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East India Company, Caribbean Detachment Group.

A sealed leather cylinder was dropped from the tall flagship and plunged into the dinghy waiting around the flagship. Since there was no perfect flag language in this period, communication between fleets had to rely on roaring. If it is too far, it is necessary to use this communication boat to communicate.

Now a dozen dinghys were following the flagship, passing orders back and forth.

The captain of the boat, who had received the order, first picked up the cylinder and checked that the fire paint and wax seals on it were in good condition. "It's the Margarita! Damn, we've picked up a good job, and it's going to be a long way down there. Guys, speed up! The Margarita has always been generous! He shouted loudly, and took the lead in swinging the tail rudder in his hand, causing the dinghy to turn away from the flagship.

The six men on the boat worked together, shouting the trumpet to make the dinghy move quickly.

On the flagship, the governor of San Juan, Richa, covered his hat and turned and hurried away from the edge of the deck, not even knowing that he had been there, and leaving behind a leather cylinder.

……

"Margarita! Your order, a quarter of an hour ago! ”

Before he could get close to the "Margarita", the captain of the herald dinghy shouted at the ship, waving the leather cylinder in his hand. The officer on duty on the other side had apparently noticed the approaching herald and lowered the basket early.

When the captain of the dinghy approached the basket. A nice bottle of rum was found inside. He happily took it out and thanked the Margarita. "Good luck to you!" Then he put the leather tube in the basket, and a few of his men left happily with the rum.

The leather cylinder was passed to the captain of the "Margarita" layer by layer. This is a tall middle-aged man. It was his idea to put rum in the basket of the correspondence just now, so as long as the order was given to the "Margarita", it was never delayed, this is a quite popular guy.

“…… Immediately conduct an armed reconnaissance in the direction of Port-au-Prince......" He read the order and looked at his officers who were listening.

"What the hell!" The Margarita's is a Galen ship! We are now fully loaded, stupid as a fat snail, how is it possible to go on a reconnaissance mission?! The Marine Corps officers were the first to complain dissatisfied. The "Margarita" was a supplementary troop carrier specially prepared for embarkation battles, packed with a full seven hundred St. Martin's mercenaries. The speed is just over ten knots, and such a ship is really not suitable for armed reconnaissance.

"Shut up, idiot!" The captain glared at the guy and suppressed him for the time being. "It seems that Lord Aldrich is going to invite his opponent to a naval duel, and this order means to keep us in the way away! Got it?! Our ships are not in good combat and cannot be helped in naval battles, but if they are sunk and the results of the opponent's battle, then the merits of the adults will be discounted. ”

He saw that everyone had no opinions. Directly hand the order to the first mate, "Execute it!" ”

The first mate took the order and walked out quickly, and then the hull of the "Margarita" creaked and turned around with difficulty. Sail in the direction of leaving the battlefield. With the entire fleet shrinking towards the center of the flagship, only this one ship left like a deserter, so it was very eye-catching.

flagship. When the officer on duty reported the ship's movements to Aldrich, the "shadow governor", he only frowned. Signal to the Registrar for Record. "I didn't give any orders to the Margarita, he was on the run. Remember the post-war ...... Remind me to punish the cowardly! All right. So be it! Don't let these little things bother your Admiral! ”

With that, he turned around and went back to the captain's room, locking himself up again.

……

Seeing such an abnormal situation as he went out in his own boat, the captain of the "Margarita" was not without doubts.

He retrieved the command and the leather cylinder, and looked at it again and again, until he was sure that this was what he usually used to pass on orders, and that the font and fire paint seal were fine, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

With this thing in hand, he at least didn't need to worry about being wronged.

"Click, click", a strange sound came from inside as he swayed the leather cylinder. He opened the messenger and pulled an old bronze badge from the inner wall. The badge was originally sewn on the inside of the leather tube, but it made a sound because it was a little loose.

"What is this?" He took the bronze badge and looked left and right, and could only observe that it was a woman's head, which was actually molded into a holy emblem. "Blasphemy!" He was distraught and threw the badge on the table like garbage.

He didn't feel that the moment the bronze badge fell on the table, the whole sea seemed to shake.

The Margarita slowly sailed into a thin mist and was never seen again......

……

"The wind is blowing, Admiral!"

