Chapter 259: Bribing and cheating, friendly forces are just right to block the knife
The sky is blue and white clouds are floating around.
On the rough blue waves, two huge fleets were marching side by side in two columns.
"Second Young Master, Lingshan Bay is a hundred miles ahead."
Peng Hua, the second steward of the Ye family, had just received a flag signal from a high-quality treasure ship that had set out ahead of his family. He reported to Ye Guodong, who was leaning against the side of the ship and gazing at the sea view in the distance, lost in thought, on the flagship of the Ye family fleet, the treasure ship.
"In another quarter of an hour, we will enter Lingshan Bay and head straight to the port fortress of Lingshan Island."
"Moyes sent an envoy earlier on a speedboat to inform us that we will not go to Lingshan City to rest this time, but will head directly to Lingshan Island."
Peng Hua, the second steward of the Ye family, is an extremely sinister and cunning person.
Don't be fooled by the fact that he always has a warm smile on his face and looks like a amiable middle-aged fat man. In fact, among all the outsiders in the Ye Mansion, Peng Hua is the most vicious.
Over the past decade, countless people have died as a result of Peng Hua's schemes.
In order to help Ye Guodong complete this mission better, Ye Xianggao sent Peng Hua to ensure the success rate of this operation.
Compared with his eldest grandson Ye Liangzhu, Ye Xianggao values his second grandson Ye Guodong more. Even Ye Guodong's great-grandson Ye Jianhua, born to his wife, is also loved by Ye Xianggao and is treated very dearly.
Ye Guodong is not just a man of both literary and martial talents, he is also an unknown genius with a special destiny.
Of course, the truth is currently only known to Ye Xianggao and Ye Guodong, while everyone else is kept in the dark.
It can be said that Ye Xianggao has great expectations for Ye Guodong.
It was precisely because of this that he sent Ye Guodong again to carry out this mission which he thought was foolproof.
So that with this great achievement, he can completely secure the position of the next head of the Ye family and eliminate the internal disputes within the family.
"Well, in that case, you give orders to our Ye family soldiers to follow Moyes' instructions and cooperate with their actions."
Ye Guodong had expected this, and calmly turned to look at the second butler Peng Hua and said, "By the way, butler, do you have any suggestions?"
He was well aware of the real strength of this usually low-key second steward, so he had already made various promises to him and made him his confidant.
"Second Young Master."
Peng Hua's expression remained the same, and he continued to smile as he said, "I do have a suggestion, you might as well listen to it first."
"Given the unclear circumstances of this trip, we must not take it lightly. After all, this mysterious enemy who was able to fool our three forces a few months ago with just one man and one eagle is not someone who can be easily dealt with."
"Second Young Master, for the sake of safety, I suggest that our Ye family's fleet hold back a step, and let those Western white Hu people's large fleet lead the way and act as the vanguard, while our Ye family fleet will be responsible for the rear cover."
"If an unexpected situation occurs, we can let these white barbarians block the attack for our Ye family so that we can make a quick response plan."
"Anyway, these white barbarians are so brave, it's good to give them a chance to show their talents."
"In this way, no matter how the upcoming war develops, it will be beneficial to our Ye family."
Peng Hua is indeed known for his insidiousness, cunningness and scheming. His casual suggestion reveals such viciousness that it makes people shudder.
"it is good!"
Ye Guodong was a true genius, and of course he would not object to the win-win strategy proposed by the second steward. He nodded immediately and said, "Butler Peng, you are right. You will be responsible for the negotiation with the white barbarians this time, and implement your proposal as soon as possible."
Having suffered a big loss a few months ago, Ye Guodong certainly didn't want to be fooled a second time.
After all, he is not stupid, but very smart and capable.
After the second steward Peng Hua took his leave, he soon returned with two servants and guards on a patrol boat that was launched from this top-quality treasure ship, and headed towards the flagship of the white Hu people's fleet that was advancing side by side.
In view of the importance of this matter, Peng Hua did not want to delay the trip and had to go in person.
About a quarter of an hour later, when the two large fleets, which were sailing side by side, just entered Lingshan Bay, Peng Hua took a speedboat and returned to his flagship.
He calmly came back to Ye Guodong and nodded at him imperceptibly.
The conspiracy plan this time is self-evident.
After a while, under Peng Hua's command, the Ye family fleet began to slow down and slowly fell behind the white Hu people's fleet.
At the same time, the flags of the two large fleets kept changing, and soon they formed two battle formations, one in front and one behind, each with three columns, and rushed towards Lingshan Island in the southeast.
"Second Master, the commander of this white barbarian fleet is really greedy. I only promised to give them 10% of the spoils after the war, and Reynolds couldn't wait to agree."
