Here in Quanzhou, Yang Fan's fleet set sail again, this time, but it was full of food and baggage. The big box was finally lifted out. Hearing the movement, a voice finally came from inside, "Let me out, suffocate Lao Tzu!" ”

Yang Fan put his hands behind his back, looked at the fat man who came out of the box, and said, "How about it, I'll take you out of Quanzhou." The fat man stood in the box, looked at the coast, and his face immediately changed as if he were turning a book. Originally, when I was knocked out of the restaurant, I thought that I was discovered by those family members, and I knocked on a stuffy stick and kidnapped him, but I didn't think about it, so I went to sea.

"The grace of the lord to the small reinvention, the small one cannot be repaid!" It's not too much to pat on the back, the fat man is called a flattery, and he can't wait to kneel at Yang Fan's feet and lick it a few times. However, Yang Fan didn't have that kind of bad taste, so he asked a dead fat man to kneel and lick it, and said: "Don't pat yourself on the back, let's talk about the situation in Malacca first, so as not to get into trouble when you get it." ”

"Malacca now, it's a mess. It was controlled by those Westerners, and it is said that it has been a hundred years, and there is the Governor's Palace, which is the marshal of Portugal. The original sultan established a dynasty in the state of Forjo and always wanted to retake Malacca from the hands of those Westerners, so he continued to fight. At the same time, the Aceh Dynasty on the Sumatra side was also involved, and the three forces were mixed, attacking each other, and it was a mess. ”

"Is there a problem with our fleet going to Malacca?" Yang Fan didn't want to stay in Malacca for too long, so he had to continue to go south and seize that fertile land. Ma Fatzi said: "This is not a problem, as long as they are not targeted by those Westerners, those indigenous people of Malacca will not have any wrong thoughts." And, sir, half of the people over there are our Han Chinese, during the Chengzu period, the sultan at that time went to Beijing to see the court, and then paid tribute every year, but after the Chenghua period, I didn't come and go, and I also came to Malacca with my grandparents. ”

"So, the waterway is now controlled by Westerners, right?"

"That's right, sir." Ma Fatzi's eyes rolled, "I haven't eaten since yesterday." Sir, you see...... Isn't it time for us to eat? ”

Sun Yi said: "You know how to eat, I ate half a table of dishes yesterday, and I still can't fill your stomach?" ”

"Filled? It's another thing to be well-fed. "When it comes to eating, the fat man is energetic. Look at you, this little brother, although it seems that there are so many taels of meat, at first glance, you usually eat too little, you have to learn from me, a meal of a chicken, then you can grow meat.

Sun Yi, who was said by the fat man to have so many taels of meat, was speechless, please, if you really look like you, is there still a human being?

"And this little brother, like a thin monkey, when the sea breeze blows, it won't blow away? Come on, come back to the house quickly, lest the wind blow you away. Ma Fatzi talked nonsense, and Yang Fan was a little speechless when he heard it.

"If you want to eat, you can mark the forces on the Malacca side on this map first." Yang Fan shook over a hand-drawn map of the Nanyang side. Drawing a map like this, except for the slight dissimilarity of the outline, is perfect. Ma Peiwen looked at the map and said, "Isn't the lord trying to get involved in the battle for the power of Ma Liujiao?" ”

"Don't ask so much. You just have to do your part. ”

Just as a few people were still gossiping on the deck, they suddenly heard the sound of cannons in the distance. Yang Fan was taken aback and asked, "What's the matter, isn't it the order flag?" ”

"Sir, the two fleets are fighting in front!"

"What?" Yang Fan rushed to the bow of the ship and looked at it with a telescope, "It's true." "Twenty or so ships were separated by a hundred meters from each other, and on one side were the kind of three-masted galleons. This kind of sailing ship sails fast and carries a lot of cargo, and Yang Fan estimates that it is a Dutch ship. On the other side were galleons, very tall, but much slower than the three-masted fast sails.

Most of these ocean-going ships are not divided into merchant ships or war ships, and each ship has a Francophone on board, which is very effective against opponents and pirates. Otherwise, this voyage will give the pirates something robbery on the way, so what is the strength of tossing.

From the telescope, it can be seen that these twenty fast sailing ships obviously have a great advantage, the shells are separated by 100 meters, and they belong to the Age of Discovery, and the speed and agility of the ships determine whether they can avoid the fatal blow of the shells. The distance between the fleets is very large, otherwise they will be piled together, and a cannonball will come over, and if it does not blow up the east ship, it will blow up the west ship. Such a dynamic naval battle only began to take shape in the Age of Discovery.

There is no positioning, no mathematical modeling, and no radar, and the gunners' hits depend entirely on actual combat experience and luck. Of course, this kind of wooden ship is also very fragile, and it is basically blown to the vital point, which is the life of the sunken ship. Yang Fan didn't dare to be careless at all, and said: "Inform the fleet, slow down the ship, turn the rudder, and go around behind the butt of the three-masted fast sail, and all the treasure ships will stay on the east side to protect the merchant ships." ”

More than forty ships quickly changed formation, and the fifteen Zheng He treasure ships approached the side of the three-masted fast sail in case of accidents. The gunners on the ship, under the command of Yang Fan, were fully prepared for a counterattack. The fat man carried the lid of the box on his back, shrunk behind Yang Fan like a fat king, and muttered, "Mom, this is about to start?" Sir, you're really gutsy, that's ...... Is this going to be done with these foreigners? ”

"I'm prepared. We found them, and they must have seen us. If we continue to sail head-on, it is inevitable that our guns will go wrong, and the lives of hundreds of people in our dozens of ships will be counted as one ship. To go around from the back is to make our position clear and not to conflict with them. ”

"Then why did the gentleman order the gunner to prepare?" Li Yuhuan asked. "It's all said to be prepared. By the time we sailed past, we estimated that the pair of galleons had almost been defeated. We'll go over to them again, and if the three-masted fast-sail cannonballs come at us, we'll be left without food. So for the sake of safety, it is better to bypass from the other side. ”

In the winter, the fat man was still sweating, carrying the box cover in one hand and wiping the sweat with the other. "I said fatty, you are so afraid of death, you will go to the cabin, don't stand here blindly, lest such a big man be hit by a cannonball." Sun Yi teased.

"You know what. In case the ship sank, it would be a matter of minutes. I'm standing on the deck to run for my life! Bah, what sinks, what doesn't sink! The fat man gave himself a slap in the face. The flotilla slowly headed to the east, less than three hundred meters away from the three-masted fast sailing flotilla.