Although Li Xuan also knew that the navy was weak, and it was estimated that he would not be able to defeat the Franc machine man, he was still counting on whether the navy could find a way, even if it was just a trick!

Don't force the navy to completely defeat the Franc Machine's navy, but at least look for fighters to achieve one or two tactical victories, so that those Franc Aircraft people know that although the Tang Navy is weak, it is also capable of causing them losses, and use this to make the Franc Mechanics fearful.

But now it seems that if the war really breaks out, the navy may not be able to count on it, because Bao Yifen has said that the navy is weak now, and it does not even have a regular warship, even if it is an armed merchant ship converted from civilian ships, it is also because of the congenital defects of the Guangzhou ship, the sand ship, and the Fu ship, and it cannot be equipped with too much artillery.

The Datang Navy has only been established for more than a year, and it has really come into contact with the sea, that is, in the last year, plus in the previous battle of Qiongzhou, a naval battle in the Qiongzhou Strait, which almost wiped out the Second Fleet.

Although the Datang Navy has recovered, it is still weak, with only five armed merchant ships of more than 200 tons, and more than 10 armed merchant ships between 100 and 200 tons, and the largest artillery is still nine catties of artillery.

However, the number of nine-pound artillery is extremely rare, and only the only ones are purchased from foreigners, and only two of the material merchant ships of more than 200 tons will be carried, and the main naval guns are still the seven-catty and five-catty artillery and three-catty and two-catty shotguns that the Tang Dynasty can independently mass-produce.

In addition to the lack of ships and artillery, there is also an extreme shortage of qualified sailors, although the Datang Navy has made every effort to recruit sailors from the civilian population, but there is still a big difference between ordinary sailors and naval officers, and qualified naval officers are even more scarce.

The surviving naval officers and men of the Qiongzhou Strait Naval Battle, because of their valuable war experience, are now scattered to the whole army as the seed officers and men of the entire Tang Navy, and the officers and men are all taking turns to serve as instructors in the newly established Naval Academy.

There are few ships, few guns, and low quality personnel, this is the current situation of the Datang Navy.

What's more, the main enemy of today's Datang Navy is still the Ming Army Naval Division, which is continuing to fight with the Ming Army Naval Division entrenched in the coastal areas of Guangdong, especially at the mouth of the Pearl River.

But now, the Ming navy is still entrenched in Daxi Mountain (Lantau Island) and many islands near the mouth of the Pearl River, and is constantly trying to attack the Tang Navy and even Guangzhou.

Today's Datang Navy is already very reluctant to deal with the Ming Army's naval divisions, and if a war breaks out with the Francophiles earlier, it will not be able to draw forces to participate in the war.

However, compared to the powerlessness of the navy, the attitude of the army made Li Xuan very satisfied!

Zeng Ziwen first despised the timidity and cowardice of the navy, and then said to Li Xuan with an oath: "Your Majesty, according to the intelligence, the Francophile is only stationed in Haojing, and these people are not all troops, the real army is at most a hundred people, and the army only needs to send a team to wipe out an enemy of this scale!" ”

Li Xuan said: "What if the enemy army deploys troops to land on a large scale? ”

Zeng Ziwen said: "The army will drive all the enemy troops who dare to land into the sea!" ”

Zeng Ziwen said that he had the confidence to say this, the establishment of the Tang Dynasty basically relied on the army's hard work and outstanding feats, and the continuous victory of the Tang Army allowed the Tang Dynasty to occupy the land of the three provinces and advance the front to the Huguang region.

The combat effectiveness of the Tang Army is where the confidence of the Tang Dynasty lies in its struggle for world domination.

In the words of some army generals, the army is absolutely worthy of the military expenditure spent every year, especially the nearly 10 million military expenditure in the three years of Xuanping!

The Pearl River Delta region has always been a key defense area of the Datang Army, stationed a whole Sixth Infantry Division, and in the western part of Guangdong, that is, Lianzhou, Leizhou, and Qiongzhou along the coast of the Beibu Gulf, the second mixed regiment is stationed, and this mixed regiment is also a full regular army mixed regiment, with a total of 4,000 people.

In addition, in the eastern part of Guangdong, the first mixed regiment is deployed!

In addition to the three main forces mentioned above, in fact, the Fifth Infantry Division has not completely entered Jiangxi at present, and an infantry regiment is stationed in the northeastern part of Guangdong.

And then there is the first supplementary brigade on the side of Shaozhou Mansion!

