Simmons hurriedly said, "How to deal with this Adventure, and the people on the ship, especially the prostitutes!"

Without waiting for Lee Mingxun to answer, Simmons said: "Your Excellency, I have an obligation to remind you that taking a woman on a warship will bring bad luck."

Lee Mingxun smiled: "Isn't this the pirate's mind?"

Simmons lowered his voice: "The mission we are performing now is a pirate mission!"

Li Mingxun nodded slightly. In the battle just now, the fleet captured a large sloop notice ship, Adventure. Among the crew and passengers, only twenty-three crew members and thirty-four prostitutes survived, eight of which were seriously injured. Adventure's ship was in good condition, because the two frigates judged that they had no ability to escape from the beginning, so they did not focus on attacking their sails. The Adventure's deck facilities were somewhat damaged, and there were two large holes in the sail, which were under repair.

"Send the captain on Adventure, the captain of the captain of the captain of the captain, and leave key positions among the captured crew, and select twenty people from other schooners to manipulate them. The remaining captives are placed on your Tiger Shark, and they are competent for drainage work." Li Mingxun ordered.

"Where is the prostitute?" Simmons asked again.

Li Mingxun pointed to a small island in the distance and said, "Twist the prisoners on that island, leave them food and water for a month, and leave them to fate."

Simmons immediately went to execute it, which in his opinion was already a very kind approach.

There was enough news from the captain of Adventure that the fleet no longer needed to continue southward, so as not to be seen by the Spaniards and sent a second rescue fleet. After dealing with Adventure, the fleet turned and headed southeastward, while the navigators and the navigators of each fleet were measuring the latitude and longitude.

In this era, people used the Tianzhong method to calculate latitude and longitude, which was inevitable for the European astronomy and mathematics exhibitions. Especially after the emergence of the new logarithmic table, the Tianzhong method was much faster. However, in the seventeenth century, not to mention an emerging force like a society, even in the royal navy in Europe, there were very few who mastered these methods.

Li Mingxun didn't want to lose the warships because of measurement problems. When the fleet had just formed a scale, he recruited people of a certain level of education from the sailors to learn new measurement methods. Because measurement requires mathematical knowledge, the first batch of navigation and navigation personnel were mostly shopkeepers and accounting staff. For this reason, Li Mingxun also searched for famous craftsmen, imported glass, and created simple sextant instruments. The only ones who were competent for this job were craftsmen who were engaged in fine handicrafts, that is, watchmakers. The club recruited a group from Jiangnan, and Lin He even kidnapped several in Macau.

Li Mingxun personally took the battle and measured it with several students. He asked Simmons to temporarily serve in the flagship staff and used two methods to average the measured data and finally arrived at the waters at about 13 degrees north latitude. This is the warm current of the North equator, from east to west, and the fleet is in a countercurrent position, and it is a southeastern wind at this time, so the navigation is very unsuccessful.

The three main battleships lined up in battle lines and sailed in the ocean currents. The southwest trade winds were not so stable. The sailboats with poor wind ability seemed a little clumsy. However, the sailboats were like fish in water in this environment and were already lined up in front of the fleet. From south to north, a cordon was opened. Each ship was within the visual range of the left and right friendly ships. They searched and moved forward, ready to deal with the sailboat fleet at any time.

This voyage is destined to be boring because there are plenty of sailors and the fleet implements a three-shift system. The sailors will also be mixed with various military training and acting in shifts. Li Mingxun has only one principle of managing sailors, so they must not be idle.

The training of light weapons such as the mesh gun and sailor knife is always mixed with artillery training, and lifting sails are the mainstream, and fire drills and emergency gatherings are also mixed. In addition to training and acting, the work of the long voyage itself is also very heavy. Li Mingxun and the captains attach great importance to the hygiene of the ship. The sailors have to clean every corner of the ship every day, which leads to the sailors snoring after completing their work and training every day when they find the hammock.

The battle cruise from Sama finally ended its boring journey on the fifteenth day, because according to the measured latitude and longitude, the fleet's destination Guam will appear in the field of view within one day.

