Article 387 Shijie knows very well that the current Spanish national strength is declining, facing almost the same embarrassing situation as the Ming Dynasty, more than half of the countries in Europa are at war with Spain, and now the Spaniards simply have no ability to organize an army expedition, the Ming Dynasty is not a small country with a horn, and it can be taken down by sending a few hundred people at will.

Even if they could organize a large expeditionary army together, they would not be able to defeat the Ning Navy, and the only way was to intervene in the war between the Ming and the Manchus and support the Manchus in a proxy war with the Ming.

But the problem is that this is not the later generations, and the transportation speed of the later generations is super fast, and in an emergency, equipment, weapons and ammunition can be transported by air to the hands of the Manchus. You must know that the Ning Navy still controls the sea control of Nanyang and Manchu armor, before the Dutch and Spain secretly sent hundreds of muskets to Huang Taiji, which is the self-defense weapon of their armed sailors, not that they can't get more muskets and ammunition, but they can't transport them.

In the face of Cheng Shijie's threat, Pablo, a poor old man, did not dare to threaten Cheng Shijie with war, because even if the Ming Dynasty was in a wolf fight, Ning Haijun would rather reorganize armed recruits from the guards than transfer back elite troops from Nanyang, just to prevent this.

Now Cheng Shijie doesn't need to mobilize too much, and with only the elite troops left in Nanyang, he can tie the Spaniards and the Dutch together and press them to the ground and rub them.

If the threat fails, then only the lure remains.

Pablo said helplessly: "Your Majesty, we intend to exchange a piece of land for these prisoners of war, what do you think?" ”

Cheng Shijie narrowed his eyes: "Exchanging land for prisoners of war?" You're really generous, but it's a pity that you're generous to others. ”

The second half of the sixteenth century to the beginning of the seventeenth century was the glorious period of the Spanish Empire. At its peak, the Spanish Empire even covered an area of 31.5 million square kilometers, making it often known as the "empire on which the sun never sets".

Spain opened trade routes across the oceans, from Spain across the Atlantic to the Americas, from Mexico across the Pacific Ocean, and through the Philippines to East Asia. The Spanish conquistadors destroyed the Aztec Inca Empire and the Mayan civilization, and claimed control over large swaths of North and South America.

By this time, Spain had already controlled a quarter of the world's territory and established dozens of colonies in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and other places. At the same time, Spain also became the representative of the Catholic countries, spreading Catholicism throughout the world.

For China, not an inch of land is missing. But for Spain, land is actually the cheapest thing, and it is also generous to exchange colonies for others.

In Cheng Shijie's understanding, it was absolutely impossible for the Spanish Empire to exchange Spain proper.

The problem, however, was that Pablo's expression became a little sinister: "If His Majesty is willing to return the prisoners of war to us, and send a small fleet to Europe to help us deal with a group of pirates, you will have a fertile and vast plain, a plain most suitable for habitation......"

Hearing about Europe, Cheng Shijie's eyes suddenly brightened.

Cheng Shijie is interested in the Spanish colonies in the Americas or Africa, but he will not trade with the Spaniards, because these colonies can be taken by war, as long as the contradictions in the Ming Dynasty are resolved, Cheng Shijie will take the Ning Navy into the era of great expansion and plant the battle flag to all parts of the world.

Cheng Shijie and Pablo talked for a long, long time, and a heated argument broke out until late at night. Pablo left the camp of the Ning Navy with a satisfied smile, it can be said that his purpose has been achieved, Cheng Shijie agreed to his conditions, released all the captured Spanish soldiers, and promised not to touch the Spanish colonies in Asia,

He even promised to do Spain a favor when the situation in the country stabilized, and gave a hard lesson to the pirates who repeatedly embarrassed Spain, and the price Spain paid for this was just a piece of land of little value!

Yes, it's really a piece of land of little value. There was not much to enslave the Spaniards, there were no rich gold and silver mines, and although the land was vast and fertile, what was the point of the Spaniards, who were scarce in human resources and whose country was in decline?

It's not as useful as a silver mine in Africa! In exchange for a piece of land of little value, a few thousand soldiers and the promise of this tiger not to infringe on Spanish interests in Asia is worth it! There's no better deal than that!

From the fifteenth century to the seventeenth century, the central policy of the European colonizers was to plunder gold, silver, spices, and slaves, and to exploit the occupied lands.

In fact, they do not have the ability to develop the vast lands of the Americas, Asia, and Africa, and now the population of Europe is still too small, and the industrial strength is still too weak.

If they can grab some gold, silver and spices, and if they can catch some slaves and come back to do hard labor, they will be very satisfied.

