Those who are unsatisfactory in the world, nine times out of ten! Zheng Sen, who had just debuted, had experienced it to the fullest, looking at the news that had just come from the outpost sand boat, without waiting for joy to appear on his face, the creaking sound of the mast raising the sail suddenly sounded in his ears, and in his unbelievable telescope, the formation that was finally pulled yesterday was chaotic for the first time!

To describe these pirates as an animal, it is like a wild dog that has seen a poop, scrambling to pull sails out to sea, and the narrow exit of the Strait of Malacca is instantly covered by a forest of sails.

Zheng Sen's face had completely turned the color of pig liver, and he angrily slammed the telescope to the ground.

"Young Master, what should we do?"

Looking at the pirate fleet swarming into the army, even Zheng Zhilong's former subordinates were ready to move, and the sound of rattling sails also sounded behind him, but more than thirty ships had not moved for the time being.

Listening to the sound of the wind locking, the first mate Shi Daxuan asked anxiously with a clenched fist.

With his hands behind his back, he turned around twice in a row like ants on a hot pot, and looked back at the former Zheng family's subordinates who were eager to try, Zheng Sen finally gritted his teeth fiercely and shouted in a deep voice: "We will also pull the anchor!" Keep up!"

"But let people say to those bastards in the back, listen to Lao Tzu's orders and then go up, if you don't obey the order and charge in vain, then don't hang the banner of my Zheng family in the future!"

"Little obedience!"

Zheng Sen in history is known as the strict management of the army, listening to his murderous roar, Shi Daxuan hurriedly knelt down on one knee to receive the order, and then quickly stood up, personally picked up a red flag, and shook it violently.

Following his banner, the three-masted and five-masted Dongjiang warships also pulled out the heavy iron anchors from the sea with iron chains, and with the horns of the three warships in front of them, the last Ming pirate fleet also rushed out of the narrow Strait of Malacca.

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The ancient Roman philosopher famously said that naval battles can ruin your whole day! It was the long naval battle, and the huge pirate fleet that ran out of Malacca for three hours, and it was almost noon, when it blocked the huge fleet of Spanish treasure ships on the edge of the Nasna Islands.

It is said to be huge, but it is only relatively speaking, eight Spanish galleons are extended as escorts, each of which is about fifty meters long, equipped with forty-eight guns, and behind it is a merchant ship with a slightly larger belly, the tonnage is slightly larger than the frigate warships outside, there are almost twenty or so, these bellies are loaded with gold and diamonds from the Americas, but it is said that it is a merchant ship, and it also has the combat effectiveness of twenty to thirty guns.

But such a heavy fleet that is enough to go sideways in Europe is still a little thinner than the swarming Ming pirates.

Suddenly a fleet was stabbed out of front of him, and the fleet of treasure ships that were moving along the edge of the archipelago was obviously startled, and suddenly a sharp howl sounded, and the extended frigates hurriedly struck horizontally, almost in a routine with Mao Jue's fleet of Japanese people, and the black muzzle of the cannon was facing outward.

The fastest ones are actually those old Canton ships and Fu ships, although they need rigging, and the Dongjiang sail battleships with triangular sails are more advanced, but these sails also need some technical content in operation, which is not completely controlled by those pirate sailors who have just broken out to buy new ships, and compared with the new sailing ships with thirty or forty guns, these old ships have two or three front and rear guns, and the weight is much lighter.

Eyes full of thirst for treasure, full of sails, groups of pirate sailors gathered on the foredeck, smashing their shields and shouting, the sharp bow of the ship cut through the sea, and dozens of large ships rushed forward like narwhals.

But the momentum is full but it can't change the disadvantage of wood against steel cannonballs, when these pirate ships rushed majestically within more than 400 meters, the frigates of the Spanish treasure ship fleet sprayed out tongues of fire together, and more than 200 heavy guns instantly set off a rain of sawdust and iron in the dense pirate fleet.

Just over 70 years ago, in the Western Mediterranean, there was a cross-era naval battle, the Battle of Lepanto! In this battle, on behalf of Christendom, the 50,000 Christians with Spanish mercenaries and the Venetian Genoese navy as the main force had expanded for a century, and the murderous Ottoman Turkish navy of 90,000 was defeated, losing a third of its ships and about 25,000 killed, and the Mediterranean Sea was stained red with blood.

The secret of the Christians' ability to win more with less lies in the use of artillery, each ship with several guns in the capital, and as the vanguard, the Genoese heavy battleship, which is said to be more than 70 meters long, enough to carry 70 guns and more than 1,000 sailors.

