Chapter 945: Eight-Nation Alliance

My brother Qin Wang personally revealed:

It's been more than four years, is it okay to say goodbye?

My 110th son Fang turned four years old, and Yijun had nothing to do with him to tell him about your deeds back then, which provoked the boy to hope that you would become a 'Wangfu Stone', and my daughter-in-law and brother's beloved daughter Ling Yu also often thought of my brother and sister-in-law.

Recently, I feel that my health is not as good as before, and I regret not listening to my brother's words, but on the third day of the eighth month, the news of Europa came from Jinyiwei, and the countries of Europa intended to join forces to provoke the national prestige of the Ming Dynasty, all because of the deficit in maritime trade.

It has been 33 years since his brother Varakshasa has been fighting, and the grasshopper shakes the tree, which is ridiculous and immeasurable, and the memory of a generation has been forgotten by future generations.

I know that my brother is not willing to be lonely, so I sincerely invite my brother to lead the soldiers of Great Qin to meet the enemy with me, and teach all the barbarians to know the inviolability of China!

I plan to leave at the end of this month, if there is no accident, you and I should gather in Luzon, and hope that my brother will come to create a chapter together.

Emperor Zhu Cihong of the Ming Dynasty on the eighth night of the first month of Bingchen

Liu Hong gradually chuckled because Zhu Cihong was in his early fifties, and he didn't forget to tell him about the number of children, and secondly, thirty years have passed, and Xiao Zhu still looks like a little brother in front of him, and he doesn't forget to call him this brother as a helper when he goes out to fight.

The Yijun mentioned in the letter is Zhu Yijun, the son of Zhu Cihong's eldest son Zhu Heping and Liu Hong's second daughter Liu Lingyu, who was 16 years old at the time.

When Zhu Heping expressed his love to Liu Lingyu, he was beaten by Liu Aotian, knowing that when Ling Yu was twenty years old, under following her own wishes, Liu Hong gradually agreed to marry her to Daming.

Now thirty years have passed, the eldest son Liu Aotian is already the commander of the naval and land armies of the Great Qin State, and Zhu Heping was finally promoted to the crown prince last year.

But Liu Hongjian was not surprised at all by the war between the Ming and the Europeans, most of the wars were because of interests in the final analysis, and the European countries had long been jealous and dissatisfied with the Ming.

The Ming Dynasty occupied the spice islands, which were in great demand for the Europa, monopolizing hard currencies such as silk, tea, porcelain and rubber, and firmly choked the throats of the Europa people through the port of Malacca and the Ming silver dollar.

In recent years, under the oppression of advanced firearms and warships of the Ming Dynasty, the Europa people tried their best to keep up with the Ming Dynasty in the development of firearms, according to the intelligence department of the Great Qin State, England and France have successively developed rifled guns, riveted ironclad ships and grenades.

Maybe this is also the confidence of the Europa people to dare to provoke the Ming Dynasty, but the two sides have not experienced a war for 30 years, and they don't know what their respective hole cards are, but Liu Hong gradually firmly believes that even if the Europa people will imitate again, their military strength is far less than that of the Ming and Daqin.

There are two reasons, one is that Europa is mostly a small country, even if Liu Hong gradually handed over the latest battleship drawings to them, it would take at least five years to build them for mass production, and the comprehensive national strength did not allow them to build battleships like the Ming Dynasty.

The second is simpler, Liu Hong gradually opened the plug-in, and there is no solution to this problem.

"Mallet, there may be another war, can you still lift the broadsword?" Liu Hong gradually put the letter back into the box, turned his head and said to the bull stick mallet on the side of the main hall.

Niu Zhuang is four years older than Liu Hongchuan, and now he is sixty years old, although this loyal man has long been the Marquis of Great Qin, and even Liu Hongji's in-laws, but decades have passed, and Niu Daba's mallet will always be guarded by Liu Hongchuan's side like an iron tower.

"Your Majesty, who are you hitting?" The bull stick mallet leaned on the side of the pillar in the hall, and he was about to fall asleep, and when he heard Liu Hongji's words, the eyes of the cow with white temples instantly lit up.

"Fight the whole of Europa, and it will probably be a big battle that no one has ever seen." Liu Hong gradually glanced at Chang Yudao, who was also eager to try.

