Niu Jinxing as the big steward of the fleet, Yu Hualong is the commander of the fleet, they follow them more than ten miles behind the Portuguese merchant ships, in order not to make the Portuguese feel dangerous, only a dozen or so armed merchant ships follow them closer, and the rest of the fleet is also a long distance, lasting nearly a hundred miles, giving people the feeling that they belong to different boss merchant ships, all for the purpose of panning for gold at sea.

In fact, these Portuguese merchant ships were planning to return to China, but Niu Jinxing didn't know their purpose, just sailed with them, as for where they sailed, or what dangers they would encounter, Niu Jinxing was confident that with his more than 200 armed merchant ships, no one could stop them. Thinking that Zheng He, the eunuch of the Three Treasures, could cross the sea with ordinary merchant ships, and the weapons and fleet he owned were much stronger than the fleet he had at that time, maybe he would make greater achievements than the Three Treasures Eunuch Zheng He, after all, there was only a political purpose at that time, but now he has a clear economic purpose.

The merchant ships of the Portuguese have been sailing westward at sea, Yu Hualong has been following behind like this, and when he encounters the place where they are supplied, Yu Hualong also takes his own fleet to replenish, although the words are incomprehensible, but it doesn't matter, the silver is the best translator, as long as the silver is taken out, even the comparison can basically solve the problem, if the other party wants to try to rob the fleet, it will be a big trouble, and the entire supply point may be robbed, Zhu Youxiao's order to them is that they can be robbed, and the political purpose is not, Some of them just make money, but when they come across a population gathering place with a similar skin color to themselves, they need to pay attention to political and religious issues, they are different from those white people, maybe they belong to our ancestors in the past, we need to help them, try to make friends with those people.

Following this fleet, through some islands controlled by the Dutch, bypassing Kalimantan, passing through Star Island, which is still controlled by the Portuguese, the Portuguese carried out fleet replenishment, Yu Hualong also let his fleet disperse here for replenishment, and also met a lot of Chinese here, but most of them came by boat from Guangdong, all along the shallow waters of the coastline, and the ships were not too big.

After the supply was completed, they slowly crossed the Strait of Malacca, and then sailed to Sinhala Island, which were all seen in the records of the Three Treasure Eunuch Zheng He's voyage to the West, and Yu Hualong was not surprised, but what they did not know was that after two hundred years of changing times, the desolate and barbaric island at that time was already under the rule of the Portuguese. It's a pity that the eunuchs of the Three Treasures Zheng He did just want to show the prestige of the country, and they were a luxurious tour, wasting national funds in vain, working the people and money. Yu Hualong and Niu Jinxing were surprised that it took them a long time to replenish there, and when they sailed out of the port, the ships appeared to be very heavy, but they were obviously not commodities, because they were not seen to go ashore to trade at all, and they were obviously oversupplied by adding supplies, which was a necessary preparation for a long voyage. Seeing their plan, Yu Hualong also hurriedly informed the fleet to replenish as much as possible, so as not to be embarrassed on the road.

Sure enough, after the supply was completed, the Portuguese merchant ships kept sailing westward, and Yu Hualong still instructed the team to follow, and warned everyone that the route this time may be very far, and it is necessary to pay attention to the economical use of food and drinking water, so as not to run out of time.

However, things were not as Hua Long imagined, and the next day something suddenly happened, and the Portuguese fleet, which was sailing normally, suddenly began to turn, and actually headed back, and continued to discharge drinking water outward. Yu Hualong's lookout soldiers on the ship immediately reported the situation to him after discovering this situation, Yu Hualong immediately climbed the watchtower, carefully observed with a telescope, and now Yu Hualong was more than twenty miles away from the Portuguese fleet, and vaguely saw that they were really trying to run back, but now the wind was not strong enough, and it was not right, so they could only barely sail.

Yu Hualong's fleet are all dual-powered ships, but in order to save fuel, they usually don't use steam engines at all, and rely on soft and hard sails to sail with wind power, unless there is a battle, the steam engine is started. Seeing an accident in front, Yu Hualong immediately ordered the fleet to start ignition, and also wanted the fleet behind to issue a flag warning.

