"Your Majesty, today there are six Xiyi warships highlighting the sea, and the last general will lead the army to attack, and the other party will retreat without engaging in battle."

Emperor Chongzhen saw the private chat sent by Liang Xiaozhen to himself in the chat group, and couldn't help but be a little stunned. Xiyi is coming again, which country is it? I had heard that the Dutch who were originally in Batavia had sent supplies back to China, could it be that they had returned? Or is it from another country?

In the past, Nanyang was like a public toilet in Europe, no matter what country people wanted, they could come and go whenever they wanted, and the local natives had no power to fight back anyway. But now that Nanyang is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and you still want to use Nanyang as a public place, then it's good, definitely put them in the pit!

Thinking so, he replied to Liang Xiaozhen: "When did it happen, which country?" Where did they flee? ”

The group owner's private chat is directly notified, regardless of whether it is online or not. Therefore, Liang Xiaozhen immediately replied: "Back to Your Majesty, just half an hour ago, I couldn't catch up with him and was escaped by him." The last general did not recognize this country, and he had not seen it in Nanyang before. The flag on their warship is like this......"

After a general description, he finally replied: "These Xiyi fled to the east, and it is possible that they are going to the South Seas. ”

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he understood that it seemed that the British were angry about the wealth plundered by other countries from the East, and they also wanted to intervene. In the original history, the British should not have flaunted their might in the East until the end of the Qing Dynasty, but this history has changed, and it must be prevented. Besides, they have six warships heading for the South Seas, and if the South Seas are unprepared, it will be a scourge.

Thinking so, he gave Liang Xiaozhen an order: "This is the British colonists, they came to the East to burn, kill and loot, they are all a group of robbers. Qing immediately sent warships to pursue them, and I will also notify the Nanyang side to intercept them on the key sea surface. Well...... In this way, the fleet of the Qing Dynasty could return after patrolling the Strait of Malacca. ”

"The last will obey!" When Liang Xiaozhen heard this, she hurriedly responded, thinking in her heart that she finally had a battle merit to make.

Emperor Chongzhen was still thinking about this after the order, feeling that this was a bit passive, and these Europeans came once, and the cost here was much higher, at least for now, in order to search for these British, they had to dispatch a lot of warships and waste a lot of manpower.

With this in mind, he pulled up the world map and looked at it. Suddenly, my eyes lit up, and my eyes were fixed on the tip of the Indian peninsula, which would later be Sri Lanka. This is a good place, if the Ming garrison here, the Indian Ocean can also be regarded as the inland sea of the Ming Dynasty.

Thinking so, Emperor Chongzhen issued another decree to let the nearest army cooperate with Jinyiwei to spy on the situation in this sharp corner of the Indian peninsula.

British Captain Weddell naturally didn't know, because his appearance made the most powerful empire on the earth look outward again, and there will be an expansion of the territory. At this time, he was a little worried.

Just now, there was such a huge fleet of sailing warships, which made him a little worried. He wondered in his heart, which force did this belong to?

While he was thinking about it, one of his men came and told him that the fleet needed to be restocked.

When Weddell heard this, it was just right to find a weak indigenous settlement to replenish it, and by the way, he could also catch some people to ask about the situation, so that he could also solve the doubts in his heart. So, he ordered the fleet to move along the coastline, looking for opportunities to replenish supplies.

But it didn't take long for the lookout on the flagpole to suddenly shout with a little panic: "Captain, it is likely that the enemy just now is coming!" ”

When Weddell heard this, he couldn't help but be shocked in his heart, he had palpitations in the huge sail fleet just now.

I saw him hurriedly rush to the stern of the boat, pick up the binoculars and look behind. Sure enough, on the horizon in the distance, there were faint black spots. In his experience, he could tell at a glance that there were quite a few ships. At this time, even if he couldn't see clearly, he could guess that those ships must be the ones that were chasing them just now.

"Shet, it's crazy to chase after you so far!" Weddell cursed, and then immediately gave the order for the fleet to run quickly.

