In fact, no matter in any era, in any way of warfare, going out to reconnoiter is the most dangerous task, especially on the sea in this era, the climate may be more terrible than the enemy, so Chen Nanjiao is also very careful after grabbing the task. At a distance of 50 to 60 miles, Chen Nanjiao arranged three warships in front and six reconnaissance ships in the back, and waited until he was only about 10 miles away from the Penghu Islands, then stopped the warships, disguised the reconnaissance boats as fishing boats, and arranged two fishermen and 10 soldiers on each boat, and went out separately in groups of two boats, and he himself chose one of them.

On the way, the two fishermen pointed out the way forward, as well as the situation of several small islands nearby, avoiding the reefs and backflows in the sea, and slowly approached about four miles, Chen Nanjiao asked the fishermen and other soldiers to pretend to be big fish, and he took out his binoculars and quietly observed the topography and sea conditions of the nearby islands. This season is actually quite unsuitable for going to sea, because every year from May to June is the rainy season near the Penghu Islands, so the sky helps the Ming Dynasty, and it happens that there is no heavy rain in these days, although the waves are a little bigger, for these boats can still withstand.

The reconnaissance boat slowly circled around Penghu Island, and Chen Nanjiao basically had a general understanding of the situation here, as for blending into the island, this was strictly forbidden by Qi Jin, after all, this was too dangerous, even if he pretended to be a fisherman, it was impossible to enter the barracks. However, after all, Chen Nanjiao had studied at the military academy for half a year, and based on his own observations, he drew a rough map of the situation here, and when he met with the other two groups of reconnaissance ships, he could combine them to make the general situation relatively clear.

After floating at sea overnight, he began to return the next morning as originally planned. When approaching the small island where the warships were stationed, Chen Nanjiao vaguely saw through his telescope that the other two groups of reconnaissance ships had returned to the vicinity. At this moment, the soldier squatting in the stern of the boat suddenly shouted with a telescope, "There is a fishing boat, coming quickly in our direction." Chen Nanjiao turned around and raised his binoculars to look behind him, only to see a fishing boat about half the size of the reconnaissance boat being sailing in the direction of the island with full sails, and two Dutch warships were following behind the fishing boat more than 60 zhang away.

At this time, Chen Nanjiao's three warships were still hiding behind the island, Chen Nanjiao quickly judged the situation he was facing, just by virtue of the current reconnaissance ships, they would definitely not be able to beat the other party's two warships, and the only hope was to attract the Dutch warships to the vicinity of their warships and use mortars to deal with them, but the fishermen on board didn't know! It seems that you can only risk your life, go and be cannon fodder, I hope that my life is great.

Chen Nanjiao ordered another reconnaissance ship to go and inform the captain of the warship to move all the mortars on the three warships onto the island in the shortest possible time, arrange the firing positions, and wait for the Dutch warships to approach the covering bombing. Of course, the situation on this small island is already clear to Chen Nanjiao and the three warships after a day's investigation. Chen Nanjiao waved flags to the other two groups of reconnaissance ships that were gradually approaching him, telling them that they were going to outflank the back of the Dutch warships. Chen Nanjiao's own reconnaissance boat headed for the approaching fishing boat.

Fortunately, the oncoming fishing boat used a hard sail, and now the northeast wind is blowing, which can borrow the wind power to the maximum, while the Dutch warship uses soft sails, which is difficult to borrow wind power, so although the warship has been chasing behind, the distance has not been shortened, but gradually pulled away a little. When Chen Nanjiao's reconnaissance boat approached the fishing boat, the Dutch warship was about 70 zhang away from them, and the fishermen on the reconnaissance boat shouted loudly for the fishing boat to approach them, and the reconnaissance boat also quickly turned around and let the fishing boat follow behind him, while talking to the people on the fishing boat.

It was a coincidence that the old man on the fishing boat actually knew a fisherman on the reconnaissance boat. Through the conversation, it turned out that the four people on the fishing boat were a family, and the three young men, a man and two women, were the sons, daughters-in-law and girls of the old man, and the daughter-in-law got up early this morning to fetch water, and met two Dutch sailors, these two guys got up and tried to insult the woman, so frightened that the woman ran back to the house in a panic, and it happened that the old man, the old woman, her son, and daughter were all at home, and the family begged bitterly, but the Dutch kicked the old woman to death. The son immediately picked up the harpoon and stabbed a sailor to death with one fork, and the other escaped as soon as he saw that it was not good, and the old man also quickly escaped from the back door with his three family members, rowed out the hidden boat on the other side of the island, and desperately escaped. It was the captain of a warship who was killed, so two warships soon chased after him.

When the Dutch warships saw that the two ships were going to join them, it was not easy to catch up, so they began to fire their guns. Of course, because it is a warship in front of the small boat, so only two cannons can be placed, and the current cannon speed is not too fast, and the accuracy is even more pitiful in the fast driving, but this also scares Chen Nanjiao enough, the reconnaissance ship may be able to withstand one or two big iron bullets, and the small fishing boat will be finished after one shot, but now it is only two miles away from the island, if it is farther, it is really covered with a big iron ball, it really depends on God's eyes.

The island is getting closer and closer, and Chen Nanjiao's bad luck has also arrived, a big iron ball was hit on the stern of the reconnaissance ship, but it only rubbed a little side, which scared Chen Nanjiao into a cold sweat. By the time they approached the shore, the other four reconnaissance ships had already outflanked them, and with a terrible whistle, they were removed from the warships, and the sixty mortars that had set up firing positions opened fire together, and nearly twenty* were caught in ten seconds on two Dutch warships one hundred and fifty feet away. Chen Nanjiao immediately ordered the shelling to stop, and the six reconnaissance ships quickly surrounded it, and when they approached the Dutch warship, the fire was almost extinguished, and the sailors and soldiers on board were almost dead. So they quickly boarded the ship, and after a single shot, the Dutch went to see their God, and Chen Nanjiao and they happily captured two Dutch warships. Then things are much simpler, just take the small fleet that has been merged together to meet Qi Jin's main force.

Seeing Chen Nanjiao returning, his face smiled, and Chen Nanjiao took the old man on Penghu Island to report the investigation to Qi Jin. Combined with the situation of the Dutch army and the hydrological changes on Penghu Island provided by the old man, Qi Jin and the others judged that as long as the two navigable channels in Penghu were blocked, large warships were not allowed to pass through, reconnaissance ships were separated to block the small channels, and small boats that slipped through the net, this Dutch fleet could be completely wiped out, and as for the soldiers who wanted to run out in pieces, it was impossible for them to escape back to the Netherlands without ships.