Time passed little by little, two months, on August 22, the sea forces of European countries gathered in the Netherlands, completed all the preparations before the second expedition to the Ming Dynasty, and the combined fleet was ready to fight!

"Set sail!" With the Vatican Pope praying to God after a command. 'Nature' said.2

The kings of England, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Portugal and other countries watched the huge combined fleet sail out of the harbor and begin their second expedition to the Ming Dynasty.

The scale of this combined fleet is undoubtedly huge, not only has it never appeared in European history, even the Ming Dynasty does not have such a huge number of fleets, and the entire combined fleet is composed of 1,221 warships of various types.

1,221 warships of all kinds! What a sea power this is.

Not to mention anything, just the cannons on the battleship are added together, there are no less than 50,000 guns!

The reason why Europe was able to muster such a large number of warships was due to the fact that after the defeat in the Battle of Malacca, the five major sea powers of Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, France and Portugal continued to build warships for thirteen years.

In the past, countries also frantically built warships, but at the beginning, countries fought for colonies overseas, often fought with each other at sea, and there were many losses every year, so the number of warships of each country in those years could only be maintained at a certain number for a long time.

But because of the defeat in the Battle of Malacca that year, countries were afraid of the Ming Dynasty, and the frenzied construction of warships was originally to deal with the possible retaliation of the Ming Dynasty.

For about seven years, Britain, Spain, France, and Portugal all tacitly agreed that there was no naval war with each other, and even after seven years, even if there were some naval battles in various countries, they were only small-scale naval battles, and more wars on the six grounds, so in the past thirteen years, almost none of the warships built by various countries have suffered much loss, and the number of warships has increased every year.

If we include the merchant warships that were urgently retrofitted with cannons in the past two months, Britain and the Netherlands alone had more than 300 warships, of which the Netherlands had the most, about 311, of which 20 were merchant warships that had been refurbished in the past two months. On the English side, there were three hundred and two, and the same twenty were merchant warships that had been converted in the last two months.

However, this is already very terrifying, the number of Britain and the Netherlands alone is almost the same as when the eight-nation joint fleet was organized to go out to the Ming Dynasty for the first time, you can imagine how crazy the British and Dutch are.

France, Spain, and Portugal are not far behind.

In order to confront Britain, there are also worries about the revenge of the Ming Dynasty and the mind of confronting the Ming Dynasty, and in the past 13 years, it has also built 220 warships of various types, of which 15 are merchant warships that have only been modified in the past two months.

On the Portuguese side, there were more than the French, with 155 ships, nine of which were merchant warships that had been refitted in the last two months.

Spain, on the other hand, has the least among the five sea powers.

Originally, the number of Spanish warships was much more than that of Portugal, and the number was close to that of France, but because of the evacuation of the American 6, the other four countries were successfully evacuated, but Spain was intercepted by the Ming fleet and lost sixty warships, so that the number of Spanish warships was less than that of Portugal.

Spain had only one hundred and forty warships, twelve of which were merchant warships converted in the last two months.

This is on the side of the five major sea powers, and together there are 1,128 ships.

There are other European coastal states with sea power.

Norway, Sweden, the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, as well as numerous small states of the Italian peninsula, they contributed a total of ninety-three warships.

Thus, the number of warships of all types on the expedition of the entire European Combined Fleet was 1,221 warships of all kinds.

And these warships are roughly divided into four categories.

The first category is the longest-range, five-meter-level warships, which are only owned by the five major sea powers, and the number is not large, only 200.

The second category is the warships with a range of about 2,000 to 3,000 meters, and the largest number is 720.

The third category, which is an old warship with a range of about 2,000 meters, has 216 units.

The fourth category consists of 85 merchant warships that have been urgently converted with cannons on merchant ships in the past two months.

In any case, the scale of the European Combined Fleet is unprecedented, almost twice the number of warships owned by the Eight-Power Combined Fleet when it first set out for the Ming Dynasty!

The huge combined fleet warship group, covering a large area of the sea under black pressure, such a battleship group can make people chill just by looking at it.

There is no doubt that with such a huge battleship, all the soldiers of the combined fleet are full of self-confidence.

Even if the Ming Dynasty was able to defeat the 641 warships of the eight-nation combined fleet that year, proving the strength of the Ming Dynasty's maritime power, but this time it was different, not only did the five major sea powers build many warships that were much more advanced than those of the Ming Dynasty in these years, but the number was nearly twice that of the eight-nation combined fleet that year.

No one could still believe that in the face of the blow of such a large number of combined fleets as them, the Ming still had the slightest chance of victory.

"Duke Peter Burston, how do you feel about being able to command such a fleet?" The cardinal who was sent by the Pope to accompany the fleet asked with a smile the nominal supreme commander of the combined fleet, Duke Peter Burston.

The Duke of Peter Burston hailed from England and was England's most outstanding naval marshal at the moment.

Let him be the supreme commander of the combined fleet, not only the Pope is very much in favor, but also the monarchs of the four major sea powers of France, Netherlands and Portugal except Britain.

"Of course it feels wonderful, I am confident that I will lead the fleet and destroy all the warships of the Ming Empire, so that the Ming Empire will pay the due price for what he has done!" Duke Peter Burston said with confidence.

Although it is only the nominal supreme commander of the combined fleet, this is undoubtedly a supreme honor, because no one has ever been able to lead such a group of more than a thousand warships, such a fleet is too huge, perhaps unprecedented, after defeating the Ming Empire, no one will be able to have such an opportunity to lead such a huge fleet.

"Yes, with God's blessing, the evil Ming Empire will definitely be smashed to pieces, pay their due price!" The cardinal archbishop laughed.

In the eyes of the cardinal, the combined fleet was formed by the Pope, representing their Holy See, and more importantly, the will of God, who wanted this huge fleet to smash the axis of evil, and by the way, completely sprinkle the glory of God on the mysterious Oriental Great6.

The Cardinal seems to have been able to see that the light of God will spread throughout the mysterious Eastern Great 6 after the United Fleet defeats the Great Ming.

The huge number of warships of the combined fleet, covering the ocean, is constantly sailing in the direction of Daming, and at the same time, the clouds of another sea battle continue to bring to Daming, which will undoubtedly be an unprecedented sea battle with a scale that exceeds the previous Battle of Malacca!

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