Suddenly, the "allies" turned against each other, and the artillery fire flew past the "enemy" and flew towards them, and the guys who had been fighting the flank were very surprised.

At first, they thought they were going too deep and that their "allies" were misleading and shooting at themselves, but when they tried their best to change direction, turned around with their right rudder to dodge, and kept signaling, they were still under overwhelming attack! They know they're wrong!

Mavi beside me was staring at the situation not far away in surprise, and we only made a small gesture to cause cannibalism between the two armies of the other side, one was crippled, and the other was about to be crippled! He could never have imagined that there would be such an operation in combat at sea!

I smiled silently, and my heart spoke about the five thousand years of Chinese civilization, how many classic war examples! A random example of infighting among the enemy is enough to walk sideways in such a situation! Of course, there's nothing to brag about. I ordered: "After two rounds of fire, the flotilla will strike at the enemy on the southern flank!" ”

Arashi took the order and went down. The artillery fire in my ears suddenly became fierce! The better the time for the preparation of artillery fire, the smaller the losses of the charge. After two rounds of firing, our ship began to make a sharp left turn! After making a big turn, he finally turned the bow of the ship towards the enemy ship not far from the mouth of the sea!

At this moment, the first rays of dawn appeared in the eastern sky! The rose-red sunlight hit the left cheek, warm, just like the blood in my heart! We are less than two nautical miles away from the enemy! After withstanding heavy artillery fire, enemy ships are more or less on fire - not to mention the already crippled ambush party!

The new fleet looked like it had been in battle for a long time, and it was very different from the one lurking in the harbor, and it was estimated that it would be difficult to defeat them by artillery fire alone. As the sky turned bright, they finally saw clearly - the so-called "friendly army" was the enemy they had come all the way to flank!

Vomiting blood, the enemy commander was in danger. He inspected his own situation, and because our side suddenly shifted its firepower and concentrated the fire on the flagship with all its might, the flagship was seriously damaged, and it was difficult to repair it in an emergency. The other ships also suffered varying degrees of damage, but all of them were manageable. The top priority at the moment is to protect the flagship, use other ships to consume the opponent's living forces as much as possible, and cover the flagship to avoid repairs!

So the commander gave the order that the flagship should be reversed and evade to the south. The rest of the ships are inserted left and right to protect the flagship!

Strictly speaking, this command is correct, and it is definitely the most appropriate way to deal with it at the moment. But they overlook one thing - the tides!

Since I went to sea early, I was located far from the coastline. But they arrived late, and they fell for the trick, and they shelled and charged at the real friendly forces at the mouth of the sea! At this time, they were already close to the location of the mouth of the sea - that is the shallow sea!

Before the sun rises, the tide slowly recedes, the water level continues to drop, and the navigable waterways become extremely susceptible! Where did the enemy think of these things in a hurry? As a result, not long after the flagship retreated, a long "creaking squeak" was heard - it ran aground!

Suddenly, the main mast of the enemy flagship fell to the side! The rest of the ships did not know why, thinking that the flagship had been destroyed by our side and was on the verge of sinking, and they were all a little panicked. The originally compact formation began to become scattered, and even one of the ships at the end began to turn its rudder slightly to the right, as if it had a posture of escape!

What a godsend! I command - the whole army assaults! When approaching a nautical mile of the enemy, the left rudder is full, and the enemy flagship is annihilated by fire!

Tactics, to put it bluntly, are time differences! When we attack, the enemy is nervous; When we turn the rudder, the enemy who is ready to meet the enemy begins to be confused; It dawned on them when our artillery fire concentrated on the enemy's flagship, which was stranded in place! So I watched the stranded flagship being pierced through the keel by our side and the mainmast breaking down!

It's broken! After seeing that the flagship was completely destroyed, the enemy's formation completely collapsed! Each ship is desperately fleeing in a different direction, trying to escape the danger of being captured! In fact, in my heart, I have no intention of occupying the opponent's fleet at all. But I don't know what the other party thinks.

