ahead of everyone, saw that he was unable to eat the mighty “Songhai Empire”, and instead started a business with them, providing excellent swords, gunpowder, copper Artillery and other war materials, desperately holding back Hoimar.

It has also exchanged for countless gold, diamonds, and ivory. I deeply tasted the sweetness of it.

In the end, he even dispatched military advisors to instruct this group of natives who were backward in the art of war how to fight, which made a powerful person such as Heimar suffer a few big losses.

But it was after this really long war was over.

In view of the discordant situation, the Pope of the Church of “Fire of Eternal” and the Church of “Bright Starry Night” came forward together, and several major churches with interests in the kingdoms and the Seven Gods finally made a history. A peace treaty called the Papal Covenant.

When facing the vast and unfathomable land overseas, let go of the contradictions between civilizations and countries, reduce internal friction and agree with the outside world, the lands of Ability God believers will all belong to the people of the Seven Gods.

It can be regarded as an act of aggression for the colonists, setting the necessary legal basis and rules of the game.

So far we have ushered in the colonial frenzy of the civilized country and the nightmare of the colonized area!

Until now, two hundred years later.

Southern Continent is already an important producer and one of the major exporters of tropical cash crops, such as cotton, sisal, peanuts, oil palm, cashews, coffee, cocoa, tea, sugar cane, tobacco, rubber (for steam engines), pyrethrum, cloves, coconuts, bananas, etc.

This is also the favorite source of rum raw materials for sailors from the Tulip countries.

Another thing that has to be mentioned is the current status of the colonies of various countries.

Because most of the entire Southern Continent is in the tropics, it is very unfriendly to the Niemans from the northern source continent. Tropical infectious diseases in these places are deadly to the Nimmenst people who have long lived in temperate regions, unless there is a cure for it.

For them, the environment is harsh as hell, and it is difficult to just survive, let alone work and produce.

Even an explorer with an extraordinary rank is reluctant to delve into this terrifying continent in search of unknown treasures.

There are even pioneering explorers who commented:

The Southern Continent is the main bastion of the true Demon King, the reactionary force of nature against the flourishing of mankind. Here, the Lord of the Flies assembles a worm-like, beast-like army of Insects, ticks and nematodes to deliver disease into the skin, blood vessels, intestines and spinal cords of humans and other vertebrates .

Among the major powers.

The northern part of the Southern Continent is the largest desert in the world, occupying 30 percent of the entire continent. And a small number of livable areas have completely become Heimar’s territory, and even beliefs are firmly controlled by the “Starry Night Religion”.

True God “Bright Starry Night” is the only god here.

Further south is the largest area of the continent, with an unfavorable savannah climate, extremes of rainy and dry seasons that can drive people crazy.

After repeated weighing, the other countries, big and small, concentrated and divided up the most suitable economic crops for farming, which is called the Zaire Basin, the largest basin in the world.

Other colonies are broken and scattered.

For them, only land that proves its economic value makes sense to occupy.

And after the discovery of the new continent, they turned their attention to the vast fertile land on the other side of the Black Sea.

The climate factor, which is far inferior to the new continent, has become a natural barrier for the Anuma natives. Even now, there are still a large number of powerful native nations living there in the vast inland areas.

Even in the coastal zone on the western edge of the Zaire Basin, there are still many indigenous countries dominated by the Dahomey Kingdom in Benin.

The Kingdom of Dahomey has also dipped in the light of the new continent development. It is now the largest slave supplier in the slave bay, and it is also a wealthy and powerful country.

So while Cyrus has a first-mover advantage in Southern Continent, he doesn’t have many solid holdings. Most of them exist in the form of independent mineral and cash crop resource points, and other vast wastelands are of no value to them at all.

In other words, in this era, a large area of Southern Continent is still the “Dark Continent” shrouded in the fog of war.

After occupying some agricultural areas that could produce cash crops and easy mining, Cyrus had turned east and crossed the Eritrean Sea again, killing the peacocks who were more prosperous in this era archipelago.

There is an opportunity for Cyrus to truly emerge as a sea power hegemon.

As for Alwin’s class at the Navy Academy, the professor believes that after two hundred years of continuous development, Southern Continent has been thoroughly developed.

It has indeed been developed, but it is based on the development under the current scientific technology and medical level.

When the medicines in Alwin’s hands are listed one after another, perhaps this situation will be completely subverted.

(End of this chapter)