What? Is there an urgent military matter?
Zhu Hehao, Zhu Hekun, and Zhu Hezhen were all professional officers. When they heard about the urgent military affairs, they all became excited.
"Xuan!"
Zhu Hehao waved his hand, appearing calm and composed. He is a prince who has seen strong winds and waves. In the past few years since he came to Xinzhou, he has seen many urgent military affairs. Especially after the military households he brought from the Ming Dynasty began to march eastward to the Dashuishou Mountains, there were more urgent military affairs.
At the most serious time, 8,000 Indians even besieged several military farms in the United States in the Great River Basin, and even broke through one of them, killing three to four hundred people!
After receiving the news, Zhu Hehao did not panic or fear at all. Instead, he immediately mobilized 3,000 cavalry and personally led them to the Dahe Basin all night and starry. In one battle, the two sides defeated Indian warriors three times their own and killed more than 4,000 people.
After the Battle of the Great River Basin, the indigenous tribes living in the basin moved eastward. The entire basin fell into the hands of Zhu Hehao's military households!
Zhu Hehao's own prestige also rose sharply after this war. Before the Great River Basin War, his status in the minds of the Xinzhou mob was not high, at least not as high as that of Jiaqing King Zhu Cihuan, who became famous in the Battle of the Flood River Valley. But after the Battle of the Basin, Zhu Hehao's reputation was as good as that of Zhu Cihuan - although the fighting power of these Indian mountain tribes was poor, it was not difficult to defeat them.
But the local tycoon king still achieved great success! That's 4,000 levels of beheading (history books have to say it's at least 40,000 levels), and 2,000 miles of soil expansion... It's so awesome to build such a large territory!
It would be great if some large Indian tribe came to Zhu Hehao to boost his prestige!
Zhu Hekun is as eager to try as Zhu Hezhen... They don't come to the New World to eat meat, they come to make contributions!
On the ship to the New World, the two of them had already studied the information and knew that the biggest enemy they had to deal with was a tribal alliance that worshiped the sun, called the Great Sioux Alliance, or the Great Soviet Union for short!
The Great Soviet Union! This name is very powerful when you hear it! What a good opponent!
The name of the Great Soviet Union not only sounds very powerful, but its strength is also just right. Composed of seven powerful tribes, said to have hundreds of thousands of warriors, they have roamed the Great Plains of North America for hundreds of years without ever encountering an enemy. Even the powerful Kingdom of France had no way to deal with them. The New France colony did not dare to send troops to attack them, so it had to form an alliance with them in a humble manner.
It is said that in order to form an alliance, the French gave the Soviet Union a lot of muskets and swords, as well as horses shipped from Europe. Many French young people even married "Soviet wives" and joined the Soviet Union and became blond. Green-eyed Soviets.
It can be seen that this "Great Soviet Union" is still very powerful.
With the weapons and war horses provided by France, the Soviet Union became even stronger. I don’t know whether they wanted to move westward or were instigated by the French. Starting from the second half of last year, the "Soviet people" began to invade the mountains frequently. There were many conflicts with Xinzhou military households in the Huaizhou Pass (a pass in the middle of the Dashi Mountains).
Although the scale of the conflict was small, it sounded an alarm to Zhu Hehao - these conflicts were probably the "Soviet people" testing the depth of Xinzhou military households.
Once they thought they had figured out the strength of Xinzhou's military households, it was time to launch a massive attack.
In addition, there has been no conflict between the "Great Soviet Union" and the United States of New Zealand in the past ten or twenty years. And their way of survival is to chase bison on the plains and never enter the mountains.
Now the sudden westward movement seems strange no matter how you look at it. It is probably the French who are behind it.
However, Zhu Hehao, Zhu Hekun, and Zhu Hezhen are the "Lords of Development" and the "Three Founding Kings" of the United States of New Zealand. They are not afraid of even the powerful Soviet Union!
If this urgent military matter was brought by the Soviet Union, it would have played into the hands of the three of them.
Now all the 20,000 households of King Huai and King De have arrived, and they have also prepared 20,000 to 30,000 war horses and walking horses. Flintlocks and javelins have been distributed, and most of the military households have also prepared their own bows and arrows. . With just one order, 20,000 soldiers can be pulled out.
