Chapter 570: He's Coming, They're Coming, "It's okay, they don't have a chance to get close to the flagship!"
”Before Quan Xu's words were finished, Li Xin interrupted Quan Xu's words and said: "Master Hou, this naval battle is different from land warfare, every battleship is a target, and shells are overwhelmingly smashed, no one can be spared, Master Hou, don't take such a risk next time!"
”In Li Xin's eyes, the gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, Quan Xu is high and powerful, and he is the blessing of tens of millions of people in Liaodong, Taiwan, Hetao, Nanyang, and Luzon.This 10 million is not an imaginary number, but a real number.Five years ago, there were only more than 1,000 people in the entire Liaodong, and with Quan Xu leading the whole family army to run Liaodong, in just five years, the population of Liaodong grew explosively.Especially because after Liaodong had a foundation, Emperor Chongzhen directly threw the eighteen independent thousand households in the four states of Jingying to Quanxu, which was actually a solution to the financial crisis.More than 200,000 Beijing battalion troops were successively cut by Chongzhen, and only the Shenji battalion, the five military battalions and the three major regimental battalions of Shenshu were retained, each battalion had four commanders and envoys, a total of more than 67,000 horses, if not including the warrior battalions of Jinyiwei and the inner palace, not even 100,000 horses.The population of Golden State alone has exceeded one million, and if Liaodong has abolished the immigration subsidy, however, the number of immigrants to Liaodong has increased instead of decreasing, especially a large number of gentry and landlords, who have brought money to live in Liaodong.Because Liaodong is safe, unlike the Central Plains, one day Liukou said that Chongzhou will hit the government, and Quan Xu is not a person, but represents a huge emerging class of capital.Don't look at Quan Xu's comprehensive delegation of power to the management of Liaodong, Taiwan, and Luzon, and he doesn't even care about personnel appointments, but Quan Xu is clinging to financial power, whether it is within Quan Ji or the government agencies in various parts of Liaodong, who dares to be corrupt, and hangs on the tree.All the principles of Quan Xu are that corruption is cool for a while, and the whole family enters the crematorium, unlike the Hongwu Emperor, Quan Xu's method of dealing with it is that once the official is found to be corrupt, he will deprive the family of all his property and expel him directly.Quanji has now become a huge conglomerate, controlling two-thirds of Liaodong's steel mines, nearly half of the coal, and more than scientific research institutions, and the Guns Bureau is no longer only responsible for the development and management of guns, but also serves as the function of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.Because of Quanxu's iron-fisted methods, the emerging bourgeoisie, dominated by the Industrial Party, is not like those bureaucrats of the gentry class, these bourgeois officials have a broader vision, and even if they engage in corruption, they are not holding on to those ordinary people.In the capital market, it is actually very simple to make a fortune, find a mine, buy it from the government, and then mine, or change hands to add ten years of tax to the common people, and one hundred years of tax is more.There are more people who eat with Quan Xu, and they are naturally reluctant to let Quan Xu take risks, especially Li Xin believes that the whole family army now has a thick foundation, no better than at the beginning, even if it is a big defeat and loses 350,000, or even 180,000 horses, it can be replenished in a few months at most.In particular, in the navy, if the shipyards in Liaodong and Dengzhou rush to build warships, with the Sea Shark-class warships, they can produce 24 warships in a year, and it will be more than enough to form a main fleet.However, the problem is that Quan Xu doesn't like to coordinate and command in the back, but instead has to go into battle in person, and rushes to the front every time?
Quan Xu ignored Li Xin's fork at all, and changed the topic and said, "When did you come?"
”"Just arrived this morning!"
Li Xin looked at Quan Xu ignoring him, and sighed very helplessly: "Master Hou, you rest first," I'll leave it to you?"
”Quan Xu asked curiously, "Do you still know naval warfare?"
”Li Xin wants to say, no matter how much you don't understand, it's better than you.In Quan Xu's eyes, fighting a war seems to be a very simple thing, set off with as many supplies and soldiers as possible, and fight when you bump into the enemy, and every time it is a frontal push, no plan or plan is used, just fight.Hell, every time he was able to win, and he dealt a devastating blow to the enemy, which made Li Xin, who had always been scheming but not brave, quite devastated.Li Xin was about to speak, and Helena said with a flattering face: "Your Excellency Marquis, congratulations, congratulations on winning a great naval battle!"
I think your victory is comparable to the glory of the British defeat of the Spanish Armada!
”"It's a prize, you're too awarded, what's the matter, Britain defeated the main force of the Spanish Armada!"
Quan Xu smiled: "As for me, I only defeated a European forward force, sinking a total of five warships, and one was sunk by themselves, this is far away, far away!"
”Quan Xu suddenly lowered his voice and asked, "By the way, how is the British Navy now?"
”"What else?"
