Da Ming started to ascend the throne

"How many warships do they have?"

"General, the specific number is unknown, at least a hundred warships."

Yan Yingyuan pondered for a while:

"The Commander-in-Chief ordered to strengthen the city defense of Malacca, and all forts are ready to severely attack the colonists, and the Governor-General Huang Fei was notified to rush to help Luzon."

Yan Yingyuan knew that the crown prince, Zhang Huangyan, Qi Jiguang and others had gone back, the emperor was still in Luzon, and only Shi Lang and Zheng Chenggong were by his side.

Although there are still more than 30 warships, the Spaniards have more than 100 warships. There are too many ants killing elephants, and they must reinforce Luzon.

As for Malacca's defense, Yan Yingyuan was not worried at all.

The bunker has been built and deployed, and the fort has been rebuilt. With Yan Yingyuan's ability to defend the city, Malacca is absolutely foolproof.

You must know that in history, they were a mere city of Jiangyin, and they insisted on blocking hundreds of thousands of captive troops outside the city for 81 days.

In the end, the three kings and eighteen generals of the Eastern Captives were killed, and 5000 soldiers of the Eastern Captives were killed.

Yan Yingyuan really wanted to rush to Luzon immediately, but he knew that it would be useless to go there. He was just an army general and had no strength at sea.

When he got up to deploy the defense of Malacca, he immediately sent someone to Ceylon to find Huang Fei to support Luzon. He estimated that Huang Ming Island might also have problems, but it could not quench his thirst.

Speaking of the United Fleet, after half a day of sailing, they were only [-] nautical miles away from Luzon, and the commander of the United Fleet, Garcelo, received a report:

"Report to Colonel, about a dozen unknown warships were found about five nautical miles ahead."

The four colonial commanders who were discussing how to attack Luzon looked at each other, and neither the English nor the Portuguese majors spoke.

And Colonel Nederland's command has been given to the Spaniard, so of course he will not speak first, but looks at Garcelo.

This is the first time for the Spanish colonel to command the fleets of three other countries to fight jointly. He felt a little proud and excited, he cleared his throat and said:

"Everyone, the unidentified warships appearing in the Luzon waters can only be Ming's fleet. Since everyone believes in me, I will order the Dutch warships and Spanish warships to jointly attack the Ming warships.

The English warships and the Portuguese fleet immediately leave the fleet and go directly to attack Manila. The city of Manila should be empty now, and you must take it all at once. "

"Yes, Colonel Garcelo, don't worry, our two imperial fleets will join forces and we will definitely be able to take Manila smoothly."

The English major Bauer and the Portuguese major left the flagship of the Figaro, boarded their own warships and quickly left the combined fleet.

The English fleet has twenty warships, but their tonnage is relatively small, about the size of a general merchant ship, and each battleship has thirty naval guns.

Shortly after leaving the Combined Fleet, Ball ordered the ships to lower the English flag.

With the current battle situation unknown, the cunning Bauer did not want to expose the identity of the English warships. In case the combined fleet failed, they would flee immediately.

It is absolutely impossible for the Ming army to recognize their true identities, otherwise the Ming fleet will definitely retaliate against them, and England will have no foothold in Asia.

And the brain of the Portuguese major is obviously not as good as the Englishman Ball.

Not only did they not lower the Portuguese flag, but they were thinking about what benefits the Spaniards would give them after taking Manila, at least give them an island!

On the Dayu, Zheng Chenggong, the captain of the Ming Navy, sat firmly in the command room of the battleship, and reports from the observation post on the battleship kept ringing on the walkie-talkie.

"The governor found a large number of sailing warships, which can't be seen at a glance, almost covering the sea ahead."

"Captain, the last general Shi Lang, found a colonist warship leaving the United Fleet and headed towards Luzon. May I ask if you want to intercept it?"

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 609 Against the Combined Fleet

It turned out that Shi Lang discovered that it was the fleets of England and Portugal. The mission of these two countries' warships was to attack Huangming Island.

Shi Lang didn't know their destination. After all, Daming hadn't had any confrontation with Portugal yet, so he asked Zheng Chenggong for instructions.

According to Zheng Chenggong's information, it was the combined fleet of Spain and the Netherlands that came to attack Luzon. He didn't know that the British and Portuguese fleets were also included.

"Shi Lang, which country's flag do they fly, and how many warships are there?"

Shi Lang raised his binoculars and took a closer look:

"Captain, the three warships did not fly the flag of any country, but the other two warships flew the Portuguese flag, and the four armed merchant ships all flew the Portuguese flag."

Hearing that the opponent only had five warships and four armed merchant ships, Zheng Chenggong said:

"Shi Lang, what we have to face now is the combined fleet of Spain and the Netherlands with hundreds of warships. Don't take the initiative to provoke warships from other countries for the time being. The mere nine ships cannot pose a major threat to any islands in Ming Dynasty that have garrisons. Ignore them. Develop good tactics and execute."

"Yes"

Now that the fortifications of the islands in the South China Sea have been built, Zheng Chenggong is not worried about the safety of other islands. His first priority is the upcoming combined fleet.

Even though Daming was an ironclad warship, Zheng Chenggong did not dare to be careless in the face of more than 100 joint warships, and ordered Zheng Chenggong to let go of the Portuguese warships that did not cause trouble.

Soon came the report from the observation post:

"Captain, the opponent is already close to two nautical miles away from our fleet."

"Got it, keep watching."

After finishing the call with the observation post, Zheng Chenggong immediately issued an order:

"The governor, Zheng Chenggong, pay attention to all warships, quickly prepare for the battle formation, and prepare to face the coming Hong Maofan."

"Yes"

The 15 Ming warships immediately began to turn their rudders, and soon lined up horizontally on the sea surface, the shells were loaded, and the black muzzles protruded from the gun ports.

At this time, the observation post of the Xihe Combined Fleet also found that the warships of the Ming Army had entered a combat state. Where did they have such advanced communication equipment as the Ming Army, they rushed to the command cabin to report:

"Report to the colonel, two nautical miles ahead, more than a dozen warships of the Ming army have entered a combat state."

Spanish commander Garcelo was taken aback at the time:

"Oh, it seems that the Ming army has long been informed of the arrival of our joint fleet, and they are already waiting here. After passing my order, 800 Spanish warships and [-] Dutch warships advanced quickly, at a position [-] meters away from the Ming army. Formation, the other battleships split into two groups to attack the non-standard battleships."

"Yes"

Under the command of the Spanish colonel, the United Fleet quickly formed a fan-shaped formation and quickly took over the Deming Fleet. They wanted to rely on the number of the United Fleet to launch a fierce attack on the Deming warship.

The two colonels of the United Fleet also stepped onto the deck, and raised their binoculars to look at the Daming Fleet. When they saw the giant iron-clad ship of the Ming Dynasty, their hearts jumped wildly.

"Such a large battleship, where are their sails?"

This was the first time they saw an iron-clad battleship. Of course, in the eyes of the Spanish colonel, the Ming battleship was just armor, that is, the outer layer of the battleship was covered with iron plates.

But Colonel Netherland knew that Da Ming was a real giant iron-clad ship that didn't use sails at all, which was why he was willing to exchange command power for warships of the Ming army.