On the Malacca route to Ceylon, thousands of Ming Army warships were clamoring a strange array of crabs rapidly heading towards the northwest end of the East Huhai Sea, like trying to waving pliers and holding something.

Generally, the ships that take this route will lean on the peninsula along the eastern edge of the East Huhai, so that they can avoid the sea storm, so why should the Daming Shuishi fleet walk close to the west side, which is more dangerous?

They walked this side naturally with a purpose, Zhang Bin's serious face holding a telescope, looking at the island slowly showing his head in front, and coldly asked, "Are the pirates cultivated by the Dutch hiding in this archipelago?"

On the side of Schweaver heard the words, and hurriedly turned to inquire about the Portuguese non-commissioned officers around him, and then solemnly nodded: "Yes, your Royal Highness, we, Count Conde de Governor of Goa, have sent the local natives into the pirate group more than once to investigate, and there are three or four pirates in the name of the seaway to Ceylon, but they are all under the hands of the great pirate head Andaman, and their old nests are in the islands."

Zhang Bin put down the telescope and said disdainfully: "Well, they play the same way twice, I don't know if they are shameless or ignorant."

Schweier looked at his face and said carefully: "The Dutch are actually very powerful, because the pirates are ghostly, and it is difficult to catch them in the case of sailing ships, even if they know where their nest is, it is difficult to destroy them, because once they find that they can't fight, they will run, this vast sea, can run on all sides, there are hundreds of warships do not want to surround them."

Zhang Bin said, not helplessly nodded, the Dutch this trick is indeed toxic enough, if they organize their own fleet to plunder the merchant ships of other countries, other countries will certainly swarm and attack, besieged their supply points and colonies, they plundered other countries by supporting pirates will not be good.

For example, Spain, Portugal and Britain and France, their merchant ships were plundered by pirates, and they also vaguely knew that pirates had a relationship with the Dutch, but would they join forces to beat the Dutch?

This is almost impossible, because these relations between the two countries are not good, Spain, Portugal and France can be said to be hostile, in the absence of hard evidence, how can they unite to beat the Dutch.

He thought about it and asked, “Are you sure the pirates in this channel are back in the nest?”

Schweier asked the sergeant again, and then firmly nodded: "Yes, I have the exact information that from the presence of the Da Ming naval fleet south of Manila the Dutch people will make all the pirates go back to their nests to hide, because they suspect that the goal of the Daming navy is Ceylon, and that the time will surely pass through this channel, if the pirates they support meet, they will not be able to run away."

Zhang Bin slowly nodded, "They're not stupid, I know that the lot of the lot of warships is definitely not here to play."

At this time, the guard behind him suddenly said: "Grandpa, the enemy found in front."

Zhang Bin heard the words, looked up at the flag bearer on the lookout, even if he turned his head, pointing the telescope in the direction of his finger.

Indeed, in the harbor surrounded by the big islands in front, you can see the shadow of many masts.

Zhang Bin handed the telescope to the Portuguese intelligence officer and then said to Schweira: "Let him know if it's here."

The intelligence officer took the telescope, carefully confirmed it, and even put down the telescope, nodded heavily.

Zhang Bin saw the situation and did not hesitate to order: "The life of Jinjiang Hou led all the light iron armored ships around, and the South Ocean Hou led all the Weiyuan battleships rushed in."

The formation of the Daming Navy was strange, thousands of light ironclad ships were lined up on the left and right wings in front, and the rows were very scattered, so even if the pirates had telescopes, they saw only dozens of light ironclad ships similar to their large pirate ships, and they did not intend to escape, because the Dutch provided them with dozens of cannons this time, and they already had their own water-stock positions, and they thought that this armed merchant ship was at most a matter of firing a few guns.

They were pitted by the Dutch, the Dutch just wanted them to try the firepower of the Daming Navy, after all, the Dutch only received approximate intelligence, do not know how many super battleships sent by the Daming Navy, if you can use this group of pirates to test it, resist for a while, and even cause certain casualties to the Ming Imperial Navy, naturally it is best, otherwise, these pirates want dozens of cannons, that is a dream.

The pirates did not expect the Da Ming Navy to be so terrible that there would be hundreds of super battleships, and when they saw the huge hull of the Zhenyuan cruiser and the Weiyuan battleship, it was too late, because thousands of light iron armor ships had begun to be surrounded from the two wings.

Many pirates began to sail in the direction of Ceylon, and some pirates insisted on being stationed in their own water villages, because they thought they had more artillery and occupied the advantages of the land, which could resist the attack of the Daming Navy.

As you can imagine, Zheng Zhilong led two hundred Weiyuan battleships into the harbor, they know what is called artillery, a Weiyuan battleship is more than one hundred guns, two hundred is more than 20,000 artillery, even if a sideboard shot is also 10,000 shells, not to mention the pirates of this simple water, even if the solid basilisk can not withstand so much artillery bombardment!

Zheng Zhilong put two hundred Weiyuan battleships a point, all the battleships have not yet salvoed five rounds, the pirate nest around the water base was bombarded into ruins, as for their dozens of cannons, a total of not issued a hundred shells, basically every artillery just issued a shell was Daming Navy rain-like shells with guns, smashed rare.

When Zhang Bin led more than 300 battleships into the pirate den, the battle was basically nearing the end, no one on the shore could fire back, all the water and pirate ships were bombed into scum, and the Fuguang Army soldiers only had to board a few islands to capture the captives.

However, the battle on the sea is far from over, because these four pirates add up to more than two hundred ships of various kinds, they all run in one direction, it is difficult to hold it all, only to chase.

Zhang Bin took a handsome boat to the sea in the direction of Ceylon with a telescope to look at it with a telescope, even if he ordered: "The order let Yu Chenglong let Yu Chenglong leave the vapers in front of them, and quickly end the battle."

Behind him, a commanding soldier obeyed the command, even ran to the right side of the ship, quickly climbed down from a rope ladder, jumped to a light iron armor ship below, and then the light iron armored ship galloped in the direction of Yu Chenglong's handsome ship.

Schweil looked at the commanding iron-clad ship and asked in some puzzled, "Your Royal Highness, why did you let go of the first few fast ships, and the pirate head Andaman is probably on those fast ships!"