Chapter 864 Tulip In order to survive, in order to save his own life, Redbeard threw the pride and dignity of his Arab warrior into the Indian Ocean as a discipline."
Ahmai, what kind of weapon did you say those guys were using?
Why is it so powerful?
”Redbeard was very confused, he didn't know what the other party in front of him was, it was so well-equipped, almost all of the ships were new ships that were less than five years old.In the era of sailboats, the service life of warships was very long, unlike the engine iterations of later generations that were updated very quickly.The British sail battleship Sea Monarch was used continuously for more than 60 years until it was sunk by the French Navy in the waters of Chatha.Redbeard has not experienced defeat, but he has not experienced such a defeat, and now, he has been almost wiped out, and he doesn't know who his opponent is.Ahmad was equally confused: "I don't know!
I haven't heard of the existence of such weapons, the Europeans don't have it, the Japanese don't have it, the Indians don't have it, the Chinese don't have it, why do these guys have it?
”The fierce flame in the redbeard's eyes flashed: "We planted it, we planted it completely, and we were beaten up by others but we didn't even know where the other party was, I was so aggrieved, I was so aggrieved!"
”Just when the two flying fish, one right and one left, clamped the Black Pearl battleship, ready to jump to capture Redbeard alive, a sad horn sounded on the sea, the horn was desolate and gloomy, and the heart palpitated.The Exocet warship, which was patrolling the outer area behind the Lingtong, immediately noticed the appearance of small boats in the distance, which were at best equivalent to the most common hundred-stone boats on the Grand Canal.As the name suggests, the 100-stone ship refers to the carrying capacity of about 100 stones, not more than 150 stones, the carrying capacity of this kind of ship is extremely limited, however, the draft is also shallow, usually in the shallow water area of 80 centimeters to 1 meter, that is, the load of about 10 tons of small boats.Of course, the small boats that appear on the sea are different from the hundred-stone boats running around on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, most of the hundred-stone boats are canopy boats or flat-bottomed boats, but this kind of small boat is a single-masted pointed boat, the hull is narrow, the width is not more than three meters, the length of the boat is about 14 or 5 meters, and the speed is fast.The presence of four or five or five or six white turbans on each ship also indicates the identity of these vessels."
The pirate ship is coming...... these pirate ships are redbeard's non-main warships, and they usually adopt wolf pack tactics, jumping gangs to board the kind of big ships and take prisoners.They had planned to come and pick up Redbeard.I didn't think that Redbeard was beaten too badly, and soon Redbeard also heard the sound of the horn, and a pirate hanging on the mast shouted excitedly: "Our people are coming, our reinforcements are coming......"
Redbeard's original desperate heart generated a fighting spirit again: "Blow the trumpet, let all the warships gather around me and form a battle formation, we will fight with them!"
”Hua'an also received information from the Lingtong and Gan Ning at this time, they encountered twenty-five pirate warships, and after fierce fighting, twenty-four warships were eliminated, and only one flagship remained, as a result, about hundreds of small warships appeared on the sea.More and more pirate ships with skeletal flags poured out from all sides, and their numbers were so numerous that entire seas were filled with them.The number of these small ships is terrifying, and Redbeard commands his fleet to storm with his death, trying to fight his way out.If it was five years ago, adopting this wolf pack tactic might have caused some trouble for the Ming Royal Navy, but now it is impossible, because the Ming Royal Navy battleship not only has naval guns with a range of more than three thousand meters, but also a large number of rocket artillery, in addition to these, there are also a considerable number of heavy machine guns.In addition to the heavy machine operator, the rifles of the naval soldiers can also play a very good role at this time, the soldiers in black military uniforms, methodically use heavy machine guns to carry out three bursts of fire, as the gunshots rang out, the pirates who gathered on the deck to prepare for hand-to-hand combat were beaten to the point of blood spraying, and they staggered and lay down in a large area.The Arab pirates howled for their lives, and when they were knocked down and rushed out of the group, they all died.When they got closer to twenty meters, the heavy machine guns finally stopped firing, and a horde of black-clad soldiers rushed to the deck, took out a kind of gay-handled iron-headed gadget, and slammed it at their heads, and in an instant the deck was full of them.The pirates screamed as they slammed into the spitting stuff on the deck, and they were frantically surprised: "What is this?"
”"Boom, boom, boom......"
A terrifying flash, a terrifying explosion overwhelmed everything, the flesh and blood on the deck flew everywhere, the broken corpses were thrown around, and those screaming pirates turned into piles of broken corpses in the rain of flying blood, and the flesh and blood on the deck were blurred, and they escaped from the scene of a corpse crushing case!
