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After the opening of the new shipping route, the Spanish colonists attacked cities around the world, and China was also included in its targets of aggression. The Spanish general Attilda claimed to be able to completely dominate China with only 80 soldiers, and another general was even more rampant than Yas: 80 people is too much, 60 people is enough!
The Spaniards dominated the world at that time, with more than 100 people to defeat the Inca Empire, at that time can be described as a bloodless blade, the colonial army captured the Inca emperor alive, and then the entire empire surrendered, after all, this is a backward kingdom that does not even have words, and the Ming Dynasty is strong, although it is always constantly nesting, but it has rarely lost in foreign battles, so how did the Spaniards come up with such a plan? Its failure to carry out has a lot to do with the wise decision of a man, who is Philip II.
How did the whimsical plan come up?
Philip II was King of Spain, King of Portugal, King of the Two Sicilies, and held more than a dozen European titles, and was lord of the african continents, lord of the Indian Ocean and the Indies, lord of Guinea, and conqueror of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, and India.
One day in 1583, Philip II suddenly received a letter from Sandy, the Spanish governor in the Philippines, entitled "Proposal for the Conquest of China", in which Sandy detailed the detailed plan for the conquest of China, which had been adopted by representatives of the church, army, royal family, and ordinary colonists in the Manila colony of the Philippines on April 20.
As early as 1569, the fifth year of the Spanish conquest of the Philippines, a Spanish missionary, Dela da, wrote to the Viceroy with a Plan for the Conquest of China, which Sandy handed over to Philip II as follows:
His Majesty the King of Spain will certainly want to control China, because China is vast, economically rich and highly civilized, and the cities and fortresses there are larger than in Europe, and His Majesty the King must be the first to establish settlements there... And Chinese are not martial, they just rely on the number of people and the city walls. As long as you capture any fortress, it will be easy to behead them. Then, with God's blessing, only a small number of troops were needed to make them surrender.
After receiving the letter, Philip II did not send troops, because the Eurasian gap was too far, and the rush to use troops without knowing the strength of the other side was likely to have disastrous consequences. In this respect, Philip II was not a monarch who made decisions on a hot head, but considered the whole picture by considering various factors.
After 14 years, Philip II was impressed this time, and the plan was originally to organize 3,000 people to land in Fujian, use Fujian as a base to form a fleet, and then replicate in the same mode, gradually conquering other areas of the Ming Dynasty, with a total number of no more than 6,000 people.
At that time, Spain had just experienced the Age of Discovery, and the Spanish Armada was the most powerful fleet in the world, but Philip II was not overwhelmed by victory, and he modified this plan to send a force of 12,000 people, recruiting some soldiers from Portugal, recruiting some natives from the Philippines, hiring 6,000 soldiers from Japan, and 1,000 soldiers from India to form a multinational force of about 20,000 people.
This force marched into The Ming Dynasty's Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangnan, and Shandong in four directions, and at the same time landed to launch an offensive, directly controlling the coast, and then marching inland, and at the same time appointing four to six governors to administer Daming in divisions, and each division appointed bishops to spread Christian ideas, and a total of about fifty bishops were appointed in the Ming Dynasty to completely assimilate the Daming people ideologically.
Philip II did not send troops for a comprehensive multifaceted consideration
However, for Philip II, his vision is more broad, the conquest of the Ming Dynasty is only the first step, and then will use the Ming Dynasty as a springboard to continue to conquer Cambodia, Annam, Siam and other Ming dynasty vassal states, Spaniards and Chinese women breed offspring in large quantities, strengthen the rule of China, and then negotiate peace with the northern Mongol tribes to jointly attack the Turkish Empire, so that Spain can truly become the world's unique "sun never sets empire".
In 1588, Philip II established a special committee in Madrid to examine detailed plans for an attack on China. This shows that Philip II still had some doubts about the evidence provided by Sandy, and the main consideration was whether the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was really so vulnerable. Is China really a place where people come from with stupid money? Philip II had to think about these questions in his mind.
Although the Spanish military god Gonzalo de Cordoba created a phalanx, using guerrillas, suspects, surprise attacks and other ingenuity to hang tens of thousands of elite French troops, the phalanx was not all-powerful, it relied more on spearmen, halberds, arquebusiers and sword and shield troops, and must also be equipped with a considerable number of artillery.
You know, Western firearms are indeed a little stronger than Daming, but only a little stronger, if in the position war, the shortcomings of the phalange are also obvious, the defense is very strong, the mobility is insufficient, if the opposing artillery has the advantage, it is likely to be rushed and scattered, and the Spanish Navy does not necessarily have much advantage.
