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Chapter 1634 Sebastian and his savior

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    Of course, a laborious expedition requires time to prepare, especially for a small country like Portugal.

    Fortunately, Europe has been fighting wars for hundreds of years, and the military has become a developed business. As long as you can afford the money, there will be war merchants who will transport all the war materials you need to you at the time you specify.  The location you specify.

    The Portuguese were also mobilized. In addition to the armed forces that stayed on the border to defend the Spanish, all the nobles and troops across the country were mobilized.  A large number of Portuguese civilians were also temporarily conscripted into the army.  But the numbers are still insufficient.

    Sebastian opened the treasury again and asked German businessmen to recruit 2,800 German mercenaries from Prussia and Wallonia, which are rich in mercenaries.

    1,000 volunteers from Andalusia, Spain also joined the Portuguese army.

    Because Portugal was under the banner of the Crusade, the Pope also supported some men, horses and ships.

    ¡°Coupled with the Moroccans and Ming people who followed King Amin to Portugal, there are almost a thousand people

    On April 14, the sixth year of Wanli, and May 20, 1578 AD, a Portuguese expeditionary force of 25,000 people finally assembled in Lisbon.  On that day, the king announced that he would conquer Monaco in person in five days!

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    On May 25, the streets of Lisbon were empty. People flocked to the Imperial Plaza to bid farewell to their beloved king, and shed tears to wish him a safe return.

    Sebastian, who is twenty-five years old, does not feel the worries of his people at all. He wears the ancestral dark gold full-body armor, a face-covering helmet with red feathers on his head, and holds the gorgeous king's scepter in his hand.  , first came to the Jeronimos Monastery to pray.

    Then he and his great-uncle Enrique, the Portuguese Cardinal who had overseen the country after his expedition, returned to the high platform of the Imperial Plaza and delivered a passionate speech to his subjects.

    The content of the king's speech was written by a royal literati, so it is naturally very contagious.  Although the child-like high-pitched voice was not in line with his imagined heroic spirit, the people of Lisbon didn't care at all, because it was the little angel they had grown up watching

    ¡°Here, Lisbon, is the center of the world!¡±

    ¡°In 1498, Vasco da Gama set out from here, circumnavigated the Cape of Good Hope, discovered India, and opened up the sea channel between Europe and Asia!¡±

    ¡°In 1519, Magellan also started from here when he circled the world, opening a new chapter in the Age of Discovery!¡±

    ¡°Now I will start from here and bring Portugal into a new era!¡±

    Every time the king paused, he was followed by heart-wrenching cheers, and the people's emotions were aroused by this passionate speech.

    However, during the pause before Sebastian announced his ¡®departure¡¯, a discordant voice suddenly sounded.

    "Your Majesty, think twice!" A one-eyed man in a robe emerged from the crowd. The guards were about to take him down, but they stopped when they saw that the man was Camones, the great poet who was loved by the king.

    The poet came to the audience and said loudly to the king: "Your Majesty, I have fought in Africa as an ordinary soldier, and I know what kind of hell it is there. I lost an eye in Africa! Your army is very complicated, and  There is absolutely no training for fighting in Africa, and there are very few cavalry, and they carry so many heavy artillery. Against the Berber light cavalry, you will be slaughtered"

    Seeing that the army he was so proud of was criticized by the poet for being useless, Sebastian couldn't help but shouted angrily: "What are you doing standing there in a daze? Pull him down!"

    The imperial guards rushed forward and carried the great poet away from the king.

    "Don't go and die! You don't have any heirs yet" The poet still screamed desperately until the imperial guards covered his mouth.

    But the worries that the people had just suppressed were rekindled by him. Yes, His Majesty the King is already twenty-five years old, but he has no interest in women. Usually getting along with those noble ladies is like being punished.  The only marriage proposal was with Mary, Queen of Scots, but it was quickly rejected by the king. This made the whole country very worried, fearing that Portugal would once again fall into the situation of extinct heirs

    But no one could change the king's determination. He drew his sword, pointed it at the sky, and roared at the top of his lungs: "Go to war!"

    In the end, the people of Lisbon bid farewell to their king in tears.  They watched Sebastian board the gorgeous flagship St. George, lead a huge fleet to slowly sail out of the harbor, and disappear on the sea level, but they still refused to turn back.

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    Lisbon is only a thousand miles away from Morocco by sea, but the huge troop transport fleet is extremely slow. It travels less than a hundred miles a day and takes almost ten days to get there.

      Let¡¯s look at the time of signing, September 8th of the first year of Wanli!

    The crew members also came together, and all the spectators were dumbfounded.

    Although they could not understand the reason, they were all deeply shocked.

    It took a long time before someone was deeply shocked and said: "They also said that the young master is not a god, he is just a god who can pinch and calculate!"

    "That's not true. Otherwise, how could we have predicted that the little red-haired king would behave like this five years ago?!" This completely exploded. The crew members were ten times more excited than before and said, "What's even more amazing is that  We can also expect that King Amin will defect to him, otherwise why would we be allowed to build a business center in Morocco instead of Lisbon?¡±

    "Captain Ma, you should have taken it out earlier!" Everyone complained about Macaron: "If you take it out so late, how much shock will we miss!"

    "Did I take it out?" Macaron scratched his head and said, "Even if it is"

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