Daming Yinghua

At the end of March in the 47th year of Wanli, the night fog on the sea from Xiamen to Jinmen became thicker day by day.

The sailors, merchants, and fishermen in Zhangquan and Xiajin areas have long been accustomed to such weather.

Every year from late autumn to early summer of the following year, when the turn of the century begins, no matter how strong the northwest or southeast wind is, it cannot blow away the vast fog.

Kinmen, Liuluowan.

Under the bunker of the guard, the door of a cell was opened.

Gullit instinctively raised his hand to cover his eyes before the torchlight that suddenly shone into the dark world.

Two guards from the Ming army came in, untied his ankle chains, and pointed their knives at him: "Go out by yourself."

Gullit was suddenly terrified: "What are you going to do? You must not massacre civilians! This will lead to war between the two countries!"

"Stop talking nonsense, get up and follow us. I won't kill you. What a cowardly foreign monkey." A guard of the Ming army dragged Gullit up.

The other guard was a little gentler, pointing outside: "You won't lose your head, Master asked us to take you to Miss Zheng."

Behind the fog barrier, the orderly's Dutch words continued to reach Ruffin's ears standing in the middle of the port side of the Groningen.

This passage of Ming dialect was not difficult, and Gullit understood it. He was speechless for a while, and just stared at Zheng Haizhu angrily.

With the loud noise, a heavy 48-pound shell on the Groningen ripped through the foggy night and headed straight for Liuluo Bay.

"Victoria's gunners in position!"

Ruffin picked up the binoculars.In the chaos brought by the sea fog, it takes a lot of effort for human eyes to discern the general outline of Kinmen Island.

"The warriors of the Ming Dynasty are sleeping soundly." Lu Fen pursed his lips and teased Bern, the captain of the Groningen beside him.

But I am a man anyway, and I can't live in a sad face in front of a woman, especially when there are many Ming men around.

Bourne responded with a smile: "Then use our artillery fire to wake them up!"

Their current mission is to bombard the Ming warships in the bay first.

The harbor is fixed, and so are the sleeping ships in the harbor. For the Dutch who actively attacked fixed targets at night, the fog barrier is not only not a problem, but also helps to hide their tracks.The southeast night wind blowing from Penghu Island to Kinmen made the Dutch boat much faster than usual.

"Delft gunner in position!"

The other four gunboats in the front fired immediately, and the sea surface of Liuluo Bay, which was still quiet and silent a moment ago, suddenly roared with gunfire and dazzling fire.

"Fill the gunpowder!"

About half an hour later, Liuluowan is due south.

When he felt the chill break through the already dirty woolen coat, he realized that he had come to the top of the guardhouse.

Lufen was very satisfied with the dense fog over the Xiamen Sea and the strengthening southeast wind at night.

At this moment, the elevation angle of the Dutch cannon is adjusted to ten degrees, which can form effective lethality within a range of two kilometers.

When a foreign monkey thinks of a femme fatale, his monkey nature seems to have turned into a tiger's prestige.

Ruffin looked to the left and right sides, five large Galen warships lined up horizontally, and seven or eight three-masted Arhat assault ships with a displacement of one to two hundred tons spread all over the vicinity, forming the most beautiful naval battle in the eyes of the Dutch. formation.

He threw off the guards, cursed a Dutch swear word, and seamlessly converted it into a Chinese metaphor he had just learned.

"I'm going to question this femme fatale!"

Xu Xinsu laughed at the side and said: "What kind of trap is not a trap? It's a piece of shit. Do you blame others for taking off your pants to make you ugly? Okay, Dutch gentleman, sit here and watch the show. Miss Zheng said, you are a Merchant, you’re not too stupid, you bought a lot of goods from our Daming in Yuegang in the past. After the battle is over, I’ll leave you a seat at the negotiating table.”

"Fleets line up, port side facing twelve o'clock!"

"Groningen gunners in place!"

When approaching the beach of Liu Luo Wan, the elevation angle of the cannon gradually decreased until it was adjusted to be horizontal, and the military installations on the shore were bombarded.

Ruffin was really a warlike coachman, and he obviously didn't care about the lives of his company's senior consultants and more than a dozen outstanding sailors.

Turning to see Gullit, Zheng Haizhu stopped talking about future cooperation with Xu Xinsu, poured a cup of hot tea, and walked over to pass it to the Dutchman.

When Gullit heard this, his panic turned into burning anger.

"Orange's gunners in position!"

Gullit then strengthened his self-esteem, and said with a straight face: "Zheng, it was you who set up the insidious trap first, ah, this trap must have been approved by your government. It is you Ming people who have no credibility. Our general , It is right not to negotiate with you!"

There is no light that illuminates the sky, earth, mountains and seas, pierces through the chaos, and enters Ruffin's eyes.

"Falling sail!"

Gullit felt strange.

……

The swear words that Gullit had held back all the way were blocked by the words "come and see the war" before he could utter them.

Seeing Gullit staring at those Persian cat-like eyes, Zheng Haizhu added lightly: "Your company has given up on you. Come directly to attack tonight."

"I invite you to watch the war, you have to see the dawn. Warm your hands, it's cold on the mountain."

"boom--"

"Fire!"

Gullit took a big stride, walking with the two guards with his head held high.

Zheng Haizhu tit-for-tat: "Gullit, here is an idiom for you, a thief calls catch a thief. It is about you Dutch people. The thief we Ming people call is a robber. You wanted to occupy Penghu Island in our Ming country more than ten years ago. At that time, there was no Zhan Cheng, now come to Zhan again, what is it if it’s not a bandit? You don’t go through the government of the Ming Dynasty to collect a large number of slave labor from me pretending to be a black market businessman, and transport them to your construction sites and plantations. What is it if it’s not a bandit? Ours The navy seized the slave ship and handed it to Ruffin with the seal of the general soldier, ordering your ships to leave our land within a time limit and come to sign the agreement. You pretended to delay, but actually mobilized more troops from Batavia. Attacking our guardhouse, what is it if it’s not a robber? Shouldn’t hunters set a trap for hungry wolves like robbers like you?”

"Middleberg's gunners are in position!"

Zheng Haizhu and Xu Xinsu were drinking tea and chatting around the small red clay stove.

The deafening noise, the orange flame, the pungent sulfur smell, and the high-pitched cheers instantly stimulated the adrenaline of the male beasts on the sea, making their desire to kill and destroy stronger than the raging waves .

After a burst of bombardment, there was an interval between the ships launching the second round. Ruffin and the captains keenly noticed that the southeast wind seemed to have changed direction, which restrained the speed of the Dutch fleet heading northwest.

But the aggressors were less anxious about it.The fleet is already so close to Liuluo Bay, the heavy and powerful artillery shells with amazing range, will they still be blown away by the southwest wind?

In fact, from the binoculars, the officers had already seen with satisfaction the indistinct but growing orange-red fireballs behind the fog curtain, indicating that the ships of the Ming army had already become the first victims.

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