Chapter 446

Autumn is the best season for sailing on the Black Sea.

Boundless blue sea, white spray after another.

A large fleet of 31 ships with flaming pennants flying on its main mast, driven by the cold current of canary and the warm current of Beninese, went all the way south along the west coast of the southern continent.

Hoo -

the snow-white sails are filled with magnificent white clouds, and the mighty momentum seems to crush everything in front of us!

Among the huge fleet, the lowest level is at least the class 5 cruise ship, even the class 3 battleship rarely seen elsewhere is not uncommon.

The most eye-catching thing is that the mast is covered with general flag, noble flag, fleet flag and commander's flag. The flagship of the fleet is the one leading the whole fleet forward.

The colorful red sails on the warship are just like the burning maple leaves. It is hillius' quasi legendary warship "Red Maple".

The clever adjutant pushed the door into the captain's room.

"Report, commander! Just now, the chief navigator reported that the fleet is about to leave the antegrade Beninese warm current area and enter the retrograde Benguela cold current. It is estimated that it will take three days to reach its destination. "

Lieutenant general Doyle Griffith, the top knight who is using sword oil and fine flannel to maintain his beloved sword, stares at the head of the long sword and does not lift it. He replies:

"I see."

Seeing the casual appearance of his immediate superior, the loyal adjutant was reluctant to say anything at the same time:

"Sir, we...

the worry in his heart was a little sensitive and hard to say.

This military operation in the southern mainland did not use the original colonial garrison at all, but all domestic reinforcements. The purpose is to take advantage of the weak links in the other side to expel their forces from the southern mainland.

While shifting the focus of domestic contradictions, he can gain huge economic benefits to supplement his country's growing deficit, which can make hillius take a breath.

However, lieutenant general Griffith, who was directly responsible for the loss of the whole treasure fleet not long ago, served as the commander-in-chief of the fleet, which was the opportunity given by the kingdom to commit crimes.

General Griffith, who suffered from the force majeure of karobdis, the son of the wild sea god, and caused great losses to the Kingdom, has now been removed from the military court.

Even if there is no temporary punishment, if he fails in this war, we can imagine what will happen to him after he returns home. What's more, it can be seen from the participants that another unknown war is hidden.

Because the seventh Chengdu in the fleet is a firm church faction, and the deputy commander is another great Knight of the royal party.

Of course, they know what they want to do in the minds of the high-level officials of the kingdom. It's more appropriate to say that it's an assistant than a supervisor.

Seeing the adjutant's worry, the knight smiles:

"don't worry, with the protection of the great eternal fire, the victory will belong to us!

Besides, enjoying the light from God, the secular kingdom should serve God.

In any case, I will not let this fleet have unnecessary losses, because they are God's most loyal fighters.

This is a promise made by a knight of eternal fire to his holiness

Holding up the sword in his hand, Griffith's eyes were fixed on the straight ridge of the sword. It seemed that the quality of "rather bend than bend" was also displayed in him. Nothing could make his faith shake.

Even if the other end of the scale is the king's order, or... His own life!

....

across the treacherous treasure sea, the southern continent is far away from the source continent, where all civilized countries stand side by side.

The overall shape is like an animal tooth with a wide top and a sharp bottom, reaching Cape havon in the East, Cape Agares in the south, Cape Verde in the West and Cape Giran in the north.

Before the first adventurers crossed the treasure sea 200 years ago, the southern continent was the only home of the anuma people.

However, with the arrival of the pioneers of the kingdom of hillius, the desert kingdom of HeyMar, and a number of colonists from countries on the north coast of the treasure sea. The anuma people gradually fell into the abyss of second-class citizens and even blood slaves.

The symbol is the collapse of the last anuma Empire, Sanghai Empire, near Cape Verde!

However.

At that time, the main force that really destroyed the "Sanghai Empire" was not hillius as a pioneer, but HeyMar, the desert kingdom.

Two hundred years ago, the kingdom of HeyMar held the only trade route with the peacock islands in the East. For the sake of tea, spices and other necessities of life, many more western continental countries had to look up to it.

It was by virtue of this unique geographical advantage that they accumulated huge wealth and became one of the most prosperous countries in the mainland at that time.

As for hillius, who had just begun to explore the ocean, he was a brother at that time, and there was no unified brother in Alfonso peninsula.however.

Two hundred years ago, the development of firearms was far from the present level. Although the original form of the muskets has been invented, the muskets and spearmen are still used together. The reliability, range and power of the muskets are not very good.

