The news of the capture of the city of Santo Domingo by the Dutch was soon spread to Penghu by the spies of the Jinyi Guard, and Romero, the Spanish chicken coop governor of the city of San Salvador, also north of Dongfan, soon received the news, and he sent a clipper ship to ask for help from the Spanish governor of Luzon, Corquian, while he began to organize a defense.

As mentioned earlier, the defense of San Salvador is much more than that in front of Santo Domingo, not only has the main castle cannon, but also has three forts, which are built on the hills around the main castle, and the city of San Salvador is built on Chicken Coop Island, and the entire island is within the range of fire attack of the main fort and the fort, so it is very difficult to conquer the city of San Salvador.

Despite the great difficulty, Putmans chose to attack, he had to go on, he had to bear a considerable part of the responsibility for the loss of dozens of armed merchant ships, a city of Santo Domingo was not enough to offset the credit, only by taking the city of San Salvador and completely driving the Spaniards out of the east could he keep his current position.

To say that Putmans really has a few brushes, after he took his fleet and Liu Xiang's pirates to surround Jilong Island, he just used a telescope to observe from a distance for a while, and found a flaw. This flaw is actually not too big a flaw, if the number of Spanish defenders is enough, then this cannot be called a flaw, but the problem is that the total number of Spanish defenders is only about 500 people, so this flaw is infinitely magnified.

This small flaw is in the northern part of Santo Domingo City, Fort Sashou is very close to Santo Domingo City, and the terrain is very high, just a Fort Sashou can completely protect the entire San Salvador City and the northern area of Chicken Coop Island, of course, this is in the case of sufficient personnel, if the personnel are not enough, the problem comes, Fort Sashou stands alone in the north of Chicken Coop Island, except for the city of San Salvador behind, the defense of other places is blank, and what is more deadly is that there is a small hill near his left, If you fire from above, you can attack Sashou Fort.

Seeing this flaw, Putmans immediately had an idea, his battleships and armed merchant ships were mainly equipped with eight-pounder cannons, the weight of the barrel and the base was less than six hundred catties, and the combined strength of a dozen people could be lifted, he calculated, there were more than one hundred and twenty eight-pounder cannons under his hands, and the Spaniard's Sashou Fort was so big in total, it would be good to be able to fit more than ten cannons, if he removed all the eight-pounder cannons under his hand and carried them to the hill near the Sashou Fort, You can completely smash the castle to smash!

As long as he captured Fort Sashiro, the city of San Salvatore was completely within the range of his artillery fire, and the Spaniards would be miserable at that time.

In order to keep his position, Putmans was also ruthless, he directly ordered more than 120 eight-pounder guns to be removed from the ship, and received more than 120 small boats and more than 1,000 strong pirates with Liu Xiang, and then matched each artillery with three artillerymen and three musketeers, so he carried all the eight-pounder guns to the small boat, and then he used his battleships and armed merchant ships as cover, and rushed directly to the beach north of the fort, and rushed to land!

The Spaniards had no way to get it by his rogue tricks, there were only a dozen cannons on the fort in total, and it was all about luck to hit his largest battleship, and it was basically nonsense to hit a small boat with more than ten people, so his landing plan was successful!

More than 1,000 pirates and more than 300 Dutch artillerymen carried their artillery to the beach after the target was even smaller, as long as they did not stand in a pile, it would be difficult for the Spaniards to hit them, in this case, the Spaniards had to send musketeers up to repel them, but there were only more than 500 Spaniards on Joncoop Island, and then scattered to a main fort and three off-forts, each place was at most more than 100 people, did they dare to go up and fight with others? You must know that there were three or four hundred musketeers among the more than 1,000 people, and they rushed up to deliver food to other people!

The Spaniards who had retreated to the fort had no choice but to cover the attack with scattered shells, but more than a dozen artillery pieces covered an area of several hundred meters, and the hit rate could be imagined, and in the end, they could only watch the Dutch command the pirates to carry more than 100 guns to the hill near them.

So, the two sides began to bombard, the Spanish side is more than ten artillery, occupying the advantage of the fortress basically do not have to worry about being hit by shells, but the Dutch side is more than 120 artillery scattered on the hill and do not want to die fiercely, 120 to 10, the result can be imagined, after the bombardment for most of the day, the Dutch and pirates are losing dozens of people, but the wall on the left side of the fort is also crumbling by the dense shelling.

The two sides continued to bombard each other until the sun set, and finally had to stop, and the next morning, the bombardment continued, and after more than ten rounds of bombardment, one of the walls of the fort was finally blasted, and the Spaniards began to suffer casualties. Seeing this, Putmans made a desperate gamble, and personally led more than a thousand musketeers to the shore and rushed to the fort, where the Spaniards in the fort collapsed and gave up the bombed fort and retreated to the city of San Salvador.

Putmans took the opportunity to take the fort, and then all the eight-pounder guns were lifted to the hill where the fort was located, and there was a fierce bombardment on the wall north of the city of San Salvador, and the Spaniards were miserable, Putmans could bombard them, but they couldn't do it again, because the hill was more than 100 meters high, and their artillery couldn't hit so high if they didn't adjust the elevation angle, and once the elevation angle was increased, the firing distance was not enough!

