A week after Spain launched a war against the Ming Dynasty in the territory of the New Ming Dynasty, France's colonies in the New World also joined the war.

But compared to Spain, France's addition is more helpless because this is not Louis's original intention, but under pressure from all sides, Louis still made such a choice.

The border between Ming and France finally started, but the scale of the war was not large. Although France started the war, it did not show an indomitable momentum. On the contrary, France was a little cautious after the war. The French army attacked the Ming Dynasty with extremely conservative tactics. The two sides first used cannons to bombard them, and then sent infantry to fight.

However, during the battle, France did not use all its strength at all. After contacting the first day of the first day, it shrank the troops back and then continued to set up cannons and bombard them. This tactic made the Ming Dynasty a little confused.

Zhu Yigui had already sent reinforcements to Sanhe Town at this time, but his main focus was still on the Ming and Fa border.

Compared with Spain, France's strength is obvious to all. As the admiral of Xinming, Zhu Yigui, in this case, must distinguish the primary and secondary, and use troops reasonably.

Zhu Yigui was not too worried about Sanhe Town. Although Spain was coming in a fierce manner this time, Zhu Yigui believed that the army of Sanhe Town would not have many problems for a period of time. In addition, as the defeated general of the Ming Dynasty, Spain did not think that the Spanish could advance straight, which directly posed a fatal threat to the Ming Dynasty. On the contrary, France, as the overlord of Europe, had the greatest pressure on this aspect.

In fact, after all, the key to Zhu Yigui is that he lacks military strength. If he has enough military strength, there is no need to make such arrangements.

Xinming is really too large. In terms of territory, the total population of several major provinces in the country is almost the same as that of the local provinces, but Xinming's population is far less than that of the local provinces. After more than ten years of hard work, the total population of the entire Xinming is only 10 million. Among them, the real Ming people's population has just exceeded one million, and most of the rest are just Indians.

The Indians, as a naturalized population, formed an important part of the population proportion of the Xinming population, although many Indians have bid farewell to the past way of tribe survival and began to learn from the Ming people to settle and farm.

Among them, there are many Indians with a very high degree of naturalization, which has been integrated into the Ming people and started their new lives in all walks of life. For example, Yin Xiong is a representative figure, and there are many Indians who naturalized in the Ming army, but these are only part of it. Judging from the overall population base, it will take a long time for Indians to truly become Ming people.

It is impossible to change the life traditions of thousands of years in more than ten years, or even less. The Indians have lived on this land for so many years, and many things have been deeply rooted in them. Although from their appearance, the Ming Dynasty had innate advantages, coupled with the Ming Dynasty's propaganda towards the Indians, the Indians reduced their hostility to the Ming Dynasty, thus gaining the foundation for naturalizing these Indians.

However, it is a long-term task to truly achieve all naturalization, which is simply impossible for generations to complete. In later generations, Indians from all over the Americas still existed as an independent nation and maintained their own traditions.

In addition, the Indians and the Indians never lived in harmony. As a tribe, the Indian group existed, wars and massacres had always existed. Although the Ming Dynasty had advantages in appearance, it was impossible to eliminate the hostility of the Indians to outsiders just by appearance and so-called propaganda. Therefore, there were many arrogant Indian tribes in various parts of Xinming. In order to solve this problem, the Ming Dynasty adopted the means of using softness and pressure, and there was no shortage of blood in the Xinming rule.

From these aspects, the internal rule of Xinming is not as stable as imagined, and still hides many hidden dangers. This is well known to both the Governor’s Office of Xinming or the Ming court. This is a long-term and arduous task.

The Ming Dynasty's military strength in Xinming was not weak. Now, except for the navy, the army, including cavalry units, has about 70,000. This amount is already a lot from the basis of the millions of Ming people. This is because there are many naturalized Indian soldiers in the army. If this is not the case, it may not have been possible to reach this amount.

Due to the rapid expansion of the Ming Dynasty in recent years, especially the Liaodong Battle, the Ming Dynasty immigrated to Liaodong first. In order to ensure the rule of Liaodong, the Ming Dynasty has delayed its local immigration policy to Xinming. In order to make up for this, the Ming Dynasty adopted a policy of immigration from Japan to Xinming more than a year ago.

In terms of total military power, the Ming Dynasty was not weak, but it should be known that the territory of Xinming was vast, and the Ming Dynasty must station some troops in various places to meet the local rule.

In addition, the troops stationed were also responsible for encirclement and suppression of some Indian tribes that opposed the Ming Dynasty's rule when necessary. In this way, Zhu Yigui did not really use much of the troops.

As the border was tense, Zhu Yigui paid more attention to the French side and did not pay much attention to Spain.

However, in order to ensure that everything is foolproof, Zhu Yigui still increased troops to Sanhe Town in advance to strengthen the defensive power of Sanhe Town.

Fortunately, Zhu Yigui considered this. It was precisely because of his early increase in troops that the Spaniards suddenly hit the wall with his attack on the Ming Dynasty. Although the Spaniards had the upper hand in the past ten days of attack, they were unable to completely take down Sanhe Town.

When Zhu Yigui, who was paying attention to the situation on the border between Ming and France, learned that the Spaniards launched an attack, Zhu Yigui was very surprised. Although he sent reinforcements in time, Zhu Yigui still believed that the real battlefield was still the Ming and France border. Compared with the Spaniards, France was the enemy of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yigui could not bring the main force against France to the Spanish front line. He was waiting for the upcoming battle.

But the facts made Zhu Yigui stunned. He didn't expect that a few days later, France would indeed have a war with the Ming Dynasty as he expected. Zhu Yigui, who was originally ready to compete with France, was ready to fight with France, but the subsequent development was unexpected.

France did start a war, but this war was fundamentally different from what was expected. France adopted extremely conservative tactics, and it even showed no appearance of an offensive side, but a defender.

After several consecutive days of artillery battles and a start-and-error attack, both sides suffered no losses except for a few unlucky guys.

The cannons and muskets were fired vigorously every day, but no one died at all. The Ming army, who was waiting for the French attack in a strong manner, was shocked to find out that the French troops on the opposite side also put on the same posture. This war seemed so strange from the beginning.
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