Bobby, who was in Enrifang Prince, smiled and looked at the Ottoman warship of Xu Bu from afar, pointed to the adjutant behind him and said, "Let the gunners prepare and knock all these wooden boards into the sea."

The adjutant whistled, looking very relaxed. He was an experienced naval officer. Naturally, he understood that the Ottoman warships were vulnerable. They probably drove the warships directly to collided head-on without artillery, and could also knock them down one by one. Bobby seemed very relaxed and turned around to convey the orders.

"Rumbling, Portuguese warships began to rise side sails, and the dark warships spun on the sea. Then dozens of cannons on the stumbled Ottoman warships. The Ottoman warships were obviously too backward. Before construction more than a hundred years ago, the main function was not to attack long-distance artillery, but to connect enemy ships to conduct short-term close combat. It has to be said that the Ottoman Navy's combat thinking was extremely backward. Even after ordering many new warships to the Ming Dynasty, the combat department still liked to connect enemy ships to the enemy,

At this moment, the seven or eight Ottoman warships pulled the sails without hesitation and rushed towards the Portuguese fleet. However, the Portuguese obviously would not let them do what they wanted. After the artillery roared, waves of water hit the sea. Several shells fell on the deck of the Ottoman main ship. There was only a hole blowing out. There was no casualties. However, a warship on the side was broken. The mast was broken. The sail, which was originally filled with wind, fell down with a loud bang, losing its power system. The entire hull could only spin on the spot, and the mast tilted to the right.

The hull also began to tilt.

"The rumbling cannons continued, and General Bobby was no longer interested in ravaging the Ottomans. He spoke to the adjutant and then went back to the rest cabin.

For the Portuguese, the idea of ​​naval warfare has undergone several changes. In their eyes, these Ottomans who have been behind for a century are simply fish on the chopping board.

After the fierce bombardment, three Ottoman warships had suffered varying degrees of damage and were circling on the sea, while the other lucky warships had approached the "Knights of the Mer".

The "Mer Knight" is a regular Clark-type sailboat, ugly ton class, and the brand new three-sided large sails are printed with giant hollow red crucifixes. The Portuguese royal flag and the Portuguese naval flag are respectively floating on the main mast and the foremast. It is carried two concave cannons, the old door of the pound cannon, and the sight cannons are the necessary gates of the pound cannons at the door. Many of them are rear-mounted mother-child cannons. It can be seen that the paint smells emitted from the shipboard are so strong. The soldiers on the Mer Knight first fired a roulette of guns at the Ottomans who came to the side with muskets, and then the battle of the boards officially began. The brave Ottoman soldiers either swung their hooks or took advantage of the intersecting of the two ships to climb on the "Mer Knight", and the Portuguese, who had already prepared, were also ready and began to fight back.

But soon, the Portuguese, who were already full of confidence, immediately realized that these Ottomans were not easy to deal with, especially those Ottomans who climbed onto the side of the ship. The standard weapon of the Portuguese sailors was front-mounted muskets, and some were allowed to wear some knives. However, when they met, they used front-mounted muskets to face the enemy, not only did they have no time to load, but they were too far away, which could easily hurt their own people. In fact, in the end, the Ottomans held short locks in their hands, but they were thrilling when they saw someone approaching. In fact, it was terrifying that the Portuguese advanced warships could not bring the old Ottoman warships closer, but they were too arrogant. The performance of their own warships was far more than that of the Ottomans. Therefore, the Portuguese did not want to sank the Ottomans and the ships at once. After all,

The Portuguese were exhausted after falling into a tough battle. These old warships could be used as supply ships, so they let the Ottomans approach, hoping to capture their ships. But they didn't know that the fire sharps accounted for a great amount of weight in the arms ordered by the Ottomans from the Ming Dynasty. In the fire sharps, this small short mirror was also favored by the Ottomans. The Ottomans were not very interested in forming a queue for fire-fire shooting. They either like cavalry, or just kill them in a swarm. Therefore, for melee combat, short sharps are definitely an excellent choice. Therefore, the Ottomans ordered short sharps from the Ming Dynasty in recent years, as many as 100,000 short soldiers were ordered from the Ming Dynasty. Similarly, they also found that if the sailors used this short soldier, the effect was good, so they also started to install them. Unexpectedly, they really had an effect.

The Portuguese people were disciplined and caught off guard. They quickly gathered again. However, at this time, the three or four Ottoman warships obviously recognized the Knights of Mel, and all leaned forward and fought in close combat.

