Chapter 1549 Q(`⌒′Q) Establishes Hegemony
At dusk on the third day after the Great Battle of the Tyrrhenian Sea, before sunset, this huge epic naval battle that took place in the middle of the Mediterranean basin and involved almost all the major separatist forces and navies of various countries in the Mediterranean was finally regarded as There was barely a winner.
The commander-in-chief of the Ottoman navy, Hedem Aphmedo Pasha, and his North African ally, the pirate king Barbarossa Fasl Hayreddin, sank the last ship that was surrounded and blocked by them. After capturing dozens of Spanish sailors on a large Spanish Garion-type military ship, that Pasha had no choice but to order and take their remaining dozen or so ships that were still in the formation to retreat voluntarily in desperation.
As for the scattered ships, they couldn't take care of them for the time being, because a Spanish fleet appeared in the distant sky, and they had to leave.
At this time, far away on the horizon of the sea level, I saw Bashar's warship slowly turning to the retreating Spanish Armada Commander-in-Chief, Spanish Royal Navy Admiral Pedro de Barudis and more than 20 troops led by him. The warships did not choose to pursue them, but turned a blind eye and let the remaining enemy ships turn and flee eastward.
The voluntary retreat of the Pasha Army is equivalent to officially announcing that the Spanish Armada has won the final victory in the Mediterranean sea battle.
But actually...
In this battle, both parties involved in the war suffered extremely heavy losses. It is estimated that no less than one-third of the nearly thousand warships and various armed ships of both sides were not burned or sunk and returned to the voyage.
Moreover, even the remaining ones are almost all damaged in various degrees and cannot be repaired in a short time. Therefore, it can be said that this is a war without a winner!
Although the Basha of the Ottoman Empire and his pirate coalition failed, they did not seem to have lost more than the loss of ships.
And the same is true for Spain's Navy Commander-in-Chief Barudis.
Except for the title of the so-called final victory in the naval battle, they did not necessarily lose fewer ships than their enemies, and they did not get any practical benefits at all, they were just wasted for nothing. It's just a matter of own strength.
As for suppressing the heretics of the Ottoman Empire, it is completely the same as before the war!
Because, before the war, those pagan and pagan fleets and merchant ships had been suppressed by the Armada in the Mediterranean Sea and the chaotic place in the Black Sea. The colony poses the slightest threat, and now it is just continuing to maintain the original status quo.
"Run away?"
"It appears that
This war is finally coming to an end..."
"go!"
"Order, the Ottomans have fled, now send out half of the ships in our fleet, gather our ships in this Tyrrhenian Sea area, and rescue the soldiers who fell into the water and all the enemies that the captives saw! "
"As for the collection, you can go to Naples to replenish and repair the ship nearby..."
"Remember, let the captains of those relatively intact ships go and tell them that although we have won, there may be remnants of enemy ships nearby to resist, so they must not be careless!"
Seeing the flagships and ships of those damned pagans of the Ottoman Empire completely disappear on the sea level in the east, Barudis, who was exhausted both mentally and physically, turned towards those conditions that were not much better than him. The officers ordered.
"yes!"
"yes!!"
The two officers responded and ran directly to deliver the order.
Soon, more than a dozen relatively intact large warships in the Spanish fleet with more than 20 warships left the queue of the flagship of Barudis in groups of two and headed towards the Tyrrhenian Sea. Cruising away in different directions, they began to execute the order of their commander-in-chief.
"correct!"
"Where are the Orientals?"
"Have you received the latest information on them?"
Finally, relieved that he didn't have to worry about those damned heretics and pirates anymore, Barudis turned to ask about something he was more concerned about.
"Report!"
"I haven't received any news about those Eastern ships!"
"but……"
"Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, shortly after the battle started, some ships reported that the Easterners left the battle and headed north."
"We had several ships chasing after him, but there was no news after that..."
An adjutant behind Barudis recalled it, and looked through the paperwork with him. He didn't find any more information about those Eastern ships, so he could only continue what he knew. Reported again.
"North?"
"..."
"!!"
"not good!"
"Quick, we can't continue to gather ships, and we won't go to the Italian port of Naples anymore, let's go directly back to the Strait of Gibraltar!"
After pondering for a while, Barudis, who had a relaxed expression and a slightly lonely look, suddenly thought of something, and suddenly his face changed drastically, and then hurriedly and loudly changed the order he had just given not long ago.
"??"
"Excuse me, sir?"
Seeing the appearance of the commander-in-chief, Garosa, the admiral of the Spanish squadron, asked a little strangely.
"I'll tell you later!"
"go!"
"Tell the helmsman to turn, we will return to the Strait of Gibraltar immediately, and advance at full speed, the sooner the better!"
Shaking his head with an ugly face, Barudis didn't answer the questions of his confidants, and ignored the doubts of the other party, he directly gave the order without doubt!
"..."
"Obey!"
That Garosa didn't dare to ask more questions, so he stood at attention and saluted, then ran towards the stern of the ship.
