A cold sweat rose directly from Li Mingxun's forehead. The dizzy feeling made him feel a little unsteady. If it weren't for the railing in front of him, Li Mingxun might have fallen directly into the sea.

Why did the San Juan ambush itself at the port? Is there a traitor among the Dutch? Or was the journey northbound was monitored by the Spanish, or something that he could not guess?

In the midst of the fire, Li Mingxun stood at the bow of the ship and was stunned. It was not until a twelve-pound shore defense shell hit the deck of the Yongjin. The splashed wood chips tear the skin behind Li Mingxun that he woke up. He bit the tip of his tongue to calm himself down. Deep in his heart, Li Mingxun told himself that more than a hundred people were counting on his lives, and he must not panic.

Li Mingxun's eyes swept over San Juan on the berth again, but the gun door above was not opened, and the strife in the port was in chaos, and hundreds of sailors ran over, but the San Juan was too deep to lean on the shore, so they could only row over. Li Mingxun instantly understood that the San Juan was definitely not ambushing here. If it was ambush, it should raise sails and be equipped with sailors to keep the forty-four artillery on the two decks waiting to be attacked, rather than making a mess here like now.

After thinking about this, Li Mingxun reversely speculated the whole thing and soon understood that Martin's unusual behavior after entering the port must be because he appeared in the San Juan. This guy knew about the San Juan chasing his side and signaled himself not to enter the port. After the Yongjin bypassed Shaliang, the officer or sailor on the San Juan appeared in the Yongjin and recognized the former target ship. He thought it was the Yongjin attacked him, so he attracted the attack of the castle artillery.

"Enter the combat state, the gunner comes over and prepare the Flor cannon. The helmman turns around and approach the San Juan, Gao Feng, you can board the 6th spinnaker immediately and try to save Martin!" Li Mingxun immediately issued an order.

Although it was not a bad situation of being ambushed, the current situation was still not optimistic. The Yongjin accidentally became Sun Dasheng, who had entered the belly of the Bull Demon King. Whether it was a big fuss or was digested into feces depends on its ability. Li Mingxun, the spinning boats, did not take those spinning boats to heart. After all, they did not have artillery, and the shore defense cannons could only rely on fast turn to avoid it. The San Juan was the one who really decided life and death.

Once this powerful battleship is fully loaded, even if it escapes from Jilong Port, the San Juan can catch up. Li Mingxun uses his heels to know that the Spaniards will definitely let the spinners follow the Yongjin. As long as they cannot lose their target, they will become the prey of the San Juan sooner or later.

In this case, you can only destroy the San Juan first to escape from the heavens.

At this time, what Li Mingxun thanked the most was Ma Wei. Originally, the Yongjin only had two cannons in front and one behind, and Ma Wei added four thousand-jin Folang machines to the Yongjin, which were arranged on the upper deck. Although this arrangement method and the Folang machine itself made Martin sneer, it gave the Yongjin the ability to counterattack.

The Yongjin turned quickly and approached the San Juan. At this time, there were only a dozen sailors on the San Juan, busy spreading their sails. Obviously, they were not in combat at all. Li Mingxun immediately ordered the gunners to aim at the part of the San Juan waterline to open fire. Two Flang machines quickly completed the aim, and the sub-gun was placed in place and opened fire at a distance of less than a hundred steps.

Two bangs and thick smoke covered the cannon position. Li Mingxun squinted his eyes and wanted to see the effect of the shooting. Suddenly, the sound of a musket came from a distance. He hurriedly lay down. It turned out that the people from the San Juan knew that it was too late and could only use a comb to counterattack.

The fog dissipated. Taking advantage of the time when the sailors on the Yongjin-English were shooting against the Spaniards, Li Mingxun looked through the gap. Two white depressions appeared in the black part of San Juan not far away, and there were dense cracks, and wood chips were constantly peeling off. However, it was obvious that the shells of the Qianjin Folang machine did not penetrate the San Juan. Li Mingxun slapped the thigh. As a standard battleship, the San Juan had a thickness of at least forty centimeters.

