Half a month later, the Western coalition forces, which had arranged all the matters in India, finally advanced to the west side of the Strait of Malacca, looking far away towards the Strait of Malacca, and the towering forts were already in sight.

On the Western warships, there are not a few people who have come to the South Seas, but the South Ocean Malacca Strait has changed too much, originally, the Malacca Strait is only an important channel for maritime trade, few people regard it as a military point, and the Dutch occupying Sumatra Island also do not care too much about the safety of the Malacca Strait, after all, in the South Seas, the Dutch are the boss, even if the Ming Empire attacks the South Seas, then Malacca is also the last gateway, and when it is the turn to defend Malacca, almost most of the South Seas have fallen.

Therefore, the Dutch only stationed an infantry battalion in the Strait of Malacca and installed more than a dozen artillery pieces, which is simply an ornament for a fleet and does not play any role.

But now it's different, especially when Troppe saw the forts in the Strait of Malacca, his heart was already like a stormy wave, the change was too great, the last time he came to the South Seas, it was ten years ago, but, at that time, when he came to the South Seas, the Strait of Malacca did not have any fortifications at all, but now? With the help of the telescope, looking at the watchtower, within a distance of forty miles, I saw at least a dozen forts, which were listed on both sides of the Strait of Malacca.

"Blake, you saw that too, right? There are a lot of forts built by the Ming army......"

Trop said in a deep voice.

Blake nodded and replied, "Yes, the battery offensive here is already comparable to Amsterdam, right?" Moreover, the positions of deployment are in the narrowest part of the strait, and our fleet cannot ...... to carry out."

Troppe said: "Yes, look at the area ahead, it should be only more than ten miles away from the waterway suitable for fleet navigation, the warships of the Ming army are extremely tall, more than twenty meters higher than the sea level, and the cannonballs fired from above are enough to hit ten miles away, we don't know the reality of the opponent and rashly launch an attack, but it is easy to suffer......

Blake said in a deep voice: "In that case, then ask Admiral Troppe to send a fleet to test the strength of the opponent first, and then we will make plans." ”

Troppe shouted: "Order, order General Gomez to lead the Portuguese fleet to rush forward and launch an attack on the Ming army battery on the south bank, and test the reality of the Ming army battery!" ”

Gomez's face changed, and he said dissatisfied: "General Troppe, why me?" Why the Portuguese Army? ”

Tlop said indifferently: "General Gomez, there is no reason? Sooner or later, you will have to fight with the main force of the Ming army, this is just an appetizer, your Portuguese fleet is the weakest, so you naturally have to undertake the task of temptation, is it difficult, do you still want to rush to participate in the battle of attack? Do you have that strength? ”

Blake chimed in: "Yes, General Gomez, the document signed by the kings of our five countries, and at the same time, General Troppe is appointed as the commander-in-chief of the fleet, and he has the power to dispatch the fleets, why just arrived in the South Seas, why are you not going to listen to the greeting?" ”

Several other generals looked at Gomez, their eyes revealing unkindness, jokes, anyway, it is a dead friend who is not a dead poor man, you Gomez dare to retreat at this time, today we will take your command first!

Gomez's face was full of indignation, what the hell is going on? You guys are watching the excitement in the back one by one, let Lao Tzu make the first bird? Why is Lao Tzu so unlucky?

However, now that the situation is stronger than people, it is obvious that several other fleet generals are going to pit you, four against one, what can you do, who makes yourself the weakest?

"Okay, if you go to war, you will fight, Lao Tzu is not a rookie who has not been on the battlefield, sooner or later you will also suffer this knife!"

Gomez said fiercely, "Come on, wave the flag, give the order, the main force of the Portuguese fleet will immediately go into battle, launch a feint attack on the Ming army battery group in the southeast, test the strength of the Ming army, and give Lao Tzu a special cleverness, don't be in a hurry to reincarnate!" ”

At the sound of Gomez's order, forty or fifty Portuguese warships, large and small, rushed towards the battery group on the island of Sumatra.

At this time, the battery group on Sumatra had already discovered the traces of the Western Fleet, and the entire battery was already in action and ready for battle.

Seeing that the Portuguese fleet had entered the range of the battery, the guerrilla general Du Jiucheng hurriedly said: "Lord Lu, the Western fleet is coming, should we enter the palace immediately?" ”

General Lu Mingting said coldly: "What's the hurry? Now the Western Fleet is still ten miles away from us, and if we launch an attack at such a long distance, even if we can cover the opposing fleet, our shells have lost their crosshairs, put the point of entry, put the opponent into a position of five or six miles, launch an artillery attack on the order, and once it is put into attack, we must ensure that we can inflict heavy damage on the opponent! Remember, aim at their main battleship, concentrate your firepower, and knock out their flagship first! ”

Soon, the Portuguese fleet rushed to a position less than six miles from the battery, and the black hole in the gun port of the battleship was already clearly visible.

"Order, all the artillery of the battery is put into attack, fight!"

Lu Mingting shouted.

At the sound of an order, seven batteries and more than fifty guns were all thrown into the shelling, and a wave of shells hit the Portuguese fleet!

Five miles away, the artillery bombardment was launched, the artillery was standing on the fort, and all sea areas had been marked in advance, and the hit rate of the artillery bombardment was seven or eight times higher than that of the battleship at sea, and now the flowering shells of the Ming army, because of the rifling application, were originally far and accurate!

Boom Boom Boom ......

One after another, with a huge roar, flew towards the Portuguese fleet!

The Portuguese general Crisdogan was stunned for a moment, and then his face changed greatly, it was obvious that these shells were completely coming for his flagship and main battleship!

"Dodge, shoot back, fight back immediately!"

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Before Christoan's words fell, the cannonball had already smashed on the flagship of the Portuguese fleet, and it was not one shell, but three shells, which accurately hit the deck, and immediately set off a violent explosion, the Portuguese flagship was too unlucky, as soon as it came up, the entire deck of the giant ship was directly blown out of three huge craters with a radius of more than two zhang, and the violent explosion even blew up the Portuguese sailors on the deck straight into the sky!

The smoke of gunpowder is everywhere, and the war between the east and the west has begun!