The battle is full of clouds and storms are coming. A world-class war is about to begin. The core Ming Empire, the Ming Dynasty, has sent the second figure of the Empire. Navy Marshal Zheng Chenggong brought the three strongest fleets of the Ming Navy and three elite army troops to the continent. So what about the anti-Habsburg Alliance?

The Anti-Habsburg Alliance was naturally prepared. In fact, from the moment the Ming Empire forced Tsarist Russia to sign a contract with the anti-Habsburg Alliance powers, the Anti-Habsburg Alliance was ready to launch.

After the peace talks, the anti-Habsburg Alliance powers were very popular. With their strength, they might not lose when fighting against the Ming Empire. However, most of them were navies and used the navy to fight land wars, and they were fighting land wars with the Ming Empire, which was invincible to land wars. That was purely a head in the water!

If they are not strong enough, they can only be soft. They can only choose to temporarily tolerate to dispel the idea of ​​the Ming Empire continuing to move westward from land.

However, tolerance does not mean surrender. On the contrary, they were very dissatisfied. After preparing for so long and enduring for so long, they were still beaten by the Ming Empire in the end. No one could swallow this tone. So soon, they made an appointment to rally in Rotterdam, the Netherlands to discuss a comprehensive counterattack.

This time, the people who came here were no longer some small minions, but big figures in power in various countries.

The Duke of Richelieu, the prime minister;

The king's favorite Earl of Trafford came from England;

Sweden came to Count Kaufez Ulfelt, Prime Minister of the Cabinet;

Denmark came from Earl Axel Uxenzena, Prime Minister of the Cabinet;

Even Tsarist Russian Prime Minister Rozov came to make a fuss.

Most of these people have suffered from Richelieu's losses. However, in recent years, Richelieu has changed its strategy and proposed a method of division of labor and cooperation, which has led to amazing development of the navies of various countries. Therefore, everyone followed Richelieu's advice and prepared to attack with all their strength to catch the Ming Habsburg Alliance off guard.

Of course, except for Tsarist Russia, Rozov was killed by Richelieu this time, and he almost couldn't save his position as prime minister. It would be a dream to ask him to send troops. Besides, Tsarist Russia can't transfer any troops now. Most of their troops have been transferred to the Wushan line to prevent the Ming Empire from tearing up the contract and continuing to move westward. If you can't defend it, it depends on the situation. In short, they can't transfer one soldier or one soldier.

Why did the Anti-Habsburg Alliance dare to attack with all its might and start a war with the Ming Habsburg Alliance?

At this time, we have to talk about the naval strength of the Anti-Habsburg Alliance. Richelieu is indeed a great politician. He didn't know how his mind was. He actually came up with the popular international division of labor and cooperation methods in later generations, which caused the output of the Anti-Habsburg Alliance's super battleships to skyrocket!

During this period, the European powers each had their own strengths, but it was difficult for a country to mass produce steam-powered super battleships.

Like the Netherlands, the shipbuilding ability is very strong, even stronger than the Ming Dynasty. However, their ability to build steam boilers and artillery is not very strong. It is not that they have no skills, but they have no one. At this moment, the Netherlands has only a population of about one million, but there are more than 15,000 ocean-going merchant ships, and countless shipyards. Shipbuilding and doing business alone are enough for them to be busy. There are no people in other industries at all.

For example, in the UK, they have the most powerful ability to build steam boilers, and cast artillery is still OK, but the shipbuilding industry has not yet developed. Super battleships can be built, but they cannot build several ships a year. Docks, waterways and so on all require time to build, and shipbuilders also need time to train them.

Like France, they have the strongest ability to build artillery, and they are still good at building steam boilers, but their shipbuilding industry is very poor and they can hardly build super battleships.

Like Denmark, their shipbuilding capabilities should be second only to the Netherlands, but the problem is that they will neither build steam boilers nor the latest artillery. What is the use of just building a shell of a super battleship?

Not to mention Sweden, they are basically developing the army. The navy is just starting out and nothing can be done, but they have rich resources. The iron ore and timber required to build super battleships are the most reserved in the entire alliance.

If all countries do their own things in the past, it is estimated that if they develop for a few decades, it will be the same as the situation in later generations. Britain will be the first to develop because they are not short of technology or people, and they only lack time.

France should be followed closely because they have a large population and their technology is just lacking, so they can still catch up.

As for Denmark and Sweden, there is basically no chance because they have not mastered steam power.

The Netherlands is basically out of the blue because they have too few populations to afford to be injured.

However, at this time, we cannot do our own things, because the Ming Empire is too strong. If we do our own things, they will sooner or later be cleaned up by the Ming Empire. At this time, Richeliu took the initiative and proposed a plan for division of labor and cooperation among various countries.

Simply put, the Netherlands and Denmark are responsible for manufacturing the hulls, the United Kingdom and France are responsible for providing steam power systems and artillery, and Sweden is responsible for providing raw materials. Each country valuates the price of the things it provides and distributes the super battleships according to the total value it provides.

Faced with the strong rise of the Ming Empire, countries had no other way. They could only accept this way of building blocks. Each country provided some things and finally built a super battleship with steam power.

Now, it was amazing. Even they were scared by the energy burst out by the five great powers. In less than two years, they actually built nearly a thousand super battleships. In addition, the steam-powered battleships transformed by the Netherlands and Britain with the old sail battleships, the number of super battleships in the entire anti-Habsburg Alliance actually reached a terrifying 1,300 more!

Now, Britain and the Netherlands have more than 300 super battleships, which are the strongest at sea, followed by France, with almost 300 super battleships, Denmark and Sweden are the worst, but the two countries have more than 300 super battleships in total.

The naval strength of the Ming Dynasty in front of the great powers was less than a thousand super battleships in total. Moreover, Tsarist Russia also found that there were two fleets of nearly 400 super battleships stranded in the Ob River Basin. In other words, this winter, the Ming Dynasty could use only five or six hundred super battleships!

Of course, this is not the case, but the anti-Habsburg Alliance powers believed so

Richelieu didn't know where he got several Ming military books and asked someone to translate them into French. After carefully studying them, he found a seemingly perfect tactic of aligning and aid.

Although I am learning to walk in Handan, the tactic of surrounding points and attacking and aiding is indeed very suitable for the current situation.

Once such "advanced" tactics were proposed, the great powers were even more impatient. They believed that whether it was Spain, Portugal, or the Ming Empire, they would definitely fall into a trap. At that time, they would annihilate the main naval force of the Ming Habsburg Alliance in one fell swoop, and then the sea would be their world!

At this time, gaining maritime hegemony is equivalent to taking all overseas colonies into their possession.

Therefore, the great powers sent troops without hesitation, and Spain and Portugal were also fooled without hesitation. Now the fleet of the Ming Empire has also arrived, and they are waiting there in ambush. Will Zheng Chenggong be fooled?
Chapter completed!