Take Portugal as an example, in 1521, the Portuguese in the name of the Ming Dynasty's vassal state of Manchuria in China's goods through the city, long delayed, there is a sense of voyeurism, the Ming Dynasty coastal officials expelled all these people, Emperor Zhu Houxi ordered that the Portuguese be banned from trading in China, this move made the Portuguese dissatisfied, found a few ships into the bay to fire at the Ming army, broke out the first Sino-Portuguese naval battle: the Battle of Tuen Mun.
At that time, the Portuguese centipede boats and muskets were far more advanced than the Weapons of the Ming Army, and during the battle, the Portuguese army occupied a dangerous position, and the Ming army was at a disadvantage, but Guangdong made Wang Xuan know that there were two Chinese on the Portuguese ship Yang San and Dai Ming were proficient in the method of forging fire bolts and loading gunpowder on centipede ships, and immediately sent people to communicate with Yang San on the pretext of selling wine and rice to persuade them to serve the country, and Yang San finally agreed, and the Ming army thus mastered the manufacturing technology of ships and fire bolts.
Later, during the war, Wang Xuan ordered the Portuguese to fire with a fire bolt, and then used a fire boat to attack, and the fire took advantage of the wind to directly attack the Portuguese centipede warship. Most of the Portuguese were annihilated, Tuen Mun fuked, after which the Ming Dynasty domineeringly ordered that "Chinese not allowed to contact the Portuguese, requiring Chinese warships to destroy ships flying the Portuguese flag as soon as they encountered them."
In 1523, a second naval battle broke out between Daming and Portugal: the Battle of Xicao Bay. This time, the Ming army beat the Portuguese directly to the north, captured the commander of the fleet, Godinho, captured 20 Portuguese Franco cannons, and Godinho was finally shown to the public to set an example. It can be seen from this that if you want to seek hegemony at sea, you also need to ask Daming Tong whether he agrees.
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The wish is beautiful, but the reality is harsh.
Once they were going to conquer Asia, they needed 500 rifles, 4,000 long guns, 1,000 pairs of armor, 1,000 Burgundy helmets and some arquebusiers, and 4 artillery craftsmen were hired to make artillery, and it was interesting that they did not think that there was a need to prepare too much gunpowder, because once landed, gunpowder could be purchased directly from China, and it was cheaper to buy in China than in their own country.
Just hiring Japanese samurai would have to pay 200,000 Spanish pesos, because it involves state-to-country transactions, so this money cannot be omitted, but compared with the huge wealth brought by the invasion of China, this little money can be described as a dime.
Once Spain implemented the plan, the whole world could change as a result, but God did not give Philip II the opportunity to implement it.
The opening of the Age of Discovery has led to a large number of maritime powers, among which the English Channel gave birth to the world power Ofe Britain, and the Spanish Armada did not dream of overturning the ship in the gutters of the English Channel before the expedition, and was beaten by the British "pirates" and fled, losing 21,000 Spanish soldiers (almost the number of people who wanted to send to China), and almost being wiped out.
After this war, Spain did not say that it was going to conquer the other side of the ocean, and even his former position was gone, and he was conquered by the Dutch and then submitted to Britain, and gradually began to go downhill.
In Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had the same beautiful dream as Philip II to "annex Daming and rule the world", but Toyotomi Hideyoshi was ready to use Korea as a springboard, attack Daming after fighting Korea, then annex India, and then march west with India as the core to achieve the goal of global domination. To this end, Toyotomi Hideyoshi also made a detailed plan, preparing to move the capital after the battle of Daming, let the emperor go to Beijing to live, and give the emperor several villages near Beijing, and go to Ningbo to retire himself.
As a result, Toyotomi Hideyoshi poured out his national strength and mobilized more than 140,000 troops to attack Korea twice, but he was defeated by Li Rusong of the Ming Dynasty, and the total number of troops dispatched by the Ming Dynasty, including the navy, was not more than 110,000, and finally drove the Japanese army out of Korea. Philip II died in 1598, and less than a month later Toyotomi Hideyoshi died of hatred, and both men's wishful thinking was finally foiled.
In fact, don't say that 20,000 people come, that is, 200,000 people come from Spain, and the face of the powerful Daming is white. Long-term combat is very test of army supplies, platooning, personnel quality, in the naval battle Spain may have a slight advantage, but want to go deep into the hinterland, long-term rule is tantamount to a fool's dream, it is a pity that the British directly smashed the dream of Philip II, otherwise in the history of the world, Daming is likely to write a legendary war history.
The "Plan to Conquer China" is a "delusional plan" provided by the Spanish governor, who only saw that China had money, but did not really investigate the Chinese mainland, Chinese warriors abounded, not afraid of any foreign enemies, and fortunately Spain did not send troops, keeping its last fig leaf.