A communications soldier knocked on the door of the "Shadow Governor" Aldrich and shouted.

He was in the room, drinking wine like blood, and did not answer.

*******

"The wind is blowing, Captain!"

Jacques's voice of delight came down from the mast.

"Windy?" Lu Yuan looked at the anemometer on the mast in disbelief, where the four blades were spinning at an accelerated pace, and it seemed that the wind was indeed blowing.

Coral Island, the battle of that stormy night, seemed to him as far away as a century ago.

"That is brain-dead?! Not good! Hurry up and check if the ballast in the bottom bin is enough! Prepare me another 50 vats of seawater in it right away! Nima, this girl must have changed her tricks! It was never windy before, but this time Nima is definitely a typhoon! Fast! Fast! Fast! Move it! ”

Lu Yuan did not hesitate to guess the intentions of the sea god Kolybusso with the greatest malice.

As soon as his words fell, the wind speed really became louder. More than a dozen snow-white sails swelled with visible amplitude, and for the first time in a month, the air bulged.

*******

"Admiral". A simple tie with long loose hair and a straight shirt. The man who looked very strong came behind Li Huamei and reported respectfully. "The wind is blowing!"

Li Huamei ignored the real captain of the ship, the true meaning hidden in Al's words. She simply raised her right arm, put her two green fingers together, and pointed at a third of the Far Eastern Fleet like a sword, "Full sail, strike there!" ”

Without waiting for Al to convey, the crew members who had long been conquered by Li Huamei's charm responded to the call! They turned the mast and rocked the boat (at this time. The rudder had just been invented for less than a decade and had not yet spread to the Far East. The gunners pushed the guns out of the gun doors, and the foot soldiers stood on the side of the ship's fence with muskets......

"Admiral......" Al pointed to the opposite side depressedly, but Li Huamei directly intercepted.

"I know it, I know it, there are dozens of British ships on the other side, right? Thanks to the early notice of that fellow, I think the fleet behind me should have been prepared...... Thousands of miles away from home and country, it has not changed Akagi! The hearts of our Ming merchants are not all black. "As the admiral of the fleet. The eldest daughter of the Li family, the spiritual leader of the Jiangnan navigation industry. Li Huamei's face did not change and she fired the map cannon, which could make the merchants who went to sea cry to death on the bow of the ship. "But it is precisely because of the reinforcements from the enemy that our side has to take a risk! It's quite possible. It's the last time for us to save the third prince! It can be said that the opportunity cannot be lost, and the loss will not come again! ”

"But ......"

"I know the way, I know the way. Do you think that there are so many princes in the royal family anyway, and you are robbed of overseas feudal countries every year. Dead one doesn't count as nothing, does it? But this prince is an interesting fellow! The whole royal family, he is one of the people I am most optimistic about. You see that he is not yet twenty years old. If you dare to go to Nanyang alone, you will know that this guy will become a big weapon sooner or later. The emperor knows the way, our Li family knows the way, and the Lin family also knows the way...... Otherwise, he was captured by the English people, how could he have sent sailors to chase all the way to Europa to rescue him! ”

"Then please ......" Al could only clench his fists, but was stealed by Li Huamei again.

"I know the way, I know the way, but I won't leave your ship!" Li Huamei stubbornly grabbed the hilt of the sword at her waist, "I still like to fight at sea with you... At my level, it's okay to command a few ships, but it's really boring to command an entire fleet. When I go back this time, I plan to resist the whole punishment, leave the government and the opposition, and let those filthy people play by themselves!

Moreover, don't you think that Deputy Lin ~ Admiral is more suitable for this position than me? The sailor was trampled on the head by a woman, and I don't know how long it has been uncomfortable! "Then why do you want to pronounce the word "vice" so heavily.

"The ...... surnamed Lin!" Al said a word angrily, but was directly cut off by Li Huamei.

"Call the Admiral!" Li Huamei glared at the apricot kernel, glared at Al, and reprimanded lightly. "The surname is Lin...... Ahem, although Vice Admiral Lin is a little rigid, as long as we rush to the front, he will definitely be able to help us take care of the back road...... He's still a companion to be trusted. He is the representative of those people in Jiangnan, but how can those people in Jiangnan control a tiger?! It's just a dream! If I leave in the future, if I can leave the ocean-going sailor and you in his care, I can do what I like with confidence......"

