Since the situation is very good, Zhang Zhijie doesn't mind leaving all the Portuguese warships! So Zhang Zhijie's flagship began to gather the warships, preparing to rush towards the remnants of the Portuguese fleet that had already distanced themselves.

The Portuguese marshal, who had been observing the battlefield with a calm face, also keenly observed the movements of the Ming army, and at this time there were only about 30 warships gathered near the Portuguese flagship.

At this time, there were no more warships gathering, and the Ming army was also gathering warships, obviously trying to block their withdrawal. So the Portuguese marshal immediately relented and decisively ordered a retreat.

The remnants of the thirty or so warships immediately raised their sails, and the puffed sails whirled in the sea breeze, and the heavy warship cloaks cut through the waves faster and faster, and quickly broke away from the battlefield and headed in the direction of Manraka.

Seeing that the remnants of the Portuguese warships had fled so decisively, Zhang Zhijie, who had just gathered the warships and was making a roundabout, could only give up the plan to block the attack and refocus on the battlefield.

Now that the remnants of the Portuguese have fled, the most important thing now is to consolidate the gains and clear the battlefield. Zhang Zhijie immediately threw himself into the battlefield with the gathered warships.

In fact, the current naval battle had come to an end, as the Portuguese flagship had fled with more than thirty ships, which was undoubtedly a huge blow to the Portuguese who had not left the war.

By this time, they had no intention of resisting, and they laid down their arms and began to surrender, and soon the Portuguese ships on the battlefield were lowered their flags. As the flag was lowered on the last Portuguese warship, Zhang Zhijie finally breathed a long sigh of relief.

This large-scale sea battle, the biggest challenge encountered by the Daming Sailors so far, finally ended in the victory of the Daming.

From the beginning of the shelling of the two fleets to the end of the war, this naval battle lasted for almost three hours! From morning to afternoon, the nearby sea was dyed red!

It's finally over, collecting prisoners, cleaning up the battlefield, and treating the wounded. Although the naval battle ended with the victory of Zhang Zhijie's fleet, the losses were also very heavy. Portugal was, after all, a great power at sea, and their fleet was second to none in the world today.

In this naval battle, more than 20 warships in Zhang Zhijie's fleet lost their combat power for the first time, more than 10 warships were sunk, and almost all warships were scarred! Hundreds of artillery pieces were lost, and the number of casualties reached 3,000!

However, the harvest was no less great, with forty Portuguese ships captured, more than 2,000 Portuguese killed, and more than 3,000 captured!

The harvest of this battle is not only this, after this battle, the fleet of the Kingdom of Portugal has suffered a great loss of vitality, and it is no longer able to show off its power in the East! Don't dare to provoke a war against Daming again.

After some rest, the huge fleet began to return slowly, because after such a great battle, the warships were scarred, and many of them were even badly damaged and had to be dragged forward. In addition, they had to monitor the prisoners, and at the same time they had to bring the captured Portuguese warships with serious attrition, so the voyage was very slow!

Hundreds of warships formed a huge fleet, becoming a huge black shadow on the sea, moving slowly across the endless sea.

At the beginning, the Portuguese seized the Ming merchant ships in Manchuria, which caused panic among the Daming maritime merchants, and no one dared to go to Manraka when the news spread! Their targets became Hakata Bay and Luzon, because they were both Ming territory!

Despite this, they are still not at ease, who knows if the Portuguese will continue to cause trouble? Therefore, they all hoped that the sailors of the imperial court would be able to teach the Portuguese a lesson!

In fact, as they wished, the imperial court gathered a huge fleet and went out to sea to conquer the brutal and rude Portuguese, and they all hoped that the imperial fleet would defeat the Portuguese in one fell swoop.

The huge fleet sailed slowly on the sea, Zhang Zhijie divided the relatively intact warship into two wings, patrolling the escort fleet, Zhang Zhijie was not without vigilance against the Portuguese fleeing fleet.

However, Zhang Zhijie did not encounter the Portuguese fleet along the way, and they were completely frightened and did not dare to catch up. On the contrary, I encountered a lot of merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty.

These merchant ships couldn't help but jump in their hearts after encountering a huge black shadow on the sea from afar, and it was obvious that there was a huge fleet in the distance. If the sailors of the imperial court were okay, if it was the fleet of the Portuguese, then they would have suffered.

Even so, they began to deviate from course, but the two sides were getting closer, and they were somewhat surprised to find that the fleet was moving very slowly.

Finally, a fleet of ships had the courage to send ships to investigate, and it turned out that the sailors of the Ming Dynasty had returned victoriously. These merchant ships have come up one after another, and they are really the sailors of the Ming Dynasty, and they are the sailors of the Ming Dynasty who have experienced a great war.

Every ship was scarred, many of them badly damaged, and they finally understood why this fleet was sailing so slowly! Because they went through a brutal naval battle!

The scarred ships seemed to tell them how tragic the naval battle was, and it filled their hearts with gratitude, because the sailors went to fight the Portuguese to open the sea for trade, to fight for the seizure of merchant ships, to fight for them!

So their hearts were grateful and heavy, but when they saw the mighty Portuguese warship behind them, they felt sincerely proud because of the captured Portuguese warship at that time!

This represents the great feat of the sailors, who crossed the seas and defeated the mighty Portuguese! How can they not be proud of such a sailor?

These merchant ships had originally sailed to Luzon or the Wa kingdom, but now they decided to abandon their plans to continue the voyage for the time being, and instead followed the fleet of sailors. Provide nourishment for the sailors' soldiers and help the sailors tow the warship.

Speeding up the sailing speed of the sailors' fleet, many of the sailors' officers and men were injured and needed treatment, and the sooner they returned to Quanzhou could save more lives.

Along the way, they kept encountering merchant ships going to sea, none of them continued to sail, they all spontaneously gathered near the sailor's fleet, and tried their best to help the sailor's warships, as they got closer and closer to Quanzhou, the size of the fleet became larger and faster!

Nearly 1,000 sea ships of all sizes, covering the sky and the sun on the sea, like a hero to welcome the return, marched towards Quanzhou Port in a mighty way, which is a spectacular scene that has never appeared before.

(End of chapter)