Chapter 326 The Second Battle of Batavia: The South-East Might!
The shot was so accurate that the Dutch who gathered around saw Governor Speke lying on the deck with an extra hole in his forehead!
Because it was a dummy bullet, the power was not enough to penetrate the back of the head, and the movement of the bullet made his eyes explode, ear holes and nostrils spray red and white things, and his face was deformed, which was very terrifying!
This governor was a veteran navigator and adventurer, never afraid of the unpredictable sea, as early as 1609 AD, he once arrived in the Wa country, met the old turtle Tokugawa Ieyasu, it can be said that he traveled almost all over the world! To be able to die in battle is a deserved thing for him.
It was also his bad luck that the Truth 2 sniper rifle only brought two in the entire fleet, Yan Changwu had one there, and Nanhai No. 2 had one, which came in handy for Storm.
The Great Chief was killed, and the Dutch reaction of the "Guild" was not as angry as the captain of the Nanhai No. 2, but broke away from their Dutch battle line and left the battlefield!
The civilizations of the East and the West are completely different, with Easterners having more beliefs about sacrificing their lives for righteousness, while Westerners are more likely to see things and run away from them.
The flagship ran?
The Dutch, who noticed this, were stunned and did not understand what was going on.
On the Purple Tulip, not far from the Guild, Hendrik Brovo (Hendrik Brouwer) Brouer (Brouer) watched the departure of the Guild in astonishment, and without thinking, ordered the flagship to be raised on the ship, and took the place of Governor Speke to direct the battle.
It is a pity that his hard work was in vain, for Storm cried out: "Governor Speke is dead!" ”
It's bilingual in Chinese and Dutch!
The shouts were soon spread by the ships of the Southeast Fleet, and the hearts of the Southeast Fleet were greatly lifted when they heard it!
And the Dutch everywhere heard the blunt Dutch word that "Governor Speke is dead", and when they saw the "Guild" leave, it was not expected to be a good thing, the morale of the army was shaken, and the morale of the army fell to a halt!
They move slowly, and they have no intention of fighting.
For the Southeastern Army, this was a joyful time, and the artillery was even more cheerful.
First of all, the first result was obtained by Zhao Tianjing, his qualifications were very low, but with his performance (fighting in the face of the enemy is his first initiative), he got the honor of commanding a fifth-class cruiser, and he used this Tainan No. 8 battleship to attack the Dutch ship "Hell" in ten minutes and launched eight rounds of artillery fire!
When the southeastern gunners were exhausted, they saw the Inferno capsize to the right, its starboard bulwark almost collapsed, and the sea water poured into the ship's cabin!
The unlucky Inferno was hit by multiple shells in yesterday's battle, and the bulwarks were only lightly repaired before going into battle, only to be hit in the sore spots.
Then the Dutch ship "Hadler", which had 32 guns, was defeated in a confrontation with the "Kaohsiung 33", which had only 28 guns, and was humiliatedly defeated.
There's no way, people shoot fast!
Seeing that there was an opportunity to take advantage of, Kaohsiung No. 33 boldly ganged up with the "Hadler", the captain of Kaohsiung No. 33, a young man who was only twenty-three years old, and his hair had not yet grown, called Gan Tang (a relative of Deputy Chief of Staff Gan Hui), was so excited that his subordinates rushed through the "Hadler"!
They had three guns (two pistols and one shotgun), lined up to shoot wildly, and when they saw someone moving, they shot almost all the people of the "Hadler" and captured the Dutch!
In the end, the "Hadler" had a shipload of dead bodies, and only two wounded survived, and the blood was surging, but the captain Gantang walked around the corpses of the "Hadler" proudly, nervously slashing at the corpses with his saber, so Gantang got the glorious title of "corpse abuser"!
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The Dutch's battle line disintegrated and fled, while the battle line of the South-Eastern Fleet was immediately disbanded, chasing the fleeing Dutch ships.
It was a joyful harvest season, and the Nanhai No. 3 found the 46-gun ship "Jupiter" to fight with it, and when the two sides were fighting happily, it was difficult to distinguish between the high and the low.
But Nanhai No. 1 is here!
"Concentrate your fire on this Dutch ship!" Yan Changwu did not have the demeanor of being a boss, and cooperated with his subordinates to open fire, with the crowd outnumbered, and he felt at ease.
Two 70-gun battleships bombarded the "Jupiter", one was the commander's flagship, and the gunners were drawn from the entire fleet, which was of a super-first-class level, and the other was the battleship commanded by the black warrior Siresma, who was the Force's fellow with him, and they destroyed the "Jupiter" in ten minutes, killing and wounding one of the battleships!
Twelve Dutch battleships landed at the tail of the fleet, and as a result, ten battleships of the Southeast Fleet took advantage of the upper hand to intercept them.
The siege with their furious fire was like a divine help, and the Dutch ships were so dizzy by them that they often became half-dead after a few rounds of artillery fire, as if they had been beaten and had no air intake.
The officers and men on the ten battleships of the Southeast Fleet were overjoyed, and they boarded the ships one by one with help, and washed the Dutch ships one by one!
The Dutch ships "Mars" and "St. Martin" were lucky, because there were only ten Dutch ships in the South-East Fleet present, and they only took the opportunity to escape and escaped back to Batavia.
As for the Nanhai No. 1 and Nanhai No. 3, they were busy chasing down the other intact Dutch ships, and they had no time to pay attention to the "Mars" and "St. Martin".
For the two of them, the enemy ships they had destroyed were not targets at all.
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The Dutch intended to engage the Southeast Fleet in the open sea, not as they did last time, so that the natives and Chinese of Batavia could see the battle of the Southeast Fleet and them (the sea area of the last battle was not far from the port of Batavia), which backfired, so that the natives and Chinese of Batavia were so shocked that their jaws were about to fall out, and they saw the scene of the Dutch fleet being defeated and fleeing back, while the Southeast Fleet was chasing after them!
This time it was even worse, the South-Eastern Fleet went straight to the port of Batavia, and lost all face.
The Batavia battery fired!
Thanks to the late Governor Speke, who, after the First Battle of Batavia, took precautions and fortified the coastal forts. Six batteries were set up along both sides of the port of Batavia, in an echelon distribution.
Each battery had 20 guns, 12 of which were 12-pounder guns and 12 were 24-pounder guns, for a total of 120 guns, and when they opened fire, they immediately bore the high-speed cruiser "Kaohsiung 14", which was chasing behind the Dutch butt, into cannon fire!
Suddenly, a white column of water soared on the sea surface on both sides of the "Kaohsiung 14," and it suffered no less than 15 or 6 shells, and there were casualties immediately.
"Kaohsiung No. 14" made a sharp turn in the skyrocketing water column, and its movements were so fast that the Dutch people were envious, if only they had such a battleship!