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Wang Guichen and they successfully landed in Nanhuazhou, which is a continent where the Spaniards and Dutch have already visited, but at present, only some natives live in a primitive state.

If they sailed in a straight line about 5,800 nautical miles from Wang Guichen's landing place at eleven o'clock, it would be Ceylon.

What is the concept of 5,800 nautical miles, if it is calculated with the top speed of 14 knots of the clipper boat, it will take about 10 days to sail.

Of course, God can't always give you smooth sailing, according to the actual situation, even if you don't encounter a storm, it will take more than a month to sail 5,800 nautical miles. This is something that only clippers can do.

From this point of view, Daqin's clipping ship greatly shortened the distance of the ocean.

5,800 nautical miles away from Wang Guichen's landing site, Ke Chenshu, the deputy admiral of the ocean-going fleet, led three huge treasure ships and 34 slender and graceful clippers to the island of Ceylon in three days.

Ceylon is a tear in the Indian Ocean.

And this time, someone is destined to shed tears. At least that's what many Qin soldiers think.

In the harbor of Gaulangbu, the Dutch Viceroy in India, Cruznal, and the military governor Wernardo are engaged in a heated argument.

"No, Your Excellency the Governor, I must remind you once again that your decision is foolish, and now is definitely not the time for a decisive battle with the Qin fleet, which will only lead to a complete defeat like the last war in the Far East."

"Wernerdo, are you going to give up the port of Golangbu?"

"This is not a relinquishment, just a temporary transfer, Your Excellency the Governor, you must understand that the forts in the harbor are useless to the Qin army, unless you can put the cannons up. Knock down the birds of the sky.

In the face of Qin's warships, our only way is to maneuver, use our familiarity with sea conditions and climate, and find the best fighters in our favor, only in this way can we win this war. ”

Perhaps Wernerdo has a point, but the port of Cochin is too important, although the Dutch Viceroyalty in India was previously located in the port of Cochin, but the geographical location of the port of Cochin is far less advantageous than that of the port of Golangbu, let alone the strategic position.

As the British had good relations with the Mughals, they seized a large share of trade. The Port of Cochin, the most important port for trade between the Netherlands and India, is now declining.

The port of Gaolangbu is located in the shipping lanes of the east and west oceans of India, and its strategic position is becoming more and more prominent.

Even he, the governor, has always been working in Gao Langbu Port. How is it possible to give up on such a strategically important port?

Governor Cruznal had more to think about, while the military commander Wernardo was mainly from a military point of view, because the two sides had a huge disagreement on the matter.

"Your Excellency the Governor, what is now assembled here in the port of Gao Langbu is only half of our strength in the Indian Ocean. Nasser's fleet is running out of time, so we have to go north to join them, gather all our forces, and find the right fighters. to win the war. How is it possible to use half of the battleship to fight the Qin army now? ”

"However, after abandoning the port of Gaolangbu and letting the Qin people occupy it, it is equivalent to letting them control the strategic fortress of the eastern and western oceans of India. It will be more difficult for us to defeat them, and we will probably lose control of the Indian Ocean forever. ”

No fleet can stay adrift at sea forever. Therefore, some strategic bases on the vast ocean have become the lifeblood of controlling the ocean, and whoever will hold these strategic bases will have the initiative.

From this point of view, Governor Cruznal was not wrong in his thinking.

But the problem now is that the weapons of the Qin army are too advanced, and no matter how strong the fortress is in front of the Qin army, it is useless, they can fly above your head and bombard indiscriminately, but you have no way to deal with him.

The pattern of war has changed, and guarding a fortress is tantamount to guarding a grave.

But the mode of war has changed only to the Qin army, and they still need to rely on these fortresses, otherwise they will be more passive. That's where the contradiction lies.

"Your Excellency the Governor, if you are not willing to temporarily abandon Gaolangbu Harbor, in order to preserve my strength, I can only leave on my own with the fleet."

