984 Think carefully

In the anxious waiting of the Portuguese in Lisbon, on this day, the King of Spain and his party finally arrived in Lisbon.

On this day, the real 10,000 people are empty. Regardless of whether they can walk or not, everyone has come out to see this grand occasion.

In the past, Spain was the hegemon of the European continent and was imposing. In the previous time, it was even more aggressive and suppressed the independence of Portugal.

At that time, even the cats and dogs among the Spaniards were the owners of the Portuguese.

Today, however, King Philip IV of Spain, even when he walks the streets of Lisbon, is flattering and very humble. The position of the owner, which was replaced, made the Portuguese feel very trance.

Is this really the King of Spain?

In the square where the gate of the palace is located, Her Royal Highness Princess Catherine and her party are there, not to say that they are respecting the Spanish king, but to accept the surrender of the Spanish king under the watchful eyes of all the Portuguese.

Not surprisingly, Philip IV and the Spanish nobles under his command all knelt down to Catherine with great humility, and were as obedient as they wanted, without the face of a Spanish king.

"Dear Princess Catherine, please accept the surrender of a repentant old man, and forgive the lost old man!"

Hearing Philip IV's words, I don't know why, Her Royal Highness Princess Catherine had goosebumps on her back, which was really too low.

"The British, who rebelled against Portugal, were ensnared by me." Seeing that Catherine was in a daze and did not agree to his surrender, Philip IV was a little anxious, and hurriedly said, "This is a little bit of my mind to make up for the mistakes I have made before." Please accept this sincerity and let Spain henceforth become a vassal state of Portugal! ”

I heard that these Englishmen were not in Spain. But now that they have been presented by Philip IV, it is estimated that it took a lot of effort to catch them.

Thinking of the tragic death of her father and brothers, Catherine's eyes suddenly turned red: these Englishmen deserve death!

Thinking so, she nodded and said: "Okay, for the sake of your sincerity, I agree with your surrender, but you have to say first what the specific situation of the Battle of Warsaw is!" ”

When he heard this, Philip IV was overjoyed. Since Princess Catherine agreed, there was no need to hide the battle of Warsaw. Anyway, after a while, Lisbon will definitely know about it. The purpose of the concealment he had done his best to conceal before was to get Catherine's side to agree first.

So he told the story of the soldiers who had fled back to Spain.

Philip IV naturally did not know the specific situation of the new artillery and muskets, but described it as a weapon of God that existed only in legends, a weapon that could destroy the world, and bombarded the 710,000 European coalition troops to the point that they were almost completely annihilated.

Hearing his words, Zheng Zhilong, who was listening on the side, couldn't help but be overjoyed: I see, there is such a powerful weapon, so the emperor asked this side not to toss, and let the elite troops of European countries rush to Warsaw to die!

Although he thought so in his heart, he immediately asked, "How about the battle damage of my Ming army?" ”

It's not that he bet on the handicap or anything, but as a Ming person, of course, he is most worried about the death and injury of his comrades.

Seeing that it was a Ming army general who asked a question, after hearing the interpreter's relay, Philip IV replied very respectfully: "It seems that no one has been killed or wounded!" ”

That's right, the Ming army opened artillery and fired at its own positions from beginning to end, and the pursuit battle that was most likely to cause casualties was also completed by the soldiers of the Ming vassal states. Therefore, to conclude that not a single person was killed or wounded, even if Philip IV had not been to the battlefield, he could have guessed.

Hearing this, everyone was almost stunned.

The elite troops of 710,000 European countries were completely defeated and almost completely wiped out, but on the side of the Ming army, there was no death or injury. Even if the legendary god of war descends to earth, it is impossible to do this!

Imagine the Battle of Warsaw thousands of miles away, the Ming Emperor only led more than 20,000 people to come, plus the Ming army that had arrived, a total of less than 100,000 people, in the face of 710,000 enemy troops, but in the end, he was not dead, and he defeated the enemy to the annihilation, what a spectacular thing it should be!

After coming back to her senses, Catherine understood Philip IV, he was definitely frightened, and felt that he could not stop such a powerful Ming army, so he took the initiative to surrender, right?

There is one thing that Catherine did not expect, because the Ming Emperor said that except for Spain, France, England and the Netherlands, it is acceptable for other countries to surrender. That is, not to accept the surrender of Spain.

Philip IV was frightened, and so was it, so he sent his idea to Catherine. If Catherine accepted his surrender. On the side of the Ming Emperor, he should be able to let Spain go. Of course, he didn't dare to guarantee this, but he had no choice other than that.

