Chapter 650. The age of pirates

There is no greater spectacle than this in the Age of Discovery, where four magnificent human war machines are entangled, cannons with a blazing breath, roaring with the breath of death from hell, columns of water jumping several meters high in the fluttering of cannonballs, and rippling waves that jolt the ship like toys in a bathtub.

In the history of Zheng Chenggong's battle of Taiwan, 60 Zheng Jun Daqing ships besieged several Dutch ships, in order to sink a capital ship Hector, Zheng Jun was almost sunk 30 ships, killed thousands of people, and finally the goddess of luck favored Zheng Chenggong, Hector was hit by a shot in the powder compartment, and he exploded.

He didn't know his original fate, but he didn't delay Zheng Sen's excited expression at this time, the vibration of the cannon made the ship tremble, and he slapped the deck excitedly in the face of the gunsmoke.

"It's still this thing with decent firepower! The old blue-headed boats are just rubbish!"

"Stick it up!"

The spread of artillery fire continued to force out of position, causing the Dutch merchant ships in the trap to turn left and right, and the three Ming boat sharks gradually surrounded and surrounded them.

The Dutch captain, full of anger and depravity, wearing a three-cornered hat and red curly-haired hair, brandished his command knife and bared his teeth and roared: "One Dutchman can fight twenty-five Ming people!" A few rows of guns and they collapsed! Go into battle, engage in broadside battles!"

With his roar, a group of Dutch sailors who looked like mountain spirits and beasts, mixed with a dozen screaming Japanese samurai jumped out with arquebuses and lined up fiercely on the deck, one by one the sailors looked at the port side with hideous faces, and their eyes were red as they looked at the Daming pirates who were getting closer and closer.

In the next second, their expressions froze, and the same loud sound sounded, and in front of them were not those pirates called Hanako Daming who had always been wearing tattered clothes, carrying axes and playing with knives, and showing a mouthful of rotten teeth.

On the deck, neat bayonets and flintlock pistols were pointed triumphantly forward, condescendingly, twice as many as they were, and a bald bearded man shirtless, with muscles exposed, and two dragons tattooed on his chest, stepped on a stout cannon with one foot, and bit an equally thick cigar in his mouth, glanced at them contemptuously, and spat out a smoke ring heavily.

It's fucking embarrassing!

The arquebus hissed and burned, and beads of sweat were dripping down the head, and with a bang, the bearded first mate threw the arquebus directly, and then a group of Dutch sailors also threw the guns to the ground, and then squatted to the side like no one, threw the knife, and the captain pointed to the side and shouted in the standard Nanjing accent.

"Sir! We are all obedient people, we all understand the rules, and this group of little deflated people have to resist!"

Turning back in astonishment, a group of would-be mercenaries were dumbfounded and grinning with their arquebuses and baring their teeth.

…………

Bang dang~

"Oops~"

The Dongjiang boat is fully equipped, including the prison, whether you are obedient to the people or not, one person is rewarded with a kick on the buttocks, thirty-eight Dutch sailors and captains all kicked in, the iron railing prison is too small, and it has to be stacked up in size, those who went in later were lucky, and rode to the neck of the Dutchman, and then the big iron door was locked, no matter how those people wailed, the pirate master slipped out with a pat on the buttocks.

However, these Dutch are not innocent, there are no real honest people in the Age of Discovery, and the maritime merchants are basically part-time pirates, which are much more comfortable than the unlucky maritime merchants of other countries where they throw off their boats to feed the sharks, or the natives who were slaughtered by them.

As for the Dutch merchant ship that had been hit twice, it was bolted to the butt by Zheng Sen's two second-class sailboats, dragged behind it, and pulled towards the north.

…………

Penghu.

Dozens of men hissed and roared as hard as they could, and in their tugs, another heavy sailboat was dragged onto the beach, and next to this new victim, there was already a dense row of captured ships, a large part of which was lost to the Western three-masted Galen ships, and there were also some longships with old bellies in Southeast Asia, in the past few months, the pirates of the Ming Dynasty have been completely opened, in the name of war, no matter whose ship it is, as long as it is not the Ming Dynasty, it will be dragged back, and the property on it will be all ..." confiscated", as for the personnel sailors, they were locked up.

Among them, the Dutch were still far away, only restricted from moving, should be given food to eat, should be given to drink, just wait for the Dutch East India Company to ransom, but the nearby Luzon Spaniards are not so lucky, just trying to kill 20,000 or 30,000 Manila Ming Qiao, these people were regarded as blood feuds by the Ming Dynasty, the captain and first mate were directly hung on the mast and hanged after the fall of the ship, and the rest of the crew was beaten as slaves and transported to the north.

Recently, Beiming has engaged in infrastructure construction, and the domestic railways have spread everywhere, so that the demand for coal has increased greatly.

On the beach, after pulling on the boat, the Ming army wrestlers were busy unloading the goods, and several clerks were dangling on the side in big slippers, holding the ledger and carrying a brush to follow Sasha to record.