At this time, Peng Hua, who had successfully completed the task, walked up to Ye Guodong calmly and said calmly.
"Humph!"
Ye Guodong couldn't help but snorted coldly, "These white barbarians are all the same. As long as there is enough benefit, they won't care about anything, even if the price they pay is their lives!" "The term 'money-hungry' is undoubtedly tailor-made for these white barbarians."
"Butler, one percent of the spoils is already a lot."
Ye Guodong said with some regret, "Although the Denglai Navy, which was composed of Liaodong rebels, only brought one top-grade treasure ship and two high-grade treasure ships a few months ago, the huge amount of wealth and materials they carried on their ships is of great value!"
"Add to that the vast amount of supplies and treasures that our Ye family left on Lingshan Island, as well as nearly twenty treasure ships of various levels. One tenth of the value of these things is more than the total assets of most of the wealthy families in the mainland of Ming Dynasty!"
"I would like to ask, which white barbarian can resist such a large amount of money and materials?"
"If it weren't for the great wealth of our Ye family, even I would be reluctant to give it up."
Although he said this, Ye Guodong didn't take it seriously at all.
Compared to completing this mission and successfully obtaining the position of the next head of the Ye family, these mere treasures and materials are not worth mentioning at all!
"Ha ha……"
Peng Hua chuckled and discussed it with Ye Guodong, and then the two began to work separately.
At most in an hour, the large fleet under the Ye family and the Haojing Governor's Office will arrive at the port fortress on Lingshan Island, and their soldiers must make all kinds of preparations for battle.
"All soldiers of the Ye family, listen to my orders!"
"Raise the battle flag immediately!"
"All treasure ships, activate the protective formation and activate the protective light shield!"
"Attention all ships! All gunners and crossbowmen, take your positions and prepare for the battle!"...
Having suffered a great loss once, Ye Guodong did not dare to take it lightly. He personally served as the commander of this surprise naval battle and issued combat orders one after another.
At this time, not only the soldiers on the Ye family's treasure ships were busy working in a hurry.
The same was true of the large white Hu fleet leading the way.
Now, the fleets of the two alliances have almost the same number of treasure ships and their military equipment is almost the same.
The large fleets of both sides that came to carry out this long-distance raid were composed of two top-grade treasure ships, six upper-grade treasure ships, and twenty medium-grade treasure ships.
There were nearly 20,000 fully armed soldiers on board.
The only difference is that this time the Ye family is on a large scale, and all the personnel on the treasure ship, including the boatmen and sailors, are warriors.
Among the nearly 20,000 people in this large fleet of white Hu people, half of the boatmen and sailors were ordinary people.
In terms of population resources, the small overseas country of Portugal cannot be compared with the Ming Dynasty at all.
The Kingdom of Portugal in this big world is just a small country with a population nearly twice that of the Later Jin Tartars.
But it was this small country that first opened the Age of Discovery in the Western world and was glorious for a hundred years!
It once became the only maritime hegemon in the world today.
It is only in recent decades that it has rapidly declined, being quickly overtaken by the English, the Dutch and the Spanish. It is now so poor that it can hardly even benefit from the benefits of the Age of Discovery.
The large fleet sent by the Governor's Office of the Territory has a strength of about 10% of all the fleets in Portugal, which can be said to be a large-scale mobilization.
This time, they simply cannot afford to fail again.
The consequences of failure would not only be unbearable for the Governor's Office of Trench, but would also have a huge impact on Portugal itself.
Therefore, even though Colonel Reynolds, the commander of the Trench Governor's Fleet, hastily agreed to let his own large fleet serve as the vanguard under the inducement of the Ye family, he did not dare to be careless at all.
They were even faster than the Ye family. After their own fleet was transformed into a battle formation, white magic protective shields rose up above all levels of treasure ships, covering all of their own treasure ships.
These Western magic circles are of similar power to the Five Elements magic circles of the Ming Dynasty.
If we talk about the real difference, the formation system of the Ming Dynasty is much more perfect than that of the Western white world, and it is also much more durable.
Although the fighting system of these Western white people is powerful, it is simply not as enduring as that of the Ming Dynasty.
However, these Western white people have much more experience in naval warfare than the Ming Dynasty.
After so many years of civil wars and the Age of Discovery in Western countries, the Western navies of each country have formed their own complete offensive and defensive routines, especially in ocean combat, which are not comparable to the various forces on the side of the Ming Dynasty.
"Dudu..."
A moment later, the two large fleets, having completed their battle formation, blew their horns one after the other to prepare for battle, and quickly approached the port fortress of Lingshan Island...
(End of this chapter)
