Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 388

The southeast sea area of ​​Daming, more than [-] miles south of Dongfan Zhongwei.

The Nanyang Navy Fleet is fighting with the Dutch Navy Fleet.

In other words, the Dutch naval fleet is being beaten.

The scene on the battlefield is really a bit weird.

There are nearly fifty warships in the Dutch navy fleet, all of which are giant ocean-going warships, which are terrifyingly large. If the sails are counted, the Dragon Tooth warship of the Daming Navy is not half as tall as the ordinary warships of the Dutch Navy.

Moreover, in terms of the number of warships, the Daming Navy seems to be at an absolute disadvantage.

Because at this moment, the Nanyang Navy has assembled 49 dragon-tooth battleships, while the Dutch Navy has [-] giant ships.

However, the Nanyang navy fleet was chasing after the Dutch navy fleet, and they didn't even dare to turn around and fight back!
"Boom boom boom boom", "boom boom boom boom".

The roar of the artillery kept ringing, and the howling shells kept falling down. It was like setting off fireworks on the sea, and the water jets soaring into the sky were one after another.

Although the [-] ordinary warships in the rear of the Dutch navy fleet were twisting and turning like crazy, they were still smashed to pieces of wood and flying corpses.

Verhofen stood at the stern of the flagship, scanning all this with binoculars, his teeth already clenched.

However, he just didn't dare to order the fleet to turn around and fight back.

No way, they have four or five hundred small arson boats!

If he turned around with 49 warships, it would be like throwing himself into the fire!

Perhaps, if he was lucky, he could still kill two or three hundred small arson boats.

so what?
The final result is not annihilation!

He didn't want to be wiped out like Gao Wenlu, or rather, he didn't have the courage to die.

Therefore, he dared not turn around.

Yu Zigao was actually a little conflicted at the moment.

He wanted to annihilate the Dutch fleet and worried that too many casualties would make the emperor unhappy.

At this time, if he ordered four or five hundred small warships to spread out and surround them, it is estimated that none of the 49 Dutch warships would be able to escape.

However, he has been hesitant to order.

Because he gave an order that at least thousands of soldiers' lives would be lost!
Why bother?
At this time, he was already invincible.

And the reinforcements behind are rushing over quickly.

There is no need for him to let his soldiers rush forward to fight with others!

Perhaps, it is the best way to hang others to fight like this.

Anyway, it only consumes a little ammunition.

As for ammunition, the emperor didn't even know how much he sent him.

At this moment, the ammunition bays of every Dragon Fang warship are full, and they can't finish bombing for two or three days in a row.

Alas, let's spend it like this first!
This consumes a whole day!
The Nanyang Navy fleet chased the Dutch Navy fleet and bombarded it for more than ten hours, from morning to night!
At this time, the decks of the fourteen gunboats of the Nanyang Navy Fleet were already full of empty shell boxes and gunpowder barrels. The face is black and gray, dirty and tired.

The Dutch navy fleet was even worse. Only a few of the [-] ordinary warships left behind them!

Moreover, the remaining few ships were bombarded with holes everywhere, staggering, and seemed to be dying.

The firepower of the navy of the Ming Empire is too fierce.

Hundreds of thousands of shells were fired in one day!
Seeing the gradually darkening sky, Verhofen couldn't help secretly heaving a sigh of relief.

It's getting dark and you can't see anything, you can't follow behind and keep booming, right?
He had already decided that once it was completely dark, he would lead the fleet to change course, head southwest, and set off directly to flee back to Batavia.

As for whether the position of admiral can be kept, that is not the point anymore.

What's the use of being an admiral if you lose your life!

He was going to run away overnight, but Yu Zigao was going to make a surprise attack overnight!

Because the news had come from the rear wheels that the seven dragon tooth warships stationed at the Golden Gate Shouyu Qianhusuo were about to catch up with more than two hundred small paddle boats.

In other words, the number of their gunboats will soon surpass the Dutch fleet, and the number of small rowboats under his hands will also reach six or seven hundred.

What's more, once it gets dark, the sea is pitch black, and you can't see anything, even small paddle boats sneaking around and people can't see it.

Coupled with the backward method of loading ammunition in the front of the Dutch, he can destroy the remaining twenty warships of the Dutch with minimal losses as long as he uses a little trick.

At last it was completely dark.

