The signatories of the "Four-Nation Agreement" are the Ming Dynasty, the Netherlands, England, and Portugal, and these four countries are not at odds with Spain.
Therefore, the Spanish fleet in the Philippines is not enough to look at. Even if all the fleets stationed in the Pacific direction of New Spain come over... they will definitely not be able to defeat the Dutch East India Company!
As for mobilizing the navy from the Atlantic direction...will France take the opportunity to seize Spain's colonies in the Caribbean?
The war between France and Spain is still going on!
So Caballero, Garcia and Li Yufan suddenly discovered that their country was quite isolated in East Asia, with only one friend: Mongolia.
And Spain's only friend in the east is being instigated at this time to drag Spain into the water to help the war!
Shengjing Palace, Qinzheng Hall.
Duduo, the emperor's uncle of the Fujun Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, is summoning Song Shilie, the envoy of the Korean Kingdom.
It was summoned alone, with no outsiders present.
"Your Highness, as far as I know, the Japanese combined fleet that invaded Pusanpo is actually the combined fleet of Japan and the Ming Dynasty... The ships are all provided by the Ming Dynasty, and the sailors are half Japanese and half Han, and the soldiers who landed are all They were Japanese pirates. And the purpose of their landing at Busanpo was not to occupy any amount of Korean land, but to use Busan as a stronghold to harass the routes outside Vladivostok and cut off the trade between the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of Japan. Let the Qing Dynasty get the sharp Spanish muskets."
The one who was wronging the Japanese was Song Shilie - he was working very hard to bring the two troubles of the Qing Dynasty and Japan together.
Only when a war breaks out between the Qing Dynasty and Japan, and both sides suffer losses, can Korea be stable!
Duduo frowned slightly. North Korea was an important vassal of the Qing Dynasty. It provided at least 100,000 stones of rice to Vladivostok and Nurgan every year.
With these 100,000 stones, Duduo could stabilize the situation in the Heilongjiang River Basin and Jingqili River - there were about 20,000 to 30,000 Sauron and Barhu people living in that area. With food, cloth and ironware, the Qing Dynasty Can control them and get furs and dongzhu from them.
Once North Korea's tribute rice cannot be transported to Nurgan City, the Qing Dynasty's rule in the Heilongjiang Basin and Jingqili River will be in big trouble...
Song Siyeol went on to say: "Our country also heard the news that the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate will send troops to Sakhalin Island again... In fact, they did not completely fail last time, and they also built a building named "Sakhalin Island" in the south of Sakhalin Island. The castle of Akasaka.
Now the Tokugawa shogunate is preparing to rely on Akasaka Castle to continue its attack on the northern part of Sakhalin Island. "
Sakhalin Island is very large, covering more than 70,000 square kilometers. To fully defend it, at least tens of thousands of troops must be stationed, but that is impossible. The troops that Obai brought to Sakhalin Island were too few. They were just fine for a field battle, but not enough to attack the Japanese fortified city.
Therefore, after Obai defeated Kusunoki Masayuki, he did not attack the Japanese Akasaka Castle. Instead, he built several castles on Sakhalin Island and moved the indigenous people of Sakhalin who originally lived scattered into these castles. They were armed with captured Japanese weapons and armor.
However, due to the subsequent civil war between the two regents of the Qing Dynasty, Obai himself and the Nine Banners Soldiers of the Qing Dynasty did not stay on Sakhalin Island and have now withdrawn to the Heilongjiang River Basin.
Once the fighting breaks out again on Sakhalin Island, Dodo will have to send troops there again, which will be a real headache!
"Your Highness," Song Shilie looked at Duduo without saying a word and seemed to be deep in thought, so he made a suggestion in a low voice, "On the way to Shengjing, I thought of a method for the enemy's coalition forces tomorrow, but I don't know whether to talk about it or not. ..."
"Speak!" Duduo just said one word.
"According to the order!" Song Shilie said, "I heard that the Qing Dynasty has a Pacific Fleet... Why not let the Pacific Fleet attack Japan's Tsushima Island? As long as Tsushima Island is captured, the Japanese fleet in Busanpu Naturally, it cannot gain a foothold, and the Qing Dynasty can also use Tsushima as a bargaining chip to negotiate with Japan and let them withdraw from Sakhalin."
"But..." Duduo said, "The so-called Pacific Navy is just an empty shell, with only a few ships in total!"
