There were ten warships snatched from the Zheng family, seven large Fu boats, and three smaller warships, Huang Tianxiang took people out to sea to practice and took away nine boats, leaving only one large Fu boat for maneuvering.

Two hundred soldiers soon took the position, led by two hundred households, and sailed out of the naval camp.

Li Chuan stood on the deck, held the binoculars and looked at it for a long time, but saw nothing.

The speed of Baofan is too slow, and it is not even as fast as the speed of walking fast people, Li Chuan looks down on wooden sailing ships more and more, from Jinshanwei to Taiwan, the ship after a few hundred years will arrive in a day and night, the fastest sailing ship in this year will take five or six days, if it is slow, it will take more than ten days, and the speed of only a few kilometers in an hour is really slow.

The sound of artillery in the distance continued, and Li Chuan felt a little irritable in his heart.

But it didn't take long for the cannon fire to stop, and it was less than ten minutes before and after.

"What's going on?"

Li Chuan perked up and said, "Could it be that Lao Huang has already defeated those foreign devils?" ”

The family members are also in high spirits, how powerful the Western artillery that the adults get, they know very well, although a ship is only equipped with twenty guns, the number may not be as many as the guns on the ghost ship, but the firepower is not bad, with the gunners' loading and firing speed, the firepower of one gun is at least worth ten ghost guns.

Speaking of range, the hit rate within five miles is at least 50 percent.

The closer the distance, the higher the hit rate.

Even if the sea is turbulent, the hit rate of about fifty is more than thirty percent, and the artillery of those ghosts has a hit rate at this distance, except for the red-coated cannons, most of the artillery can't hit so far at all.

And even the red-coated cannon has a hit rate of less than one CD at a distance of five miles.

The big ship was still moving forward slowly, and after more than an hour, it finally passed the golden mountain.

"It's coming!"

Some sailors held binoculars and looked at them for a long time, and suddenly their spirits were lifted.

Li Chuan also saw that in the distance, nine large and small warships were riding the wind and waves with five warships. The five warships were obviously not the Eastern warships, and their hulls were narrow and slender, which was undoubtedly more convenient to handle than the bloated Fu ships.

"Put away the sails, just wait here."

Li Chuan commanded, and in the sound of the clattering motor, the sailors quickly started the diesel engine, quickly put away the sails, and let the big ship drift with the waves, carrying heavy loads and floating in the shallow waves, and no longer moving forward.

Don't look at the distance, but Huang Tianxiang's fleet is at least ten kilometers away.

After waiting for two hours, nine warships, large and small, arrived close with five European warships.

A lucky boat approached, and when the two ships were side by side, the sailors quickly put a wooden plank over, and Huang Tianxiang came to see Li Chuan with an excited face, and said: "Young master, those foreign devils have not been beaten, and the small ones have only fought for more than a dozen rounds, and those ghosts have surrendered." ”

Li Chuan frowned and said, "What's the matter, where did those ghosts come from, and why did they fire?" ”

Huang Tianxiang said: "Those ghosts don't know how to speak Ming language, and I don't know where they came from, the little one originally wanted to stop them and ask, but those ghosts and dogs were so bold that they dared to shoot at us, and the little one had to order the cannon." ”

Li Chuan glanced at a few European warships and said, "Go, bring a few ghosts over." ”

Huang Tianxiang answered and hurriedly ordered.

Soon, the sailors carried three white Europeans to the flagship.

The three white men seemed to have suffered a lot, one by one with a sad face, not to mention the bruised nose and swollen face that was beaten, and the clothes on their bodies were also stripped naked, leaving a few strips of cloth to cover their shame, and their faces looked frightened.

However, there was a guy who was embarrassed, but his expression was quite calm.

Li Chuan asked Huang Tianxiang: "Isn't there a translation?" ”

Huang Tianxiang scratched his head and said distressedly: "None of these ghosts on the ship can speak Da Ming. ”

Li Chuan also had a headache, there was no translator, how could he know where these guys came from.

Just as he was speechless, the calmer, golden-haired guy spoke.

Li Chuan was stunned when he heard it, he could understand some of this guy's words, and the English he spoke was very different from the English hundreds of years later, but he could barely understand it, and he was a little confused at the time, how could he be British?

In this era, there were many European countries coming to the East, the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal all had trade contacts with the maritime merchants along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, but there were no British, how could these Britons come to Jinshanwei?

Could it be the British East India Company?

"You're British?"

Li Chuan frowned and asked in English.

Huang Tianxiang was stunned, Zhao Tiezhu was stunned, and the family members were also stunned.

When will the young master say the words of the ghost, why don't you know?

The Englishman was excited, and when he heard that this Oriental could speak English, although it was not standard, and there were mistakes in some words, he was finally able to communicate, and hurriedly said: "Your Excellency, we are from England. ”

Li Chuan asked, "How did you come to Daming?" ”

The Englishman said, "We were ordered by His Majesty King Charles to trade in the East, and we sailed at sea for a year and five months before we reached Daming. Please believe that we only want to trade with the Ming Empire, and we have no offensive intentions. ”

"Charlie?"

Li Chuan said: "But Charles I? ”

The Englishman nodded hurriedly: "It's His Majesty Charles I." ”

"What's your name?"

The Englishman said, "I'm an English captain, Weddell?" Henry? Lucas. ”

"You're Weddell?"

Li Chuan was stunned, this name is not unfamiliar, he bought a lot of famous histories and various materials on Taobao, and saw this Weddell's name when he studied the history of the Ming Dynasty in the seventeenth century and the history of European countries.

Just last April, King Charles I of England sent Captain Weddell to lead six warships across the ocean to the East to pan for gold, but the question is that these guys didn't go to Guangzhou, how did they come to Jinshanwei?

"Exactly!"

Weddell was shocked and said, "Have you heard of me?" ”

Li Chuan looked him up and down a few times, and asked instead of answering, "You didn't go to Guangzhou?" ”

Weddell was even more shocked, but when he remembered this, he said angrily: "Those despicable Portuguese, they promised us to allow us to trade with the great Ming Empire in Haojing, but when we arrived in Haojing, those damned Portuguese blocked it. However, we have seen some very rare goods in Haojing, I heard that a big man here bought them from a European merchant, and I have never seen such precious goods in Europe, so I wanted to come here to ask the lord to see if he could trade with Lord Li, I wonder if you can introduce you, and I will give you silver. ”

The corners of Li Chuan's mouth twitched when he listened, and his feelings were that his Western goods had lured these Brits.