The Ming court is paying attention to the South Seas, although they all say that Portugal is only a small overseas country, but through Zhou Zhong they all know that Portugal's maritime strength is also very amazing, although the Ming navy is making rapid progress, but if you are not careful, there is also the possibility of defeat.

It is precisely because of Zhou Chong's words that the court is a little worried about the war situation in Nanyang, after all, with the development of maritime trade in recent years, the important position of Nanyang has been highlighted, especially the rich products of Nanyang, which has a huge attraction to the Ming Dynasty, so no one wants to see Nanyang lose now.

However, compared to those anxious ministers, Zhou Zhong lived a more leisurely life, because he knew that there would definitely be nothing wrong with the Nanyang side, after all, his hard work in the past few years has not been in vain, not to mention anything else, just the two Nanyang detachments stationed in Malacca and the old port are not vegetarians, unless the Portuguese can send more than sixty warships at one time, otherwise don't want to take Malacca down, and according to Zhou Chong's understanding, the Portuguese naval strength in the Indian Ocean has not exceeded thirty warships, So he wasn't worried at all.

But it's one thing not to worry, it's another thing to say in the court, the reason why he is alarmist and says that the situation in Nanyang is so serious, in fact, there are two plans, the first is to let the court consider the serious consequences of losing Nanyang, after all, the Ming court did not make much effort to incorporate Nanyang into the territory, all of them were Zhou Zhong with a group of people busy work, so for the imperial court, Nanyang is too easy to get, and what is too easy to get will not be cherished, It is just the right opportunity to let them understand the importance of Nanyang.

In addition, the situation in Nanyang is more serious, after Wang Shouren and they defeated the Portuguese in the future, so that it can be shown that their achievements are not easy, so that the reward of the court will be heavier in the future, and the common means of inviting merit used by the frontier ministers is still learned by Zhou Zhong from Shenying.

Wang Shouren and the others did not live up to their trust, two months after they first received the news of the Portuguese invasion. The report of the war came from Nanyang again, and the first time it was sent was a document of victory, Wang Shouren personally sat in Malacca, and almost completely annihilated the invading Portuguese fleet in the Strait of Malacca. Of these, sixteen were sunk, six surrendered, and only three Portuguese ships escaped wounded back to Goa, India.

For the results reported by Wang Shouren, Zhou Chong was a little unbelievable at first, after all, the strength of the Portuguese is not weak, although Zhou Chong believed that Wang Shouren could repel the opponent's attack, but it was difficult to annihilate the Portuguese warships like last time, but he didn't expect Wang Shouren to surprise himself, only three of the twenty-five warships escaped, which was a very brilliant result. It's just that the detailed battle report hasn't been sent yet, so Zhou Chong doesn't know how Wang Shouren fought for the time being?

A few days later, the results of the battle written by Wang Shouren were finally delivered, and this time the Sihai Governor's Mansion dispatched a total of two fleets, namely the Nanyang Detachment led by Qu Lie and Shen Zhou. One by one, the enemy cut off the retreat of the Portuguese, and set up an ambush in the narrowest section of the Strait of Malacca, which resulted in the Portuguese fleet being unable to advance or retreat, and finally collapsed under the front and rear attacks.

However, the Portuguese were still very tenacious, and even if the fleet was scattered, most of the warships still chose to fight to the death. It is estimated that this is also the same as the previous Zhou Chong captured so many Portuguese, but in the end he refused to let Portugal redeem them, but used them as slaves, which made the Portuguese soldiers still choose to resist to the end knowing that they were invincible, after all, for them. Even dying in battle is better than being a slave for the rest of your life.

It is precisely because of this that the number of Portuguese warships sunk in the end reached sixteen, and the remaining six warships were also beaten and lost the ability to resist, and finally they were captured by the Ming Dynasty, and the remaining three were under the desperate cover of other warships. Only then did he break out of the encirclement and flee back to India.

This naval battle in the Strait of Malacca is known as the "Battle of Malacca" in history, which is also the first real naval battle between the East and the West.

The Battle of Malacca ended with the victory of the Ming side, but under this brilliant result, the two Ming Nanyang detachments that participated in the war also paid a lot of price, after all, this is a real naval battle after the Nanyang Fleet was formed, so Qu Lie and Shen Zhou took this naval battle as a test for themselves, after the naval battle began, both sides took out the greatest strength to fight head-on, and as a result, among the fifty battleships that participated in the final, ten battleships were sunk, and twelve battleships were heavily damaged, and they had to be pulled back to the shipyard for overhaul, The remaining dozens of battleships were also traumatized to varying degrees.

