Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Battle of the Penghu Islands (5) Qi Jinjie

Qi Jin then arranged the battle plan, first of all, the first and second fleets launched a strong attack from the southeast, and the third fleet's Yu Hualong blocked the exit of the channel in the northwest, as for other places, because it was decided to launch an attack at low tide, the big ships in other places could not go out at all, and the reconnaissance ships equipped with hand-cranked machine guns could block them. It was about ten o'clock in the morning, and if we set off immediately, it was just in time for the attack to start at five o'clock in the afternoon.

First of all, the two main detachments led by Qi Jin, taking advantage of the experience of the fishermen and old men, quickly arrived at the position of the attack, and more than a dozen warships lined up in four formations one after another, quietly approaching the Dutch fleet from the southeast. Now the commander of the Dutch fleet, Rear Admiral Raelsen, is sulking, the Van Gaal fleet has been out for almost a day and there is no news, and the other two warships actually went to sea without permission in order to chase two women, it seems that the troops should really be reorganized, otherwise there will really be no war in the future.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the Dutch soldiers who were finishing the afternoon exercises, before they had time to rest, the Daming East China Sea Fleet led by Qi Jin arrived in front of them, and the soldiers guarding the sentry post immediately blew the battle alarm, and the Dutch who did not have time to complete the team rushed to their respective warships.

Seeing the mess of the Dutch, Qi Jin gave an order, and immediately all the mortars and cannons opened fire together, and for these large warships, mortars were used to bombard the buildings on the warships, and medium warships were greeted with cannons. Why, medium-sized warships can't withstand the bombardment of cannons and two guns at all, these almost stationary targets, if the ironclad ship can't hit, it's stupid to go to grandma's house, large warships can be repaired and used after the battle with mortars, especially Zhu Youxiao once explained that Westerners' warships still have many advantages.

Under the command of Raelsen, the Dutch army carried out a stubborn resistance, although the warship that had not yet moved was easy to be hit, but relatively speaking, it was easy to aim, but unfortunately the Ming fleet was rushed forward by the bow of the ship, the target was relatively small, although it hit a few, but Zhu Youxiao let the warship prepare sandbags, unless it directly killed a few unlucky people, the loss was not large. On the other hand, the Dutch fleet, all of which were hit, in addition to catching fire, the ship's side was penetrated, and some were even detonated*, causing a secondary explosion, and most of them were scrapped in less than half an hour. Seeing that the situation was not good, Raelson immediately ordered a retreat, and his flagship took the lead, covering the supply ships to rush to the northwest channel, leaving five first-class battleships behind, and he thought that he would be able to escape in this way.

Just when Raelson was about to arrive at the northwest exit, Yu Hualong's detachment, which had been waiting for a long time, Yu Hualong, who was holding a telescope on the ironclad ship, laughed, and ordered the cannon on the ironclad ship to immediately aim at the huge flagship, and it was a cannon on the bow of the ship. Then very simply, Raelsheng ordered surrender, and all the Dutch fleet, including the transport ships, was surrendered by Yu Hualong, and at this time Yu Hualong only fired two rounds of artillery.

The five first-class warships left behind by Raison resisted for less than two quarters of an hour, and then they were driven to the front of the Ming fleet into a sea of fire, and then, no more, were sunk by the ship's * secondary explosion. Then the Daming fleet began to land and clean up the remnants of the Dutch on the island, there were not too many Dutch on the island, most of them were on supply ships, and the rest were not as unyielding as the Chinese, and when they saw that the general trend had gone, they surrendered one after another, and the casualties of the Ming army were much less.

The next three fleets will meet, clean up the battlefield, there are almost no stubborn enemies, there is no stupid and not to resist, take stock of the results of this battle, it can be described as brilliant, more than a dozen transport ships are almost completely accepted, five first-class battleships were captured, one super flagship, three second-class battleships, the cannon was too much, most of the second-class warships were sunk, and the captured Dutch soldiers, including General Relsen, a total of 2,105 people, were still on a transport ship, telling them that they could leave freely, In order to reassure them, he also provided some fresh water and food, which made Lei Ersheng very satisfied, but what he didn't know was that there was Yu Hualong's ironclad waiting in front of them, once they were out of the Penghu Sea, Yu Hualong would send them directly to God, Qi Jin was mainly afraid that the soldiers would feel ominous when they saw the slaughter of the prisoners. After cleaning up the battlefield and treating the wounded soldiers, Qi Jin rested on Penghu Island for a day and returned to Quanzhou to continue his military training.

Half a month later, Zhu Youxiao's order came down, appointing Chen Minwu as the prefect of Taiwan and Peng, and ordering Qi Jinshuai's fleet to escort and begin to emigrate to Taiwan. As soon as Zhu Youxiao gave this order, half of Fujian took action. Originally, the Fujian region was full of people and little land, the soil was poor, and the people's life was poor, so they were relatively active ideologically, and as soon as they heard the news that they could emigrate, they immediately took action, and in just a few years, millions of Fujianese emigrated to Taiwan.

After Qi Jin escorted Chen Minwu to take office as the prefect of Taipeng, Zhu Youxiao ordered the opening of the sea ban, no matter anyone can engage in sea trade, but the premise is that it must be filed in Daming Customs, that is to say, if you want to go to sea trade, you must pay taxes, and the exported goods are not mentioned for the time being, all merchant ships entering the customs must pay taxes at a certain rate, and the specific matters are responsible for the newly established customs. Anyway, this guy was born in the Donglin Party and knows a little bit about business.

So far, the alarm on the southeast coast has been lifted, and the security of the sea will be handed over to Qi Jin for the time being, whether it is to deal with Li Dan's pirates, or other pirate gangs, this is Qi Jin's business, and the right is to let Qi Jin train his troops, and wait until a few years after Zhu Ling's scientific and technological team creates a more safe and reliable steam engine, and then strengthen the Ming Navy, so that they have the ability to sail, the current strength is still too weak, and the voyage cannot guarantee that the steam engine will not have problems.