In the Indian Ocean, a blue sea, the monsoon wind blows the dragon flag of the Ming fleet, and the flame-like red flag is inlaid with the light of the rising sun from the opposite Indian subcontinent.

And in the command cabin of a Ming third-class sail battleship equipped with 80 cannons, Wang Hong, the governor of Liangguang who had not slept well all night, and his subordinate civil and military officials also looked at the rising sun from a foreign country.

After a short time, Wang Hong turned around and looked at the sand table that had been popularized recently, and asked Chen Ding, the Jinyi guard: "Chen Qianhu, this official confirms again, the distribution of Franc Machine's troops and warehouses in Goa is really as shown on the map, and you have no negligence?" ”

"Xiaguan dares to guarantee with his life, in order to find out the truth of these Franc machines, one of my hundred households pretended to be a bought Ming citizen, and was beaten to death by the Franc machine people in Goa without being exposed, these are all exchanged for the lives of our brothers in Jinyiwei! How can there be a fake! ”

Chen Ding hated the humiliation he had given him when he was an undercover agent, and now Wang Hong, the governor of Liangguang, still questioned himself, which made him even more irritable.

"You mean, I have people enslaved in Goa City? There are even those who have been beaten to death? ”

Wang Hong asked.

Chen Ding nodded: "Yes, there are no less than a hundred people who have been humiliated to death, some are captured soldiers, and some are sold here by the greedy people to work as coolies!" ”

Bang!

Rao is Wang Hong has been an old minister of Huan Hai for many years, and after hearing that his compatriots were enslaved by the barbarians at this moment, he couldn't help but slam the table with his fist, and his pen and ink trembled.

But at this time, the sentry came to report: "Junmen (referring to Governor Wang Hong)!" It's less than three hundred miles from Goa! ”

When Wang Hong heard this, he quickly calmed down, suppressed his emotions, and ordered: "Beat the drum!" All artillery guns are unloaded! Reload! All muskets are safed and reloaded! The Divine Fire Raven is ready! The sentinel ship immediately set sail to find out the nearby waters! ”

Thereupon.

It didn't take long.

The Daming Expeditionary Fleet across the Indian Ocean sounded a burst of drums to indicate that it was officially facing the Francophone fleet!

The cannon windows are all open!

The iron-core copper-tired cannon with the quasi-moment and the door exposed the black muzzle, only facing the blue sea!

And the Ming officers and soldiers also raised the firing pistol, and the standard Ming Zhengde rifle, which has similar performance to the Springfield M1795 rifle and the Dreiser rifle that shines in history, is now only waiting for the appearance of the Francophone man!

Because it is a firing gun, the Ming Zhengde rifle Rao can shoot the enemy continuously when the wind and rain are blowing, not to mention that the sun is still shining now, it is the mildest climate in the Indian Ocean in February of the 14th year of Zhengde.

It is worth mentioning that the Ming Dynasty's Divine Fire Crow has also been prepared at this time, this Ming version of the original aircraft, in history has shone in the Battle of Liuluo Bay and the Battle of Luliang, is a magic weapon that can quickly ignite enemy ships and sailboats.

Wang Hong and the officers and men of the entire Ming fleet waited for the appearance of the Franc fleet, and then sank all the warships of the Franc fleet.

Many of the Ming officers and soldiers who followed Wang Hong to the expedition to Goa were officers and soldiers who followed Xia Yan on his western tour, and they clearly remembered the scene when they were attacked by the Franc Machine, and they also remembered that many of their brothers were captured by the Franc Machine, and they did not forget the hatred that the Franc Plane brought to them.

Therefore, they can be said to have come with hatred, and the purpose is to get revenge.

Even Xia Yan, the minister of the entire Nanyang maritime affairs with the prime minister, also used the military operation as a code name of "revenge".

……

The fleet of the Franc machine had indeed appeared by this time.

More than 20 Franco Centipede warships were almost all dispatched, encircling the entire port of Goa in an arc, and each Centipede ship also had Franco cannons that could be exchanged for continuous firing.

But none of this frightened the officers and men of the Ming Dynasty who had fought many times with Wang Hong or Xia Yan against the Franc fleet.

At this time, what really shocked the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty was that the warships and batteries of these Franc aircraft fleets were actually tied to their own compatriots!

Sentinel Zhou Guang put down the special telescope for the navy, fell off the mast, and then immediately ran to the command cabin: "Military gate!" There are our brothers on the enemy ships! They were tied to the mast! ”

"What! Why are these Francophiles so despicable! Lu Shen, the deputy envoy of the inspection, couldn't help but say in surprise.

Wang Hong indifferently withdrew the binoculars, turned around and said: "This official has already seen that there is no law of impermanence, and he is a man who has done this despicable and cunning act, he is deceiving my Heavenly Empire is a righteous state, and he can't bear to harm the people of his country, so he has his behavior!" The order goes down, and all ships are not allowed to fire guns without the order of their own officials, and they are ready to fight! ”

After speaking, Wang Hong walked onto the deck, looked at the large centipede ship of the Franc machine arranged with thousands of oars in front of him, and thought about how to deal with it.

……

At this time.

