Captain Wildenke led the Houston, Dehan, and Sluden to inspect the waters west of Formosa, and these three ships had sailed three days earlier to replace the three warships including the Vered, and due to the reinforcements from Batavia, the number of warships in the Grand Commander had reached six, as well as three armed merchant ships, so that the number of ships on each cruise became three. The day before yesterday, they intercepted a Fujian merchant ship in the waters of Penghu, it was going to Manila for trade, but it was intercepted by the fleet, it was a fortune ship of more than 100 tons, which was chartered by five Ming businessmen, and the people on board saw that it was a Western-style galleon that came to rob, and knew that the shelling was invincible, so they had to surrender.

Wildenke captured the merchant and removed the ship's raw silk, tea, porcelain, silk and other belongings, and ordered the ship's men to go back and inform the merchant's family to pay a ransom or sell them to the Batavia plantations. As a result, the captain of the Sluden, Roden, fell in love with the wife of a Ming merchant, and Wildink fell in love with the daughter of a Ming merchant who took care of the accounts for him. So the two Dutch people got a taste of the Ming woman, well, very good, but today came the dismal news.

"Captain, those two women and their families committed suicide." Boatswain briefing.

"Uh," Wildenke was eating in the bow cabin, and when he heard the frustration, he slammed a silver plate against the wall with a clatter. "Throw their carcasses into the sea, since you don't want to live, don't waste it, feed the sharks."

"Yes, Captain." Boatswain said.

At this moment, a dull brass trumpet sounded from the lookout.

Well, this brass horn made Wildenk smile, this is another prey has arrived, he hopes to see the prey every day, otherwise how to pass the boring sea time, and there is a wealth woman of the Ming people beckoning to him.

"We'll talk about it later, let's see what more prey is coming, haha." Wildink smiled and went to the deck with the boatswain.

In the distance, the shadow of the sail was faint, and two strange sailing ships appeared in the distance, saying that they were strange one was that the ship was strange, the freeboard was low, the boat was slender, and the bow was floating, and the bow was not square, nor oval, but the shape of the top was wide and narrow, and the sail was large and cumbersome, but the speed of the ship was extremely fast, almost skimming the sea. The second is that it is definitely a European-style ship, and the soft sails, masts, skew-sails, schooners, and spinnakers all prove to be European-style ships, but the strange thing is that the sailors who appear in the telescopes are yellow sailors, all of them, not a single white man, which is really strange, and there are no carvings of various hollow decorations on European-style sailing ships on this ship at all, and there is almost no decoration.

Wildink and the boatswain looked at each other for a moment, and both saw the suspicion in each other's eyes, which they had never encountered before.

"Hank, no, I feel bad." Wildenke muttered as he stroked his beard.

When they were still three miles away, one of the ships returned, and to the astonished gaze of the Dutch man, the ship made a graceful arc and turned around, returning to a tailwind, and disappeared for a moment.

Another ship was four or five miles away from them, and disappeared behind the three ships.

"They still have companions, so get ready for battle. Mostly damned Spaniards. Wildenke gave the order, believing that only the Spaniards could do so in the seas, and that the Portuguese in Macau were now only surviving in Macao.

The boatswain obeyed the order, and in a moment, the bow cannon of the USS Houston sounded, which was the order to prepare for battle. The sailors and gunners of the three ships were all in position and began to prepare for battle with all their might.

At this moment, the small boat in the rear appeared, and he overtook the three ships at a rapid speed.

Wildenke looked at the faint shadow of the ship in front with a gloomy face, could it be that there is a powerful unknown force here, no, no, no, there are only Spain, Portugal, and us in the Far East, and our three ships can escape safely even if they encounter the fleet of Manila, and their three ships are newer and faster than the Spanish ships, well, the ridiculous, pitiful, stupid, and towering buildings of the Spanish ships make their ships much slower than the Dutch ships, they can't beat them, and they can escape.

"Forward, I'm going to see who's ahead of me." Wildenke shouted.

The first mate and boatswain looked at him without words, and the head of these three ships was Wildenke, and of course no one objected to his orders.

The three ships continued to sail towards unknown dangers, and they made a fatal mistake in the Daming Sea, which had always been invincible.

