Chapter VII War and Peace
Two days later, the boat arrived at Coconut City.
Cai Yimu went to the dock to welcome his second brother home. The reunion of his brothers was particularly happy, but in public, Deputy Director Cai still tried his best to be as mature as possible and not lose the position of a senior official.
In fact, it is a bit unreasonable for the second-in-commander of the administrative district to go to the dock to greet his younger brother during working hours.
However, at the level of Deputy Director Cai, there is no need to worry about these details, so naturally there are people below who think about it carefully for him.
Deputy Director Ma of the General Office held a moderately large welcome ceremony at the dock and arranged for primary school students to give flowers to combat heroes. In this way, Deputy Director Cai's trip became a response to the group's call to "help the police and love the police" and demonstrated the official duties of "the police and the people are united".
Deputy Director Ma also wanted to ask reporter Cai Da to write a report on "the relationship between police and people", but only Cai Yisen rolled his eyes.
Cai Yimu welcomes Cai Yilin, reporter Cai Yisen reported?
Is this to make yourself a shame in the press?
After a while, Cai Yilin finished the ceremony like a puppet and sat in his elder brother's carriage.
After the four-wheeled official carriage with license plate number ‘Armor-00002’ drove away from the crowded dock, Cai Yilin took off his hat and helmet, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and breathed a sigh of relief: "I dare not help Deputy Director Cai to greet him in this scene."
"Haha, there's nothing I can do." Cai Yimu patted his brother's arm and said with a wry smile: "What I say every day now is all arranged by others. Besides, as a hero captain, you must also have the awareness of promoting the image of the coast guard at all times."
"Look..." Cai Yisen on the side smiled and said, "The chief director is different."
"Go to yours. Have you finished writing the manuscript?" Cai Yimubai glanced at him, and his little brother immediately became depressed.
"I'm writing, don't urge..."
"Hurry up, don't think about leaving if you can't finish writing." Cai Yimu threatened his little brother, and said, "As he pulled out a lime-scented Yilan soda from the ice bucket that emitted a hint of cold air, pulled out the plug and handed it to his second brother.
"How long can I stay when I come back this time?" Cai Yimu gave his little brother another bottle, and then opened one himself. After many years, he has loved this bite, which is the taste of his success.
"I won't go back for a short time." Cai Yilin raised his head and took a sip. The cool and stimulating soda made him feel energetic and the feeling of impatience was gone.
"After taking leave, I will go to Luzon Coast Guard School to register, and I will go to school for one year first."
"Good guy, senior police officer squad?" Cai Yisen felt energetic as soon as he heard this: "Second brother is going to hang Jinxing?"
"Yes!" Cai Yimu also patted his second brother's shoulder happily and said, "This promotion speed is really like a rocket!"
"It's still incomparable to my elder brother." Cai Yilin smiled and said, "At my age, you were already in the sixth level of administration."
"It's different. I'm just lucky." Cai Yimu waved his hand and asked with a smile: "But why are your commanders willing to let you come back to school? In the past two years, has the war with Spain been over?"
"Let your brother talk." Cai Yilin nodded and said, "This spring, the King of Spain has sent an envoy to Lisbon to request a full truce."
"Really? That's great!" Cai Yimu was overjoyed when he heard this. When Yimo heard the news the day before yesterday, he was even more ecstatic.
This war with Spain, which began in the second year of Wanli, has lasted until its thirteenth year.
The first half of the war was between the second and eighth years of Wanli. The coast guard fleet and his soldiers annihilated all the troops of the Philippine Governor through a series of fierce battles, and wiped out the arrogant invincible fleet, completely driving the Spaniards out of the South China Sea.
The second half of the war was the eighth year of Wanli. Philip II, who suffered heavy losses in the Far East, faced the embarrassment of bankruptcy again. In order to save his reputation, he sent people to poison the Portuguese king Enrique and brazenly sent troops to Portugal, determined to unify the Iberian Peninsula, eat the powerful Portuguese navy and huge overseas colonies, and restore blood to his empire!
However, Mr. Zhao's masterpiece of divine origin - saving the Portuguese king Sebastian, once again let his dreams silence.
Sebastian, who transformed into the savior of Portugal, wherever he went, the Portuguese scenery came from! From Malacca to the west, he recovered all the colonies in Asia and Africa without any bloodshed... and then handed over to the Ming people, and he brought all the Portuguese and 20,000 Ming volunteers back to Europe in a mighty way!
At that time, Portugal had reached its last moment. All the land was lost, and the great nobles and the upper class surrendered to Philip II. Those who refused to surrender to the patriots in Western Portugal could only retreat to the Azores on the Atlantic Ocean to resist.
The Azores are located on the only way to return to the Spanish treasure fleet, and their location is very important. So Spain decided to send a large army to destroy them.
At this time, the illegitimate son Antonio also led the French fleet he exchanged for with Brazil, as well as volunteers from England and the Netherlands, a total of more than 60 warships, to Assyrians.
