The governor rushed to the holy city of Rome to report to the Pope, and at the same time sent someone to inform the English fleet on the sea to intercept the English merchant ship.

When the governor came to the Holy City, the pope was already resting. You can only wait in the Holy Hall, and ask the attendants to go and report to the Pope. The Roman Sacistory, typical of ancient Roman architectural style, with a circular atrium, like a celestial vault, very high, painted with the picture of angels; Twelve huge round stone pillars around it support the huge holy hall, and twelve huge bonfires illuminate the entire holy hall exceptionally brightly; Next to the surrounding doorways, stood two guards of the Papal Guard, dressed in heavy armor and armed with halberds.

The Governor waited in the Sanctuary for a moment, only to hear a jumble of footsteps coming from the doorway opposite, and quickly looked up. I saw the pope, dressed in civilian clothes, escorted by all the attendants, walk out of the door and come to the top of the holy hall. The governor immediately bowed his head and waited for the Pope to sit down on the Holy Throne, and then bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, Holy Ann! ”

The Pope was an old man in his seventies, with snow-white hair, with a kind face, but his eyes flashed with haughtyness, and four tall and graceful attendants in black and masked stood in four positions: east, west, north, and south of the Holy See.

The governor said: "The interruption of His Majesty's rest in the middle of the night is really because of an unexpected incident. Not long ago, a Han Chinese snatched a merchant ship parked in the harbor and broke out of the port! The servant thinks that this matter is extraordinary, so he has come to report it to His Majesty! ”

The Pope did not show any special expression, and did not seem to take the matter to heart at all, and asked, "Is this the case?" ”

The governor felt that the Pope seemed to be a little displeased, and couldn't help but get nervous, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the servants think that these Han people who robbed the merchant ships should be the spies of the evil country of the Ming Dynasty, and they must have gone to report the situation to their evil emperor by doing so!" ”

The Pope said proudly: "So what? We are glorious to God, and even if they knew that we were going to attack them and prepared carefully, they would not be able to resist the sword of God! Now that God has drawn his sword, their fate is sealed! He glanced down at the governor and said, "Let them tell the emperor and his subjects in the east that God is angry, that the sword is unsheathed, and that they are about to be judged by God!" Let them tremble in fear! The Governor bowed in agreement. ……

After Zhou Yang led his men to plunder the English merchant ships, he immediately left the port and headed southeast. Zhou Yang was originally most worried about the interception of the English fleet, but the development of things was as he expected, the English fleet saw that it was their merchant ship, not only did not intercept it, but their sailors also stood on the side chord and laughed loudly.

The ships smoothly passed through the middle of the English fleet and continued to the far sea. Behind him, the overlapping sails and the sporadic lights grew farther and farther away, until later, only the stars and moon in the sky remained, and the only sound of waves could be heard above the sea, and there was silence beyond that.

Zhou Yang stood on the deck, looking at the empty night sky and the sea, with a thoughtful look on his face. This Zhou Yang is the middle-aged man in charge of Western intelligence work in the previous article, the leader of Hua Jinyiwei, who was originally a horse bandit leader on the Northwest Road, after the Ming Dynasty wiped out the Western Xia, Zhou Yang and his horse bandit members joined the Ming Dynasty and were classified under the command of Jinyiwei. In recent years, Zhou Yang has made a lot of contributions to Daming, and now he is one of the hundred households of Jinyiwei.

The ship walked on the sea for many days, everything went well, nothing happened.

On this morning, the lookout on the mainmast suddenly pointed ahead and shouted, "Chief, Kunlun Island is ahead!" "Kunlun Island, is an island named by the Ming Dynasty, just at the mouth of the Gulf of Aden, the island is not very large, but it is a bridgehead at the forefront of the Ming control, not only the Ming Dynasty business brigade is stationed and resting place, but also stationed a thousand people of the naval army.

