(Thanks to book friend Nico for his generous reward for shit for his lifetime. I have a second leader!)

The raindrops fell down finely and hit the porthole, making a sound. Stenson, who was leaning against a slanted couch in the window, closed the book in his hand, pushed open the window in a little annoyedly, and looked outside.

The entire sea surface was hazy, and it seemed that a layer of haze was floating on the sea. The rain hit the water surface, splashing small splashes of water, and then blending into the water surface.

This war was far from as simple as before I set out. The enemy's resistance was beyond Stenson's expectations, and the enemy's strength was far beyond his imagination. Until now, Stenson has understood that the Tiger Dynasty was definitely pitted by Qin Li from the Eastern Continent.

His eyes were looking at the rain outside, but his mind had already returned to more than ten days ago.

In the first naval battle, a large number of warships from both sides encountered at sea. This battle did not make him very worried, although the enemy's combat power also surprised him a little.

As the Grand Duke of Venice, his strength at sea is not comparable to that of Mattus. The warships on both sides seem to be similar in number, but if we really want to deal with combat effectiveness, his navy can completely defeat Mattus. The Grand Duke of Venice's water strength is only slightly worse than His Majesty Dansi's fleet. If he has resources like His Majesty Dansi, he believes that his fleet must be much stronger than now.

There were more than a hundred warships on the opponent, but their combat effectiveness was not uniform. This was the key to his victory in that naval battle. Without even personally participating in the command, he saw the fleet commanded by his own brother Wieskel split the enemy and then ate the opponent one by one.

The warships in Venice are faster than the opponent, and the iron ship wrapped in iron armor is stronger than the opponent. This is a great advantage in naval battles.

The most powerful fleet of the enemy was led by an extremely huge five-layer warship. Most of the warships lost to the Grand Duke of Venice in that battle were caused by this fleet. Their long-range strike power was really terrifying. And they cooperated with the skillful style of fighting, and the style of fighting was obvious at first glance. It was a typical pirate fighting style.

Wieskele was very smart. After realizing that this fleet was the core of the entire Ming people's fleet, he did not bother him because it would cause more losses to the Venetian fleet, avoid the strong and attack the weak, and then concentrate all his forces to encircle and suppress the fleet. The correct way of playing was to play.

However, the enemy was very smart. After losing a small number of warships, they immediately realized the intention of the Venetian fleet. They began to gather the ships and retreated immediately under the impact of this core fleet.

The Grand Duke of Venice stopped Wieskele's intention to pursue. What they had to do now was to land instead of pursuing the fleeing fleet. Tens of thousands of troops were floating on the sea, posing great security risks. If this fleet had a sneak attack or something special to attack the troop transport ship, it would be really hard to defend. When their army got ashore, it would not be too late to find and chase and annihilate the Ming fleet.

But the next attack on Manju Port made the Grand Duke of Venice still feel scared.

The fleet of the shipmen had fled. Logically, the port of Manju had already opened, but when the vanguard fleet of Wieskel approached Manju, the attack they encountered was greatly beyond their expectations.

Several miles away from the port, rows of gray things floated on the sea surface, and there were actually people moving on it. Stenson didn't know what these were. The Ming people's fleet had failed. Do they just want to rely on these messy things to stop themselves from logging in?

But the next scene, Stenson felt that it would become his nightmare for a long time in the future.

Two miles away from the dusty floating platforms, fire was emitted from those floating platforms, and the huge roar made him think that there was thunder in the sky. But when he looked up, the sun was shining brightly in the sky.

The fire light lit up, the smoke rose, and the thunder blew up. Then he saw his warship wrapped in iron armor turn into tofu, torn, broken, and sunk on the sea. Although more of them floated above the sea, a raging fire ignited.

Wieskail launched a more violent attack and organized more warships to launch a rush forward. Countless arson ships and assault ships rushed towards the floating platforms desperately facing the enemy's attack.

But those floating platforms seemed not afraid of fire at all. In the midst of the fire, the thunderous sound was still ringing, and the soldiers on the assault boat finally approached the floating crossbow arrows that were like rain. They rushed up row by row, and were swept into the sea.

