Chapter 253: The Battle of Penghu was a great victory
"That idiot of Lawn, don't you know that behind his ass, there is a fleet hidden!?"
Now Bush has profoundly realized what it means to be shocked and angry.
He howled angrily, circled the deck a few times, and then quickly gave the order: "Wave the flag, sink these oriental yellow-skinned monkeys into the sea and feed the fish!" ”
Before the words were finished, it was the Zheng family's fleet on the other side that fired first.
"Set up a gun, fire".
Zheng Yiguan pressed one hand on the wall of the ship, holding a telescope bought from the Dutch, staring at the chaotic deck of the other party, and said lightly.
Order.
More than 60 warships of the Zheng family's fleet had countless sailors and soldiers out of the cabin, came to the deck, and put hundreds of ship-based aircraft gun mounts that had already been loaded with shotgun guns on the "U" gun mount.
In addition, some sailors took the Tiger Squat Cannon purchased from the Fujian Marines, knocked it down in the opening in the bulwark, and aimed it at the Dutch three-masted grunk that was rapidly approaching them.
However, they did not open fire directly.
The range of the imperial court's Hudun cannon is very short, and at sea, such a range is equivalent to nothing, but since Zheng Yiguan brought it, he will not do useless work.
There were three double-deck warships in the Zheng family's fleet, which were second only to the Galen warships in terms of combat effectiveness, and they were all the main warships purchased from the Portuguese at great expense.
This double-deck warship is gradually replacing the three-masted galleys and competing for the position of the main warship in European naval warfare.
Of course, now in Venice and other countries with extremely developed navies, some sporadic three-deck warships have also appeared at a speed that leads the world.
This kind of warship is even more powerful, and the ship's artillery and other aspects are comparable to the Galen warship, which is enough to shake the dominance of the Galen warship.
The three-masted galleys commonly used by the Dutch today have a hull three or four meters lower than the double-deck warships of the Zheng family's fleet.
Even the Tiger Dun Cannon can play a very obvious role under such an advantage.
"God, we were fooled, the Zheng family actually has a double-deck battleship, quickly cut the cable, escape back to Penghu, and then sink them with the heavy artillery on the fortress."
With the shaking sound of the mountains shaking for a while, Bush was keenly aware that among the more than 60 ships of the Zheng family, there were at least two Portuguese double-deck warships!
Two years earlier, the Portuguese had easily routed a Dutch ocean-going fleet twice their size at the Cape of Good Hope, using such ships as their main force.
In that battle, the Portuguese routed the Dutch as easily as the latter now routed the vanguard fleet of the Fujian Marines.
This is the era of great navigation, backwardness will be beaten, a level of gap, in the war, represents a snowball of a series of defeats!
The former Coachman Empire, which was caught between England, Portugal, Spain and other powers, was already at the end of its power, so they urgently needed to open new shipping routes in Asia and rebuild the glory of the empire.
This Da Ming, who is mired in internal and external strife and natural and man-made disasters, is still using all his strength to pursue progress, which is not something they can easily shake!
Bush howled angrily.
His excellent tactical skills and keen sense of smell constantly warned him that he must not go head-to-head with the other party, so he quickly made the wisest decision at this time - "retreat".
As soon as the order was given, a round of artillery bombardment descended on the deck behind Bush, and a shotgun from the double-deck battleship in the Zheng family's fleet exploded precisely above their heads.
Suddenly, there was a great chaos on the flagship of the Dutch, and the two thick English sailors, who were originally armed with large axes and ready to cut the cable, were directly hit by the scattered projectiles at close range, and their heads exploded.
The soldier of the Royal Dutch Navy, who was waving the flag, was directly shaken and fell straight into the sea.
At this time, one of the Zheng family's double-deck warships was already very close.
Zheng Zhibao measured the distance, and with the advantage of launching from a high position, he gave a very decisive order to let more than 20 Tiger Pier guns on board start firing at Bush's flagship.
Immediately, a series of roars, like thunder, resounded in Bush's ears.
At the mouth of the waves on the bulwark of the double-deck battleship, a large hole of about one meter revealed a dark cannon port, and flames erupted in turn.
Because the deck was higher than the other party, the sailors of the Zheng family were almost holding the Tiger Dun Cannon and aimed at the Dutch under their eyes to fire.
"Bang bang bang-"
Dense iron sand shrapnel swept across the deck of the flagship in the depths of Bush like a hurricane, and countless Dutch soldiers and sailors fell into the water with a howl, fluttering helpless waves.
As the double-deck battleship passed mercilessly, the Dutchmen who had fallen into the water ceased to struggle and sank to the silent, deep seabed.
As soon as the loyal first mate came out of the gun muzzle on the Zheng family's double-deck battleship, he quickly pressed Bush to the ground.
Bush survived, but the first mate was not so lucky, and when he got up in disgrace, he found that the first mate had already died on his back.
Bush shook his head and shook some gunpowder and dust from his hair, and then he began to hear voices in his ears again.
In an instant, the wails on the deck poured in.
Before he could react, there was another loud noise in his ears, and the entire flagship trembled violently, and Bush was horrified to find that it was the Zheng family's double-deck battleship, which hooked his own flagship with a hook.
Obviously, they intended to merge and forcibly take the flagship.
"It's a great shame!"
Bush knew that he had already lost, and that in the face of the Zheng family's fleet, perhaps because he was not prepared for battle, or perhaps because of some other reason.
But there was only one end result: he, the proud Admiral of the Royal Navy of the Dutch East India Company, was defeated in the Battle of Penghu.
Coming to the stern of the ship in a daze, Bush looked at the distant land, took out the pistol he carried with him, and aimed it at his own sun.
He knew that he had countless blood on his hands and that it was impossible for him to go to heaven.
But he has no regrets.
"Long live the Great Holland, long live the Queen!!"
With such a last call, Bush did not hesitate to pull the trigger, and behind him falling, a large number of Dutch soldiers and sailors were knocked to the ground by the Zheng soldiers who jumped on the flagship.
In close combat, they are as weak as sheep.
Except for a small number of Dutch soldiers who were still stubbornly resisting, the vast majority of them, in extreme shock and panic, chose to surrender.
Of course, they felt that they could not fight and surrendered, which was normal, and they did not feel humiliated.
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Since Lawn's fleet was firmly besieged in the coastal waters by Yu Zisoo's Fujian sailors, the Zheng family's fleet, which had been prepared for a long time, easily routed the second main warship of the Dutch, and even Bush committed suicide.
After that, the remaining three-masted galleys were all unwilling to fight, desperately turning the rudder and escaping towards the Penghu fortress.
When they arrived at the shore, they didn't even have the heart to stay and cooperate with the fortress on the hill, so they threw down their boats, fled ashore, and ran back to the fortress.
In this way, Zheng Yiguan easily won eight complete three-masted galleys.
Such a big harvest made Zheng Yiguan, who counted the fruits of victory after the war, laugh happily, he really didn't expect that it would be so smooth.
Of course, the destruction of dozens of ships and hundreds of people in the vanguard fleet of the imperial court was just painless in his opinion, after all, it was not his own descendants who were damaged.
He didn't feel distressed.
But who is distressed? It will only be the Emperor of the Apocalypse who hears the battle report in the Forbidden City!
Zheng Yiguan didn't know what the most likely decision would be for that emperor.
In some things, Zhu Youxiao's court is not shameful at all.