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Chapter 101 Short Soldiers

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East India Company, Caribbean Squadron Group.

A sealed leather cylinder was thrown from the tall flagship and fell into a small boat waiting around the flagship. Due to the lack of perfect flag verbs during this period, communication between fleets still depends on roar. If it is too far away, the small boat used for this communication must be used to communicate.

Now there are more than a dozen small boats following the flagship, passing commands back and forth.

The captain of the boat who received the order first picked up the cylinder and checked that the fire paint and wax seals were intact. "It's the Margarita! Damn, we picked up a good job, and it will be a long distance below. Guys, speed up! The Margarita has always been generous!" He shouted loudly, swinging the tail rudder in his hand first, and turning the boat away from the flagship.

The six men on the boat tried their best together, shouting horns to make the boat move quickly.

On the flagship, Recha, the governor of San Juan, covered his hat, turned around and hurriedly left the edge of the deck. No one even knew that he had been here and threw down a leather tube.

...

"Margarita! Your orders, a quarter of an hour ago!"

Before he could get close to the "Margarita", the captain on the hull shouted loudly at the boat and waved the leather tube in his hand. The other officer on duty had obviously noticed that the hull was approaching and hung the basket early.

When the captain of the boat approached the basket, he found a good bottle of rum inside. He happily took it out and thanked Yang Yang for "Margarita". "Good luck!" Then he put the leather tube into the basket and happily left with the rum.

The leather tube was passed down to the hands of the captain of the Margarita layer by layer. This was a tall middle-aged man. His idea was to put rum in the basket of communication just now, so as long as the order to the Margarita was issued, it was never delayed. This was a very popular guy.

"... Immediately conduct a forceful investigation in Port-au-Prince..." After he read out the order, he looked at the officers who were listening.

"What are you doing! The Margarita is a Garen ship! We are now full of loads, as stupid as a fat snail. How could we perform reconnaissance missions?!" The Marine Corps officer first complained dissatisfiedly. The Margarita is a supplementary troop ship specially prepared for the landing battle. It is crowded with 700 St. Martin mercenaries, and the speed has just exceeded ten knots. Such a ship is indeed not suitable for military reconnaissance.

"Shut up, idiot!" The captain glared at the guy and temporarily suppressed him. "It seems that Lord Aldridge is going to invite his opponent to a sea showdown. The meaning of this order is to let us, the guys who are in trouble, stay away from us! Do you understand?! Our ship has poor combat effectiveness and can't help with naval battles, but if it is sunk into the opponent's results, then the adult's achievements will be discounted."

He saw that everyone had no objection. He directly handed the order to the first mate, "Execute it!"

The first mate walked out quickly with the order, and then the hull of the Margarita turned around in a creaking wave, and sailed towards the direction of leaving the battlefield. With the entire fleet shrinking towards the flagship, only this ship left like a deserter, so it seemed extremely eye-catching.

On the flagship, when the officer on duty reported the ship's abnormal movement to the "Shadow Governor" Aldridge, he simply frowned and signaled to the clerk's record. "I have not given any orders to the Margarita. He is running away. Remember after the war... remind me to punish the cowards! Okay, let it be! Don't let these little things disturb your admiral again!"

After saying that, he turned around and returned to the captain's room and locked himself up again.

...

Seeing that he was walking out on his own, the captain of the Margarita was not without doubts when he saw that he was walking out on his own.

He retrieved the order and the leather tube, checked it over and over again, until he confirmed that this was what he usually passed the order, and there was no problem with the font and the hot paint seal, which made him feel a little relieved.

With this thing in hand, he at least doesn't need to worry about being wronged.

"Click, click", when he swayed the leather tube, a strange sound came from inside. He opened the message tube and finally pulled out an old bronze badge from the inner wall. The badge was originally sewn on the inside of the leather tube, but it made a sound because it was a little loose.

"What is this?" He looked around with the bronze badge, and could only observe that it was a woman's avatar, which was actually shaped into the shape of a holy emblem. "Blasphemy!" He was upset and threw the badge on the table like garbage.

He didn't feel that the moment the bronze badge fell off the table, the whole sea seemed to shake.

The Margarita slowly drove into the thin mist and never appeared again...

