"This is not true, even if this Eastern Empire resolves the civil strife and re-emerges, it will only be less than ten years, and it is impossible to have such a powerful fleet!" The commander of the Portuguese fleet roared in disbelief.

It is said that it is a great power of the sea for a hundred years.

Thinking that the Kingdom of Portugal had secretly engaged in a warship race with the other four countries such as Britain, Spain, and France for seven or eight years, it was only to add more than 20 warships to their Portuguese fleet.

The Netherlands has the most abundant capital and the most manpower and material resources that can be mobilized, and it took more than nine years to build more than 100 more warships.

Britain, France, Spain and other countries also built frantically for seven or eight years, and each country only had a few dozen more warships.

How many years has it been since the Ming Dynasty, ten years ago, the Zheng Zhilong fleet, whose naval strength was only the average strength of the Ming Dynasty, relied on sixty not advanced warships and thousands of ships to slightly suppress the Dutch, and jointly dominate the waters around the South China Sea with the Dutch.

But it's just the waters of the South China Sea, and Zheng Zhilong's fleet can't reach the strength to compete in the world.

However, in less than ten years, the Ming Zheng Zhilong fleet became the Ming Navy, which first defeated more than 60 warships of the Dutch Far East Fleet and seized the Dutch colony of the Indonesian Islands, and then a few years later, it completely annihilated the Spanish Far East Fleet and occupied the Spanish colony of Luzon, and then also occupied the Australian 6 that the British had just occupied a few years ago.

The Eastern Empire is becoming more and more ambitious and seemingly stronger.

In less than ten years, Zheng Zhilong's fleet, which only has a few dozen backward warships, has evolved into a huge fleet of 300 warships.

The fleets of the two sides sailed face to face, and the distance was still approaching, and soon, it was already close to a distance of five thousand meters, and it was about to reach the range of four thousand meters of Dutch-class battleships.

At this moment, even the commander of the Spanish fleet, who had always been arrogant, could not be arrogant.

The commanders of all countries are not good-looking, not to mention the three countries of Britain, Spain and the Netherlands, they originally had the matter of being seized by the Ming Dynasty, and one of the purposes of dispatching the fleet was to take revenge on the Ming Dynasty and recapture the colony.

However, France, Portugal, Poland, Austria, Holy Rome and other five countries were purely to take advantage of the fire to rob and take the opportunity to tear a piece of meat from the Ming Dynasty back, they just came to plunder the Ming Dynasty after defeating the Ming Dynasty.

I thought that Da Ming would not be the opponent of the combined fleet no matter what, and he would definitely be defeated!

But now they have only appeared, it turns out that the Ming Dynasty is not without a chance to win, the number of warships of the Ming Dynasty has reached half of their eight-nation combined fleet, and they don't know what proportion of the warships with amazing combat effectiveness occupied, as long as the proportion is close to the average, the Ming Dynasty will defeat their eight-nation combined fleet The chance of victory is not small.

At this moment, Portugal, France, Poland, Austria, Holy Rome and other five countries immediately regretted it, they and the Ming did not have any conflict, participating in the combined fleet of Britain, West and the Netherlands just to take the opportunity to plunder the Ming, but now the Ming is not so easy to be plundered, but it also gives them the possibility of defeat, how can they not regret it.

However, no matter how much you regret it, they have already come, the fleets of the two sides have met, and they are about to reach the distance of the battle, it is impossible to turn around and escape at present, they bombarded the coastal cities of Daming all the way, and they will definitely kill a large number of innocent people in Daming, and it is impossible to reconcile, only to fight!

"Even if there are a lot of warships in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty will never be the kind of warship with strong combat effectiveness!" The commander of the Spanish fleet gritted his teeth and said categorically.

The commanders of the fleets of the five countries all comforted themselves in this way. They convinced themselves in their hearts that even if the Ming Dynasty had two hundred and ninety-seven warships, it was impossible for them to have the same combat effectiveness as the three battleships that they had sunk not long ago.

The commander-in-chief of the British, Western and Dutch fleets also comforted himself in the same way.

"Even if the warships of the Ming Dynasty are all the kind of warships with strong combat effectiveness, they must be defeated!" The Dutch Duke of Havelan has the strongest heart to defeat the Ming fleet, and since the withdrawal of the Indonesian Islands that year, the Duke of Havelan has endured it for nearly ten years, just to defeat the Ming Dynasty and be ashamed.

Now the strength of the Ming fleet is no longer able to defeat the Ming Dynasty alone, and now the eight fleets are combined, there are 640 warships, and the number of warships is more than twice that of the Ming fleet.

If this can't defeat Da Ming, will he still have a chance in the Netherlands in the future?

Moreover, if such a powerful warship as the Ming Dynasty appeared in all corners of the world to fight for colonies with them, would they be the opponents of the Ming Dynasty, so for the future of the great Netherlands, they must defeat the Ming fleet and maintain maritime supremacy.

For the sake of their own maritime supremacy, the Netherlands firmly hoped to defeat the Ming Dynasty, the British had been peeping at the sea hegemony for a long time, and after seeing the strength of the Ming Dynasty, the mind to defeat the Ming Dynasty was not weaker than the Dutch.

The commander-in-chief of the British fleet clenched his right fist and looked a little hideous.

Thinking about the British, he defeated the Spanish Armada and pulled Spain off the throne of the first sea hegemon, but he didn't expect to cheapen the Dutch and let the Dutch follow him to the throne of the first sea hegemon, which should have been their British.

They tolerated the Dutch stealing the throne of the first sea overlord, and now they must not tolerate the Ming Dynasty, an Eastern empire that did not belong to Obarro, to steal this throne, and they British should ascend this throne the most.

"Prepare to fire!" Seeing that the battleship group of the Daming fleet was about to enter a distance of four thousand meters, the commander of the Dutch fleet, Duke Avelan, calmly ordered.

The Dutch soldiers on seventy Dutch-class battleships with a range of four thousand meters began to adjust the muzzles of their bulky class cannons, ready to fire at any moment.

4,400 meters, 4,200 meters

4,000 meters! When a dozen Ming warships entered the 4,000-meter range, the Dutch seventy-class battleships opened fire.

"Fire!"

"Boom Boom"

Seventy Dutch-class battleships first fired at the approaching group of Ming fleet warships from a distance of 4,000 meters, and more than 1,300 shells were dumped over.

"Bang! Boom! "Bang" shells smashed on the sea, blowing up a large number of water columns.

"Ah, click" About six Ming battleships that rushed to the front were more or less shot, the largest one was hit by three twenty-two-pound solid shells, the mast was broken, the deck was smashed through a large hole, and two cannons were damaged, and about seven or eight Ming naval soldiers were killed or wounded.

The other five ships were either hit by one or two, all with varying degrees of damage.