In the afternoon, Zheng Zhihu's vanguard fleet continued to approach the entrance to the Strait of Malacca, stopping only two miles away from the Francoix fleet guarding the entrance.

The fleets of the two sides confronted each other, and the muzzles of the black holes pointed at each other, and the war was about to break out.

At this time, the follow-up fleet of the Ming army gradually drove up, and several fan-shaped formations were set up outside the entrance to the Strait of Malacca, and now ships of any country should not want to pass here.

Qin Shuhuai is not in a hurry, anyway, the British still have to transport weapons to Ava, and there is no news that Li Dingguo's army has entered Siam now, and he has time to fight with the Portuguese first.

In other words, the Straits of Malacca are determined to be won. Others can not know the importance of this strait, and he would be a fool if he did not know it again.

If you can't even control the Strait of Malacca, then it is better to chop and burn firewood for so many warships built by the Ming Dynasty.

This era is the era when the strong are kings.

The Europeans can even get a royal license to be pirates, so he now has an invincible fleet, and of course he has to grab enough territory.

In the evening, the envoy came to see Zheng Zhihu for the second time.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency, after careful consideration on our part, I now convey to you the opinion of Governor Nelson. As long as your fleet is divided into several batches of no more than five large ships, or ten small ships, we will allow your fleet to pass through and provide all necessary assistance. In addition, the Governor has also said that in the interest of friendship with your country, we will open navigation to you free of charge. ”

After the general secretary translated these words, Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Cai, and the generals of the First Dry Water Division who were present immediately laughed.

"Hehe, these red-haired ghosts originally wanted to buy money from us!"

"Haha, it's domineering enough. ”

"This place was originally our Daming, when will you have to look at other people's faces when you walk your own way?"

Zheng Zhihu smiled and waved his hand at the fierce generals who had turned around the pirates below, signaling them to be quiet.

Then he said to the messenger, "This messenger, the opinion of your governor will have been received." In addition, Ben will also convey to you the opinion of our grandfather, who said that our fleet must pass together, and at the same time, the muzzles of your batteries must be retracted when passing through, so as not to cause accidents. Of course, as a sign of sincerity, the muzzles of our fleet will be fully retracted. ”

The messenger groaned, and asked, "Do you really want to pass together?" with all due respect, it will make us very uneasy, and the Governor will not agree to this condition. ”

After the general secretary translated this, the audience suddenly fell silent.

All the generals of the Ming army stared at the messenger with cannibalistic eyes, and the messenger felt a chill in the air, which gave him goosebumps all over his body.

Zheng Zhihu still had a smile on his face, but the smile was more contemptuous and disdainful.

After a long time, he said slowly, "Our grandfather also said that he is not very good-tempered, and if he can't talk, he will flip the table." I beseech your envoy to bring this to you, Your Excellency. ”

When the messenger heard this, his face was as pale as earth.

After a pause, he asked, "General Zheng, take the liberty of asking, can you let me meet Master An Guogong?"

Zheng Zhihu sneered, "What is the identity of our grandfather, how can you be a little envoy who will see you when he sees it?"

The messenger sighed, knowing that it would be useless to say more, and said, "In that case, I will take my leave." Your Excellency, General, I will bring it to the Governor. ”

Zheng Zhihu said, "I'll give you another day to think about it, if you don't see a reply within a day, I will treat it as your rejection of this friendly offer." Anything unforeseen will be your responsibility. ”

The envoy was furious and half dead, bullshit friendly proposal! Could it be that your Ming would agree to another country swaggering into your river with a huge fleet?

......

In the Governor's Palace, the Portuguese generals gathered together to discuss countermeasures.

As expected, the generals were divided into the main battle faction and the main peace faction, and the two sides quarreled fiercely, which made Nelson's head even more painful.

Nelson actually prefers the main battle because he has a very important and irrefutable reason.

That is, the Ming army is now conducting military operations in the ports of the Far East, and their ambition to dominate the Far East is already obvious.

And at this moment, they came to Manraka with such a large fleet, but they said that they just wanted to pass through the strait, so simple, I am afraid it is not convincing.

The Manraka Strait is a key point of waterway transportation between the East and the West, if the Ming army wants to dominate the Far East, how can it be good to give up if it is not taken here?

It's only through ?, the devil believes them!

But the question is, if you fight them, how do you fight to win?

The other side has seventy super warships as huge as a hill, and each ship is equipped with eighteen cannons of the same level as the shore defense guns, which adds up to more than a thousand!

Hell, what kind of firepower is this?

And how many coastal defense guns are there in the whole of Manchuria? It's about one-ninth of the people's guns!

As for those battleships at the entrance, Nelson was even less hopeful. The largest of those warships is the Galen class, and they are now surrounded by the Ming army, as long as the battle starts, the whole army will be wiped out in an instant.

