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On the Zhenwu and Baiyue ships facing the coast on the side side, four 80-pound cannons suddenly erupted into flames, and the huge cannonballs pierced the air and instantly smashed on the fortress of the Dutch, and the explosions of fire continued to rise, and the fragments of countless buildings scattered and splashed in the firelight.

And the fortress is in dilapidation.

Burning fires and billowing smoke enveloped its wreckage.

Behind it, the port of Colombo was shrouded in the same fire and smoke, and on the other side of the harbor, small boats full of Ming infantry were rowing to the shore, the first soldiers had landed, and less than 2,000 improvised Dutch armed men were trying to counterattack them, but they were crushed by the explosion of falling shells, and even those that slipped through the net fell in the storm of bullets from the Ming rifles.

"This is the European powers?"

Luo Zhang stood on the deck of the Weihai and sneered at this scene.

At his feet, dozens of forty-pound and twenty-four-pound guns of this battleship were constantly roaring, and the dense cannonballs were whistling and smashing down on the Dutch fortress, and the same battleships were lined up on the sea before and after him to do the same work, the flames fired by the cannonballs continued to shoot out, and the smoke filled the sea, and the figures of the towering giant ships in the smoke looked extremely magnificent, and compared with their strength, the Dutch's counterattack could almost be ignored, and the weak cannons were not like resistance, but like welcoming robes.

And this is the European power, and this is the power that can be said to be the second in Europe after the United Kingdom.

In front of the Ming Navy......

It's like a wild dog with no way out.

"General, the British are coming!"

At this time, an officer said.

Luo Zhang turned his head, and a huge fleet of more than a dozen battleships was gradually becoming clear on the sea in the distance, and the red and white striped flags on the masts were fluttering.

This is the fleet of the British East India Company.

"Tell them to keep a distance of three nautical miles, otherwise don't blame us for being polite."

Luo Zhang said.

The officer immediately saluted, and then told the signalman to send the order out in the flag.

The flag language used by the Ming army is actually three digital codes, respectively, with the hand flag to type up to ten numbers, and then pick a thousand commonly used Chinese characters according to the arrangement of ten pages and ten lines of crosses into a booklet, here look at the number of words checked, it is very simple, and some common phrases are fixed numbers, even if you are illiterate, you can write down. It just can't be read directly like the English flag, but the problem is that there is no English universal flag on the sea now, the British made it up at the end of the eighteenth century, and Yang Feng's set can be used although it is troublesome, because the British East India Company mainly trades with China, so it has already been learned. In fact, this set of flag languages is becoming the standard in the seas of Asia, and many sailors from other countries who do not know Chinese characters can read the meaning of those commonly used flag languages, and as for the flag language book of Chinese characters and the translation of Chinese characters, it is also becoming the standard for merchant ships.

After seeing the flag issued from this side, the British were not very pretentious, and happily stopped the ship three nautical miles away, and then a small frigate following sailed over.

"Your Excellency, we hope that you and the Dutch will stop the war and settle their differences through negotiations, because your war has seriously affected the interests of our British East India Company, and Colombo is not only Dutch, there are many British here, and your shelling will cause a large number of innocent British casualties."

The British envoy who was picked up on the Weihai said righteously.

"Mr. Hall, Ceylon is a subject country of my Ming Dynasty, and this is the territory of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, how did I not know that His Majesty the Emperor allowed you to live in Ceylon? Since our Emperor His Majesty has not allowed it, you are as illegal invaders in Ceylon as the Dutch, and are not an invader entitled to demand that we take care of his interests? ”

Luo Zhang said.

"Well, Your Excellency the Admiral, how did I not know that Ceylon belonged to the Ming Dynasty?"

Hall said.

"I have been in the seventh year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, that is, in the year 1409 of your Western calendar, Zheng He had captured the king of Ceylon when he went to the West for the third time, and two years later he was captured by His Majesty Emperor Chengzu, and since then Ceylon has officially surrendered to my Ming Dynasty, which you don't know is understandable, after all, you were still fighting a hundred years war with the French at that time. But now I can officially inform you that Ceylon is the territory of my Ming Empire, and I hope that you will respect the territory and sovereignty of our country in the future, and as for you in Colombo, I can only say sorry, we are not obliged to stop fighting for your mistakes. ”

Luo Zhang said.

"Your Excellency, but as you said, we don't know what to do."

Hall said.

"Yes! You are forgivable for not punishing you for this and asking you for compensation, but it is a pity that we have caused your people to be injured in the process of expelling the Dutch invaders, after all, it is not our mistake! ”

Luo Zhang said.

"Huh?!"

Hall was dumbfounded.

