This incident happened on the way, and nothing happened after that, no accidents occurred, and no ships with long eyes came to touch them. The entire fleet marched westward and approached Sicily!

The Spanish-Portuguese joint fleet stationed in the port of Siracusa on the east side of Sicily has received the news from the Southeast Fleet ahead of time. When the Southeast Fleet advances, there are still volunteers in the white skins, and they are notified by the clippers. This news spread to the white skins on the Mediterranean coast, spreading the news everywhere, spreading ten to ten, and spreading quickly to all major seaports.

"A huge Chinese fleet is coming west!" The news suddenly wrinkled a pool of spring water, and they were upset!

In accordance with the agreement with the Ottomans, the Spanish Admiral Lilva Jr. commanded a large fleet from Cartagena port on the west coast of Spain to the port of Cadiz near Gibraltar, the entrance to the Mediterranean, where it met with Portugal. Fleet, and then to

Traveling eastward, we crossed Gibraltar and arrived at the port of Syracuse.

In fact, according to the idea of ​​the fellow Portuguese admiral Jervis, he wanted to wait until the Dutch fleet arrived, and the three-nation combined fleet would move forward together, which would have a huge momentum and a higher chance of winning.

However, Lilva is arrogant and looks down upon the low countries, the Netherlands, especially the Netherlands, which was once ruled by Spain. According to Lilva’s remarks, it is equivalent to: "The low countries will be navy?" It means that the hillbilly will not at all. naval battle.

I did not expect the Dutch to be sea coachmen. The scale of the previous battle with the British was huge, which shocked the whole of Europe!

Little Lierva said confidently: "Don't worry, those Orientals are vulnerable, and watch my 42-pound cannon sink them!"

Little Lilva’s fleet has two three-deck first-class battleships, namely the Immaculate Conception and the Salvador del Mundo, both of which have 112 cannons. The maximum caliber of the artillery is 42 pounds. At that time, Europe was second to none and it was no small thing.

The Portuguese fleet is not as strong as Spain, and Admiral Jervis can't hold back Little Lilva, so the Portuguese fleet has to act together with the Spanish fleet.

After arriving at the port of Siracusa, a white-skinned clipper came with news that the Chinese fleet was heading for Sicily.

The funny thing is little Lilva. This guy invited Jervis to his flagship "The Immaculate Conception" and hesitated: "I heard that the pagans in the East have hundreds of battleships?! And there is also a first-class battleship? "

The classification of battleships in the sailing period was first initiated by the British, with a total of eight levels. Later, the world’s naval powers were promoted. The three artillery decks were first or second class battleships, and the third class battleships had double gun decks. A gun deck is not easy to admit mistakes.

When Jervis heard it, he couldn't help but feel happy.

Thank you for the guy in front of me who was bullish and coaxed before, but now he's persuaded!

No wonder he didn't persuade him. The Spaniards have 36 battleships and the Portuguese have 22 battleships, which together are a little more than half of the battleships of others. How can this battle be fought? !

Instead, after listening to what Jervis had said before, and marching together with the Dutch, the number of Dutch battleships will not be less than 30, and there will be more than 80 to 90 battleships before it can be a battle.

Jervis knew very well what the young Lilva's idea was. He wanted Jervis to admit it, and then Lilva said: "Oh, since the Portuguese Admiral Jervis said that since the enemy is powerful , Then we retreat temporarily, well, we retreat and wait for the Netherlands

Let's talk about it together! "

Yes, I want to put the reputation of retreat on the heads of labor and management. Don't even think about it. I was dependent on you before, but now I can't help you!

In the presence of several senior Spanish and Portuguese naval officers, Jervis said with a serious face: "Oriental people don't know how to fight at sea, not to mention that their number is twice ours, or three or four times, we Europeans can defeat them as well! "

He profusely said: "I think we Portuguese used 4 Karak boats to defeat 180 Indians in the Battle of Kannur. Those Indians and Chinese would never fight at sea! We now have so many. A battleship, defeating them is no problem!"

The Battle of Kannur, which took 5 days in 1501 AD, killed and injured more than 400 people in the 7000 Arab-Indian coalition forces. Five large Arabian ships were destroyed and 12 small ships sank. However, no members of the Portuguese fleet were killed, only a dozen people were injured by shards of ammunition fired by bows and small firearms. The protection of Kannur Port also prompted the latter to resolutely fall to the Lisbon authorities. At the same time, this was also the Asian first show of the modern naval battle line, and the Portuguese became famous.

Hearing Jervis flipping through the old calendar, both Spanish and Portuguese officers were rolling their eyes, very speechless!

When is the time, the Chinese are so powerful that they drove the white skins to Africa to be with the black uncle. Can this Admiral Jervis not see it?

But looking at Jervis's outrageous appearance, it seemed that he was winning, and he didn't take the hundreds of battleships of the Chinese seriously, as if only one shot would be able to blast the opponent's battleships to the bottom of the sea.

Admiral Lierva Jr. tried to steer things in the direction he expected. He pointed out that the Chinese have made great progress in recent years and can build larger, more, and more powerful battleships. We must not take it lightly. Treat it with caution, it's best to wait for the load

The Lan people work together to deal with the Chinese fleet better.

Including the officers of the Portuguese fleet, everyone said yes, but Admiral Jervis was unmoved, he was as if he had eaten a weighing mound, he was determined!

Hearing plausibly said: "This is the first great battle between us Europeans and Orientals close to the mainland of Europe. We must not retreat. The Chinese once said that morale can not be vented. If we retreat, even we If we unite with the Dutch, we may not be able to fight them, so this battle will be fought!"

The admiral fanatically said: "The general must not be timid, the soldiers must not be afraid of death, we will be able to defeat the heretics from the east!"

Everyone thought to themselves: "To defeat your size, it is true that the Chinese artillery is vegetarian. If it is really vegetarian, why is the white skin company in Africa with Uncle Black?"

Anyway, Admiral Jervis was bold and stout, and declared that he wanted to "touch" with the Chinese. When everyone heard the cold sweat, Lilva was unsure.

He repeatedly persuaded Admiral Jervis~lightnovelpub.net~ to propose that our army retreat to Cadiz, where we waited for the Dutch fleet to march together. Admiral Jervis still insisted on fighting, even the Spanish fleet did not cooperate. He, he led the Portuguese fleet to single out the Chinese, letting the world know how powerful I am Portuguese!

The meeting broke up unhappily.

Because of Portugal’s weak power, the Portuguese took a small boat to the Spanish fleet’s flagship for a meeting, and still boarded the small boat to go back. After leaving the Spanish ship some distance, someone on the boat worriedly asked Admiral Jervis: “If The Spanish fleet retreated, are we really going to fight the Chinese?"

Admiral Jervis said nonchalantly: "What to fight, what is there to fight!"

"But didn't you say that even if the Spanish do not participate in the war, we will all fight the Chinese?" someone asked stupidly.

"I want to fight, I will run if I hit, and I will run if I can't hit, can't it?" Admiral Jervis said with a smile!

The people on the boat all laughed!

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