What happened to Gustav that night, if you use the words of a middle school boy in the 1990s, it would be: the same tricks are ineffective against the Saints, idiot!

In short, because Gustav's side kick was predicted in advance, that night, the well-prepared Ming army fought a beautiful ambush. Not to mention most of the 6,000 elite soldiers led by Gustav suffered casualties.

The King of Sweden, who was determined to die, also desperately charged in person at the end of the battle, and was eventually beaten into a hornet's nest by the Ming army's submachine guns with abundant firepower.

After getting Gustav's body, Huang Degong had his body simply cleaned and put on a set of clean clothes. Then he sent an envoy to return the king's body from the front of the battlefield.

EU Army in formation.

After throwing out this hand, the already low morale of the EU Army fell to the bottom instantly. Wallenstein could not control the large-scale surrender.

So, at nine o'clock in the morning on the 12th, dozens of 75mm guns of the Ming army had completely covered Ranong Port. Although the battleship Barcelona, ​​which rushed back in the morning, desperately used its own 305mm naval guns to attack the port from the sea.

The Fang Army provided support. However, the west side of the Malay Peninsula was originally made of silt, and the Barcelona did not dare to shoot at close range. Besides, the suppressive shooting of a battleship had an extremely limited effect.

Therefore, in only three hours, the European Union's transport fleet was about to arrive again in the so-called darkest hour before dawn. When the Ming army's infantry forward had already rushed less than 500 meters to Wallenstein's headquarters.

The helpless Wallenstein asked his staff to fly a white flag on the roof of the headquarters, and through phone calls and wired telegrams, he asked the troops that the headquarters could still contact to put down their weapons and surrender. In fact, at this time, there were only a few EU Army troops.

Bullets are coming to fight back.

"Your Majesty Cao Wenzhao, Liu Zhaosun, Ma Shilong, Huang Degong, Lu Xiangsheng... Emperor Fu Qiwu: In the 20th year of the Apocalypse, the Western thieves were ambitious and brazenly invaded India controlled by the Ming Dynasty. The king's division was unable to cope with it, and was dragged down by the Indians, causing the Western

The thieves were rampant for a while. In the 22nd year, the Western thieves wanted to fill their grievances and attacked the vassals in the central and southern parts of the Ming Dynasty again. My emperor was furious and thundered down... Seven hundred thousand warriors, adhering to the emperor's will, fought with the enemy for two years. There were five major battles and small battles.

Countless. Thanks to the power of our Emperor. On October 12, the 23rd day of the Apocalypse, Wang Shi, Chief of General Staff of the army surrendered by the Western bandits, Wallenstein and his 200,000 bandits arrived at the Malay Port of Ranong. At this point, the country

In the land of Central and South Korea? Regardless of sea or land? There is no smell of mutton anymore!

After interrogating the prisoners, combined with the statistics of the General Staff Headquarters. In two years? The total number of troops invaded by the Western bandits was about 600,000 in the army and more than 35,000 in the navy. The Wang Division annihilated a total of 270,000 Western bandits and surrendered 200,000.

More than 30,000 people. Those who escaped? About 100,000 people? Most of them were injured or injured. Our Emperor’s mighty power, the Western thieves have learned a little bit about it...

After two years of fighting, due to improper command by the ministers and others, the Ming Dynasty's heroes suffered a total of more than 217,000 casualties, and more than 50,700 were disabled due to injuries...

I have now reorganized the armies and assigned them to various places to restore order in Central and South China and welcome the royal families of the four kings of Shu, Chu, Zhou and Tang back to the country. As for the subsequent matters, we will wait for my emperor's decree..."

Beginning in January 1639 and lasting until October 1641, the nearly two years of the Central-Southern Campaign finally ended.

From a strategic point of view, the Ming Dynasty certainly achieved the final victory: the Indochina Peninsula was saved, and the vassal system was indeed shaken? But with the victory of the war, it was stabilized. The South China Sea once again became the Ming Dynasty’s inland sea? The Ming Dynasty’s economy suffered heavy losses

It will also recover quickly.

