Chapter 319: The Strange Sailless Ship

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Seeing that Wang Tiekou was angry and turned to leave, Cohen immediately glanced at Matthew.

Ma Tai had long been intimidated by Li Guo's tiger army, and he didn't want the Dutch to fight with Li Guo at all, so of course he immediately stopped Wang Tiekou.

Wang Tiekou pretended to tear it and stopped. Wang Tiekou's mission was not to write a war letter, so when he saw Martel pulling him, he borrowed the slope to get off the donkey. However, although Wang Tiekou was happy in his heart, his expression was still very cold.

On the contrary, Cohen of the East India Company said to Wang Tiekou with a smile on his face: "Hello, Mr. Special Envoy, actually, we are on the same page as you, everyone wants to have wealth. But how do we work together? ”

Of course, Wang Tiekou didn't know how to cooperate, but he had heard Li Guo say that the first thing to cooperate with the Dutch was that the east of Malacca could not be touched by them, so Wang Tiekou said, "How to cooperate requires our General Li Guo to talk to you specifically, but there is a bottom line that you should be clear, that is, the east of Malacca is our territory, and you can't enter." West of Malacca, we are not going, how do you love it! ”

Cohen frowned, and before he could speak, a Dutchman said, "I'm afraid this won't work, because we've already established a stronghold in the Japanese country." ”

Wang Tiekou shook his head, "I am not qualified to talk to you about this matter, and if I want to talk about it, it can only be our General Li." ”

Cohen nodded, "Okay, your General Li has already written me an invitation letter, you can stay here for two days first." I'm going to get ready, and then I'm going to Malacca with you. Would you like to meet you, General Li? ”

Wang Tiekou smiled: "Very good." I would love to wait for you, and we will be very happy to welcome you. ”

So, Wang Tiekou stayed. The food was still not good, and the black stuff in the small plate was still sent to Wang Tiekou every day. According to the general story, that thing is called caviar, and it is an extremely precious food in the diet of foreigners. Only then did Wang Tiekou understand, but the taste of caviar was not suitable for Wang Tiekou's appetite after all.

After Cohen sent Matthew to settle Wang Tiekou, he repeatedly consulted and studied with the senior management of the East India Company. A good way came to mind, and a vicious one.

Cohen said, "Since that Li Guo asked us to go to Malacca, then we will go, but we will lead all the warships and soldiers with us!" ”

The Dutch on the side couldn't help but agree, "Very good, if that Li Guo is not as strong as we imagined, we will take the opportunity to capture Malacca." If we think we can cooperate with them, then that Li Guo will definitely be terrified when he sees our great strength. In this way, we can also fight for the greater good! ”

All the Dutchmen nodded their heads, thinking that Cohen's idea was a good one.

So, on the third day. Under the guidance of the Tiger warship led by Wang Tiekou, Cohen took all the warships and soldiers of the East India Company with a murderous aura and sailed to Malacca.

At this time, the location of Malacca was actually in the original time and space of Xingjiapo. At that time, it was also called Star Island. Because Li Guo was aware of the importance of the Strait of Malacca, he named Sing Tao Malacca. It is not the location of the real Malacca of the original plane.

Malacca (Star Island) is a large island in the east of the Straits of Malacca, which just holds the throat of the Straits of Malacca. Malacca is an important hub between the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. Therefore, the military architecture and living buildings on the island are quite complete. However, Li Guo sent a large number of personnel to Malacca during this time, and the construction of this place was in full swing, adding fresher blood to Malacca (Star Island).

On the islands and reefs in all directions of Malacca, Lee built small forts for military reconnaissance early in order to detect the enemy more quickly. These forts resemble beacons at the time, and the forts store a large amount of dried seagrass and kerosene, and when the enemy is detected, the soldiers inside the fort will ignite the seaweed and kerosene, and the smoke will rise when the seagrass has not yet dried.

So, when the fleet of the East Indian Governor Cohen arrived, a fort spotted them, and smoke rose.

Cohen nodded, Li Guo's Tiger Army was still very vigilant, so the possibility of the Dutch raiding Malacca was gone. However, Cohen knew that this would happen, so he was not discouraged and continued to drive towards Malacca.

But after driving a short distance, black smoke rose from the sea in the distance. Cohen picked up the clairvoyant mirror and looked at it, and found an incredible scene.

I saw a huge ship more than 150 meters long approaching at a high speed on the sea. Cohen was taken aback, how could there be such a big ship? You must know that at that time, the largest sailing ship made by the Netherlands and other European countries was only more than 30 meters. The ship in front of him was almost the size of Ken's five battleships.

Cohen looked closely, and as Matthew had previously reported, it was a ship without sails. The most striking signs on the ship are the two large chimneys, one of which emits black smoke, which is smoke from burning coal and kerosene, and the other chimney emits white smoke, which is the steam from the boiler. Of course, Cohen didn't know about the ship

Two huge wheels were installed on either side of the sailless ship, and in the billowing smoke and loud noise, the wheels turned rapidly, and the blades on the wheels hit the sea quickly, and in the sound of the rushing water, the sailless ship drove closer and closer. Compared to the current sailing warships at sea, the speed of this sailless ship is amazing.

A large number of large-caliber guns were densely placed in the bow and stern of the sailless ships, and according to Cohen's observations, the range of such large-caliber guns must have been quite long.

The sailless ship quickly circled the Dutch fleet and turned around in the direction of Malacca.

Because Wang Tiekou was not on Cohen's ship, and Matthew was also sent to Wang Tiekou by Cohen, Cohen and some of the East India Company executives who followed this mysterious sailless ship had all kinds of speculations and fears, and everyone woke up from their confusion and talked about it.

"Oh my God! It's a huge ship! ”

"Of course, it's a big ship, and he's fast."

"Yes, it's terrible that this ship doesn't sail so fast without sails!"

"I don't think this ship is powered by the wind! Don't you see? When the ship was sailing against the wind, its speed was not affected at all. ”

"But I pay more attention to their artillery, and such large-caliber artillery can only be installed on such a large ship!"

"So, if we encounter such a ship, will we be able to beat it?"

In an instant, there was silence on the deck, and everyone was thinking about this question, yes, can you fight such a ship? The white tiger flag waving in the wind on this ship confirmed the identity of this ship, this ship is Li Guo's ship, can they beat Li Guo?

Cohen's face turned pale, he couldn't stop coughing, and after his breath stabilized, he said dryly, "Everyone, the purpose of our East India Company when it was established was to plunder the wealth of the world, and I think we can't get rid of this now!" So, in my opinion, war is not the best option! ”

The East India Company executives nodded their heads in agreement. (To be continued......)