Not long after, after nearly half of the ships were separated, the seemingly damaged Spanish fleet also began to slowly make a big circle on the sea, and then exited towards the Mediterranean Sea in the west, heading towards Sailing to the Strait of Gibraltar.
"I hope I can catch up..."
Barudis is very worried about the Spanish coastal ports, as well as the situation in the Strait of Gibraltar.
Because, as the commander-in-chief of the Spanish Armada and the Admiral of the Spanish Kingdom's Navy, he knows the current status of the Spanish Kingdom's Armada better than anyone else.
In fact, the five armada expeditions against the British from Philip II, the huge military force of nearly 700 warships and tens of thousands of soldiers dispatched successively, has seriously depleted the maritime strength of the Kingdom of Spain. The Downs naval battle a few years ago, it can be said that the Kingdom of Spain lost all face, and it was almost impossible to suppress the Netherlands and other places in the north.
Although, after several years of development, Spain's Invincible Fleet has improved a lot, but now the battle in the Tyrrhenian Sea has almost wiped out the reserves for several years!
But the result...
The most important thing is that the ultimate goal of the oriental ships that they want to capture has not been achieved. Instead, those orientals have fled to the north. If those orientals do something terrible, such as destroying Spain along the coast If the port is merged, then their Invincible Fleet is likely to collapse, and he, the fleet commander, has to take the blame and resign!
Therefore, thinking of all the above possibilities, he only felt very worried, and he just wanted to go back to the Strait of Gibraltar quickly, and then see if, with the fleet left there, he could stop those cunning Easterners from doing that very What might happen?
As for capturing or intercepting the other party, at this moment, he really didn't dare to think about it.
...
In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the first year of Tianshou began to winter.
When the empress of the Ming Empire ascended the throne, established the northwest and began to officially command the world, the continuous naval battle in the Mediterranean Sea finally came to an end slowly.
Now the entire Mediterranean Sea knows that what happened in the Tyrrhenian Sea was armed with the Armada led by the Admiral Pedro de Barudis of the Kingdom of Spain and the Italian businessman Paolo Chentriou. The "United Fleet" composed of merchant ships confronted the commander-in-chief of the Ottoman Navy, Hedem Afmedo Pasha, and the leader of the North African pirates, the king of pirates who ruled the Mediterranean, Barbarossa Fasl Hayreddin Chantriou The super sea battle of the 'Black Sea Fleet' led by the leader finally won the victory of the Kingdom of Spain.
However, that was a miserable victory!
Because the Armada itself sank or was burned and destroyed at least 300 warships, and nearly 30,000 sailors were killed or missing, which can be described as a great loss of strength!
However, what is even more frightening is that during the three days and two nights of the war between the two sides, the instigator, the devil admiral from the Ming Empire in the East, led her devil fleet to break away from the battlefield and head north to Genoa, where they frantically swept across the northern coast of the Mediterranean Sea Most of the major European ports that belonged to Spain's sphere of influence burned down most of the important facilities such as piers, shipyards, and warehouses, which made the mighty Kingdom of Spain and the remaining Armada even worse and filled with grief and indignation.
Although the commander-in-chief of the Spanish Armada and the admiral of the Kingdom of Spain, Pedro de Barudis, led the remaining fleet to hurry behind, but in the end, he still did not rush back to the Strait of Gibraltar in time.
Before he led the remnant fleet back, the large and fast Li family fleet hit the Strait of Gibraltar again, and confronted the dozens of warships left behind. Under the confrontation, the Li family fleet successfully destroyed and injured more than a dozen ships After the ship, it rushed out from the narrowest part of the strait in a majestic manner, completely thwarting Barudis' plan.
In November of the first year of Tianshou, the winter solstice.
Seeing that there is no hope of winning, and the Kingdom of Spain, which has been exhausted and suffered heavy losses, after struggling for two months, finally had to compromise with reality, headed south again and captured the Port of Madeira, and the rumors will continue Then hit the port of Las Palmas in order to completely block the shipping lanes to the New World and Africa. The Ming Li fleet issued a letter of credence to the armistice and sent an envoy for peace talks.
In the end, outsiders have no way of knowing what treaty and agreement the Armada Fleet signed with the devil admiral of the Li Family Chamber of Commerce.
But anyway, after this battle, the countries and forces along the Mediterranean Sea have suffered heavy losses, and they are no longer able to dominate the Mediterranean Sea. Even the Armada has officially fallen from the altar of ocean supremacy. The splendor of the ocean.
At this point, the devil admiral Anne Hasta of the Daming Li Family Chamber of Commerce and her devil fleet finally stopped, and they stopped torturing the nervously weakened Mediterranean countries.
Soon, it was Christmas Eve of the same year...
The leader of the private chamber of commerce in the Netherlands in the North Sea, Lilu Agot, personally came to the Port of Madeira, and sent a commercial North Sea battleship and a letter from the New World to the Devil Admiral of the Li Family Fleet before Christmas.
That letter was actually written by Li Huamei to Lilu Agot two months ago. They obviously didn't know what happened here in the Mediterranean Sea. Anyway, the letter only told Lilu about Li Huamei's difficult situation in the New World and the normal situation. Intending to investigate matters related to the southern part of the New World.
