On the dusk of 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 bathtub and involved almost all the major separatist forces and navies of various countries in the Mediterranean was finally regarded as A winner was barely determined.
The commander-in-chief of the Ottoman Navy, Hedem Afmedo Pasha, and his North African ally, the pirate king Barbarossa Fasil Hayreddin, sank the last ship they had surrounded and blocked. After the large Spanish Galleon-type military ship captured dozens of Spanish sailors, the Pasha had no choice but to order and take the remaining dozen or so ships in the formation to retreat in despair.
As for the scattered ships, they couldn't take care of them for the time being, because a Spanish fleet appeared on the horizon in the distance, and they had to leave.
At this time, far away on the horizon of the sea, I saw Pasha's warship slowly turning towards the retreating Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish Armada, Admiral of the Spanish Navy, Pedro de Barrudis, and more than twenty men led by him. The warships did not choose to pursue them, but turned a blind eye and allowed the remaining enemy ships to turn and escape eastward.
The Pasha army's active retreat was equivalent to officially declaring that the Spanish Armada had won the final victory in this Mediterranean naval battle.
But actually...
In this battle, both sides suffered extremely heavy losses. It is estimated that less than a third of the nearly a thousand warships and various armed ships on both sides were not burned or sunk and were able to return home in the end.
Moreover, even the remaining ones are almost all damaged to 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 Ottoman Empire's Pasha and his pirate coalition failed, they did not seem to lose more than the loss of ships.
The same goes for Spanish Navy Commander-in-Chief Baroudis.
In addition to gaining 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 in vain. It's just about losing one's own strength.
As for suppressing the heretics in the Ottoman Empire, it is exactly the same as before the war!
Because, before the war, those pagan and pagan fleets and merchant ships had been suppressed by the Invincible Fleet in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. They could not really escape from the Mediterranean and exert maritime hegemony over the Kingdom of Spain and overseas. The colony posed no threat at all, but now it is just continuing to maintain the original status quo.
"Did you run away?"
"It seems that this war is finally coming to an end..."
"go!"
"Send the order, the Ottomans have escaped, now send half of the ships in our fleet, collect our ships in the Tyrrhenian Sea, treat the fallen soldiers and all the enemies seen by the prisoners! "
"After gathering it, you can go to Napoli to supply supplies and repair ships..."
"Remember, let the captains whose ships are relatively intact go and tell them that although we have won, there may still be remaining enemy ships resisting nearby, so they must not be careless!"
Seeing the flagships and ships of those damn infidels of the Ottoman Empire completely disappearing on the eastern sea level, Baroudis, who was very tired both mentally and physically, headed towards those whose situation was not much better than him. The officers ordered.
"yes!"
"yes!!"
The two officers responded and ran directly to deliver the order.
Soon, more than ten relatively intact large warships in the Spanish fleet of more than twenty warships were grouped in twos, leaving the queue of Baroudis' flagship and heading towards the Tyrrhenian Sea. Wandering in different directions, they began to carry out the order of their commander-in-chief.
"correct!"
"Where are those Orientals?"
"Have you received any latest information about them?"
Finally, after he breathed a sigh of relief and no longer had to worry about those damn pagans and pirates, Barudis turned to ask about something he was more concerned about.
"Report!"
"We haven't received any news about those Eastern ships so far!"
"but……"
"Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, shortly after the battle began, a ship reported that the Easterners voluntarily left the battle and went north."
"We had several ships to chase, but then there was no news..."
An adjutant behind Barudis recalled it and looked through the paperwork he carried with him. He didn't find any more information about the Eastern ships, so he could only continue what he knew. Reported again.
"North?"
"..."
"!!"
"not good!"
"Quick, we can't continue to gather the ships, and we won't go to the Port of Naples in Italy. We will go directly back to the Strait of Gibraltar!"
After pondering for a while, Baroudis, who originally had a relaxed and slightly lonely expression, didn't know what he was thinking of. Suddenly his face changed drastically, and then he hurriedly changed the order he had just issued not long ago.
"??"
"Sir, do you have any questions?"
Seeing the commander-in-chief's appearance, the Spanish squadron admiral Garosa asked a little strangely.
"I'll tell you later!"
"go!"
"Ask the helmsman to turn, we will return to the Strait of Gibraltar immediately and move forward at full speed, the faster the better!"
Shaking his head with an ugly expression, Barudis did not answer the questions of his confidants, and ignored the other party's doubts, and directly issued the order without any doubt!
"..."
"As you command!"
That Garosha didn't dare to ask any more questions, so he stood at attention and bowed, then ran toward the stern of the ship.
Not long after, after nearly half of the ships were separated, this Spanish fleet, which seemed to be damaged, began to slowly make a large circle on the sea, and then headed towards the exit of the Mediterranean Sea in the west, towards Sailing to the Strait of Gibraltar.
