"What do these damn Brits want to do? As soon as you come up, you have to fight a decisive battle in a column? "Pete. Colonel Hines was a little speechless and put down his binoculars.

Now the Dutch Navy is no longer the invincible armada that crisscrossed the seas more than a hundred years ago, attacking Spain on the left and England on the right!

Especially in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War that ended in 1784, the British Navy completely pressed the Dutch Navy to the ground and repeatedly rubbed and ravaged, and the Dutch finally had to rely on the mediation of the French and lost face to achieve peace.

Since then, not only has the national reputation of the Netherlands fallen to its lowest level like a landslide, but even the Dutch navy has been completely knocked out, and there has been a point where the whole country has doubts about whether to continue to develop the navy.

It can be said that the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War completely destroyed the Dutch's dream of great power and broke the backbone of the Dutch, who were rapidly falling towards a purely commercial country that could get by.

"We... Aren't we? The second mate next to him spit out a few words with difficulty, he had just picked up a life from the North American naval battle, and he didn't want to fight any more decisive battles at sea with the British.

Touching the brim of his hat and turning his head to look, the second officer found that not only did he show a hesitant look, but the Dutch naval officers and men on the whole ship were worried.

Peter. Colonel Hines didn't see the expressions of his men, but he wasn't going to fight a decisive battle, the fleet in his hands was the one that maintained the last face of the Dutch Republic.

And now the situation in the Netherlands is extremely tense, because of the humiliating defeat in the hands of the British, which led to the fact that when William III went to England to inherit the throne, the huge national debt of 100 years borrowed from the Dutch was also lost by the British, and a large number of Dutch, from capitalists to commoners, lost a lot of money.

In addition, the Dutch East India Company was also beaten by the British, and the news that the Marquis of Seris was going to attack Batavia in the South Seas made a big mistake, and the Dutch profiteers who bought a large number of shares of the Dutch East India Company lost a lot of money!

Now, neither the Dutch government nor the Dutch navy can afford even the slightest defeat.

Because a little defeat can lead to great anger among the people at home, in history in the next year in 1787, the Patriot Revolution will break out in the Netherlands, which is the pessimism of the Dutch people about the future of the Dutch country, and the extreme despair of the government.

"Nope! We can't go head-to-head with the British, let's go with it! "Pete. Colonel Hines sighed again, unlike Ye Kai thought, Colonel Hines didn't expect to intercept Ye Kai on the high seas at all, unless Ye Kai himself died and revealed a huge flaw.

Colonel Hines came out with him as a mere gesture to the small merchants and commoners of Amsterdam, and to prove to them that the Government of the Dutch Republic was determined to defend the Dutch East India Company at all costs.

But Hines knew that this was just a gesture, because if it didn't, God knows where the East India Company's stock would fall, and in that case, their big man would soon lose money.

Now make a gesture to give ordinary people a little confidence, so that the big man can sell the stock in his hand quickly.

Colonel Hines, an aristocratic man, knew that the Dutch East India Company could not be saved, and not just in the face of the threat of the Serisians. It's also because there is a huge corruption mine within the company that hasn't been detonated yet!

If this thing detonates, it will surely blow the entire financial center of Amsterdam into powder, and at that time, Hines shuddered, and by that time, the whole of Holland will be finished!

The former sea coachman, the world's largest navy, and the dream of a great power once rooted in the hearts of the Dutch will all be gone!

"Bang!" A cannonball hit the port side of the moray eel more than 100 meters away, and a huge column of water rose into the sky, shaking the moray eel at high speed.

"Major! We can't beat them, they're the latest three-masted fast battleships with 18-pounder guns, and we only have 9-pounder guns! A pale-faced artillery captain shouted at the captain.

"Yes! I wonder what we're here for? Is it going to be a war with the British again?

What the hell, the British can cut the Moray Eel in two with a 19-pounder gun, and we'll be finished with three shots at most, but our 9-pounder cannon will be fine even if they hit six shots! The other quartermaster on the side also complained viciously.

"Raise the sails and go full speed, Lao Tzu will not work for those profiteers of the East India Company!" Looking at the nervous and unwilling expressions of the two deputies on the left and right, the captain's face also darkened!

He knew that this battle could not be fought at all, and the naval battle two years ago could still be said to be for the future of the republic, so what is it now?

Sell your life for that profiteer with a fat brain?

He's not that stupid, even if he's 'stupid' the rest of the ship!

"Commander! The Dutch brigs are on the run, and their main fleet has not come to gain the upper hand, which is not the Dutch style of fighting! ”

A non-commissioned officer from the Royal Naval Academy happily ran to Jean. Wilson reported loudly beside him.

Jean. Wilson's face showed a look of great pride, "They are afraid, it seems that the naval battle two years ago has broken their backbone, in front of the great British navy, the Dutch only deserve to return to their mother's arms to remember their former majesty!"

Glory to the Royal Navy of Britain, glory to His Majesty King George III, and now, I order, strike at the Dutch at full speed and drive out these cowardly hyenas! ”

"Colonel, the battleships of the English are approaching like us!" On the Dutch flagship, the non-commissioned officer on the forward mast waved the flag rapidly.

"Let's go! The show is over! "Pete. Colonel Hines gave the order gloomily, and then walked to his captain's quarters.

Halfway through, the captain, who had served in the Dutch Navy for more than ten years, sighed in a voice that only he could hear, "It's all over!" ”

"Boom! Rumble! The three-masted fast battleship, which had been chasing the Dutch battleship, let out a thunderous roar, and more than ten 18-pounder cannons opened fire at the same time, forming a dense network of fire on the sea diagonally ahead.

The splashing water seemed to be pouring down from the sky, and the panicked Moray Eel had no intention of fighting back, but ran with all its might, leaving the range of the three-masted fast warship that opened fire on them.

"Flag Slogan! Let them all come back! Order the merchant ships and supply ships to return to the ranks of the fleet, and we continue to go! "Jean with a smug face. Wilson gave orders to the Naval Academy cadets beside him.

"That's the end of it?" Ye Kai asked in a little surprise, he smashed his mouth, a little unfinished.

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