Afterwards, the Portuguese fleet, which suffered a great loss, gave up the idea of ​​capturing the city of Malacca and instead plundered several port cities and merchant ships in the Kingdom of Malacca.

Sure enough, by plundering merchant ships, especially the robbery of a merchant ship that had just returned from the Ming Dynasty, the Portuguese had eaten. Looking at the ships full of porcelain and silk, Ricardo was so happy.

Thinking of the prosperous Ming Empire, Ricardo continued to lead the fleet around the Strait of Malacca to head north, intending to go to Guangzhou to explore the situation.

After the fleet arrived in Guangzhou, Ricardo first represented the Kingdom of Portugal and demanded to establish diplomatic relations with the Ming Empire and obtain the qualification for normal trade.

However, as Kong Tai said, the Ming Empire did not accept equal diplomatic relations with people at all. The Guangzhou Maritime Bureau directly regarded the Portuguese as an ordinary barbarian and asked them to apply for tribute qualifications according to the normal tribute process. Moreover, it required Ricardo, the Portuguese foreign minister, to learn the etiquette of three bows and nine bows, so as not to lose the etiquette in the future.

Ricardo was immediately angry. He was a foreign minister of the Kingdom of Portugal and was not an ordinary envoy. This time he took action himself and was humiliated by a small official in the Guangzhou Maritime Department of the Ming Empire...

So, the angry Ricardo returned to the ship and launched an attack on Guangzhou Port with 22 warships...

The Ming army in Guangzhou Port was also very panicked at first, but the Ming army was all people who had seen the world and were no stranger to guns and cannons. When the artillery of the Guangzhou Guard was transferred, both sides launched artillery bombardment.

However, there were 22 warships in Portugal, with many artillery guns on it, and the artillery soldiers of Guangzhou Guards were repelled...

But when the Portuguese sailors launched a ground attack, they were immediately attacked on a large scale - the Guangzhou guards dispatched 300 cavalry to charge against the Portuguese sailors...

Although there were not many cavalry in Guangzhou, and the horses were short southern horses. However, the cavalry was a cavalry, and it was a light cavalry more flexible than the knights. More than a thousand Portuguese sailors who landed were immediately massacred, and more than 600 sailors were chopped and killed...

It is also the Portuguese who are unlucky. The weapons of the Portuguese sailors are either the combs, the machetes or the sailors. Can the scimitars fight against the cavalry? Not to mention the musketeers, before the bayonet is installed, the musketeers give their heads in front of the cavalry...

Fortunately, the Portuguese musketeers fought hard to kill more than 100 Ming cavalry. The generals of Guangzhou Guards felt that the losses were too great and ordered the retreat. After all, southern cavalry were rare, and they were all treasures and could not afford to lose.

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After escaping back, Ricardo felt like he had lost his parents and felt that he had done something wrong this time.

In desperation, he had to let the fleet retreat to the estuary of the Pearl River and began to play a guest role in pirates.

It's true that two Siamese tribute trade ships were unfortunately caught and then robbed of them...

Seeing that there were three merchant ships full of silk and porcelain in his hand, Ricardo finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although he had lost thousands of sailors, he could finally have an explanation when he returned to his country with these three ships of silk and porcelain. Otherwise, his position as a foreign minister would be unsecured...

In this way, the Portuguese fleet returned with endless depression...

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Not to mention the setbacks that Portugal suffered in the Far East, the Portuguese transferred the warships in the Spanish-Portuguese United and the fleet, which also had a significant impact on the comparison of forces in the Indian Ocean. The most direct impact was that the Spanish-Portuguese United and the fleet, which originally had 27 warships, had only 15 left, only one of them was the Portuguese warships, and the other 14 were the Spanish-Portuguese warships...

When the main force of the Portuguese fleet left and went to Malacca and Guangzhou, the Egyptian fleet arrived in Diu, India and joined the combined fleet of the Indian princes...

Of course, this is not important. The most important thing is that in this combined fleet of more than 2,000 warships, there were 20 warships from the Venetian Republic. However, after they were reassembled in the Red Sea region, they all flew the yellow crescent flag of the Mamluk Dynasty. But in fact, the captains and main sailors on these 20 warships, including gunners, were Venetian sailors. Only the paddlers were Ross slaves purchased from Crimea provided by the Ottoman Empire...

Moreover, among the 20 warships of the Venetians, 10 were new warships equipped with artillery. In this naval battle, the Venetians came to test the effects of the new tactics.

Although Marin made the naval artillery battle magical, the Venetian conservatives were still unwilling to believe in the role of artillery. In desperation, the Venetian Republic had to send the same number of two types of warships, hoping to observe the results through specific naval battles.

In early 1509, the Egyptian-Indian Combined Fleet, which completed the alliance, had more than 200 large and small warships, leaving Diu in a mighty manner, and rushed towards the Spanish-Portuguese Union and the fleet's home port of Kalikat.

However, although the Egyptian-Indian joint fleet had more than 200 warships, the real large ships were only 20 warships provided by the Venetians. The rest were mostly small sloop Arabian spinning boats. These small sloop Arabian spinning boats were loaded with Indian archers and scimitar sailors...