...

"The wind is blowing, admiral!"

A communications soldier knocked outside the door of "Shadow Governor" Aldridge and shouted.

He was in the room, drinking bloody wine without answering.

*******

"The wind is blowing, Captain!"

Jacques's joyful voice came down from the mast.

"Raging the wind?" Lu Yuan looked at the anemometer on the mast incredibly. The four blades there were rotating at a speed, and it seemed that the wind was indeed rising.

Coral Island, the battle on a stormy night, was as far away to him as a century ago.

"That girl is crazy?! Not good! Quick TMD check if the bait in the base warehouse is enough! Immediately prepare fifty buckets of sea water for me to put in! Damn this girl must have changed her trick! It never blew the wind before, but this time Damn it must be a typhoon together! Quick! Quick! Get moving!"

Lu Yuan was not hesitant to guess the intentions of the sea god Corey Buso with the greatest malicious intention.

As soon as he finished speaking, the wind speed really became louder, and more than a dozen snow-white sails swelled with a visible amplitude of the naked eye. The air was bulging for the first time in a month.

*******

"Admiral", a man with a simple long hair tied with loose hair and straight-collared clothes, looked very tough, came behind Li Huamei, and reported with respect. "The wind is blowing!"

Li Huamei ignored the real captain of the ship, the true meaning hidden in Al's words. She simply raised her right arm, and two green fingers were joined together, pointing to one-third of the joint of the Far East Fleet like a sword. "Full sails, attack there!"

Before Al could convey it, the crew members who had long been conquered by Li Huamei's charm took action! They turned the masts and shook the ship (at this time, the wheel rudder had just been invented for less than ten years and had not spread to the Far East.), and the gunners pushed the gun out of the gun door. The infantry stood on the side of the ship fence with the divine musket...

"Admiral..." Al pointed at the opposite side depressedly, but Li Huamei said directly.

"I know, I know, dozens of British ships came across the opposite side, right? Thanks to the fellow villager's early notification, I think the fleet behind should be prepared... Thousands of miles away from home and country, and the hearts of the Ming Dynasty's merchants are not completely black." As the admiral of the fleet, the eldest daughter of the Li family and the spiritual leader of the Jiangnan navigation industry, Li Huamei drove the map cannon without changing her face, which could make the merchants going out to sea cry to death at the bow of the ship. "But it was precisely because the enemy captured reinforcements that we had to take a stake! This is likely to be the last time we can save the third prince! It is just that we must not miss it. We will never come again!"

"But……"

"I know, I know. You think that there are so many princes in the royal family, and every year the overseas bans rob each year, and death is not a big deal, right? But this prince is an interesting guy! The entire royal family is one of my favorite people. Just look at him who dares to go to Southeast Asia alone if he dares to go alone. This guy will sooner or later become a great man. The emperor knows that our Li family knows, and the Lin family knows... Otherwise, if he is kidnapped by the English people, how could he send a navy to chase Europa all the way to rescue him!"

"Then please..." Al could only hold his fists, but was stolen by Li Huamei again.

"I know, I know, but I will not leave Al's ship!" Li Huamei stubbornly grabbed the hilt of the sword at her waist, "I still like to fight on the sea with you... My level is enough, it's okay to command a few ships, and commanding the entire fleet is really boring. When I go back this time, I plan to resist the entire punishment, leave the government and the country, and let those dirty people play by themselves!

And don’t you think that Deputy Lin ~ Admiral is more suitable for this position than me? Those people from the navy were trampled on their heads by a woman, and I don’t know how long it has been uncomfortable!" Then why do you pronounce the word “Submit” so heavily?

"The surname is Lin..." Al said angrily, but it was directly cut off by Li Huamei.

"Call the admiral!" Li Huamei stared at Xingkeng's eyes, glared at Al, and rebuked lightly. "Secretly Lin... Ahem, although Deputy Admiral Lin is a bit rigid, as long as we rush forward, he will definitely help us prepare the way out... He is still a companion worth entrusting his back. He is the representative of those people in Jiangnan, but how can those people in Jiangnan control a tiger?! Just dreaming! If I leave in the future, if I can leave the Ocean Navy and you for him to take care of, I can also feel at ease to do what I like..."

