It's easy to forget sleep or get carried away in battle, at this time it comes to a kind of consciousness, showing the level, the performance of the old war is very different from the nouveau riche in the rush chapter, the retreat flag hung on the flagship from the time it is raised to the time it is shot down may be an instant effort, almost all the captains do not notice, but they are seen by Siresma, or felt by him (the battle line is a slash).

Why did the flagship retreat?

He thought about it for less than a minute, and came to the same conclusion as Storm, which was not only his judgment, but also from his accurate monitoring of the gunpowder stocks on the ship, which were indeed running out, and the stocks were almost four-fifths used.

According to the current consumption rate of these boys, the side has used more heavy artillery, the other side is light artillery, heavy artillery has the advantage, but it has not been able to play a decisive role, once there is no gunpowder, light artillery can chase after the side to fight, then any problems will appear, it is difficult to predict.

People are molesting you to death!

"The Overseers want to retreat, but they don't retreat, the banner is gone, and the flagship must have gone wrong!" Siresma ordered: "Raise the flag of retreat, we retreat!" ”

"Retreat?" Suddenly, the officers and soldiers around him were taken aback!

Someone informed the deputy captain Lu Xiao, who was busy on the gun deck, and he went up to the open deck and asked: "Captain, why did you give the order to retreat, the flagship did not sound gold, and the flag of retreat was not raised!" ”

"It was raised just now, but it was shot down!" Siresma said calmly.

"It's incredible!" Lu Xiao shook his head and said, "Without the order of the flagship, we can't retreat!" ”

"Yes! There is no flag on the flagship! Someone said with a telescope in his hand.

Several pairs of binoculars saw that there was no flag on the flagship, and they all said the same.

Siresma took out the pistol on his body, and beside Lu Xiao, seven or eight shots aimed at Siresma together!

Compared with the captain, everyone believed in the deputy captain, who was also a Han Chinese, so that when Siresma was close to the guards, only two people pointed their guns at Lu Xiao, while the remaining ten or so guards were shocked and at a loss.

"Boom!" Siresma shot his left leg with his right hand!

Suddenly blood burst out, and everyone was taken aback by this change.

Siresma took the gunpowder here and reloaded, and said there: "Since you refuse to believe me, I understand why you are, but I don't want to fight with you, so I have to hurt myself!" ”

"The next shot, I'll hit the right leg! I'll keep fighting until you believe me, or beat myself to death!" Siresma spoke calmly, as if it wasn't his own body!

Sure enough, he was born in a soldier, and he used a simple and crude method, and suddenly everyone was stunned!

Lu Xiao's forehead was covered with beads of sweat the size of beans, he never imagined that a foreigner would use such a method in order to make people believe!

Seeing that Cyresma was reloaded, the gun was handed over to his left hand, towards his right leg, and he was about to pull the trigger!

"Stop!" Lu Xiao yelled.

"Whew!" He gasped and said, "Listen to the captain, raise the flag of retreat!" ”

Siresma said unquestioningly: "Raise the flag of retreat!" Sound the gong and call it away! ”

Dangdangdang!

Soon after the flag of this retreat flag designed by Yan Changwu was raised, many captains heard the continuous sound of gongs and saw the signal of retreat, and they couldn't believe it.

At present, our army is in a good situation, as long as the fight continues, according to the degree of damage to the Dutch ships, the Dutch will not be able to support it in the first place!

But when they saw that the flagship and the forward flagship had turned the rudder to the north, and then the ship of the deputy admiral Li Ying was also sounding the gong to collect troops and raising the flag of retreat, everyone believed it.

The ships turned, scrambled to show their previously trained headwind, and turned north to leave the battlefield.

"Cunning Akito!" Governor Speke said angrily and ordered a pursuit.

Then he watched with jealousy as the speed of the Ming ship opened a distance of a kilometer in an hour, leaving the Batavian fleet in vain! (The masts of the ships of the Southeast Fleet are basically fine, and the Dutch did not focus on using chain bullets to attack, and everyone is solid bullets against solid bullets)

The sound of artillery continued, and the Southeast Fleet fought and retreated, their streamlined ship type was very conducive to escaping, and even the speed of the battleships was an eye-opener for the people!

By seven o'clock in the evening, the two fleets disengaged, the southeast fleet went north, and the Batavian fleet returned to port south, and the first battle of Batavia ended in such a hurry!

The result was that not a single ship was sunk on either side, and both sides declared themselves victors, as the Dutch had five ships out of line, and the scene was dominated by the Southeastern Army, while the Dutch said that they had driven away the invading Ming people.

The battle was an eye-opener for both sides!

The Dutch used more clumsy warships than the Southeastern Army, and with their superb ship control skills and gunnery skills, the Southeastern Army did not take advantage.

After returning, Governor Speke sent a letter to the country again, strongly recommending battleships for battle on the front and the Akito!

This time both sides fought strictly on the battle line, and there was no scattered fighting.

However, when Governor Speke inspected the situation, he was surprised not by the ship's damage, but by the fact that the casualties were not light, more than two thousand!

Under his mobilization, the Dutch East India Company did its best to send tens of thousands of people to the war (not all Dutch, there were other Europas, such as the Italians, Germans, Eastern Europeans, etc., as well as the natives and South Asians, the Europeans were very clever not to use the Chinese to participate in the war, mainly because they were so industrious that they would be in charge of the army in the future, and they would have to lose), and lost one-fifth.

Due to the poor conditions of medical treatment at that time, injuries meant death, and one thousand and a half of them died, and half of the rest were disabled.

"Akito's firepower is really powerful!" Governor Speke was deeply worried, because Yan Dashao of the Southeast Province was a firemaniac, in addition to being keen on gunning, he also equipped his soldiers with a large number of flintlock pistols, so mad that even cooks, carpenters, sail repairers and other professional non-commissioned officer assistants of "craftsmen" who could not have gone into battle, also participated in gun training in peacetime, and went to shoot guns in wartime! (Only doctors are exempt from guns)

The spear kept fighting, although the hit rate was low, but it couldn't stand up to fight a lot, and as a result, the Dutch enjoyed a good meal of guns and bullets.

It's good that you don't use a broadside battle!

In fact, the Dutch are good at melee, and they are good at broadside combat, so they face the enemy with many muskets, and they are smart enough not to go forward.

It's not just the Governor of Speke that's giving Governor a headache, it's also people's hearts!

Unable to win, the Batavian strata whispered for days after the war.