Section 268 First Battle of Batavia (3)

When Yan Donglai wanted to apologize to the soldier after the war, the soldier was already dead!

During the war, there were not a few neurotics like Yan Donglai, and even veterans like Storm went crazy, and he operated a 1-pounder cannon on the starboard side while fighting the opposite side of the curse.

"Look, isn't this Storm a traitor? I'm really blind, I used to have a friend like you! DeWitt shouted: "Your wife is good, when I return to China, I will go to see her and take good care of her!" You don't have to worry! Touching the pain in Storm's heart, he shouted angrily: "DeWitt, you dog*, you are doing business in Amsterdam, you pretended to be Ming Guosi with Bosni, you were discovered, and you ran away to Batavia on my ship, I knew you were such a person, and I threw you into the sea and drowned." ”

"Who doesn't do business like this, it's better than you being a traitor, betraying the country, you still have the face to come out to meet people, and you are willing to wear the clothes of Mingren!"

"Am I willing to be lewd? You're ***, there's a kind of let's heads-up! ”

"Okay, who's afraid of whom! Don't worry, if you lose, I will take care of your wife, and if I die, someone will take care of your wife! DeWitt laughed wildly.

"You coward, you will bully women!" Storm angrily blasted at the other side!

It's a pity that the power is too small, the projectile spreads out, and nothing hits.

The distance between the two warships was less than thirty meters, and the two Dutch men were shouting at each other from the height of the stern, and they scolded each other quickly and quickly in Dutch, and the cannon bombardment could not drown their voices.

It was not until the two ships left that the two men stopped talking, but Storm's anger did not subside, his eyes were red, he cursed, and shouted at the soldiers for their efforts to open fire.

Each lined up a battle line, both sides were frantically firing projectiles at each other, and the shells in opposite directions dragged the smoke and staggered past, and the shells hit the opposing ships hard, bringing the ships shaking and screaming, and the pungent smoke of gunpowder covered the sea!

Two hours later, the battle line was over, then the South-Eastern Fleet turned to the left, and the Batavia Fleet turned to the right, and both sides were doing the same thing: to gain the upper hand!

The officers and men of every boat are busy, doing everything they can to seize the wind!

Governor Speke shook his head slightly, and his thoughts were even more firm: the enemy's warship in that shape is indeed fast! Damn it, they've got the upper hand again!

Let's fight!

However, with his order, the Dutch laid out two battle lines, one large and the other with only ten ships, all the way to the north until they had the upper hand and formed a two-on-one against the Southeastern Fleet!

But it's not a big problem, because there are side guns on both sides, and the Southeast Fleet can shoot the bow left and right!

The two sides bombarded each other intensively, shooting out pieces of bullet rain, the environment at that time can be called "terrifying lightning and thunder", hitting the opponent's boat, that is, the sawdust exploded in the sky, hit in the water, the towering water column and the scattered splash made everyone feel like receiving a baptism, military newspaper reporter Zeyu (pen name) to "we are in a sea of rage" to describe the scene at that time.

The fight was so intense that both sides showed a high level of shooting skills.

The gunners of the Batavian fleet were methodical and coordinated, firing one cannon after another, continuously, bombarding the enemy in a row of guns, and the sound of artillery never stopped.

The results of the Southeastern Army's daily training came out, and they calmly aimed at the target and launched artillery attacks, among which a salvo of the Taiwan broke the main mast of the Dutch "Shenshen", forcing the other side to withdraw from the battle line. Then Kaohsiung No. 1 and Kaohsiung No. 2 respectively washed the Dutch small ship "Liberty" with only 24 guns and the 22-gun "Sifrisia" with grapeshit, causing the two ships to lose control and also withdraw from the battle line.

The 24-pounder and 18-pounder guns of the battleship were very powerful, and the Dutch battleship was bitterly beaten, and compared with the southeastern battleship, the Dutch battleship was more seriously damaged, and there were more casualties!

The guns of both sides fired indiscriminately, and from time to time people from the opposing battleships fell.

So far, not a single ship has been sunk, but five ships of the Batavian fleet have escaped from the battle line due to heavy damage.

"It seems that if the war continues, our army will still have the advantage!" Yan Changwu looked at the effect of the battle with satisfaction, and when he was proud, Storm came over and said with a word: "It's time to retreat!" ”

When he said that, Yan Changwu was stunned, don't be this red-haired fan, it's crazy, our army is in a good situation and wants to retreat.

Hasn't he woken up from his madness? He said with concern, "Are you alright?" ”

He didn't think about anything else, but the two close servants behind him, the deep and the shallow, stood quietly in front of him, blocking Storm, and they guarded against the red-haired fan!

"No, I'm sober!"

"We're running out of gunpowder!" Storm, ignoring the rudeness of the two, reported, "Overseer, I just went down and took a look, and we only have a quarter of the gunpowder left, and at this rate of consumption, we can't support it for an hour!" ”

"I think the other ships are similar, or even less gunpowder!"

Everyone was happy and happy, and the consumption of gunpowder and projectiles skyrocketed.

Yan Changwu didn't pay attention, and neither did the others, but Storm did.

He said to Yan Changwu: "You listen to their cannons!" ”

"It's all 12-pounder guns!"

"Yes!" "The Dutch, with their 12-pounder guns, were in a hurry, and we followed with heavy artillery, and everyone was almost shot at gunshot, and they were consuming our gunpowder, and when we ran out of gunpowder, we were in big trouble!" ”

Yan Changwu stared at Storm, and the foreigner looked calm.

There are two ways in front of Yan Changwu, one is to believe in Storm, then you have to retreat, and the other is to continue to fight, maybe the other party has no gunpowder, everyone retreats, each looking for their own mother, but in case Storm is right, when we have no gunpowder, it will really be slaughtered

"Signal the ringing of gold (gongs) and raise the flag of retreat!" Yan Changwu ordered.

The order was given, and no one expected such a coincidence to happen.

"We didn't find the gong!" The non-commissioned officer reported: "But we have already hung up the retreat flag (a red cross in the red circle)!" ”

"Why didn't you find the gong?" Yan Changwu said angrily

"The place where the gong was put was shot, and the gong didn't know where it went, and I couldn't find it!" The non-commissioned officer said.

"This kind of thing happens to Special M!" As soon as Yan Changwu's words fell, he could only hear the whistling sound in the air, and a chain bullet flew in, cutting the retreating flag and falling into the sea!

Yan Changwu, Stoen and the non-commissioned officer, everyone watched the flag fall into the sea with blank eyes, and Yan Changwu asked unconfidently: "Don't you tell me that the flag and gong are not backed up, right?" ”

The non-commissioned officer said in a panic: "There is indeed no backup, just one, and the offensive flag and drum horn are three copies!" ”

It's no wonder that the logistics are not prepared, you must know that Yan Dashao has always advocated attacking and retreating, what do you want so many things for? Space on board is limited.

"Look!" Storm Road.

Yan Changwu saw that Nanhai No. 2, as the flagship of the forward, hung the flag of retreat high!

"Siresma is so good!" Yan Changwu praised.

But after he withdrew, he was taken aback when he saw the Siresma pole being helped over: "You are injured?" ”

"I gave myself a shot!" Siresma said lightly.

"What?!"