The position close to the waterline should be thicker, and the artillery on its side was obtained by the Dutch from which pirate. It was either an old antique that the Portuguese had eliminated for a hundred years, or a defective product cast by the Ming Dynasty. It dared not load more gun medicine at all. Even gun medicine was not professional. Although it was more powerful when approaching some, it was threatened by the convex gunners of soldiers on the deck of the San Juan. It was fatal to the exposed gunners.

"What should I do if the shopkeeper can't get through it?" a leader ran over and asked loudly.

Before Li Mingxun could answer, he suddenly pointed at the San Juan and shouted. Li Mingxun showed that the two gun doors on the upper deck of the San Juan were opened. It was obvious that the gunners who were on board had begun to counterattack. Li Mingxun immediately ordered the helmsman to turn and drive away. He had no strength to fight against the San Juan at all.

Li Mingxun quickly calculated that if you want to be safe, you don’t have to sink the San Juan. If you can make it impossible for you to sail, the Yongjin can run away. If you calculate this, breaking his mast and tearing the sails can do this, but it is extremely difficult for the Yongjin.

This group of unprofessional gunners were not sure that they could hit the mast at such a long distance. Even if they hit it, the diameter of the mast was nearly one meter, which was not something that could be interrupted by a few Furang machine shells. After thinking about it, Li Mingxun could only try to destroy the steering ability of the San Juan. However, when he thought of the servo located on the platform on the second deck of the stern building, Li Mingxun had to give up. After all, it was a height of looking up. Standing on the Yongjin, he could not see it at all. Since the servo could not be destroyed, he could only shell the rudder blade.

Li Mingxun immediately ordered the Yongjin to turn again and go around the stern of the San Juan. The San Juan exposed part of the rudder leaf due to light load. The gunners fired at the rudder leaf one after another, and fired thirty steps away. Li Mingxun led his men to shoot against the Spaniards on the stern of the ship with a mezzanine to cover the gunner.

The gunner fired all the shells. When Li Mingxun saw that the rudder blades and the rudder rod were separated, there was obvious damage, and immediately ordered to turn to escape. He did not choose the fastest retreat route, that is, he continued to move forward and left the Bachimen waterway. After all, it was a sea area he had never entered, and the waterway was very narrow. The Yongjin took the risk of turning the bow of the ship in the bay, but it was found that the spinning sailboat had caught fire. The Yongjin sailed over and appeared. Gao Feng drove the boat closer. Without waiting for them to get on the boat, he threw the traction rope and drove away quickly in the fire of the artillery. Fortunately, he sailed with the wind when he left the port, bypassed Shaliang and hid outside the Spaniard's artillery.

Without knowing whether the San Juan had really lost its ability to move, and there were already spinning boats in the harbor, Li Mingxun only pulled the people on the boat onto the boat, and even the boat was not needed. He turned to sail towards the outer sea. The Spaniard's spinning boat was very fast, and the wind could reach twelve knots. The Yongjin came out far away, but there were no artillery on it, so he dared not approach under the threat of the Flang machine. The gunners on the Yongjin shot a few shots and punched a few holes in the spinning boat's spinning boat, forcing it to widen the distance. However, as they entered the outer sea, the spinning boat became more and more difficult to withstand the waves, and had to retreat.

Only then did Li Mingxun realize that the Yongjin Ship went straight south. However, at this time, the southeast wind blew and black tide were there. The Yongjin Ship was going against the wind and flowing. Although it was in a zigzag shape, it was still slow. However, the good news was that Martin was dead.

As Martin boarded the spinning boat, there was only one Moore slave. Gao Feng rescued the slave, but only brought back Martin's body. Martin died of the heart and was hit by two lead bullets. Although Gao Feng did not say it clearly, Li Mingxun could guess that the bayonet inserted into Martin's chest was his masterpiece.

After confirming that the Moors were unaware, Lee Mingxun left his life. But Lee Mingxun had to reconsider how to report this to the governor of Taiwan. When the translator and the Moors were scared, Lee Mingxun believed that Governor Chunis would rather believe his intelligence.

The bottom pole of the Yongjin.

Lin He walked around the deck, and his side was filled with tied deer skin and barrels of soju. The air was filled with the smell of alcohol, but when the hatch came out, a dark-skinned man was polishing his axe. The rustling sound made Lin He unable to calm down.

