Looking at the handsome generals, the sturdy soldiers, and the seventy big ships, Zhu Changrun's heart blossomed. He has already read Zhu Youxiao's letters, and the Ming Royal Tenglong Bank also has his shares, he doesn't mind being a gun in Zhu Youxiao's hands, Zhu Youxiao is the only true son of heaven he is loyal to, and the biggest backer of the Ming Zhu dynasty. This is Zhu Youxiao has thought for a long time before deciding, the purpose is to tie these overseas clansmen together with the interests of the relationship, Daming as the world hegemon, the fiefdoms around the country are the thugs in his hands, if it doesn't like the eyes, let the little brother clean up, and let the little brother take a plunder when he sees the benefits, except for the Ming Dynasty, no one wants to do the Fa exhibition smoothly, this is the best way to rule the world.

Zhu Changrun also let Zhu Changhao and Zhu Yousong read this letter, and they also very much agreed with Zhu Youxiao's opinion, the Ming Dynasty was originally one, and it should be blessed and shared, and there should be difficulties together, but it is a pity that the emperors of all dynasties did not have the current Zhu Youxiao and courage. In order to make Zhu Changrun achieve results faster, Zhu Changhao transferred part of his troops from Xinyingtian to Zhu Changrun, and Zhu Yousong directly sent more than 3,000 naval soldiers to Zhu Changrun.

The mighty Ming Royal Dragon fleet set off, and this fleet had a total of seventy warships, of which thirty were warships and forty were military transport ships, which were responsible for carrying munitions and food supplies. Sailing northwest along the Arabian Peninsula from Zhu Yousong's Fucheng, the pirates fled without a fight, and they met a large naval fleet besieging the city.

Although this naval fleet has many ships, about 200 or so, their ships are all wooden sailing ships, similar to the Spanish sail warships, most of the battleships are equipped with improved return guns, firing large stones, and only a few dozen are actually equipped with artillery, and they are all attacking the city of Macaste.

When they saw the thirty forward warships of the Daming Royal Tenglong Fleet sailing over, they sent more than fifty ordinary warships to intercept them. The ships on both sides are about the same size, they don't know that the Ming warships are equipped with advanced cannons and mortars, as well as a large number of hand-cranked machine guns, they only feel that they have an advantage in numbers, and they should be able to defeat the fleet.

The Ming Royal Dragon Fleet also saw the naval battle and land battle ahead, and its goal was not here, so it was naturally unwilling to wade into troubled waters, even if it was a small fight, it was a waste of ammunition, and it was also very difficult to bring these ammunition from the Ming Dynasty, and I don't know how much time it will take to supply them in the future. Therefore, when the other party's 50 warships surrounded him, he took the initiative to stop and wait for the other party's communication.

The kindness of the Ming Royal Dragon Fleet was misinterpreted by the other party, when they saw that the fleet stopped advancing, they thought that the Ming Royal Dragon Fleet was going to retreat, and when it was close to the return cannon range, they began to attack, and a large stone smashed towards the fleet, and even some smashed it on the warship, fortunately, the warship had good protective measures, plus they were all veterans, and there were no casualties.

Seeing that the other party didn't understand the rules at all, the Ming Royal Tenglong fleet had to teach them how to behave, for these wooden warships, now the naval soldiers have experience, the large bullets of the hand-cranked machine gun are better than mortars and cannons, there is no queue at all, the warships in front of them directly use hand-cranked machine guns to start shooting, where the bullets go, the ship is broken, the sawdust flies, and three warships are broken in the blink of an eye.

The Ming Royal Dragon Fleet was also unwilling to expand the misunderstanding, and after smashing the three warships, it stopped its next move, waiting for the opposing warship behind to come over to talk, only to find that the warships behind actually began to escape. The firepower of the Tenglong fleet is too fierce, no one has ever seen this kind of formation, and the warships were smashed in the blink of an eye, how long are these fifty warships enough to fight, if you don't run, you will wait for death.

