San Matthias Bay is one of countless bays of various sizes along the eastern coastline of South America, located in the northeastern part of the Patagonian Highlands. It is not impossible for humans to survive here, but it is a pity that the Spaniards occupy the whole of Argentina, and they have too much flat, fertile, and comfortable climate and humid land to use. Then you can't see the Bay of San Matthias.

After all, the whole of Argentina has a population of less than a million. Compared to the land area of Argentina, it is too scarce.

The Spaniards also tried to reclaim the area, but not for economic gain, but to increase their grip on southern Argentina. However, Spain did not have sufficient financial and material resources, and second, it did not have an excessive population and labor, and in the end the reclamation operation ended in failure.

Magellan discovered it three hundred years ago, and they sailed in a fleet of five small ships that would seem very small to modern people, with the Trinidad as the flagship, followed by the San Antonio, Concepción, Victoria, and Santiago. The largest of them, the San Antonio, is only 120 tons, which is not even comparable to a small inland transport ship in the Yangtze River today, and the smallest Santiago is only 75 tons. Compared to today's sail warships, they are as small as toys.

But it was such a small fleet that discovered the New World. They spent 15 days exploring the estuary of the Río de la Plata, a huge estuary so vast that even the smallest passage was not spared. Then they saw the huge bay of San Matthias, near 40 degrees south latitude.

It was a desolate bay, and Magellan had no attachment to it.

But now, 300 years later, the Bay of San Matthias is still a blank slate.

The Egret is now cruising in the Bay of San Matthias.

Guan Tianpei didn't know how many kilometers away he had his own friendly army, and in the days when there was no radio, the battleship after being separated from the friendly army in the sea was so sad and so bad. It had been roaming the waters off the bay of San Mattías for five days, sinking a 500-ton Spanish cargo ship, seizing a lot of food, ammunition and water, and of course attracting the attention of the enemy.

A cargo ship disappeared into the Bay of San Matthias, and the Europeans must have noticed it. This is because the Europeans have deployed some warships along the route from Buenos Aires to the Falklands, and have set up several observation points along the coastline.

Perhaps it will take a long time for the Europeans to gather all the information and conclude that a cargo ship has 'disappeared' in the Bay of San Matthias, and send warships to search for it. This time cannot be in a short period of three or five days, but the whereabouts of the Egret have been leaked.

It may not be necessary to gather all the information thoroughly, as long as the sailors who have been left ashore can be rescued by European ships, they will know that there is an enemy warship cruising in the Bay of San Matthias.

Some of the food and water on the latter's ships were given to the freed sailors, and this food was the greatest dependence of these crews for survival before they were inhabited.

How many ships full of supplies have been sent into the rough Atlantic Ocean by the Egret? If Cai Lian and them are all added, this number will never be rare.

You have to admit the power of this 'guerrilla warfare'. To a certain extent, the existence of Cai's fleet definitely provided support for the frontal battlefield.

This support is not about how many European cargo ships they have killed, but about artificially creating a huge panic. It is like the Earl Spee's squadron during World War I, who successfully defeated a British naval detachment under the command of British Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Craddock at the Battle of Cronel. The two armored cruisers, the Cape of Good Hope and the Monmouth, were sunk within an hour, and the news of the defeat reached London, angering Fisher, who had just returned to the post of First Sea Lord. This result forced the remaining British light cruisers to flee, and the British lost their shipments of nitrate, copper, and tin from Peru and Chile. The British political and civil society continued to criticize the Royal Navy, and even doubted the ability of the fleet built at great cost to defend Britain's overseas interests.

The Earl Spee's fleet consisted of only 2 armored cruisers, 3 light cruisers, and 2 transports, which was nothing compared to the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet, but the influence was quite huge.

The cruising range of Cai's fleet was far less than that of Count Spee's fleet, which had traveled to the east coast of South America from East Asia, but now there was no wireless telegraphy, and the lagging means of communication between the two sides greatly magnified the destructive power of the guerrilla fleet.

After resting for ten years inside and outside the First Narrow Waterway, the first thing to be sent out was the fleet of sailing ships.

This sailboat is fast, agile and easy to steer, and has strong combat effectiveness, and has a certain advantage over old sail warships in battle, especially when there is a headwind and water.

