Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 455

"Report to the steward, three sailing warships are found ahead, and the flags seem to be pirate ships."

Both Liu Wu and Li Yong were taken aback, but they were not nervous. During the ten years of sailing at sea, they have encountered all kinds of situations. Of course, they have also dealt with pirates, and in the end they would pay some money and leave.

But now it is different, their Royal Chamber of Commerce belongs to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and there are not only security teams on the merchant ships, but also artillery, how can they be afraid of three pirate ships.

Li Yong turned his head to look at the bow of the ship. There stood a young man with a binoculars in his hand looking into the distance. This man was Qi Wei, a descendant of Qi Jiguang, the Great Ming God of War.

Some time ago, Zhu Youjian summoned the cabinet and the Ministry of War. He not only rehabilitated the wronged soldiers, but also recalled some capable descendants of famous generals. Qi Wei was one of them.

It is inappropriate to directly appoint them for the sake of meritorious service. After all, they are different from Yan Yingyuan and others. Although Yan Yingyuan and others are equally unknown, they have shown extraordinary talents in history.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian arranged Qi Wei in the escort fleet of the Royal Chamber of Commerce just to see his talent and lay the foundation for future reuse.

Qi Wei observed the pirate ship for a while, then turned around and walked towards Liu Wu and Li Yong, Liu Wu clasped his hands and asked:
"Qianhu, we found three pirate ships, what do you think we should do?"

Qi Wei smiled lightly:
"It's okay, there are only three pirate ships, our fleet only needs to change the formation."

Although Li Yong doesn't know what Qi Wei's ability is, but the Qianhu sent by the emperor will definitely not be an ordinary person. He also smiled at Qi Wei:
"Qianhu is right. How can an imposing armed fleet of hundreds of ships be afraid of their mere three pirate ships? Please order what Qianhu wants, and we will fully cooperate."

Qi Wei nodded, then grabbed the walkie-talkie, now the Ming army must have walkie-talkies, almost scouts and commanders have walkie-talkies.

The Royal Chamber of Commerce is a royal company, and of course it is no exception. The walkie-talkie transmits signals through radio waves, which was available in ancient times, and even the communication distance is farther than our modern times.

"The Royal Caravan Guard listened to the order and quickly changed the formation of the fleet to sail in five rows. The guards were all concentrated on the periphery of the merchant ship. The artillery immediately reloaded and entered the combat state, ready to fight at any time."

"Yes"

Qi Wei gave an order, and the merchant ships in front immediately slowed down and waited for the merchant ships behind to come up, and then formed a five-row fleet to continue sailing forward.

On the periphery of the fleet are armed merchant ships ready to fight at any time, while merchant ships transporting valuables and women are located in the middle of the fleet.

This formation is suitable for both attack and defense, which is enough to ensure that the middle ships will not be attacked unless the outer armed merchant ships are sunk by the opponent.

Qi Wei quickly climbed up to the flagship mast and stood at the position of the observation post looking ahead. This place is more suitable for commanding armed fleets and pirate ships for naval battles.

The telescopes of the Royal Chamber of Commerce are all high-powered telescopes, which are far from comparable to the single-tube telescopes on pirate ships.

When the royal caravan was ready, the pirate ship's observation post discovered the huge merchant fleet ahead.

These three pirate ships were the disguise of the Dutch warships. They hadn't even seen a Daming merchant ship for so many days, and the red hairs were already disheartened, thinking that they would never encounter the Deming fleet.

The sudden discovery of a large fleet of merchant ships flying the Minglong flag made the Dutch observation post feel as excited as seeing his own father, and hurriedly climbed down the mast to report to Captain Nieders.

After searching for so many days, the Deming Fleet was still not found. Nieders' spirit was exhausted, so he stopped paying attention to this matter and was playing games with two Japanese beauties in the command cabin.

These two Japanese beauties were given to Silva by the Japanese last time, but Silva was buried in the belly of a fish in the battle with the Ming warship, and Nieders took the opportunity to take over the two Japanese beauties.

This time he pretended to be a pirate to rob a Ming merchant ship, and he purposely brought two Japanese beauties with him, and he called it, how could the so-called pirate leader not be accompanied by beauties.

"boom……"

"Report to the captain, we found the Deming Fleet."

The sentry was so excited that he even forgot to knock on the door, and pushed open the door to enter the cabin. Nieders was startled, and hurriedly got up and reprimanded.

"The bastard is looking for death, don't you know how to knock on the door?"

As a result, the sentinel ignored him at all, and stared straight at the two naked Japanese beauties, their mouths already drooling.

"Snapped……"

"roll……"

Seeing the bear look of the sentry, Nides slapped the sentry on the face angrily.

Only then did the sentinel come to his senses, and hurriedly glanced at the jade body of the beautiful woman from Japan, couldn't help swallowing, and reluctantly left the cabin.

After the sentry left, Nieders remembered what he said. He didn't hear clearly just now, and hurriedly shouted:

"William is back."

Hearing the captain's call, the sentinel cursed secretly, and returned to the cabin again:

"My lord, what are you calling me for?"

Nieders glared at the sentinel angrily:
"What did you just say, Daming, repeat it again."

"Oh, Captain, I just discovered that the Deming Fleet has a size of a hundred ships. We are rich!"

Nieder's eyes widened immediately, and it was so effortless to find nowhere to go (it's a pity that he doesn't understand the profoundness of my Huaxiong language)
"Great, order the fleet to advance at full speed and escort them back to the Netherlands. I won't have to be adrift in the sea for the rest of my life."

"Yes"

Nieders was right. If so many merchant ships were brought back to the Netherlands, he could be directly promoted to lieutenant general, so there was no need to do such dirty work.

It's a pity that he didn't even think about how the three warships of Daming's [-]-ship fleet could sustain it.

Nieders gave the order, and the three pirate ships headed towards the Royal Chamber of Commerce fleet at full speed, and soon a huge fleet appeared before their eyes, and the Minglong flag flying high on the merchant ships fluttered in the wind.

Seeing the formation of the Royal Chamber of Commerce merchant ships, Nieders excitedly let out green light from both blue eyes, and screamed wildly:
"Warship No. 01 intercepts from the front of the Deming Fleet. Battleship No. 02 follows and escorts the Deming Fleet. I personally lead the No. 03 Warship to monitor the Deming Fleet to prevent any merchant ships from escaping. Regardless of the front or rear, as long as merchant ships are found to escape , shoot and sink them to make an example, act now."

For Nieders, the formation of the Royal Chamber of Commerce fleet is exactly what he wants, and if the formation is too long, it will not be conducive to their control.

The three disguised pirate ships were equipped with [-] cannons in total. The firepower was actually very strong, but they did not expect that the merchant ships of the Royal Chamber of Commerce would be equipped with cannons.

Of the 50 cannons on the fake pirate ship, only more than [-] were filled with shells. The artillerymen were proudly looking at the hundreds of merchant ships of the Royal Chamber of Commerce. They had already regarded these hundred merchant ships as their own.

Standing on the high mast of the merchant ship, Qi Wei kept watching the fake pirate ships with binoculars, and soon he discovered that these three pirate ships were not real pirate ships at all.

You can see the approximate number of their artillery from the gun ports on the opponent's battleship. There are more than 70 artillery pieces on each battleship. This is not a pirate ship, it is clearly a warship disguised.

"Hmph, so what about the warships. I thought the armed merchant ships of the Royal Chamber of Commerce were all vegetarians. I sent an order that as soon as the pirate ships approached our merchant ships, they would immediately shoot and sink them."

(End of this chapter)