Five Dutch pirate ships came in a murderous manner, three fled with their tails in tow, and the remaining two were just here, harpoons and nets with cables dragging the ships in the middle of the formation, while on the other deck, the bloodied corporate mercenaries were cleaning the battlefield.

"Touch the West! Touch the West!"

A red-haired Dutch pirate with a bloody face and a lost hand fell to his knees, begging for mercy in English miserably, but he was greeted by a knife in the head, and with a sound of brushing, the red-haired head full of fear flew up, and was immediately picked up by the slashing widow and hung on his waist.

There is no international law in this era, and if it is the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty that are captured today, their fate is not necessarily much stronger than that of these Dutch pirates who are now slaughtered, so there is no need to pity these scumbags.

won the war, there were two more boats, and more than two hundred and seventy captive slaves with sound hands and feet, but Luo Ning was not happy at all, but the corners of his delicate mouth couldn't help twitching with a toothache and leaning against the big table under the parasol like a toothache.

"Three hundred and seventy-five boxes of Liaodong red wine were damaged, four hundred and fifty jars of Shaoxing rice wine were damaged, three hundred and sixty pieces of tobacco were damaged, two hundred and twenty-seven pieces of large porcelain were damaged, and small pieces of porcelain needed to be unpacked and evaluated, so I don't count them for the time being."

"In addition, Sister Luo Yu, you ordered to burn two hundred boxes of silk and two boxes of silk. The loss of one piece is estimated to be 1.36 million taels! ”

Hearing this, Luo Yu couldn't sit still, and the little beauty also jumped up like a stingy ghost, and actually swore words.

"Fart! I only ordered the burning of inferior grass silk, where did the two boxes of fine lake silk come from? ”

"Looks like a couple of idiots made the wrong move."

"Deduct their wages for twenty years!"

was so angry that his brain hurt, Luo Yu waved his big sleeves and sat back depressed. The battle was won, but judging from the losses, the strategic purpose of these Dutch was achieved, not only the loss of silver, but also the shortage of goods had to force the Central and South Branch to take another risk of taking another trip to the goods, and the cost of the sailor guards and mercenaries was hundreds of thousands of taels.

But just when Luo Yu lost his temper, Chen Chuan, the joint commander of the fleet, rushed over with excitement.

"Her Royal Highness!"

"What's the matter!"

A little face chirped like a deep resentful woman, the kind of little vampire-like eyes gritted his teeth and looked at himself, Chen Chuan felt the back of his head cold, a spirit, he was in a hurry to stand upright.

"Torture from the mouth of the sail sailor of the other party, and ask for important information!"

…………

On the bow of the ship, a few sticks stood out, and the two Dutch captains and first mate were all hanged on them, and the remaining two second officers were still fluttering on them, clutching their throats, rolling their eyes and gurgling from their mouths.

There were also sharks fluttering low, salivating at the meat that had come out of the hanging, and the sight frightened dozens of captured sailors of the ship, trembling like pestilences, crouching under the sails with their heads in their hands.

I have to admit that these guys in the West are still very professional, basically they are nobles who can become captains, and those who become first mates are also middle-class officers, no matter how they are tortured, they don't spit out any military secrets, anyway, pirates are guilty of capital crimes, and Da Ming is not bad for their ransom, so they just hang themselves, which just deters those living pirates.

Sailors are hired for money, they do not have such a high sense of loyalty and professionalism that is not afraid of death, but it is also because of the Western principle of military secrecy, sailors do not know the goal of military operations at all, and only blindly obey the command of the officer.

Fortunately, Chen Chuan is an old driver, as long as they are willing to cooperate, they can still deduce a general goal of their actions from the latitude and longitude table.

"Your Highness, look!"

The tip of the pen outlined an ink line on the chart, and Chen Chuan pointed excitedly.

"Seven days ago, this five-ship fleet set out from the waters of the Gulf of Siam, and if they follow the current current direction, their ultimate goal should be here! It's not Taiwan, it's Manila, robbing us, it's just a way! ”

"And it's not just them, judging by the letters that have been snatched out, at least three fleets are gathering in a northeast direction! It's a big move!"

With his hands behind his back, Chen Chuan was excited, constantly turning in circles.

"Tainan? It should be impossible, there is the headquarters of the Ming Royal Navy in the south, Tainan Port is stationed in the Third Naval Division Fleet all the year round, and tens of thousands of sailors and horses are not easy for the Dutch to gnaw down, Manila, it must be Manila! There is only one corps of the governor of Luzon, and there are not many fleets, and if Manila is captured, it is equivalent to cutting off the control of the Ming Dynasty over the South Seas!"

He was happy to analyze here, but who knew that Luo Yu yawned when he heard it, and agreed casually.

"Oh."

"Your Highness, let's set off and gallop to the port of Manila!"

"Okay, come on, put a small boat, and send Lord Chen to help Manila."

Luo Yu replied slowly, but Chen Chuan, who was choked in one sentence, almost didn't bite his stone, full of consternation, and he shouted in disbelief.

"Your Highness is not ready to rush to Manila?"

Finally, his face became serious, and Luo Yu stared at Chen Chuan's eyes very seriously.

