Chapter 170: Maritime Strategy

After settling almost the entire South Seas affair, the bearded man waited for the follow-up Angel Naval Auxiliary Corps and Angel Company developers to take over the work of the bases and business inns in various places, and finally began to strike the final blow to the South Seas pirate forces, so on a sunny day, the entire fleet set off north, targeting the pirate forces entrenched in the entire Luzon Island.

The Kingdom of Luzon on the island of Luzon was the lair of the pirates of the South Seas, and the Kingdom of Luzon was a collaborator of the pirates of the South Seas.

Most pirates were ruthless and murderous criminals, so hijacked merchant ships often had their crews and sailors killed. In view of the greedy nature of pirates, after they grabbed the ships and goods, they did not completely burn the robbed ships, and were reluctant to burn some large ships, but bought and sold them through the state of Luzon, so that the ships flowed, and finally let the angel country know about the piracy in the South Seas, so that it attracted conquest.

The navy of Luzon had large rowing ships, and it was the most powerful naval force in the entire Nanyang countries, and it could be said that it was invincible and invincible in the entire South Seas. Therefore, he did not pay attention to the emerging country of Angel State, which was not very famous, and heard that the Angel Kingdom sent a navy to conquer, and Gonzalez, the king of Luzon, decided to let this unknown angel country navy taste the power of his navy of the Great Luzon State, and he immediately sent more than 100 large rows of sailing ships and more than 10,000 sailors to meet it head-on.

Seeing that only thirty warships had come from the Angel Kingdom, he didn't pay attention to them, and immediately put the whole army on board, preparing to surround these thirty warships and annihilate them all.

However, before they got closer, there were still thousands of meters away, and they suddenly heard a rumbling sound in their ears, and suddenly a column of water rushed to the sky around them, and a large row-row sailboat was hit, screaming and stumps flying, and wood chips and blood droplets were splashed, and the large and sturdy row-roof sailing ship in their eyes would be blown apart and sink to the bottom of the sea almost after a single shot, "Oh my God! What kind of magic is this? "The souls of the Luzon Navy were so frightened that they turned around and ran.

The bearded man ordered his men to follow in pursuit. The boats finally burrowed into the inside of a narrow peninsula and disappeared, and said to the bearded man, "That's the largest naval base in Luzon!" It was the largest military base of King Gonzalez of Luzon. ”

The bearded man waved his hands forward and ordered in a loud voice: "Keep going!" ”

The fleet entered Manila Bay, and the color of the water turned a little bluer again. On either side of the battleship, the black waves continued to pound the brown, pothole-forming rocks, and when the broken waves disappeared, they left behind a white foam.

The propeller broke through the waves, and a huge wave rolled by, lifting the ship up and down, and the battleship let out a metallic crunch.

The islands slipped by, and the bearded guest smelled the scent of palm leaves—so close that he could just throw his hat away.

There were at least 200 large rowboats lined up in Manila Bay, full of sailors with swords, spears and bows and arrows.

Since it was a decisive battle, there was nothing to be polite about, the bearded man ordered to line up, and then fired freely! Then he sat comfortably in the command cabin of the bridge and watched the battle situation slowly with a telescope, not at all like watching a tense and fierce battlefield, but as relaxed as watching a play!

Gunfire! Smoke! Explode! In the inland straits of the FLB Islands in the seventh century, the war was repeated from the beginning, and the battle was one-sided at the beginning, which was the result that the bearded man had foreseen for a long time. He just stayed to see the scene of the entire naval battle, which was the fiercest naval battle that this fleet had fought since its southern expedition.

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The whole naval battle was over, more than 200 large rowing ships were basically sunk, medium-sized warships, it was difficult to escape, there were countless people who fell into the water, and the bearded man ordered the No. 1 battleship to take the lead in sailing, and those warships that were not sunk by cannonballs were sunk from the side with ramming angles, and began to bombard the entire Minlila port!

Leaving the remnants of the small galleys to rescue people on the water, the bearded man commanded the fleet to fire continuously at the harbor, blowing up all the large and medium-sized ships parked there!

Shells shot into the sky, bursting with a huge bright red glow. Platoon artillery roared. The deck beneath his feet shook. From all parts of the fleet, like a volcanic eruption, ten thousand rays of light erupted, not fireworks but a network of ammunition, and the flowering shells that emitted dazzling yellow light intertwined into a colorful canopy, and the deafening sound almost drowned out everything.

Boom...... Bang...... Rumble......"

The barrage of fire in the sky is constantly exploding, and the flames are full of the sky, pouring strange splendor into the sea, to the river, and to the harbor of Minlila.

The fire directly enveloped the entire Minlila harbor! The guide who accompanied the ship, after watching the situation, was already speechless with shock.

There was no such thing as surrendering in such a battle, and the bearded men almost completely destroyed the entire port, and those who fell into the water were some of them very watery, and tried to climb the bearded man's ship, but they were quickly shot dead by the marines, and they were so frightened that they had to swim towards their small sailboat.

As the sun set bloodily, fire and smoke enveloped the port of Minlila, and King Gonzalez's navy was wiped out.

Knowing that King Gonzalez of Luzon had colluded with pirates to sack the merchant ships of the Angel Kingdom, and that he had not repented and resisted stubbornly, the bearded man was furious and ordered the Angel Marines: "After landing, if you see the other party's high-ranking generals and kingdom members, as well as pirates, no matter who they are, they will all be killed on the spot!" ”

For a time, the capital of the entire Luzon country, Minlila, was full of corpses, and blood flowed like a river!

