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Since going to sea, Zhu Zhanji's heart has become boiling for the first time. It's not because I'm afraid, it's because I'm excited.

Except for him, no one knew that Europe, which was now beaten by the Ottoman Empire and could not hold its head up, would become the representative of modern civilization in the world in the future.

This impoverished place, where civil strife is fierce and people's livelihood is withering, has risen rapidly because of the influence of the Renaissance.

Because poverty leads to change, they dare to venture into the unpredictable sea, and have obtained countless development resources in Asia, Africa, America, and Australia.

Relying on these resources, he occupies the top of the food chain with less than one-tenth of the world's population.

Although they declined in the twentieth century, their race has spread all over the world. It occupies more than half of the world's resources.

Until the 21st century, they are still in control of the world.

It all started in this era.

And he, Zhu Zhanji, came to this era to change all this.

In the history of the development of civilization, the Chinese nation has occupied an advantage for more than 1,000 years, and Zhu Zhanji will definitely not give up this advantage to others.

Zhu Zhanji had a detailed topographical map of Ceuta in front of him, although the Marin people still had the fallacy of disproportionate when it came to drawing large maps.

But Ceuta is less than 20 square kilometers in size, and it is a simple terrain of two mountains sandwiched between a flat land, with only a narrow strip of land in the south that can be found out from the mainland.

The mountains here are mainly limestone and full of cliffs, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack. Sandwiched in the middle, the flat is a slender strip of land that is only a hundred meters wide at its narrowest point.

However, this is a natural deep water bay, and according to Ma Lin's intelligence, the water depth here is more than ten meters in most places, and even Zhu Zhanji's flagship can directly land on the shore.

The Strait of Gibraltar is ninety kilometers long and twelve to forty kilometers wide, and is the only sea passage between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

The narrowest place is Ceuta in the south and Gibraltar in the north.

Because of the Alps in southeastern France, this golden waterway was the only passage between Western and Southern Europe in the days when there were no trains, and all trade had to pass through this strait.

It was a common decision of the entire upper echelons to take Ceuta first and declare the strength of the Ming Dynasty to the whole of Europe.

Because it belongs to Africa and was only occupied by Portugal two years ago, the Ming occupation of this place will not touch the nerves of Europeans.

In the last war against Bengkulu, Xue Lu did not get the opportunity to go on an expedition because he was the commander of the army, and this time, he would not let go of this opportunity to make meritorious contributions in front of Zhu Zhanji.

Zhu Zhanji did not discourage him either, and agreed that the attack of the young army would be commanded by him.

According to intelligence, the Portuguese garrisoned Ceuta with only a thousand soldiers in the army and about three thousand in the attendant army. In addition to this, there was a fleet of twenty ships.

However, the Portuguese ships were relatively small, and half of the twenty ships were heralds, so the total number of naval soldiers was a little more than a thousand.

The fleet does not exist primarily for the purpose of fighting, but for the purpose of ventilating and informing.

Just over 200 kilometres from Ceuta, from Cape Vicente, in the southwestern corner of Portugal, the light galleons could return to mainland Portugal in a day when the wind was downwind and summon the Portuguese navy stationed there.

The year after the Portuguese captured Ceuta with only eight men dead, Osman III sent a large army to regain Ceuta.

But because the Portuguese had muskets and artillery, they lost nearly two thousand people and were not able to recapture Ceuta.

And Portuguese reinforcements arrived three days later and repelled the Marin.

It was also from this time that Osman III no longer had the confidence to regain Ceuta.

With an army armed with sticks and spears to face a musket array, a spear formation, even with human life, it is difficult to pile up victory.

However, after Zhu Zhanji learned about the specifications of the muskets and artillery of the Portuguese, he was not worried.

The development of firearms in Europe only slowly developed during the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France, and the history is only a few decades.

The muskets and artillery used by the Portuguese are not as good as the arquebuses before the Ming Dynasty, and belong to the most basic musket guns, which are very cumbersome to use and difficult for ordinary people to operate.

And the so-called artillery is actually not the kind of cannon that came later, and it is a few levels different from the artillery with the steel pipe diameter of the Ming Dynasty.

They are enlarged muskets, about two meters long, with hooks in the middle that can be mounted on the wall to shoot. This gun generally requires two people to operate, and the rate of fire is about two minutes and three rounds.

The total strength of the opponent was only about 5,000 men, and the number of muskets was at most 500, and most of the soldiers still relied on cross-swords and spears against the enemy.

For this war, the fleet made serious preparations, and reorganized the fleet, taking out the spare two hundred shields from the transport ships.

This heavy shield is wrapped in pine wood and iron sheets, with a height of one meter five, a width of one meter two, and a weight of eighty catties, which requires two soldiers to move easily on the battlefield.

