A huge fleet slowly appeared on the sea outside the port of Malacca. More than 200 warships were five in a row, moving slowly in a long row. On a hill about three miles away from the port, a Ming army general stood at the top of a bastion with a telescope, staring at the fleet on the sea.

The Ming general had no fear on his face. On the contrary, he seemed to be a little expecting, as if he was looking forward to the fleet on the sea to stop and attack the small fishing port below!

Yes, Malacca Port is still a small fishing port now. The Ming army did not expand this port. Instead, a bastion was built between the port and Malacca City, on a hill nearly three miles from the coast. Due to the height difference, the farthest-range artillery can no longer hit the bastion on the hill. On the contrary, the farthest-range 620 howitzer on the bastion on the hill can easily bombard the port. In other words, if a warship dares to approach the port, it will only be bombarded with artillery shells.

At this time, on the flagship of the Joint Fleet, Dutch Rear Admiral Van Del was watching the port of Malacca with a British Rear Admiral with a telescope. Van Del was afraid that there would be ambush there, but the British Rear Admiral was not thinking about this. He said in a professional tone: "Major General, why don't we stop first and take this port before leaving. Although this port cannot be docked with large warships, it is still good to make a supply point."

Vander shook his head without hesitation and refused: "Major General, I advise you to give up this idea. Have you not seen the Ming army's bastion on the hill next to the port?"

The British major general said easily: "Will you take down the basin together? Just store the food in it."

Vander said coldly: "Please forgive me for offending, Master General, your idea is very stupid. Do you know how many artillery there are in the Ming army's bastion? Do you know how powerful their firepower is? According to the scale of this bastion, there are at least five thousand Ming troops. All of us abandoned our ships and went ashore to attack and could not capture this bastion!"

The major general felt insulted and stood there with a blushing face, as if he was about to get angry.

Vander didn't even look at him, but said to the messenger behind him: "Order all warships to lower half of their sails and slow down. In addition, the leaders of various countries were invited to come to the flagship for a meeting."

The messenger behind him immediately blew the flagstones, and the flag bearer on the mast then blew the same flagstones. All warships began to lower their sails, and the speed of the entire fleet slowly decreased. Several warships also released lifeboats. Several countries led their guards and translators to rush towards the flagships.

After all, this was a warship sent by the Dutch. They could not really hand over the warship to other great powers. Although there were almost no combatants from the Dutch Navy on the warship, all those who drove the ship and controlled the sails were Dutch sailors, so the entire fleet was actually controlled by the Dutch. Vander received the order to wait for the arrival of the fleet in the Persian waters, and then commanded the fleet to meet with General Batavia and Van Mendy. Therefore, he is the highest commander of the entire fleet now.

Soon the commanders of all countries boarded the flagship. After Vander waited for them to enter the conference room and sat down, he immediately said seriously: "I invite you all to come over and just want to emphasize one thing, please remember that no one can fire without my order."

The British major general sneered: "You mean that even if the Ming army opened fire, we cannot open fire without your order?"

He originally wanted to laugh at Vander's blind command, but unexpectedly, Vander nodded seriously and said, "Yes."

The French general was dissatisfied and asked coldly: "Why?"

Vander replied coldly: "I don't want to explain too much about this. You will understand when you arrive near Xingchenggang."

The British general continued to mock him: "I heard that you were captured by the Ming army. Have you been scared by the Ming army? Are you still afraid of a Ming empire when we unite so many powerful countries?"

Vander said with a pale face: "If this is the continent, of course you don't have to be afraid, but please note that this is the Far East and the old nest of the Ming Empire!"

The Swedish general had no bias. He asked directly: "When can we open fire?"

Vander replied seriously: "This will be discussed after merging with General Van Mendy. I do not want to have any conflict with the Ming army before merging."

The Danish general asked a little dissatisfied: "Is the Ming army so scary?"

Vander continued to say seriously: "I don't want to explain too much about this, you will see it later, okay, the meeting will be over."

When the generals of various countries heard this, they shook their heads and left, leaving only the British major general sitting there and muttering: "Coward, coward..."

Vander was too lazy to explain to him that these people came from Europe and had never seen the horror of the Ming army at all, and they had no explanation to them. When they saw it with their own eyes, they would naturally shut up.

The fleet continued to move forward, Vander looked ahead nervously with a telescope. He kept praying in his heart: "Ming army should not intercept, Ming army should not intercept..."

However, things went against my wishes. The fleet had just entered the sea on the left side of Xingcheng Harbor. A huge fleet immediately appeared in front of it, super battleships, Fu Ship warships, and various small warships. They were secretly covered with secrets and could not get through at all.

Looking at the dense gun barrels on the turrets on both sides, the British major general finally stopped rude. The artillery was indeed scary, but after carefully looking at the Ming army's fleet, he said with some dissatisfaction: "Isn't it amazing? There are only fifty super battleships, what's the use of so many small and medium-sized warships?"

Vander pointed to the Sun and Moon Dragon Flag on the giant ship in the middle of the treasure ship and introduced: "Yueying and Rique, this is only the third-class legion of the Ming army. If their first-class legion is at least twice as many super battleships!"

The third-class legion, that is, there are second-class legion and first-class legion above. The third-class legion alone is of this scale. Wouldn't that first-class legion be scary? The British major general's face changed and he finally shut up.

The opposite was indeed the North Sea Fleet of the Ming Navy's third-class legion, but they originally had no super battleships. It happened that last year, there were still fifty super battleships left in the Dongda Shipbuilding Plant, so Zhu Cijiu simply gave it to the North Sea Fleet first, so their lineup looked so scary.

However, on the other side of Xingcheng Port, at the entrance of the Strait of Malacca, the lineup was really scary. Zheng Zhihu led the Nanyang Navy to 100 super battleships and 500 Fu Ship Battleships. With the combined fleet of the Dutch Navy and the Dutch East India Company led by Fan Mendy, both sides lined up in formation and seemed to be preparing to open fire.

On the sea directly in front of Xingchenggang, Zheng Zhilong stood on the huge treasure ship with a telescope, staring at the situation on the right. Behind him was the neatly arranged South China Sea fleet, looking at the direction that seemed to be preparing to support the Nanyang Navy.

At this moment, three fleets of the Ming Navy were gathered near the Xingchenggang base, with more than 3,000 warships of all sizes and sizes, and nearly 1,000 warships of two continental powers. Both sides were in a tense confrontation, and the war was about to break out!

Looking at the entire world history, it seems that such a large-scale naval battle has not yet broken out. If it really starts, it will definitely be a shocking battle.

At this moment, the main generals of both sides should be very nervous, but at this moment, Zheng Zhilong was there and said lightly: "Fan Mendi, if you have the affinity, you can fight. I am still afraid that you will not succeed in Xingchenggang. No matter how many warships you come, I will let you never return!"
Chapter completed!