Helena said with some hatred: "After defeating the Invincible Armada, it was disbanded, and the sailors who fought with the Spanish Armada and fought desperately to protect the British died of disease and starvation in extreme poverty, and now the British Navy almost no longer exists." ”Quan Xu gloated and said: "The British's ability to cross the bridge and draw the board is really admirable!"
”Helena smiled bitterly: "What can be done about this, the navy is a big military spender, it is easy to build a group of warships, and it is easy to recruit a group of sailors, but it is very difficult to maintain it for a long time, with the national strength of Britain, it can't afford to raise such a huge navy!"
”"I can't afford to raise one!"
Quan Xu couldn't help but think of the British that was at the extreme of the street a few hundred years later, the empire where the sun never sets, the army was cut to only about 70,000 people, similar to a Chinese first-class army, and the Royal Air Force only had about 200 combat aircraft left, of which 100 were still old-fashioned Tornado fighter-bombers, and the navy was even worse, not to mention the aircraft carrier battle group, and even the anti-ship missiles were decommissioned.The total strength of the British Empire has been reduced to just over 160,000 men, and it is still shrinking further, in inverse proportion to the shrinking number of troops, which is characterized by the ever-high military spending and the growing staff of the Ministry of Defence.The total strength of the British army is 160,000, and the number of employees in the Ministry of Defense is as high as 100,000.Now the hegemony of the empire on which the sun never sets is still asleep, waiting for the spring breeze of the first industrial revolution to wake them up, so Britain is still getting by, being a monk for a day and hitting the clock for a day.A powerful British navy?
Not even a shadow can be seen yet.However, Quan Xu does not intend to let the British hegemony sprout, the steam engine has appeared in Liaodong, the industrial revolution has begun, the development of Liaodong will change with each passing day, he is now full of interest in leading the whole family army fleet to Europe, so that Britain and France can compensate millions or even tens of millions of pounds for military spending.Helena looked back frequently, looking at the burning warship, at the broken ship material floating on the surface of the sea and the burning wreckage of the battleship, and once again full of interest in the naval guns of the whole family fleet.This is a unique naval weapon, no matter what the cost, she must get it!
Quan Xu came to the command room of the Zheng He and picked up the radio that could convey the whole family army and navy warship.Quan Xu pinched his waist and said in high spirits: "Soldiers, I am Quan Shuai!"
”Through the airwaves, in the command room of each warship, the commanders listened to Quan Xu's voice on the radio: "The Spanish governor in the Philippines, Sandy, said that only 10,000 soldiers of the Spanish regular army, and then 4,000 to 5,000 Filipino and Japanese mercenaries, together with thousands of Portuguese with rich experience in the Far East, are enough to conquer the Ming Dynasty." ”Spain's conquest of the Ming Dynasty was not made up in the Sixteenth Century, as the Portuguese Martín de Rada and Monk Terónimo Marzen wrote their Travels in Southern China in the 16th Century, written in 1575 by Brothers Martín de Rada and Monk Terónimo Marzen, which gave Spain a better understanding of the Ming Dynasty.In 1584, Sandy, the Spanish governor stationed in the Philippines, offered Philip II a plan to conquer the Ming dynasty, saying that dealing with the Chinese would give them "a thousand reasons for a just war" every day, and that "war with this country would be the most just, because it would give freedom to the poor, the innocent people who were killed, the children, and all the people who were plundered and persecuted; Their judges, rulers, and kings are treating them with unheard-of tyranny. ”In order to rescue the Chinese people from the dire situation, Governor Sandy even expressed his willingness to donate all his property to fund the expedition to China.It's just a pity that Queen Elizabeth of England at that time adopted the strategy of Sir Reilly and went out.The British, in the form of pirates, continued to plunder the trade routes of the Spanish Empire, and the scale became larger and larger, which directly affected the financial revenue of the Spanish Empire.As a result, tackling British piracy became Spain's number one priority."
I, I want to conquer the Ming Dynasty and enslave us, they are delusional!"
Quan Xu then said: "Soldiers, I order you, catch up and destroy them on the sea!"
”With Quan Xu's order issued, the main warships and auxiliary warships of the Quanjia Navy began to hang their sails and move forward at full speed.Due to the barrier of fireships, the distance between the warships of the whole family navy and the European combined fleet was almost more than 20 nautical miles, and if it was a high-speed warship in the future, it would be about an hour.However, these are sailing warships, all slow.The main ships of the whole family army could run at a speed of eleven to twelve knots at most, and the speed of the Galen ships was about the same, and the pursuit was not an easy task.However, the warships of the European Combined Fleet are not the same as the armed merchant ships, and the speed of the armed merchant ships is slightly slower, almost eight or nine knots.Don't underestimate the speed difference of one or two knots, the distance of more than 20 nautical miles, you can catch up in a maximum of ten hours.Early the next morning, a Spanish sailor was shocked to find that the sails on the northern sea overlapped and obscured the sky, and he screamed: "He's coming, they're coming!"
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