After the defeat of the enemy, I ordered a symbolic pursuit, captured an enemy medium-sized schooner that had swerved half a beat, and ordered the group to be closed and returned to Mogadishu! On the one hand, I have to repair the fleet and get my cargo back; On the other hand, to deal with the captured ship and the people, I need to find out what the hell is going on!

When I returned to the pier in Mogadishu, many locals looked at me with horror in their eyes! They all heard the heavy shelling that began in the middle of the night, and knew that the new Chamber of Commerce was fighting with the local forces "as always"! But after dawn, it wasn't the local forces that appeared at the docks, but the new guys?

What happened? That's not how the script is written!

In the hold where I was hoarding my goods, Lucas, the captain of the captured ship, was escorted to me. His face and body were full of scars, and it was obvious that his stubborn attitude just now had caused dissatisfaction among the Nine Ghosts, Masatsu, Mo and others. After the exchange, his attitude was much softer at this time.

I glanced at old Tucker—he understood, I was asking him to translate, and I said, "Who's your boss?" ”

Old Tucker translated my words. Lucas, who had been beaten to the head and bleeding from the beating, slowly raised his head, one eye could not be opened at all, and he looked at me lifelessly with his only remaining eye, before he replied weakly: "Mr. Nuno Santos!" My boss is Mr. Nuno Santos! ”

I don't need old Tucker to translate this sentence, I understand it. So I asked, "Who is he?" What is his background? ”

After Old Tucker translated, Lucas said something, and seeing if he meant to answer my question, Old Tucker turned to me and said, "He wants to know if he can get his hands off the torture rack?" His ribs were broken, and it hurt to talk like that. Plus, he wanted a glass of water. ”

I looked at the captive and said lightly, "Answer my question just now, and I will meet his request." ”

The captive listened to my words and began to cry loudly, and the killer beside Mo stepped forward impatiently and kicked him unceremoniously on the wound on his thigh, and the guy closed his mouth crying and shouting.

I said lightly: "If it weren't for us seeing through your ambush plan, I'm afraid it would be us who were beaten at this time!" Let's talk about it now! Don't stop! Otherwise, you know the consequences! ”

Lucas didn't dare to play tricks anymore and began to talk about what he knew.

Nuno Santos, an aristocrat from Portugal, was born on a plantation in the south and is of one-quarter Dutch, one-quarter French, and one-half Spanish descent. Although he ostensibly served the Portuguese crown, he privately considered himself a Spaniard.

Fifteen years ago, when all eyes were on the New World discovered by Columbus in an attempt to control it and win hegemony, Nuno Santos took a different path and set his sights on the barren and backward regions of Africa.

Originally, he wanted to use the power of the Spanish royal family, which secretly helped him, to occupy the entire African nautical circle in one fell swoop, but his unexpected rival appeared-the British-backed San Martin Chamber of Commerce sniped Nuno Santos fiercely in West Africa! So he had to retreat step by step, and finally the two sides began a long-term confrontation with the Cape of Good Hope as the boundary.

In recent years, as Spain has made major breakthroughs in the development of the New World, its leadership and control over other seas have also been rising! In the last few confrontations with the San Martín Chamber of Commerce, Nuno Santos's forces have clearly gained the upper hand! So in his greedy heart, the flame that occupied and led the whole of Africa began to lick the filthy and throbbing soul again, making it uneasy for a moment!

His first step was to build an East Africa that was "pure and free of impurities"! The other chambers of commerce that came here were all devastated by an organization called the "Purple Demon", and finally had to end miserably and leave this place. Over time, East Africa, stretching from the Cape of Good Hope in the south to Mogadishu in the north, became almost Nuno Santos' backyard, untouched by anyone else.

When I first came here, I was immediately eyed by the local people, so a plan for our blade sea began to be conceived and executed. Thankfully, I had a good heart for the crocodile boy and gave him an unimaginable bounty, and he and his father knew the tricks well, so he sent me a reminder in gratitude.

