Chapter 446: Flame Changqi Flag and the Southern Continent

　　 Autumn is high and refreshing, it is the most favorable season for navigation on the Black Sea.
　　 On the endless blue sea, snow-white waves bloom.
　　 A huge fleet with a total of 31 ships and a long flame flag floating on the mainmast, driven by the cold Canary current and the warm current of Benin, headed south along the west coast of the South Continent.
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　　The snow-white sails bulged into a spectacular white cloud, and the mighty momentum seemed to be able to crush everything in front of you!
　　In the huge fleet, the lowest rank is at least a Tier 5 cruiser, and even Tier 3 battleships that are rarely seen elsewhere are not uncommon among them.
　　The most eye-catching thing is that the bowsprit is covered with generals, nobles, fleet, and commander flags, which is the flagship of the fleet leading the entire fleet.
　　 The bright red sails on the battleship, like flaming maple leaves, are the quasi-legendary battle armor "Red Maple" of Hilius.
　　The shrewd and capable adjutant pushed the door into the captain's room.
　　 "Report to the Commander! Just now the chief navigator reported that the fleet is about to leave the direct current Beninian warm current zone and enter the retrograde Benguela cold current. It is estimated that it will take three days to reach the destination."
　　 Lieutenant General Doyle Griffizi, the pinnacle knight who was maintaining his beloved long sword with sword oil and fine flannel, stared at Guang Ke Jianren’s long sword without raising the head, and replied:
"I know."
　　 Seeing the casual look of his immediate boss, the loyal adjutant was hesitant to speak:
　　 "Your Excellency, we..."
　　 The worries in his heart are a little sensitive, and it is difficult to declare.
　　In this military operation on the southern continent, the original colonial garrison was not used at all, but all troops were increased from within. The purpose is to be by surprise, taking advantage of weak links within the opponent to expel their forces from the southern continent in one fell swoop.
　　 While shifting the focus of domestic conflicts, gaining huge economic benefits to supplement the country's increasingly deflated body can make Hilius take a sigh of relief.
　　 While Lieutenant General Griffizi, who was directly responsible for the loss of the entire Treasure Fleet not long ago, served as the commander-in-chief of this fleet, this was the opportunity for the kingdom to give him a guilt and meritorious service.
　　 Even with the force majeure factor of the wild Seagod’s son "Great Vortex" Charybdis, Lieutenant General Griffizi, who caused heavy losses to the kingdom, has now gone through a military court.
　　 Although there is no penalty for the time being, if he loses this war, one can imagine how he will end up after returning home. What's more, from the personnel who participated in the war this time, we can see that there is another unknown war hidden in it.
　　Because seventy percent of them is a firm ecclesiastical faction, and the deputy commander is another great knight of the royal party.
　　 What kind of idea the senior officials of the kingdom made, of course they knew it well, and it was more appropriate to say that it was a support than it was to supervise the team.
　　 Seeing the adjutant’s concern, the great knight smiled slightly:
　　"Don’t worry, with the great ‘eternal fire’ blessing, victory will ultimately belong to us!
　　 Besides enjoying the light bestowed by God, the secular kingdom should serve God.
　　 In any case, I will not let this fleet have unnecessary losses, because they are the most loyal fighters to God.
　　 This is a promise made by a knight of the ‘eternal fire’ to His Majesty the Pope! "
　　 Raising the long sword in his hand, Griffizi stared at the straight spine of the sword. The quality of "bending not bending" seemed to be displayed in him as well. Nothing could make his faith slightly shaken.
　　 Even if the king's order is on the other end of the scale, or... his own life!
　　...
　　 The Source Continent where the Southern Continent and the civilized nations stand side by side, face each other across a sea of ​​treacherous treasures.
The overall shape of 　　 is like an animal tooth with a wide top and a pointed bottom, extending to Cape Hafon in the east, Cape Agulhas in the south, Cape Verde in the west, and Cape Gilan in the north.
　　 Before the first group of adventurers crossed the treasure sea to arrive here two hundred years ago, the southern continent was the hometown of the Anuma people only.
　　 However, with the arrival of the forerunner Kingdom of Hilius, the desert kingdom of Heymar, and a host of colonists from countries large and small on the northern shore of the treasure sea. The Anuma natives gradually slid down into the abyss of second-class citizens and even blood and tears slaves.
The 　　 sign is the destruction of the last empire of the Anuma people near Cape Verde, the "Sanghai Empire"!
　　 But.
　　 The main force who really destroyed the "Sanghai Empire" at that time was not the forerunner Hilius, but the desert kingdom Heymar.
　　 The Kingdom of Heymar two hundred years ago, because it controlled the only road trade channel with the Eastern Peacock Islands, many more western mainland countries had to rely on it for tea, spices and other daily necessities.
　　 It was this unique geographical advantage that they accumulated huge wealth, and they were one of the richest and most powerful countries on the mainland at that time.
　　 As for Hilius, who had just begun ocean exploration, he was a younger brother at that time, and he was a younger brother who didn’t even have a unified Alfonso Peninsula.
