In the early morning of April 15, 1658, the rainy season on New China Island had come to an end, and the calm in the Mozambique Strait gradually returned to its silence.≤, on that morning, the second Navy fleet, the double-deck battleship "Fubowanli", hurried outside the mouth of the Qilibishinna River, and futilely searched for the supply fleet that set out from Mianhe Port but was tragically overthrown on the sea.

"Have you found this time?" The Captain Moliee's Navy stood on the deck and leaned his head toward the diver who was coming out from under the sea. "According to the surviving sailor, the wrecking place is in this area, so it shouldn't be wrong."

"Sir!" The diver consumed a lot of physical strength under the water. At this time, he gasped and said, "I saw a mast from afar. In terms of modeling, it is indeed a medium-sized sloop fishing boat produced by Xinhua Shipyard. But the undercurrent is very fast. I tried it several times, but I couldn't get close to this ship. If you need it, I will try it for a while..."

"We must confirm that the ship was sinking because of bad weather or something else, and gather all the divers and divide them into three teams to go into the sea to confirm." Mo Liei said without doubt, "But everyone does not have to force it. We have no obligation to salvage the wreck, but it is just a routine confirmation."

The divers nodded silently, then closed their eyes and prepared to go into the water.

The "Fubo Wanli" stopped in the waters of the accident for several days. It was not until the early morning of April 19 that after working hard to finally find all five sunken medium-sized fishing boats, Mo Liei ordered all ships to scream and mourn to see off the sailors and brothers of the East African Transportation Company who died.

At noon that day, just when Mo Liei ordered the boat to be retracted and was about to turn back to Xinhua Port, the lookout hand standing in the top mast lookout post suddenly reported that it was found a ship of unknown nationality, which made everyone pay attention immediately. Mo Liei and other officers immediately got on the deck of the three-layer bridge and used a telescope to observe the sea in the distance. Unfortunately, due to the influence of the curvature of the earth, they did not even see the mast at this time.

But this was not a problem. As the distance between the two sides approached, a towering mast soon appeared in Mo Liei's telescope, followed by the second and the third...

"Pull the battle alarm bell and be ready to intercept this ship at any time. If the other party refuses to accept it, then fire in the name of attacking pirates!" The East Coast people are already quite skilled in dealing with such things. When the Second Navy Fleet had only one battleship, they dared to establish hegemony in the Mozambique Strait. Now they have three main battleships and multiple guard gunboats. When the troops are strong, they will naturally only be more arrogant than before.

According to common sense, only Portuguese and British ships often travel this route, while Dutch ships generally travel directly to the Sunda Strait. Because they mastered a short-distance route that had never been discovered by captains of other countries. But now this ship looks quite large and is not like the 200-300-ton ship commonly seen in Portugal and England, but is like a 650-ton flute-shaped ship built by the East Coast people who like to build large ships. This is strange. Could it be a French ship?

The two ships soon approached hundreds of meters. A 12-pound cannon on the bow of the "Fubowanli" fired a test projectile and landed on the sea in front of the incoming ship, which seemed to have caused some chaos for them. A faint cry came from the deck. Mo Lieyan and others listened carefully and it turned out to be French! This made everyone's faces a little gloomy.

It's so presumptuous! A flame rose in Mo Lie's heart. If it were ships from other countries, it would be fine. As a Frenchman with a criminal record, his purpose was worthy of fun. Who doesn't know that you French have traded many times with the Saccaravas before, and sold a large number of mesh guns to those natives, so that our soldiers on the East Coast would shed a lot of blood in vain. Today, your broken ship would be better not to let me find any arms, otherwise I would sink you all to the bottom of the sea!

"Go up and stop, and fire if they refuse." Mo Lie's order was very clear and was quickly conveyed. At this time, the steam boiler in the engine compartment of the "Fubo Wanli" began to gradually heat up, and the steam propeller, which was originally an auxiliary power, began to rotate slowly. The whole ship adjusted its course and sailed towards the incoming ship.

The suspected French ships coming from the opposite side were a little hesitant, because anyone could see that the "Fobowanli" was malicious at this time, but their ships were sailing against the current (Mozambique warm current), and the wind direction was also the southeast wind blowing from the depths of the Indian Ocean. It was difficult to turn around. Of course, it would be useless even if they turned around. The east coast warship on the opposite side, equipped with dozens of artillery, was obviously extremely fast, which was not comparable to them. Once they were attached, everyone was not so arrogant that they could deal with them with the only 8 artillery on the ship. So, be honest. I hope they still uphold the moral bottom line of civilized people and do not kill people randomly.

The sailors of the "Fubowanli" took more than 20 fully armed sailors to climb onto the ship opposite, and then drove all the sailors on the ship to the bottom cabin and imprisoned them. After doing these things, he began to dispatch people to check the cargo carried on the ship and conducted rough statistics.

