Ceuta is located at the western mouth of the Mediterranean Sea and is an important port to control the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.

In 1415, King João I of the Portuguese Kingdom sent troops to surround and conquer the area, and it became the first colony of the Portuguese Kingdom.

Ceuta is an important place that will remain in the hands of the vineyard country until the future.

Later, the grape country that ate the sweetness saw that the inland side could not break through, and directly targeted the sea of stars.

This move of the Grapevine Countries suddenly opened the brains of Western countries, and the Age of Discovery officially began from this step.

Ceuta has such a good terrain and such a good place to pinch his neck, Zhu Zhangui will naturally not ignore it.

As long as the Ming Dynasty controls this place, it can attack Europe in the north, go straight to Africa in the south, block the countries around the Mediterranean Sea in the middle, and add the Suez Canal in the future, the Mediterranean Sea will be the back garden bathhouse of the Ming Dynasty.

You can wash it as much as you want, and you can wave it as much as you want.

As far as these countries in the West are concerned, those small lands have lost their maritime trade, and the development of economy, commerce, and science and technology will not only stagnate, but the progress will be very slow.

Controlling the western maritime trade, the Ming Dynasty's plan to conquer the world was completely laid the foundation.

"Run, it's a pirate!"

I thought it was a big man who was greeting, but it suddenly turned into a pirate, and the people on the shore were directly dumbfounded.

Stunned, he forgot to dodge even the first round of artillery bombardment.

The people on the pier, not to mention standing airtightly, are also crowded.

This level of density is even more exaggerated than the formation of troops.

Coupled with the fact that it was another close-range shot, the power of the artillery was brought into full play, and a shell penetrated into the crowd and penetrated more than a dozen people in a row on the spot.

These are still solid bullets fired, those cannons loaded with explosive shells, and the shells hit the crowd, and the tragic situation makes it impossible to look at it directly.

All kinds of internal organs, heads and limbs are flying all over the sky, and the stunned audience around them is full of faces.

One of the guys was hit in the face with a gut with a stolen carry, and his body was shaking at the time.

Even more unlucky, he was frightened and opened his mouth wide because he saw the pirate.

The results can be imagined!

"Gross!"

The unlucky man bent down violently, vomiting and crawling towards the docks.

The scene of a person crawling forward with his hands and feet, and squirting liquid in his mouth, can imagine how shocking it is.

The riot screamed and trampled, and the crowd ran around like bees blowing up their nests.

The young and strong squeezed through the crowd and ran desperately, and the old and frail fell to the ground unfortunately, trampled to death by countless feet.

"Order the gunners to extend their fire, the marines to prepare for the landing, the combat targets to loot all valuable items, and those who dare to resist will be killed!"

"In addition, all the soldiers and officials in the Grape Country here will be executed, I don't want to take prisoners, I will cut off the heads and pile them on the dock, remember not to forget to put our signs, and say hello to these white-skinned pigs, so that the next time we come, they don't know each other."

In the command room on the ship, Zhu Zhangui looked at the tragic situation on the dock with an expressionless face, and gave cold orders one after another.

"Bang!"

The order was conveyed, and one by one the assault boats were lowered from the ship, and the soldiers who had been prepared for a long time quickly climbed down the rope ladder, and after landing on the boat, they looked at the dock vigilantly with their weapons in hand.

When a ship was full, the junior officer in charge of the ship, the captain of the guard, came to the stern position, held a handle behind the stern with one hand, and pulled a rope with the other hand.

I only heard a sudden sound, and a fan blade behind the stern of the boat spun rapidly.

"Hold on and go!"

Successfully starting the boat, the captain shouted, lifted the handle in his hand up, the fan blades were submerged in the water and rolled up a large splash, and the assault boat slowly accelerated and headed for the dock.

"It's not what I want, but it's not bad, and if nothing else, the Navy landing doesn't have to let soldiers row with their feet."

Zhu Zhangui, who had already walked out of the command room and was standing next to the side of the ship, looked at the landing craft roaring towards the dock, and nodded with satisfaction.

The second floor of the supermarket can be drawn once every two years, and he drew the first time he got three collapses, and the second time last year, what he got was still not the truck and other items he wanted, but the civilian assault boat that he was dispensable with, and it was a simple version.

When he drew this thing at that time, Zhu Zhangui was depressed for a long time.

In order to be a little more energetic in this lottery, he didn't touch a woman for 10 days, didn't eat meat for 5 days, and took a shower and washed his hair every day for three days, but his hands still stinked.

But now it seems that this simple version of the civilian assault boat is not useless.

Not to mention anything else, it is still very useful to ration the Navy and let the Marines use it as landing craft.

In the past, when the Marines wanted to land, the soldiers who boarded the boats had to row themselves with their oars.

Not only is the speed extremely slow, but it also greatly consumes the physical strength of the soldiers, which greatly affects the soldiers' later battles.

Now that there is this simple version of the civilian assault boat, it is difficult to say in terms of defense, but the speed of the offensive is indeed much faster.

In a few minutes, the assault boat led the soldiers to the edge of the dock stairs.