"I hope I can catch up..."
Baroudis is very worried about the situation in the Spanish coastal ports and the Strait of Gibraltar.
Because, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish Armada and the Admiral of the Kingdom of Spain's Navy, he knows the current status of the Kingdom of Spain's Armada better than anyone else.
In fact, the five Armada expeditions against the British starting from Philip II, with nearly 700 warships and tens of thousands of soldiers dispatched, have seriously damaged the maritime strength of the Kingdom of Spain. In addition, The Battle of Downs a few years ago could be said to have completely disgraced the Kingdom of Spain, and it was almost unable to suppress the Netherlands and other places in the north.
Although after several years of development, the Spanish Armada has improved a lot, the battle in the Tyrrhenian Sea has almost wiped out all the reserves of several years!
But the result...
The most important thing is that the ultimate goal of capturing the Oriental ships was not achieved, but instead caused those Orientals to flee to the north. And if those Orientals did some terrible things, such as destroying the Spanish ships along the coast, If the ports are merged, then their invincible fleet is likely to be in ruins, and he, the fleet commander, will have to take the blame and resign!
Therefore, when he thought of all the above possibilities, he only felt worried. He just wanted to return to the Strait of Gibraltar as soon as possible, and then see if, with the fleet left there, he could stop those cunning Easterners from doing that very powerful thing. What might happen?
As for capturing or intercepting the opponent, at this time, he really didn't dare to think too much about it.
…
In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, winter began in the first year of Tianshou.
When the Empress of the Ming Empire came to power, determined the northwest, and began to formally command the world, the continuous naval battles in the Mediterranean finally came to an end.
Now the entire Mediterranean knows that the battle that took place in the Tyrrhenian Sea was fought by the Armada led by the Spanish Navy Admiral Pedro de Barrudis and the armed forces of the great Italian businessman Paolo Centrio. The 'United Fleet' of merchant ships faced off against the Ottoman Empire's Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Hedem Afomedo Pasha, and the North African pirate leader, Barbarossa Fasl Hayreddin Chenterio, the pirate king who dominated the Mediterranean. In the super naval battle led by the 'Black Sea Fleet', the Kingdom of Spain finally won.
However, that was a miserable victory!
Because the Armada itself was sunk or burned and destroyed at least 300 warships, and nearly 30,000 sailors were killed or missing in battle, which can be said to be a great loss in strength!
However, what is even more frightening is that during the three days and two nights of the battle between the two sides, the instigator, the devil admiral from the Ming Empire in the East, led her devil fleet to leave the battlefield and go north to Genoa, and began to sweep the northern coast of the Mediterranean frantically. The major European ports burned down most of the docks, shipyards, warehouses and other important facilities within Spain's sphere of influence, making the powerful Kingdom of Spain and the remaining invincible fleet even worse and filled with grief and anger.
Although the Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish Armada and the Admiral of the Royal Spanish Navy, Pedro de Barrudis, led the remaining fleet to rush behind, but in the end, he still did not make it back to the Strait of Gibraltar in time.
Before he led the remaining fleet to turn back, the large and fast Li family fleet once again reached the Strait of Gibraltar and faced the dozens of warships left behind. Under the confrontation, the Li family fleet successfully destroyed and damaged more than a dozen ships. Behind the ship, he majestically rushed out from the narrowest point of the strait, completely defeating Barudis' plan.
November of the first year of Tianshou is the winter solstice.
Seeing that there was no hope of victory, the Kingdom of Spain, which had been exhausted and suffered heavy losses, finally had to compromise with reality after two months of struggle, and once again went south and captured the Port of Madeira, and the rumors would continue. The Li family fleet of the Ming Dynasty, which then attacked the port of Las Palmas in order to completely block the shipping routes to the New World and Africa, issued a letter of credence for the armistice and sent an envoy for peace talks.
In the end, outsiders have no way of knowing what treaties and agreements the Armada signed with the devil admiral of the Li Family Chamber of Commerce.
But anyway, after this battle, the countries and forces along the Mediterranean suffered heavy losses and were no longer able to dominate the Mediterranean. Even the Invincible Fleet began to officially fall from the altar of maritime hegemony, and no longer had the power to dominate the Mediterranean. The splendor of the ocean.
At this point, the devil admiral Anne Hastur of the Li Family Chamber of Commerce in the Ming Dynasty and her devil fleet finally stopped and no longer tormented the neurasthenic Mediterranean countries.
Soon, the time came to Christmas Eve of the same year...
Lilu Agote, the leader of the private chamber of commerce in the North Sea Netherlands, 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. Anyway, the letter only informed Lilu about Li Huamei's difficult situation and justice in the New World. Plan to investigate related matters in the southern part of the New World.
