Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 1010

Prince Hendrick really couldn't understand why there were still pirates at this time.

To put it bluntly, pirates were cultivated by European countries in order to weaken their opponents.

Now that the European countries are basically all in an alliance, where did the pirates come from?
This group of pirates is not as big as usual. There are far more than dozens of warships, and there is a whole bunch of them behind them.

What exactly is going on?

He looked at the strange warship, and he was a little dazed.

This kind of battleship seems to be the standard standard of the European Union, but there are too many cannons sticking out, and there are at least [-] or [-] barrels on both sides of the battleship!
By the way, the barrel.

People have stretched out the cannon barrels, so they are ready to fire, right?
Question, this distance seems to be a bit far away!
Before he could react, the first row of warships actually turned around, and then fired a broadside salvo.

Hendrick was frightened, and quickly ordered: "Order, the fleet stops advancing, loads ammunition, and prepares to fire. The flagship retreats, retreats."

In fact, his judgment was still very accurate. The distance between the two sides was indeed a bit far, and none of the rounds of their broadside salvo fell on their battleship.

All those shells hit the sea tens of feet in front of them.

"Tom tom tom tom" a row of huge water columns soared into the sky, and a cloud of water mist immediately blocked the sight of both sides.

Seeing this, Hendrick was really a little puzzled.

Are these pirates at this level?

Can't you judge how far your own battleship's artillery can shoot?

Normally, you wouldn’t act like this in a naval battle, at least you have to wait until someone is within five miles of you before firing. This is common sense!
Before he could figure out what was going on, there was another burst of violent artillery roaring from the opposite side.

Obviously, the second row of warships also started firing salvos.

The question is, the battleships in the second row are farther away, they have all stopped advancing, how can the shells reach them?

Sure enough, the second row of shells hit the water again.

The water mist caused by the first row of shells has not yet dissipated, and a row of water jets soaring into the sky is stirred up on the sea.

Where did the pirates come from? Why are they so good?

Hendrick was a little taken aback.

If it was a mistake not to hit them with a shell in the first round of salvo, then there was something wrong with the brain in the second round of salvo.

Are these guys really out of their minds?

Before Hendrick could figure it out, there was another burst of violent artillery roar from the opposite side.

No need to think about it, the shell must have hit the water again. At this moment, it was like a torrential rain on the sea in front of them, and they couldn't see anything.

Hendrick raised his binoculars to look, and couldn't help being stunned.

There's something wrong with this!
Even if people have brain problems, they wouldn't waste ammunition like this.

While he was in a daze, there was another violent artillery roar from the opposite side.

Hendrick looked at the fog-like water curtain in front of him, and finally came to his senses.

There is nothing wrong with their brains. These pirates want to block their sight through the water mist, and then rush over to catch the ship!
He quickly ordered: "Hurry up, send an order, all warships turn around and retreat!"

Prince Condé really wanted to seize the ship.

Because Taichang has already said that no matter what he grabs, it belongs to him.

These ships are loaded with strategic materials such as rubber, crude copper, and crude iron, and the battleship itself is worth more than these materials.

Naturally, he was reluctant to sink these warships.

Even if one ship is sunk, he will feel distressed for a long time!
At this moment, the warships that had fired their guns had already lined up in two rows, rushing towards the opposite side at full speed along the edge of the water curtain, and thousands of Spike warships had also circled around from both sides to keep up.

He has an army of 1, and it is not bad to have [-] people on hundreds of warships transporting supplies. As long as they rush over to pick up the board, they will definitely be able to snatch these warships.

Hendrick reacted, but it was a bit late, because it took time for the battleship to turn around, and the distance between the two sides was at best about five or six miles.

With a distance of five or six miles, it takes less than 10 minutes for ships and warships to rush over.

And after he ordered the boat to stop, he was in a daze for a while, and he had wasted almost 5 minutes.

In other words, people can rush up within 5 minutes.

This time is simply not enough for hundreds of warships to turn around and accelerate.

