On May 22, the Zhanjiang Expeditionary Fleet, consisting of 1,200 warships and trading sailing ships, left the port of Zhanjiang and set sail for Brunei under the leadership of the deputy commander of the Zhanjiang Expeditionary Fleet.

To get to Brunei, you need to cross the South China Sea, a total distance of more than 2,500 kilometers. In the Bronze Age, an expedition across the sea by boat was a high-risk military operation. Sloops and brigs are too small, and their own wooden structure is not too strong, and they are prone to sinking in the stormy waves of the sea. Even if the fleet survives the storm, it will immediately face another mortal danger - getting lost, and getting lost in the sea is no less fatal than being caught in a storm. Moreover, due to the long-distance trek and the lack of safe supplies, it is impossible to get effective support from the rear, and once it encounters the enemy fleet, it can only rely on itself.

Despite this series of risks, the Zhanjiang expeditionary fleet, which was jointly financed by wolf smoke, took the risk.

They sailed in a direction of about 30 degrees south-east, stopping at the target point of the Philippines. Fortunately, there were some storms and waves, but there were no storms. After three days of wandering in the South China Sea, the outpost of the Zhanjiang Expeditionary Fleet saw through the telescope a vast area of 6 places, which could not be anywhere else except the Philippines, and the entire fleet members cheered and rejoiced. Continuing their voyage, they soon reached the coast of the Philippine Islands safely, and found a small port along the coast, which meant that the Zhanjiang expeditionary fleet had a certain amount of security.

The arrival of the huge Zhanjiang expeditionary fleet shocked the players of this Philippine port. Although they also had hundreds of armed ships, sailing boats, and fishing boats, they were far less elite than the Zhanjiang Expeditionary Fleet. The arrival of a huge expeditionary fleet. Unclear intentions, inevitably causing a wave of panic and panic, ordinary players in the Philippines, cargo ships, and fishing boats have taken refuge from the place where this fleet is located, so as not to be attacked by accidents.

The port was on high alert, and a large number of NPC soldiers poured out of the military camps in the 6 walled cities, holding stone spears in array to meet the enemy in the harbor. Their player leader sent an envoy to ask what the Chinese fleet wanted to do when it appeared in the ports of the Philippines.

The reply of the Zhanjiang fleet is also simple. Their fleet plans to go to Malaysia to protect the Kingdom of Brunei from being destroyed, and they want to get a little supply in the Philippines on the way, such as water, vegetables, fruits, etc., to reduce the scurvy of NPC sailors, and I hope that the Philippine player leader can understand and support.

The port's player leader immediately agreed, offering to provide supplies.

Because there are only tens of thousands of NPC soldiers in the port, and there are only a thousand armed ships, and they are all small ships. It is not a fighting ship like the Zhanjiang Fleet, which cannot afford to offend this huge Chinese expeditionary fleet in any way. If it refuses, who knows if the fleet will attack.

Moreover, this Chinese fleet is going to Malaysia, not to the Philippines, and their Filipino players can't ask for it. The Philippines and Malaysia have a fishing ground conflict, and it would not be a bad thing if the Chinese fleet could strike Malaysia.

The Filipino leader of this port agreed, and took the initiative to let his subordinates send a large number of vegetables and fruits in the port to the Zhanjiang fleet for free. I hope that this terrible fleet will be in port as soon as possible, so as not to cause trouble. These vegetables and fruits are not too valuable in the Philippines, and even if they are given away for free, the loss is not large, and it is better than going to war.

The Zhanjiang fleet did not ask for it in vain, and according to the value of those vegetables and fruits, it gave back hundreds of sharp bronze swords to the Philippine territory. Because of the difference in prices in different places. The value of this batch of bronze swords was slightly higher than the value of the batch of fruits and vegetables provided by the port lord.

The leader was overjoyed when he received these swords, these bronze swords were much better than those made in the Philippines, and they could not be used to equip his own ground guards. The most important thing is that the giveaway reveals a message - the fleet has no intention of invading, but is willing to trade on an equal footing, which is good news. He hurriedly sent someone to ask if he could trade more bronze swords.

The Zhanjiang Expeditionary Fleet replied that of course it could, but that they would only accept food—meat, grain, fruits, and so on—and no other commodities. And the goods they sold included bronze, bows and arrows, blood medicine, and many other high-value goods. The mission of the expeditionary fleet is not just to go to Brunei. Another task was to open trade routes with the countries of Southeast Asia. The expeditionary fleet is tasked with establishing prestige and business reputation for Chinese players in Southeast Asia - much more important than simply rescuing Brunei.

The player leader of this port immediately sent people to take out a large amount of fish and food hoarded in the port, sold it to the expeditionary fleet, and exchanged it for 200 bronze weapons. To the deplorment of the lord, his harbor was too small to have enough food to trade with the fleet.

