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Chapter 735 Sino-Dutch naval battle (3) (three more)

In the impression of Van Persie, the naval commander of the Dutch colonists stationed in Taiwan, the naval fleets of other countries are vulnerable, and of course the navy of the Ming Dynasty is also included.Although their fleet had a record of defeat with the Zheng family's navy, that was more than ten years ago.Now he confidently believes that the naval fleet of the Great Netherlands Kingdom is the largest in the world and unsurpassed.

However, this war completely subverted his concept. If the battle of Quanzhou Bay was caused by his captain Truy's arrogance and arrogance, he was accidentally fooled by the Ming army, but what about now?
The encounter between the two sides at sea can be regarded as a fair battle. He tried his best to send a huge fleet. The situation has changed since the two sides fought.

The navy of the Ming army was not as vulnerable as he imagined. The retreat just now was just a strategy and tactics adopted by them. The wolf pack tactics had already caused his fleet, which is known as invincible, to suffer heavy losses.

The loss of more than 200 warships is at least one-third of his immediate military strength, because he allocated his 1100 warships in this way, leaving 600 ships to attack the Quanzhou Navy with all his strength, and the remaining 500 warships were sent by another A captain took the direction of attacking Kinmen Island.

Now the former enemy commander Weiss is dead, and more than 200 naval warships have been damaged. According to preliminary estimates, at least [-] Dutch soldiers were killed. They don’t care how many ships and equipment they lost, because their ships have more cannons. , but their soldiers are too few. The Netherlands is a small country with a pitiful few people.Their soldiers are even more limited, which cannot be compared with the Ming Dynasty.They couldn't bear the thousands of casualties like this, and it would soon be impossible to fight this battle.

This Commander Fan could never have imagined that when did the navy of the Ming Dynasty become so powerful, so powerful that it could almost compete with their naval warships?How is this possible!

The naval battle was still going on fiercely, Van Persie had to find a way to turn the tide of the battle, the former enemy commander Weiss was killed, and now he had to personally command.

"How about Gast?" Van Persie suddenly thought of the war in Jinmen area. If that side can win, it will obviously reduce the pressure here.In addition, he can draw a part of the fleet over there to support in a roundabout way, so that the unfavorable situation in front of him can be reversed.

But as soon as his words fell, someone came to report: "Your Excellency, something is wrong. Gast's fleet encountered the Ming Navy Navy Fleet 30 miles south of Kinmen Island. It was severely damaged and suffered heavy losses. Seriously injured, call for help."

"Ah?" Van Persie felt as if he had been slapped in the head, and his fat red-haired face became extremely ugly.

The hope was instantly shattered and turned into a burden and a threat. As the commander of the navy, Van Persie clearly knew what situation he had reached.

Gast led a fleet of 500 troops with more than 2600 people to attack the Jinmen area, which was regarded as his western battlefield, and the outcome of one victory and one loss was simply worlds apart.

How can he have the strength to support them?But if they were defeated, or if the whole army was wiped out, his flanks would be exposed to the attack of the Ming navy.Then he will lose even more in this battle, how could this be?
"How did this happen? What are you going to say!" Commander Fan roared, grabbing the collar of the general who reported the incident, wishing he could throw him into the sea.

The Dutch army general who reported the incident hurriedly reported the details...

It turned out that the Dutch colonial pirates relied on the world's first-class powerful fleet. Ye Lang arrogantly thought that Ming's navy was vulnerable. This time they divided into two groups, 6000 colonial invaders, and attacked the Ming army at the same time. navy.

They planned to hurt Daming in one fell swoop, so that Emperor Zhu Yousong of Ming Dynasty would obediently submit and accept their conditions.

Therefore, Van Persie was the commander-in-chief of this naval battle. The two captains under him each led half of the troops, and the troops were divided into two groups, attacking the direction of Quanzhou Bay and the direction of Kinmen Island.

The fleet attacking the direction of Kinmen Island is the [-] Dutch warships led by Captain Vaster, and they are also showing off their might and majesty, heading towards Kinmen Island.

Unexpectedly, the navy of Jinmen Island is stronger than the navy of Quanzhou, and there are also [-] sailors stationed here, and the leader is the famous national hero Zheng Chenggong.The deputy general was Liu Guoxuan, and Zhu Yousong also equipped them with two capable generals. They were a couple, Li Quan and Liu Chunhong.

These four generals are all elites in the navy, and apart from Liu Chunhong, these three are the backbone of Zheng's army, whether it is the ability on the shore or the ability in the water, they are all competing with each other.

The task Zhu Yousong sent to them was to capture the Penghu Islands and prepare for the landing on Taiwan Island.When the four of them were studying how to capture the Penghu Islands, encouraging news came one after another.

The first is the victory in Quanzhou Bay. Shi Lang and the others wiped out 2000 Dutch red-haired men and 20 warships in one battle. Zheng Chenggong and Liu Guoxuan are both young men in their [-]s, and they are full of blood. Needless to say, Li Quan and Liu Chunhong, the four of them could not hold back. Living.

The same [-] sailors are also honored by His Majesty Long, seeing how beautifully they fought this battle, how can we just sit here and remain indifferent?
Next, Zhu Yousong ordered the eunuch Li Guofu to take the imperial edict and take the imperial wine and meat to the Quanzhou Bay Navy to reward the three armies.What an honor is this?

Liu Guoxuan, Li Quan and Liu Chunhong couldn't sit still anymore, and they came to Zheng Chenggong one after another. Zheng Chenggong's heart was also agitated. Since the war had already started, he had to take the initiative to attack!

Zheng Chenggong pulled out all the more than 1 large and small warships from the 400 navy. Zheng Chenggong was in the middle army, his deputy Liu Guoxuan was on the left, and Li Quan and his wife were on the right.

The three fleets went hand in hand and drove out of Kinmen Island. The target was of course the Dutch fleet in Chen Bing's sea. Only by destroying them first could they further capture the Penghu Islands.

When they left Penghu Island for more than 20 miles, they encountered the Dutch fleet, which was the 500 Dutch fleet led by Captain Vast.

When the two sides were ten miles apart, the shelling began.

Regardless of the fact that the Dutch have fewer people, there are many ships and large ships with powerful firepower. At the beginning, Zheng Chenggong's fleet suffered similarly to Shi Lang's fleet. They suffered heavy losses and suffered heavy losses.It took less than a stick of incense to start the battle, and more than 1000 Ming soldiers and dozens of warships were sunk and destroyed.

Standing on the bow of the commanding ship, Zheng Chenggong saw through the single-tube telescope that the Dutch fleet was not seriously damaged.

Zheng Chenggong was furious. He was about to take the lead and lead the fleet to charge himself.At this time, Li Quan drove over in a small boat, "General, it's impossible to continue like this. The red-haired man's artillery fire is too fierce, and our army's artillery fire is far less powerful. I suggest forming a death squad, otherwise it will be difficult to break through the enemy's firepower net."

(End of this chapter)