Sailing northward off the coast of West Africa is too light.

As it continued to move north, the westerly wind changed from strong to weak, but it still blew the ship forward.

And the northward currents along the coast are also helping the seagoing vessels...... This kind of door-to-door service simply embarrassed the sailors.

We came from thousands of miles away from the East, and we have experienced too many storms, big and small, not to be our first children......

The sailors on duty could only be in a constant daze, and the shore not far away was green except greenery...... The sailors who were out of duty played cards, shouting and playing a game that had been passed down from the army: the Dragon King.

Gambling was not allowed on the ships, and those who lost had notes torn from newspaper on their faces.

This boredom has been spreading among sailors, but it does not affect decision-makers.

The Governor and Lieutenant Colonel Wang Ding often discussed the surrounding forces of their Canary Islands, which was to prepare for the development of the Canary Islands in advance.

They had to focus on two political forces in two regions...... One is the Visigoths of the northern Iberian Peninsula and the other is the Moors of the southern Iberian Peninsula and much of North Africa.

Their history often makes two people feel that there is really no justice or injustice in human beings at this time.

More than 1,000 years ago, the Goths inhabited the Danube Valley.

Later, they split from within, and part of the tribe became the Visigoths, and the other tribe became the Ostrogoths.

When the Huns appeared, they launched a fierce attack on these two Gothic branches.

Unable to resist, the Visigoths were forced to begin migrating westward to escape the fate of extinction.

The Ostrogoths were not so lucky, they finally succumbed to the formidable force of the invaders, were annexed by the aliens, and became part of the Great Xiongnu Empire.

After the Visigoths moved westward, they soon found a suitable place to live and develop in the Iberian Peninsula.

At this time, the Roman Empire had gradually begun to decline, and the Visigoths were finally able to declare their independence and strength by force, and then establish their own sovereign kingdom through continuous attacks.

A few hundred years later, the Visigothic kingdom is coming to an end, and the regime they formed by the Moors across the Channel is thriving.

Moors are an umbrella term that includes Muslims, Berbers, and some blacks who have converted to Islam.

In 711 A.D., some of the North African tribes under the Hui Empire tentatively went to the Iberian Peninsula across the sea to take a look, but unexpectedly, 500 men defeated the terminally ill Visigothic border guards and occupied the entire Tariffa Peninsula...... The name of this Tarifa comes from the leader of this reconnaissance team at that time, Tarif.

So, in the same year, a Berber general Tariq. Ibn . Ziad, with 6,500 Berbers and 500 Hui, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and landed on the island.

After landing, he did the same thing as the overlord of Western Chu, that is, to break the cauldron and sink the boat.

As a result, the North African Hui army, which had no way out, quickly occupied the southern part of the peninsula.

Since there was no interaction between the Visigoths and the North African tribes, the Romans continued to be called, and these mixed peoples of North Africa and the Hui were collectively referred to as the Moors.

At that time, Europe was politically **, economically depressed, backward in science and technology, and ignorant in thought.

All in all, it cannot be compared with the Hui civilization in its heyday.

Thus, in eight years, this small Moorish army occupied the entire Iberian Peninsula except Asturias.

Asturias was not occupied mainly because it was so poor that it was not worth wasting time and troops.

Having discovered the weakness of the Europeans, the Moors began to try to march on the wealthy Franks.

The result was that they were tired and sick from North Africa when they crossed the cold Pyrenees, secondly, the Franks at that time were much more powerful than the declining kingdom of Sigget, and thirdly, there were still a large number of cities behind them that needed garrisons, and the actual strength of the Moors on the front line was relatively insufficient.

These three main reasons led to the crushing defeat of the Moorish army at the Battle of Tours and the loss of the first opportunity to launch a full-scale offensive into Western Europe.

After several years of repairs, the Moors were ready to march on the Franks again. However, the Europeans seem to have God's blessing. Every time there is a catastrophe, whether it is Attila, the king of the Huns, or the army of Batu of Mongolia, they are all about to conquer Europe, but there is a problem behind it.

Either the king was assassinated, or the old king died, and everyone needed to go back to fight for the throne.

The Franks in the eighth century were also favored by God

At this time, back to the center of the Great Empire, a coup d'état took place in Damascus, the Umayyad dynasty was overthrown, and all the emperors of the dynasty were killed.

And the Moorish governor at that time, Abdullah. Rahman is the only descendant of the Umayyad dynasty.

As a result, the plan to enter the Franks was put on hold indefinitely.

