The situation of Spain is not much better, and Spain is in the Mediterranean six. The naval battle with the Portuguese was the most intense, and the naval strength of the two countries was originally evenly matched, but with the help of the Dutch fleet, the Spanish fleet was suppressed in the military port, and the coastline of hundreds of miles was constantly harassed by the Portuguese and Dutch, and almost as long as the towns and villages within 30 miles of the coast were attacked by the combined fleet of the Dutch and the Portuguese army.

Even in the Americas, the Dutch in North America also attacked the traditional Central and South American forces of Spain, and the governor of the Viceroyalty of New Mexico sent messengers to ask His Royal Highness for support almost every few days, but Spain was very nervous even on its own soil, where was there still enough power to take care of South America, but the Ming Navy detachment that was stationed in South America to obtain a port from Spain made some efforts, although the 3,000 people composed of seven warships were not much, but for the overstretched Spanish colonial army, it was a great new force.

And the Ottoman Empire is relatively better, for this behemoth across Asia and Europe, although it has been fighting with Russia and Austrians on two fronts, but the losses are not too big, of course, this is just compared to other European countries, the Ottomans are just depleted of the treasury, borrowed 13 million taels of silver from the Ming Dynasty to buy arms, of course, the standing army has long been dead and wounded, and the Ottomans can only let the civilians urgently practice and go to the battlefield.

After waiting for so many years, the countries finally waited for the reaction of the Ming Dynasty, and they were naturally very excited, and these envoys called messengers one after another, asking people to try their best to return to China to report the news.

The newspapers in the customs also began to take action, public opinion is always to pave the way for war, many people do not even know what the Dutch are, how can they arouse the righteous indignation of the people, this kind of dark method is actually very simple, first to the Dutch, Austrians, Russians, Portuguese first set the nature. Directly named demons, robbers, bandits, painters and the like, and then go through the evils of several countries, and how to provoke the war against the Ming allies, these allies of the Ming Dynasty are naturally the same role as the white rabbit, pure like a little girl picking mushrooms, for no reason suffered from the invasion of bandits, burning, looting and the like.

After all, no matter how bad the Dutch are, no matter how pure the British are, they don't fight with them, so they go to beat people for this, which seems to be too righteous.

The first part of the propaganda is just to give Daming a pound first. The label of justice just branded the Dutch as villains, and the next message to be conveyed is interesting, why are the Dutch guilty? Why do we want to fight? Here we have to discuss from two aspects, the first aspect, first mention the old enmity, when the Ming army in Nanyang, has always been good-neighborly and friendly, and peace with other countries, but the Dutch are naked bandits, they slaughter the Han people, hatred of the Han people, etc., and finally the emperor angrily rushed to the crown, in one fell swoop to clear the power of this group of robbers in Nanyang. On the other hand, it is to publicize the threat of the Dutch to the Ming Dynasty, the text describes the strength of the Dutch, and is constantly devouring the land of neighboring countries, and their hatred of the Ming Dynasty, and then gives a hypothesis, if one day, the Dutch expand everywhere, swallow the land of the neighboring Ming Dynasty, and finally increase their power and have a huge warship, then according to their concept of barbaric conquest of the world, is it to do it to the Ming in the future?

Therefore, the reason why the emperor declared war this time is not just as simple as conquest and non-ministers, holding high the banner of the royal road to crusade against tyranny is naturally one aspect, but it is the core interest of the Ming Dynasty to eliminate the strong enemy in infancy and never suffer in the future.

Subsequently, the Tianjin Port Naval Division, which was reorganized into a Western naval division in the South Sea, Oriental Ocean, and Wanggang, met in Haidu Military Port, with 300 large warships, 1,000 sentinel ships, supply ships, arson ships, and Yu ships of different sizes distributed around each ship. It is daunting, in the distance, is a battleship completely wrapped in steel, the battleship has no sails, just a huge smoke comes out, this is the first steam warship made by Daming according to the principle of steam train, but it is completely in the experimental stage, although the outside is equipped with several inches thick steel plates, and the deck has also been laid with steel plates, but the inside is still mainly wooden, at that time, the dock invited steam experts to design, originally thought that it could make a steam-powered battleship, Steam power is much more powerful than sail power, so the dock naturally increased the steel ratio of the ship, the result of the first experiment, the whole ship just launched, then sank to the bottom of the sea, after that there is no dock to fight any steam warship idea, but this matter reached Zhu Jun's ears, Zhu Jun immediately sent someone to allocate silver two to the original dock, let them continue the experiment, all the experimental funds are completely paid by the household, if it can be successfully developed, then the imperial court decree to give a reward.