Judging from the subsequent battlefield cleanup, there are really not a few Luzon soldiers and Nanyang pirates who were killed by the marines in this battle, almost half of them were killed, and the entire city of Minlila was a sea of blood.

However, the people were killed and wounded very little, because there were not many people left in the city, and most of them ran into the depths of the rainforest as soon as the war began, and the Nanyang pirates were still stubborn until the end, so the Nanyang pirates were the most killed.

Many of the princes, nobles, and ministers of Luzon surrendered, and Luzon was completely destroyed, and King Gonzalez was burned to the fire.

For the pirates who are still resisting, the bearded guest orders that none of them will be left behind, and all of them will be killed! By the end of the day, the remaining hundreds of pirates committed suicide by jumping into the sea!

The ambush of the Nanyang pirates made the bearded guest the biggest heartache, he suddenly felt extremely relaxed, for this Minlila city, the bearded guest felt very good, this city could become the largest naval military base of the Angel Kingdom in the South Seas.

After sweeping through the entire Nanyang countries, the bearded people stationed a part of the army in Brunei, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Sriwijaya, Luzon, etc., and sent people to report the battle situation to Xia Xue.

The bearded man asked Sima Chao to lead 20 warships to temporarily stay in Malaysia, Indonesia, Luzon, etc.

He also led 30 warships and more than 5,000 navy and marines to Australia, and before setting off, Xia Xue specially drew a map of the world's continental distribution, especially the land charts of the South China Sea and Australia's islands.

More than 30 days later, the angel fleet finally arrived on the vast and fertile continent of Australia, and was attacked by some indigenous tribes soon after landing, but it is conceivable how the primitive tribes with stone tools as weapons could be the opponents of the Angel Marines, and they were quickly beaten and fled, and never dared to harass again.

Xia Xue was very happy after receiving the war report, and immediately set up a huge development group composed of workers, peasants, craftsmen, soldiers, and scientific and technological personnel, carrying a large amount of grain, fresh water, canned food, and other foodstuffs, as well as wheat, rice, cotton, rubber, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other high-quality agricultural seeds, farm tools, steam engines, internal combustion engines, and all kinds of machinery and equipment for extracting oil and mineral deposits, etc., with more than 40,000 people and more than 200 large cargo ships, and set off for Indonesia, the Malay Peninsula, Luzon, and Australia.

When the team arrived in Indonesia, Luzon and the Malay Peninsula, it left behind more than 10,000 people, and the remaining 30,000 people continued on to Australia.

More than eight months later, the newly mined high-quality iron ore, copper ore and oil were continuously transported to Xia Xue's new steel mill, refinery and oil refinery in Guangzhou.

For oil exploitation, Xia Xue still paid Brunei, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Sriwijaya, Luzon and other countries according to the market price, but at that time, the ancients had very little knowledge of oil, except for knowing that oil can be used for lighting and other purposes, and did not know what other uses oil had, so the price was also very low. I am very grateful to the benevolent and righteous Brunei and other countries of the Angel Country, they know that even if the Angel Kingdom does not give them a penny, they dare not ask for it. Therefore, these countries have strong support for the oil exploitation work of the Angel Country Development Group. Many locals get paid to work in the oil fields, so the local people welcome it because it increases their income.

Later, Xia Xue sent a small fleet to control the Gorofusha Strait, an important passage of the Maritime Silk Road, which was later known as the Strait of Malacca, according to the request of the naval generals such as Qiu Huke, Sima Chao, and Zheng Shichang. In Puluo, it took advantage of its excellent natural deep-water port, established an angel naval base there, built castles, docks, water plugs, etc., to ensure the smooth and safe passage of the angel country's maritime Silk Road.

Of course, when the base was built in Puluozhong, it was also opposed by the Indian Injection State, the Gorofusa and Puluo Medium Countries in the Malacca Strait, and they formed a combined fleet at sea to resist the invasion of the Angel Fleet, but the war mainly relied on military strength, although the Angel Fleet stationed in the Gorofusha Strait was not large, but it was not a huge Indian Injection State, Gorofusha and Puluo Medium Combined Fleet could compete, the two sides had fought three times, but each time it was India Zhuguo, In the end, the Indian Injection State, the Gorofusa and Puluo Medium countries had to recognize the control and protection of the Golofsha Strait by the Angel State, and saw the strength of the Angel State, and Puluozhong also took the initiative to announce that it would become a subsidiary country of the Angel State, and welcomed the Angel State to build a naval base in Puluo, protect the security of the Chinese soil and people of Puluo, and ensure the smooth and safe passage of the Maritime Silk Road.

Xia Xue has always pursued a foreign policy of "sticks and carrots", and after the conquest by force, for the sake of long-term peace, Xia Xue will not do anything about monopolizing interests.

Although she has established a naval base in the Gorofusha Strait, in terms of interests such as seaports and strait revenues, she is negotiated on an equal footing with the Gorofusha and Puluo other countries, and the interests are shared, so that everyone can have meat to eat, so that seeing that the Angel Kingdom is so benevolent and righteous, and the military force is so strong, there is such a friendly big backer and protection. From the beginning of the confrontation and opposition, the Umbrella, Gorofusha and Puluo Zhong all unanimously expressed their welcome and support for the arrival of the Angel Nation fleet.

In order to make up for the lack of war horses in the Angelic Kingdom, Xia Xue purchased many good breeds from Turkic, Tibetan, Tuyuhun, Goguryeo, Persia (Iran), Dashi (Arabian Peninsula), and Fulin (Eastern Rome). Horses, and then sent to Australia's vast ranches for breeding and breeding, Xia Xue finally has her own excellent war horse breeding base, I believe that in a few years, the angel country will no longer lack war horses.