Although Tart Ma Chi Ikirata was still alive, the muscles on his thin face were throbbing, and the teacup was in his hand, and half a cup of tea was trembling. This is a memory full of pain, so everyone who listened to him could feel this, so that Wen Fat couldn't help but interject: "How dare they!" Into the thief! We're here to help them get rid of their troubles! How dare you make a move on our brothers! ”

"It is precisely because the soldiers think the same way as you that there is this sad scene." Ding Yi slowly raised his head and said to Fat Wen, "These lords should be shattered, and Shi is especially damned!" His eyes were red, and there was a weird smile on his face, "Let the fleet find a suitable place to dock, Xingtian, Su Zhen, and Jushi, Wen Fatzi will send them another platoon, leave a supply ship for them, let them turn around and set off to return to Huaxia immediately, and handle all the lords related to this matter, and handle Shi someone too!" "It's really urgent to go, you have to go, all the fleet changed to a schooner structure, and you can go back in a zigzag shape against the wind, plus there is only one platoon with the ship, so you don't have to worry about spending too much time at sea and running out of supplies.

Ding Yi didn't ask, what happened later?

No need to ask, the three hundred cavalry who have already understood that it is a trap, the cavalry of the Duyin tribe, not to mention that they are equipped with pistols and grenades, and even drag two hand-cranked machine guns mounted on wheeled stands, even if they only have bows and arrows and sabers, Ding Yi does not think that they will be unable to deal with these nearly 1,000 serfs who have been temporarily released with weapons and have never received much military training.

What is terrible in Tibet is the lack of oxygen at high altitudes, and Ding Yi is convinced of the warriors selected by Tart Ma Chi Ikirata. It must be a soldier who has adapted to this high-altitude environment, after all, a person who has been a little sweat will not be ignorant to this journey.

But it doesn't matter.

This is by no means enough.

The first division of the Ming Dynasty is only more than 20,000 people. If you can't let those leaders and Zongben understand that making a move on the soldiers of the First Division of the Ming Dynasty is definitely not the bottom line that they can touch, then the First Division of the Ming Dynasty will be very dangerous. Not everyone can automatically acquire the talent of adapting to high altitude after becoming a warrior of Ding Yi, this thing does not distinguish between camps, it depends on the body.

And long supply lines. If the lords, sects, and monks of Tibet want to have bad intentions, it will be difficult for the first division of the Ming Dynasty to bear it.

"That Yan!" Tart Ma Chi Ikirata slipped out of his chair and knelt down in front of Ding Yi again. "I've plugged them all, that brute! In the houses of those two lords, everything that was higher than the horses' pedals was plugged in! ”

Ding Yi listened. Raise his hand to stop the fat man who was going to give the order.

But when he was about to go on to ask Tart Machi Ikirata. Then came the sound of the battle warning of the lookout.

The Ming Mediterranean Fleet has approached the sea near Ceuta City, when it saw the lookout of Ceuta City, issued a battle warning, the Mediterranean Fleet ushered in a lackluster naval battle, perhaps the only thing worth mentioning is that Huang Xiaoyang could not agree to Ding Yi continue to sit on the front deck of the battleship anyway, showing his heroism.

Under the threat of death from the fleet commander, Ding Yi had to honestly return to the cabin from the deck.

The ensuing naval battle. It was simply a textbook display of the ship's strength and artillery, especially when the twenty battleships seized the T-position. There is no suspense at all. Although the commander-in-chief of the Portuguese side showed his wisdom in naval warfare well, it was completely useless.

The Portuguese, apparently preparing for this day after a long period of no news from the Combined Fleet, sent about twenty warships, slightly larger in tonnage than the Ming destroyers, to prepare for a decisive battle with the Ming battleships; From the side of the harbor, there were more than a dozen warships smaller than the Ming destroyers, leading dozens of small warships with only bow guns to attack the Ming army's landing ships and supply fleets.

The commander of the other side has a very clever vision, he was not intimidated by the huge body of the landing ship, but keenly judged that the landing ship and the supply fleet were ships without artillery, and if his plan succeeded, then even if the Ming army sank the twenty or thirty Portuguese capital ships in the front, the Ming army would be finished, without supplies, without marines, how long could it float at sea? You can't take the boat to land, can you?

However, the Mediterranean Fleet still had eight destroyers who were not eligible to join the battle line.

They are all equipped with rifled guns, although they are driven by black gunpowder, but the warhead is filled with nitro * explosive * charge, and the loading speed of the shell shells, the firing range of granular precision black powder * powder, is definitely not comparable to the smoothbore front-loading guns of this era.

Eight destroyers formed another line of battle, and the firing of the ninety-six rifled guns on one side, which took only three rounds, quickly reduced the dozen or so ships of the Portuguese Navy to pieces outside their range. As for the small boats, which were armed only with bow guns? The destroyers, even on the principle of saving ammunition, did not fire at them, and any of them retreated in panic.