Along the way, the fleet had no trace of the Spaniards returning. According to intelligence analysis, it was only a month since Manila received the news that the sailboat was stranded. Manila had to prepare supplies, allocate fleets, and sail to Guam, at most ten days earlier than the club. According to everyone's inference, ten days was not enough for the Spaniards to repair the sailboat.

In this way, Li Mingxun estimated that the enemy ship should still be in Guam waters. If it can be prepared properly, it can launch a raid and annihilate the enemy fleet at the Guam anchorage.

So Lee Myung-hoon reorganized the fleet, let the fleet turn right, bypass Guam south, and turn on the east side of Guam, so that he could raid from behind and gain the upper hand. Although this allowed the formation to sail at least two more days, compared with the advantages he gained, everything seemed so worth it.

The more detailed operation was to let the Adventure disguised as a Spanish notification ship, take the lead in conducting reconnaissance, determine the anchorage of the enemy fleet before conducting a raid. However, the news from Adventure disappointed Li Mingxun a little. Adventure took a circumference of Guam, but no large sailing fleet appeared, which instead aroused the alertness of the Guam defenders.

After confirming that Guam had no sailboats, the raid was meaningless. Li Mingxun immediately ordered the fleet to attack and head straight to Guam. As soon as Guam was included in his field of vision, he saw several balls of black smoke rising from the beach on the southeast side of Guam, but Simmons laughed.

"Your Excellency, our information is wrong. The sailboat is not in Guam, but it must be nearby. This black smoke is the alarm mechanism of the Guam defenders. Because Sulu pirates came to Guam to harass them, they had to warn them when the sailboat sailed here. If the sailboat leaves, who will these guys warn them to?" Simmons explained.

Lee Mingxun suddenly felt enlightened. As Simmons said, there would be warnings only when the sailing ship was still close. The Spaniards only had strongholds in Guam, but the sailing ship encountered a storm and might not be moored in Guam.

"Quick, send people to board 6 immediately, put out the black smoke, and then catch a few Spanish defenders to find out where the sailboat is!" Li Mingxun ordered.

As the farthest stronghold in the Philippines Governor's District, Guam has no profit except for serving large sailboats, so it has always maintained a small army. There is only a small round fort on the island, with three floors, two of which are equipped with artillery, and there are trenches around the fort, and some outbuildings in the chest wall. The defenders have maintained between thirty-five and fifty men all year round, and there are also a number of slaves of varying numbers.

The number of slaves is uncertain, because Guam's supply relies on the large sailboats that pass by in April all year round, so the supply is not sufficient. Whenever there is a shortage of food, killing some slaves is one of the solutions.

The Guam defenders' firepower was not weak, and they were equipped with more than 20 artillery large and small. After all, there were Chamorro natives in the waters in Guam and its surrounding areas.

The three main fleets put down their long boats and cooperated with the small boats on several frigates to board 6. The first batch of officers and soldiers to board 6 exceeded 100, and they also received firepower support from the ships. Therefore, the Spaniards in the round fort had no intention of counter-boarding 6, but instead hurried in the round fort.

When the first group of six officers and soldiers established a support point and were about to carry heavy artillery to the shore, there were bursts of explosions on the high platform in the distance, and balls of smoke appeared in the Circle Fort. Li Mingxun looked through the telescope, but only saw chaos in the Circle Fort.

"Your Excellency, there is no doubt that our arrival has put a huge pressure on these bacon, and they have an internal fight!" David, who was on the flagship, said excitedly.

Li Mingxun also had the same guess. In fact, he had seen someone running out of the Yuanbao and fleeing in scattered places. Wu Mu, who led the team to 6, also seized this opportunity and no longer waited for heavy artillery support. He led an elite soldier of about fifty people to attack the Yuanbao.

When Li Mingxun arranged the frigate and the notification ship to guard the 6th, Umu had already solved the enemy of the round castle, captured fifteen Spaniards and more than seventy slaves.

"Master, I have had someone interrogate. The Spanish showed that we were on the 6th and were about to defend the castle. But one of their slaves suddenly rebelled and killed the garrison officers, which led to great chaos. The slaves resisted the Spanish and opened the gate of the round castle. When we rushed in, the battle was coming to an end. In order to survive, the Spanish chose to surrender, and the slaves did not resist again." Umu said.

