A captain of a hundred households jumped on Zhang Qiang's ship, and after saluting, he said to Zhang Qiang: "Report to Your Majesty, we found that there are unknown ships following behind the fleet, so we went to pursue, the unknown ship is very fast, basically more than our speed, always hanging us from a distance, because the distance is too far, we can't go back to report, we have been pursuing to the vicinity of Manila, and found the fleet of the Spaniards, about a hundred, they are heading towards Palawan,

We were afraid of being outnumbered, so we hurried back, and they sent three ships of three hundred tons in pursuit of us, and we fought a few small battles with them, and repelled the enemy, but they followed them from a distance, and it was not until a second of our ships came that we turned around and drove them back, and then we found that we were almost thirty miles away from the Spanish fleet, and we had to retreat again.

Later, the Spaniards who were following behind were gone, and when we were about to return with the third ship, we passed through the island group between Manila and Palawan because we had to catch up with the fleet, and then we found about three hundred Hongjia ships behind the island group, and when they saw us, they immediately pursued us like an enemy and were ready to sink us.

Just as we fled, we saw the Zheng family's fleet with them, there was no war between the two sides, we were very strange, but there was no way, because the enemy had caught up, we left one warship to entangle them, and the remaining two hurried back to report the news, on the way we saw about ten warships with the Zheng family's flag and the Duge rebels, as well as the British, Portuguese fleets in parallel, the two sides seemed to be very friendly.

In the middle, there were several warships of our Huaxia Navy Division that also hung the flags of the Zheng family or Du Ge rebels, and we left another warship to entangle, and in the end, only one of our warships went out first came back to report the news, and the life and death of the other warships were uncertain. ”

The situation looks pretty serious.

Zhang Qiang worked hard to analyze the opponent, the Fifth Fleet and the Fourth Fleet sub-fleet looked like they had failed miserably, but they didn't know who the opponent they met was?

Listening to the report of the captain who came back from reconnaissance, the fleet of the eldest prince and the second prince was united, and the strength reached 300 warships.

Zheng Zhi also received assistance before, and bought 300 warships and 200 merchant ships with 7 million Huaxia coins, Gegong Island was defeated, 20 warships lost 18 ships, and the previous battle with the Dutch 50 warships sank 3 and wounded more than 10, then the Zheng family still has at least more than 260 warships, and even if half of the 200 merchant ships go back, or half of them go to other places, there are more than 50 to 1230 ships, which means that the Zheng family has at least 400 warships that can participate in the war.

Du Ge's fleet has 1670 to more than 210 ships, which is equivalent to more than one fleet of the Huaxia Army and Navy Division in its heyday, at least there are more warships than a fleet.

There are also Spanish sailors who are unknown to us, and there are also nearly 200 warships, battleships, which are still very powerful.

It seems that the Huaxia military sailors are at an absolute disadvantage on the side of the South China Sea.

"Turn around, go to Qiongdao, send the remaining eleven 600-ton warships to the Fourth Fleet, the Fifth Fleet conveys the order, let them take most of the fleet's warships to gather on Qiongdao, send people to the Third Fleet's Baodao Prefecture to mobilize a part of the fleet to Qiongdao, but don't transfer them all, and then mobilize most of the sailor fleets of the Third Fleet stationed in the trench gate to gather on Qiongdao, let them carry about 600 warships of supplies and ammunition supplies, load a sailor brigade to Qiongdao, and give an order to the First Fleet and the Second Fleet to defend to the death, The Second Fleet sent men to patrol the waters of the Third Fleet and, if feasible, had them fill the supply and ammunition of a hundred warships and half of the sailors of the Marine Brigade to assemble on Qiong Island. ”

"Oh, by the way, let all the new warships that have been launched into a formation and travel in a fleet with the fleet sent by the Second Fleet, and it will be impossible to rush to Qiong Island within half a month."

The order was given, Zhang Qiang felt his head blow up, is this a big conspiracy? Aimed at the Kingdom of Huaxia?

What did the Huaxia Kingdom gain from trading with the Zheng family?

sent hundreds of thousands of Han people, Han people who didn't want to be naturalized, to the Zheng family's Australia, and then the Zheng family suddenly turned around and rebelled against themselves after obtaining nearly 1,200 naval warships, warships, and merchant ships in the Huaxia Kingdom.

Now he wants to divide the eldest prince and the second prince, but he can't find anyone, because they are drifting on the sea, and he is also on the sea, and those people are all people who are absolutely loyal to the eldest prince and the second prince that he defeated will follow them away, and now the eldest and the second prince even if they have evil intentions for each other and want to calculate each other, it is definitely impossible to calculate now, because they will temporarily form an alliance to attack themselves, the purpose is to weaken the maritime strength of the Huaxia Kingdom.

Three hundred, four hundred, nearly five hundred warships and warships, where Duge still has nearly two hundred, I don't know if the Spaniards will form an alliance with them, if they form an alliance, then the total strength of the other side will reach a terrifying more than a thousand, and there are almost five hundred warships of this class just above and below 1,000 tons, and there are two or three hundred warships of 600 to 800 tons, and the others are all 300-ton warships and some merchant ships, armed merchant ships, this is an absolute combat ship.

How many ships can you concentrate on this side now?

If there is no problem with the Fourth Fleet, in addition to the fifty ships of the sub-fleet, it is basically miserable, then the Fourth Fleet still has 320 ships, and if you discard some old and weak ships that need to defend the coast, then there are 120 ships that can go to war, and the total strength of the fleet is 140 ships, and there must be a few ships left on Qiongdao, so it is good to guarantee 140 ships.

This is the ship that can come in the last three days, if he obeys the order, there are not many fleets left on the treasure island, and there can be forty ships, and it will take seven days at the earliest.

Twenty ships can be brought in by concentrating troops in the trench gate, because there are also certain ships and patrol ships of the detachment that have been called for patrol, so there will definitely not be many, but after ten days, there will be almost as many as 300 ships concentrated, plus 40 ships on the treasure island, then there will be about 480 warships and warships, of which there are at least 200 warships.

Generally speaking, with the combat effectiveness of the Huaxia Naval Division, this combat power is almost enough.

When Zhang Qiang was thinking about how to gather enough sailor troops, he actually prayed in his heart not to let the new sailor warship have an accident, hoping that Kodak would resist Liu Taiyun's order and stay in Saigon in the name of staying behind, so that his new fleet would not be completely wiped out under the enemy's ambush.

He now has only sixteen warships, six thousand-ton warships, almost all of which are 1,300-ton warships, eight 800-ton warships, one 600-ton warship, plus a new-style warship Huaxia 310.

He looked up at the sky, and the captain reported to him: "There is still an hour before it gets dark, now the wind has reached level five, the waves are a little high, our maximum speed can reach seven knots, these are newly built warships and warships, the speed can be guaranteed, should we let the six-hundred-ton warship left behind go out to reconnoitre, so that the enemy will not intercept us in front?"

(End of chapter)