Valley Emperor

In the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Portuguese, they took advantage of time and geography in the early stage to capture Malacca, control the Strait of Malacca, and then control the entire Southeast Asia.

However, the subsequent operations in the Indian Ocean coastal areas did not progress so smoothly.

This doesn't mean defeating battles. In fact, battles are often won. Often, a city is broken today and hundreds of enemies are destroyed tomorrow. However, the Tang Empire seems to have won every battle on the Indian Ocean coast. But there is still no way to expel the Portuguese!

The most obvious example is that the Portuguese still control at least one colonial stronghold in Myanmar. As for India and West Asia and the east coast of Africa, there are more!

The Tang Dynasty seems to have won victories everywhere, and the navy's fleet is also fighting the Portuguese navy, but there are still many colonial strongholds, and the Portuguese ships still travel to and from the various waters of the Indian Ocean.

This is not to say that the combat effectiveness of the Datang Navy and Army and the Datang Western Company fleet is not good, but it is too far from the mainland of the Empire.

The long distance means that it is difficult to deliver supplies.

Supplies are difficult, which means that there are few troops that can be maintained!

So far, there are only more than 30,000 imperial ground troops on the battlefields of India, West Asia and North Africa, East Africa, and South Africa. Among them, there is one army division, the 19th Infantry Division, one marine regiment in the navy, and the remaining The more than 10,000 people below are the ground combat troops of the company's fleet.

And these troops are scattered to dozens of colonial strongholds of the empire to garrison and fight, and their enemies are not only the Portuguese, but the natives of India and Africa are all their enemies.

So that some small colonial strongholds that are not very important have only so many troops!

The Tang Dynasty has few troops, but the grape people have many troops, and they are also not many!

However, their troops will definitely not be less than the troops that Datang has invested in various parts of the Indian Ocean!

Although Portugal has a small local population, it cannot form a large number of local troops.

But people are not stupid. They will recruit people from the colonies to fight. When the Portuguese occupied Malacca before, the largest number of Portuguese troops defending the city were not local troops, but 5,000 colonial troops.

By recruiting a large number of colonial youths to join the army, this is to make up for the disadvantage of the Portuguese's small local population. As long as they have money and ships and can maintain supplies, then they can maintain this army with a total strength of 30,000 to 40,000 people. .

The battlefield is scattered, the troops are insufficient, and the supply is difficult. These are the problems encountered by the empire.

Well, the grape people have pretty much the same problem.

And there is another very interesting war between the two sides, and it is a headache for the generals of both sides.

That's the Bastion!

Everyone is very familiar with the bastions. Datang has been playing for more than ten years, and the Portuguese contacted them earlier. Later, it effectively prevented the bastions of the Tang Dynasty. So now, the structures of the bastions on both sides are similar. Ah, and they all like to build bastions in colonies. Large colonies build large bastions, and small colonies build small bastions.

The former Malacca was a large bastion.

In order to conquer such a bastion fortress in Malacca, Datang used hundreds of artillery pieces and fired tens of thousands of shells, of which more than half were heavy artillery pieces.

Although the other bastions are not as perverted as Malacca, they are all veritable tortoise shells.

So that if the Tang Dynasty wanted to conquer the colonial stronghold of the grape people, it took a long time to prepare and mobilize a large number of troops and artillery, and only then could they be defeated.

The same goes for the Portuguese!

A battle of Malacca allowed both sides to see the excellent defensive performance of the bastion!

And in this way, that's good, both sides have to spend a lot of effort to fight each other's fortresses.

More than half a year has passed, and the battle situation in the Indian Ocean is still dominated by a stalemate.

Another data can also explain the deadlock on the Indian Ocean battlefield, that is, the two sides have fought for so long, but there has never been a battle with more than 5,000 troops participating in the war, nor has there been a battle with more than ten ships participating in the war. naval battle.

Because even the high-priced army has to admit that in the vast area along the Indian Ocean, with extremely limited supplies, it is impossible to eliminate the Portuguese in a short time by relying only on ground combat troops. It is really necessary to have such a bastion Eating the past, ten years are less.

If you want to completely defeat the Portuguese, you have to rely on sea warfare!

Destroy the Portuguese fleet and block the route. As long as the Portuguese cannot get reinforcements and supplies from the sea, those Portuguese colonies will sooner or later be cleaned up one by one.

But the Portuguese are not stupid. They have long known that the Datang Navy is equipped with steam engines. Although they still don't understand steam engines, let alone create steam engines, it doesn't mean they don't know the function of steam engines.

Therefore, the ships of the grape people, knowing that the mobility of the fleet is not good, do not give the Datang Navy the opportunity to conduct a large-scale decisive battle at sea. They do not even plan to fight serious naval battles, but only act as transport ships. .

The Indian Ocean is so big, even the dozens of warships in the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Datang Navy, and even the warships and armed merchant ships of the Datang Western Company, don't expect to be able to completely block all the routes.

