On the first day of the fifth month of the tenth year of the Ming Republic, the mouth of the Yangtze River.

The flag of the ocean fleet of the Ming Navy is hunting and fluttering in the sea breeze.

This is the good weather in the sky and Qinghai, and the southwest wind is not too small. The waves crashed against the sloping bows of these wooden giants of the sea, splashing the sky with white waves.

With the signal flag of the Liaodong first-class battleship, the 30 fourth-class battleships, which are the main force of the Daming Navy's ocean fleet, have formed two separate artillery columns, which are imaginary enemies of each other, practicing the tactics of formation shelling. Two formations of 15 fourth-class battleships each, as well as their own flagships. Led by the flagships of the two formations, they were facing each other for a while, marching in one direction at a time, and then beginning to compete with each other for T-shaped positions. The performance of these warships, in the eyes of Li Zhongshan, a layman, can be regarded as strict and agile, orders and prohibitions, the state of the warships, and the morale of the officers and men seem to have reached the best state before the battle!

Li Zhongshan, Liu Guoxuan, Ke Tangtan, and Wu Shijue were standing on the deck of the stern of the battleship Liaodong, all holding binoculars and watching the fleet drills. After a long time, Li Zhongshan was the first to put down the binoculars and smiled with satisfaction: "Yes, good practice, it seems that the battle line shelling and the scramble for the T-position have learned that if they encounter the Spanish Armada on the ocean, they should have the strength to fight, right?" ”

Vice Admiral Codontin, who had just been promoted to Vice Admiral of the French Navy and had now learned to speak a little Chinese, he also put down his binoculars and nodded: "The tactics of line shelling and T-position competition are indeed practiced, but the naval battles that have taken place in European waters in recent decades have usually evolved into melee, and melee battles test the comprehensive ability of captains, officers and sailors more than column combat, they need to have superb navigation skills and gunnery, as well as a brave and fearless spirit, and rich combat experience."

But the Ming Navy is obviously inferior to the Spanish Navy and the Dutch Navy in this regard, the Ming Navy is too young, most of the captains have not even really sailed a long way once, and the other officers on the ship are even more immature, they have not even been to the sea a few times, almost all of them have not really participated in a battle against the world's first-class navy. I'm worried about their first fight, it's going to be a tough test! And they weren't ready! ”

This Frenchman is really direct, but it is also roughly in line with the facts!

Li Yat-sen was poured cold water by Codon, but he was not prepared to cancel the expedition that was about to begin, because in his eyes, the real enemy was not the fleet of the Spanish Armada, which had never won a battle.

The real enemy of the Ming Navy must be the Pacific Fleet of the US Navy!

That's the truly invincible fleet! Anyway, in the depths of Li Yat-sen's memory, this fleet is still invincible! And now, Li Yat-sen has decided to rise to the challenge and rely on a wooden-hulled sail battleship to destroy the invincible US Pacific Fleet!

Well, now is the right opportunity, as long as you take Mexico and colonize the western United States in the future, the Pacific Fleet will disappear in the long river of history. It turns out that the "weapon of time" is the real weapon of mass destruction!

And now is also the perfect time to dismantle the Spanish world empire, Louis XIV is fighting Spain for Italy, and William III should now take England. However, it will definitely take some time to integrate the two countries.

So at this time, the Kingdom of Spain should be fighting alone. A Louis XIV with 200 million livres of military spending is probably enough for Spain to drink a pot, and if you add a Ming Dynasty, an American imperialism, and a progressive and civilized Mexican Republic, then the Spanish world empire will definitely have to be dismantled.

Collapse Spain hehe, Kangxi will be isolated!

Thinking of this, he smiled faintly and said: "Kejunmen, since you think that the first decisive battle of the Great Ocean Fleet will be a severe test, then please do your best to delay the arrival of the first decisive battle Your most important task is to send Wu Yushuai's Third Division of the Ming Army to the port of Acapulco!" Before completing this mission, be sure to avoid the decisive battle! ”

"But what if my fleet encounters the Spanish Armada as it passes near Japan?" Cotentin asked rhetorically.

Liu Guoxuan, who was on the side, interjected with a smile: "No, 6,000 Japanese mercenaries have already set off from Ryukyu to Luzon Island on 30 armed Galen ships." The Spanish Armada got the news and was bound to go to reinforce Luzon.

When they pass through the waters near the Ryukyu Islands, our ocean fleet will set off east across the Pacific Ocean, and it will be foolproof. By the time the Spaniards find out, you'll all be on the coast of the New World. ”

These 6,000 Japanese mercenaries are still hired through the "three poor domains" of Satsuma, Choshu, and Tosa, and they are still the same "high-priced soldiers" - the high price is to win over Satsuma, Choshu, and Tosa, so that they can eat a little difference and become bigger and bigger, so that they can become loyal servants of the king of Japan!