Li Mingxun nodded slightly and asked, "Where is the first slave to resist?"

"I've gone to chase and kill the Spaniards who fled into the jungle. I haven't come back yet, maybe I won't come back." Umu whispered.

Lee Mingxun nodded, attracted Simmons, and said, "You interrogate these Spaniards immediately and figure out the situation of the sailing ship they know. The sailing ship must be nearby!"

Soon, the native who was chasing the Spanish came back. He held three heads and four mesh guns, showing calmness. Li Mingxun was surprised to find that the native was tall and tall, with clear muscles all over his body, and looked very healthy.

"I am the eldest son of Sulu Sultan, Galeid, who was caught here by the Spanish as a slave. I killed seven Spaniards, hoping to exchange these heads for a ticket to return to Sulu." Galeid said in Spanish with a straightforward word.

Li Mingxun didn't expect that he could save a prince from Sulu in this ghost place in Guam, but he didn't have much doubt about this when the war between Sulu and the Spaniards lasted for hundreds of years.

"Since you are a prince, how could you be captured by the Spanish?" Li Mingxun asked.

Galid's eyes burst out with anger: "I have been betrayed by my brother. I think he has become Sulu's sultan!"

Lee Mingxun shook his head without comment and said, "Okay, Galeid, I can take you back to my hometown, but if you can provide me with some information about the sailing boat, I will give you more things, which is better than if you go alone to find the king of Sulu to take revenge."

"I knew that you had been voyage here, for the fleet that did not arrive as promised." Galid sat on the beach and continued, "About a month and a half ago, two sailboats and two warships came to Guam and supplied supplies to the Spaniards on the island. When they were about to leave, they encountered a storm. The storm came from the southwest and pulled the anchor chain of the big ships anchored in the sea. All four ships disappeared on the beach. After the storm, the Spaniards drove us to search for them. They found them on an island in the north, but there were only three. One of the warships was completely gone, and two sailboats were also stranded on the beach. The mast of the sailboat was broken, and the hull was broken by the reef, and it was impossible to get into the water at all. The remaining warships returned to Luzon to find rescue. They returned twelve days ago, four warships and two Java ships!"

David leaned over and said, "The captain on Adventure has seen that fleet on Samar Island, with a cruise ship and a heavy gunboat. This native should have regarded two armed merchant ships as warships. For them, both are invincible."

“How far is it from here to where the sailboat is stranded?”

"It takes half a day for us to paddle, and you may only need half of us," Galid said.

Suddenly, Galid said, "I can take you there, please give me a knife, I can kill ten, no, twenty Spaniards!"

Li Mingxun nodded. He knew very well how the Spanish jumped to the sidelines, so he naturally wanted to have more helpers. He patted Galid on the shoulder, pointed to the enclosed slaves, and said, "I will give you those people, give you some weapons and drinks, and help me pull a few more people. I think many of them want to cut off the Spanish's heads."

Galid patted his chest and walked towards the slave camp.

"What a great man." David looked at Galeid's solid back and said to himself.

"Great? Is it because he killed seven Spaniards?" Lee Mingxun was surprised by David's comment.

David shook his head: "I heard about this Galid when I interrogated the slaves, but the slaves called him the Spanish insoles."

"The Spanish insole is such a strange name!" Li Mingxun expressed confusion.

David said: "Slaves said that on this island, few slaves could live for three years, but Galeid had been there for seven years. In the eyes of slaves, Galeid was more abominable than the Spanish. He was the most loyal slave. He could dive into the deep sea to catch fresh fish for Spanish officers, hunt wild animals barefoot in the jungle. Every day he would kneel on the ground to wipe leather boots for the Spanish. What really made him favored by the Spanish was that he quietly stuffed soft cushions into the officer's boots, which could make the officer look taller, so he was called the Spanish insole. Until noon today, a stone knife hidden on Galeid was inserted into the heart of the garrison officer. The slaves could not believe that Galeid would resist."

"I have been sleeping on firewood and tasting gall for seven years. I am such a great person." Li Mingxun couldn't help but exclaim.
Chapter completed!