"Admiral!" Al shouted anxiously.

"I know, I know, you are still so impatient. If you want to leave with me, I welcome you. I don't want to leave so many outstanding subordinates to Lin... Deputy Admiral Lin! But, do you think I will take Yi An away or leave him? It seems... it will be very interesting." Li Huamei showed a smile called black-bellied.

"Admiral..." Al said weakly.

"Ah, I know..." Li Huamei got stuck, then looked at Al with a grudge and said dissatisfiedly, "What do you want to say when you talk for so long? Hesitant and procrastinating, is it still a man!"

Lar wanted to cover his face very much, but I didn't finish a word!

He wanted to take the admiral out of the battle, because as long as Li Huamei was injured, his friends who had taken risks together, whether it was Bai Mu Xingjiu or Yi An, would not let him go. But as long as Li Huamei was on which boat, the boat would attack in the most dangerous direction. This is tradition.

He also wanted to invite Li Huamei to return to his flagship. If he could not involve the admiral, Al was actually a super radical guy. Now his fun was occupied by the admiral, and then he threw back a lot of troubles to him.

"Admiral, what I want to say is that the merchant ship opposite not only did not escape, but instead launched an attack on the Far East Fleet..." He smiled embarrassedly and said embarrassedly. "The key is that the British fleet is also heading towards his direction... He may be one step ahead of us to fight the British..."

"Before we?" Li Huamei grabbed Al's neck and dragged it in front of her, "Others are going to steal your prey, are you still chatting with me here?! Are you still a man?! If you are a man, find a way to speed up!"

*******

Just as Lu Yuan and Li Huamei competed for the first time to rush the warships toward the enemy, their essential biggest pillar, the huge Ming fleet behind Li Huamei, also began a big move.

At the beginning, these ships were like wild ducks suddenly exploded, scattering in all directions. But after a quarter of an hour, the fifty warships changed into two rows of geese formations on the left and right, which was the "moment of separation and reunion, shape of gathering and dispersion" in Li Gong's military strategy!

Once the fleet array moved forward, the murderous aura that soared into the sky instantly surged out, and became uncontrollably hot.

"Cough~ Cough~!" In the middle of the fleet, on the flagship of the largest tower ship, a man wearing a cloak but sick-looking face stood there. He held Jingjie (a forked wooden stick wrapped in thin ropes) in his hand, and just waved left and right, the army separated left and right like arms like fingers to form a battle formation.

Just like most Ming Dynasty men in this era, this man also had long hair. He only tied a bun and did not wear a crown. This man had square face, thick eyebrows and big eyes. He was probably a person who had been in a high position for a long time, and he was arrogant without anger. Moreover, he was extremely tall and had a wide skeleton, and he was originally a strong man. However, now his face was tortured by illness was blue-gray, his body was skinny and thin, and his hair and beard were all dry and boring.

Even though it was spring now, he was still wearing a bearskin cloak, but his body was still trembling slightly, and he kept coughing violently, and he was shaking when he stood there.

Lin Nanxuan, Lin Beiyuan's super revenge brother, is also the deputy admiral of the Ming Ocean Fleet.

"Coward!" Standing behind him, a Slavic woman who was extremely beautiful, did not care about him, a serious illness, directly accused him: "The admiral is still charging ahead, we should use the arrow formation to attack and respond! Could it be that you have any intention?"

Although the woman said this, she had fulfilled her duties as an adjutant before, breaking Lin Nanxuan's command into countless decomposition orders, and conveyed it in various ways without delaying anything. If it weren't for the woman's superb cooperation, then his command would be just a patient who waved two wooden sticks randomly.

Now that I have finished doing the important work, I will complain a few times.

Lin Nanxuan threw the handkerchief blocking the cough into the sea with expressionless expression, and took another piece of silk handkerchief from the maid next to him, and seemed to have no idea about the woman's accusations. The woman glared at him from behind angrily, but she was helpless with his appearance as a dead fish. In fact, there had been a long time circulating in the fleet, "Admiral Li Huamei, you can break through a thousand ships in five ships!" That was about Li Huamei's five warships conquering the Southeast Asian waters.

