Chapter 649: The Real Spain
Wang Feng attaches great importance to ideological education, especially to the military's ideological education, but he has never engaged in brainwashing education. That is, to use all means to instill wrong and false perceptions and ideas that are in line with one's own interests to others, that is, deception.
Deception, especially the deception of the people by the superiors, is the only way to govern the country in ancient times, but in the era when the people's wisdom is gradually opened, it may be possible to deceive for a while, or it can be deceived for a lifetime, but it is impossible to deceive eternal life, when the lie is exposed, that is, the day of retribution, Wang Feng is unwilling to use deception to maintain his rule, he hopes that the people can awaken and be able to control their own destiny.
Similarly, Wang Feng never mentions who to be loyal to or to so-and-so, everyone has their own independent personality, let others be loyal to you, which in itself is a manifestation of disrespect for others, he just repeatedly emphasized that being a man must be worthy of the nation, the country, the people, his parents and relatives, and his conscience!
In Chinese history, the change of dynasties is like a passing eye, but the nation always exists, so Wang Feng ranked the nation in the first place, the nation is greater than the state, greater than the regime, and the interests of the nation are also higher than the interests of the state and the regime.
In addition, in his eyes, Song Xianggong is a tragedy of the times, a victim of idealism replaced by utilitarianism. Chu Shijia recorded that in the thirty-fifth year, Chu Fa followed, and said: I am not guilty, and Chu said: I am a barbarian.
It is this sentence that I am barbarian, announcing the end of the era of idealized personality, Wang Feng doesn't know if he is too idealistic, but he knows that nothing can be lacking morality. He's going to give it a try anyway.
Listening to Zhang Tianxi's speech, the people around him showed thoughtful expressions. One of the soldiers asked: "The Spaniards learn from Song Xianggong, so should we also carry forward the spirit of Song Xianggong?" Do not beat their officers and military bands? β
"Spaniards, who is the spirit of Song Xianggong?" Zhang Tianxi said disdainfully: "That's just the unspoken rules of the European aristocracy who are afraid of death and each other, and it has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness. Deploy now! β
"Yes!" The order was given quickly, and the 8,600-strong marines were left with the exception of 500 to guard the transport ship. The rest of the people, that is, the strength of a division, were immediately arranged.
On the other side, the Spaniards also found the NLD army, which was only half as large as their own.
Commander McCas asked, "Your Excellency, the Chinese have appeared, should we destroy him in one fell swoop?" β
Juan looked at the sea, the distance between the Democratic Alliance and the Spanish fleet was only ten kilometers, and they would engage at any time, and shook his head at the moment: "Don't worry, let's take a look at the navy first." As long as our fleet destroys the fleet of the Democratic Alliance, we can destroy his transport ships again, put this Chinese army of less than 10,000 people in a desperate situation, and then slowly play him to death. Come on, push the cannon up, and set up a defensive formation first. β
McCasse praised from the bottom of his heart: "Your Excellency the Governor is wise. β
Boom boom. The Spanish artillery struggled to push the heavy artillery forward, and the navies of the two sides gradually approached the engagement distance.
The Spanish fleet was led by the battleship VitΓ³ria. The cruiser Girona was a little behind, and the rest of the frigates were distributed in a straight line to follow. This is a very traditional naval tactic, and it is obviously intended to rely on these two giant ships to penetrate into the enemy ship group and destroy the enemy ships one by one with heavy guns on both sides.
You know, the 68-pounder gun is the pinnacle of the front-loading smoothbore gun, he is three meters long, weighs nearly 10 tons, has a caliber of 206 millimeters, a rate of fire of nearly 500 meters per second, and a range of up to four kilometers, and can fire solid bullets, scattered bombs, explosive bombs, howitzers, incendiary shells and other shells.
The Vittoria was armed with thirty sixty-eight-pounder guns, distributed on the first deck on the left and right sides.
"Forward!" The commander of the Navy, Admiral San Jose, waved his hand sharply.
Xian Yunying, who was sitting on the General Li Guangbi, looked at the other side for a while, and said: "I didn't expect that it has been almost twenty years since the Qingying War, but the naval tactics of the Spaniards are still the same as twenty years ago, do they live in a closed world?" β
With a sneer, Prince Monlev continued: "The Philippines is artificially closed from the outside world under Spanish rule, and since the middle of the seventeenth century, Spain's national power has been declining.
In particular, in 1808, the king of Spain was deceived by Napoleon, and the whole country was annexed by France without firing a shot, although the brutal French army provoked the Spanish uprising, but it was also because of this that there was a power vacuum in Spain for nearly ten years, and the continuous political turmoil has not ended to this day.
The current Queen Isabella II of Spain, since the beginning of her accession to the throne, has gathered a group of very strong opposition forces in the country, and triggered a seven-year-long Carlos civil war, when the civil war was quelled, and the wave of French revolution came one after another, the liberal opposition in Spain is also expanding, palace intrigues and coup revolutions emerge in an endless stream, the queen can only rely on frequent changes of government to deal with, so that all kinds of courtiers have come to power, and the queen herself can be mediocre, He lived a life of debauchery and decadence, and sometimes he was willful and irrational in interfering in domestic politics, and was particularly fond of the reactionary elements in the army and the church.
The nineteenth century was an era of alternation between the old and the new, new technologies, new thinking changing with each passing day, profound changes affecting every country, everyone, Britain and France seized the opportunity to squeeze into the world's first-class powers, the United States, Russia, Prussia, of course, including China, are walking on the road of great power, and Spain's civil strife has buried itself, and the opportunity for development has been lost in vain, so it is not surprising that he followed the naval tactics of twenty years ago, I dare to conclude that Spain will inevitably lose to your army, and even lose the Philippines. β
"Hahahaha~~" Boss Chen laughed with satisfaction: "Your Excellency Menglev, it's a pity that you are a Russian, otherwise the commander-in-chief will definitely reuse you." β
"Don't dare, don't dare!" Prince Menlev half-bent down with interest, his face full of joy.
Boss Chen said again: "Order, all ships are scattered, first hit the Spaniard's boat, and finally surround and annihilate his capital ship." β
"Yes!" The flag-bearer ran out of the warehouse and waved the flag vigorously.
The Spanish warships still rode the wind and waves and rushed in a group, while the 16 warships of the Democratic Alliance gradually dispersed, giving people the illusion of temporarily avoiding the edge.
Juan couldn't help but put down the binoculars and smiled disdainfully: "Coward, the Chinese are really cowards, they don't even have the courage to fight, I am relieved to meet such an opponent, I believe that General San Jose will definitely win." (To be continued......)
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