Bang bang bang! Sharp gunshots rang out in the pre-dawn darkness, waking people from their sleep. "Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Screams rang out, and fear hung over everyone with sleepy eyes. Shen Yangwei commanded the musketeers to occupy the nearby high ground and steadily advance towards the enemy in a gun formation. The panicked Dutch sailors, led by their commander, were quickly routed after a little resistance, and most of the Dutch sailors chose to flee with their heads in their hands. However, there is only one route for them to escape, and that is in the direction of the bay. Dozens of Dutch sailors with swift action were diving and swimming towards their warships. However, when they were less than twenty meters away from their battleship, hundreds of guns suddenly poured out from the guardrail of the battleship's deck and shot at them. In the dark night, tongues of fire spewed and smoke filled, and the Dutch sailors who beat them were scurrying with their heads in their hands, and suffered heavy casualties. "Get on the bayonet, blow the trumpet!" The enemy was already in disarray, and most of the enemy troops who resisted head-on were killed and wounded, so Shen Yangqi immediately ordered the whole army to charge. The only two dozen Dutch officers and soldiers who were left to resist immediately gave up the idea of resistance and surrendered on their knees when they saw that the other side had launched a charge, and knew that there was a huge difference in strength. The east of the sky gradually brightened, and the battle was over. On the five battleships at the mouth of the bay, the gunners of the Pacific Fleet were already ready, but the shells were loaded but did not have a chance to fire. Shi Jianfei saw a qiē from the clairvoyant, the enemy did not have the slightest guard, and he would be slaughtered one-sidedly. "The order goes down, this island must be searched in a carpet manner, and not a single living mouth is allowed to be spared!" "Order the sentinel to go farther away, dial the nearby waters, and give the fleet an hour of warning time!" Shi Jianfei ordered again and again, make arrangements first, and then go down to join Shen Yangjiao. Here, Shen Yanglazy found Tu Ze, who knew Dutch, to interrogate the surviving Dutch captives. After interrogation, the Dutch captives confessed what had happened. It turned out that the Dutch East India Fleet and the Spanish Philippine Fleet were at war. The captains of their five warships joined forces, withdrew from the East India Fleet battle sequence, and went directly south to find the Spanish treasure fleet. Originally, there were so many islands in the vast Central Pacific Ocean that it was like looking for a needle in a haystack to find the Spanish treasure fleet. They searched for several days without hearing from each other, and just as they were about to give up, they suddenly found the Spanish treasure fleet resting. Five Dutch warships also attacked the unprepared Spanish treasure fleet. Francisco commanded three battleships to rush into battle, and the warships of both sides engaged in an exciting artillery battle. There was a fierce battle for about an hour or so, due to the windless period approaching. The wind weakened, the smoke covered the sky and the sea and could not be blown away, and the black smoke locked the sea with a small visibility of less than five meters. At this time, a Spanish battleship panicked and evaded after being shot, rammed and sank another Spanish battleship, and itself was also seriously injured, almost losing its combat effectiveness. Francisco was left with only one battleship to deal with the enemy, which was obviously not enough to cover five Dutch ships. So Francisco was ready to sacrifice these two ships and lead the two treasure ships to escape from the battlefield. But the speed of the treasure ship was too slow, and the Dutch battleship was not interested in the Spanish battleship, and stared closely at the two treasure ships without letting go. No way. Francisco had no choice but to abandon the two treasure ships and flee with a battered battleship, preparing to go back to bring in the rescuers and recapture the treasure ships. In this way, the five Dutch warships were given these two treasure ships laden with treasure, and they were in a relationship of sharing the spoils, and they had to choose to stop in the bay and take stock of their belongings. As a result, they were stranded in the Gulf when the windless period in the Central Pacific Ocean arrived. Later, because of the lack of fresh water supply, he searched for water sources everywhere, which was discovered by the Pacific Fleet. Shen Yangwei already knew what happened after that, and he didn't need them anymore. "Pull it