Hendrick had no choice but to hope that the pirates would come slowly.

Unfortunately, this hope was quickly dashed.

After two rounds of shelling, two lines of battleships had already appeared on the edges of the water curtain, and it was too late for them to escape.

Hendrick looked at the warships that were desperately turning around, and thought about it anxiously, then gritted his teeth and said, "Command, the fifty warships in the front row spread out to block those pirate ships!"

This is simply telling people to die!
If this is the joint fleet of the Continental Union, people will definitely not pee on him.

Fortunately, this is their Dutch fleet, and the warships in front also know that if these pirates are not blocked, hundreds of warships may be trapped here.

And they are in the front row, the pirate ship is less than a kilometer away from them, and they haven't completely turned around yet
In this case, they will definitely not be able to escape.

If they can block these pirate ships, half of the warships in the back row can still escape.

More importantly, Prince Hendrick is also in the back row, and they naturally cannot let Prince Hendrick fall into the hands of these pirates.

Therefore, those in the front row carried out the order without hesitation, spread out, and directly blocked the two rows of pirate ships.

Soon, hundreds of battleships crowded into two groups.

They are just blocking people, so naturally they won't let the pirate ship go around.

This time it was much easier to join the boat, but half of them ran away.

Seeing this, Prince Kong Dai gritted his teeth angrily.

When Prince Hendrick saw this, he could only sigh slightly, and fled south with fifty warships at an accelerated speed.

The speed of the battleships on both sides was about the same, so it would be difficult for the pirate ships to catch up with them.

However, after Prince Hendrick led the battleship to flee south for two or three hundred miles, he suddenly realized that the fresh water and food on their ship were not enough!

There are no supply points on this way back, and it will take them ten days to bypass the territory of the West African Kingdom.

Will the West African kingdom let them dock for supplies?
Don't think about it, it's absolutely impossible.

The Kingdom of West Africa is very cruel to these colonists.

The 60 troops of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire were almost wiped out by others.

In addition, the 20 troops of Tsarist Russia and the Ottoman Empire were directly swallowed by others, and even the 40 troops of France were bitten off by tens of thousands.

If they go to resupply near the coastline of others, they are looking for beatings.

Question, what if there are no supplies?

If it's just that the food is not enough, it's not a big problem. Everyone eats less every day, and they can barely survive for more than ten days.

This fresh water is not enough, but they can't survive it. Now they can survive for six or seven days at most with the remaining fresh water. If they survive for ten days, I don't know how many people will die of thirst.

How to do it?

Did it go to the Cape Verde Islands or Dakar for supplies?
That is purely to deliver food to others!

It's no wonder the Ming Empire didn't arrest them all.

Prince Hendrick frowned and pondered for a while, then looked at the sky, then gritted his teeth and ordered: "The order, the fleet turns to the west and sails due west."

He decided to risk a half-circle in the ocean, bypassing the Canary Islands, and go directly to the port in the south of Spain to resupply.

Although this will delay a day or two, it is only four or five days away from Spain. As long as they save some fresh water, they should be able to survive.

Prince Condé really didn't expect that the Dutch commander would be so decisive, and even gave him a tail-docking to survive.

If he had known this was the case, he should have divided the Spikes into two rows and ambushed at positions fifty or sixty miles ahead, so that the enemy would not have to run away.

Unfortunately, it's too late to think about it now.

Fortunately, they still stopped the other's fleet, and the resistance of the remaining fifty warships was not very fierce.

These people seemed to be afraid of provoking them, so they didn't even fire their guns. Moreover, after the fifty warships in the back escaped without a trace, they gave up resistance and surrendered directly.

In this way, they did not suffer any casualties.

Prince Condé grinned when he saw the fifty warships and the full amount of strategic supplies brought by the captives.

Sure enough, being a pirate is still fun, not only getting fifty ships of strategic materials for nothing, but also fifty warships for nothing.

