open sea

Chapter 1513
In fact, Yang Ce made a mistake, but don't blame him.

Even Chen Mu couldn't clearly know how many neighboring countries Daming had.

The most terrifying fact in the world is that the countries they can name are basically neighboring countries with Ming Dynasty.

The Songhai Kingdom on the coast of West Africa is a maritime neighbor next to the Eastern Military Mansion, and the same maritime neighbors include Spain, France, and Morocco.

Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom of Denmark must be counted as maritime neighbors adjacent to the House of London.

Ottoman and Safi Persia are both regarded as Western military houses.

They are closer than ever to any corner of the world.

These days, it is more difficult to find a country that is not a neighboring country of Ming Dynasty than it is a neighboring country.

But Yang Ce's life was not so easy, and his troubles came soon.

Yang Ce's fleet is still being repaired at the port shipyard, and all the soldiers are busy in the tension of being active in the enemy's territory. Little Palma of the Spanish Legion of Flanders and Alessandro Farr, the nephew of Fei Lao Er Nesse sent messengers to the door.

The messenger is very young, named Dias, who is from the Iberian Peninsula and has Moorish ancestry.

In the early years, he was stationed in Seville, and later became the border guards of Seville and Daming Port. He was the first batch of officers promoted from civilians after Spain began to learn from Daming. Now he is transferred to the Flanders Legion as the captain of the phalanx company .

Usually this kind of envoy task would be an officer of noble origin, but Little Palma was very familiar with Huang Xi, a North Korean officer under Chen Jiujing's command and the guerrilla general of the Baishan Battalion, and knew the way of the Ming people.

They would rather have a soldier who is not an aristocrat but can speak Chinese than a Spanish general who cannot speak Chinese.

And because most of the generals of the Ming Dynasty are not like the European nobles who have a group of translators by their side, sending a general who does not understand the language will not provide the slightest convenience for the discussion.

Therefore, as soon as Palma Jr. received that someone had captured The Hague from the northeast, he first sent his light cavalry to investigate. He saw the Spanish ships and the blue Han ships parked in the port far away from the coast of the town, and his heart sank.

The company captain Dias was sent over.

In fact, I must say that the Spaniards are more wary of the Ming Dynasty's Eastern Army or Han troops than they are against the Dutch troops-they are not afraid of the repeated attacks organized by the Netherlands.

According to the Spanish tradition, each phalanx is named after its commander, and the companies under the phalanx are also named after the commander. Only the small company of 300 people in Dias is not called the company of Dias, but the company of Ming. Equipment company.

This company used to be called Garcia Company. The company commander was a minor nobleman who participated in the New World War. He died in the Battle of the Netherlands and was replaced by Dias.

Dias was sent here, even if the army that landed in The Hague was not here to help Spain, at least seeing this uniform, most of them would not hit people with their hands.

The cotton armor with orange background and red edge is really conspicuous. Dias, who was wearing an iron helmet on his head, had just approached The Hague when he was stopped by pirates who set up a trap in the forest at the end of the dirt road.

The pirates under Yang Ce's command were still bad in terms of military uniforms. Although nearly half of the soldiers in them were not Ming people, they were all deeply influenced by the idea of ​​Great China, and no one could accept the weird aesthetics of the Europeans.

This means that even if they get the clothes, in addition to the shirts that are very similar to the mid laners, they still wear the trousers and shoes that have been worn out for a long time at sea.

Wearing shoes after going ashore is a hassle. Most of the nobles living in The Hague cannot accept the small shoes of the nobles. Only a few people have changed their boots, which makes them look a bit vulnerable.

But Dias didn't dare to underestimate these pirates who fortified in the woods beside the road. Even if they didn't wear armor, the heavy arquebus set up next to the tree trunk would make anyone dare not act rashly in this era.

What's more, more than ten heavy matchlock guns were aimed at him, even if the manipulator behind these weapons was a ten-year-old child, he dared not move.

This is probably the most terrible change that gunpowder has brought to the world.

A child, or even a little girl, cannot wield a big sword, mount a spear, draw a longbow, let alone a steel crossbow, or even put on heavy armor and mount a charge.

As long as she is given a heavy matchlock gun, she can kill a heavily armored knight with a single snap of her little hand.

Especially those who wield these heavy matchlock guns are Han people.

After the Spaniards abandoned the New World, it was no longer Chen Mu who dealt with them, but Li Dan from Daming Port.

That is a person who is easier to get along with than Chen Mu. In the past few years, although people still feel unreasonable fear of the Ming people, the hostility between the two sides has decreased a lot.

The most frightening thing is Han Guo.

One never knows what's going on in the minds of these pirates, one day they're on good terms with you, and the next they turn around and shoot at your town.

Especially for Dias, he knew the Chinese flags that these pirates planted beside the road.

What made him feel at ease was that the pirates didn't make it difficult for him when he expressed his purpose. Someone took him to the city of The Hague, and then led him to the south of the city, almost making a circle around The Hague. His final destination was It is the earl's castle eight miles away from the sea outside the city.

"Ah, this is the castle of the Earl of Holland!"

Because Rotterdam in the south has not yet been captured, Palma Jr.'s legion has been fighting in the Principality of Brabant in the south of the delta. This is the first time Dias entered The Hague and saw the political center of the Netherlands. It was built in the third century by William II, Earl of the Netherlands, King of Germany and Crown Prince of the Holy Roman Empire.

After that, it became the administrative center of the Netherlands.

The pirates who led the way placed his subordinates outside the castle and led him through the castle until he entered a small living room.

Waiting for him was a strong general who was nearly forty years old. He was wearing a red official robe like those Ming generals Dias had seen, with a unique pattern on the fabric.

But on the outside of the red robe, unlike those generals in Daming Port who usually don't participate in battles, they don't wear reflective armor and shiny breastplates. Same chain mail.

It's just that large steel plates are added to his chest and shoulders to increase protection without affecting his activities.

Also, the leather armor on his body is not as neat as that of Daming Military Officer. The two pairs of leather gun holsters around his waist only reveal an ivory-carved gun handle, and the other is placed on the table, pressed under his hand, faintly Point to Dias.

His skin was dark, his face was serious, and his face was scarred more like frostbite than battle, and his cheeks were slightly drooped with scars, making the corners of his mouth look not so happy.

Dias was a little scared. The person in front of him fit the image of the pirate leader of the Han Dynasty in his mind. He took a deep breath, clasped his fists in a very standard way, spoke very fluent Chinese, and said in cadence: "The Flanders Legion in Lower Spain Three hundred families, An Donghai, come here in the name of the head of the army to meet the general!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)