The Sulu Sea is located between Batavia and Manila. It connects the Luzon Islands in the northeast, the Sulu Islands in the southeast, Borneo as the boundary in the southwest, and Palawan Island in the northwest, with more than a thousand miles across, making it a huge sea area surrounded by archipelago.

After entering the Sulu Sea, Fan Mendi was in a good mood and would arrive in Manila in ten days. The Ming Empire did not react at all. The way was calm. Except for occasionally seeing merchant ships and fishing boats that could be avoided from afar, they had never seen a single warship, and there was no alarm from the sentry ships near Manila Bay. These were enough to prove that the Ming Empire did not notice his sneak attack at all.

How should we threaten the Ming Empire after occupying Manila? This issue needs to be discussed carefully. Just as representatives from all countries were on his flagship. Taking advantage of the high interest, he directly summoned all representatives to the flagship conference room and began to discuss the threat of the Ming Empire.

After the representatives of all countries arrived, Fan Mendi said proudly: "Everyone, crossing this Sulu Sea, Manila is ahead. The Ming Empire still has no reaction at all. It seems that our sneak attack plan has not been noticed. When the joint fleet arrives in Manila, it will be too late for the Ming Empire to react quickly. Five thousand new recruits will definitely not survive the joint attack of sea and land. How to threaten the Ming Empire next? Everyone can give some advice."

The French representative immediately said excitedly: "We France ask Portugal to return Calais."

The British representative followed: "We in the UK demanded that Spain return the Port of Dover."

When Van Mendi heard this, he rolled his eyes. The Netherlands also asked Spain to ced Dunkirk! Now we are discussing the Far East, the target of the Ming Empire, how did it involve Portugal and Spain?

The Swedish representative said very pertinently: "At least they should withdraw their troops from the Mughal Empire immediately."

The Denmark representative then said with hope: "Let them compensate us for our losses. Now the Ming Empire is very rich, and they must pay at least 50 million taels of compensation!"

Fan Mendi was so depressed. He shook his head and said, "I don't know if the translators translated my meaning incorrectly, or if you misunderstood my words, what I was talking about is how to threaten the Ming Empire, rather than asking the Ming Empire. We must figure out how much threat it can pose to the Ming Empire after occupying Manila, so that we can raise the conditions based on this level of threat."

After saying that, he took out a map of the Far East, placed it on the conference table, and pointed to the sea west of Manila, saying: "This is the only waterway for the Ming Empire to the South Ocean. It only takes one or two days to set off from Manila Bay. What I can think of now is to send warships to cut off their waterways, so that the trade exchanges between the Ming Empire and the South Ocean and even the continent will be cut off. I think this is a very good way to threaten it."

Representatives of various countries finally understood what Van Mendy meant, and the British representative immediately said without hesitation: "This place is not far from the Southeast Peninsula, Formosa and the southeastern coast of the Ming Empire. If the Ming Empire wants to disagree with our conditions, we will send warships to plunder these places. This threatening method is also good, right?"

Van Mendi nodded and reminded: "Don't go Formosa, there is their naval base there, and you can consider it elsewhere."

The French representative then proposed: "There are always vendors from the Ming Empire in Manila and Luzon Islands. After we occupy Manila, we will directly search for vendors from the Ming Empire. If the Ming Empire dares to disagree with our conditions, we will kill all the captured defenders and the vendors we have searched. We should have some concerns to threaten them like this?"

Massacre of civilians is a bit cruel, but this kind of thing was not done much in the colonies of the great powers. Van Mendi nodded and agreed: "Yeah, it's not bad, you can consider it."

Next, representatives from various countries spoke enthusiastically, and various evil tricks emerged one after another. For a moment, the atmosphere in the entire conference room was extremely warm, and mouth foam flew everywhere. Looking at their expressions, those who didn't know thought that the Ming Empire had been trampled by them!

Just as they were discussing it in full swing, a personal guard suddenly broke in, hurriedly saluted, and then said in panic: "Governor General, it's no good, a large number of Ming Empire warships appeared in front of our fleet!"

When Fan Mendi heard this, his face changed. He immediately left everyone, ran to the bow of the ship, took out his telescope, and looked forward to the front of the fleet. He saw a large number of Ming Empire warships appeared on the left and right sides of the joint fleet. However, it seemed that there were only forty or fifty super battleships on both sides, and the others were Fu Ship warships. Although the number of warships was terrifying, the number of artillery may not be as large as that of the joint fleet.

There is still hope, because the Joint Fleet has 120 super battleships and is also equipped with 30,000 musketeers. It is not afraid that the Ming Empire will board the ship by relying on its number advantage. Fan Mendy put down his telescope and ordered decisively: "Order, all warships load solid bullets and prepare for shooting. The super battleships are divided into two left and right rows, passing through the two Ming fleets, and other warships are temporarily in the middle of the super battleships and do not fire."

According to Fan Mendi's observation, the distance between the two Ming army's fleets was about ten miles, which was enough for the joint fleet to pass through. First, give them a round of artillery bombardment. If they were to hold on, there would be only a melee.

In fact, the Ming army came not only two fleets, but three fleets. The North Sea Fleet and the South Sea Fleet were separated from each other in front and left and right. The Nanyang Navy was slowly following ten miles behind the two fleets. If you look from the air, you can find that these three fleets were surging in an inverted triangle toward the combined fleet of the powers.

Seeing that the super battleships on the Joint Fleet were lined up in single rows to prepare for shelling, the super battleships of the Ming North Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet also lined up to usher in single rows. All the Fu Ship warships were just following the periphery and did not participate in the battle immediately.

The two sides quickly intersected on a horizontal line, and the battleships on both sides began to pour shells into each other frantically. The Ming army won because of its fast firing speed. The fifty battleships on both sides kept firing "booming" and almost no stop. The joint fleet won because of its great power. The cannon shells fired at least twice as powerful as the howitzer. Either they could not hit, or if they hit, wood chips would fly across the board.

The fleets of both sides quickly intersected. In this round of artillery, the joint fleet took advantage of this round of artillery, because the power of howitzers was difficult to penetrate the hull, and they could only cause certain damage to the sails and sailors on the deck, but the cannon shells were smashed one by one. Therefore, most of the Ming army's warships were damaged by the hull, and most of the warships of the joint fleet had many holes on the sails. If you want to talk about the damage, it was better for the Ming army to be bigger.

Just as Fan Mendy held up the telescope proudly and looked to the left and right back to appreciate the results, the flag bearer on the mast suddenly blew a whistle. He couldn't help but look up in surprise, and the flag bearer actually pointed ahead!

He swept the telescope forward, oh, the one who bought the cake, there was a larger fleet of the Ming Empire coming towards him!
Chapter completed!