Zheng Chenggong stood on the bow of the treasure ship, holding a telescope, looking at the oncoming United Fleet, with a cold smile on his face, hehe, you dare to attack left and right, it's not easy for you to hug together.

He put down the binoculars and directly ordered: "Order all the battleships to line up in a single column and insert them from the middle of the combined fleet, and all the battleships of Fuchuan will remain unchanged in formation, and they will directly cover them and prepare for the broadside battle." “

In order to protect this baby bump, the flagships of the three fleets followed the side of the Success, and the whole four treasure ships plus a hundred super battleships were lined up, and the formation was really a bit scary.

At this time, the North Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet have begun to turn around, to say that the ship turned around is convenient, as long as a big arc, brush it will turn over, there is no need to look at the direction of the wind, if the sailboat turns around, it will be troublesome, if the wind direction is not right, it may not fall for half an hour.

Seeing this scene, Fan Mendi put down the binoculars in despair, and said bitterly: "Order, all ships scatter and flee to the left and right fronts, good luck to everyone, see you in Batavia." “

This battle can't be fought at all, the number of super battleships on the other side is almost twice that of its own, and the total number of warships is even four times that of its own, and looking at the opponent's posture, it is definitely to divide the combined fleet into two from the middle, divide and encircle, and at that time you can't run away if you want to, it is better to take advantage of the fact that the other side has not yet completed the encirclement, and immediately disperse and flee from the left and right fronts, fortunately, the Sulu Sea is full of exits, if it is in Manila Bay, he will repeat the tragedy of the capture of the whole army last time.

Seeing this scene, Zheng Chenggong slapped the side of the ship in annoyance, and ordered loudly: "Order, take the battalion as a unit, disperse the pursuit, and each battalion chooses its own target, try not to repeat." “

He originally wanted to see the effect of the treasure ship giant ship in actual combat, but now it's okay, he ran away without firing a shot, because of the size and propulsion, the speed of the treasure ship giant ship is slower than that of the super battleship and the fortune ship battleship, and it is not suitable for pursuit at all, it seems that this treasure ship giant ship can only continue to play the role of mascot.

As for the enemy's escape, he was not worried at all, the speed of the sailboat and the steamer was simply looking for death, even if they were smooth, they would not be able to outrun the steamer, and it was only a matter of time before they were caught.

A sea battle that should have been earth-shattering turned into a chase war, and the Sulu Sea was full of combined fleet warships and Ming Navy warships chasing and intercepting within a thousand miles of the Sulu Sea, and this chase lasted for three or four days before it ended, Zheng Chenggong guessed wrong this time, there were a small number of anti-Habsburg alliance warships that escaped the pursuit of the three major fleets of the Ming Dynasty, like Van Mendi's flagship is one of them!

They are not faster than the warships of the Ming Navy, but they escaped by taking advantage of the sacrifices of their comrades, the sailing ships are not as fast as the steamers, but some of the warships may be entangled in the pursuers, and then flee frantically.

Of course, even if they escaped, it would be useless, and eventually they would have to flee back to Batavia, but Batavia, is it still the Batavia of the Dutch?

At the same time that the Nanyang Naval Division, the South China Sea Fleet, and the North Sea Fleet set off for the Sulu Sea, Zheng Chenggong also sent the East China Sea Fleet, carrying 100,000 officers and men of the Second Army of the Expeditionary Force to Batavia.

The city of Batavia was founded in 1619 by Peter Ersson, the third governor of the Dutch East India Company. Queen's construction was sparsely populated in Batavia at that time, and there were no timber to build ships and houses, let alone stone walls and fortresses. Kun recruited a large number of laborers exiled from the Ming Dynasty and quarried boulders from the Coromandel Coast to build the walls and fortresses.

That is to say, the walls and fortresses of Batavia were actually built by the laborers of the Ming Dynasty, and their solidity was no less than that of the Ming Dynasty's native cities, so the city with the fortress, even if there were only 10,000 people to defend, it would be difficult for 100,000 troops to take down, so Fan Mendi was relieved to boldly leave behind 10,000 East India Company musketeers and bring most of the main force to attack Manila City.

