Chapter 1116： Naval battle in the indian ocean

After that, the Portuguese fleet, which suffered a great loss, abandoned the idea of ​​capturing Malacca City and instead plundered several port cities and merchant ships of the Malacca Kingdom.

Sure enough, by looting a merchant ship, especially a merchant ship that had just returned from Daming, the Portuguese were fed up. Looking at the ship's porcelain and silk, Ricardo was broken.

Thinking of the wealthy Daming Empire, Ricardo continued to lead the fleet around the Malacca Strait and went to Guangzhou to explore the situation.

After the fleet arrived in Guangzhou, Ricardo, on behalf of the Kingdom of Portugal, requested to establish diplomatic relations with the Daming Empire and obtain normal business qualifications.

However, as Kong Tai said, the Daming Empire simply did not accept the establishment of diplomatic relations with people on an equal footing. The Guangzhou Ship Division directly regarded the Portuguese as ordinary Fanyi and required them to apply for tributary qualifications in accordance with the normal tributary process. Moreover, Ricardo, the Portuguese foreign minister, is required to learn the etiquette of three knocks and nine worships, so as not to fall out of favor in the future.

Ricardo was immediately irritated, but he was a foreign minister in the Kingdom of Portugal, not an ordinary envoy. This time he went out personally and was humiliated by a small official of the Guangzhou Imperial Shipping Company of the Ming Empire ...

So, angry Ricardo returned to the ship, carrying 22 warships, and launched an attack on Guangzhou Port ...

The Ming Army in Guangzhou Port was also flustered at the beginning, but the Ming Army were all people who had seen the world and were no strangers to guns. When the artillery of the Guangzhou Guard was transferred, the two sides launched artillery.

However, there are 22 warships in Portugal with a lot of artillery on it, and the artillery of Guangzhou Guard was repelled ...

But when the Portuguese sailors attacked the ground, they immediately received a large-scale assault. The Guangzhou Guard dispatched three hundred cavalry and charged the Portuguese sailors ...

Although there are not many Guangzhou Cavalry, and the horses are short southern horses. However, cavalry is cavalry, and it is a light cavalry more flexible than knights. More than a thousand Portuguese sailors who were on the 6th were suddenly slaughtered, and more than 600 sailors were hacked ...

It is also due to the bad luck of the Portuguese, the weapon of the Portuguese sailors, either a matchlock or a sailor scimitar. Can scimitar sailors fight against cavalry? Not to mention the musketeer. Before the bayonet was installed, the musketeer gave him a head in front of the cavalry ...

Fortunately, the Portuguese Musketeers worked hard to kill more than 100 Ming cavalry. The generals of the Guangzhou Guard felt that the loss was too great, and then ordered to retreat. After all, southern cavalry are rare, all are treasures, and they cannot afford to lose.

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After fleeing back, Ricardo was as mourning as a concubine, and felt that he had done something wrong this time.

In desperation, he could only retreat the fleet to the Pearl River estuary and start guest pirates.

Really don't say, two Siamese tribute trading ships were unfortunately caught and then robbed of a slick ...

Seeing three merchant ships full of silk and porcelain in his hand, Ricardo was finally relieved. Although thousands of sailors have been lost, they can bring these three ships of silk and porcelain back to China, and finally have an explanation. Otherwise, his position as foreign minister is not guaranteed ...

In this way, the Portuguese fleet returned to the sea with endless depression ...

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Not to mention the setbacks suffered by Portugal in the Far East, but the Portuguese's removal of battleships from the West Portuguese League and the Fleet also had a major impact on the comparison of forces in the Indian Ocean. The most direct impact is that the original 27-ship West Portuguese League and fleet, only 15 left, only one is a Portuguese warship, the remaining 14 are Spanish warships ...

When the main force of the Portuguese fleet left and went to Malacca and Guangzhou, the Egyptian fleet arrived in Diu, India, and merged with the joint fleet of the Indian prince ...

Of course, this is not important. The most important thing is that in this combined fleet of more than two thousand warships, 2o warships came from the Republic of Venice. However, after they reassembled in the Red Sea area, they all hung the yellow crescent flag of the Mamluk dynasty. But in fact, the captain and main sailors on the 2o battleships, including the gunners, are all Venetian sailors. Only the oarsmen were all Russian slaves bought from Crimea provided by the Ottoman Empire ...

Moreover, among the 2o Venetian warships, 1o are new warships equipped with artillery. In this naval battle, the Venetians came to test the effect of the new tactics.

Although Marin blew the sea artillery to the extreme, the Venetian conservatives were still reluctant to believe in the role of artillery. In desperation, the Republic of Venice had to send the same number of two warships and wanted to observe the results through a specific naval battle.

At the beginning of 15o9, more than two hundred warships, large and small, of the Egypt-India Joint Fleet, which completed the alliance, left Majestic Diu and rushed to the home port of Calicut, the West Portuguese League and the fleet.

However, although there are more than two hundred warships in the joint fleet of Egypt and India, the only real ship is the 2o warships provided by the Venetians. The rest are mostly small dhows. These small dhows are filled with Indian archers and scimitar sailors ...

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The West Portuguese League and the Fleet at the Port of Calicut saw more than two hundred warships rushing over, and at first they were terrified. The joint fleet commander Da Costa ordered the fleet to escape from Calicut Port ...

