In the decisive battle of the West, the new ironclad warships of the Ming Empire were born, and the anti-Habsburg alliance was taken by surprise, and they were defeated and fled.

Taking advantage of the victory, the Daming Habsburg Alliance pursued and sank more than 800 super battleships of the anti-Habsburg alliance powers, captured more than 200 enemy warships, and lost less than 200 of its own warships, which can be described as a complete victory.

However, due to the remnants of the anti-Habsburg coalition warships hiding in the ports of Dover and Calais, relying on the stubborn resistance of the harbor's batteries and forts, Zheng Chenggong was unable to break through the blockade of the forts and forts for a while, and had to return to the mouth of the Guadiana River to replenish ammunition and use other tactics.

The tactic he came up with was very simple, that is, to transport a group of armored fighting vehicles and army elites to the vicinity of the two ports, find a place without forts and forts to land on the beach, put down the armored tanks and the army, and let them attack by land, while he commanded the ironclad warships to attack from the sea, advance by sea and land, and take the opponent's forts and batteries in one fell swoop.

The idea was good, but the army base at the mouth of the Guadiana River did not have armoured combat vehicles in it, and it had to be transferred from other places, so he had to rest and wait.

When the news returned to the Ming Empire, it was naturally celebrated by the whole country.

won, the Ming Dynasty finally won, from then on, on the sea, it is also the Ming Empire that has the final say, and the Ming Empire is invincible on land and sea!

However, Zhu Cijiong did not agree to Zheng Chenggong's tactics, he just asked Zheng Chenggong to wait, wait for a month, and keep a big surprise.

The Ming Empire was happy, but the anti-Habsburg coalition was gloomy, and the representatives of the great powers gathered in Rotterdam again to discuss countermeasures.

Originally, a general like Van Mendi, who had been defeated repeatedly, should have been taken down and sent to a military tribunal a long time ago, but first, the entire anti-Habsburg coalition could no longer find a suitable general, and second, he also discovered a big secret this time, and he miraculously stayed in office.

The secret he discovered was naturally the secret of the sealed cabin of the ironclad battleship, and he didn't think much about it when he was fighting, but he remembered it after he was defeated and fled back.

Ironclad battleships, this idea has been had in many countries, and even put into action, but the warships that have been built are either too small or can't be driven, and some of them sink to the bottom before they are even built, and they can't sail normally at all, let alone be used in actual combat, so everyone slowly gave up.

This time, the Ming Empire actually built such a huge ironclad battleship, which is a very strange thing in itself, how did they solve the problem that the ironclad battleship was too heavy?

Van Mendi was also puzzled, and after thinking about it, he finally remembered the details of the enemy ship he had seen when he first observed the landing point of the shells.

It seems that he saw that the ironclad battleship built by the Ming Empire was not arc-shaped under the bottom, but had an obvious protrusion, as if a fish bladder was added below.

He was originally a naval warfare expert, and he was naturally quite familiar with the structure of the battleship, and the structure under the ironclad battleship of the Ming Empire was obviously different from that of ordinary wooden battleships, which was naturally strange.

He went back and thought about it carefully, and figured out that the thing like a fish bladder below must be used to increase buoyancy!

After the buoyancy increases, the weight of the ironclad battleship will not be a problem, so that the anti-Habsburg coalition can also build ironclad battleships!

It was because of this discovery that he was spared the fate of being removed from his post and investigated.

It was precisely because of his discovery that the anti-Habsburg coalition saw hope for turning defeat into victory.

Ironclad warships, to put it bluntly, is a buoyancy problem that cannot be solved, and now that the solution to this problem is known, then as long as all resources are concentrated and frantically manufactured, within two years, the anti-Habsburg coalition will be able to burst out thousands of ironclad warships!

In this way, the more than 300 ironclad warships of the Ming Empire are not a scumbag.

Of course, it is not ruled out that the Ming Empire will continue to storm the ironclad warships, but they have always been very confident that the shipbuilding capacity of the Ming Empire is not as strong as the five countries combined, so they also tried in vain to delay time, brutalize the armored warships, and finally turned defeat into victory.

How can you procrastinate for time?

Naturally, he asked for peace talks, as long as he suffered a little loss, coaxed the Ming Empire back, and dragged him for about two years, he could get it back with interest!

The anti-Habsburg coalition soon reached a consensus and submitted a request for peace talks to the Daming Habsburg coalition.

Neither Philip IV of Spain nor João IV of Portugal could decide on the question of peace or not, and Ferdinand III of the Holy Roman Empire could not decide, but only His Majesty the Chongzheng Emperor of the Ming Empire could decide.

After Zhu Cijiong received the news, he quickly replied: peace talks are okay, let them wait for the Ming Empire to send a representative for peace talks.

Peace talks are indeed possible, but as long as they can accept the terms of peace talks, there will be no need to fight this battle.

However, Zhu Cijiong estimated that it was impossible for them to easily accept the conditions they had proposed for peace talks, because this condition was simply too harsh for the anti-Habsburg coalition.

The reason why he asked the anti-Habsburg coalition to wait was to wait for the high-explosive shells to be made, and then negotiate terms with them.

If they don't agree, just go to the high-explosive shells and bomb until they agree to do it!

The first batch of high-explosive shells would take about ten days to be manufactured, and Zhu Cijiong simply summoned Zheng Zhilong back to the capital, taught him face-to-face, and taught him how to negotiate with the anti-Habsburg powers.

The conditions for the peace talks he proposed were really scary, and Zheng Zhilong, who had been negotiating for a long time, had rich experience, was as thick-skinned as a city wall, and never lent himself in blackmailing money, but this time he was also frightened by these conditions put forward by Zhu Cijiong.

Doesn't this cost human life? How can people accept it!

Zhu Cijiong was naturally not afraid that they would not accept it, and if there were no high-explosive shells, it might have to take a lot of effort to get the anti-Habsburg allied powers to accept such harsh conditions.

Now, with high-explosive shells, he is not worried at all that the anti-Habsburg coalition dares the powers not to accept the terms of the peace talks, and if they do not accept it, they will blow it up!

Anyway, there was still time, so Zhu Cijiong simply took Zheng Zhilong to the army experimental base to see the power of high-explosive shells.

At first, Zheng Zhilong was a little unimpressed, he had seen a lot of new weapons, and he thought that this time it was at most the level of armored combat vehicles.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has even built ironclad battleships, it is not surprising that armored combat vehicles have come up with some new tricks.

However, what the emperor showed him was not something like an armored combat vehicle at all, but artillery, or shells to be precise.

Good guy, that shell blasted out and scared him stupid.

And with shells? It's even fiercer than a bucket-thick explosive tube!

No wonder the emperor is so confident, with this thing, no matter what conditions are proposed, the anti-Habsburg alliance must be accepted.

If you don't accept it, you will be blown into slag directly!