Most of the Dutch battleships were Galen ships, and the Galen ships were the largest sea ships in this era, with a length of more than 30 zhang, a width of more than 6 zhang, and a displacement of more than 1,000 tons.

And in order to pursue powerful firepower, the Dutch Galen ships are equipped with multiple decks, each deck is equipped with ten to twenty guns, and through the telescope, you can clearly see the dense gun barrels on the deck of the Galen ship, making the Dutch Galen ships look like hideous beasts full of spikes!

Tens of thousands of soldiers of the New Army couldn't help but clench their fists, and the scene was silent, only hearing the "snap" sound of the waves crashing on the hull of the ship!

As if infected by the oppressive atmosphere of the imminent outbreak of the Great War, dark clouds suddenly surged into the already cloudless sky, and waves began to rise on the calm sea, and soon it began to rain heavily!

Frans originally saw Guo Zhiyuan and the Dongfan Navy waiting for the battleship, and knew that he had been tricked, but when he saw the sudden heavy rain, he immediately laughed: "Look, even God helps me!" Now those nasty 'small fireboats' of the Chinese are no longer needed, continue to move forward and let the Chinese tremble under our powerful artillery fire! ……”

The Dutch were the first to open fire, and the maximum range of their guns had reached an astonishing 6 miles! The shells fell directly not far from the formation of the Dongfan Navy, stirring up a huge column of water! Guo Zhiyuan always stood motionless at the bow of the ship, even if the heavy rain had soaked his whole body, his calmness also infected all the soldiers of the New Army, and the cold rain and the waves splashed by the cannonballs could not extinguish the fire of battle that was burning in their hearts!

Zheng Zhilong, who was standing behind Guo Zhiyuan, had been secretly observing Guo Zhiyuan, and he could see that Guo Zhiyuan's calmness was indeed not pretended, but really confident, but he really couldn't figure out where Guo Zhiyuan's confidence was, the gap between the warships of the Dongfan Navy and the battleships of the Dutch was there, and the fireship tactics could not be used in such weather conditions, so how could Guo Zhiyuan make up for the huge gap with the Dutch warships?

At this time, the Dutch fleet finally completely entered the Liaoluo Bay, and also entered the range of the warships of the Dongfan Navy, Guo Zhiyuan ordered the cannon to fire back, and suddenly the cannon rumbled, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the huge water column stirred up by the cannonballs, the power of this huge artillery battle seemed to suppress the power of heaven and earth of nature, and the officers and men of the new army had completely forgotten the heavy rain, forgot the wind and waves, and cooperated with the tacit understanding to replace the shells, adjust the angle of fire, and launch their anger and shells at the Dutch battleships together!

Hundreds of broadside guns fired in unison, and finally slightly suppressed the shelling of the Dutch, but the Dutch artillery range and power advantage was still obvious, in such a short period of time, five or six new Dongfan warships have been hit, but because the new Dongbo warships are made of stronger steel components, they were not sunk immediately, and they are still stubbornly fighting back! However, Guo Zhiyuan didn't want these damaged Dongfan warships to continue fighting, because the damaged warships could still be repaired, and if they were completely sunk, the soldiers of the New Army on it would also be martyred, so the losses would be great, and he immediately ordered them to withdraw from the battlefield!

Zheng Zhilong looked secretly anxious, and said in his heart You better take care of yourself first, you have to lose if you play like this, what about your hole cards? Why don't you take it out yet? Or do you have no hole cards at all? Guo Zhiyuan didn't seem to be worried, as long as he found that a Dongfan warship had been hit, he would immediately ask the standard-bearer around him to give an order for the injured Dongfan warship to withdraw from the battlefield, which also led to fewer and fewer Dongfan warships participating in the battle!

The Dutch also had two battleships hit, but with the huge hull of the Galen ship, it would be difficult to sink it unless it was hit continuously, so the battle situation on the scene became a little stalemate, but if it continued to develop like this, the balance of victory would definitely fall to the side of the Dutch, because exchanging injuries for injuries would gradually eliminate the numerical superiority of the Dongfan naval warships, and once the numerical superiority was not there, defeat was inevitable!

Seeing that the battle was developing in their favor, Frans also laughed proudly: "I said that in the face of great strength, any strategy is just a small trick, let me continue to shoot and sink them all!" ……”

At this time, the soldier on the lookout suddenly shouted: "What's that?" Sir, watch out to our side, an unidentified object is approaching fast! ……”

Frans quickly turned his head to look, but because of the smoke of the artillery battle, and the heavy rain also seriously affected the visual distance, he could only vaguely see a small black dot that was quickly outflanking their fleet!

Frans had a vague feeling of something bad, but he didn't panic, these small black dots were not large, and it was obvious that they would not be a large warship with great lethality, and they should only threaten their battleships, but for the sake of conservatism, he still ordered to mobilize the small-caliber falcon guns on all the battleships (the large-caliber cannons could not be mobilized because they wanted to suppress the artillery fire of the Dongfan Navy), and launched an artillery attack on those small black spots that were approaching quickly, preventing them from approaching their fleet!

But soon France's surprise happened! He saw with his own eyes that a small-caliber Falcon shell hit one of the small black dots, but the small black dot only shook violently, and continued to approach their fleet at a rapid pace as if nothing had happened!

What the hell is this? It's okay to be hit by a shell? At this time, the small black dot is getting closer and closer, and France finally sees the true face of the "little black dot", this is a kind of "strange ship" that he has never seen, the ship is not big, smaller than the common fortune ships of the Ming Dynasty, but the deck and hull of the ship are wrapped with scaly iron sheets, and many oars are stretched out from the cabin below the ship, which are rowing rapidly, and the wind is urging, so the speed is very fast, and it looks like a huge turtle is flying towards the Dutch fleet!

Seeing this, everyone knows that these "strange ships" are the "tortoiseshell boats" built by Guo Zhiyuan with the drawings obtained from the North Koreans! At the same time, Guo Zhiyuan also improved the tortoiseshell ship to make the "tortoiseshell" of the tortoiseshell ship stronger, unless it was directly hit by the cannon heavy artillery, and the general small-caliber shell shell hit the "tortoiseshell" directly on the "tortoiseshell", which could not cause heavy damage at all, and as for the musket and the like, it was the same as "tickling" on it.