Chapter XIII: The Counterattack on Agadir
Agadir, how many years have not been so calm. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info In the open sea outside the harbor, galleons sailed by, as if they were blind to Agadir.
Occasionally, a few small rowboats would try to enter the harbor at night, but the men with weapons had obvious ill intentions, but under the night vision of the kobolds and the spontaneous interference of the fishmen, they could only flee in dismay.
The world is so peaceful, and the kobold people are farming with peace of mind.
No one knows how much the Portuguese suffered.
Now, a month and a half after the fighting, half of Africa and the Americas, plus Europe itself, almost all Portuguese governors and bigwigs know about the 'demonic invasion of North Africa'.
Moreover, the Portuguese sailors' description of the enemy was staggering: a group of knee-high, swimmers, horns on their heads, and sharp teeth?
Lisbon, a thousand kilometers away, is even more anxious.
Portugal's ancestors were also broad, once monopolized all overseas colonies in partnership with Spain, Africa, India, Malacca, Macao and Japan, the colonies were gorgeously connected into a line, and in South America, a large area of rich plantations was operated without the intention of planting willows.
Unfortunately, the good times were short-lived.
In 1580, the Portuguese royal family became extinct, and as a result, the famous Spanish 'shoehorn-faced' family became the new kings of the Portuguese. (The Spanish Habsburg family, due to the marriage of close relatives, gave birth to a number of deformed kings.) )
As the saying goes, 'women are afraid of marrying the wrong man', and if they fall into the hands of this group of religious madmen, farming waste, and Europe's first wronged boss, Portugal's fate is simply certain.
First of all, Spain was "the precursor to kingship" for several decades, and the list of old enemies was instantly filled with all the "European maritime powers", and the coastline was repeated over and over again by the navies of several maritime powers, and the South American and Asian colonies were in full flames. Other economic and business losses, not to mention.
Now, the Duke of Bragança, an old Portuguese nobleman, has raised troops to occupy Lisbon and drove out the Spanish mad king.
Unfortunately, the army was relatively weak, and it had to enlist British aid in order to fight the Spanish shoehorn-faced king, and inevitably had to send out a few colonies as payment.
At the same time, the war with the Netherlands is still being made, and it is still unknown what the situation will be in the distant South America and the South China Sea.
As a result, there was another bad thing in North Africa at the doorstep!
Fortunately, the overseas colonies, which concentrated most of the talents of the Portuguese nation, responded very quickly, and several surrounding ports quickly organized a small fleet of ships, and in the name of a plague outbreak, established a blockade line off the coast of Agadir, prohibiting the exchange of people at sea, and did not show any news to the neighboring countries that were eyeing them.
However, the decisive battle with the Kingdom of Spain was imminent, and there were really no soldiers available in his hands, and Agadir was reluctant to lose it, so the Duke of Bragança had to write one letter after another for several colonial governors, bitterly stating the benefits, in short, Agadir was all up to the kings!
On the other side, the soldiers and horses did not move, the grain and grass went first, and the Duke of Bragança called the Dutch bankers again, and all kinds of usury went away!
Two countries, while fighting a war and borrowing usury, modern people will probably break their eyes when they hear it, and this is just a daily routine in Europe.
Bankers who do not lend money to the enemy attacking their homeland are not good arms dealers!
The efficiency of the Dutch merchants and the Portuguese colonists was very high, and just after the Thirty Years' War, the skilled mercenaries grabbed a lot of things, from bank loans, merchants stocking up goods, to hiring a variety of mercenaries, and it only took three months to get it done.
As a result, five armed merchant ships plus forty small boats sailed outside the harbor of Agadir.
More than 1,000 armed soldiers, in more than 40 small boats and carrying 10 artillery pieces, marched violently towards the port.
Behind, a total of more than 130 heavy guns from five boats were aimed at the city, and a battle was imminent.
Then, halfway through the rowboat, the mercenaries turned around and fled back to the armed merchant ship. The battle, known as the 'Second Fog of Agadir', ended in a flash of lightning.
As for the 'First Fog of Agadir', it was naturally the one that the kobolds invaded four months ago.
Unexpectedly, the fish people, who had long been forgotten by everyone, suddenly got involved and became the pig's feet of this battle.
The battle is full of accidents, and the fish-man sailors, who are chasing fish and herding their pets, stumble upon a human invader. It's a soft persimmon! As a result, all the fishmen pounced on it with great vigour. However, they found that the weapons in their hands were not powerful: what could the fork do to catch fish?
As a result, a terrible underwater ship-digging tactic was implemented. More than 300 fishmen shot together, and the water was as lively as a boiling pot, although a total of two boats were overturned, but the mercenaries on the small boat saw that the water was full of shark-sized guys, but they were half frightened and turned around and ran for their lives.
The fish-man did not give up, and chased after him—but it was of no use, and the forks in his hands were blunt enough to be used as a tickle, and the boats could barely be chiseled, and the reinforced armed merchant ships could not even be thought of.
However, the king once said: 'Thieves do not go empty'!
The fish snorted and spun around the water a few times, and finally poured their anger on the anchor - the fishmen poked with their forks and bit with their teeth, and managed to break the rope and seize two huge iron anchors!
This battle in which the kobolds won in a mess and the Portuguese lost in confusion was over.
The Portuguese struggled for a long time in the open sea, and finally unified their understanding - the dead were all mercenaries, afraid of Mao!
The fleet began to turn south, eight kilometers south of Agadir, to the mouth of the Sousse River, where it made a roundabout landing.
The fish-men, who swam slowly and liked to sleep in the 'fish tank', could not run so far, and the landing operation of the Portuguese fleet was smooth.
The 1,000 mercenaries, mostly from Germany, had little cavalry, but their morale was high - they had not even seen the enemy in front of them until now.
The soldiers disembarked one after another, and the two hundred armed crews were replenished to form a large rank. Not only were ten field guns towed, but twenty ship guns were unloaded from the ship. Until departure, the kobold was still nowhere to be seen.
The road of Agadir, which the Portuguese had long been familiar with, marched all the way, and after an hour, finally encountered the first checkpoint - the low bastion on the kobolds.
The German mercenaries have fought for decades, but they are not turtles, and a thousand words are combined into one word:!
Who will explain to us, how can there be such a high-end thing in the desert? What about Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves?
The Portuguese were also devastated - I may have met a fake Ottoman!