Geranza Castle, three floors, on the watchtower, Zhang Bin put down the telescope in his hand and let out a long sigh, the Dutch finally ran, and the battle was considered a victory.

Zhang Bin was relieved, but Zheng Zhilong was extremely nervous, he was mentally prepared, mentally prepared for a hard battle.

He only has more than 300 warships in his hands, and in terms of strength, he is not even as good as the armed merchant ships of the Dutch, but he has to face 50 super battleships and 60 armed merchant ships of the Dutch, and the difference in strength is too great.

He is ready desperately, in order to boost morale, he put his handsome ship at the front, this means obviously, brothers, I will take you to fight hard, I will go first!

The fleet sailed out of the Gangtai River Inland Sea, he immediately raised the telescope to look forward, at this time, Yu Chenglong's more than 200 wheels had been mixed with the Dutch's sixty armed merchant ships, mixed with a few super battleships, the scene was extremely chaotic, his eyes were full of criss-crossing warships, and he couldn't see the Dutch's super battleships in front of him at all.

At this time, he showed an excited expression, the chaos is good, it is to mix together, if he bombards with the Dutch, his hundreds of guns are not the opponent of thousands of guns at all, and in the end, he has to rush desperately to fight the broadside battle to have a chance of winning.

Unexpectedly, Yu Chenglong had already entangled most of the Dutch warships, and it was so good that the Dutch didn't dare to fire at all in this case, what a chance.

He did not hesitate to order, more than 300 capital warships, rush forward at full speed!

At this time, Spex had actually ordered to escape, and Zhang Bin could see it, because he was standing high and looking far away, but Zheng Zhilong couldn't see it, because his eyes were full of entangled warships in front of him.

Zheng Zhilong's handsome ship was the first to dock on an armed merchant ship of the Dutch, and countless ladders and long planks were instantly put up, he drew his saber without hesitation and shouted: "Rush with me." ”

Immediately, he quickly stepped onto a ladder and jumped onto the deck of the enemy ship with a few clicks.

The boss worked so hard, and the morale of the people below was naturally high, and everyone on the handsome ship, except for those who operated the ship, all who could get on it, and the other warships also began to frantically hug them.

However, he felt that something seemed to be wrong, or too easy, he rushed up with a roar, only to cut down two people, no one cut down, there seemed to be Ming soldiers all around, there were no Dutch, at least, it was difficult to find the standing!

What's going on here?

In fact, it is very simple, because the main force of the Dutch has already run away, leaving five super battleships and more than 20 armed merchant ships, with a total of less than 4,000 people on it, and Yu Chenglong has 5,000 people under him, even if he does not rush up, Yu Chenglong can solve the battle.

At this time, the warships in front of them had already heard cheers one after another, because they could see that the Dutch had already run away, and the cheers slowly spread to all around, and soon spread throughout the battlefield, Zheng Zhilong held a long knife in his hand, and looked at the Ming soldiers cheering around in a daze, feeling like he was in a dream.

Is this a victory? It's too easy, isn't it?

The Ming army was indeed victorious, and it was inexplicably victorious, because on the watchtower on the third floor of the castle of Geranza, the governor had already issued an order to clean up the battlefield and collect the troops.

Of course, this was only a victory in a battle, the main force of the Dutch, that is, the super battleships, only lost 10%, and they still had an overwhelming advantage over the Daming Naval Division, so Zhang Bin did not relax his vigilance, and he did not lift his combat readiness everywhere.

He only ordered Zhang Guan to lead the officers and men of the Naval Division to accept the super battleships and armed merchant ships of the Dutch, and to step up training in the inland waters of the Taijiang River in an effort to build up combat strength as soon as possible.

As a result, strange things happened again, and in the next few days, the sentinels in Zhuhai, Hainan Island and other places came with news that the Dutch had run away, all the way south, and ran away without looking back!

This means that the Dutch have given up and will not come again for at least a year, because Zhang Bin has already found out the reason for the Dutch's slow response, it turns out that they have to report to the mainland or ask for help every time, from Batavia to the European mainland, it is quite good to be able to fight back and forth in a year, so it takes more than a year for them to react each time.

Won, why won?

Zhang Bin thought about this question for a few days, and he even thought of the great war of the Ming Dynasty in recent years.

In the twentieth year of Wanli, the battle of Ningxia to quell the Mongol rebellion;

From the 20th to the 26th year of Wanli, two campaigns to support Korea;

From the 27th to the 28th year of Wanli, Yang Yinglong, the Tusi of Pingdi, rebelled;

Wanli's three major expeditions, all won.