After running for a long time, and once again completely out of sight of the pursuers in the rear, all the British, including Weddell, breathed a sigh of relief. The guide patted his chest and said to Weddell: "Captain, don't worry, it's far enough away from that port now, and if you go crazy, you will continue to chase, and it should be fine." ”

Generally speaking, after escaping the pursuit of that fleet before, it should not be pursued. It's just that I didn't expect that the fleet of this force would hold such a grudge and want to chase after it. But now it's really far away, they have been thrown off, and they know that it is impossible to catch up, so they should go back, right?

Thinking so, Weddell nodded and said, "It should be, I'm tired, go and rest first, and then come back to tell you something." ”

In the past few hours, he was frightened and frightened, and he felt very tired, so he was ready to go and rest for a while. The others are similar, after all, they have been nervous before, and they are quite tired from operating sail battleships with each other. Thinking that they had already thrown off the pursuers anyway, they also went to rest.

As a result, the six warships resumed their normal speed, while the lookouts kept an eye on the distant coastline to see if there was any place to rest.

After another hour or so, the sun was setting, and the sunset reflected the sky and the sea. The six British battleships were silent, resting except for the necessary posts, and everything seemed so quiet, except for the cries of seagulls, occasionally sounding a few as they skimmed over the battleships.

But at this moment, a sharp whistle suddenly sounded, and the sound of "tick" immediately broke the silence.

Suddenly, I saw panicked Brits popping out of the cabin, and they asked about the situation while rushing to their respective posts.

Weddell also rushed to the deck with a nervous look on his face, looking up at the lookout post, but before he could ask, the lookout post had already shouted: "Captain, those fleets are catching up!" ”

"Walter? Shet! Weddell turned his head to look at the same time as he was foul. At this time, without the need for a telescope, you can see the sea behind the fleet, and at least twenty sail warships are chasing them.

"Shet, Shet, Shet!" When Weddell saw it clearly, he made a series of foul mouths, and his face was very ugly and annoyed. However, he had no choice at all, there were so many warships that he couldn't fight, so he had to give the order to run quickly.

The next morning, after the sun had risen, Weddell's men reminded him again that the fleet needed to be restocked.

Since he got rid of the "followers" before sunset yesterday, he really didn't think that the fleet would pursue it persistently. Weddell listened, and as before, he ordered to approach the coastline route and seek resupply.

However, the reality is about to disappoint again, or rather, to despair. The alarm of "enemy attack" once again broke the silence of the fleet, and in the sound of Weddell's "Shet", he could only pull up the sails and start the escape again.

This time, Weddell was really ruthless, and kept fleeing, without stopping, for three days in a row, and only after he was really exhausted did he start to find a shoreline to rest on.

At this time, the guide gave him good news, and said to him: "Captain, the day before, we will probably reach the Strait of Malacca, this is the territory of the Portuguese, and after this is the South Seas, we can have a good rest." As long as we don't go to the territory of the Dutch and Spaniards, we can stop anywhere else! ”

Weddell listened, he was relieved, this trip over, he really fell into bad luck, stabbed a hornet's nest, and caused himself to run all the way, what a dog!

Thinking so, he waited for his subordinates to replenish fresh water on land, and then prepared to go to the South Seas in one breath to rest and recuperate. As for the Portuguese in the Strait of Malacca, they were not worried, the Ceylon (that is, Sri Lanka) side was also the territory of the Portuguese, but they could not be numerous, the sea was so big, six warships could easily pass through.

However, when Weddell was about to reach the Strait of Malacca with the fleet, another shrill alarm sounded.

Weddell, who rushed out of the cabin, was about to go berserk, and he was going to chase after him so far, was he really going to die?