Other Portuguese ships could not be shelled, and could only rely on them to rescue them. In this way, the Portuguese, who had the advantage, suddenly fell into a melee and had once fallen into a disadvantage. Fortunately, the Portuguese occupied the majority after all. Although the Ottomans took advantage of weapons, their discipline was much lower than that of the Portuguese soldiers. After an hour of melee, they completely wiped out the Ottomans who boarded the Knights of Mer. However, the Portuguese also paid a huge price, with a total of 700 people killed in battle, more than 600 people injured, and the casualties accounted for almost one-fifth of the entire military.

This result made Bobby furious. He vowed to clean up the entire Anzhou tribe in the Port of Sultan of Abu. After all, the negligence of attacking six with such an advantage led to major casualties. If he did not retaliate against the Ottomans, his career would probably be over.

The sea calmed down again. In addition to the Portuguese warships, there were merchant ships huddled in the port. Admiral Bobby calmed down his anger and began to order the bombardment of Abu Sultan.

"Boom," the smoke of gunpowder filled the fortifications. All the fortifications along the coast were covered with artillery fire. The fortifications contained artillery, but they were all products from a hundred years ago. The range was insufficient to fight back. After the soldiers along the Ottoman coast were frightened, they began to collapse. The entire Port of Abu Sultan fell into panic.

"Your Excellency, the Ottomans have retracted from the residential area." The adjutant reported in a hurry.

In the Port of Sultan, there are not many buildings along the coast except for docks and fortifications. The real prosperity is the port city, which is one mile away from the dock. The Ottomans withdrew from the city, and now the Portuguese artillery cannot hit the city.

Admiral Bobby was completely surrounded by humiliation. Due to temporary negligence, the Ottoman soldiers who ran away with their heads actually suffered heavy damage to the Portuguese fleet. In Europe, the main ones who can dominate the sea were the Netherlands. Although the British came from behind and defeated Portugal and the Spanish fleet, their strength was still a little less. Although the Portuguese were defeated in the Battle of the Invincible Fleet, the Portuguese Empire also fell, but the strength at sea was obvious. He said angrily: "First blow up all the docks and the pagan merchant ships, then landed and seized the port.

According to Bobby's estimate, the entire Egyptian region had only 20,000 troops of the Ottomans. Although the Port of Abu Sultan is an important port, the real soldiers should be only 3,000 soldiers. The Ottoman Navy, which had just two thousand people, has been wiped out. Now the entire Abu Sultan's troops should be about 1,000 troops, and he plans to make a good deal.

The bombardment continued, and Admiral Bobby returned to Prince Enrique's command cabin. In order to carry out this Egyptian plan, Portugal handed over the most powerful Prince Enrique to General Bobby. The warship was 700 tons, with five large sails, and a rear-mounted mother and child. 11 24-pound cannons, 19 spray cannons, 41 4-pound cannons, and 52 4-pound cannons, even if they were the most advanced warships of the Dutch, they were probably just the same. This is also the reason why the Portuguese named it Prince Enrique. Prince Enrique is the most talked about by the Dutch. This great prince once rose a small European country into the world overlord.

Portugal was originally divided as the dowry of the Princess of the Kingdom of Castile. The country's name is in Latin, and its original meaning is "warm port". This is a very true name. The land is poor and the resources are limited. The only thing that can be relied on is its "warm port". All the land borders of Portugal are adjacent to the powerful country Spain, and there is almost no room for exhibition. By the century, its population had reached about the thug Tian Wan, and their only way out was to show the sea. The first person to realize this was Prince Enrique, also known as Prince Henry.

Prince Enrique was born in a thug. His father was King Joao I of Portugal. In the bad year, the young Prince Henry joined his father in the battle to conquer Ceuta, North African city, and played an important role in the battle and showed extraordinary courage. Fortunately, this young prince, who might have become a hero on the land and galloped on the battlefield with Muslims, did not devote himself to the land cause, but to the maritime career that outstanding figures at that time dismissed.

In the thugs' career, few people in the aristocratic class were involved. At that time, the sea boats were very small, usually carrying dozens of tons to more than one hundred tons, multiplied by dozens of people. The crew lived in low cabins, and could not even stand upright. The kitchen equipment was simple, and the food was often half-cooked. Fresh water was packed in small wooden barrels, and it would soon deteriorate, sticky, and full of the smell of rotten wood and iron. Once offshore, you could not get vegetables, and often caused crew members to die of scurvy. Putting aside frequent shipwreck accidents, a large number of seafarers died of various diseases by simply being extremely poor sanitary conditions. At that time, the common mortality rate for seafarers was touched. In this case, it was difficult for people with normal lives to be interested in sailing, and those who became seafarers were often unemployed thieves, criminals, etc.

