"You can only get Moluccas, you only need Moluccas." Xu Wenchang nodded and said, "Although Malacca is important, it is not because it is rich in products, just because it chokes the throat to the Western Ocean, and we are not going to the Western Ocean now, this place is not a place for us to fight." Relatively speaking, we only need to seize the Moluccas, occupy the spice islands, our fleet to open the route, sell goods back to Manila, Dongfan, the income is huge, and cut off the source of profit of the Franc machine, so that they have no goods to sell, not only with the Franc machine is the first blow, Xu Chaoguang in the East China Sea will also inevitably cut off the financial route, can be described as killing two birds with one stone. In addition, the people of Moluca are simple and simple, and have been enslaved and slaughtered by Frangi for a long time, and we just happen to act under the banner of salvation. In Molucca, enter Malacca, retreat to defend Manila, this is the best policy. ”

Zhao Guangtou argued: "Fran opportunity for us to easily occupy Molucca? ”

"It's easier to defend than to attack, right?" Xu Wenchang turned to look at Yang Changfan and officially said, "Ship owner, the fleet of Furlong aircraft is still being assembled, and I think that there is no certainty whether to start a war. When the Francois counterattacks, we will wait for the rest of the work before we can fight. ”

"It's worthy of Wen Chang, I said everything I wanted to say in my heart......" Yang Changfan pretended to be forced in a deep manner, with an expression that you know my heart.

In fact, just because the ship is strong and the guns are sharp, Yang Changfan does not dare to go to the South Seas. There are many islands in the South Seas, the terrain is complex, the races are mixed, compared to the Franc machine, the Huiwangfu knows too little about here, no matter how to fight, the battle line will be very long, from Manila to Molujia said easily, in fact, the distance is equivalent to Hangzhou to Kyushu, plus there are many Molujia islands, and you have to guard here and take care of Manila, there are unstable Fujian and Xu Chaoguang in the rear of the East China Sea, such a complex and changeable situation, there are no ten Zhao Guangtou Wang Xian, no 100,000 sailors, Yang Changfan is not daring to advance.

But he's not fighting alone, he has black technology.

The entire fleet of the South Ocean and East China Sea is under his surveillance, and such an intelligence advantage allows him to use 10,000 people as 100,000 people. In addition, more than a dozen shareholders of the sea pirates mixed into the South Seas, which made the situation even more complicated, in addition to plundering, the greater role of these pirates is to feint and disrupt the enemy's sight, there are ships in the East China Sea everywhere, all kinds of news are complicated, not to mention the Portuguese, it is difficult to distinguish Yang Changfan himself.

"Three, come with me to Suleiman." Yang Changfan has made up his mind, and the next thing is to sit down on this matter, "Please ask Luzon to write a letter of state and send dozens of people to fight together to prove our justice." Lao Jiu found a few old people to return to the expedition together to prove the goodwill of our army. ”

……

On July 17, the First Fleet of the Huiwangfu sailed into the Maluku Sea and finally encountered the Portuguese fleet.

Yang Changfan had already learned that the opposing fleet had a total of six warships, medium in size, equivalent to a quarter of Zheng He's.

This fleet is really unlucky, Royal Navy Admiral Canelas looked at the dense fleet of the Huiwang Mansion from afar, and his scalp began to tingle.

His fleet came not here to fight the Huiwang Mansion, but to fight the Oriental pirates that suddenly appeared in the Maluku Islands. In the past month, Malacca has frequently received news that merchant ships have been hijacked, and he has only come to protect the shipping route, and if he knew that such a thing was invading the route, he would definitely not come.

Normally, the fleets should act separately, unless there is a decisive battle between the two empires, all the ships will be gathered to form a super fleet. But the Huiwang Mansion doesn't seem to talk about this reason, either they don't send troops, or they will destroy the country as soon as they come out.

Fortunately, there is a good thing about naval warfare, you can run if you can't beat it, unless my sail is smaller than yours.

The choice facing Canelas is not to run or not to run, but where to run.

Whether to go back to Malacca, or to Ambon, the country's largest garrison in the Maluku Islands.

There is no doubt that this huge fleet, like himself, did not expect to meet here unexpectedly, such a country-destroying fleet is obviously not here to deal with itself, only to fight Ambon.

Do you want to go to Ambon, or go back to Malacca to report the news?

Canelas froze for a moment, then ordered the fleet to move west at full speed.

The enemy's fleet was so large that he had never seen it since the first day he went to sea, and perhaps the Spanish armada could have gathered to such a scale. Although in the country's plan, it is also possible to gather more than 60 fleets to fight against the Huiwang Mansion, but the scale of the ships is completely incomparable to the other party.

Perhaps the most powerful fleet of the motherland can be more powerful than the fleet in front of it, but Brazil, Africa, India, where do they not need strong armaments to maintain? It is impossible to give up half the world's sea power for the sake of this war.

Canelas stood at the stern of the ship with all sorts of worries, knowing that if he was going west at full speed, the other party would not chase him, and there was no point.

But it's strange that the other party seems to be chasing.

Sure enough, as Shagaru said, this fleet was only a foreign powerhouse, and it had hardly fought a real battle, which was nothing compared to the Royal Navy. If the number of this fleet is less than ten, Canelas has the courage to fight, and it is really an oriental who wastes resources and manpower.

Just as he clenched his fists and cursed, he felt that the fleet of the Huiwang Mansion was still approaching.

That's a little wrong, everyone is a sail, how can your sailing skills be better than ours?

As the nearest ten ships got closer, Canelas finally saw clearly.

The three-masted sail, with a flat hull, on both sides of the hull, countless oars flapping desperately like the legs of insects, like a giant centipede on the sea, rapidly approaching its prey.

Canelas rubbed his eyes and felt incredible: "This is ...... Venetian galley ??? How could it be here?? ”

The deputy was not surprised, and shouted beside him: "Admiral! Ready to fire? ”

"The direction of the wind! Wind!! Canelas hurriedly looked at the wind vaneer on the top of the ship, the sky was not beautiful, only a faint southwesterly wind, if the wind was stronger, he still had a chance to escape, now it seems impossible. He turned to look at the ten galleys, and couldn't help but tremble slightly, "The whole ship turned 35 degrees north-west and lined up!" Get ready to fire! ”

"Admiral ......" The deputy looked at the approaching galleys, "We haven't officially started a war with the Huiwang Mansion yet, if we consider showing the banner of peace and taking the lead in firing cannons, I'm afraid it's ......."

Canelas pointed to the row of galleys: "Answer me, isn't this a war?" ”

“……”

At the bow of the oar, Zhao Guangtou raised his knife and shouted: "No more fierce!" Fierce! Give me the fierce! The owner of the ship said! Take this ship! The spoils of war are all to our brethren! ”

Dozens of sailors shouted in unison, shouting trumpets and rushing to their prey.

In the rear, the Zheng He was also moving at full speed.

Yang Changfan frowned slightly: "Bald head, just hold it off and don't work hard...... You don't want to be in such an inconsequential place......" (To be continued.) )