Chapter 381: Exhausted Spain

In April of the 11th year of Shenmu, when the spring breeze from the Baltic Sea swept through the Aarhus Bay in Norway, a combined fleet of the Netherlands and Sweden sailed off the coast of Denmark.

The Combined Fleet of Sweden and Dutch had five second-class battleships, fifteen third-class battleships, and thirty fourth-class battleships, as well as a large number of escort cruisers and frigates, for a total of more than seventy ships.

Such a large fleet was the Dutch and Swedish navy that the Netherlands and Sweden were preparing to retaliate against Denmark for their treacherous attack on the Swedish army, and the Dutch navy, which had just completely annihilated the Spanish Armada, had an unstoppable attitude and despised the navies of European countries. At the same time that the navies of all European countries despised the Dutch Navy, which was an upstart, the Dutch Navy took a high-profile posture instead of Britain and France, hoping that after attacking the Danish Navy, the first naval power in Northern Europe, the Dutch Navy could be truly recognized by the navies of European countries that the Dutch Navy was no longer nameless, but the strongest navy after the Spanish Armada.

Although the Swedish Navy despised the Dutch Navy, a guy who had taken a shit luck, in order to be able to defeat the Danish Navy and save the situation on land, Sweden, which was originally the first power in Northern Europe, had to look at the Dutch face and try its best to curry favor with the Dutch Navy.

On 9 April, the combined Dutch-Swedish fleet sailed to Aarhus Bay, and the mighty combined fleet opened fire on the Danish ships and shelled the Danish city of Aarhus.

The bombardment lasted six hours, and the Danish navy remained silent, allowing the enemy ships to show off their might on Danish doorstep.

In the evening, the entire northern coastal area of Aarhus was in flames, and the docks and ships were sunk, and the flames were scorching and the smoke covered the sea.

At this time, the Danish Navy was anchoring near Samus Island, a hundred miles northeast of Aarhus Bay.

Danish Admiral Piercart kept the communication sunk, no matter how Aarhus Bay was ravaged by the enemy, he was indifferent, and ordered the Danish naval officers and men to constantly tie up the warship with sandbags.

The Danish naval officers and men were extremely angry, and when they saw their country being shelled by enemy ships, and thought of their compatriots being blown up by enemy shells, they could not hide the great hatred in their hearts.

When Admiral Pirkat saw this, he was very proud, he knew that his soldiers had been enraged and their morale was soaring.

On the other hand, the combined Dutch-Swedish fleet, seeing that the Danish navy was cowering and did not dare to come out to fight, thought that the other side was afraid of them. In particular, the arrogance of the Dutch navy that had just destroyed the Armada was fully revealed, believing that the world's navy was the boss of the Dutch navy, and no one dared to take advantage of it.

In this case, although the Swedish navy officers and men were a little worried, they were still infected by the Dutch navy and gradually became arrogant.

The shelling continued until nine o'clock in the evening, and the small town of Aarhus was in flames, and the whole fleet of the Greety-Dutch fleet was jubilant.

Soon, two-thirds of the shells and gunpowder on board the ships of the combined fleet of the Swives and Dutch were consumed, and although they were arrogant, Ye had to stop the shelling and prepare to return to Gothenburg to replenish ammunition.

Just as the Swiss-Dutch combined fleet turned around and retreated, the Danish Navy moved. Pirkart led the main force of the Danish navy, carrying a large number of sloops, leaving the island of Samus and setting up an ambush in the waters off the Sealand Peninsula to wait for the return of the Swiss-Dutch combined fleet.

At about 11 p.m., when the Combined Fleet of Rhusch-Dutch sailed about 30 nautical miles west of the Sealand Peninsula, visibility was less than 200 metres in the night due to the lack of season. The Swedish-Dutch Combined Fleet, which had already entered Swedish territorial waters, relaxed its vigilance.

At this time, the Danish navy used more than 130 sloops, carrying large quantities of gunpowder, sulfur, oil and other flammable and explosive materials, and changed the schooners into fast arsonist ships, which rushed directly to the Rui-Dutch fleet from the front.

Due to the extremely high speed of the schooner, a distance of several hundred meters quickly rushed to the front of the former fleet of the Ruihe fleet. When the Swive-Dutch Combined Fleet found the unknown enemy fleet approaching, it was a little flustered, and hurriedly reported to the commander of the Combined Fleet, Vice Admiral Emmen, and when Emmen slowly came to the deck, the spikes in front of the Danish Navy's fast arsonist ship had deeply hit the body of the Swee-Dutch Fleet battleship, and then exploded, and the flames rushed up dozens of meters high, and the flames were everywhere, igniting the mast and sails of the Reish-Dutch battleship in an instant, and then the fire was out of control, burning along the complex ropes, and soon spread to the foremast, Then came the mainmast, the aftermast, and the whole ship was in flames.

