Accompanied by a burst of intensive gunfire and billowing smoke, shells roared past in the sky, and huge columns of water rose up on both sides of the battleship Lawrence.
"shit~"
Desillas couldn't help but cursed again. He was not an authentic Portuguese. He was born in England, and he also spoke English in desperation.
After cursing, I looked behind me and saw that above the sea, Ming warships were chasing after each other like wolves and tigers. The Ming dragon flag flying on the warships was very eye-catching.
In the past, he led three warships to chase the 'King of Shu', but now it was the other way around. He was suddenly pursued and attacked by more than twenty Ming warships.
This is not the key. The key is that although the Ming warships are huge, their speed is no worse than the Portuguese warships. In addition, their artillery range is several times farther than their own artillery, and they always remain outside their own range.
, bombing one's own side in turn.
Of the three warships, one warship has been sunk, and the remaining two warships are also seriously injured. Whether they can return to Gulidu is still a question.
"Huh~"
There was another whistling sound, and in the field of vision, cannonballs were flying towards their side of the sea.
"Wow~"
This time, the Lawrence was very unlucky. A shell hit the Lawrence's mast squarely, directly breaking the mast. The huge mast fell heavily, and the Laurence's speed suddenly slowed down.
.
"shit~"
"Surrender, raise the white flag~"
Desilia immediately became desperate. Once he lost his power and became a living target, he would definitely die. The Ming people's artillery fire would send him into the sea to feed the sharks.
So without any hesitation, he immediately ordered the white flag to be hoisted.
On the other side, above Ning Wang.
"Your Majesty, the other side has raised the white flag and surrendered to us."
Dong Lin clenched his hand excitedly. This naval battle was so enjoyable. He chased the opponent and beat him hard. The opponent was beaten and fled away, and now he surrendered directly.
"Okay~"
Prince Ning also clenched his fists in excitement.
He was still a little nervous at first, but after a fight, Prince Ning realized that he still seemed to like this feeling.
"My lord, do you want to send them all into the sea?"
Dong Lin thought about it and asked.
"Isn't this not good?"
Li Shishi, who was next to him, quickly said that since ancient times, it has been almost a tradition not to kill anyone who surrenders, and the number of prisoners to be killed is unknown.
"These Portuguese are not good people, they are all pirates, robbers and the like. Not long ago in the Arabian Sea, the Portuguese captured an Egyptian ship Meri coming from Mecca in the waters near Cannanor. The Portuguese
All 300 people on board, including many women and children, were burned alive to warn the Middle East, Persians and Tianzhu people and to declare their hegemony over this sea area."
"They also made great publicity about this, and they were very domineering and arrogant. We, the people of Ming Dynasty, were also oppressed by them in this sea area."
"There is no need for mercy towards them."
Dong Lin said very decisively.
The reputation of the Portuguese is really ugly. The key is that they are very domineering and arrogant, and can even do such things.
Compared with them, the Ming Dynasty was simply too kind. Although the people on Ceylon Island were demoted to slaves by the Western United Trading Company, at least they were very humane towards women and children and never killed women and children.
child.
"It's so tragic, then these Portuguese people can't stay."
When Prince Ning heard this, he was slightly surprised.
These Portuguese people are not very strong, but they are so ruthless and domineering in their actions. They dare to dominate the Arabian Sea with more than 20 warships, and they are so cruel and unreasonable in their actions.
"Send them all to the sea."
"Yes~"
Dong Lin received the order, and soon the flag soldiers quickly conveyed the order to the battleships ahead.
"Dong dong~"
The cannons that had just stopped for a short time began to roar again. Along with billowing white smoke, cannonballs poured towards the Lawrence.
With one of its masts broken, the speed of the Lawrence was greatly reduced. They originally thought that they could at least survive after surrendering, but they did not expect that the Ming people would attack them again.
"Damnable Daming people~"
"We have obviously surrendered, why are they still attacking us?"
Desilias looked at the shells whizzing towards him one after another, and he couldn't figure it out.
In their view, the Ming people were civilized people like them, not barbarians. Since they were civilized people, they should respect and treat those who surrendered kindly.
But he didn't expect that the other party would actually attack him.
However, he could only curse weakly. On this vast sea, the Lawrence, whose speed had dropped sharply, basically became a living target. After one round of shelling, it was riddled with holes in the blink of an eye, and then several more rounds.
The entire battleship began to slowly sink into the sea.
