The Ming Dynasty has just been exiled and the Luzon system has awakened.

It was a rainy night, and while Captain Mallory was still feeling sad and angry at the silence of the Barry, the exclamations of the sailors came from behind.

"Sir! The mainsail is on fire!"

Mallory turned around and saw the spreading flames rising up on the middle mainmast canvas.

The sailors on the observation deck at the top of the mast could only look at the flames coming towards them with horrified and desperate eyes.

"Quick! Lower the mainsail quickly!" Mallory shouted.

In the early days of sailing warships, the fire resistance of canvas was not taken seriously.

After all, at this time, everyone was still playing the game of throwing solid iron balls to each other, and no one was worried that the canvas hanging on the mast a few meters away from the deck would be ignited by the flames.

However, today, they encountered the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty who did not follow conventional tactics.

The sailors hurriedly took out their sailor knives and slashed at the cables crazily. However, their actions were not fast enough, and another round of shells ripped through the air and hit them.

As the distance got closer, the accuracy of the bombardment increased rapidly, and this violent explosion almost covered the entire hull.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom..."

In the dazzling firelight, the expanding high-temperature gas tore apart the wooden hull, and the sharp wood chips flew across several Dutch ships.

In an instant, rivers of blood flowed on the decks of each ship.

According to relevant statistics, in the maritime battles of Nelson's era, many more sailors were stabbed to death by sawdust than by artillery shells. Although the lethality caused by high-explosive bombs used by the Ming Dynasty Royal Navy is quite terrifying, there are still quite a few Some of the casualties were caused by flying wood chips.

"what!"

This time, Captain Mallory was not spared. A piece of flying wood hit him in the eye.

He knelt on the bow deck, resisting the severe pain, covering his eyes with one hand, and violently pulled out the wooden thorn stuck in his eyeballs with the other hand.

"呲~"

The moment the wooden thorn was pulled out, a stream of dirty blood spurted out from the broken eyeball. He quickly tore off a strip of cloth from his clothes and simply bandaged it.

"Sir, the sailors on the deck suffered heavy casualties! Some combat positions no longer have rotation personnel!"

A bloody naval officer ran to Mallory to report.

Mallory stood up with difficulty and looked at the deck of the Formosa, which was like a slaughterhouse, and then looked at the Ming fleet about 200 yards away.

However, this time, he no longer had the enthusiasm and ambition he had at the beginning.

"Hang the white flag! We surrender." He said in panic.

There is no way to fight this battle!

Originally, their strength was far weaker than the opposing Ming fleet, but now the Ming army was equipped with hugely lethal explosive shells!After only a few rounds of artillery fire, more than half of his soldiers had been killed or injured.

Under such circumstances, if they had to continue, they might have died before they rushed to the Ming army fleet.

Your life is your own, and your interests belong to the company.

As for honor?

How could he, a company employee, get any honor?

What's more, he has already paid the price of one eye for this!

"Surrender, raise the white flag!"

When the officer heard Mallory's reply, he felt as if he was being pardoned.He immediately turned around and shouted excitedly.

The remaining soldiers on the deck, upon hearing such an order, quickly found a piece of tattered white cloth, propped it up on a wooden pole and began to wave it vigorously.

Several other Dutch ships surrendered after seeing the flagship. How could they continue to attack?

So they followed suit and waved the white flag.

"Sir, the Dutch surrendered!"

Xie Xingsheng also saw the waving white flag, he nodded and ordered:

"Let them lower the sails! Send people over and keep an eye on everyone! Put out the fire immediately! These warships now belong to my Ming Dynasty Royal Navy, don't let me burn them down. By the way, the ones on the opposite side If the fleet commander is not dead, bring him here too."

Although the current Ming Dynasty Royal Navy has very strong single-ship combat capabilities, it can even be said that it cannot find any opponents in the entire Asian region.

But the key problem is that the number is too small. So far, there are only 7 ships.

Under such circumstances, we are afraid that the opponent will use a large number of small arson ships and self-destruction ships to launch a suicide attack.

This is also the reason why Zhu Heyi has never launched an attack on the Manchus.

Although the Qing navy did not have heavy warships like the Ming Dynasty Royal Navy, there were quite a lot of small and medium-sized ships such as Guangzhou, Birdship, Fuchuan, and Shachuan.

That little thief Shi Lang has no less than 300 ships of various kinds under his command!

If so many warships rush up together, the current Ming Royal Navy may not be able to stop them.

So now, every battleship is very important to the Ming army.

"The communications corps will immediately send a report to His Majesty and tell Him the situation here!" Xie Xingsheng shouted sideways.

That's right!The radio technology that Zhu Hechi had left to professionals had already been developed.

Although only a few experimental samples have been built so far, it is believed that it will not be long before it can enter the mass production stage.

This time, this high-power radio station was installed on the flagship Luzon of the Ming Dynasty Royal Navy fleet heading south. (Don’t mention the battery to me, it comes with it by default! Manual dog head)

Because of this battle, the fleet temporarily stopped.

Not long after, Captain Mallory, who had become a one-eyed dragon, was brought to Xie Xingsheng.

As soon as Mallory saw Xie Xingsheng in a panic, he said emotionally:

"Your Majesty Commander, why are you attacking us? You are provoking a war between the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands! God, do you know how many of our young men have died under your cannons!"

Xie Xingsheng glanced at Mallory with an indifferent expression.

"Let me introduce myself first. I am Xie Xingsheng, commander of the Royal Navy Fleet of the Ming Dynasty. This fleet's southern patrol is aimed at consolidating our territorial waters. Before launching an attack on you, I have also reminded you that this is the territorial waters of the Ming Dynasty. Let you Leave immediately, but you didn’t listen to my advice!”

"Your Excellency, this is the Sulu Sea! It has nothing to do with your Ming Dynasty at all! You are just deliberately provoking a war!" Mallory shouted hoarsely.

This time, Xie Xingsheng did not reply immediately, but smiled and said:

"You also said that this place is called the Sulu Sea. Since it is called the Sulu Sea, it naturally belongs to the Sulu Sultanate.

Since ancient times, the Sulu Kingdom has been a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty!

This time, the Dutch East India Company not only attacked Sulu without any reason, but also directly destroyed Boni, a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty!This is tantamount to directly declaring war on our Ming Empire! "

"Oh, I forgot to tell you that the King of Sulu, Jilang Geba, has written to His Majesty Emperor Yun of the Ming Dynasty, requesting the Sulu Kingdom to be merged into the Ming Dynasty, and our Majesty also agreed! In other words, the Sulu Sea now belongs to our Ming Empire. Inland sea!”

Mallory's only remaining eye widened, with a look of astonishment on his face.

Can Sulu Hai still understand this?

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