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On the towering bow, the Western pirates also let out strange screams, excitedly holding up their muskets and crackling and shooting downwards. Many sailors running around on the deck were shot down. After firing a round of muskets, these people Holding the pirate scimitar again, the big ax rushed up to the deck excitedly.

However, at this point, the Dutch's three tricks are exhausted. In terms of level, the Ming United East India Company is not only not inferior to their Dutch East India Company, but also better in terms of scale and personnel. During the heyday of the Dutch East India Company, armed employment There are as many as [-] soldiers, and the number of overseas mercenaries licensed by Mao Jue in the United East India Company is [-]! In order to cope with the increasingly turbulent situation in Central South, the directors of the company even sent four regiments recruited from the Dashun Army. Gave it to Luo Yu.

For the time being, in order to cope with the defense of the vast coastline, the company's battleships are indeed assigned a little less, but we have a lot of people!

The booming cannon rang again, but this time it was fired by Ming people. Under the puzzled eyes of the Dutch, dozens of harpoons were shot out from the muzzles of nearby merchant ships and pierced their battleships. Immediately afterwards, on the side of the ship not far away, the Dutch pirates who had just landed on the merchant ship of the Ming army saw a large row of muzzles densely packed.

ping pong pong~

The mercenaries of the Dutch East India Company came from more than half of Europe. Unfortunately, so did Ming Dynasty! After a row of guns rang out, these Dutch pirates couldn't hold their heads up. Just like guinea pigs feeding, screaming and screaming, they rushed into the crowd ferociously, taking turns with samurai swords taller than them.

In the sound of bang, steel and steel collided together, bursting out fierce sparks. A Dutch pirate just threw off his samurai sword to slash, but immediately, his thigh felt a sharp pain, and another samurai sword clicked. It cut nearly half of his leg, and as he staggered, the Japanese Ronin, who had just been parried away, made a backhand strike very coolly, and took off his head.

But fighting on the deck is so cruel, before the warrior excitedly picked up the head to exchange for a reward, Weng let out a sound, and the ax that turned around suddenly hit him on the back, sending him into the sea like a golfer with his head inside.

Wearing a pointed helmet, he was more than two meters tall and weighed about three to four hundred catties. The Vikings in Europe were just like wild beasts, wielding heavy battle axes, cutting leeks one by one among the warriors, and their bodies were strong. No loss, he simply ignored martial arts skills here, and the joint mercenary who hit his ax must have cracked bones and flew backwards vomiting blood.

However, it didn't take long for him to act fiercely, and an ax came from behind with the same strong wind, which scared the Nordic man into a panic, and he staggered forward to avoid it, but the leather armor on his back had been taken away. It was cut, and a huge blood hole was exposed.

He pulled out the ax in astonishment, and looked back full of anger. He was pulling the ax out of the shattered deck, but he was about the same height and weight as him. Bear.

In the north, the Ming Empire has already fought with the Tsarist Russia, which is advancing eastward. Money can turn ghosts around. The East India Company gave more money than the Tsar. Many Cossacks or local Russian mercenaries also jumped to join the United States. Among the East India Company mercenaries, this old man is obviously one of them.

Brother Gui was extremely jealous when he saw Brother Gui. At the same time, with a bear roar, the two strong men raised their heavy axes together and slashed at each other fiercely.

On this side, the deck-to-board battle was still going on fiercely, but on the other side, the Dutch pirate ship heading straight for the flagship of the Central South Fleet could no longer hold on.

Even a burly man over two meters in length is not easy to use. Amidst the sound of clicking, the sharp three-edged bayonet pierced into the chest of a burly Viking. The mercenaries from the Shun Army immediately vomited blood and fell out, but on the other side, several mercenaries rushed up fiercely with bayonets in their hands. I was too crowded.

Puff, puff, puff, a dozen bayonets were constantly being stabbed, and dozens of bloody holes appeared on the body. Even the Vikings collapsed in a pool of blood in a slump. Such a tank fell, and a group of small people behind Crispy was dumbfounded immediately, someone yelled a sentence in Dutch, and the hundred or so Dutch pirates who were still struggling turned their heads and ran away. Putting on the sails, shaking the oars, and retreating in fear.

Now they understand what it means for the Ming army to nail the harpoon on their ship with the Fran machine gun just now, and the cables collapsed and burst into smoke, pulling the Dutch warship and five or six Ming merchant ships together. , There was a creaking sound of the wood, and the wooden planks nailed to the keel were torn off alive, but just as this huge monster was struggling, more harpoons were firmly nailed to their boat.

Amid the loud roars, the blood-stained Japanese warriors, the red-eyed Shunjun mercenaries with knives in their mouths, and the Mongolian archers with bows and arrows crawled up the edge of the Dutch battleship like zombies.

Anti-kill!

Chapter 867. Menacing

Five Dutch pirate ships came murderously, three fled with their tails dragging, and the remaining two stayed here. The harpoons with cables hanging from them were dragged firmly in the middle of the ship formation like nets, and the opponent's On the deck, the bloodied company mercenaries were cleaning the battlefield.

"Moxie! Moxie!"

It was really frightening to be beaten. A red-haired Dutch pirate with blood all over his face and missing a hand knelt on the ground, begging for mercy loudly in English tragically. With a sound, the frightened red-haired head flew up, and was immediately picked up by the slashing Japanese and hung on his waist.