"Admiral!" Al shouted anxiously.

"I know the way, I know the way, you are still so impatient. If you want to leave with me at that time, I'm welcome, so I don't want to leave so many excellent subordinates surnamed Lin...... Where's Vice Admiral Lin! But ah, do you think I'm going to take Yi'an away or stay at that time? Seemingly...... It's going to be fun. Li Huamei showed a smile called belly black.

"Admiral......" Al said weakly.

"Ah, I know ......", Li Huamei froze for a moment, then looked at Al with hatred, and said dissatisfiedly, "What do you want to say after talking for so long!?" It's still not a man! ”

Lal wanted to cover his face, but I didn't finish a word!

He really wanted to withdraw from the battle with the admiral, because as long as Li Huamei injured a cold hair, his partners who had taken risks together, whether it was Shiraki Xingjiu or Yi An, would not let him go. But as long as Li Huamei is in which boat. That ship will attack in the most dangerous direction, that's tradition.

He also wanted to invite Li Huamei back to his flagship. If you can keep the Admiral involved, Al is actually a super radical guy. Now his pleasures are all possessed by the Admiral. And then threw a bunch of worries back to him.

"Admiral, what I want to say is that the merchant's ship on the opposite side not only did not escape, but launched an assault on the Far Eastern Fleet alone......" he said with an embarrassed smile. The point is that the British fleet was also sailing in his direction...... He may be one step ahead of us in the fight against the British......"

"Before us?!" Li Huamei grabbed Al's neck and dragged it to her, "Someone else is about to snatch your prey, and you are still here chatting with me?!" You're still not a man?! If it's a man, I'll find a way to speed it up! ”

******

Just when Lu Yuan and Li Huamei were scrambling to make the battleship rush towards the enemy formation, they were essentially the biggest pillars. The huge Ming fleet behind Li Huamei also started to make big moves.

At first, the ships scattered in all directions like a flock of wild ducks that had suddenly exploded. But a quarter of an hour later, the fifty warships re-transformed into two columns of geese on the left and right, which is exactly the "clutch momentum, the shape of gathering and dispersing" in Li Gong's art of war!

As soon as the fleet array moved forward, the sky-high slaughtering momentum instantly surged out, and it became uncontrollable and blazing.

"Ahem~ahem~!" The most middle position of the fleet, on the flagship of the largest building ship. A man with a sickly face in a big hat stood there. He wields a thorn (a forked wooden staff wrapped around a thin rope), and simply waving it left and right, and the army is divided like an arm to the right and left, forming a battle formation.

Just like most of the men of the Ming Dynasty in this era. The man also had long hair, only a bun, and no crown. This man has a square face. Thick eyebrows and big eyes. It is estimated that he is a person who has been in a high position for a long time, and he is not angry and arrogant. And he was extremely tall and had a wide skeleton. Originally, it was a strong man's posture. It's just that now his face is blue and gray and his body is skinny. Hair and beard are dry and boring.

Even though it was spring weather and he was still wearing a bear's skin, his body was still trembling slightly, coughing violently constantly, and he was shaky when he stood there.

Lin Nanxuan, Lin Beiyuan's super vengeful brother, is also the deputy admiral of the Daming Ocean Fleet.

"Coward!" Standing behind him, a Slavic woman who was extremely beautiful, did not care about him, a seriously ill person, and directly accused: "The Admiral is still charging in front, we should respond with a sharp arrow array!" Isn't it because you have any intentions? ”

Although this woman said this, she had fulfilled the duties of an adjutant perfectly before, and broke down Lin Nanxuan's command into countless decomposition orders, and conveyed them through various ways without delaying the slightest thing. If it weren't for the woman's skillful cooperation, then his command would have been a patient waving a wooden stick twice.

Now that I'm done with my business, I'm going to complain a few words.

Lin Nanxuan threw the handkerchief blocking the cough into the sea expressionlessly, and took a new silk handkerchief from the hand of the maid on the side, and ignored the woman's accusations. The woman glared at him indignantly from behind, but she was helpless about his dead fish appearance. In fact, it has long been rumored in the fleet, "Admiral Li Huamei, you can break a thousand ships with five ships!" "That's what Li Huamei's five warships have conquered in Southeast Asia.

