Sima Fayun: Fifty miles and fighting for profit, you will pout the general!

This sentence is not comprehensive, if there is no such adventurous spirit, how can this colonial power emerge one after another? From one side, this sentence reflects the danger of the labor expedition! And this battle of Manila is not in line with the way of businessmen, only kings, politicians and outlaws will be so desperate, a successful businessman has always understood that eggs should not be put in the same basket to avoid risks.

And the result that is in the best interests of the Dutch East India Company is not to fight to the death with the Ming Dynasty, but to force the belligerent emperor back to the negotiating table and curb the endless expansion of the Ming Dynasty on the premise of capturing Great Britain and making it impossible for the Ming to meddle in European affairs! After all, do you still want to do business!

In Curt's view, the best strategy now is to withdraw from the fortified city of Manila, break up the coalition forces, disperse, hunt the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty in the entire sea of Southeast Asia, and destroy the commercial operations of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty can build exactly the same sea ship, with more accurate and heavier guns, but the navigation technology can not be cultivated for more than ten years, this is the advantage of these old or emerging colonial empires, and large-scale naval battles under the nose of the Ming Dynasty are what Mao Jue is most willing to see!

However, it is not the businessmen who are leading this war after all, looking at the eyes of his old friend Curt looking at him, the current commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, the famous Dutch god of war at sea, Marquis Michelgen, shook his head with great difficulty.

The truth is this, but when it comes to politics, it can't be considered in this way.

Unlike the Ming Dynasty, which is a unified country, the West has a sharp contradiction of interests between large and small countries under the widespread Christian faith.

Take the Prince of Condé opposite, France is a real Catholic country, not the same faith as the Dutch! In the Thirty Years' War, it was only because France intended to compete with Spain for hegemony and resist the infiltration of the Habsburgs that it joined the Protestant League.

At this time, France also reached its peak under the leadership of Richelieu, the famous virtuous minister in history, and while Britain was carrying out the bourgeois revolution, France had reversed the centralization of power, and now it was also ambitious to compete for overseas interests.

If it weren't for the fact that Mao Jue hooked up with the British on his side and posed a threat to all Western colonial powers, France would have stood opposite the battlefield of the Netherlands at this time.

This crusade at sea was initiated by the Dutch, and it was not easy to gather on the Asian sea, and it had just encountered some difficulties, and as the host, it was clamoring to break up, which made an ambitious person like France think of the Netherlands?

As soon as the people's hearts are scattered, it is secondary to be unable to fight against the huge Ming Empire, maybe back to Europe, France will do something against the "weak" Netherlands!

But a famous general is a famous general after all, and in the noise, he suddenly knocked heavily on the table.

"Gentlemen!"

It was too difficult to silence a group of guys who couldn't even agree on the appetizer, so he didn't expect them to cooperate to calm down, and just shouted in a rough voice.

"The Pope has awarded us the Holy Cross and the Battle Banner to crusade against the pagan kingdom and bring the glory of God to this land of unbelief in God, and the people of God naturally cannot retreat from such a setback!"

"So, I have a new proposal!"

The great powers and magnates who were still arguing there finally quieted down, but they held their wine glasses and stared at him like a wooden chicken, and their eyes were like looking at a madman.

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In the early morning of the next morning, when the thick sea fog still lingered in the quiet Pacific Ocean, the silhouettes of the behemoths slowly revealed their dark shadows like ancient beasts.

This point is really early, even the Ming army didn't react a little, and still took a toothbrush dipped in green salt to brush his teeth there, and squirted out of the toothbrush water coldly, and then rushed down from the corner tower that had been beaten out several times, and the observation post howled fiercely.

"Enemy attack!"

Chen Xinghua directly threw away the soybean milk fritters in the morning, ran into the Overlord Fort quickly, and looked at the sea level with a telescope, but immediately, his brows couldn't help but twist into two pimples.

The thick sea fog covered the surface of the sea, and in the haze you could only see the battleships gliding around like whales, which was really not good news for the Ming army, which relied on the accuracy of heavy artillery.

As long as it lasts for about an hour, until the sun rises and the sea fog dries, the battle will return to yesterday's mode.

However, the most unpredictable and unpredictable thing is war! Just when Chen Xinghua was frowning and thinking about the battle strategy, suddenly, a salty sea breeze suddenly hit his face, and the originally thick sea fog in front of him separated to both sides, and in the next second, the eyes of the first regiment who had fought with the Tartar Iron Cavalry couldn't help but stare in disbelief.

Buzz~ Bang Dang!

It seemed that the fortress against the sea trembled violently, and under the tremendous force of the sails, the sharp bottom of the ship rubbed against the reef fiercely, and even the hardest oak planks were like dry instant noodles, and huge holes appeared in the bottom of the ship. In the splash of sparks, the heavy metal corners were stuck in the rough concrete city wall, and taking advantage of the high tide, a Dutch main battleship turned itself into a siege tower, and rushed to the head of the fortress with a desperate ship.

