On the shipping lane from Malacca to Ceylon, thousands of Ming warships were speeding towards the northwest end of the Donghu Sea in a strange crab formation, as if they wanted to wield pincers to clamp something.

Generally, the ships that take this route will lean on the peninsula along the east side of the Donghu Sea, so that they can avoid storms at sea.

Zhang Bin held the binoculars with a serious face, looked at the island in front of him that was slowly showing his head, and asked coldly: "Are all the pirates trained by the Dutch hiding in this archipelago?" ”

Hearing this, Schvera on the side hurriedly turned his head and asked the Portuguese non-commissioned officer beside him in detail, and then nodded solemnly: "Yes, Your Royal Highness, our Governor of Goa, Count Conde, has sent local natives to infiltrate the pirate group more than once, and there are nominally three or four groups of pirates on the shipping route from Malacca to Ceylon, but they are all under the command of the pirate leader Andaman, and their nests are all in this archipelago." ”

Zhang Bin put down the binoculars and said disdainfully: "Hmph, they play the same method twice, I really don't know if they are shameless or ignorant." ”

Schwila looked at his face, and then said cautiously: "The Dutch's trick is actually very powerful, because the pirates are elusive, and in the case of the same sailing ship, it is difficult to catch them, even if they know where their lair is, it is difficult to exterminate them, because once they find that they can't beat them, they will run, this vast sea, you can run in all directions, and there are no hundreds of warships that want to surround them." ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, he couldn't help but nod helplessly, the Dutch's trick is indeed poisonous enough, if they organize their own fleets to plunder the merchant ships of other countries, other countries will definitely attack them en masse and besiege their supply points and colonies, and it will be difficult for them to plunder merchant ships by supporting pirates.

For example, Spain, Portugal, England and France, their merchant ships were all plundered by pirates, and they also vaguely knew that the pirates had a relationship with the Dutch, but would they unite to besiege the Dutch?

This is almost impossible, because the relations between these countries are not good, Spain, Portugal and England and France can be said to be hostile relations, how can they unite to besiege the Dutch without conclusive evidence.

He thought for a moment and asked, "Are you sure that all the pirates on this shipping lane have returned to their lair?" ”

Schwila asked the non-commissioned officer again, and then nodded firmly: "Yes, I have received accurate information, since the Ming naval fleet appeared south of Manila, the Dutch ordered all the pirates to go back to their lair and hide first, because they suspected that the target of the Ming navy was Ceylon, and they would definitely pass through this channel at that time, and if the pirates they supported met, they would definitely not be able to escape." ”

Zhang Bin nodded slowly and said, "Aren't they stupid, knowing that Ben Gong is definitely not here to play with so many warships." ”

At this moment, the guard behind him suddenly said loudly: "Grandpa Guo, the enemy situation has been discovered in front. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Bin looked up at the flagbearer on the lookout, then turned his head and pointed the telescope in the direction of his finger.

Sure enough, in the harbor surrounded by several large islands in front, the shadows of many masts could be faintly seen.

Zhang Bin handed the telescope to the Portuguese intelligence officer, and then said to Svera: "Let him confirm whether it is here." ”

The intelligence officer took the binoculars, checked them carefully, then put them down and nodded heavily.

Seeing this, Zhang Bin ordered without hesitation: "Order the Marquis of Jinjiang to lead all the light ironclad ships to surround it, and order the Marquis of Nanyang to lead all the Weiyuan battleships to rush in." ”

The formation of the Ming Navy platoon is very strange, thousands of light ironclad ships are lined up in front of the left and right wings, and the platoon is very scattered, so even if the pirates are looking at the telescope, they only see dozens of light ironclad ships similar to their large pirate ships approaching them, they do not intend to escape, because the Dutch provided them with dozens of cannons this time, and they have already set up their respective water village dangerous positions, they think that this kind of armed merchant ship is at most a matter of a few more cannons.

They were pitted by the Dutch, the Dutch just wanted them to try the firepower of the Ming Navy, after all, the Dutch only received approximate information, I don't know how many super battleships the Ming Navy sent, if they can use this group of pirates to test it, resist for a while, and even cause some casualties to the Ming Imperial Navy, it is naturally the best, otherwise, these pirates want dozens of cannons, it is a dream.

These pirates didn't expect the Daming Navy to be so terrifying, there would be hundreds of super battleships, and by the time they saw the huge hulls of the Zhenyuan cruiser and the Weiyuan battleship, it was already too late, because thousands of light ironclad ships had already begun to encircle from both wings.

There was chaos in the pirates' den, and many pirates began to set up ships and run in the direction of Ceylon, while some pirates insisted on stationing in their respective water villages, because they thought that they had more artillery and had a geographical advantage to resist the attack of the Ming navy.

The result can be imagined, when Zheng Zhilong led two hundred Weiyuan battleships to rush into the harbor, they knew what it meant to have more artillery, a Weiyuan battleship was more than 100 guns, 200 ships was more than 20,000 guns, even if a sideside salvo was 10,000 shells, not to mention the simple water village of pirates, even a strong fortress could not withstand so many artillery bombardments!

Zheng Zhilong divided the two hundred Weiyuan battleships, and before all the battleships fired five rounds in a salvo, the water villages around the pirates' lair were bombed into ruins, as for their dozens of cannons, a total of 100 shells were not fired, basically each artillery just sent out a shell by the Ming Navy's rained shells and cannons, smashed into a mess.

When Zhang Bin led more than 300 Zhenyuan battleships into the pirate's lair, the battle was basically coming to an end, no one on the shore fired back, all the water villages and pirate ships were bombed into scum, and the soldiers of the Fuguang army only had to land on a few islands to capture the prisoners.

However, the battle on the sea was far from over, because these four pirates together also had more than 200 ships of various types, and they all ran in one direction, and it was difficult to hold them all, so they had to chase while fighting.

Zhang Bin took a handsome boat to the sea in the direction of Ceylon and looked at it with a telescope, and then ordered: "The order is for Yu Chenglong to let go of the few clippers in front of him and end the battle quickly." ”

A herald behind him said yes, then ran to the right side of the ship, quickly climbed down a rope ladder, and jumped onto a light ironclad below, and then the light ironclad galloped away in the direction of Yu Chenglong's handsome ship.

Schwila looked at the ironclad ship that gave the order, and asked with some puzzlement: "Your Royal Highness, why did you let go of the first few clippers, the pirate leader Andaman is very likely to be on those clippers!" ”

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