Taichang couldn't help but regret it when he received Zhang Yuanfang's memorial.

He even missed the rocket!

If the Dragon Battleship does not use rocket attacks, it will be exposed as soon as it is fired, because the Ming Dynasty's artillery is fired continuously.

At this time, he didn't have to worry about the European Union breaking up with him for this matter. Anyway, the African strategy is coming to an end, and the next step is to attack the European Union. It's no big deal to tear the face off.

The problem is that he doesn't want to expose the killing weapon of the Dragon Battleship.

This war is not enough for everyone to order all the troops or ships to fight directly. The real commander is playing tactics. Even if his strength can crush others, he must find a way to minimize the losses.

Those who ignore the casualties of their soldiers and only know how to rush forward can be a pioneer at most, and are not worthy of being the commander at all.

A true commander must be able to plan and use various tactics proficiently.

And good tactics depend on what the enemy expects.

The Flying Dragon Battleship is top-notch in terms of speed, attack power and defense. This is the biggest weapon of the Ming Dynasty now.

Simply put, the Dragon Battleship is like the iron-armored cavalry in the cold weapon era, which can determine the success or failure of the battle.

If he was exposed in advance, the enemy would probably try every means to deal with the Dragon Battleship.

The easiest way is to avoid naval battles, all warships hide in the port, and use shore defense cannons to defend themselves.

If the enemy really plays like this, it will be difficult for them to fight.

Besides, it took at least three hours for Zhang Yuanfang to send someone back to deliver memorials. He sent someone to deliver the order, which was another three hours.

This time it took six hours to go back and forth. When his will was passed, it would be dark.

The Dutch, Britain, Sweden and Danish coalition forces are running for life in a hurry, and they probably won't stop when it gets dark.

Can he let treasures like the Dragon Battleship chase others overnight?

If it is the sea area they are familiar with, maybe you can try it.

The problem is that they are not familiar with South African waters at all.

Moreover, Luanda is only more than a thousand miles away from South Africa controlled by the Netherlands, Britain, Sweden and Denmark. People run back to their territory and find a port to jump in. Could it be that he really calls the Dragon Warship to attack their ports?

Just kidding.

The flying dragon warship is not a tower ship gunboat, and it is a great loss to attack a port with shore defense guns.

Especially when the rockets were insufficient, he let more than 200 flying dragon warships rush to their territory, and it is possible that they are beaten up.

Although the Dutch people were destroyed by them, they only sank five or six thousand sailboats from their homeland.

In other words, the Dutch still has tens of thousands of sailboats.

Even if the flying dragon warship is beaten up, more than 200 ships will be dangerous to tens of thousands of ships.

Taichang frowned and pondered for a while, but decided to leave it alone.

Anyway, there are only so many people left in the enemy, and they are stuck in the waterway towards the continent, so there is no place for them to run.

In this case, there is no need for him to send the Dragon Battleship to take risks.

He could have gathered the water and land armies of the East Africa Kingdom and the West Africa Kingdom, and even sent all the Aegis ships to steadily slap them over.

When Zhang Yuanfang received Taichang's order, he could only sigh slightly and give up the idea of ​​continuing to pursue.

Taichang means to ask him to trim it, and then send a flying dragon warship to continue patrolling the waters north of Luanda to prevent others from rushing toward the continental direction.

The Battle of Angola ended in a hurry, and the results of the battle were quickly counted.

The chariot soldiers led by Lin Chaojie captured more than 100,000 prisoners.

The navy fleet led by Zheng Hongkui also captured more than 100,000 prisoners.

The two million troops led by Zhang Hengchuan were the worst, and he captured less than 100,000 prisoners in total.

If you add those who were killed by artillery, those who fell into the water and those who were trampled to death, there would be only more than 400,000.

In other words, they worked hard to prepare and wanted to come to a surround and attack the reinforcements, but they only collected more than 100,000 reinforcements.

It can be said that this tactic of accomplices was not very successful in playing around the point and was a typical start and end.

Fortunately, because the enemy was basically running away in a hurry and did not resist much, the soldiers of the Black God Army did not suffer any casualties.

When Taichang saw the battle report, he couldn't help but laughed: "Mingshi, it seems that I am not as good as you when playing tactics. You have wiped out nearly 600,000 troops from Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. I have prepared for several months, and finally got rid of more than 400,000 troops from others."

Oh, Master, don’t joke like this with me!

Zhang Mingshi quickly said modestly: "Your Majesty, I am purely lucky. In addition, Shuochuan desperately sniped the enemy's retreat."

As he spoke, he actually choked up a little.

Seeing this, Taichang hurriedly comforted him: "Okay, let's forget it after the matter is over, Shuochuan has rested in peace, why are you still worried?

