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"Emperor Sejong of the Ming Dynasty Wu Wangjiao, since the 32nd year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty, the Portuguese came by boat, and the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty took pity on the labor of his journey of thousands of miles, and sympathized with the pain of his wandering, so he rewarded and rented a place in Macao for his residence, which is actually the mercy of Emperor Sejong, and the tolerance of my Ming Dynasty, and now it has been more than a hundred years, but you do not think about the grace of my Ming Dynasty, and collude with the Tartars, and even openly attacked my Ming Navy warship a few days ago, which is really ungrateful and extremely evil, so it is officially said that you will cancel your right of residence from today, Those who leave Macao within 72 hours will be expelled by force.

Yang Feng, King of Wu, the Ming Dynasty.

August 6, 75th year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Yan Min, a servant of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ming Empire, held the holy decree issued by Prince Yang in his hand and said solemnly.

"Damn, why are we leaving, what right do you have to want us to go!"

Macau's Governor-General Shi Kina roared angrily.

"Your Excellency the Governor, you are just renting Macao to live, just like a tenant who has rented someone else's house, please don't think of yourself as the owner of the house, this is still my Ming territory, you just rent it here for five hundred taels of silver a year, and you have been owing us more than fifty years of rent, even if there is no one of your warships to attack us, as the master of this place, we should also ask you to leave, as for whether you say we have power, I think those behind me can tell you the answer to this question."

Yan Min said with a sneer.

On the sea behind him, a total of fifteen battleships and cruisers, including three eighty-gun battleships, were lined up on the sea, aiming at this side with the muzzles of black holes.

Because Dingzhen Erhai and four cruisers have escorted the fleet to Jinzhou, and the Zhuyuan is about to go to the Americas, so this time the South Ocean Fleet is not all dispatched, but even so, it is enough, after all, there is only one Portuguese warship here, and there are several armed merchant ships, but in addition to them, eight warships and armed merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company are also here, of course, according to the Dutch......

"Although we are here to resupply, but Your Excellency, as a friend of the Ming Dynasty and an ally of the Kingdom of Portugal, can we say a few words?"

This was stated by the commander of the Dutch fleet, Mock.

"I can't."

Yan Min said with a smile.

"Your Excellency General, I'm not here to negotiate, I'm just ordered to come and inform them to leave the Ming Territory, so whatever you want to say, please don't open your mouth."

Then he added.

"I want you to understand that the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Kingdom of Portugal are allies who fight side by side, and although our main battlefield is in Europe, in Asia, we also have an obligation to help our allies when they are threatened."

Mock said.

That's a very immediate threat.

"So do you want us to be allies with the French?"

Yan Min said unceremoniously.

"Huh?!"

Mock grieved for a moment.

"Your Excellency, you still have seventy-two hours, and if you don't leave after seventy-two hours, then we will open fire, and besides, no other illusions, in fact, as far as I am concerned, I very much hope that you will resist, and then we will have enough free labor in our mines."

Yan Min smiled and turned to leave.

Behind him, Shikina and Mork looked at each other.

"Your Excellency the Governor, prepare for battle! These damn guys really need to be taught a lesson, or their prince will get an inch, and if we show weakness, he'll then reach out to Southeast Asia, and we have to show him that it's not about doing whatever he wants on this sea, and we're going to fight with you this time. ”

Mock said.

The order he received was indeed to help the Portuguese resist Yang Feng, of course, not because the two sides were allies in Europe, in fact, in Asia they were not only not allies, but also major competitors, but now they had to put all this aside, they had to work side by side. Yang Feng's strength has swelled too fast, especially those Ming merchants are more and more fond of running out, and now they are already doing business in the Middle East and other places, and they are also going to open up European routes, and they have just sent colonial troops to New Netherland, and even Ming merchants are also doing spice business with those sultans in the East Indies, all of which indicate that this prince is leading his subjects on the road of colonization.

And now he only occupies a very small piece of land, and if he occupies the whole of China, will there be anyone else alive in this Asia?

This time he had to be slapped in the face.

Beat his arrogance down, let him know who is the master of this sea, who is the real sea hegemon, and at the same time take the opportunity to test his strength, if he can defeat the Ming army this time, then he might as well take the opportunity to occupy Taiwan again, in the final analysis, they are still full of desire for Taiwan.

"Understood."

Shikina said.

He didn't care about going to war, although the Portuguese and Dutch armies could use relatively few warships, but at this time, the defense of Macao had already been perfected, the St. Paul's Fort, the A-Ma Fort, and the Songshan Fort had already been built, and there were thousands of troops and armed civilians, enough to fight the Ming army, not to mention that they also had other allies.

