With the increasing intensity of the combined naval fleets of the Ming Dynasty, Portugal, and Spain in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, there are fewer and fewer merchant ships from other countries in this area, except for the merchant ships of these three countries and the Netherlands. The general merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty basically returned to the Ming Dynasty directly after the merchant ships carried spices or European goods transported by Portuguese and Spanish merchant ships after the transfer of goods in Singapore, and no longer continued to travel westward, only the large caravans, that is, the fleets of the Guangzhou Merchant Bank and the Chaoshan Bank, went to India, Africa, and the Persian Gulf to trade after replenishing here.

The Dutch East India Company was disqualified from passing through the Strait of Malacca because it did not participate in the operations of the allied fleet, but the route from Batavia to the Chagos Islands to resupply and then to the Cape of Good Hope was too risky, and the losses of the ships were so severe that they had to sell some spices, oak and other supplies from Java to the Portuguese and Spaniards, and the sea coachmen encountered an unprecedented crisis here. On the contrary, the fleets of the Portuguese and Spaniards regained control of the golden route of maritime trade after a few decades, excluding other competitors, and began to reap high monopoly profits in the European market.

But this phenomenon is definitely not what the English, French, and Dutch want to see, and now that spices and many of the supplies here have become their necessities, no one wants to accept this kind of exploitation, and the caravans of the two countries cannot be harmed in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, but they can still be robbed in the Atlantic. The Cape of Good Hope is windy and waves, and the place east of this is to rob and have to take some risks to pass through the Cape of Good Hope, and there is Sun Yuzhi's fleet stationed here, so wait for them to leave here before robbing, that is, to avoid the risk of wind and waves at sea, and also to avoid Sun Yuzhi's fleet.

Since then, the merchant ships of Portugal and Spain have been robbed by pirates, and after several robberies, the Portuguese and Spaniards feel that it is not a way to go on like this, so the loss is too great, so they will discuss the solution with Xiao Hailong to see how to minimize the loss. Xiao Hailong listened to what they said, and thought of Zhu Youxiao's advice before leaving, so he told them to go to Sun Yuzhi to discuss together, and Sun Yuzhi would definitely think of a way.

So the combined fleet of the Ming Dynasty, Portugal, and Spain sailed like the Cape of Good Hope, and when they passed by the Daimyo Kingdom and the Yingtian Kingdom, they were warmly welcomed by Chen Qingyun and Zhu Changhao, and made a supplement in the Yingtian Kingdom. Although Duanwang Zhu Changhao is the king of the Yingtian Kingdom, he is still the Duanwang of the Ming Dynasty, this is a decision made by Zhu Youxiao, the Yingtian Kingdom is a subject country of the Ming Dynasty, which makes Zhu Changhao agree very much, without the protection of the Ming Dynasty, the Yingtian Kingdom may one day be swallowed by other powers, with the strong Ming as the backing, no one dares to watch, including Portugal and Spain, which are currently allies. After leaving here, after resupplying Mo Sanbi in Portugal, the combined fleet went straight to Ming Island and fought with Sun Yu there.

Sun Yuzhi had already obtained Zhu Youxiao's letter, and after reading the letter, he understood what Zhu Youxiao meant, which was a little better than his old father, after all, his education was different from that of Sun Chengzong. Sun Yuzhi has been thinking about the plan to prevent the robbery of Portuguese and Spanish merchant ships, and he thinks most about how to prevent Portugal and Spain from regretting the matter of the combined fleet, and not allowing them to compromise with England and others, which has to think of beating the other party hard, or completely solving the entire pirate fleet at once.

Sometimes the stupid way is the best way to solve the problem, the merchant ships will generally sail not too far from the coast, so it is more convenient to replenish, but some caravans are willing to walk a straight line distance because the terrain of Africa is a triangle here, and it is a lot farther to walk by the coastline, Sun Yuzhi suggested that they go along the coastline, and the outside is escorted by warships, and it is best to assemble into a relatively large fleet, which can also reduce the number of escorts, after all, the escort will not be free.

