The Rise of the European Emperor

After that, the Portuguese fleet, which had 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 Ming Dynasty, the Portuguese had a full meal. Ricardo was overjoyed to see the porcelain and silk in the boat.

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

After the fleet arrived in Guangzhou, Ricardo first represented the Kingdom of Portugal, requesting the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Ming Empire and obtaining the qualifications for normal trade.

However, as Kong Tai said, the Ming Empire simply did not accept establishing diplomatic relations with people on an equal footing. The Guangzhou Bureau of Shipping directly regarded the Portuguese as ordinary Fanyi and asked them to apply for tribute qualifications according to the normal tribute process. Moreover, Ricardo, the Portuguese foreign minister, was required to learn the etiquette of three prostrations and nine prostrations, so as not to lose his manners in front of the emperor in the future.

Ricardo was immediately enraged. He was the foreign minister of the Kingdom of Portugal, not an ordinary envoy. This time he went out in person, and was actually humiliated by a small official of the Ming Empire's Guangzhou Municipal Bureau...

Then, the angry Ricardo returned to the ship, took 22 warships, and attacked Guangzhou Port...

The Ming army in Guangzhou Port was also flustered at the beginning, but the Ming army were people who had seen the world and were no strangers to guns. When Guangzhou Guard's artillery was brought up, the two sides launched shelling.

However, Portugal has 22 warships with a lot of artillery on them, and the artillery of Guangzhou Wei was repelled...

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

Although there are not many guard cavalry in Guangzhou, and the horses are short southern horses. However, cavalry is cavalry, and it is light cavalry that is more flexible than knights. More than a thousand Portuguese sailors who boarded the land were slaughtered immediately, and more than 600 sailors were hacked to death...

It's also bad luck for the Portuguese. The weapons of the Portuguese sailors are either matchlock guns or sailor machetes. Can machete sailors fight against cavalry? Not to mention the musketeers, before the bayonets were installed, the musketeers would kill the cavalry in front of them...

Fortunately, the Portuguese musketeers fought hard and knocked out more than a hundred Ming cavalry. The general of Guangzhou Guard felt that the loss was too great, so he ordered to retreat. After all, southern cavalry is rare, and all of them are treasures, and they cannot afford to lose them.

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After escaping back, Ricardo felt as if he was a concubine, thinking that he had messed up the matter this time.

In desperation, he had no choice but to let the fleet retreat to the mouth of the Pearl River and start acting as a guest pirate.

Needless to say, two Siamese tribute trade ships were unfortunately caught and then robbed...

Seeing that he had three merchant ships full of silk and porcelain in his hand, Ricardo finally heaved a sigh of relief. Although thousands of sailors were lost, they could finally have an explanation when they returned home with these three ships of silk and porcelain. Otherwise, his position as foreign minister will not be guaranteed...

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

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Not to mention the setbacks suffered by Portugal in the Far East, but the Portuguese transferred the warships in the Spanish-Portuguese Union and the fleet away, which also had a major impact on the balance of power in the Indian Ocean. The most direct impact is that there were only 15 ships left in the original 27 warships of the Spanish-Portuguese Union and Fleet. Only one is a Portuguese warship, and the remaining 14 are Spanish warships...

When the main force of the Portuguese fleet left and went to Malacca and Guangzhou, the Egyptian fleet just 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 joint fleet of more than 2,000 warships, 20 warships came from the Republic of Venice. It's just that after they were reassembled in the Red Sea area, they all hoisted the yellow crescent flag of the Mamluk dynasty. But in fact, the captains and main sailors on these 20 battleships, including the gunners, were all Venetian sailors. Only the oarsmen were supplied by the Ottoman Empire as Russian slaves bought from the Crimea...

and,

Among the 20 warships of the Venetians, 10 are new warships equipped with artillery. In this naval battle, the Venetians came to test the effect of the new tactics.

Although Marin bragged about artillery battles at sea, the Venetian conservatives were still unwilling to believe in the role of artillery. In desperation, the Republic of Venice had no choice but to send the same number of two types of warships, hoping to observe the results through specific naval battles.

At the beginning of 1509, more than 200 large and small warships in the Egyptian-Indian joint fleet that completed the alliance left Diu in mighty force and rushed to Calicut, the home port of the Spanish-Portuguese Union and the fleet.

However, although the combined Egyptian and Indian fleet has more than 200 warships, the real big ships are only 20 warships provided by the Venetians. The rest are mostly small dhows. These small dhows are full of Indian archers and scimitar sailors...

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At the port of Calicut, the Spanish Portuguese Union and the fleet saw more than 200 warships rushing towards them, and they were frightened at first. Combined Fleet Commander Da Costa ordered the fleet to flee the port of Calicut...