"Lord Chen, you are the commander-in-chief of the fleet of the Central and Southern Branch of the East India Company, not the captain of the Manglong, the third fleet of the Ming Royal Navy! If you don't adapt to your new position, the concubine will apply to the headquarters and transfer you away! This is the last warning!"

After saying that, throwing off a group, Luo Yu simply rushed off the boat angrily, leaving the commander alone stunned and stunned.

It's not that Luo Yufa has a temper, Manila is important, why isn't Zhongnan important? This is also an important channel to communicate with the Indian branch at the front, and it is a good thing to be enthusiastic and patriotic, but you can't see your own position clearly, you don't keep your own duties, and you blindly meddle in other people's affairs, which is a disaster.

I don't know if Chen Chuan can figure it out, anyway, now he is sad and angry, and he was silent for a few minutes, and then the old captain of the Imperial Navy waved his hand helplessly.

"Send a big boat and immediately report the enemy situation to Qiongzhou!"

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In these years, there was no telephone, no telegram, although the information was obtained, but the boat went to the nearest Qiongzhou, and then Qiongzhou reported to the Tainan Royal Navy Headquarters, and half a month passed, at this time it was enough for the Dutch Navy to fight for a few days, and this information was destined to be better than nothing.

But it was really as expected by Chen Chuan, the old captain, a few days later, in the later generations of Palawan Island in the Philippines, the port of the gate pillar, a stream of black smoke rising from the flames of war floated into the air.

The two East India Company third-class sail ships guarding here were burning with blazing fire, and were sinking diagonally into the deep sea, on the sea, one by one Ming sailors were crying and fluttering, but the Spanish warships that rowed from both sides were also merciless, shooting intensively into the sea with muskets, several slaughters, and finally only a blood flower and shark churning triangular fins were left on the sea.

Looking at this scene, Sir Curt, the chief director of the general meeting of thirteen people, the old face full of gray beards couldn't help twitching.

Of course, the old Dutch merchant was by no means pitiful to these Ming sailors, but he himself was not optimistic about this operation at all.

According to his plan, intercept the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty through the tactics of wolves at sea, and curb the pace of the Ming Empire's unification of the world by assisting the Longwu regime, even if the sea is blocked by the Ming Royal Navy, you can also take the western front through Burma to aid the remnants of Zhu Ming, as for the Dutch Navy itself, it is to defend the vicinity of Batavia, waiting for the Ming to come to attack, and wait for the work to come!

With a strong enemy, Spain, the most powerful colonial empire in Europe at that time, fought for a full 80 years, in the defensive war, the Dutch still had two brushes, in the face of the Ming Dynasty who crossed the sea to attack, defended the Batavia headquarters and several important strategic fortresses in the East Indies, he was still confident.

As long as the war dragged on, the combined French-Spanish fleet captured Great Britain, and at the same time put enough pressure on the Ming in the western states of the Mughal Empire, Cohen was confident that he would once again force the ambitious northern emperor back to the negotiating table.

After that, the focus of the game between the two sides will return to the Mughal Empire, the east without the threat of the Southern Ming, and the west without the black-hearted merchant of Britain, the two sides are still on the same starting line.

Who knows that human calculation must be inferior to heaven, the Netherlands has risen for more than ten years, defeating several old colonial empires one after another, as the most powerful maritime power in the West in this era, Curt's plan is too conservative and too passive!

This attack was passed by the Dutch parliament to pass the bill of war, and the whole of the Netherlands was donated, adding forty main battleships to the East, two or three hundred supply ships of large and small functions, and this time the Netherlands actually joined forces with the old enemy Spaniards, and the French also sent eight battleships, enveloping the Portuguese, and the Venetian fleet bypassed the Cape of Good Hope together, went to the Red Sea, and arrived in India, and the Mughal Empire, which had been torn apart by the Ming Dynasty, also supplied them with sufficient food and gunpowder, and sent ten Mughal warships to participate in the expedition.

Such sufficient strength that the shareholders of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia were also carried away and supported the domestic war bill.

Now the Union was taken over by the finest admiral Michel Gen, sent by the Dutch Parliament, who took command of the navy.

Leaning on the shore, watching the Spanish and Mughal sailors shouting excitedly and rushing to the port of Daming, blazing everywhere, Curt couldn't help but sigh heavily, but at this time, an arm was suddenly straddled on his shoulder, and a bottle of red wine was handed to him at the same time.

"Don't worry! Old folk! The Marquis of Michelgen is your best general in the Netherlands, and the most elite army soldiers under the command of our French Sun King help in the war, an oriental pagan country, which can't make any waves!"

This Parisian strong French, you don't have to look back to know who, in the Thirty Years' War, contacted France against the French Marquis Kleely who knew Spain.

To be honest, Curt looks down on this guy, he is a big straw bag who came to power by virtue of the relationship of the French king, but this time, Curt sincerely hopes that what he envisioned is true, took the wine glass handed by the Frenchman, filled himself with a glass, and then Cohen also raised it high.

"To France!"

"To the Netherlands, and those great nobles who want to die of silk and porcelain!"

Under the glass, the glasses made by Da Ming are engraved crisply together, and the wine also exudes a unique charm purple under the sunlight, and behind the sun, in the entire bay, hundreds of Western joint warships are densely pulling forward the sails, which looks like salmon swimming upstream.