"Captain, it's not the back, it's the front, look at the front!" The lookout seemed to know what was going on in his mind, and pointed to the front and shouted, "I found three sail warships, flying the same flag that I saw before with the red sun and yellow moon overlapping. ”

Weddell was shocked when he heard the sound, and hurriedly raised the binoculars to look, and sure enough, the lookout post was not wrong at all, and this time, he was a little stupid. From this flag, it seems that from the Bengal side to the South Seas, it is all this sphere of influence. But isn't this the place of the Portuguese? How could such a force appear, so powerful?

Just as they found each other, the other party discovered them. One of the three ships immediately turned around and headed back. Although the remaining two ships no longer greeted them, they did not leave, but kept their distance.

Weddell thought about it with his toes, and he knew that the sail battleship that went back was probably going back to call for reinforcements. At this time, he suddenly had a feeling that the hornet's nest that could be poked was not only the port, but the entire East that was connected, right?

However, this thought was only a fleeting thought, and he would not have thought that the news from Bangladesh would reach this side faster than theirs. However, for the sake of prudence, he still fled back, not to make contact with the battleship in front of him with the overlapping flags of the red sun and yellow moon, who knows if there will be a nest here!

As for the warships chasing from the Bengal port, they are so far away, and if they can't catch up, they must have gone back, right?

Thinking so, he ordered to retreat back and forth, moving quickly, relying on his proficiency in the operation of the sail warship, and finally slowly shook off the two haunting ships.

"Captain, what are we going to do next?" The others were also depressed, and they felt like they were running away.

Weddell was also stunned, he had always heard before he came that there were six sail warships, and after leaving Europe, as long as they were not facing the fleets of the countries on this side of Europe, they could all go sideways. In Africa before, this statement was true, but why, since the Bangladesh side, it feels like six ships are not enough at all, and sixty ships may be okay.

"Let's take a look first!" He couldn't figure out the situation, so he could only reply helplessly. After saying that, he turned his head to look at the guide, and wanted to say, what do you want you to do as a waste guide? But after thinking about it, he didn't say it in the end. I hope this kind of confusing days will pass soon, cross the Strait of Malacca, or it will be better! In this case, this guide is still needed.

However, what he could not have imagined was that over the next few days, he fled eastward, met his pursuers, and in turn headed east, met his pursuers again. The most important thing is that whether it is the east or the west, all of them are the kind of sail warships with overlapping flags of the red sun and yellow moon, and there are still many of them, at least about 20 of them are chasing and intercepting them.

Seeing that there was not much room for him to escape, Weddell eventually played a small trick. Sailing eastward, he encountered the pursuers, taking advantage of the pursuers' net-like search, the fleet formation was relatively scattered, he gathered six warships, and rushed through the middle.

As a result, it is inevitable that there will be a war. The number of warships on the two sides was about the same, six British, and seven warships of the Ming navy, and under the mutual bombardment, the two warships of the Ming navy division were seriously damaged, and even one of them was about to sink when it entered the water. On the British side, only one battleship was more seriously damaged.

This contact battle, in terms of the ratio of battle losses between the two sides, was obviously won by the British.

However, this was the home field of the Daming Naval Division, and the scattered warships rushed over as soon as possible. The damaged battleship can be towed away, and if it can't be towed, the people will be transferred, it's okay!

On the British's side, the damaged battleship had no time to repair it, because behind their fleet was a large number of Ming warships chasing after them. The British, who were on the damaged battleship, looked at the dense enemy ships behind them, and cried, because they knew that their ship was finished.

Weddell, on the basis of the loss of one battleship, finally threw off the enemy behind and rushed into the Strait of Malacca. But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he saw that in front of their fleet, many sail warships with overlapping flags of the red sun and yellow moon appeared again, as if they were endless.

At this moment, Weddell had no hope of completing the task given to him by Charles I.

Who said that the East is easy to rob, I will go back to report to the king, the Easterners here are too ferocious, the sail warships are the same as not asking for money, and they are the kind that are constantly pursued!

After another battle, Weddell escaped from the Strait of Malacca after finally losing two more warships, and did not dare to continue along the coastline, and sailed directly into the depths of the sea, or only in this way could he have a small life to return alive!