The Ming warships swaggered into the Strait of Malacca, as if they were in a no-man's land.

In a narrow place, on the Portuguese batteries seven or eight miles away, you can clearly see the Ming fleet passing, but the cannons can't reach it, so you can only stare dryly.

Within the strait, there were many merchant ships from other countries and some escort warships blocked inside, and when they saw the endless Ming fleet approaching, they were so frightened that they hurriedly avoided it.

Almost everyone on board was stunned when they saw the battleships of the Ming army.

God, what is that mountain-like monster?

One, two, three......

Hell, you can't see the end at all! How many of these behemoths do these Ming people have?

All the merchant ships were so frightened that they hid aside, and the battleships hurriedly put their cannons in their holds, for fear of causing some misunderstanding.

But not necessarily all the ships were afraid, a few merchant ships were not only not afraid, but also dared to approach boldly, and even all the crew members stood on the deck and yelled at the Ming warships.

This courage shocked the merchant ships and warships of all countries present.

These people are not afraid of death?

However, when they took a closer look through a telescope, they finally understood.

The boats were all hung with golden and red-edged pennants, and the flags were waving in the wind, and you could see a boxy word on them.

Anyone who has been in the Far East knows that the character on it is the Chinese character - "Ming"!

And this horribly large fleet flies the same flag!

The crews of several Ming merchant ships were now as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, shouting, shouting, waving, and extending their warmest and noblest greetings to their own warships.

Since the opening of the sea ban, countless Ming merchant ships have gone to sea, but after going to sea, they found that the current sea has been divided by others, and they have to pay for the road every time they reach a sphere of influence.

This is not bad, but the most afraid are those who don't even give a chance to pay the money and come up to grab it.

When you encounter this kind of thing, you have no place to reason, so you can only admit it yourself.

What made them even more breathless was that even if they didn't encounter other countries' warships, they had to be careful just when they encountered other countries' merchant ships.

For example, if you dare to collect things in the port, if you dare to collect things that are favored by merchants from other countries, then you have to wait, their warships will come to you sooner or later to make trouble.

People have warships that run rampant on the ocean, do you have them?

Except for a few sea areas such as the southern Fujian Sea, where Zheng Zhilong's old department is covered, there are really no other places.

But now, they have!

Not only that, but it's the kind of fleet that looks scary.

Who can shake such a fleet?

It's like a child who has been bullied for a long time and suddenly sees his own adult coming.

A sense of security, that's what a real sense of security is.

Several old maritime merchants couldn't help but burst into tears, and their mouths couldn't stop muttering.

"Prosperous, prosperous!"

At this moment, everyone believed that the prosperous era had really come.

And when the Ming army sailors on the warship saw this situation, they didn't feel their blood boiling.

......

The fleet sailed unhurriedly, and towards evening, the whole fleet turned northward, towards the east coast of Temasek.

From the map, they were approaching a small port called Bedok.

This is a small fishing village on the east coast of Temasek, but it will be a good tourist attraction in the future.

However, this is not important, the important thing is that after landing here, travel more than 20 miles northwest to the seat of the Portuguese governor's palace in Mangaraga.

Here, the Portuguese set up twelve shore defense guns, which were in the shape of east and west horns.

But the Ming army used only twenty battleships, and they were easily eliminated by fixed points.

I have to say, why will later generations regard large battleships as the gods of the sea? It is because the firepower and armor of this kind of battleships are too terrible -- and these battleships of the Ming Dynasty may be the only batch of battleships in the world that can truly be qualified as battleships.

Of course, Qin Shuhuai would not have thought that if he did this, the world would set off a wave of frenzied battleship construction in the next few years.

After destroying the shore defense artillery, a large number of Ming troops landed on the shore in small boats.

At this time, the seven hundred mercenaries stationed here scattered without firing a shot.

Count them smart, otherwise, with the support of naval guns, they may not even have scum left.

And when the Ming army was in the process of logging, many passing ships saw this scene.

They were all stunned.

Everyone can see that the Ming Kingdom is ready to reoccupy this place and bring it under their control.

Many Westerners who were coming to the Far East for the first time on the passing ships could not help but exclaim after seeing this scene.

"God, where is this fleet, are they crazy? They are trying to challenge the Portuguese!"

"It's the Orientals! It's the Orientals! They must be crazy, they've attacked the Portuguese!"

It is no wonder that these Xiyi exclaimed, because at that time, Portugal was still one of the three giants of the Age of Discovery, and almost no one dared to provoke it in Europe.

Although their presence in the Far East was not as strong as that of the Dutch, when they occupied Manchuria, the Dutch did not dare to covet it in the slightest, and they still had to pay taxes to the Portuguese as they passed through it.

So when the Portuguese had been working hard for decades to see Manraka being attacked, all Westerners from Europe were dumbfounded.

However, when they saw the subsequent huge warships appearing from the horizon one after another, they completely retracted what they had just said.

"Oh my God, what did I see! What kind of fleet is this, where the hell did these behemoths come from?"

"Hell, am I in the wrong place? Is there such a strong fleet in the Far East?"

"What if this fleet sails to Europe? What if it sails to the Mediterranean?"

The landing of the Ming army went very smoothly and occupied the beachhead almost without bloodshed.

Qin Shuhuai appointed Zhang Xiao with full authority to command the landing operation, and Meng Hu, Lai San'er, and Chen Jing were appointed as generals.

A total of 2,000 Demon Sect soldiers, 3,000 Martial Arts Coalition Army, and 3,000 Guanning troops participated in the landing operation, totaling 8,000 people.

Why don't you send more to the shore?

Qin Shuhuai felt that the other party was only eight or nine thousand troops, so there was no need to spend a lot of time.

That's right, the Portuguese firearms are really good, especially the arquebus, which is more advanced than the imitation of the Ming Dynasty.

But don't forget, this is nothing more than an arquebus.

How awesome can you go?

Just by virtue of the rate of fire of more than a minute and one shot, and by the fact that it is necessary to form a dense phalanx to concentrate fire, in order to improve the accuracy of the target, how awesome can it go?

The Ming army is equipped with a bird gun, which is almost a shot every more than a minute, and the accuracy is not high, but when everyone is bad, how bad can it be?

What's more, this group of Ming troops was armed to the teeth.

Shields, armor, crossbows, bows, cannons, and thunderbolts are all the same, and even if the bird guns are slightly worse than the Portuguese arquebuses, they can definitely make up for that little difference.

Also, don't forget that this is the world of martial arts.

It is not excluded that Westerners can also martial arts, but judging from the records of Westerners since the beginning of Jiajing, there is no mention that the other party's martial arts are very powerful.

That means that the Central Plains martial arts are dominant for Westerners.

In addition, among the 9,000 soldiers and horses of the other side, there are only 2,000 pure Portuguese regular troops, and the remaining 7,000 are just indigenous troops recruited locally, so there is no need to be afraid.

Soon, all 8,000 Ming troops had landed.