When everyone heard the shouting, they rushed out of the cabin and looked ahead, and sure enough, they saw a small island floating between the sea and the sky in front of them, and their faces couldn't help but show joy. After staying in a foreign country for a long time, now I can't help but feel extra kind when I see the territory of my country.

The ship headed straight for Kunlun Island. Soon after, the island was in sight. Up close, the size of the island is still quite small; On the surrounding wharves, merchant ships from all over the world come and go, and the island is crowded with people, which is particularly lively, and this island is like a huge market.

The ship slowly headed for an empty space on the dock.

One of Zhou Yang's subordinates looked around and found that there were many English merchant ships, and said puzzledly: "England's merchant ships are here, but where are the strikers of England's navy?" Why didn't you see a trace all the way? Another of Zhou Yang's subordinates said: "What's so strange about this, they must be taking another course." In fact, the arrival of these English merchant ships here shows that the English fleet does not intend to attack here, otherwise the English merchant ships would never come here. The man who had spoken earlier nodded.

The ship docked, and Zhou Yang left only a few people to guard the ship, but he led most of the people off the ship and ran straight towards the military camp on the island.

The one guarding this small island was only one of the commanders of the Ming Naval Army, named Wang Gu, who was originally a pirate who followed Wang Hai and Wang Rong's brothers and sisters to run rampant on the sea. Wang Gu had 1,000 officers and soldiers under his command and more than a dozen small warships, and his main responsibility was to guard Kunlun Island.

Wang Gu heard that Zhou Yang of Jinyiwei was coming, and hurriedly came out to greet them, and when the two saw each other, they immediately hugged each other, laughed, and walked into the office together.

Wang Gudao: "Why the fuck are you here all of a sudden?" Nothing good for sure! The two sat down, and Zhou Yang scolded with a smile: "If I have something good for you, won't it become a bribe, don't you even think about it!" Wang Gu said angrily: "If you want to bribe, Lao Tzu will bribe you, you are fucking a hundred households in Jinyi, and the military rank is half a level higher than Lao Tzu!" Don't talk nonsense, say something! ”

Zhou Yang's expression became solemn, and he said: "Things are completely different from what we expected before, the scale of the enemy's troops has greatly exceeded expectations, so far, the army that the enemy has assembled has exceeded 200,000, and the main force of the English naval army has all sailed to the sea off Rome, and the strength is much stronger than we expected, I am afraid that in terms of scale, it will surpass our fleet!" ”

Wang Gu frowned slightly, "There is such a thing?" Zhou Yang nodded and said, "I need a fast boat, rush back to China as soon as possible to report to Your Majesty, do you have a fast boat here?" Wang Gu smiled: "I don't have anything else here, but there are too many boats!" After a pause, "Early tomorrow morning, one of the Luo family's merchant ships will return to China, their ship is fast, you can take their ship!" Zhou Yang asked, "Is it Luo Niang's merchant ship?" Wang Gu nodded and smiled: "In addition to Luo Niangniang's Luo family, which Luo family is there?" Zhou Yang nodded, "Okay, I'll take their boat." Then he said, "I want to set sail immediately!" ”

Wang Gu frowned and said, "So urgent? ”

Zhou Yang nodded, "It's urgent!" "By the way, before we left Rome, we got information that an advanced fleet of the English fleet was coming east, what did you find?" Wang Gu shook his head, "There is nothing abnormal. Zhou Yang said: "Brother, you have to be careful!" After a pause, "I think this place is difficult to defend, so if the enemy attacks, it is better to give up." Wang Gu laughed and said, "How can I, as the commander of the Daming Water Army, abandon the island and flee?" Zhou Yang stopped persuading, and then said worriedly: "There are many merchants and a lot of wealth on this island, should we evacuate as soon as possible before the enemy arrives, so as not to fall into the hands of the enemy?" ”

Wang Gu nodded and said, "I'll do this immediately!" Then he raised his voice outside: "Someone! When an officer came in, he clenched his fists and asked, "What does the commander command?" Wang Gu said: "You go and call the person in charge of the Luojia Chamber of Commerce here." The officer answered and ran down. Wang Gu turned his head to Zhou Yang and said, "Brother, you just wait for the person in charge of the Luojia Chamber of Commerce here, and I'll go and arrange the arrangement." Zhou Yang hugged his fists and said, "Brother, please." Wang Gu left the office.