At this time, serious disagreements arose within the joint fleet of Egypt and India. Ali, the representative of the Mamluk dynasty in Egypt, believes that the Spanish Portuguese fleet should be pursued and eliminated.

However, the Indian princes such as Prince Diu believed that the elimination of the West Portuguese fleet should be possible, but it can be slowed down. For example, the most important thing at present is to sack Calicut, the affluent port city ...

In the end, the opinion of the majority of the Indian princes prevailed, and the Egyptian fleet had to follow them to attack Calicut in order to sack the richest trading port city in India ...

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On the sea, at this time, the commander of the Spanish-Portuguese Fleet, who was leading the fleet to escape, responded that if he lost the ally of Calicut, Spain's trade interests in India would be terminated. And the spice trade is so profitable, if you lose the Indian spice trade, it is estimated that His Majesty the King will peel him alive ...

Thinking of this, Da Costa gritted his teeth and ordered the fleet to stop escaping, but turned back to meet ...

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When the Spanish-Portuguese Fleet returned to Calicut Port, the sailors of the Ayn-Indian Fleet were busy attacking Calicut City ...

At this time, most of the Egyptian and Indian warships in the port were empty. Da Costa took the opportunity to order the fleet to approach, and then allowed the gunners to shoot at a close distance ...

"Boom"

After a burst of artillery, a lot of poor quality Indian warships sank. As for the Venetian battleship, two ships were injured ...

At this time, the officers and soldiers of the Ethiopian-Indian Joint Fleet reacted. They abandoned the siege of Calicut and returned to the ship. But at this time, they have lost more than 20 boats ...

The two fleet commanders Gillione and Pinamonti sent by Venice immediately ordered the Venetian sailors and artillery to return to the ship, ready to fight against the Spanish fleet.

Especially the 1o gunboat in Pinamonti, they plan to compete with the Spaniards ...

However, if they have played online games for later generations, they will know that there is something called pig teammates ...

Despite the loss of two ships, the 18 Venetian warships are still a force that cannot be ignored. At least, not much worse than the Spanish fleet.

However, the small dhow Arabian dinghys that the idiots of the Indian King's fleet eager for revenge only snatched, rushed ahead, trying to surround and siege 14 warships and 1 Portuguese warship in Spain ...

Pinamonti and Gilioni looked at each other, but at this time they were not easy to say anything. Seeing the Indian warship charge ahead, they had to follow behind. Moreover, Pinamonti's 1o warship, because all the ships in front of it are allies, is not convenient for firing ...

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However, when the Indian warships surrounded the front Spanish warships, it was embarrassing that the other side of the Clark's sailing ship was so high that it was inconvenient to climb ...

Of course, some skilled sailors started to throw up the grappling hooks, intending to catch the Spanish warships and then climb up and cut people ...

However, the Spanish sailors are not stupid. When the Indian sailor who flung the grappling hook started to climb the boat, the Spanish ship put out a matchlock and directly hit the Indian sailor who climbed the boat down to the sea. Moreover, the lead shot hit the body, the wound is huge, and the **** smell is too large to attract sharks after falling into the water. Anyway, the possibility of survival is very small ...

This is not the most terrible. The most terrible thing is that the Spanish sailors actually threw grenades at Indian boats ...

Of course, the grenade thrown by the Spanish sailors was not a powerful grenade of later generations, but an earthen grenade filled with black powder powder. The fuze is not a cable, but an ordinary lit fuse ...

Throwing this kind of grenade grenade into the crowd, it is estimated to hurt people, it is difficult to kill anyone on the spot.

But ~ www.novelhall.com ~ how to say, this is also gunpowder. Throwing on a wooden boat, it is easy to catch fire ...

Then, the Indian boats surrounding the Spanish warships were burned a lot ...

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After losing a lot of boats, the Indians finally counseled and their small dhows receded like a tide. Moreover, it also blocked the way of 18 Venetian warships. Eventually, the Venetian ship was stuck in the middle ...

At the first sight, Dacosta, the commander of the Spanish Portuguese fleet, immediately ordered the fleet to line up and focused on the Venetian oars that were trapped by Indian boats ...

The hapless Venetian fleet was squeezed by Indian boats, unable to form a lineup ...

In this way, the Venetian warships were sunk several more ...

When the Venetian ships finally got rid of the hindrance of Indian boats, there were only 12 remaining ...

Then, Gillioni courageously ordered the remaining five old-fashioned paddle sailboats to rush to the Spanish fleet to prepare for a side battle with them. Pinamonti led the 7 modified gunboats that gave birth to the side and bombarded the Spanish fleet ...

But the Spanish fleet finally has the advantage and is more mobile in the windy Indian Ocean ...

After avoiding the decisive impact of Gillioni's five paddle sailboats, the Spanish fleet began to form a fan-shaped formation, blasting around the five Venetian paddle sailboats rushing in.

In the end, after losing three more ships, Gillioni retreated with the remaining two ships. Then, Pinamonti's seven gunboats, because of their weakness, eventually lost in the mutual shooting and escaped, and were sunk three ...

But the Spaniards were n’t feeling good either, because they were attacked by a Venetian gunboat, two warships were sunk and one was seriously injured ...

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