But what she didn't say was that if she gave Admiral Li Huamei fifty warships, she might command them until the whole army was wiped out in one exercise. Admiral Li Huamei's ability to command the Great Army...... Unfathomable – that is, no right way to measure it has been found.

Therefore, when the Great Army pursued the British Far East Fleet into the Indian Ocean, with the friction of various forces, the command had to gradually tilt into the hands of Deputy Admiral Lin Nanxuan, who was better at commanding the Grand Fleet.

This also involves the maritime strategy of the Ming Dynasty, the battle between land and sea, the struggle of princes of overseas feudal states, the change of power of the ocean-going fleet, the infiltration of the Lin family into the sailors, and Li Huamei's achievements after successively leveling Dongying and Southeast Asia, etc.

Therefore, Li Huamei's subordinates at the beginning are now very dissatisfied with Lin Nanxuan's family, and often speak ill of each other......

Lin Nanxuan continued to wave the thorn without saying a word, dividing the fleet into more levels, if you look carefully, it was the wild goose formation of the word "human" before, and now although it is still in the shape of "human", there are more groups of three ships in it, like the wild goose stratus in the sky. With such an array, the impact power may not be enough, but if it is a defensive counterattack, even a fleet of several times more can cope with it.

It wasn't until this moment that Lin Nanxuan, who had changed a few handkerchiefs, coughed and explained to the woman: "Yi'an, the Admiral pilots the boat... cough~cough~... Why should I worry? Only... Ahem, ahem... I'm afraid, when most of the sailors come forward, the admiral... cough~cough~... The enemy chief has been slain. The wild goose array can be encircled and turned into a square circle, or... Ahem... Also... cough cough cough ~~"

Seeing Lin Nanxuan's heart-rending cough, the woman named Yi An couldn't bear it in her eyes, she directly interrupted Lin Nanxuan's words, and said arrogantly, "Okay, okay, you're the smartest!" You know the art of war! Coughing so badly, just... Just don't talk...! You're a sinister, cunning, despicable person, even if... Even if you explain... It won't make me any better for you! ”

Although he said that, his tone was obviously gentle, and Lin Nanxuan's rigid face finally had a smile.

He nodded and said no more. Since leaving Quanzhou, Lin Nanxuan has suffered from typhoid fever, tuberculosis, and navigation diseases...... All kinds of diseases came one after another, and he was tortured into this bone frame by life. The ship doctor carried by Hangzhou has long been gone! If it weren't for Yi An, she not only used the Arab method to treat herbal medicine, but also threw the doctor who only knew how to let blood into the sea, it is estimated that Lin Nanxuan would have died long ago!

So, what did he do to Yi An...... said about "three media and six hires".

"Look at the Admiral!" Yi An suddenly shouted in surprise, not far ahead, Li Huamei really entered the enemy formation with great domineering as Lin Nanxuan said, and completely destroyed a big ship with the first salvo!

"You, cough ~ cough ~ you go to the cabin! Change... cough~cough~... Change into the Commander's clothes and come out! Be red! Fast! Lin Nanxuan gave an urgent order. Thinking about Yi'an just now, I almost missed the right thing!

Yi An is actually extremely convinced of Lin Nanxuan in his heart now. When she heard Lin Nanxuan's words, she went immediately without thinking about it!

On the way, she figured out Lin Nanxuan's intentions.

Along the way, tens of thousands of nautical miles of pursuit and escape, the Ming Dynasty's ships and artillery could be crushed all the way, and the British could also rely on their own port familiarity along the way to occupy the advantage. The two sides have fought each other no less than a dozen times, and it can be said that they are extremely familiar with each other. Just like Li Huamei's understanding of the British Far East Fleet, she was able to instantly discover the gaps in the fleet. The British also knew that the woman who liked to wear the red robe was the commander of the fleet behind!

Now that the Admiral is alone, if he is recognized, he will be surrounded in the blink of an eye! If the other party is desperate to sink Li Huamei's ship, then the admiral will be more than lucky.

Yi An was wearing Li Huamei's clothes, standing at the bow of the ship disguised as an admiral, and most of them could play the role of a fish and a pearl.

Who would have thought that a general would not honestly command on his own flagship?

This side has just been arranged, and the battle situation ahead has changed again...... (To be continued......)