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Chapter 1184 Spanish Privateer ([-])

boom!The artillery on the side of the galleon roared, and the artillery shelled the French and Chinese merchant ships!

The solid bullet fell into Britain's territorial waters, splashing water and waves!There were also solid bullets that hit the hull of the merchant ship, which shocked the merchant ship, and pieces of wood scattered into the sea.

"The privateers are shelling us! Aren't they afraid that Britain will declare war on them?!" The Chinese merchants found that the Spanish privateers not only attacked the French merchant ships, but even the merchant ships that they hung the dragon flag and the Union flag at the same time. Also fired.

"Fire back!" Following the merchant ship were intelligence personnel who were about to infiltrate into the Netherlands. They were well-trained and hurriedly operated the artillery on the armed merchant ship to return fire.

The British Royal Navy was deployed in Portsmouth and Plymouth. By the time the navy reacted, their two merchant ships had been looted.

Boom, boom!The artillery on the armed merchant ship began to counterattack, and six artillery pieces were deployed on the side. The smoke from the flames billowed, and solid projectiles were fired at the privateer on the opposite side!
The two sides shelled each other from a long distance!The French merchant ships without artillery could only hide behind the Huaxia armed merchant ships, watching the two sides fighting weakly.

Kolber was deeply worried about this. All the funds he brought were used to buy the silk brought to Europe by Chinese merchants. His merchant ship was loaded with this batch of silk. The two countries have entered a state of war, and it is impossible to get the goods back.

"Britain really has no face, and the Spanish privateers dare to approach their coastline to rob." Kolber saw the Spanish Galen warship looting merchant ships at the door of Britain, and he couldn't help but feel dissatisfied with the strength and power of Spain. Britannia's powerlessness was lamented.

At this time, Spain is still the most powerful empire in Europe, and the Armada still has the capital to dominate.

"General De Hawkes, that merchant ship is flying the British flag. Should we stop shelling immediately? If we rob their merchant ships in this sea area, it may aggravate the conflict between our two countries , and may even directly trigger a war!"

As the two sides approached for shelling, the Spanish sailors discovered that with the French merchant ship was a British Union flag flying.

"British people are not good people. In the past 100 years, how many merchant ships and treasure ships have been robbed by British pirates? You must know that we are privateers now, and our navy will not take this for what we have done Take responsibility!" said the Spanish naval admiral known as De Hawkes.

This time he was recalled by the Spanish emperor from the West Indies and deployed in Dunkirk. His task was to lead Dunkirk's navy and privateers to plunder the passing French and Dutch merchant ships. Blockade the two countries at sea.

This medium-sized galleon is not an ordinary private plundering ship, but a medium-sized warship. It just lowered the flag and became a privateer.

"But there are other flags hanging on their masts, even weirder flags, we have never seen!" The Spanish sailors discovered another amazing fact. They found that the "British Merchant Ship" that was attacked was flying three flags at the same time Flags, and two of them have never been seen before, and they can't recognize which side they represent!
General De Hawkes observed this magical merchant ship with a telescope, and he found that the other party was flying three different flags.

"It's really strange. Ordinary ships hang at most two kinds of flags. Why does this merchant ship hang three kinds of flags? And two of the flags are unprecedented. One looks like a snake, and the other looks like a lion. Why? What kind of strange combination will there be..." The Spanish admiral saw the dragon flag and the Pixiu flag that appeared in the telescope, and he couldn't understand it.

He has not seen these two flags in the English Channel, or the current European admirals are not familiar with these two flags.

"I heard that the Britons chose to form an alliance with the ancient eastern country. The eastern country sent a huge fleet to the city of London. This merchant ship may be one of the merchant ships in the fleet. And the reason why they hung The Mizi flag of the Britons is because they are qualified to hang the Mizi flag as an ally of Britain. The snake pattern should be an oriental dragon, and the lion pattern, I really don’t know what strange oriental animal it is.” Said a junior naval officer who knew something about Dongfang Dao's hearsay.

"Ships from the East..."

Although the Spanish soldiers including De Hawkes were still firing artillery, they now felt that the problem was a bit tricky.

Britain's Royal Navy has gone through a period of decline, and even if it "accidentally" ransacked Britain's merchant ships, the Spaniards were not enough to restrain themselves.

However, what they are attacking now is the merchant ship of the eastern country. The two countries have neither established diplomatic relations nor declared war, that is to say, they are neutral countries.

Things are not as simple as a neutral country, because the Huaxia Nanyang Fleet has attacked the trading sites of the Spanish Empire in the Far East such as Manila, Malacca, and Xiamen, which almost completely interrupted the Spanish Empire's local business.

Losses in the Far East were still fresh in the memory of the Spanish Empire, but the Spanish fleet was unable to mount a strong counterattack, and they were deeply involved in the war in mainland Europe and the West Indies.

And things don't stop there.If Chinese merchants banned Spanish merchants and Portuguese merchants from conducting spice trade in the West Indies, perhaps the two sides would be mortal enemies.

The problem is that the Kyushu Army still allows Spanish and Portuguese merchants to operate in the East, but they have to obey the management of the local government and pay high spice taxes and customs duties.

If the two sides turn against each other now and the Kyushu Army drives out Spanish and Portuguese merchants from the East, then Britain and the Netherlands will monopolize trade with the East.

"It's really a headache. How could there be an extra merchant ship from the East next to the French merchant ship? Otherwise, we can go up to the board and close combat now, and snatch all the goods from the French..." Spanish Admiral De Hawkes Had a headache.

"General, since we have used artillery to severely damage the other party's merchant ships, and our identity is a privateer, they cannot attribute our actions to the empire according to our rules. I think we simply do one thing and keep doing the other. , kill them all, and scuttle the ship. At that time, the gods will not be aware of it, and there is no way to verify it. The interests of the Dutch in the East Indies have suffered even more because of the Chinese. If they pursue responsibility afterwards, we will Just say it's the Dutch revenge on them!" A naval officer suggested to De Hawkes.

(End of this chapter)