Compared with the "shallow taste" between Guangxinwei and the Great Western Army, the war between Zheng Sen and the Fanren fleet was destined to gradually expand from the beginning until it was a big fight.

Originally, Crishorne had indeed convinced himself that for the sake of the fleet and his own reputation, he had decided to suspend this "pointless" war.

But that damn insatiable Nanpi monkey actually "coveted" the Eastern Domain, which made Crissohn unacceptable, not only unacceptable, but also unable to explain to the country.

Of course, this is not the most fundamental reason why Crissoon decided to fight with the Zheng family sailor.

Negotiations, one asks for a sky-high price, and the other pays back the money on the spot, this routine Kerry Thorne understands very well, as long as Wu Zheng does not take the initiative to attack, Kerry Thorne has no intention of restarting the war, and the two sides are peaceful and maintain the status quo, which is also a way to solve and delay the dilemma.

To hell with the merchants who had suffered great losses due to the requisitioning of supplies from the Admiral's Palace, Crissoun never thought that he and the great Dutch officers and sailors were obliged to die for these unscrupulous and greedy merchants.

God knows, this is just an excuse, an excuse to open the ports of Hangzhou and Wusong, and cancel the high tariffs.

The loss of goods of millions of taels of silver is definitely not worth assembling such a huge combined fleet, you know, a fleet of this size, the consumption of one day is a huge number.

Crissoon understands this, and the English understand it, and Portugal and other parties know it clearly.

It's a pity that the trees want to be quiet and the wind doesn't stop.

This damn Zheng Sen didn't even talk about the past, and even forgot the "friendship" that gave him dozens of new artillery pieces before, and let the Zheng family sailors constantly harass the merchant ships of various countries.

After a fleet full of munitions was robbed by the Zheng family's sailors, under the unanimous request of the fleets of various countries, Crissoon finally made up his mind to teach Zheng Sen, the southern skin monkey, a lesson, so that he could understand that at least to this day, the great Dutch navy is still invincible in the South China Sea.

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And Zheng Sen was also very difficult at this time.

Regarding Chen Yonghua's sixteen-character mantra presented by Wu Zheng, Zheng Sen was skeptical.

It was precisely because of his doubts that Zheng Sen decided to give it a limited and restrained try.

As a result, a small-scale raid on merchant ships was deployed.

To Zheng Sen's surprise, the benefits were huge!

Also, the sailors, even the weakest, are invincible in the face of the merchant fleet.

Three or five ships went to sea to "go shopping and go around", and when they came back, they were followed by a long slip, and they had face and lining, which could be described as majestic, and the morale of the officers and men of the Zheng Jiashui Division increased sharply.

The point is that for several days in a row, the combined fleet entrenched in the Eastern Domain turned a blind eye, which further increased the arrogance of the Zheng family's sailors. As a result, Zheng Sen was no longer wary of Wu Zheng's sixteen-character mantra, and he decided to expand the scale.

It wasn't until his sailors "robbed" a fleet of thirteen ships full of munitions that Zheng Sen realized that he had been given a ...... by the kid from the north Pitted.

The key is that Zheng Sen can't say it, like a dumb person eating a yellow lotus.

Wu Zheng's sixteen-character mantra is not a conspiracy, but a conspiracy.

The tactic of harassing the enemy with a sea guerrilla attack is correct, but it depends on who executes it, how it executes, and how well it is controlled.

To use an inappropriate analogy, it is like a mouse playing with an elephant, with its cleverness, biting the elephant a few times, plucking its hair, it doesn't matter, even if you jump on the elephant's back to soak urine and pee disgusting and disgusting it, but if you really want to provoke the elephant under its long trunk, you have to be prepared to bear a thunderous sneeze.

Wu Zheng's sixteen-character mantra is not wrong, what is wrong is people's hearts and human nature.

The Zheng family's sailor was born as a pirate, Zheng Sen's father was a pirate, even if the Ming Dynasty recruited him and gave him a prominent official, he was still a pirate in his bones.

The Zheng family's sailor is naturally also a pirate, even if he washes the blood on his hands, but in the past ten years, he has not been able to complete the replacement, and the habits of pirates still exist.

From the initial petty fights to the final robbery of an arms fleet, this is not accidental, but inevitable.

Having tasted the taste of blood, how could he possibly hold it?

It was in this way that Wu Zheng aroused the greed of the Zheng family's sailors, thus leading to a decisive battle between the two sides.

Zheng Sen and Chen Yonghua came to their senses, but it was too late.

The battle at sea has begun.

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From Kinmen to Penghu, on the sea area of 300 miles, the shadow of the sail covers the sky.

In this battle, the two sides invested a total of more than 2,000 warships, and the scale was so large that the first in East Asia must not have run, and it would not be much inferior to the previous naval battles in Europe.

In terms of the number of ships participating in the battle, the two sides are about the same.

The Zhengjia Navy Division has 24 new 64-gun capital ships, more than 120 52-gun capital ships, more than 200 gunboats, and various fire attack ships and clippers, totaling more than 900 ships.

The Fanren Combined Fleet has 300 capital ships and more than 700 large and small warships.

The number is about the same, but the weapons gap is large.

The Dutch navy's capital ships were all Galen, the most advanced sailing ships in Europe at this time.

It has two or more decks, and in order to pursue more firepower and deploy more artillery, it has a larger size than the ships of the Zheng Family Naval Division.

The gunwales it has are also longer, more powerful, and more accurate than the guns of the Zheng Jiashui Division.

The capital ships of the Zheng family's naval division, except for the warships purchased from the Portuguese, are mostly improved Daqingtou, which is called Daqingtou because the hull of this kind of ship is mostly dyed in cyan.

The original Daqingtou only had two guns, the front and rear, and most of the ship's side still used crossbows, slapsticks and catapults as the main attack equipment.

After Zheng Sen gained control of the naval division, Zheng Sen spent a huge amount of money and spent two years to improve the existing capital ship due to the "stimulation" of Wu Zhengshui's naval division in the north.

In this respect, Wu Zheng did promote the improvement of the strength of the Eastern Navy's warships.

Otherwise, this naval battle will be a one-sided war, and Zheng Sen will definitely not be able to reproduce the glory of his father Chongzhen Minghe naval battle.

Of course, the Battle of Kinmen, which took place 18 years ago, is very different from the scale of this naval battle at this time.

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The cause of this naval battle was caused by the Zheng family's naval division attacking and plundering merchant ships from various countries.

But the fuse that lit it was the arms fleet.

There was a "drill" with Wu Zheng's three major naval divisions in Tanhu Mountain, and the loss of warships, personnel, and ordnance of the combined fleet was not small.

This fleet was supplied to the Combined Fleet from Batavia, Java.

With seventy-two main ships and more than one hundred and fifty warships, Crissoon formed the front and blitzed the Golden Gate.