And the battle line of the battleship, after four rounds of firing, the fleet commander Huang Xiaoyang ordered to stop the firing of grenades and began to fire chain shells that destroyed the sails, and then the surviving eleven Portuguese battleships, except for two that were slowly sinking and one was sinking, the other eight ships and the naval officers and men above became prisoners of the Ming army.

The Portuguese sent small boats with white flags, and they hoped to ransom the captives, this time and the last.

Prince Henry was very sober that ships could still be built without them, and these officers and sailors with experience in naval warfare were resources that were difficult to regain immediately.

Ding Yi returned to the chair on the foredeck of the battleship, surrounded by the pregnant Morena, and he refused the Grapevine Man's request to come aboard: "On my deck, there are only my subordinates and captives, your Prince Henry, which one do you want to be?" So the negotiations were set in the city of Ceuta.

A destroyer carrying Cao Jixiang and Mahmoud and his negotiating envoys arrived ashore.

"You have to get down on one knee." In fact, Cao Jixiang, who was already able to communicate daily in Portuguese, stubbornly said this to Prince Henry in the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty, and then translated it by Ding Yi, a talented Portuguese speaker next to him, which well reflected the insistence of chauvinism in a big country.

In fact, the prince of the Arakan Kingdom, Po Xiubi, also has an extremely good language talent, when Prince Henry replied with a smile on his face: "You are joking, friends from afar, I can appreciate your humorous ......", Po Xiubi, who was behind Cao Jixiang, spoke, I don't know if it was out of fanatical admiration for Ding Yi, or if his language talent was really good, and it sounded like he was more fluent than serving as a personal guard for the interpreter.

"My master will also appreciate your humor—the humor of having all the prisoners of war beheaded, are you really sure that you want to pass on your humor to my master?" Po Xiu Biu sneered and said to Prince Henry, "Do you know who you are facing? His Royal Highness the Duke of the Ming Empire, the leader of the vast Tatar steppes, the ruler of the Arakan Kingdom and Mugudushu, Luzon, and Java, the eternal guardian of Guangdong and Guangxi, and the commander of the military and civilians under the jurisdiction of the Ming Metropolitan Mansion and the Anxi Metropolitan Prefecture! ”

Maybe Prince Henry was really a great man, maybe because he was accompanied by emissaries from other countries, those countries that participated in the Combined Fleet, and they all had prisoners of war in the hands of the Mediterranean Fleet. He did not turn his face, detained Cao Jixiang and others, and did not declare war because of this.

Mahmoud whispered instructions to Cao Jixiang on the side and then said to Prince Henry: "Once the great highness shows a smile, there will be no other ships on the sea except for the battle flag of the word 'Ming'. He repeated, then looked around at the emissaries of the nations, "Do not doubt that this is by no means a threat, but the fact that the commander of the Mediterranean Fleet, one of the five fleets loyal to His Highness, has stated to you the fact that this is the source of our many captives. ”

Prince Henry finally fell to his knees on one leg, and there was no humiliation on his face, and he calmly accepted the reality that on the sea, at least for the time being, there was nothing he could do with Ding Yi's fleet.

Cao Jixiang unfolded the text jiàn folder in his hand and began to read aloud, and the interpreter on the side translated at the same time: "The edict said: I have heard of the indigenous prince Tang of Portugal? Alfonso? Enrique, known as the popular and proficient in navigation, did not care about Eryi's previous rudeness, and was established as the governor of the four seas, the chief of naval education, and he went to his post on the same day, and there must be no mistake ......"

Prince Henry did not wait for him to finish reading before he stood up, he maintained good manners and upbringing, and was polite: "I'm sorry, I can't accept this appointment, let's continue this war provoked by you." I believe that Portuguese land will be stronger than your huge fleet, please go back. ”

This is definitely not an acceptable condition, the key is to "go to work on the same day", which is a substantive condition, not to say that it is acceptable to accept the canonical seal on face and lose face for a politician who is inferior to others; But Lizi can't, if Prince Henry really goes to be Ding's subordinate honestly, he knows, Portugal will be finished.

After Cao Jixiang and his party left, the envoys of various countries asked Prince Henry in a panic what to do? Prince Henry said unhurriedly: "There is no need to be intimidated by him, on land, Frederick III will not sit idly by and watch the Yellow Peril spread; And at sea, the Mediterranean Fleet? If he was so arrogant as to drive straight into the Mediterranean, the storm in Gibraltar would engulf the arrogant Orientalist and his fleet. ”

Now, it is spring, and the temperature difference between the water surface of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean and the warm and humid air currents above the sea create foggy weather that envelops the entire strait and has extremely low visibility.

Maybe Portugal can't fight against Ding Yi at sea now, but nature can, even if humans have mastered nuclear weapons thousands of years later, it will be difficult to resist the great power of nature.

It just so happened that Prince Henry had a deep study of this kind of power.

He is known as the Prince of Navigation, and for good reason. (To be continued......)

PS: Add the first bullet, and the second one after half an hour