"You personally take a few whaling ships to the north of the strait to hunt whales, try to attract the ships of Flanders and Hanseas, and then flee to the southwest, and lead them to the vicinity of this archipelago, where is my fleet waiting for them, does this archipelago have a name?" Jiang Zhuyi's matter will be skipped first, and the most urgent thing at the moment is to solve the Flemish Hanseatic sea power. www.biquge.info Hong Tao didn't want to swagger across the English Channel to their doorstep to challenge, it would be great if he could weaken the opponent's strength first.

On the issue of war, Hong Tao and Karl are not the same style at all. It is useless for him to have any chivalry and rules of war, as long as he can destroy the enemy, how humiliating and dirty things he can do, Hong Tao thinks it is worth boasting about. The act of acting as a hero and playing heads-up is not even pretending to be forced in his opinion, it is pure stupidity. Hong Tao's creed is that if you can bully one with ten ships, you will never use nine ships, how to save trouble and how to come.

"I don't have a name, I'll just call it the Whale Islands." Karl looked at the location of the Azores and shook his head.

"It's not a good name, change it and call it the Victory Islands. When this battle is over, within ten years you will be the undisputed overlord of the sea, so use this name to commemorate it. Naming has become a new hobby for Hong Tao, ranking third after beautiful women and cigars.

"What if I don't run away?" Karl didn't look happy, he calculated the distance from the English Channel to the Victory Islands, and asked a very realistic question.

"Then you deserve it, I won't ransom you for anything higher than a gold coin, let your son find a way to go, it's really not worth giving Mia Fort to others." With such a distance of ten days, you can still let others catch up, you, the first captain of the Royal Navy, can really retire, don't mess around at sea, shame! "Hong Tao ignored Carl's question, he was afraid of danger if he wanted to dominate, all the good things are your Friedrich family, think beautifully!

After discussing the ambush time and approximate sea coordinates with Carl, Hong Tao returned to the Leeward Islands, and kept calling all the sailors who were still catching turtles on the shore to board the ship and set off, aiming at the Victory Islands! The remaining armed cargo ship and 200 army soldiers will depart in ten days, and they will not be needed for naval warfare, so there is no need to go to the sea together to suffer, so that they can be comfortable for a few more days.

The location of the Victory Islands is actually more suitable for establishing a supply station than the Leeward Islands, which are about 2,000 kilometers from the European continent, more than 3,000 kilometers from the North American continent, and a little further from the South American continent, and are a maritime springboard between Europe, the Americas, and Africa. If a supply depot or naval base were to be built here, it would be much more difficult for Europeans to take advantage of the trade winds. Moreover, the fleet departing from here can also partially control the path of northwestern Europe to Africa, so the strategic location is very important. In later generations, it is equally important here, where the world's policemen, the United States and NATO, have air bases.

This archipelago is composed of seven or eight small islands, stretching for hundreds of kilometers from east to west, the largest island is in the east, and the future generations have forgotten what it is called, even if he does not forget it, he does not want to develop that island, there are many earthquakes on it, and it is okay to live, but it is not suitable to build large shipyards, factories, and bases.

The island of Terceira in the middle was the target of Hongtao, and although the island was small, it was the port and US military base in later generations, and it was obvious that the earthquake was not very noticeable. Don't think about it yourself, just follow the rules of historical experience and follow the safest ones.

"It's such a nice place, it's not cold or hot, and there are so many forests and hot springs, it should be nice to build a holiday villa." Leaving a warship to the east and a warship to the north to keep watch, Hong Tao went ashore by himself, climbed an extinct volcanic crater in the middle of the island with more than a dozen sailors, looked around and looked around carefully, and felt quite satisfied. There are no indigenous people here, but the climate is suitable for human survival, there are forests, rivers, peaks, plains, and there is a higher mountain in the east that Hong Tao did not dare to challenge, it was too high.

"Wait, let's find out if there is a suitable bay for boats to anchor, and I'll be here for two days." Go to the boat and take down the tent, then go catch some crabs, and let's eat small seafood at noon! Big gold chain, small watch, three small barbecues a day. "After months at sea, I was able to get ashore for a few days. Although Hong Tao likes the sea, people are land creatures after all, and they have a natural affinity for the land, especially in this beautiful place, which makes it feel comfortable to look at.

The waves are comfortable, and the marine animals on the island are suffering. Eating two meals a day in different ways, he really couldn't catch or catch them, so he took the sailors to the sea, holding a copper pipe several meters long in his mouth and diving in big iron shoes to touch it. This equipment is supposed to be the originator of apparatus diving, with copper pipes leading to the ship's hand-cranked blower for ventilation and large iron shoes for stable walking on the seabed. In fact, Hong Tao invented it not for fun, but for cleaning and simple repairs to the bottom shell of the ship. It can't dive too deep, five meters is a safety limit, and no matter how deep it is, it's not very safe.