As for the current whereabouts of the Li Family Chamber of Commerce's first fleet, 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 make trouble in the North Sea and Nordic waters like it did with the Mediterranean. One game.
"That's probably it..."
"Anyway!"
"Our Chamber of Commerce has delivered the ship promised to you. Now you can dispose of it yourself."
"but……"
"As an ally, I still hope to ask you not to go to Beihai to make trouble again. We, the Agote Chamber of Commerce, will try our best to persuade the countries and chambers of commerce in the North Sea to 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 Palace in Madeira, I looked at a little girl sitting in front of me who was sitting on the throne, wiping his face with his oily hands and reading a letter written to him by Li Huamei. Lilu Agot didn't know what it was like to be a devil admiral.
To be honest, it would be absolutely impossible for her not to panic at all!
You know, she almost witnessed with her own eyes how the other party deceived the Ottoman Empire, defeated the pirate king Hayreddin, subdued the Italian Chantelio Chamber of Commerce, and defeated the encirclement and suppression of the Spanish Armada by force, and defeated the Spanish Armada with just five The great achievements of ships dominating the Mediterranean!
Therefore, Lilu Agote and all the forces from various countries in the North Sea and Northern Europe really, really do not want this scary little guy in front of them and the even more terrifying fleet of the opponent to sail to their North Sea to show off their power.
"Are we originally allies?"
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This was the first time that Annie saw the young and beautiful Miss Lilu Agot in front of her. She was about the same age as Song Yifeng, but she was already the leader of a large chamber of commerce.
Therefore, out of curiosity, she couldn't help but scan Li Huamei's letter and the other person's face many times.
"All right!"
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“Then let’s not go to Beihai for the time being!
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Since the other party had an alliance with the Li Family Chamber of Commerce, just like the Woodin Chamber of Commerce in the Persian Gulf, and took the initiative to show goodwill, sending warships, market share, etc., therefore, Anne reluctantly He nodded and agreed.
"Then we will go to the New World tomorrow!"
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Anyway, Annie had no intention of going to Beihai originally, but now that the other party has provided specific clues about Li Huamei's idiots, it would be better for her not to go to Beihai at all, but to go directly to the New World, that is, the Americas.
"Going to the New World tomorrow?"
"But……"
"Isn't it Christmas tomorrow?"
"Are you actually going to sea at this time of Christmas?"
Suddenly hearing Annie say this, Lilu Agot couldn't help but feel a little incredible.
You know, the Agote Chamber of Commerce had to come because they were entrusted by Beihai. They also arrived in Madeira before Christmas and planned to spend Christmas here and wait until after Christmas to make plans.
"why not?"
(ಠ~ಠ)
"What is Christmas, and what does it have to do with the birthday of the guy called God?"
(ˉ▽￣~)Cut~~
Blinking, Anne, knowing what the other party meant, turned her head to the side with disdain.
"ah!"
"I forgot that you are all from the East..."
She was startled for a moment, and then Lilu Agot quickly came to her senses.
Because she remembered that although the little girl in front of her was also European with blond hair and blue eyes, it was said that the other party was not from any country in Europe, but from the East. Therefore, the other party had those black heads. The crew members with black eyes seem to be a group of pagans who do not believe in Protestantism or Catholicism?
For pagans, Christmas Eve and Christmas are just a matter of course and will not be taken seriously.
"That's it!"
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"Leave tomorrow! Go to the New World!!"
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Anne didn't care what the other party thought, she stood up from her seat in the midst of playfulness, then waved a roast turkey leg and made the decision to set sail tomorrow.
After all, what she had just seen said in the letter that Li Huamei and his group of idiots were bullied into hiding by a Spanish governor named Esconte, and were even squeezed to the southernmost part of the New World. Therefore, she, Anne, The Admiral definitely needs to rescue them and give them some trouble.
Of course, there is probably no need to fight this time when we go to the New World, because Spain has surrendered to her. After Governor Esconte of the New World receives the news from the Mediterranean, he will definitely not dare to fight against her or Li Huamei. Hands on.
…
In the winter of the first year of Tianshou, after nearly two months of repairs at Madeira Port, at noon on Christmas Day, the devil admiral of the Li family and her devil fleet finally set off to the New World to find Li Huamei, that Li The final journey of the family business owner.
They did not bring the newly built commercial battleship, nor the Spanish ships or the Jackdaw that they captured, but specifically entrusted Lilu Agote and her Chamber of Commerce to organize the mission on the other side. When carrying out friendly trade fleets from the East, remember to bring back their ships that are parked in Madeira Port.
Of course, they also need to bring along the countless European specialty products that others gave them for free, filling the cabin?
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