Stenson, who watched all this through the telescope, finally changed his face.

Those things floating on the sea are not made of wood at all, otherwise how could such a big fire not burn?

At this time, the two sides, which had been silent, hugging Manzhu Harbor like arms, also burst out with the same violent roar as those floating platforms.

Through the telescope, Stenson could even see the huge fire light coming out from those ridges with loud noises. He saw the fire light flying towards his fleet. At this time, their distance from their fleet was at least five miles.

He thought these attacks could not hit his warship, but reality immediately slapped him hard. Tens of fire lights came to this sea area under his stare, and water droplets soaring into the sky rose one by one. One of them hit one of his warships. Then the warship broke from the middle in a violent explosion for two pieces. In a few blinks, it disappeared from his vision, leaving only a huge vortex, pulling the sailors who had no time to swim into the bottomless bottom of the sea.

Stenson took a breath.

What weapon is this? What exactly is this? God, is that the hammer of Thor's wrath?

Now, the only thing he is glad that the accuracy of those things does not seem to be very good. Every attack seems to be a fool, but as long as he gets missed once, he will lose a warship.

At this time, the Ming fleet that had escaped without a trace revealed their sails on the distant sea.

Stenson decisively ordered a retreat.

Ask the Oriental Qin Li, Fu, who has a detailed map of Pattaya in his hand. Since Manju Port cannot be captured for the moment, he can only choose another location to land. Although that place is a little farther from the Pattaya City and Manju Port he wants to occupy, it is much better than floating on the sea like this.

Wieskel once again drove out the Ming warships, and his army landed smoothly at the second choice point, but Stenson couldn't feel at all because in the telescope, he could see a gray silver line extending to both sides along the rise and fall of the mountain. The Ming people's sun and moon flag flying above reminded him that even if he landed here, it would not be easy to achieve his goal.

The Ming people seemed to have calculated that he could not conquer Manju Port and could only land here, so they had been waiting for it here for a long time.

Now we can only rely on the army.

But Stenson knew very well that since there were such sharp weapons in Manju Port, there would naturally be some here. After landing, the army team was immediately divided into three, and two of them were taking a detour along the coastline to the distance. Stenson was ready to compete with the enemy.

Since it is an enemy, it will never be avoided, and there will be a battle sooner or later. However, he did not rush to attack, but began to use the iron armor on the warship to start building a batch of protective facilities.

The main force is charged to prevent attacking, but it can restrain the enemy on the other side. The two troops surrounding the flank may bring him good news. If they can circumvent the back of this line of defense, then everything will be simple. Stop the enemy's main force, attack the enemy's flank, and then give the enemy a fatal blow from behind. Although it is simple to say, it is not so easy to implement. However, Sentenson has absolute confidence in his subordinates.

The troops under his command followed him for many years, and their courage could not be doubted.

What bothered him now was that there was no news about Danci Headquarters in Manila and Mattus in Yangang Port. He sent a lot of ships to inquire about the news, but without exception, none of these ships could come back.

Have you been destroyed by the enemy? It is possible. Have you lost your way? Of course it is possible.

Stenson felt that he had encountered a tough problem. He now wanted to know more about whether the other two troops had encountered the same experience as him?

He tried to attack the enemy opposite, and sure enough, he encountered the enemy's fierce attack. The weapons that spewed out flames made him see more clearly this time. Seeing the potholes of the iron armor on the recovered ships, some of which were even torn apart, and the severely changed situation, he was completely silent.

What Stenson didn't know was that as his fleet attacked towards Manju Port, a descendant of his family was standing on the roof and watching the battle. Standing beside him was Lei Wei, the president of the Ming Ximanila Company.

Looking at the Venetian fleet that suffered heavy losses, Gaisen burst into tears. Perhaps above the sunken warships, there were his relatives, his friends or people he knew, but at this time he was powerless.

"Mr. Gaisen, do you think you can defeat us?" Lei Wei smiled. He didn't mind showing his complacency at this time.
Chapter completed!