Daming Military Empire

Chapter 351 Procrastination
Whether this world-shattering battle can start, the decision is not in the hands of Zheng Zhilong, but in the hands of Dutch Admiral Van Mendy.Why do you say that?Because Zheng Zhilong can win but can't fight, and Fan Mendy can't win but wants to fight.

These words seem to be a bit contradictory, but the fact is that the situation on the battlefield is very clear. The Ming Navy has an absolute advantage in both the number of warships and the terrain. Once the battle starts, it is almost guaranteed to win, but after winning, the opponent is the five major powers With the coalition forces, does Da Ming have the strength to fight [-]v[-] now?Obviously not yet, so Zheng Zhilong did not dare to provoke a war easily.

As for Fan Mendi, ever since he led the fleet back to the Far East, he has always wanted to fight the Ming Empire, because if he does not fight, he will have no chance to avenge his capture. More importantly, if the Ming Empire is not brought down, the Dutch East The Indian company could not continue to develop, so he always wanted to fight.

However, Daming's strength in the Far East is not ordinary and terrifying. It is very difficult to win a local war. If you know you can't win and fight, you are courting death!
Like this time, the number of warships of the Ming Empire far exceeds that of the Allied Forces, and the Allied Forces are divided into two parts, which cannot coordinate operations at all, and the Ming Dynasty has countless artillery support from both sides of the strait.

The last defeat in Manila Bay has always been an eternal pain in Fan Mendi's heart. In this unfavorable terrain than Manila Bay, he really couldn't muster up the courage to call for a fight. He held up the binoculars and gritted his teeth for a long time. In the end, Mendy gave the order unwillingly: "Put out the semaphore and ask for dialogue."

The messenger behind him immediately raised the flag and made a few movements, and the flag bearer on the mast immediately issued a flag to the Ming army on the opposite side, and soon there was a reply from the opposite side.

The messenger said with some fear: "Report, Your Excellency General, please go over to deal with it."

"Huh..." Fan Mendi snorted coldly, his expression became more and more angry, but in the end he still ordered angrily: "Order the guards to assemble, and then call a sailing boat over."

The guards assembled quickly, and a paddle boat quickly approached the flagship. Fan Mendi led dozens of guards on the paddle boat, and hurried towards the Ming army fleet. He was not afraid of what the Ming army would do to him. In this way, if he dared to fight, the Ming army would have done it long ago, and the power behind him, the Ming Empire, was quite afraid, and he knew this very well.

As soon as the paddle boats sailed out of the fleet group, a Fuchuan warship with a flywheel immediately sailed out of the Ming army fleet, leading the paddle boats towards Xingcheng Port.

After crossing densely packed fleets of Ming army warships, there was another densely packed Ming army warship in the distance, starting with a huge treasure ship warship. Fan Mendi knew that it was the flagship of the Ming Empire Zhennan King Nicholas, Looking at the huge hull, he is so envious and jealous. The Ming Empire loves to show off. Doesn't it cost money to build such a huge warship?There is a kind of you to build a fleet!
Coming to the side of the giant treasure ship, a huge ladder slowly protruded from the giant ship, suspended by a few steel cables, no one needed to lift it at all, Fan Mendi was jealous again, the output of the Ming Empire was huge The Netherlands has been researching on power, but they can't figure it out. It's really annoying.

He led the guards angrily up the huge ladder to the deck. At this time, a huge square formation was lined up in the middle of the deck, densely packed with at least a hundred people. Zheng Zhilong actually set up a big conference table in front of the square formation, just so carefree Sitting on the side of the conference table, looking at him with a smile.

Fan Mendi snorted coldly, and walked straight to the other side of the conference table with the guards, sat down, and said seriously: "Your Highness Nicholas, what do you mean, why do you want to prevent us from joining the coalition fleet?"

Zheng Zhilong said solemnly: "It's nothing interesting, it's just following the orders of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire."

Fan Mendi asked: "Then what does His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire mean?"

Zheng Zhilong hurriedly cupped his hands towards the north and said, "How dare I speculate on what His Majesty means."

This is clearly just perfunctory, Fan Mendi said sharply: "I don't care what you mean, please withdraw all the warships immediately."

Zheng Zhilong pretended to be afraid and said: "No, no, that's a rebellion against the decree. Resisting the decree means beheading."

Fan Mendi is so angry, you can tell from this guy's attitude that there is no need to talk about this matter at all, Luck, you called me over if you didn't need to talk about it, isn't this clearly playing me!
The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and in the end he couldn't get enough of it. He slapped the table and stood up, pointing at Zheng Zhilong and saying, "Don't think that we can't meet if we're blocked here. Let's wait and see."

Zheng Zhilong was not angry this time, instead he smiled and waved: "Then I won't give it away."

Fan Mendi snorted angrily, turned around and left.

Zheng Zhilong looked at Fan Mendi's back, his smile slowly disappeared, and instead he showed a worried look on his face. Of course he knew what the emperor meant. The emperor did this just to delay time, but this would also delay it for a month. , Can you win Donghu in a month?

He also knows that there is not only this route to Batavia, the Continental Combined Fleet can also bypass the long Sumatra Island from the south and reach Batavia directly, but that will take more time, because the ocean currents there are very unstable , It is also very likely to encounter a storm, so ships generally choose the relatively calm Strait of Malacca instead of taking risks to the south.

There is no typhoon forecast now, and the direction of the wind and the direction of the water flow are very important when sailing. If the wind is headwind and the current is against the current, it will be difficult to keep steady and not retreat. If you are going to the south of Sumatra Island, you will be lucky. Yue can probably reach Batavia. If he is unlucky, he will be blown away by the storm. It would be nice to have a few warships left.

This is not alarmist talk. The distance between Spain and the UK is almost this far. However, Spain organized five armada expeditions to the UK. Each time they encountered sea storms and suffered heavy losses. It can be seen that the sea storms at this time are terrible.

Fan Mendi returned to the flagship angrily, stood at the bow of the ship and thought about it for a long time, and finally said dejectedly: "Order, close the team, retreat."

There is no way, there is really no chance of winning at all. It is useless for him to fight again. What is the point of asking his subordinates to follow him to die? Maybe after their entire army is wiped out, they will arouse the anger of the alliance and run to the Far East to fight against the Ming Empire. He died, but at that time, he was still a prisoner if he didn't die, and these were meaningless to him.

Fan Mendi really couldn't understand what His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire meant. Is it meaningful to stop here? At worst, let the United Fleet go to the south of Sumatra. Although there may be a storm, just walk slowly along the coast and pay attention at all times It won't cause too much loss. Does he want the United Fleet to be blown to pieces by the storm like the Spanish Armada?That's because Spain is afraid of being misunderstood by France and dare not drive along the coast of France, okay? Are we afraid of the misunderstanding of the indigenous people in Sumatra?

As for delaying time and taking down Donghu, he didn't even think about it. What a joke, Donghu is not a small country. Even if they don't resist, let you collect it piece by piece, it won't be finished in a month. !
(End of this chapter)