Chapter 188: The Battle of the Cape of Good Hope

The English, who were embarrassed by the new Yingtian and the Portuguese, saw that they were unlucky when they got rich, and they remembered the idea of robbery, the Cape of Good Hope was windy and rough, it was a dangerous sea area, and after here they started to rob, in history in 1665 the Dutch took away this important place from the Portuguese, and built Cape Town, now it is not the Dutch, it became the English, they united to seize this place, and then only gave them supplies, Ming, Portugal, Holland, The Spanish fleet would not be replenished, and would be looted.

This is mutual revenge, in fact, this is called a lose-lose game in later generations, breaking off each other, this is actually Zhu Youxiao asked Zhu Changhao to do this deliberately, that is, to intensify the contradictions between them, so that they can not trade normally, weaken their capital accumulation, and finally limit them to Asia, it is best to let them compete fiercely in Africa or the Americas, or even have a war in Europe.

After being robbed several times, the Portuguese caravan given by Mo Sanbi could not stand it, so they asked for the help of the Ming army of Xinyingtian, hoping to help recapture the Cape of Good Hope from Xin, and build a city together on land, to supply the fleets that passed by in the future, and enjoy the same treatment, in fact, to unite against England and their union.

After discussing with everyone, Zhu Changhao decided to participate in this operation, and hoped that Portugal would also invite the Dutch and Spaniards to act together, after all, they are several countries, and it is still beneficial to unite a few more countries by themselves. The Dutch were naturally willing, because now passing by the Cape of Good Hope fleet, their most, and the Spaniards also expressed their willingness to participate.

All the warships of Xinyingtian have returned, and the escort warships that transported the looted gold and silver treasures to the mainland of the Ming Dynasty have all returned, and they are also full of ammunition, and the Xinyingtian fleet at this time is basically full of ammunition. In order to fight for the Cape of Good Hope this time, Portugal dispatched fifty warships in Mo Sanbi, which was their largest strength in the African colonies, the Dutch also dispatched thirty warships, Xinyingtian also dispatched thirty warships, the Spaniards had already weakened, only ten warships were transferred, and with the fleet of thirty Portuguese supply ships, one hundred and fifty ships went straight to the Cape of Good Hope.

In the sea area of the Cape of Good Hope, the fleets of the Portuguese and Xinyingtian coalition forces are sailing westward with difficulty, and now they are all sail warships, and it is difficult to borrow the wind power that can be relied on.

When they finally broke through the arduous voyage in this area, the wind and waves began to lighten, and before they had time to catch their breath, the English coalition forces that had been waiting here for a long time firmly occupied the "T" prefix, set up a formation, and at a distance of four miles, rows of iron bullets and chain bullets smashed towards the combined fleet of Portugal and Xinyingtian.

In front of the line are the warships of Portugal and the Netherlands, their warships are one type higher than the warships of Xinyingtian, the Portuguese warships are more old-fashioned, the Dutch warships are relatively more advanced, and the Dutch warships sail in the front, followed by Portugal, Spain and Xinyingtian, and in the back are supply ships. The English coalition on the opposite side actually concentrated more than 200 warships, and after they all entered the firing range, the Dutch, who led the team, found that the other side was a double-layer queue, almost twice as many as their own fleet, and occupied a favorable formation, and they were quickly smashed several warships, and felt that there was no victory today, and immediately sent a signal to the Portuguese fleet to withdraw from the battlefield, and the Portuguese fleet also found that the situation was not good, so they quickly notified the Spaniards behind them, and waited until the formation change was completed in the battle and became a retreat formation. Xinyingtian's fleet only got the information, but because the ship type was different, the Ming ship type was mainly facing the enemy head-on, and the western one was mainly side-chord artillery fire, so if the new Yingtian's fleet retreated, it could only be beaten, and it was difficult to fight back.

Now the distance between the two sides has approached two miles, the warships of the British coalition began to press forward, and the fleets of the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain have completed the formation change and began to retreat, so that the fleet of Xinyingtian was thrown to the front of the United fleet of England at once, and the iron ball full of sky smashed towards the fleet of Xinyingtian.