But? This war? For the Ming Dynasty, it was indeed a traumatic experience: not to mention the heavy economic damage, the total number of killed and remnant troops was close to 270,000 - most of which were standing armies.

!

Although the army's standing army suffered heavy losses, after a large number of armed police and reserve forces withstood the test of such a war, their combat effectiveness would rapidly increase, reaching or even exceeding the previous level of the standing army. However, in this war, the navy was indeed almost eliminated

Broken spine - as a technical branch, the navy takes much longer to recover than the army.

It was difficult for the Ming Dynasty, and it was even more uncomfortable for the European Union: it lost 150,000 in the attack on India, and 500,000 in the attack on the Indochina. And this was only for the army: in terms of the navy, the real loss of the sailors was not much.

Only two thousand people. But Zhou Yuji's surprise attack that night turned the tide of the entire war, not only destroying hundreds of transport ships, but also destroyed more than 5,000 experienced ordinary sailors - even after experiencing the Age of Discovery,

This makes Europe extremely rich in seafarers. However, seafarers who can operate iron transport ships safely to and from Europe and Asia are still extremely precious.

In short, Europe, which lost 650,000 soldiers and thousands of technical personnel, was definitely hit hard this time.

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October 13th, 11 o'clock in the middle of the night in the East Eighth District.

The Changsha Shipyard in Chongming Shasuo, Suzhou Prefecture is still ablaze with lights, the sound of huge hammers, the sound of rivets hitting, and the workers' chants colliding with each other, making the entire shipyard seem extremely lively.

In this noisy environment, on a slightly flatter platform about one kilometer away from Slipway No. 6 of the shipyard, an old man wearing a python robe and a gold crown sat on a Taishi chair, holding up a telescope and looking carefully.

Carefully, looking over and over at the huge hull of the battleship Zheng He on the slipway...

Around him, a group of low-level officials wearing round hats, soap boots and brown shirts gathered around him, serving him tea and pouring water, or massaging his feet and shoulders.

Next to this group of people, there is a huge flag with the message "Imperial Commissioner, Governor of Dongchang Official School, Eunuch in Charge", which clearly tells the status of the group of people around here.

Yes, the skinny old man who looks old now, with wrinkles and age spots all over his face, is none other than Zhu Youdong's Dong Factory Supervisor, Wei Zhongxian.

This year, Old Wei is seventy-three. Compared to the historical plane, he has lived many more years. And although in this plane, his reputation is very small, even less famous than Tian Ergen of Jin Yiwei. But

Likewise, the jealousy he aroused was much smaller than in the historical perspective.

The reason why the seventy-three-year-old Wei appeared here is of course that Zhu Youdong took his two adult sons on a tour of the south and came to Nanzhili, the most developed light industry in the Ming Dynasty - he came with him. And on the other hand, he came with him.

On the one hand, it is naturally because of the Zheng He.

"Hey, Ambassador Zheng made seven voyages to the West and gained a great reputation for the country. Now the emperor has allowed such a huge ship to be named after Ambassador Zheng. Wow, it really makes us eunuchs burst into tears with gratitude and envy at the same time.

."

"Mr. Factory, you have served the Emperor for nearly forty years, and you have worked hard and achieved great results. It is impossible to say that in your lifetime, there will be a battleship named after you."

"Hey, you little bastard will make fun of me. Who is Ambassador Zheng? Are we mediocre people who only know how to serve tea and water?"

"Factory officials and low-level people are indeed mediocre people who only know how to serve tea and water, but you are not. The so-called good warriors have no great achievements. In the past forty years, you have served the emperor, and the emperor has never been dissatisfied with you.

Since you took charge of Dongchang, the emperor will not miss any important news in such a large country... It is really not easy to do this. Putting aside these accumulated achievements and affection, it is the recent

This time the Western Thieves sent assassins to assassinate the Emperor, didn't you discover it early and nip it in the bud?"

"Chi~" Wei Zhongxian squeezed out a mouthful of air with his upper and lower teeth again, and said disdainfully: "So barbarians are barbarians. Well, using the theory of evolution, Western thieves are lower creatures that have not fully evolved, and are as stupid as pigs. Hum.

