On the shores of Penghu after the war, there was silence.

Zheng Zhibao jumped down from the double-deck battleship, looked at the eight three-masted galleys that had been reflagged, and grinned.

"Hahaha, Yiguan, a big victory!"

Hearing this, Zheng Yiguan's face showed a rare smile, but he didn't speak.

Huang Cheng also said with a smile: "In this way, the requirements for the imperial court to capture the Dutch warship have also been met, and the rest of the battle to besiege Penghu Fort should be let the imperial court come!" ”

"Pass the order, let's go to Yizhou!" Zheng Yiguan nodded, walked on the shore with his hands in his hands, and said:

"Help the imperial court intercept the Dutch and capture a warship, our Zheng family has done it all, and the rest is none of our business."

"That's right!"

Huang Cheng sighed with some emotion, walked beside Zheng Yiguan, and said:

"Or are you well-arranged, I didn't expect that there would be such an amazing result in this battle, presumably the merits, the court will also give you a promotion, right?"

Hearing this, Zheng Yiguan smiled:

"I have never been uncommon for this official position, even to give a guerrilla general, but it is just a false name, what can I get?"

Huang Cheng agreed very much, nodded and said:

"Yes, the imperial court will not give us military power!"

The two chatted and walked, talking about the key to how the Zheng family would gain a foothold in Yizhou and Fujian next, and as for Zheng Zhibao, he was directing the sailors and soldiers of the Zheng family to clean up these ships.

Because of the previous battle, the decks of these ships were stained red with Dutch blood, and the ground was littered with dead bodies, muskets and halberds.

The best weapons need to be put in order and collected for their own use, and the decks and cabins covered with blood and corpses should also be cleaned up in time to avoid breeding diseases.

They never imagined that the Tiger Pier Cannon, which they had bought cheaply from the imperial court and used to fire at close range, would be so terrifying that it was almost equivalent to plowing the deck of the Dutch!

This battle was undoubtedly a big victory for the Zheng family.

With almost no casualties, they captured all the Dutch ships of this fleet, including the flagship, and a complete Dutch fleet, which was a great gain.

Zheng Yiguan knew that without the Fujian Navy Division holding Raun back, they would not have taken Bush so easily, after all, this guy was also the more experienced admiral of the East India Company.

If Lawn rushed to support, Zheng Yiguan had no chance of winning.

However, he won't thank Yu Zisoap for anything.

What the imperial court wants is a Dutch warship, as well as the recovery of Penghu and Zhangzhou ports, but what their Zheng family wants is to take the opportunity to gain a foothold and develop and grow!

......

"What, after Zheng Yiguan won the battle, he left like this?"

Looking at the sea full of shipwrecks after the war, Yu Ziso, the general soldier of Fujian, had not had time to be happy about the victory in the Battle of Penghu, but he was a little surprised.

Wang Mengxiong walked over, his face was very ugly:

"This is the report document sent by Zheng Yiguan, take a look."

Receiving this document in his hand, the more Yu Zisoap looked at it, the more angry he became, and he sneered again and again, and said:

"Send the clerical horse to the Beijing Division, and let Your Majesty also take a look!"

As he spoke, he handed the paperwork back to Wang Mengxiong's hand.

When the latter saw it, his face became even more ugly, and he said:

"Zheng Yiguan captured eight Dutch galleys, and only one was left for us, which was not yet Bush's flagship."

"This Zheng Yiguan is so calculating!"

"This dumb loss, will we eat it?"

"Otherwise, can you still go and beat the Zheng family?" Yu Zisoap sneered, turned his head and asked, "How much did we lose in this battle?" ”

Hearing this, Wang Mengxiong's eyes dimmed, and he said:

"More than 40 assault boats were sunk, 12 fire dragon ships were damaged, 8 Cangshan battleships were sunk, and the rest were damaged and needed to be repaired."

"As for the Xiaofu boat, only one is barely moving, and the number of officers and soldiers of the naval division who died in battle is still being counted, including Hong Jiyuan, and eight officers above the general rank were killed in battle."

