open sea

Chapter 387 Guam
Chen Mu, who was far away in the South Seas, didn't know that his brother-in-law was hanging out with wild dogs on Xinming Chengri, and the Spaniard he had been waiting for was coming.

In the eastern waters of Luzon, the left-behind battalion, which regards sailing around the island as normal, submitted a report to Manila half a month ago through binoculars and seaside watchtowers, and a small boat flying the Habsburg flag sailed far away from them on the sea. drag.

Lin Dayuan, general of Chen Lai Island in the north of Luzon, was always under Chen Lin's command. He was originally a small sentry officer of the Chaozhou militia. , joined Chen Lin's subordinates, fought pirates for several years, and guarded Chen Lai.

The work of guarding Chen Lai Island is easy, with neither foreign enemies nor worries. The busiest time is nothing more than Luzon General Hu Liangpeng ordering school soldiers and horses for drills. Hurry up to set up the defense line, send someone to report to Hu Liangpeng first, and then Hu Liangpeng informs Chen Lin.

Logically speaking, back and forth, Lin Dayuan informed Hu Liangpeng, Hu Liangpeng informed Chen Lin, and Chen Lin informed Chen Mu. When Chen Mu received the news, the Xiyi came to attack aggressively, and the flames of war had already been burned to the northern land of Luzon.

But the Nanyang yamen has a complete organization. Except for Hai Rui and others who are purely doing good deeds, everything in Luzon is prepared for war, so when the war comes, everything is in order.

After Chen Lin sent people to inform Chen Mu of the military situation, he went to Chenlai Island to sit in town. Bai Yuanjie went to Guangdong to dispatch grain ships to escort the ordnance. , while stationing defense along the coast.

Of course, being orderly is an appearance, everyone is panicking, and Chen Mu is also panicking, panicking about how to fight this battle.

It wasn't until now that he finally figured out which sea route the Spaniards took from America. Chen Mu had only mastered the route of the treasure ship back to the Americas eastward, but he knew nothing about the route from America to Manila. , he finally found some clues - New Spain, Hawaii, Guam, Manila.

In this era of sea power projection, whoever thinks is scratching his head. This is the reason why Luzon has enough time to gather troops.

"This also means that there are quite a lot of enemy troops coming. If there are usually several large ships and more than a thousand soldiers, they just need to kill them directly." When Chen Mu arrived at Chen Lai Island, he explained his and Xu Wei's speculation to Chen Lin, saying : "Only if there are many warships, they need to rest in Guam. They may even be transporting armaments like us now."

His people sailed far away near Guam, but they only took note of the location and did not land on the island, because it was too far away from Luzon, and once the enemy attacked, they would not be able to defend it, not to mention that it was impossible to send the army so far away. place to go up.

It takes four to five thousand miles, and it takes four months to go back and forth. Yang Zhaolong can supply supplies in various places, and it takes one and a half months to travel each time he sails less than a thousand miles, let alone Guam, which has nowhere to stop.

What's more, it was meaningless to send the fleet to the past.

"This is defense, Chen Shuai has a look."

Chen Lin pushed over a pair of engraved maps of Luzon. Chen Mu sent people to do this after the Luzon regions were gathered together. The names of the mountains, rivers, and tribes in the coastal areas were all woodcut, and hundreds of copies were printed. They all have them, especially generals like Chen Lin always keep more than a dozen copies, depending on when they will come in handy.

At this time, the defense map is sketched, and the main defenses are the three rings in the northeast of Luzon, which are two hundred miles, five hundred miles, and eight hundred miles.The four military ports within [-] miles are defense areas, and there are three permanent artillery fleets composed of large and small shark ships, which rotate every two days; between [-] and [-] miles, they are patrol areas, which are also rotated by three fleets every five days. Patrol.

The last [-] to [-] miles is the scout area, and there are only two fleets. After [-] miles, the ships will disperse. One change.

Chen Mu looked at the deployment map thoughtfully, and asked, "Thousands of miles?"

This is obviously Chen Lin's defensive intention, waiting for work within a thousand miles from the coast of Luzon.

"It's coming to the season of heavy wind and rain, if it wasn't for the strong wind..." Chen Lin nodded, and lightly slammed the table with his steel-bound hands, and suddenly asked Chen Mu: "Do you think our fleet can attack five thousand miles away? "

Chen Mu laughed when he heard this. He was very sure that what Chen Lin originally wanted to say was "If it wasn't for the strong wind, I really wanted to attack it", but he thought it was unreliable when he said it, so he changed it to a question. he.

"It's difficult without strong winds. It's not difficult to send 800 people and more than a dozen boats to touch it. Our people have also been there, but it took a long time to prepare enough food for the boat." Chen Mu chuckled, and looked at Chen Lin after finishing speaking. , said: "Sending a fleet, even if there is no strong wind, it is too risky."

The past alone is not a problem. A thousand troops and one grain ship are enough for one month. There are two main problems. It is too prone to accidents when sailing in the open sea. Once too many troops are projected, he cannot afford to lose; But even if there is enough food and boats, it is only enough to go there and not come back.

"Think about it?"

Chen Lin glanced at Chen Mu, this question is nonsense, since Qi Jiguang was guarding the southeast, the Min-Guang naval warfare thinking has changed from defending the sea pirates on land to defeating the enemy at sea, which is fighting Japanese pirates.

Later, when Chen Mu came back from northern Xinjiang, Nanyang turned to the navy, and this point of view was undoubtedly implemented. Now that Luzon is in hand, the southernmost land that Ming actually controls is the Luzon Islands, so this is land, and they still want to Defeat enemies at sea.

"Then you have to take a risk and send the fleet five thousand miles away, two small fleets, before the storm comes."

Chen Mu was very interested in Chen Lin's boldness. He raised his hand and said, "If we want to make a large-scale expedition to the East, we have to do one thing. Find out how many people the enemy will come, and guess how much food and grass they will send to Guam."

"There is no need to mobilize the army, as long as 2000 people, [-] large and small warships, and [-] Dafu grain ships, Chen can march eastward."

Chen Mu looked at Chen Lin with a half-smile. Since they attacked Zeng Yiben together, Brother Chen has changed from the most staunch gangster to a firepower advocate, and has become more determined as the number of gunboats under his command increased. .

He said lightly: "I estimate that Xiyi must send [-]."

"Twenty thousand?" Chen Lin waved his hand and said, "No, why are there so many people in Xiyi? Don't you still say that they are fighting against people in the west?"

"There are not so many Xiyi, but according to their fighting skills to drive the local natives to drive away, if there are two thousand Xiyi in Guam, they must be supplemented by ten times the servants!"

"It doesn't matter how many people there are. The sea relies on ships and guns, not people." Chen Lin waved his hand, but saw Chen Mu's eyes widening and laughing, "That's what I should say! With the appearance of Xiyi, they must We will send big ships with a lot of people to find them for a decisive battle, and our big ships are all prepared for them."

The two of them looked at each other, laughed and hit it off, deciding the direction of this Mingxi naval battle.

　The dingo and the yellow dog have the same origin. Existing papers and carbon measurements all appeared in Australia 5000 to [-] years ago. They were brought by the early immigrants from Southeast Asia, and have nothing to do with colonization. They were the only carnivores in Australia before the white colonization.

　　
　
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