The Tenglong fleet no longer waited for them to reply, and drove directly in the direction of the battlefield, intending to break through directly. After advancing more than a mile, the Tenglong fleet found that the other side had a relatively large warship, and all the soldiers on the warship were far away from the return gun, and the soldiers stood on the warship empty-handed, indicating to the Tenglong fleet that they had no hostile intentions this time and planned to negotiate.

Zhu Changrun's boat came to the front, and there were Mao Bijiang and Chen Zhenhui together, after the warships of the two sides approached, they put on the pedal and let the other party's soldiers come over, because they were defeated just now, they should take the initiative to show weakness, and there was an official dressed in a more luxurious aristocratic appearance behind the soldiers, which seemed to be an official who could call the shots.

They came to Zhu Changrun, and through the translation, the official said: "We are the fleet of the Yariba dynasty, I am the commander of the fleet, Prince Said, and we are fighting against the Portuguese invaders. I don't know which country your army belongs to, but may I ask if your army is supporting the Portuguese invaders or passing through. I apologize to you on behalf of the Yariba dynasty for the misunderstanding, and I ask you to forgive us for our mistakes. ”

Seeing that the other party's attitude was very sincere, Zhu Changrun didn't want to cause more trouble, so he said: "We are all the Ming Royal Dragon Fleet, I am Prince Ming Hui, I am going to do some business in the Persian Gulf in front, I don't know that you are fighting, since you know that you are wrong, then let us go, we don't want to participate in your war, Prince Said, do you think about it?" ”

Hearing Zhu Changrun's words, Prince Said felt like he wanted to scold, but he still didn't dare to turn his face, so he had to smile bitterly and said, "Your Excellency Prince Hui, please understand our mood?" I've been preparing for this battle for a long time, and now the battle is at a critical moment, if we withdraw the battle line and let you pass, then we will have lost all our efforts, and we will be killed when we go back, can we compensate you for your losses if you wait for two days? ”

This is an obvious opportunity to give others a handle, even if Zhu Changrun doesn't want to slander people, there will be a lot of compensation, but it still takes some skills to make the other party willing to pay enough to buy. Zhu Changrun said: "You know, there are a lot of valuables on my ship, the amount is huge, most of them are borrowed funds, and the daily interest is tens of thousands of taels of silver, I don't know how much Prince Said is willing to pay?" ”

Said didn't know what to say with a bitter face, this is that his strength is not as good as others, so he had to admit and bow his head.

Zhu Changrun saw that Saeed couldn't answer his own question, so he knew that he couldn't solve this problem himself, so he asked, "Prince Saeed, can I ask?" How long have you been fighting the Portuguese invaders, and will you be able to win this time? ”

Prince Said replied: "We have been fighting with the Portuguese for several years, and we have driven them here from all else, but there are strong strongholds, and they are very well defended, and His Majesty himself has led his troops to fight several times, but they have failed, and their weapons are better than ours, and they are still defending the city, so it is difficult to take them." ”

In fact, when he heard that they were fighting with the Portuguese, Zhu Changrun was going to intervene, the Portuguese had basically withdrawn from the struggle for power in Asia, and the territory of South America alone was enough for them to develop for a long time, and the reason why they had been stationed here and did not retreat may be that they still had to do business, maybe it was another force of Portugal, and they didn't know that Portugal had moved to South America. Due to the friendly relations between the Ming Dynasty and Portugal, Zhu Changrun did not intend to let this Portuguese force be wiped out.

Hearing Said say that they would not be able to attack for a long time, Zhu Changrun smiled and said: "In this way, I will send someone to help you talk to the Portuguese, and settle this matter peacefully, okay?" If you keep fighting like this, you will kill a lot of people, Daming and Portugal have friendly relations, can you let us go over and persuade them to leave? I'm obligated to do you a favor, not to be paid. ”

Said was very happy when he heard that Zhu Changrun wanted to help, but in the second half of the sentence, he said that he had friendly relations with the Portuguese, and he was shocked, but at the moment, his strength was not as good as others, even if he didn't let Zhu Changrun help, this fleet could break through, and maybe the whole army would be wiped out at that time, and he was entangled in his heart and difficult to make up his mind.