The biggest weakness of the sail battleship is the sails and ropes, and it is extremely afraid of being attacked by enemy fire, and once it catches fire, it will wait to be burned unless it rains heavily.

Emmen was shocked, and in the blink of an eye his forward fleet was in a sea of fire, and the sea was full of enemy arsonists for more than ten miles, and the flames soared into the sky, illuminating the sea and sky for miles.

At such a close distance, such a large arson fleet attacked, Emmen knew that it would not be possible to pass through from the front, and in a hurry, he hurriedly ordered the whole fleet to turn north, forgetting that he had not yet discovered the main force of the Danish navy.

Emmen still follows the traditional method of arson fighting, estimating that the main force of the Danish Navy is behind the arsonist ships.

However, on the contrary, Admiral Pirkart had already calculated Emmen's mind and worshipped the main Danish naval force four miles to the north, waiting for Emmen to crash into the muzzle of the gun himself.

Half an hour later, the combined fleet of the Richmond made a U-turn and hit the muzzle of the main fleet of the Danish Navy.

In the darkness of night, the Danish navy lined up in a large formation in depth, aimed at the enemy ships with the side sides, and opened fire at a distance of less than 100 meters.

Suddenly, the entire sea and sky flashed with red light, and the combined fleet of Ruihe was severely damaged, and many warships were beaten into sieves in less than five minutes, either burned by the flames or sunk by the backflow of the sea.

Emmen's flagship was immediately crippled by a volley of fire from the Danish Navy's Second Squadron, and if Emmen hadn't run fast and fled from the dinghy, he would have been killed in the sea with the flagship.

After the flagship of the Combined Fleet was sunk, the Combined Fleet was left without command, and under the fierce attack of the Danish Navy, the rest of the ships scattered in all directions.

By noon the next day, only five ships of the Swedish navy had escaped from the combined fleet of Sweden and the Dutch navy, and the Dutch navy had been wiped out.

The naval battle of the Sealand Peninsula ended with a complete victory for the Danish Navy, which was heavily written in the history of European naval warfare, because the Dutch Navy, which had just ascended to the world's first naval power, was killed by the Danish Navy, although the Dutch Navy only lost a detachment, but this naval battle was undoubtedly equivalent to a slap in the face for the prestige of the Dutch Navy.

For a time, the reputation of the Danish Navy was great, and it shocked Northern Europe, and for a time the British and French navies were deeply worried.

However, just as the Danish navy was victorious, the combined fleet of the Dutch and Swedish navies was reconstituted six months later and sailed to the Baltic Sea again to seek a decisive battle with the Danish navy.

Although Piercart was cautious, he still could not escape the arrogance of human nature, and when he faced the reconstituted Swiss-Dutch Combined Fleet for the second time, he appeared a little conceited, abandoning his previous tactics and confronting the Reish-Dutch Combined Fleet head-on.

As a result, during the Battle of Wördingburg, the main fleet of the Danish Navy was blocked in the harbor by the combined fleet of Sweden and Dutch, and after six days of fierce fighting, all troops were wiped out.

The destruction of the Danish Navy has once again aroused the amazement of naval figures from all over Europe, and people are worried about the recent large-scale naval battles in Europe. The existing Spanish Arma was completely annihilated by the nameless Dutch Navy, and then the Danish Navy completely annihilated the Swedish-Dutch Combined Fleet, and now the Danish Navy was completely annihilated by the reorganized Swedish-Dutch Combined Fleet.

With the fall of the Danish navy, the combined fleet of Sweden and Dutch succeeded in controlling the Baltic Sea, and the Swedish army in Germany was resupplied and saved from the danger of total annihilation by the Holy Roman Empire.

At the same time, the Swedish Army, under the cover of the Swedish Combined Fleet, successfully approached Denmark by land and water, and the Danish Army suffered successive defeats in battles against the Swedish Army, and finally filed a request for peace in the spring of the following year.

At this time, Sweden's energy was mainly focused on the battle against the Holy Roman Empire, because the French army asked the Swedish army to cooperate in the attack on the Holy Roman Empire**, and the Netherlands needed the support of the French army, so Sweden had to look at the face of the Netherlands, end the war with Denmark, and instead cooperate with the French army to fight in the German region.

