Chapter 344: The Destruction of the Dutch Far East Fleet
"Bang! Boom! In the midst of the firelight and the explosion of water on the sea, another Dutch warship sank.
This Dutch ship was the closest to the Count of Ona's flagship.
Count Ona could almost clearly feel the blazing fire on the sinking warship.
"Nope! God, I'm going to fight them! "This Count of Ona, known as the genius admiral of the Dutch Navy, is bloody, he is crazy, and he wants to desperately order the remaining warships to turn back and fight to the death!
Even if it was to die, he would die with the honor of the great Netherlands!
For more than ten years, the Count of Ona won more than a dozen naval battles for the Dutch navy, and this is how the name of the genius admiral came from, which is an honor, and the Count of Ona regarded it as an honor as important as life.
Faced with an almost decidable defeat, Count Ona's choice was different from that of Viscount Leicester, and he was crazy about giving his life for the faith in his heart!
The remaining seventeen ships of the Dutch Far Eastern Fleet could no longer stand the sight of escaping and being sunk one by one, and they were driven crazy.
"Shoot back!" The Dutch warship stopped fleeing, and turned its hull sideways on the spot, and the cannons on one side were aimed at the two major fleets of the pursuing Ming navy.
"Boom, boom, boom" Seventeen Dutch warships returned fire with great grief and indignation.
Sixty warships of the two fleets, which had been thrown a kilometer away, instantly rushed towards the Dutch warships that had stopped.
The fleets of both sides fought fiercely at a distance of kilometers from each other.
The six Shenmu-class warships still advanced to the sea area three thousand meters away from the Dutch warships, where they cruised, constantly hitting and firing at one Dutch warship after another.
The magnificent sea once again resumed the tragic scene of countless water columns blowing up at the beginning of the war, and sawdust flying everywhere on the warship.
The Dutch fought back with grief and indignation, and finally exerted their original qualities, sinking three warships of the two fleets of the Ming Navy at once.
However, in the same way, in the face of the overwhelming superiority of the Ming Navy, the Dutch Far Eastern Fleet was again sunk by five ships!
The Dutch Far East Fleet, which had only twelve warships left, suddenly lost its firepower!
Fifty-seven large fleets and warships of the Ming Navy and six Shenwu-class warships gradually formed a semi-encirclement of the remaining Dutch warships, and continued to develop towards the siege.
Once surrounded by the Ming Navy, the Dutch Far East Fleet will no longer be able to escape the end of annihilation!
The firepower of the two major fleets of the Ming Navy was too fierce, and all the warships together had more than a thousand cannons, and the Dutch Far East Fleet, which had been sharply reduced to twelve, had its firepower several times weaker at once!
At this time, the six Shenwu-class warships that were still cruising three thousand meters away gave up the strategy of firing one by one and switched to large-scale bombardment.
At each massive bombardment of more than 600 guns, almost all of the remaining twelve Dutch ships were hit.
"Boom! Rumble! ”
"Quack!"
Even the flagship of the Count of Ona was hit twice and a mast was blown off.
As the two fleets of the Ming Navy gradually joined forces, all the Dutch fell into despair!
Some of the Dutch are still fighting back in despair, and at the same time, some of the Dutch have lost their fighting spirit and sit there indifferently, waiting for their lives to be harvested!
"Lord Earl, we have been defeated, we cannot let the remaining soldiers die in vain, please let the remaining fleet surrender!" A Dutchman on the flagship pleaded angrily to Count Ona.
In desperation, it is a Dutch tradition to surrender knowing that they cannot be defeated, as long as the highest commander of the fleet gives the order, they will not have any psychological burden!
"Nope! For the honor of the great Netherlands, we should fight to the end! Count Ona roared frantically.
Not only for the honor of the great Netherlands, but also for his own honor, he preferred to die!
"Lord Earl, do you want the rest of the soldiers to die with you? God will not forgive you! The Dutchman was filled with despair, and roared at Count Ona in desperation!
"Boom, boom" At this time, another wave of artillery shells from the Ming Navy hit.
Twelve Dutch warships were more or less shot, the flames exploded, and the sawdust flew everywhere!
"Quack!" The flagship of the Count of Ona was blown off one mast at a time.
Count Ona's face was bloody, he looked extremely embarrassed, the Dutchman who had just frantically persuaded him to surrender to Daming had been blown up, and his body fell into the ocean, Count Ona watched all this.
Regardless of whether Count Ona chooses to surrender at this last moment, the Dutch Far East Fleet is about to be destroyed!
"Hahahaha! The Dutch ghost is over! Admiral Shen Jingchao of the East China Sea Fleet laughed.
"The Dutch Far East Fleet has been completely annihilated, and the Ming Dynasty will be invincible in the South Seas!" Zheng Sen couldn't help but smile.
Countless Ming Navy soldiers were excited, and the speed of loading ammunition and operating cannons suddenly became much faster.
"Boom Boom"
Six Dutch ships were sunk in this round of shelling, including the flagship of Count Ona, who felt only a sharp pain in his body and a wave of heat that lifted him into the sky.
Count Ona died as he wished, and his mutilated body was thrown into the sea by the heat wave of the cannonballs, and the blood stained the sea red, and he died a tragic death!
The last six remaining Dutch ships were also crumbling and would definitely not survive the next round of shelling!
"No," a Dutchman watched as the Count of Ona's flagship sank, and infinite despair filled his heart.
"God! Your people are coming to you! The Dutch cried out in despair.
At the same time, there were also some Dutch people who found the white flag and waved it to surrender, but unfortunately the smoke on their warship was billowing and crumbling, blocking the sight of the Ming admiral hundreds of meters away, and no one realized that they wanted to accept their surrender!
"Fire!" Shen Jing roared and gave the final order!
"Boom Boom"
In this round, more than 600 shells were dumped, accompanied by countless columns of water that were blown up, and the last six Dutch warships, on average, hit more than 10 shells at this moment, and one of them even hit more than 20 shells, and the powerful force blew the entire warship into pieces on the rough sea.
All the Dutch ships were sunk, which also heralded the destruction of all the ships of the entire Dutch Far East Fleet!
In this naval battle, the two major fleets of the Ming Navy lost five warships and another ten were damaged, but they won a great victory in annihilating 39 warships of the Dutch Far East Fleet!
Such a result can be achieved at such a small cost, which is very rare in all naval battles in the world.
Zheng Sen looked at all this coldly, when the Dutch occupied the Ming Dynasty's Taiwan and chose to become the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, it foreshadowed their fate!
"The Ming Navy is mighty! Hahahaha" In the distance of the battlefield sea area, Yan Yingyuan, the commander of the Fourth Army of the Yinglong Army, who was standing on one of the sea ships, watched this naval battle with clairvoyance, and at the moment of the victory of the Ming Navy, Yan Yingyuan laughed out loud, proud of the Ming Navy!
"Now it's up to us to see how our Fourth Army performs!" Yan Yingyuan's eyes were full of fighting intent!
All the officers and men of the Fourth Army are also in high spirits and ready for the next big battle that belongs to them!
The next victory in the naval battle was the landing of the Fourth Army on Taiwan to eliminate the Dutch above.
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