Abdullah. While declaring the coup d'état in Damascus completely illegal, Rahman declared himself as caliph in Córdoba, the center of the entire Uighur world, ready to march on Damascus.

As a result, the Hui people themselves fought.

After fighting back and forth, it was found that neither side could take advantage of each other, so the Córdoba and Damascus regimes called each other off, but naturally the relationship between them was not much better.

The world of return was thus divided into two, with the Damascus Caliphate in the eastern Middle East centered on the Caliphate in Damascus, and the Caliphate of Córdoba in the western North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula as the center.

These two countries and the Tang Dynasty have friendly business exchanges, so the Tang Dynasty calls the Damascus Caliphate the Green Food, and the Cordoba Caliphate the White Food.

Although the large-scale war for the entire world has subsided, there are more than small internal conflicts between each other due to different sectarian beliefs and secular utilitarianism.

The Caliphate of Córdoba also lost de facto central control. The following is divided into numerous vassal states.

Although they were all vassals to the caliph, they were in fact fighting each other.

So, an interesting thing happened, the originally unified Huihui Empire was not only divided into two parts, but also divided into countless small principalities.

And Christendom, which was originally a small principality, is now moving towards national unification step by step in the so-called Liberation Movement.

In the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula, the Christian kingdoms here also received help from the Christian countries of continental Europe, especially the Crusaders and the Knights.

The state of affairs was basically this: the Moorish empire was falling apart, and there was no response to each other.

Christian kings only need to say, "For God's sake," "Half of the land and wealth you have stolen," to organize a huge number of "volunteers."

The former sentence is used to prove that he is a king and not a bandit; In the latter sentence, in order to prevent the crusaders and knights from scattering in a hurry, the words of the king are farting.

As soon as these two sentences say, the army of the Christian king will grow rapidly, and the centurion can be the commander of a thousand soldiers, and the commander of a thousand can be the commander of ten thousand soldiers.

So, the whole battle was basically a cry from the Christian king, and a lot of horses were gathered, Franks, Germans, Sicilians, and so on, everything.

Sometimes it doesn't matter if you don't have a translator, anyway, you just rely on the crowd and rush to grab the job.

As a result, the Moorish-ruled region of Al-Andalus was gradually encroached upon.

In 1085, the Visigothic capital of Toledo was captured.

By now, the Moors had been completely driven out of the central part of the peninsula, and even Córdoba, the capital of the Moors in the Al-Andalus region, had been captured by the Visigoths...... They could only retreat to the southern region of Grenada for now, but the Visigoths did not have enough combat strength to deliver the final blow.

At this time, the Moors were doing well in the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula and were still a trading powerhouse.

The Governor of the Second Junior had to sigh at the history of this place, which was too similar to the experience of the Great Song Dynasty!

Governor Wang Ding sneered and said, "Okay...... The more chaotic they are, the better, since whoever is the fist is still the one who listens to whomever is the king...... So why can't we?! ”

The Governor pointed to the shore outside the window and said, "It's all borderlands, what use do we want them?" We want the trade of the Europeans, and we want their labor...... Ask me to go and reign over them, and I will not go. ”

Lieutenant Colonel Wang Ding said: "Understood! I am not speaking of kings, but of being kings, but of making them obey our rules...... It's as simple as that. ”

Lieutenant Colonel Wang Ding looked out the window affectionately and said in a very yearning tone:

"The information says that there are a large number of pirates near the Canary Islands...... It's really exciting...... I haven't seen a pirate in five years......"

Well, the kings of the empire also gave them a detailed account of the pirates in Europe.

Moorish pirates in the vicinity of North Africa were an important part of the pirates of all of Europe, and at one time they also operated in the waters of the western Mediterranean.

In the beginning, most of their members were deserters from the Visigoths when they counterattacked back to the empire, and became pirates because they were destitute and desperated...... Later, in this era of sailboats, they tasted the sweetness of being pirates.

Everyone's ship speed is slow, as long as there are many people, it is good to ambush...... It's so good to grab a sea boat.

Later, they continued to expand their power, recruiting troops and ships...... Over the centuries, they have been in business for several generations and have become a powerful force at sea.

They did not recognize their relatives, and even robbed the merchant ships of their fellow Moors...... They can even send people to several major commercial ports in North Africa to openly collect "protection fees", and the major political forces on land have no way to take them.

ps: Thank you for the tips from Australian book friends Lao Wu, Poloyello, and Big Brother Xin.