Zhou Yang got up and walked out of the gate of the hall, the governance office on this island is very simple, unlike the governance offices in the Central Plains, which have a front yard and a wall, except for the gate of the hall. Due to the high terrain of the place where the government is located, Zhou Yang stood at the door, and the scene of the entire port came into view. I saw a group of sailors mobilized, and at the same time, the head of the Han caravan gathered in the barracks not far away.

"My lord, the person in charge of the Luo family's caravan has arrived." The officer reported to Zhou Yangyu.

Zhou Yang turned around to look, only to see that the officer was followed by a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties, with dark skin and very thin skin. The middle-aged man stepped forward and bowed, "The grass people meet your lord!" ”

Zhou Yang said: "No need to be polite. There is one such thing that I need to rush back to the country immediately to meet His Majesty. So I hope that the ship on which your caravan sets sail tomorrow morning will set sail immediately! The middle-aged man said: "Since the adults have urgent military affairs, the grass people naturally have to do their best to assist!" The grass people will make arrangements, please come with the grass people! Zhou Yang nodded and said to the officer: "Tell Commander Wang later, and say that we are going to the Luojia caravan!" The officer bowed in agreement.

Zhou Yang and the others followed the middle-aged man to a relatively secluded port. There are only a dozen merchant ships docked at this port, all of which are merchant ships of the Ming state-owned departments and major chambers of commerce, and there are no foreign merchant ships. Originally, this wharf was a wharf dedicated to the Ministry of State and domestic merchant ships carrying a large number of precious goods, and ordinary merchant ships and foreign merchant ships were not allowed to enter.

The middle-aged man pointed to a large five-masted merchant ship that was transporting water and food to the ship not far away and said, "That's the ship!" ”

Zhou Yang looked in the direction of his finger, nodded, and asked, "How long will it take to set sail at the earliest?" The middle-aged man said: "Now all you need to do is load water and food and call the sailors to get on board." About an hour or so. Zhou Yang said: "Then you will have to work." The middle-aged man smiled, "Your Excellency is polite." Wait a moment, sir, I'll go and tell them. He arched his hand towards Zhou Yang and hurried down. I saw him give an order to the people on the dock, and the dock was busy when he boarded.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion at the large pier in the distance. Zhou Yang and the others couldn't help but follow the prestige, only to see the figures on the big pier longing, people thinking about running around, there were many foreigners holding long knives and axes rushing into the crowd on the dock and slashing indiscriminately, some people fell to the ground, some people were cut to the ground, and the shouts and screams became a one. Zhou Yang immediately felt a bad feeling in his heart, turned his head and ordered: "Prepare to fight!" Everyone pulled out their long knives one after another, just waiting for Zhou Yang's order.

When the dock was in chaos, I saw a group of sailors rushing up to the dock and fighting with those foreigners, and the two sides fought together, the sword light flashed and blood flew. The Ming general who led the way was Wang Gu, I saw him rush into the enemy group first, and the big knife in his hand flew up and down, killing the enemy's flesh and blood, like a tiger and a wolf, brave and unstoppable!

Zhou Yang became excited and shouted, "Let's go help too!" Immediately led all the brocade guards to rush over.

