Chapter 706: The Overlord of the Sea Destroyed by Pirates
"Haha, I thought there was someone else who was so blind and wanted to challenge the majesty of Ming Dynasty, but it turned out to be this!"
Looking at the military newspaper in his hand about the British Royal Navy being wiped out by the pirate Lin Feng, Wang Bing couldn't help laughing heartily.
"Send orders, orders..."
Time goes back to a month ago, when Wang Bing led the Four Seas Allied Forces to capture the Spanish capital Madrid, thousands of miles away at Plymouth Port where the British Royal Navy was located, a naval battle was also being fought in full swing.
However, apart from the British Royal Navy, the other two warring parties were not the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty or other European countries, but a pirate fleet with a mixture of Chinese and Western warships and flying the pirate flag with the word "Chinese" in it.
Needless to say, other than Lin Feng, the ‘Pirate King’ of the Ming Dynasty, who else could have such a large fleet and the courage to openly attack Britain, the new maritime overlord, and also their naval base!
"I said, Brother Chaojue, are we just going to watch? After all, we are also the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty and officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. There is no reason to watch our own pirates fighting fiercely there. Let's just watch the fun on the side? Hahahaha!"
Looking at the raging sea in the distance, veteran Deng Zilong on board the Zhenhai, the flagship of the Ming Dynasty Royal Navy, couldn't help but be eager to give it a try.
"Brother Wu Qiao, this is not our Ming Dynasty's sea area. We don't have the obligation to suppress bandits, do we? And you also said, these are our 'own' pirates, why should we help these Xiyi ghosts beat our own people!" "
Looking at the big pirate flag with the word "Chinese" in it through the telescope, Chen Lin couldn't help but look at her old partner with a smirk on her face.
"Brother, when did I say that I would help those Western Yi ghosts beat our own people? Can't we go and 'persuade the fight'? Of course, it is inevitable that the artillery will misfire occasionally..."
"Haha, why are you, Brother Wuqiao, imitating young people like Marquis and the others now? Although Lin Feng can't beat us as cleanly as us, he still has the 'advantage in me'!"
Hearing that Deng Zilong actually wanted to 'break up the fight', before he could finish his words, Chen Lin couldn't help but laugh with a teasing look on his face.
"Aren't we afraid that they will suffer a loss? After all, this is the home base of these Xiyi ghosts..."
Looking at the Ming pirate fleet that clearly had the upper hand and firmly held the initiative on the battlefield, Deng Zilong was sincerely 'worried' about the safety of these Ming 'official pirates'.
"Forget it, Brother Wuqiao, the Marquis wants us to declare power over Europa, not to declare war on Europa! Besides, the girl of the Lin family is also very happy. This plate of meat is just to give the Marquis face and let Lin Forget it if Feng eats it..."
Finally, thinking that Lin Feng was also the cheap father-in-law of Wang Bing, the leader of the Ming Dynasty's generals, Chen Lin finally decided to grab the meat.
In fact, what Chen Lin and the others didn't know was that this was not the first time that Lin Feng, an 'official thief' of the Ming Dynasty, had fought against the British Royal Navy.
Since the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, when Wang Bing took the "Kunyu and the Complete Map of All Nations" from Wang Bing's hands and started sailing around the world, and after arriving in the new continent of America, Lin Feng's pirate fleet has never been idle again.
Relying on his huge size and powerful guns, he treated all European ships, whether they were merchant ships or pirate ships, or even the regular fleets of European countries, without any bias.
Among them, naturally included Britain, who had just defeated the Armada and succeeded the Spanish as maritime hegemony.
As the new maritime overlord, whether for economic interests or the need to establish prestige, Britain naturally would not and could not bear to be bullied by a pirate fleet.
Therefore, under the order of Queen Elizabeth I, Admiral Howard immediately mobilized nearly half of the British Royal Navy to begin the encirclement and suppression of Lin Feng.
However, what Elizabeth I and Howard did not expect was that when the British Royal Navy searched for Lin Feng's pirate fleet, they were embarrassed to find that their majestic new maritime overlord was actually not as large as Lin Feng's fleet.
A fleet of pirates.
There is no way, with the support of Wang Bing, Lin Feng's capital to start this pirate fleet is too strong. With the strong ship and powerful guns, coupled with a group of "retired" Royal Navy officers with excellent skills and daring to fight,
The backbone was gathered through plundering all the way, and the name of 'Daimyo One Piece' quickly rose in the pirate circle, and he had the potential to 'unify the world'.
Therefore, how can the size of its fleet be compared to that of half the British Royal Fleet and dozens of warships?
It's just embarrassing, but after all, we are also a regular British navy, so we can't let our officers and soldiers be afraid of bandits, right?
Therefore, after just a brief thought, Howard immediately commanded half of the British Royal Navy fleet and launched an attack on Lin Feng's 'rabble'.