It was not until the first industrial revolution, when Europe's population and industrial strength grew rapidly, and the precious metals of the colonies were basically plundered, that Europe began to seriously develop its colonies, mainly the Americas and Asia. Large numbers of African slaves were transported across the ocean to the colonies for hard work such as logging, farming, road construction, and weaving.

Thanks to their efforts, large areas of sugar cane plantations, cotton fields, wheat fields, and corn fields spread out like a magic carpet on the once uninhabited wasteland, and a large number of buried Tibetan resources were excavated.

It wasn't until 1914 that the dazzling halo over Europe's head fell. However, it was still very early before the first industrial revolution, and land was still useless to Europeans, so the Spaniards gave it a special pleasure.

It's just that Pablo would never have dreamed that his actions, although he had brought a lot of benefits to the Spaniards, had ruined Europe's only chance to become the world's master for thousands of years, and for hundreds of years after that, the whole of Europe was angrily cursing this seemingly shrewd fool and the Spanish king who agreed to this foolish plan.

After sending Pablo away, Cheng Shijie was already a little tired, but after putting away the agreement he signed with Pablo, he still washed his face with hot water, and then fell asleep.

Sometimes, caution isn't necessarily a good thing. Just like now, the three brigades of the Ning Navy were all changed from the soldiers of the garrison army and the soldiers of the Tianjin Wei and Funing Wei Ming armies, and some of them were adapted from the Guanning Army in western Liaoning, and this batch of recruits exceeded 35,000 people, accounting for nearly half of the strength of the three new brigades of the Ning Navy.

But the problem is that Zilharang's actions are much slower, and he moves step by step, and many of the scouts released are frenzied.

It is not difficult to understand that he has to face the most formidable opponent of the Qing Dynasty, Ning Haijun, no matter how cautious he is.

Curiously, he met almost no resistance all the way east, and even had time to hunt down the empress who disappeared after escaping from the Forbidden City, of course, such efforts were in vain.

Because Ji'er Harang chased in the wrong direction, the current Empress Zhou and her party have successfully arrived in Tianjin, if they are frightened, they also feel unsafe in Tianjin, and they left Tianjin directly by boat and went directly to Jinzhou.

In Zilharang's heart, caution is right, in his opinion, Ning Haijun is a drizzle, unless you don't go out, no matter what you do, you will inevitably get wet, a cold at light, and a high fever at worst!

As for Cheng Shijie......

Zilharang said that this thing is an aggressive bull, and if you fight him, you will fall into the pit unconsciously, and one pit after another, the more you hit the pit, the deeper it becomes, and you still want to climb out?

Dream on! He must be careful and careful, cautious and cautious!

The real reason why Cheng Shijie didn't rush to the capital at the first time was that he really didn't want the capital to fall into the flames of war, if the Qing army was still as resolute as defending Shenyang City, then the only way was to blow the capital into ruins. Therefore, the Nanluning Navy stopped in Dong'an County, which is now in Langfang, and it is still sixty or seventy miles away from Fengtai.

Therefore, Cheng Shijie led the Ning Navy to arrive at Tongzhou Sanhe, which was known as Lu County in ancient times, sixty miles away from the capital, and stopped. Sanhe is located in the plain area of Yanshan Mountain, which is very suitable for plain warfare.

The reason for Jierharang's caution was that it took time to be familiar with the firearms and artillery in the capital, and after three days of preparation, the Qing army led by Jierharang was more than 40,000 elites and prepared to start the largest field battle with the Ming army since entering the customs.

The Ning Navy responded enthusiastically, and the Ning Navy led by Cheng Shijie formed a huge phalanx with a total of 28,000 people from the Wu Sheng Division of the Eighth Brigade, and pressed over mightily.

The first to enter the battlefield was naturally the Qing army, they took advantage of the home field, set up the formation early, and occupied several villages, with Caogou Temple as the center to establish a complete defense system.

Driven by the leather whip, countless captured men wielded hoes to dig trenches and trap horses, and transported a large number of wood nailed into fences for repelling horses, all of which were prepared for the cavalry of the Ning Navy, and the Qing army was already afraid of the cavalry of the Ning Navy. There is one artillery piece, all the artillery positions are dug and deployed, and Jierharang does not expect these artillery pieces to suppress the artillery fire of the Ning Navy, and he is satisfied if they can inflict effective casualties on the infantry and cavalry of the Ning Navy!

The construction of the position went quite smoothly, and under the threat of whips and axes, the men used all their strength to feed. But the gaze of these people with infinite hatred made the Qing army like a thorn in the back, even if the language barrier, they could read the thoughts in the hearts of these people through this gaze: Don't be complacent, you don't have a few days to jump!

