"Everything is gone..." On June 13, 1660, outside the sea of ​​San Salvador, Brazil, Navy Minister Li Yi put down the telescope on his chest and murmured.

The main fleet of the east coast finally died empty! The Portuguese naval ships that were originally parked in the port of San Salvador are now empty. Now there are only three or two Portuguese merchant ships from unknown places left in the empty harbor, and there is no longer the spectacular scene of the masts that were once forested.

These grandsons! Minister Li Yi cursed fiercely, but he could only accept this fact. Soon, he asked the staff to bring a huge map and spread it on the table, rubbing his chin with both hands, not knowing what he was thinking.

In the history of the old time and space, the Portuguese established 6 cities and 31 towns in Brazil between 1532 and 1650. Except for the São Paulo Parish in the south, most of the rest are located on the coast. However, in this time and space, stimulated by the rise of the East Coast people, the Portuguese built more towns in Brazil, especially as the East Coast people advanced to the Rio Grande Sul and the Geral Mountains, the Portuguese's development in the inland areas was greatly strengthened - but in any case, the population, economic and political centers of the whole Brazil were still on the coast. To be precise, it was the northeast coast, which was originally the General Pernambuco Region and now the General Bahia Region.

The entire northeastern coast of Brazil is dominated by an outward-export economy. It was originally exported to Brazilian sumu (making dyes, musical instruments and shipbuilding). After the sumu was cut, it began to plant economic crops on the open space, mainly sugarcane. This crop introduced from Europe was extremely adaptable to the climate of several general regions such as Pernanbugo and Bahia in northeastern Brazil. Then the entire industry chain of sugarcane plantations, sugar-pressing workshops and ocean-going transportation and sales developed rapidly.

Since it is an export-oriented export economy, it must have developed based on the harbor city. In fact, it is almost the same. Olinda, Recife, and San Salvador were almost the first coastal towns to be established. Large areas of sugarcane planting estates are located in the vast rural areas outside the city (most manors are located just a few days away from the city), while sugar-pressing workshops, shops, shipyards and even chambers of commerce with banking nature are located in the city. From the perspective of population structure, white people - especially Portuguese - are at the top of society, and they are generally

Government officials, officers, big merchants, workshop owners, manors, etc.; while black and white, Indo-European mixed-race and a few non-Catholic whites are in the middle class, usually craftsmen, lower-level officials, small merchants, middle-level officers, etc.; Indians on the third level have much lower status. Although the law stipulates that they are not allowed to be enslaved, in fact, they are generally laborers in custody and have a hard life; as for blacks, they are thoroughly lower-level, slaves, consumables without any rights protection, and their lives are much worse than those of Indians.

"Since the northeast of Brazil was occupied by the Dutch, areas that were earlier recovered by Bahia and other areas have become the key business area of ​​the Portuguese, and are also the economic and political center. On the contrary, after many years of tug-of-war in the General Pernambuco region, the economy has suffered great damage, especially the towns such as Recife, Olinda, Fortaleza, etc. have just been recovered by the Portuguese army. There is no oil or water to scrape. On the contrary, they have to bite hard bones, which is not taken by the wise..." After looking at the map for a long time, Li Yi whispered to himself.

"But the General Bahia Region is definitely a tough bone and difficult to fight. The main military forces of the Portuguese are probably concentrated here. Let's not talk about the white troops they transported from the old continent. Just talking about the Indian and black troops commanded by Kamara and Dias, the number of them is many times that of ours. If we include the recruited Sao Paulo flag teams, the troops they deployed in the Bahia to Pernambuko may be as large as tens of thousands of people, and among them, there are quite a few of them.

We are used to using firearms, and we have no shortage of combat experience, and we are much more than ours. We only have less than 3,000 army soldiers on hand. Didn’t I say something depressed? Is there a chance of winning this landing battle? You know, when the Dutch West India Company attacked the small town of Recife in 1639 (non-city, affiliated to Olinda City), it used 35 ships, nearly 7,300 water and land officers and 1,170 artillery, and later in order to consolidate and expand the Recife colony

They sent 42 ships and 4,000 soldiers from Europe, and only then did they defeat the Portuguese offensive." Captain "August 10", Navy Major Sangkai, acting as commander of the First Fleet, shook his head, and then raised his voice, as if he was deliberately telling someone next to him: "This is still the lesson of the year. Now the Portuguese have built a large number of coastal defense facilities along the coast from Bahia to Pernambuco, and the number of troops is more than that of the past.