This is the result of a naval battle at different levels, killing a thousand enemies and losing three thousand, I hope the casualties of today's battle are worth it!

Thinking of this, Yu Zisoap sighed and asked:

"Where's the harvest?"

Wang Mengxiong said: "Go back to the main town, capture three damaged three-masted galleys, which should still be usable after repair, sink the remaining five, the captain of the Galen warship surrendered, it is said that there was a conflict with Lawn." ”

"The last general doesn't know whether it's true or not, stay and wait for the town to fall!"

Hearing this, Yu Zisoap breathed a sigh of relief, and finally the Galen warship was still there, which also showed that the things that the Dutch used to fight on the ship should still be there.

This is the capital of progress!

"What about the enemy commander named Lawn, who hasn't been found yet?" Yu Zisoap looked a little distracted, wanting to see the huge Galen battleship immediately.

Wang Mengxiong followed behind him, saying as he walked:

"This thief disappeared after the battle, and now the battalions of the Marine Division are searching for him with all their might, but the sea is so big, he should have sunk to the bottom of the sea, which is not certain."

"Tidy it up and report to Jingshi!" Yu Zisoo nodded helplessly, suddenly found a dark shadow in front of him, looked up, and was stunned.

The Galen battleship in front of him was several times larger than the Xiaofu ship, the largest tonnage in the Fujian Naval Division, like a small mountain, blocking his eyes.

And that's not all, this ship has a huge advantage over the three-masted galleys for both military and commercial purposes, that is, this Galen battleship was designed to be a complete warship.

It was also the first battleship in the world to appear.

Yu Zisoap was a little amazed, and even a little happy.

If it is not forcibly driven into the offshore sea, with the current strength of the Fujian naval division, it is impossible to capture it, and the only result will only be to pay huge casualties and repel it.

Boarding the Galen battleship, which had been controlled by the Fujian Naval Division, Yu Zisoo began to observe the front and rear composition of the warship in detail, and he wanted to know why this warship was so powerful.

In contrast to the structure of the Cangshan warship of the Fujian Naval Division, the forward building of the Dutchman Galen was moved to the stern of the bow, and the bow of the ship was diagonally protruded from a mast and fixed to its front with a slug.

A new structure, the bow, was built in the space from the front of the building to the bow mast of the protrusion where the bow image is located.

Yu Zisoap went in and took a look, and quickly covered his nose and walked out, this area was designed to serve as a latrine for the Dutch crew...

In addition to these changes, the Galen also added a distinctive aft lookout.

It is an open platform that surrounds the entire stern of the ship, equipped with a sea bell that can sound a warning to the whole ship, and sailors with monoculars can clearly observe the movement of the surrounding sea by standing on it.

After walking around, Yu Zisoap was very satisfied with today's harvest.

He could see that the Dutchman's Galen battleship had extremely high requirements for seaworthiness and firepower, so as to seize a favorable position and give full play to its superior firepower in battle.

But correspondingly, they gave up the ability to navigate in the near sea, resulting in being trapped in the near sea in the battle just now, unable to move, and could only be beaten passively.

In the end, the assault boat hooked the rope from all sides and had to surrender.

In fact, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, the capital galleons in the Anglo-Dutch War, like the Galen warships in front of them, were all low broadboards, crosssails, and high platforms.

A Galen warship like this has extremely high stability in the deep sea, and the sixty cannons equipped on both sides make its firepower extremely powerful.

At that time, the British lined up a long line of many of these Galen warships, gave full play to the advantage of firepower on both sides, and completely crushed the invincible galleys of the Dutch with rounds of neat artillery bombardment on the sea.

Later, in the same way, they defeated the Spanish Armada.

The Anglo-Dutch War and the Battle of the Cape of Good Hope marked the rise of a number of new powers such as the British Empire and the Portuguese Colonial Empire, as well as the inevitable decline of the old powers such as the Netherlands and Spain.

But from this day on, the history of the world may be about to turn a fork.