Moreover, the goal of separating some sailing ships to attract Europeans also reduced Ye Tingyang's burden to a certain extent.

In an era when naval command relied entirely on flags and signal flags, it was no joke to command and dispatch more than a hundred warships.

That's like commanding a real million-strong army on land to fight a field battle, and in order for such an army to exert its due combat effectiveness, it must have a super high command value.

From a certain measure, Zhao Kuo, who talks on paper, really has extraordinary military talents. After the 400,000 Zhao army was surrounded by the Qin army, he was able to maintain the basic plate of the army, and he held on for thirty or forty days, and there was no grain left, and then the whole army was wiped out.

Compared with the 700,000 Liao troops in the Battle of Hubu Dagang, Zhao Kuo's commander is a god, and the commander of the latter is a pig.

Without super-high command ability, extraordinary military talent, a meticulous staff department, and rich experience in warfare, can anyone who can command and dispatch 1,200 warships casually and exert their due power?

Seriously, Ye Tingyang doesn't have such a big ability.

When the Grand Fleet left the mainland, he had already compiled a sequence for the Grand Fleet with the assistance of the staff department.

The Grand Fleet commanded by Ye Tingyang is not so much a whole fleet as a military group composed of multiple fleets.

Ye Tingyang divided his warships into pieces, he only led a part of them, and the command orders were only in the hands of the commanders of each detachment, which greatly reduced his own pressure.

On the road from the mainland to the Americas and crossing the Pacific Ocean, Ye Tingyang conducted more military drills, hoping that when he encountered the enemy, he could give full play to the combat effectiveness of the fleet, but the effect of this exercise was not good.

The means of conveying command orders are too low-level, take too long, and may not even be delivered. So how will the Chen Han fleet deal with Nelson in this situation?

Ye Tingyang didn't know if his opponent had also encountered such a problem, he believed that the number and quality of warships on both sides of the battle were definitely beyond the ordinary and beyond the ordinary battle level.

Before this battle, it was impossible for any admiral to personally command such a large fleet.

However, the Europeans did have more experience in naval warfare. Well, Ye Tingyang believes that his opponent is also in the same trouble as himself, but he feels that the Europeans are in less trouble than his.

If his command value is 60, the European's command value should be 70. In terms of organizational ability in naval battles, Ye Tingyang should show a certain respect for Europe.

So at this time, he played the trump card of 'Sail Fleet', which was both a temptation and a persecution.

If the Europeans are confident that they will have a normal Armageddon, then their response to the problem of the sail fleet will be more or less manifest. This will make Ye Tingyang feel more or less a little bit of spectrum in his heart.

As for persecution, it stems from the mobility and combat effectiveness of the sailing fleet. The average speed of a sailboat can match the peak speed of a sailboat on a smooth sail, and if they are given enough space, twelve sailboats will make a mess of the Europeans' transport lines.

So the Europeans could and had to send out their fleets to 'sanction' these twelve sailing ships.

In the future, Ye Tingyang will tie up the fence at the east entrance of the first narrow waterway, and then release more and more warships, and also disperse more and more forces of the Europeans, until the remaining forces in his hands can be fully commanded and mobilized by him, Ye Tingyang will fight with the Europeans.

Of course, Ye Tingyang is also praying to God, hoping that Nelson on the opposite side will not divide his troops in the Drake Strait and go back to copy his back road. Ye Tingyang did have a fleet on the west side of the Strait of Magellan, but that force was very small.

……

When the news of the Grand Fleet was further fed back to Chen Ming's hands, it was already April, and Emperor Chen was not feeling well.

This year's summer came quickly, and the sun was hot in April. The earth is like a steamer, so hot that people can't breathe. Chen Naruto was all scared.

When you get older, you can't eat sin. Last night, Chen Ming asked people to put five basins of ice next to the bed, and opened the window by himself, but the temperature dropped at night, and it rained lightly, and Chen Ming caught a cold.

In the daytime, as soon as the sky cleared and the sun shone high again, Chen Naruto was about to wilt.

The imperial chef brought in a bowl of eight-treasure chicken soup, and the weather was too hot, and when he finished eating a large bowl of chicken soup and meat and soup, his forehead was sweating. And because of the cold at night, Chen Ming was not feeling well, and he couldn't use ice for fear that his condition would worsen, which was particularly difficult for Chen Ming.

