The fleets of various companies were not far away. About an hour later, the sea owners on the list gathered on the Duke of Goa.

Many people were boarding this huge ship for the first time, and they were all shocked by its magnificence.

"Oh my god, how much did this cost?" Zhu Liangbao reached out and touched the railing that was carved with gorgeous patterns and painted with gold. "This material is such a waste if it's not used to make furniture."

"The scraps can be used to make bracelets." Pepper said with a curled lip, "What a luxury! You really have to compare the goods before you throw them away."

As he said this, he smiled at Zeng Yiben and said, "Mr. Zeng, if your Wuwei ship with a capacity of ten thousand hu was still there, would you still be so arrogant?"

"Damn it, you're just talking about something else." Zeng Yiben held his heart. He spent hundreds of thousands of taels of silver on a boat, but he didn't even get on it! And the big sandalwood bed was creaking, but he didn't even get on it.

Lin Daoqian couldn't help but show a strange look. He knew that the flagship of the Coast Guard Fleet, Zhenwo, was the ship of Zeng Yiben. He also heard the girl complain that on the way from Ryukyu, she couldn't fall asleep every night because of the creaking noise, which made her have dark circles under her eyes...

"Please come this way." At this time, the adjutant led everyone to the senior officers' dining room on the stern deck.

Everyone sat down at a long dining table covered with a white embroidered tablecloth, brass candlesticks and flowers. I thought the Portuguese were going to treat us to a meal, but the Indian waiter just poured each person a glass of port wine and left it at that.

"How f*cking stingy." A sea lord muttered in a low voice.

Soon, Lin Hongzhong and Domingo walked in. The latter sat in the main seat, and Lin Hongzhong sat next to him as an interpreter.

"During the battle, I will not be polite to you. If you are negligent, I will double your compensation after victory."

After Lin Hongzhong finished translating, Domingo looked around at the dozen or so sea lords present and said, "You are all tested allies. I can fully trust you. I wonder if you can fully trust me?"

"Of course." The sea lords nodded one after another. Lin Daoqian also emphasized: "Your Excellency the Commander and I are in the same boat. We share the same fate!"

"Okay!" Domingo said happily, "Then I ask everyone to immediately bring a manager from the Wuyang Trade House back to your fleet, hand over the command to him in front of your men, and then come back here."

"What's this for?" The sea lords were unhappy when they heard this. Their subordinates were their capital, and their fleet was their capital. How could they let others manipulate them at will? What if they were played around with? Without their capital, they were nothing.

"We have to do this to win." Lin Hongzhong explained: "The lessons of the past few days have proved that it is impossible for so many sea lords to get together and issue unified orders. I don't need to say how much loss the chaos caused by multiple leaders has caused everyone, right?"

The sea lords were speechless. In the first two days of fighting, they had lost more than 60 ships and more than 3,000 people. Among them, except for Zeng Yiben's troops who were defeated in Qing'ao Bay, the rest of the people and ships were basically lost by the enemy after they lost their composure. The loss was indeed greater when there was no unified command.

"To be honest, Guangdong has issued an ultimatum, requiring us to leave Macau before the end of the year." Domingo sighed, "So we have no chance to make a comeback. Either we win this time and change the government's decision with our strength. Or we fail this time and retreat back to Malacca. Then, when you face Jiangnan Group in the future, we will be unable to help you."

"Of course, we don't mean to force you." Lin Hongzhong added: "If anyone is unwilling, please go back. It's just that we share the risk today, so we will be qualified to share the wealth in the future!"

The implication is that whoever disagrees will not be let off no matter which side wins the battle.

"Okay, I agree!" Lin Daoqian was the first to respond: "Since there is no way out, we might as well give it a try!"

"We have no way out. Let's go all out!" Zeng Yiben also nodded.

Zhu Liangbao, Jiaohuo Lao and others also nodded, and the other sea lords had no choice but to nod their heads regardless of whether they were reluctant or not.

"Go ahead, hand over the command, and come back here!" Domingo nodded with satisfaction and said, "I'll prepare a feast for everyone to enjoy when they come back!"

~~

Lin Daoquan returned to his boat and explained the matter to Lin Zhiling and others. He also introduced a manager of the Wuyang Trading House and a Portuguese who had come with them. The two of them also brought a dozen guards.

Hearing that such a small group of people wanted to take over their group, Lin Zhiling and others started to make a noise and wanted to drive the newcomers away.

As pirates, it's normal for them to do whatever they want.

Lin Daoqian scolded everyone and said to the manager, "Why don't you step aside for a moment so I can talk to the brothers alone. Otherwise, you two will be very stubborn."

"As you wish." The steward and the red-haired ghost left.

As soon as the door closed, Lin Zhiling lowered his voice and asked, "Boss, what's going on?"

"That's exactly what happened." Lin Daoqian lowered his voice and said, "It's obvious that the red-haired devil is going to make a big move. He wants to use our people, but he's also afraid that someone will collude with the young master and leak the news. So he came up with such a dirty trick. On the one hand, he wants to keep everyone in the dark until the last moment, and on the other hand, he uses us, the bosses, as hostages. Who's subordinates dare to turn against us at the last minute?"

