On the afternoon of June 4, 1641, the Sea Blue, loaded with coal and supplies necessary for sea voyages, officially set sail from Batavia, aiming for Quanzhou, Fujian, Zheng Zhilong's hometown. As the white plume of smoke that faded into the sea became smaller and smaller, Van Dimen smiled heartily. It's like you've found a treasure.

On the route from Batavia to Daming, a hardwood sailboat was heading in the direction of Daming with the wind, and suddenly a few beeping whistles came from behind him, which made the originally happy Zheng family spy leader Sanye, couldn't help but frown, his heart was not good, and the Australians caught up.

"Third master, look, the string of smoke columns behind us, the Australian giant ship has caught up, I'm afraid it will run ahead of us." A crew member shouted, as if he was afraid that the third master would not see it, and deliberately pointed to the back, without meaning to put it down.

snapped, and the third master slapped it hard: "When I'm blind, I still want you to say." At this time, the third master's heart was very irritable, but he didn't expect to be chased by the Australians, not to mention how bad it was, and all kinds of speculations suddenly appeared in his heart, could it be that Australia found himself and others, so he caught up.

"No, no, the Australians shouldn't have found out, there must be some other reason." The third master said to himself, and the crew members who had been slapped by him around him didn't dare to say much, so they just stood there stupidly and looked at him.

"Erdan, it seems that we have been exposed."

"No, third master, we are so secret in Bacheng, no one knows our identity at all, how can this Australian find out, isn't there an inner ghost among us." Is this man called Erdan also an extremely smart person, and immediately thought of whether someone inside had told the news to the Australian elder.

"It's hard to say, maybe it's really a guy who eats inside and out, in short, it's too late to say anything now, I don't know if this Australian old man is ready to deal with us." Looking at the blue number that was getting closer and closer, the third master had a feeling of powerlessness, like an ant pinched in his hand without the power to resist.

On the Sea Blue, everyone has already discovered the sailboat in front, if they don't change the course slightly in time at this time and drive over like this, it is certain that even if the sailboat in front is not crushed, it will be overturned by the waves of the Sea Blue.

"The ship in front is the Zheng family's messenger ship, and it went to sea early this morning." Liu Yun, who was holding a telescope and observing the sea in front of him, said like everyone.

"Then drive over and sink it."

"That's not good, although each has its own master, but after all, it is also a lot of lives."

"They are members of the Zheng family, what's wrong with saying that most of the Zheng family's subordinates are pirates, and they do a lot of murder and trading, so don't have a psychological burden."

"Then there may be children and women on board, we can't be so cruel, and they don't pose a threat to us."

In the wheelhouse, everyone was arguing fiercely about whether to sink the sailboat in front of them, and the situation could not be discussed for several hours.

Wang Tiehammer, who had been silent, suddenly spoke: "Go 35 degrees to the left and inform all the soldiers on the ship not to attack that ship." ”

"Yes, General." A Navy soldier replied yes and ran to the rear.

When they saw the Sea Blue sailing quickly on their left, the third master and the others on the sailboat finally breathed a sigh of relief, looking at this situation, I am afraid that the Australian old man did not find us, it seems that there are ghosts in us. The third master thought in his heart, he finally picked up the lives of the two of them, or he would not fall apart directly if such a big iron ship collided.

At this time, Sanye and the others seemed to have experienced a life and death, everyone was in a daze, and finally knew what it meant to be immeasurable, compared with Australia, even if they left a few hours earlier, people just took an hour to catch up with you, and even threw you to the rear.

The third master already had a bad premonition in his heart, maybe this time the family was about to meet an opponent, I am afraid it would not be so easy to solve this matter.

In addition to watching the scenery along the way, the staff of the Ministry of Land and Resources on board did not forget to take out white paper and notebooks to record the scenery along the way and draw a map.

In the early morning of the next day, when the Sea Blue was getting closer and closer to Manila, the city defense officer of Manila also seemed to have discovered the giant ship that appeared on the sea not far away, and quickly sounded the alarm bell, as if it was a great enemy invasion, although the Spaniards in Luzon also had business dealings with Australia, but after all, there were only a few people who had seen the Australian giant ship, and the number of voyages on the Sea Blue in Canada was also only a handful.

Just when the battle between the two sides was about to be triggered, I don't know which Spanish merchant who had the honor of being on the Sea Blue casually mentioned this. This is the Australian Megaship.

Hearing this, the governor of Luzon and a cadre of officers finally breathed a sigh of relief, after all, the Australians had already told them to teach the Zheng family a lesson, so they also specially purchased a batch of coal in Luzon and stacked it at the dock now.

It's just that what they didn't expect was that it was rumored that the giant ship was very large, the size of a hill, but after all, they didn't see it with their own eyes and didn't know the reality.

Although their nervous mood relaxed a lot, but looking at the way the Sea Blue looked, it seemed that they did not plan to enter the port of Manila, and sure enough, twenty minutes later, the Sea Blue did not enter the port, but headed in the direction of Daming.

"We have to get to Macau this evening." In the conference room of the Sea Blue, Wang Tiehammer commanded.

"Tonight! Lao Wang, are you too anxious, I'm afraid the machine can't stand it. You Nanzhe sighed for a while, this old king is too anxious, it is barely reasonable not to enter Manila to rest and replenish, if it goes on at this speed, will this machine be so loaded!

"Why, there will be a problem with the machine." Wang Tiehammer asked with a majestic face.

"Lao Wang, let me tell you the truth, there is no problem with this ship running the regular twenty-three twenty-four or twenty-five, if you continue to run around the clock until twenty-seven knots, the machine will not be able to stand it, after all, the materials we use cannot be compared with later generations, and there is still a huge difference in both wear resistance and heat resistance."

"Then according to what you say, we should go to Manila Port for a night's rest, now you say that this is not some afterthought, it is not a waste of coal in vain when you run back, if you let people in China know, you will not point at our nose and scold the loser." Wang Tiehammer rolled his eyes and said angrily.

"I can't say that, I saw that you were anxious, so I didn't say it, now we can reduce the speed to an average of twenty knots, and the machine will basically have no problem."

"Okay, just listen to you, the speed will be reduced to twenty knots per hour," Wang Tiehammer replied a little helplessly, after all, this ship is not as good as before, don't be in a hurry and can't eat hot tofu, that's a bad thing.