　　 But.
　　 In the era two hundred years ago, the development of firearms was far from the current level. Although the original form of the matchlock musket has been invented, the musket and spearmen are still used in a mixed manner. The reliability, range, and power of the musket need to be improved.
　　 Therefore, in the battle with the indigenous people, the advantages of the so-called "civilized man" relying on technology are not obvious.
　　 And even if the younger brother wants to do bad things, it is very easy.
Hilius, who was ahead of everyone in reaching the Southern Continent, saw that he was unable to eat the powerful "Sanghai Empire", and instead started a business with them, providing sophisticated swords, gunpowder, copper cannons and other war materials, desperately To hinder Huimar.
　　 also exchanged countless gold, diamonds, ivory... and deeply tasted the sweetness of it.
　　 In the end, they even sent a military custodian to instruct this group of indigenous people with backward art of war how to fight, making the mighty Heymar suffer several times.
　　 But it was also after the end of this really long war.
　　 In view of the disharmonious situation, the popes of the "Eternal Fire" church and the "Bright Starry Night" church jointly came forward, and several major churches of interest among the nations and the Seven Gods finally concluded the historic peace treaty.
　　 When facing the vast and unpredictable land overseas, put aside the contradictions between civilized nations, reduce internal friction and unify the outside world, and the land of the believers of the gods will be the people of the seven gods.
　　 is considered to be the aggression of the colonists, setting the necessary legal basis and rules of the game.
　　 So far ushered in the colonial frenzy of the civilized country, and the nightmare of the colonized area!
　　 Until now, two hundred years later.
The South Continent is already an important producing area and one of the main export areas of tropical cash crops. There are cotton, sisal, peanuts, oil palm, cashew nuts, coffee, cocoa, tea, sugar cane, tobacco, rubber, pyrethrum, cloves, coconut, Bananas and so on.
　　This is also the favorite source of rum raw materials for seamen of the tulip countries.
　　 Another thing I have to mention is the current status quo of the colonies of various countries.
　　Because most of the entire southern continent is in the tropics, it is very unfriendly to the Nemansters from the northern source continent. Unless there is a special medicine, the tropical infectious diseases in these places are very fatal to the Neimanste people who have lived in temperate regions for a long time.
　　 To them, the environment is harsh and like hell. It is difficult to survive, let alone work and production.
　　 Even explorers with extraordinary ranks are not willing to go deep into this terrifying continent to search for unknown treasures.
　　 even some pioneers among explorers commented:
　　The Southern Continent is the main fortress of the true Demon King, the reactionary force in nature that opposes the prosperity of mankind. Here, the king of the flies gathers a worm-like, animal-like army composed of insects, ticks, and nematodes to transmit the disease to the skin, blood vessels, intestines and spinal cord of humans and other vertebrates.
　　 Several powerful middle schools.
　　 is the largest desert in the world in the northern part of the southern continent, occupying 30% of the entire continent. And a small part of the livable area has completely become the territory of Heymar, even the faith is firmly controlled by the "Starry Night Cult".
　　The true "Bright Starry Night" is the only here.
　　 Further south is the largest area of ​​this continent, the tropical grassland climate is not conducive to farming, and the extremely differentiated rainy and dry seasons can make people crazy.
After repeatedly weighing and weighing the rest of the countries, they picked up the most suitable cash crops like persimmons. The Zaire Basin, the largest basin in the world~EbookFREE.me~The remaining colonies are fragmented and scattered. .
　　 For them, only land that proves its economic value has the meaning of occupation.
　　 After discovering the New World, they turned their heads to the vast fertile land on the other side of the Black Sea.
　　 The climatic factors that are far inferior to those of the New World have actually become a natural barrier for the Anuma natives. Even now, there are still a large number of powerful tribes still living in the vast inland areas.
　　 Even in the coastal zone on the western edge of the Zaire Basin, there are many indigenous countries, mainly the Kingdom of Dahomey in Benin.
　　 The Kingdom of Dahomey has also been exposed to the light of the development of the New World. It is now the largest supplier of slaves in the Slave Bay and a wealthy power.
　　 So Hilius certainly has the first mover advantage in the Southern Continent, but there are not many stable occupation areas. Most of them exist in the form of independent mineral and cash crop resource points, and other vast wastelands are of no value to them.
　　In other words, in this era, a large area of ​​the Southern Continent is a "dark continent" still shrouded in the fog of war.
　　 After occupying some agricultural areas that can produce cash crops and easy-to-mine minerals, Silius had already turned east and crossed the Eritrean Sea again, killing the Peacock Islands, which were more prosperous in this era.
　　 There is the opportunity for Hilius to truly rise to the supremacy of sea power.
　　 As for Aiwen’s class at the Naval Academy, the professor believes that after two hundred years of continuous development, the Southern Continent has been thoroughly developed and mature.
　　 has indeed been developed, but it is based on the current scientific technology and medical level.
　　 When the drugs in Aiwen's hands are successively marketed, perhaps this situation will be completely overturned.