Valley Emperor

The fleet formed by Datang Western Company and Geddes Trading Company is said to be a merchant fleet, but in fact it has always been an armed fleet!

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The hundreds of sailors above are all armed men!

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And you look at their equipment, and then you know why they are armed fleets!

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The fleet has a total of two cruisers, six armed merchant ships, and the eight ships together have more than 100 naval guns of various calibers and about 40,000 rounds of ammunition.

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There are about 500 flintlock guns and about 500 arquebuses in the fleet. There are many muskets per person. In addition, each musket has an average of 500 rounds of ammunition, and 500 rounds of ammunition are enough for a musket. Played a lot of large-scale battles!

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In addition, there are about 500 sets of plate armor such as full-body armor, half-body armor, breastplate, etc., which is enough for all the personnel preparing for battle to have a plate armor. Well, although most of them are breastplates, they are also plate armor. !

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In addition, there is also a melee weapon of the Datang Army: grenades, with a total of about 2,000 ammunition, enough to fight a large-scale battle!

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With this strength, in fact, in this South China Sea, apart from the Tang Navy or the Portuguese fleet, it is basically impossible to meet any opponents!

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Even if you are a little more daring, you can make a sneak attack on Malacca!

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Of course, after the fight is over, the Portuguese will definitely go crazy, maybe a war between the two countries will break out because of this!

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Today, the senior officials of the Tang Dynasty do not wish to have a war with the Portuguese now. They prefer to turn against the Portuguese after they have obtained a second channel for European trade!

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And the fleet of Datang Western Company is responsible for this!

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Talking about going to Europe for trade is actually nonsense. Geddes really went to Europe for trade. The four merchant ships were full of various goods, but the four ships of Datang Western Company, the two cruisers brought They are all kinds of material supplies, except for food and drink, they are all used for war.

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The remaining two Type 680 merchant ships, although they also carried some cargo, actually only occupied less than one-quarter of the cargo space, and what was the remaining three-quarters of the cargo space loaded with? ? Or to eat, drink and fight!

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These two 680 merchant ships are actually supply ships for these two cruisers!

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From the composition of the four ships of Datang Western Company and the materials they carry, we can basically make the following judgment: This is not for trade at all, but purely to explore new routes and establish a battle fleet for trade sites!

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It's just that even Gerdes doesn't know that the two 680 merchant ships of Datang Xiyang Company didn't carry any goods for sale at all, and most of them were supplies.

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But Guedes doesn't care. He is going to Europe anyway. On the way to Europe, he must break through the blockade of the Portuguese. During the process of breaking through the blockade, the outbreak of fighting is a high probability event. In the front, he is also relieved.

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After the fleet successfully arrived in Luzon, Ying Zihua sent people ashore, and then set up a very simple supply station on Mindanao Island. When the local indigenous people rushed over shouting various languages ​​that they could not understand, they shot a gun. Boom collapsed.

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Then Ying Zihua left more than a dozen people to garrison this small fortress, and let them wait for the arrival of the second batch of domestic ships!

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In order to plan this westward exploration mission, it is naturally impossible for Datang Western Company to have only these four ships. The fleet led by Ying Zihua is only the vanguard, and there will be ships coming with armed personnel and goods in succession. If there is an accident, a second batch of two Type 680 armed merchant ships will arrive at Mindao Island in half a month, and then bring at least 100 company armed employees to guard the expanded trade supply station.

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After establishing a small supply station on Mindanao Island, the combined fleet left quickly, and then continued southward, this time, they will reach the eastern sea of ​​Malacca.

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At that time, they will choose whether to take the risk of sneaking through Malacca and then crossing the Indian Ocean, or continue south, then cross the strait between Sumatra and Java, enter southern Sumatra, and then travel west across the Indian Ocean.

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The specific choice, they are still unable to determine, Guedes suggested that the time is right to go south, because two very conspicuous cruisers, it must not go to Malacca, the Portuguese are not blind, even if it is a rainstorm, you can see it at a glance These two cruisers, and needless to say, will immediately dispatch the fleet to intercept them.

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On the other hand, other merchant ships are fine. They can sneak through the Strait of Malacca. As for whether they will be intercepted or not, it depends on luck.

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However, Ying Zihua was hesitant about this. He wanted to go directly across the Straits of Malacca, and then go north to Myanmar to establish a trade supply station, because in terms of geographical environment, Myanmar is just on the edge of the empire Yunnan. The huge onshore pressure from the Burmese side gave a hundred courage to the indigenous people in Myanmar, but also did not dare to refuse his request to establish a trade supply station there.