As is the case in Europe, countries are also at war with each other. However, as long as one country surrenders, the other country will not be particularly embarrassed, which is a European tradition.

Sure enough, Catherine agreed. Of course, this has a lot to do with the very humble attitude of Philip IV. After all, this was once the most powerful king of Spain in Europe, and he had such a low profile, what else could he do?

And Zheng Zhilong's decision on the crown princess, of course, he will not interfere. At this time, he was more shocked, or shocked when did Daming have such a powerful weapon?

Although he doesn't know the details, he can be sure of one thing, this is definitely related to the emperor!

The words of Philip IV were not loud. But it spread ten, ten, and hundreds, and finally the Portuguese and Ming soldiers in Lisbon all knew about it.

Whether it was the size of the Ming army's troops, or the ratio of the Ming army's battle losses to the enemy, they were all greatly surprised by their expectations. Her Royal Highness Princess Catherine was there to accept the surrender of the King of Spain, but so many onlookers were silent, because they were all stunned by this result.

Even the most odds market has never thought of this possibility!

After a long time, they came to their senses, and immediately burst into the wildest cheers. At this time, when they looked at the soldiers of the Ming army, their eyes were full of worship.

The power of the Ming Dynasty, is it really something that people can have? Even if they are all Guan Erye, it is impossible to be so powerful!

Portugal has Daming as a backer, isn't it going sideways in Europe! From then on, the Portuguese never had to look at other people's faces again!

Since Portugal's independence, even ordinary Portuguese people can feel these things when they are low-mouthed when they seek support from other countries, and when they are betrayed as bargaining chips for others.

Today, however, the opposite is true. You can imagine how happy they will be.

At this time, they immediately thought of their future king, who was the Prince of Daming, that is, the son of the future emperor, and they were all very happy. The king's trick back then, marrying Princess Catherine to Daming, was really good!

Subsequently, Catherine announced that all the British who hated him to the bone would be cut with a thousand knives to pay tribute to the victims of the Battle of Lisbon, including, of course, João IV. Philip IV himself knelt before the grave and repented, weeping bitterly.

Subsequently, at the urging of Philip IV, the Portuguese formed an army to go to Spain and occupy part of the territory. Spain will also change its flag and fly the Portuguese flag.

In the midst of this, news from Warsaw finally reached Lisbon. The King of Spain is not exaggerating at all, it is basically what he says it is.

Even if they had been shocked once, even if they had celebrated wildly once, when the news came back, the Portuguese celebrated wildly again.

At this time, the Portuguese drank Oriental rice wine and learned Oriental etiquette to fight each other, if it weren't for their western faces, they would have thought that they had arrived in the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, the Portuguese were the first to learn everything from the Ming Dynasty, and with the victory of the Battle of Warsaw, this trend reached its extreme. Even many people can't wait that their skin is also the skin of the Ming people, in short, everything in the Ming Dynasty is the most fashionable!

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Philip IV decided on the spot, and he was really right.

The army of the Ming vassal state took advantage of the situation to attack the countries of Europe, just like a group of poor people, suddenly faced with the possibility of getting rich, from the beginning a little restrained, and later, it began to rob and do bad things regardless of it.

The countries of Europe, firstly, their elites were lost in the Battle of Warsaw. Second, the soldiers who fled back brought back the news, which made them feel that the Ming army, which had new weapons, could not resist at all. Therefore, under the attack of countries such as Ottoman and Tsarist Russia, they did not dare to put up much resistance.

Later, when the Ottoman and Tsarist armies were angry with the occupied territories, the remaining countries finally began to resist.

But by this time, only a few countries had not yet fallen.

In response to this situation, Emperor Chongzhen, who had been in Warsaw, waited for the replenishment of the follow-up army, especially the supply of ammunition, and finally began to move westward to collect the excessive vassal armies.

In this way, all European countries are looking forward to the early passing of the Ming army, and the hearts of the people will all be attached to the Ming Dynasty.

When such a situation occurred, some people speculated afterwards that this was deliberately done by the Ming Emperor. Let those vassal states be bad people, and the Ming army can be good people, and change the resistance of the local people to the occupation army.

However, this statement is unfounded. Because Emperor Chongzhen has never let those vassal states do bad things, they drove them out by themselves, and Emperor Ming still upheld justice and cleaned them up!

As the army marched westward, only France and the Netherlands remained.

Before the surrender of France, no country had ever been able to occupy Paris.

For the glory of France......