Zhu Hehao himself gathered together two thousand households and set up hundreds of farms from the Dahe Basin to the Huaizhou Pass, so that he could summon tens of thousands of musketeers to fight at any time.
In addition, the Army of the United States of New Zealand currently has a standing army of more than 10,000 people, and there are several thousand Ming Army troops stationed in the United States of New Zealand.
With so many troops, it should be possible for the "Great Soviet Union" to fight.
Even with the addition of the French expeditionary force, there is nothing to fear!
"Three great kings, I have just received an urgent report from the Gagyeong Kingdom... There is a huge smoke rising from the beacon tower on the Gyeongju Peninsula (Baja California), and it seems that New Spain's land and sea troops have invaded!"
Chen Yonghua's report was like a basin of cold water poured on the heads of the three princes who were preparing to attack the Soviet Union.
"Is it New Spain?" Zhu Hehao's expression turned solemn. "Do you know how many people and ships they came?"
Chen Yonghua shook his head: "I don't know yet... King Gagyeong set up 48 beacon towers on the 2,400-mile-long Gyeongju Peninsula. When Spanish land and sea soldiers were found to be invading, they would light fireworks, but there was no way for fireworks to convey the specific details. enemy situation.
Moreover, the Gyeongju Peninsula is too long and narrow, and many places can be landed. It would not be difficult for the New Spanish to cut off the connection between the Gyeongju Peninsula and Angel Castle. "
"Brother, this country of New Spain was defeated by us in the Battle of Flood Valley last time. It has been dormant for many years, and now it is coming again. I am afraid it is well prepared and has been planning for a long time..."
"Brother, even if you don't count the Gyeongju Peninsula, the west coast of the United States of New Zealand is nearly 5,000 miles long... If the naval battle is unfavorable, it will not be easy to defend such a long coastline!"
The military skills of Zhu Hekun and Zhu Hezhen are not bad, and they immediately found the key to the problem.
The Battle of the West Coast of North New Zealand was about the navy... If the navy won, the United States of New Zealand could turn from defense to offense and move south along the Pacific Ocean to seize the territory of New Spain.
If the naval battle is lost...the consequences will be disastrous!
Zhu Hehao suddenly frowned and said to Chen Yonghua: "Fu Fu, Kinmen Bay, please quickly notify Kinmen Bay to strengthen the alert... If the New Spaniards are really prepared, they will definitely raid Kinmen Bay. , if the fleet in Kinmen Bay is severely damaged by the Spaniards, we will be in big trouble!"
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September 11, 1673 AD.
Off the coast of California, a huge fleet was sailing on the sea less than a hundred miles away from the coastline. Taking advantage of the rare north wind on the west coast of the North American continent, it quickly headed north.
3 Lorraine-class first-class battleships, 3 Frans-Comté-class second-class battleships, 3 Luxembourg-class third-class battleships, 4 Dutch Provincial-class second-class battleships, 5 refitted old sailing battleships, 2 Saint-Germain-class fast sailing battleships, 4 Hague-class fast sailing battleships, 16 modified old-fashioned armed galenic ships, 15 caravels, 15 mortar ships, and 25 arson ships.
There are a total of 96 warships, and their full white sails make them look extremely huge, like white city walls one after another, lining up on the boundless sea. Such a spectacular scene made the sailors on the deck excited. 96 warships were an astonishing number on the European naval battlefield... let alone the Pacific coast of the American continent?
And among these 96 battleships, 19 are new battleships and fast-sailing battleships that came from France and the Netherlands not long ago!
In addition, there are 21 old Spanish or New Spanish warships (armed galenic ships) that have also been fully modified, all equipped with the latest 12-pound bronze or cast iron bombardment cannons, and are also equipped with powerful nailheads Flowering bomb.
Many people on this three-nation joint fleet are beginning to look forward to an upright decisive battle between sailing battleships. Only such a decisive battle can let the enemy know the power of France, the Netherlands, and Spain!
However, the commander-in-chief of this combined fleet, French Navy Vice Admiral Abraham Duquesne, did not intend to give the Chinese any chance to draw a tie or escape.
So he prepared to make a surprise attack on Kinmen Bay, the home port shared by the New Island Fleet and the New Island Squadron of the Ming Dynasty's Oriental Fleet!
