In the seventeenth century, the two largest maritime military forces collided head-on in this narrow Southeast Asian ocean, one was the convergence of several old maritime empires, the other was the new maritime empire with great vigor, between the sea west of Luzon and the Mautra Islands, the two fleets were facing each other, the front was not the head, the back was not the tail, and between the dense high sails, the scene was like a plain forest emerging from the sea level.

In terms of situation, the Ming army is in the upper hand, this time Mao Jue gave two-thirds of the imperial naval division to the huge sea, the fleet of seamen at all levels has more than 80,000 seamen, and the Luzon Island is a colony operated by the Ming Dynasty for several years after all, although the west of the island was plundered by the Western Domain, but the arrival of the mother country fleet, the descendants of the Ming Dynasty on the island still broke out enough enthusiasm and rushed to help the fleet.

And this is the first time that the Royal Navy of the Ming Empire has gone to sea for such a large-scale operation, Cao Di Youyun: all in one go! The lads are in their prime.

However, the Western Combined Fleet, a sea crusader, was not so optimistic, and after more than a month of continuous siege, there were as many as 11 main battleships damaged and incapacitated, and the officers and men were also veterans of the division, especially since it was thousands of nautical miles away from their Batavian colony.

However, Westerners are not without a chance of winning, really talking about naval combat experience, the fledgling Ming Royal Navy is actually still very immature, like a recent college graduate, but these guys have been crisscrossing the seven seas and five oceans for two centuries, and they are definitely old ruffians who have been in the society for a long time!

Although experience is something that cannot be seen or touched, it can be really exerted, and it is enough to be fatal! Just like in Western history, the French Navy could not defeat the British Royal Navy at any time, even in the extremely strong Napoleonic era of France, and every time the British Royal Navy was bruised and swollen.

Therefore, in this operation, the strategy given by the Ministry of War is to slow down the big battle! Slowly! Anyway, the Mao Ming Empire is richer than the previous Zhu Ming Empire, and this is still under the feet of the Ming Dynasty, and it can be consumed!

Arriving at Luzon at the end of June, the city was not busy marching from Mindanao in the north to the edge of Luzon, forcing the Dutch Spaniards' fleet to shrink back, and after gathering together, he also set up camp in New Vancouver, a small port north of Manila.

It is estimated that the prestige of the Ming Royal Navy also made an extremely deep impression on these Western old-timers, and the Western Crusaders entrenched in half of Manila Bay did not make any moves at the first time, but leaned back slightly, seized the time to repair the battle-damaged warships, and did not rush to attack.

In the confrontation, the days passed by minute by minute.

However, the big war could not afford it, but the small war was continuous, the army went out to fight, the army needed supply lines, and the navy also needed it, so before the decisive battle, the plundering war of small ships between the two armies was in full swing, and the sea was first painted a little bright red.

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When it comes to tropical islands, people probably think of sunshine, sand, coconut palms, warm seas and endless seafood, but there is one thing that people overlook, and that is typhoons.

Every year from May to November, typhoons are at their highest, especially in June and July.

The originally bright sea changed its face at this time, and within 10,000 miles, the sky seemed to be pitch black like a huge pot lid, and the originally warm and warm sea breeze also became a slap for the stepmother, rolling up the originally calm waves a few meters high, and the cold ice rain the size of a bean grain crackled towards the face.

But even in such bad weather, there were still two fleets chasing each other in the rough seas.

The scale of the 30-meter third-class battleship is not small, 1,500 materials, and some weigh dozens of tons, but in this day's anger, it is still like a toy ship in a bathtub, thrown up and down by huge waves, and the bumps are non-stop.

"Three o'clock on the starboard side, fire! Open fire!"

In the cannon cabin, the gunners, who were sweating profusely but shivering from the cold, shouted and stuffed the shells into the chambers, and then struck the gunpowder with the flintlock with great difficulty.

But at this critical moment, a more violent wave rushed in, and the entire hull of the ship tilted violently at an angle of more than 30 degrees, and the cannon horn that had been locked on with great difficulty disappeared in an instant, and the gunfire like thunder sprayed out violently, but it was a ping pong ball that drew an arc in mid-air, and finally fell into the sea fiercely.

Looking at this scene, the fleet commander standing on the bridge, the detachment general led Zhang Zhenyuan's eyes were simply red and about to breathe fire.

It took more than 100 lives, a few ships, and a full month to completely figure out the supply route and transit time of the Dutch from Batavia, and the fleet he led bypassed Luzon, and survived in the wilderness of eating conch and coconut on a deserted island for several days, and then squatted to this Dutch supply fleet, but it was finally able to eat meat, but the sky was not beautiful, a storm came like this, and the violent turbulence almost shook him down, and finally stood firm, raised the telescope again, and the dark sea, The Dutch light ship sailing in a zigzag shape seemed a little farther away, and only a sail could be seen at sea level under the rushing waves.