The food supply provided by this small port can only meet the needs of three or five ships for a day, and it is impossible to meet the food needs of 1,200 ships. The main fleet of the Zhanjiang Expeditionary Fleet did not stop at this small port. Instead, keep sailing. Only a small number of sailing ships were left to load food in this port.

The Zhanjiang fleet continued to sail along the Philippine coastal ports, essentially wherever it went. When they encounter a port, they resupply and exchange the products they carry on the ship for the food they need. There are many small ports in the Philippines, and there are many large ports, which are generally able to meet the supply of the fleet.

After a day of sailing southwest, almost all the port players along the coast of the Philippines knew that the Chinese fleet had arrived, and had traded with the Philippines without invading any of the Philippine ports.

The Filipino merchant players became fanatical, and their desire to make money overcame their fear of this huge fleet, and they transported large quantities of food to exchange with the fleet, and then transported the goods to various parts of the Philippines to be sold. Some port leaders even took the initiative to send people to invite the expeditionary fleet to go to their place to trade, food supplies and exchange for goods.

The port cities of the various parts of the Philippines were not unified by powerful forces, and if they could obtain a large amount of military supplies from this Chinese fleet, it would undoubtedly be very beneficial to expand their territory.

As a result, in less than two days, the Zhanjiang Expeditionary Fleet** was followed by a large group of transport ships of Filipino players, bringing food from various ports, exchanging goods and selling them to various places, specializing in the trade of this kind of food exchange goods. The Expeditionary Fleet does not reject this behavior, and has specially assigned someone to be responsible for trading with Filipino merchant players to provide convenience for Filipino merchant players.

This kind of trade invisibly makes most Filipino merchant players have a good impression of the expeditionary fleet. The high mobility of Filipino merchant players allows expeditionary fleets to bring reputation throughout the Philippines.

Naturally, there is no shortage of Filipino players who provide navigation services for the expeditionary fleet to help the expeditionary fleet arrive in Malaysia soon. Those players who have clashed with Malaysia are very eager to see Malaysian players being beaten down. This is especially true of the conflicting interests of the Philippines and Malaysia.

In this case, the Zhanjiang Expeditionary Fleet and some player organizations in the Philippines established a tacit and vague alliance relationship. With the help of Filipino player forces and various military intelligence, two days later, the expeditionary fleet successfully entered Malaysian waters.

At this time, the fleet of various coastal areas of Malaysia had not yet completed its assembly.

In fact, after the Malaysian NPC regime declared war on Brunei and Singapore, it set out a series of military missions, which were mainly carried out by Malaysian players. Malaysian players' invasion of Brunei and Singapore is mainly carried out from Route 6, not from the sea. Malaysia has a number of fleets, scattered in the ports of various player forces, and is on guard against fleets that may come from Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore - all of which pose a threat to Malaysia's fleet.

The Kingdom of Brunei was too weak and once had a small armed fleet of its own, but it was wiped out by the Malaysian fleet. At present, most of the land of the Kingdom of Brunei has been lost, large and small walled cities have been captured, and now only the two largest royal cities have not been captured, which belong to two NPC soldiers to defend the walled city, stubbornly resisting the attack of Malaysian players from the 6 grounds, and the two NPC kings who protect themselves were killed, so it symbolizes that in "Empire", the Kingdom of Brunei was destroyed.

The Philippines provided some material assistance to Brunei's players very early on, so that the Kingdom of Brunei would not collapse. However, after the 6 upper passages of the Kingdom of Brunei were cut off by Malaysian players, the two royal cities have fallen into an isolated situation, and it is only a matter of time before they perish. There is no unusually strong force among Filipino players, so what can be done is very limited, and the NPC king of the Philippines does not intend to make enemies with Malaysia because of Brunei, so he cannot save the destruction of the Kingdom of Brunei.

On the morning of May 27, the huge Zhanjiang expeditionary fleet arrived on the coast of Brunei. The appearance of the Zhanjiang Expeditionary Fleet has caused great consternation among the NPC regime and players in Malaysia, and the number of this fleet is almost larger than that of the entire Malaysian fleet, and it is also huge. The sophistication of the soldiers is far from being comparable to that of the Malaysian soldiers.

The Zhanjiang Expeditionary Fleet arrived off the coast of Brunei and presented their credentials to the two NPC kings of the Kingdom of Brunei. It was officially announced that the Zhanjiang Expeditionary Fleet was ordered by the NPC monarch of the Chu Kingdom of Chu to provide all forms of protection for the Kingdom of Brunei, and ordered the NPC King of Malaysia to cancel all military missions against the Kingdom of Brunei and immediately cease the war.