Dumai Fortress, Trope is still waiting for the good news from Medan, but what he didn't expect was that this time it came back, it was even more depressing bad news!

"What? Can't log in? ”

Seeing the French fleet running back so quickly, Troppe was stunned, and when the commander of the French fleet, Pixon, came to Troppe and reported the situation in Medan, Troppe was completely blind!

"Pixon, what the hell is going on? We sent 50,000 or 60,000 troops before and after, all of them Western elites, and you told me that reinforcements could not land? ”

Trope roared.

Pixon smiled bitterly: "General Tlop, yes, our reinforcements can't land at all, and when we arrive at the Gulf of Ura in Medan, the Ming army has driven the Western coalition army led by General Molde to an extremely small space near the pier, in order to provide space for the reinforcements to land, I ordered the fleet to fire with all its strength and launched an attack on the artillery positions of the Ming army, and finally forced the Ming army to retreat and command the reinforcements to land, but when the reinforcements landed just halfway, the Ming artillery and rocket troops all advanced, immediately launched a rapid attack on the Medan wharf, the entire wharf was shrouded in artillery fire, not only the reinforcements that had just landed, together with our troop transports, were attacked by the Ming army's artillery fire, our army was suppressed in a small area, unable to move, heavy casualties! ”

"Fight back, won't you fight back?"

Trope roared.

Pickson said in a snuggent voice: "General Troppe, of course we counterattacked, at that time, General Molde's two artillery regiments, plus our naval guns were all put into the counterattack, hoping to suppress the Ming army's attack, but the dock water is shallow, our giant ships can't get too close, and the limited range of the naval guns can't hit the Ming army's artillery position, General Molde's artillery regiment can hit it, but the Ming army called more than 100 flowering cannons, where is General Molde's two artillery regiments can parry?" Originally, General Molde and I decided to retreat all the troops to Medan, but the offensive firepower of the Ming army was too fierce, and our troop carriers could not dock at all, and several troop carriers were directly sunk by artillery and rockets......

Everyone was shocked, and sent more than 20,000 elites, thinking that the victory was in hand, but they didn't expect that they would be beaten again, and it was a big shame at this time!!

"What about the casualties of the Western coalition forces?"

Tropep asked in a snort.

Pixon replied: "The casualties of the Western coalition army are initially estimated to be more than 10,000 people, and because Molde retreated in a hurry, the main force of the Spanish army was surrounded by the Ming army because it was too late to withdraw from its position......

The Spanish Army was besieged and annihilated?

All the people here couldn't sit still, more than 10,000 casualties, and the main Spanish force was encircled and annihilated again, and the combat strength of the Western coalition army was directly more than one-third!

"Impossible! When pigs fly! ”

The commander of the Spanish army, Philo, jumped up at once and roared, "Pixon, are you kidding? Thousands of elite members of the Spanish Army were surrounded and annihilated by the Ming army? ”

Pixon hurriedly said: "General Phelock, calm down, calm down, maybe, maybe your army can break through, after all, your country also has thousands of people!" ”

It's just that even Pixon himself doesn't believe in this sentence, thousands of people, 30,000 Molde have made the family fall to the ground, and the forced Western reinforcements can't land, just relying on the Spaniards thousands of people still want to break through, how is it possible?

Pherock roared, "Fart! Pixon, thousands of people facing a siege of tens of thousands, do you think Lao Tzu will believe that the main Spanish forces will be able to break through? Say, did that damn bastard in Molde mean to mess us up? That's thousands of elite main forces in Spain, thousands of elite main forces! I'm not done with you! ”

"Phelock! Calm down! ”

Pixon suddenly changed color and roared, "Do you think Lao Tzu is willing to do this? Do you think Molde is willing to be where he is? You are only losing thousands of people, in this war, the first to bear the brunt of our French, we mobilized more than 20,000 army elites in one go, rushing to the forefront is our French army, reinforcements landed, rushing to the forefront is still our French army, we have lost more troops than you, more than you, understand! ”

"Then you deserve it! Molde is a waste, what a famous general, it is better to let someone else command! ”

Philoc was furious, the loss of thousands of people was too great, these were not mercenaries, but real Spanish elites......

Pixon snorted angrily: "You don't fucking accuse us, look at your so-called elite in Spain, the artillery is all solid shells, not even a flower cannon, and half of them are using arquebuses, such a weapon, how can it be compared with the Ming army?" One shell can withstand you three shells, and your Spanish Army is a bunch of rubbish! ”

"Alright, stop arguing!"

Tlupp roared angrily, "The enemy is now, now is not the time for infighting, the most important thing is our next battle plan!" The battle plan, how to break into the hinterland of the South Seas! ”

Blake said in a deep voice: "Troppe is right, no matter how big the anger is, the most important thing now is how to defeat the Ming Empire, otherwise, we will travel thousands of miles to the South Seas, is it a vacation?" Trope, you are the commander-in-chief, you say, how should this war be fought! ”

Trope said in a deep voice: "Obviously, it is no longer feasible to launch an attack from the land of Sumatra, the combat power of the Ming army is too strong, for the sake of today's plan, bypass the Strait of Malacca, enter the South Ocean from other straits, and then throw off the heavy defense on the west side of the Ming army, and go straight to the hinterland of the South Ocean, it is impossible for the Ming army to deploy heavy troops on every island, and it is impossible to break through here, then we will take a detour from the southern tip of Sumatra, enter the South Ocean, go all out to the north, go straight to the Luzon Islands, and take the Luzon Islands as our rear base first, Then wave your troops north and kill the lair of the Ming Empire! Leave all the heavy troops deployed in the front line of the Ming army behind, they can't even catch up with us even if they want to! ”

Blake nodded and asked, "The strait at the southern tip of Sumatra is too shallow and has a lot of reefs, can we get by?" Or take the Magellan's Passage? ”

Troppe sneered: "For others, the Java Isthmus is a moat and cannot be passed, but for us Dutch, it is a smooth road, we have occupied the Java Islands for a hundred years, and we have already figured out the hydrology here, and the fleet can easily pass through, and you warships of other countries only need to follow us, as for the Magellan Channel, I am afraid that they will not be able to hide it from the Ming Empire, after all, they have collected a large number of navigation charts from the Western Ocean, and it is difficult to hide it!" ”

(End of chapter)