It is not advisable for our fleet to break into the port of San Salvador directly. If we look for a coast with weak defense near the enemy, let alone the traffic and supply issues, it is easy to be surrounded by more than several times of the enemy. Even if we are not surrounded, there are probably many people who died due to supply, disease and guerrilla along the way (in history, the Portuguese drove away the Dutch once through guerrilla warfare). If there is only a few more combat effectiveness left, it is a question mark."

Standing next to them were the 3rd Mixed Battalion of the Army, Lan Guo and Baishui, the battalion commander of the 5th Mixed Battalion. At this time, they heard the words of Sang Kai, a great navalist, holding a gun and a stick, and smiled at each other. Then Major Lan Guo came forward and said, "Captain Sang is really good at seeing the army. Our army is insufficient in sufficient strength. Most of them are still expanding territory in the south. We can't draw too many people here. Therefore, the battle below depends on the navy. I hope you will continue to work hard and completely annihilate the Portuguese Navy on the ocean, so as not to encounter threats when our army lands north in the future."

Lan Guo's words were exactly what he saw in the navy's sorrow, which made Sankai speechless for a moment. Isn't that right? Thirty ships of various types rushed to the Bay of El Salvador (i.e., Halloween Bay). They thought they could fight the Portuguese to the death, but they didn't expect that they would have left long ago and didn't know where to go. This was a troublesome thing. You know, the fleet that the Portuguese slipped away had about fifty ships. Don't worry about whether it was a professional warship or an armed merchant ship, it could cause great harm to you. The Dutch sailors of this era could last for up to six months on the ship, and the Portuguese sailors were not much short of it. It would be no big problem to go out for half a year after supplying them at the port. So how do you deal with these enemy ships that were wandering around and malicious to you?

It can be said that the navy failed to block the Portuguese fleet this time and annihilate it was a huge loss! The damage caused to the country's commerce, trade and shipping will be very great in the future, which is almost unquestionable. Therefore, Lan Guo and others' words blocked Sangkai did hit others' pain.

"Okay, when is it now? I'm still talking about these things. What we need to do now is to unite!" Minister Li Yi quickly stopped the conversation between his subordinates with a slight smell of gunpowder, then walked to the window, pointed at the city of San Salvador and said, "Look, this capital city of Portuguese Brazil was also attacked by the Dutch, but now the Portuguese have strengthened their protection, and some projects have lasted almost thirty years before they were completed. In order to defend the city of San Salvador and the town of San Salvador in front of us, the Portuguese built fifteen bunkers, looking at the cannon positions on the bunkers, if they attacked for a strong attack, they had suffered casualties.

It will be very large. There is also the polygonal Fortress of San Marcelo de Mar. The Portuguese built it for many years. It is said that the stone for building the fortress was mined, polished, and then transported to San Salvador as a ballast for ships. After thirty years of continuous repair and reinforcement, supplemented by well-trained and enthusiastic Portuguese soldiers from the old continent, which is almost impossible for us to take it at this stage. But if you want to control the city of San Salvador and the town of Halloween Bay, this fortress is a hurdle that cannot be overcome, otherwise you will always be threatened by artillery fire from the top of your head and the side and back."

"Since that's the case--" Speaking of this, Minister Li turned around and said in a serious tone: "There is no need to waste more here. Commander Lan and Commander Bai, the next step is to implement the backup plan. The entire fleet will turn around and head south to the Portuguese General Saint-Espiritu's jurisdiction. The entire jurisdiction has extremely rich forest resources and is rich in high-quality wood, which is urgently needed by our navy. Our goal is to go there to log in at the right time, then control several timber export ports, and then develop to the inland areas, and control the logging farms and workers for my use."

After leaving behind several auxiliary ships with faster speeds, which meant that the enemy's main fleet could not catch up, and after continuing to search for the Portuguese fleet nearby, Li Yi took the large fleet to return south and arrived at the sea off the Port of Seguru (at this time it was under the jurisdiction of General Saint-Espiritu). This port is a large timber export port, and its scale is even larger than the Port of Ireus closer to San Salvador (also a high-quality timber export port), but its defense power is extremely weak. In fact, the defense power in the entire area of ​​General Saint-Espiritu is seriously insufficient - it is suitable for people on the east coast to capture.

On June 17, after the landing operation that lasted more than a day, no Brazilian troops came to interfere during this period, the East Coast people immediately launched an attack on the Port of Seguru with two main army battalions, and invaded the city in just one charge, which was extremely relaxed, and this seemed to mean that the East Coast people would be in a state of unstoppable situation in the entire area of ​​General Saint-Espiritu in the future.
Chapter completed!