"Damn, what the hell is this?"

On the Dutchman's flagship, Reyoz let out a roar as he watched the flames erupt overhead.

The next moment, the flames exploded.

Then the rain of fire fell from the sky, and he had to flee on the deck with his head in his hands and screaming like everyone else.

The battle was completely unexpected.

Originally, he thought that with the strongest fleet that the East India Company could now assemble east of Malacca, he would easily teach these opponents a lesson, and make the ancient empire welcome him with a more respectful attitude. But now, it was clearly him who had failed, his battle line had been cut off by a bunch of junk old battleships, and his four clippers were under siege by hundreds of such ships, and smoke was already billowing up. His nine clippers and a powerful return ship fled in a hurry under the attack of the Ming army's capital ships, and even rushed to the island area in a panic, while he took ten battleships that could have rescued them, but could not turn around and go back to rescue them because of the wind direction and current......

More precisely, because of his command errors.

It was his battleline tactics that created the current predicament of the fleet.

"General, we must turn around!"

Gao Wenlu screamed.

"How to make a U-turn? Go ahead and land on Hong Kong Island first! ”

Rayoz shouted.

It didn't help him to turn around.

The most important thing now is to land, as for the fleet behind it is not so quickly destroyed, these clippers are all veterans at sea, and they should have a way to get rid of the Ming attack.

"General, there's a voice down there?"

An officer suddenly slipped out of a hatch in the deck and said in a panic.

Rayoz was stunned for a moment.

"It's the bilge!"

The officer said.

Rejoz looked at the sea, and saw that the galleys that had completed the attack had retreated, and another battleship had sailed out behind them, thinking that these crazy galleys would not attack again. The sailors were chaotically extinguishing the flames caused by the sails, and while the rocket caused some damage, it was bearable for a large battleship.

He and Gao Wenlu then got into the cabin, and the moment they descended to the gun deck, several sailors rushed up from the bilge in horror......

"It's leaking!"

"There's a sea monster at the bottom of the ship!"

……

They screamed in confusion.

"Damn, what are you talking about?"

Gao Wenlu grabbed one of the sailors and shouted.

"Monsters, there's a sea monster in the sea, and it smashed our ship!"

The sailor shouted incoherently.

Rayoz kicked him out of the way, and then rushed into the bilge, where he saw an arrow of water resembling a fountain......

"Stop!"

He shouted.

Gao Wenlu and the officer who had just called them hurriedly rushed over with wooden wedges and hammers, and the other two soldiers rushed straight at the water arrow with the stacked sacks to try to suppress it, but before they could succeed, the water arrow suddenly increased into a column of water. Then, like a skeletal claw emerging from the ground, one hand came out of the fountain, and at the same time the fountain bloomed in all directions, and then the hand grabbed a sailor, who screamed in horror, but was dragged into the fountain by the hand, and then screamed, and the whole leg disappeared to the bottom of the ship.

Blood was squeezed and splattered in all directions.

The hapless sailor was so strangely stuck at the bottom of the boat, screaming for help, but all around him, whether it was Reyoz or the other sailors, looked at him in horror......

"Boom!"

Suddenly, I saw a loud bang.

Everyone shuddered at the same time.

Then the same loud noise, at very short intervals, rang out outside, and then a second fountain burst out of the planks......

"Someone is scuttling a boat underneath!"

Gao Wenlu let out a terrified exclamation.

At the same moment, the soldier seemed to feel no pulling power below, and he instinctively pulled out his leg.

"Don't move!"

Rejoz screamed.

But the soldier still pulled out his legs in an instant in the hard top of the sea below, and then was pushed to the side, and then the previous fountain rose into the sky with broken wood in an even more spectacular posture, and the two fountains made the middle plank finally unable to withstand the pressure of hundreds of tons, and instantly flew up in the desperate gaze of Reyoz and others. Originally, the two fountains merged into one, striking the wooden planks of the cabin roof in a posture like a huge wave, and the next moment in the fountain a strange figure suddenly crawled out of the grave, sticking its head in.

Rejoz pulled out his spear and shot it at the figure, but the latter burst out as if he didn't know it.

Then a water arrow was fired.

Gao Wenlu, who was also raising his gun, was hit by a water arrow in his chest, and immediately flew backwards, and the figure seemed to be suspended in the fountain, constantly sending out water arrows, and in a blink of an eye, there was no one standing in the bilge, and he walked out of it and looked at Rejoz and the others with a majestic gaze.

Well, Yang Dudu's purpose in letting the centipede ship charge to the death was to send him as close as possible, and he needed to have the closest possible attack distance.

He was at the bottom of the centipede.

