Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 194 Recovering the Chiefs ([-])

"Hey, those Dutch people seem to have been fooled. They immediately ordered to move forward at full speed."

On the deck with the Dutch flag, an officer was observing the movement of Dayuan Harbor with a Zeiss telescope.

There was no panic when they found those faintly visible figures, and all the ships showed no signs of leaving the port immediately, apparently treating their own fleet as their Dutch fleet.

Those who can use the Zeiss telescope are naturally the new army.

However, all of the fourteen warships sailing at the front were Dutch warships with Dutch flags on them.

The entire fleet was roughly arranged in an inverted triangle, hiding the eleven new army warships in the last row.

Naturally, these Dutch warships were captured in the South Australia naval battle. In order to paralyze the Dutch, Tangning put all the captured Dutch ships in this direction, and replaced them with Dutch flags, pretending to be Dutch.

Tangning wasn't 100% sure that she could fool the Dutch, but it was a good strategy. If she could, she would lie. If she couldn't, she could only fight head-on.

But the Dutch made up for the loopholes in this strategy by themselves, thinking that the news from Batavia was not delivered in time, so they were not informed of the arrival of the fleet in Formosa in time.

Even if the direction was wrong, they consciously attributed it to the bad weather last night.

If Tangning knew the news, she would have to thank the weather last night.

Of course, the biggest reason they were able to be fooled was that they never thought that someone would be able to attack Formosa at this time.

Because the new army, which can now threaten the Dutch, has signed the "Fuzhou Agreement" with them, and it has been confirmed that the new army is about to go north to fight against their greatest enemy, the Qing army.

So there is no time and energy to come to Formosa.

The fleet quickly approached Dayuan Port, and the soldiers on each warship were also waiting in strict order. All artillery shells had already been loaded, and the German artillery had also been loaded.

As the distance drew closer, Padraic glanced at the fleet again, feeling something was wrong, and asked Edwin next to him, "Will Batavia send a fleet of more than twenty ships?"

Edwin, who was leaning against the side of the ship, smiled and said, "How is that possible? Batavia only has a total of [-] warships. Isn't it going to be a decisive battle? Send all the ships over, and Batavia's defense will not be ignored? "

Patrick was surprised, and said, "But it seems that there are more than twenty ships approaching us."

When Edwin heard it, his face changed immediately, he turned around immediately, and picked up the binoculars to look again.

After a while, he said in horror: "Oh, damn it, we were deceived, there are other ships hidden behind the fleet, and these ships are not our Dutch ships."

"The new army is the new army. Only the new army can have so many Dutch ships."

"Damn it, I'm not dreaming, how could they appear here."

Patrick roared: "Damn it, don't care how they came here, it's an enemy attack, it's an enemy attack, ring the bell."

The "Dangdangdang" alarm sounded, and many people were still a little confused.

"Damn it, move quickly, it's an enemy attack, it's an enemy attack."

"Quick, quick, go back to your post, start the boat, and prepare for the battle."

The Dutch suddenly ran on the deck, and the sails began to rise slowly. The commander of the new army naturally noticed it immediately, and knew that the Dutch knew their identity.

Now it is less than five miles away from the port. Although the shooting accuracy at this distance is not high, the commander of the new army can't care about it, because this is the time when the enemy is most vulnerable.

They have no formation, and they are so dense, they are still in a static state, so if they don't attack at this time, it will be better to wait.

"Adjust the course and attack with all your strength..."

With an order, the entire fleet quickly began to adjust its course and put out a battle line formation.

The holes and windows of each gun position were pulled up, the cannon was pushed forward, and the hideous muzzle was exposed.

"fire……"

"Boom boom boom..."

Whether it's the German artillery or the red cannon, let's start with all our strength.

At this distance, range is not an issue.

Even the red-clothed cannon can reach such a distance with a high angle, but the accuracy will be much worse.

That being the case, use quantity to make up for precision, and you must not miss this great opportunity.

However, for the German artillery, the influence of the wind and waves is reduced, and it is really not too cool to hit such an almost stationary target.

"Boom boom boom..." The warship equipped with 88mm anti-aircraft guns and Type 40 anti-tank guns fired wildly, using armor-piercing projectiles.

The 88mm and 75mm warheads arrived at high speed, hitting the wooden hull, as if breaking a piece of thin paper, opening a hole from the left side of the hull, then passing through the right side, and continuing to fly forward.

"Oh shit, we got hit, our ship got shot through..."

"My lord, their artillery can fire from such a distance..."

"The hole in the hull is too big. This ship is going to sink. Damn it, what are we going to do?"

"Bastard, before your damn ship sinks, drive it away, don't let that damn ship block the port..."

"Boom boom boom boom..." The big iron bullets fired by the red cannon rushed towards them like raindrops.

Some of them approached and landed on the water outside the harbor, throwing up thick jets of water, while some flew over their heads and landed on Yikunshen Island.

However, some of them still hit the target directly.

Padraic seemed to have a feeling in his heart. When he looked up, he saw a black thing flying towards him quickly.

After that, he didn't know anything, because his whole head had been smashed into pieces by the big iron ball.

The big iron ball continued unabated, and hit the deck fiercely, sending sawdust flying, and a big hole the size of a washbasin appeared on the deck.

Edwin looked at Patrick's headless body with a sad and terrified expression, and he looked helpless.

With a "boom", a shell weighing nearly [-] kilograms ferociously fell not far from Edwin, like a bulldozer, crushing everything it passed.

A soldier with only half of his body left was struggling to move his hands on the deck. After seeing Edwin, he stretched out his bloody right hand, as if he was begging, or trying to grab something...

"Ah..." Edwin howled and sat on the deck, backed up for a while, until his back was close to the side of the ship and he couldn't retreat any more.

The soldier's outstretched right hand froze in the air, his wide-open eyes gradually lost their spirit, his palms dropped, and his head hit the deck, and he died.

"Huhu..." Flames jumped up from the lower deck.

"Boom..." The gunpowder in the lower cabin was ignited, causing a violent explosion. The fire grew stronger and burned to the upper deck in a short while.

The fire ignited the clothes of the corpse, and the wounded cried out for help in pain and panic.

The scorching heat seemed to wake up the terrified Edwin, and his great desire to survive made him stand up quickly.

The whole ship was already on fire, and the ships beside it were also leaving in a panic. No one cared about this ship that was doomed to sink.

Edwin ran back and forth on the deck like a headless chicken, but failed to find a way out. He finally came to the port side, glanced at the sea below, and looked back at the flames that had already burned.

He gritted his teeth fiercely, and jumped into the choppy sea water.

Just as Edwin jumped down, the mainmast, which had been grazed by a shell, finally couldn't bear it, and snapped apart.

It then fell to port, smashing the burning port hull, and slid into the sea with its ignited sails.

Edwin, who plunged headfirst into the water, kicked his legs quickly to get out of the sea after stabilizing his figure.

But at the moment when he was about to get out of the water, he felt that his head had hit something. He stretched out his hands and touched it, and he knew it was a sail.

He was terrified in his heart, and immediately started to swim, trying to swim out of the range covered by the sail.

But suddenly, he only felt a tightness in his left leg, and something was entangled in his left foot. He turned back and felt it, and knew it was the rope on the sail.

It took a lot of effort to untie it, and the suffocation became stronger and stronger. He felt that he could not swim out of the area covered by the sail.

So he dived quickly, reaching out to push the sails to open a gap, so that he could take a breath.

But at this moment the sails are so heavy that they cannot be pushed at all.

In desperation and helplessness, Edwin struggled hard, but finally his strength became weaker and his consciousness became more and more blurred.

(End of this chapter)