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Chapter 733 Sino-Dutch naval battle (1) (one more)
Nan'an Prefecture in Fujian Province is only fifty or sixty miles away from Quanzhou. The eunuch Li Guofu, who was ordered by the order, escorted the imperial wine and meat, and soon arrived at the Quanzhou Navy Camp with the imperial decree to reward the three armies.

After Shi Lang, Yao Qisheng and He Jinwu got the report, the three generals hurried out of the camp and knelt down to receive the order.After the eunuch read the imperial decree, he left the wine and meat, and then went back to report.

Shi Lang, Yao Qisheng, and He Jinwu thanked Lord Long En. While feeling the mighty grace of the emperor, they were also greatly encouraged.Now that they were engaged in a second bigger battle, Shi Lang immediately distributed the wine and meat to the soldiers of the three armies, and read the imperial decree again in front of all the sailors.

Then everyone was asked to fill up the wine, Shi Lang held up a full bowl of wine, and stood on the commander's platform, Shi Lang was in the middle, Yao Qisheng was on the left, and He Jinwu was on the left, Shi Lang raised the wine bowl and shouted to the generals in the naval camp Said: "Long En's mighty so far, the Son of Heaven has placed such high hopes on us, and he must not fail the Holy Grace. The first battle in Quanzhou Bay broke the morale of my Ming Navy, and severely taught the Dutch red-haired bandits. But this is still far away. Not enough, there are a large number of Dutch warships currently stationed in our waters, we must continue to work hard to drive these red-haired thieves out of Ming Dynasty, take back Taiwan Island, and serve His Majesty!"

As soon as Shi Lang finished speaking, the soldiers below were excited, and they all held up their wine bowls and responded in unison: "Drive out the red-haired thieves and recover Taiwan Island! Drive out the red-haired thieves and recover Taiwan Island!..."

Thousands of people shouted, the sound shook the sky.

Then Shi Lang, Yao Qisheng and He Jinwu took the lead to drink up the imperial wine and smashed the wine bowl to pieces.The soldiers of the naval battalion also drained the wine in one breath, and then threw the wine bowl to the ground.

This kind of swearing-in symbolizes breaking the boat and fighting with one's back.If they don't succeed, they will be benevolent. They would rather be smashed to pieces like this wine bowl.

"Let's go!" Shi Lang ordered, and 2 sailors in Quanzhou Bay boarded the warships one after another. More than 400 large and small warships set up their sails and formed an offensive fleet. The sea breeze, hunting sounds, mighty, majestic and majestic drove out of Quanzhou Bay...

At this time, thousands of Dutch warships with nuclear weapons and live ammunition also started on the sea a hundred miles away from Quanzhou Bay, from the south of Quanzhou to the south of Jinmen.

The guns in Quanzhou Bay sounded for two hours. One hundred warships and 2000 Dutch colonial troops, including Captain Troy, all died on the seabed, and none survived. Fan Peixi, the naval commander of the Dutch colonists in Taiwan, had already obtained information.

When Van Persie heard the news, he was shocked at first.Because he never expected that Zhu Yousong, the court of the Ming Dynasty, would dare to deal such a heavy blow to them.In addition, he didn't expect that the Daming Navy had such strength that it could annihilate his forward navy in such a short period of time?
From Commander Fan's point of view, this was simply unbelievable.You must know that the 2000 warships in Troy and the [-] navy have first-class combat capabilities, ship tonnage, and firepower equipment. Which navy in the world can match them?

Before that, he felt that there was no possibility of accidents in this navy. He had heard the rumbling guns a long time ago, but he thought smugly that it was his captain Troy who was using cannons to teach disobedient Ming soldiers. Give Ming Emperor Zhu Yousong a disarm. If the two sides really go to war, the strength of the Truy fleet, let alone a small Quanzhou Bay, will sweep the entire southeast coast of Ming Dynasty.

But the result turned out to be a disastrous failure!

