The most relied admiral outside Duke Zhuang under Lin Feng was Yang Ce. During the same time he was training the flag army in Beiyang, Yang Ce trained a group of pirates with almost the same charity on an island thousands of miles away from the Ming Dynasty.

At this moment, Admiral Yang Ce was leading his fleet to carry out the important missions assigned to him by the Han Dynasty on the other side of the African continent.

Salt and cloth sales sound quite low-end, but in fact, when the amount is huge, it is a very high-end thing. For example, in West Africa, salt and cotton can be exchanged for gold, and silk from the Ming Dynasty can be equivalent to gold.

Yang Ce brought the fleet with almost the strongest combat power under the command of the four kings of the Han Dynasty, with 1,200 elite soldiers composed of Fujian and Luzons. They received an average of one and a half years of training. Although this kind of training seemed very simple to Yang Ce, it was enough to make them stand proudly among the many armies of the Han Dynasty.

Due to gunpowder and musket reserves, the 400 gunners fired at most less than 200 lead rounds, and the artillery even fired 20 guns on average, but more training can be arranged in physical fitness, spear formations, spear throws, fortifications and hand-to-hand combat, and adapted to local conditions to give them extraordinary combat power.

Although you can save as much as you want in training, to be fair, the armies of various countries may not be able to defeat these pirates on the battlefield.

Africa is rich in gold. Whether it is the chaotic chief in the south or the three major powers of Sanghai, Mali and Benin in the west, salt is a very important hard currency because they do not know how to cook salt, and this necessity of life has always been the focus of foreign trade.

In the Sanhai, they mainly sell gold, slaves, ivory, spices, cola fruit and cotton fabrics, buy salt, weapons, horses, copper, glassware, sugar and North African shoes and wool products.

There is no need for a fleet to do business. Lin Afeng values ​​this rich land and cares more about this route. The area is complex and difficult for large troops to enter. Attack is a very dementia manifestation. Trade is more likely to bring wealth than conquest.

But there is a problem with the trade in front of them.

The Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Ottomans were all doing business here. Salt is too untechnical for many countries, and other handicrafts in the Han Dynasty were difficult to compete with others, so its status was very embarrassing.

The weapons of the Han Dynasty were not enough, and it was impossible to sell them to others. The pirates did not like to farm and made sugar. They could only rely on cooking some sea salt to maintain their lives. But there were so many competitors.

But they are pirates. In Lin Feng's words: kill them, will there be no competition?

So Yang Ce's goal was very clear. He cleared all the cargo on the ship of several chaotic chiefs in the south, and then went north along the coast on the west side of the mainland. The warship blocked the northern route, killed all the ships sailing south, and then used the lucky ship to fish out the cargo and sold it in West Africa.

This is very addictive. Not to mention the huge profits of the prosperous commercial routes, even important materials such as weapons, war horses, copper, and iron are delivered to them. The only disadvantage is that Yang Ce found that he could not go back.

The longer the route is cut off, the higher the price of cargo in the three major trading countries. There are constant ships coming from the north, and he can't leave at all.

In fact, he only has seventeen small flying sharks and five four hundred-four-quality lucky ships. Such strength is nothing to the navy, but for those European merchants who only have one or two boats?

Oh, this is a nightmare.

I can't escape but I can't escape but I can't beat it. I hate it so much.

Of course, few people have the opportunity to hate Yang Ce, except those fish that missed the net.

For example, now, Yang Ce's subordinates are still blocking the route in the north, and he personally led three flying shark ships equipped with the most artillery to chase a notorious English dealer. The slave dealer's speed was very fast, and his pursuit spread across the west coast of Africa. Until the slave dealer arrived at his destination, Congo, had no chance to catch up with the war.

By this time the chase had failed. The pirates knew what they bought here, and the slaves were useless to the pirates.

But Yang Ce couldn't swallow this, and he was going to kill these three ships.

Not for wealth, I want to be at ease.

But when we were about to take action, the pirates became timid again.

"Admiral, many people, many people were driven from the woods to the shore!"

The sound of the lookout hand with a worn telescope on the mast was trembling. When Yang Ce looked over, there were really many people.

Their skin was dark, and there were hundreds of people. The slaves with only a piece of cloth covering their bodies were standing together, even Yang Ce could not tell the difference between the thousands of people standing on the shore.

"It won't be less than five thousand, what are they going to do?" Yang Ce looked at the coastline from afar and frowned, holding the boat's side and blurted out: "Those three boats can't even accommodate 400 people. What are they driving so many people out to do?"

The pirates knew that these dealers from Europe bought and sold slaves, and they did not rely on robbing because they were not troops, and a small number of firearms could not pose too much threat to bows, arrows and spears when they were not large. African tribes were not America, but also made iron weapons. The cost of robbing was too high, not to mention that the plateau, rivers and tropical rainforest made it difficult for them to enter.

So South Africa became their paradise. The experienced slave traders would use cheap crafts to win the favor of the chiefs, and then sell weapons to support one or several chiefs in battle. When they win, they would buy all the prisoners at an extremely low price.

These slaves also have places to go. People in the Potosi Silver Mine in Spain have been dead. The manpower for mining is seriously insufficient. Twenty or thirty thousand slaves are sold there every year and will eventually die there.

But what price will these people pay when transported to another continent?

Yang Ce saw with a telescope that the slave trader he was chasing was directing his men to pick among the crowd. In the end, less than 500 people were selected and driven onto the ship with the help of the chief's soldiers.

Yang Ce smiled on his face. He said that these three ships could not even accommodate 400 people, but they now had to load 500 people. The more people they loaded, the slower the ship would go.

He even explained the tactics to the left and right: "When the ship leaves the shore for eight miles, we will rush up. They will run to the shore, but one round of artillery can sink three ships, and the slaves on the ship can swim back, and not die too many...what are they doing?"

Before Yang Ce could finish his words, he could even hear the noise on the coast from a distance. When he turned his eyes to the telescope, his eyebrows were involuntarily raised, and the hairs behind his neck were even raised. What happened in front of him might be one of the darkest moments in the hearts of man in history.

The slave trader looked at his carefully selected 500 items loaded onto the ship with satisfaction, waved to his subordinates, someone blew a whistle, and several followers holding muskets shot into the sky obliquely, others drew their swords or carried spears and halberds to drive away the slaves. Then the chief's soldiers blocked the left and right coasts with spears, and more people joined them with spears.

There were indeed more slaves on the coast than five thousand, and the total number of prisoners was 7,500.
Chapter completed!