Chapter 505 Can you spend money to save your life!
You must know that they have always relied on strong ships and cannons to crush the natives. When did they suffer because their ships and weapons were inferior to others?
However, this time the facts were like this. The Portuguese fleet, which had always been invincible, could only watch helplessly as the opponent shelled them beyond its own range because of the insufficient range of its own cannons.
Although due to the range, the bombardment effect of the Ming fleet is not very good. To hit their ships depends on luck to a certain extent. However, this feeling of frustration of being attacked by others but unable to fight back has a great impact on morale.
The impact is still quite large.
At this time, the distance between the two sides was finally closed. While feeling that the accuracy of the Ming fleet's bombardment was significantly improved, Dalikis and other captains of the Portuguese fleet finally breathed out. They could finally
Countered back.
Suddenly, the sea was filled with smoke, the sound of cannons was loud, and the cannonballs streaked through the air and splashed water columns on the sea.
This squadron of the Portuguese fleet has almost a dozen combat warships. As for the rest of the ships, they are supply ships and some merchant ships they plundered on the way. Therefore, only those that can fight against the Ming fleet at this moment are
There are only a dozen ships. As for the other ships, they are just a bluff to build up their momentum.
With a loud bang, a loud bang was heard on a Portuguese warship in the distance. The tall mast collapsed, killing several Portuguese soldiers on the spot. At the same time, a warship not far away also
Hit by artillery, one artillery piece collapsed on the spot.
The battle lasted no more than a moment, and the Ming side clearly occupied the absolute upper hand. On the one hand, it was because the Ming fleet had the advantage in numbers. On the other hand, after shortening the distance, a group of soldiers of the Ming fleet also defeated them.
The skills I have trained for more than half a year have come into full play.
Chu Yi's maintenance of the fleet surprised everyone. Building a fleet cost money, but maintaining the fleet cost even more money. It can be said that money is like running water, especially to train these personnel of the fleet. Chu Yi spent a lot of money.
A lot of silver.
Not to mention other things, the barrels of the cannons used to train gunners on these battleships have been changed several times, and thousands of cannon shells have been fired.
It can be said that if you do the math, you can almost build another battleship with these alone.
However, Chu Yi spent so much effort training such a fleet, and now it finally paid off.
If it was because the distance between the two sides was too far at the beginning, then after the distance was shortened, the two sides shelled each other, but the Ming fleet got off to a good start first, which shows that the actual combat capabilities of the Ming fleet are not bad.
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You must know that this Portuguese fleet crossed the ocean and fought openly and covertly with maritime powers such as Spain and the Netherlands, and it had already developed a powerful naval force.
It can be said that the naval combat effectiveness of maritime powers such as the Portuguese fleet, Spain, and the Netherlands is by no means comparable to that of ordinary countries. If it were the navy of the Ming Dynasty in the past, if they really faced the Portuguese fleet, I am afraid they would only be beaten.
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It can only be said that Chu Yi's hard work was not in vain. The tens of millions of taels of silver were not wasted in vain. At least Chu Yi was given a satisfactory answer.
In the harbor, Chu Yi stood there, holding a telescope in his hand and watching the battle in the harbor. When he saw the Portuguese fleet being bombarded, Chu Yi showed a look of satisfaction on his face.
"Hahaha, okay, that's great, how can a mere barbarian be the opponent of my Ming Navy!"
Except for Chu Yi, even people like Yu Dayou and Lu Dazhu didn't realize that if it weren't for Chu Yi, the Ming Dynasty might be at a disadvantage right now. It can even be said that without Chu Yi, the Ming Dynasty would probably be at a disadvantage.
It was also impossible to land in Japan, and it would be many years before there would be any contact with Portugal.
In the eyes of Yu Dayou, Lu Dazhu and others, it is a matter of course that the Ming fleet led by Pang Shiqi and Li Degong crushed the Portuguese fleet. The Ming Dynasty is a celestial country with only a small number of people, and they are all barbarians. How can they do the same thing?
Compared with Ming Dynasty.
As the Ming fleet pressed forward, the gap in the number of warships between the two sides was quite large. You must know that Chu Yi mobilized a total of fifty warships this time, which was several times more than the Portuguese fleet.
In addition, most of these warships are new warships. If the Portuguese fleet had not been rich in experience, I am afraid that the entire army would have been wiped out by now.
Even so, as the battleships were sunk one after another, Dali Qisi's face turned pale and he murmured to himself, full of disbelief.
At this moment, Lawrence and others looked at the warships sinking one after another around them, and they felt despair in their hearts. There was a loud bang, and Lawrence and others were shaken and almost fell to the ground. It turned out that a cannonball passed by the side of the ship.
A large section of the deck was cut off the side of the ship, and it looked like a corner had been severely chewed by a ferocious beast.
"Governor, surrender, for the safety of all soldiers!"
Seeing that they were surrounded by warships flying the flag of the Great Ming Riyue and the Moon, they were surrounded by warships. Even a fool knew that they had no other choice, either to die in battle or to surrender.
