As soon as the sky was bright, the sea of Le Havre, the dim sky in the distance seemed to grow together with the sea, and a few stars that were not very bright twinkled one after another.

In the port, groups of soldiers in blue uniforms are lining up to board the ship, and the thousands of people are not making much noise, which shows that this army can already be called elite.

Ye Kai raised his head and took a deep breath, he was leaving Europe today, and his flagship, the third-class battleship Deep Sea Shark, was lying across the sea like a castle.

Ye Kai stood on tiptoe and looked in the direction of Paris, in Paris, a child of the Ye family who was about the same size as him was pretending to be him swaggering to live in the Little Trianon Palace, pretending to say goodbye to Queen Mary!

The reason why he chose to set off before dawn and play as a stand-in was because he received a warning message from George IV.

A Dutch navy, consisting of a 2nd class battleship and 2 3rd class battleships, as well as a total of 8 other warships, large and small, has begun to assemble in the port of Rotterdam.

Ye Kai thought almost instantly, the Dutch most likely wanted to intercept him on the high seas, after all, recently in Europe, after Ye Kai returned to the South Seas, he was going to attack the territory of the Dutch East India Company and occupy Batavia, and the news spread more and more, and even the details were made up.

I have to guard against it! Ye Kai didn't want to die in the Atlantic, so he played a little trick, hoping to avoid possible interception.

After all, in Europe, although the Dutch Navy was hit badly by the British, it was barely the No. 1 maritime power, Ye Kai could be on the line with the Dutch colonial government in Batavia, but it was impossible to go to the Dutch Republic in Europe!

"O Lord! The lost lamb is about to leave the kingdom where your light shines, please bless me, and let me one day let your light shine on the land of Quang Nam! ”

As soon as he walked to the door of the captain's room, Ye Kai had to stop, he secretly sighed in his heart, there was no one else who could pray so skillfully and sincerely, except Ruan Fujing.

Who knew that a boy who had not yet reached the age of eight could show such devotion to Catholicism, this child, the future, no, should be in danger of life!

"Your Excellency, all the soldiers have already boarded the ship, and Bishop Peter has asked me if we are ready to set sail!" A burly man in a red military uniform walked over.

This is the commander of Ye Kai's mixed fleet, the Englishman Jean. Wilson, who looks like he's just a naval colonel, actually comes from a famous family.

He was Admiral and Baron George. Anson's son, but because he was an illegitimate child, his status was not high, and he didn't get the surname Anson, but he was still an excellent captain.

Ye Kai nodded and didn't speak, to be honest, he always felt that the British Admiralty chose this George. Baron Anson's illegitimate son, Jean. Wilson, as the commander of his fleet, must have had something else to offer.

Because George. Anson's most famous story is that he led a warship to plunder the Spanish galleon.

In 1740, Anson, who was still a captain at the time, led six poorly equipped warships and was ordered to plunder the Spanish galleon, and finally when only one Centurion remained, Anson successfully robbed a Spanish galleon, and sold the goods for a huge fortune of more than 100,000 pounds!

And the place where he sold the stolen goods was the sea off Canton, the first British captain to record his visit to Chinese waters in two hundred years, and now that the Admiralty had sent Anson's son to the East, it is difficult to say that there were no private arrangements and considerations.

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Cape Verde, 100 nautical miles off the island of Sal.

'Dang dang dang! The bell as a warning rang rapidly, and the busy crowd on the Deep Sea Shark was like a swarm of disturbed bees, and two huge sails appeared on the surface of the sea like the horizon. Wilson also pulled out his telescope and looked closely.

"How many ships are coming? Is it Dutch? Ye Kai took a deep breath, and there was not much fear, more excitement.

Eighteenth-century naval battles! The galleon, facing the enemy on the side, fired thousands of cannons in unison, isn't this the scene he dreamed of!

"Your Excellency Commander, it's the Dutch, and only two brigs have been found so far, but since they have appeared, the Dutch fleet is not far away, and it is not known how many ships they have come!"

The brig is a small and fast warship, which generally does not appear alone as a fleet outpost, and its appearance means that the Dutch fleet must have followed behind these two brigs.

Jean. Wilson's expression was also a little nervous, although the fleet belonging to Ye Kai under his command was not weak on the surface, but there was not much cooperation between them.

The four three-masted fast battleships that once belonged to the British Royal Navy were better, at least they once belonged to the British Navy with the Deep Sea Shark.

But those five old French battleships were enough, and many of the sailors on those ships were not regular navy at all, they were all armed merchant sailors recruited by Ye Kai himself.

Now France is vigorously developing its navy, and even the warships sent to Quang Nam are old-fashioned, how can there be skilled naval sailors for him?

It can be said that these five battleships from France are okay to bluff people or against the old hard galleons of the East, but against the fleet of the Dutch, God knows how much they can help!

"Your Excellency, the Dutch battleship has been discovered, which is expected to be two third-class battleships, one fourth-class double-deck battleship, and three two-masted schooners!" The starboard forward observer on the mast reported loudly.

Finally came, Ye Kai only felt that the anger in his heart was burning, these Dutch profiteers really wanted to intercept him, and wanted to sink him to the bottom of the Atlantic! Dog things, when Lao Tzu returns to Nanyang, you must look good!

"Inform the Queen Mary, as well as the supply ships and merchant ships, to leave the fleet, and the other warships to raise their sails to prevent the Dutch from seizing the downwind position, put up in columns, and inform the French warships to prepare for battle!" Jean. Wilson put away his binoculars and set them up loudly.

Since they set off ahead of schedule and were still overtaken by the Dutch, it proves that the Dutch's speed is higher than their own, because the Dutch can sail at full speed, but they have to move with ordinary merchant ships and supply ships like the Queen Mary, and they can't get up fast at all!

"Mr. Commander, please arrange a position for me, and I will fight side by side with you as well!" Ye Kai walked up and saluted a British military salute and shouted loudly.

"Good! Grab your flintlock pistol, Lord Marquis, I have appointed you as the sniper of the Deep Sea Shark, responsible for sniping the enemy captain! ”

Jean. Wilson glanced at Ye Kai, obviously a little surprised by Ye Kai's initiative to fight.

At this time, the sea battle was the presence of snipers, Horasho. Nelson was killed by French snipers in the Battle of Trafalgar, and the naval battle at this time was also extremely cruel, there were queue shooting tactics on land, and the same was done at sea, no! Maybe it's time to call the queue to shoot!

The tactic at this time was to turn the battleship sideways and meet the enemy in a column formation, and the battleships on both sides would form a long column like an army lined up to shoot, and bombard the ship's side cannons.

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