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The remaining few people are not as ruthless as the Japanese, but they all say that they are willing to fight hard.

Although Gao Yihuan had been to the South Seas, he had not experienced a fierce battle, and he hired thirty guards this time to strengthen the ship's combat power.

Now it seems that the people selected by Gao Lao Sanxuan are not bad, especially the five Japanese, it is said that they are from the Changzhou Domain, and if they don't agree with each other, they should be full of powerful characters. The other men are also very strong, and the three Koreans are a little worse.

After Gao Yihuan gave the order, he asked them to return to their original positions, and then walked to the cabin to rest.

Luzon Bay is five or six days away from Sulu, and what needs to be done now is to recuperate, but the guards of the new ship are a little excited, and they ask questions around the old sailor, while Chen Guigui touches the pitch-black body of the Hongyi cannon.

The sea voyage is very boring, and the old sailors are also happy to talk to the rookies, bragging, telling yellow jokes, and before you know it, it is completely dark.

At night, the dark cabins and decks were full of men, and the sound of snoring mingled with the sound of the waves outside the cabin and the squeak of the hull. In the shipbuilding, the lights were still on, and Gao Yihuan was talking to Shinjiro Watanabe, Watanabe's Chinese was not very good, and some people who didn't understand it talked to Gao Yihuan.

In the circles affected by nationalization, Korea, Japan, Annam, etc., mostly use Chinese characters, so even if there is a language barrier, it can be written, but it is just Gao Yihuan's handwriting, which is really ugly, while Watanabe Shinjiro's handwriting is very beautiful. In the Song Dynasty, the national warriors had been completely separated, and the Japanese samurai were more focused on martial arts, but they had the characteristics of the Tang Dynasty.

This Shibujiro Watanabe was a samurai of the Choshu Domain, and after the Japanese Edo Shogunate signed a treaty of trade with the Ming Dynasty, Kyushu, Shikoku and southern Honshu were the first to suffer from the impact of Ming Dynasty goods.

Although the southern Japanese feudal domains sent large quantities of supplies to the Ming Dynasty, they were unable to reverse the trade deficit. Because of the Ming Dynasty's right to negotiate taxes, the feudal domains could not raise taxes to ensure the development of their own handicraft workshops, so that the development of Japan's handicraft industry was slow under the suppression of Ming Dynasty goods.

In addition, many Ming merchants took advantage of the shortcomings of Japan's monetary system to extract a large amount of wealth from Japan, resulting in the financial bankruptcy of the Choshu Domain, which had been suppressed by the shogunate.

The exchange between gold and silver in Japan was one or four or five, and the Ming Dynasty was one ten, and many merchants in the Ming Dynasty took advantage of this to exchange five taels of silver coins in the Ming Dynasty for one or two gold in Japan, and then shipped the gold back to China.

Taken together, the finances of the daimyo in the south shrank severely, and some low-ranking samurai who could not receive their salaries were displaced in all directions, causing social turmoil in Japan. This made many low-level samurai dissatisfied with the shogunate, destroyed the originally stable pyramid structure of Japanese society, and formed many social problems.

Of course, Shibujiro Watanabe didn't know about these problems, he was just a low-level samurai, and Gao Yihuan wanted to ask him if he had any companions, and hoped to introduce a few more people to the company.

The two communicated until midnight before they went to rest. After dawn, the sailors on the deck woke up, and the ship began to make noise, and Gao Yihuan got up and went to the deck, and looked at the charts, and the ship was almost to Mindanao and entered the Sulu Sea.

At this time, more than 200 ships flying the black flag on the left flank suddenly changed their course and sailed along the coast into the strait between Mindanao and the Visayas, and sailed along the archipelago.

The Luzon archipelago can be divided into three parts, Luzon to the north, Visayas to the north, and Mindanao to the south.

The ship's crew also saw the flotilla on the left flank separate from them, enter the strait, and soon hide behind the island and disappear.

From the departure of Zheng Chenggong's main warship from the fleet to the departure of the left flank fleet, the ship's people realized that the battle was about to start, and the fleet, which was still a little noisy, immediately settled down.

At this time, the right flank fleet continued to sail south, and after half a day it reached Mindanao, south of the strait, and the Fuhai hoisted the flag to the east, and the whole fleet began to sail towards the strait, and when it was dark, it took refuge in one of the bays of the island.