However, it didn't matter if they didn't fight. After a fight, Howard was surprised to find that not only were they inferior to the opponent in terms of fleet size, but also in terms of artillery equipment and soldiers' combat quality and discipline, they, a regular army, were still defeated by the opponent.
Stabilized one end of the pressure.
Therefore, there is no suspense. After an encirclement and suppression battle, the pirates were not wiped out. In the last half of the British Royal Fleet, under the leadership of Howard, only six of the dozens of warships escaped and returned to Plymouth Port. It can be said that
A huge defeat.
However, this was just Lin Feng's deliberate intrusion, just to have a "reasonable" excuse for revenge.
Therefore, when Lin Feng led a huge pirate fleet to pursue them, this was what Chen Lin and the others who had just come to "Xuanwei" saw.
"I said, brother Chaojue, should we talk to the Marquis and allocate some more breech-loaded naval guns to them? A mere twenty breech-loaded cannons are really not enough to blast. What if there were a few more?
With ten breech-loading naval guns, these British fleets would have been wiped out long ago!"
Seeing the smoke filling the air, the roar of artillery, and the British warships being beaten with breech guns by two 'retired' Royal Navy second-class battleships on the sea of Plymouth Harbor, Deng Zilong, who watched the movie for free, found it a bit unsatisfactory.
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I have no choice but to get used to the roar of hundreds or even thousands of breech-loaded naval guns of the Ming Royal Navy. Now I see Lin Feng, a Ming 'official thief' with only twenty breech-loaded naval guns, looking shabby.
Naturally, I am not used to it.
"That's not it. After all, there are so many "retired" brothers in our navy who have joined. I don't know what the Marquis was thinking at the beginning. He can even handle twenty cannons..."
Hearing Deng Zilong's suggestion, Chen Lin couldn't help but nodded in agreement, seriously doubting whether Wang Bing had been infected with the 'stinginess' problem by the little fat man.
Although ordinary sergeants don't know much about Lin Feng, the "official thief" of the Ming Dynasty, as senior generals of the Ming Dynasty Royal Navy, Chen Lin and Deng Zilong naturally know it very well.
What's more, the pirates who serve as the main backbone of Lin Feng's pirate fleet are "retired" soldiers from the Royal Navy.
Therefore, as the ‘old club’, Chen Lin and Deng Zilong naturally would not treat them as outsiders.
"Hey, what's wrong with this guy Lin Feng? He even started a gang fight?"
Just when Chen and Deng were still fighting for more breech-loading naval guns for Lin Feng's "official pirate" fleet, they saw that they were "flying kites" by relying on the fact that the range and accuracy of the artillery were much greater than the British.
The pirate fleet, which was fighting with tactician tactics, now launched a gang-hopping war against the British.
"Haha, don't worry, brother Chao Jue. Didn't you see that the ones who initiated the close combat were also Xiyi ghosts? Besides, how can pirates rob supplies if they don't join gangs to fight?..."
After hearing Chen Lin's doubts and raising his telescope to observe, Deng Zilong couldn't help but feel relieved with a smile on his face.
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"Common people meet the two admirals!"
On the sea dozens of miles away from Plymouth Port, after annihilating and capturing the entire British Royal Navy fleet in one fell swoop, Lin Feng, the 'Pirate King' of the Ming Dynasty, once again set foot on the flagship of the Ming Dynasty Royal Navy, the Zhenhai, without any fear of thieves.
See the official’s consciousness.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has asked you to become your vassal. Brother Lin, please don't be too polite. But brother, we want to congratulate you in advance, hahahaha!"
Seeing Lin Feng kneeling on one knee with military salute, Chen Lin quickly reached out and pulled him up.
There was no way, even though Lin Feng was known as a pirate, he was secretly supported by Ming Dynasty officials.
What's more, although Lin Wan'er has no title, she will soon be Wang Bing's child's mother. And with Wang Bing, the first Ming Dynasty military general, as his de facto son-in-law, as long as he wears Ming Dynasty official clothes, he will become Wang Bing's son-in-law.
Who can not give him some face as a 'pirate'?
"Uh, happy? I wonder where the 'happy' you two adults mentioned comes from?"
Hearing Chen Lin and Deng Zilong's congratulations, Lin Feng, who had just stood up, couldn't help but feel confused.
"Haha, Brother Lin came back at the right time. In two months, the Marquis will have another son and a daughter, and you will also be a grandfather. Do you think this is a happy event?"
With Lin Feng's confused expression, Chen Lin casually told Lin Wan'er that she was about to give birth.
"Ah? This... this, didn't the Marquis say before..."
Hearing that Wang Bing, who had not made a clear statement when he "led" the pirates before, now actually made his daughter pregnant, Lin Feng, the "Pirate King", was overjoyed, but at the same time he couldn't help but become more confused.
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"Brother Lin, this matter is not something we can know. If you want to know the reason, you have to ask the Marquis yourself, hahahaha!"
"Hehe, you two elders...my brother is right, we have to go see the Marquis. But, I am just a brother..."
Chapter completed!