Second, it is because the tasks given by Li Yat-sen are not easy to complete. Either it's gone forever, or it's a lifetime of death!

When I went back to Rakshasa, I guessed that I had to "be born as a Japanese and die as a Rakshasa ghost"!

And this time I went back to Luzon, which was to serve the Spaniards as a target, purely to exchange my life for money, and considering the malaria epidemic on Luzon, it would not be easy to go back to a third of the end.

Codontan thought for a moment and said, "When the Spanish Armada learns that my ocean fleet has gone to America, they will definitely abandon Luzon and sail east. So that Luzon is likely to be taken away by us!

And the Spanish Armada, no matter how invincible, is also a sailing ship . By the time they crossed the Pacific Ocean to the New World, we would have already set out from Acapulco! ”

He laughed, nodded, and said, "Good! Taking a turn in the Pacific Ocean is better than practicing at the mouth of the Yangtze River for three years! When the ocean fleet returned to Baoshan Port, the officers and men of the fleet would be trained! ”

Seeing that Ke Tangtan finally had confidence, Li Zhongshan turned his head to look at Wu Shijue, the "little jade handsome", and asked with a smile: "Shuangyu, are you confident?" ”

Wu Shijue smiled: "It's a piece of cake. Spain's navy may be a little strong, but their army in the New World is not enough to see. Even characters like Geng Jing and Geng Juyi can support in Acapulco to this day. I'm going to pass more than 10,000 people, how can I not win a complete victory? ”

Looking at Wu Shijue's firm expression, Li Zhongshan smiled knowingly: "Okay, your third division will be able to board the ship soon, and when you arrive at the city-state of the Republic of Acre, remember to greet your father for me!" ”

Wu Guogui set out for the New World last year, and although the location of the presidential palace assigned to him by Li Yat-sen was in the gold-rich "San Francisco" (there is no such name now), the place was still barren, and there were only a thousand criminals under the custody of two or three hundred Wu Guogui's own soldiers, where they built fortresses and cultivated farmland. Of course, Wu Guogui could not be allowed to sit in such a place, so he, President Wu, who was in charge of governing the Western Empire of the United States, simply established a temporary presidential palace in a place called Banderas Valley near Acapulco (which was originally the territory chosen by Zheng Jing for Geng Jingzhong).

The first president of the US imperialists actually worked in Mexico. Is this US imperialism considered to have been fostered by Mexico?

However, the environment is said to be very good, with mountains and seas in the background, beautiful scenery, and many villas of the powerful people of New Spain have been built, which is a good place for them to vacation and relax.

For the vast and boundless New World, Wu Shijue also showed a look of expectation: "Shikai, the ocean fleet will be ready to set off soon?" ”

Li Zhongshan said: "Yesterday, a clipper ship from the Satsuma Domain arrived in Baoshan County, and it has been determined that the Spanish Armada passed through the waters near the southern part of Kyushu Island 3 days ago and headed for the Philippines!"

In addition, the edict declaring war on the Kingdom of Spain will soon be officially issued. And the Third Division of the Army will become the vanguard of our Ming Dynasty's attack on the 'Western Thief' and pacify the New World! This is the work of eternity! ”

Geng Jingzhong, now Geng Juyi, he landed in Acapulco in 1677 in the Western calendar, almost 5 years ago!

This is really like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle!

However, in the past 5 years, Geng Juzhong has not wasted his time from a coincidence to become the warlord of the Shenzhou of the liberator of Acapulco, and has completely grown into a father of the republic of the New World.

Well, it's the kind of father of the nation who can stand a bronze statue in the center of Acapulco in the future, and countless people will give him flowers every day!

I have to say that his transpacific trip has made a lot of money.

And behind the father of the republic, there is another loving father - Zheng Jingzheng, the richest man in the Ming Dynasty.

In the past four or five years, "Daddy Zheng" has organized 10 to 20 Galen ships and old lock ships every year to transport people and supplies to the port of Acapulco, and in the past four or five years, more than 10,000 people have been delivered, and a large number of artillery, flintlock guns, and cavity shells have been transported.

Using these weapons, Geng Juyi armed a "republican army" of nearly 20,000 people, which is not a large number, but the combat effectiveness of this army is considerable. Because of the "republican thought" and "egalitarian thought" from the Ming Dynasty, many Indo-European mixed ancestries and Indians who could not bear the oppression of the Spaniards were attracted to join the republican army of the city-state of Acre. These people felt that they were fighting for an independent, free, progressive republic of the New World, and that they were fighting against the corrupt, degenerate, evil, murderous Spanish monarchy in the New World.

