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Will a strong proclamation be backed up by more explosive action?

When Sleman, the city closest to the palace of Yogyakarta, was in flames, what kind of rush did Hamengu Buwono II have?

That is clearly the statement of the Chinese!

The Chinese may be disgusted that it has just rained there, and they are afraid that it will be difficult to light it, and they specially sent two hundred barrels of oil along the Progo River in small boats!

The entire Slyman burned in a black smoke.

And in the next few days, a group of reinforcements from the Chinese Marine Corps arrived.

The pressure on Hamengu Buwono II was as heavy as Mount Tai, whether it was the burning of Sleman or the arrival of Chinese reinforcements, he was under a lot of pressure. He thought that this marine corps was coming for his life, and that China was ready to completely eradicate Yogyakarta. Even Glitter thinks so, feeling that the Chinese have completely lost interest in grinding their mouths. I didn't know it was just a very clever misunderstanding.

This support force did not come for Hamengu Buwono II at all, nor did it come for Yogyakarta. After being extremely surprised to see the true identity of 'Li Kun', the high-level of the Nanyang Naval Division immediately carried out a 'remedial' measure -- sending the Marine Division to reinforce Ye Tingyang to express his importance to Uncle Guo.

As a result, this force arrived at a very clever time, and then added a heavy weight to the Chinese side in the bilateral negotiations.

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Batavia has been following the situation in Yogyakarta, and the news of the sudden start of the Chinese sailors has reached here. Jacob was going crazy, but he didn't know that an even crazier news had crossed the sands of the Sinai Peninsula, crossed the Red River, boarded a ship in the Gulf of Aden, and now had made it to India. But he is now Alexander!

It's a pity that there are still thousands of miles of sea waves from India to the South Seas. In the current era, the only thing we can rely on is the boat. Otherwise, Jacob just needs to raise his hands.

Any governor of Batavia, after learning that John Bull, a good friend of the Great Windmill for a hundred years, had officially declared war with the Gallic Rooster, would immediately abandon all previous arrangements, just to avoid giving the Chinese an excuse to continue to expand the incident.

There were not only three Chinese merchant ships in the Red Sea port of Mocha, Xie Qinggao did not see Chinese merchant ships here when he arrived at the port of Suez with great difficulty, but when he arrived at the port of Mocha with an Ottoman warship, a Chinese Western-style sailing ship loaded with arms had just arrived.

The ship's destination was the port of Suez, but now it doesn't have to go.

When they heard the news that the French on the European continent had officially declared war on Britain, all the Chinese in Mocha Port were shocked, and then couldn't help but smile.

These people who ran by sea were well aware of the situation in the South Seas, although when they sailed out of Malacca, the Surabaya incident had not yet happened.

Five thousand muskets, thirty guns, ten thousand sabers and two thousand cuirasses were quickly transferred from the Chinese merchant ships to the Ottoman warships. Then the entire merchant ship was only loaded with a batch of stallions and fodder, and half of the cabins were still empty, so they carried Xie Qinggao and his party on the way home.

Russia, of course, has relented. But China's arms trade with the Ottoman Empire was only just beginning to emerge.

The Ottoman army was very large, but the Ottomans had limited funds, and they could only look at China's new equipment, and the artillery directly cared out of the boring machine was a level stronger than the old artillery in terms of weight and performance, but they just had no money. Therefore, since the great Sultan, the overseers of the frontier provinces, the Pasha, and the Governor Pasha, are very interested in China's large quantities of second-hand equipment, especially the huge number of old artillery in China. This performance is certainly a little behind China's cutting-edge artillery, but it is better than the high-quality artillery cast by the Ottomans themselves, and it is only higher than the Russian artillery. The most important thing is that the price is absolutely cheap, which is completely the best choice for the Ottoman Empire, which has a large army.

And the saber and cuirass were the equipment used by the Ottomans themselves for Western-style cavalry.

Chen Ming didn't know that there was an argument on the Internet in later generations that the reason why the powerful Ottoman cavalry was getting worse and worse and were frequently beaten was because they abandoned the traditions of the past and engaged in extra-high Western-style cavalry training.

Now Chen Ming didn't know that there was still this argument on the Internet in his previous life, and even if he knew, he would still sell swords and cuirasses to the Ottomans, as well as short guns that were becoming more and more important for the cavalry troops.

The Ottomans were fat, and the weaker they were, the better it would be for China in the long run.

Seriously, China, which has risen now, really doesn't need the Ottomans to become the sick man of Europe in another hundred years, it would be best for them to have a serious illness now.