In this way, there was no need to worry about being hit by a cannonball, and when the centipede ship rushed to a distance of several tens of meters, he immediately broke away from the bottom of the ship, and then swam at full speed from the water to the armed merchant ship, and immediately chiseled the ship with his crane's beak hammer after getting down. The planks of this kind of armed merchant ship are usually only a few inches thick, and the waterline of a first-class battleship is only two feet, which is more than ten centimeters, how many times can a dozen centimeters of oak be thick? Even the chisel and pry can cut out a hole in the blink of an eye, and these planks are fixed to the ribs of the ship with special nails, which are essentially strip-shaped boards, and the rest of them are naturally squeezed away by the water pressure when he cuts them off on both sides.

The armed merchant ship was at least six hundred tons.

This amount of water is pressed into the sea, and then a hole appears, and the result must be like a piercing a hole, followed by a fountain rising into the sky.

"Who's Reyoz?"

Yang Dudu stood in the background of the fountain, looking at the frightened Dutch in front of him.

The eyes of the group immediately turned to His Excellency the General.

The latter looked at him in horror, and several soldiers on the artillery deck behind him got down from the hatch and raised their guns one by one in confusion. Yang Dudu walked straight to Rayoz, who had already gotten up, but before he could stand up straight, Yang Xin's hand had already pinched his face like a face-hugging worm, and then he held it and pressed it on a ship's ribs, and twisted it backwards with his hand.

His Excellency General's arms, which had been struggling, instantly hung down weakly.

The ones in the back shuddered.

"Who's his deputy?"

Yang Xin turned around and said.

A finger pointed at Gao Wenlu.

"Now you take over this fleet, and then order all the warships to stop fighting, raise the white flag and wait for my disposal, and I can guarantee that you will be sent back to Batavia at the end."

Yang Xin said.

Gao Wenlu took a deep breath, and then glanced at an officer, who immediately climbed up and went straight to the top deck, and gave the order to the battleship behind him to stop fighting......

Of course, if you break your word, you can't fight him now anyway.

It's not human at all.

It doesn't matter if it's a god or a demon, the important thing is that mortals will definitely not be able to beat him.

"So which of you is going to tell me what you said someone invited you over, what the hell is going on?"

Yang Xin asked Gao Wenlu.

"Your Excellency, I can assure you that this is true, I don't know why no one informed you, but I can guarantee with my life that we are not lying to you, and that we did come at the invitation of your merchants. Moreover, the contemptible man has just gone to Canton, led by your officials, to negotiate with your officials, and has obtained an agreement signed by him. ”

Gao Wenlu said cautiously.

"Have you been to Guangzhou?"

Yang Xin said unexpectedly.

"Yes, Your Excellency General, I have just returned from Guangzhou, and we have first gone to the sea off Lianzhou, and one of your officials has met us at sea, and landed with me, and entered Lianzhou City to meet your Excellency the prefect. His Excellency then sent someone to escort me and the official, as well as an interpreter from Li Dan's crew, to Canton, where I met a red-robed official at an official office, to whom I presented gifts and signed an agreement.

He said that His Majesty the Emperor had allowed us to live on the island of Hong Kong and trade with your country, just as the Portuguese had lived in Macau. ”

Gao Wenlu said.

At the same time, he hurriedly called an officer to fetch the agreement that had been collected by Rayoz, saying that they attached great importance to this agreement, and after the officer hurriedly brought it, Gao Wenlu immediately held this agreement to Yang Xin.

Yang Dudu looked at the agreement and immediately smiled.

"Your Excellency General, you see that there is also the official seal of that official on it."

Gao Wenlu said with a smiling face.

"Do you know what's written on this?"

Yang Xin raised his head and looked at him and said.

"Isn't this an agreement?"

Gao Wenlu said in amazement.

"Of course, this is not an agreement, the person you met is the political envoy of Guangdong, the right political envoy, which is equivalent to a high-ranking official, but the high-ranking official was arrested by me for treason before, so he is the agent, and he is indeed the highest administrative official of the Ming Dynasty in Guangdong.

But this is not an agreement.

I can translate it for you, and he says that you Portuguese merchants, don't make trouble because of my taxes, he will report my crimes to His Majesty the Emperor for you, and then His Majesty will remove me from my post, and you can go back to business as before. In addition, you are willing to donate 10,000 taels of salaries and 50 cannons to His Majesty the Emperor every year, which shows that you are loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Emperor will not treat you badly, and you must maintain this loyalty in the future.

That's what you call an agreement.

As for the official seal, it is indeed true.

But it's not really what you're talking about.

So, if I'm not mistaken, you were deceived by your translator, or you were deceived by Li Dan's people. ”

Yang Xin said with a smile.

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