His pupils were on fire, and Liu Zhenyuan roared angrily: "What about the boatswain?" Full sails! Bite them to death, and you must not let the feudal clan escape!"

"My lord! No! ”

In the raging wind and rain, the voice of Boatswain Kang Jianguo's usual artillery battle was much weaker, and he shouted anxiously as he pointed to the mast that had creaked loudly.

"The wind and waves are too strong now! The mast is already overwhelmed! If the sails are full, the ship is in danger of capsizing! ”

"This time, I have made a military order, if you don't cut the barbarian ship, you won't return! Ben will order you to sail quickly, otherwise Lao Tzu will kill you first!"

Already losing so much that his eyes were red, Liu Zhenyuan wiped the rain on his face heavily, and pulled out the command knife in an uproar.

Seeing that his lord was resolute and scolded in a low voice, the boatswain had to run down the bridge in a hurry, however, he had just descended the staircase, when suddenly a fierce sound of wood breaking came suddenly, and in his incredibly frightened look, the heavy mainmast actually broke from the bottom third, and smashed it over to the port side, the heavy sails were still blown westward by the strong wind, and the whole sailboat was tilted to the left, on the deck, sailors, buckets, The guns crackled and fell into the sea.

Grabbed a jumping straight rope violently, and while swinging the axe high, Kang Jianguo hissed and roared as hard as he could.

"Save the Boat !!"

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The woman's face is on the sea, and the sky is clear, and it lasts for a long time, the destructive power is particularly large, and the scope of the impact is particularly wide.

The mighty gunboat was like a duck that had been beaten by a torrential rain, the mainmast in the middle was gone, and only a pole was left alone and poked there, head down, butt up, listlessly stranded on the desert island beach.

Although the terrifying suffocating storm has passed, the raindrops are still crackling and falling downward, fortunately, the rain is a good thing for the sailors at this time, holding the hurried containers, the sailors set up a long line on the beach to continue the rare fresh water on the sea, and some are carrying spearguns, rowing rafts to hunt sea fish on the nearby sea, there is not much food, repair the battleship stranded here but I don't know how long it will take, if you can save it, you have to save it.

However, eating and drinking were no longer something Liu Tuanshu was worried about, he was like a lost soul, sitting sluggishly on the stern of the boat and looking at the sea in the rain.

Feng Tang is easy to get old, Li Guang is difficult to seal, he can be regarded as the most incisive experience! This trip out, the ship was damaged, more than a dozen sailors under his command were missing, not to mention the enemy's supply ship, and the fleet was separated again, and it is estimated that going back is not just as simple as dismissal! After several years of struggle, Liu Zhenyuan couldn't lift his spirits like a frosted eggplant.

But to say that people's encounters are so wonderful, when you feel that you have fallen to the bottom, God can always give you another big wave to slap head-on, so that you know that you can continue to fall, just when Liu Zhenyuan was dying, on the sea, a few small boats were like hot buttocks, and they rowed towards the beach quickly, and the leading sailor was still anxious and screamed sadly.

"Group rate! Boat! Feudal ship! Lots of boats!"

Liu Zhenyuan, who heard this, was simply excited, full of excitement, he picked up the telescope on the table with an arrow step, and looked in the direction of the sailor's escape, however, only a second later, he felt that his junior was wet with cold sweat for a moment!

Ships indeed! Lots of boats! The ship of the feudal clan! But it was not his hunting target, a Dutch light supply ship with few guns, but a Western capital ship more than 60 meters long, with two to three gun bays, loaded with hundreds of heavy guns, and the battleships connected to each other were like giant fish at sea flowing in front of him one by one.

In Liu Zhenyuan's stunned, this large group of behemoths passed by the waves in front of him!

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Three days later, the north, the port of New Vancouver, the Royal Navy General Command.

"What? Ran !!"

Huge Hai squirted out all the hot tea, sprinkled the unlucky opposite staff officer, stood up from the chart suddenly, and in the shocked eyes of a large group of command staff officers, his fat body ball jumped to the door like a ball, grabbed the collar of Xia He, the female officer in charge of liaison, and roared anxiously.

"Is this news reliable?"

"Absolutely reliable!"

I don't care about being taken advantage of by my own coach, Xia He is also discolored, and anxiously pointed to the heads of several junior officers who were running out of breath Liu Zhenyuan and explained.

"They sailed back from the direction of the enemy camp in Manila!"