Chapter 401: Very Surprised

Half of the fortress collapsed, crushing a dozen people to death, but fortunately, the structure of the castle shot quite reasonably, and the remaining four hundred people knew that they could not stay in it, so they rushed outside with arquebuses and weapons.

Even if there is an artillery and musket team on the other side of the warehouse area, but the minds of the people who rushed out are not on that side, they still nervously look at the fleet that is gradually approaching on the sea, the closer the fleet gets, the more afraid they become, such a fleet size, even in Europe, there are only a few large countries, why does it appear on the sea in the east.

There were cannons and muskets, and these people were still turning their heads to look at the approaching battleship, and it was conceivable that the result of the battle was that the Portuguese army had completely lost the courage to fight, and at this time, in the queue opposite, someone shouted in Portuguese:

"Drop your weapons, get on your knees, and spare you from death!"

The Portuguese lieutenant colonel, who was holding a command knife and a handcuff in his hand, looked back and forth, and found that his soldiers were all looking at the giant ships on the sea in fear, and some of them were cowering and aiming at the cannons and muskets on the opposite side.

The white man never regarded surrender as a big deal, and the lieutenant colonel sighed, dropped the weapon in his hand on the ground, and then fell to his knees, shouted back in a loud voice, and said:

"Surrender, surrender!"

The soldiers in the back saw their commanders surrender, according to the convention, even if they returned to Portugal and were investigated by a military tribunal, only the officer who ordered the surrender was responsible, of course, you did not surrender when you were ordered to surrender, and whether you listened to the orders on the battlefield or not, this is a matter of principle.

These Portuguese, who usually treated the natives and Han people like wolves and tigers, and thought that they were the strongest soldiers, knelt there honestly, watching the five armed gunboats guarding the harbor, and the fleet at sea chased them like rabbits.

The result was very simple, of course, the fast ship and the fleet with many guns easily transported all five gunboats to the bottom of the sea, and these Portuguese soldiers were terrified on the one hand, and they were puzzled there, how could such a fleet appear in the East, such a powerful fleet.

Of course, Jiang Feng's fleet did not surpass the technology of this era, but was only a convergence of Eastern and Western ships. However, the craftsmen and craftsmen who built these ships were sixty percent of the shipwrights and shipwrights of the Ming Dynasty, and many Dutch people were involved, and pirates who had been in this fleet for more than 100 years played all levels of roles from sailors to captains.

More importantly, it is hard to imagine that someone would spend such a huge amount of money every year to fill the construction of the navy, but Jiang Feng can do it, he controls the maritime trade of the whole of Asia, in this era, the maritime trade of the whole of Asia is the most profitable thing in the world, he absorbs the wealth of the world.

And now all the merchant fleets sailing in the waters of Daming, Korea, Japan, Yizhou and Nanyang must pay Jiang Feng, which is actually these people who bear the operating costs of Jiang Feng's navy, but the cost and money consumed in this way are too much.

Even Li Guangtou, who was in charge of logistics and supplies in the navy, could be said to be one of the people who benefited the most in the navy, but he also persuaded Jiang Feng to say:

"The foundation of the governor is still on the mainland, and the foundation of the sea is a trivial matter!"

Li Guangtou was originally born as a pirate and maritime merchant, and he also said such things, because he was already completely determined to follow Jiang Feng, Jiang Feng and the Huazhou Group grew stronger, and he also grew stronger, if he won the world, he would be the hero of the founding of the country, and if it was destroyed, he would also be ruined, so some personal interests could not be taken into account.

Li Guangtou, who was born in the sea, still said this, not to mention other people, Liu Shunhua and Liu Twelve have repeatedly admonished hard, although Jiang Feng is powerful and arbitrary, but there are rarely such times when they don't listen to opinions, and the two sides just insist on it.

What's funnier to say is that the people who support Jiang Feng are Liu Fangrui, Su Guanyue and Xia Cuiyu, these three people are Jiang Feng's internal dependents, but they also bear Jiang Feng's core income and expenditure accounting, although at first it was only handled by Su Guanyue, but later Liu Fangrui and Xia Cuiyu gradually joined in.

But they know what kind of income they will have at sea, and at what rate such income is growing, these benefits and the growth of future benefits need to be maintained by a huge fleet of huge scale and power, so as to ensure that these wealth fall into the pockets of the Jiang family.