In addition, there are several forts dedicated to coastal defense and river defense, including Humen Fort, Cheung Chau Fort, Shamian Fort, Antelope Gorge Fort, etc., these forts in addition to a large number of artillery, will also deploy part of the infantry to protect the forts.

In addition to the above-mentioned troops, one thing to note is that in Zhaoqing, there is also a Guards!

In the entire control area of the Tang Dynasty, Guangdong's troop density is the thickest, and the strength of the field troops has reached nearly 30,000, and these troops firmly control Guangdong, the core base camp of the Tang Dynasty.

If the Franc Mans wanted to land on a large scale, according to the army, if there were less than 5,000 men, then the army would drive them into the sea in a matter of minutes.

If it's a scale of 5,000 to 10,000 people, then it's a bit of trouble!

If it's more than 20,000 people, then it's tricky!

This is mainly because the enemy has the advantage of the sea, they can choose to land anywhere and fight, and if they can't fight, they can retreat from the sea immediately, which is easy to exhaust the Tang Army.

This statement made Li Xuan also relieved, as long as the army has the confidence to do thousands of Portuguese, then it is enough, as for any more Portuguese, it is basically unlikely.

With the current size of the Portuguese, it is difficult to say whether they can mobilize thousands of marine troops in the Far East, if it is more than 10,000 people, what are you kidding, if the Portuguese had the strength to invest tens of thousands of army troops in the Far East, they would have dominated the entire earth long ago!

Although the mid-16th century was almost the peak of the Portuguese colonial era, there was one thing that limited them, that is, their population was too large, their native population was only a million people, and the number of their armies was also limited, which also reflected some of the strategies they adopted in the colonization process, that is, they mainly established strongholds and set up trading posts, but they were not interested in completely ruling the vast and populous colonies, or they were not able to do so.

Spain, the pinnacle colonial power of this era, was able to build a large number of professional troops because of its relatively large population, and during this period, Spain's total army strength on the mainland exceeded 150,000, and if you add the armada and the troops of overseas colonies, it could easily exceed 200,000 or more.

By the end of the 16th century, Spain had more than 300,000 professional troops!

A large population base combined with strong financial resources can support a large number of troops, and a large enough army can conquer and rule those vast and populous colonies.

The Spaniards will not talk about it, but the natural defect of the sparse population of Portugal doomed them to no way to invest a large number of troops in the Far East, or in any one place!

As for the use of colonial troops, you can't expect these natives who are not even civilized to pick up guns and fight!

Li Xuan knew this, so he insisted on maintaining a tough attitude even though he knew that the navy was weak and could not defeat the Franc Navy.

In addition, the Portuguese and the Spaniards were at odds with each other almost all over the world during the year, and the same was true in the South Seas, where the Spaniards tried several times to establish colonies in the Philippines, but the Portuguese were distorted.

And the contradictions between these two countries can also be exploited!

After successively summoning the cabinet ministers and the generals of the navy and army, the Tang Dynasty quickly set a policy against the Francophile, that is, it is okay to do business, not only can, but they are also very welcome, but if you Francophile want to steal and abduct and occupy the territory, then there is no one word: fight!

Soon, a team from Zhaoqing arrived in Guangzhou by boat, and the first thing they did was to be ordered to dismiss all the relevant officials of the Guangzhou government who were involved in the Francophone incident.

As for killing most of the officials in Guangzhou Prefecture and what to do with Guangzhou's government affairs, this is simple, and today's Tang Dynasty officials have quite rich experience in starting from scratch and establishing a local government affairs organization.

The people who went to Guangzhou with the Qin Cha also had the newly appointed officials of the Guangzhou Prefecture of the Ministry of Officials, and there were all kinds of high-level and middle-level officials such as the prefect and the Tongzhi, and they almost re-dispatched a prefecture-level leadership team over.

Immediately, the deputy envoy of the Qincha team, a senior official from the Inspectorate, began to try the case, but the envoy of the Qincha, the director of the newly established European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Zhao Chengang, went directly to Haojing, preparing to negotiate with the Francophile.

Because before, he had already received the news that the Franc machine had refused to withdraw from Haojing for various reasons, and quibbled that their possession of Haojing was legal and reasonable, and that they had signed an extremely sacred treaty with the officials of the Tang Dynasty.

This matter is already obviously beyond the ability of his subordinates to deal with, and he needs to go in person!

Of course, it was impossible for him to go alone, not even with just a few retinue officers, he was going to take a whole battalion of the army with him!

At that time, if these Portuguese are unwilling to get out of the way, then they must let them see the strong combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty soldiers!