There is no international law in this era, and if it is the merchant ships of Ming Dynasty that are captured today, their fate is not necessarily better than that of the Dutch pirates who have been massacred today, so there is no need to pity these scumbags.

After winning the battle, there were two more ships and about 270 captive slaves with able-bodied hands and feet. However, Luo Ning was not happy at all. Instead, he leaned against the corner of his delicate mouth on the big table under the parasol as if he had a toothache. She couldn't help twitching. Beside her, Chu Tian was also an elder with a small face, sadly reading a list of goods.

"370 five boxes of Liaodong red wine were damaged, 450 altars of Shaoxing rice wine were damaged, 360 pieces of tobacco were damaged, and 220 seven pieces of large porcelain were damaged. Small pieces of porcelain need to be unpacked for evaluation, which is not counted for the time being."

"In addition, Sister Luo Yu, you ordered to burn two hundred boxes of low-grade silk and two boxes of high-grade lake silk. The loss of one piece is estimated to be 1306 million taels!"

Hearing this, Luo Yu couldn't sit still anymore, and the little beauty also jumped up like a cheapskate, and even started swearing.

"Fart! I only ordered low-grade grass shreds to be burned. Where did you get two boxes of high-grade lake shreds?"

"It seems that some idiots moved the wrong one."

"Deduct their wages for 20 years!"

Luo Yu was so angry that his brain hurt, Luo Yu waved his big sleeves, and sat back depressed again.The battle was won, but judging from the loss, the strategic goal of these Dutchmen has been achieved, not only the loss of silver, but also the shortage of goods and the need to force the Central South Branch to take another risky journey of goods, navy guards and hired The cost of soldiers' salaries is another 10 taels.

But just as Luo Yu was losing his temper, Chen Chuan, the joint commander of the fleet, rushed over full of excitement.

"His Royal Highness!"

"What's the matter!"

With a small face like a boudoir's dissatisfied woman, the eyes of a little vampire stared at him with gritted teeth, Chen Chuan felt a chill in the back of his head, and he was so excited that he hurriedly stood at attention.

"Torture important information from the opponent's sailor!"

On the bow, a few wooden sticks protruded, and the two captains and first mates of the Dutchman were all hanged on it, and the remaining two second mates were still bouncing on it, clutching their throats, already rolling their eyes and talking nonsense. Make a clucking sound.

There were also sharks flopping down, salivating at the meat that came out of the suspension. This scene frightened dozens of captured sailors of the ship, trembling like plague chickens, squatting under the sail with their heads in their arms.

I have to admit that the guys in the West are still very professional. Those who can become captains are basically nobles, and those who become first mates are also middle-class officers. No matter how hard they are tortured, they did not spit any military secrets. Anyway, since pirates were a capital crime, Da Ming didn't miss their little ransom, so he just hanged them all, which just happened to deter the living pirates.

Sailors are hired with money, they don't have such high loyalty and professionalism that they are not afraid of death, but also because of the western military secrecy principle, sailors don't know the target of military operations at all, they just blindly follow the command of the officer.

Fortunately, Chen Chuan is a veteran driver. As long as they are willing to cooperate, they can still infer a general goal of their actions from the latitude and longitude table.

"Your Highness, look!"

The tip of the pen drew an ink line on the chart, and Chen Chuan pointed excitedly.

"The five-ship fleet set off from the waters of the Gulf of Siam seven days ago. If they follow the current direction of the ocean current, their final goal should be here! Either Taiwan or Manila, they robbed us just by the way!"

"And it's not just one of them. Judging from the stolen letters, at least three fleets are gathering in the northeast direction! This is a big move!"

With his hands behind his back, Chen Chuan kept spinning in circles excitedly.

"Tainan? It should be impossible. It is the headquarters of the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty in the south. Tainan Port is stationed all year round with the Third Navy Fleet. The navy and army have tens of thousands of people. It is not easy for the Dutch to gnaw it down. Manila, it must be Manila. ! There is only a corps of the Governor of Luzon, and there are not many fleets. If Manila is captured, it will cut off Ming's control over Nanyang!"

He was very happy analyzing here, but Luo Yu yawned and casually agreed.

"Oh."

"Your Highness, let's set off to help Manila Port!"

"Okay, come, let's put a boat and send Mr. Chen to help Manila."

Luo Yu answered slowly, but Chen Chuan choked in one sentence, almost biting his own stone, full of astonishment, he yelled loudly in disbelief.

"Your Highness is not planning to rush to help Manila?"

Finally, his face became serious, and Luo Yu stared at Chen Chuan's eyes very seriously.

"Master Chen, you are the commander-in-chief of the East India Company's Central and South Division, not the captain of the Manglong, the third fleet of the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty! If you don't adapt to your new position, I will apply to the headquarters and transfer you. Go away! This is the last warning!"

After finishing speaking, Luo Yu rushed off the boat angrily, leaving a group of people behind, leaving only the commander standing there stunned in astonishment.

It's not that Luo Yu lost her temper, Manila is important, why not Zhongnan?This is also an important channel to communicate with the Indian branch ahead. It is a good thing to be enthusiastic and patriotic, but if you can't see your position clearly, don't keep your job well, and blindly interfere in other people's affairs, that is a disaster.

I don't know if Chen Chuan can figure it out, anyway, now he has a sad and sullen expression on his face, and he was silent for a few minutes. The old captain of the former imperial navy waved his hand helplessly.