down!" Shen Yangwei waved his hand, and the sergeants understood, and stepped forward to drag these Dutch prisoners down. "Chop off your head or shoot it!" The adjutant asked. "Give them some dignity!" Shen Yangwei said lightly: "They are all soldiers, and they can't be treated like ordinary people!" The adjutant understood, and ordered him to go down and prepare, and it was not long before all the prisoners were shot together. When Shi Jian flew over, the prisoners had already been shot, the sailors were busy disposing of the corpses of the enemy, and the sergeant was counting the treasures on the treasure ship. "I really didn't expect the duck in its mouth to fly and come back!" "yes!" Shen Yangwei smiled: "Although we have encountered some depression, our luck is not bad!" Shi Jianfei nodded, worried about the shipkeeper who counted the loot over there. How long will it take! "What are you anxious about?" Seeing Shi Jianfei's anxious face, Shen Yangwei smiled and said, "I've been waiting for many months, are you still worried about this hour?" "That's what I said!" Shi Jianfei was noncommittal, but at this time, it was difficult to control the joy and excitement in his heart. Shen Yangwei looked up at the sky and sighed, "Now that we have obtained the treasure ship, the task is completed." But God hasn't opened his eyes yet, and there is no wind so far, and our food is only one month left! "That's right! Grabbed the treasure ship, and the task was completed. I used to worry about the lack of fresh water, but now that fresh water has been found, I have to worry about food again. It's really a question on top of a question! "Why don't you send another search team and search the hundreds of nearby islands, I don't think all the islands are left unoccupied!" Shen Yangwei said: "The principal said it. There are thousands of islands in the Pacific Ocean. A lot of Kamiko post holes "survive." But we've been away from the base for months, and we don't know what's going on at home, so it's not a problem for the main fleet to be away for a long time! "That's right!" Shi Jianfei nodded, thought for a while, and suddenly said, "Then let's go back?" "Go back?" Shen Yang was lazy for a while, and then guessed: "You don't want to row back!" "Is there a better way?" Of course not! Although Shen Yangwei felt that rowing like this, it would be too embarrassing for the boat to go back, if those guys from the War Department knew about it, I was afraid that the big teeth would laugh off. Although it is a very shameless thing, it has to be done. "I hope the wind will rise when we row!" Now I can only comfort myself like this, Shen Yangwei and Shi Jianfei looked at each other and smiled bitterly. At three o'clock in the afternoon, the sergeant counted the seized treasures and reported them to the fleet command. The Spanish treasure ship carried 20 million yuan of Spanish foreign ocean, about 10 million taels of silver. It was loaded with a total weight of two tons of gold, or about 500,000 taels of silver, and a total weight of 9,470,000 taels of small silver nuggets. Together, the silver dollar, the gold bar, and the silver nugget were not much different from the estimated 20 million taels of silver. At the same time, the treasure ship also carried 40 tons of gunpowder, 30,000 arquebuses, and more than 20 artillery pieces. And a large number of shells. When Shi Jianfei and Shen Yangwei learned that the treasure ship was still carrying forty tons of gunpowder, their faces couldn't help but turn green, and they secretly sighed that they were lucky this time, if the firepower was fierce, they were afraid that they would be burned with the treasure ship. In fact, when the Spaniards were transporting gold and silver treasures, they would plant large quantities of explosives on their ships as weapons for the burning of jade. But looking at the entire history of Spain, there are very few incidents of self-immolation and self-destruction of Spanish treasure ships, the Dutch and the British have robbed hundreds of times, and the Spaniards have never done this, because the Spaniards themselves do not want to burn the jade, most of the soldiers are often instigated at critical times, and do not dare to detonate explosives at all. This, of course, refers to the treasure ships that were shipped back to mainland Spain. In the treasure fleet shipped from Mexico to the Philippines this time, this batch of gunpowder and weapons was not used for self-destruction, but for the preparation of the Philippine Governor Fernando. This Fernando is not stupid, the rise of the Ming Empire made him see danger. Although Deng Haonan promised him in every possible way that he would not threaten his Philippines, the Taiwan government was next to the Philippines, and