Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-Three
In a messy high-end military officer's restaurant, Lin Hongzhong put a floating ring on his waist...a lifebuoy made of cork, and Domingo, who looked as if he was dead, said, "Your Excellency, they all jumped, let's jump too."
"No, I want to sink with the ship." Domingo tidied up the ribbon on his chest and the 'Codopes' on his crotch, and said righteously: "The Duke of Goa is the territory of the empire, and part of His Majesty's royal power. I must live and die with it. This is the last responsibility of a noble!"
"Idiot, you have made so much money and just find a way to build another one to make up this territory." Lin Hongzhong was speechless. "Besides, the victory or defeat on the island is unknown. We still have three large sailboats, which are far from the moment of losing..."
"No, you don't have to say anything more..."
Before he finished speaking, there was another volley of fire. The solid shells carried countless lead balls and finally reached a sieve for the stern.
The expensive dining tables, chairs, gold and silver tableware, and the lighting paintings on the wall in the officer's dining room were all crushed by the lead bullets that shot in.
Domingo's adjutant was also unlucky to be shot, his head collapsed and his white brain sprayed all over him.
"Ah!" Domingo let out a terrified scream. His fat body was as flexible as a mouse crossing the street. He suddenly rushed out of the bottom of the table and drilled out of the porthole.
Whoosh, plop.
"Wait for me!" Lin Hongzhong also jumped down. He was lucky and was soon rescued by a Portuguese boat that was collected from the water.
Domingo was already on board the boat before him. Two dogs fell into the water looked at each other. The former showed a grateful look and said, "Thank you for reminding me that I should not only care about my reputation. The battle is not over yet, but I will take the children home."
It's so noble! The sailors all cast admiring eyes, and many people think they can die for the commander.
"Vomit..." A violent vomiting sounded. It turned out to be Lin Daoqian, Zeng Yiben and others also climbed onto the boat and lie on the edge of the boat and vomited wildly. They had been eating and stuffing their stomachs before, and they were hiding from all over the place, and they were diving on the high platform. It would be strange if they didn't vomit.
"Oh, I'm fucking, it's so fucking exciting." After vomiting, these outlaws were still in the mood to laugh.
"Don't you, it feels like you're back six years ago!" Zeng Yiben also laughed: "I didn't expect that I could live for so many years."
"We are as miserable as you now. Are you very happy?" Hu Jiao said angrily.
"..." Only Lin Daoqian closed his eyes and said nothing.
He is already different from these worthless pirates. He is a fourth-rank military officer of the court, the lord of Xiawei City, the future deputy general of Guangdong, and the king of Guangdong!
As a result, I almost fell into this place in a daze. What's going on with him? The master's task is so difficult! He can't even hold on...
General Lin didn't want to get on the pirate ship at all. It was not difficult to swim to the shore with his water nature. Or just find a speedboat from the Jiangnan Group, and then board the ship and end this damn mission.
But he still couldn't help but follow him. Alas, no matter how difficult the master's task is, he has to complete it...
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At this time, there was suddenly movement in Shen'ao Bay, and a small hill-like warship broke through the mist and drove out of the bay.
That majestic figure is clearly the Pena, which is carrying out a cover mission in the bay.
The Portuguese crew members on the boat waved desperately and shouted, trying to attract the attention of the Pena.
Wang Rulong was still on the japanese roar that had not been pulled out of the Goa Duke's body. Seeing the Pena rushing out, he was a little surprised. But what surprised him was why the big sailing ship first came out, not the Oriental Beauty?
In theory, the Oriental Beauty has a light hull, shallow draft, fast speed, and should get out of trouble earlier than the Pena after the water level rises.
However, he didn't even bother to find out the truth, so he immediately ordered the flag No. 3 and No. 6 to be raised at the same time.
On the 104th ship, who was about to have a one-on-one battle with Pena, Captain Xin Fei quickly took out the "Warship Signal Manual (Top Secret)" he carried with him, flipped to the flag language section, and found the corresponding orders for the No. 36 flag.
"Go away quickly?" Xin Fei read out the meaning of that signal. The flagship signal flag is a mountain of military orders, and it must not be violated!
He had no choice but to order a rudder to sail to the northeast and leave the attack range of the Pena ship.
If he was a little dissatisfied with the power of the sailboat before, Wang Rulong was completely convinced after this close combat. He used Hong Xi's cannon to knock out at least a few hundred cannons, but he still didn't sink the Duke of Goa. If the 104 ship faced alone, it would be bombarded into a scum.
Fortunately, the Pena did not intend to avenge the Duke of Goa. After putting down the climbing net, Domingo and others on board, he sailed straight out of the bay.
It is not easy to climb up the deck of a sailboat that is several stories high, especially for middle-aged people like Domingo. The Portuguese crew pulled him up and down, and it took him a lot of effort to get him onto the boat. He was so tired that he almost died of breath.
After Domingo, who was in a mess, breathed his breath and found that in addition to Lieutenant Colonel Silva, the captain of the Oriental Beauty, Major Alfonso, was also on the ship.
"Why are you here?" Domingo asked curiously: "Where is your ship?"
"This..." Major Alfonso stammered and couldn't speak. Lucas, the adjutant next to him, replied:
"Sorry, our battleship has disintegrated in the fierce battle with Jiangnan Group."