Verhofen has already secretly turned around with the fleet as originally planned, and slowly sailed towards the southwest, while the Nanyang Navy has also lit up lights like stars.

They are preparing for the night battle, otherwise the lights would not be turned on!

In other words, in this dark night, he couldn't see the small rowing boat under his hands. The problem, he couldn't see the Dutch warships. How could he make a surprise attack in this situation?
It's very simple, just take a small boat as a "torch".

Soon, a team of carts pulled more than a dozen octopus boats full of firewood and drove forward at full speed.

Of course, there were no lights on these wheels, and there were no lights on the octopus they pulled.

On this pitch-black sea, it is naturally impossible for the Dutch to find them.

As a result, when they rushed up, they almost missed.

Because the Dutch had already swerved on the sly.

Fortunately, heading southwest is completely against the wind, and the Dutch warship is as slow as crawling on the sea.

Several wheels separated and searched for a while, and soon found the huge white sail on the Dutch warship.

More than a dozen wheel boats quietly pulled more than a dozen octopus boats full of firewood to the vicinity of the Dutch fleet, then turned off the steam valves, and floated on the sea.

But at this time, the oarsmen on more than a dozen octopus boats suddenly moved their oars, and pulled the wheel back to row towards the Dutch warship.

At this time, the ears of the Dutch were almost deafened by the roar of artillery all day long. In addition, it was pitch black all around, and the octopus and wheels were also pitch black. They didn't expect the Ming army to touch the octopus boat that came up at this time.

Of course, it is impossible to annihilate more than [-] giant ships with more than ten wheeled ships and more than ten octopus ships.

These octopus boats are here to serve as torches.

Soon, they affixed more than ten giant ships respectively, and hung the octopus boats behind more than ten giant ships with barbed iron hooks.

Immediately afterwards, they cut the rope, lit the firewood on the boat, and then grabbed the cut rope and jumped into the water, swimming quickly to the rear wheel.

The Dutch fleet was immediately illuminated by more than a dozen huge "torches".

And more than a dozen wheel boats quickly retreated with the oarsmen who climbed up.

Verhofen looked at the blazing "torch", with a look of horror in his eyes.

On this pitch-black sea, they carried more than a dozen big torches behind their buttocks, so one can imagine what will happen.

The problem is that he still has no way to quickly extinguish these dozen or so torches.

Because the location of the post is too tricky, just under the protruding part of their stern, even if water is poured from above, it cannot be poured.

Unless he made people risk jumping into the sea and scuttled the dozen or so arson ships.

The question is, who dares to jump into the pitch-black sea?

Even if someone dares to jump down, it's too late!

He knew it was over.

Sure enough, before he had time to order people to jump down to dig the boat, there was a violent roar of artillery in the darkness.

The navy of the Ming Empire has started again!

"Boom boom boom boom", the shells fell like raindrops again, and in an instant, more than 20 warships were submerged by the soaring water column and sawdust splashed everywhere.

When they were evading in a hurry, countless small boats suddenly appeared on both sides of the fleet.

In this dark night, they can see these boats with the help of the reflection of those "torches", which proves that they are less than a hundred meters away from them.

At this distance, artillery is useless!

As soon as the roar of the gunboats of the Ming army building stopped behind, hundreds of small boats on both sides swarmed up.

I don't know how many musketeers on board are firing bullets non-stop, making them dare not show their faces at all.

Soon, hundreds of small boats came up, and more than 20 warships were suddenly submerged in the hooks flying all over the sky. I don't know how many soldiers of the Ming army are climbing to the deck quickly!

The Dutch fleet was wiped out by the Nanyang Navy in this way!

This sea overlord is nothing!
Yu Zigao could not help showing a hint of disdain when he saw the lights on the Dutch battleships in the distance, which represented the successful capture of the ship.

These guys are really badass. They don't know any tactics at all, and they don't have the courage to go all out. It's a joke to be the overlord of the sea!

Taichang was also a little dumbfounded when he received the battle report.

The Dutchman always cooked a little beyond his expectations.

The Beiyang Navy reinforcements he sent hadn't arrived in Dongfan yet, and the Dutch fleet was wiped out by the Nanyang Navy!
Perhaps, these continental powers can bully the natives who have no guns or artillery.

Compared with Daming, they are really far behind.

As long as Daming's weapons and equipment are a little more advanced than theirs, they are a dish!

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