"Toji-sama, you're the true guardian of this place, aren't you?"

Shikina smiled and said to a person not far away.

Well, there was a Qing garrison here.

In fact, Macau really became a colony a long time later, from the Ming Dynasty when the Portuguese came here, they rented here at a rent of several hundred taels of silver a year, but this is still under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty Xiangshan County Order, and even the army is stationed here, collecting taxes, in addition to the Portuguese crimes are also Xiangshan County Decree to trial, and now Kang Mazi is still managing Macao in this way, the Ming Dynasty was a general, and now there is also a former cottage of Du Si and Qian Zong stationed in Zhuhai.

"Don't worry, as long as you hold on for two days, the army in Guangzhou will arrive."

Nadusi said proudly with a proud face as he held his waist knife.

"That's fine!"

Shikina said with a smile.

Seventy-two hours passed quickly, and none of the Portuguese left, but the Dutch fleet and their warships formed a fleet, and sailed out of the port of Macau to set up a battle line in the waters north of Taipa Island.

Macao's defense system is not complicated, the A-Ma Fort guards the mouth of the bay, the St. Paul's Fort guards the main city, and the Guia Songshan Fort guards the back road, the three forts are each other's horns and support each other, the Ming army wants to fight Macao, the first must kill the Portuguese-Dutch fleet, and the Matsuyama and A-Ma Fort can provide support for this fleet. Even if the Ming army killed the Portuguese-Dutch fleet, they had to open the A-Ma Fort before they could enter the port, and then face the St. Paul's Fort, in fact, Macau had experienced many wars before this, and most of them were fought with the Dutch, so both Mok and Shikina were very confident.

In the end, the Portuguese are just tenants, they are the landlords, they are the real fear that the Ming army will reach out to Guangdong, even if they are to fulfill their duties as local officials, they must come to defend Macao, as long as they can hold out for two days, tens of thousands of Qing troops will rush to reinforcements.

So it's really not that hard.

And because of the draft problem, the three terrifying three-deck battleships of the Ming army could only scare people in the open sea, because even if the Portuguese invited them to Macao, they would not be able to drive in, only those battleships and cruisers with more than 40 guns could drive in, so that the battle would be easier.

"Did you calculate it?"

On the battleship Weihai, Luo Zhang asked his chief of staff, who was lying on the map with several staff officers, accurately calculating the data, while the observers in the hot air balloon in the sky were constantly lowering the bottles containing the hand-drawn maps with thin lines to supplement their data.

"That's it."

said the chief of staff.

"The cruiser fleet blocks the enemy fleet, if the enemy ship fires, it will be sunk, no need to talk to them, just use a type of shell, the battlefleet aims at Macao, fire at me!"

Luo Zhang said unceremoniously.

On the second deck of the battleship Weihai, there were twelve 24-pound guns and three 40-pound guns on the port side, and at the same time raised the elevation angle to the limit, and then in the roar of the gunner's fire, those gunners pulled the gun rope one after another, and in the barrel of the cast steel rifled gun, the gas expansion force of gunpowder burning instantly made the tail of the butt of the lead-tin alloy expand open, and directly stuck the rifling in the barrel, and then according to the rifling trajectory, the shell filled with gunpowder in front of it rotated and flew out, and roared into the sky in the flames of the muzzle spray, Upon reaching the apex of the projectile, it immediately dives down and smashes into the ground.

On the St. Paul's Fortress, Skina stared at the sky dumbfounded, and then bowed his head at the roaring sound, and a small building near St. Paul's Cathedral suddenly fell apart in the flames of the explosion.

"Damn, can anyone tell me why their cannons can hit six thousand yards?"

His Excellency the Governor broke down and screamed.

Mo Ke on the sea was also stupid, he looked at the rising fires in Macau, suddenly came to his senses, and hurriedly shouted loudly: "Attack, attack, rush up and close the distance, fire with all your might!" ”

All the Portuguese-Dutch warships that had been lying across the sea immediately turned and rushed straight towards the Ming battlefleet in columns, and at the same time, the Ming cruisers, which were also marching south in columns, were approaching, and the two fleets were staggered less than two miles apart in the sea east of Macao. At the moment when the lead ship of the Ming army and the lead ship of the Portuguese-Dutch fleet were almost parallel to each other, the two battleships were on the side, and the flames at all the gun doors were shining one after another, and in the smoke of gunpowder, one after another shells whistled and staggered across the sea, and each hit its own target in the blink of an eye.

Sawdust flew on the Ming cruiser.

But the small Dutch 40-gun battleship was full of fireworks like fireworks. (To be continued.) )