"Sir Kent, we're finished, and the damned Dutchmen are coming!" On the deck of the Francois merchant ship, the middle-aged captain with a red beard said loudly to a middle-aged red-haired man dressed as an aristocracy. "Please decide as soon as possible whether we surrender to the Ming Empire pirates or to the Dutch. Personally, I prefer to surrender to the Dutch, at least they don't brutally kill our crews. ”

"Captain Thomas, is there no other way?" Sir Kent, dressed as a gentleman, asked calmly, "We have already sunk two of them, can't we sink these as well?" We're the most advanced battleship with 44 guns! ”

"We're running out of ammunition. Even if you can sink these few ships, what more? They are so close to here! Captain Thomas the Redbeard shook his head, "Our ship must be repaired!" Unless someone saves us, the pirate Zheng Zhilong will not only not give up the silver full of ships, but also does not need you to pay the ransom, from Spain to the Ming Empire, it is too far! Sinking two of their warships, it is even more impossible to settle peacefully! Believe me, I know this pirate leader! ”

"Thomas, I didn't say I didn't believe you! But we have a royal mission...... And what if the Dutch surrendered? ”

"Task? Sir, according to the previous agreement, the Shen family's fleet should be waiting for us in the waters of Taiwan Island, but what about them? They're killed! "If it weren't for them, "how would the damned Dutchmen know about our whereabouts!" ”

"The Dutch were probably defeated by them. In the whole East, from Oriental Korea and Japan in the north to Manila in the Indian Ocean, almost all of them are the sphere of influence of Zheng Zhilong, the pirate leader, and the Dutch have to cooperate with them, and now that the cooperation between the two sides is over, the pirate leader is unwilling to share the benefits of the Dutch......"

"No, I'm sure we still have a chance! We're going to close the deal, the empire needs us! Run, you can't escape! Sir Kent looked determined.

Surrender to the pirates, who still do not agree to the nobles to pay the ransom, how can they surrender!

What if the Dutch are not defeated.

"The Shen family is gone!" Thomas advised Jazz.

"Then we'll look for another buyer!" Sir Kent was not willing to surrender.

As a nobleman, a knight, his honor did not allow him to surrender without a fight.

On the island of Taiwan, the Dutch gathered more than a dozen powerful battleships, far larger than the sailing ships they were on!

It is impossible to be defeated so easily by a pirate leader from the East.

"Boom!"

"Boom!" Another series of cannon shots made the Spanish galleon a little faster.

The three ships that followed behind did not have many guns and fired slowly, and the guns placed on the upper deck had an advantage in the chase.

There are 4 rearward guns in the stern of the galleon, but the range is only about 500 meters!

European ships were now armed with broadside guns that fired outward from the window below deck, and the top deck did not have any ranged weapons. The naval battle lasted for a long time, and if the battleship was not sunk from a long distance, or the opponent's ship was burned in flames, even if the mast was broken and could not be moved, it could only be ended by waiting close for the boarding battle.

Most of the guns of the Ming warships were on the bow and tail and the upper deck, and the number was small, and the firepower could not be compared with the European warships.

"Fight with them! I'd rather sink to the bottom of the sea with a lot of silver than be robbed by those pirates......" I don't know how long I fled, seeing the Ming warship behind me getting closer and closer, Captain Thomas gave the order to fight to the death.

The Dutch battleships have not appeared until now.

In the process of escaping, there were several more holes in the stern building of the galleon.

The most advanced galleon from Spain, in the face of the warships of the Ming Empire, it is difficult for one to deal with too many ships, not to mention the damage is not small.

Of course, if you are determined to fight hard with the other party, the three warships of the Ming Empire may not be able to end well.

The captain's order was given, and the elite sailors and soldiers from the Royal Spanish Navy pulled the ropes, adjusted the direction of the sails, and let the ship go sideways.

"Order all artillery to bombard their flagship!" Thomas lashed out.

If you are desperately injured, you have to kill the opponent's flagship first.

Their battleship, in its cabins above the waterline, was armed with a total of 18 32-pounder guns, which effectively made the ship heavier and more stable. On the second deck, there were 14 18-pounder guns, and the aft building was equipped with several 12-pounder guns, and even the stern was equipped with light guns.

On the one hand, 20 guns can be mobilized, and at a distance of about 500 meters, if half of them can be hit, the opponent's ship can be sunk.

After receiving the captain's order, the well-trained Spanish Royal Navy began to quickly stuff the propellant pack into the barrel, and the projectile was also stuffed into it, adjusting the muzzle elevation angle according to the illumination door and crosshair on the barrel, aiming at the Ming warship in the middle that was getting closer and closer.

"Spread out, the Furlong is ready to fight hard!" The military attache on the top deck of the middle ship saw the Spanish ship crossing and immediately discovered the other side's intentions.

The soldier at the top of the mast waved the flag in his hand, and the two ships next to him, seeing the flag and hearing the sound of drums, opened the distance and increased the speed of the shelling.

"Boom!"

A 32-pounder gun on the Spanish galleon opened fire, the shells fell into the sea next to the enemy's flagship, and the muzzles of other guns began to adjust rapidly.

This cannon sounded, like a declaration of war, and the rumbling of cannons soon began to sound throughout the sea.

On the 400 warships of the Ming Dynasty, there is only one Hongyi cannon and 6 thousand-pound furlong machine guns, which are still scattered at the beginning and tail, and they can't compete with foreign devils at all.

Only by approaching quickly, use the rope on the mast to swing to the opponent's ship to start a pick-up battle.

Zheng Zhilong has been robbing the merchant ships of the Francophone since he first cooperated with the red-haired ghost, and he has rich combat experience, so he naturally knows where the shortcomings of the foreign devil are.

Fighting on ships, the Western body is burly, not as agile as the Han Chinese, and they are far less experienced in close combat than the Ming Empire.

"My lord, they're targeting us!" The men next to the military attaché saw that the Spanish galleons ignored the ships scattered on both sides, and turned their guns at them.

"Speed up and rush over for a pick-up battle! Fight like this, even if you run out of ammunition, you can't kill them! The military attache said coldly.

The Spaniards' intentions were clear to him, and unless all the cannons were able to hit their ships below the waterline, they would never be able to escape until the ramming horns had passed.

The sails of the 400 warships were full, and the helmsman on the deck turned the rudder rod to control the direction of the rudder, and rushed towards the Spanish galleon.