65 years old. The strong body of his youth is gradually moving away from him.

If it's not busy, Chen Ming is going to pat his ass and leave, leave Nanjing, and find a place to cool off. But this year, there is a war in the East and the West, and a large number of folds arrive at him every day, even if a large part of it has been dealt with by the cabinet and the crown prince, Chen Ming needs to understand whether it is not.

That's why he really can't leave now.

It's not that the empire lacks the two small money that perfect the express delivery channel, but because after Chen Ming leaves Nanjing, it will affect the efficiency of the imperial court in handling affairs, and it will affect the speed of response.

As the temperature rises, Russia has already experienced the mud of the late spring and early summer season. The frozen ground in winter has thawed, and the road is harder to walk than in heavy snow, and the carriage can sink into half a wheel as it walks.

But with the arrival of May in the Western calendar, mud has become a thing of the past, and the Sino-Russian war has become more and more intense.

Now there are war reports in the great northwest every three or five days, and the big war between the two sides is still brewing, but the prelude has become very exciting.

And there is information that the Europeans are brewing a big counterattack. Their battlefield is not just front, but also behind. Just like the Chen Han government strongly supported the anti-British forces in Ireland.

And only the British in the whole of Europe have this condition, but behind the British, it must be the whole of Europe to pay the bill.

……

The temperature in Myanmar in May is already very high, almost no lower than 30 degrees.

Somewhere in Arakan, in the western part of the former Kingdom of Burma, a dense rainforest area. There was hardly a shred of wind in the forest, and the sky was obscured by tall tropical trees, and very little sunlight could shine through the fine gaps between the emerald green canopies, casting onto the soil covered with rotting foliage.

As clumps of decaying leaves and dirt were raised, a strange smell filled the air.

And the silence of the vast forest is eerie. None of the yellow men leading the group could hear a birdsong, only the very light footsteps behind him.

It was a group of heavily armed soldiers, not many in number, less than thirty. It's all Oriental faces, or more accurately, they're Southeast Asian faces, except for the one who leads the way.

The group stopped, and with a wave of the officer's hand, two soldiers armed with rifles broke away from the group and quietly touched the front. All of them were wearing green uniforms, which were the attire of the Arakan soldiers, but the fierce eyes of these men were enough to easily distinguish them from the Arakan soldiers.

In particular, the leader had a cross hanging from his neck, which could not have been an Arakane soldier, who was all Buddhist, especially the officer who led the army.

The two soldiers searched ahead, keeping an eye on their feet, which could have been mined. Now that they have reached the final stage, they cannot afford to fall short.

The two of them are the spearheads of the entire team, responsible for clearing the way for the main forces behind and serving as outpost guards.

A few minutes later, the remaining small troops followed, and the spearheads in front had already made a safe gesture. But the small group of twenty or so people distanced themselves from each other, forming two columns and slowly passing through the quiet jungle before moving quickly through the river in front of them. That's their destination, a small river about five meters wide that can be easily crossed by flowing water. As long as they can reach the other side of the river, their mission is complete.

This is not an easy task. There were thirty-five of them at the time of departure, and on the way they were shot and killed by the 'enemy', and the spearhead spotted at least three minefields, forcing the team to take a detour.

It's just that just when these team members breathed a sigh of relief, they had already heard the sound of the small river rushing down, and this originally silent forest suddenly became noisy.

"Smack!"

First there were two double-barreled pistol shots, and then, there was a dense burst of rifle fire. Almost at the same time, a rocket landed on the empty river, ending the battle with ease just as the dense rainforest had just turned into a battlefield.

"Papapa, papapa......"

The small unit that was ambushed immediately lay down on the spot and began to counterattack with the weapons in hand. But they only had time to pull the trigger when the rocket exploded and white smoke enveloped them.

The river is very narrow, but there is not a single tall tree growing on the bank of the river. Rockets are of limited use in the rainforest, as the dense trees of the Gundam block its firing path. But on the banks of this creek, the power of the rockets was perfectly displayed.

When the white smoke from the rockets disappeared, a group of snowman-like soldiers stood by the river in frustration.

The officer at the head grabbed his hat hard, and as he moved, a large white powder fell from his chest, revealing the red dot on his chest. Long before the rocket exploded, he had been killed by the ambushed shooter.