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And then he also wanted to go to the eastern coast of India to establish a number of trade supply stations.

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On the one hand, it is for the vast trade market on the Indian side. On the other hand, if there is no trade supply station on the coast of India, with the current speed of the ship and the supplies it carries, it is difficult to directly cross the Indian Ocean to the east coast of Africa. The risk is too high. big.

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There must be a supply station to provide supplies on the way across the Indian Ocean, otherwise, European trade will be an empty talk!

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If you circumnavigate the strait between Sumatra and Java, not to mention whether you will be intercepted by the Portuguese there, but the distance alone is a long way, and if you want to go north to Myanmar, It was far away. At that time, it was better to cross the Indian Ocean directly and then head to Ceylon, um, although Ceylon is now in the hands of the Portuguese.

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The choice of the route represents risk, so whether it is Gerdes or Ying Zihua, it is impossible to determine for a while, so we can only take a step by step.

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Just when Ying Zihua felt it was a little difficult to do, an officer from a young army camp found him, and then corresponded to Zihua mysteriously: "After arriving in the eastern seas of Malacca, I need a boat!"

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"You need a boat? What a joke, even if you are an employee of our Datang Western Company, with the rank of captain, you can't say you need a boat if you want a boat!"

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But at this time, the officer of the young army battalion took out an envelope and a seal. When he saw the seal, Ying Zihua was surprised: "You are from the Ministry of Military Intelligence? Are you not from the Navy, this name? Is it true too?"

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The young officer nodded: "Yes, I am the deputy station of the Nanyang Station of the MISI. Of course, I am also a retired officer of the Navy, and Wang Shanxi is indeed my real name."

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With a look of doubt, Ying Zihua took the seal and the envelope, and then there was a letter in the envelope. This letter was written by the chief of the Royal Assets Division. He didn't say the detailed reason, but only asked Ying Zihua to support their military situation. The work of the Division, dispatch a ship to obey the command of the officials of the Division of Military Intelligence, that is, this Wang Shanxi, do not need to ask anything, just follow the arrangements of the officials dispatched by the Division of Military Intelligence!

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After Ying Zihua carefully confirmed the authenticity of the seal on the letter and the letter, he checked the identity of the young officer in detail, and finally confirmed that the letter was genuine and that Wang Shanxi was really a member of the Ministry of Military Intelligence.

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These spies are really everywhere. Before he came here, he never imagined that the officers under his command even had people from the Department of Military Intelligence, and their positions were not low.

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Since the people from the Ministry of Intelligence have something to do, and there is also a handwritten letter from the Chief of the Royal Assets Section, he doesn't bother to ask why, what are these people who play various espionage, assassination and other conspiracies thinking, he really can't understand!

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The ghost knows why they want the boat to come, maybe they want to assassinate the king of a native kingdom, or find some pirate's treasure, or simply want to find the elixir for His Majesty!

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So Ying Zihua just asked casually, "Where are you going to go?"

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Wang Shanxi from MISI still said with a mysterious expression: "It's inconvenient to talk about this, but it's definitely not in the same direction as you guys!"

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It is not the same direction as them all the time, so it is not to the east, and it is estimated that it is impossible for them to go north. That is the way back, that is to go east? I heard that there are still some archipelagos in the east, but I heard that the indigenous people there are quite fierce~www.wuxiaspot.com~ It is not a problem to eat raw human flesh. Now even those western barbarians dare not go there. They go to the east. What do those islands do?

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As for further south, that is to the south of Java Island, and what else is there to the south of Java Island? Except for Wang Yanghai, there is probably nothing left!

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Ying Zihua was an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before. He was very familiar with world geography. He knew very well that on the world map officially published by Datang, even on the map for internal use, the map with the highest level of confidentiality, the south of Java Island was blank. a slice!

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Ying Zihua guessed for a while, but also didn't know what these people were doing!

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If it's a war, it's definitely not, because they only need one ship, and a ship can take more than a hundred people at most.

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Why are there enough people in this area?

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After guessing again, Ying Zihua couldn't guess what they were going to do, so he didn't guess at all, maybe he wanted to ask for an elixir for His Majesty!

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Ying Zihua is naturally not, Wang Shanxi and the others also shoulder heavy responsibilities, and this task is still very arduous and requires a high degree of secrecy.

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They received a secret order from Li Xuan to find the legendary Australia!

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When Li Xuan taught the geography knowledge to the young army camps and the students of the Royal Institute of Technology, he basically said it in other places, but he did not mention Australia!

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