Before Redbeard and the other pirates could recover from the explosion, the two Exocet ships came over, made a few loud noises, and were thrown out on the flybridge with a few loud noises, and hooked on the pirate warship, and then, a huge force dragged the warships over, and the flybridge was built between the two warships, turning into a bridge connecting the two ships.The surviving pirates looked stunned, looked like they had been played, looked stunned, and let out a painful groan in their hearts: "What do these hellish people want to do?"
”They immediately knew what the other party wanted to do, some black-clad soldiers armed with glittering sabers, a left-handed pistol in one hand, stepping on a flying bridge, Jie Ruo Ape rushed onto the pirate warship full of minced meat, and when he saw a person far away, he raised his gun to shoot, and when he was near, he swung his knife and slashed at him.Seeing the pirate moaning in a pool of blood kicked him in the neck, and the screams and the terrifying sound of a blade slashing into flesh made people feel horrible.Faintly, some pirates heard these rampaging black-clad soldiers yelling, looking fanatical, and Redbeard was going crazy, shouting, "What the hell are these madmen talking about?
What the hell are these lunatics talking about?
”One of the pirates shouted in fear: "They are from the Ming Kingdom!"
They are shouting: 'Kill all the pirates, rob them of their belongings, and send all their wrecked ships to the bottom of the sea!'
”Redbeard had 10,000 grass and mud horses galloping through his heart: "Am I a pirate or are you pirates!?"
”It's useless to complain now, the strength of the other party is too terrible, not to mention the naval artillery bombardment, even if it is hand-to-hand combat, the pirates are not opponents, the black-clothed soldiers are rampage, and the horizontal knives fly like slaughtering dogs and sheep, if they encounter organized resistance, they don't say a word, a few grenades blow them up and blow them up all over the sky, this fierce and shameless style of play makes the pirates unable to parry.Completely crushed under their merciless blows, and in desperation, some pirates chose to kneel down and kowtow desperately to each other, crying and begging for their lives, only then did they vaguely remember that when they rushed to the merchant ship and went on a killing spree, those desperate maritime sailors also begged them in the same way, and they responded to these poor creatures with cold blades.Now those black-clothed soldiers responded to them with the same cold blades.Redbeard tried to escape by jumping into the sea, but a grenade flew over and exploded next to him, several pieces of shrapnel hit him in the legs and abdomen, blood gushed out, and he screamed and fell to the ground.He struggled to get up, but found that one leg was not strong at all, and when he reached out, he touched a piece of Bai Sensen's bone, and his leg had been blown off.Two black-clothed soldiers rushed over, stomped him on the ground, and sneered: "Dog, run, run again, why don't you run?"
”Redbeard hissed and roared, writhing his body to try to break free, but he was so badly injured that he could struggle?
A black-clad soldier stabbed the blade through the deck with the tip of the knife, destroying one of Redbeard's arms.Just when he was awakening to fulfill his promise and use Redbeard as a monkey, in the Qinzheng Hall of Beijing City, Quan Xu was holding a title ceremony for Lian Xuan and others of the Anxi Army.There are not many other things in the Ming Dynasty now, but there is a surprising amount of gold and silver, whether it is the navy or the army, the military rank on the officer, for example, the colonel is a silver star, and the general is a golden star, which is made of real money.Lian Xuan successfully hung a gold star as he wished, became a major general of the Royal Army of the Ming Empire, this promotion is also well deserved, Lian Xuan and other western expedition troops, which lasted three years, opened up more than 3 million square kilometers of territory for the Ming Dynasty, and finally rebuilt the city of broken leaves like the Tang Dynasty.Lian Xuan finished conferring the title and attended the banquet with Quan Xu.Before the banquet, Lian Xuan asked people to send two carts of flowers to Quan Xu, these are tulips, which are pink tulips, red tulips, and white tulips.Quan Xu asked curiously, "Tulip, where did this come from?"
”"Your Majesty has seen this flower?"
Lian Xuan said: "The minister has seen this flower in the territory of Gaochang and Shule, so he let people transplant some, and carefully send it to the capital ......"
Quan Xu smiled faintly: "I naturally know, the Dutch tulip incident is ......"
Quan Xu said this, patted his forehead, he really forgot a big thing, in the middle of the 17th century, tulips were introduced to Western Europe from Turkey, when the quantity was small and the price was high, it was regarded as a symbol of wealth and glory by the upper class, speculators saw the business opportunities in it, began to hoard tulip bulbs, and pushed the price up.Gradually, the frenzy brought about by this flower became a popular trend, and more and more people joined the ranks of buying and selling tulips, even the pawns of fish and vegetable sellers.They are willing to break the bank to buy a tulip bulb because they believe that someone will pay more than double the price for it.It's just a pity that, according to historical records, the tulips in the Netherlands should have collapsed now......
Daming missed an opportunity to harvest wool.