open sea

Chapter 315 Fleet
In the vast expanse of blue waves, the sea breeze is rarely soothing, and the summer southwest monsoon is familiar, but they are blown off course, and a small and large fleet composed of Caravel ships and Clark ships anchored at sea.

They found the turtle and tried to get the turtle aboard.

No one knows better than these sailors how difficult it is to obtain fresh meat from the endless sea, especially sea turtles, which can live for a long time in the bottom bin.

Being an enemy of Lin Feng prevented them from docking in Taiwan. The route from Manila to Japan was infinitely lengthened, and there were only a few small islands to stop along the way. Now they have deviated from the route, and the morale on board has become very low.

Because their surveyor had symptoms of bleeding gums, which left him in a trance of fear, and diverted course.People grabbed his arm to bleed, thinking that it would be all right if the bad blood was let out. As a result, the symptoms worsened and more blood was let out, and the time surveyor was dying within a few days.

It is said to be one small and two large, but in fact the three ships are not small. Even the smallest caravel ship is more than 20 meters long. This old ship has deliberately raised the side of the ship in order to carry more cargo, and it looks very special. Mighty; as for the two Clark ships, they are even bigger, more than 30 meters long, and their wide body and three decks look like a castle on the sea.

at this time.

boom!
Boom!

Three soft sounds in the distance made the Spanish sailors who were catching the turtles feel like they were facing a formidable enemy. They were not familiar with the sounds when they lived at sea—but they knew that they were either guns or cannons.

At the best of sight in the northwest, a small boat with a strange appearance is rapidly approaching with the help of a zigzag course.The armor of the people on the boat could not be seen clearly, but a few people stood at the bow of the boat and just put the strange things back, when the gunpowder smoke slowly dissipated from the bow.

It seems to be demonstrating to them?
The distance was very far, and the Spanish sailors on the ship could not see the other party's boat clearly. They just thought it was a 20-meter boat with similar specifications to Caravel.There was no firepower on board, and only the open butterfly sails could make people recognize it as a Chinese ship.

"Shangfan, it costs money and life, why are you catching turtles!"

Three armed merchant ships of different sizes immediately set sail, a piece of yellow and white canvas sailed for a ride, and a huge red cross pattern surged forward.Under the command of the captain, the sailors on the ship quickly entered the combat position. Only a few entered the gun positions and stood by.

Although they don't know why the Northern Empire is called China, in their impression Ming Ships have always lacked artillery and are good at using fire attacks and boarding - they are also very good at it. At this moment, they obviously have more sailors.

The Spaniards were conquerors, whether by land, ships or goods.

Nearly seven or eight miles away from them was a small shark boat, commonly known as an armed fishing boat by Nanyang Wei, five feet six feet long, actually a circle smaller than the Spanish small caravel boat.

There are not many armaments on board, only four five-jin guns, in addition to six Francophones, carrying three small flags, they are firmly parked on the sea.Even compared with the small shark ship, their ship was neither equipped with a ten-pound gun that Nanyang Wei added to the small shark ship, nor replaced the Frang machine with a two-pound gun. Obviously, it is not the main force of naval warfare.

They are the sea scouts of the Nanyang Expeditionary Force. They don't have cannons, and they sail at a slightly faster speed.

Inform the fleet behind that they saw three enemy ships.

"Oh? Dare to come?"

The little flag officer with his arms around the mainmast raised his binoculars to look at the enemy ship, suddenly realized, carefully put away the binoculars and climbed down the mast, and loudly ordered: "Raise the mast, hoist the sail!"

"They have a watchtower on the mast, but there seems to be no one on the watchtower in front of the ship, and they can't see clearly from behind. They probably thought it was just our ship." Several flag officers on the ship exchanged: "They are downwind, and they can fire a cannon in a moment, why? manage?"

"Qianhu said that Xiyi's ships and guns are no less than ours, don't raise all the sails, go back." The small flag that has been standing on the bow of the ship looked into the distance, and said: "A few more ships to fight again, Qianhu listen The sound of the cannon should be coming here."

They are soldiers of Shunde, subordinates of Shao Mangchong.

In fact, if there are high mountains here, looking north, you can see several huge fleets heading straight to the southeast, and Chen Mu's southern expedition has already begun.

Twelve [-]-material shark ships surrounded the two huge ships, and they moved side by side at a great distance. Each [-]-material large ship was surrounded by six small shark ships, forming twelve naval formations capable of fighting independently.

They are armed to the teeth, and the fleet of only [-] expeditionary soldiers has thousands of artillery pieces of various types.

After Chen Mu, it was another fleet of the Expeditionary Army, with more war ships and grain ships, and a lot less small shark ships, which were roughly similar. It was the more than [-] Guangdong battalions under Chen Lin's command, and it was Chen Mu. escort and supply fleet.

In addition to these two majestic Ming fleets, there are also Lin Afeng's Caotai, more than 2000 big fortune ships, small shark ships, and more than [-] East Asian pirates formed a fleet swimming in the flanks. The huge fleet almost covered the entire sea area.

Far away in Nanyang Port, Bai Yuanjie commanded more Guangdong Dusi Banner Army as supplementary soldiers, and joined the military battle after winning the battle first.

Shao Tingda was approaching his scout ship. Seven large and small warships under his command acted as vanguards and spread out in the sea area with a radius of seven miles. After hearing the letter cannon, they moved closer to the small boat in front.The reckless worm on the boat was gearing up, he hadn't fought a naval battle for a long time, and since Chen Mu went north, he never had such an opportunity.

"See those three birds and hozens?"

Mang Chong can already see the two small shark boats coming from the sea area on his left, and he can also see his subordinates who are approaching him to find the enemy. Obviously he is being chased by the enemy ship, and he can even hear the sound of the enemy in the distance. The booming guns rang, but standing on the poop, he obviously couldn't see the enemy ship.

The subordinates on the mast shouted loudly: "I see, three ships, flanking left and right to pursue!"

"Pinch a fart, how far is it?" Shao Tingda snorted toward the mast, and then shouted loudly on the boat: "I remember it all, if you don't fight, you don't want to fight. Smash their tattered sails before you go!"

"Left Banner leads!"

"The Right Banner leads!"

Shao Tingda sent an order to the Second Headquarters Banner, and the Second Headquarters Headquarters sent an order to each of the smaller flags. In a blink of an eye, the entire hundred households on the [-]-ship Shark Ship had taken orders. The Banner Army carried out shells and gunpowder from the cabin, and placed a gunpowder loaded with powder on the side of the ship. Gun frame, riding the wind and waves, the fleets of both sides gradually approached.

The three Spanish ships that were chasing fiercely suddenly turned around at a certain moment, and the ships circled the sea almost straight. Shao Tingda on the big shark boat with white butterfly sails under the dragon banner suddenly raised his hand: "Drumming!"

Boom, boom, boom!

boom!
The bow of the heavy artillery blasted out suddenly, the ship pierced through the gunpowder smoke, turned the bow and stabbed away, and a command sounded from the poop.

"Starboard gun—ready!"

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