Dali Qisi glanced at everyone, but could not see the slightest fighting spirit. He sighed, and only heard Dali Qisi slowly say: "Send the flag to the opponent, we surrender!"
For Dali Qisi and others, surrender is not a shameful thing, nor is it unacceptable, so after weighing the results, Dali Qisi made a decisive choice.
They have tried their best. Since there is no hope, they will naturally be responsible for the safety of everyone in the fleet.
When a flag was flying high and the flag bearer kept playing the flag, everyone who saw this scene breathed a sigh of relief.
Especially for the Portuguese fleet, there are only a few warships left that are still capable of fighting. Apart from the few silent warships, most of the remaining warships have been attacked. At this time,
Seeing Dalici's flagship hoisting the white flag, all the Portuguese warships immediately hoisted the white flag and chose to surrender.
In the port, Chu Yi, who saw this scene, nodded slightly and said: "Send the order and accept their surrender!"
Almost instinctively, Zhai Luan said to Chu Yi: "Your Highness, beware of fraud!"
Zhai Luan, who was born as a scholar, was obviously worried about what tricks the other party would do, if he pretended to surrender...
It's a pity that Zhai Luan didn't even think about it. The army might feign surrender in a battle, but if it were the navy, it would be quite difficult to feign surrender.
After receiving Chu Yi's order, Pang Qi, Li Degong and others immediately ordered to accept the surrender of the Portuguese fleet. While maintaining vigilance and deterrence, dozens of small boats were launched, and one soldier after another boarded the Portuguese, which had completely given up resistance.
fleet.
These Portuguese sailors put down their weapons in cooperation, and then watched helplessly as a group of soldiers from the Ming Dynasty took over the fleet.
One day later, Chu Yi met the governor of the Portuguese fleet, Dalikisi.
After glancing at Dali Qisi, Chu Yi did not humiliate Dali Qisi and motioned for him to sit down. While Chu Yi was looking at Dali Qisi, Dali Qisi was also looking at Chu Yi.
Chu Yi's youth was beyond Dali's expectations. In his opinion, Chu Yi, who could command hundreds of thousands of troops and hundreds of warships, was at least a veteran of forty or fifty years old. He never thought that he would be like this.
A young man.
"The Portuguese Imperial Navy Armada, Governor of the Third Squadron, Dalikisi, has met His Highness King Wu of the Ming Dynasty!"
Chu Yi smiled slightly, motioned for Dali Qisi to sit down and said, "General, I want to see you. Is there anything you can do for me?"
Dali Qisi's expression became serious, he looked at Chu Yi solemnly and said: "Please allow us to send a message to our relatives in the country to redeem us with gold and silver property!"
In the war between the two countries in the West, there has always been a practice of redeeming prisoners, so Dalikisi hoped that Chu Yi would allow them to redeem themselves.
If Chu Yi also regarded maritime powers such as Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands as his opponents at the beginning, then Chu Yi persisted in the court and prepared to spend several years building a huge fleet with thousands of warships.
When he was in the navy, Chu Yi no longer cared about countries like Portugal and the Netherlands.
Even though Portugal was powerful, the entire naval fleet known as the Invincible Fleet actually only consisted of two to three hundred warships, but the Ming Dynasty had built thousands of warships in recent years alone.
Looking at such a number of countries around the world, I am afraid that only the Ming Dynasty has such manpower and material resources. If it is placed in Western countries, if they do not rely on plundering colonial wealth, they will never be able to build it even if they empty their treasury.
Such a huge fleet came out.
However, the Ming Dynasty had such confidence that in terms of manpower and material resources, it could surpass countries such as Portugal and the Netherlands.
So at this moment Chu Yi looked at Dali Qisi with great interest, and smiled thoughtfully: "Oh, I wonder how much gold and silver you can give to redeem yourself?"
Although Dalikis said he didn't know much about the Ming Dynasty, he knew that when it came to dealing with prisoners of war, Easterners sometimes often chose killing.
What Dali Qisi was most worried about was naturally whether he would be killed by the other party, so after surrendering, Dali Qisi tried his best to ask for a meeting with Chu Yi.
Now looking at what Chu Yi meant, Dali Qisi felt that the other party seemed to want to allow them to redeem themselves. There was a bright light in his eyes. Dali Qisi pondered for a while, as if he was valuing himself.
Dali Qisi slowly raised his head and looked at Chu Yi and said: "As the governor of the entire fleet and a nobleman of the Portuguese Empire, I am willing to spend 500,000 gold coins to redeem myself!"
Gold coins are obviously made of gold. Even in the West, they are extremely precious. Five hundred thousand gold coins are definitely a huge fortune. At least the family behind Dalikisi spent such a huge fortune.
It also takes a toll on your muscles and bones.
Although he knew that Western prisoners of war had to pay ransom in exchange for their own possessions, Chu Yi had never had any experience in this area. When he heard that Dali Qisi had priced himself at 500,000 gold coins, even Chu Yi couldn't bear it.
Zhu took a deep look at Dali Qisi.
[My daughter is making a fuss, so I finally found the time to code one. I’ll try to make it up tomorrow.]