Du Ge said to Ike: "In this case, you can't go, just wait here, quickly capture Gogong Island, this is the bridgehead of the Zheng family to support the Chinese army in the Kingdom of Cambodia, for more than two years, they have not been able to suppress us, if the Zheng family has a firm foothold here, with the Zheng family's continuous supply of materials and soldiers, we will soon be in big trouble."

You still have eleven ships, plus nine captured, and you have twenty-one that are still moving, and this is up to you. ”

Ike glanced at Kogong Island, where the people were there, as if they already knew their arrival, and were preparing to resist, with the strength he currently brought five hundred arquebusiers, five hundred sailors, five hundred singles and one musketeer, it was a little difficult to capture that island, but there were also the guns on the warships, their eighteen warships had not yet come, and they would come over in about a day or two, in this case, they could still capture it.

"Then let's go." He said.

The ships of the English and the ships of Du Ge, together with the ships of Siam, one hundred and eighty ships began to turn, and Ike disembarked and rowed in a dinghy towards the area where his Dutch fleet was located.

Gegong Island is not far from the battlefield, in clear weather, the naked eye can see twenty or thirty nautical miles, and under the telescope can see thirty nautical miles away, the two sides fought from the previous chase of more than sixty nautical miles, to the final rumbling of artillery, has approached Gegong Island, just outside the outside of Gegong Island thirty nautical miles of fighting, and then turned back and forth, the nearest time is only ten nautical miles away from Gegong Island, the Zheng family's ships escaped from the range of Gegong Island but twenty nautical miles and were annihilated, except for two 600-ton warships of the Chinese Army and Navy Division fled from the battlefield in smoke, Most of the others sank between 10 and 40 nautical miles from Koh Kong Island.

At this time, the entire fleet was docked eighteen nautical miles from Kogong Island, and the huge sails that covered the sky and the sun had already been discovered, and the rumbling cannon sound had already alarmed the inhabitants of Kogong Island, and even the inhabitants of the coast of Kogong Island for more than ten nautical miles.

When the fleet turned away, the Dutch ships began to make their way to Koh Kong.

As many as thirty-six ships staggered, and as many as eighty-five percent of them were smoking or disheveled, with collapsed oars, disheveled masts, broken sails, and dragged by the ships in front, which at first glance looked like a defeated fleet.

Feng Sheng is the son of Feng Xin, the previous generation of the Zheng family, and this time he followed Zheng Zhi to implement the agreement reached between Zheng Keshuang and Zhang Qiang of the Huaxia Kingdom, and sent troops to Cambodia to help the Huaxia army attack the Du Ge rebels.

"Do you think we can stop this remnant?" He asked an old pirate sailor of the Zheng family beside him.

"No, General, they have powerful artillery, and our whole island is covered by the maximum range of their artillery, so to speak, there is nowhere to hide. They have at least 300 cannons, or more, 380, or 400, and even if there are some small cannons, there are 300 cannons, which can cover at least half of our island, and we have wooden houses, thatched huts, and some bunkers, bunkers, they can all hit them. ”

Feng Sheng was a little discouraged, "Then what should we do?" ”

The old pirate said, "Hurry up and organize people to prepare to escape." ”

Feng Sheng was a little unwilling, "We have five thousand soldiers, fifty cannons, and hundreds of small cannons, and we have built fortifications, can't these resist them?" ”

The old pirate took a sip of wine, "Yes, but we don't have to think that we can get support, our fleet will take at least seven days to get here, if it is smooth, if not, it will take at least half a month, if you add the time for them to report to the young master, and the young master will reply to the letter, they are preparing supplies, raising sails and going to sea, and then decide who will lead, wait for time, a month and a half later, do you think we can hold on for a month and a half?" ”

Seeing that Feng Sheng was still hesitating, the old pirate shook his head, "You can try, it's really not good, there are still a few small boats in our harbor, and you can escape to Cambodia in the dark night, and then go to Dangdao from where the fast horse goes, where there are two big ships of the Chinese Army and Navy, you can take those two big ships back to Palawan, but I estimate that if these people go to Palawan Island first, the combat effectiveness of the garrison fleet may not be able to defeat them."

Where there were seventy ships of the Marines, and a dozen ships repaired from the previous wounds, about eighty or so, but none of them were big ships, the largest was only a six-hundred-ton warship, and the enemy seemed to have more than two hundred, and I counted it, and it was about two hundred and forty ships, and there were thirty-six ships here, and forty more ships passed behind the enemy, and they had one hundred and fifty to one hundred and eighty ships, probably far more than the ships I counted, because we could not see them further afield. ”

Feng Sheng looked at him, gritted his teeth and said: "Even so, I want them not to easily occupy this island, this island is 22 kilometers long, they can't have to step on every inch of the place, let our people hide, you lead some old guys to find a place to hide, even if the young master doesn't come here, which king of the Huaxia Kingdom will not give up here, he will definitely send troops here, we will wait until that time to come out to fight back, hit them by surprise, by the way, remember to bring more food and water, Otherwise you will starve to death on this island. ”

The old pirate smiled and showed a yellow tooth, "Don't worry, General, even if we starve to death, we who have been floating on the sea for most of our lives will not starve to death. ”

Ike watched the island with a telescope from his ship, waiting for the fleet to come to shore, and for the docking, their wrecked ships had spent two and a half hours, sailing at a little over four knots an hour, as a dozen ships behind them dragged twice as many immobile ships as they were.

For the Dutch, the first time was a failure, only one ship escaped, the second was a fiasco, eighteen ships were eliminated and two ships were released, while they lost eighteen ships, three of which were sunk, nine lost the ability to move and were seriously damaged, and the others were all half-wounded, although they lost a lot of losses and killed a lot of people, they could still move, and they could still complete the task if they repaired it, only a few ships were basically undamaged, and in general, the Dutch did not achieve victory in the exchange of fire with the Zheng family.

This annoyed him, ahead of him were islands occupied by the enemy, and according to his previous experience, there might not be many enemies, and even if there were, it was some civilians.

"Lay down the probe ship, measure the depth of the water, guide the fleet to the shore," he took over the rights of the fleet commander, shouting to the fleet commander.

Without waiting for the commander to repeat his order, he continued to shout: "Lower the dinghy, send soldiers to land, and cover our occupation of the docks." ”

The commander repeated it twice in succession.

The whole fleet stopped outside the harbor and slowly lowered the soldiers, followed by the detection boats, measuring the depth of the water while signaling to the back, and the fleet slowly sailed into the harbor, and the island was quiet.

(End of chapter)