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Kerry? Thorne has clearly realized that this battle is really going to be fought to the end, resulting in a lose-lose situation, and I am afraid that Tofan will change hands.

Whether it is the "indigenous" Zheng family or the English people who are eyeing each other, they will take advantage of the situation.

The enemy can replenish firearms, troops, and even warships nearby, but what can he do? How to hold Toban?

If this battle is only a narrow victory or a disastrous victory, then the great Dutch United Provinces Republic Navy will have to withdraw from East Asia, and the English who have long been eyeing the waters of Malacca will be cheap.

Kerry? Thorne hesitated, it was clearly not in the Dutch and, of course, his own interests, but the fierce battle was not diverted by his inner will, and continued under artillery fire.

Once a war starts, it is easy to stop. There is a good saying, you can start a war, but how to end it is up to me.

Kerry? Thorne needed a reason, a reason that would allow him to take a dignified truce, both to maintain his presence in East Asia and not to deprive the Dutch Navy of the dignity it deserved, and as for the English, oh damned Englishman, if it weren't for that arrogant, arrogant Nabul who lost the advance of the Combined Fleet, this battle would not have been so passive...... yes, it's all Nabul's bastard's fault.

……。

Fortunately, God listened to Kerry? Thorne's inner prayer, which gave Kerry? Thorne a reason.

It's not so decent, but it's a reason after all.

An unsatisfactory reason.

During the bloody battle between the sailors and the Fanren fleet, Zheng Sen led the fleet to appear in the waters of Dinghai.

Zheng Sen's order to send troops was resolute, he couldn't hear a trace of hesitation, and his movements were fast, and in just one night, the striker rushed from Qixing Island to the waters of Dinghai.

But this is obviously not a successful and perfect reinforcement.

More than 1,000 warships marched in three directions, left, center, and right, which was not like reinforcements, but like chasing ducks.

The sails are like clouds, the masts are like forests, and the formation is too big, so afraid that I am afraid of flashing my waist and startling ghosts.

The Fanren fleet has better naval combat experience than the sailors, and how can such a large fleet not notice it when it goes north.

Okay, now Kerry? Thorne had an excuse and reason to withdraw his troops, and also, being caught by the enemy from the north and south, it was obvious that he "had to" retreat.

Retreat with dignity and accept Wu Zheng's offer of compensation, then, whether it is tens of thousands of miles away, there is an explanation to the merchants of various countries, although this is a bit like an explanation of taking off your pants and putting X, but it is an explanation that can maintain a decent account.

The key is that in this battle, the combined fleet really had the upper hand, and the battle loss ratio between the two sides reached one to two.

Kerry? Thorne thought that this could be rendered as a great victory for the navy, and it could be said that the yellow-skinned monkey had relented under the lesson of the great Dutch navy's strong ships and guns.

Yes, that's it! Kerry? Thorne, with the confidence of a victor, immediately gave the order for the fleet to disengage from the enemy.

See, this is not called retreat, it is called detachment, like ...... Transfer?

……。

However, Kerry? Thorne was wrong.

Couldn't be more wrong.

His fault is mainly the difference between Eastern and Western cultures, just as Nabul is frustrated that Wu Zheng does not dare to engage in a dignified, knightly duel with him.

Wu Zheng is also suffering, and from his heart, Wu Zheng really doesn't want to fight this battle.

Seeing that the sailor he had built with a huge amount of silver and countless painstaking efforts for more than five years was so consumed in this naval battle where there was almost no dawn of victory, this kind of inner pain could not be soothed.

But Wu Zheng couldn't help it, if he allowed the enemy to show off his might in Hangzhou Bay, the next negotiations would undoubtedly become one-sided, and Wu Zheng didn't want the history books to record the page of his signing of an unequal treaty.

But this is not the most important thing, Wu Zheng actually doesn't care about how the history books are written, but he really can't imagine that once he retreats, the good situation in front of him will be quickly rewritten.

First of all, the terms that have already been negotiated with the Qing court are likely to be "changed" again.

Secondly, the trade and trade of Hangzhou, Wusong and other ports will undergo great changes, and the most direct impact is that the confidence of merchants and local merchants from various countries in the Great General's Mansion will collapse, and the decline and loss of tariffs will deal a devastating blow to the finances of the Great General's Palace.

Although it cannot be compared with credit consumption in later generations, it is also the category of light "leverage".

The decline in the credit of the government has triggered a chain reaction, I am afraid that even the gods cannot save it, and only by winning and constantly winning can we maintain this "unreasonable" credit, which Wu Zheng knows very well.

This battle must be fought if it can't be fought, even if it is fought until the whole army is wiped out!

Wu Zheng has two things to rely on, one is his own home field, which is convenient to replenish, and the other is that even if the naval division is destroyed, it will not have an essential impact on the Northern Expedition, after all, the war with the Tartars is on land.

But the Fan people are different, they are difficult to replenish, even if they win in the end, it will be a miserable victory, and they will not be able to pose a greater threat to the General's Mansion, so as to ensure that the people's confidence in the General's Mansion will not be shaken by this naval battle, at least the negative impact can be minimized.

After the start of the war, after the sailor suffered a huge trauma, Wu Zheng slowly calmed down.

This is like a gambler who has already known that he will lose everything, standing in front of the card table, his heart has been numb, but he has a kind of confidence to break the jar and break it.

Inflicting heavy losses on the enemy before defeat became Wu Zheng's sole purpose.

Therefore, after a whole day and a night of fierce fighting, the sailors launched a fierce counterattack against the enemy.

This is also Kerry? Thorne was very puzzled by the "death", but definitely not only "death", the damage caused to the enemy was also huge, otherwise Kerry? Thorne wouldn't be depressed, wouldn't be frightened, wouldn't have thought of ...... There is a truce.

The appearance of the Zheng family's fleet was actually just a catalyst that forced Kerry? Thorne issued a "disengagement order" for all staff faster and more firmly.

It's a pity, Kerry? Thorne didn't know Wu Zheng at all, let alone this sailor.

"If we don't go to war,

Tartar with a scimitar

killed us,

Then he points to our bones and says,

see

This is a slave! ”

This sentence was heard by Wu Zheng with all his strength on the day the military academy opened, and roared to more than 1,000 teachers and students of the military academy.

Like a dusk drum and morning bell, drink it as a stick.

And now, every cadet of the military academy is familiar with it.

Most of the generals of the three major sailors were halfway monks, and most of their backgrounds were from the Northern Expeditionary Army.

The officers and men of the Northern Expeditionary Army never lacked the courage to fight to the death, although this battle seemed to make courage seem inadequate.

Your own gunwales can't reach the enemy, so you can only brave the rain of shells and use your flesh and blood to shorten the distance.

But this kind of grievance aroused the blood of the soldiers and the enemy to die together.