Magellan fell heavily to the ground, and his throat was sweet and he was about to vomit blood, but in a hurry, Magellan lay on the ground in spite of the pain and began to scream.

Fortunately, the translator was by his side, and now Zhang Zhijie's side had all the translators in Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish, and the translator hurriedly spoke: "My lord, he said that he asked your lord to allow them to participate in the war, repay your lord with their merits, and clear their own charges." ”

Originally, Zhang Zhijie didn't care too much, thinking that these Spaniards were begging for mercy, but he didn't expect them to be asking to join the war. Zhang Zhijie was really moved, because although Longjiang Shipyard had built a lot of new warships, the crew couldn't keep up.

These Spaniards are all good at naval warfare, and although they can't be trusted all, it's not bad to have them as auxiliaries on the ship!

"You ask them, Ben is going to fight the Portuguese now, and are they willing to go to war? Can Ben Governor trust them? Zhang Zhijie said with interest.

Magellan was overjoyed when he heard this: "Your Excellency, it is a common occurrence in our West to hire people from other countries to participate in the war, and we will all abide by the guidelines of mercenaries!" ”

Zhang Zhijie listened with interest and said, "Mercenaries? It sounds new, but what do you want to get paid? ”

Magellan listened and said excitedly: "Your Excellency the Governor, rest assured, we will definitely do our best to help you achieve victory!" In return, I want you to give us back our freedom! ”

Zhang Zhijie smiled: "Are you familiar with the Portuguese fleet?" ”

When Magellan heard this, he immediately affirmed: "Familiar, our Kingdom of Spain has been collecting news about the Portuguese fleet all along. ”

Zhang Zhi nodded and said, "Very good, the Governor promised you to participate in the war as mercenaries, but the Governor will not break you up." When Ben Doge defeats the Portuguese, he will give you back your freedom! ”

The reason why he agreed to let Magellan and them participate in the war was that Zhang Zhijie also had many considerations. The Spaniards and Portugal are now each other's biggest rivals, so the relationship is not friendly.

And he was really short of men now, and Magellan knew that the Portuguese fleet might come in handy. Besides, now that he has made enemies with the Portuguese, Zhang Zhijie feels that it is better to be cautious with the Spaniards.

Regardless of victory or defeat in this battle, Zhang Zhijie decided to let these Spaniards go, give them a boat, and let them go, which can be regarded as Zhang Zhijie's goodwill to the Spaniards. Of course, this kindness is still based on strength.

One hundred Fu ships and forty Western warships formed a huge sea fleet, which set off from the port of Quanzhou and sailed to Mangara. This battle will face the powerful fleet of the Portuguese, and many generals, including Feng Haisheng, have advised the Admiral to stay in Quanzhou and wait for good news.

However, Zhang Zhijie still decided to go to the sea to supervise the battle, just when Zhang Zhijie personally led the huge fleet to Manraka. The envoy sent by the Portuguese marshal also returned to Manraka, and he did not expect such a tough response from the Ming Empire.

The Marshal of the Portuguese Fleet led a mighty fleet across the seas to occupy vast territories for the kingdom, how could he be cowardly?

Originally, the Portuguese marshal was already waiting in Manraga and was a little impatient, since the Ming was so tough, he immediately decided to lead the fleet to set sail for the Ming Dynasty, plunder the Ming merchant ships, force the Ming warships to go to sea to fight, and completely defeat the Ming warships.

As long as the Ming fleet is defeated, the Ming can only trade with the Kingdom of Portugal, thus completely monopolizing the trade in the East. Later, the spices, porcelain, silk, and tea of the East could be monopolized by their Portuguese kingdom.

This Portuguese marshal went on an expedition to the east and mobilized a full 90 main warships, which was an extremely large force. Although he knew that the Ming also had a large fleet, naval battles were not won by numbers.

Moreover, he described through the soldiers who participated in the last naval battle that the ships of the Ming Dynasty were weaker than the ships of their Kingdom of Portugal. So the marshal of the Kingdom of Portugal was extremely dissatisfied with the weakness of Alfonso, the governor of Goa.

But the Portuguese marshal did not know that the Ming Dynasty had just begun to revitalize the sailors, and now the Longjiang Shipyard has made great progress, especially after studying the Western sailing ships, the Longjiang Shipyard can not only make Western sailing ships, but also make improvements to the existing lucky ships.

The Portuguese marshal led a huge fleet from Manraka to prepare for Daming, he thought that Daming's team would definitely shrink into the harbor and dare not fight, but to his surprise, they saw a huge black shadow on the sea in the distance.

There is no doubt that this must be a large fleet, and in this sea area, it is impossible to have another fleet of such a large scale other than the fleet of the Ming Dynasty.

The Portuguese marshal was first shocked and then felt overjoyed, there was no strong country in the East at all, and there was no strong fleet, and the fleet of the Ming Dynasty really thought that his fleet could crisscross the sea? What a frog at the bottom of the well!

Now that the Ming fleet is far away from the Ming Dynasty, as long as this Ming fleet is defeated and buried at sea, then the Ming can only be trapped on land. And he will lead the powerful Portuguese fleet to blast open the door of the Ming Dynasty and monopolize the trade with the Ming Dynasty.

The Portuguese marshal immediately ordered the fleet to prepare for battle, and confidently led the fleet to meet it. Desperate to defeat this Ming fleet completely.

Just when the Portuguese marshal discovered the fleet of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Zhijie also discovered a black shadow on the sea, which was undoubtedly the fleet of the Portuguese! On the magnificent sea, the two fleets were able to meet head-on, and I have to say that this is the will of heaven.

Zhang Zhijie exhaled deeply, the real challenge finally came, looking back at the sailors around him, they were all high-spirited and had no fear.

In the past few years, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty has flourished, and the sailors have never lost at sea, so even in the face of the powerful Portuguese fleet, they are still full of confidence and high morale.

Zhang Zhijie said in a deep voice: "Pass the order, all warships are ready to fight!" In fact, even if Zhang Zhijie didn't give the order, all the warships found a huge black shadow in the distance, and they all knew that the big war was coming.

The generals on the warships began to shout, "The little ones are coming, the foreigners' warships are coming!" Give Lao Tzu a prestige! If anyone is cowardly, Lao Tzu will chop him up and send him to the palace! ”

The ships began to get busy, the sailors carefully steered the ships to maintain the rhythm, and the soldiers began to sort out the ammunition, check the guns and guns, and make all kinds of preparations before the battle!

(End of chapter)