"Your Majesty, if you frown at the sword mountain and the sea of fire, I won't be a hero, I will block the gun for Your Majesty!" As soon as the bull stick mallet and tiger fist clenched, he immediately knelt down in front of Liu Hongji.

"Lao Chang, send a message to Aotian, give him ten days to assemble the Great Qin fleet, and ten days later, the army will march to Luzon!" Liu Hong's forehead protruded, and the old voice contained the majesty of the superior.

It has been more than 20 years since he fought a war, but out of the vigilance of later generations, Liu Hongjian has never slackened the training of the Great Qin army.

The land of Daqin is vast and sparsely populated, with only 60,000 land soldiers and 40,000 sailor soldiers, but Liu Hongchuan, who pursues the rejuvenation of the country through science and education, has always believed that the soldiers are not many but fine, and the equipment of the soldiers of Daqin is the best quality firearms mass-produced by the Daqin military factory.

Looking at the whole world, even the Ming Dynasty is not comparable to his Qin soldiers in terms of armament and soldier training, of course, it is limited to the quality of armaments and individual soldiers, if it is about military strength, the Ming Dynasty, which has a standing army of two million, is the real behemoth.

The Great Qin fleet had six Dreadnought-class first-class battleships, thirty second-class battleships, seventy-two third-class battleships, and a total of 142 baggage and auxiliary vessels.

On the last day of August, under the leadership of Liu Hongchuan, the Great Qin fleet set out from Nagasaki and traveled south for 20 days until it finally arrived at the scheduled meeting point of Luzon Port in late September, where Zhu had been waiting for a long time.

Liu Hong, who was far away, gradually saw many people standing on the port wharf, and when he approached, he found Zhu Cihong sitting in the middle of the imperial robe, and beckoned to Liu Hongjian with a smile.

"Doesn't that look good on your face? Didn't you give the imperial doctors a good look? Liu Hong gradually walked to Zhu Cihong's side, and said nonchalantly.

Although he had long forgotten the pitiful medical knowledge he had learned in later generations, a discerning person knew that it was abnormal as soon as he saw Zhu Cihong's face.

It's just over half a hundred, his hair is already gray, and he looks a few years older than Liu Hongji, and according to Liu Hong's understanding of Zhu Cihong, this guy will not sit on the dragon chair if he wants to greet him, and the reason why he sits must be the reason for his body.

This guy is good at everything, he is diligent in government affairs, and he must bow to himself, the only drawback is indulgence, one hundred and twelve children are not for nothing, alas! A knife on the head of the color word.

The ministers behind Zhu Cihong lowered their heads when they heard Liu Hongji's words, and they didn't dare to say more, and the people in the world who dared to say that Zhu Cihong was not in good health as soon as they met was estimated to be the one in front of them, but anyone else who dared to say such things must be impatient.

"It's okay, the imperial doctors said that they need to be recuperated, and I am now drinking soup every day!

Not to mention this, Brother Liu, it's been thirty years, and I can fight side by side with you again, I feel excited every time I think of it, go! I'll pick you up and wash the dust! Zhu Cihong got up, took Liu Hongji's hand, and walked towards Manila City.

The two little old men just left a bunch of courtiers behind them, Zhu Cihong seemed to have inconvenient waist and legs, and Liu Hong gradually chatted with Zhu Cihong about the situation on Europa's side while holding it.

"The Europa people are not small in their ambitions this time! News came from Malacca that at least a dozen nations of Europa were at war, and that the Combined Fleet had arrived at a place called Cape of Good Lookout. Zhu Cihong whispered.

"Oh? What are the countries? Liu Hong was surprised.

He was not surprised by the number of enemies, but curious about which country was so appealing that it was able to unite the religious contradictions of Europa to fight against the Ming Dynasty.

"It's quite a big deal, but as far as I know, there are eight main enemies.

England, France, Prussia, Italy, Austria, Sweden, Poland and Francis. Zhu Cihong's words were already dignified, underestimating the enemy is often taboo with soldiers, Zhu Cihong knows this very well.

"The Eight-Nation Alliance?" Liu Hong gradually muttered to himself.

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