Fernando had to prepare. In addition, after the Dutch compromised with Di Haonan, he was even more worried. The Philippines is sandwiched between the Dutch East Indies and Taiwan, and maybe one day Deng Haonan and the Dutch will reach a consensus and carve up the Philippines together. These Fernando have thought about it. After all, there are no eternal friends and no eternal enemies between countries, only eternal interests. The probability of Deng Haonan and the Dutch East India Company jointly carving up the Philippines is too great, and Fernando has to be careful. Fernando ordered the weapons from Mexico to arm the Philippine Army to defend Manila. In addition to the weapons ordered by Governor Fernando, there was also a cargo ship that the Pacific Fleet had previously intercepted, but the cargo on it belonged to the Governor of Mexico, with the aim of making a fortune in the East. After all, looking at the huge profits of the Pacific Trading Company, the Governor of Mexico was also hot. Their goods, along with the Spanish government's financial turnover to the Philippines, fell into the hands of the Pacific Fleet, which was like a time bomb, and Shi Jianfei had to send them back to the base camp as much as possible. Otherwise, if you don't get it right, you'll get into trouble. After burning the Spanish treasure ship and moving Youxidu to the battleship's cabin, Shi Jianfei decided to return to the ship no matter what. In the afternoon of the same day, Shi Jianfei held a banquet to celebrate his achievements, and after the officers and men of the whole fleet celebrated, he immediately began the most powerful rafting operation in the history of mankind. The boats of each battleship were lowered, and the crew took turns rowing on the boats, leading the thirty warships on the way home. I have to say that Shi Jianfei was very lucky, and after the fleet drifted for five days, it actually avoided the equatorial windless area. So, the Pacific Fleet immediately hoisted its sails and returned at full speed. On 3 April, the Pacific Fleet returned to the Marshall Islands, and after finding a route back to its base camp, it unexpectedly ran into a fleet of Pacific Trading Company. Li Dezheng, president of the Pacific Trading Company, returned from Mexico with a fleet full of gold, silver, treasure, and various goods. "I need your help!" Li De's first words when he saw Shi Jianfei and Shen Yangwei shocked them, it was nothing else, Li De actually asked the Taibanyang Fleet to help him fight a war of aggression. It turned out that under the leadership of Li De, the Pacific Trading Company developed rapidly, and in addition to not having the power of foreign wars and decorations like the Dutch East India Company, it was no worse than the Dutch East India Company in terms of economic strength. This time, when Li De returned to the voyage, he accidentally encountered a storm, and for the safety of the caravan, Li De ordered the caravan to turn north and sail around, and then bypass the storm area. As a result, the Central Pacific route through the southern islands of the Marshall has been greatly shifted to the North Pacific. There is nothing in this, it is just a detour, and it is just a dozen more days. However, Lide's caravan found an archipelago that could be used as a commercial transit point. The Sha Chan Islands. Yes, the archipelago that Li De discovered was the Hawaiian Islands. A group of broken islands originally had nothing to attract him, but this Hawaiian archipelago has a large number of human beings living on it, and the weather on the island

After Li De, a business leader who looks at everything and measures it by money, found out, he suddenly couldn't walk. Native Hawaiians sailed to the island from the South Pacific years ago. They are known as the Polynesians. They were remarkable, born navigators, and were once comparable to Zheng He. From the northeastern Philippines and islands in the South Pacific to Hawaii, to New Zealand and Easter Island in the Southern Hemisphere, and Nauru in the Central Pacific, Polynesians are everywhere. They live on tens of thousands of islands, and traces of them are everywhere throughout the Pacific Ocean. The islands are many kilometers apart, and it is not yet known how they arrived in guò by simple wooden boats. You must know that in ancient times there were no depressions, and people did not know what was ahead, whether there were islands, and how admirable it was to paddle aimlessly towards the vast Pacific Ocean and happen to come across some islands. Modern technology, until the old century, was extremely dangerous for people to sail westward from the West Coast of the United States. Without writing, these ancient navigators could not keep track of history, and how