Today's Daming pirates encountered almost exactly the same as the Ottoman Turkish fleet back then, in the extension of artillery fire, more than 20 ships were smashed on the spot, and the pirate sailors on the front deck turned into a piece of stump blood, and the survivors were terrified and held on to the raised deck, groaning in pain, and even two ships fell apart, and the fragments were scattered on the huge sea.

But even so, it still did not stop the charging pirate ship, on the one hand, the temptation of gold is close at hand, on the other hand, there is no way to retreat, mixed with the huge fleet torrent, it does not mean that you can turn around and turn around.

The artillery fire from the bow of the ship also began to bombard sporadically.

At a distance of four hundred meters, it would take several minutes for the battleships to sprint, but the artillery fire was enough to bombard three rounds, and the outboard of the eight frigates barely stopped, and in the terrible roar of the Spaniards, they were bombarded into a shipyard by them on the wide sea near the island.

However, after losing more than 20 pirate ships and killing and wounding two or three thousand people, the first lucky ship still slammed into the side of the frigate with a loud bang, and the sawdust flew in the loud noise, and the Daming pirates with flintlock pistols and tomahawks howled and jumped off the walls of the ship with flintlock pistols and tomahawks, and jumped onto the deck of the opponent for a decisive battle.

Bang~Bang~

The fierce white smoke pulled out traces one after another, and the Spanish sailors also slammed the trigger, and fired back with arquebuses and short firearms, and several charging pirates burst out of their bodies with several bloody holes, and immediately fell to the ground limply.

At the time of the fierce battle on the front line, the second team of South China Sea pirates who had purchased the new sail battleships of the Dongjiang River and were under the command of the East India Company and were a little earlier in the industry also killed the battlefield, taking advantage of the entanglement of the stupid cannon fodder and frigates in front, these slender battleships were as dexterous as loaches and interspersed from the flanks and rushed towards the merchant ships in the frigate package.

From so far away, you can almost hear the frightened shouts of the Spanish merchants, these merchant ships also did not hesitate to open fire, the distance is more than a hundred meters, the two shapes are slightly different, but the performance is strikingly similar gunboats launched a fierce bombardment, crackling shells burst out of patches of white smoke, several meters of water columns splashed on the sides of each other's warships, the two closest pirate ships and treasure ships are not even more than 30 meters apart, the fierce bombardment has brought a devastating blow to both sides, The cannon decks of both sides were pierced by the gunfire, the shells pushed the cannons, the boxes, and the stumps of the sailors sprayed out from the other side of the ship, and the surviving sailors could even wash their faces in fear of the enemy on the opposite side.

But after all, the pirate ship was overcrowded, and it still had the absolute upper hand, and the long rows of sail battleships rolled over in turn, like the tongue of a chameleon, gradually wrapping the Spanish treasure ship fleet in the center.

"Eldest son, let's go too! If you don't go up, you won't have a chance!"

Seeing the earth-shattering battle in front of him, Shi Daxuan couldn't help but ask, but looking at the telescope, Zheng Sen's brows were always locked, and he looked at the battlefield without saying a word, and for a long time, he shook his head solemnly just now.

"That's not right! I've heard my father tell me a few times about the treasure ships of the Western Domain, they are transport troops, not combat troops, and they are usually intercepted by pirates, and it is the frigates that drag the enemy, let the merchant ships flee backwards, and then converge! Now they're fighting a positional war!"

"And Manila has at least more than thirty warships, let's converge on Malacca with great fanfare, it is impossible for the Western Domain to get the news, how can they send such a thin fleet to escort it!"

"I'm afraid there's fraud in it!"

However, as he spoke, he suddenly heard a loud bang, and in the fierce battle, a treasure ship seemed to have been hit by artillery fire in the powder compartment, and the back half of the aft building was blown away, and on the other side, more and more Daming pirates boarded the deck, crackling bullets like rain, and the Spaniards who had dropped dozens of corpses were blocked below the deck and could not come out.

Behind him, those Zheng family pirate ships were also like cats that smelled fishy, ready to move, and when they looked back, beads of sweat the size of beans kept dripping from their heads, and Zheng Sen gritted his teeth fiercely.

"Shi Daxuan, you take people to visit one boat after another in person, and order them to wait and see what happens! If you have to come forward to find death, then you can't blame this son! ”

"Childe, this ......"

"Go!"

In desperation, Shi Daxuan hurriedly ran to the edge of the deck, and immediately went down the rope, next to the nearest Guo Yi boat, his roar soon sounded, Zheng Sen continued to hold the telescope to watch, beads of sweat flowed from his forehead, and even accumulated a small pool on the ground.

He is also making a big gamble, and the gamble is not only about the gold wealth on the treasure ship!

Luckily, he won the bet! Just when the tongue-curling Daming pirates almost completely controlled the battlefield, a sail shadow suddenly emerged from the end of Galio's single-shot island!

(End of chapter)