Three years of the Apocalypse, late May.

Newport City is full of lights and joy, shrouded in a festive atmosphere.

Today is the day of Li Hongyu and Chen Ting's great joy, this is an out-and-out event of the Xingang Propaganda Division, not only Chen Ting's marriage as a consolation envoy, but more importantly, the uncle of the Xingang Propaganda Division is the first genius of the Ming Dynasty, which virtually enhances the sense of belonging of the people of Xingang to the Ming Dynasty.

Including Cohen, the White Barbarian King, the Fire Barbarian King and other large and small forces on Jawa Island have sent people to send congratulatory gifts, and everyone wants to take advantage of this opportunity to get closer to Chen Ting, the ambassador of Xingang.

Unlike two hundred years ago, after the establishment of the Old Port Propaganda Division, it cut off contact with the Ming Dynasty, so that it was driven out of Jinzhou by the local tribal forces and had to come to Jawa.

Now the Ming Dynasty has started foreign trade, which means that the merchant ships and warships of the Ming Dynasty will often come to Xingang, coupled with Li Hongyu, the "first genius of the Ming Dynasty" to become the uncle of Xingang, the safety of Xingang will not only be guaranteed, but also become prosperous because of the docking of Ming merchant ships.

Different from the festive atmosphere of Xingang City, Wang Hong and Bai Cheng couldn't be happy, although Li Hongyu's words were reasonable, but he married Chen Ting, and was bound to be gossiped.

In the evening, Li Hongyu was sent to the new house by Wang Hong, Bai Cheng and others in a drunken manner, Yang Li'er, Youlan and Yamashita Sakurako accompanied Chen Ting in the new house, and when they saw him coming, they asked someone to bring a glass of wine.

After drinking a glass of wine, everyone retreated in interest, naturally no one dared to make trouble with Li Hongyu's new house, which made only Li Hongyu and Chen Ting, who was cramped on the edge of the bed with a red hijab, only in the new house of Nuoda.

Li Hongyu felt that Chen Ting was very nervous now, smiled and picked off Chen Ting's red hijab with a joy scale, and Chen Ting, who looked shy, immediately appeared in front of him.

"Xianggong, I'll bring you hot water to wash your feet." Chen Ting knew that Li Hongyu was tired for a day, so she got up and wanted to serve Li Hongyu with foot washing water for him to wash his feet.

"Lady, we are husband and wife now, so I want to tell you my secret." Li Hongyu reached out and grabbed Chen Ting's slender waist from behind, leaned over and whispered in her ear.

"Xianggong, do you have a secret?" Chen Ting felt that the root of her ear was tickled by the hot breath exhaled by Li Hongyu, so she asked shyly with red cheeks.

"Of course Xianggong has a secret, and it's a big secret." Li Hongyu smiled slightly when he heard this, sat on the edge of the bed with Chen Ting in his arms, and told Chen Ting everything about him and Zhao Xin.

Chen Ting thought that Li Hongyu was going to whisper something to her at first, but when Li Hongyu opened her mouth, she knew that she was wrong, what Li Hongyu said made her stunned and shocked, she never imagined that Li Hongyu would be the auxiliary minister of the Ming Dynasty, let alone that the palace test list who dressed as a man was Li Hongyu's fiancée.

"Lady, even Li'er and Youlan don't know about Zhao Bangyan's matter, this matter is very important, and you must not disclose it to others." After telling the secret in his heart, Li Hongyu told Chen Ting, who looked stunned, that it was not yet time to disclose Zhao Xin's identity.

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone about it." Chen Ting came back to her senses and nodded solemnly to Li Hongyu, her heart was pounding, her mind was blank, she never imagined that the young Li Hongyu would be a high-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, Chen Ting finally understood that Wang Hong and Bai Cheng would oppose when Li Hongyu asked her for marriage, and they wanted to fight to marry her.

In addition, Chen Ting also knew why Wang Hong and Bai Cheng would let Li Hongyu, a small "general", attend when they encountered a major event, they did not respect Li Hongyu as the first genius of the Ming Dynasty, but Li Hongyu was the supreme commander of the fleet.

At the beginning of June, the Daming fleet at the port of Xingang set sail slowly and set sail on the return journey, during which it will call at Borneo and Luzon, so that the overseas trading fleet will visit all the countries of the South Seas.

Luzon was Spanish territory, but the situation in Borneo was more complicated, as Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands were not yet able to control the local armed forces in Borneo, and the three sides were fiercely fighting for the right to trade with Borneo.

A month later, the Ming fleet left Luzon and headed for the port of Guangzhou, where they were finally returning home after nearly a year of overseas sailing, which made the people of the fleet look very excited.

At noon that day, the Sea Dragon.

"Your Excellency, an unidentified fleet suddenly appeared from behind the side and headed towards the Portuguese fleet following behind, looking like the ships were like Western red hairs." Li Hongyu was having lunch with Yang Li'er, Chen Ting and others in the cabin, when a guard hurried to report it.

"It seems that the Dutch are going to avenge the defeat of Macao." Li Hongyu frowned slightly when he heard this, and then he knew the identity of the person who came, and said to Yang Li'er and the others with a smile.

