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Chapter 654. Don't send it! Don't send it!

Nine out of ten people who are not satisfied with the world! Zheng Sen, who just debuted, had a full experience. Looking at the news from the outpost sand boat, before joy could appear on his face, the sound of creaking masts and lifting sails suddenly rang in his ears. As he looked at the unbelievable telescope, the formation he had finally pulled yesterday was in chaos at the first time!

To describe these pirates as an animal, it is like a wild dog who sees a feces, rushing to pull sails out of the sea. The narrow exit of the Strait of Malacca is an instant sail forest covering the sky and the sun.

Zheng Sen's face had completely turned into pig's liver, and he angrily smashed the telescope to the ground with a bang.

"Young Master, what should we do?"

Looking at the pirate fleet that was swarming in, even Zheng Zhilong's former subordinates were ready to move, and there were also sounds of rising sails behind him, but more than 30 ships have not moved yet.

Listening to the sound of Feng Suo, the first mate Shi Daxuan asked anxiously, holding his fist.

With his hands on his back, he turned two circles in a row like an ant on a hot pan, and then looked back at the former Zheng family who was eager to try. Zheng Sen finally gritted his teeth and shouted in a deep voice: "Let's pull the anchor too! Follow up!"

"But let people tell the bastards behind me that if you follow my orders, if you charge yourself in vain if you don't follow the orders, then don't lie with the banner of my Zheng family in the future!"

"Little one obeys the order!"

Zheng Sen in history claimed to be strict in the military. Listening to his murderous roar, Shi Daxuan hurriedly knelt down on one knee to receive the order. Then he quickly stood up again, picked up a big red flag in person, and shook it violently.

Following his flag slogan, the three-massed and five-massed Dongjiang warships also used iron chains to pull out the heavy anchors from the sea. With the horns of the three warships soaring into the sky, the last Ming pirate fleet also rushed out of the narrow Strait of Malacca.

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Ancient Roman philosophers have a famous saying, naval battle can ruin your whole day! It is said that the naval battle is long. When the sails come out of Malacca, the huge pirate fleet ran for three hours. It was almost noon. Then it blocked the huge fleet of Spanish treasure ships on the edge of the Nashna Islands.

It is said to be huge, but relatively speaking, eight Spanish sailboats are used as guards, each of which is about fifty meters long and is equipped with forty-eight cannons. Behind are merchant ships with slightly larger tonnages, with about twenty or twenty tonnages outside. These belly are loaded with gold and diamonds from America. However, it is said that they are merchant ships, and they also have the combat power of twenty to thirty cannons.

However, such a heavy fleet that could be straddled in Europe still seemed a little thinner than the pirates who flocked to the Ming Dynasty.

A fleet suddenly appeared in front of him. The fleet of Yunbao Ship that was moving along the edge of the archipelago was obviously startled. Suddenly, a sharp howl sounded. The extended frigate rushed to cross the line, almost the same routine as Mao Jue's fight against the Japanese fleet, and the black muzzle was clear and water towards the outside.

The fastest ones were the old-style broad and blessed ships. Although the Dongjiang Sail Battleship with triangular sails was more advanced, these sailing tools also require some technical content in operation, which is not fully controlled by the pirate sailors who just made a fortune to buy a new ship. And compared with the new sailing ship with thirty or forty guns, these old ships only had two or three front and rear guns, which were much lighter in weight.

The eyes were full of desire for treasure. The lucky ships and sails were filled with sails, and the pirate sailors gathered on the front deck, smashing their shields and shouting. The sharp bow of the ship drew open the sea, and dozens of large ships rushed forward like narwhals.

But the momentum was full of force but it could not change the disadvantage of wood to steel shells. When these pirate ships rushed to the range of more than 400 meters, the frigates of the Spanish Treasure Ship Fleet sprayed flames outwards, and more than 200 heavy artillery instantly caused a rain of wood chips and iron in the dense pirate fleet.

Just over seventy years ago, a cross-age naval battle broke out in the Mediterranean in the West, the Battle of Lebanto! This battle represented the Christ world, with Spanish mercenaries and the Venetian Genoese Navy as the main force, fighting against the Ottoman Turkish Navy, which had been expanding for a century and was murderous. In that battle, the Ottoman Turkish Navy, which was crowded with people, was defeated, losing one-third of the ships, and about 25,000 killed, and blood dyed the Mediterranean red.

The secret of Christians being able to defeat more with less is the use of artillery. Each ship has several artillery in its capital. As the vanguard, the Genoa heavy warship is said to be more than 70 meters long and enough to carry more than 1,000 sailors of seventy cannons.