Although the record this time was not very good, there were no casualties, which was quite good.

Let's discuss how to fight next, this is the real last battle on the African continent.

After this battle, you can go back to the Xiyindu Islands to cultivate. We will be on the battlefield next year. I believe that the world will be peaceful.

At that time, I will give you a first-class Duke, and you can choose the place where the country is enfeoffed.

Otherwise, let’s talk about where you want to seal it, and I’ll prepare it for you.”

Uh, why did I say that the matter of promoting the Duke of China has gone up, and I even asked me to choose the Duke of China!

Zhang Mingshi thought about it and then said carefully: "Your Majesty, I think Dakar is very good.

Weichen thinks that it may be a bit difficult for Zuma and Atlanti to manage such a large territory. We still have to station some troops here to help shock them.

Otherwise, if such a large territory becomes chaotic, it will be difficult to deal with.

Moreover, Weichen has been accustomed to it after living in Dakar for a long time."

This is very reasonable. Many dynasties in the Central Plains have not had the territory of the East Africa Kingdom and the West Africa Kingdom, and they are still changing dynasties.

It is really not easy for Africa to be stable for a long time. It is a good idea to send troops to shock the Ming Dynasty. This will at least maintain the connection between the Kingdom of East Africa, the Kingdom of West Africa and the Ming Dynasty.

However, Dakar alone seems not enough. Perhaps he should have enfeoffed several more countries here.

Thinking of this, Taichang nodded slightly and said, "Well, your proposal is very good. I will discuss it with Zuma and Atlanti.

However, let’s focus on fighting the last battle on the African continent.”

Upon hearing this, Zhang Mingshi hurriedly looked at the map with a serious face.

He stared at the map for a while before he said carefully: "Your Majesty, from this map, it seems that the south of Africa is covered with mountains and is extremely difficult to move around.

This can also be seen from the terrain south of Angora.

It may be difficult for us to open a passage by land this time. I dared, Master, why don’t we mobilize more ships, bring in 500,000 elite chariots and 500,000 elite cavalry, and sweep across the coastline directly.

Anyway, there are only the Netherlands, Britain, Sweden and Denmark left on the African continent, with less than 500,000 troops. After the battle, we will be going to use troops against the continent, and it is no big deal for us to directly participate in the war."

When Taichang heard this, he couldn't help but nodded and said, "Okay, Mingshi, you are going with me this time.

There are only these troops left in the Netherlands, Britain, Sweden and Denmark. We really don’t have to hide and silence anymore. The navy went straight to the front and ended the battle here as soon as possible."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Mingshi hurriedly bowed: "The emperor is wise."

Next they began to discuss how many ships they would mobilize.

In fact, there are many naval ships near Angola at this moment. One hundred ASCH ships can pull up 500,000 people, plus four thousand wolf-fanged warships and one thousand armed merchant ships, the remaining 500,000 people can be easily pulled down.

The key is that those war horses and chariots take up too much space, and their existing ships cannot be pulled down at all.

There is not much problem with this. Xinma City has been building armed merchant ships. There are not many other warships in the Americas, but there are still many armed merchant ships.

Taichang made a rough estimate and simply ordered Sun Chuanting to mobilize 4,000 armed merchant ships to come, and all the food, supplies, ammunition and other things were brought over at once.

In this way, the chariots and horses can be loaded almost, and they can save them from mobilizing supplies from various places.

While they were discussing how to attack South Africa, Moritz, Duke of Weimar and Prince Hendrick were also discussing how to defend South Africa.

However, this seems impossible task.

The Duke of Weimar stared at the map for a while, but couldn't help but sigh: "The Ming Empire is afraid that this time it will destroy us all and then attack Europe.

Our troops cannot even stop the army of the West African Kingdom, let alone the coalition forces of the Ming Empire and the West African Kingdom."

What should I do?

Moritz frowned when he heard this, "What do you mean we will give up South Africa and return to the continent?"

To be honest, he really doesn't want to go back to the continent, because their territory in the continent had long been occupied by the Ming Empire and was returned to Spain.

After they returned, they had no place to stay, let alone reproduce and grow.

The Duke of Weimar said helplessly: "If we don't run away, we will definitely be done. The Ming Empire will definitely not let us go."

Alas, if you don’t run away, you will die or be a prisoner. If you run back to Europe, you will have personal freedom. How to choose this, do you still need to think about it?

Prince Hendrick had no choice but to sigh slightly: "We'd better go back to the continent, there's really only a dead end here."

Question, how to escape back to Europe?

Moritz pointed to the map and said, "Now the Kingdom of West Africa and the Ming Empire are in Angola, and the waters over there must have been blocked by them.
To be continued...