On the sea in southern Malacca, a huge fleet is slowly advancing. This fleet has nearly 300 ships of large and small, including about 100 armed merchant ships, and the rest are small and medium-sized warships!

Judging from the flags they cast, this should be the caravan of the Dutch East India Company. How could there be so many warships mixed in?

Fan Mendy had no choice. Recently, a powerful pirate suddenly appeared in the Indian Ocean waters, crazily looting merchant ships. Thirty or forty merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company had been cut off. Branches in Persia, Donghu, Bangladesh and other places were in a hurry. If the customer's orders were not delivered, the business would be impossible!

Therefore, Van Mendi organized a huge caravan to send all the armed merchant ships and small and medium-sized warships of the East India Company in Batavia, as well as all the small and medium-sized warships of the Second Fleet of the Far East. As for the super battleships, he did not dare to send them, because he was afraid that the fleet would cause misunderstandings when it passed through the Strait of Malacca.

The Strait of Malacca has been controlled by the Ming Empire, but they do not strictly prohibit the merchant ships of various countries from passing through. As long as they are serious business, they will not care about it. Even the Xingcheng Port is open to merchant ships of various countries. Now, the Ming Empire, Spain, Portugal and Nanyang countries have almost used Xingcheng Port as a transit station or even a trading point, and its prosperity is even greater than that of Batavia!

The merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company naturally would not go to Xingcheng Port, but they had to pass through Xingcheng Port to pass through the Strait of Malacca. Fan Mendy was quite concerned about the Ming Empire. The last time the entire Far East Second Fleet was captured was the biggest shadow in his heart. He did not dare to send battleships to the vicinity of Xingcheng Port.

This time, he led the team to Major General Vander, the commander of the Far East Second Fleet. Vander is not a relative of Vander. There are many Dutch names that bring Vander, and Vander has nothing to do with Vander. However, he has also been captured by the Ming Empire, so he is extremely afraid of the Ming Empire.

The Strait of Malacca is ahead. Vander stood at the bow of the flagship ship, holding a telescope and staring nervously at the direction of Xingchenggang. They brought so many warships this time, I wonder if the Ming Empire would misunderstand it. If they sent a fleet to intercept it, it would be troublesome.

Fortunately, there was no movement in the direction of Xingchenggang. The sea was covered with merchant ships from various countries, and no warships from the Ming Empire appeared. It seemed that the Ming Empire would not care about them anymore.

Vander let out a long sigh and was about to put down his telescope, suddenly, the flag bearer's shrill whistle came from the mast. He quickly turned around and looked around, but saw the flag bearer on the mast pointing directly in front of him, whistling desperately.

Right ahead! He was just paying attention to Xingchenggang on the right. He didn't pay attention right in front. Seeing the flag bearer's panic look, he quickly raised his telescope and looked straight ahead.

At this sight, his face turned pale, and the dense black spots in front of him almost blocked the entire strait!

What's going on? He couldn't help but scan the direction of Xingchenggang again. It was a ghost. The merchant ships from all over the sea rushed to Xingchenggang, as if they had encountered pirates!

There could not be pirates in front, there were at least thousands of black spots in front. If the pirates had such a large scale, they would have dominated the South China Sea long ago. There were no such powerful pirates in Nanyang, and it was very likely that the navy of the Ming Empire was in front!

Sure enough, as the distance approached, Vander quickly saw clearly the two leading warships. The terrifying size must be the treasure ship of the Ming Empire. Other countries do not have such a huge warship.

Soon, Vander even saw the flags on the two warships clearly. The Sun, Moon and Dragon Flag was the navy of the Ming Empire!

What exactly did the Ming Empire want to do? Do they want to tear up the contract and start a war with the Netherlands again?

Vander gradually showed a desperate expression on his face. He knew the combat effectiveness of the Ming Empire Navy too well. With the small and medium-sized warships he commanded, he probably couldn't even get a volley!

What should I do? Turn around? Don't joke. Now the warships of the Ming Empire are equipped with wheels similar to oars behind them. The speed of the warships of any country can't run away. If you want to escape in front of them, you really don't have to think about it.

Vander could not think of any other way, so he could only stare at the flag bearer on the mast of the super giant ship opposite, hoping that he could play the flag words to show what they wanted to do.

The flag bearer on the opposite side seemed to hear his request and quickly blew the flag. The flag verb was very simple, and he understood it immediately. There were only two sets of actions: stop the boat and receive inspection.

Check, they just want to check!

Vander breathed a sigh of relief. There was no need for the fleet of the Ming Empire to deceive him. With their overwhelming advantage, even if he played the flag saying "Surrender immediately", he would do it himself.

He ordered without hesitation: "Order that all merchant ships and warships will be lowered, broken down, stopped ships, and prepared to undergo inspection."

With the flag-bearer playing the flags on the mast, all ships of the Dutch fleet began to lower their sails and throw their anchors, and the entire fleet slowly stopped.

Soon, the fleet of the Ming Empire rushed up and surrounded them with "poor" three hundred ships of all sizes. Fortunately, they did not make any threatening moves, but sent three hundred warships of about the same size as them to join the ships of the fleet one by one. It seemed that they were really here to check.

Soon, a lucky ship of the Ming Empire Navy leaned on the flagship where Van Del was located, and quickly threw out the hook locks on the opposite side to slowly draw the two ships closer. Then, soldiers of the Ming Empire flew over and started to line up on the deck. Soon, a Ming army general in the uniform of a major general appeared. He came to the front of the Ming army's queue with a scroll in his hand, and shouted in Spanish: "Where is your commander, come forward."

Upon hearing this, Vander had to grit his teeth and walk up, salute, and shouted: "Hello, Major General, I am Vander, the commander of the Second Fleet of the Dutch Navy Far East."

The Ming general on the opposite side politely replied with a standard military salute and shouted: "Zhang Weicheng, the commander of the South China Sea Fleet of the Ming Empire Navy, was ordered to come and inspect. Please cooperate."

After saying that, he stretched out his right hand, spread the scroll in his hand, and handed it to Vander.

Vander took the scroll curiously and looked like it was found that in addition to Chinese characters, there were also Spanish and Portuguese. Of course he could see clearly that this was an order issued by the Governor of the South China Sea of ​​the Ming Empire, which read:

The Ming Empire Zhen Nanwang led the Nanyang Governor Zheng Zhilong to order all naval fleets in Nanyang:

Recently, a large number of pirates have ravaged Nanyang, and the Ming Dynasty's maritime merchants have suffered heavy losses. I feel deeply guilty. Now all naval fleets in the Ming Empire stationed in Nanyang are strictly inspecting merchant ships. Anyone with pirates and stolen goods will be detained!
Chapter completed!