Warship escort is indeed a stupid method, but Sanchez did not understand Sun Yuzhi's real plan, Sun Yuzhi's purpose is to annihilate the robbed pirate team at one time, if it is England's warship, then kill them together, once and for all, but these words are inconvenient to say, I am afraid that it will scare them, in the face of England's warships, these Portuguese and Spanish warships are a little stunned, but Sun Yuzhi, who has fought with them, is sure to annihilate them all.

When finally gathered 200 merchant ships in Ming Island, Sun Yuzhi began the first escort, escorting only 30 Ming warships led by Sun Yuzhi, and the news had already spread, on the one hand, waiting for more merchant ships to gather, on the other hand, to attract pirates to rob, in order to gather them to annihilate, this is the first step of Sun Yuzhi's plan, the follow-up means is to let the combined fleet wait for support in Ming Island, if there are warships from England and other countries, they will be wiped out.

In fact, such a battle plan is easier to execute on land, but if it is on the sea, it can only be a rough plan, and the sea is full of many uncertain factors, such as typhoons, earthquakes, tornadoes and other unexpected weather, sometimes luck also accounts for a large component, but it is better to make a plan than to run into a blind breath.

Sun Yuzhi took the Ming warship to escort 200 merchant ships to the sea for half a day, Xiao Hailong informed Sanchez, immediately set off as a team, sailing in the back along the direction of Sun Yuzhi's sailing, Sanchez was a little inexplicable, obviously Sun Yuzhi asked them to stay in the port, I don't know why they had to set off suddenly, but now that the Ming fleet is the main force, he still agreed to the joint fleet to set off.

Why did Sun Yuzhi let Xiao Hailong set off half a day later? There is a reason for this, the efficiency of naval warfare in this era is generally relatively low, the sail battleship's counter-bombardment tactics are very time-consuming, on the one hand, the hit rate of artillery fire in the movement is very low, it is impossible to sink the opponent directly, sometimes the cannon is fired for half a day, and a single shell may not hit, describing such a naval battle hit rate is that it is normal to miss, and it is unlucky to be hit, and the two sides cannot lose many warships in half a day, and the unfortunate thing is that the sailors are killed by the ball shells. If one side is unwilling to fight to the death and flee while fighting, in the case of similar strength, it may not be able to lose a single warship, which is the basis for Sun Yuzhi's plan.

There is also a hidden plan inside, among these 200 merchant ships, Sun Yuzhi also hid the original captured 40 warships inside, looking at the escort of 30 warships, in fact, 70 warships are escorting, so that even if England, France, including the Italians, do not have more than 100 warships, it is impossible to defeat Sun Yuzhi's escort fleet. Even if there are more than 100 warships attacking, Sun Yuzhi will retreat with the fleet, and there will not be much problem in half a day.

Sun Yuzhi naturally told Xiao Hailong about this plan without concealing it at all, Xiao Hailong also thought that the feasibility of this plan was relatively high, the only worry was that Sun Yuzhi was a little risky in doing this, and used himself as bait, this is the trust of his comrades-in-arms, if his comrades-in-arms make it bad, Sun Yuzhi's life may be buried in this plan, so Sun Yuzhi only told Xiao Hailong about this comprehensive plan, and even the captains of the ships below were not clear, not to mention the Portuguese and Spaniards of the United Fleet, In case they inadvertently leak the plan, this time the battle strategy will fail.

Less than 700 miles north of Ming Island is Namibia, a region with a subtropical arid and semi-arid climate with long and narrow coastal plains; The inland is all plateaus and mountains, generally above 1,000 meters above sea level, and the highest point is 2,600 meters. the central highlands; part of the Kalahari Basin to the east; The western coastal area is a desert plain. In the fifteenth century, the Dutch, Spanish, British and other colonists came one after another, and the situation here was a bit complicated, with colonies of various countries intertwined, and there were many intelligence and explorers among them. Many times pirates would set out from the coastal ports here, acting on the basis of the information they received.