The advent of steamships made naval warfare more flexible, and even if Richelieu knew the tactics of encirclement and ambush on all sides, he would not be able to implement it because the speed of the sail warships was too slow.

If you want to encircle the point to send reinforcements, at least you must know where the enemy's reinforcements are coming from, and you have to surround the enemy's reinforcements, if all of them are sail warships, then it depends on luck, there is still some hope for smooth sailing, if it is neither smooth wind nor smooth water, and then organize a siege when the enemy situation is detected, I am afraid that the enemy's fleet will have long since disappeared.

With a ship it is different, whether it is smooth or not, whether it is smooth or not, whether it is smooth or not, the speed of the battleship will not be affected, and under normal circumstances, as long as the ambush is in the right position, the enemy will definitely not be able to escape.

Richelieu thought so, and did so, and now that the Spanish and Portuguese navies had been crippled by the combined fleet of the anti-Habsburg coalition, it was enough to prove that the tactic he proposed was simply a stroke of genius.

When he heard that the fleet of the Ming Empire had entered the Mediterranean Sea and went straight to the Strait of Gibraltar, a fox-like smile appeared on his face again, and this time the Ming Empire would definitely be planted.

As for the question of why the Daming Habsburg Alliance would use its geographical advantages to attack southern France from the Mediterranean coast, he naturally thought that the French army was the strongest in the anti-Habsburg alliance, and in the past two years, he also ordered people to build a lot of fortresses at dangerous passes in the south.

He thought that within half a month, the news of the Ming Empire's fleet being surrounded and annihilated would come from the sea, but he was destined to be disappointed.

The first stop of Zheng Chenggong's trip was neither the Gold Coast of Africa nor North and South America, but the estuary of the Guadiana River on the border between Spain and Portugal.

Here, the trade city of the Ming Empire has long been built, a bridge spans both banks, and two railways connect east and west, the northwest railway is to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, and the northeast railway is to Madrid, Spain.

Railways, rivers, and seaports converge together, and the traffic here can be described as extending in all directions, whether it is from Africa, or from the colonies of North and South America, all kinds of goods can be transshipped to the capitals of Spain and Portugal through here, whether it is from the Eurasian Canal to do business with the two countries, or from the two countries to the Far East merchants can transit here, it has long become a prosperous port city, and its prosperity is even no less than that of Lisbon and Madrid.

Originally, there were always merchant ships and mountains of goods, but for more than a month, it has been deserted, with few merchant ships coming and going, and even most of the shops on the street have closed.

Perhaps, this is related to the fact that the merchants of the Ming Empire and the vassal states under the Ming Empire have to go back for the New Year's Festival, but the more important reason is that the sea routes to Africa and North and South America have been blocked by the Anti-Habsburg Alliance, and the goods of the Spanish and Portuguese colonies cannot pass at all, and it is naturally depressed here.

Zheng Chenggong is not surprised by the depression here, war means destruction, and it is good that this place has not been scorched, as for business, it is better to wait until the war is over.

All kinds of indications show that the naval strength of the anti-Habsburg alliance is probably comparable to that of the Ming Empire, and the three fleets under his command may not be able to do anything about the anti-Habsburg alliance, so he made preparations for a long-term battle, and after coming here, he did not do anything, but took Huang Long, Zheng Zhihu, Cao Wenzhao and other senior generals, as well as the two allied bigwigs of Svera and Okundo, to go around, inspect the terrain, and prepare to build forts and fortresses.

After a few days of investigation, Zheng Chenggong demarcated three areas near the mountains and the sea, and asked Schvera and Okundo to notify the local officials to relocate all the local civilians, and then a boatload of Ming soldiers was transported over and set up a large camp on the nearby coast, and then a boatload of reinforced concrete was transported over, and one by one ports, docks, forts, and forts slowly took shape.

The Ming army once again showed their terrifying construction speed, and in less than half a month, the iron triangle defense line of the Guadiana River, which left a strong mark in the history books, was formed, and finally, thousands of artillery pieces were loaded with fortresses and batteries, and a steel defense line was finally completed.

Everything was ready, Zheng Chenggong convened the generals of the navy and land for the last combat meeting, and then set off with three fleets, the goal of the combined fleet was directly aimed at the Gold Coast, and he wanted to use himself as a bait to lure out all the hidden strength of the anti-Habsburg alliance.

On the vast sea, the combined fleet of the Ming army moved forward slowly, Zheng Chenggong arranged a very strange formation, the four treasure ships were not lined up in front of the entire fleet, nor in the middle, but followed at the rear, although the super battleships were lined up in battle, but the horizontal distance between the queue and the queue was very wide, it could be said that it was loose and loose, if the enemy concentrated his forces to break through from the middle, it was easy to divide the entire fleet into two, or even split into many small pieces.

This formation looks spectacular, but in the eyes of generals with a little experience in naval warfare, the commander of this formation is simply a fool who doesn't understand naval warfare.

When the reconnaissance ship hidden behind the nearby desert island passed the news to the commander of the coalition forces in the rear, Admiral Fan Mendi, Fan Mendi's jaw was about to drop, the six hundred super battleships were lined up more than 100 miles wide, this Ming army commander could not be sick!

Regardless of whether the commander of the Ming army was sick or not, he still ordered all the ambushed fleets to enter the designated position, once the Ming fleet entered the encirclement, immediately surrounded and annihilated it, they waited for more than half a month, the Ming army finally took the bait, how could Fan Mendi let them go.

Fan Mendi's resentment of the Ming Navy, that is simply poured out of the water of the Atlantic Ocean can not be washed away, he was defeated in the hands of the Ming army twice in a row, the first time was directly captured, the second time was almost wiped out, panic fled, if it were not for the allies to command large naval battles too few senior generals with experience, his life would be destroyed in the hands of the Ming Empire.

The Ming Empire, this time it is finally going to be planted in his own hands, and it seems that he has sent a sick commander, he seems to have seen the scene of leading the combined fleet to annihilate the main force of the Ming Empire's navy, and he returned triumphantly.

Okay, the more sick the commander of the Ming Empire, the better, it's better to be an idiot!

Zheng Chenggong is naturally not sick in such a formation, if the enemy is not ambushed, it doesn't matter how he platoons, if the enemy has an ambush, then, hehe.