Xiao Hailong was at the forefront of the battle formation, and the remaining eight warships were lined up on both sides, Xiao Hailong's ironclad ship was like a goose, bearing the greatest risk, and other warships could advance and retreat at any time. Xiao Hailong's combat attempt was to annihilate the opponent when he could get past the fight, and to disperse and retreat when he couldn't beat it, because the wild goose-style formation was very open, not as compact as the Dutch detachment, and the combat intention was also explained to the captains of each ship.

As the distance continued to drawn, the warring sides were also ready for battle. When the distance was close to two miles, the Dutch fleet began to open fire first, of course, these shells did not hit the target without accident, at most a few misses. The first detachment of the Daming East China Sea Fleet strictly followed Xiao Hailong's deployment and waited until it was close to one mile before starting to counterattack. During this period, the Dutch fleet had fired five rounds of shells, but only the ironclad ship at the forefront was shot, and the result was unscathed.

As the battle distance reached a mile, the voyage of the Dutch fleet had reached a position parallel to the left side of the wild goose formation, Xiao Hailong ordered the warship on the right to speed up to the side and rear of the Dutch fleet, while he himself and the warship on the left began to prepare to open fire, when the fourth cannonball fired by the cannon on the ironclad ship finally hit the flagship of the Dutch fleet, Van Gaal was almost scared to death, this shell penetrated the middle of the flagship's side chord, and exploded in the hull, suddenly blowing up the flagship almost a square hole, A large amount of seawater quickly poured into the hull, and although the sailors on the ship acted quickly, they panicked in the face of such great damage and had to close the adjacent sealed cabin. Looking at the other warships, Van Gaal even had the mind to die. After the flagship fired, all the mortars on the Ming warship on the left began to shell, and by the time Van Gaal found out, almost all the Dutch warships were on fire. Think about it, twenty mortars on each warship, firing at a distance of less than a mile at the same time, even if there is a one-twentieth chance, there will also be a blindfold, not to mention that these are elite artillerymen. Therefore, after four rounds of shelling, every warship of the Dutch fleet was in flames, and the people turned on their backs, and they were all in a mess. As the distance continued to approach, the mortars of the Ming fleet became more and more accurate, while the Dutch fleet almost lost its counterattack, except for the pilot, those who were not killed went to put out the fire.

Van Gaal saw that something was wrong, and immediately retreated with a flag, but unfortunately the back road had been outflanked, and even more unfortunate the flagship was hit by a cannon shell again, this time at the stern, the soldiers on the warship patronized to fight the fire, and at once dozens of tons of seawater poured into the cabin, and the result was that the Dutch flagship was paralyzed. Seeing that the opponent's flagship had lost the ability to fight back, Xiao Hailong immediately ordered the ironclad ship to fire at the other Dutch warships, and after four rounds, two more were hit, one of which was unlucky and hit the bow, and after the explosion, he plunged directly into the sea.

The four Dutch warships that saw the flagship's retreat signal tried to turn around and escape, but were stopped by the outflanked four Ming warships, and looked back at the flagship, and the white flag had been hoisted, and in desperation, the four Dutch warships had no choice but to hang the white flag. Fortunately, Xiao Hailong accepted the theory of Western missionaries, and knew that the enemy's hanging of the white flag was a sign of surrender, so he stopped shelling, but not everyone knew about it, and as a result, he blew up and sank four more surrendered warships, and Xiao Hailong was so angry that he scolded. This could have captured nine Dutch warships, but now there are only five left, and when they are done, two more will have to be thrown away, and now only one flagship, one warship, and one clipper remain.

After Xiao Hailong finished the battle in the fleet, he immediately cleaned up the battlefield according to Qi Jin's explanation, and all the soldiers who fell into the water were shot to death by the spearmen, and all the prisoners were not killed. This is actually what Zhu Youxiao confessed, so as not to leak the secrets of the ironclad ship. Xiao Hailong then returned with the three captured Dutch warships to join Qi Jin's main fleet.

After meeting Qi Jin's main fleet, Xiao Hailong immediately reported to Qi Jin about the battle with the Dutch fleet and his initial thoughts, and was praised by Qi Jin for not sparing. Xiao Hailong was not a fool, he had already known about the Dutch garrison in the Penghu Islands from Van Gaal's mouth before ordering the soldiers to shoot the Dutch, so Qi Jin immediately invited the other two detachment captains, Chen Nanjiao and Yu Hualong, to his flagship, and the four of them discussed how to destroy the main fleet of the Dutch. According to Van Gaal's explanation, the Dutch occupied four large inhabited islands in the Penghu archipelago, and these four islands were almost connected together, like a big lake in the middle, more than 20 ships of the Dutch main fleet docked and stationed here, the personnel and soldiers lived on the main island of Penghu, and the rest of the supply ships had more than 30 ships docked in the innermost port.

After listening to Xiao Hailong's account, several people agreed that it was not difficult to defeat this Dutch fleet, but the difficulty was how to annihilate this fleet without leaving a single person, because the entire four islands were almost connected together and the area was too large, if the Dutch wanted to escape when they saw that they were defeated, or they were scattered to break through, there was no way to leave all of the more than 30 warships behind, if they could not completely annihilate this fleet, the warships that escaped would expose the strength of the Ming fleet and leave trouble for the future.

For the sake of safety, several people decided after discussing it that it would be better to send three warships and reconnaissance ships to reconnoitre, or to see the shipping lanes and sea conditions there, in case something unexpected happened when the time came for the war to start, the losses would be great. As for who to send to reconnoitre, the atmosphere suddenly became tense, it is said that Xiao Hailong is the most suitable to go, but this credit cannot be taken by one person. Chen Nanjiao and Yu Hualong stared at Xiao Hailong vigorously, and Yu Hualong also rubbed his wrists with both hands, this guy was the first of the three in martial arts, so frightened that Xiao Hailong shrank his neck and didn't dare to say anything. Qi Jinle was happy, so he asked the two to catch lots, but they were snatched by Chen Nanjiao, and Yu Hualong, who was angry, screamed.

Chen Minwu is a very good local official, and when Qi Jin went to sea, he sent dozens of local fishermen who were familiar with the sea conditions and routes to follow him out to sea, and Qi Jin looked at Chen Minwu again. Now Chen Nanjiao has left the main fleet with three ordinary warships and six reconnaissance ships. He was accompanied by more than a dozen fishermen. According to the leading fishermen, it was about 50 to 60 miles away from the main island of Penghu, and Qi Jin's main fleet was docked near a small unnamed island nearby, and these fishermen would be able to find it after the reconnaissance mission was completed.