The last 300,000 Spanish army was over, and Portugal was restored, but Felipe IV knew nothing.

Because Duke Goodman was trying his best to kill him, Wang Zhong and Desilao also sent spies to intercept him everywhere, and the communication between Madrid and the outside world was basically cut off.

Felipe IV is still waiting for news about the combined fleet of Spain, the Netherlands and France. If calculated according to the speed of sailing ships, it is normal for the combined fleet to not come back now.

He had no idea that not only was the joint fleet completed, but even the Spanish Army was not much left.

The Duke of Goodman also held banquets and dances there to whitewash the peace, but Taichang was gathering his troops to prepare to march towards Madrid.

At the port terminal south of Lisbon, thousands of armed merchant ships and Wolf-fang warships set off for America within a few days, a dreadnought, hundreds of ASCHS and hundreds of Dragon warships rushed from the Strait of Gibraltar to the south.

Zhang Yuanfang and Zheng Hongkui finally led the fleet to come, and the millions of troops from the East African Kingdom had already been pulled to Valencia by them.

More than two million troops gathered, and it was only a matter of time before Madrid was captured.

Taichang immediately summoned civil and military officials and generals to join important figures who surrendered to Europe and began to discuss the next major plan.

This time, even Prince Conde, Minuit and Black came with Zhang Yuanfang, and important figures from the five western countries in Europe were already here.

Taichang stared at the map for a while before asking, "Okundo, how about Madrid's city defense?"

Okundo said without hesitation: "Madrid's city defense was originally quite solid, but that's relative to cold weapons.

Because the city walls and towers in Madrid were built more than a hundred years ago, muskets and artillery had not yet begun to prevail at that time.

The city walls and towers around Madrid were built with a Roman-style city defense system that mainly prevented cold weapons, and no forts were built on it.

In addition, Madrid is located in the inland, so it is difficult for the enemy to overcome it, and the kings of the Habsburg dynasties have not strengthened the city defense much.

At this moment, there were only a hundred forts on the walls and towers of Madrid, two or three hundred behind artillery pieces, and the number of defenders was less than 50,000.

To be honest, in front of the army of the Kingdom of West Africa and East Africa, such city defenses are as fragile as paper.”

When Taichang heard this, he couldn't help but feel speechless.

He really didn't know what the Habsburg kings had been doing for more than a hundred years.

You should know that this past hundred years was the most powerful period in Spain. The gold and silver they plundered from the colonies every year were tens of millions of taels, and various minerals and resources were even more uncalculable.

No matter how you spend money randomly, the city defense in the capital Madrid always needs to be strengthened, right?

There may be a misunderstanding in later generations, that is, there were no cities in ancient Europe.

In fact, there were many ancient cities in continental Europe, especially since the Middle Ages, countries in continental Europe were crazily building cities and fortresses. Among them, there were more than 1,300 recorded in historical records, which was more than the Ming Empire!

However, the cities and fortresses built in the Middle Ages in the continent are different from those of the Ming Dynasty.

Their city walls are basically not thick walls that are several meters wide or even dozens of meters wide, but single thin walls.

It is similar to the walls of the Siheyuan in Daming. The thickness is only about one foot at most, and people cannot stand on it.

The cities and fortresses built in the medieval period in Europe were basically this so-called Roman defense system. The main body of the defense was the circular towers in the middle of the city wall. Generally, there were dozens or even hundreds of circular towers in the middle of the city wall.

This defense system was indeed quite good in the era of cold weapons, because the distance between towers would not exceed 100 steps. No matter where they attacked, they would at least be hit by bows and arrows on the two towers, as well as huge rocks and squats.

As for the city wall in the middle, if you climb up, you will be shot to death by a bow and arrow if you don’t fall to death.

Therefore, this Romanesque defense system was quite popular in the Middle Ages of Continental Europe.

However, muskets and artillery began to flourish

After that, this Romanesque defense system was basically eliminated.

Because the thin city wall could not resist the bombardment of artillery, once the shells were smashed down, the city wall would be smashed. At that time, the tower in the middle would be surrounded from all directions, and the people inside would starve to death if they were not beaten to death.

At this moment, the European countries mainly build multi-story castles, just like the famous castles of Geranzza and Batavia in history, which are both multi-story castles built by the Dutch.

Taichang really didn't expect that Madrid's city defense was still a Roman-style defense system.

This defense system is really as crisp as paper in front of the thousands of artillery artillery of the Black God Army.

It seems that Madrid doesn't have to send many troops to attack, and it's enough to have more than 300,000 troops under Carenho's men.

However, he couldn't let Carenho rush and fight slowly.

Because it is not difficult to defeat Portugal and Spain, France and Britain behind are the hardest hard bones on the Eastern Front, and he still has to leave enough time to attack France and Britain.

Taichang stared at the map for a while, then asked, "Carenho, you bring 200,000 Lisbon's troops, and I will give you another 300,000 people. You will lead your army from Lisbon to Madrid and then occupy the entire territory of Spain. Is there any problem?"

