As the sun sets, the faint afterglow sprinkles on the sea, making the ripples above glow with a little gold, and the sunset in the reflection is even more romantic, but the thick smell of gunpowder smoke in the air and the wreckage of the hull that can be seen everywhere make this scene full of endless tragedy and tragedy.

Before the outbreak of the war, I am afraid that no one could have predicted that this war would be like this, and the Dutch navy did not achieve the victory it expected, but fell into a almost total annihilation.

When the Dachu Navy fired rockets again, two more Dutch third-class battleships were sunk, while the remaining four Dutch third-class battleships were still in a state of siege.

Qiu Ze asked people to let him down from the mast, and he struggled to fix himself on the helm with blood stains all over his body, and said softly: "Tell them that those who surrender will not be killed!" ”

His voice was low and hoarse, but with infinite confidence, it was completely different from before the war, if it was not for this real victory, how could he have the confidence?

Soon, after Qiu Ze gave the order, he was the first to stop the rocket firing and raise the flag for negotiation, and only a moment later, the Dutch fleet responded, and both sides gradually reduced their firepower in tacit agreement until the battlefield returned to its former calm.

Of course, even so, the muzzles of the guns on both sides are still pointed at each other, and it is clear that if the negotiations fail, then the projectile will be re-ejected until one of them is completely destroyed.

When the negotiating officer of Da Chu boarded the Batavia, De Vries was extremely quiet at this time, he looked at everything in front of him calmly, defeat was a foregone conclusion, of course, it was not yet a real dead end, because he still had one last choice, that is, to choose to surrender.

For soldiers, surrender is a very disgraceful thing anyway, although their current identity is still covered with a layer of Dutch East India Company skin, but everyone knows in their hearts that they are real soldiers, and they are also the real Dutch Navy? Originally, dying in battle was their real way home.

But who doesn't want to live? Especially for the Dutch naval officers and soldiers aboard the Batavia? They just participated in a war to defend the colony, not to defend their homeland? And to pay with your own life for this? Isn't it more or less unworthy?

The negotiation process between the two sides was faster than expected, perhaps because the naval officers of Da Chu showed enough courtesy? Or was it the naval warships that were eyeing the enemy that prompted De Vries to quickly sign the surrender treaty - in the treaty? Will Da Chu do his best to ensure their personal safety and the safety of their basic property? But they also had to cooperate with all the actions of the Great Chu Navy, including the complete transfer of the remaining four third-class battleships to the Great Chu Navy.

When De Vries was taken to the Dingyuan ship as a prisoner, Qiu Ze also went to meet this person for a formal surrender ceremony? After getting De Vries' matching sword? Qiu Ze said with a little deep meaning: "From today onwards, the sky in Nanyang has completely changed. ”

When the translator paraphrased the sentence in Dutch, De Vries took a deep look at his opponent, as if for the first time he had really put aside the prejudices of skin color and race and took a person seriously. It was only at this time that De Vries shook his head again.

"You are fundamentally no different from us? Or even you will be more ruthless than we are, because we only need the riches of Asia? But you want to rule the land forever! ”

When the translator finished translating De Vries's words, Qiu Ze shook his head gently? Then seem to lose interest in talking? Directly let De Vries take him down.

On the evening of May 13 in the sixth year of the Great Chu Innovation? The Great Chu Navy, as the victorious side, sank four Dutch third-class battleships and captured four third-class battleships, including the flagship Batavia, while the armed merchant ships sank 24 and captured 21, as for the captured Dutch naval officers and soldiers, there were more than 2,800 people.

Of course, for this victory, the Great Chu Navy also lost a large number of warships, including eleven rushing ships, eighteen warships and twenty-five fast sentry ships, but fortunately, these warships were all traditional warships, and the new third-class battleships were only all damaged, and none of them were sunk.

It has to be said that this is an out-and-out victory, but the great victory of the navy does not mean the end of the war, because they still need to hurry up and send the army units carried in the rear to the tidal flats of Batavia for landing operations.

Only by completely occupying Batavia can we gradually clean up all the strongholds of the Dutch in the South Seas, so as to drive the Dutch out of the South Seas and completely realize the strategic goals of Da Chu itself!

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Outside Batavia.

For his part, Vizos, the governor of Batavia, had no doubt that the navy would win a definite victory, as if he considered the rebels outside the city to be no threat.

However, even those unthreatening rebels could easily destroy large plantation estates outside the city, and could kill many Dutchmen, and if such a thing happened, even if only a hundred Dutchmen died, it would be difficult for Vizos to make a mission in the direction of Amsterdam in the future.

Therefore, when this incident was linked to the future position of Vizos, the governor of Batavia, it was indeed impossible for him to continue to let the Chinese rebels outside the city continue to act recklessly, so he chose to follow Liu Rulong's advice and decided to lead 1,500 Dutch troops in the city to send them outside the city to exterminate Huang Chu and others.

As a military experience, Wizos deserved to be the commander of the army, although they only had 1,500 men, but they were all regular troops with very strict military training, and they were very well armed and equipped, and they also had eighteen six-pounder cannons and six twelve-pounder cannons.

Using such an army to attack the rebel army with only ordinary muskets is naturally a trivial matter that can be captured, so Vizos did not have the slightest worry, and he even said a rather proud word to Liu Rulong when he set off.

"Use these cannons to attack the pigs outside the city, I'm afraid that they will run out at once, and then they will have to work hard to catch them one by one and hang them!"

When the governor of Batavia, Vizos, led a large army out of the city, and at this time, Huang Chu did not continue to be complacent because of the previous victory, he knew very well what the Dutch army in the city was like, and it was by no means comparable to those mercenaries who used natives as mercenaries - so he did not continue to advance towards Batavia, but chose to follow the advice of the chief of staff Xu Lin, went around in a circle to attack the port of Batavia, and successfully occupied the port of Batavia to meet the landing regular Han army.

