Among the many East India companies established by Western colonists, there is the Danish East India Company that most people will ignore. It was established in 1616, which is quite early, even more than ten years earlier than the Portuguese East India Company. And as early as 162, a small colony was established in Talangambadi on the east coast of the Indian subcontinent. At this time, the Portuguese and British strongholds in India were still on the west coast of the subcontinent. [Read the latest chapter] However, the achievements of the Danish East India Company in the next hundred years were limited to this. Because it participated in the Thirty Years War not long ago and not long after, it suffered disastrous defeats, and then was continuously beaten by the rising Sweden. For nearly half a century, it took away all the Scandinavian territory and its national power gradually declined.
But right now, the Viking genes in Denmark's veins are still running high. Participating in the Thirty Years' War twice and forming a quarrel with the Swedes are the consequences of this irrational behavior. The person currently suffering from Viking disease is Tereldin Wishuj, the captain of a chartered merchant ship "Griffin". Yesterday, he was considering whether to fly the Swedish flag, which was at war with the Holy Roman Empire. However, he felt that it would be bad for his reputation if the news spread, so he simply followed him until he could not see 6 before attacking again. The subtext of this consideration was that he had no intention of leaving anyone alive. Confidence.
No matter what, Weishuyi knew that his ship was much larger than his opponent, and the ships of the northwest European countries were slender, faster and had more deck guns. Even if there was an inexplicable epidemic on the road, , leaving dozens of corpses to feed the sharks, he now has far more sailors who can fight with him than his opponents. However, he did not know that his opponent was a woman, who was not only much younger than him, but also had more confidence in victory. And that woman had a group of employers that Vishuy could never have dreamed of.
After many years of trade contacts, this woman obtained some weapons from those business partners that should not have appeared in this time and space. The Hangzhou had eight 12-pounder cannons: two on the gun deck and two aft of the bottom gun deck. There are 4 guns on the poop gun deck. These guns are all wrought iron guns that Lingao eliminated and sold to friendly and neutral business partners at high prices.
If it weren't for Li Huamei's fan base in the navy, and the fact that she had brought a large amount of much-needed goods to Lingao. After the establishment of the Foreign Intelligence Service, it also provided a large amount of economic and political intelligence on European colonists and local kings in Goa and other places. Only when he was listed as a very useful collaborator did he gain approval from the Planning Institute.
The sea breeze is howling and the sails are hunting. Captain Weisshey's Griffin is moving forward at full speed. Li Meihua has clearly seen the gryphon statue on the bow. With many years of pirate experience, the entire dynamic combat situation diagram will follow. It had clearly appeared in her mind.
"Brothers, light the match!" She drew her sword, "Raise the red flag!"
The battle was short and fierce, but as Li Huamei expected, with her superior firepower, the Griffin's speed advantage did not bring much benefit to Captain Tereldin Wishuy, and the successive shells were fired. Destroyed the Griffin's gunfire and rigging systems. Killing and wounding most of the sailors on the deck.
When Li Huamei led his men to rush onto the deck of the Griffin, slaughtering the Danes like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, chopping melons and vegetables, Captain Wisshuy realized what an inappropriate target he had chosen. The moment Patton's sword came towards him, Captain Weisshey immediately made the most appropriate choice:
He threw his sword on the deck and raised his hands: "I surrender!" he shouted in German - at sea these days. German is a semi-universal language.
The tip of Patton's sword was closed in time - it was still 1 centimeter away from Captain Weisshey's throat.
"Okay, I accept your surrender." The woman said arrogantly, "Now you, your ship and cargo are mine..."
"I am willing to serve you..." Weisshey said dejectedly, with some "black humor". These days, the consequences of failed robberies at sea are tragic: sailors can still change their homes, but they themselves are likely to be swinging on the mast soon.
According to Li Huamei's past temper, a person like Weisshey who dared to take the initiative to rob her ship would have to walk on the gangplank or swing, or at least drag the keel, after being caught. In short, they would not die well. But now somehow her heart began to soften.
The Li sisters are a small pirate gang with only two ships and less than 300 people. Being able to survive in the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean for so long has fully demonstrated their strength, not to mention that Li Huamei now has a little goodwill from the Crossing Group behind her personally.
Regardless of this small kindness, in the past few years, Li Huamei has become more and more aware of the powerful strength shown by this kindness - she has become increasingly inseparable from the Senate.
"If it weren't for the sake of the young lady and sister, I would rather hang out with the Australians." Li Huamei thought to herself. I couldn't help but feel very discouraged when I thought that I was actually working as an undercover agent.