The defenders and the attackers were fighting together, the attackers were originally very ferocious, and slashing those merchants was like slaughtering chickens and ducks, but now under the strong counterattack of the Ming army, it seemed a little weak. A blonde and blue-eyed attacker rushed towards Wang Gu with a big axe in his hand, howled, and slashed at Wang Gu's head with a big axe, Wang Gu dodged with a turn, and at the same time cut off one of his opponent's thighs with the big knife in his hand. The blonde man screamed loudly and fell to the ground, Wang Gu stepped forward, and the big knife in his hand swung downward, and the blonde man's screams stopped abruptly, his good head had been separated from his body! Seeing this, several foreigners who were about to come up to besiege Wang Gu were shocked and couldn't help but stop. At this moment, several swishing sounds sounded through the air, and the foreigners were hit by arrows one after another, and fell to the dock and fell into the sea with a scream, and the bright red color quickly spread in the sea like paint.

The Ming army and the Jinyi Guard killers continued to fight back, and the blonde foreigners were cut to the ground one after another, while people continued to fall into the sea. The last remnant of more than 100 foreigners was surrounded in an open field on the dock. The more than 100 blonde foreigners watched as their wolf-like opponents surrounded them, all of them exuding fear and bewilderment.

Wang Gu shouted: "Lay down your arms! The soldiers roared angrily. When the foreigners saw each other's menacing, they couldn't help but be frightened, but they didn't understand what the other party meant, and they all looked at a loss.

One of Wang Gu's subordinates shouted in English, "Lay down your arms!" ”

The foreigners looked at each other, and the foreigner who was in the lead hesitated for a moment and put down the weapon in his hand. At this time, all the foreigners put down their weapons.

Zhou Yang came to Wang Gu's side, Wang Gu glanced at him, saw that his body was full of bloodstains, and the horizontal knife in his hand was still dripping blood, and said with a smile: "This is my business, I don't need your help!" Zhou Yang smiled: "You think I want to help you?" Who told me to run into! Wang Gu laughed.

Zhou Yang glanced at those blonde foreigners, frowned, and said, "Where did these people come from?" ”

Wang Gudao: "According to the report, these grandsons all came out of the English merchant ships!" If Lao Tzu hadn't listened to your words and prepared, he would have been caught off guard by them! ”

Zhou Yang was stunned for a moment, and then frowned: "So these English merchant ships carried these soldiers to attack Kunlun Island?" Wang Gu nodded and said, "It should be like this." These are sneak attack troops, and their follow-up troops should be on the horizon. ”

As if in response to Wang Gu's words, an officer next to him suddenly pointed to the sea in the distance and shouted, "General, look! ”

Wang Gu and Zhou Yang immediately looked at the sea, only to see countless black spots between the sea and the sky, and their complexions couldn't help but change. The prisoners, who were originally terrified and terrified, were all excited when they saw this scene, and the guy in the lead shouted even more excitedly: "Our army is coming, if you don't want to die, surrender obediently!" ”

Wang Gu was furious, stepped forward, his hand raised and fell, and the golden retriever was in a different place before he could scream. When the foreigners suddenly saw such a scene, they were all silent, and they didn't dare to come out, and their originally white faces were even more like zombies at the moment, and they couldn't believe that the other party was so fierce, and they dared to act in this situation.

Wang Gu glanced at the foreigners, his eyes revealing infinite murderous aura. Suddenly, he raised his blood-dripping knife and pointed it at the foreigners and shouted, "Kill them all!" When the sergeants received the order, they immediately stepped forward, their guns and bayonets slashed, blood flew, and more than a hundred golden-haired ghosts fell in pools of blood, and the terrible screams rang out for a long time.

Wang Gu turned to Zhou Yang and said, "There is no time, you must leave immediately!" ”

Zhou Yang looked at the approaching enemy fleet and frowned, "I'm afraid there is no time." ”

Wang Gu patted his chest, "With me here, I will buy time for you!" Then he turned his head and ordered: "Order all the warships to attack, and the rest of the teams are ready for battle!" All the officers agreed and ran down. Immediately, Wang Gu said to the two heralds: "Go and tell all the people at once, tell them to evacuate quickly, there is no time!" The two heralds answered and ran down.

Wang Gu turned around, faced Zhou Yang, and said, "Brother, go quickly!" ”

Zhou Yang was excited in his heart, and he wanted to stay and fight the enemy with Wang Gu, but he knew that he had a more important mission, so he had to nod and say, "Brother, you must survive!" Wang Gu laughed heartily.

