The anti-Habsburg coalition really went crazy this time, completely ignoring the development of the country, pulling almost all the young and strong laborers onto the battlefield, and using military force to the extreme.

The effect of this is still obvious, Spain and Portugal of the Ming Habsburg Alliance have been beaten badly, especially Portugal, most of the northern land has been occupied by the anti-Habsburg Alliance, if it is not for the support of the Ming Empire to come quickly, they may not even be able to hold the capital Lisbon.

Just as the anti-Habsburg coalition powers were frantically attacking in northern Spain and Portugal, Zheng Chenggong led 300 ironclad warships of the Ming Navy's Praetorian Guard Corps to appear in front of the Ming army's defensive position at the mouth of the Guadiana River.

At this time, the anti-Habsburg coalition powers still did not know that the killer weapon of the Ming Dynasty had come.

Along the way, there may have been people on the side of the anti-Habsburg coalition who saw the ironclad battleship of the Ming Dynasty, but they were unable to send the news back.

Because along the way, Zheng Chenggong issued a blockade order, he ordered the blockade of the Strait of Malacca as soon as he passed through the Strait of Malacca, he ordered the blockade of the Eurasia Canal as soon as he passed through the Eurasian Canal, and he also ordered that neither of these places should be lifted until the war started.

In this way, even if someone on the side of the anti-Habsburg coalition saw the ironclad warship of the Ming Dynasty, they would not be able to quickly send the news back, because the sea route was not open at all, and they had to pass through the Ottoman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire by land, and in the absence of a train, I am afraid that a month would not be enough!

What Zheng Chenggong is doing now is to race against time, and if he can launch an offensive before the anti-Habsburg coalition powers receive the news, it will definitely be able to achieve a big victory.

If the anti-Habsburg coalition powers had received the news before attacking, it would have been unknown what the situation was, and it was quite possible that the ships of the anti-Habsburg coalition would have retreated home in fear.

This time his luck was quite good, because the reason why the anti-Habsburg coalition frantically attacked Spain and Portugal was to force the combined fleet of the Daming Habsburg alliance to fight a decisive battle with it.

Zheng Chenggong knew a little about the current war situation and knew the intentions of the anti-Habsburg alliance powers, there is really a way in heaven that you don't go, and there is no door in hell for you to break into.

I didn't know how to lure their combined fleet out, but now it's good, and they are coming straight to the door.

He was sure that as soon as he appeared on the west coast of Portugal with the combined fleet, the combined fleet of the anti-Habsburg coalition powers would surely pounce.

On the day he arrived at the defensive position at the mouth of the Guadiana River, he summoned a meeting of the commanders of all the fleets to arrange tactics and prepare for an attack.

At this time, there were actually quite a few warships gathered at the mouth of the Guadiana River, more than 1,200 wooden super battleships alone, plus ironclad battleships, the total number was more than 1,500, which was not much less than the combined fleet of the anti-Habsburg powers.

The establishment of the Spanish and Portuguese navies was modeled after the Ming Empire, with a fleet of 200 super battleships, that is to say, the generals attending the meeting were a total of six except Zheng Chenggong.

On the side of the Ming Empire, Huang Long, the chief general of the Beiyang Naval Division, Zheng Zhihu, the chief general of the Nanyang Naval Division, and Zheng Xing, the chief general of the South China Sea Fleet;

On the Spanish and Portuguese sides, the veteran Oquindo and two new admirals are present.

Zheng Chenggong didn't arrange too complicated tactics, anyway, as long as the ironclad battleship was on board, no matter how many wooden battleships the other party had, it would be fake.

The key to this battle is to hide the ironclad battleship first, and then wait for the two sides to suddenly rush out and break the enemy in one fell swoop.

Therefore, Zheng Chenggong sent a simple plum blossom array, with six fleets lined up on the periphery as petals, and ironclad battleships hidden in the middle as stamens, the specific arrangement is:

The South Sea Naval Division and the Northern Ocean Naval Division were in front of the left and right front of the Combined Fleet, respectively;

The Portuguese Fleet and the South Sea Fleet were to the left and right of the Combined Fleet, respectively;

The two Spanish fleets were in the left and right rear of the Combined Fleet;

As soon as the combined fleet of the anti-Habsburg coalition powers rushed up, the ironclad battleships in the middle immediately met them, and when the ironclad battleships rushed into the enemy formation, the wooden battleships behind them surrounded and finished.

Naturally, there was nothing to explain about such a simple tactic, he just made a slight gesture, and the generals understood.

Early the next morning, the combined fleet of the Ming Empire, Spain and Portugal drove out of the mouth of the Guadiana River in turn, set up a plum blossom formation in the Atlantic Ocean in the southeast corner of Portugal, and then went north along the west coast of Portugal to England.

After sailing at full speed for about half a day, the combined fleet had just passed the ocean west of Lisbon, and a dense number of warships appeared in front of it, and it was obvious that the combined fleet of the anti-Habsburg alliance powers had already prepared for a decisive battle with the combined fleet of the Daming Habsburg alliance.

At this time, the warships of both sides were densely lined up, and there was no edge in sight, and the Daming Habsburg Alliance had a total of more than 1,500 wooden super battleships and ironclad warships, while the Anti-Habsburg Alliance had a total of more than 1,600 wooden super battleships.

This can be said to be the largest naval battle in history, the number of warships invested by both sides is more than 1,000, if only in terms of the number of warships, the invincible armada organized by Spain may be comparable to one side, but to count the number of participants, the number of artillery, and even the displacement, it is absolutely unprecedented.

At this time, Zheng Chenggong, the generalissimo of the Ming Empire, was sitting on the command platform of the treasure ship Chenggong, his expression was indifferent, and there was even a hint of a smile on his face.

Around him, twelve flag-bearers holding flag-bearers of various colors stood upright, faintly arranged in a circle, looking in all directions.

If you take a closer look, you will find that the Ming Empire is really arrogant, these twelve standard-bearers are actually hanging the latest military telescopes on their chests, you know, this thing is quite precious nowadays, a telescope is at least a hundred taels of silver, in the anti-Habsburg powers are only the main general of the fleet, and the Ming Dynasty, even a standard-bearer is equipped!

Not only them, but many of the flag-bearers on the masts of warships had the same telescopes on their chests, and there were hundreds of them!

Zheng Chenggong naturally made this blood for a reason, after the standard-bearers of the herald were equipped with binoculars, the speed of transmitting information was more than twice as fast.

No, the fleet of the anti-Habsburg coalition had just appeared more than ten miles away from the periphery, and the flag-bearers on the periphery just raised their binoculars and glanced at them, and then raised the command flag in their hands one after another, and in the blink of an eye, the information was transmitted to the inner circle.

The standard-bearers next to Zheng Chenggong raised their binoculars one after another to take a look, and soon, they all turned around and saluted:

"Generalissimo Qiqi, more than ten miles in front of the left side of the fleet, enemy warships have been found, and the number is about five hundred."

"Generalissimo Qiyu, enemy warships have been found more than ten miles to the left of the fleet, and the number is about six hundred."

"Generalissimo Qiqi, enemy warships have been found more than ten miles behind the left of the fleet, and the number is about five hundred."