What the Ming pirates today are almost exactly the same as the Ottoman Turkish fleet back then. As the artillery fire extended, more than 20 lucky ships were smashed on the spot. The pirate sailors on the front deck turned into blood. The survivors held the standing deck in horror and groaned in pain. Two ships even fell apart, and the fragments were scattered on the huge sea.

But even so, there is still no pirate ship that stops the charge. On the one hand, the temptation of gold is right in front of you, and on the other hand, it is impossible to retreat. It is mixed with the huge torrent of the fleet. It does not mean that you can turn around just by turning around.

The artillery fire at the bow also began to bombard.

At a distance of 400 meters, the sprinting warships took several minutes, but the artillery fire was enough to hit three rounds. The eight frigates almost never stopped. In the Spanish roar, they blasted into a ship cemetery by them on the wide sea near the island.

However, after losing more than twenty pirate ships and killed or injured two or three thousand people, the first lucky ship still hit the frigate's side with a bang. The loud bang of wood chips flew. The Ming pirate, who was intertwined with fear and greed, jumped off the ship's buzzard with a flintlock rifle and a battle axe, jumped down from the ship's buzzard and jumped to the other party's deck to fight.

Bang~bang~

The fierce white smoke pulled out traces, and the Spanish sailors suddenly knocked the trigger and fought back with a clamping gun and a short musket. Several blood holes suddenly burst out from the bodies of several pirates who were charging, and then collapsed limply to the ground.

Just when the front-line battle was fierce, the pirates of the South China Sea who purchased the Dongjiang new sail battleship and were under the command of the East India Company, who had entered the industry earlier, also came to the battlefield. Taking advantage of the entanglement of the stupid cannon fodder and frigates in front, these thin warships penetrated in from the flanks like loaches and rushed towards the merchant ship wrapped in the frigate.

Being so far away, almost everyone could hear the fear of Spanish merchants. These merchant ships fired without hesitation. The distance was about 100 meters. The two gunboats with slightly different shapes but surprisingly similar performances launched fierce bombardment. The crackling shells exploded and pieces of white smoke emerged. Several meters of water columns splashed on the sides of each other's battleships. The two closest pirate ships and treasure ships were even less than thirty meters away. The fierce bombardment brought a devastating blow to both sides. The wood was shattered, and the gun decks on both sides were pierced by artillery fire. The shells pushed the cannons, boxes, and the remaining limbs of the sailors were sprayed out from the other side of the ship. The surviving sailors could even clean the faces that saw the fear of the enemy on the opposite side.

But after all, there are many people in the pirate ships and still have an absolute advantage. The sail battleships that were shot in the growing row rolled over one after another, just like the tongue of a chameleon, gradually wrapped the Spanish treasure ship fleet in the center.

"Young Master, let's go too! If you don't go, you will have no chance!"

Seeing the earth-shaking battle in front, Shi Daxuan couldn't help asking, but with the telescope high up, Zheng Sen's brows were always locked, looking at the battlefield without saying a word. For a long time, he shook his head solemnly just now.

"No! I heard my father talk about the treasure ships in Xifan several times. They are transport troops, not combat troops. They are usually intercepted by pirates. The frigates drag the enemy down, let the merchant ships flee back and then join again! Now they are fighting position wars!"

"And Manila has at least 30 warships. We meet in Malacca with great fanfare. It is impossible for the people of the Western vassal state to get news. How could they send such a thin fleet to escort!"

"I'm afraid there is a fraud!"

However, when he was speaking, he suddenly heard a loud bang. In the fierce battle, a treasure ship seemed to be hit by artillery fire. The rear half of the tail building was blown away. On the other side, more and more Ming pirates boarded the deck. The crackling bullets were like the rain. The Spaniards who had left dozens of corpses were blocked under the deck and could not show up.

Behind them, the Zheng family pirate ships were also ready to move like the cats that smelled the fishy smell. When they looked back, they looked at them. Beads of sweat were dripping from their foreheads. Zheng Sen gritted his teeth hard.

"Shi Daxuan, you bring people to visit one by one in person and order them to wait and see if they have to go forward and seek death, then you won't blame me for being on the head!"

"Young Master, this..."

"Go quickly!"

In desperation, Shi Daxuan rushed to the edge of the deck, then went down the rope, and next to the nearest Guo Yi ship, his roar soon rang, and Zheng Sen continued to hold the telescope and watch, sweat beads flowing from his forehead, and even a small pool had accumulated on the ground.

He was also making a big gamble, and it was not just the golden wealth on the treasure ship!
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