Chapter 1882： This is difficult!

At this time, the island of San Miguel was not developed at all, and only Ponta Delgada was a port city located on the southwestern end of the island. Although São Miguel is the largest island in the Azores, with an area close to twice that of the third largest island, Texella, it is a volcanic island, with many earthquakes and small-scale volcanic eruptions. Coupled with the rugged terrain on the island, the proportion of plains is not high. Therefore, the Portuguese talent put the development focus on Terceira Island.

But in any case, the island is still very valuable for development. After all, there are still many places available on the 759-square-kilometer island. For example, growing sugar cane, grapes and the like, but also grazing cattle and sheep.

For the Portuguese aristocracy, although the earthquake on San Miguel Island and the eruption of two volcanoes are terrible. However, the fertile soil produced by the eruption of the volcano is also an excellent farmland. Therefore, some large Portuguese nobles still recruited some farmers on the island, who planted sugar cane and grapes here, and supplied sugar and wine for the locals. Anyway, even if the San Miguel Island earthquake or volcano erupted, only the people and farmers died, not the nobles themselves. Perhaps those nobles who have large tracts of land on San Miguel Island will not set foot on this island for life ...

But it is undeniable that because of the high price of sugar and the importance of wine in Europe, this island is still very valuable. The island's only port, Ponta Delgada, is also an important export port for sugar and wine. It concerns the interests of many nobles, and Portugal cannot give up here.

When six British Kirk sailboats arrived in the port of Ponta Delgada, the locals were not aware of the danger. After all, for an island in the Atlantic Ocean far away from Europe, it is very rare for foreign ships to arrive.

But when six British Kirk sailboats raised the pirate flag, the port of Ponta Delgada suddenly became chaotic ...

The fishermen and sailors in the port abandoned their ships and landed on the shore, hiding in the city of Ponta Delgada, trembling inside the city walls. The island town is not big, but it is still solid. At this time, because of the threat of pirates, more than two thousand residents in and out of the city hid, making the city extremely crowded.

Under the dreadful eyes of the residents in the city, more than 300 "pirates" were dispatched on the six ships. They landed and ransacked all the merchant ships and fishing boats outside the city, and looted several villages outside the city.

However, I do n’t know why, those “pirates” did not destroy the ships on the dock ...

After looting several villages near the port of Ponta Delgada, the pirates began to siege the city of Ponta Delgada. However, the pirates did not attack the city, but chose to use the 6-pound gun on the bow to blast the gates of Ponta Delgada. The six 6-pound guns on the bow of the six ships bombarded the south gate of the port of Ponta Delgada together, making the south gate look shaky.

At a critical moment, the lord of Punta Delgada, Fonseca, ordered the masonry and the staff to block the gate of the south gate to avoid the enemy ’s invasion after the gate was bombed.

Ponta Delgada is a small town in a remote area. The gate of the city cannot naturally be an iron gate, even the iron sheet is not nailed. Therefore, the Oak City Gate could not withstand the long-term bombardment of the artillery.

Fortunately, the 6-pound cannon used by the pirates is not a powerful artillery, and it cannot burst the oak door in a short time. Therefore, before the Oak Gate was destroyed, the residents of the city finally blocked the gate.

In the evening, the Pirate Fleet did not know why, and temporarily left the port of Ponta Delgada and ran to rest elsewhere to rest. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the owner of Fonseca ordered 20 sailors to go out, dive into a 100-ton merchant ship in the port, and drive the ship, leaving the port of Ponta Delgada at night and heading to Terceira The hero's port of the island went for help.

And they did not know that in a hidden place outside Ponta Delgada, two North Sea agents who monitored the city ’s movement put down their telescopes, smiled and clapped each other and said:

"It's done!"

In the next few days, six "pirate ships" shelled the south gate of Ponta Delgada step by step, seemingly not in a hurry.

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Three days later, at the port of Heroes, about 300 kilometers away, Ruiz Silva, the governor of Azores, received a distress letter from San Miguel Island ...

"What? São Miguel Island was attacked? Pirates of England?" Rui Silva was a little dumbfounded.

"Are you surely an English pirate?" Rui Silva questioned unbelievably.

"Okay! Lord Governor, our city master Fonseca said, the ships are English sailing ships, and the commanding shouts of their attack are also in English!" Said the sailor who came to the newspaper.

"How did the English pirates come here to do things? Didn't they always attack the French?" Rui Silva wondered.

In fact, if you switch to the famous masters who were deeply influenced by the strategy of ancient China, it is estimated that you can guess the strategy of "tune the tiger away from the mountain". After all, this kind of thing is very common in the ancient China War.

However, this is ancient Europe, and tricks are not popular. And Rui Silva is not a very smart person, so I do n’t see the greasiness.

He dare not rescue the island of São Miguel, you know, there are many manor houses of the Portuguese aristocrats, and even a few royal estates.

None of these gangsters can offend. If they don't rescue, he will be the governor. Therefore, he can only decide to send warships to rescue.

"Yes, how about the strength of those pirates, for example, firepower?" Before the rescue, Rui Silva asked about the strength of the "pirates".

The sailor who came to the report thought for a while and said:

"There were more than 300 pirates on the shore and looted the village. There are estimated to be hundreds of people on board. As for the firepower, they used 6 artillery pieces to attack the city. At the bow and stern ... "

"More than four hundred people ...... Hiss--" Rui Silva took a breath when he heard it.

Know that he, the governor of Azores, has 7 warships under his command, but no more than 420 sailors. If simply fighting side by side, Rui Silva is not confident that he can fight the pirates. You know, England wants to have a tradition of pirates, and the ability of pirates to fight side by side is also much stronger than the average sailor.

Although Portugal is also a maritime power, piracy hasn't really happened. The Portuguese sailors mainly attacked the west coast of Africa, mainly trade and landing on black villages, and they were really not good at port warfare. I do n’t want the English to attack the French and the French ships all day long, and they are familiar with the battle of side to side.

Fortunately, the Portuguese also knew their weaknesses ~ www.novelhall.com ~ So later on, they focused on the development of the naval battle mode of artillery bombardment and achieved success. A few years ago, the Indian Naval Battle of Calicut, although the Spaniards were the main force, was also a great success of the artillery naval battle.

Although the Azores fleet has only 7 small warships, each ship has at least seven or eight artillery. The vitality is definitely stronger than the pirates.

For the sake of insurance, Rui Silva decided to send 6 warships to fight, leaving only one warship to protect the port of heroes ...

This news was discovered by a spy stationed in the Azores by the North Sea State. Then, it was passed to four warships two hundred kilometers north of Terceira Island ...

"This is difficult ..." Commander Tyral of the four warships scratched his head. The four warships he brought were all converted British Kirk sailboats, and the total number of artillery of the four ships was 12. The Portuguese warship left behind at Heroes Port has 10 guns ...

If there is a duel between the two sides, although there is a chance of winning, but it is definitely not easy. After all, Portuguese warships with 10 artillery pieces will definitely make them suffer.

If it is replaced by a regular warship of the North Sea, naturally it is not afraid of this Portuguese warship. But they used the modified British Kirk sailboat, thin skin, without hitting. If you are sunk by a Portuguese warship, the fun will be bigger ...

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