The first batch of displaced people gathered in Henan went to sea by boat, and the Far Eastern Company also made active preparations. The Admiralty mobilized almost all of its main forces and successively arrived at the coasts of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Liu Xiang of Guangdong, Zheng Zhilong of Fujian, and Song Shiping of Jiangsu and Zhejiang also drove a large number of their ships here.

In addition to this, the coasts of the garrison areas of Luzon, Jeju and Tanegashima will be sent most of their forces. The company's two 10,000-ton giant ships will also sail to the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Far Eastern companies mobilized almost all the maritime transport forces they could.

For a time, the sea area near the mouth of the Yellow River was full of sails, and the dense sea boats almost covered the sea. There are also a large number of offshore Class A barges from Liaodong, hovering near the mouth of the Yellow River, transferring the displaced people from the ships coming out of the mouth of the Yellow River to distant sailboats.

Although the displaced people were frightened, they didn't know what fate they would face next, so the scene was very chaotic for a while. However, the Far East sent a large number of officers and soldiers to maintain order, and there were no warm pictures in the whole process, and there were rough pushing and scolding everywhere.

There is no time to explain it now, and if it does, no one believes it, and it may backfire and cause even more confusion. Therefore, the only thing that can be done at present is to transport the displaced people to Liaodong at a cost.

Since last autumn, the Henan side has begun to collect displaced people, and the total number of people has reached more than 100,000, and the consumption of silver and grain alone is already an astronomical amount. Moreover, after arriving in Liaodong, these displaced people will continue to consume a lot of resources in the Far East.

Fortunately, the Far Eastern Company has lacked everything in recent years, that is, there is no shortage of silver, and Manila alone has brought a lot of dividends to the Far Eastern Company every year. There are also the Mongol tribes in the far east to the north, Korea and Japan in the south, and the Ming in the west. Every year it maintains a high trade turnover and the profits are very huge.

In particular, the Ming Dynasty, Song Shiping, Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang, as well as the Henan Far East Commercial Bank, which operated the commodities of the Far East, have covered the entire Ming Dynasty. Thanks to the huge population base and wealthy class of the Ming Dynasty. This makes the harsh winter lucrative.

Just as all the maritime powers of the Far East were converging on the waters of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, a large number of Western sailing ships were entering Southeast Asia from the Sunda Strait every day. Instead of heading to Batavia, these Western sailing ships anchored in several bays on the islands near the Java Sea.

This is the warships of the East India Company of the Netherlands, Portugal, Britain, Sweden, Denmark and other countries, as well as the scattered armed merchant ships of Spain and France, which formed the combined fleet of eight European countries, commonly known as the "Eight-Nation Alliance". The combined fleet will have more than two hundred warships and merchant ships.

Nearly 100 merchant ships have been berthed in the ports of Batavia, Aceh, Tanah Salin, Malacca, Banten, Kedah, and Ayuto, all of which are Western merchant ships flying the five-star red flag, freely entering the waters north of Luzon, and trading in Manila. Most of them also came from the merchant ships of these countries. Some of them were merchant ships of the East India Company.

These ships formed a flotilla and scattered to the East, where they were repaired and resupplied in India, and then rushed to Southeast Asia. The commander of the combined fleet was the Dutchman Cracy, and two other lieutenants were from Portugal and England. Fell, a senior merchant of the Dutch East India Company, served as a special commissioner and organized a delegation with representatives of the East India Company of Great Britain, Portugal, Denmark and Sweden, and was responsible for liaising and coordinating the work of ships from various countries.

In addition, a large number of British royal pirates will also enter Southeast Asia through the Strait of Malacca. They will harass the waters north of Luzon. The Far East Company's intelligence department had only intelligence stations in the larger ports of Batavia, Goa, and Colombo, and was unaware of the movements of the European countries.

The combined fleets of several European countries and the British Royal Corsairs. They were also afraid that these large ports would have the eyes of the Far East, so they chose relatively hidden ports when they repaired and replenished supplies in India.

And they also entered Southeast Asia in batches, and then slowly anchored in several hidden ports. After the convoy was settled, several countries and the heads of each flotilla gathered together to study the plan to attack Manila.

Because most of the maritime forces in the Far East received displaced people along the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The Luzon South Sea Fleet also sent most of its forces to support. At present, there are only two cutting-edge sailing ships and more than a dozen offshore first-class barges left in the Manila military port for strategic duty. The four guerrilla fleets now have just over 200 junk boats left, patrolling the waters around Luzon.

Even Zheng Zhilong in Fujian and Liu Xiang in Guangdong, the relatively large Fuchuan, Sha and Guangzhou ships under their command almost poured out of their nests, and all rushed to the waters of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to support the company's immigration operations. Patrol forces currently in the Far East north of Luzon. It's just a few relatively small junks, and there are only a few hundred of them.

In recent years, the Far East has stubbornly defended the waters north of Luzon, whether it is a sailing ship in the West or a lucky ship in the Ming Dynasty, as long as they dare to cross the line, their fate is often very miserable. Countless Chinese junk pirate ships will come from all over the sea like sharks smelling fishy and surround these ships.

In recent years, the waters north of Luzon have been very calm, and there have been few incidents of Western sailing ships daring to cross the line. So over the years, the pirates under Liu Xiang and Zheng Zhilong have inevitably slackened a little, but they will still cruise on the sea.

Since following the Far East, these pirates have lived a few comfortable years, and now they don't have to work hard, but every year they take more silver than before. Every day at sea at ease, as chic as you want.

If you catch up with the Far East to summon them to do things, you will also receive an additional reward, which is much more comfortable than before.

The old blind was 12 years old and drifted on the sea, starting from a small pirate, and followed Liu Da to fight at sea for nearly 20 years, blind in one right eye, and finally survived, and he was also a small sea lord with a few bird boats in his hand.

He has been drifting at sea for more than ten days with a few bird boats in his hand, and the two years of leisure have made everyone live a very nourishing life. The old blind sat on the deck basking in the sun and dozing off. I drank a little too much last night, and now my head is still a little groggy.

Suddenly, a pirate shouted loudly: "Boss, there is a ship ahead......

The old blind raised his head listlessly, and scolded impatiently: "Shout a fart, if there is a boat, go over and take a look, let the flag be planted, and take it without the flag." ”

"Master, come and take a look......"

Listening to the panicked shouts of his subordinates, the old blind man slowly opened one eye, and then lazily got up from the deck, and took out the other monoculars on his waist casually. Then he walked to the bow of the boat and placed the telescope on his only remaining one-eye.

But when he saw the sea in the distance, he was shocked. He turned around abruptly and yelled at a group of panicked pirates beside him: "What are you doing in a daze, tell the other ship handles, let them run separately, run one by one, hurry back and report the news, hurry up...... (To be continued......)

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