But what was not said was that if Admiral Li Huamei was given fifty warships, she might have commanded them to annihilate them in one exercise. Admiral Li Huamei's command ability of the army... is unfathomable - that is to say, no correct way to measure it so far.

Therefore, when the army pursued the British Far East Fleet and entered the Indian Ocean, with the repeated frictions of various forces, the command power had to gradually be tilted to the hands of Lin Nanxuan, deputy admiral who was better at commanding the large fleet.

This also involves the Ming Dynasty's maritime strategy, land-sea struggle, princes fighting over overseas bans, power changes in the ocean fleet, the Lin family's infiltration of the navy, Li Huamei's contributions after he defeated Japan and Southeast Asia, etc.

Therefore, Li Huamei's former subordinates are now very dissatisfied with Lin Nanxuan and often speak ill of each other...

Lin Nanxuan continued to wave Jingjie without saying a word, dividing the fleet into more levels. If you look closely, the geese formation with the character "man" before, but now it is still in the shape of "man", there are a group of three ships in it, which looks like the geese-shaped clouds in the sky. Such an array may not have enough impact, but if it is a defensive counterattack, it can handle it even if it is a fleet of several times more.

Until now, Lin Nanxuan, who had changed a few handkerchiefs, then coughed and explained to the woman: "Yi An, the admiral controls the ship... cough~ cough~ why should we worry? Just... cough cough... I'm afraid that when most of the navy headquarters stepped forward, the admiral... cough~ cough~... has already killed the enemy chief. The Yanxing Formation can encircle the formation of square and radial, and it can also... cough cough... cough cough~~"

Seeing Lin Nanxuan coughing so hard that the woman named Yi An was very embarrassed. She interrupted Lin Nanxuan directly and said arrogantly, "Okay, okay, you are the smartest! You know the art of war! If you cough so hard, just don't talk...! You are a sinister and cunning, despicable and shameless person. Even if... even if you explain... you won't let me treat you well!"

Although he said that, his tone became obviously gentle, and Lin Nanxuan finally had a smile on his rigid face.

He nodded and stopped talking. Since leaving Quanzhou, Lin Nanxuan has typhoid fever, tuberculosis, navigation disease... all kinds of diseases have come one after another, tortured his dignified seven-foot man into this bone frame. The ship doctor brought by Hangzhou has long been gone! If Yi An hadn't been there, she would not only use Arab methods to treat herbal medicine, but also throw the doctor who only knows bloodletting into the sea. It is estimated that Lin Nanxuan would have died long ago!

So, did he tell Yi An... about the "three media and six recruitment" incident.

"Look at the admiral!" Yi An suddenly shouted in surprise. Not far ahead, Li Huamei did enter the enemy formation as Lin Nanxuan said, and completely destroyed a large ship with the first volley!

"You, cough~ cough~ go to the cabin! Change your clothes... Cough~ cough~... change your admiral's clothes! It's going to be a big hit! Hurry!" Lin Nanxuan ordered anxiously. Thinking about Yi An's affairs just now, he almost missed the matter!

Yi An was actually very convinced by Lin Nanxuan. When she heard Lin Nanxuan's words, she couldn't even think about it and left immediately!

On the way, she figured out what Lin Nanxuan intended.

Along the way, the pursuit and escape of tens of thousands of miles of miles, the Ming Dynasty's strong ships and cannons can be crushed all the way, and the British can also take advantage of their familiarity with the ports along the way. The two sides fought for more than a dozen times, and it can be said that they are very familiar with each other. Just like Li Huamei's understanding of the British Far East Fleet, he can instantly discover the gaps in the fleet. The British also knew that the woman who liked to wear the big red battle robe was the commander of the fleet behind!

Now the admiral is alone in the mouth of a tiger. If someone recognizes it, it will be surrounded in a blink of an eye! If the other party fights to death and sinks Li Huamei's ship, then the admiral will be in danger.

Yi An was wearing Li Huamei's clothes and standing at the bow of the boat disguised as an admiral, which probably played the role of a fish-eye mixed bead.

Who would have thought that a general would not be honest in commanding on his flagship?

Just now, the battle situation ahead has changed...
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