That's not Spanish.

On the contrary, the Spaniards wanted the head of the leader of this fleet.

In the early morning, the fine drizzle stopped, and the sailors on the Jindeer were working hard to wipe the water stains left on the deck last night. The commander walked into the captain's room in a calm expression and reported that the cargo value obtained by snatching the three enemy ships last night.

It was a huge fortune, but it was common for them. No local bun would look unexpected.

Captain Frances Drake sat and stared at the thick dark circles, sat on the captain's chair with a pipe in his arms, squinted his eyes and carefully wiped a beautifully shaped black upper body armor.

There was a small pit at the chest of the plate armor. The lead flew out of the Spanish ship window during the battle last night hit him. He didn't even feel it at that time. It was only when he found out in the morning that Drake was blown into a cold sweat.

Drake was not special when he was a teenager. His father was a devout Protestant. Later, he served as a temporary pastor to supervise shipbuilding staff and sailors. Drake, when he was a teenager, traveled on the ship along the coast of France and the Netherlands to learn about maritime affairs.

At the age of seventeen, he became the captain of a small coastal sailboat. He heard that his distant relative John Hawkins made huge profits from the triangle trade and sold his own ship to join the fleet to start a new life.

His fame began with a failure. Their fleet was attacked by the Spanish in the second year of Longqing and was almost wiped out. After that, he and his cousin Hawkins began to launch endless attacks and plunders on the West Indies and Central and South American colonies controlled by the Spanish.

This is his new journey, starting last summer in Portsmouth, London. Drake, who had a vengeance permit issued by Elizabeth I, led five small Garen ships to attack the West Indies and then headed south to the east coast of South America.

After being robbed, the Spanish treasure fleet mobilized a large number of ships to form an encirclement, blocking its retreat from the West Indies, blocking the narrow Strait of Magellan to the south, forcing him to continue sailing south and bypassing Tierra Tierra.

Before Drake's outrage, people thought that Tierra Tierra connected the legendary southern continent until he discovered that there was a vast strait leading to the Chinese Sea at the end of South America.

For the Englishmen of this era, the vast Pacific Ocean to the west is called the Sea of ​​China.

His fleet was separated after bypassing Tierra Tierra, leaving only the flagship Pelicans. In order to repay the sponsor Sir Haydn, the name of the ship was changed to Sir Haydn's shield Golden Deer.

Drake, who bypassed the Strait of Magellan and drove into the Spanish back garden, was very happy. Most of the ships here were armed merchant ships or merchant ships. Even if they encountered warships, they were only five or six hundred tons of Galen ships, and there was no behemoths of more than a thousand tons in the West Indies.

Although the Golden Deer only has 150 tons, it has sixteen side cannons, and cooperates with its unique sidestring attack to fight against armed commercial Garen ships below 1,000 tons.

Now, in the past month, his fleet has become five more ships. In addition to the Golden Deer, there are four Spanish ships ranging from 150 to 300 tons. Most of the sailors on the ship are liberated from the Spanish colonies on the coast.

He wanted to take the whole way, and first go to the end of the northern America to take a look. If there is no route there, he would have to complete the global voyage west and return to England.

In his impression, the Chinese Sea faces westward, and as long as you don’t go to the coast of the Ming Dynasty, no one can be an enemy of this route.

Of course, this is just the old almanac he knows.

Drake sailed northward, exploring the way forward with the light British Garen Golden Deer. Four Western Garen ships loaded with trophy were arrested and transported the cargo. They walked nearly 150 miles overnight at a speed of nearly four knots. On the way, they also used ship guns to bombard a small Spanish merchant station along the coast.

Shao Tingda slowly followed his butt on the Roche, dragging it for three or five miles at night, and then he was ten miles away at dawn, and he followed this strange fleet leisurely to the north.

He had already realized that the fleet was not part of Spain, and all the Spanish ships he had seen flew red fork flags on the sails, and the ship flew a cross flag, which looked a bit like the Portuguese flag but was just similar.

No matter who it is, Shao Tingda is happy to see a shit stick coming to this sea area to attack the Spaniards, especially when the shit stick looks very good.

Drake is really good at fighting.

With the help of agarwood telescope, Shao Tingda clearly saw that when approaching the port of San Jose, Guatemala, the cross ship cleared the two captured sailboats, some of the cargo was brought onto the ship, and some of the cargo was simply thrown directly into the sea. Several sailors boarded the ship with torches, and drove toward the ports of the Spaniards docked in dozens of merchant ships.

The Golden Deer followed closely, and the two ships were probably spread onto the port, and the two ships were burning with gunpowder. The sailor jumped into the sea and was picked up by the Golden Deer. Then he continued to sail north without looking back.

Shao Tingda, who salvaged more than 60 boxes of soaked cotton cloth, tobacco and some rum, looked at the port where the sky was filled with smoke and said to his adjutant: "This man is not a simple Japanese pirate, he should have a grudge against the Westerners, and he suffers in the front."

This Red Cross ship was a very novel thing for the Ming army. In the South Ocean, it is rare to see such people who dare to ride a warship so rampant on the sea, whether it is a merchant ship or a harbor, dare to attack everyone.

This is the case.

As early as fifty years ago, the Portuguese were like this in Guangzhou at the beginning. Since they were beaten up by Wang Wei, they have calmed down in the Ming Dynasty.

As for the pirates in the Ming Dynasty, it was not this kind of temperament.

The pirates here are like mavericks. They are targeting merchants, but they are so confused that they dare to attack the navy.

The pirates in the Ming Dynasty were more like maritime princes, not only with differences in thought, but also with differences in environment.

Shao Tingda gained great joy from his peeping, and was never discovered by the Golden Deer. It was not until the confrontation between the Ming army and New Spain that he drove the ship at full speed at night and advanced beyond the backward Western Galen ship, and asked his subordinates to shoot a letter written in Spanish on the other party's mast with bows and arrows.

"Walking forward, there are warships gathered by the Spanish, and there is a port in the northwest that allows you to dock."

The port on the letter was the Ming army's camp on the Dividing Peninsula. After Shao Tingda released the letter, he no longer cared about the fleet and drove the ship all the way back to the port.
Chapter completed!