The owner of the dock originally spent countless financial resources to eat the first crab, but the battleship sank directly, and the economic loss was naturally incalculable, if it were not for the large number of orders in recent years, the business was excellent, I am afraid that it would have to go bankrupt, at this time, the court paid a sum of silver, not only did not lose it, but encouraged him to continue the experiment, and also specially sent thugs to Cheng, at least to make such a thing, this steam battleship is not big, but due to the addition of steel and steam engine systems, the tonnage is very large, The voyage is twice as fast as the ordinary battleship, but the attack power of the artillery has been strengthened a lot, since the new artillery is bright, the docks of each family hope to be able to load the new gun on the battleship to enhance the long-range attack firepower of the battleship, but because the recoil of the new artillery is too large, the general wooden battleship can not stand this powerful impact at all, so it can only give up, and now the first ironclad steam battleship experiment is successful, a group of experts who forget to sleep and eat are thinking about loading the new artillery on the ironclad battleship, after the experiment, The bearing capacity of this ironclad ship is much higher than that of a wooden battleship, but loading twenty new guns is the limit, so. The firepower of this first ironclad ship was mainly divided into two types, with 20 new guns and 35 old guns, and on the whole, this kind of steam warship was not ideal for dozens of designers and hundreds of craftsmen, but it was indeed a precedent, and it was superior to wooden warships in all aspects.

This battleship finally served in the Nanyang Naval Division, but the imperial court did not place an order for the dock to be manufactured in batches, after all, the technology is not perfect, and it needs to be further researched and improved, and it will be said after the technology is mature.

The sailors lined up at the dock with marching bags on their backs, and today they went out to sea on the day, the governors of the three major sailors met here, and had already made a plan, and the sails rose with the roll of the noose, and the smoke of the incompatible steam warship also began to rise black smoke, and they went to Europe to fight, but for the sailors, there was nothing, even if it was an ordinary Yuan Lian, most of the time they did not land for a month or several months, although Europe was far away, but in their eyes, On the contrary, I am more curious, after all, where is it, and it is better to go around the legendary Europa.

After the Ming Dynasty controlled the South Seas, the North Oceans, the East Oceans and even the Australian Seas, the main enemy to deal with was not the warships of the enemy country, but to fight some pirates or disobedient adventurers, there can be no opponent here, so in the eyes of the sailors, those Europa people are probably not powerful, and when the sailors arrive, they will naturally fight all over the ground.

On the Fuyuan, the flagship of the Nanyang Naval Division, the three governors sat in the command room and looked at the charts seriously, Liu Er looked a little older, and fine wrinkles appeared at the corners of his eyes, beside him, was Liu Guoxuan, who was full of wind and frost, Liu Guoxuan had been quite successful in the East in recent years, and the island had become the base of his Oriental Naval Division, and the imperial court had migrated 200,000 people into the island, and his Liu Guoxuan's days were very moisturized, and every time he went ashore to soak in the hot springs, the skin was not as rough as Liu Er, and Liu Guoxuan's left was Shi Lang, Shi Lang is quite a little unable to let go, after all, his reputation is not very good, among the three major naval governors, Liu Er surrendered as a pirate, Liu Guoxuan was originally from the Jinxia Naval Division, and they are all considered to be generals, but after all, he has made eagle dogs for the Manchurians, so that Shi Lang always feels that he can't raise his head, this time he was promoted from guerrilla to the governor of the Western Naval Division, although everyone's title is the same, but compared with Liu Er and Liu Guoxuan, he always feels a pound shorter. Head in general.

Liu Er's qualifications are the oldest, so this time he went to Europe, and he faintly became the supreme commander: "Everyone, according to the information of the Zhenfu Division, this time the fleet goes to sea, and the biggest enemy we face is naturally the Dutch, where the Dutch have at least a hundred large warships, and the rest of the small and medium-sized warships have no news for the time being, therefore, from the perspective of strength, our Ming sailors have an advantage, but the Dutch have experienced naval battles, and we have more experience than those sailors who bully pirates, yes, we must not take it lightly, not to mention that we have to send a fleet into the Mediterranean and Black Seas to meet the brothers of the dragoon regiment

Liu Er deliberately did not crown the word royal in front of the dragoon regiment, in fact, the only ones who can be called royal are the dragoon regiment and the Guards Legion, the Guards Regiment is an elite infantry regiment in the army, and the source of the soldiers is selected from the meritorious soldiers of each corps. A newly formed legion is just a royal legion, and it is also equipped with the word royal, even the sailors who have never been with the army are unwilling to add the word royal in front of the dragoon regiment, anyway, everyone is pretending to be a fool, and when it comes to the royal dragoon regiment, the word royal is naturally removed.

"Governor Liu, which sailor should I let go this time to take over the task of the dragoons?" Liu Guoxuan planned to go to the naval battle in his heart, his sailors were stationed in Japan, and it was extremely difficult to meet even a small fish and shrimp pirate on the side, and he was already envious when he saw the army's victories, and now that he had the opportunity, he naturally did not want to miss it.

Liu Er glanced at Shi Lang, Liu Guoxuan wanted to go to the naval battle, how could he Liu Er not want to, after all, the Nanyang Naval Division was the strongest among the four major naval divisions, of course, he was unwilling to let the Nanyang Naval Division take over.

"The Western Sailor Network has been formed, so why don't you let the Western Sailor go." How could Shi Lang not understand what they meant, seeing the embarrassed looks on the faces of the two, he stepped forward.