Under such a triangular containment relationship, Sweden accepted Denmark's request for peace, and signed the "Copenhagen Treaty" in June of the following year, Denmark withdrew from the European battlefield, recognized Sweden's military status in Northern Europe, and made Sweden the first power in Northern Europe.

Denmark's withdrawal from World War I greatly reduced the pressure on Sweden and France on the Nordic battlefield, the Holy Roman Emperor was defeated and retreated, gradually losing a large part of the territory of Germany, and Switzerland and other principalities became independent one after another, which greatly dealt a blow to the power of the Holy Roman Empire.

The Spanish Empire's war on land was also lost, and since the French army annihilated Spain's most elite Flanders legion, the Spanish Army was like an eggplant beaten by frost, with low morale and greatly reduced combat effectiveness.

On the contrary, the morale of the French army was high, and in the process of recovering the country, the French army became more and more fierce, and gradually mastered the tactical methods of dealing with the Spanish army, and the Spanish phalanx tactics that had been rampant in Europe for two hundred years came to an end. The Spanish Army lacked the ability to adapt, and after losing the large phalanx tactics, it was unable to organize a new tactical response, and as a result, it was beaten very badly by the French army in the following battle. The Spanish Army gradually lost its hegemony in Europe, and the Dutch War of Independence made the Spanish Army weak, and the French Army gradually became the first era in Europe in which France dominated the European continent.

The Spanish Navy was reduced to a second-rate navy in Europe, and the fleet transferred back from Mexico, Brazil, and the Mediterranean could only defend the territorial waters of Spain, and only had defensive capabilities but no offensive capabilities. The army was beaten back from the French mainland and the Netherlands, and again, it only had the power to parry, not the power to fight back.

To add insult to injury, the Spanish Empire's colonies in the Americas were being invaded by the more powerful Chinese Emperor, Mexico was occupied two-thirds of the territory, and the Chinese Empire North America sent troops to fight under Mexico City, and it was a matter of time before Mexico City was taken. In South America, the South American troops of the Chinese Empire also hit Lima, Peru, Granada and other colonies were in danger, and the Spanish Empire was on the verge of total collapse, just like the Roman Empire, which was about to be partitioned.

The Imperial Spanish Mission in Beijing had no bargaining chips in its negotiations with the Chinese Empire, and the Ministry of Rites of the Chinese Empire directly demanded that the Spanish government give up the colonies of Mexico, Peru, and New Granada, and recognize the legitimacy of the Chinese Empire's occupation of the Philippines, which was tantamount to directly cutting off the main artery of the Spanish Empire. The Spanish envoy fell ill for a week and had to send someone back to Spain for instructions, but during this period, the Chinese Empire did not abandon its military operations, and the colonial war in the Americas continued as usual.

In the summer and autumn of the eleventh year of Shenwu, the natural disasters of the empire were finally much less. Although the aftershocks in Sichuan and Shanxi provinces continued, the power of destruction has been greatly reduced, and the local government has set up a number of cement factories to build houses with reinforced concrete buildings, so that the local people's houses have earthquake-resistant standards, and there is no need to worry about the collapse of houses caused by the earthquake.

As the Empire's reinforced concrete industry was still in its infancy, the cost was still high, but the Empire's citizens could still afford it. Every year, the imperial government has to invest large sums of money in the earthquake-stricken areas, but it has not been able to solve the problem. With reinforced concrete houses, the empire was saved a lot of money for disaster relief. The local government invested this money to support local steel and cement companies, control their prices, and make them affordable for the people, which not only ensured the actual role of disaster relief funds, but also drove the local economy, killing two birds with one stone.

Similarly, 11 years after entering Shenwu, the flood disaster in various places has also been greatly reduced, and the imperial government has invested a lot of money in water conservancy projects, and rivers and lakes all over the country have invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to build high dams and reservoirs, and plant trees along the coast, so that the time and scale of the flooding of large and small rivers have improved. The danger of hài is reduced in the rainy season, and the reservoir can still ensure the water supply of farmland in the dry season.

When small rivers and lakes are brought under control, the floods flowing into large rivers will be smaller. For example, along the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, all residents were relocated except for the port, and afforestation was carried out, which brought to an end the history of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River flooding every two years.