At this time, serious disagreements arose within the joint Egyptian-Indian fleet. Ali, the representative of the Egyptian Mamluk dynasty, believed that the Spanish and Portuguese fleet should be pursued and destroyed.

However, the Indian princes such as the prince of Diu believed that the destruction of the Spanish-Portuguese fleet should be done, but it could be delayed. For example, the most important thing right now is to sack Calicut, an extremely wealthy port city...

In the end, the opinions of the Indian princes who accounted for the majority prevailed, and the Egyptian fleet had to follow them to attack the city of Calicut in order to loot the richest trading port city in India...

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On the sea, Da Costa, commander-in-chief of the Spanish-Portuguese fleet, who was leading the fleet to flee at this time, realized that if the ally of Calicut was lost, Spain's trade interests in India would be terminated in the future. And the spice trade is so profitable, if you lose the Indian spice trade, it is estimated that His Majesty the King will skin him alive...

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

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When the Spanish-Portuguese fleet returned to the port of Calicut, the sailors of the joint Egyptian-Indian fleet were busy attacking the city of Calicut...

At this time, most of the Egyptian and Indian warships in the port were empty. Da Costa took the opportunity to order the fleet to approach, and then let the gunners approach and shoot at a very close range...

"boom boom boom"

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

At this time, the officers and soldiers of the Egypt-India joint fleet reacted. They abandoned the siege of Calicut and returned to their ships. But at this time, they have lost more than 20 small boats...

The two fleet commanders sent by Venice, Giglioni and Pinamonti, immediately ordered the Venetian sailors and artillery to return to the ship, preparing for a desperate contest with the Spanish fleet.

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

However, if they have played the online games of later generations, they will know that there is something called a pig teammate...

Although two ships were lost, the 18 Venetian warships were still a force to be reckoned with. At least, not much worse than the Spanish fleet.

However, those idiots of the fleet of Indian princes who were eager for revenge, the small dhows that only know how to do, rushed to the front one after another, trying to surround and besiege 14 Spanish warships and 1 Portuguese warship...

Pinamonti and Giglioni looked at each other, but they couldn't say anything at this moment. Seeing that the Indian warships were charging ahead, they had no choice but to follow behind. Moreover, Pinamonti's 10 warships are inconvenient to fire because the ships in front are all allied ships...

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

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

However, the Spanish sailors were not stupid. When the Indian sailors who threw out the grapples began to climb the ship, the Spanish ship stretched out a matchlock gun and knocked the Indian sailors who climbed the ship into the sea. Moreover, lead bullets hit the body, causing huge wounds, and the smell of blood after falling into the water is too strong to attract sharks. Anyway, the possibility of surviving is very small...

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

Of course, the grenade thrown by the Spanish sailors was not the powerful grenade of later generations, but a wood turtle grenade filled with black powder powder. Its fuze is not a cable, but an ordinary ignited fuse...

This kind of wood turtle grenade, thrown into the crowd, probably hurts people, and it is difficult to kill anyone on the spot.

But, after all, it was gunpowder. Throw it on a wooden boat, it is easy to catch fire...

Then, the Indian boats surrounding the Spanish warship were burned a lot...

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After losing many small boats, the Indians finally gave up, and their small dhows receded like the tide. Moreover, it also blocked the way of 18 Venetian warships. In the end, the Venetian ship was stuck in the middle and couldn't get out...

Seeing this, Da Costa, the commander-in-chief of the Spanish-Portuguese fleet, immediately ordered the fleet to line up and concentrated on the Venetian galleys trapped by Indian boats...

And the unlucky Venetian fleet was overwhelmed by Indian boats, unable to form a formation at all...

In this way, the Venetian warships were bombarded and sank several more...

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

Then, Giglioni bravely ordered the remaining five old-fashioned galleys to rush to the Spanish fleet, preparing to fight with it. And Pinamonti led the birth of 7 modified gunboats, went around to the side and bombarded the Spanish fleet...

But the Spanish fleet has the advantage after all, and it is more maneuverable in the windy Indian Ocean...

After avoiding the fatal impact of Giglioni's 5 galleys, the Spanish fleet began to fan out and bombarded the 5 Venetian galleys that rushed in.

Eventually, after losing three more ships, Giglioni withdrew with his remaining two ships. Then, Pinamonti's 7 gunboats, because of their weakness, were finally defeated and fled in the mutual shooting, and three of them were sunk...

But the Spaniards were also having a hard time, because they were attacked by the Venetian gunboat and sank two warships, seriously injuring one...

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