Chapter 250: African Spheres of Influence (1)

The English expedition, which was mostly a pirate, strongly divided the predatory slave territory south of the equator to the exclusion of the Spanish expedition, and Spain was very dissatisfied with this, and the German Confederation, which was engaged in the Thirty Years' War, was not satisfied, and the contradictions between them began to erupt. In addition to the unification war on the European mainland, the Prussians, who were also allies, formed an alliance with Spain in Africa and fought fiercely with the expeditions led by England.

The present German Confederation is composed of many states, the most powerful of which are Prussia and Austria, the Prussians inherited the military organization of the Teutonic Knights, its military organization is tight, well-trained, and the combat effectiveness is very strong, but the number is not large, after nearly 30 years of war, the people's will for reunification is relatively strong, and no one wants to live under the haze of war for many years. Georg Wilhelm became the ruler of the Electorate of Brandenburg and the Duchy of Prussia in 1619. He tried to maintain neutrality between the Catholic and Protestant camps. When his sister Maria. After Ilionora (of Brandenburg) became Queen of Sweden, George had to take a perfunctory approach to the request of his brother-in-law, King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden, to form an alliance, and at the same time to make an alliance with his Protestant and Catholic adviser, Adam. Feng. Schwarsingburg.

Originally, Georg Wilhelm was relatively weak, but more than 20 years of war had greatly reduced the population of Brandenburg, and it was also very uncomfortable in his heart, and the desire to work hard has always surrounded him. After Sun Yuzhi helped Philip III win the blockade war against England, France, and the Netherlands, Philip III was ambitious and made the decision to further support his brother Ferdinand the Great. William had an excellent opportunity to expand the Teutonic Order, and the use of new weapons made it even more powerful.

The mighty Teutonic Knights, having adapted to the use of new weapons, quickly quelled the war at home, expelled the troops fighting in Brandenburg, and defeated the army of his brother-in-law Adolf, and then began the war to unify Prussia, which took only half a year. It should be said that the war of German unification was carried out relatively simply, there was no more powerful principality except for the Duchy of Austria, Georg Wilhelm naturally would not have lost both sides for this, and Ferdinand the Great would not support his great unification, and the remaining area was only more than 600,000 square kilometers, which was about the same as the area of a province in the Ming Dynasty, and the population was about the same.

Duke Georg Wilhelm, who had unified Germany, began to fight alongside Spain, and he sent part of the soldiers of the Teutonic Knights to begin fighting side by side with the Spanish expedition in Africa, following the pattern of the expedition. Here his expedition met caravans of the Daimyo kingdom that sold weapons to the indigenous blacks, only to learn that the weapons they used were from the distant Ming Dynasty. They reached out to caravanserais, purchased large quantities of new weapons, and shipped them to the country through Spanish merchant ships. This made Georg Wilhelm even more convinced of the power of weapons, so he sent more expeditions, intending to seek more benefits here.

The well-trained soldiers of the Teutonic Order were naturally more suitable for land operations than the average pirate team, and the German expeditions just wanted to get more money, they did not have overseas colonies and did not need to trade slaves, compared to the expeditions of other European countries, they became the umbrella of the indigenous black people. Seeing that the German expedition received a friendly expression from the natives, the Spanish expedition also changed its strategy, and they no longer took slaves in the south, but provided protection here like the Germans, and only collected protection money from the natives to fight against the plundering of slaves by the English here.

Different tactics had different effects, and the expeditions led by the English began to be gradually expelled from the area, but after a year of plundering, the population here was less than one-third of the original number, and most of the young and middle-aged people were plundered, and the rest were mostly old and young women. At this time, the Germans began to become the leaders of power in this generation, and they established a colony about the size of their own country in the same way as the Daimyo Kingdom and Shin Oten, and implemented the German state administration here.

The Spaniards did not seek the purpose of colonies here, changed some of the practices in history, and learned from the experience of the Ming Dynasty, they had too many colonies, they needed labor, their purpose was to carry out trade, and earn high profits, so the actions of the Germans did not have any other impact on them, and the colonies established by the Germans here were also open to the Spaniards, and they enjoyed the minerals and other materials in the territory here, so that Spain basically achieved their goal.

The English, who had already tasted the great benefits of the slave trade, felt that they were unwilling to give up this lucrative industry, so they united with the French, Swedes, Belgians, Danes, etc., to form a coalition army, and began to land along the coast, with the English providing their weapons, with a large number of soldiers, counterattacking the German Teutonic Knights expeditions, constantly reducing their sphere of influence, in order to rob more black slaves.

With the arrival of a large number of English allied soldiers, the outnumbered German expeditions gradually felt overwhelmed, but they were not willing to give up the benefits of the huge supply of raw materials, and their allies the Spaniards were not willing to give up, so they also asked for a large number of explorers to send over the same large number of explorers, and the two sides began a protracted war in Africa south of the equator.

The weapons provided by the Daimyo Kingdom were mainly firing pistols, which were used to support the indigenous blacks to resist the invaders, and this simple weapon was only suitable for these natives with relatively low quality, not very suitable for the mighty Teutonic Knights soldiers, who preferred the rifles exported by the Ming Dynasty to Spain, so they asked Zhu Changrun and Zhu Changhao for help from Xinyingtian, but Xinyingtian did not have these weapons, so he recommended Mingdao to them, and asked them to contact Sun Yuzhi, who had returned to Mingdao.

Sun Yuzhi of Ming Island has already shipped a large number of export rifles and mortars from the Ming Dynasty to store them here, but they have not been sold to the outside world, the purpose is to wait for the time of the war in various parts of Europe before selling, but now the war in Europe has not yet begun, and the competition for colonies in Africa has become fierce, which is a bit unexpected by Sun Yuzhi. But one thing, whether there is a war there, it is a good thing for weapons sales, although the sales volume is not large now, so it can be regarded as an advertisement first.

The weapons that Sun Yuzhi supplied to the Teutonic Knights in Germany were of the same level as the weapons exported to Spain and Portugal, which were much better than the Ming weapons imitated by the English, and they were much cheaper than the ones that Georg William bought from Ferdinand, plus they did not need to obtain funds from their own country, as long as they organized the indigenous blacks to develop the local gold and copper mines in Africa.

Sun Yuzhi didn't dare to be too greedy, he was satisfied with only half of the product, and if there were too many, people would lose the foundation of fighting. In order to better sell the weapons, Sun Yuzhi also sent some soldiers as instructors to teach the German and Spanish soldiers the skills of using these weapons, training them how to better adapt to new tactics and formations, and how to minimize casualties in battle, which was much faster than the English coalition army itself in the war. Therefore, although the number is at a disadvantage, but after the advantage of weapons and tactics, the Spanish and German allied forces fought well, making the opponent pay a greater price, and the battlefield situation has gradually entered a state of equilibrium, and the English allied army can not suppress the counterattack of the German and Spanish armies, but they can also grab some indigenous black slaves for trade, and the loss is more of the native.