He now regrets using those warships to blockade the port, because he misjudged that the dozen or so big ships and more than thirty small ships were all the warships sent by the Ming army this time, so if the two sides confront each other, plus they have shore defense artillery on the shore, they will not suffer a loss.

But I didn't expect that it was just someone's vanguard fleet, and there were several times as many warships behind it.

In this way, once the battle starts, the opponent can cripple his fleet with a single artillery fire.

If he had known this, he would not have put the battleship at the entrance of the strait to confront the Ming army.

Now, those battleships are almost equivalent to giving them to the Ming army.

No, you can't just give the soldiers their lives.

In any case, let's withdraw the fleet there first.

......

Early the next morning, the messenger came to Zheng Zhihu's ship for the third time.

This time he said, "Your Excellency, our Governor, in a show of our great friendship with your country, declares our agreement to your plan. ”

Zheng Zhihu said suspiciously, "Hey, you agreed so quickly?"

The messenger said, "Yes, it is an order from the Governor. We will withdraw all the ships at the entrance later, and all shore defense guns will have their muzzles retracted. At the same time, we also hope that all your ships will be able to put away their guns. ”

Zheng Zhihu is also an old sailor who followed Zheng Zhilong to fight in the south and the north, how do you think about it, how do you think this is wrong.

Fools know that as long as such a large fleet of the Ming army enters the strait, it will be easy to destroy the batteries on both sides of the strait.

Could it be that the governor of the other side is a fool?

It's not like ah, if you were a fool, you wouldn't have asked so much before.

But Zheng Zhihu, who was scheming, still said quietly, "Since that's the case, it's best, you guys should quickly withdraw the battleship." ”

After the envoy left, Zheng Zhihu immediately sent someone to take a small clipper to inform Qin Shuhuai.

Qin Shuhuai was also very surprised after receiving the news, thinking to himself that it would be possible for the other party to really want to let our army pass "amicably"?

At this time, the lookout sent a report that the fleet of the Franciscos had begun to withdraw into the strait.

Although Meng Hu didn't understand naval warfare, he still asked, "Grandpa Guo, just let them run away?"

Qin Shuhuai didn't understand naval warfare, but he felt that it was simply intolerable not to eat the fat in his mouth.

So he said, "Fuck it, tell the whole army that you can flip the table." ”

Lai San'er smiled, "Helper, we seem to be unreasonable this time." Haha, it's like two gangs negotiating, and everyone has already agreed to our request, so let's still lift the table and cut people. ”

Qin Shuhuai kicked Lai San'er, "Lao Tzu has a big temper, okay?"

Meng Hu also kicked Lai San'er, and then ran out with a smile to give the order.

The reason why Qin Shuhuai ordered the cannon was because he felt that unless the Portuguese didn't want Malacca, they would definitely not easily let such a large Ming fleet enter the strait.

Then on the other hand, they are now allowing the fleet to enter, and they must be making some calculations.

Since you can't guess what the other party is doing, it's better to solve what can be solved first, and it's better to have fewer opponents, right?

It is said that after Meng Hu conveyed Qin Shuhuai's order to the captain, the captain immediately ordered the captain to open fire.

Boom Boom!

The eight Hongyi cannons on the battleship were the first to fire, and in the smoke of gunpowder, eight huge shells erupted in thin air.

The flagship that Qin Shuhuai was riding on was about five miles away from the Portuguese battleship, and the Hongyi cannon could hit it, but the accuracy was not so high.

But fortunately, the opposing fleet was huddled at the mouth of the strait, relatively dense, and these eight shells were lucky enough to hit one shot.

Boom!

The shell struck a Galen ship, sending sawdust flying and a hole in one of the Galen's decks.

When the other warships of the Ming army saw that the flagship of the grandfather of the country had fired, they did not hesitate to fire on the spot.

Boom Boom!

It seemed that a storm had suddenly ushered in the tranquil sea, and a loud roar erupted.

The Ming army had already surrounded the Portuguese fleet in several fan-shaped semi-circles before, and the sides of each ship were bound to face the opposing battleship.

So this fire, the maximum firepower was used.

Seventy battleships, each with eight Hongyi cannons on each side, and if one salvo was fired it would be five hundred and sixty shells.

In addition, there were eight Galen ships, each equipped with three Hongyi cannons on its sides, which could also fire immediately.

In addition, there were more than 30 junk ships and more than 60 small and medium-sized ships, and they were relatively close to each other, and the Franco cannons were just within reach, and they could also fire their guns.

At one time, nearly a thousand shells whistled away, can you imagine what kind of perverted firepower coverage it was?

The Portuguese fleet was immediately devastated.

Nelson's original calculation was to first pretend to agree to the passage of the Ming army, withdraw the fleet at the mouth of the strait into the strait, and then rely on the shore defense artillery to fight the Ming army.

But now his plan not only failed, but he also paid a heavy price for his stupid idea.