"Your Excellency, if this is the case, we have an obligation to protect our people."

Then he said with a gloomy face.

"What do you want to do is your freedom, but if you dare to set foot on the land of my Daming, then it means war, and you have actually entered my Daming's territorial waters, you didn't know before, so we can not be pursued, but I now officially inform you, leave my Daming's territorial waters immediately, otherwise we will be expelled, in addition, I also need to remind you that the boundary of my Daming's territorial waters is a hundred nautical miles beyond the territory of the Ming Dynasty, including the islands."

Luo Zhang said.

"Damn, why are you so decided?"

Hall shouted out in a gaffe.

"Why? Isn't it enough that this is what His Majesty the Emperor has decreed? ”

Luo Zhang said.

Well, this outrageous territorial sea range is indeed determined by Yang Feng, and now there is no recognized division of territorial waters, and even if there is, it is useless, anyway, it is he who has the final say on his own territory, not to mention a hundred nautical miles, even a thousand nautical miles is just a touch of his mouth, and the sea of Daming is also the length of one minute of latitude, which is also proposed by Yang Feng, basically 1,852 meters, anyway, at this time he is still dragging the rope to calculate the knots, and his sea division is at least more scientific.

And this 100-nautical-mile territorial sea ......

Well, according to Yang Feng's standard, the island is also extended 100 nautical miles, which means that starting from the south of Myanmar, along the Andaman Islands to the south through Sumatra, Java, Timor, and New Guinea, and then to the north, he will definitely rob the Philippines, so that the Philippines will also be calculated in advance, and then to Taiwan, then to the north of the Ryukyus, and then to Sakhalin Island and then to Kamchatka, he will connect the entire territorial waters of the Ming Dynasty, and the distance between the two islands in this series of places can exceed 370 kilometers.

Since the outside is the territorial waters of the Ming Dynasty, it must be the inland sea inside, and it is impossible for the ship to fly through the territorial waters of the Ming Dynasty anyway, that is to say, he can define the Sea of Okhotsk, the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea, the South China Sea, the Celebes Sea, the Banda Sea, the Java Sea, and the Burma Sea as the Ming Inland Sea.

It is indeed very arrogant.

But that's it.

Who has an opinion?

"These scoundrels!"

Davis, the commander of the fleet of the East India Company, said indignantly.

"Admiral, what shall we do?"

Hall said equally sadly.

"What should I do?"

Davis also had a headache.

Speaking of the army, the Dutch were wiped out to the British East India Company, it was completely unprepared, in their design should be a lose-lose, the Ming army did have a higher level of technology, but the Dutch had more warships, greater tonnage, and the flowering bombs they sold, so that the comparison was basically evenly matched, and then a bloody battle in the end, no matter who lost or won, they were all fishermen's profits, because the winning side must also be a miserable victory, and finally the boss of the Asian seas became them.

And that's how it turned out.

The Dutch were indeed finished, they lost completely and left nothing, and withdrew from the stage of Southeast Asia forever, but the strength of the Ming navy was not only not weakened, but suddenly skyrocketed, and even broke out of the Strait of Malacca into the Indian Ocean and began to attack Ceylon.

Once the Ming army seized Ceylon, then it would definitely use this as a springboard to continue to attack the Coromandel coast and the Marbara coast belonging to the Netherlands, and Yang Feng officially reached into India, into this vast continent that had been regarded as forbidden by the British, and this was absolutely not allowed by the British East India Company.

Although the British East India Company has been making money over the years by virtue of the Ming and European trade, but in recent years, the Ming merchants have also been encroaching on the British East India market with the support of Yang Feng, and now there is no one in Southeast Asia who cooperates with the East India Company, whether it is through those Ming merchants, even the Middle East and Africa have become the dumping markets of these Ming merchants.

The British East India Company was able to barely survive in India, and even the Burmese market was now on the verge of being lost.

If Yang Feng puts his hand into India again......

Then the British East India Company is still playing!

But if you fight, it is also very difficult to do, you must know that the East India Company is still the main partner of the Ming Dynasty in European trade, Yang Feng controls the Spice Islands, and the Ming Dynasty is a monopoly supplier of silk, porcelain and tea, and over the years, plus a variety of industrial products such as clocks, glass products, cotton cloth, etc., and even arms, most of these are shipped to Europe through the merchant ships of the East India Company, once the relationship breaks down, then Yang Feng will definitely not cooperate with them anymore.

What's more, there is no guarantee of victory.

At least it is difficult to guarantee the fleet of the East India Company, and the British Royal Navy is about the same, and more than a hundred battleships have also piled up the Ming army.

However, the Royal Navy was still busy fighting the French at this time! (To be continued.) )