Chapter 222: Conflict
The conflict between Spain and the Netherlands is not a day or two, since the Dutch began to fight for independence, it has been destined that there will be a conflict between them, of course, the most important thing is that the Spaniards in order to maintain their hegemony, do not react. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
If you let a former province press, then the majesty of Spain will indeed be indifferent, but history says everything, no power can continue to last, and Spain is the same, even in the later generations in the powerful United States has not been able to maintain its hegemony.
While you're strong, other nations are also rising, so it's not so easy to secure your supremacy, in addition to having a good leader, you also need to maintain a strong army.
The Spanish navy was once the most powerful fleet at sea, but with the advent of the Netherlands and England, they lost their advantage.
Batavia wants to deliberately create friction, increase or decrease the conflict between the two sides, so as to declare war on Manila, such a thing is not less, but this time it is different, the Australians told them the news in advance, and made it clear that Australia will be on their side for all unjust wars.
This undoubtedly shows two things, one is that Australia will not participate in the war between them, and the other is that Australia will support Manila.
Justice, what is justice, in the eyes of Australians to provoke war without reason is an act of injustice, which they despise very much, and it is certain that they hate the Dutch very much.
If Manila has a conflict with Batavia, the Australians will definitely be on their side, Christie's judgment is so, but at least they will support it, but in Zhou Yang's view, he thinks a little too much, Australia will not participate, but it may not be completely on their side.
You must know that the more powerful they fight, who is the most beneficial, of course, Australia is the most beneficial, as long as they fight you lose both, Australia can come forward to mediate and persuade both sides to focus on the overall situation.
In short, Australia will not be easily involved in the war between them, after all, for Australia, being involved in the war between them means that part of the troops will be put on them, which is not a good thing for Australia to interfere in the internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty.
So at most, Australia will export weapons to both sides, of course, secretly, so that both sides think that Australia is fair.
In fact, for Australia, if there is a real conflict between the two sides, it will definitely be beneficial to Australia's actions in the region.
If they want to expand their military operations in Southeast Asia, they must do so while they are fighting.
Van Dimen misassessed the fact that Australia would come forward and it would be another wrong decision for him.
In the battle between the two sides for Dayuan Island, according to the normal historical process, the Dutch had driven Spain back to Manila at this time, completely pressing them in Manila for a generation, but at this time because of the emergence of Australia, the situation has become very different.
The Australians intervened in their dispute over Dayuan Island, and mediated in the hope that the two sides would give up the fight as allies, and when the treaty was signed, they both agreed, and agreed to Australia's proposal to share the rights and interests here.
But with the rise of Australians in Southeast Asia, Van Dimen felt more and more depressed, and he couldn't force a break with it, so he had to catch a weaker opponent to vent his anger, on the one hand, to warn the Australians that he was still the hegemon of the region, and on the other hand, to warn them not to take themselves seriously.
So they decided to trouble the Spaniards, and the most likely place for the two sides to clash was Dayuan Island, because the Twins had common rights and interests here, and the Dutch had more troops here than the Spaniards at the moment.
They secretly sent troops from Batavia to the area under their control, intending to launch an attack on the Spaniards, but they were unsuccessful, and when Zi'a launched the first sneak attack, the Spaniards were ready to defend.
The Spaniards, who had received the news earlier, had already deployed everything, waiting for the other side to carry out a sneak attack, and secretly replaced the spears and cannons provided by Australia.
In the course of the battle, they really knew the usefulness of Australian weapons, and under the fire of artillery, the Dutch suffered a lot, which the Dutch did not expect, and did not think that Spain, which had always been in a weak position, could suddenly become stronger.
This made the Dutch officer in charge of the sneak attack very confused, so he had to order a retreat, temporarily retreating to ensure fewer casualties.
He also saw from the time of the battle that something was wrong, the weapons used by the Spaniards were obviously different from before, more powerful, and had a longer range, which made many soldiers have been put down before they could impact each other, if you guessed correctly, this should be the weapon of the Australians.
Only the old Australian weapons have such a future, and there is such a possibility, the Spaniards and the Dutch have obtained a lot of Australian weapons, but the Dutch sell a large part of them to Europe, which makes the war officials very chagrin.
Compared to the Spaniards, they did at least better at this point, not selling weapons, but arming their own armies first.
The news of the Dutchman's defeat had reached Christie's ears, and he was very happy when he received the news.
This is the first victory since the two sides in the battle for Dayuan Island, I have to say that the weapons and intelligence of the Australians played a key role, without these two, I am afraid they will not be so easy to win, so the cooperation with Australia will not suffer.
From this conflict, Christie is more convinced of his judgment, he must maintain a long-term cooperative relationship with the Australians, so as to ensure that his interests will not be swallowed up in the future, as long as the Australians are there, the Netherlands will not dare to be too presumptuous, if he can, he hopes that the Australians can also participate in the war in Europe, help Spain defeat these rebels, when the Netherlands fails, its territory is naturally all Spanish people.
But the idea is good, but the rise of the Dutch is not entirely an opportunity, and they have their own unique spirit, so it is not so easy to defeat the Dutch, plus the British and the French are on their side, these two future powers are not much weaker than the Netherlands. (To be continued.) )