Carl became the great savior of the shallow sea creatures of the Victory Islands, and two weeks later, the Texas, which was in charge of guarding in the east, ran back with full sails, and told the fleet's watchman on duty in flag language that the enemy had been discovered in the east!

"Bastard! Bastard! Bad apple! It may be that he has been away from the Chinese environment for too long, and Carl can't remember too many Chinese swear words, and the only thing he remembers is these three eggs, and then they were all given to Hong Tao. When he was driven thousands of kilometers by more than a dozen Flemish Hanseatic warships, and finally ran to the agreed place, he found Hong Tao sitting under the sunshed on the deck, smoking a cigar and fishing.

This time, Carl was really anxious, not only did he want to scold, but he also had to let the lookout pass these words to Hong Tao in the flag, and he couldn't wait to come over in a small boat and scold him in person. I can't say that I am dead or dead, but this time the bait is too similar, there are still two of the four whaling ships left, and the other two ships have been surrounded by pursuers in order to cover their breakthrough.

Carl had been roaming the waters between the northern side of the Strait of Gibraltar and the Cantabrian Sea since leaving Fort Karl with his decoy fleet, pretending to be chasing whales. In less than a week, five or six sailing ships flying the flag of Flanders and Hansa were slaughtered from the English Channel.

At first, Karl was going to tease the novice sailors of Flanders and Hansea, and he did not retreat to the southwest at full speed, but always kept a distance of four or five hours. But what he never expected was that this time his old finch was tricked by the eaglet. He and Hong Tao designed an ambush for others, and they didn't give it in vain, the fleet from the north was just a dog to drive away the prey, and there was a fleet that had already circled to the south, which was the net to catch the prey.

Suddenly caught between the north and the south, even though Karl had rich experience in naval warfare and skills in controlling sailboats, he had no way to retreat for a while. Let's fight hard, the number of cannons is not as large as others, and the performance cannot reach the level of killing the other party in seconds, so it will definitely not take advantage. Run, more than a dozen ships have opened a semicircular net, and they still have the upper hand, and once they are bitten, they are likely to be wiped out.

In the end, it was up to Karl, the slave-trained sailors, to form an arrow formation, using their own ships as shields, and sending Karl's ship out of the encirclement. No wonder the ancients used to fight \ righteousness \ every \ more \ slaughter \ dog \ generation, and most of them were readers. There are relatively many people from the bottom who know how to repay their kindness, and the more people like Hong Tao who always think that everything is clear, the more they will drop the chain at the critical moment.

The encirclement was rushed, but Carl was not at all easy for the next few days, and the ships were no slower than the salmon, especially with a tailwind. Karl tried all the means he could think of, but he could never throw his pursuers too far, and always kept a distance of about half a day, sometimes closer and sometimes farther away.

"Virtue! And face swearing! You don't deserve to be a captain in the Royal Navy anymore, and the comfortable days have worn out your blood. Compared with the speed of the downwind with the sailing battleship, you can be a little more stupid, no, I don't know how many more angles to turn! Hong Tao didn't comfort Carl, who was like a lost dog, at all, and tried his best to be bitter and mean, and degraded Carl.

“…… If you have the ability, I want to see how you, the god of the sea, show your might! If you see it, I'll sit on the deck and watch, if you sink, I'll sink with you! Karl was very unconvinced, he felt that he had worked very hard, and the reason why he was so passive was not that our army was not strong, but that the enemy army was too cunning. When the performance of the battleship is not superior, and the number is not superior, he does not think that Hong Tao can easily defeat the other party, and who is ambushed is still talking.

"It's okay to sit, but please move this way, don't get in the way of my gunner's loading! Raise the banner of the sun, warriors of the sun god, the gods are watching you from the heavens, prove your loyalty to the gods! Hong Tao threw the fishing rod into the sea, grabbed Carl's clothes as a hand towel and wiped his hands full of fishy smell, suddenly put away the touch of the hippie smile, shook his whole body, and almost made a circle of light behind his head, and then the golden light shone brightly, from his demeanor to his momentum, he was full of energy.

"Ah............ Woo! Yes............ Woo! "The sailors of the boatload were in an instant changed from a state of vacation to a state of battle, and they arranged their clothes, knelt on the deck, and muttered a few verses to the great sun due south, and then howled like wild beasts, in a sound of simple, only two syllables, but in unison, through the wind and the waves, and together with the sun flag raised high, the command of the waves was transmitted to the other ships. In an instant, the whole bay was filled with these two syllables, one pulling a long tail note, and the second ending abruptly to the rhythm of stomping.

(To be continued.) )