I listened to Lucas's story, my back was full of cold sweat, and if I hadn't been reminded of this, I probably wouldn't have been alert, and even if I saw the strange thing about the bats attacking the camels, I only said that it was a special situation in the local area, and I guess I wouldn't think in the direction of someone setting up a bureau.

Thank God! It seems that in the future, we still have to stay true to our original intention and do more good deeds!

I sat down, and the sun shone through the cracks in the wall, shining on my face. After a while, I continued to ask: "After that, what else does this Nuno Santos have planned!" ”

Lucas couldn't answer that question. He was only the captain of a ship, and he could not participate in the deliberations of many important things. In particular, I actually bit back and crushed their Chamber of Commerce's fleet, which was originally unexpected, who knows what will happen next?

Lucas was taken down, he knew very little, of course, he knew about the situation of the Nuno Santos Chamber of Commerce and nearly twenty wars and merchant ships. I don't care much about that, I'm more worried about the Spanish forces hidden behind Nuno Santos!

Suddenly I regretted it a little. If I hadn't chosen to confront the enemy and quietly retreated, even if I would have lost a sum of goods, at least I wouldn't have made an enemy with the Nuno Santos Chamber of Commerce, or the Spanish forces behind him! I'm not afraid, but I have more important things to do now, I'm going to the Mediterranean, to find something that is more important to me, and I'm not interested in this East African trade circle at all!

Now that the two sides have begun to confront each other head-on, it is not a matter of me saying that I can go! This time, I was lucky enough to hear the other party's plan, and I played extraordinarily on the spot, relying on divine operation to meet the enemy's vanguard, but what about after that? What should I do next?

Being in a different place, I was really at a loss. The eyeliner here is far from being spilled, and here I am, like a deaf and blind man, every step is a stone crossing the river! It has to be terrifying!

Don't look for trouble if you have nothing to do, and don't be afraid of things when you have something. That's what I've always adhered to. Now that things have come to this point, and I am also forced to fight, it is not my style to blindly retreat! Finding a way to solve the problem is the right way to go!

Suddenly, the stone pendant on my chest began to heat up violently for no apparent reason! I almost jumped up from the heat, and immediately reached out and pulled the pendant out! The people next to me were startled, they saw that I stared at the pendant for a long time, and after a long time, they cautiously reached out and tried it, and it was not hot at all?

Odd! What's going on? Puzzled, I put the pendant back into my arms. At this moment, I seemed to hear someone talking in my ears, like Granny Yunhu, or Mamaha Di, or a few other people who had given me a hint! Their voices kept murmuring, "To the west! To the west! Hurry up and head west! ”

The sound made me feel irritated. I'm trying to go west! But there are obstacles ahead! What am I going to do? Fly over?

Just when I was so angry that I wanted to tear the pendant off and throw it aside, someone suddenly pushed the door and came in, and the footsteps were very urgent. I turned my head to look, but it was under the newly acquired dark skin in Malacca, the "Yu" who was proficient in several languages.

After the black boy came in, he saluted me and said in slightly jerky Chinese: "Sir, I just got a message. It was the dock workers who said it unintentionally. It seems to have something to do with you. ”

I frowned and said, "Oh! What's the news? ”

You said respectfully: "A month ago, there was a fleet here, and the admiral of the fleet was a woman from the East. Surname Lee! ”

Hearing this, I stood up with a "Teng" sound, and then tried to calm my mood, sat down slowly, and asked, "And then?" ”

You lowered his head slightly, and his voice was much quieter: "There seems to be infighting within Admiral Li's team. It seems that because of serious disagreements, an Englishman in power under Admiral Li led part of the fleet to go first, and Admiral Li immediately pursued and killed him. The two went one after the other, heading south. As for what happened after that, the people here don't know. ”

South? Alas, it's something urging me forward again! Although Li Huamei and I can't tell the truth now, but in the final analysis, it can be regarded as having a marriage contract, if she is really in trouble, help her - I mean the last one, it can be regarded as a moral fulfillment!