The statistical results were naturally sent to Mo Liehen's hands as soon as possible. After only looking at the first page, the young East Coast Navy captain angrily threw the statistical report group into a group and threw it on the deck: "Detain this ship, sail to the nearby Mianhe Port, and let the intelligence officials there interrogate them overnight!"

The two ships quickly drove to Mianhe Port one by one, and then docked in its newly built deep-water dock. The State Administration of Intelligence has an office here, and an elderly intelligence official took two or three young men to sit here all year round, responsible for analyzing and handling the experiences collected by crew members of some East African transport companies from Portuguese East Africa. This time, the navy stuffed them more than 20 foreign sailors in one breath, which was also a very new thing for them.

The interrogation process will naturally not be very difficult. In fact, most of the people who go out to be sailors these days are not steadfast and unyielding patriots. They just make a living. So when facing the intimidation and threats of intelligence officials from the East Coast, they gave everything without any resistance.

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"Bang!" Mo Liei slapped the table with his right hand, causing the water in the teacup to splash out. He only heard him angrily: "It's the French who are making trouble! When he chatted with the army last time, he heard them say that the Saccaravs had not decreased until now. He suspected that someone was exporting weapons to them. This time, we finally caught a current situation. French guy. He bullied people too much!"

"It's better to report this matter to Captain Ma quickly." Liu Wanquan, former secretary of Ma Wanpeng and the current commander of the Mianhe Port, said cautiously. He knew the sensitivity of this matter very well. If it weren't for the French, the East Coast people would have come to the door long ago, especially after they repeatedly banned foreign merchants from going to the territory of the Saccaravas for trade. The French actually committed crimes against the wind, which was indeed a bit arrogant. However, how to deal with this matter should be carefully considered. After all, France's national strength is too strong and the market is broad enough. Although their naval strength is very bad, the East Coast people don't have to take it seriously at all, but if the two countries have a full-scale malfunction, the economic losses are not a small amount. You know, there are many big figures in the local area who do business with France all year round.

"I'm going to report it! I'll just call the soldiers of the navy and army to come to the door!" Mo Liei glared at Liu Wanquan and said, "It's better to take the opportunity to take the French to the Fort Dovan and the Town of Saint Louis in the southeast of New China. I've seen those two nails not accurate, so I took the opportunity to pull them out. Anyway, the French have brought all the handles to the door. Damn, two thousand five hundred mestin guns, 12 bronze cannons and a large amount of ammunition. If these weapons flow to the hands of the Saccaravs of the Kingdom of Boyra, how much blood will my soldiers on the East Coast have to pay? How can I bear this? Forget it. No matter what you think, I'll report to Commander Guo of the Navy, and I've lost my companion."

After saying that, Mo Liei hurried out of the office of the State Administration of Intelligence and headed towards his ship. After he left, a tuna fishing boat belonging to the Ma family quietly left Mianhe Port and headed towards Xinhua Port with two confidential letters. This was a report written by the intelligence department and the Mianhe Port local government to Ma Wanpeng.

The report was sent to Ma Wanpeng's desk a few days later, and at this time he had just sent Guo Zili of the Second Navy Fleet. After taking a casual look at the letter sent by Mianhe Port, Ma Wanpeng sighed and leaned on the chair: "Sure enough, no matter whether the army or the navy is warlike, he did not consider the consequences at all, and actually proposed to gather troops immediately, gather troops, and cooperate with the main force of the Second Fleet to siege the French stronghold. This is a craftsmanship of doing things is too trendy."

"However, the French guys slapped us naked in the face, but we couldn't let it go easily." Ma Wanpeng thought, "I heard that they had a bad relationship with the Bala people (nomads, extremely tough) in southern New China in the past two years, and conflicts broke out in every three days. Moreover, their relationship with the indigenous people near the colony site was also very tense, and wars of all sizes broke out several times. We used to be too lazy to care, and this time it was time to give them some eye drops. Last time the native tribe in the southeast invited us to set up a shopping mall or colonize there last time.

We have shirked the stronghold for various reasons. This time I think we can set up a small stronghold there, just by the way of others, and we can also arm the natives to attack the French. It would be best if the French were killed by the angry natives like in history, so that we can legitimately receive the inheritance. In addition, well, we can also send the Second Navy Fleet to block the local sea surface in the name of attacking pirates, reduce the incoming and out of the French, and objectively create conditions for the natives to attack."

After figuring out this matter, Ma Wanpeng wrote down his disposal opinions and planned to send them to various departments to follow suit. After doing this, he picked up another letter on the desk. This was a letter sent by his close friend, the PAP (their spontaneous association organization) from the Heishui region in the Far East. Ma Wanpeng had a vague guess about the contents of the letter, because Wei Boqiu had already vaguely talked about a lot of things in the first few letters written to him. After a few months, Wei Boqiu actually wrote another letter, which made Ma Wanpeng a little curious. How did this guy do on Heishui? (To be continued.)
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