Amer, the governor of Franco, also saw the flag on the main ship of the Ming Dynasty through the binoculars he bought from the Ming smuggling gentry, and couldn't help but sneer:

"The Ming army really gave the order not to open fire, it seems that our move of taking their people hostage has worked, these stupid and dull Orientals, for the sake of their own little morality and the thoughts of their national compatriots, would rather sit back and watch the loss of the fighter plane, but just a few captured civilians, and they will die if they die! God will not have mercy on these lowly unbelieving slaves! ”

"What Your Excellency the Governor is saying is that, in fact, their emperor is the most ridiculous, and if they have to make a constitution, their officials have to bear the duty of protecting their own people, and even if they sacrifice the interests of the people, they will be punished with serious crimes! Such a loving king is not a great emperor, and it seems to me that he is fit to be a priest rather than an emperor! ”

Krk echoed with a smile.

"The king has decided to form a larger fleet to deal a blow to this empire, and when the time comes, our fleet will make their emperor understand what kind of emperor is a truly great emperor!"

Amer suddenly slapped Zhang Chun as he spoke: "Despicable yellow dog, this official hates that you look at me like this!" As a slave, you have no right to hate me! ”

Zhang Chun endured the pain on his face, and he didn't understand what Amer said, but he knew that the leader of the Franco, who was laughing and angry for a while, must be uneasy, because the Ming fleet was in front, and even he could see the swarthy cannon.

Zhang Chun also knew that the Ming fleet did not fire now because of his own Ming compatriots, and it was the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who were unwilling to sacrifice compatriots like him, and he was sincerely proud of himself to have such an empire, and he now missed his Ming Empire very much, the empire that could make him live freely and have the rights of many people, especially after four years in the colony of Franco, he felt even stronger.

He knew that he loved the country of Daming deeply, and he couldn't help but secretly swear that if there was an afterlife, he would continue to be a citizen of Daming and swear to defend the dignity of Daming to the death! Love the compatriots of Daming!

Even, Zhang Chun now felt that as long as he could kill all the Franc people here, it didn't matter if he was killed by the artillery of his empire at the moment.

Zhang Chun couldn't help laughing, he was ready to die from the shelling.

Like Zhang Chun, the others who were taken as hostages were ready to be shelled and died, and they all laughed.

……

"Junmen, we can't delay any longer, you quickly order the cannons, the sacrificed brothers and people, the last general will avenge them!"

General Zhai Peng couldn't help but say when he saw the battleship of the Franc machine getting closer and closer.

"No! Junmen, Ming officials cannot exchange victory at the expense of their compatriots, because it is the responsibility of Ming officials to protect the lives of their compatriots, this is a constitutional decree of His Majesty, you can't disobey it, and you can't violate it! Even if this expedition returns in vain, it cannot be exchanged for victory at the expense of the people! ”

Han Wen, who was demoted to a commoner, but still had a book shelf, hurriedly retorted.

"How can there be no sacrifices in battle, they are the people of my Ming Dynasty, we are naturally unwilling to let them sacrifice, but if we don't shell it immediately, our entire fleet will also miss the opportunity! When the time comes, they will still not survive at the hands of the Franc Man! My lord, the lower officer thinks, when immediately shelled! ”

Zhou Guang, the deputy envoy of the inspection, said.

"No! They were all brothers who sacrificed the captured in order to cover us, and Dai would never fire artillery at his own brothers! The military gate will either kill the last general, but the last general will never shell his own brother! ”

Deputy Chief Soldier Dai Dabin said.

In short, there was a lot of noise in the command cabin of the entire Daming fleet, and you and I had different opinions.

Only Wang Hong, the governor of Liangguang, has been silent, he knows better than anyone the importance of occupying Goa City, after all, only he and Xia Yan know that once the route from Goa City to Haojing is not controlled by the Ming Dynasty, then Liangguang will fall into a financial crisis, and then it is not only the Ming captured officers and soldiers and civilians in front of them who need to be sacrificed, but also themselves.

But Wang Hong also knew that if he took the liberty of ordering the artillery to shell these Ming people in front of him to death, he would not only face the condemnation of conscience, but also the impeachment from the Metropolitan Procuratorate system.

I don't know when, the Daming civil and military officials present all quieted down, and they all looked at Wang Hong.

Seeing this, Wang Hong couldn't help but walk to the middle and looked at everyone: "Are you all done, when you're done, the official will say a few words." ”

"This battle must be fought! Those who dare to retreat again will be killed! ”

As soon as Wang Hong said this, several people who advocated going back mainly in Korean couldn't help but shudder and didn't dare to say anything more.

"But the captured brothers and the people must also be saved! My Ming Dynasty is not a barbarian state, and my Ming people are not grass mustards that can be sacrificed casually! ”

As soon as Wang Hong said this, several civil and military officials who mainly protected the safety of the captured officers and soldiers and the people laughed and sincerely respected Wang Hong.

"So, we have to change our tactics! Abandon the battle line formation method that was trained in the past, and change to a broadside battle, you all come here, the General Staff, overturn the established plan, and now re-determine the battle plan according to the requirements of this officer! ”

After Wang Hong finished speaking, all the staff officers came to the sand table, and this form of command in which the staff officers colluded to come up with the battle plan had been familiar to most of the troops of the Ming Dynasty, and naturally they didn't think there was anything unusual.