In the face of such a strong city, the range of the opponent's artillery even exceeds that of the Ming army's howitzers, how to conquer it?

If other countries come to attack Batavia, then 100,000 horses are really not enough, even if Portugal or even Spain comes, it is the same, only the Ming Empire comes to attack to have hope of taking it.

Why? Because there are many descendants of Ming laborers in the city, and more importantly, there are many Jinyi guards hidden in the city, these agents are selected from tens of thousands of Jinyi guards, and assassination is their training subject!

There is a saying that "the strongest castles are often breached from within." I don't know who said this, and I don't know if Zheng Chenggong has heard of this sentence, but his plan is to attack Batavia from the inside.

Long before the departure of the East China Sea Fleet and the Second Army of the Expeditionary Force, Zheng Chenggong gave instructions to the Jinyi Wei spies in Batavia, and on the third night after the siege of the Second Army of the Expeditionary Force, at all costs, open the south gate of Batavia City and welcome the soldiers of the Second Army of the Expeditionary Force into it.

In order to confuse the defenders in the city, Zheng Chenggong even ordered the East China Sea Fleet to bombard the north of Batavia City from the sea day and night, regardless of the loss of battleships and the effect, it was a non-stop bombardment day and night!

Therefore, after the East China Sea Fleet and the Second Army of the Expeditionary Force came to Batavia, they all pretended to be ready for a hard attack, and the East China Sea Fleet kept bombarding the northern wall of Batavia in turn on the sea, and the officers and men of the Second Army of the Expeditionary Force were also divided into two, and they kept rushing to make siege equipment on the east and west sides of Batavia, everything seemed so normal, the only abnormal thing was that the southern wall of Batavia had been quiet and no one cared about it.

The East India Company defenders in Batavia were not fools, they did not withdraw all the defenders on the south wall because no one cared about them, in view of the pressure on the east and west sides, they only transferred part of their forces to the east and west walls to support, and the south wall has maintained a scale of about 1,000 people.

However, there are always times when people are tired, the warships of the Ming army are bombarding day and night like crazy, although they did not put the north city wall, and even sank a few battleships because of this, but the defenders in the city have never been able to rest, the artillery has been roaring, who knows whether it was fired from the battleship or the siege force, what if the siege force began to attack the city? Therefore, the defenders of the city did not dare to sleep too much at night, and it was even more common for them to be awakened by the roar of artillery in a daze.

After this situation lasted for three days, the defenders in the city could be said to be physically and mentally exhausted, and they could basically doze off standing there, and the defense naturally became extremely lax.

On the evening of the third day, there was still no figure to be seen outside the southern wall of Batavia, the soldiers on duty on the city wall were basically holding their guns, dozing against the wall, dozens of brocade guards spies wore night clothes, took advantage of the night to touch the city wall, they took advantage of the shadow of the city wall to avoid the lighting of the torches, touched the back of the soldiers guarding the city, covered their mouths and noses with thick cloths, and then wiped their necks with a knife, and the movements were extremely skillful.

Soon, the guards near the gate tower were almost cleared, and even if someone saw it from a distance, they couldn't find it, because everyone was sleeping against the city wall, and only when they got close could they find that there was a lot of blood on the ground!

In this way, the Jinyi Guard secret agent opened the southern gate of the city without danger, and welcomed 20,000 soldiers of the Second Legion of the Expeditionary Force hidden in the shadows into the city silently, and touched the city walls and fortresses everywhere.

It was a night of slaughter, countless East India Company musketeers were wiped directly in their necks while still half asleep, although the defenders in the city finally discovered the anomaly, but it was too late, the east and west gates were opened, and all the soldiers of the Second Legion of the Expeditionary Force poured into the city.

100,000 against thousands, that is crushing without suspense, Batavia was broken by the Ming army from the inside!