"Sixteen furlong machines, four shipwreck cannons, twelve barrels of gunpowder, three thousand deerskins, two hundred chests of sugar, two chests of pearls, two chests of fish skins, nine strong Japanese people, and thirty-two strong Dutchmen......"

The brush directly penetrated two pages on the rice paper, and after the record, the clerk took out the seal and stamped the red seal twice, then ripped off the back page, handed it out, and said the set professionally.

"Thirty percent belongs to Daming, one becomes the East India Company's handling fee, the auction results look at the announcement of the town, and go to Hangzhou to receive the silver!"

"Brother Lao, this matter of loading, Brother Lao has to worry a lot! Take this to drink!"

A heavy ingot of silver was stuffed into his hand, and after weighing it, the clerk's face also showed a smile, nodding and snorting.

"Don't worry, Zheng Dagongzi's goods, how dare the small ones not care, tomorrow's boat, first take the goods for the son!"

There are too many ships that have been robbed recently, and Southeast Asian goods have become a little saturated from shortage, and now the sooner the Games will be Ming, the more they can be sold at a high price, after getting this promise, Shi Daxuan's broad old face also showed excitement, and he exchanged a few words with the clerk, and the man in his forties rushed back.

Stepping on a sea reef and carrying the katana on his back, Zheng Sen was still looking at the pirate ship returning from the sea, the wolf had more meat and less meat to describe it was really good at this time, many people stupidly drove to the sea area near the city of Relansha in Tainan to squat, and squatted for a whole month and returned empty-handed.

However, there are losers and there are successes, such as Zheng Sen, the eldest son of Zheng Zhilong, and this next one. Just as Zheng Sen looked at Kung Fu, another fleet rowed into the bay, and the big flag of He Zi was hung high on the bow of the ship, just like Zheng Sen, a full three captured Spanish ships were hung on the stern, and there was a chaotic noise, and a large group of Ming military warriors once again hurriedly ran up, pulling the rope tied to the western ship, and excitedly dragged to the shore.

The Spaniards sold black slaves to the New World, treating blacks and yellows as living tools that were not human beings, but they did not expect that they would also have this day, the rattling of iron chains, more than seventy hair messy, smelling of the body, but the sturdy Spanish conquerors like cattle were driven down in despair, followed by a guy wearing a large mink cloak, wearing a jeweled melon skin hat, like a gentleman more than a maritime pirate, triumphantly down, seeing Zheng Sen looking, this thing also smiled and gestured his fist, That's when you have to shout in a long voice.

"Come on! I'll also count it for He Ye!"

"Turtle!"

Seeing that the people of the East India Company were busy carrying things for liquidation under the ship that He Bin snatched back, full of disdain, Zheng Sen snorted from his nostrils, this effort, Shi Daxuan, the general of the Zheng family who went to contact the East India Company's inventory, happened to come back happily, and bowed heavily behind Zheng Sen.

"Young Master! It's 300 big yellow croakers again! Seven boats were cut in a month and a half, and more than 300,000 taels were earned! You really have the style of an old dragon head! ”

"Old dragon head?"

"If he had my ruthlessness, this South China Sea would not be surnamed Mao now!"

Speaking of this, Zheng Sen couldn't help but sneer and shook his head gently, but Shi Daxuan, who heard this, couldn't help but grow his mouth, even if he voted for the regent now, Zheng Zhilong is still a legendary pirate in the South China Sea, the first brother in the South China Sea in everyone's mind, Zheng Sen commented on his father like this, not to mention the question of filial piety or not, just this arrogance made him smack his tongue.

But now this later national hero who recovered Taiwan, on this historical line, is completely going to another fork in the road, a legendary pirate who is enough to surpass Zheng Zhilong, and he glanced at the pirate He Bin's subordinates who were unloading with disdain, he was a contemptuous blow of the knife.

"Let Cheng Dahu and his gang of wastes hurry up and pour yellow soup, tomorrow morning, and then go to sea!"

"Still at sea?"

Again, Shi Daxuan couldn't help but exclaim, the more than 200 warships that Mao Jue was entrenched in were not the disciplined Royal Navy after all, and there were already more than 40 of them returning to Hangzhou with the looted silver at this time, after all, they were desperate with their heads on their belts, just to enjoy! Like Zheng Sen, who did the other party's seven boats, and there were only two people left next to each other here, he and He Bin.

But He Bin is different, he is a local pirate and maritime merchant with roots in Taiwan, and now he is fighting with the Dutch who are riding on the head of Taiwan, he also has a desperate motivation, but Zheng Sen is completely different, now the entire thief group has saved at least 300,000 taels of silver in Hangzhou, and more than 500 people in three boats can get a big windfall enough to squander a few years, just like Alexander the Great who went on the Eastern Expedition, they don't want to fight anymore!

However, it is also the same as Alexander the Great, who was bent on the crusade back then, Zheng Sen's heart was full of desire to conquer, listening to Shi Daxuan's hesitation, he suddenly turned his head, in Zheng Sen's pupils, Shi Daxuan read a breath of death, the breath suppressed him and lowered his head in panic, for a few seconds, when he raised his head, Zheng Sen was already gone, and Shi Daxuan was sweating profusely.

(End of chapter)