Guangzhou Province is the capital of Guangdong, leading thirteen counties, Hong Kong Island is a coastal island in the jurisdiction of Dongguan County, Guangzhou Province, with an area of about 80 square kilometers, named after a small fishing village called Hong Kong, but at this time Hong Kong Island has been occupied by the Portuguese.

As early as 12 years ago, that is, in the sixth year of Zhengde, the Portuguese destroyed Manchuria, occupied the Strait of Malacca, and used it as a springboard to reach out to the rich Eastern Empire of the Ming Dynasty.

Manraka was nominally a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and since the Yongle period, Manraka was a vassal to the Ming Dynasty and sent envoys to Beijing to pay tribute to the Ming Emperor. However, after the death of Zheng He, who had been to the West seven times, the Ming Dynasty terminated its activities in the West due to financial reasons, and imposed a ban on the sea, which not only caused the strength of the Ming Dynasty to plummet, but also led to the estrangement of the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the Nanyang vassal states, and the exchange was almost interrupted.

Because of this, after Manraka was destroyed by the Portuguese, the Ming Dynasty, as the suzerain, did not know about it, until nine years later, that is, the fifteenth day of Zhengde, when the envoy of Manraka ran to the Ming Dynasty to ask for help, the court learned the news of Manraka being destroyed.

At this time, the Portuguese have been active in the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty for many years, and the Portuguese envoy Pires came to Guangzhou in the fifteenth year of Zhengde, and later went to Nanjing to ask for Zhu Houzhao, the Zhengde Emperor who toured the south, and planned to ask the Ming Dynasty to open up trade, but unfortunately the Zhengde Emperor did not bird him, but was interested in his translation, learned Portuguese from his translator, and took the translator back to the capital.

After that, Pires chased to the capital with a dead face, but unfortunately Emperor Zhengde fell into the water on the way back and contracted an illness, and died in March of the following year, and was succeeded by Zhu Houxi, the son of the vassal king. So Pires planned to meet Xinjun again to ask for trade, but unfortunately there was no way, at this time he met Xu Jin, and gave Xu Jin a glass mirror and pocket watch.

Under the guidance of Xu Jin, Pires was finally received by the little emperor Zhu Houxi, but unfortunately this guy was unlucky, and it happened that Bintang, the exiled prince of Manchuria, came to Daming to cry and complain that the Francos occupied his country, so Pires was escorted back to Guangzhou by Zhu Houxi, and ordered the Portuguese to return Malacca to Manraka.

Pires failed in his request for trade, and was ordered by the Ming Emperor to return to Malacca, and was extremely unhappy, so he planned to come hard, and after he returned to Guangzhou, he immediately led a fleet to occupy Tuen Mun Island, which led to the Battle of Tuen Mun Island in the first year of Jiajing. A year later, Pires made a comeback, taking advantage of the invasion of the Ming coast by the Japanese thieves and brazenly occupying Hong Kong Island.

This time, Pires was obviously prepared, his fleet had a total of 20 large ships, and the strength of the troops reached 3,000, and the Guangdong Navy Division returned without success when it sent troops three times, but instead lost its troops and lost its generals, and its vitality was greatly damaged from the beginning, and it could only watch the Westerners sit large and gain a firm foothold on Hong Kong Island.

On the 13th day of the first lunar month, the fleet finally arrived at the sea near Shantou, Guangdong, and the land of southern Guangdong was shaken. Such a large fleet appeared in the nearby seas, and the Westerners were not blind, so they naturally immediately received the news and fled in horror.

It is said that the Westerners who are active along the coast of Daming are not only the Portuguese, but also the Spaniards, the British, the French, etc., but the strength of the Portuguese fleet is the strongest, the Spanish are secondary, and other such as the British and the French are only small roles.

Originally, Westerners from various countries were not united with each other, and even attacked each other in order to compete for resources, however, the so-called enemy of the enemy is a friend, and in the face of the powerful Ming fleet, the Westerners chose to hold together very wisely, and quickly reached an agreement on an offensive and defensive alliance.

Since the Portuguese fleet was the strongest, it was only natural that he became the leader of the Four-Nation Alliance, and Pires was elected commander of the allied fleet, and all the Western ships were quickly assembled on Hong Kong Island.