The fleet continued to sail forward, and after a brief discussion between Yu Hualong and Niu Jinxing, they thought that they were likely to encounter pirates in front, and it was also possible that there were bandits in a large group, otherwise the caravan of more than ten ships would not have escaped. Niu Jinxing thought about it and discussed with Yu Hualong: "General Yu, I don't know what kind of dangerous situation we will encounter on the way forward, I think it is better for us to save the Portuguese once when they are in danger, make friends with them, and get help when we encounter any dangerous situation, it is better than our own eyes." ”

Yu Hualong said: "Listen to Mr.'s guidance, Yu Hualong is a rough person, Your Majesty let me follow Mr. to explore, that is, I am at the disposal of Mr., and you can do what you say." ”

Niu Jinxing was very satisfied with Hualong's answer, so he said: "General Yu, the two of us are two grasshoppers tied to a rope, and they can't jump on you or run away from me." Let's talk about it first, I just have to come up with ideas about what we do, but I don't know anything about fighting, you must not let me take ideas, that's the idea that will kill the two of us. ”

Yu Hualong said repeatedly: "Sir is polite, you just need to move your mouth, and leave the matter of contributing to the brothers." ”

In less than half an hour, the soldiers on the watchtower shouted: "General Yu, see clearly, ten miles away from us in front of us, there is a fleet that is about to catch up with the Portuguese fleet, a total of six warships. ”

"Okay, speed up, try to get there before they fight, and order the cannon to be ready to fire, so that when it is within the best range, you must be sure to sink the opponent as soon as possible." Yu Hualong immediately ordered.

The nine ships that are coming back now are all battleships, but they have been slightly modified, each with two cannons in front of them, and the firing range is about four miles, and the best range is one mile. Anyway, it's too far away to hit now, and if it really hits, it's too lucky, or too lucky, but the artillery of the Ming army is equipped with a cannon scope, and there is also a rangefinder, and the hit rate within a mile can reach 80 percent, and it is *, and it can break the boat gang at once.

The Portuguese merchant ships also saw the Ming Dynasty merchant ships coming towards them (they had seen them a long time ago and thought they were merchant ships), so they shouted to them, there were naturally soldiers on the ship who could understand Portuguese, and if they understood, they should hurry back, and the warships in front were English warships, they were also robbed, and there were cannons on the warships, so Yu Hualong asked the soldiers to greet the Portuguese merchant ships and wanted to get closer.

Soon the three fleets approached, the English guns began to fire cannonballs, and there were sixty guns at the front of the six warships, and at one time sixty iron balls flew over, many of them with chains, the purpose of these exercises was to destroy the sails, but there were still more than two miles of distance, and not many could cover the merchant ships.

Letting go of the Portuguese fleet, Yu Hualong rushed up with his warship, but he didn't expect the English to start turning now, Yu Hualong thought they were going to retreat, but he didn't know that the English thought that the armed merchant ships that dared to rush over had a certain combat power, and there were as many as nine of them, and they actually put up a favorable position to seize the T-shaped battle formation, intending to bombard. Yu Hualong didn't care what the English were going to do, the nine warships were separated, just when they had just seized the formation, revealing the huge side, Yu Hualong could see clearly on the watchtower, and with a wave of the flag, the cannons on the nine warships opened fire in turn, and suddenly in a few seconds, the six warships of the English were hit by more than 30 shells, after one round of explosions, another round, and then the English warships could not run away, all the warships tilted, three of them had begun to roll over, and after three rounds, The warships of the English are all finished, and what can be seen now is the wreckage of the warship, the wooden deck and hull can not withstand the cannon blow at all, and there is no time to eat from the opening of the Ming army to the end of the battle, and the Portuguese are still desperately fleeing at this time, and they have not seen what is going on with the warships of the English at all.

Yu Hualong's warship quickly rushed to the place where the English warship sank, of course, not to save people, but to destroy the evidence, the warship has completely sunk to the bottom of the Indian Ocean, and most of the soldiers also sank with the whirlpool of the warship, only a few sailors floated on the surface of the sea, with the sound of ping-pong gunfire, attracting countless sharks, the English were all wiped out, Yu Hualong asked the soldiers to carefully observe the side, to make sure that there was no fish that slipped through the net, so he was relieved.