Behind the heavy shield is a movable log on top, and below is a handle that makes it easy for soldiers to move. There are also two handles on the square wood, open the buckle and put down the square wood, which is a natural support frame, which can make this heavy shield form an inclined surface of about 70 degrees.

When this batch of heavy shields was made, many people still felt that it was not necessary, because except for the Ming Dynasty, no other country had muskets.

It was only later that Chen Cheng and the others brought the news that the Timurid State of Central Asia was also equipped with muskets, and the Ministry of Industry made a batch of heavy shields.

However, this batch of heavy shields was not used on the Timurid state, but first appeared in Europe.

Although this heavy shield is somewhat inconvenient to move compared to a light shield, it can form an effective protection against soldiers in the face of muskets.

The weight of eighty catties is not too heavy, according to the establishment of the young army, two soldiers and ten people can be accommodated behind a shield. Two people hold the shield, two people hold the knife, and the shooting rhythm of six people divided into three shots can form a powerful sustained firepower.

On August 19, the fleet went smoothly to Cape San Vicente in Portugal. When the mighty Ming fleet arrived at Sagres at Cape Vicente, the whole town was shocked by the fleet, which could not be seen on the sea.

Prince Henry, known as the Voyager of later generations, was a seafaring engineer who hated politics as the third prince of Portugal and was made governor of the province of Agarve.

Just last year, he founded a nautical academy in Sagres to recruit sailors from Italy, train his own sailors, and improve their seamanship.

He also set up an observatory in San Vicente, where geographers, cartographers, mathematicians, and astronomers from all over the world worked together to study and formulate plans and programs.

In addition, he extensively collected various documents such as geography, meteorology, trade winds, ocean currents, shipbuilding, navigation, etc., analyzed and sorted them out for his own use. And based on the already known map, a new map is drawn.

He funded mathematicians and craftsmen to improve and make new nautical instruments. Improvement of compass, quadrant, horizontal scaler imported from China.

In navigation, the ship is the most important. Due to the different navigation conditions in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, ships sailing in the Mediterranean were not suitable for sailing in the Atlantic, so Henry's greatest focus was on shipbuilding.

To this end, he introduced a number of preferential measures to encourage shipbuilding: anyone who built ships of more than a hundred tons could get timber free of charge from the Royal Forest, and any other necessary materials could be imported duty-free.

But until now, the Portuguese had not been able to build a sailboat suitable for sailing in the Atlantic, and they were still confined to the bathtub of the Mediterranean.

On this day, he studied the information obtained from Ceuta last year, trying to find out the possibility of how to get to the "green country" by sea.

Last year, the Marin army surrounded Ceuta, and Hengli came to Ceuta with reinforcements and spent 3 months there.

It was during this time that Henry learned from prisoners of war and merchants that there was an ancient and busy trade route that could cross the Sahara Desert and reach the wooded and fertile "Green Country" in twenty days. From there you can get African pepper, gold, ivory.

The Portuguese were inexperienced in crossing the desert by land, and Prince Henry had the bold idea of reaching the "green country" by sea.

This plan was approved by King João I, who financed him with 3,000 ducats.

Because he slept late, he had not yet gotten up at three o'clock in the morning, and his servants knew his habits, so they never dared to disturb him until noon.

However, when the Ming fleet arrived off the coast of San Vicente, the panicked servants rushed into the stone house where Henry lived.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness the Prince, the fleet, the boundless fleet!"

Henry is a scholarly prince with a gentle personality, but he also has the quirks of a literati and dislikes the disruption of his own rhythm of life.

He was woken up from the bed, looking very unhappy, and reprimanded in a low voice: "Hell, I've only slept for less than six hours, and because of your wake-up, my work efficiency will be more than half slower today." What fleet? Where did it come from? ”

"Your Highness, I don't know!" The servant was about to start crying. "I've never seen a ship of this size, I've never seen so many ships, and we're probably not going to have so many ships in the whole of Portugal."

Henry was so shocked that he didn't bother to ask any more questions, and ran out barefoot.

São Vicente is a promontory in the southwest of Portugal, with only a few places with gentle beaches, most of which are cliffs twenty meters above the sea.

Because of the terrain that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, it also became the home port of the Portuguese fleet.

He rushed out of the courtyard, and saw a somewhat dazzling sea, densely packed with boats.

He had never seen such a ship before, they were huge, and the sails were not soft, but hard.

Henry, who is well versed in ship design, is very strange, how can such a hard sail make a ship run?

But it seems wrong to consider this question at this time! Who are these people? He was sure that this was not a ship of any country known to him, and even those pagans did not have such a ship.