As for the current whereabouts of the first fleet of the Li Family Chamber of Commerce, it is temporarily unknown.
At the same time, Lilu Agot also brought relevant commitments from the North Sea countries to open ports and trade agreements to the Li Family Chamber of Commerce, and sincerely hoped that the Li Family Fleet would not go to the North Sea and the Nordic waters to make trouble in the same way as they did to the Mediterranean Sea. one game.
"Probably so..."
"In short!"
"Our chamber of commerce has already delivered the ship promised to you, and now you can dispose of it yourself."
"but……"
"As an ally, I still hope that I can ask you not to go to the North Sea to make troubles. We, the Agot Chamber of Commerce, try our best to persuade the countries and chambers of commerce in the North Sea to let everyone open their ports and a certain share of trade to your Li Family Chamber of Commerce."
"So, please Your Excellency."
Standing in the Governor's Mansion in Madeira, looking at a certain little girl who was sitting on the main seat in front of her, wiping her face with oily little hands while reading the letter written by Li Huamei to herself. Lilu Argot, the girl devil admiral, didn't even know what it was like.
To be honest, it would be absolutely impossible for her not to panic at all!
You know, she almost witnessed the other party's misfortune to the Ottoman Empire during this period of time, defeated the pirate king Hayreddin, subdued the Italian Chentelio Chamber of Commerce, and defeated the encirclement and suppression of the Spanish Armada by force. The feat of a ship dominating the Mediterranean!
Therefore, Lilu Agot, like all the various forces in the North Sea and Northern Europe, did not want this scary little guy in front of them and the even more terrifying fleet of the other side to sail to their North Sea to show off their might.
"We were originally allies?"
(.)
It was the first time for Annie to see this young and beautiful Miss Lilu Agot, about the same age as Song Yifeng, but already the leader of a large chamber of commerce.
So, out of curiosity, she couldn't help but keep looking around Li Huamei's letter and the other person's face many times.
"All right!"
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"Then they won't go to Beihai for the time being!
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Since the other party has an alliance relationship with the Li Family Chamber of Commerce, just like the Woodin Chamber of Commerce in the Persian Gulf, and they took the initiative to show their favor, and they also gave away warships and market shares, so Annie reluctantly He nodded and agreed.
"Then let's go to the New World tomorrow!"
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Anyway, Annie didn't intend to go to Beihai in the first place, but now that the other party provided specific clues about Li Huamei's idiots, she might as well not go to Beihai at all, and go directly to the New World, that is, the Americas would be better.
"Going to the New World tomorrow?"
"But……"
"Isn't Christmas tomorrow?"
"Are you going to sea at this time of Christmas?"
Hearing Anne's words suddenly, Lilu Aggot couldn't help but feel a little inconceivable.
You know, they had no choice but to come to the Argot Chamber of Commerce because they were entrusted by Beihai, and they arrived in Madeira before Christmas, and planned to spend Christmas here, and made plans after Christmas.
"why not?"
(~)
"What is Christmas, and what does it matter that the guy called God has a birthday?"
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Blinking, Annie, who knew what the other party meant, turned her head aside in disdain.
"ah!"
"I forgot that you are all from the East..."
Startled for a moment, Lilu Argot quickly came back to her senses.
Because she remembered, don't look at the little girl in front of her who is also a European with blond hair and blue eyes, but it is said that the other party is not from any European country, but from the east, so the other party and the other party's blackheads Like the black-eyed crew members, they seem to be a group of pagans who don't believe in Protestantism or Catholicism?
For pagans, Christmas Eve and Christmas are taken for granted and they will definitely not take it to heart.
"That's the decision!"
()
"Departure tomorrow! Go to the New World!!"
*. (^▽^*)*.
Annie didn't care what the other party thought. She stood up from her seat amidst the frolicking, waved a roasted turkey leg, and made a decision to set sail tomorrow.
After all, she saw it just now, and the letter said that Li Huamei and the other group of idiots were bullied by a Spanish governor named Esconte, and were forced to hide in Tibet, and they were squeezed to the southernmost part of the New World. Therefore, she, Anne, The admiral must definitely need to save them and make a fuss about it.
Of course, there is no need to fight this time when going to the New World, because Spain has surrendered to her. After the governor of the New World, Esconte, receives the news from the Mediterranean Sea, he will definitely not dare to fight her or Li Huamei again. hands-on.
...
In the winter of the first year of Tianshou, after nearly two months of repairs in the port of Madeira, at noon on Christmas, the devil admiral of the Li family and her devil fleet finally embarked on a journey to the New World to search for Li Huamei, that Li Huamei. The last journey of the owner of the Chamber of Commerce.
They did not bring the newly built commercial battleship, nor did they bring the Spanish ships or the Jackdaw that were captured by them. Instead, they specially entrusted Lilu Agot and her Chamber of Commerce to organize that trip on the other side. When the eastern fleet conducts friendly trade, remember to take their ships back at the port of Madeira together.
Of course, you also have to bring those countless European specialties that are 'free' given to them by others, filling the cabin?
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