According to the calculations of the officials of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Water Resources of the Imperial Government, such a large-scale governance for another 20 years will completely end the history of flooding of the rivers of the Chinese Empire, and return the people of the empire to a safe living environment, and no longer worry about flooding, river breakdown, and other disasters.

In the coastal areas, natural disasters such as typhoons and torrential rains continued, and the imperial government was unable to control typhoons and torrential rains. However, the Imperial Government built a large number of breakwaters and shelterbelts in areas prone to typhoons and tsunamis, and gathered meteorological analysts from all over the country to record and compile the weather at every moment of the day. Since the climate is basically fixed in terms of seasonal changes, there are few sudden * conditions. The workers of the empire have recorded all the daily climate in various places, and after ten years of recording, the laws of climate change in each region have been summarized. In this way, what kind of climate change may occur every day and every hour of the year, the local government will inform the local people in a timely manner, although it is not as accurate as the weather forecast of later generations, but the prediction of the tenth is accurate, in this way, the coastal areas of the empire have formed a very complete set of disaster weather early warning mechanism, which has greatly increased the sense of security of the imperial people, recovered more than eighty percent of the economic losses and casualties, and greatly improved the people's sense of superiority over the imperial government. It also reduced a lot of financial burden on the central treasury of the empire.

This small detail of qiē, which was eventually summed up at the level of the entire empire, became a huge achievement.

Of course, Deng Haonan, the Shenwu Emperor of the Chinese Empire, understood in his heart that the Xiaoice River period had reached the end, and the natural disasters themselves had begun to weaken, coupled with the meticulous efforts of the imperial government, the situation of this Guotai and Min'an was normal. He was happy that this qiē achievement was finally attributed to his wisdom and martial arts as an emperor by the common people of the whole country, and this pride made him very happy.

It is easy to be a faint monarch, but as a Ming monarch, he is still a Ming monarch who has achieved national peace and security in this Xiaoice River period, he Deng Haonan called the second, and no one dared to call it the first.

The empire is on the right track, and the natural disaster ** in the eleventh year of Shenwu made Deng Haonan obviously feel that it has decreased a lot. For a long time, Deng Haonan has to deal with hundreds of things every day, and this is after the cabinet has solved tens of thousands of small things. Now Deng Haonan almost deals with four or five things at most every day, and the cabinet is afraid that the emperor will be idle and deliberately leave it to him.

Deng Haonan has a lot of spare time, outing and hunting during the day, supervising the construction of the royal garden and the details of the construction of the imperial mausoleum by the way. At night, Deng Haonan went all out to make people, and although the three thousand beauties in the harem were picked by the emperor, Deng Haonan still focused on his existing six concubines.

In the eleventh year of Shenwu, Emperor Shenwu had 25 heirs, including thirteen princes and twelve princesses.

The queen gave birth to the eldest son Guo'an, the fifth son Guoren, the ninth son Guoxin, the third daughter of the emperor, Princess Lingxi, the sixth daughter of the emperor, Princess Shuping, and the eleventh daughter of Princess Tianxiang;

Concubine Shu gave birth to the third son of the emperor Guozhong, the seventh son of the emperor Guoxiao, and the twelfth daughter of the emperor Princess Meiyi;

Concubine Duan gave birth to the fourth son of the emperor Guoyi, the thirteenth son of the emperor Guoping, the fifth daughter of the emperor Princess Kejing, and the tenth daughter of the emperor Princess Liangqing;

Concubine Xiang gave birth to the fifth son of the emperor Guozhi, the eleventh son of the emperor Guotai, the ninth daughter of the emperor Princess Jingjie, and the eleventh daughter of the emperor Princess Lirong;

Concubine Xiao gave birth to the sixth son of the emperor Guoli, the eighth son of the emperor Guochun, the eldest daughter of the emperor Princess Xiyan, the fourth daughter of the emperor Princess Nami, and the seventh daughter of the emperor Princess Leping;

Concubine Chen gave birth to the second son of the emperor Guoxing, the tenth son of the emperor Guomian, the second daughter of the emperor Princess Bilian, and the eighth daughter of the emperor Princess Duanjing.

Because Emperor Shenwu cared very much about the pregnancy and childbirth of his concubines, as well as the survival and growth of young children, with the help of the advanced family father's thoughts from later generations, and Deng Haonan himself refined some antibiotic drugs, so that his heirs died before they were born, and all the current twenty-five children survived. However, several of their children are very thin and sickly, and whether they can grow up to be * people in the future depends on God's arrangement, and Deng Haonan can only listen to the fate of God. X