Soon, 50 warships were assembled in the sea near Hong Kong Island, with a total strength of 5,000 or 6,000 troops, and the Westerners of various countries could not help but be bold, and under the leadership of Commander Pires, they actually took the initiative to meet Xu Jin's fleet, and opened up a formation in the waters near the mouth of the Pearl River, with a posture of slashing head-on.

However, when the Ming fleet, which covered the sky and the sun, appeared on the surface of the sea in the distance, all the Westerners, including Pires, changed color.

It is no wonder that Xu Jin's fleet is composed of 100 bow and three-masted giant Fu ships, 500 bow two-masted centipede ships, and more than 2,000 bow and large and small warships. Although most of the 50-bow warships of the Westerners are ocean-going giants, they are not worth anything compared to the Daming Naval Division.

Of course, the Westerners who relied on their ships and guns were not frightened to retreat, and the commander Pires said loudly: "Don't panic, everyone should not panic, the Han people have an old saying that the soldiers are expensive but not expensive, although the Ming army has many warships, but the combat power is not good, their ships are not as strong as ours, and their guns are not as powerful as ours, as long as everyone is united, we will definitely be able to defeat this Ming army."

According to my expectations, this naval division should be all the military strength that the Ming army can take, as long as this naval commander is defeated, we can sit back and relax in the future, and run rampant in all the seas of the Ming Kingdom. ”

Pires was able to be sent as an envoy by the King of Portugal, and his eloquence was naturally quite remarkable, and after his phone call, the morale of the entire coalition army was immediately high, and they were in full swing to prepare for battle.

In the distance, Xu Jin, the governor of Zhizhejiang, dressed as a scholar, stood calmly on the bow of a three-masted fortune ship, and a group of personal soldiers and brocade guards guarded the surroundings like stars and moons.

Xu Jin held the monocular and observed for a while, and the distance between the two sides was about the same, so he said calmly: "Attack!" ”

"Attack!" The Jinyi guards shouted in unison, and the flag soldiers on the mast immediately raised the flag and signaled the attack on the wingmanship.

As soon as the Governor gave an order, the generals who had already been gearing up immediately led their troops to attack.

As the so-called one force will drop ten, in the face of absolute strength, no matter how exquisite the skills are, the Ming army sailors hit it with six or seven times the advantage of troops, if there is any more tricks, it is undoubtedly equivalent to painting a snake.

An upright soldier, just one word: dry!

At the moment, Wang Zhi led Dinghaiwei as the main attack of the Chinese army, Yu Dayou led the Yiwu soldiers as the left wing, Cen Lan led the wolf soldiers as the right wing, the Jiangxi army and the Weisho army responded to the palace, and Xu Jinqin led 500 battalions to dispatch in the center.

Boom Boom Boom ......

In the deafening sound of artillery, the shells poured down on the Westerners' fleet like a storm, and the Westerners immediately fired back, but they saw that the sea at the mouth of the Pearl River was filled with gunsmoke and artillery fire.

As soon as the battle began, Pires was shocked to find that he had underestimated the firepower of the Ming army's sailors, and that the rate of fire of the guns on the Ming ships was not much slower than their Franc cannons, and that thousands of cannons were firing at the same time, which was a hellish disaster.

As the main force of the frontal attack, the fleet under Wang Zhi was equipped with a total of 300 Franc cannons, and at this time, the power was fully fired, and the power could be described as destroying the world, and nearly 2,000 shells were fired in three minutes.

The Yiwu soldiers on the left flank and the wolf soldiers on the right flank were not far behind, two hundred Franc cannons and six hundred traditional artillery guns also opened fire at the same time, which instantly bombarded the Western fleet and was sunk three bows in just a quarter of an hour, seriously injured five bows, and more than half were wounded.

The Western Fleet was originally a coalition force with different hearts, but it was heavily damaged as soon as it first fought, and the French ships were the first to turn around and flee, followed by the British, so the united front quickly collapsed, and they all turned around and fled for their lives.

The Ming army pursued the victory, pursued to Hong Kong Island in one go, sank the four Western ships, and captured two ships, and won a complete victory in the first battle.

Yu Dayou's newborn calf was not afraid of the tiger and planned to take Hong Kong Island in one fell swoop, but after more than half a year of operation by the Portuguese, the defense of Hong Kong Island was solid, and Yu Dayou's fierce attack was fruitless, but he folded two bows and had to retreat for the time being.