Obviously, Dili City is now Orne's world, but Orne knows very well in his heart that as long as Pimont is alive, the future troubles have not been eradicated, and the war is far from over.

In addition to appointing himself king of Timorese on the spot, Orne also sent the newly surrendered Portuguese naval fleet to pursue the Aurora, and it seemed that he was planning to cut down the grass and eradicate it.

Degus's small fleet was forced to rise to the occasion, but sadly, the small civilian merchant ships were no match for the double-decked military galleon, and Degus was forced to retreat away from the island of Timor and all the way to Ambon Harbor.

There was a trading depot where he could stay, and the Dutch would not embarrass him, the sandalwood merchant, and would even welcome him.

After all, there was no conflict between Degus's business and the Dutch, the key was that Degus paid taxes according to the law and had connections in the Batavian governor's palace.

However, as the governor of Timor, Pimont did not want to risk going to the territory of the Dutch due to his identity, but in front of him, the lost Pimont could only retreat behind the Degus fleet on the Aurora, and he planned to retreat to Macau first, and then try to make a comeback.

The problem was that Orne wouldn't let Pimont go easily, so a medium-sized Galen warship spotted and caught up with the Aurora, and a cat-and-mouse chase began......

Two days earlier, the entire fleet had been broken up due to a storm at sea and the entire fleet had lost contact with each other.

As a result, the lone Dawn was forced to move to an unknown cove in the eastern part of the island of Timor to take refuge from the storm---- which, like Nicole and Pride, was the only right choice for any ship facing an ocean storm.

However, while dodging the storm, the Aurora encountered a pursuing fleet sent by O'Neill, and one of the galleons, Galen, finally found and caught up with Pimont.

In the naval battle, the Dawn was hit a large hole by the heavy cannon smoothbore cannon on the galleon of the galleon, and the constantly flooded Dawn could only save itself by rushing to the beach and running aground, which was the only way to avoid the fate of the people on board in the belly of the fish in a dangerous situation.

However, his Dawn was already in danger because of the bullet and entered the water, even if he landed by luck, without a ship, he would be stranded on a wild island, so where would he go?

Pimont, the young Portuguese nobleman, a descendant of Noon II, seems to have been teased by fate since his appointment as governor of Timor.

At this moment, he was on a small sailing boat struggling to sail on the sea, with a wild island in front and a strong pursuer behind, wasn't this a desperate situation?

Pimont was slumped on the deck at this time, and could only pray to God with a cross on his chest, apparently, so far he had not seen any sign that God wanted to save him, could it be that God had really abandoned him?

Yes, that's what Pimont thinks so far, especially when he sees the big ship in the distance suddenly lowering its sails.

The big ship was something he had never seen in his life.

The slender hull, the low flat deck, the extremely simple mast and sails, and the blue and white sail livery, all of this looks so unusual, but it shows an indescribable beauty.

Pimont adamantly didn't think it was a pirate ship, even though her towering mast didn't bear any of the ship's port of registry and national flag, nor any family mark.

The only flag on her mast that would reveal her identity was a tricolor trade flag fluttering in the wind.

The tricolor flag indicates that the ship is a peaceful trading ship, especially when the ship signals him with a flag for security inquiries, and he assumes that the ship has good intentions towards him.

So he immediately ordered the captain to reply to the distress signal, and also showed that he was the official Portuguese ship of peace, but now it was being attacked illegally!

The galleons Galen also saw this strange big ship, and when the Dawn gave the signal, the galleons stopped shelling, after all, the galleons were ships of the Portuguese Navy, they were not pirates, and the reason for stopping the shelling was to know the attitude of the big ship: friend or foe?

Subsequently, the galleon of the Portuguese Navy issued two fireworks signals, one red and one white. However, the strange ship did not react, and instead lowered all the sails!

Well, at this moment, both the Pimont and the people on the galleons of Galen will think that the ship is indicating to them:

"You go on, I'm neutral!"

In this era, if one of the belligerents does this, it means surrender or abandonment, and if the third party on the battlefield does so, it means declaring neutrality.

However, the Pride, unaware of this (perhaps completely ignored), was nervous and busy at this time, because the war was going on, and the crew had no idea that both ships had misunderstood the Pride's message.

Pride is a hybrid sailing ship, according to the combat manual, if the wind is unfavorable, all sails should be put away and the fuel mechanical power should be used instead, which can not only simplify the operation of the ship, but also concentrate manpower on the key gun, steering, lookout, signaling and engine positions, etc., the crew on the Pride is not much, everyone must play their part to the fullest.

Of course, this may be misunderstood by enemies or allies who don't know us, but in a pinch, it certainly doesn't take care of it.

In fact, Li Sanduo made up his mind when he sent the signal to the Dawn to ask: to interfere, and to help the Caravel sailboat, the reason is very simple - Caravel is obviously the weak party, and she is in danger.

Li Sanduo's thoughts were very clear, and he immediately informed Captain Gu of the Nicole through the walkie-talkie: We have to help the weak side, the advantage of this is that under normal circumstances, we will gain friendship, if we go to help the strong side, we will only receive contempt and anger, hugging the thighs is to be despised, and you are also suspected of robbing other people's achievements, and it is reasonable to attract anger.

So, it would be unwise and even stupid to help the galleons Galen fight Caravel.

Gu Jin agreed to Li Sanduo's request for battle after quickly soliciting everyone's opinions, and the main reason why he wanted to ask for everyone's opinions was that his decision would drag everyone into a battle with real guns, and it seemed that our side was not attacked, and if we participated in the battle, it would be regarded as an active attack.

Therefore, Captain Gu, who is extremely calm when facing major events, is very sober-minded at this time, he does not want to force the crew to fight this battle, if everyone is against participating in the battle at this time, he will immediately order the fleet to leave the bay to complete his sailing goal.

However, the reaction of both the crew of Nicole and the Pride was positive—no, to be exact, they were almost fanatical about joining the fight.

Especially the crew of the Pride, they have been trained for so long, they know the performance of this ship, and they also know the power of two 76.2mm naval guns and two 20mm machine guns, not to mention these, even the AK47 in their hands is also a defying existence - of course, the premise is that they are outside the range of the opponent's cannons.

Obviously, everyone knows that this does not mean that they are brave, and if the risk of fighting is high enough to affect them to go to the city of Holo Harbor to buy girls, everyone will choose to avoid fighting.

In a word, for these people, the premise of "bravery" is to be sure of their own safety - well, this world is so real.

At this moment, the crew of the Pride was screaming, waving their weapons and shouting on the deck

"Go to war! War! ”

"Let the sea forces of this era know how powerful we are!"

This kind of shouting resounded on the deck of the Pride for a while.

The combat frenzy of the crew did not surprise Li Sanduo at all, but he didn't want to participate in the frenzy, so he just issued one order after another in a very calm tone:

"Dual-machine full on!"

"Triple zero on the right side!"

"Raise the battle flag!"