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Chapter 286:March to Mancala

The two sides will not be very harmonious, in the seaside set up tents, the feet are soft beaches and shells, the ears are the wind to send birdsong, but the two sides can not achieve unity from the beginning.

Ezeiger insisted that the greatest concession was to be subordinate to Mingtin, but the full thorns must be in their hands.Yang Ling insisted that the full stabbed must be restored, and the Portuguese team must withdraw.

However, Portugal can set up commercial offices there and even on the shore of the port of Daming, send government officials and business representatives, deal with the Orientals under the Great Ming Order, and compete fairly with the merchants of Da Ming.At the same time, the Daming government guarantees the safety and interests of Portuguese businessmen from the Far East, and in return, Portugal also needs to protect the safety and rights and interests of the Daming Ocean Fleet.

In this proposal, Ezeiger refused, he wanted to control the Indian Ocean and dominate the Far East trade, and Yang Ling's proposal, although it can also bring huge benefits to Portugal, they will have to face the competition of other Western businessmen, and the pressure of Eastern businessmen, the initiative of trade will not be in their hands.

The first negotiations between the two sides were not happy, Yang Ling reported the negotiations to the emperor Zhengde, on the one hand, from the north to the south, the main forces of the marines in Fujian and Guangdong, Liaodong, Nanjing, Quanzhou three shipyards and weapons bureaus day and night to work, exhausting all financial resources to build new warships and equip the sailors.

The temporary financial difficulties are certain, but if this battle is lost, it will further promote the ambitions of the Flemish people, and even other Western countries will be eager to rush to the east to eat the sea power of Daming.

If the long-term consumption of the maggots of the bones will be more unbearable, and the domino effect caused by the resulting failure is difficult to predict the impact on the big Ming politics.

In the past, the Tse San woman in Wu Guo accidentally stepped on the feet of Chu Guo women when playing the game, and finally developed from the two to the two cities, and finally the ground war between the two countries, resulting in the death of more than 100,000 people.Princess Chu was also born, and the two countries have been embroiled since then.

The times create people, but the times are driven by people, and not everything is a historical necessity, especially in the official arena.Although Yang Ling has the favor and support of Zhengdedi, Liu Jin's faction and the remaining Hongji Dynasty officials are all contemptuous of him, if he loses after they take the opportunity to mobilize the national political public opinion to force him to step down, I am afraid that all the efforts and policies he has done will disappear.What is the certainty of his failure and national change?

So despite receiving the secret report and knowing the financial difficulties of the court, the harvest in various places at this time was not available, the people's lives were difficult, and some places had complained, and Yang Ling had to bite his teeth and be patient.

The people could not stand at such a political height, and some things could not be understood by them, and Yang Ling did not intend to make such a futile effort.However, the lack of good news from the economic information still worries him.Similar to the politicians who advocate shock therapy, the pressure is enormous, not to mention that this is not a unified decision of the entire Ming Dynasty, and many courtiers are appreciative of the surface deference of the Flang machine.I am not in favor of the foreign military.

This time the challenge is not directly aimed at him personally, so it is necessary to take care of and worry about more things, and he must survive anyway, and the Ming Dynasty and the people must also survive.There will be a new birth after the pain.

A new life was born.Yang Ling's people brought news from Jinling that Ma Pian had given birth and gave birth to a baby girl.Yang Ling, who was a father, was both happy and self-sacrificing, and he had expected to have rushed back to Beijing this month, but now it seems that not only Ma Pian's daughter, he could not be with him, but also when the young mother gave birth to a child, he was too late to return to Beijing.

It’s July, when the weather is at its hottest.There is less and less rain, and the crops have a tendency to drought.Yang Ling, who is also a Fujian cloth government ambassador, must also take into account civil affairs and farming, busy and undisturbable, so that he knows that Ma Pixier has a brother around, and Chu Ling and Chu Yan two Chengqiu Rhyme personally trained out to serve around, but not too concerned.

With the movement of the Ming army, the pirates are also stepping up the maintenance of warships and training soldiers.In particular, the collaborative combat capabilities of several different forces.More than 600 soldiers were recruited locally, and those sent to India to deploy troops had not yet returned.So while the two sides are preparing for the war, they are still negotiating in a false way.

Yang Ling knew that the war could not be dragged down, the water division's sustenance consumption was several times that of the army, and the huge army that was gathered now could not be supported for a long time with the current financial resources, and it was necessary to decide the victory or defeat on the most violent offensive and solve them once and for all.

Yang Ling has already received the news that Emperor Zhengde has approved the full sting of the army, and now his preparations are ready, everything is ready, and only owes the east wind.

In the latest negotiations, the Ming army side no longer went to warm water and mud, their attitude suddenly became tough, Yang Ling sternly warned Ezeiger: "July 15th, the Flang army must withdraw from the full thorn, otherwise the Daming army will expel by force, all the consequences are borne by the Portuguese side."

The last moment of the showdown between the two sides has finally arrived.