Time passed little by little, and in the early morning of the second day after the end of the war on the sea, the army led by Vizos also discovered the traces of the rebels, and after a reconnaissance raid by a small force, they launched an attack on the rebels at nine o'clock in the morning.

Wizos divided his 1,500 men into three battalions, one of which attacked from the front, another from the flank, and the last battalion as a reserve, defending the twenty or so guns, and launched an attack on the port of Batavia.

I have to say that for the rebel army at this time, it is almost a difficult thing to hold, after all, there is too much difference in firepower and training between the two sides, although the rebel army with its own blood and bravery, coupled with the help of the officer corps of the Fu Han Army, successfully held the port of Batavia, but the losses were extremely heavy, and even the deputy commander Lin Cheng was shot in the arm and had to be amputated.

Of course, this is also because Ning Yu, a traverser, does not understand those things in medicine at all, such as a series of drugs such as penicillin in later generations, but does not know how to make and release them, so in addition to using alcohol for disinfection, many times can only use amputation to deal with gunshot wound infection.

Huang Chu looked at the scorching battle situation on the front line with a serious face, in fact, after repelling the Dutch mercenaries yesterday, he was more or less complacent in his heart, after all, this was the first big victory of the uprising, although he knew that the Dutch regular army was very strong, but after all, there were still some thoughts of competition.

However, the current battle situation told Huang Chu a very cruel truth, that is, the rebel army was not strong, and the reason why it was able to win against the Dutch mercenaries was purely because the Dutch mercenaries had too poor combat effectiveness and fighting will.

"Bang bang bang-"

The Dutch soldiers also formed a horizontal formation to line up and shoot, but the gap between the two sides was very obvious, among which the rebels themselves had not undergone much training, and when they fired a salvo, they often appeared very scattered, and when they were hit by the other side, there would always be some vacillation and panic, which made the salvo even more inefficient.

On the contrary, the Dutch army advanced in an orderly manner, and if any of them were hit by the rebels and fell, the people behind them would soon fill in their positions and fill the firepower, so that the rebels were always suppressed by the Dutch firepower and could not carry out an effective confrontation at all.

When the casualties of the rebels began to become more and more heavy, there was inevitably a little chaos in the army, and this scene also made Vizos, who was supervising the battle, find that he soon realized that the opportunity to completely capture the port of Batavia had come, and immediately people spread the news in the Dutch army that after entering the port of Batavia, the head of each Chinese soldier could be exchanged for 2 ducats.

The so-called Ducat, issued by Venice in 1284, was minted entirely in pure gold, so it was widely popular, and later with the expansion of the Venetian maritime empire, the Ducat became the main trading currency throughout the Middle East, and also became a prototype for gold coins in most European countries, even after hundreds of years, people still recognize the value of Ducat.

When Vizos released this reward, it can be seen that he hated the Chinese rebels in his heart, after all, when fighting normally, the Dutch army would at most get some silver thaler coins, and there was no chance to get ducats at all, so everyone immediately became brave and accelerated the attack on the port of Batavia.

The battle continued until the afternoon, and just as Vizos was about to break through the port, the waves broke on the distant sea, and the sails of many warships appeared, which immediately attracted the attention of both sides - after all, because the distance was too far, it was impossible to see the shape of the battleship and the appearance of the flag, and it was difficult to judge which fleet it was.

For the Dutch, they had considerable confidence in the navy, so they subconsciously thought that it was a Dutch battleship, and Vizos was naturally reluctant to order the withdrawal of troops, but asked the front-line troops to continue the attack.

And when Huang Chu, the generals of the rebel army, saw Fan Ying, they also thought that this was the fleet of Great Chu, after all, the chief of staff Xu Lin had already passed the qi, and the Great Chu Navy was sure of victory, and they would appear in the port of Batavia tomorrow at the latest, which made Huang Chu make up his mind to take the port of Batavia.

Just as the two sides continued to fight, the figure of the battleship began to become bigger and bigger, and it became more and more clear - I saw a red dragon flag appearing above the battleship, and there were many officers and men of the Da Chu Navy standing on the ship, this scene immediately made Huang Chu and the others breathe a sigh of relief, and then they let out a fanatical cheer.

Because as long as the navy is victorious, then the victory in the land war is only a matter of time!

Vizos looked at the battleship on the sea with a look of disbelief, he couldn't believe that the Chinese fleet appeared here, because this can only show one problem, either De Vries, a fool, chose to defect to the enemy and betray the country, or he encountered a great storm and wiped out all the troops!

The only possibility of defeat did not appear in Vizos's heart, after all, De Vries led nine real third-class warships, and there were more than forty armed merchant ships left!

Even in Europe in this era, first-class battleships are extremely rare, even in the current Dutch Navy, only the flagship Seven Provinces is a first-class battleship, and second-class battleships are already the backbone of the fleet, and the number is very limited, so the real conventional force is these third-class battleships, and it is not easy to deal with opponents who can't even beat armed merchant ships back then?

However, no matter how unbelievable Vizos was, the scene in front of him clearly told him that the Dutch navy was defeated, even very badly!

Vizos gritted his teeth, he glanced at the Dachu battleship that was about to start landing, and hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of troops, and slowly retreated towards the rear with the remaining more than 1,200 Dutch soldiers. After all, even if he loses the naval battle, he can't give up Batavia City, and if he can hold on to it, he may be able to usher in a turnaround.

But the problem is that at this time, if Vizos wants to return to Batavia City, it is completely impossible!