There was still some distance for the Ning Navy, so most of the Qing cavalry dismounted, so that the horses could conserve their strength to cope with the upcoming bloody battle, and those who still had stock on hand seized the last bit of time to take out the spirits and fine materials and feed them to the horses with both hands.

Hao Ge frowned at this scene, since Taizu started with thirteen pairs of armor, the Qing army has never tried to dismount before the war to save horsepower!

Isn't that good......

Arrogant and irritable, Hauge also deeply felt that the situation was not good. After the Ning Navy stabilized Liaoxi, except for the Guards Brigade, which bypassed the Shanhaiguan Pass and arrived directly at Yongning Province, the Third and Fourth Brigades swept through the Horqin grassland, and the Horqin Mongols had little resistance and withdrew from Horqin.

The 3rd Brigade and the 4th Brigade began to move west along the Horqin Grassland, sweeping across the entire Monan Grassland, in fact, they had completed the encirclement of the Qing army, and Huang Taiji and Dolgon Daishan lost contact and became a lone army.

The most terrible thing is that Shanxi has never been a place of abundant products, especially in the cold winter season, grain, forage, cloth, etc. are very scarce, they hurriedly went south, did not bring much grain, baggage, mules, horses, and horses, were trapped in Taiyuan, and the supply immediately became extremely difficult.

The grain is still easy to manage, and it can still be supported for a period of time by plundering the surrounding towns in Taiyuan, but there is really no way to warhorses, and the place where Shanxi produces war horses is Lingqiu and the grassland in Wei County, which is the territory of the Tianxiong Army.

So now the cavalry of the Qing army can only maintain the configuration of one person and two horses, which is really shabby to the extreme. If the horse material is not enough, the war horse will not be able to eat enough, and the physical strength will be insufficient.

Zilharang walked quickly to Haoge's side and whispered to him: "Prince Su, the morale of the soldiers is a little low, and even the state of the war horses is not very good, so they are not excited at all......

Fighting a war is morale, not only people need morale, but horses also need it. If the horses are excited, the impact will be stronger, and if they are listless, the battle will be difficult.

Now the morale of the Qing army seems to be quite low, and the morale of the war horses is naturally not much stronger.

Hauge sighed: "I know this, but I can't help it, I can't eat enough, and morale will naturally be affected...... It doesn't matter, just see some blood! ”

Huang Taiji also miscalculated, he thought that by occupying Beijing, he could obtain a large amount of grain and grass piled up, and he could also obtain countless gold and silver treasures, but the problem was that after occupying Beijing City, he found that there were more than 3.6 million stone grain in the Beijing granary on the books, but these grains had long been gone.

What is even more absurd is that the Beijing camp has not been paid military salaries for three months, and it is waiting to be fed. The common people did not have food overnight, and as for those gentry officials who had food, they surrendered to them, and if they were cut out, they would lose the hearts of the people, and now they did not fully occupy the world, and the emperor still needed them.

In desperation, the soldiers of the Beijing camp had no choice but to go to the battlefield hungry, but Jilharang was not so optimistic: "I hope so...... How much do you think we have a chance in this battle?

Zilharang's lips twitched, and he stopped talking, but finally shook his head, didn't say anything, and raised his monocular to look into the distance.

In the distance, behind the horizon, an endless dark cloud wrapped in a bone-chilling slowly surged in, and the muffled thunderous roar came from far and near, becoming clearer and clearer, and the thunderstorm was coming. Dorgon whispered, "Here they are! ”

At the forefront of the team were more than 300 rocket artillery vehicles, and after more than five years of development, Ning Haijun finally barely satisfied Cheng Shijie's little hobby.

Hundreds of artillery pieces, tens of thousands of rifles, and a large number of rocket launchers.

Cheng Shijie started with the Ning Navy, and those who fought with him were deeply impressed by the crossbow array, the hedgehog-like spear forest, the impregnable hoplite phalanx, and the razor-sharp cavalry.

However, in Cheng Shijie's conception, the ideal mode of war should be hundreds of cannons endlessly bombarding the enemy's infantry and cavalry formations; Tens of thousands of musketeers divided into several rows and fired endlessly at enemy infantry with breech-loading rifled guns; Tens of thousands of cavalry rode endlessly; Dozens of hand-cranked heavy machine guns were placed at the front of the position, firing endlessly......

All in all, what strategy, what strategy and tactics, what conspiracies and tricks, all are scum, and the supremacy of firepower and complete suppression is the king.

Now, in Cheng Shijie's view, Ning Haijun finally has some ideal war appearance.

(End of chapter)