In the twelfth year of the Ming Dynasty, October 19, not yet.

The European Combined Fleet and the Ming Fleet finally met in the waters of the strait in the central part of Malacca and the east of Kuala Lumpur.

The European Combined Fleet came from the west, and the two major fleets of the Ming Dynasty came from the east.

"Hmph, I finally met, order all ships, prepare for battle!" Zheng Sen, the flagship of the South China Sea Fleet, put down the telescope in his hand and ordered loudly.

"Yes! Barbarians, before the battle, dare to slaughter my Ming people first, you will definitely pay for your blood debts, there is no return, hahahaha! On the flagship of the East China Sea Fleet, Shen Jing also laughed wildly.

In terms of the European Combined Fleet, while Shen Jing and Zheng Sen and other generals of the Ming Fleet saw them through telescopes, the commanders of the fleets of various countries of the European Combined Fleet also saw the arrival of the Ming Fleet through monoculars.

"Maiga, that's the fleet of the Ming Dynasty, they took the initiative to come to meet it!" said the commander-in-chief of the British fleet.

"God, my Spanish Invincible Armada will soon be able to power again, and I will definitely send all the warships of the Ming Dynasty to the bottom of the sea to feed the sharks!" The commander of the Spanish fleet laughed wildly.

Although it is said that not long ago, Lin Chong and the other three Ming warships displayed strong combat effectiveness put great pressure on the combined fleet, but the combined fleet is still full of confidence in defeating the Daming fleet and winning the naval battle by virtue of the huge scale of their entire combined fleet of 640 warships.

Because even if the combat effectiveness shown by the Ming warships is indeed terrifying, but the Ming Dynasty is only a country after all, and they are the combined fleet of eight countries, for more than a hundred years, their Obarro fleet is the protagonist of the world, and the number of warships of the Ming fleet cannot be compared to their combined fleet of eight countries.

"Da Ming, you're finally here! The fleets are ready for war! The nominal supreme commander of the Combined Fleet, the Duke of Havelan, the commander of the Dutch fleet, also said, and gave orders to the fleet.

At this time, although both sides saw each other, but both sides saw through telescopes, in fact, the two sides were still tens of thousands of meters apart. Moreover, due to the influence of the curve of the earth, each side saw only a part of the battleships in front of the other.

For example, at present, in the line of sight of the European United Fleet, in fact, only a dozen Ming warships are seen, although as the distance between the two sides gets closer and closer, there will be more and more Ming warships, but the European United Fleet has always thought that it would be good to have seventy or eighty Ming warships, and in any case, they would not have thought that the real number of Daming warships is actually two hundred and ninety-seven.

In terms of the Ming fleet, he also only saw a dozen or twenty European Combined Fleet warships at the front, but Daming had long known the specific number of European Combined Fleet warships.

In any case, since the two sides met face to face, it was inevitable that they would fight.

The European Combined Fleet urgently gathered fleet warships, and the European Combined Fleet warships on the north and south coasts continued to converge towards the central waters of the strait, and they stopped all attempts to bombard coastal cities and concentrated all their efforts on preparing for a decisive battle with the Ming fleet.

When the distance between the two fleets was still eight thousand meters, more and more European warships gathered back in the waters of the Central Strait, and the number of warships on the side of the Ming fleet appeared in the eyes of the commanders of the European Combined Fleet, and more than a hundred Ming warships appeared.

A hundred Ming warships are left, and it's not over yet!

"Hiss" Why does Daming have so many warships, are they all the three same warships that he encountered not long ago?

At this moment, including the Duke of Havelan, the commanders of the European Combined Fleet widened their eyes.

Just now, I thought that it would be good to have seventy or eighty warships in the Ming Dynasty, but now there are a hundred of them, and they are still appearing, and they can't tell how many Ming warships there are.

The number of warships is only a problem, what worries them even more is whether the Ming warships are as effective as the three Ming warships they encountered not long ago, if so, not more, as long as the Ming Dynasty has one hundred and fifty warships like that, it can cause great losses to the combined fleet, and if the combined fleet loses two hundred warships, this will have to be made up for by how much property the Ming plundered to go back.

Although surprised by the number of Ming warships, the commanders of the European Combined Fleet remained firm in their belief that victory would belong to them.

However, soon they don't think so.

When the distance between the two sides was less than six thousand meters, the number of Daming warships was finally exposed, and even the observers of the United Fleet who were looking from the height of the mast had counted the number of Daming warships.

"Two hundred and ninety-seven, there are two hundred and ninety-seven warships of the Ming Dynasty!"

On the flagship of the Dutch fleet, the Dutch soldiers on the mast reported loudly to the Duke of Havelan and the other Dutch fleet generals below.

Not only on the Dutch flagship, but also on the flagships of the fleets of other countries, the commanders of the fleets of various countries already knew the specific number of warships of the Ming fleet.

Two hundred and ninety-seven!

No! No, if you count the three Ming warships that were sunk by them not long ago, Daming has a full three hundred warships, which is more than all the Dutch combined! When did Daming have such a large number of warships!

"No, God! That's impossible! How did Da Ming have so many warships at once! On the flagship of the Dutch fleet, the Duke of Havelan said with an ugly face.

"God! It's amazing! The British fleet commander-in-chief said in shock with his eyes wide.

Although the Dutch fought two naval battles with the Ming Dynasty nearly ten years ago, they have some understanding of the Ming Dynasty, but they stayed in the past ten years, these nearly ten years, the Dutch worked hard to build warships, and finally had a total of more than 200 warships, the Dutch did not estimate the current strength of the Ming Navy, but after all, the Netherlands is not a country with a huge territory like the Ming Dynasty and more than half of the world's population, and he can't understand the potential of the Ming Dynasty.

The British and Spaniards were at odds with the Ming because of the affairs of Luzon and Australia, but the Spaniards and the British in Luzon and Australia were completely annihilated by the Ming, and they did not know anything about the situation.

For the understanding of the Ming Dynasty, the British and Spaniards, as well as the Portuguese all stayed more than ten years ago, that is, the Chongzhen period, but at that time, the Ming Dynasty was in internal and external difficulties, the building was about to collapse, and even from the British, the Portuguese had purchased the powerful red-coated cannon.

In the eyes of the British, Spaniards, and Portuguese, the Ming Dynasty's firearms had lagged behind them.

As for the navy of the Ming Dynasty, what they know more about is the Zheng family fleet of the year, the Zheng family has been obedient to the Ming Dynasty a long time ago, and has always hung the banner of the Ming Dynasty, so they also regard the Zheng family fleet of the year as the fleet of the Ming court.

Although for more than ten years, Daming Zhongxing, and they have also heard the news of Daming Zhongxing from European caravans.

Coupled with the news of the destruction of the Dutch Far East Fleet, they felt that the Ming Navy had a certain strength, but the navies of their European countries had been fighting for hegemony for more than a hundred years, and they had also been exhibiting for more than a hundred years, so they could not predict why the Ming Navy could have so many warships at once.

The shock was too great.

The number is one thing, what worries them the most is whether the Ming warships are all the same combat effectiveness as the three Ming warships that were sunk by them not long ago, if so, then the comprehensive combat effectiveness of the two hundred and ninety-seven warships of the Ming Dynasty is not stronger than the more than six hundred warships of their entire combined fleet, at least half a catty and eight taels, and they can no longer have the confidence to win the Ming Dynasty.

On the contrary, their faces were ugly, and they were simply overwhelmed by the pressure brought by the 297 warships of the Ming fleet.

"God, what are you kidding!"