This Commander Fan could no longer remain calm, and he couldn't believe that Daming's navy was so powerful. On the one hand, he was furious, and on the one hand ordered someone to report to His Excellency Wei Malang, the Prime Minister who was sitting in Chixian City, and asked him to go to Shuji The government of their Great Netherlands Kingdom declared war on Ming Dynasty, and on the other hand ordered thousands of naval fleets to take full-scale action.

Thousands of Dutch warships are densely packed on the sea surface of a hundred miles from Quanzhou to Jinmen, covering the sea surface.Pieces of sails are like white clouds in the sky.Under the blue sky and on the vast sea, it constitutes a majestic and magnificent landscape.

Commander Van Persie personally commanded that these Ming army sailors must pay their debts with blood. He planned to go all out, not only to destroy the Ming army navy in Quanzhou Bay, but also to destroy the Ming army navy from Quanzhou to Jinmen, and then abandon the ship and board the island. .I want to force the Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong in Nan'an Prefecture to give in and send envoys to negotiate with them for a second time. Quanzhou and Zhangzhou will take root here. I will turn this place into the second Chixian City in Taiwan. It is the price of daring to fight against their Dutch navy ships without authorization.

"Report to Your Excellency Commander, the Ming Army Navy Fleet has been discovered ahead."

"Report to General Shi, we found the Dutch navy fleet ahead."...

On the sea about 50 miles from the coast, the two fleets encountered each other. ...

"Concentrate your firepower and sink them all for me!" Van Persie put down his binoculars, shouting with anger on his fat, red face.

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"Fire! Completely wipe out the red-haired thieves!" Shi Lang, who commanded the ship, put down the single-tube telescope. With a big wave of his hand, he also issued a combat order.

When the two sides were a few nautical miles apart, the cannons of the two fleets rushing to the forefront opened fire.

Hundreds of warships opened fire at the same time, and the intensity of the fire was rare.

In an instant, thousands of cannons were fired, and the shells roared and danced all over the sky, like rolling thunder, resounding through the sky and the earth.The sea was filled with gunpowder smoke, flames were everywhere, and water jets soared into the sky, one after another.

For a while, warships on both sides were hit, some were smashed on the spot, some were blown into two pieces, some were overturned in the sea, and some were on fire and tilted and gradually sank into the sea.

But the warships on both sides were still smoking and firing, charging forward.

To be fair.Looking at the strength and equipment of the ships of both sides, the warships of the Dutch colonists are superior to those of the Ming Navy.

Because the Netherlands is a first-class capitalist power, while the Ming Dynasty is still a feudal empire, the Netherlands is a veritable maritime hegemony, and the Ming Dynasty has just stabilized itself from the storm.In such a comparison, strengths and weaknesses are distinguished.

Specifically, their shipbuilding technology is far superior to that of Ming Dynasty. From the tonnage of the ship, the firepower equipment on the battleship, and the weapons that the soldiers of the two sides will use, the difference is very obvious.

The tonnage of the Dutch warships is large. Although the ships are all wooden and equipped with red cannons with a range of about ten miles, the Dutch warships have several layers of artillery fire, so the firepower is much denser.

In addition, the Netherlands also has many warships, and the number of people operating each warship is half that of the navy warships of the Ming army.That is to say, if a large warship of the Ming army requires hundreds of people even for combat and control, a large Dutch warship only needs three or forty people to complete combat and control.

Another point is that the Dutch army on the ship, except for the cannons, used Western firearms in their hands.The soldiers of the Ming army on the ships, in addition to cannons, mainly used cold weapons such as broadswords, spears, bows and arrows.

However, the Ming army also has advantages, not to mention morale, one, this is fighting at the door of Daming's house, and the right time, place and people are all taken advantage of.Second, the Ming army had a large number of sailors. Tens of thousands of sailors were deployed in Quanzhou Bay alone, while the Dutch colonists, a total of 8000 people came this time. Except for the 2000 who died in Quanzhou Bay, now only 6000 people are left.

The advantages and disadvantages of the two sides are relatively balanced. In a short period of time, it is hard to tell the outcome of this sea battle.

(End of this chapter)