At the end of April, the weather was already very hot, and most of the sailors on the ships were shirtless, and few of them wore helmets.

Huang Han's team must maintain military appearance at all times, and it is impossible for a grandfather to exist, and now they are all dressed in summer clothes, and no one is wearing armor when sailing.

How could Huang Han, who had discovered five merchant ships of unknown origin, let them go, and he immediately gave the order to seize the ships through the flag, and the seven warships were very divided in order to increase the search area.

Seeing the flagship waving, the captains realized that business was on the door, and immediately passed the flag to each other to move closer to the flagship, and soon the seven warships could use a clairvoyant mirror to see the armed merchant ships that were about to be robbed.

All the people on the ship couldn't help cheering, and it was no wonder that it was too boring to face the vast sea all day, and the "Red Flag Army" was very excited up and down with its prey.

Seven warships with full sails drove straight to the target, and everyone knew that the first large-scale naval battle of the "Red Banner Army" naval division was about to begin.

Seven of our ships were deployed against five of the enemy's armed merchant ships, and all the gunners were put into combat readiness, inspecting the guns of the Fran cannons, checking the gunpowder packs of the Hongyi cannons, and so on.

The marines were not equipped with armor, they were loaded with self-generated guns and bayonets, and most of the heavy infantry were veterans who had seen blood, and only then did they begin to wear armor.

The seven warships were busy, but they were busy but not chaotic, no one was nervous, and everyone had a smile on their faces.

Because everyone knows that the mentor is watching from the command cabin, if he fights bravely and is seen by the mentor with his own eyes, the future is limitless, and what a good thing it is to rob pirate ships, artillery, goods, and gold and silver treasures!

Huang Han is a rather shameless person, always flaunting himself and the "Red Flag Army" as the embodiment of justice, and deliberately smearing all maritime merchants when he lectures.

Now the soldiers of the "Red Banner Army" and the merchant sailors know that nine times out of ten they are not good birds, and the maritime merchants will make cameo appearances as pirates, and there is basically no captain in the maritime mixed society who does not have a blood debt on his hands.

The great, glorious, and correct "Red Banner Army" is a regular army and a national army, and the soldiers must never be trained to become murderers and murderers who have no scruples about killing and robbing.

Therefore, Huang Han advocated that he represented justice, and that countering violence with violence was a last resort.

The "Red Banner Army" will destroy all pirates when they go to the sea, but the "Red Banner Army" is different from pirates, they do not kill easily, they try to surrender without a fight, and those who choose to surrender will leave their lives.

Seven warships sailed at full speed through the wind and waves, and it didn't take long to approach the five armed merchant ships sailing in formation, and the speed of these ships was about five knots, and it was obvious that the approaching "Red Banner Army" warships were discovered by enemy ships.

Through the clairvoyant mirror, the sailors and gunners of the five ships of the Japanese Kingdom could be clearly seen in a panic, they had never seen such a large ship maintain a speed that exceeded the rowing speed of their own oarsmen.

Some models are equipped with 16 giant oars, which can be increased by manual paddling, and sometimes even two or three people can paddle together, so that the vermilion boat can form a sprint-like speed in a short time.

Why short sprints? That's because when manpower is scarce, after sparing no effort to paddle for half an hour, the sailor will have weak legs and feet, and the speed of the ship will naturally slow down.

Often, it is only half an hour of sprinting that can decide whether to catch up with the ship ready to rob, making the robbery more efficient.

The first requirement is speed, if there is no advantage in the speed of your own ship, even if the ship is strong and fierce, it is in vain, and people can only sigh when they slip away.

These five armed merchant ships belonged to a maritime merchant family, and the owner of the ship was the Tsugawa family, the daimyo of the Wa Kingdom, and the leader was called Tsugawa Tsunobu, who also served as the captain of a vermilion ship, and the other four ships were all under the command of Tsugawa Tsunobu.

The current trade between the East and the South Seas is controlled by Zheng Zhilong, who has just risen, and the Zheng pirate group, which is also an official and a thief, is thriving.

The Jinchuan family only had more than a dozen armed merchant ships, and their strength was not enough to compete with Zheng Zhilong, so they chose to be soft and rely on the old face, and paid 2,000 taels of silver per ship at a preferential price, allowing them to sail to Luzon or Daming.

The Zheng Zhilong pirate group collected a protection fee of 10,000 taels of silver, and all five ships of Tsugawa Tsushin received an iconic Zheng family flag, which was equivalent to the tax mark of later generations.

The Zheng family is very bullish, and even if they promise to provide protection under the banner they gave.

If the armed merchant ships under the banner of the Zheng clan were robbed by other forces, Zheng Zhilong's fleet would kill the maritime merchants or professional pirates even if they chased them to the ends of the cape.

Because if you dare to violate the new maritime order established by the Zheng family, you will have to pay a bloody price, there is no place to reason at sea, only a life-and-death contest, Zheng Zhilong and the rest of the pirates are not different from each other, and they are even more ruthless.

With the banner of the Zheng family and five armed merchant ships sailing in formation, it stands to reason that the Jinchuan family should be safe and sound.

But this world has never been reasonable, and there were seven big war ships that showed the trend of outflanking and came through the wind and waves, and the menacing appearance made people frightened.

The ships of both sides approached, and the ships of the Japanese Kingdom were waving a flag, which was worth two thousand taels of silver, which was the proof that Zheng Zhilong Group had taken the protection fee to obtain the protection of the Zheng family's warship.

Huang Hannai is the chief military officer with the seal of General Pingliao, and Zheng Zhilong is a little coastal defense guerrilla general, and his banner is a fart! The "Red Banner Army" did not recognize the Zheng family's banner, but only recognized five seagoing ships with goods, and I am afraid that the value was not less than 100,000 taels of silver.

Closer, the warships of the "Red Banner Army" have long been ready for battle.

No one shouted to persuade them to surrender, because the sailors and gunners on the armed merchant ships of the opposing side could not hear it, nor could they raise the flag, and now there was no standardized unified flag.

The use of the flag language by the "Red Flag Army" is only an internal agreement, and can only be understood by the "Red Flag Army" system.

Other battalions, including pirates, also used flags to convey news, and the Ming army's flags were still very standardized, basically as long as the regular army had been trained, they could understand it, and the poorer quality troops, at least the military attachés at the grassroots level could understand the flags.

The pirate's flag language is completely the agreement of his own people, how can there be any norms, in the eyes of the "Red Flag Army" is to wave the flag indiscriminately, and it is difficult for the gods to guess.

Therefore, it is impossible for the "Red Banner Army" preparing for the bombardment to communicate with the other side in the language of the flag, and it is not at all possible that it will be ready to speak until the other side has raised the white flag.

The white flag means surrender, and everyone on earth knows that the warring parties of the Ming Dynasty also acquiesce that the white flag is to declare surrender and renounce force.