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The Spanish-Portugal United and the fleet at the Port of Calicat were scared at first when they saw more than 200 warships rushing over. Da Costa, the commander-in-chief of the joint fleet, ordered the fleet to escape from Port of Calicat...

At this time, serious differences occurred within the Egyptian-Indian joint fleet. Ali, the representative of the Mamluk dynasty in Egypt, believed that the Spanish-Portugal fleet should be pursued and eliminated.

However, the Indian princes and other Indian princes believed that it was appropriate to destroy the Western Portuguese fleet, but they could slow it down. For example, the most important thing at present is to loot Kalikat, an extremely wealthy port city...

In the end, the majority-manned Indian princes had the upper hand, and the Egyptian fleet had to follow them to attack Kalikat City to loot the richest trading port city in India...

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On the sea, Da Costa, the commander-in-chief of the Spanish-Portugal fleet, who was leading the fleet to flee, reacted that if he lost Calicat, his ally, Spain's trade interests in India would be considered to be terminated in the future. If the spice trade is so profitable and the spice trade in India is lost, his Majesty the King will probably peel him alive...

Thinking of this, Dacosta gritted his teeth and ordered the fleet to stop escaping, but turned back to fight...

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When the Spanish-Portugal fleet returned to the Port of Kalikat, the sailors of the Egyptian-Indian joint fleet were busy attacking Kalikat City...

At this time, most of the Egyptian and Indian warships in the port were left unattended. Dacosta took the opportunity to order the fleet to approach, and then let the gunners approach and shoot at a very close distance...

"Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom-"

After a burst of cannons, many poor-quality Indian warships sank. As for the Venetian warships, two were also injured...

At this time, the officers and soldiers of the Egyptian-Indian joint fleet reacted. They abandoned the siege of Kalikat and returned to the ship. But at this time, they had lost more than twenty small boats...

The two fleet commanders sent by Venice, Gillioni and Pinamonti, immediately ordered the Venetian sailors and artillerymen to return to the ship and prepare to fight the Spanish fleet to a desperate battle.

Especially Pinamonti's 10 gunboats, they plan to compete with the Spaniards...

However, if they played online games in later generations, they would know that there was something called teammates of pigs...

Although two ships were lost, the 18 warships of the Venetians were still a force that could not be ignored. At least, it was not much worse than the Spanish fleet.

However, the idiots in the Indian prince fleet who were eager to revenge only knew about small sloop Arab spinning boats, rushing in front, trying to surround and siege 14 warships and 1 Portuguese warships in Spain...

Pinamonti and Gilioni looked at each other, but they couldn't say anything at this time. Seeing that the Indian warships were charging forward, they had to follow behind. Moreover, Pinamonti's 10 warships were all from allies in front of them, so it was not convenient to fire the gun...

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However, when the Indian warship surrounded the Spanish warship in front, it was embarrassing to find that the other party's Clark sailing ship was so high that it was inconvenient to climb...

Of course, some skilled sailors began to swing the grapple hook, intending to hook the Spanish warship and then climb up to chop people...

However, Spanish sailors are not stupid. When the Indian sailor who threw out the grapple hook started climbing the boat, the Spanish ship stretched out a mesh gun and directly knocked the Indian sailor who climbed the boat into the sea. Moreover, the lead bullet hit the body, which made the wound huge, and the smell of blood after falling into the water can easily attract sharks. Anyway, the possibility of survival is very small...

This is not the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing is that the Spanish sailors actually threw grenades at Indian boats...

Of course, the grenades thrown by the Spanish sailors were not powerful grenades like later generations, but domestic grenades filled with black gunpowder powder. The fuses were not ropes, but ordinary ignition fuses...

If this kind of rustic grenade is thrown into the crowd, it will probably hurt people, and it will be difficult to kill anyone on the spot.

But, no matter what, this is also gunpowder. Throwing it on a wooden boat will easily cause fire...

Then, many Indian boats surrounding the Spanish warships were burned...

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After losing many small boats, the Indians finally became timid, and their small spinning boats retreated like a tide. Moreover, they blocked the road of 18 Venetian warships. In the end, the Venetian ships were stuck in the middle and could not get out...

When Da Costa, the commander-in-chief of the Western Portuguese fleet, saw this, immediately ordered the fleet to line up and focus on the Venetian galleys trapped by Indian boats and bombarded...

The unlucky Venetian fleet was squeezed into pieces by Indian boats and could not be arranged in a formation at all...

In this way, several Venetian warships were sunk...

When the Venetian ships finally got rid of the blockage of Indian boats, they found that there were only 12 ships left...

Then, Gilioni bravely ordered the remaining five old-fashioned galleys to rush towards the Spanish fleet to prepare for a battle with them. Pinamonti led the seven modified gunboats that had been born, and went around to the side to fight against the Spanish fleet...

But the Spanish fleet finally had the advantage and was more mobile in the windy Indian Ocean...

After avoiding the desperate attack of Gillioni's five galleys, the Spanish fleet began to form a fan formation and thrust around the five Venetian galleys that rushed in.

In the end, after losing three more ships, Gillioni retreated with the remaining two ships. Then, Pinamonti's seven gunboats, because of their weak strength, eventually lost and fled while shooting, and were sunk three...
Chapter completed!