The eighteenth year of Chongzheng in the Ming Dynasty is destined to be an unquiet year.

Due to the blockade of the Atlantic Ocean by the powers of the Fah-Habsburg Alliance, the overseas colonies of Spain and Portugal were in jeopardy, and the Ming Empire had to enter the war in a hurry, and a great war broke out that affected almost the entire world.

At this time, in the Wuhe River valley in the eastern part of Europe, the Ming Empire was facing off across the river with the allied forces of Tsarist Russia, Sweden and Denmark.

In the territory of the German Union in the middle of the European continent, the allied forces of the Ming Empire and the Holy Roman Empire were fighting against the princes of the Protestant Alliance, protecting the railway line and slowly advancing towards the Netherlands;

There is also near the Pyrenees in western Europe, where the Ming Empire and the Spanish coalition are facing off against the main force of the French Army, and both sides are waiting for a major war to break out at any time;

At the mouth of the Guadiana River at the southwestern tip of the European continent, the combined fleets of the Ming Empire, Spain and Portugal are ready to enter the Atlantic Ocean at any time to fight a decisive battle with the anti-Habsburg combined fleet;

There was also the American continent, where Spain and Portugal, with the assistance of the Ming Empire, were clearing out the British troops who had come to seize the colonies.

The whole world is almost full of gunsmoke, but the capital of the Ming Empire is jubilant and lively at the moment.

The streets of the capital are full of gongs and drums, the walls of the imperial palace are also full of colorful flags, the entire Chang'an Avenue is hung with red lanterns on both sides, and what is even more exaggerated is that Spain, Portugal, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Ottoman Empire have sent people in power, and the royal families of various vassal families have also come a lot.

It seems to be June, and the New Year's Day is still far away, so what is it to celebrate like this?

In fact, it is very simple, just because the long-prepared wedding of Zheng Chenggong, the generalissimo of the Ming Empire, is to be held in the capital of the Ming Empire.

For this reason, Zhu Cijiong specially gave him a super-large and ultra-luxurious generalissimo mansion on West Chang'an Street, and the subordinates in it were even palace maids and eunuchs in the palace!

This Zheng Chenggong's wedding can be described as unprecedented, the entire wedding is organized by the Ming Rites Department, the host of the wedding is the prime minister of the Ming Cabinet, Prince Zhu Youzhen, the prince of Xin, a lot of dignitaries from various countries came not to mention, even the king of Dongying personally rushed over.

Everyone knows that these two are brothers, and there is nothing surprising about it.

This wedding made the capital of the Ming Empire lively for three days, after the wedding, early on the fourth day, the groom official Zheng Chenggong actually stepped directly on the train to the East Daying, and just left, followed by the senior officials of the allies, it seems that he went, and went straight to the European battlefield!

Fortunately, Princess Maria and Princess Anna are cousins, and you can go to the palace when you have nothing to do.

In fact, Zheng Chenggong did not go directly to the European continent, he took a group of high-ranking officials of the allies on the Chenggong, only sailed for three days, then turned into the inland sea of the Taijiang River and disappeared.

Why did he disappear?

Because at this time, the Taijiang Inland Sea has been completely blocked, and the people inside can't get out, and the people outside can't get in, and outsiders don't know what the situation is inside.

At this time, the inland sea of Taijiang is incredible, and there are 300 ironclad warships neatly arranged there on the sea, just like a steel forest!

The reason why Zheng Chenggong held the wedding with such fanfare this time was actually the meaning of paralyzing the anti-Habsburg alliance powers.

Because he had to make a trip back, reorganize the navy, and get acquainted with the performance of ironclad battleships.

At the same time, the Ming Empire also wants to tell its allies that the decisive battle is just around the corner, and everyone is ready to overthrow the anti-Habsburg alliance in one fell swoop!

In fact, before this, the other allies of the Ming Habsburg Alliance were a little panicked, although the Ming Empire had an absolute advantage in land warfare, but the navy had been shrinking at the mouth of the Guadiana River, and it seemed that it had been weak.

You must know that this is a critical period for maritime hegemony, and if the sea is occupied, no matter how strong the land is, it is not safe.

Like now, the navy of the Ming Empire assembled in Europe has only three fleets and 600 super battleships, and Spain has been replenished by the Ming Empire for nearly a year, and it took nearly a year to barely make up two fleets and 400 super battleships, and Portugal is only able to get together 200 super battleships.

In other words, the super battleships of the three countries together are only 1,200 in total.

The anti-Habsburg coalition already had 1,200 super battleships, and I don't know how many have exploded this year.

If the naval battle fails, it will be really a big trouble, don't look at the Ming Empire is very fierce on land, once the sea is occupied by the anti-Habsburg coalition, they can completely break through the Eurasian Canal and directly attack the Ming Empire itself.

With such a long coastline of the Ming Empire, I'm afraid that all the land forces will not be able to hold it if they are transferred back!

Spain, Portugal and other allies originally thought that the Ming Empire had reached its limit, and its national strength was not enough to support multi-front operations, and it was no longer capable of exploding super battleships, but they never thought that they were secretly making more terrifying ironclad warships.

There is no need to doubt the ironclad battleship at all, and a discerning person can understand at a glance that a wooden battleship cannot match it at all.

The ministers of various countries circled around the inland sea of the Taijiang River and happily returned to prepare for victory, but Zheng Chenggong stayed behind and began to reorganize the navy and practice new tactics.

In fact, as early as a year ago, Zhu Cijiong had already ordered him to send the elite of the Navy back to the Naval Academy on the mainland of the empire in batches for further study, and after the vacated positions were filled, the Naval Reserve Corps was arranged to fill them.

The three major fleets of the Navy led by Zheng Chenggong have been dispatched back to the Ming Dynasty with nearly 50,000 elites, and after these people returned, most of them came to the Taijiang Inland Sea and were familiar with the operation of ironclad warships, and only a few people studied at the Naval Academy.

After all, it is a naval officer academy, and ordinary naval soldiers are not qualified to enter and study, no matter how elite they are.

The main task of this naval reorganization was to establish the Ming Empire's Navy's Praetorian Guard Corps.

This corps consisted of a hundred ironclad battleships and two hundred ironclad cruisers, and since the number of cruisers and guns was far less than that of battleships, the Navy Praetorian Guard Regiment was still composed of 100,000 people, and the corps commander was personally appointed by Zhu Cijiong.

Obviously, Zheng Chenggong was the first commander of the Navy's Praetorian Guard Regiment, and of course, he was also the generalissimo.

The formation of the Navy Praetorian Guard Corps was actually half completed, because the work of transferring elites from the six fleets had been completed before Zheng Chenggong came, and he only needed to arrange the officers at all levels, and then assign all the soldiers to each warship as needed.

This thing didn't waste much of his time, and within a few days, he would arrange it properly, and his main thing to do was to practice new tactics, after all, although all countries have thought of ironclad battleships, they have never built them, and they have never appeared in previous naval battles.