At this critical time, Sun Yuzhi, the commander of the Xinyingtian fleet, decided to respond to the battle immediately and could not retreat, otherwise the whole army would be beaten by others, and maybe the whole army would be annihilated. Braving the flying iron bullets, the hand-cranked machine guns and mortars on the Xinyingtian warship began to shoot, the machine gun bullets hit the wooden side of the ship, and it was a hole all of a sudden, * fell on the ship was a fire, and when it was close to a mile, the power increased rapidly, and the British coalition was stopped by the Xinyingtian warship, and the Portuguese, Dutch, and Spanish warships that were downwind had now run five miles away, and the steam engine of the Xinyingtian warship was also full of enough power.

At a distance of one mile, the mortars on the Xinyingtian warship were not good, and the next thing was that the cannon began to wield. At this time, the fleet of nearly 200 ships of the English coalition had already surrounded the fleet of Xinyingtian and began to shell it from all sides. Sun Yuzhi ordered the fleet to start the steam engine at high speed, turn around, break out of the encirclement, and follow behind the coalition forces that were shelling in a circle around the Xinyingtian fleet.

The cannon's * is a trigger fuse, whether it hits the side of the ship or will cause huge damage, plus the British coalition has relatively few tail guns, it is not a threat at all. Although the number of Xinyingtian's warships is much smaller, they have taken the initiative in the situation. In front of the warships of Xin Yingtian, the warships of the English coalition that ran in front could not run, and were hit by cannons and hand-cranked machine guns, and turned into coffins one by one, and the warships behind could not catch up, unable to form an effective threat to them, and could only watch the warships in front of them being destroyed one by one.

The English, who thought they were smart, immediately sent a signal to narrow the distance of the circle shelling, many warships began to concentrate, and the mortars of the Ming army began to exert their might, and all those who hit ignited a fire, and after a while, this method of warfare lost its meaning, but it was sunk a few more warships, and a few tried to jump to the gang with the advantage of more people, but the soldiers were killed first by the hand-cranked machine guns on the Xinyingtian warship.

The fierce naval battle lasted for more than two hours, and more than half of the warships of the English coalition were sunk, on the other hand, the warships of Xinyingtian, except for a few that were dragged behind by some iron bullets, smashed masts, and killed and injured some soldiers, none of the 30 warships were sunk. Seeing that the fleet was still passively beaten, the British had to admit that the battle had been lost, and sent a signal to the warships of various countries to retreat, but the retreat to the west was a headwind, and it was up to the sailors to sail with wheel slurry, which was even more death for the warships of Xinyingtian, and the warships powered by steam engines were much faster than them, and the warships were still sunk one after another. Seeing that more and more warships were sunk and could not escape, the coalition warships that could not be defeated began to hoist the white flag, drop their sails, and wait to be captured.

The naval battle finally ended, and none of the more than 200 warships of the English coalition army escaped in the end, and all those who wanted to escape were sunk, and more than 50 warships were captured, and then all the prisoners were concentrated on a dozen or so seriously damaged warships, leaving them to fend for themselves, and the remaining forty warships were assigned soldiers, and then sailed to the shore, ready to lean to the shore to find a port to repair and pull back to China for reconstruction.

The captives of the English coalition released by the Xinyingtian fleet thought that they had escaped, in fact, Sun Yuzhi had no intention of letting them go at all, these people must be full of hatred for the Xinyingtian fleet, once they got the opportunity, they would definitely retaliate against Xinyingtian, so after most of the warships left, Sun Yuzhi himself took nine warships to chase after him from behind, and then sank them one by one, and all the soldiers who fell into the sea were drowned, and they waited until they couldn't see a living person on the sea before going back to meet the brigade, At this point, the naval battle is over, all the soldiers of the coalition army have not survived, and they will not die when they fight snakes, but they will be devoured by them, this kind of thing is under the teachings of Zhu Youxiao, and it is deeply rooted in the hearts of every general of the Ming Dynasty, if it is not for Xin Yingtian to decrypt this matter after a few hundred years, this fleet has always been considered missing.