"Hurry, hurry..."

Before the ship could stop steadily, the soldiers on board quickly flipped out of the boat under the shouting of the guard commander.

"Boom!"

A tall man slammed down on the steps, and the impact of his large size made the steps tremble, and several soldiers who climbed the steps almost fell into the sea.

"Damn, you can't be light on the big man, if it collapses, we'll have to swim."

A soldier who almost stepped into the water with one foot swore and crawled up.

The big man who caused the movement glanced back at the soldier and smiled innocently, raised the big mace in his hand, and ran to the shore with a hum.

"Sorry bro, my buddy doesn't have a very bright brain."

The stormtrooper captain who finally climbed onto the boat made a mistake to the Marine just now, and then beckoned the team to hurry up with the grain in front.

They are not from the Marine Corps, and now they are in other teams, so if they can, try not to cause trouble, otherwise they will not be able to help if they are beaten.

This charge team is the team where the super lucky Gu Zi is.

When attacking the cottage at the beginning, Zhu Zhangui took a fancy to this squad at a glance, and then regardless of Zhang Xian's resentful gaze, he assigned this squad to his own guard battalion.

In several battles at sea, this squad has always been in the front, and Guzi, who is the lucky one, will always rush to the first place in the whole army.

The team advanced quickly, charging at the first place, and the ferocity was terrifying.

The mace, which ordinary soldiers couldn't even lift, became a fly swatter in his hands, and the corpse of everyone he targeted was not intact at all.

As for the injury, well, this guy has never shown mercy every time he shoots, so no lucky person has been injured so far.

In addition, this guy's brain is not very bright, he only remembers that a head can be exchanged for some food, and he kills people without distinction between men, women, and children.

As long as it is not on his side, anyone who appears in front of him, whether he resists or does not, will not escape the fate of fragmentation.

"Don't smash the millet too hard, such a beautiful gold chain has been broken by you, it's a pity, pay attention, this thing can be exchanged for a big basket of buns!"

Haizi, the squad leader who followed behind, did not participate in the battle this time, but took a backpack and followed Gu Zi to pick up the corpse.

In addition to fighting and killing, their mission this time also has the important mission of looting.

As mentioned above, any item looted will eventually be settled into money, and the squad guard will settle it uniformly.

The reward method is 10 points 1, which means that they turn in something worth ten taels, and the team can get a reward of one tael of silver.

At that time, when he heard the reward method of the above notice, the team leader's eyes lit up.

Although killing people can be exchanged for money, people are not dead things, they will not stand there and let you kill, they will run.

The battle of their squad was indeed fierce, but after a big battle, the number of enemies killed, except for the attack on the cottage, was only fifty or sixty killed.

According to the imperial court reward mechanism, you can get two taels of silver for killing the enemy, and fifty or sixty people will only get a hundred taels of silver, and the team will only get a few taels of silver for each person.

That's a lot of money, but who doesn't want more.

Isn't it easy to rob and rob valuable things everywhere?

If you are lucky enough to find a treasure trove of wealthy merchants, the entire team can retire early and go home to enjoy a good life.

So this time the squad leader changed the way he fought and divided the whole squad into two-person teams, so that half of the squad went after the enemy, and the other half followed behind the ass and was responsible for collecting valuable items.

What gold and silver hairpins, gold and silver bracelets, gold and silver necklaces, gold and silver earrings and even gold and silver teeth.

As long as it is something valuable, everything must be taken away.

In order to motivate the enthusiasm of his subordinates and grab more things to come back, the team leader even released a bold reward.

This time, which group grabbed the most, and when they returned to Daming, the team would take out a part of the funds to buy a top beauty of different races for each of the two people in this group, so that the two of them could enjoy the happy life of a man.

What does a man's life live for, isn't it just to eat and drink women?

Now with the net worth of the team, eating and drinking is not a worry, and the rest of the pursuit is naturally beauty.

They can't afford ordinary interracial women, and the price of those with good faces and figures is too high, and they can't afford them.

Now that there is an opportunity for the team to contribute, these guys who have been holding back at sea for nearly a year are instantly enthusiastic.

When they were about to leave, they all shouted that they had to get this first prize.

"Hehe, you fools, just your stinky luck, you still want to take the lead, and you don't want to see who I'm bringing with you."

Pulling a silver pendant from a corpse, the squad leader Haizi couldn't help grinning as he looked at the big back in front of him brandishing a mace and frantically attacking.

"Huh!"

After scraping a corpse, Haizi, who was just about to check the next corpse, accidentally caught a glimpse of several guards in a nearby alley, protecting a person who was fleeing for his life.

"There's a guard, it's a big fish!"

Haizi's eyes lit up, he pulled out the revolver rewarded by his superiors on his waist, and yelled at Gu Zi, who was chasing the white-skinned pig frantically with a mace: "Guzi, there is a roasted whole sheep over there, follow me!" ”

He was holding a mace, frantically beating the grain of a grape country dock guard, when he heard a roasted whole sheep, he roared excitedly, and the strength of the mace in his hand increased violently.

