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"What do I want your head for, I want an oriental beauty." Zhao Hao laughed when he heard this: "Promise me, you must bring it to me!" ”

Qiaoqiao happened to come to serve the soup, and when he heard the words, his hand was weak, and he almost dropped the soup pot on the ground.

She only felt sad that she didn't want to, so she quickly put the soup pot on the table and hurriedly exited the restaurant. Then he sat down in front of the brick stove in the kitchen, and became sad.

"What's wrong?" Secretary Ma, who was helping her take care of the stove, looked at Qiaoqiao strangely. The faint light of the fire made her face red, and there was a faint glittering water.

"No, nothing." Qiao Qiaoqiang laughed, immediately broke the gong, and whispered: "The son is going to rob the people's daughter." ”

"Huh?" Secretary Ma's surprised mouth opened slightly. The heart said that the son has grown up, and he is really good. "How so?"

"Yes, this person is really, do you still need to rob a beauty?" Qiaoqiao blurted out without resentment: "I want to take the ...... in the pot before I eat it."

"Phew, what nonsense am I talking about!" After speaking, she was so ashamed that her face was red, and she covered her face and didn't dare to look up.

"The beauty you're talking about, isn't it called ...... Oriental beauty? "Secretary Ma is Secretary Ma after all, and he understands every ravine of Zhao Hao.

"Yes, you already knew!" Qiaoqiao raised her head in surprise, and complained a little that Sister Ma was hiding it from herself: "Didn't you say that we have to tighten the fence and stop getting into the dogs?" ”

"Giggles. Wait, you let me laugh for a while......" Secretary Ma waved his hand, laughed and said with tears: "This oriental beauty, we can't compare, even Miss Jiang and the little county lord can't compare." ”

"Really? So big? Could it be a Japanese princess? Qiaoqiao asked in surprise, and said that the county lord was fine, but Miss Jiang would be in danger.

"You'll know when the time comes......" Secretary Ma laughed so hard that his stomach hurt, and he also sold the guanzi, and he didn't say anything about the death.

~~

The wind blew for a day, the night sky was cloudless, and the moon and stars were scarce.

It was pitch black in Futian Bay, and the warships on both sides invariably banned the lights to prevent them from becoming targets for each other in the dark.

At two o'clock in the morning, the wind changed. The flag that was originally waving towards the harbor suddenly unfurled towards the harbor.

"God forbid!" Colonel Pinto, who was about to despair, suddenly became energetic. He decided that when he returned to Macau, he would not save money, and that he would hire a serious monk from the church to be the ship's chaplain, and no longer let the drunken ship's doctor serve as him. That bastard's overlord clothes are all full of alcohol, so it's strange to be able to make it!

The European sailors aboard the Goa Governor had long been ordered to kick and kick the South Asian sailors, who were sleeping like dead pigs, as soon as they saw the change in the direction of the wind, and went to the deck to set sail.

There are more than a dozen large and small sails on the four masts, some of which are square sails that provide power, others are triangular sails that help with side movement. It would be unimaginable to rely entirely on human lifting. Fortunately, this is a fully rigged galleon, and a large number of movable rigging are installed, which allows sailors to save time and effort, and can freely steer the sails with a small number of hands.

By the bright moonlight, more than 100 well-trained South Asian sailors, in groups, dragged the ropes, and controlled the lifting of the sails by means of pulleys, and kept the sails tight by ropes and gondolas; Use the towing to move the mast for maximum wind power.

In a few moments, many sails were spread out, and the northeast wind blew them up.

In the belly of the ship, a dozen or so sailors worked together to desperately turn the main deck winch and put away the long anchor cable. Contrary to popular imagination, sailing ships anchor at sea not mainly by anchors, but by long anchor cables...... The bottom of the sea is mostly silt, that is, a thousand pounds of iron anchors, and how much grip can it provide to catch thousands of tons of galleons?

Therefore, anchoring is not to rely on the iron anchor to pull the ship, but to make the anchor cable better spread on the bottom of the sea. Then the big ship was pulled by two or three hundred meters of anchor rope in the silt on the seabed. At the heart of the Carrak galleon, there is a compartment for stacking anchor cable discs, which are thicker than an arm and can be stretched out for thousands of meters.

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As soon as the anchor left the silt on the seabed, the huge wooden ship of 1,500 tons finally broke free of restraints and slowly sailed westward under the encouragement of countless sails.

The Oriental Beauty on the side also followed, in fact, the Galen ship was small and flexible, and it was only waiting to set off together to protect the flagship.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!" Colonel Pinto stood on the stern, anxiously urging the sailors to adjust their ropes and move the mast for maximum wind.

He's in a hurry, he's in a hurry! Because at this time, whether it was the Goa Governor or the Oriental Beauty, the bow of the ship was facing the enemy ship.

How many cannons are there in the bow? The Governor of Goa is two full snake cannons and six half snake cannons. The Oriental Beauty is even smaller, with only two full snake cannons and two half snake cannons......