The Ottoman Empire had a long tradition of cavalry, which also played an important role in the Ottoman army. It's just that in the past hundred years, their cavalry has been beaten by the Europeans again and again, so that the cavalry units of the Ottoman Empire have irrepressibly embarked on the road of learning from the enemy, just like their current army.

As long as the Ottomans still needed cuirasses, China could supply them on a large scale and cheaply, as long as the Ottomans could get the gold, or pay for it with good stallions.

But in China, including Chen Ming, after the initial superstition of cuirassiers had faded, they all became aware of the shortcomings and inconveniences of Western-style wall cavalry. Compared with the cold-armed troops with violent impact in this frontal attack, China's new generation of cavalry is becoming more and more like hussars.

Because China's vast territory inherently determines the decline of the status of cuirassiers, which have huge limitations, the Chinese military prefers that its cavalry is a 'traditional cavalry' that can fight alone and run long distances, including dismounted foot battles - Russian Cossack-style cavalry units are becoming more and more popular with Chinese cavalry units.

Or the disciplined Cossack light cavalry units, without cuirasses, were able to flexibly use firearms, could fight in a dismounted line, and could also form a neat cavalry phalanx. This is a complete cavalry in the eyes of the Chinese military!

The Chinese cavalry did not divide into hussars, dragoons, chasseurs, cuirassiers, and musketeers, and the environment and geography of China determined that they only needed a comprehensive type of standard cavalry.

Comparing horizontally, the Russian cavalry of the Cossack style is the most appropriate.

Even before China established formal diplomatic ties with the Ottoman Empire, China had already begun to introduce Arabian, Indian, and European horses. Mixed with the Don hippos they had acquired in the war, as well as the horses of Central Asia and the Mongolian horses owned by China itself, the new style of war horses was bred from their bloodlines.

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Along the familiar sea route, with the help of the Indian Ocean 'clockwise' by the summer southwest monsoon, the ships arrived in India without incident, and after the replenishment of Bombay and the release of large bombs - the whole of Bombay was to be blown upside down by the news of the war between Britain and France, and both the British and the French were stunned. Some of the British and French, who had just been close business partners, became hostile countries in the blink of an eye. Perhaps the Chinese merchant ship had not yet arrived in Malacca, and the news of the explosion had already spread throughout India. Then the ships sailed along the west coast of India. They had to bypass the Indian version of Cape Comorim, pass through Ceylon, and then go straight across the Bay of Bengal to the Jinghai Islands [Andaman], after which the news could be transmitted back to China at the same speed as flying.

Cape Comorin is the southernmost point of the Indian continent and is known as the "end of the earth" in India. Bounded by Cape Comorin, India's waters can be divided into three parts: the Bay of Bengal to the east, the Arabian Sea to the west, and the vast Indian Ocean to the south.

In the 21st century, Cape Comorin attracts countless tourists every day because of its wonderful tricolor sea and unique location. However, in ancient times, this place, which the Indians called "the end of the earth" and "the end of the heavens", was the holy place of the Indian continent for 2,000 years - the temple of Lord Shiva. This deity, worshipped by countless Indians, is a well-known god of destruction. Fertility and destruction, creation and destruction!

To a large extent, this reflects the intuitive feeling of Indians about Cape Comorin.

Death and disaster are pregnant with life and hope.

For seafarers, such a haunted place is something that any crew member hates. Although Cape Comorin is only a 'gentle' little brother compared to the harshness of the Cape of Good Hope, Xie Qinggao still hates this place.

However, Xie Qinggao was not afraid, compared with the Cape of Good Hope, which has a high crash rate, Comorin Point is really much more pediatric.

Zheng He's fleet back then could pass through here, and there was no reason why they couldn't get through. At that time, the Chinese called Cape Comorolin Gambari. To this day, the royal palace of Padmanambaplan, to which Cape Comorim belongs, still preserves two rosewood chairs presented to the king by Chinese merchants during the Ming Dynasty, and successive kings loved them. One of them is placed in the reception room, where he sits to greet the distinguished guests, and the other is placed in the council hall. The Chinese iron pot is also popular in the coastal areas here, and the locals call it "Qinni Chati", which in the local language refers to China and "Chati" means wok. At the end of the royal dining room of the Padmanam Paplan Palace, there are 12 jars of Chinese dishes, said to have been given to the king by Zheng He, and the glaze is still shiny.

Of course, in 1498 A.D., when Vasco da Gama circumnavigated the Cape of Good Hope and arrived in Guri, India, there was no trace of Chinese ships in India.

The ship Xie Qinggao was on had a very ironic name -- the Mir.

It is really interesting that the ship that delivered half a division of armament and ammunition to the Ottoman Empire in one fell swoop should have such a completely opposite name.