"Brother Sheng, are you saying that the Dutch are going to fight the Portuguese?" Yang Li'er's eyes suddenly lit up, she had never seen the situation of the Westerners in a naval battle.

"The biggest enemy of the Dutch in the Far East is the Portuguese, and they don't want our Ming to get closer and closer to the Portuguese, so they ambushed the Portuguese fleet and told us that the Ming Portuguese could not take on the important task of escorting."

Li Hongyu smiled slightly, the Dutch would not watch the Portuguese get benefits from the Ming Dynasty, since they had already attacked Macau before, they would not mind ambushing the Portuguese fleet.

"My lord, General Bai has come to ask if we will send a ship out to meet the unknown fleet." At this time, another guard entered the door to report.

"Tell General Bai to leave the Western sailing ships on guard, and the rest of the ships will continue to return." Li Hongyu waved his hand when he heard this, and gave an order in a deep voice, this is a grudge between the Dutch and the Portuguese, and Daming will naturally not intervene.

Moreover, the duty of the ships accompanying the Ming sailors was to protect the safety of the fleet, and it was not appropriate to cause trouble when the fleet was not attacked.

Following Li Hongyu's order, the five Western sailing ships quickly broke away from the convoy and stopped in a safe water, monitoring the Portuguese and Dutch fleets on the water in the distance

Li Hongyu stood on the deck of the top deck of the Sea Dragon with great interest, and he also wanted to see what naval warfare was like in the Age of Discovery.

The Dutch were clearly prepared this time, with nearly twice as many ships as the Portuguese, and it appeared that some of them were coming from Jawwa, which forced the Portuguese to take a defensive position.

"Brother Sheng, do you think the Portuguese will escape?" Seeing that the Dutch ships rushed towards the Portuguese fleet with great momentum, Yang Li'er couldn't help but ask, judging from the current situation, once the battle starts, the Portuguese will suffer a big loss.

"No, if they escape, they won't be able to explain to their superiors, so they will definitely fight to the end."

Li Hongyu shook his head, if the Portuguese run away, then the matter of escorting the Daming fleet will be yellow, and the Ming will definitely not use the Portuguese to escort in the future, they have no choice, there is no way to retreat.

Bang bang bang......

As soon as Li Hongyu's words fell, a series of muffled cannon sounds were heard on the sea in the distance, and the Dutch took the lead in attacking.

The Portuguese then counterattacked, which caused the sea to suddenly rumble with cannon fire and smoke of gunpowder.

The sailors and soldiers of the five Western sailing ships looked at the naval battle in the distance with a surprised expression, it was the first time they had seen so many artillery battles at sea, which was completely different from the tactics and tactics of the Ming army, and they were shocked by so many artillery battle scenes.

As the naval battle progressed, Li Hongyu's face became more and more solemn, no wonder the Dutch dared to capture Penghu, it turned out that this small country of projectiles would have such a powerful navy, and for the Ming Dynasty, the only way to win was through the tactics of the sea of people, and many soldiers would be sacrificed at that time.

"Brother Sheng, the Portuguese seem to be running out of power, should we help them, no matter how they are our allies now."

When half of the Portuguese's ships were sunk by the Dutch, Yang Li'er glanced at the Portuguese and Dutch soldiers who were struggling in the sea, and couldn't help but say to Li Hongyu that she had a better impression of the Portuguese than the Dutch.

"Order, the whole army will attack, and no artillery will be fired without my order!"

Li Hongyu pondered for a while when he heard this, and then gave an order, feeling that Yang Li'er was reasonable, and if he didn't save himself, he would easily be criticized by the outside world, and he didn't want to see the Dutch gain an advantage in the Far East, which was not conducive to checking and balancing them.

Led by the Seawolf, five Western galleons sailed to the waters of the battle, and the Dutch fleet quickly assumed a posture of meeting the battle, which gave the besieged Portuguese a respite.

When approaching the range of the Dutch fleet's artillery, Li Hongyu ordered the flotilla to stop and confronted the Dutch flotilla from a distance.

Soon, the Dutch ships began to retreat from the battlefield where they were engaged with the Portuguese, and the Portuguese took the opportunity to retreat towards Li Hongyu.

Li Hongyu knew that the Dutch were taking the initiative to show favor and give Daming a face, otherwise the Portuguese fleet would be wiped out.

Although they did not destroy the Portuguese, the Dutch had achieved the purpose of this engagement, not only inflicting a heavy blow on the Portuguese, but also showing the Ming great sea power.

"Go, send two ships to save the people in the sea." After a stalemate with the Dutch fleet for a while, Li Hongyu glanced at the people who had fallen into the water and then ordered the guards standing aside.

This naval battle had actually ended with the intervention of the Ming army's sailors, and the next thing was to clean up the battlefield, and the Dutch would not attack again.

The two ships of the Ming Army sailors soon sailed out and began to rescue the Portuguese sailors and soldiers on the sea, and at the same time, the Dutch fleet also sent two ships to rescue the Dutch sailors and soldiers in the water, and the two sides seemed to have a very tacit understanding.

By the time night had fallen, the Dutch fleet turned around and left, ending in a Dutch victory that further intensified the feud between the Dutch and the Portuguese.

This is undoubtedly good news for Li Hongyu, who has profited from the contradiction between the two.

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