And they don't have such strength either, if they had so many ships, they wouldn't have occupied Ceuta anymore.

At this time, a huge battleship, leaving the formation of the fleet, approached the shore.

He had never seen such a huge battleship, and it was almost the same as him standing on a twenty-meter cliff.

The largest ship in Portugal was only 400 tons, and only two were built to be used as cargo ships. But this ship is definitely ten times larger than their largest ship.

His heart was beating hard, his mouth was dry, and he felt a little out of breath. This fear from the soul stemmed from his ignorance, and in his cognition, he could not have imagined that such a huge ship could be built.

His body shook and he almost fell. But it brought him to his senses. He said in a hoarse voice, "Go and get my binoculars." ”

Ten years ago, the Dutch Hanslepole built a telescope by superimposing two lenses, and many countries quickly traveled to Venice, where they ordered large quantities of convex lenses and made their own telescopes.

However, because the lenses are very difficult to polish, the construction of telescopes is very expensive.

As a prince, Henry only had a telescope, which was stored in a box on weekdays.

The squire quickly came over with a box and handed it to him. He opened the box and connected the two wooden tubes to form a long wooden tube, which he placed in front of his right eye.

Using the distance between the two wooden cylinders, he quickly saw the large ship in the camera.

The first thing he observed was the five flags hanging from the ship, two yellow ones embroidered with strange animals, only one slightly larger and the other slightly smaller.

The other two flags have indecipherable patterns on them and look the same, but one is red and the other is blue.

There was also a flag he could read, a sun and a moon.

Now he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, he could be sure that this was not the flag of any country he knew, and the other side would not necessarily bring war.

"Quick, bring me that silk garment, and lead my horse by the way, and I'll get to the docks at once."

While Henry was busy grooming here, Zhu Zhanji's flagship was still slowly approaching the shore of Sagresh.

But when he was still two miles from the shore, his flagship lowered its sails and lowered its anchor.

Several warships guarding around the flagship were scattered, and a sand boat carrying Jin Chun, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and the Great Food Tongshi, slowly approached the port.

About a hundred warships and dozens of fishing boats were moored in the harbor, and at this time they all began to raise their sails in a panic, and dozens of them came out to meet them.

Although there is a huge difference in strength, they do not lack the courage to face the enemy.

When Jin Chun saw the ship coming up, his face was calm, and he didn't have a trace of nervousness, but curiously asked Qian Zhuang, the commander of the First Fleet of the Navy who was guarding him. "The opponent's warship looks much smaller, and it seems that the national strength is not strong, why can you defeat the Marin people, and make the Marin people dare not fight anymore?"

Qian Zhuang said with a smile: "Marin is big and weak, this Portugal must be similar to a small country like Dongying, because it is poor, and the people are strong!" ”

Although it was only a ship coming, Qian Zhuang was not afraid of the other party's use of force at all.

The soldiers on the ship are all elite, and the opponent is short of muskets, and no matter how many ships there are, it is difficult to hurt them. And as long as the other side dares to use force, other ships will also quickly rescue, and the other side can only become a target if it has no artillery.

A large ship of about 1,000 stones approached on the other side, and Qian Zhuang said without the slightest worry: "Let them come over and prepare to hook up." ”

Hooks are an essential tool in broadside combat, each ship will have two mechanical hooks, and the hook spears in the hands of the soldiers on the deck can also pull the opponent's ship closer.

When the two ships met for twenty meters, the crews of both sides were cautious and traveled a little bit with the wind before preparing to take over.

Two hooks suddenly flew out of Da Ming's ship and shot directly into the other party's deck. This startled the other side, but it was the other party's generals who saw that this weapon was only for towing the boat, so the soldiers did not shoot.

Immediately after shooting the hook, the crew threw the thick cable and hung it on a pulley above the deck, and then twisted the winch.

The cable behind the hook is slowly tightened, because there are pulleys fixed to the deck, the center of gravity is relatively low, and there is no consequence of pulling the boat to roll over.

When the two ships met only three or four meters, the soldiers on both sides on the deck became nervous and raised their spears to each other.

But at this time, the generals of both sides stepped forward and eased the tension between the two ships.

The general of the other party was a strong man with a big beard, he covered his chest with his hands, bowed slightly, and asked, "Guests from afar, what can I serve?" ”

Through the translation of the two generals, Jin Chun understood his words, and thought to himself: The other party looks like a barbarian, but his speech demeanor is still relatively civilized!

He put his hands flat on his chest, rubbed them to the end, and then said: "We are the messengers from the Eastern Ming Dynasty, with the entrustment of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and come to your land to convey the light of civilization to you. ”

Of course, Zhu Zhanji taught him to say this, otherwise Jin Chun would not have said such pretending words. Confucianism always pays attention to modesty and moderation.