"How shameless!" Lin Zhiling said indignantly, "This kind of shameless trick was probably thought up by the traitors."

"Yes, the most hateful ones are the traitors." All the leaders nodded and angrily denounced the traitors.

"Okay, stop talking." Lin Daoqian stopped everyone and said, "I'll find a chance to send this message out at night, and then you just need to be careful and follow me to practice Taiping Fist, but don't die in vain."

Although he had surrendered to Zhao Hao, he was not yet willing to sacrifice himself for his master, so he gave up the idea of ​​stabbing the red-haired devil in the back at the critical moment.

"Then boss, you have to be careful." Lin Zhiling and others also warned.

In fact, these words were just politeness, because unlike Lin Feng who was indifferent to life and death and would fight against it if he didn't accept it, Lin Daoquan always valued his own life.

Of course, except when the girl is in danger...

~~

After noon, all the sea masters on the list handed over their subordinates and returned to the Portuguese ship. Domingo certainly did not hesitate to entertain them with good wine and food.

But even at this time, he still kept his plan a secret and just asked them to stay on the boat patiently and wait to see the show.

At the same time, the managers who took over the various fleets, in accordance with Domingo's unified deployment, took out all the food reserves of each ship, as well as the meat dishes such as sausages and bacon that the leaders had hidden privately, and used them all at once, so that the pirates who had only been able to eat half full in recent days could fill their stomachs.

On Lin Daoquan's boat, Lin Zhiling and his two younger brothers were smoking pipes at the bow and watching the scene coldly.

“Damn it, if I had known I would have divided it up.” His second brother Lin Zhixuan said depressedly, “These bastards used it to buy people’s hearts, while we got ourselves into trouble!”

"Okay, don't worry about your two sausages." Third brother Lin Zhiying took a puff of his pipe and whispered, "I think it will be tomorrow."

"Yeah." Lin Zhiling nodded and said, "I just saw that Curry is out of breath. I guess he will be too hungry to last this afternoon."

"So, there will be action tonight?" Lin Zhiying said.

"Explain these things clearly and let them judge for themselves!" Lin Zhiling whispered.

"They are keeping a close eye on us now. It would make too much noise if we release the boat. The two pigeons were also stewed by the bastards. How can we send a message?" Lin Zhixuan said depressedly, "Can't we just swim over there?"

"Good idea." The two brothers looked at him together. Lin Zhiling said, "Second brother, aren't you known as the wanderer in the water? It depends on you to swim over..."

"Second brother, you can do it!" Lin Zhiying also encouraged him.

"Fuck, am I adopted?" Lin Zhixuan wanted to die. It was about seven or eight miles from here to Qing'ao Bay. He didn't have the courage to swim into Qing'ao Bay, where the trees and grass looked like enemies. For safety reasons, he had to go around Dongjiao Mountain and meet at the contact point in Zhuqi Bay.

The whole journey must have been more than ten miles.

With his physique, swimming ten or twenty miles during the day would be no problem. But at night, it was dark and if he got lost, even Aquaman would die.

"Don't be afraid, second brother, I have this." Lin Zhiying quietly put a small waterproof compass into his hand, which was luminous.

It is just a compass with a glass shell and a pointer coated with luminous fluorite powder, which is very airtight. This thing, like a telescope, is the standard equipment of the Coast Guard. Lin Daoqian also got a few sets, which were regarded as rewards from the owner.

What his elder brother gave him were a few Coast Guard energy bars wrapped in oil paper, which could quickly replenish energy and delay the onset of fatigue.

"Lian Mu, Jia rice with dog stuffing!" Lin Zhixuan rolled his eyes and spat, but still took it.

~~

After it was completely dark, the two brothers used stove ash to paint Lao Er's head black from head to toe. Then, one of them kept watch while the other let out a rope, and they quietly lowered Lin Zhixuan, who was darker than an African, into the water.

Lin Zhixuan's reputation as a wanderer in the water was not undeserved. After entering the water, he dived quite far and when he surfaced, he was already some distance away from the fleet.

He looked up at the sky; it was gloomy and foggy, and he could not see anything.

Cursing inwardly, Lin Zhixuan spat out the compass from his mouth, wiped his face and looked carefully at the faint fluorescence above. After figuring out the direction, he began to swim grunting.

When he finally swam to Zhuqi Bay and climbed onto the beach, he no longer had the strength to stand up. He could only barely spit out the mud in his mouth and blew it weakly.

Finally, a Marine in a ghillie suit spotted him...

"Single Love Song!" The black muzzle of the gun was pointed at his forehead.

"Never left..." Lin Zhixuan gave the password for this meeting, and then spit out a wax ball from his mouth.

Half an hour later, the wax ball and Lin Zhixuan were brought to Zhao Hao.

ps. There is one more update.