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Chapter 1667 Annihilating the enemy at sea

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    The best battlefield for war is the enemy's territory, followed by neutral areas, and the worst case scenario is on our territory.  If a decisive battle must be fought at home, the enemy should be defended at sea as much as possible.

    ¡ª¡ªZhao Hao's "On War"

    Based on this principle, the initial idea of ??the theater staff office was to take the lead in launching an expedition and make another surprise attack on Acapulco, thus frustrating the Spanish expedition plan again.

    However, the expedition plan was quickly aborted, because the staff realized at the early stage of the discussion that this was impossible - the vast Pacific Ocean is currently an insurmountable chasm for the coast guard fleet.

    So why can the Spaniards launch an expedition?  The reason is simple, because there is smooth wind and current from the east coast to the west coast. It only takes two months to complete the entire journey, and the whole journey is calm.

    But from the west coast, that is, from the Ming Dynasty side to the east, you have to use the Kuroshio to go north to Ainu Island.  Then ride the warm North Pacific Current eastward to North America, and then go south along the California Cold Current to reach Acapulco.

    Not only is the voyage much longer, but the sea conditions are hundreds of times more complex, and we often have to withstand headwinds and huge waves, and the whole journey takes more than half a year.  The mortality rate among Spanish sailors was as high as 30%.  When arriving in Luzon from New Spain, as long as there was no epidemic, the mortality rate would remain below 3%, a difference of ten times!

    This is the result of the large sailing fleet arriving in North America and immediately docking in its colonies to rest, supply supplies and repair ships.

    Therefore, if the coast guard fleet goes on an expedition to New Spain, not only will it be unable to get support from the Spanish colonial points, but it will also be difficult not to expose its whereabouts, giving the Spanish fleet in Acapulco ample time to prepare for war.

    ??When there is no generational difference in combat effectiveness between the two sides, the expedition is tantamount to suicide.  Any staff officer who dares to make such a plan will be hanged from the mast by the angry captains.

    ¡°However, after Lin Feng and others successfully completed the circumnavigation of the world, the Coast Guard force was filled with the ambition to reach the moon in the sky and catch turtles in the five oceans.

    Although the world is far away, the bandits can go there, and I can go there too!

    To put it harshly, everyone wants to be in the limelight and make great achievements.  To put it nicely, under the control of romantic ideas, the young staff officers who dared to think and take action discussed it and said that we can't let the fleet go, and we can do the investigation ourselves, right?

    So under their instigation, the General Staff Office and the Military Intelligence Office organized a small-scale expedition.  Forty staff, intelligence, and navigation personnel who volunteered to participate in the mission boarded two schooners carrying reconnaissance balloons and followed the Spanish galleons from Luzon to the Americas.

    Leading this expedition is Liu Yishou, deputy director of the Surveying and Mapping Division of the Military Intelligence Bureau of the General Headquarters.  This descendant of Liu Daxia, after completing the circumnavigation of the world with Lin Feng's fleet, volunteered to stay on the ship and vowed to draw a global maritime map to double compensate for the losses caused by his ancestors.

    After being tempered by sailing around the world, he has long been reborn, from a useless scholar to a determined and skilled sailor.  He can also speak several Western languages. If such a person is willing to join the team, Zhao Hao will naturally welcome him with both hands.

    After sending him to the Coast Guard School for simple military training, Zhao Hao specially approved Liu Yishou to receive two silver stars and become the deputy director of the Surveying and Mapping Department.  Of course, Liu Yishou would not let go of this opportunity to explore the North Pacific route, so he volunteered to lead the expedition and set off.

    Relying on the route estimated by Mr. Zhao and with the help of the hot-air balloon telescope, the expedition team tracked the Spanish for four months and finally crossed the Pacific and arrived at the North American continent. The map marked by Mr. Zhao as San Francisco was changed by the British.  A place for Xinjinshan.

    There, they carefully avoided the Spanish eyes and ears, and ventured ashore to find the local indigenous Indian tribes.

    With the glass beads and sugar they brought, they gained the friendship of the Miwok people living in the bay.  Because the Miwok people were often captured by the Spaniards for forced labor, there are people who can speak Spanish.

    There are no barriers to communication between the two parties, which is naturally more conducive to enhancing mutual trust.  Liu Yishou followed Mr. Zhao's instructions and began to discuss relatives with the natives.

    With the help of their common black hair and eyes, as well as his research on ancient legends and texts, he successfully found the common ground between the other party's beliefs and ancient Chinese mythology.

    He told the Miwok people that those red-haired ghosts also knew that you migrated from China in ancient times.  Why else would they call you ¡®Indians¡¯?  That is the name originating from China for the disappeared Yin Shang compatriots - 'Yin Di Anyang people'!

    In the end, he succeeded in convincing the other party that his group came from their hometown.  We were one family three thousand years ago!

    The reason why the Miwok people believe them so easily is not only that what Liu Yishou said sounds reasonable, but also because both sides have a common enemy, the red-haired ghost, Miwok.Once Spanish soldiers land, the war will suddenly become long and cruel.

    Needless to say, the Coast Guard was born for naval warfare, and land warfare is not their strong point.

    Although the Marines under the command of Takeda have reached 10,000 people after the Marines from the two major garrison areas moved south to support them, they are still far less than the enemy.

    And the castle built by the Spanish is very strong.  Therefore, Zhao Hao has been trying his best to avoid siege warfare. When he dealt with the Spanish in the Royal City of Manila, he used fire attacks to burn down their grain depots, and besieged them for several months, starving them all to death in the city

    How many Spanish troops were in Manila at that time?  How many troops are there in this expedition?  Once they are allowed to land, there will be no conditions for a siege, and the consequences will be disastrous.

    So no matter what the cost, we must destroy them at sea!

    ps. Okay, okay, the idea is clear and the details have been worked out. There is no big problem. It¡¯s on fire. Let¡¯s start the war tomorrow!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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