The Mir crossed Cape Comorin safely, entered the Gulf of Mannar, and then plunged headlong into the Pauk Strait between India and Ceylon. The strait is connected with the Bay of Bengal in the northeast and the Bay of Mannar in the southwest, with a total length of about 270 li, and the narrowest point is only 130 li.

"Damn, the wind and waves are getting stronger!"

Xie Qinggao had already put away his notes, and he couldn't continue to write them down at all, and the ship shook like a drunk strong man. They're probably going to run into a hurricane. Xie Qinggao once again felt the taste of crossing the Cape of Good Hope, and the large ship full of thousands of tons was tossed around in the waves, like a toy wooden boat.

The wind outside was like a ghost howling, and when you opened the windows of the ship, the wind blowing in you made it difficult to breathe.

"It may not be good depending on the situation......" Xie Qinggao's face was ugly, because the wind and waves outside were too high.

Xie Qinggao, who subconsciously sensed the danger, quickly put away all the necessary things, just preparing for the worst.

There are always bad luck times when sailing on the sea, and the chance of shipwrecks is very high in this era, and they are very unlucky to encounter a hurricane at night.

This is the last thing people who want to encounter at sea.

In the event of a hurricane, no matter how skilled the old driver is, there are times when the boat capsizes, and even the slightest carelessness will cause a catastrophe. And their current ships are not easy to maneuver Chinese sailing boats, but complex Western-style sailing ships.

Xie Qinggao could hear the horses' screams.

"Master Xie, are you ready?" At the same time as there was a knock on the door, the familiar voice of the captain of the guard rang out.

Xie Qing staggered open the door, and the two faces inside and outside the door were all pale and faint fear, if a ship was sunk on this sea, there was really no place to run.

"Is it a hurricane?"

"Definitely a hurricane."

"Is the captain sure he will survive safely?"

"The captain said to do our best, and asked us to be prepared for survival." Because of Xie Qinggao's special status, they can be said to be the most honorable people on the entire ship, and their safety is also the most important to protect.

Soon the captain of the guard came running back with a string of gourds, four gourds tied to his waist, and if the ship really sank, it would be up to fate.

"There's a sheepskin bag out there." The crew is already blowing hard.

With the help of the captain of the guard, Xie Qinggao appeared in the deck cabin with two large boxes and four gourds wrapped around his waist.

Just as he was about to ask the captain, the ship shook violently suddenly, more violently than ever.

"I hear it!" It was a very violent sound, Xie Qinggao's spirit was even more nervous, he really heard a cracking sound just now, and before his words had completely fallen, a series of crackling rumbling sounds came. The whole cabin was like an earthquake, and everyone rolled into a ball at this moment.

Oh my God, the ship veered to the left.

"The mast is broken, go and cut the mast—"

Xie Qinggao was dizzy and hadn't done it yet, his heart was full of fear, if the whole ship had a big clamshell, none of them would be able to escape. I saw that several crew members had already stood up, opened the equipment cabinet on the side, took out the axe from it, and then staggered out of the hatch.

This is the life of a seafarer. Why do they take so much money? Why do you spend all your time drinking before you get to shore?

It is because their industry is an industry that risks their lives, and their lives are likely to fall into the vast sea like a small speck of dust on their next trip to sea.

In such weather, the crew who was outside holding an axe and looking at the mast might be completely wiped out if a big wave hit it.

Seafaring is really a profession for the brave. Xie Qinggao looked at the huge waves of the buildings several stories outside through the window, even if he knew that the mast was broken and the hull of the boat was about to capsize, he didn't have the courage to rush outside.

The three major hardships in life are supporting the boat and grinding tofu. Seafarers are at the top of the list. After years of wind, sun and rain, passing through the wind and waves, there is a danger of capsizing and dying at any time. Drinking water from the rivers and seas, eating and living on the boat, the body will be seriously affected in the long run. And often lonely boats drift between the sea and the sky, except for the companions of the same seafarers, lonely and lonely.

For them, the battle of strong winds and waves is a daily occurrence, and they must not choose this line of work without the spirit of adventure and extraordinary will. But in addition to bravery and hardship, seafarers give the impression of depravity. Sailors and depravity are almost inseparable.

Although Xie Qinggao also knew why seafarers were so profligate at the dock on the shore, the long-term boring and monotonous life made it easy for them to indulge their long-suppressed desires, spend all day drinking, and get drunk on money in a short berthing time.

But he can understand, but he can't tolerate it. He didn't like the crew.

It's just that today he has changed, looking at the crew members working the deck, "Mazu Niangniang bless, as long as the disciple is sheltered today to survive this catastrophe, the disciple will definitely no longer look down on the seafarers." "Xie Qinggao is really scared now.

"Seafarers need to be powerful!" (To be continued.) )