On the coast of East Africa, Yang Ce's offensive plan failed.

"It cannot be said that they have defeated. My subordinates did bombard the ship for a while. Three shells of seven cannons hit the stern, which may have broken their rudder poles."

The evening breeze blew on the coast of Xidacheng. Lin Feng was wearing plain silk clothes and narrowed her long eyes and looked east. The mountains in the east in the dark night were like giants shrouded in the shadows. He nodded and said, "The rudder rod is broken, why didn't he bring that ship back?"

"Even if the ship does not move, a flying shark cannot rob it. There are at least thirty artillery on the ship. The upper strata are all Franchise circumferential cannons with one kilogram of bullets. They can shoot back from the middle section of the ship. The lower deck is a heavy artillery. The shells unloaded on the shore hull are three and a half kilograms. There is also a heavy artillery on the stern of the ship. It hits twenty kilograms of rock bullets, and the hull is cracked in just one moment."

Yang Ce, who survived the disaster, had a circle of white cloth wrapped around his forearm. His wounds were not deep. He was scratched by his own pirate's weapons in the chaotic artillery battle. He didn't feel it at that time, and he didn't feel it until Baihu left the combat area.

He shook his head gently and said, "Our artillery can't penetrate its hull. It is used to hurt people and is not enough. He can only leave with the speed of the ship. I always thought that only the Western Yi had warships equipped with heavy artillery."

In the textbooks of the Navy Martial Arts Hall, the Portuguese navy and warships were very weak, but the army had good tactics. Yang Ce never thought that the big ship had so many artillery, and it would have made him feel invincible after just a moment of fighting. If it hadn't for the earlier release of a round of shells to break the enemy's rudder rod and could not turn, he would have probably not come back.

"What is the double-layered char? Clark? The ship speed is only slightly slower than the flying shark. It has thirty cannons, the upper Franchise aircraft and the lower heavy cannons, which sounds even stronger than the Nanyang Thousand-Fire Shark Boat. Unfortunately, I don't know how many soldiers it can carry."

It seemed that the plain silk robe she wore made Lin Feng very uncomfortable. When Yang Ce saw Lin Feng tidy up his robe again and again under the moonlight, he walked slowly and didn't know what he was thinking. After a while, he heard him chuckling and said, "I offended two countries when I first arrived, which is interesting."

"Um?"

Yang Ce took two steps quickly and followed Lin Feng and asked, "Two countries?"

"Well, two, after you went out to sea, King Dan and King Qiong found a small cannon tower and trestle built by the Portuguese in their early years. There were dozens of Arab Hu people who you mentioned, and they kept saying that Sudan Sudan was beaten to death. I think this island may be the land of Tianfang and other countries in the northwest."

"But there is no good news. Our ship has discovered the surrounding situation. The fleet that came back earlier than you said that the north should also be the land of the Hu people in the Western Regions called Lumi. It is very large. We are a large island, three small islands, and there are two sea stones that can build artillery towers. The islands are like deserts, and there are very few arable land that cannot support us."

"But this guards the Red Sea, with Lumi Kingdom in the north and Portuguese in the south. Once the route is clear, it can still plunder the Indian countries. It is a good place, but the harbor is not deep and large ships cannot be built."

Lin Afeng didn't seem to care about offending the two overlords in this sea area at the same time, and asked, "How about the wood bones tied up?"

"The subordinates fought with Portuguese before they landed. They looked very prosperous. This time they brought back an Arab merchant. I plan to let him act as a translator. By the way, when it comes to arable land, it seems that there is a desert north of the wood and bones, but to the south, there are woodlands. The king can set his capital there."

"Although Portuguese has several commercial stations along the coast, they are not their own cities, and they are not important cities. It is better to repel them than to be attacked from both sides of the island."

Lin Feng turned his head and looked at the young Yang Ce and asked, "Are you scared?"

"The Great West City will not be the capital, at least it will not be my capital. The boat is my capital. They can't find us." Lin Afeng had no smile on her face, but her expression was relaxed and free. She did not take Lumi and Portugal, which had already entered a state of war, but just turned the topic: "Isn't it a bit awkward to me wearing this silk robe?"

Yang Ce didn't feel awkward, but he had never seen Lin Afeng wear silk robe. In the past, Lin Afeng often wore a mail and tied armor. The armor always changed with the plunder, but what remained unchanged was the cloth shirt under the armor and the torn hat.

Suddenly put on a silk robe, others didn’t feel awkward, but Lin Afeng himself was very awkward.

Before Yang Ce could say anything, Lin Afeng said to herself: "Your Chen Shuai is a knowledgeable man. I have read his book and said that he knows where he comes from, knows where he is, and knows where he goes. He said that he should see the essence through phenomena - becoming king is not a good idea from the beginning."

"It is to be king to keep people. Now people keep people, but they have lost their enterprising spirit and have been thinking about the capital, the ceremonial war, the uniforms, and the trivial and useless. At this moment, it is a good thing for someone to fight us."

For the pirate king, the essence of power is obedience. No one obeys, and wearing a dragon robe is not an emperor. If someone obeys, the common people can still be powerful all over the world.

At this moment, he needs a victory.

"Take your translation to the wood bones and replace all the cloth and porcelain with iron in batches. It is best to buy a batch of guns, cannons, armor, wood and gunpowder. The trees on the island with bloody cockscombs cannot build ships. We only have seventy-seven large ships, and we need to build hundreds of small boats for gamblers and set fires."

Preparations seemed to be inadequate. Lin Afeng pointed to the dark coastline under the night sky and said: "There are less than 200 artillery pieces in more than 70 large ships, and no matter who they fight, they will suffer."

"At least we need to purchase a hundred more cannons to solve the urgent problem. We can build the rest ourselves. Although we cannot create a durable cannon like General Zhenshuo, we can build an iron cannon like that."

Yang Ce finally understood that Lin Afeng was not a war madman, and he didn't really want to go to war with Portugal and Ottoman at the same time. In fact, what they did was not called a war with the two countries. It was nothing more than a little battle at sea. Even if the other party sent troops to attack them, it would be just a small fleet. To be honest, for Xidacheng, which has thousands of sailors and more than 70 large ships, they would not be afraid of anyone unless there were tens of thousands of troops.

It’s just that Lin Afeng needs to set up a powerful and terrifying target to scare the pirates and concentrate their power.

As for how long this power can be concentrated, he has never thought about it, or he doesn't care.

His life was like walking on thin ice.

"Next year, this, this, and that, there will be three docks on the island for making small boats, and a gun factory specially used to cast guns. I will give you five boats, go and go, sell the goods, and establish a long-term trade relationship with them, they'd better be willing."

If you don't want to, Yang Ce knows what he should do.

"All ships will leave the island in the next two months and rob the largest fleet of navigables here. We are in need of a city to establish our authority. All navigable ships and cities in this area will have to pay tribute to us, once a year."
Chapter completed!