At the same time as the report, the sailors in the bottom compartment had begun to deal with it as quickly as possible, using spare timber, and began to plug the hole in the cabin that had been blown up. Although the hole that was blown open was only two feet in size, it was blown open by the bomb, and cracks appeared in the hull around the hole, and the area of the water was much larger. Moreover, it was the waterline that was blown up, and the seawater poured in instantly, and it was not easy to plug the leakage.

However, the Dutch ships did not have watertight compartments, and the water pouring into the holds was not effectively blocked, and once the leakage could not be plugged in time, the sinking of the ship could hardly be stopped. This is much worse than that of Chinese ships with watertight compartments. Because the watertight compartment can control the maximum amount of seawater entering the tank, the vessel will not sink again when the buoyancy provided by the other compartments of the vessel is balanced with the weight of the vessel and the seawater entering the hold.

In this moment of confusion, the sound of rumbling explosions continued to spread again, this time the explosion was an attack on the two ships moored to the north. Because this was a powder ship after all, and there had to be a safe distance between the two ships, each Dutch ship had only two or three explosives ships to take care of it, and the remaining few powder ships rushed from the gap between the two enemy ships or on both sides to the enemy ships to the north.

But the Dutch ships to the north had more time after all, and already had some momentum, and made some evasive moves. Despite the best efforts of the helmsman of the Powder Clipper, only two of them pinned one enemy ship, and the other ship was so lucky that a single cannonball hit one of the Powder Clipper ships and escaped the impact of the other Powder Clipper.

The inaccurate powder ship could only sail away from the distance first, try to avoid the flanks of the enemy's strong firepower, and wait for the opportunity to attack again. And Zhang Han, who was observing from a distance, also observed the results of the battle from the telescope. The amount of explosives that could have blown up a large hole of seven or eight feet in diameter on the Fu ship only made a small hole of more than two feet in the Dutch battleship.

"Attack again! The focus is still on the two ships on the south side. The battleship moved north, striking at the two enemy ships to the north. Zhang Han immediately gave the order for a second attack. He had to seize this rare opportunity to leave all these Dutch ships behind. This time he took the lead in the sneak attack, and if it was a battle between the gongs and drums, he would not have the confidence to win.

The transports lowered the second batch of gunpowder clippers, while the four battleships broke away from the group and circled northeast to pursue the two Dutch ships that had fled north on the wind. Of the two battleships, one was unscathed, the sails were half open, and the white sails were blown by the wind, and the speed was not slow. The other ship was blown up with a hole, and the speed was much slower.

The attack began again, and Zhang Han's fears became a reality. Although the two Dutch ships on the south side were damaged and slow, they were also wary of the Powder Clippers. The Dutch's side-chord artillery was not an ornament this time, although the hit rate was still not high, but this time it was changed to fire flowering shells, many of which could explode near the gunpowder clipper, which had a lot of impact on the speed and direction of the ship. There were also two gunpowder clippers, which were directly hit by artillery, the clippers were destroyed, and the soldiers on them were thrown into the sea.

It was the clipper that was nailed to the Dutch battleship, and the Dutch did not stand still. Instead of watering and lighters, they lit flowering shells and threw them down to kill and injure the soldiers on the clipper who were operating the explosives. They knew that the flowering shells would do limited damage to their warships, while the explosives on the Chinese clippers were a mortal threat to them.

This time, the sailors put ten gunpowder clippers, but only three of them finally completed the explosion mission. Pieces of broken wood and sailors floated on the surface of the sea, because the unmanned clippers had become targets for the Dutch, and had been broken to pieces by shells. Fortunately, the Dutch did not mean to kill them all, and did not continue to bombard the floating beam sailors with flowering shells, so that the sailors could throw off their chain mail and swim away to wait for rescue.

The pursuing Zhang Han left two warships to deal with a wounded Dutch ship, and he quickly pursued the fleeing enemy with the two warships. The sailors in the cabin shook the cranks hard, driving the wheel slurry faster, and the stiff sails were adjusted to the best angle, getting closer and closer to the enemy.

Zhang Han commanded the battleship and pursued the Dutch flank and rear all the time, even if it was within two hundred paces, it made the dozens of side-chord guns of the Dutch useless. However, the Dutch also wondered that the two guns in the stern of the ship had not been fired, and they did not know what the situation was. It was only later that he learned that European warships often fired at each other within a hundred paces or even fifty paces, comparing whose guns were more powerful, whose ships were stronger, and whose sailors were stronger. Their wars are all hard-fought brute bull collisions, and there is no slightest trick.

He was not interested in guessing the enemy's thoughts, and when the distance was close to within one hundred and fifty paces, he ordered the catapult in the bow to fire with all its might. The enemy did not fight back, but they did not mean to let go of this enemy ship.

The bow of the ship was bumped up and down by the waves during the high-speed driving, and the fire canisters launched were naturally not as accurate as on land, and most of the fire canisters fell into the sea water around the enemy ships. But it can't stop the speed of the catapults, two ships and four catapults, a quarter of an hour can fire dozens of canisters, and there are always one or two that can land on the enemy ship.

The Dutchmen were not stupid and waited for the distance to get closer, and when they saw the fire pot falling into the sea around them and igniting a fire, they knew that it was time for their desperation, and the two cannons in the stern of the ship finally began to fire. However, the firing efficiency of the front-loading artillery was far less efficient than that of the trebuchets on the bumpy sea.

After a quarter of an hour of pursuit, several fire canisters continued to fall on the deck of the enemy ship, and the greased ropes burned rapidly, and the Dutch finally had no way to extinguish the fire on the deck again. There was even a fire tank that landed near the stern gun, igniting the flowering shells placed on the deck, killing and wounding more than two dozen sailors and soldiers around. The ropes were burned, the sails could not be secured, and began to shake violently in the sea breeze, and the towering mast rocked the ship from side to side. Not only is the ship's power gone, but there is also the danger of capsizing.

Eventually, the Dutch succumbed, and while raising the white flag symbolizing the surrender truce, they sent sailors to climb the mast and get the sails off the mast, while at the same time doing all their might to break the fire on the deck.

And the pursuing fleet on Zhang Han's side was not unscathed. The quality of the Dutch gunners was quite high, and a few flowering shells hit their decks, killing and wounding more than a dozen sailors. Moreover, Zhang Han's ship was hit twice on the same side of the wheel slurry, although the wheel slurry was protected, but in the end it was installed behind the rear and was not strong enough. After being hit twice, the protection fell off, causing the wheel slurry to be damaged. Fortunately, the Dutch battleship surrendered immediately, otherwise it is really difficult to say how the battle will develop later.