This was the characteristics of the merchants of the East India Company, profit was their most wanted, and the war was also fought for profit, and in this situation where there was a possibility of losing all their money, the sea coachman decided to hide.

Under normal circumstances, the speed of the Asian junk could not keep up with the speed of the Western Galen, so the Dutch, who were avoiding the battle, did not panic at all, and began to adjust the horn sails to speed up with full sails, and many sailors compared the middle fingers to the junk ships that followed closely.

The Xiyi people called the ships of the Ming Dynasty junk boats, which is a transliterated word derived from the English language of Chinese sailing ships.

Huang Han had been observing the enemy with a clairhand, and when he saw that the sailors on the Udwater began to adjust the sails instead of dropping the sails, he smiled and prepared to meet them.

At the very least, a naval battle of real significance encountered by the sailors of the "Red Banner Army" had the initiative and suddenness, and it was obvious that the enemy ships had already made the choice to avoid the battle and began to sail away.

Huang Han, who was holding a clairvoyant mirror, saw that the enemy ship was about to flee, and he deliberately belittled the Dutch in order to boost morale and laughed:

"Cowardice before fighting is a taboo for soldiers. Xiyi's evolution time is short and not mature enough! First of all, I didn't know the height of the sky, and when I saw our strength, I was a little arrogant, ridiculous! ”

Shen Xianyi reacted quickly and immediately said: "The general is mighty, Xiyi is fleeing from the wind, our army will take the lead in chasing them, and there is no suspense about the victory in this battle." ”

The Dutch did not know that the "Red Banner Army" warships could still play manpower to drive and suddenly increase the speed of the two-knots strong, knowing that they could not be defeated in a hundred battles, and Huang Han could hit the enemy by surprise.

The flagship raised the flag, all the warships understood, the enemy did not dare to fight and wanted to run, and all the warships followed the flagship to maintain the battle line and fully drive to meet the enemy.

In an instant, the junk ship, which had been following the Dutch warship, was powerful, and the waves were churning on both sides, and the speed suddenly went up.

Immediately, seven warships lined up in a straight line rushed towards the Oudwater, and the ships were lined up with a uniform array of "Wan Sheng!" Wansheng! ......" The cry dimmed the sound of the waves.

The Udwater was close to full sail and full speed, and it was supposed that it should gradually distance itself from the junk, but it was not what the Dutch had imagined, and the junk approached at an incredible speed.

"Oh! Buy cakes! The Dutchman had a short circuit in his brain for a while, "This must be a hallucination!" There will never be a big war ship in Asia that is so fast. ”

Just as the Dutchmen on the Udvoort and Venlo were shouting and pointing, the junk ships lined up in battle lines had approached the left side of the two warships for more than a hundred paces.

The commanders of the ships of the "Red Banner Army" resolutely gave the order to "open fire" when they reached the predetermined distance, and the artillery that had been prepared for a long time suddenly burst into an angry roar.

The Udvoort was not slow to react, and although the ship belonged to the East India Company, it was served by Dutch regular troops.

The Dutch country was on the rise at this time, and the East India Company was not the economy that would become commonplace in later generations, but a commercial company established by the Netherlands thirty years ago with state functions to colonize and plunder the East and monopolize Oriental trade.

The East India Company was a colossal monster equivalent to a bandit syndicate, notorious and blood-indebted.

The Netherlands has won the title of the coachman of the sea, and the performance at sea in these decades has outperformed the whole world, which shows that where is the general, their naval combat effectiveness cannot be given in vain, and at the same time as the Ming warships fired their cannons, the Dutch cannons also fired.

At this time, there are no illusions, only to concentrate on the cannon.

Don't even think about dodging the artillery fire, because the artillery of this era is not accurate, and it all depends on quantity to make up for quality, and when the warships bombard, it is more fierce than whose artillery fire is more fierce, and who can hold on to the artillery fire for a longer time.

It was impossible for the gunners to hide when they were frightened, and all positions on the side of the battle were dangerous, and the gunners who were bombarding could only confirm that they had survived the battle by beating the cannons of the enemy ships.

Escape is even more impossible, as long as the gunner leaves his gun position without permission during the engagement, there is no mercy.

Huang Han's flagship five-gun bow and stern cannons, and 20 twelve-pound furlong planes all fired live ammunition, and with a side attack of less than 150 paces, none of the 25 iron balls missed in the face of a large guy with a length of nearly 50 meters and a height of more than 8 meters above the sea surface.

The Galen ships were not open gun decks, their cannons were all inside the gun deck, and the muzzles of the guns extended out of the gun doors to fire shells against enemy ships, at which time the effect of firing shotshots was not obvious, because it was impossible for the shotshots to penetrate the thick cabin partitions of the enemy ships.

Huang Han ordered five rounds of live ammunition to be fired, and then three rounds of scattered bullets were fired, and five rounds of live ammunition of seven or eight hundred large iron balls penetrated the enemy's ship's cabin board and would cause thousands of holes.

Just look at the seven warships, eight rounds of more than 1,200 shells, and nearly five tons of steel smashed through, how many Xiaoqiang-level red-haired devils are still alive on the two Galen ships.

The Udwater Galen has three gun decks, divided into the port and port with the main battle guns, the bottom one side is ten 24-pounder guns, the middle deck is eight 18-pounder guns, the upper deck is six 12-pounder guns, the bow and stern are also five guns, with a total of 53 guns, it is the current Western first-class warship.

The Venlo was not enough to compare with the Oudwater, which had only one gun deck, five twelve-pounder guns on the right and port sides, and two twenty-four-pounder guns in the bow and stern, for a total of thirteen cannons.

At this time, the Dutch were not covered, they were caught up by the Junk ship and fired directly, resulting in heavy casualties and did not forget their duty, and only three or five guns were directly hit by the Ming artillery fire during the first round of shooting, resulting in the inability to fire.

The Dutch returned more than 20 shells to the Ming army when the gunners were killed and wounded.

At this time, the battle line remained in the same direction as the Udvoort and Venlo, and even though the Ming warships had stopped the manpower drive and dropped some soft sails in order to slow down, the speed still maintained a certain inertia.

Therefore, the flagship, which was in first place, was advancing while shelling, and when the Dutch returned fire, only seven shells were fired in the middle and stern.

The power of the black powder cannons of this era was indeed not too great, and the force of the shells was weakened when they pierced through the hard cabins that reached several inches thick, and the shells that penetrated the solid gun decks were not too many.

Most of the iron balls were bouncing or rolling, and unlucky gunners were killed or injured if they were hit.

As a result, most Western ships were able to fight the enemy, and the sunken ships were directly hit by too many shells, causing the hatch to be penetrated, and then the enemy's shells passed through the unobstructed hatch and hit the gun deck.