"Don't be surprised, I'm the Duke of Havelan, cough-cough-----" Havelan's voice was a little hoarse, and he spoke with a cough.

Originally, the Duke of Havelan was not like this.

The defeat of the combined fleet of the eight countries and the heavy losses, and the huge battleship group of 641 warships of the entire fleet was almost completely annihilated, which did have a great blow to the Duke of Havelan, but the Duke of Avilan's heart was not weak to that extent, he may be disappointed, or a little decadent, but this is not unbearable.

However, when the fleet fled from the Strait of Malacca in disarray, the flagship of the Duke of Havelan ran into a reef and sank, and the Duke of Havelan was unlucky enough to fall headlong into the cold sea.

Although he was rescued later, Havelan fell ill because of it, and his illness lasted for more than a month, almost killing Havelan.

If it weren't for the support of his breath, hoping to return to Europe and personally plead guilty to the king of the Netherlands, Havelan might have died at sea.

The disappointment and decadence of the combined fleet's fiasco, coupled with the torture of illness, finally tortured the Duke of Havelan into such a miserable state.

Fortunately, after returning to the Netherlands, after explanation, the Dutch king finally did not blame Havelan for the defeat of the combined fleet, and Havelan was forgiven by the Dutch king and retained his title of duke.

The kings and messengers looked at each other in astonishment, and then turned their gaze back to the Duke of Havelan.

"Duke Havelan, please tell me the whole process of the naval battle!" The Queen of England said solemnly.

The kings and envoys of the other nations nodded their heads, eager to know the whole process of the naval battle.

It is unimaginable why the combined fleet, which is unprecedented in strength and almost invincible, was defeated, and was so miserably.

"That's ------," the Duke of Havelan coughed weakly, and then slowly told the whole process of the naval battle in a rather old and hoarse voice, starting from the fleet's entry into the Strait of Malacca from the western entrance of Malacca.

From foreseeing the first three Ming warships and sinking three Daming warships, to the decisive battle with 297 Daming warships in the easterly waters of central Malacca.

The whole process is full of thrills.

"Hey---, the warships of the Ming Empire are so powerful, one can withstand the combat power of at least three of my European warships?" When they heard the Duke of Havelan's account of the combat effectiveness of the Ming warship, the kings and envoys of various countries were shocked again.

"How is this possible!" The King of Portugal could not believe it.

How could the Ming warships be so powerful, Portugal did not intersect with the Ming Dynasty, in the year of the Apocalypse and the early years of Chongzhen, not only the English sold the red-coated cannons to the Daming, but the Portuguese also sold a lot, and even the Portuguese also sold the red-coated cannons to the Manchurians who were enemies of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty's artillery technology had already begun to be surpassed by their Obarro.

As for the fleet warships, the most powerful fleet of the Ming Dynasty is the Zheng Zhilong fleet, which relies on sixty not very advanced gunboats and 4,000 large and small ships to dominate the Nanyang area of the Ming Dynasty.

It's only been a few years, and the Ming fleet has developed to such an extent, with three hundred warships, and they are all terrifying warships, and the cannons installed on the battleships are so advanced!

With a range of three thousand meters, and the speed of at least five shells a minute, the power of the shells is just as terrifying, which is simply unimaginable.

The mysterious Eastern Empire! It's so mysterious!

Kings and messengers glared and fell silent.

Since more than 1,000 years ago, the exquisite silk of the Eastern Empire first came to Europe, the Eastern Empire is mysterious and rich in the eyes of European countries, especially more than 300 years ago, the description of Marco Polo's Oriental Travels has depicted the Eastern Empire as a paradise full of gold.

It was thought that after hundreds of years of rapid development, especially in the past hundred years, Obarro's civilization has gradually advanced over the Eastern Empire, which has always been mysterious.

More than thirty years ago, when their advanced redcoat cannon was first sold to the Eastern Empire, they thought that their civilization and technology had surpassed that of the Eastern Empire.

However, when they were proud, the Eastern Empire first defeated the Dutch Far East Fleet, seized the Far Eastern colonies of the Netherlands, Spain, and England, and now defeated the incomparably powerful Obaro Eight-Nation Combined Fleet with 641 warships.

The five sea powers of the O'Baro colonized the world and the other three powers, and the combined fleet of the eight nations that they had put together with all their might, could not defeat the Eastern Empire.

The sinking lasted a long time.

"The Eastern Empire is still mysterious!" The Queen of England said with a sigh.

One sentence made the hearts of kings and envoys of all countries palpitate.

"Could it be that our civilization in Obaro has never been able to stay ahead of that mysterious Eastern Empire? No! With God's favor, we at Obaros should be the most advanced civilization in the world! The King of France clenched his fists and said angrily.

The faces of the kings and envoys of the other countries also changed instantly under this sentence of the King of France, and they were very ugly.

For decades, as the five great sea powers colonized the world, bringing back a large amount of gold, silver and other materials, warships were rampant in all seas of the world, and they always thought that their civilization had surpassed the Eastern Empire that had been pressing on their heads for more than a thousand years.

However, now they suddenly found that everything was just their delusion, and they had never surpassed that Eastern Empire, even if they tried their best to form a huge combined fleet, they could not defeat the Eastern Empire!

With Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, France and Portugal as the mainstay, the kings of the five countries were full of unwillingness.

What they are most afraid of is whether the Ming fleet will go out to the world to compete with them for colonies, if so, how can they resist the powerful fleet of the Ming Dynasty, do they just watch their colonies around the world being robbed by the Ming Dynasty?

"We must not let the Ming Empire rob our colonies, that is unbearable!" The Queen of England said with great firmness.

Britain is an island nation with a small territory, few resources, and has always had the ambition to stabilize the world's number one power, and the colonies are the only thing that can help them achieve this great goal, and they cannot afford to lose.

Not only Britain, but also the other four major sea powers could not tolerate the Ming fleet going out to the world to compete with them for colonies, this pressure was too great, it was simply desperate!

The kings of all countries looked at each other, and they all saw firmness in the eyes of all sides.

"In this case, I propose that we in Obaro should unite to jointly fight against the 'invasion' of the Eastern Ming Empire!" The King of the Netherlands proposed.

"I England agree!"

"I, the Spanish Empire, agree!"

"I'm French --------"

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Immediately, the five major sea powers agreed to the Dutch king's proposal, to unite against the Ming Dynasty, once the Ming fleet really went out to the world to compete with their countries for colonies, their countries would jointly resist the Ming Dynasty.

With the signing of the Covenant, the rudiments of a European anti-Eastern imperial alliance were slowly taking shape.

The Ming Dynasty brought unprecedented pressure to the whole of Europe.

After the kings returned to the countries, they began a new round of warship construction plans, and they had to design and build warships that were more powerful than the warships of the Ming Empire depicted by the Duke of Avelan, so that they could truly fight against the Ming Empire in the future.

Among the five sea powers, England and the Netherlands are the craziest.

Not only the most advanced warships are designed, but also crazy to update the cannons, trying to produce the most powerful and advanced cannons.

Because they firmly believed that only more advanced artillery could defeat the Ming Empire in the East.

For this reason, the whole of Europe is crazy, a huge amount of money has been invested in the design and development of warships and cannons, which has greatly promoted the development of European warships and cannons, and it is believed that with the birth of a new generation of warships in Europe, Europe will also have a fierce dragon fight with the Ming Dynasty.

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