Plymouth Bay.

On the deck of Garen's ship, Drake frowned and climbed down from the mast, muttering to himself: "The wind is not good today."

Behind him was the sea, a fleet of Galen ships, armed merchant ships, and merchant ships were hanging half sails, ready to sail to the bay.

They had nearly thirty ships, of which there were not many main warships belonging to England, most of which were armed merchant ships. In addition, there were merchant ships borrowed by Drake from merchants and pirates along the way, four of which were transformed into fire ships by him.

The purpose of the battle was very clear. They rushed into Plymouth Harbour. If the enemy was not prepared, they would take advantage of the situation to launch a landing attack and cooperate with the army in the north of the city to capture the town.

If the enemy is prepared, use fire boats to burn the ships anchored in the shipyard and port to create opportunities for the next attack.

Judging from this tactic, today's wind direction is not the worst. The southwest wind blowing on the sea means that the ship will soon be able to approach the port and launch a raid after entering the bay.

The disadvantage is that there are too many reefs in the Plymouth Bay. Half of their temporary cobbled fleet usually runs on Eastern routes. There are even two ships that have been trading in the Baltic Sea and the Principality of Moscow in the past few years, and are not familiar with the reefs in the Plymouth Bay.

The fleet was approaching the bay, and Drake held the boat's side and shouted to the sailor on the short communication boat: "Tell the Count, I have made the worst plan!"

The worst plan is that the Ming army has many ships in the port and is prepared for it. After burning the shipyard, they could not return to the original route due to the wind direction, so they drove into the Primu River and relied on the narrow river to get rid of the enemy - of course, no one was willing to do this. Once the situation was so bad, they might need to sink one or two boats in the river to block the river.

In fact, Drake kept complaining in his heart all the way, complaining about why the Queen's cousin had to cooperate with the army on the shore.

Two or three hundred years later, coordinated combat is a compliment, which means that different organizations and forces work together to fight for a goal in different fields; but in this era of extremely poor information communication, coordinated combat is a foolish idea, often means a chaotic disaster.

There is no voice to open the dark, and communication depends on dreams.

The fleet had just arrived in the waters near Plymouth two days ago. Wang Di immediately unilaterally decided to fight with Earl Charles on the land and a coordinated battle between land and sea, and sent someone to inform the Earl of the besieged camp that the fleet would launch an attack on the port of Plymouth today, so that the noble army would prepare to cooperate with the attack.

There was no problem with this, but yesterday there was a westerly wind blowing on the sea, and all the ships broke down and there was no way to detect the situation west of the bay. Today, the wind direction finally changed a little, and the southwest wind blew, which was beneficial to the attack, but it still failed to conduct a good investigation.

But Drake couldn't say that Brother Wang was not at all. He still didn't have a title. In the eyes of the great nobles in London, he was a warlike pirate veteran. The Queen originally planned to award the title, but this happened to Plymouth.

In London, Hawkins said that the Queen had planned to grant him a title before the war, but was disturbed by Yang Gao, who had just been released from the cell... People in London said that the Queen should not invite Yang Gao to the palace at this time. Even if he had cleared his suspicion, he was a Ming Dynasty person after all.

But Yang Gao was unreasonable and wanted to justify himself. The Ming Empire almost broke our old leg, and the scar was still there. Where can we serve it anymore? Now we are trusted by the Queen of England and want to contribute to England. The first force we put in is to support the Queen to award the title of Drake and debate with the old nobles in the palace.

The starting point is very clear. If Drake can be awarded the title for his merits, then England will be better than France and Spain. If people who are not valued in the West and France will definitely go to England to try their luck. Needless to say, this is the two mortal rivals of the old and the new, and they will be scratched to the point of itch, just right.

Originally, Hawkins and Drake were quite happy to see the old man's appearance. After analyzing, he felt that the old man was telling the truth. He was good for Drake and England, but in fact, what he really wanted to say to the two of them, and he still wanted England to reuse foreigners.

Who is a foreigner? Yang Gao is a foreigner. If you understand this and then listen to what he says, you will understand the concept of Yang Gao's secret change: If Drake can be awarded the title today, then Yang Gao will be awarded the title tomorrow.

Don’t worry about foreigners or foreigners. Huo and De really thought that Yang Gao was in the same mind as him.

As a result, the front-foot debate won, and Yang Gao made a big fuss and secretly told the queen that he supported the award of a hero like Drake, but advised the queen not to give a title now, saying that the current title is what it is, and that the master is named Wuming.

To be awarded a title, it must be rewarded with military merits after the war is over, so as to inspire other talented people to serve the kingdom in the future.

When the queen heard this, she immediately learned the advanced experience from the Ming Dynasty, and the matter of Drake's title was stranded.

He almost got angry and had nowhere to make sense. So what if he lost this battle? If he lost the title, he would be gone? On the contrary, if Yang Gao made a contribution, he had already laid the foundation in the queen's heart. If he didn't do it well, he would be really awarded a title to him.

Besides, the key point is that Drake has no title, is respected in the army but has no real power. He has to listen to the final decision of the brother Wang who has not fought many battles - so can anyone win this battle?

calumny!

This old man is very bad and slandered!

Now that the Army has received news from Wang Di, he is afraid that he will not dare not attack. Seeing that the agreed attack time has come, Drake suggested to Wang Di to delay the attack for caution... Can it be delayed? This is a coordinated battle, and they have nothing to say.

If the navy does not attack, if the army cannot win in one battle, it will be a waste of troops and generals. Who would like to see such a situation?

The moment the warship entered the bay, the wind blew on his cheeks very cold. Drake remembered a word that Yang Gao mentioned when analyzing the Ming army of Plymouth for the Queen in London, and it was difficult to get off the tiger.

He didn't quite understand at that time, what could he do if he rode on a tiger's back? Should he get off or not?

Now he understood.

It was clear that entering the bay meant that the naval battle had begun, and everyone had to cheer up. As the sailor drew out his sword, a vibration came from the port side of the ship in succession of roars, six Dutch forged steel cannons and twelve cyclone cannons launched bombardment.

They saw the Ming infantry intermittently on the reefs on the west coast of the bay. I wonder what they were doing. Drake squinted his eyes and searched, but he was relieved that he did not see the cannons on the reefs beside those people. However, it didn't matter if he saw the cannons there. The reef was too small and not flat enough to become a cannon for the cannons.

However, he still saw some extraordinary things. The Ming army didn't know what they were laying out, so they carefully pushed the wooden boxes down the sea, and drifted towards the place they had to pass along the wind and water.

In order to avoid the reefs, their fleets lined up, so there would always be ships that would hit those wooden boxes.

What would be inside?
Chapter completed!