The roar of artillery was deafening.

The smoke of gunpowder fills the air, obscuring the sky and the sun.

Cannonballs flew all over the sky in the blue sky, and the waves in the blue sea rose one after another.

The Dutch Navy's Penghu fleet lined up with strong ships and sharp guns, and every round of shelling gave people a visual impact when a lightning storm came. The large-caliber shore artillery of the Spanish fortress of Treres is like a beast lying on the seashore, and it attacks the enemy who dares to invade his territory.

The roaring sound of cannons uplifted everyone's body and mind.

Di Haonan's subordinates were all stunned for a while when they saw such a spectacular shore-ship battle scene for the first time!

Although Na Haonan has seen large-scale battle scenes about the Sail Era on TV in later generations, it is far less immersive than the feeling at this time. The battle was particularly intense, but not tragic. Because the shells are all solid iron bullets, the lethality is not great, if the black powder is loaded into the warhead, it is another matter to cause flowering shells.

The Dutch navy won because of the large number of artillery, while the Spanish defenders won because of the caliber of the artillery, and the two sides had advantages and disadvantages of each other, and no one could help anyone for a while.

This is the case with the war in the era of sails, although firearms have become the main weapons of various countries, but the power is still too low, and it lacks the lethality to suppress it, so throughout the wars in this era, it is easy to fight for ten or eight years, and there are thirty years of war, seventy years of war, and finally both sides are exhausted, and then the war is stopped.

Thinking that a large-scale naval battle will end in a few minutes or a few hours in the future, in this era, there is no winner or loser without ten days and half a month. What's even more interesting is that sometimes a battleship in battle gets a few hundred shells and doesn't sink. This is unimaginable in later generations.

The reason for this is that they are all made of solid shells!

At this moment, a series of loud noises were heard.

Na Haonan turned his head to look, only to see that a Dutch battleship had been shot, which caused the explosion of gunpowder packs piled on the gun deck, triggering the explosion of the battleship.

The battleship had a double gun deck, and the detonation position was on the lower gun deck.

In an instant, the deck wall was torn apart, and a layer of gun deck exploded to smithereens, spilling into the surrounding sea, with flames and smoke billowing out.

Flames rose into the air and set the sails high above. As the blast air flow was raised, the masts and countless cables of the entire battleship were soon set on fire one by one. The fire burned along the mast and cables, looking from afar. The firelight just showed the outline of the battleship, and it was very clear.

A little back Dutchman!

Captain Lin Feng beside him couldn't stop gloating.

Na Haonan said suddenly: "In the future, when our artillery is trained, we must pay special attention to the stacking and protection of ammunition, and at the same time, when attacking the enemy, we must shoot at the enemy's ammunition depot, which will get twice the result with half the effort!" ”

Captain Lin Feng nodded yes, secretly admiring Na Haonan's guidance, and he was taught a lot.

The Dutch fleet was sunk with a battleship, its morale was greatly damaged, and seeing that it could not help the fortress of Tires, the artillery bombardment soon ended, and the whole fleet withdrew from the battle, and soon disappeared into the sea.

Governor Fernando, though not afraid of the Dutch fleet invading Manila Bay, was inevitably a little worried. So, that night, Governor Fernando ordered the Philippine fleet to escort Van Witt and other Dutch prisoners of war to sail out of Manila Bay and head to Europe at night.

The Dutch received the information two days later, and while scolding Governor Fernando for cheating, they had to order the Dutch Penghu fleet to pursue it.

It is a pity that the Dutch fleet went through the Strait of Malacca, and waited until after the Strait of Malacca. It was only then that the personnel of the Dutch East India Company learned about it. The Spanish fleet did not appear.

"Damn Fernando! What a cunning villain, worse than Deng Haonan! ”

Major Buckson couldn't help but curse, by this time he had already guessed that the Spanish fleet had chosen a different route, the route across the Pacific Ocean to Mexico.

"So what do we do? Do you want to continue the pursuit? They've been beating us up for a month."

Major Buckson sighed: "If General Van Weit were to die on the gallows in Madrid, we would lose face!" ”

Keep on the pursuit!