As Martin's translator, he instinctively hated the arrogant guy, but had to serve him. After boarding the Yongjin Route, the communication between Martin and Lee Myung-hoon made him feel a little scared. Lin He did not think that this was a manifestation of wisdom for openly threatening or even insulting others' territory. However, all this was over. Martin died and he was locked in the bottom cabin. He did not meet the Moors who were traveling with him. I think those guys didn't know that they were alive.

How would Li Mingxun treat himself? After all, he knew some secrets and contradictions between him and Martin.

The door of the bottom cabin opened and some light came in. Li Mingxun walked down the stairs. He glanced at Lin He and threw a dagger in front of him. Li Mingxun said: "The Moors thought you were dead, so are you really going to die or not!"

For Lin He, this was naturally not an unanswered question. Lin He immediately knelt on the ground and said, "Big shopkeeper, I don't want to die, I don't want to die."

"Then how do you think you can survive?" Li Mingxun asked while sitting on the side of the wine barrel.

Lin He immediately said: "I promise to keep your conversation with Mr. Martin tight-lipped..."

He said a lot, but looked up and saw Li Mingxun's dissatisfied face. Lin He suddenly realized, yes, if he didn't want to reveal the secret, just kill him directly. Lin He thought about it and forced himself to calm down. He said, "The big shopkeeper, the villain knows Dutch and Spanish. If you are willing to serve you, let the Dutch think I am dead."

Li Mingxun nodded slightly and said, "Very good, you are a person who knows the current affairs. Since that's the case, I will take your wife and daughter to Jialuo Village at the appropriate time. Now, please interpret the text on it for me."

As he said that when Lin He received Martin's day, Li Mingxun opened it and found the page from the first day he met Martin, and asked Lin He to translate it sentence by sentence. Li Mingxun listened carefully. It was revealed that Martin did not have to write a diary every day, and there were many important things that were not recorded, such as the issue of the big market in Jialuo Village, the gold coins he presented to him, and no mention of suggesting Chunis to send tax officers.

After Lin Ke finished translating, he saw that Li Mingxun was puzzled. He said, "The shopkeeper is actually not Martin's private diary. This diary is somewhat similar to the company's meeting minutes or navigation logs. There are senior businessmen in each company, and it is more similar to memorandums and needs to be reported to the company."

Li Ming nodded slightly and finally understood. It seemed that Martin was just threatening and taking the opportunity to blackmail him.

"We arrived at Jilong Harbor on February 28, and the people on the San Juan recognized us and caused the attack of gunners on the castle. I saw at least five hundred people, more than half of them were sailors, and there were about two hundred soldiers. At least eight cannons in the castle opened fire at us. In addition to the San Juan, there were four or even more spinning boats."

Five days later, at Dayuangang, Li Mingxun reported in person in front of Da Yang and He Bin's investigation of Jilong Port. Unexpectedly, Da Yang did not ask about Martin's death at all, but was only interested in the strength of the Spaniards in Jilong Port.

"The Spaniards boarded your ship. The Moors said that the Spaniard was very impatient at first, but later they had a great conversation with you. Why?" asked Dayang.

Lee Mingxun said: "It was because of wine. At first I wanted to sell the salted fish and cured meat on the boat to the Spanish. The Spanish said they didn't lack it at all, but after knowing that there was wine on my boat, he showed welcome. I guess they could get food from nearby indigenous villages."

After listening to Li Mingxun's story, Da Yang walked to him, staring at Li Mingxun's face with a pair of deep eyes, as if he wanted to see something. Li Mingxun tried to keep calm. After a while, Da Yang took a stack of documents from his assistant, placed them on Li Mingxun's table, said something, and then left.

Li Mingxun spread out the documents and now it is full of Dutch. He Bin explained: "This is the company's contract. If you sign here, you can get the tax right of seven villages and communities. However, according to the rules, one person contracts at most three villages and communities, so you have to find two more people."

For Lee Myung-hoon, this was not a problem, he asked: "What did the Dutchman say just now?"
Chapter completed!