Therefore, in the fight against the aborigines, the advantages of the so-called "civilized man" relying on science and technology are not obvious.

And it's easy for younger brothers to be bad.

Hillius, who was ahead of all others in reaching the southern continent, saw that he could not afford to eat the powerful "Sanghai Empire". Instead, he started a business with them, providing excellent swords, gunpowder, copper guns and other war materials, and tried his best to slow down HeyMar.

In exchange for countless gold, diamonds, ivory... Deeply taste the sweetness.

In the end, they even sent military advisers to guide these aborigines with backward art of war how to fight, which made them as powerful as HeyMar suffer several losses.

But it was just after this really long war.

In view of the too disharmonious situation, the Pope of the "eternal fire" church and the "bright starry night" church came forward together, and the countries and several major churches with related interests among the seven gods finally concluded a peace treaty known as the papal compact.

In the face of the vast and immeasurable land abroad, we should put aside the contradictions between civilized countries, reduce internal friction and unite with the outside world, so that the land of pagans will belong to the people of the seven gods.

It can be regarded as the necessary legal basis and game rules for the colonists' aggression.

At this point ushered in the colonial craze of civilized countries, and the nightmare of the colonized area!

Until now, 200 years later.

The southern continent is already one of the important producing areas and major export areas of tropical economic crops, including cotton, sisal, peanut, oil palm, cashew, coffee, cocoa, tea, sugarcane, tobacco, rubber (for steam engine), pyrethrum, clove, coconut, banana, etc.

It's also the favorite raw material source of rum for sailors from tulip countries.

Another thing we have to mention is the current situation of the colonies of various countries.

Because most parts of the southern continent are in the tropics, they are very unfriendly to the nimasts from the northern source continent. Unless there is a specific medicine, the tropical infectious diseases in these places are very fatal to the nimasts who have lived in temperate regions for a long time.

For them, the harsh environment is like hell. It's hard for them to live, let alone work and produce.

Even explorers with extraordinary rank are not willing to go deep into this terrible continent to search for unknown treasures.

Some pioneers of explorers even commented that:

the southern continent is the main fortress of the real devil, the reactionary force of nature against the prosperity of mankind. Here, the king of flies assembled a vermicular, animal like army of insects, ticks, and nematodes to deliver the disease to the skin, blood vessels, intestines, and spinal cord of humans and other vertebrates.

Among the major powers.

In the northern part of the southern continent, it is the largest desert in the world, accounting for 30% of the whole continent. A small number of livable areas have completely become the territory of HeyMar, and even the faith is firmly controlled by the "star night order".

The true God "bright starry night" is the only God here.

Further south is the largest area of this continent. The climate of tropical grassland is not conducive to farming. The extreme differentiation of rainy season and dry season can make people crazy.

After repeated weighing, the rest of the countries, big and small, have concentrated on dividing up the most suitable economic crops for farming like a soft persimmon, which can be called Zaire basin, the largest basin in the world.

Other colonies were fragmented and scattered.

For them, only the land that has proved its economic value has the meaning of occupation.

After the discovery of the new continent, they turned to the rich land on the other side of the Black Sea.

On the contrary, climate factors far inferior to those in the new world have become a natural barrier for the anuma aborigines. Even now, there are still a large number of powerful native states living in the vast inland areas.

Even in the coastal zone on the west edge of the Zaire basin, there are many indigenous countries dominated by the kingdom of dahomei in the Beninese region.

Meanwhile, the kingdom of dahomei is also in the light of the development of the new world. At present, dahomei is the largest slave supplier in slave Bay, and also a rich power.

So hillius certainly has a first mover advantage in the southern continent, but there are not many stable occupied areas. Most of them exist in the form of independent mineral resources and cash crop resources, and other vast wasteland is of no value to them at all.

In other words, in this era, a large area of the southern continent is still shrouded in the fog of war "dark continent".

After seizing some agricultural areas that can produce cash crops and minerals that are easy to exploit, hillius has turned East, crossed the Eritrean sea again, and killed the peacock islands, which are more prosperous in this era.

That's the real opportunity for hillius to rise as a sea power.

As for Evan's class at the Naval Academy, the professor believes that after 200 years of continuous development, the South China Sea has been fully developed.It has indeed been developed, but it is based on the current level of science and technology and medical treatment.

When Ivan's drugs come on the market, maybe this situation will be completely overturned.

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