There was nothing Buckson could do, and the only hope at the moment was that the Spanish escort Van Weit's group was slow and might be able to catch up.

He also prayed that the Spaniards' fleet would be killed in the Pacific Ocean in a storm.

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Na Haonan cruised around the Sanglai Naval Base aboard the Black Pearl, and continued to supervise his men in mastering the use of Western warships.

At this time, more than 300 British sailors on the Pallas were appointed by Di Haonan as a supervising instructor team, supervised by Captain John, and ten British sailors were assigned to each ship, so that they could take the lead in helping with the drill.

In this way, Deng Haonan's subordinates quickly mastered the basic operation methods, and after about a month of intensive training, they were able to operate Western warships, and met Na Haonan's requirements, at least they would not overturn the ship by themselves.

As for the shooting of naval guns, although there was no major problem, because the Western warships had a short roll period and were not as stable as the Oriental Daifuku ships, the gunners' shooting accuracy was affected to a certain extent. If you want to achieve the accuracy of shooting on the Fu ship, you still need to practice.

Because the name of the company registered by Di Haonan to Governor Fernando was the Pacific Trading Company, the thirty warships, along with the Black Pearl and the Pallas, were brought under the name of the company under the name of the Pacific Fleet.

The Black Pearl naturally became the flagship of the Pacific Fleet and Na Haonan's ship, and the fleet commander was served by Na Haonan himself. For the time being, the fleet should be divided into three small ships, with the sub-fleet as the main ship. The Black Pearl, the Pallas, and ten cruisers were formed, and the purpose of the battle was to fight the main decisive battle. The Second and Third Fleets each consisted of 10 frigates, and the purpose of the operation was to respond to the periphery and wait for an opportunity to destroy the enemy.

The officer corps under the command of the whole fleet is all the elite of the martial arts. There are 2 strong sailors, 4 artillery tooth knife men, and 4 marines.

The combat units are all based on the disciples of the martial arts hall as the backbone force, and they are first required to be qualified in politics and absolutely under the command of the principal Deng Haonan, and then it is the turn of military excellence. In the future, the promotion and rights of officers were carried out according to such selection criteria. In this way, Deng Haonan has the absolute right to control this military force. It ensured that Deng Haonan's orders and will were fully executed.

According to the definition of Qian Shun and others, together with the miscellaneous personnel, security personnel, administrative personnel, craftsmen, and workers of warships, bases, trading stations, steel mills, arsenals, garment factories, etc., all of them have joined the General Logistics Department, with more than 20,000 people, and as Deng Haonan's power continues to expand, it is increasing every day.

On this day, when Deng Haonan was practicing, Governor Fernando came to urge Deng Haonan again.

Governor Fernando had already urged Deng Haonan for the fourth time, because he didn't want the deal between him and Di Haonan to be known to others. Therefore, Governor Fernando must do everything possible to send Deng Haonan back to China, at least to drive Deng Haonan out of Manila Bay, and the province will be detected.

For more than a month, Governor Fernando has received questions from a number of naval officers at the Sangree naval base. Although most of them wore the same pants as Governor Fernando, Governor Fernando deceived the King of Spain this time and did not allow any mistakes.

Knowing that Deng Haonan's Fu Ming officers and soldiers had already heard of the warship, Governor Fernando immediately met with Deng Haonan and asked Deng Haonan to take his fleet away quickly.

Governor Fernando had never seen through Deng Haonan's false mission, so he was not worried that the Ming navy would take the opportunity to capture the Sanglay Naval Base and then Manila. After all, the Ming Dynasty is a state of etiquette. Governor Fernando was not worried.

However, at this time, there were few ships in the Sanglai naval base that belonged to the Spaniards, because half of them were sold to Deng Haonan, and the rest were divided into escorts for the fleet escorting Dutch prisoners of war, and then the warships patrolling Manila and the Philippines were removed, and only a few warships belonged to Governor Fernando.

Today, most of the warships in the entire Sanglai Naval Base are Deng Haonan's warships. Even if Governor Fernando wasn't worried, his comrades wouldn't be grumbling.

