Chapter 990
: Attack from all directions
The French Sun King Louis XIV is still a six-year-old child. His mother and Mazaran are mainly in power in China. Another powerful figure is Prince Condé.
The commander of France's troops to support the Ottoman Empire this time was Prince Conde, who was also the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces of France, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands.
The four-nation coalition army had 260,000 troops, France sent 100,000 troops, and the other three countries sent a total of 160,000 troops. The French army was relatively strong, and gathering 100,000 troops was nothing, but the other three countries almost sent out all the main forces of their army.
Especially Spain and the Netherlands, they are now very powerful in naval forces, because the colonies dispersed most of their troops, and now tens of thousands of people are almost the limit for them to send troops.
By taking out all their family background to support the Ottoman Empire, we can see how deep their hatred of defeating the Ming Dynasty. If they were defeated in this battle, they would have no troops to protect themselves.
While France formed a coalition to fight against the Warsaw Pact, the Holy Roman Empire, Sweden, Norway and Denmark had 200,000 troops to the Ottomans. They could not afford to lose. Once they failed, the Ming army could retreat, but the four countries would have no place to gain a foothold in Europe.
With the five countries increasing their troops at the same time, the total investment of the Warsaw Pact reached an astonishing amount of more than 500,000. On the tenth day after the First World War, they launched a tide-like attack on the Ottoman army.
At the same time, Zheng Chenggong led the Ming Navy to launch an attack on the Ottoman coastal areas. Under the fierce bombardment of Ming artillery artillery, many Ottoman coastal towns were quickly captured.
The Ottoman army on the Hungarian prairie had almost no resistance under the impact of Allied artillery, more than 100,000 cavalry and 200,000 infantry, and soon suffered a defeat, with more than half of the 100,000 troops being wiped out.
However, the coalition forces led by Prince Conde of France soon joined the battle, temporarily holding back the advancement of the five Warsaw Pact troops. Then the Ottoman Empire gathered another 50,000 troops to join the battle. The battle between the Allies led by the Ming Dynasty and the Allies led by France was in a stalemate, and no one could get a advantage.
Only the Ming Navy and Marine Corps were still conquering the Ottoman coastal areas. The Ottoman had no choice but to watch the Ming Navy fall.
For the Ottoman Empire, the continuous crackdown of local coastal areas by the Ming Dynasty was not the only bad news, because their territory in North Africa and the Middle East was also being taken down by the Safi Empire one by one.
Now not only has Egypt been controlled by the Ming Dynasty, but Baghdad and Oman have also quickly fallen into the hands of the Safi Empire. The only overseas territories that have not been conquered are Somalia and Yemen.
In fact, Somalia and Yemen were not unable to defeat the Ming Navy, but the Ming Emperor Zhu Youjian didn't want those places where birds were not laid eggs. The Safi Empire and Nordic countries also looked down on it. They could only wait for the Ottoman Empire to be destroyed and let Somalia and Yemen go to play on their own.
When the coalition forces of both sides were temporarily in a stalemate, the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty immediately reported the situation of the battle, but Emperor Zhu Youjian, Zhu Youjian just smiled slightly, and they did not care about the progress of the Ottoman battle.
As long as the Allies can hold back the coalition forces led by France and let them lose each other. Anyway, the Ming army sent by the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming army is now more than millions of Ming army soldiers, and at most it will be recruited again.
Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal voluntarily followed France behind. Zhu Youjian knew that they would soon regret it because the imperial edict to attack the colonies of the Three American countries had been in the hands of eleven vassal kings.
Although the soldiers recruited by the vassal kings were not as good as those of the Three Kingdoms Colonial Army, they would definitely not have any problems in defeating the Three Kingdoms colonial army in the Americas with their advantages of firearms and numbers.
On the distant sea, there is a Ming fleet sailing towards France. Didn’t France form an Allied forces to deal with the Warsaw Pact national coalition? The Ming Navy will let Queen Mother Anna and Mazaran see the powerful Navy.
This fleet is the Ming Dynasty's Western Expedition Fleet led by Zhang Huangyan. The fleet consists of 150 warships, including three armored warships, and the rest are sail warships, supply ships and medical warships.
However, at this time, many wars in the world were almost ongoing, from Europe, Asia, the Middle East, to America and North Africa, the war was fought. The Ming Dynasty Emperor Zhu Youjian.
March 5, 21st Chongzhen
As the sky was getting bright, more than 20,000 troops in Ming army equipment suddenly appeared outside a Spanish military base in Chile, America. They were under the command of King Zhu Yihai, Lu.
This military base does not have the kind of European bastion, but a circular curtain wall formed by using thick wooden piles to penetrate underground, with more than 700 Spanish colonial troops inside.
There is also a copper mine in this so-called castle. This copper mine is the largest copper mine mined by the Spanish in Chile. It can mine more than 70,000 kilograms of brass every year.
I think there are more than a dozen such copper mines in Chile, but this is the largest one. The Spanish can transport more than 200,000 kilograms of brass from Chile every year.
You should know that there were still copper coins in use in the Ming Dynasty at this time. It can be said that brass is also a very precious resource. Copper can not only make copper coins, but also cannons and muskets. For the Ming Dynasty, which has entered industrialization, its value is definitely no less than silver.
More than 500 meters away from the Spanish military base, there is a similar settlement, where local slaves and black slaves sold from Africa are all Spanish laborers and are a type of people who work in vain.
"Is this the military base of the Red-haired Ghost? Gu thought that the Red-haired Ghosts lived in the castle..."
Looking at the simple defensive wooden wall, King Zhu Yihai of Lu couldn't help but smile on his face. How could he know that the seemingly simple wooden wall was a solid fortress for the local natives.
Spanish soldiers stood in a wooden fence and held muskets to defend themselves. Indigenous people besieging wooden walls is equivalent to sending people to their heads. Although there are only 700 Spanish soldiers, they cannot break the wooden wall without firearms.
"Dangdang..."
"Enemy attack..."
Just as King Lu and his friends were observing the Spanish wooden wall disdainfully, the sentry inside suddenly discovered the Ming army outside, and immediately rang the gong to call the police and shouted the enemy's attack.
Hearing the signal of searching for the alarm, more than 200 Spanish soldiers were calm and stood on a row of wooden ladders behind the wooden wall with flintlock rifles.
None of them had a panic expression. It was no big deal for the natives to attack them frequently. The flintlock rifle raked and killed some of them and ran away immediately.
But when they looked up outside, they saw soldiers wearing armor and holding firearms like them in their hands.
The Spanish soldiers could no longer calm down, and suddenly more than a dozen Spanish soldiers fell down from the wooden ladder. They felt as if they saw a ghost.
"God..."
(End of this chapter)
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