Although the Spanish Navy suffered heavy losses in the Far East, the Philip II family had great achievements and received more than a dozen well-equipped large sailboats built by the Portuguese royal family in Lisbon. Therefore, the navy's strength increased instead of decreasing, and its tonnage and artillery were better than its opponents.
After a dangerous gunfire and boarding battle, the Spaniards destroyed the joint fleet and captured most of the Azores. Only one island of Tsera was still under the garrison of the United Army of Portugal, France and Britain.
The Habsburg Dynasty was accustomed to the lion and bodhis. They temporarily rested and gathered more than 15,000 troops and nearly 100 warships to capture the island in one fell swoop with a clean and neat joint combat in the sea and land.
Then the Spanish commander-in-chief Duke Alva ordered without hesitation to execute all adult men on the island on the charge of pirates.
At the critical moment, Sebastian finally led the joint fleet of the Ming Dynasty and Portugal to appear in front of his most loyal subjects! Defeated the Spanish Invincible Fleet, the Duke of Alva had to give up the massacre of the city and fled in panic...
The news of Sebastian's return to the kingdom of rescue of Assyria was soon passed back to the local area. The Portuguese people were instantly injected with a needle, which set off a vigorous war of restoration.
Seeing that Portugal actually joined forces with the Ming people, Philip II's eyes turned red. It felt like his husband's current crime...
Moreover, he had moved the capital to Lisbon and could never move back to Madrid in shame! So Philip II began to output frantically, mobilizing the Atlantic Fleet, the Biscay Bay Fleet, the Castia Fleet, the Andalusian Fleet, the Levante Fleet...even the Mediterranean Fleet was pulled out, trying to destroy the Ming and Portuguese coalition with absolute superior force.
However, the combat effectiveness advantage of the Ming Dynasty Portuguese Navy was very obvious, completely making up for the number of disadvantages. Especially the Ming Dynasty's iron-armored warships, the Spanish shells bounced out directly!
Moreover, the Ming Fleet, based on the principle of caution, kept its distance and used accurate long-range shooting to deal with Spanish warships. A few ships were destroyed today and a few ships tomorrow. So no matter how many Spanish warships there were, it was useless, so they could only be beaten up...
The fleets of the two sides fought for more than a year at sea. During this period, British, French and Netherlands ships continued to transport supplies to the Assyrian Islands to support the Ming and Portuguese coalition forces against the Spanish Empire.
In the eyes of these European countries, this is the last chance to bring Philip II to the throne of the king of Europe...
Philip II was very angry and ordered people to assassinate the leader of the Netherlands' revolutionary leader, and the silent William used as a warning. However, the Dutch vowed to take revenge and embarked on a new round of independence war!
At this time, the Ottoman Empire also took the opportunity to attack Central and Europe frequently, making Shenluo cry and call her mother, once again proving that the orthodox Roman orthodox was the Green Idiot.
The anxious Philip II completely lost his patience and ordered his naval commanders to annihilate the Ming and Portuguese joint fleet at all costs. Duke Alva racked his brains and finally formulated a plan to use the treasure fleet as bait to introduce the Ming and Portuguese fleet into the Strait of Gibraltar, and then close the door and fight dogs!
As a result, in this "Battle of Gibraltar", the Ming and Portuguese fleet, which was as insightful as Spain's actions, was not fooled at all. Instead, they took advantage of the opportunity of the Spanish main fleet ambushing the strait and directly blocked the Strait of Gibraltar!
Ceuta and Tangier, Morocco, on the south bank of the strait, were the Portuguese's strongholds for a century. In order to one day block the strait with this key place, so that no ship in the Mediterranean can come out...
However, due to lack of strength, he never took action. Unexpectedly, the Ming people helped them realize it.
Duke Alva made a mistake and made a loss. He also organized a fleet to break through several times, but was pushed back by the Ming Portuguese fleet. He has not yet rushed out of the strait... It has allowed Spain to enjoy the depression of being bored in the Mediterranean for more than a hundred years in advance, and being depressed by being unable to leave the Mediterranean.
The Ming and Portuguese fleet, which had seized the power of sea control, was not polite. At the end of the 13th year of Wanli, it organized a joint landing, sending Sebastian and his restoration army to the Portuguese port city of Sinish, 80 kilometers away from Lisbon!
The whole country of Portugal was in full swing, and the volunteers organized by the people rushed to Sinish from all directions, and the nobles were all there anyway.
Philip II had a big problem, and if he didn't leave, he would be caught by the Portuguese urn. He had to withdraw from Lisbon overnight under the escort of the Guards. Of course, before leaving, he had not forgotten a torch and burned all over Lisbon.
Three days later, Sebastian returned to Lisbon, which was burned to white land, and swore to the crying people that he would return them a larger and more prosperous capital!
Then he ascended the throne again amid the shouts of mountains and tsunamis! With the Portuguese army, which shared the same hatred of the enemy, he recovered the entire territory in just one month...
In the subsequent 14th year of Wanli, the war entered a stalemate stage. The armies of Portugal and Spanish fought frequently on the border, but neither had the courage to go deep into the enemy's territory.
Everyone knew that this war was meaningless, but no one was willing to ask for peace first, so they spent it there.
Chapter completed!