It is hard to imagine why Prince Henry, who had no shortage of food and clothing, had a noble status, could make great achievements in land careers. But after he returned from Ceuta, he began to be fascinated by sailing. He clearly realized that the direction of Portugal could only be at sea, and his voyage thugs's career was to find the legendary Christian "Prest John" country in the East, and thus attack the Muslims in North Africa. In addition, at that time, Portugal learned about the information about the gold trade in Timbuktu, West Africa, which also aroused Prince Henry's interest. According to his assistant Digg Gomez, it was this information that made Prince Henry think of visiting the door from the sea! Bian Fang.

It should also be mentioned here that Prince Henry inherited the leadership of the Knights of Aves in Portugal, composed of the remnants of the Knights Templar, and the Knights owned a large area of ​​real estate in Portugal. This later became the material basis for his long-distance career.

From the old and old years, Prince Henry began to prepare for his expedition to northwestern Africa. He personally participated in the improvement of sea ships. He networked a large number of navigators from Italy, established a nautical school in Sagres, teaching knowledge of navigation, astronomy, geography, etc. He also built a harbor and dock in nearby Lagos, and built a sea ship Prince Henry took out the income of the ride on the regiment for a year, equipped several long-distance voyage expeditions, and conducted extensive nautical expeditions in various parts of Northwest Africa. From then on, Portugal's maritime industry began in a planned manner.

In the old year, Zako and Tehra appeared in the Madeira Islands. The thug was injured in the year. Bouldaya met black people for the first time in Cape Bohador, and the Portuguese entered "Black Africa" ​​for the first time.

The thug Prince Henry participated in the battle to conquer North Africa for the third time. In this battle, the Portuguese were defeated and his brother Prince Fernando was captured.

After the defeat of this battle, Prince Henry concentrated his efforts to show his strength to the sea.

The blacks sold them as slaves. From then on, the slave trade began for centuries. The black slaves became the first "career" of the Portuguese Gouya in Africa. Prince Henry took Mom Nian. Prince Henry established the first European pound in Black Africa on the island of Ambem, and his colonial stronghold became the center of the slave trade in the future.

In the year of the thug, Prince Henry participated in the battle to conquer North Africa for the last time and captured Alcasse, west of Ceuta. This long journey was also his last time on a boat. His farthest voyage to North Africa was only four times in his life, but his career won him the historical title of "vacanter Henry".

Prince Henry lived a simple life like an ascetic in the center of navigation.

He did not receive much support from the court in Lisbon, and it can be said that he was excluded because of his reputation. But it can be said that the entire Portugal's maritime career began with Prince Henry, and it can be said that the geographical presentation of the entire Europe began with Prince Henry.

Prince Henry spent a lot of financial, material and manpower in his voyage exploration, but in fact, the actual gains he gained during his lifetime were not great. But he saw this career and devoted all his energy to it, laying the foundation for later generations to become a prosperous and powerful marine empire.

In the era of geographical emergence, those sailors who drove leaking broken boats, ate moldy food, even maggots, mice, and drink spoiled smelly water without navigation charts, could only rely on God to decide their courses, and wandered away from home for several years in order to see the blurred outline of the new coast. It is also because of these that a century later, a Portuguese Empire rose, and after a series of colonial expansion, it extended south from the mainland territory of Portugal to the Atlantic Ocean, and the 3 archipelagos. The national flag of Portugal fluttered over the Madeira, Cape Verde and the Yar archipelago. This is the bridgehead for Portugal to establish an empire. Sailing south from the three major archipelagos is Brazil.

Go south from the west coast of Africa, bypass the Cape of Good Hope, sailed along the east coast of Africa for a period of time and crossed the Arabian Sea to India. Goa, India, to Malacca, this is the lifeline of the Oriental route of the Portuguese Empire. From Malacca to the northeast, you can reach Macau and Japan, and go east to the Spice Islands in diameter. The Portuguese literature of Chiji collectively refers to all the strongholds between Mozambique and Hormuz to Macau and Ternate of the Spice Islands as the "Indian countries", that is, Portugal's overseas territory in the East.

But soon, Portugal was annexed by Spain, and the Portuguese fleet was incorporated into the Invincible Fleet and participated in the war against the British. The war ended in failure. After that, although the Portuguese Xunya gained independence, it was destroyed by the Spanish and had several wars with Spain because of independence, and soon became weak.

It is also because of this that the Portuguese Xunya and the Spaniards were adjacent to each other, but during this period they were the most hated countries. This Enrique was almost the last hope of the entire Portuguese Empire. However, if this fleet was defeated, it would probably have a great blow to the Portuguese.

However, Bobby was not discouraged. After all, the difference between the two sides was still huge. The Portuguese Yamen had the advantage, and he did not realize that there was any danger in that port city.

After the shelling was over, Bobby ordered landing, and three thousand Portuguese soldiers began to drop their landing craft, rowed their oars, and went to the ruins of the coast to fight.
Chapter completed!