These fifty battleships can double or triple their combat power after remodeling. If this continues, there will be more and more battleships under his command, and the combat power will become stronger and stronger. It's so cool to think about it!

This time he was happy, but Prince Hendrick was extremely upset.

They circled for several days, and finally reached the port in southern Spain.

However, he didn't stay long, and after a hasty supply of food and fresh water, he led the fleet and headed straight for northern France.

He was indeed very angry at the moment, he just wanted to find Duke Richelieu to reason.

The Duke of Richelieu was overjoyed when he heard that Prince Hendrick had sent him strategic materials such as rubber, crude copper, and crude iron. He welcomed him into the mansion with a smile on his face.

Who knows, after all his subordinates retreated, Prince Hendrick immediately said with a straight face and coldly: "Duke Richelieu, are you trying to trick us on purpose?

It's not like you don't know how badly our Netherlands was beaten by the Ming Empire. We were all forced to give up our homeland and go into exile overseas. You still plan on us like this. What do you mean?
Don't think that you are the only one who has the final say on the European Continental Union, everyone has a brain! "

The Duke of Richelieu was stunned when he heard this.

What's going on here?
He was stunned for a while, and then said seriously: "Your Highness, we are just asking you for help. I don't want to harm you. I really don't understand what you are saying."

You old fox, still don't understand?

Prince Hendrick couldn't help snorting coldly: "One sailing battleship is exchanged for ten sailing ships. You told Turenne about the materials for the transformation, right?
What do you mean?
Do you think sailing warships are blown by the wind? "

Are you asking without knowing it?

The Duke of Richelieu said helplessly: "You should know how much we lost in the Battle of Cairo, and all our warships went in.

You have so many sailing warships, can't you give us some?

If we lose our navy in France, you should know how serious the consequences are. "

Prince Hendrick said angrily: "What does this have to do with us in the Netherlands?
Is the European Union just Holland and France?
Do you think we in the Netherlands have no strength and are easy to bully, or what? "

With these words, the smell of gunpowder came out.

At this time, they can't turn their faces and do it.

Duke Richelieu explained helplessly: "That's not what I mean, I just think you have a lot of sailing warships, and it's okay to exchange ten for one.

After all, we don't want money, just sailing warships.

Other countries don't have as many sailing warships as you, do they? "

Sail warships are all built by us through hard work. Is this something you can have if you want it?
You treat us as fools!
Prince Hendrick couldn't help being annoyed: "Do you think that our Netherlands can only be slaughtered if we lose our land?
You want the sailing warship to talk to us openly, but what do you mean by all these plots behind your back? "

what?
I'm not up to any tricks!

Duke Richelieu said inexplicably: "Your Highness, what's wrong with you?
I did nothing! "

Prince Hendrick asked directly: "What haven't you done?
Then tell me what happened to Prince Condé. "

Prince Condé?

This question really confused Duke Richelieu.

What happened to Prince Condé, can you tell me this?

Besides, this is a dispute over the succession of the French royal family. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with you in the Netherlands, right?

He was stunned for a while before he said vaguely: "Prince Condé has been spying on the king's position. We have no choice but to let Turenne lead the army to deter him."

Duke Richelieu was unambiguous, but this ambiguity made Prince Hendrick even more angry.

He couldn't help scolding angrily: "The deterrence you are talking about is to let Prince Condé take his men and horses to the Canary Islands to pretend to be pirates and rob our warships?"

What's all this mess?

Duke Richelieu said inexplicably: "What's going on, can you tell me?"

Prince Hendrick said angrily: "You still ask me what's going on?

You inexplicably asked us to deliver supplies. When we arrived near the Canary Islands, a bunch of pirates suddenly appeared and directly robbed fifty of our warships.

I can see clearly that those pirates are all pretended by you French.

Tell me what's going on? "

I!
Duke Richelieu was dumbfounded when he heard this.

He really didn't expect that Prince Condé went to the Canary Islands to become a pirate.

(End of this chapter)