Deng Haonan thought about suddenly turning the muzzle of the gun and capturing the Sanglai Naval Base, but Deng Haonan did not have the strength to attack the Bashi Fortress in Manila and the Treres Fortress outside. He had seen the strength of the Fortress of Tyres, and he could only outwit it, not attack it.

Even the US Navy three hundred years later is just outwitting. It can be seen that the strength of the Tres Fortress is beyond what Deng Haonan can bite at this time.

Na Haonan knew that although Spain was declining at this time, it had not yet fallen to the point where he could be ravaged by a small role who was both a businessman and a thief! Therefore, seeing that others are not defensive against themselves, Deng Haonan can only dry his eyes, but he can't eat it.

Anyway, at this time, Di Haonan's Pacific Fleet has basically become an army, although its combat effectiveness is still greatly reduced. However, the Dutch Penghu fleet in the South China Sea has already left, the Spanish and Philippine fleets have only the share of caretakers, and only the Dutch East India Company still has a dozen or so warships in the South China Sea. As long as Deng Haonan doesn't take the initiative to attack them, presumably they won't dare to take the initiative to provoke the paper tiger of the Pacific Fleet!

Well! Having made up his mind, Deng Haonan immediately agreed to Governor Fernando's request. However, Na Haonan had money at this time, and he had the idea of ten 2,000-ton Galen armed sea ships in the Sanglai Naval Base.

It took Spain eight months to build a 2,000-ton Galen ship and cut down 60 miles of high-quality wood. If the wood is freshly harvested, it needs to be dried for more than a year before it can be used, or it can only be harvested in winter. Combined with the labor consumption and six old pound guns, as well as the intricately carved circle curse, the cost alone reached 100,000 taels of silver.

But Deng Haonan only gave Governor Fernando 10,000 taels of silver!

"No, no, no! This is absolutely not a no-go! "After Governor Fernando listened to Di Haonan's words, one. Shaking his head vigorously.

The price offered by Na Haonan is definitely the price of jumping, although Na Haonan has money at this time, but the military expenditure submitted to him by Qian Shun every day has also increased, 100,000 taels of gold, according to Di Haonan's military expenses at this time, it can be tightly supported for half a year. Therefore, Na Haonan was only happy for a few days when he got this gold, and then he began to worry again.

In particular, in order to build up combat effectiveness as much as possible, the Pacific Fleet spent 50,000 taels of silver on the ammunition consumed during the next week's artillery bombardment exercise. This is still the gunpowder that Governor Fernando sold to Deng Haonan at a low price, and all of them are cheap exercise shells.

The silver is called a boom and a drop of water! Di Haonan didn't care when he had no money before, but after he got rich, he became more and more distressed! I don't know why I want to raise a fleet as always, isn't it good to be an honest landlord?

Maybe it's for this. A country on the verge of extinction?

No! Deng Haonan shook his head, he only lived for him to be free, chic and arrogant!

"Lord Governor!" Deng Haonan's eyes rolled, and a clever plan suddenly came up.

"You probably didn't understand what I meant! I want to do business with the Governor! ”

Governor Fernando looked at Di Haonan suspiciously, obviously he was allergic to the words partnership and business!

"Yes".

Di Haonan explained to Governor Fernando.

"When I return, I will report to the Imperial Court, and then ask the Imperial Court to send me to continue trading with the Governor! Since then, the trade has not only been limited to arms trading, but has expanded to full-scale trade! And, I only trade with you! ”

When Governor Fernando heard about the expansion of the deal, he was already smiling, and when he heard that Na Haonan only traded with himself, he immediately understood what Deng Haonan meant. If the Ming court traded all the export goods directly to the Governor of Fernando, then even if the Governor Fernando did not personally ship them to Europe for sale, as long as he added 20% to sell them to other maritime merchants, he would make a lot of money.

Naked temptation!