"Extremely leading, the hole was also a drill. When the dragoons are received to the king of Sardinia: General Ding Hualang can also send sailors to help in the battle at any time. Liu Er's face was happy. In fact, what he and Liu Guoxuan meant was to let Shi Lang pick up people, but it was hard to say, Shi Lang stood up and asked for help, which was naturally better.

"In this case, the specific plan has to wait for the West to be studied." Liu Er looked at an officer beside him: "Are the soldiers ready?" ”

"It's all ready, just wait for the Governor's order to set sail."

"Then give the order and set sail,

50,000 dragoon regiment soldiers, 100,000 war horses galloped on the snowfield, in the wind and snow, only the soldiers who showed their eyes were facing the snowflakes one by one, coats and cotton helmets, they were also wearing Yuan clothes and hats, in case the blood soaked the coats, Yuan clothes and hats had accumulated a layer of snow, in this harsh environment, Governor Bai Cheng still issued an order to travel for five hours a day.

All the knights gritted their teeth, galloping tiredly in the wind and snow, the horses were tired, so they changed to another one, and the people were tired, so they could only squint and rest on the horses for a while, fortunately, many of their usual training subjects were mainly to challenge the limits of physical strength, but they could barely hold on.

It's just that the weather is too cold, although the whole body is tightly wrapped and sharp, but it still can't stop the biting cold, many people can't help it at the beginning of the net, but after galloping here for four or five days, they also began to slowly get used to it.

Bai Cheng rode a horse with a team of guards and ran at the forefront, he understood that if the soldiers were willing to endure this biting cold wind and endure this long period of fatigue, he as the commander must set an example, his eyes were blurred, and the snow made his eyesight drop a lot, plus after all, it was not those young big-headed soldiers, if it weren't for the insistence in his heart, I am afraid he would have fallen off the horse long ago.

"My lord, take a break." Seeing that the Governor's face was not good, the chief of the guard was very worried and galloped with the Governor's soldiers and horses, and turned his head.

"Where are you now?" Bai Cheng shook his head and slowed down a bit.

"Your Excellency, I'm about to arrive in Kashrek." The chief of the guard replied.

"Kashrek?" Bai Cheng said: "Is there anyone there?" ”

"The scouts have explored it, and it's a ruined city, but there are some buildings inside. You can camp there tonight

"Look at it." Bai Cheng waved his horsewhip and sped up.

In fact, what Bai Cheng didn't know was that this city also witnessed the beginning of the annexation of Siberia by Tsarist Russia.

A hundred years ago, Siberia was not the territory of Russia. Russia has just formed a unified centralized state, with a territory of only 10,000 square kilometers, located in the corner of northeastern Europe, far from Siberia. From the middle of the old century when Tsar Ivan IV came to power, Russia began to expand eastward, gradually annexing large territories in Siberia and the Far East, and extending its territory to the shores of the Pacific Ocean.

In the process of expanding to the east, the first obstacle encountered by Tsarist Russia was the Siberian Khanate, which was adjacent to the U.S. state.

In the year of the thugs, the tsar summoned the Stroganov family, who were connected with the Siberian Khanate, to inquire about the border situation and authorize them to resist the Siberian Khanate. They were ordered to build fortifications near the Siberian Khanate, recruit troops, buy weapons, and wait for an opportunity to invade the Siberian Khanate. In the year of the defeat, the Tsar again ordered that the Stroganovs be allowed to build cities and recruit troops on the Ob River and its tributaries Tula, Tobol and Irtysh on the eastern side of the Urals, thus expanding Russia's influence directly into the territory of the Siberian Khanate. Adhering to the tsar's will, the Stroganno family repeatedly invaded the Siberian Khanate, and there was a fierce conflict with the khanate. In the first year, the Stroganov family sent people to contact Yermak, a Cossack leader who had been severely punished by the Tsar, and encouraged him to join the gang to conquer the Siberian Khanate and serve the Tsar's colonization of the territory.

After a long period of preparation, Yermak led a team of Men to conquer Siberia under the weapons of the Stroganov family. The Russian army advanced along the waterway, passing the Chusovaya River, crossing the Ural Mountains, crossing the Serebryanka, Tagil, Tula, Tobol rivers, and finally invading the Irtysh River. On the day of the rising moon, he captured Kashrek, the capital of the Siberian Khanate. Yermak and his gang made a contribution to Russian expansion. The tsarist government decided to pardon Yermak and others, commend them for their actions and award them a large salary. The Stroganovs were also encouraged and rewarded with two cities. In the year of his nephew, the Russian army defeated Kuchum Khan, who died shortly after fleeing to the steppe. At this point, Tsarist Russia finally conquered the Siberian Khanate. Its invading forces crossed the Ural Mountains, Yermak's expedition opened the prelude to Russia's large-scale expansion into Siberia, and by the time of the first century, the Russian invading forces had crossed the Yenisei River and reached the Lena River, the Chukotka Peninsula and the Sea of Okhotsk.

This time, the main direction of attack of the Ming army was naturally Siberia, but the city that was once the Khan of Siberia had long been in ruins.

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