It stands to reason that in this case, the defeat of the Spaniards was assured, and as long as the Dutch continued to bombard, the northern wall would sooner or later be breached by them, and at that time, the city of San Salvador would not be able to hold it.

Romello, the governor of the chicken coop, had already decided that he would order surrender as soon as the northern wall was breached, and he could only bet now that the Dutch did not bring so many shells.

Putmans naturally brought enough shells, and he bombarded for two days in a row, and while victory was in sight, the roar of artillery suddenly sounded on the sea, and listening to the intensity of the sound, at least a thousand guns were firing at the same time!

What's going on here? The so-called praying mantis catches cicadas and yellow finches in the back, it turned out that after the city of Santo Domingo was breached, when the news was transmitted back to Penghu, Zhu Cijiong had already led the main force of the Ming army to the Penghu Islands, he heard that the Dutch had broken through the city of Santo Domingo, and immediately sent Zheng Zhihu to lead the 100,000 naval troops of the Nanyang Naval Division, with 50 super battleships, 500 Dafu ships and more than 1,000 small warships, together with the elite of the 50,000 Janissaries of the Second Army led by Shi Kefa, rushed to the northern sea area of San Salvador City, surrounded from north to south, and brought the Dutch, The Spaniards and Liu Xiang's pirate gang were all surrounded and wiped out in one fell swoop!

In other words, why did Zhu Cijiong send the Nanyang Sailor instead of the Beiyang Sailor? There is a reason for this, on the one hand, he wants to lead the main force of the Beiyang Naval Division and the First Army of the Praetorian Guard to attack the Dutch city of Gelanza, and more importantly, Zheng Zhihu is quite familiar with Liu Xiang, so it is naturally better for him to lead the army to encircle and suppress Liu Xiang than Huanglong.

Zheng Zhihu and Liu Xiang are both one of the eighteen Zhizhi, from the very beginning, Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhihu brothers and Li Kuiqi, Liu Xiang and others did not deal with each other, and after Zheng Zhilong led the army to defect to the Ming Dynasty, their relationship became even worse.

After Li Kuiqi and Liu Xiang and others plotted against Yang Tiansheng and Chen Xinji, Eighteen Zhi completely broke up, Zheng Zhilong began to encircle and suppress Li Kuiqi, Liu Xiang and other departments, during which Li Kuiqi, Yang Liu, Yang Qi and others were successively exterminated by Zheng Zhilong, only this Liu Xiang was extremely treacherous, and even led his troops to take refuge in the Dutch, and in the end, he relied on the protection of the Dutch, escaped the encirclement and suppression of Zheng Zhilong, and was able to escape to this day.

Zheng Zhihu and Liu Xiang are already old rivals, the two sides naturally know each other very well, when Chongzhen Dynasty was also Zheng Zhihu led his troops to encircle and suppress Liu Xiang, as a result, Zheng Zhihu was captured by Liu Xiang, and finally Liu Xiang was cornered by Zheng Zhilong, he actually directly tied a boulder to Zheng Zhihu in front of Zheng Zhilong and threw it into the sea and drowned him, and then swallowed a gun and committed suicide! The depth of the grievances between the two can be seen.

Of course, it is now the Chongzheng Dynasty, Zheng Zhihu's subordinates are not pirates like Liu Xiang, but the Ming Nanyang Naval Division equipped with advanced weapons, and it is difficult to say who threw whom into the sea and drowned this time.

This can be said to be the first battle of the Daming Naval Division, Zheng Zhihu didn't know how powerful the super battleships were, for the sake of safety, he did not divide the team too much, but lined up all the battleships into three rows, the first row was fifty super battleships, ready to break in the middle; The second row is 500 Daifuku ships converted into battleships, which are more than ten miles wide, and once the two sides exchange fire, these 500 Daifuku ships will form a semi-circular encirclement and surround all the enemy ships; In the third row are more than a thousand small warships, and after the battle they will form a larger encirclement to prevent any fish from escaping.

After arranging the formation, Zheng Zhihu immediately ordered, all the battleships slowly approached in the direction of the chicken coop, so the three major rows of battleships lined up more than ten miles wide on the sea, Liu Xiang naturally could not see it, so the fleet of the Nanyang Navy Division was discovered by Liu Xiang as soon as it approached the chicken coop sea area, Zheng Zhihu looked at Liu Xiang and their scattered formation, and directly ordered fifty super battleships to speed up, and the big fortune ships and small warships behind began to form a semicircular encirclement.

Liu Xiang was taken aback by such a huge lineup of the Daming Sailor at the beginning, just kidding, the number of Dafu ships and small warships is almost twice as many as theirs, and there are fifty more super battleships, and they don't have to fight to know the result, they will definitely lose.

But when he saw that the Great Ming Naval Division had only rushed up to fifty super battleships, his eyes showed a glint of hope again. He is very clear about the power of the Ming earthen cannon, which idiot general commanded this Daming fleet, and really when their earthen artillery can be compared with the cannons of the Dutch? Do you think that each ship is invincible with hundreds of earthen cannons?

Even if the power of the Ming Dynasty's earth cannon is not much more than the power of the Dutch's cannon, they can't rush in like this, they can fire a few cannons, they can brave the artillery fire, and rush over directly, as long as they board their battleship, what is the use of more artillery!