"You can't do that!"

"Then your Excellency, tell me what should I do? Let all the warships stay in Gaolangbu Harbor and let the Qin army capture them one by one? ”

This time, Cruznar and Wernardo originally wanted to gather all their strength in Gaolangbu Harbor and then fight the Qin army, but the Qin army's reaction was very fast, and the speed of their battleships was amazing;

So much so that the fleet led by Nasser, who had just fought against the Ottoman Empire, had not yet arrived at Gaolangbu Port, but the fleet of the Qin people arrived first, which made Cruznal and Wernardo very passive.

Cruznar thought for a while and said, "You send some warships to block it first, you can hold off the fleet of the Qin State for a few days, and then Nassell's fleet will also arrive." ”

"Your Excellency, this is stupidity, you can't do it, you know? Let's not talk about the flying wings of the Qin army, just talk about their warships, and the speed of the wind is almost our two companions. We sent some warships to intercept them, but once they appeared in the field of vision of the Qin army, they couldn't escape, Your Excellency the Governor, you are sending them to death. ”

The two highest commanders disagreed, and the quarrel was very fierce, so that the Dutch soldiers outside listened to it, and they were very frightened, and they exchanged ears one by one, and whispered about it.

In the end, Governor Cruznal relented, agreeing to let Wernardo take the warships from the port of Gaurangbu out to sea with the armed merchant ships, and join Nasser as he headed south, to search for fighters.

But he did not flee with him, and heroically insisted on staying in person, using the 400 army to guard the port of Gaolangbu.

After a little more persuasion, Wernardo saw that he could not convince Cruznal to change his mind, so he had to pay him high respect, and then hurriedly left the port of Golangbu with his fleet.

At present, there are only nine warships under Wernardo, and the other eighteen are armed merchant ships, not to mention the combat effectiveness, just the number and tonnage are far behind Ke Chenshu's fleet.

After the defeat on the island of Java, the Netherlands urgently transferred the Indian fleet from the mainland, counting 20 large warships, and it was these 20 warships that defeated the Ottoman navy led by the Ottoman Governor of Yemen, Carter, in the waters of the Persian Gulf.

Along the way, Nasser also integrated a total of 24 armed merchant ships from various ports on the west coast. So, that's the main force of the Netherlands in India.

Wernerdo's greatest fear was the Qin army's glider, which he studied very seriously;

Because there is no physical reference, just from the descriptions of some people who have seen gliders flying in the sky, Wernardo has people tried to make them many times, but they have failed, and the glider they made cannot fly at all.

Although it was not copied, Wernardo insisted that if the weather was bad, it would be impossible for Qin's glider to take off.

Without this unguardable threat from the sky, Wernardo felt that the Qin army would not be so terrifying.

The fighter he was looking for was to fight to the death with the Qin army in a complex sea condition and bad weather.

Only then will he have a chance to win.

Westerners have rich experience in naval warfare, and they are not stupid, Wernardo's idea can be said to be very correct, if the Qin army fights a decisive battle when the glider cannot take off, it is really difficult to predict who will die in the end.

Just as Vilnado led the fleet of Gao Langbu Port to the north, the ocean fleet led by Ke Chenshu went south along the east coast of Ceylon Island and went straight to Gao Langbu Port.

Ke Chenshu knew very well that it would be difficult to find the Dutch fleet on the ocean, and that would have to be done purely by shit luck, so all they could do was capture the most important strategic stronghold;

Then, using these strategic strongholds as a base to control the ship lines in the Indian Ocean, even if the Dutch fleet could not be found for the time being, at least it was necessary to prevent them from crossing the island of Ceylon and plundering the Great Qin merchant ships that came to trade with India.

At dusk on the second day of Wernerdo's departure, Ke Chenshu's fleet appeared like a devil outside the port of Gaolangbu, all the hulls and sails were black, mysterious black, cold black

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