The northwest of the Indochina Peninsula is the Himalayas, due north is the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, the mountains extend out, enter the Indochina Peninsula, almost divide the Indochina Peninsula into two halves, coupled with the tropical climate, dense mountain forests, and steep mountains, so that the central part of the Indochina Peninsula is basically uninhabited, dangerous, send a large army to cross these mountains into the eastern part of the Indochina Peninsula, the risk is too great, this is not something that the English can afford, after all, India is not their homeland, even if they add mercenaries, The navy and the army, all the troops, are only forty or fifty thousand people, such a small number of troops on an expedition, if they encounter a little danger, they will fall short!

"And whatever!"

Fletcher said angrily: "Mobilize the main fleet of the country to come to the South China Sea and have a decisive battle with the Ming fleet, what about the mainland?" Now the relationship between England and the Netherlands is extremely tense, no one knows when a big war will break out, we will transfer the main fleet to the east, once the Netherlands declares war on us, then the homeland will suffer a devastating blow, you know, now the Dutch fleet is stronger than our England Kingdom fleet, your method will put our England Kingdom in a desperate situation! ”

Joe Allen suddenly wilted, it is true, from England to the South Seas, the main fleet will be close to 30,000 miles each way, one way back, that is, nearly 60,000 miles, and then after at least one or two months of war, or even more than half a year of war, and when the English fleet returns to England, it will take at least more than a year, more than a year, if the Dutch really declare war, I am afraid that England, which has no fleet protection, has already occupied the whole territory by the Dutch......

"What then?"

Joe Allen muffled, "Is that it?" ”

"Of course you can't do that!"

Dale said fiercely: "Unite the Dutch and the Spaniards to send troops together, and the three countries form a joint fleet to expedition to the South Seas, so that we will have an absolute advantage over the fleet of the Ming Empire, as long as the three countries send one-third of the fleet, the number of main warships we mobilize will far exceed the number of the Ming Empire, and it is not difficult to drive them out of the South Seas!" Moreover, the formation of a joint fleet, the military strength of Spain and the Netherlands in the Western Ocean will also be weakened, and the strength of the three countries will still maintain a delicate balance. ”

Dale had already sent people out, but, calculating the time, it is estimated that Dale's envoy has only just passed through the Cape of Good Hope and is on his way to the Western Ocean, the East is too far away from the Western Ocean, and it is difficult to reach the mainland in a short time, and now he can only wait patiently for the news ahead.

Now, of course, the Dutch and Spaniards had returned to the West because they had run early.

However, when the Luzon Islands and Java Islands all fell and fell into the hands of the Ming Empire, the news set off an uproar in the Western Ocean after the Spanish and Dutch ships sailed one after another!

Whether it is the Luzon Islands or Spain; or the Java archipelago to the Netherlands; It is one of the most important overseas colonies, sending a lot of supplies and wealth to the mainland every year, and now all of them are lost, the Dutch and the Spaniards are crazy, especially the two ocean-going fleets have been wiped out, and the hundreds of years of business have been ruined, which is really unbearable!

The military and political dignitaries of the two countries and the nobles of the country have asked for an expedition to Nanyang to snatch Nanyang back again!

However, the nobles in Spain and the Netherlands are not all fools, ordinary people do not know the strength of the Ming Empire, but those businessmen who often travel between the West and the Ming Dynasty know how powerful the Ming Empire is, or the Ming Empire does not exert its strength, docile as an elephant, once it goes crazy, it is not an elephant, but an invincible lion, the Ming Empire has a population, some is wealth, some is a territory, the richness of the property, the crown covers the world, whether it is Spain or the Netherlands, there is not enough strength to defeat the Ming Empire, Especially defeating the Ming Empire at someone's doorstep, it is almost unthinkable!

What's more, the Western countries are not as harmonious as imagined, there are constant disputes, the contradictions between Spain and the Netherlands, the contradictions between the Netherlands and England, the contradictions between England and France, the contradictions between the states of the Holy Roman Empire, there are many contradictions, if you want to defeat the fleet of the Ming Empire, then you must have the main fleet pouring out, but who dares to take this risk? This is not a trip to the Americas, from the east coast of the Americas to the west of Europe, it is only 3,000 miles, you can reach the east coast of the Americas in a month, from the West to the South Ocean, the distance to pass, but more than 8,000 miles, or even more, back and forth, it will take at least half a year, this is not a joke, once the mainland changes, the main fleet is beyond the reach of the whip.

No single country would dare to act on its own!

However, to retaliate against the Ming Empire first, we must first find the head of the Kingdom of England, originally the three countries have reached a consensus, the colonial fleets of the three countries in the South Seas to jointly confront the rising Ming fleet, but, turn the face, when the Ming fleet set out to conquer the South Seas, the English actually watched from the wall and ignored it, it is really treacherous, and England must be allowed to give a reasonable explanation!

Both countries and even Portugal sent emissaries to London to ask the King of England for an explanation!

Just when the envoys were shouting, the messengers sent by Dale also returned to England, bringing even more angry news, the Ming Empire actually took the entire South Seas as its own, controlled the Strait of Malacca, and banned the fleets of various countries from entering the South Seas, and the Far East Fleet of England wanted to expedition to Siam, but they were driven back by the main fleet of the Ming Dynasty!

Cromwell, the ruling general of the Kingdom of England, was so angry that he was about to vomit blood, this is stealing chickens and not eating rice, the Ming Empire is so clever that it has destroyed the alliance of Western countries in the South Seas, and at the same time has driven all the forces of Western countries out of the alliance, and no country in the Western countries has received even a little benefit!

"Haha, you deserve it! General Cromwell, you are doing your own thing! ”

The Dutch envoy Kuyt sneered: "This is the end of your perfidy!" ”

Cromwell sneered: "Yes, this is the end of our treachery, at least our English rights and interests in India have not been harmed in any way, what about you?" You're dead on the chassis, and you still want to laugh at us? You are the biggest joke, you deserve it, you deserve it! ”

Several people's faces darkened, and the atmosphere was quite weird.

"Everyone!"

The Spanish envoy Hierro said in a deep voice: "Now is not the time for us to quarrel, we should unite with the outside world and jointly deal with the Ming Empire, this time, but we are not allowed to make small calculations in each other, otherwise, one day the fleet of the Ming Empire comes to the Western Ocean, and we will all be killed by others one by one!" I propose to form a combined fleet of the West and make another expedition to the East! ”

(End of chapter)