July 14th, Ghost Day.

In July and a half, the ghosts are gone.On the night of this day, avoid walking at night, staying up late, and avoid going into the water.But Fuzhou dock, that night is the army constantly, the river is endless.Arms ships, correlating ships, troop carriers, warships, have been dispatching, the inside and outside the dock lights are bright, ten miles away by officers and soldiers layer by layer of vigilance, no one to approach.

The "aircraft carrier" of Fu Ship No. 1, named Yang Ling personally named, also arrived in the port and was quietly moored on the sea surface.The emperor of the ship Zhengde personally gave a name: "Wu Wu General!"

It was also the first ship equipped with iron armor.For weight-bearing considerations and economic reasons, the Nanjing Weapons Bureau Ambassador Cheng Bingxi abandoned the ship's armor plan, after design and testing, installed iron armor in important positions that were easy to be hit and damaged, especially the porter positions on both sides.

The ship was divided into five floors, with 30 guns on the lower deck and main deck, 25 guns on the upper deck and 15 guns on the half deck.Due to the wide hull, the ship was modified for the first time in the bow and stern position, with six bow guns and four stern guns, and 60 hatches on board.“General Might and Gundham” has become a killing machine armed to the teeth and can be fired at almost any angle.

These giant guns have seventy racks designed using drawings provided by Adney.The gunners were on the wide and flat deck and could quickly move the guns.The other ten cannons are fixed.

The fire speed of the flame cannon is extremely fast, but relatively speaking, its lethality is smaller, in order to make up for the shortcomings, the Nanjing artillery expert Lu Zeying combined with the advantages of the periardite cannon and the ferroman, designed a pound of guns, the gun body is not the traditional head and tail of the general size of the thick cylinder.It is a thick tail and a thin two-long gun.

Its shells weigh 25 pounds, 35 feet can be pierced through four feet of oak board, 50 feet thick oak board smashed to smash, the cavernous cracking ship is like a broken bamboo, the only drawback is that the cannon is slower than the traditional heavy gun, but there are a variety of frolam cannons to assist, it can fully exert that terrible power.

This kind of giant object is not suitable for long-distance sailing.In the near war, it also needs the control of other warships, because once the enemy ship escapes, it is difficult to catch up, but it is used to attack and guard the port, and its appearance can almost make the most valiant Navy fear.

Guided by the small boat guided in front."General Weiwu" slowly moved the ship's body, and as the angle turned, the light reflected the sharp and heavy metal angle of the bow to emit a cold and terrible light.

In front of it, a large number of warships had already sailed out of the port.The first batch of departure is the kind of centimeter Clopard without sail driving, good at hiding track, the ship is placed with a lot of strange weapons, far away like some large cylinders, rope bamboo rafts, many sailors do not understand what kind of weapons, but these ships out to sea next to the more people, that is, they are not allowed to approach.

The time has passed, and the devil's vacation is over.

"Wu Wu General" sailed in the direction of the full thorns on the wind and wave.The sea is like ink.The sky is not yet white, the moon is high in the sky, reflecting the sea like a rotten silver.Once the huge hull was on the sea, it also seemed so small that the waves it stirred up were enough to capsize a double-masted boat, and from the sky, it was just plowing a faint trace on the micro-scameled sea.

The fifth floor of the ship.Like a building in a city.Yang Ling lay in his chair with his eyes closed, and there was a clear hint of fatigue between his eyebrows.Adele took the curtain.From the back of the cabin came in, she was wearing a helmet on her head, and holding a set of armor of the generals of the Ming army, and seeing that the posture of the Tiets was still a set of paper armor.

“Jian, are you tired?”Adity saw Yang Ling's appearance, quickly put the arm on the table, and hurried over.

Yang Ling's mouth hung a lightless smile, said: "Well, tired, a few days did not sleep well, but I am particularly relaxed now, dragging on for so many days, finally to the last moment."

Aditye walked up to him, gently stroked his cheek, and said, “Yang, are you so sure of victory?”Don’t you worry about failure?”

Yang Ling caught her hand, gently scraped her own recommendation with her tender palm, whispered: "You know, little Nie, once in Beijing, many learned Beijing officials to be difficult for me, let me participate in the extension of the debate, for the emperor to lecture, I prepared a whole night, when I eat in the morning, the legs are still involuntarily trembling, in fact... I simply can't eat."

He laughed: "No one knows that I am so afraid and nervous, but when I stood there, I was not afraid at once, my head was a little faint, and there was a strange excitement."Standing there imagining that they were facing all the people, they were going to listen to me, and they were really afraid to ask me, but when I stood on the stage, I couldn't think of this in the face of the black pressure crowd."

"Now, too long to prepare, I have thought about the circumstances that may occur in the event of failure, which makes me afraid, but when I have set sail to sea, I just think about how to defeat the enemy, there is no time to think about, there is no need to think about the possibility of failure."

He opened his eyes and stared at Adney: “Fight for me, do you regret it?”“Are they from your country?”

