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Chapter 1409: Are you going to invite me to the urn?

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    When the combined fleets of Portugal and its allies lined up in two columns and slowly sailed out of Macau Port, the scattered Chinese fishing boats on the Lingding Ocean evaded one after another.

    On an inconspicuous single-masted fishing boat, several men dressed as fishermen rowed the boat eastward in a leisurely manner.  On the deck, there were two other men lying in fishing nets. One of them inspected the Portuguese ship with a high-power telescope in front of him and reported the observation results at the same time.

    "the fifth Caravel sailing ship, about thirty meters long, with a three-masted triangle sail, no cannon on the bow, two snake cannons on the stern, and a six-gun window on the left side. The gun type is unknown. There is no gun on the right side of the ship.  Observe.¡±

    "The sixth caravel sailing ship, about thirty meters long"

    The other is the recorder, who is responsible for quickly recording the observation results with special marks.

    The final investigation result was that the Portuguese fleet flying the red shield and crown flag on a white background consisted of four large sailing ships, eight three-masted caravel sailing ships, twenty old lock ships ranging from three to five masts, and about 500 artillery pieces.

    The armed fleet flying the Wuyang flag consists of ten medium-sized black-tailed ships, twenty large and wide ships with thousands of materials, and about 300 artillery pieces.

    And there were forty armed sailing ships without any flags, and about 200 artillery pieces.

    Subsequently, fleets joined from all over Lingdingyang from time to time. Because the fleet was too large, it was impossible to count its model and number of guns.  In the end, it can only be determined that more than 300 Guangzhou ships, Fu ships, Wuwei ships and other ships of various sizes have joined the ranks of the combined fleet.

    "Good guy, there are more than 400 ships in total, and at least 50,000 people are coming, right?" The scout kept observing until dusk, when the Lingding Ocean returned to calm, then he put down the telescope and rubbed his blurred eyes.

    "What a fuss? When Zeng Yiben attacked Chaozhou Prefecture, didn't he also gather more than 300 ships and 50,000 people?" The recorder on the side was talking, while copying the information in cipher text on a small piece of paper, and handed it to  Gave it to the investigators.

    "This is incomparable. One Portuguese sailboat can destroy dozens of pirate ships." The investigator took it and checked it carefully. When he saw that it was accurate, he carefully twisted the note into a twister.

    The recorder took out a thin red bamboo tube from a small copper box and handed it to the investigator, asking him to put the information in it.  He took out a piece of fire paint from the copper box, blew the fire off the stick into an open flame, and carefully baked the fire paint. When it melted into a thick consistency, he poured it into the mouth of the bamboo tube.  Then blow a few puffs and stamp it before it solidifies.  After the fire paint cooled, a beautiful sun and moon pattern was clearly marked.

    The recorder took out a pigeon cage from the cabin, took out a homing pigeon, tied the bamboo tube to the pigeon's paw and let it fly.  The pigeon circled twice in the air and then flew straight to the east-north direction.

    To be on the safe side, the reconnaissance ship released two other homing pigeons at different times and in different directions to ensure that this important information could be delivered to Nan'ao Island in time.

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    The Portuguese combined fleet left the Lingding Ocean in a mighty manner, forming a huge lineup on the sea that was twenty miles long and ten miles wide.

    In fact, it¡¯s just a swarm of bees.

    Except for the fleets of Portugal and Lin Hongzhong, how can those pirate fleets arrange any array?  It would be nice not to fall behind.

    And where did these pirates come from?  Will it be bought by Jiangnan Group?  It's hard for anyone to say.

    Domingo, the commander-in-chief of the combined fleet, is also very aware of this. He has long ordered all pirate sea masters' fleets not to come within five miles of his and Lin Hongzhong's main fleet.  Otherwise, they will all be considered as having evil intentions, and they will all be fired and sunk!

    At noon the next day, the fleet finally sailed out of the Wanshan Islands with complicated sea conditions, and faced the vast sea.

    Just when Domingo was about to give the order to speed up, he heard a loud report from the lookout on the mast, saying that a fleet of ships was rapidly approaching from the northeast, with as many as fifty large ships!

    ¡°All hands on alert!¡± Domingo quickly ordered loudly, and the clanging alarm bell rang on his flagship, the Duke of Goa.

    The other two Karak galleons, the 'Regalera' and the 'Pena', also sounded the alarm at the same time.  The mast of the Oriental Beauty was two meters shorter, so the lookout naturally found the enemy later.

    The Portuguese warships were in a panic, and they struggled to form a formation to face the enemy - the old lock ship blocked the front of the large sailing ship to prevent the Ming people from attacking the ship with fire, and the Karavik sailing ship cruised on both wings, maintaining  Maneuver.

    However, news soon came from the pirate fleet in front that it was not the Jiangnan fleet, but Lin Daoqian's fleet.

    "Lin Daoqian?" Domingo glanced at Lin Hongzhong and said, "Jeffrey, you seem to have visited him."

    "Yes, I once tried to win over him as the governor's special envoy, but he was very hesitant." Lin Hongzhong nodded: "?

    Because he studied staff major at the police academy, he was assigned to the staff department.  When the superiors assigned Lin Daoqian to be the ship's staff, they considered that older people would cause Lin's resistance and believed that they could not be trusted.  So he sent the youngest but very mature Cai Yilin over.

    Lin Daoqian naturally understood that the staff office sent a young boy as a staff officer to show friendship.  He was also very appreciative and was always polite to Cai Yilin.

    "Okay, Counselor Cai, do you think they will agree to go to Xiawei?" Lin Daogan touched his nose and smiled: "If they go, then this battle will be easy. Just make dumplings at Xiawei Port!"

    "Maybe I will go, I may not go, the possibility of not going is higher." Cai Yilin said lightly: "No matter which possibility, there is a plan, there is no need to guess."

    "Haha, that's right, the staff office has all the plans!" Lin Daogang laughed twice, secretly curling his lips and said, if you have a plan, you will know the plan.  It made a passionate battle extremely boring

    PS. I spent a whole day today conceiving the whole process of this war, so I have only written one chapter now.  Write another chapter, it¡¯s still the same, don¡¯t wait any longer (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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