Why?

Because when his fleet confronted the Ming army before, at least the side was aimed at the Ming warships, and once they started fighting, they could immediately exert their maximum firepower, although they couldn't beat the Ming fleet, but at least they could wave a few fists.

And now?

Because Nelson ordered the whole army to retreat, their warships must not be driven sideways, right?

In this way, the Portuguese warships were all facing the Ming warships, and the Ming warships were aimed at them on the side side.

Any warship has a maximum of one gun in the bow and stern, and at least three guns on the side of the warship.

Originally, their firepower was inferior to that of the Ming army, and now it is even more incomparable.

Under the bombardment of thousands of shells, almost all of the poor 30 Portuguese warships were hit, and thick smoke billowed everywhere on the sea.

Where did those warships dare to turn around and line up to counterattack? By the time they turned their sides toward the Ming fleet, they would probably have no bones left.

So they could only run back desperately, at most using the guns in the bow or stern of the ship to strike back confirmatively.

But after two more rounds of artillery bombardment by the Ming army, they could not even escape.

Most of their warships were hit by more than 10 shots, either caught fire or got into the water, and it was like a dream to drive away at this time.

The crews of the Portuguese fleet were busy jumping into the icy waters like dumplings, and a few even hung up the white flag and surrendered.

In the blink of an eye, the fleet was completely wiped out.

However, the batteries deployed on the two nearby islands also reacted, and about thirty shore defense guns began to fire frantically at the Ming fleet.

The Ming fleet was also relatively densely lined up, and several ships were shot for a while, and one clipper was unlucky, and was directly hit by the ammunition depot and caused a series of casualties, which sank in an instant.

The Ming battleships, having dealt with the local fleet, naturally began to focus on taking care of the batteries on the shore.

In terms of firepower, the density of fire of seventy battleships was at least twenty times that of the coastal defense guns.

After a mutual bombardment, most of the thirty shore defense guns were eliminated, but there were still five hidden in the mountains, which could not be solved by naval guns alone.

So Zheng Zhihu did not hesitate to give the order, the naval artillery covered, and then the army sent 1,000 people to land on the island.

Boom, boom!

Countless shells tilted their ammunition at the two nameless islands, kicking up debris and debris flying all over the sky, and it is believed that the gunners of the five guns hidden in the mountains at this time may not even be able to open their eyes, let alone fight back accurately.

Soon, a thousand armies divided into two units, five hundred each, landed on two small islands.

These two nameless islands are actually two small hills on the sea, and the area is very small, and the Portuguese have built two batteries there, and deployed a total of thirty guns, so there is basically not much room for it.

So the Portuguese were stationed there only two hundred men each.

After the "ploughing" bombardment by the Ming warships, the garrison on the island was directly reduced to fifty or sixty people. These people can only shrink up in the fortifications, where can they still show their heads to snipe the Ming army landing?

Without any surprise, the artillery fire on the two islands stopped after the Ming army landed.

Let's say that in the governor's palace, Nelson was furious when he heard the news of the Ming army's attack.

"Hell, hell, these savage yellow-skinned people, these real devils! They don't believe in their words, I underestimate their ambition and shamelessness!"

By this time, Nelson had completely forgotten how he had started as a maritime merchant, plundered a large amount of wealth through cooperation with pirates, and then used the money to buy the fat governor of Manraka.

He had even forgotten how he had personally executed several innocent maritime merchants on a pirate ship.

In his eyes, all this is true, because in this great era, the belief is that the law of the jungle is the strong.

But when the rule of the jungle was applied to himself, he felt unfair and shameless, and he remembered the spirit of a gentleman.

After settling the battery at the entrance, the Ming fleet sank only two small clippers, seriously damaged one medium-sized ship, and lightly damaged a dozen ships.

This loss is insignificant.

Now that the entrance to the Manraka Strait has been opened, the rest is simple.

The fleet could sail directly into the strait in a straight line from the middle line, because the narrowest part of the Manraka Strait, that is, the narrow passage between the sister islands and Batam, was also about twenty miles wide, and as long as the fleet sailed on the center line, the guns on the shore would never be able to reach it.

However, Qin Shuhuai is not so simple as passing through, what he wants is to control the entire strait.

There was no doubt that the Portuguese Governor's Palace in Temasek (later Singapore) would have to be captured.

The fleet has been slightly adjusted in place.

Lightly damaged ships were urgently repaired, while seriously damaged ships were put at anchor and waited to be repaired after returning to occupy the docks—in the Manraga Strait, there could be no docks.

And some of the small boats, after rescuing the crew of the two sunken small clippers, began to rescue the Franciscans unhurriedly.

If you want to save these red-haired people, everyone is not interested, because the Dutch people they saved before have not been ransomed, and just ruining the food is simply a loss-making business.

After that, the whole army had lunch again, and after recuperating their spirits, they headed for the strait.

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