The Ming Dynasty is stable inside and outside, a peaceful place, and the economy and civilization are developing at a high speed.

On the Manchu side, because of the intervention of the Ming Dynasty, Dolgon's second battle to destroy the Mughal Empire was abruptly lost, and he was still unable to directly destroy the Mughal Empire.

And it seems that it is precisely because of the intervention of the Ming Dynasty that the Manchus not only failed to achieve their goal in this second great war to destroy the Mughal Empire, but also caused more than 15,000 casualties among the Manchurian Dragon Breaker Army and the Manchu Eight Banners.

Such a loss is definitely a very heavy loss for the Manchu people with a population of less than one million, coupled with the pressure of the Ming Dynasty, and the dissatisfaction that the second major attack still cannot destroy the Mughal Empire, under several pressures, including Dolgon, the Manchurian Eight Banners are fighting with a monstrous aura.

While continuing to conquer the city, the Manchurians of the Eight Banners are also venting their anger in their hearts.

"Poof! Burst! "Wherever the army passed, they trampled on the farmland and slaughtered the Mughal people.

The Manchurian Eight Banners were killing bloodily, and because the Manchurian Eight Banners were the core of the Qing army, the servant cavalry, the Persian Banner, etc., were also affected by the Manchurian Eight Banners, and they participated in the random massacre, and even the Indian Banner was ruthless in killing the Mughal people.

When the time came to May of the thirteenth year of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing army had successively captured more than 200 large and small cities of the Mughal Empire, and the offensive gradually stopped, counting the last capture of Delhi and other large territories, the Qing army had captured about three-sevenths of the territory of the Mughal Empire.

In Europe, at this moment, there is also a huge wave.

There is no other reason, because after more than half a year of sailing, the Dutch Duke of Havelan finally returned to Europe with the remnants of the defeated troops of the European eight-nation combined fleet, in fact, at this time, the so-called eight-nation combined fleet only left thirty Dutch super warships that lost all their cannons, and none of the other seven warships returned.

The 641 warships of the Eight-Nation Combined Fleet set out for the battle, and they were almost completely wiped out!

Europe is shocked! From the kings of the world to the most ordinary people, they were shocked!

They couldn't imagine it! With such a huge and unprecedented force of 641 warships as the Eight-Power Combined Fleet, there should be no doubt that it can win all naval battles, but the situation is just the opposite, and the Combined Fleet is almost completely annihilated.

Why is this happening!

Except for the nominal Supreme Commander of the Combined Fleet, the Duke of Havelan, and those Dutch soldiers who returned to Europe, no one knows.

"Nope! The Armada of my Spanish Empire! The Spanish Emperor roared madly.

In this sea battle, the Spanish Empire sent seventy-one warships, which is ninety percent of the Empire's warships, but now none of them have returned, so every battleship is money, a lot of money!

Not to mention the battleship itself, even the dozens of cannons on it cannot be built in a short time.

The loss of seventy-one warships, this is enough for the Spanish Empire to recover for more than ten years, how can you make the Spanish Emperor not be angry, how can he not have blood in his heart.

London, the royal palace of England.

"Smack! Boom ----"

"Damn Havelan, why did he come back, and bring back thirty Dutch warships! What about my English warships! Why didn't I return a single battleship from England! Damn it! Damn Havelan! You should be ashamed to jump into the sea and feed the sharks--------"

The Queen of England was also bleeding from her heart, so angry that she forgot even the elegance and nobility she had always promoted, and like a shrew, she smashed things and cursed.

The same is true for the other six countries.

Even the kings of the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Poland, Austria, and other three countries, which only sent three or five warships, were equally heartbroken.

Don't look at these three or five warships that are not worth mentioning compared to the five major sea powers such as Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, France and Portugal, but they are all the warships of their three countries.

Originally, they just thought that the combined fleet would win, and they cheekily participated in it and wanted to drink a sip of soup, but the soup was not drunk, and all the warships sent failed to return.

Such a big loss, all countries are not reconciled.

In order to understand why the naval battle was lost, and the process of the naval battle, it is also to express his anger.

The kings of England, Spain, Portugal and Austria came to Holland in person, and the kings of the Kingdom of Poland and the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, although they did not come, all sent their trusted ministers to represent them.

Although the protagonists were the eight countries involved in the Combined Fleet, the Combined Fleet suffered a crushing defeat with unprecedented strength, which shook the whole of Europe, and other European countries also sent envoys to the Netherlands to understand the situation.

It can be regarded as an unprecedented gathering of European countries in the Netherlands, even in the history of Europe, which is very rare and very rare.

Even if the Netherlands has been the number one power in sea power for many years and is quite strong, it will not dare to slack off in the face of such a situation.

The king of the Netherlands arranged for the kings of the five countries and the envoys of various countries to be in the royal palace of the Netherlands, and held a dinner to receive them.

The next day, kings and envoys summoned the Duke of Havelan, the only surviving commander of the combined fleet, in the main hall of the Dutch royal palace.

When the Duke of Avilan, who was sallow and old, and who was only forty-eight next year, but who seemed to be seventy or eighty, appeared in front of the kings and envoys of various countries, everyone's eyes widened in shock and gasped.

"This is the Duke of Havelan?" The King of Portugal blurted out in horror, full of disbelief.

As the Duke of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Duke of Havelan once controlled dozens of warships and a large number of colonies of the Dutch Far East Fleet, and was even the nominal supreme commander of the 641 warships and the United Fleet.

The King of Portugal still remembers that less than two years ago, when he met the Duke of Avilan, the Duke of Havelan at that time was still beautiful, high-spirited, and full of fighting spirit, but now he is looking at the Duke of Havelan, and he is indeed like a decadent, godless, and dying old man.

"How did Havelan become like this?" The Queen of England also asked with her mouth wide open.

The Queen of England also met the Duke of Havelan once before the fleet set off, and the difference between the current Duke of Avilan and the original Duke of Havelan is too great, it has only been less than two years!

The King of Holland sighed, he was not surprised by the reaction of the kingdoms and their envoys, and when he first saw the Duke of Havelan, who had returned from the expedition, he was so shocked that he was speechless for a long time.

So much so that most of the anger at Havelan's return from defeat was washed away, it was too miserable! It's not much different from being dead! Because the current Havelan is no longer the original Avilan, but another old man who is dying of old age!

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