Even Juan. José sent the Marquis of Asenta, who had led the Dutch Legion, and a group of elite soldiers who had participated in the Franco-Dutch War, and ordered the Viceroyalty of New Spain to recruit 50,000 troops in the territory and carry out three major attacks on the nascent city-state of the Republic of Acapulco. But one defeat is worse than the other! Nearly 20,000 people were lost, and even the Marquis of Asenta himself was almost taken prisoner by Geng Juyi.

And the flag of the Republic was planted in a dozen towns on the Pacific coast of New Spain!

The territory of the present-day city-state of Acre stretches for nearly 1,500 miles from the port of Acapulco along the coastline northwest to the Banderas Valley. Although the territory of this city-state of Acre was very narrow, only a narrow plain on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, and the population under its rule was not very large, only about 300,000.

But in any case, the name of the city-state of Acre is still a bit inappropriate, it's time to form a republic!

At this time, another great news came from the precincts of the Viceroyalty of New Spain - King Carlos II of Spain and Prime Minister Juan Brown. José was accused of "anti-Christ" by Louis XIV, the protector of the Catholic Church who supported Rome, for his evil deeds of attacking Rome and deposing the Pope, so he was punished by breaking the law!

It turned out Juan. José had already lost Rome and Milan in the spring of 1682 and retreated to the Kingdom of Naples.

Louis XIV, who invaded Rome, immediately restored Innocent XI to the position of Pope, and then ordered Innocent XI to issue a directive against Carlos II and Juan. José's goal-breaking law.

The breaking of the law has long been a big deal in Europe, and now there is no such thing as a rebellion by God after the excommunication of the Pope, when the subjects cease to be loyal and can rebel with God's blessing.

But that's not the case with the Spanish colonies in the New World!

The Spanish colonists were never human, and only the Catholic Church could administer justice, so in the Spanish colonies of the New World, the majority of the population of Indo-European mixed ancestry and Indians generally loved the Father more than the patriotic king, who was basically unloved, and all cursed him.

So once the king of Spain was excommunicated, the devout Indo-European mestizos and Indians of the Spanish colonies of the New World no longer recognized Carlos II as their monarch.

At this time, even the Indo-European mixed race and Indians, who were loyal to Spain because they loved God, changed their stance and began to support the republic.

Against this backdrop, a council of twelve city-states was held in Fort Santiago, in Puerto Acapulco, for the purpose of establishing a republic.

"Gentlemen, delegates from the free city-states of the Pacific coast! Today, we, the representatives of the free people of the New World, the opponents of the Spanish Crown, and those blessed by the Father, gather here to discuss an issue that best manifests the glory of the Father and brings glory and dreams to the land beneath our feet—the establishment of a republic representing all the free people of the New World who profess the Father and the Brother, and all other religions! ”

Speakers fluent in Spanish are Geng Juyi's henchman Yu Renying, who became a Catholic priest in order to facilitate the leadership of the Catholics of the Republic of Acre, and found a robe to wear, and declared himself a bishop of the Catholic Worship of God!

He was originally an inauthentic bishop, and he also engaged in a nondescript worship of God, so there were not many people who believed in it, but recently the situation changed a little, and the Innocent XI, who was propped up by Louis XIV, was in charge of Carlos II and Juan Juan. At the same time that Jose was out of the church, he also "canonized" Bishop Yu Renying, who had always insisted on opposing the Spanish monarchy, as a cardinal (this was actually made up by Yu Renying).

With the support of these gods, Geng Juyi's rule over the twelve city-states of Acre was more stable, and the Juntian military system he implemented also made great progress, and the twelve city-states with a population of more than 300,000 can now pull out a maximum of 30,000 troops.

In this case, it is logical for Jianguo to become a general or something.

"Cardinal, what is our republic called? Is it called the Spanish Republic? ”

Immediately there were questions from the delegates.

And by the way, he put forward a proposal to establish a Spanish Republic, but this matter is a bit big, a group of Native American and semi-indigenous armies, do they still want to land in Europe?

"No, we don't care about Spain," Yu Renying's old partner Li Daoren is now dressed in military uniform, he is no longer a soldier of the Taoist, and his record in the past few years is not bad, "Our legal system does not come from the Kingdom of Spain, because the rule of the Kingdom of Spain over the New World has never been legitimate.

And we have always been the territory of the Aztec Empire, so we should inherit the legal system of the Aztec Empire, and our country can be called the Aztec Republic! “

He can really make a fool of himself, this area is not Aztec territory at all, the Aztec territory is in Mexico City!

But no one cares about the big guys, and today's top priority is to set up the name of the republic.

The echo below immediately rang out: "Down with the Spanish monarchy, long live the Aztec Republic"

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