The sea breeze is cold, the cold is pressing, the Red Sea in December is quite cold, at this time, the Ming army garrison at the entrance of the Eurasian Canal is already a forest, the fortresses on both sides have long been covered with Ming soldiers, the middle river is also full of Ming warships, the war clouds are shrouded, and the passing merchant ships seem to be trembling.

In a fortress on the north bank of the canal, Li Mingfu, commander of the Wuwei Army, was huddled in a small telegraph room with Portuguese Prime Minister Esvera and Spanish Admiral Oquindo, waiting anxiously.

Schwila's face had long since lost the high-spirited look he had when he first became prime minister, and Okundo had lost the radiant look he had when he led the Armada to pull up the Nordic chains, and their faces were full of panic, apparently not recovering from the surprise attack of the anti-Habsburg alliance.

This sudden attack really blinded both countries, and at first they received the news that the colonies had been attacked, as mentioned earlier, the Franco-Dutch coalition was attacking the Portuguese Gold Coast, while the British, Danish, and Swedish forces were attacking the Portuguese Viceroyalty of Brazil, the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, and the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

The warships and troops used by the five countries are not very many, France and the Netherlands only used thirty or forty super battleships, and Britain, Denmark, and Sweden combined only used more than a hundred super battleships, which is the strength of Spain and Portugal feel that they can fight, so they did not notify the Ming Empire, but said hello to each other and sent troops directly.

Spain and Portugal are basically self-sufficient in guns and artillery after receiving the assistance of the machine tools of the Ming Empire, but the super battleships have not exploded much, although they used to have a certain shipbuilding foundation, and there are also Ming super battleships as samples, but building super battleships is not so simple.

First of all, they must build special docks and docks, so that super battleships have a place to produce, and it is definitely not possible to use the original docks and docks, whether it is volume, height or supporting facilities, they cannot keep up;

Then, they also had to make steam boilers, piston transmissions and impellers, these things are not as simple, not to say that they can be built, of course, they can also choose to buy from the Ming Dynasty, but both countries coincidentally chose to make their own, which is the basis for dominating the sea in the future, and they all want to master it themselves.

Finally, they must also have a considerable number of skilled craftsmen, which are even more urgent and can only be cultivated slowly.

In short, it is very time-consuming to produce super battleships from scratch, although Portugal and Spain have been desperately investing in recent years, the battleships produced are not very many, and before the war, Portugal's new and old super battleships are all counted as more than 50, Spain can have more, but the total number is less than 200, which is not as much as a fleet of Daming.

Although their strength is not worth mentioning compared to the Ming Dynasty, the strength shown by the anti-Habsburg alliance at the beginning is even less worth mentioning, so they rushed to send troops.

As you can imagine, they were all ambushed halfway and suffered heavy losses.

More than 50 Portuguese super battleships were besieged by 200 super battleships from France and the Netherlands, and in the end, more than a dozen super battleships escaped.

More than 100 Spanish super battleships were besieged by more than 300 super battleships from Britain, Denmark, and Sweden, and in the end, less than 50 super battleships escaped.

Fortunately, they were all surrounded by the vast sea, and if they were surrounded in that harbor, they would all be annihilated!

This battle almost crippled the Portuguese and Spanish navies, and their remaining super battleships were not enough to fight against the Habsburg powers, of course, they still had a lot of ordinary warships, but, since the appearance of steamships, super battleships have become the mainstream, and sail warships are a dish in front of the super battleships that turn to be flexible.

At this time, they finally knew that they had been fooled, and now who else could rely on it, only to ask the Ming Empire for help, King João IV of Portugal directly sent the Prime Minister of the Prime Minister of the Ming Empire, and the King of Spain thought about it for a long time before sending Admiral Okundo, who had dealt with the Ming Empire, so it was Schvera who rushed to the Eurasian Canal first although he went around half of the way, and Okouendo was a step late.

They are also lucky, although the Ming Empire has not yet built the Eurasian Railway to the Eurasian Canal, the telegraph line just happened to be brought here, otherwise they would have to go to South Asia to spread the news to the Ming capital.

At this time, Li Mingfu had already sent the distress messages of Portugal and Spain to the palace in the capital, depending on what the emperor said, Schvera and Okundo looked at the telegraph like a life-saving straw, if His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire was unwilling to send troops to support, then they would be doomed.

Although His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire is notoriously good to the allies, after all, this is a war involving dozens or even millions of people, the casualties are definitely not small, and the cost of silver is even more incalculable, and the Ming Empire has no obligation to help them regain the colony, this kind of thankless thing, will His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire agree?

Zhu Cijiong actually didn't think about it for long before replying, but Schvira and Okundo were in a state of high tension, and it felt like a year.

Finally, the telegraph bell rang again, and the capital called back, and the two correspondents immediately concentrated on holding the brush and remembering the telegraph code.

Although Schwila is a big man, he has not yet figured out the principle of this telegram, why did this little bell ring on its own? How does this bell sound represent so many words? He was puzzled!

Although the principle of the telegraph is not very complicated, but if no one explains it carefully, it is difficult to figure it out for yourself, like these correspondents do not understand very well, they only know how to send the report, how to receive the report, as for the meaning of the binary code, most of them have memorized it, and those who can't remember it only need to turn over the code.

They were all specially trained, and their movements were very sharp, and as soon as the bell rang they began to translate the code into words, and they couldn't remember many words, so they quickly translated the message after a few casual flips of the code.

The two checked it and quickly handed over a relatively well-written one to Li Mingfu on the side, Li Mingfu read it carefully and handed the message to Shi Weila, who was waiting next to him.

This telegram is exactly what Zhu Cijiong said at the end:

Spain and Portugal are requested to report on the naval damage in the battle, and at the same time find a way to find out the specific situation of the enemy's army, and in addition, the emperor's holy message: The reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty will soon arrive in the Eurasian Canal.

When Shi Weila saw the last sentence, she couldn't help but be moved and said with tears in her eyes: "I knew that the emperor would not leave Weichen." “

When Li Mingfu heard this, he couldn't help but roll his eyes, what is this!