Zhou Yang led his men down.

When the people from the Luojia Chamber of Commerce saw that Zhou Yang and them were back, they hurriedly greeted them, and the middle-aged man in the lead asked urgently, "My lord, what happened?" The others also looked anxiously inquiring.

Zhou Yang glanced back at the busy crowd on the dock in the distance, and turned back and said, "We don't have time, we must leave immediately!" The strikers of the English fleet have come! Although everyone had expected it, they were still shocked when they heard this. The middle-aged man turned his head and hurriedly ordered, and everyone immediately got busy, and everyone ran to carry water and food. Although the time is urgent, the necessary water and food must be prepared, otherwise the ship will be halfway through, and there will be no water and food, where should we go to replenish it on the vast sea?

A moment later, hundreds of warships, large and small, were seen coming densely on the sea, all bearing the flag of England. More than a dozen Yanyun warships sailed past everyone's eyes, and they actually met the enemy's huge forward fleet.

The admiral of the England Forward Fleet couldn't help but show contempt when he saw the opponent coming with more than a dozen warships. Raising his right hand, he waved forward, and the orders were passed on one after another, and the entire fleet did not stop at all, and continued to move towards Kunlun Island! They apparently didn't pay attention to the dozen or so ships of their opponents, thinking that the army could take care of them all by the way.

Boom, boom, boom......! More than a dozen forward warships of the English fleet let out a roar, only to see white smoke billowing on the sea, and almost at the same time, the middle of the Ming warship was in the middle of the water column soaring into the sky, and the two warships were hit by artillery fire and were split in an instant. Zhou Yang couldn't help but be taken aback when he saw such a scene from a distance, and muttered: "The English fleet actually has artillery!?" ”

In the blink of an eye, the Ming warship rushed into the middle of the enemy, and at a very close distance, put on a ballista and fired at the enemy's side chord, and the huge spear and arrow tore through the air and made a sharp whistling sound. There was a loud bang, and the guns and arrows pierced the walls of the ship, and the great force knocked the sailors into the sea; At the same time, the Ming sailors fired rockets at the opponent's ship with their bows and crossbows, and saw a rain of fire flying all over the sky, and in an instant, the sails of several English warships were ignited, igniting a raging fire.

The English general did not expect that the enemy's counterattack would be so resolute and swift, and it would bring a lot of losses to his own side in an instant, and he couldn't help but be surprised. The fleet was immediately ordered to halt its advance, and the ships were ordered to surround and suppress the enemy's ships. And at this moment, those Ming warships continued to rush into the English warship group, and the rocket ballistas fired indiscriminately in all directions, making the English people scramble.

However, the English fleet was not vegetarian, and after a short period of confusion, the various teams and warships reacted, and counterattacked one after another under the orders of their respective generals and officers, and for a moment the artillery fire rumbled and the arrows rained all over the sky. The water column on the sea surface where the Ming warship is located is soaring to the sky, it is like boiling, there are constantly cannonballs smashed on the Daming warship, the mast collapses, the sawdust flies wildly, and the arrows continue to fall on the Daming warship like raindrops, only to see the Daming sailors continue to fall into the water with arrows, and the warship is shaking and gradually losing power.

The Ming officer counted arrows, but he was unconscious, and roared: "The powder ship is attacking!" Immediately a sailor rushed to the back, jumped on the boat tethered to the back of the boat, untied the cable and drove the boat straight towards the nearest enemy ship. The English sailors did not pay any attention to the small boats, and only concentrated on attacking the opposing ships. I saw the big boats sinking crookedly into the water.

Bang! Suddenly, a loud bang shook the entire sea, and a huge mushroom fireworks rose up! The English soldiers were startled and hurriedly followed the prestige, only to see that one of their great warships was engulfed in smoke and flames and was being torn apart, and they could not help but be horrified.

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.