It doesn't add up to the number of guns on the side of the first floor of the Governor! But there was no way, the Portuguese naval mentality decided that they would place all the heavy guns on the side side. Instead of insisting on the largest cannon, like the Spaniards, who still insisted on the largest cannon, it must be installed in the bow.

So this time, the tactic of the Duke of Goa is to hold on to a cannon and rush into the enemy formation! Use the huge hull of several times the opponent to crush the enemy ship and fight your way out.

The unusually tall hull of the ship made Pinto not worry about encountering a gang jump, so in his opinion, the most he could do was to let the Duke of Goa hang up a little bit of color and kill a few monkeys, and he could afford it.

In order to be discovered as late as possible, it was time for the Duke of Goa to sail towards the mouth of the bay in the dark, thanks to Colonel Pinto's familiarity with the terrain of Futianpu and the help of the compass!

The sails are blowing, and the heavy galleon is getting faster and faster, and finally the speed is raised!

Colonel Pinto breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the Duke of Goa got up to speed, no ship could stop it! In the Ming Dynasty, a word that people liked to say was 'mantis arm as a car'.

"Signal and let the Oriental Beauty follow me." The colonel's tense face finally showed a confident smile again. "When we sail into the open sea and regain our freedom, we will turn back and teach these arrogant Ming Dynasty ......"

Before he finished speaking, Colonel Pinto's eyes suddenly flashed on the pitch-black sea at the same time. Before he could react, the earth-shattering sound of cannon exploded in his ears!

Cannonballs whistled and hit the Duke of Goa!

"How can they have so many all-snake cannons?!" Pinto looked at the other side in shock, the tongue of fire that flashed was definitely more than a hundred, right? This is just one side of the ship. The whole ship and the entire fleet combined, is it possible that there are 300 gates? That's a fart!

The all-snake cannon can be simply understood as a long-barreled cannon, and the half-snake cannon is an ordinary cannon. On the Duke of Goa, there were only fourteen all-snake cannons, twenty-six half-snake cannons, and forty smaller falcon cannons...... It is also known as the Hongyi Cannon.

Although the Oriental Beauty is small, its firepower is similar to that of the Governor of Goa. That adds up to less than thirty heavy guns! How could the Ming Dynasty fleet have ten times the firepower of its own?!

Now there is no one to answer his questions, and there is no time to think about it so much. Colonel Pinto made up his mind that as soon as he broke out of the encirclement, he would immediately run away with the wind. He would never provoke a madman with three hundred heavy cannons!

"Order the bow of the ship and don't return fire!" Pinto immediately leaned on the railing and screamed.

There are only a few poor bow guns, and firing them won't cause much damage, and the recoil will also affect the speed.

The herald ran to the bow of the ship, stopping the gunners who had already reloaded. The gunners shrugged indifferently, anyway, the lights were blind, and they fired blindly.

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The Ming Dynasty fleet on the opposite side didn't open the wheel eye, how did they find the movement of the enemy ship from a distance?

In addition to Wang Rulong, who foresaw that the other party was going to break through, he arranged a small boat to approach the surveillance in advance. Also because the sails of the galleon are white.

As soon as the twenty white sails were raised, they could be seen clearly under the bright moon, two miles away.

So the commanders of the ships take a look, and if they can't see anything else, they will hit the sails!

At this time, the punishment fleet was downwind, and the side of the ship on the enemy side was tilted upward, so that the gun muzzle also followed upwards, just to hit the height!

And there is also an advantage of hitting the sail, that is, the cannonball does not need to use too much force, so the range can be pursued. Of course, the premise is that you can hit it.

As soon as the Karak galleon came within a thousand meters, the captains could not wait to give the order to open fire. If this is daytime, whoever dares to fire at this distance will probably be shot by Mr. Wang.

Soon, the grandson of Xuande Cannon couldn't bear the loneliness and joined the ranks of firing. The twenty-one battleships in a fan-shaped formation no longer cared about saving ammunition and improving hits. Anyway, there is nothing to pay attention to in the indiscriminate shooting of birds now - according to the pre-deployment, everything is based on making the two Western sailing ships lose power, but try not to damage the hull of the Galen.

In fact, the latter sentence is nonsense. Before the twentieth century, no more than twenty Galen ships were sunk by cannonball. Often after a naval battle, thousands of guns fired in unison, and the battleships of both sides were riddled with holes, but they still did not sink.

Therefore, it is said that there is a reason why it is expensive, and this saying is indestructible.

The Yongle cannon and its grandson flickered tongues of fire at a rate of two to three rounds a minute, and within eight minutes they fired two thousand projectiles...... A fifth of them hit the hull, mast and sail of the enemy ship. The hull of the Carrak galleon has hundreds of holes of all sizes.

But it was only a hole, and it did not cause serious damage to the hull.

But the speed of the two galleons dropped significantly. Because more than a hundred shells hit the power systems of two ships - the mast and the sails, and even blew off the foremast of the Governor of Goa. When the mast fell, more than a dozen sailors were caught off guard......

Although the rest of the masts were not broken, most of the sails on them had been opened—the Western soft sails were so problematic that they leaked and were useless when they were broken. It is not as durable as a Chinese hard sail, and it can still hold the wind with thousands of holes......

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