they arrived in Hawaii will remain a mystery. The Polynesian race belongs to the red race, their skin is reddish-black, their muscles are strong, and they are good at rowing, boating and fishing. These people have large, round heads and large hands and feet, and their appearance is relatively close to that of Asians. Although Hawaii's humid climate lends itself to agriculture, the Bolognesians live close to the coast and live by fishing and coconuts. Hawaii was a primitive society before the discovery of Westerners, with each island having its own tribe, and around the end of the Chi Era, a king from the island of Hawaiʻi, under the guidance of the British, conquered the bountiful island of Oahu. The distance between Oshima and Ohu is three times the size of the Taiwan Strait, and with their hand-rowed canoe expeditions, they were able to transport tens of thousands of people to such a long distance to fight, and you have to admire their physique and determination. The king then conquered six other islands and established the Kingdom of Hawaii. Right now, what Li De sees is the war and division of the Hawaiian Kingdom. He had tried to send caravan convoys to conquer the islands and conquer the natives. But due to the lack of manpower, once these natives hid in the mountains, he had no choice. The only island captured by Lide was Morokai, the fifth-largest, and only twenty-two nautical miles from the richest island of Oahu. The island's arable land is huge, with more than 150 square kilometers of land that can be used to grow sugar cane, which is what led to Reed's desire to occupy all of the Hawaiian Islands. However, the indigenous resistance on Morokai was fierce, and the strongholds built by Li De in the plains were often harassed, leaving Li De unable to guarantee a good harvest of his sugar cane forests. So, Li De had no choice but to let go for the time being, and first returned to China to ask Deng Haonan to send troops, but unexpectedly ran into the returning Pacific Fleet. "But we've been out for several months, and now we're in a hurry to return!" Shi Jianfei expressed his concerns, and Li De said with a smile: "Don't worry, I will convince the boss." There are more than a dozen of them in the Hawaiian Islands right now. The kingdoms, torn apart, are a good opportunity for us to occupy them. I believe that the wealth above is enough to impress the boss to make up his mind to send troops. When the time comes, you will have to come back, it is better to sweep them directly now, it won't take much time at all, and I can still ask you for the great credit of expanding the territory in front of the boss! "Are you sure your lord will agree to your request?" "Don't worry!" Li De said very proudly: "In my opinion, the boss will never worry about losing money!" Besides, although our Pacific Trading Company does not have the right to declare war or make a contract, the boss has given me the privilege to ask the military department for help if necessary. I think now is the time to do so! "Alright! Li De uses his business experience to analyze everything he does, and he only makes money and does not lose money, and his reputation over the years is trustworthy. Of course, the Pacific Trading Company is the financial organ of the Liaodong Governor's Office, and in order to protect this company, Na Haonan did delegate a lot of privileges to Li De, which Shi Jianfei and others still understood. "How long will it take?" Shen Yangwei asked. "How much time can you give me?" Li De asked rhetorically. All right! This guy is really a cunning guy, and he doesn't explain his hole cards first, but asks the other party's hole cards first. "Five days at most!" Shi Jianfei thought for a while and said: "We have already overdrawn the time for this mission, even if we go back to the Admiralty and the General Staff and do not pursue it, it will affect the implementation of other tasks of the fleet headquarters!" So we have to do our best to get back home! "Li De didn't ask Shi Jianfei what mission they were performing, he knew that the main force of the Pacific Fleet came out, and it must not be a small task, so he didn't ask." Five days is enough! Li De said with a smile: "The strongholds of the indigenous people are all by the sea, and they live in a very concentrated manner. There are only tens of thousands of people in total, and if you are fast, it will be swept away in three days! "Tens of thousands? Swept away in three days? Shi Jianfei and Liuyang were speechless for a while. "Why do you have such eyes?" Li De said in surprise: "Your thirty big ships have more than 1,000 cannons and nearly 10,000 combat troops. Don't tell me that you're out of shells? "Even if there are no shells, 10,000 muskets will be enough to kill them!" D