"If I should answer you, my husband," said Adity, with a narrow smile, "I want my wife to be my husband, and your will is my will."Or... would you like to exchange fewer casualties for the sobriety of my country and avoid their hatred with a powerful country like Daming?”

“Oh!”Adeline covetous, Yang Ling's revenge hands have been tucked into her clothes...

Adele could not stand soft under her feet.She turned her red face to Yang Ling's chest, and on the eve of the war, she tolerated Yang Ling's frivolousness. Yang Ling smiled, “Now you tell me that it is because your wife is a husband, or for the supreme good of your country.”

For the first time in her life, she was kissed so unscrupulously by men.

"The first time a beautiful woman of the West was that of men and women, it was so immature, that I could have asked her now if I wanted to."Yang Lin's heart moved.But he still restrained himself, and he did not know why he was teasing her now.Because the bottom of her heart is still very nervous, subconsciously want to relax, or for her about to go to Hanwu's warship, personally to the first line of the fire to fight and uneasy.

He let go of Adney’s moist rosy lips, picked his eyebrows, and said, “Can you tell me now?”

“I... I don’t know...” Adney, gasping softly on his chest, her hair was messy and full of sexy air: “I don’t know, dear Yang, I didn’t think about why, for you, for me, or for something more noble.”Oh, hell, don't ask me, I just know I should fight with you!"

"Cough", two clear cough, the figure appeared in front of the door, she was the first time to go to sea, although the huge ship is unusually stable, the stairs are also spacious and strong, she still subconsciously clasped the railings, a pair of beautiful eyes Yang Ling, the face looks smile.

Adity "ah" cried softly, as if he had been caught in bed, and hurriedly dressed.Yang Ling’s mouth was wide open and asked, “Are you all ready?”

"Well," said Cheng, who should have entered the cabin and said, "The centipede ship has completed its scheduled task, and is now on the way back before receiving the lamp, but in order to be sure, I will wait until they send a summons to inform you."

"The fast ship is ready to send Adeni to General Han's warship right away."

Yang Ling jumped up, saw that Adity had put the armor on, and helped her tie the stumbling block, saying: "Come on, I will send you a change of ship, the first battle will be handed over to you!"

He gently left and right each holding a small hand, the two beautiful women looked at each other tacitly, very face did not break free, Yang Ling's mouth can not help but show some proud look.

From the high five-story handsome cabin step down, the guards on both sides raised their hands and saluted one by one.The sky exposed the fish belly white, the sea breeze is cool, the ring looks around, "Wu Wu General" behind a line, is three heavy-loaded large "square" sand ship, and behind is four horse fast boats, followed by the warship shadow shadow countless, there are many, there are large and small, but for a while can not see what model.

Its left and right and front also have a synchronized march of the warship, there are other types of blessing ships, there are sand ships, wide boats, bird ships (variants of the blessed ship), this is a mixed fleet, this time the army, Yang Ling has obviously used all the power available.

Not only did he want to win this battle, but he also wanted to make the terrible fighting power of the Ming Army Marine Division leave an indelible impression on the Flemish machine, so that they would not dare to have a little idea of using force for at least ten years.

In the bottom cabin, the rudder and the ship's commander calculated the direction and direction of the ship in an orderly manner, like a general who commanded the operation, constantly issued various term commands that Yang Ling did not understand, and the non-combatants of his own personnel operated various nautical instruments, and ordered the ship's sailor to order the sailor to order the sailor, and corrected the course.

Water combat, the ship is like a knight's studded horse, whether it can handle the ship handy, the decisive can affect the victory of the whole battle, so Yang Ling has great respect for these fighters who do not take knives and guns.He nodded modestly, stopped them from seeing, and walked with the stump and Adity to the ship's port.

Due to the different size of the hull and the different forces of the sails, it is impossible to make another ship maintain the same speed as Yang Ling's No. 1 Fu ship and set up a pedal, Hanwu's warships and Yang Ling's handsome ship basically maintain the parallel speed, more than 30 feet away on his left.

Yang Ling looked at Adenie, said nothing, just nodded, and then helped her to sit on the fast boat, and the sailors together with a cable to lift the boat into the water, the boat with the light to inform Han Wu's warship, while quickly leaning over.

Yang Ling stood in the bow and looked at him, and after a while, he only heard Han Wu's ship make a "wow" conch sound, while more than a dozen lights waved the same action in different directions around the left and right.Then more than 20 warships suddenly filled the sails, broke away from Yang Ling's large fleet, and drove forward at full speed.

Yang Ling looked to the right, a centipede boat is coming in reverse, in the gap between the fleet of the fleet flexible through, the ship is already empty, they are full of large cylinders out of the sea, rope bamboo rafts have disappeared.

Yang Ling hey hey hey smile, laughing a little evil: "If this fight is not out of line, the sky immediately dropped a big bomb!"

“Huh?”He glanced at him curiously.

“Hmm!”Yang Ling nodded and looked back, and without explanation, he went away mysteriously.

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