The first to suffer was a county town of Banda with a population of several thousand at the westernmost entrance to the Strait of Malacca, and the warships of the Eight-Nation Combined Fleet had just sailed into the Strait of Malacca when the cannons on the warships were aimed at the city.

At least five hundred cannons were fired at Banda County at the same time!

"Boom Boom"

The cannonball flew over a distance of nearly two thousand meters and flew towards this county town built only 300 meters by the sea, indicating that their combined fleet of eight European countries was coming and officially began to declare war on the Ming Dynasty!

"Ah" shells exploded in the city of Banda, killing and wounding a large number of people.

After two rounds of shelling, thousands of shells fell in the small city of Banda, turning the entire county town of Banda into ruins, killing and wounding nearly 1,000 people!

"Behold, what wonderful fireworks!" The commander of the Spanish fleet smiled excitedly as he looked at the county town of Banda, which had been destroyed in the artillery fire.

The Eight-Nation Combined Fleet sailed all the way to the east of the Strait of Malacca, while looking through binoculars for all the Daming cities built not far from the coast, as long as they saw it, they could not escape the end of destruction.

Not only the city, but even the fishermen on the coast, as long as there are more than 10 people, they cannot escape the shelling of the Eight-Nation Combined Fleet.

"Boom!" Two children who were playing on the beach were killed by a shell and both fell to the beach, stained with blood.

In less than a stick of incense, three Daming counties very close to the coast were destroyed by the Eight-Power Combined Fleet, and more than 3,000 unarmed Daming people died!

Before they met the Ming fleet, they wanted to give the Ming a dismount, slaughter the innocent people in the coastal cities of the Ming Dynasty in the bloodiest way, and announce their arrival to the Ming Dynasty!

It's brutal!

"Hateful! These European barbarians, who should have been cut with a thousand knives, slaughtered the innocent people along the coast of our Ming Dynasty before they were at war! "On the sea east of the strait, three patrolling warships of the South China Sea Fleet happened to see the scene of the eight-nation joint fleet constantly bombarding the counties along the coast of Malacca. Lin Chong, the Ming admiral who commanded the three warships, angrily punched the wooden pole on the side.

Yes, it is called Lin Chong, a name that is the same as the head of the 800,000 forbidden army in Tokyo in the Song Dynasty.

"General, the fleet of the barbarians of the Eight Nations is huge, I'll go back and inform the two Admirals soon!" A naval soldier on a battleship looked at the oncoming dense Eight-Nation Combined Fleet, and said with a somewhat pale face.

I have to say that the momentum of so many warships of the combined fleet of eight European countries is really too huge, and people who are a little less in the best conditions are frightened just by looking at it.

"Yes, General, we only have three warships, maybe the other side can bury us at the bottom of the sea with only one round of shelling, we can't fight hard!" Said another naval soldier on a battleship.

Their task was originally to patrol, and when the enemy was outnumbered, there was nothing wrong with quickly evacuating and returning to inform the main force of the fleet. At present, the distance between the two sides is still 3,000 meters away, and theoretically it is still said that they have not yet entered the combat distance, and it is completely feasible to retreat and avoid it now.

However, Lin Chong, who commanded the three warships, did not see it that way.

"Retreat? Is it possible to let the combined fleet of the eight countries continue to bombard the unarmed civilians along the coast? Lin Chong looked angry and gritted his teeth and said: "As soldiers, it is our duty to protect our home and defend the country, and now we see that the enemy fleet is constantly bombarding the unarmed people along the coast, but we retreat indifferently?" Is this what a soldier is supposed to do? What will the people who will be ruined by the bombardment of the barbarian fleet in the future think of us! ”

Lin Chong said that when he said the back, he simply roared out.

No matter what, as a Ming admiral, he Lin Chong would never be able to watch the Ming people along the coast being bombed and ignore it.

After Lin Chong finished speaking, his eyes scanned the surrounding Ming Navy soldiers, and asked loudly: "Could it be that you are afraid of the enemy and afraid of death!" ”

Afraid of the enemy and afraid of death?

"General, we are the officers and men of the Ming Navy, and we will never be afraid of the enemy or death!" Immediately, the surrounding naval soldiers stood up and replied, their voices extremely firm.

"General, I am waiting for the admiral of the Ming Dynasty, and we will never fear the enemy and death!" More Navy soldiers came forward to take a stand.

At this moment, even the two soldiers who had been saying that they were going to retreat and inform the main force of the fleet did not speak, although they were indeed a little afraid of death, but when it was really time to die, they dared to go up desperately.

The general was right, as soldiers, they should not have watched the enemy fleet bombard the innocent people along the coast without indifference.

"General, I, Zhao Ming, am not afraid of the enemy and afraid of death, I will listen to the general's orders!" Finally, the two Navy soldiers also spoke out loudly.

This is the backbone of the Ming Navy, even in the face of countless times the enemy, they can face it head-on without fear of death, so that the European barbarians can see the demeanor of the Ming Navy.

"Good! It's all good! In fact, we will not need to be notified of the main battleship at all, even if we do not turn back, with the barbarian fleet bombarding the coast like this, the 6th will send people to rush to the location of the main force of the fleet to report to the two admirals the news of the arrival of the barbarian fleet, and the train and horses are much faster at 6 than our warships at sea. Therefore, we only have two choices now, one is to abandon the people of the coastal city and turn around and flee. One is to meet the barbarian fleet even if they know that they are invincible, and to fight to the death with the barbarian fleet, no matter what, to attract their attention, so that they cannot continue to bombard the coastal cities, and at least to buy more time for the innocent people in the coastal cities to escape. The admiral clenched his fists and said murderously.

He was not afraid of the huge number of warships of the combined fleet of the eight European countries at all, even if he knew that rushing forward might be certain death, he did not flinch at all, and exchanged the lives of their three warships and hundreds of soldiers for the lives of more innocent people, he felt that it was worth it.

"If you're afraid of death, you can jump into the sea now!" Lin Chong finally asked.

"General, you don't have to say it anymore, we are not afraid of death!" The surrounding naval soldiers all spoke loudly.

"Good! Since they are not afraid of death, pass on the order to wave the flag to the other two battleships and meet the barbarian fleet! We not only want to stop the barbarian fleet from continuing to bombard our coastal cities, but also make them pay the price of blood and show them the bravery and momentum of the Ming Navy! Lin Chong said without fear.

Immediately, under the order of Lin Chong, the supreme commander of the three Ming warships, the three Daming warships rushed towards the huge number of European eight-nation combined fleets.

The Ming naval soldiers on the three warships were not afraid of life and death, even if they knew that they were facing an enemy hundreds of times larger, and they knew that they would almost die if they went, they still dared to rush forward to meet the battle.

In fact, as early as when Lin Chong and other three Ming warships appeared in the European eight-nation combined fleet, the European eight-nation combined fleet also appeared Lin Chong and other three Ming warships!

"Oh, oh my God, they didn't run away, but came up to meet them, they were so courageous!" The commander of the British fleet said in surprise, shocked by the courage of the three Ming warships.

"Since they are looking for death, then we will fulfill them!" The commander of the Spanish fleet said with a sneer.

"Rise up and destroy them!" The nominal commander of the combined fleet, the Duke of Havelan, the commander of the Dutch fleet, also commanded with murderous intentions.

Immediately, the combined fleet of the eight European countries did not continue to bombard the coastal county just now, but stared at Lin Chong and the other three oncoming Daming warships one by one, there is no doubt that the combined fleet is about to engage in the first small-scale naval battle with the Daming warships.