Carrying a machete, she kicked open the door of the captain's cabin and began to search for loot. The most valuable things on any ship were always placed in the captain's cabin, unless it was a Spanish gold ship loaded with tons of gold and silver.
The search was quickly completed, and a bag of gold coins and some gold jewelry were found in the captain's cabin. It was not a lot. There were two small wine barrels locked in the ammunition magazine. After they were opened, they were filled with silver coins, about three to four thousand silver coins. Thaler - In this time and space, European ships go to the East empty and return full, and they usually have to carry a large amount of cash. In addition, many scattered gold and silver coins were also found from the prisoners.
The cargo on board included some leather goods and weapons. There is no market for leather goods in India, and they are mainly re-exported. The weapons are probably given to the Taranga Mbadi colony for its own use, or sold to the local indigenous people. Apart from this, the largest batch of loot is actually people.
First, a European man and several yellow-haired women were escorted out of the hold. He introduced himself as Frederick Wellesley Carlson, a Lutheran pastor, and one of the women was his wife. The others are war widows and orphans taken in by his church and old religious nuns who were "liberated" during the war in Germany. There were originally a dozen, but half died on the road, and now there are only six left. Since the Protestant Church does not have the profession of nuns, and these Old Church nuns and widows and orphans have no other means of living, they will sooner or later become prostitutes. The Copenhagen church where Pastor Carlson belongs decided to let him preach in the colonies and take these women to the colonies to make a living. The so-called livelihood was to marry a local single European colonist.
According to the confessions of other captives on the ship, Captain Tereldin Vishay was willing to take these women with him because he wanted to sell the colony and make a fortune. As for whether they would serve as servants to the governor or as concubines to any prince, that was not his business. Well, anyway, no priest in India would be able to reason with him. Since they are commodities, these women were locked in the cabin along the way and were not violated in any way.
The next people brought up were a group of slaves that Vishay had plundered from the Arab ships robbed from Oman. They were also locked in the bottom cabin. They were both male and female, black and white, and there were more than twenty of them. Those women were basically so ruined that they couldn't even crawl, and the men were no better. Li Huamei knew that Australians had a special interest in white women, and they could probably sell them for a good price. There were probably three or four Arab slaves who could be brought back to Lingao alive, and the rest could only be sold in Ceylon. In addition, your own ships and plundered ships also need to be repaired.
After being completely disarmed and briefly handled, the two ships slowly sailed towards the Galle Port in the southern part of Ceylon Island.
The injured Griffin slowed down a lot and did not arrive near Galle until dawn the next day. The sea was dotted with fishing boats, seagulls chirped and shuttled among the fishing sails, and a large group of flying foxes quietly returned to their nests. Flying silently past the Hangzhou and Griffin.
Galle was a trading colony controlled by the Portuguese in the southwest of Ceylon Island, about 1 km south of Colombo in the old time and space, and right on the coast of the Indian Ocean. The Old City of Galle and its castle are built on a rocky peninsula. This peninsula is a natural harbor. The entrance to the harbor has become extremely intricate due to the presence of a large number of coral reefs.
In the 14th century, Galle was already one of the most active ports on the island of Ceylon. The Portuguese began to settle on the island in 155, and in 157 they established a trading post in Galle and built the small castle of St. Croix.
Li Huamei and Li Siya have both been there countless times, but because they had some fights with the locals last year, they originally wanted to avoid it this time, but now it seems that it is impossible to avoid it.
No one was killed in what happened last time. It can only be settled by spending some money. Repairing the ship also costs money. In addition to the gold and silver he had plundered, he also captured some high-status prisoners who could be sold to the Governor of Galle. The Governor was happy to extort ransom from Taranga Mbadi's Danish counterparts, but it only cost him a little money. time.
The governor did almost nothing in this small colony: the Portuguese were good at occupying colonies, but not good at running them. The hot weather is certainly a problem, but so is the seemingly lazy nature of the inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula. The island of Ceylon was conquered and developed by the Dutch and British, but the Portuguese left no trace. The Galle Fort, which later became a UNESCO cultural heritage, was built by the Dutch after they captured Ceylon, with a construction area of 350,000 square meters. The current Galle Fort is only a city wall built on the northern side of the peninsula near the isthmus and three additional forts built after being threatened by the Dutch in 1625.
However, these three fortresses could only deal with sea attacks based on the technical level at that time. Even in the face of the firepower of the Hangzhou, it couldn't last long. It really couldn't be seen that the Portuguese had been operating here for more than 12 years. To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (qidian) to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Please go to qidiann 9