Governor Ferrando said: "However, the Ming Dynasty is at war with the Dutch, how can the goods come safely on time?" ”

Di Haonan said: "The Dutch will be defeated by us soon, so you don't have to worry at all!" And what you have to worry about is, is there enough silver to buy Daming's goods? ”

"Rest assured". Governor Fernando said with certainty: "Even if Daming has more goods, we can eat them here!" There is no problem in knowing that every year our Spanish Empire ships tens of millions of gold and silver from Mexico and the Americas! ”

Grunt! Spain really has money, no wonder a small Netherlands can become a world naval power in one fell swoop by robbing Spain, ruling the world's oceans for more than half a century.

Spain is simply a mountain of gold and silver, temptation!

Lao Tzu has to rob their treasure ship, otherwise I'm really sorry to come to this world!

So he asked, "So you agreed?" ”

"What?. Governor Fernando was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "How is it possible?" 10,000 taels of silver sold to you? You might as well grab it! ”

Damn it! I really want to rob you!

Di Haonan rolled his eyes, his face full of depression.

"This. Is it okay for me to rent? ”

Rent?

10,000 taels of silver for a trip?

Governor Fernando thought for a while, if he sold 10,000 taels of silver to Na Haonan, he would never agree! However, Deng Haonan's conditions were very tempting, if he agreed, he only needed to sit in the governor's palace and sell the goods shipped by Deng Haonan to merchants from various countries who came to Manila at a high price, and according to Di Haonan's promise, he would earn more than 100,000 taels per trade. If it was once a month, within a year, he would be a millionaire sitting at home!

The temptation is great! Governor Fernando did not refute Deng Haonan's face.

So he said, "Okay! Then I'll lease you one! 10,000 taels of silver per month! ”

"No!" Deng Haonan shook his head and said, "I want all ten ships!" ”

Di Haonan thought to himself that the first pot of gold was very important, because with the departure of the Dutch fleet, the major forces would soon know. Zheng Yiguan, in particular, must have known that the Dutch fleet had left! When the major forces began to send goods to Manila, the price will definitely be reduced, and the profit margin will not be large!

Therefore. Na Haonan had to make a windfall profit on the first shipment of goods.

"Do you have that many goods in a short period of time?" Governor Fernando asked: "You Ming people just like to be greedy, just like you marry wives, one after another, you must know the truth that greed can't chew too much!" ”

That Haonan rolled his eyes and secretly laughed at you can't chew any of them, and you still count others?

"Don't worry, Lord Governor!" Na Haonan said confidently: "The goods of the Ming Empire are there, you just wait to sit at home and count the money."

Ten sea-going ships will carry 10,000 tons of cargo, which is an astronomical amount!

Governor Fernando, who was carried away by interests, actually agreed, but I don't know if Na Haonan would give him a monthly rental fee of 100,000 taels?

Let's wait and see!

As Na Haonan drove the Pacific Fleet out of the Sanglai Naval Base, ten large armed Galen ships of 2,000 tons were also taken away.

Then why did Hao Nan want these ten large Galen merchant ships?

Is it really for business?

In fact, after studying the structure of the Black Pearl and the Spanish cruisers, combined with historical knowledge, Deng Haonan knew that the warships of this era were basically converted from the galleons of Galen.

And, most importantly, it was very easy to convert a galleon into a warship.

And the ten Galen galleons towed away by Deng Haonan, with a displacement of 2,000 tons and six decks, will be converted into what they will look like if they are needed in the future?

Looking at the fleet that used the mouth of the Tyres Fortress, Governor Fernando didn't think of this layer, he only remembered that Deng Haonan hadn't paid the deposit yet?

"Forget it". Deng Haonan smiled: "You still don't believe in the cooperation between us?" ”

Governor Fernando was stunned, he should have believed that Di Haonan would not give him a deposit.

"Damn it! He should have paid the deposit before tuging the boat! Governor Fernando complained to himself fiercely.

That's right! Both of them are doing business under the banner of the country behind them! It's just that Governor Fernando is a corrupt official, but Deng Haonan is a fake Qincha!

It doesn't matter if it's a real corrupt official, or if it's a fake Qincha!

Who should trust whom?

Only the interests are credible!

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