The thirteenth year of Chongzheng was destined to be a year of great war, because the emperor of the Ming Empire, Zhu Cijiong, planned to occupy the Mughal Empire in this year, expel the anti-Habsburg allied powers, and dominate the entire Far East!

And it was not Zheng Zhilong, the governor of the Nanyang of the Ming Empire who was in Xingcheng Harbor, who sounded the horn of this big war, nor Hou Shilu, the commander of the First Army of the Ming Empire Expeditionary Force in Mysore, but Admiral Yang Geng, the commander of the Ming North Sea Fleet in Northern Europe.

On the first day of the first lunar month, the North Sea Fleet of the Ming Empire, which had stayed in the port of Dunkirk for more than ten days, suddenly set sail, lined up in formation, left the port, and sailed in the direction of the Strait of Dover, followed by hundreds of Spanish warships.

The generals in the temporary headquarters of the Depana coalition received the report of the secret agent, not only did not panic, but breathed a sigh of relief, they have been closely watching the movement of Dunkirk port, it seems that the fleet of the Ming Empire is not here to help Spain recover the Netherlands, but to help Spain build a fortress!

According to the secret agent's report, the number of troops of the Ming Empire was terrifying, but they did not bring any weapons, they were holding shovels and shovels in their hands, and when they arrived at the port of Dunkirk, they did not organize any military operations, but directly built fortresses around the port.

The speed at which they repaired the fort was quite amazing, it was completed in five days, and the number of artillery pieces equipped in the fort was also quite amazing, each fort was equipped with at least three or four hundred guns.

However, after repairing the fortress, they went straight back to the battleship, and it seemed that they had celebrated wildly for a few days, and then set sail!

Based on this information, the generals of various countries have come to a conclusion that the fleet of the Ming Empire is to help Spain repair the fortress, and now that the fortress is repaired, they are naturally going to return, as for the four new fortresses in Dunkirk, the generals of all countries scoffed, Dunkirk is such a big place, Spain loves to guard it, see how long they can hold it, and the military budget can drag them to death.

The fleet of the Ming Empire seemed to be really going to return home, and under the escort of the Spanish fleet, they were on the coast and headed westward without the slightest sign of stopping.

However, in the early morning of the next day, as soon as the sky was bright, a huge fleet suddenly appeared on the sea outside the port of Calais, and then, without warning, countless Portuguese soldiers and soldiers of the Ming Empire poured out of the ship like a tide.

Calais still did not have any garrison at this time, most of the French troops were transferred to the West-French border, and the rest were also stationed near Paris.

When the Portuguese soldiers rushed into the city of Calais with impunity, the French magistrates, who had just crawled out of the bed, went into a frenzy.

"Are you sick?"

"Do you know what this place is?"

"You're all insane, aren't you?"

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The Portuguese soldiers didn't know if they couldn't understand French at all or what's wrong, no matter who it was, as long as they dared to go up and point fingers, they would be beaten violently if they were caught, and they would be thrown directly to the ground after the beating, and then what should they do again!

When King Louis XIII of France received the news, it was already three days later, and the Ming Empire had united with Portugal to occupy Calais! Neurotic, don't you know how strong France is? Is this an attempt to provoke a world war!

This kind of naked aggression is naturally intolerable, after Louis XIII understood the specific situation, he immediately decided to send troops to Barca-de-Calais to take it back, what are you kidding, a total of only 20,000 troops and 100,000 laborers came to invade France, and the two or three hundred thousand allied troops of the Western Tooth and the Holy Roman Empire were all killed by him, such an army, looking for death!

He immediately gathered 50,000 troops stationed near Paris, and as soon as he was encouraged, he was ready to send troops, but the news from Calais made him dumbfounded, the Ming Empire directly built four fortresses around the port of Calais, which were completed in five days, and each fortress had hundreds of cannons!

50,000 horses, to attack the 20,000-person garrisoned fortress, and it is also a connected four fortresses, that is simply to seek death, what to do, to raise the strength of the whole country to recover the Jialai?

It was sick, maybe Calais had not yet been defeated, and the Spanish army on the border of West France had knocked down Paris, and if the military was not good, then the only way to write would be, Louis XIII finally decided to send an envoy to talk, and it was naturally best to persuade people to leave, and if they couldn't persuade them to leave, then find a way.

The Triple Alliance is determined to build a Nordic iron chain, and the French envoys will naturally not be persuaded to leave, but the leading generals of Portugal and the Ming Empire are very polite, they just push around very politely, and do not do anything excessive.

The generals of the Ming Empire said, I was only ordered to repair the bunker, it's useless for you to talk to me!

The Portuguese generals said that we were only ordered to help, and if Spain said to withdraw, we would withdraw, and if they didn't say withdraw, we would withdraw, and our Majesty the King would take care of me when I went back!

After pushing back and forth like this for a few days, the Ming Empire really withdrew, and even the people and warships were withdrawn, and there were 20,000 Portuguese troops left in Calais.

Now the French envoy is energetic, pestering the Portuguese generals every day to make mushrooms, he really hopes to persuade the 20,000 Portuguese people away!

Not to mention, there were really a lot of such strange things in Europe at that time, and it was rare for the great powers to really go all out to fight each other, and this kind of thing abounded when they fought and didn't fight, and they grinded people away after a while, but this time France is afraid that it is destined to be disappointed, the Ming Empire and Portugal have spent so much effort to transport so many people over, if you are persuaded to leave with a few words, wouldn't it be sick!

Even the North Sea Fleet of the Ming Empire didn't really go, they met a small Spanish fleet halfway through, and as soon as the two sides converged, they directly returned to the Strait of Dover, but this time they did not return to Calais, but went straight to the port of Dover on the other side of Calais.

Another 20,000 horses rushed into the city of Dover unscrupulously, and all those who were crooked were beaten violently, and then the labor army of the Ming Empire repaired the bunkers like crazy, and five days later, four fortresses were erected on all sides of the port of Dover!

At this time, Britain, France, and even the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark all felt that something was wrong, and Spain, Portugal, and the Ming Empire were not sick, and they could not have made such great efforts to occupy two small ports.

Sure enough, as soon as Dover's fortress was repaired, the fleet of the Ming Empire was withdrawn, but the Spanish armada ran out of Dunkirk, and they did not go to the North Sea, but ran to Calais and Dover to cruise back and forth, and any passing ships, not a single one was left, all of them were detained!

Spain dared to blockade the Strait of Dover, and the powers of the anti-Habsburg alliance were all angry, and all kinds of abuse, threats, and intimidation were used, but Spain completely ignored them.

Philip IV seems to have regained the domineering power of the king of the earth, and he didn't take the threat of the five powers of the anti-Habsburg alliance into account at all, and he was not convinced? I don't accept you to bite me!