, all races are different, do you think everything will be fine if you have scum who don’t have ancestors to support you? You actually sent people deep into the mainland of our Ming Dynasty to assassinate our emperor? Isn’t this whimsical? Do you really think that our Dongchang has been setting up for so many years?

Are the reporting points in each county government vegetarian? The people's livelihood in Ming Dynasty has indeed encountered some difficulties in recent years, but the people now live a life without enough food and clothing. Compared with when our family first started serving today,

I don’t know how much better it is. So, except for those scum who are crazy and deceive their masters and destroy their ancestors just for the sake of a little profit, who doesn’t have their heart towards the emperor. If they find a little abnormality, who doesn’t know to come to our Dongchang to report it? "

"The factory owner is absolutely right. However, after all, this is a rescue effort. Shouldn't the factory owner take this as an opportunity to plead with the emperor to build a big ship in the factory owner's name?"

"Hey..." Wei Zhongxian let out a sigh of relief and said listlessly: "You think our family doesn't want it? Not only our family does. Since we got the Zhenghe, Cao Huachun, Wang Chengen, Fang Zhenghua and even Liu Shimin, tmd which one

Don’t want to? But after repeated testing, the emperor just said one sentence, asking us who has more achievements than Ambassador Zheng..."

"Does the factory master mean that eunuchs like me will be able to name warships after ourselves only after our achievements reach the level of Ambassador Zheng?"

"That's not necessarily true. The emperor finally relaxed his words a few days ago, saying that the imperial court has been in financial difficulty recently, but in order to win a decisive victory against the Spanish bandits in India in the future and to control the sea in the Pacific, the imperial court needs a large number of warships. So, allow us

The courtiers invested money in major shipyards, and the warships built were named after the investors. Oh, yes, this is called naming rights. Hehe, our family and Cao Huachun and others each invested 3 million silver dollars, and it is scheduled

We bought a 5,000-ton heavy cruiser.”

The Ming Dynasty's shipbuilding technology was slightly behind Spain's. Moreover, since electricity research had only made breakthroughs at this time, the electric welding process had just been proposed by Zhu Youdong as a direction. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty's iron-clad ships at this time had a gap between steel plates and steel plates.

The connection still relies on sledgehammers and rivets. The weight of the rivets alone on a giant ship of 10,000 tons is close to 200 tons!

Riveting requires extremely high requirements for rivets, and is quite labor-intensive. In addition, although Ming Dynasty steelmaking had blast furnaces at this time, the basic fuel was still coal. To obtain reliable armor steel, it took a lot of effort

The cost was also extremely high - in short, limited to the shipbuilding technology at this time, the cost of Ming Dynasty's warships per ton was about 540 to 550 silver dollars. The 3 million yuan that Lao Wei and the others spent was enough to build a 5,000-ton heavy cruiser.

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Of course, even though he has been with Zhu Youdong for almost 40 years, Lao Wei's own grade is also a third grade. But to be honest, with that salary, Lao Wei can't make up three million. But you can't stand Lao Wei.

Some shares of royal industry.

But, when it comes to shares.

"Hmph, Cao Sanxi, who started out as a tofu seller, actually spent 7 million yuan at once, saying that he wanted to buy the naming rights of a battleship. This bitch really pissed off our family! Our family just wanted to make up for the three.

One million, but I almost went bankrupt!"

After saying this bitterly, he came back to his senses and said to his envious subordinates beside him: "Everyone of you, please be honest and don't think about how to make money because of this matter!

These shares in our family were all given to Dongchang by the emperor. We are eunuchs and have no sons. If we die in the future, shouldn’t these shares be left to the next factory governor? Why don’t you risk being arrested by His Highness King Xin?

Instead of taking bribes and risking your reputation and ruining your reputation, it is better to think about how to do a good job and take over the position of factory director after our family retires. In this way, maybe a few decades later, you will also have the opportunity to obtain the naming rights of battleships."

"Yes, my subordinates will definitely bear in mind the father's teachings."

"Well..." Wei Zhongxian breathed a sigh of satisfaction and raised the telescope again, staring "affectionately" at the Zheng He not far away.
Chapter completed!