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Chapter 729 Bloody Quanzhou Bay (Part [-])
A hundred Dutch warships formed a formation in Quanzhou Bay and hung the small Dutch national flag. Regardless of the Ming army's stern warnings and firing warning shots, they entered arrogantly.

The reason why the fleet of the Dutch colonists dared to be so arrogant was that, on the one hand, they were the most powerful capitalist country in the world and possessed the most powerful naval fleet. Not to mention a dilapidated feudal China, even the Western powers would not in the eyes.

On the other hand, their thinking concept still stays in the Chongzhen era.They think that the Ming Dynasty is still the oriental sick lion full of holes. Emperor Chongzhen was forced to hang himself by the turbulent peasant uprising. How much can a little Fu Wang who has just been promoted to the throne for a few years just do?
Therefore, this group of Dutch colonists believed that they had won the Ming Emperor Zhu Yousong, and planned to support Emperor Longwu, who was backed by the Zheng family army, in order to obtain more vested interests in Taiwan and the mainland.

That's why they dared to make such a bold provocation. The fleet brazenly sailed into Quanzhou Bay, and now it has become a naked aggression.

They thought that the Daming navy should not dare to launch a large-scale counterattack. Even if the navy were to launch a large-scale counterattack, they would not be afraid with their strong ships and powerful guns.

But they were wrong. The current Daming is not what it used to be. It is far from the Daming four years ago. The navy of Daming is no longer the decayed Daming Navy of the Chongzhen era. A group of elite sailors rose up.

As early as four years ago, when Zhu Yousong dealt with the warlord Liu Zeqing, and when he recruited He Zhaoxiong and his daughter, the iron-armed Canglong who were born in Lulin, he had the idea of ​​building a powerful navy. In the decisive battle in Jiujiang, the navy was tempered and improved, and after two or three years of development and growth, Zhu Yousong's navy has formed a scale.

From the configuration of warships and artillery, to the training of the comprehensive quality of the navy, to the equipment of the generals, the navy that Zhu Yousong drove has been built into a powerful force.

Today is the time to test the overall combat effectiveness of this team. The best way to test the combat effectiveness of an army is not training but actual combat, especially actual combat against strong opponents, and actual combat with world-class fleets can explain the problem even more.

Hongshan Town and Chongwu Town are two fortresses guarding Quanzhou Bay, and the Ming army built forts here.After receiving Shi Lang's order, the two chief executives on the two forts immediately ordered their artillery officers to load the shells, adjust the front sight and the rear sight, and then ordered to fire.

After the soldiers of the Ming army ignited the cores with torches, there was a soft chirping sound, and dozens of cannons in red clothes roared angrily.

"Boom, boom, chatter..."

Amid the sound of the earth shaking and the mountains shaking, the red-clothed cannon spewed fire, and the shells roared out, hitting the target accurately and exploding.

Some directly landed on the Dutch ship, turning into a ball of fire with a loud noise, and several famous Dutch generals with muskets in their hands disappeared in the thick smoke and flames.Some Dutch generals were blown into the sky while loading ammunition.

Some shells fell into the waters near the warship, stirring up a jet of water that covered the warship. After the water jet scattered, the warship had been overturned.

The originally peaceful Quanzhou Bay roared with gunfire, gunpowder smoke filled the air, and the water column soared into the sky, rising and falling one after another.

In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen ships behind the Dutch fleet were blown up and sunk.

Captain Truy didn't expect that the Ming army would dare to shoot at them, and the red-haired thief who became furious immediately ordered their fleet to open fire.

The Dutch fleet's artillery equipment is very strong, and the tonnage of the ships is also large. The red cannons on several Dutch warships aimed at the artillery positions on the shore and started firing.

The Dutch fleet is very powerful. Several ships fired at the same time, and the artillery fire was extremely fierce.The roar of cannons, the whistling of shells, the deafening sound of explosions, the splashing of sand and gravel, the green trees on fire, the billowing of smoke, and the splashing of fireballs.

A shell landed on the Hongshan Town running camp, and exploded with a bang. Five soldiers of the Ming army near the cannon in red screamed and flew down in a pool of blood. On the barrel, the cannon in red was stained with blood.

But immediately, several artillery generals came up as substitutes. They removed the corpses of their companions, continued to load explosives and shells, and fired fiercely at targets on the distant sea.

Another shell roared, and the red-clothed cannon collapsed with a bang, and several soldiers of the Ming army fell in a pool of blood, but the substitute soldiers of the Ming army ran over to continue fighting...

"Your Excellency, Captain, a Ming army ship is found on the port side!... A Ming army ship is found on the starboard side!... A Ming army ship is found directly ahead!"

Within 1 minute, Captain Troy found Ming ships one after another.

He raised the binoculars, white sails overlapped on the sea, and the formation of black ships came over the waves, with the flag of Ming Dynasty and the flag with the word "He" flying on the bow.

"The goose-winged fleet? Adjust the formation and sink them all!" Troy shouted disdainfully.He only knows that his ship is strong and the guns are strong, the artillery has a long range and great power.

However, he overlooked one point. The current firepower of the Ming army fleet is not far behind them.

As soon as Truy's words fell, the Ming army's ships looked from the front and the left and right wings, and the Dutch battleship formation opened fire together.

The ships that came here consisted of 60 large and small ships in three directions. The leader was He Jinwu, a general of the Ming army. He led 3000 sailors under Shi Lang's order to cooperate with the artillery battalion at night, and entered without permission. The Dutch colonial invader fleet in the Daming sea area.

The navy of the Ming army has 20 ships in one direction, and 60 ships in three directions. Among them, 3 large ships are in the forefront, and the rest of the small and medium-sized ships are closely behind, facing the Dutch fleet. Let's fire together.

Each such large ship has 24 cannons, of which the red cannons are 12 or 8.

In this way, the six large ships in three directions had nearly a hundred red cannons, and they fired at the Dutch fleet at the same time, and the firepower was quite fierce.

The range of the red cannon is about ten miles, which is not inferior to the artillery fire on the Dutch warship.Now the Dutch fleet was attacked back and forth.The rear of the fleet was bombarded by artillery camps on the shore, and the front and left and right of the fleet were attacked by the Ming fleet led by He Jinwu.

The Dutch fleet was attacked from both sides. They did not expect the Ming army's artillery fire to be so fierce, nor did they expect the Ming army's naval fleet to be so fierce, and the fleet was quickly beaten to pieces.

"Fire, fire me hard!" Truy yelled, and the warships on both sides blasted each other with cannons.

"Rush over to me! Sink them!" Troy pointed the command knife in his hand at the Ming army fleet in front of him and yelled.

"No way, Captain, the firepower of the Ming army is too strong. Our fleet has suffered heavy losses. More than 20 ships have been sunk and destroyed. The lone army will go deep into the battle. If this continues, the entire army will be wiped out. Hurry up and withdraw." The first officer reminded.

At this moment, a shell roared, and the frightened first officer hurriedly embraced the captain Troy and lay on the deck...

(End of this chapter)