But fortunately, in the end, the Ming Dynasty won the naval battle, and it was the home battle, so although the battleship sank a lot, most of the soldiers on the sunken battleship were saved, so although the loss of the battleship was large, the loss of personnel was not very much, which was also a blessing in misfortune, and after these soldiers were tested in actual combat, they would definitely be able to go one step further in the future and become the elite division of the Ming Navy.

When Zhou Zhong received the war report from the South Seas, he was overjoyed for a while, after eliminating this Portuguese fleet, there was no Portuguese army on the Indian side, and then Wang Shouren and they sent troops into the Indian Ocean, not seeking to completely occupy there, but to completely occupy several Portuguese port strongholds along the coast of India, so that the Portuguese had to withdraw from India.

"Great, this battle has hit the morale of my Daming, Wang Shouren and Shen Ying both need to be rewarded!" In the leopard room, Zhengde patted the war report from Nanyang with an excited face.

"Brother Huang, the reward is still secondary, now most of the Portuguese forces in India have been wiped out by us, the stronghold on the Indian side is in the weakest period, just a good opportunity for us to send troops to pick fruits, if we can control a few ports on the Indian side, then it will not only be beneficial to our maritime trade, but also earn greater benefits, such as ivory, gems and other commodities on the Indian side, which are very popular in our Daming!" Zhou Zhong said with a smile, he has long been greedy for the interests of India, not to mention anything else, just a Sri Lankan gem gives him enough reason to send troops.

Zhengde is not a good bully, as the son of heaven of the Ming Dynasty, known as the lord of the world, but he has been provoked by the Portuguese several times, which is simply a violation of the majesty of the Ming Dynasty, so Zhengde does not have any good impression of the Portuguese, and now he hears that Zhou Zheng knocked out the Portuguese stronghold in India, which makes him very happy and said: "Okay, it should be like this, I will give Wang Shouren and them an order, let them do it even if they let it go, and a small Portugal will not be able to make any big waves!" ”

praised Wang Shouren and Shen Ying a few words, Zhengde did not forget the merits of the younger brother in Nanyang, after all, Wang Shouren and they used to follow Zhou Chong, and Nanyang can have the current situation, Zhou Chong can be said to be indispensable, so Zhengde praised Wang Shouren and them for a few words, and Zhou Chong also rewarded Zhou Chong from the court, but Zhou Chong is already a prince, so he can only reward some more property and land, and Zhou Chong did not refuse this, after all, if he does not accept it, Wang Shouren and those people will not dare to accept it.

"Second brother, although Wang Shouren and they fought well this time, but you have always been in charge of the Nanyang side, especially now that they are going to send troops to India, I am worried that Wang Shouren and they have no experience in this area, so the affairs of the Nanyang side, second brother, you also bother more, if you have any ideas, just let Zhang Yong draft a holy decree and send it over, lest they do good things into bad things!" Zhengde finally spoke suddenly.

However, Zhou Chong heard this but he smiled bitterly, Zhang Yong is the eunuch of the palm seal of the celebrant eunuch, and Zhengde's holy decrees are all issued from him, but the only person who can make Zhang Yong's holy decree is Zhengde, but now Zhengde has given this power to himself, although it is only a matter of guiding the ocean, but it is too shocking.

"Brother Huang, I will naturally pay attention to Nanyang from time to time, if you have any ideas, I will also discuss with you in time, if Brother Huang thinks it is feasible, it is not too late to let people draft a decree, there is no need to let my brother go to Zhang Yong to draft a decree." Zhou Zhong reluctantly refused, not to mention that he can't agree now, even if he agrees without knowing the sky, I'm afraid that he will soon be impeached by the imperial history headed by his father-in-law Wang Lun, and he doesn't want to fight with those imperial historians who are bent on leaving a name in history.

Seeing that Zhou Zhong was reluctant to directly intervene in the government, Zhengde said with a smile: "Second brother, what else do we brothers share, your words are my words, anyway, my father and emperor only have our two sons, you see that I am busy with government affairs every day, and I don't even have time to rest, and you, as a younger brother, should also share a little for my brother!" ”

Zhengde is now more and more faceless and skinless, he is usually busy, but he is busy playing all over the place, such as the billiards and badminton table that Zhou Chong dedicated to him, Zhengde plays almost every day, and the football that has developed into rugby, is Zhengde's favorite, and Jiang Bin and others formed a royal rugby team, it is said that he has played all over the military academy without opponents, if it were not for his special identity, it is estimated that Zhengde has taken the rugby team to participate in the rugby game in Beijing.

However, when Zhou Zhong saw Zhengde once again propose to let him share government affairs, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, and vaguely seemed to have guessed something?