"What?" Domingo was struck by lightning and couldn't believe his ears. "Isn't the one who fought with me still the main ship of the Jiangnan Group?"
"It was not caused by the warships of the Jiangnan Group." Lucas also said with a look of ghosts: "An hour ago, we were hit hard by shelling, and some strange weapons with long tail flames kept shooting towards us from the thick fog."
"That's called a rocket." Lin Hongzhong explained: "Our ancestors have been playing for hundreds of years, but the range is not so far, and the power is not so great."
"Aren't his ancestors a red-haired ghost?" Zhu Liangbao whispered to the masters of the sea.
"Whoever is stronger is the ancestor." Hu Jiao said with a lip sneer. The sea lords laughed. They were speaking Chaoshan dialect, which the Cantonese guys couldn't understand.
"Because the fog is too strong, it is impossible to judge the situation of the enemy." Lucas naturally couldn't understand it and continued to say to himself: "In order to deter the enemy, we fired three rounds, maybe four rounds, but it would never exceed five rounds. The Oriental Beauty pounded everywhere, and then made a crackling sound of wood breaking. Fortunately, the captain was experienced and judged that the ship was about to disintegrate. After ordering the lifeboat in time, we were able to move to the Pena without much casualties."
"Then the Oriental Beauty disintegrates?" Domingo was still incredible. Seeing Alfonso and Lucas nodding, he suddenly mentioned his tone and said, "Is it paper?"
Of course, the Oriental Beauty is not a paper-based one. It is a skilled Lisbon shipyard, and it is carefully built by the next generation of warships. In order to build this Galen ship, the lumberjacks cut off a total of 2,000 oak trees aged 80-120 years, and consumed a total of 120,000 cubic meters of wood and 200 tons of pig iron. It took three years to complete the construction, and the cost exceeded 300,000 Ducats. It is equivalent to about 150,000 taels of silver!
How could this super warship, which is piled with real gold and silver, disintegrate after several volleys?
Just thinking about the bronze cannons that sank along the ship, he was so heartbroken that he couldn't breathe. He roared at Alfonso: "How did you take care of it and how did you maintain it? This is a serious crime! The empire has never lost a battleship on the battlefield for a hundred years. The noble court will definitely hang you!"
"I am mentally prepared." Alfonso also knew that he would not have been lucky after losing such an expensive national weapon. But seeing that the other party did not give his aunt face at all, he couldn't help but have a temper with a nobleman, so he simply gave up and said, "You should worry about yourself, your responsibility is much greater than mine."
"I..." Doming Gordon seemed to be strangled, and ordered with a dark face: "Closed him for me!"
Silva quickly signaled the crew and took Alfonso down. For the sake of his beautiful aunt, he also told his subordinates not to abuse him and give him the treatment he deserved.
After Major Alfonso was taken down, Domingo breathed a long breath and asked Silva: "Lieutenant Colonel, where are our other ships?"
Silva shook his head dejectedly and whispered: "I don't know, I guess there is a lot of danger."
"Ah?" Domingo shook his body, and the fat meat on his cheeks trembled. "What the hell is going on? The Jiangnan Group is actually terrifying?"
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What the hell is going on? It’s all done by Domingo himself.
In order to preserve his strength, he tried his best to let the sea lords be cannon fodder as much as possible, so when he arranged to land, he let the pirate ship dock first. Then there was the ship from the Wuyangtong Trading Hall, and finally his old gate fleet and the remaining six Calavere sailboats.
Therefore, after the pirate ship put down all the pirates, it would make room for the two ghosts and the red-haired ghost ships. When all the troops landed on the shore, it became the scene where the Portuguese fleet was at the innermost and the pirates' ships were at the outermost.
At this time, the Portuguese were stunned because they could not get out. There were 300 pirate ships, and they were in a mess, which made the bay so crowded that it was blocked, and there was a large phenomenon of blocking ships.
Then as the water level continued to drop at the low tide, large-scale stranding began to occur. Almost all the old gate ships and Calaville sailboats sat on the beach. Now they could only wait for the high tide to be honest...
Unexpectedly, before the tide could be reached, the blocking fleet led by Ma Yinglong came.
The blocking fleet has twenty medium-sized ships, thirty small ships, thirty speedboats, eighty warships, and eight hundred guns. In terms of firepower, it is much stronger than the four main battleships.
It was just that the hulls that were too fragile in front of the sailing ships made them unable to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the Duke of Goa and Gareles. Although there were two large sailing ships in the bay, the thick fog gave the best cover to the blocking fleet, allowing the Portuguese on the Oriental Beauty and Pena to only see cannons everywhere on the sea, but they could not figure out how big the enemy ship was.
In addition, the two large sailboats are also at risk of being stranded, so how dare they act rashly? They can only fire artillery on the spot to prevent the enemy ship from approaching.
Unexpectedly, the roof was leaking and the Eastern Beauty was disintegrating again. The Gareles quickly carried out rescue and completely ignored the blocking of the enemy ship.
As a result, Ma Yinglong took the opportunity to lead the fleet and penetrated directly into the Shen'ao Bay from the gap caused by the Oriental Beauty, and was able to face the pirate ship that was not of the same level as the same level.
Chapter completed!