Of course, Jiang Feng thinks more, in that society with an explosion of information, sea control is a rather fashionable and practical concept, whether it is the Internet or film and television propaganda is constantly repeated, even more so in history textbooks, Jiang Feng found that after establishing this fleet, he found that the benefits he got were also real, and he strengthened his determination to make the naval army stronger.

After all, there are not many people in this era who know that the earth is a ball, and there are countless seas and lands in this world, and Jiang Feng's vision is far away.

"I saw the land and the port~~"

Earl Sandino heard the sailors shouting from the mast, it was already time to see the city of Malacca, and finally felt relaxed, it had been nearly nine months at sea. Thinking of the wealth and prosperity of the captains and sailors who traveled between the East and the Americas, Count Sandino secretly made up his mind that he must earn as much money as he deserves, otherwise it would be worthless to give up the gold and silver mines in the Americas to come here.

In the Kingdom of Spain, the legend of the Ming Dynasty has never been broken, but all that is described is the vastness and mystery of this empire, but in recent years, it has begun to rumor of the wealth and prosperity here.

The Kingdom of Spain maintained a completely strong position in the Americas and Africa at the beginning of this great voyage, and there was no country that they could not conquer, and they felt that the reason why they did not go to war against the Ming Empire was that they were unwilling to put more than 2,000 troops in the East.

The Spanish soldiers, who defeated tens of thousands of Inca Empire troops with less than 300 men, were invincible.

The Spanish colony in Luzon was actually a place of exile in disguise, you must know that the governor of Luzon, Revi, was only a major when he served in the army of the Kingdom of Spain, and when he was promoted, he was sent to Luzon in the name of "the favor of promotion" because he competed with another officer with a background for the position of lieutenant colonel, of course, we all know a more accurate term, called "glorious exile".

But I don't know when it began, this position began to slowly become hot, and those who returned to Spain described the luxury of the governor of Luzon, claiming that even compared to the prince of the kingdom, it was not inferior at all, and more exaggerated people said that the life of the king was like that.

The taxes that Revere paid to the kingdom were also increased by three or four times, of course, according to his ideas, he could have been promoted to an official position or return to the country if he had made political achievements, at that time, he still felt that the sudden increase in income was just a flash in the pan, of course, in the second year, Revere regretted his stupid actions, staying here in Luzon, even if he came to the coastal cities of the Ming Dynasty, it was much better than returning to Spain, in Luzon he was still a figure, if he returned to Spain he was nothing, Is it just to sit and eat with the money you earn?

He paid three or four times more taxes than before, and according to the corrupt habits of the Spanish officials, at least half of them had to be taken into his own pockets, and with the descriptions of luxury from those people, the governor of Luzon finally became a relatively hot position.

Although the family background of the Count of Sandino is ruined, but there is still some ability to move, and the high-level of the Kingdom of Spain is quite tempted by the prosperity of the East, they feel that this prosperity is worth sending a force to conquer, if it can reproduce the glory of Spain in the Inca in the East, it would be better, now Spain's neighbor France and the European enemy Ottoman Empire are under increasing pressure, Spain is also in urgent need of new financial resources, Count Sandino's volunteerism coincides with Spain's ambitions, which is also the origin of this fleet.

Everyone on this ship, from the commander Count Sandino to one of the lowest sailors below, carried the confidence of victory.

The ships at the front had already begun to convey messages to the people on the docks, signaling that they would enter the port to replenish supplies and repair the ships, although this was Portuguese territory, but there were only more than 1,500 Portuguese people in Asia, a few hundred in Goa, a few hundred here, and a few hundred in Macao.

But the Spanish fleet was 3,000 men, and in Goa, India, the Portuguese received the fleet with great respect, just as Portugal treated Spain in Europe, and Malacca was no exception.

There were no ships in the port, but the dock was full of goods, Sandino's fleet slowly approached, the count looked down from his ship, the officials of the Portuguese garrison were respectfully greeted on the dock, Count Sandino was quite satisfied with the other party's attitude, and was already ready to rest here for a few more days.

After the Count Sandino stepped on the dock, the leader of the Portuguese garrison took a few quick steps to meet him, and just as Sandino was about to say a few words, the leader of the garrison suddenly quickened his pace and sprinted, and suddenly a short sword in his hand stabbed into the chest of the Count Sandino.

"Long live Dutch independence!"

That was the last thing the Count heard......