Zhao Lie and Qi Wei were discussing that after the fleet arrived at the destination, they practiced approaching the stern of the Galen ship with the speed of the flying clippers, which required many times of practice to be swift and coherent, and the requirement was that several flying clippers approached the stern of the place almost at the same time, and destroyed the opponent's rudder with explosives, if it was not almost at the same time, there might be a fish that was caught, and the sturdiness of the Spanish thousand-ton galleon Zhao Lie was not confident that it could be destroyed with a thirty-two-pounder gun, if it was a hard fight in the end, even if it was won, it would be worth the loss.

"My lord, the Asuka in front of you has returned." Yu Dabao entered the cabin to report.

"Oh." Zhao Lie and Qi Wei immediately got up and went to the deck, and one of the sentry ships in front returned, this is the news, and the biggest possibility is that there are ships in front.

The distant flying bird came quickly, when the two ships intersected, the flying bird shot two letter arrows one after another, the sailors on the Wei Qing presented the letter arrows to Yu Dabao, Yu Dabao opened the letter tied to the arrow shaft with a thin rope and handed it to Zhao Lie, Zhao Lie opened it and looked, well, this word is written so crookedly with a quill pen, this is still a lack of practice.

Zhao Lie took a closer look, and it turned out that there were three Dutch warships of two or three hundred tons more than thirty miles ahead. The Exocet went to find out if there were any enemy ships behind the enemy.

It's really ghostly, Zhao Lie's eyes looked coldly at the sea in front of him, which was still empty,

"Prepare for war." Zhao Lie coldly ordered.

"Yes." Yu Dabao replied.

After a while, the bow gun of the Wei Qing fired three times in succession, which was the highest order for bloody battle to the end. All the personnel of the fleet were tense and quickly arrived at their respective posts under the urging of officers and commanders at all levels.

In accordance with the orders of the Wei Qing flag, Huo Quai, Chen Tang, Li Guang, Peng Yue, Zhou Yafu, and Wei Qing met the enemy in advance, and the remaining four armed merchant ships were behind.

Ziwei and Muñoz advised that the coach should not approach the enemy ship, but should take charge of the overall situation. The meaning is obvious, this is an artillery battle, once it is lost, the armor on the body is useless.

However, Zhao Lie refused, they are all novices, they can only lead by example, stimulate the morale of the soldiers, this time Xu Sheng is not allowed to lose, if the main general does not fight bravely, how can the soldiers who are rookies in naval warfare fight bravely kill the enemy.

From afar, he first saw the other party's mast, the flag of the Dutch, and as soon as he saw it, Zhao Lie remembered the embarrassment and humiliation of the last battle, and more than ten ships let the other party's two ships go unpunished. Well, this time there will be revenge.

When the other party's hull appeared, Zhao Lie was overjoyed, well, this ship is too familiar at the moment, it is the larger Dutch warship that was the most ferocious last time. Well, the string has its name on it, the Houston.

When the opponent's ships appeared in the telescope one after another, Wildenk's will to fight was shaken, and the other side was all Portuguese Galen ships, of which six were Galen warships, and four were armed merchant ships, yes, each of them was an armed merchant ship with more than ten naval guns, and if necessary, it could join the battle, and the combat effectiveness was very objective.

But well, why are these ships so familiar, well, isn't this the Portuguese warship that fought a few months ago, ha, Wildenke was in good spirits, the clumsy performance of the opponent is vivid, the voyage is always half a beat slow during the engagement, the interval between shelling is too long, well, you can fight, and the will to fight immediately returned to the captain.

The two flotillas slowly approached under the scorching sun.

The movement outside the ship was different from what it used to be, and in the lower deck of the Xingkai Lake, in Vest. Heller was excited, they understood that their fleet was coming, and the nervousness of the Ming people indicated that there was a battle, and that the only thing that could take the initiative to attack the Portuguese in this area was the Dutch warships. Although he failed, the two captains still believed in the combat effectiveness of their own warships, but when Vest thought of the heavy artillery of the Portuguese, uh, I hope they don't have too many heavy artillery, otherwise they have no hope of escaping.

ps please recommend the collection, thank you, I will return with a more exciting story in the middle of the night.