Chapter 285 Wait for the day

At the last moment before being shot in the head, at the moment when he raised his gun and fired back while scolding his subordinates, Fei Susha's eyes actually took the time to glance at the sky in front of him, which was the direction of Nanwan Pier.

And there, five of his battleships!

He was so unwilling that he could not stand on the dock himself, and the warriors who greeted him carried the great iron ship in triumph; failed to personally witness the grand occasion of the Chinese being guillotined; Not to mention the cheers of the citizens who could not accept him!

Mission? Power? Glory?

All this was originally his lifelong dream!

At this moment, all of them, for Faisa, are floating clouds!

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If Fesusa hadn't died, he would have found that, at least until now, De Sousa and Silva hadn't disappointed him.

After hours of intense work, the two of them were now standing on a huge Galen gunboat, waiting for the day.

Especially the ambitious pirate Silva, who was in a refreshed mood like drinking honey at the moment.

He was standing on the tall aft lookout of his ship, the Skull Flag, constantly looking at the Beagle, the clipper that had just been received by Juan Federer.

Looking at the beautiful streamlined hull of the Beagle in the hazy night, Silva even hummed a little song, and if it weren't for the imminent war, he would even want to have a drink to celebrate.

The Beagle was a dhow clipper, Silva estimated to be about 500 tons, about half the size of his own ship, the Skull Flag.

But it had a swordfish-like tooth that was almost as long as the hull, allowing it to hang a long column of sails, and it was much more agile than its own nearly 1,000-ton, three-masted mid-galen ship.

On either side of the hull, there are twelve closingable gun doors on the bottom of the double deck, and the ship has a total of about twenty guns.

In addition, on the bow and stern decks, there is also a rotatable four-pounder light shotgun, which is specially used to kill and wound personnel in close combat, and can also fire chain shells to destroy enemy sails, the disadvantage is that the range is too short.

"What a petite beauty, but it's a pity that the artillery is a little less ......," Silva squinted and muttered with a little regret.

In contrast, his own "Skull Banner" has more than forty heavy cannons and cannons.

"But it's so fast!"

Thinking about it, Silva became excited again.

The ship is small, but the draft is deep enough, so it is very resistant to wind and waves, and when downwind, it can quickly exceed ten knots.

Even in the face of headwinds, with its advantage of longitudinal sailing, it can easily shake off the entanglement of other large ships, which is really a very useful smuggling and pirate ship.

Now, the more than twenty gunners on the ship have all been replaced by his men, and among the twenty or so sailors, most of them are his men, and in addition, there are more than a dozen musketeers brought by De Sousa on board.

Originally, Chandler's subordinates had been recruited by him to the shore before, and they went to hunt down the Chinese Yankees as if they were dead, but they were all caught in the net.

There were less than ten old sailors left behind, and after he led his men and a dozen officers and men onto the ship, and after showing an official document from the governor's palace, he immediately obeyed the order and obediently handed over the command.

If you want to be mixed up in the horse, who dares to disobey the orders of the Governor?

What's more, these old fritter sailors may have already learned that their master has had an accident.

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The east is gradually revealing the white of the fish's belly, and there is still more than an hour, and it will be dawn.

Silva looked around, and at the sound of an order, the three gunboats slowly lifted anchor and slowly sailed away from the crowded harbor......

Not far away, the two huge official warships commanded by De Sousa had already sailed out of the port first, and were slowly forming one after the other.

These are two of Silva's more coveted, large, three-masted cross-sail Galen battleships.

According to the plan, the five gunboats, led by De Sousa and Silva's ships respectively, will be divided into two columns, sail on the regular battle line, and outflank the two Chinese ships anchored not far from the harbor, behind an uninhabited island.

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At this moment, Fesusa's military attache of the bodyguard, the young de Sousa, was also standing on the stern platform of his flagship "Sophia" and watching behind him.

First, he looked a little frightened at the starry harbor a few hundred meters away, and at the dock in the dark.

Ho Jing Ao Nanwan Port is a huge half-moon-shaped natural port, due to the special East-West trade status, the entry and exit of goods is very busy.

As a result, there were so many ships anchored in the harbor, hundreds of ships, large and small, that almost the entire harbor was filled.

Among them, dozens of ocean-going ships of more than 500 tons alone have been berthed.

After hundreds of years of operation of the Franco, there are seven or eight trestle bridges on the wharf of Nuoda, and some small and medium-sized ships are directly docked on the trestle with mooring.

And those large-tonnage ocean-going ships, because the deck is too high, can only anchor in the bay far from the trestle, all the personnel and materials have to rely on those as many river boats to complete.

Therefore, whether day or night, there are always many small boats busily shuttling back and forth in the whole harbor, and people have long been surprised, and they do not bother to inquire whose ship is loading and unloading overnight.

Just now, when de Sousa was directing his soldiers to bring ammunition onto the ship one after another, Silva's men quietly reported that 100 meters away, the two trestles at the east end of the pier had been controlled by dozens of Chinese soldiers with loaded guns.

This information came as a surprise to de Sousa.

During the day, he only knew that dozens of Chinese Yankees had come ashore and entered the city, but he did not expect that they still had a lot of men here.

So, he was always worried about whether he would be taken advantage of the opportunity to cover up, and repeatedly instructed his subordinates to secretly get on the ship in many small boats as low-key as possible.

Fortunately, all went well, and the Chinese soldiers did not seem to have enough manpower to control the entire dock, and they were probably afraid that the gunfire would alarm the battery, so they did not act.

Now that all the personnel and supplies were in place, de Sousa finally breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the anchor to be quietly lifted.

Since his ship was larger, more cumbersome to operate, and slower to start, he had to be the first to sail out of the harbor.

As agreed, Silva must follow as soon as he saw his fleet leave port.

The young officer, de Sousa, was proud and grateful that the Governor had entrusted him with the command of these two great warships.

These two majestic advanced warships, named "Sophia" and "Gray Dolphin" respectively, are the latest warships to escort the Governor to the horse shortly after they were launched last year, and their displacement of nearly 1,200 tons is a full circle larger than Silva's two medium-sized gunboats, and there are hundreds of sailors and gunners on board alone.

This is the largest and best warship that the Portuguese can build at the moment, in terms of size, only slightly smaller than the Dutch warship, but it is not bad in combat, not only has more than 60 guns large and small, but can also carry up to 600 crew members.

Over the past few decades, the Netherlands, the perverted "coachmen of the seas", have risen to prominence, and they have been able to build giant Galen warships ranging from 1,500 to 1,800 tons.

The British, who were also rapidly rising, preferred the more nimble, 300 to 500-ton smaller Galen ships.

The reason for this may be that the British at this time had not yet completely freed themselves from the pirate mentality, and did not have many overseas colonies like Spain, so they did not have the urgent need to transport a large number of people and treasures.

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(Question: For a difficult question today, do you have any friends who can name the names and years of the five Ming Dynasty emperors?) Please answer the question in the format of "name + year number". Note that it's the year name, not the temple name. ）

Thank you: "Sky Missing", "Baby", "An Zhi Ruosu" and "Mo Zhi Great Demon King" for their tips! Thank you!

Thank you for the recommendation, thank you!

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