Of course, this is fine. There are no garrisons in other places in Spain. If he can't beat him about 500,000 or 50,000, he will find a piece of tofu to kill him.

Carinho nodded repeatedly and said, "No problem, no problem."

That's fine. As long as you take Madrid, Spain basically doesn't have to worry about it.

In order to save time, it is better to take the next action at the same time.

Taichang thought for a while and asked again: "Prince Kong Dai, how many troops do you think you need to take over the French mainland?"

This made Prince Kong Dai confused.

He was stunned for a moment, and then said embarrassedly: "Your Majesty, I haven't returned to France for many years. I really don't know what it is now."

Well, this is a bit troublesome.

As the saying goes, knowing oneself and your enemy will never be defeated. Even though he has many men and horses, he cannot know nothing and rush over!

Unfortunately, the Ming Dynasty money house and the Ming Dynasty Atlantic business have withdrawn from the European countries, and the spies there have also withdrawn from Portugal and Spain. They don’t know what arrangements they will make later.

Taichang could only ask helplessly: "Who do you know the specific situation in France?"

Unexpectedly, Okundo said carefully: "His Majesty the Emperor, I am not very clear about the specific situation in France, but I still know a little about their general defense.

Because when I returned from the mouth of the Nile, I sent back 400,000 new recruits from France.

Their 400,000 recruits were left in southern France, roughly 100,000 in Marseille, 100,000 in Montpellier, and 100,000 in Toulouse. I sent a ship directly to Le Havre in the north of Paris.

In addition, there were originally 100,000 troops in France, and they should have been stationed from Toulouse to Paris on the front line."

The Duke of Richelieu is a little capable.

This guy should have guessed that if the Ming Dynasty wanted to fight on two fronts, it would have to draw troops from Africa, so they hoarded all the heavy troops to the south.

However, when there are enough ships, the north and south are actually the same.

He could use his ships to pull the army to the north of France.

At this moment, France's defense is weak in the north, and they took down most of the port city there when they attacked the continent, and they are still very familiar with the terrain there.

Perhaps, he could use northern France as a breakthrough point to directly take Paris, and then slowly encircle and annihilate the 300,000 to 400,000 troops in southern France.

Thinking of this, Taichang said decisively: "Hong Kui, you lead a hundred dragon warships back to Valencia. When you pass by Malaga, you will take 50,000 troops from the Kingdom of West Africa to guard there.

Then mobilized the ships there and pulled all one million troops from the East African Kingdom and Prince Conde's men over.

Well, this seems a bit unnecessary!

If one million people from the East African Kingdom and Prince Conde were brought here all the way, he would not have to run back.

Of course, he dared not say this.

Zheng Hongkui was stunned for a moment, then bowed and said, "I will understand."

Taichang nodded slightly, then ordered: "Yuanfang, you can lead a hundred ASCH ships to Sevilla and Malaga, exchange Xianglin back, and let Dale stay there.

There is no need to leave so many people there. Sevilla is enough to leave 100,000 people, and Malaga is enough to leave 50,000 people, and you can bring all the remaining 300,000 people back."

What is the emperor doing?

Although Zhang Yuanfang was a little confused, he bowed without hesitation and said, "I will understand."

Taichang nodded slightly, then waved his hand and said, "Okay, Carinho, go and prepare, and lead the army to set out tomorrow morning."

Everyone was a little confused, because Taichang transferred more than one million troops, but only 300,000 people went to Madrid with Carenho. What are the other people doing?

No one knows this, and no one dares to ask randomly in front of Taichang.

The next morning, Carinho set out with his 200,000 men and 300,000 men from the Kingdom of West Africa.

Only then did he realize how well the equipment of the West African Kingdom was. Their 300,000 men and 300,000 chariots and more than 100,000 war horses were pulled by war horses.

Even people don’t need to walk, infantrymen are all riding in cars.

He was under his command of 200,000 people, in addition to riding horses, and he could easily travel over a hundred miles a day.

He adopted Oqundo's advice along the way, and ignored the fortresses along the way, and kept rushing to Madrid. In less than ten days, they actually arrived outside Madrid.

The 500,000 army surrounded the city of Madrid, so the news naturally could not be blocked.

Duke Goodman also adopted Wang Chong's suggestion, arranged something on the tower to the west, and then pretended to be panicked, ran to the palace, and said to Felipe IV directly: "Your Majesty, it's not good, Madrid is surrounded!"

ah!

Felipe IV was stunned when he heard this.

What's going on? Why is Madrid suddenly surrounded?

He was stunned for a while, then panicked: "Who surrounded Madrid, what's going on?"

Duke Goodman pretended to be stupid and said, "I don't know either. There were countless enemies suddenly appearing outside the city, and I don't know where they emerged.

Your Majesty, why don't you go and have a look?

Felipe IV was already panicked, but after thinking about it, he still gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, let's go and have a look."
To be continued...