However, this time he came to write a war letter, so Jin Chun twisted it, accepted Zhu Zhanji's suggestion, and behaved a little more arrogantly.

The general of Honglu Temple translated this to the big cannibal general, and then the big cannibal general passed this word to the general of the other party.

If it was normal for Sierra to hear a big eater dare to say such a thing, I'm afraid she would immediately raise the long sword in her hand. But now he was just an interpreter, and the sight of the other team's fleet made him terrified.

But even so, he was still as uncomfortable as eating poop.

However, although he was a Portuguese nobleman, he was not the commander of the fleet. There's Prince Enrique here, and there's Coach Altyn above, and it's not his turn to refute it.

The two negotiated for a while, and Jin Chun had to see the boss or the prince before he was willing to explain his intentions.

Serra couldn't make a decision, so he had to send a small boat back to deliver the order.

And Enrique, the prince of Henry on the shore, had already observed Zhu Zhanji's flagship in the telescope, and his curiosity about the Ming fleet was far heavier than that of ordinary people.

Not to mention anything else, the fact that there was a city wall built on the deck of that big ship alone made Prince Henry dare not imagine it at all.

He had never dreamed of such a huge ship.

In the face of such a powerful opponent, he couldn't even raise the slightest idea of resisting, the balance of power was too great.

We don't even know that there is such a powerful country in this world.

When Jin Chun's request was conveyed, he agreed to the other party's request without hesitation.

Now the other party is still polite, if he really angers the other party, he doesn't believe that his more than 100 small boats can resist the attack of such a large army.

He was desperate to know who the other party was, where he came from, and what he was doing here!

When Kim Chun's boat entered the storm embankment, leaned against the shore. Zhu Zhanji stood at the bow of the boat, raised the binoculars in his hand with great interest, and couldn't help but laugh as he watched the two sides on the shore carry out their respective etiquette in a nondescript manner.

The Portuguese of this era, especially the aristocrats, wore a black headcloth like a pot lid, which looked very funny.

The two sides do not understand each other's language, so they can only have a difficult conversation through the translation of Da Shi.

His flagship was parked just over a kilometer from the shore, and through the binoculars, he was able to see everyone clearly, and even everyone's expressions.

When Jin Chun finished reading the letter he had written himself, he could clearly see that the Portuguese had an angry expression on his face.

Of course, Jin Chun read the Chinese national letter, but what was handed to the other party was a war letter written by Zhu Zhanji himself after asking the generals about some words in present-day Spain.

In the war book, he said with a condescending attitude that the Ming Dynasty, as the only great empire in this world, is the judge of the whole world. They came from the East to the West, bringing not only countless fine goods to the West, but also new rules for the whole world.

All countries must respect the Ming Dynasty as the Heavenly Empire, except for the Ming Dynasty, no country can call itself an empire, at most it can only call itself a kingdom.

Daming was willing to trade with other countries and submitted a list of trades.

Then, Western countries should have freedom of religious belief, live in peace, and not arbitrarily use swords and soldiers. And Portugal occupied Ceuta in Marin, which was an aggressive opponent, and the Ming accepted Marin's request to mediate the conflict between them.

The Portuguese were to withdraw their troops within five days, otherwise the Ming army would have wiped out all the invaders.

Suffice it to say, if it weren't for the terrifying fleet of the Ming Dynasty, I'm afraid the Portuguese would have thought that a bunch of madmen had come.

No matter what they think, Da Ming is going to make a gesture now.

It's not that I look down on anyone, for Daming, you countries are rubbish.

Since you Westerners like the law of the jungle, you pay attention to the law of the jungle. So from the very beginning, I want you to know that I am the best.

After reading the letter of state, Prince Henry's hands were trembling, and he conveyed it through an interpreter. "Retiring from the army is a major event of a country, and I, a prince, cannot call the shots."

Jin Chun said unceremoniously: My Ming grandson Chrysostom Yuyan, a word of nine pins, saying that five days is five days, and if you exceed this time, you will be beaten!

Of course, that's not what I said, but that's what it means.

The big cannibals were the happiest, and they, as translators, added a lot of oil and vinegar in the middle.

Prince Henry looked at the boundless fleet outside the bay, and couldn't help but shout in his heart, who are you!

And the last date of the national letter made him feel even more chilled.

August 19, 4115 in the Yellow Emperor calendar. Although he didn't know what the Yellow Emperor's calendar was, he still knew the meaning of the year, and this civilization had been around for 4,000 years.

And their Western civilization has only been more than a thousand years, how can they compare with each other!

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