Desilias and some crew members fled desperately in a small boat, but the Ming ships that had arrived at them had no intention of letting them go.
On the battleships one after another, muskets and bows and arrows were aimed at them. With the order, the projectiles and bows and arrows completely submerged them.
"Okay~"
On board the Shushan, when Ding Kui saw the scene in front of him, he clenched his hands with joy and let out a bad breath, feeling much more comfortable.
The mighty King Ning's fleet continued to sail north, and one day later arrived at Guli occupied by the Portuguese.
Guli is a city with a very long history. The entire city is built around Guli Port. Guli Port is a very good natural high-quality harbor. In history, Zheng He sailed to the West. He arrived in Guli on his first voyage to the West. Zheng He's last
He also died here in Guli during his voyage to the West.
Of course, the famous navigator Vasco da Gama in history also died of illness here in Guli, but now, da Gama just led his fleet to Guli last year, conquered the Guli country, and turned it into his own colony.
Inside Vasco da Gama's Indian Governor's Palace in Port Guri, Vasco da Gama was studying the map of the Goa area and thinking about how to deal with the Ming people who occupied the Goa area.
Although Vasco da Gama was historically rated as a great navigator, in fact he was a very domineering, violent and cruel person. He liked to use violence to solve problems and was obsessed with money and wealth.
After he came to India, he did almost everything.
He successfully occupied the Guri Kingdom and monopolized the spice trade between the West and India. He blocked the Persian Gulf very tyrannically, attacked Persian and Middle Eastern merchants in India, and strictly demanded that various regions in India could only deal with them.
Trade is not allowed with Persians and Middle Easterners.
In addition, with the emergence of the Ming people, he now wants to monopolize trade with the Ming Dynasty, constantly intercepting Persian and Middle Eastern merchant ships heading to Ceylon, and blocking Ming merchant ships heading to the Middle East and Persia.
If he hadn't been afraid of the powerful power that Ming had on Ceylon Island, he would have even thought of intercepting Ming's ships.
"The greedy Ming people actually disagreed with my proposal. Wouldn't it be better for us to divide India peacefully?"
Thinking that the proposal he sent to the Island of Ceylon to carve up India had been ruthlessly rejected by the Ming Dynasty, he became very angry. He wished he could lead his fleet to the Island of Ceylon now and teach the Ming Dynasty a lesson.
But his reason told him that the Ming people were very difficult to mess with. Among other things, there were a lot of Ming ships on Ceylon Island alone, and their artillery was very sharp.
In the Americas, the news that the Ming Dynasty and the Spanish teamed up to raid European colonies in the Americas has also spread back to Europe. European countries were furious and were uniting to send troops to Spain.
But the Ming Dynasty's powerful artillery and force, advanced battleships and navigation technology also impressed the Europeans.
"The carving up of India between East and West is already our bottom line. They, the Ming people, dare to reach out to the Goa area. We must teach the Ming people some lessons and let them know how powerful we Portuguese are. Otherwise, they will only push further."
"Goa's geographical location is so important. It is the outlet of three rivers and a natural high-quality harbor."
"The ships in my hands can kill their boats, but I can't kill their people on land. It seems that I still have to find a way to provoke conflict between the Daming people and the Cochin and Kuelon people, so that they can attack on land.
In this way, all these Ming people can be driven out."
Da Gama thought carefully and stirred up dissension, which was also a trick he always used.
For example, in India, he constantly provoked conflicts between Indians and Middle Easterners and Persians in various regions, and thus used this contradiction to expel and defeat the Middle Easterners and Persians and monopolize the spice trade here.
Now he is planning to use this trick to let the local indigenous people deal with the Ming people who come here.
It's just that his abacus was rattling, but he didn't clearly estimate his own strength.
"It's not good~ It's not good~"
Someone hurried to Da Gama's office and yelled anxiously.
"What happened?"
Vasco da Gama said calmly, what else can happen here in India?
"The Ming people, the Ming people's ships, many Ming people's ships surrounded and blocked our Guli Port."
The visitor said hurriedly.
"What?"
When Vasco da Gama heard this, he was stunned and hurried outside.
But before they had even walked a few steps, a rumble of artillery shelling was heard, and then accompanied by bursts of whistling sounds, artillery shells poured towards Guri City one after another.
"Boom~"
The shells hit the buildings of Guli City heavily, hit the ground, and hit the Portuguese ships moored in the harbor.