At that time, the Portuguese failed to completely block the Indian Ocean, so that Datang Western Company gradually gained a firm foothold in India and gradually developed.

It is also difficult for the current Datang Navy to completely block the Indian Ocean.

Therefore, in the current Indian Ocean war situation, it seems that there have been many victories on the surface, and many victories have also been achieved, but it is still too early to completely expel the Portuguese.

But Li Xuan didn't want to spend more than ten years with the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean. Life is short, how can he spend so much time with the Portuguese.

Since the Grape people can't hide in the colony, and at the same time the ships are broken into pieces to avoid war, then Datang should change their strategy appropriately.

The Indian Ocean strategy formulated last year is no longer in line with the needs of the Indian Ocean war.

To this end, Li Xuan once again convened a strategic meeting on the expansion of the army and navy in August of the 23rd year of Xuanping, a plan for one year after the outbreak of the war.

However, this time, even though the strategy meeting was discussing the Indian Ocean War, the senior generals who did not participate in the Indian Ocean war came back to participate in the meeting. The reason was impossible, it was too far!

This time, even if there is a steam engine ship, it will take at least more than a month. After a round trip for a few months, they simply don't have to direct the war in India!

All the generals who participated in the meeting were generals in the Gyeonggi region. The main content of this expanded meeting was not to discuss how to resolve the Indian Ocean war situation, but to discuss whether the Indian decisive battle plan proposed by the navy was feasible.

The navy discovered last year that it was impossible for the Portuguese to gather the main force of the fleet, and then have a vigorous naval decisive battle with the Datang Navy. Can't beat it, can't I escape?

It is impossible for the Datang Navy to completely block the routes, and it is even more impossible to block every colonial port.

After this status quo was passed back to China, a large number of staff members of the Navy thought about it, and finally came up with a so-called decisive battle plan in the Indian Ocean.

The battle plan proposed by the navy is naturally centered on the navy, but considering the particularity of the Indian Ocean region, this battle plan also requires the cooperation of the army and the Western Company fleet.

Otherwise, this plan would not have been discussed at the Imperial Strategic Meeting at all, and the navy would have done it themselves.

It is precisely because it involves the cooperation of multiple military services that it needs to be discussed in front of the imperial court.

In fact, most of the generals in the conference room are also members of the Datang Joint Operations Department, so to a certain extent, this is also a meeting led by the Joint Operations Department.

At the beginning of the meeting, Li Xuan was the same old monk as usual, and Li Hao, the imperial prince who accompanied Li Xuan to the imperial battle meeting, was sitting under Li Xuan, just like Li Xuan before. on, and is only listening but not speaking.

However, the fact that the emperor and the prince did not speak did not mean that the meeting would be extremely dull. On the contrary, the ministers had long been accustomed to this situation. Li Xuan had been doing this for more than 20 years.

Not long after the meeting started, the generals of the various military services began to quarrel, not only the navy and the army, but the army and the company fleet, and even some generals in the navy had different opinions.

With that said, the meeting began to digress, from the Indian Ocean decisive battle plan to when you accused me, and I pointed at you.

The army scolded the navy for being incompetent, unable to block even a single route, so that the Portuguese transport ships were running around, reinforcing various places, and the army was extremely passive when conducting ground operations.

The navy also scolds the army for cherishing its life, saying that a fortress as big as Malacca has been shot down, and now even those small and medium-sized port fortresses along the Indian Ocean cannot be shot down.

Even the people in the company's fleet have a lot of dissatisfaction, saying that the army and navy are not doing enough work in the Indian Ocean war, there are so many warships and ground combat troops, but in the end, the main battle is still based on the strength of the company's fleet. Mainly, and still gave an example of a battle that took place on the southern coast of India in the first half of the year.

At that time, the grape people gathered more than 3,000 troops to counterattack a colonial port under the control of the company fleet, and launched a siege. After waiting for more than a month, they did not wait for reinforcements from the navy and army. In the end, the company fleet itself came all the way from Gehe Prefecture. The fleet and more than 1,000 troops were dispatched for reinforcements, and only then did the grape people be defeated and driven away~www.wuxiaspot.com~ However, the army said they were planning to go for reinforcements, but the navy refused to send warships to **** them.

The navy also said that their strength was tight, but most of the warships were dispatched to the western coast of India and the eastern coast of Africa to fight with the Vine, and they would not be able to draw too many ships for a while.

This is going on and on, you scold me, I scold you, and finally make a mess.

However, Li Xuan above was still indifferent, as if he hadn't heard it.

Of course, everyone knows that although the Son of Heaven seems to be out of the way, people listen and make decisions based on the discussions of the ministers.

Otherwise, why are the ministers arguing so vigorously? It's not to gain an advantage in the argument and make the Son of Heaven lean towards his side.

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