This hand was too reckless, even Chen Xinghua didn't even react for a while, until the French army on the raised bow of the ship, wearing a round iron helmet, a red battle robe, and a cuirass inside, shouted Long live the king and rushed to the head of the city, he was like waking up from a dream, and he also pulled out his command knife in anger, and roared angrily.

"Fight, drive these ghosts into the sea!"

was really caught off guard, and before the nearest few soldiers carrying cannonballs could react, they had already been knocked to the ground by the French army's long sword wheel, and just rushed out of the overlord cannon fortress, Chen Xinghua, who was angry, just ran into a few reckless people head-on, and one was stunned, he was directly cut by the wheel knife in his face.

However, the scene that made him embarrassed actually sounded, and the angry sword was pulled out of the hat by the yellow hair at the front, and the boy who felt a little sissy was stunned with a slender sword with an extraordinarily slender sword body, and then his sword body dragged the command knife that he didn't have time to retract to reach back, and then the sword body was pierced into Chen Xinghua's chest between the lightning and flint.

Seeing that this little French aristocrat almost became the protagonist of this chapter, and pierced Chen Xinghua, who had opened the empty door wide, a shot rang out violently in Chen Xinghua's back, directly opening a hole in his ornately decorated chest.

Although the French army in this era has begun to be equipped with firearms on a large scale, but the real dominance of the war is still cold weapons, the most classic image of the French army in this era is none other than Alexandre Dumas's "Three Musketeers", obviously called musketeers, d'Artagnan has a lot more time to make swords than when he used guns.

Chen Xinghua, who suffered a big loss, simply didn't trade in, took a step back, he swung his saber forward violently, grabbed the gun and drilled out of the fort, and had already subconsciously squatted down in the front row and the first regiment of privates in the rear row formed an array of end guns, and the trigger was pulled violently with the blade, and after the crackling gunfire like popping beans, more than a dozen French soldiers holding thin swords or Western halberds in both hands were directly knocked to the ground.

The Ming army doesn't have any chivalry, and you face to face with a knife, as more and more soldiers of the first regiment rushed out of the fort, the dense guns and bullets that came from all directions pressed the French army back to the bow of the ship, and finally took out the musket and followed the Ming army who surrounded it.

But even so, Chen Xinghua's strategic downfall could not be reversed, in the intensive gunfight, the sound of splashing water sounded violently again, and the wood rubbed against the hard and sharp reef, in the tooth-like sound, the second Dutch battleship rushed up the beach fiercely, and the French army with a halberd rushed up fiercely from another direction.

Moreover, in the sea fog that gradually faded, several Western main warships fiercely puffed up their sails, and rushed towards Qianhai Fort with full strength.

It's no wonder that Chen Xinghua was caught off guard, like this kind of war machine that costs hundreds of thousands of taels, takes several years of labor, and is armed to the teeth to launch a suicidal attack, not to mention China, even on the European continent is unprecedented! It is no wonder that those French aristocrats, Spanish aristocrats look like madmen.

However, this trick is also effective enough, the biggest advantage of the fleet's long-distance attack is that it comes suddenly, and the enemy has already seized the strategic place in his hands when he is not fully prepared, but once he can't get it in a short time, the war will be protracted, it will become an out-and-out disaster for the raiding party, so the Western fleet, which is outnumbered, is also racing against time!

Yesterday's artillery battle has proven that it is impossible to destroy this Manila gate with Western artillery in a short period of time, allowing the fleet to break through to the inner bay, and it will also suffer heavy losses under the heavy artillery of the Ming army, since this is the case, then why bear the casualties and waste time?

This is also the difference between a famous general and a mediocre general, the fighter is fleeting, even if the fighter comes, the mediocre general can only sit and watch the loss, but the famous general is bold, and dares to press all his wealth on the battlefield like a gambler!

It was precisely by virtue of this decisiveness that the famous Dutch general Michel Adriansson de Reut was stunned that the Thirty Years' War, the most chaotic in Europe, pushed the Netherlands, a small country, to the top of the world, and also pushed Britain down, which had just completed the capitalist class revolution.

His prestige was admired even by enemy countries, and even more than a hundred years later, the famous British Admiral Nelson borrowed some of his ideas on naval warfare.

Therefore, Chen Xinghua lost to him, but he was not wronged.

Even on his opponent, Chen Xinghua has grown a little, looking left and right at thousands of Western mercenaries carrying muskets and axes, frantically rushing up the city wall, and even ping pong with him in the aisles of the upper city, his eyes are on fire, but seeing that another Western ship is roaring towards his fortress like a Viking, he doesn't even dare to have a trace of more, he roars loudly with anxiety.

"The first regiment! Withdraw !!"

More than a dozen soldiers set fire everywhere in the fortress, and under the cover of thick smoke, hundreds of officers and soldiers guarding the fort hurriedly threw down their cannons and hurriedly jumped on the boat moored in Hougangwan.

On the second day of the war, the gates of Manila were opened!