The Pacific Navy is nothing more than a "shell fleet". In addition to the shells, there are only three or five merchant ships, and they are all second-hand ships bought from the Ming Dynasty. The firepower is extremely poor, with only a cheap 3-pound cast iron cannon, and it takes a lot of time to cool down before firing a shot.
"Your Highness," Song Shilie said, "There is no boat to rent!"
Duduo frowned, "Rent? From whom?"
Song Siyeol said, "You can rent it from the Risebanian State!"
Duduo still shook his head: "It's useless to rent a warship from Zhisbania... There are not many people in the Qing Dynasty who know how to operate a large ship!"
"You can rent the boat and sailor together!"
Can it still be like this?
Duduo was stunned, the ship was rented, the sailors were also rented, the artillery, muskets, and naval officers must also be rented! So what happened in the Qing Dynasty?
"As long as the rented Spanish warships fly the flag of the Qing Dynasty, won't the Qing Dynasty's Pacific Navy have warships?"
Oh, the Qing Dynasty will raise a flag? Duduo said in his heart: This is easy. Although the Pacific Navy of the Qing Dynasty does not have a banner yet, it can be made by someone... Now it depends on whether the Japanese people are willing to do it?
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"His Royal Highness, the leasing of naval battleships must be approved by His Majesty the King of our country... This Shengjing is too far from Madrid, and it will take more than a year to go back and forth! Above the Whale Sea The war is tense, can your country wait impatiently?"
When Dodo summoned Caballero the next day, the other party did not say that he was unwilling to rent it out. He just raised a crucial detail - leasing a battleship must require the approval of King Philip IV!
But Philip IV lived in Madrid. Within a year or two, the Qing Dynasty could not get a reply at all. If they had to wait for so long, the day lily would not be cold, but rotten to pieces!
This doesn't seem to be possible...
"Your Highness," Caballero continued, "you might as well lease armed merchant ships through the Pacific Trading Company in Zizbania.
Although the combat power of armed merchant ships is not as good as that of warships, the Japanese navy is not strong enough and can cope with it. And as long as your country's warriors can arrive at Tsushima Island on these armed merchant ships, your country will have a bargaining chip with Japan. "
The Japanese Navy does not exist, but the Ming Navy fleet did not perform well in previous battles to intercept Spanish armed merchant ships. According to Caballero's knowledge, the Ming Navy dispatched seven Dutch-style Galen ships at that time, divided into two columns, to pursue the "Pacific" and "New Oriental" respectively.
Among them, the "New Oriental" was pursued by four 600-ton Galen ships. Although they had an absolute advantage in strength, the "New Oriental" still relied on the superb ship-handling skills of the crew to fight with the opponent, fighting while walking. He waited until darkness fell, and then used the darkness to get rid of the enemy. After that, the two sides spent several days hiding in the Whale Sea before carefully sailing to Vladivostok.
Of course, if the four Dutch Galen ships that fought against the "New Oriental" were completely commanded by Chinese captains and sailors, then the progress they have made in the past few years is still huge!
After all, they had never operated a soft sailing ship to sail long distances or participate in naval battles before.
However, Caballero still believes that relying on the leased armed merchant ships, the Qing Dynasty, oh, it should be the Mongolian navy's Pacific Fleet, is enough to deal with the Ming Dynasty navy that has not yet fully grown up.
Dodo thought for a long time and asked a series of questions: "How many armed merchant ships can your trading company lease to our country? When can they all arrive? In addition, where is Tsushima Island? How far is it from the coast of North Korea? ? Is the surrounding storm strong? How strong are the Japanese soldiers guarding the island? "
Caballero said: "Your Highness, there are a lot of Western armed merchant ships operating in the East. As long as the price is right, at least 10 can be rented... As for when they will arrive, we have to see where they are concentrated. If you go to Vladivostok to gather, it will take a longer time, because the facilities at the Vladivostok port are too poor and not suitable for use as a military port.
Therefore, I suggest leasing the Port of Ulsan as the main port of the navy, and then having engineers from Rizbania responsible for its construction and garrisoned by the Qing Dynasty’s land division. It will take at most a year for the leased armed merchant ships to arrive.
As for the location of Tsushima Island, it is only about 100 miles away from the coast of North Korea. The surrounding sea is relatively calm most of the year, and the number of troops defending the island is not large. I estimate that as long as about 2,000 elite firearms battalions can be dispatched, Tsushima Island can be successfully occupied. "