I heard a heavy muffled sound, and the soldier of the Grape Country who was holding the shield against the millet mace, the hand holding the shield broke on the spot, and the shield made of oak slapped heavily on the face, and he fell to the ground with a miserable scream, and there was no sound after a few convulsions.

At this moment when Gu Zi rushed over, Hai Zi beckoned the other members of the team who were also collecting the loot around.

Soon a team of more than a dozen people gathered, and then under the command of Hai Zi, Gu Zi took the lead, and ran to the alley where those people were found.

Ten minutes later, under the protection of the millet, the team happily ran back with a large box.

After they caught up with the men just now, they found a building that resembled a tavern, and the team rushed in, and saw several people dressed as merchants and guards, holding boxes and about to leave.

Falling into the fish nest all of a sudden, Haizi was so excited that he raised his gun and killed him without saying a word, and then under the unwilling eyes of a bunch of corpses, he opened the box held by the merchants.

In an instant, the golden and silver light shone brightly, almost blinding the eyes of the team members.

Good guy, the box is full of gold and silver coins, and the first time I saw a team member with so much money, my saliva flowed.

After thinking about it in my mind for a long time, and finally under the order of Haizi, the team leader, everyone re-covered the box and returned with joy.

None of them embezzled the money.

Not to mention that there are so many people around them, and the discipline of the army, even if they want to embezzle the money, there is nowhere to hide.

In the future, there will be a long time at sea on the ship, and where to hide all this money, if it is discovered from above, it will be light to cut off the head.

Robbery... Oh no, the battle begins at dusk and ends at the end of the day.

Today's harvest is full, and all kinds of gold and silver coins worth of items are worth more than 5 million taels according to the approximate statistics of the scribe officials.

That is, the number of ships is not enough to pull away the goods stacked in the dock warehouse, otherwise Zhu Zhangui will make more money this time.

If you can't take these goods away, Zhu Zhangui will naturally not leave them to the white-skinned pigs.

At the sound of an order, the soldiers who had robbed and killed people raised their torches and began to burn the docks.

As a robber, if you don't set fire to someone after killing someone, is that still a robber?

The flames lit up the dark night sky, and the once bustling and prosperous Ceuta Pier was now a hell on earth.

The dock floor was strewn with broken corpses, and faces of despair and horror lay on the ground, looking at the sky and making silent accusations.

They don't know what they've done wrong or why they're doing it.

Yes, they don't know, but those Yanhuang ancestors who have suffered a lot, they don't know either.

Looking at the dock that was shrouded in flames farther and farther away, Zhu Zhangui's expression did not change.

The weak eat the strong, and the fittest survive.

This is the law of survival of animals, and it is also the law of survival of people. Weakness is original sin.

"Your Highness, is our next step to Lisbon?"

Qi Yuan, who commanded the battle throughout the whole process, walked to Zhu Zhangui's side and asked about the next battle plan.

Zhu Zhangui retracted his gaze and said in a calm tone: "Go to Lisbon, kill people, rob people!" ”

During the interrogation of the prisoners today, Zhu Zhangui obtained an important piece of information.

Not all the soldiers of Zheng He's fleet who were captured were killed, and some of them were reduced to slavery by the king of the Grape Kingdom after being tortured and humiliated, and did all kinds of heavy work on the docks.

The number of ministers of state in the country is not clear, but according to his conservative estimates, there are still about 60.

Knowing that there were still brothers alive, Zhu Zhangui naturally would not delay any longer and let them continue to suffer.

"Yes!"

Qi Yuan raised his hand and saluted, turned around and returned to the command cabin, and ordered the fleet to follow the route and advance towards Lisbon, the capital of the Grape Kingdom.

Turning to look at the dock that had turned into a point of light, Zhu Zhangui closed his eyes slightly and began to think about the next step.

It is now June of the third year of Hongxi, and according to the original historical process, it is the 21st year of Yongle.

Thinking of this time, Zhu Zhangui's expression gradually darkened.

According to historical records, the old man will die next year.

Thinking that the cute little old man who loves to lose his temper is about to leave him, Zhu Zhangui feels uncomfortable for a while.

Although the old man often cheats him, he is also really good to him.

From ancient times to the present, in addition to his grandfather, there are several emperors who can delegate the power in their hands to their juniors.

Counting the history of various dynasties, which prince or grandson has such rights and status as him.

And all this, in addition to Zhu Zhangui's own efforts, also has the full support of the old man and his father.

As soon as he thought of the old man at home, who suddenly left this world one day, Zhu Zhangui felt an inexplicable sadness and sadness in his heart.

"After rescuing people and coming back, go back, accompany the old man well, and let him leave happily."

After being silent for a long time, Zhu Zhangui finally made a decision, after rescuing people from Lisbon, he would return to Daming directly, and spend the rest of his days with his old man, so that he would leave without regrets.

Of course, the main thing must not be forgotten, the Ming telegraph network is still waiting to be laid, and the money needs to be raised by these enthusiastic Western white pigs.

People pay so much money, and if they don't go to the other party's rich land to thank them in person, Zhu Zhangui will be unhappy in his heart.