More than 200 ships on the left and right wings hid on both sides of the strait, and Gao Yihuan could guess the battle plan of the Luzon Navy without explanation.

Sulu was southwest of Mindanao, and the plan of the Luzon sailors must have been to bring the Spanish ships into the strait and then besiege them on three sides.

If it is said that the Ming Dynasty sailors are coming, it is surrounded on all sides, and the Spanish warships will be difficult to fly.

In fact, counting the number of ships and tonnage of artillery, Spain's Far East Fleet is not much, the Ming Dynasty sailors and Luzon water are five or six times his combined, but they have not been able to completely defeat the Spaniards, a big reason is that because of their fast ships, a single warship has strong firepower, often three or four Luzon warships can not catch a Spanish warship.

The Dutch gave up their advantage to defend the fortress on land, so that the ship nested in the harbor and was blocked by the Ming Dynasty, plus the Ming Dynasty sailors also had more than ten clippers, so if they gave up Malacca and took a boat to fight, maybe the battle between Ming and Dutch was not over.

After the fleet entered the harbor Shadow Collection, everyone, including Gao Yihuan, became nervous.

Gao Yihuan stood on the ship's building and looked left and right, and the sailors of other ships began to throw their spears, hooks, swords, shields and other weapons on the deck, and the gunners moved the wooden boxes containing projectiles and gunpowder packs to the artillery.

Seeing this, Gao Yihuan immediately ordered: "Everyone also hurry up and prepare, check the equipment, and see if there are any mistakes." ”

At that moment, the crew of the Sanhe also began to prepare for themselves, and the black donkey also came down from Wangdou, took a self-generated gun and ammunition, crawled and put it in Wangdou, and then climbed down again, took a bow and a pot of arrows, and also threw them into Wangdou.

Everyone was busy and the sky was dark again, and the stars appeared in the sky, Gao Yihuan looked up for a while before returning to the shipbuilding to rest.

In the next few days, the fleet was nested in this unknown harbor, never waiting for Zheng Chenggong's fleet to come, nor did they see the shadow of the Spaniards, and everyone's spirits were in a high state of tension.

The boat space is small, there are many people, and after a few days, there have been several fights, all because of a trivial matter. Gao Yihuan knew that this was everyone's mental depression, and it was the same with the ship, and he didn't punish the deck too much.

Time slowly came to the evening of the seventh day, Gao Yihuan slowly fell asleep, and about the fifth watch, there was a sudden rumbling sound outside the shipbuilding.

He thought it was thunder and it was going to rain, so he walked out in a single coat and bumped into Chen Guigui who came to look for him, "Master, there is a situation in the west!" ”

Gao Yihuan's face changed, and he hurriedly walked out of the shipbuilding, the sky was bright, there was no sign of rain, he was turning to the west, and a roar continued to come, and with the sound, the sky in the west could still see red light.

"It's a cannon!" Gao Yihuan exclaimed, "It's coming!" ”

The movement had awakened all the people in the harbor, and they all came out of the cabin to look west, but when they heard the sound, the artillery battle should still be more than ten miles away.

Gao Yihuan has also seen the scene in Malacca, but this time he participated in person, he was excited and nervous, he looked at the sky, estimated that the horse would be dawn, and he couldn't sleep, so he hurriedly ordered: "Third child, go get food, it's time to start a war at dawn!" ”

At this time, the deck of each ship in the bay was full of sailors and escorts, and everyone stood in their own position, with various weapons around them, mainly muskets and swords and spears, and the gunners loaded each gun with ammunition, and then pushed the guns to extend the muzzles out of the gun windows.

The black donkey had climbed the lookout and looked to the west, but because of the mountain peaks, he could not see the sea to the west, but only the front of the bay, where it was pitch black.

At this time, dozens of black behemoths on the sea were moving, and the black body spewed out orange flames from time to time, making a roaring sound, shaking the sea and trembling, and the scene was very grand.

As the black object moved, the bay got closer and closer in the sound of cannons, and the sky lit up.

Gao Yihuan also climbed the lookout with his clairvoyant mirror, at this time at the entrance of the bay, about six or seven miles away, more than forty warships with the Luzon flag fled eastward, a three-masted Daifuku ship broke the mast in the shelling, slowly distanced itself from the main force, and was soon set on fire by the Spanish fleet behind, and the ship was beaten to pieces, and slowly sank into the sea in Gao Yihuan's circular vision······

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