However, immediately after, Daming's performance was simply miserable.

In the forty-seventh year of Wanli, the battle with the Salhu of the Later Jin;

In the first year of the Apocalypse, the battle of Shenyang with the Later Jin;

In the second year of the Apocalypse, the battle of Quang Ninh with the Later Jin;

The Ming army, all defeated!

I don't know why I won't win, I don't know why I failed, I don't know why I failed, since the late Wanli period, the Ming Dynasty has fallen into a fierce party struggle, no matter what the victory or defeat of the front line, just the party struggle.

Just like Yang Hao, the commander of the Ming army in the Battle of Salhu, casually summarize the Wanli Korean War, you will know that this guy is the only Ming army general who escaped from the battle in the Wanli Korean War, and he lost nearly 20,000 Ming soldiers at one time, which was the heaviest loss of the Ming army in the Wanli Korean War.

Such a person actually asked him to command the battle of Sarhu, isn't this looking for death!

There are also Xiong Tingbi, Sun Chengzong, Nan Juyi, Cai Fuyi, Yuan Chonghuan in the back, Daming is actually not without people who can fight, and it is not without capable Nurhachi and Huang Taiji who spew blood.

However, the final outcome of the fight is miserable.

Cai Fuyi, angry in the army;

Xiong Tingbi, the head of the nine sides;

Yuan Chonghuan, Ling Chi was executed;

Nan Juyi, dismissed from office, died of depression;

Sun Chengzong, forced to resign, and forced to resign twice, finally, in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the Qing army attacked Gaoyang, seventy-five-year-old Sun Chengzong led the whole city of people and their families to defend the city, and hanged himself after the city was broken!

At this time, the Ming court has formed a bad habit, every time after the battle, it does not sum up the lessons and lessons, regardless of merit or demerits, just fight for power and profit, and fool around!

This will definitely not work, summing up the lessons and lessons of the Ming Dynasty's demise, Zhang Bin made a decision, in the future, every major war must be summed up, success or failure, gains and losses, must be analyzed clearly, rewards and punishments must be clear.

Combined with the news from the outposts in various places, after confirming that the Dutch had fled back to Batavia in a hurry, Zhang Bin immediately summoned the relevant generals participating in the battle, learned about the battle situation everywhere in detail, and personally drew several battle diagrams, and then summoned all the guerrilla generals and above to the naval lecture hall that was about to be put into use for a meeting.

The Army Lecture Hall and the Navy Lecture Hall have actually begun to be built years ago, but after Zhang Bin made a preliminary plan, he went to the capital Qinwang, and then came back to get married, and then went to Guangdong, and when he returned to Dongfan, the Army Lecture Hall and the Navy Lecture Hall School Building had been built, but the things inside were not yet fully equipped.

At this time, the things in the ordinary classroom were almost equipped, so Zhang Bin simply summoned a group of generals to a large classroom, one to make a summary, and also to let them know about the martial arts hall.

At this time, there were no signs everywhere, and the generals thought that this was a barracks, and there were neat and tidy houses everywhere, except that there were no soldiers, and the others were a bit like the station of the East Fan Jiuwei.

However, after they entered the classroom, they felt wrong, such a large room was filled with small tables, just like the private school opened by Mr. Teaching, but there were only a dozen or so small tables at most, but there were hundreds of them!

Of course, at this time, the generals of Guangdong and Fujian, plus the commanders and commanders of the capital guards, were less than 100 people, so it was completely possible to sit down everyone, and a kind of general sat down according to the size of his position under the guidance of the special operations battalion's personal guards, and a loud chant came from outside: "Your Excellency the Governor has arrived." ”

A kind of general naturally hurriedly stood up to greet him, and Zhang Bin walked in with this volume of battle diagrams and a spring breeze on his face.

When he came to the podium, after the generals finished saluting, Zhang Bin raised his hand to let the generals sit down, and then hung a battle diagram on the wooden board in front of the podium.

As soon as the battle diagram was unfolded, it became clear to the generals that this was a map of the entire southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty, but it was marked with countless colored arcs and arrows.

Zhang Bin hung up the battle diagram, then picked up an ash pole, pointed to the map, and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, as you know, since the beginning of May, the Dutch have pounced all the way from Nanyang to the coast of Guangdong and Fujian, and launched an attack on us. ”

As soon as he explained this, the generals below immediately understood the meaning of this picture.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Bin introduced along the blue arc: "The Dutch first attacked Zhuhai, and then they turned to Yuegang, somehow delayed for a day, they arrived in Penghu, and then they began to attack the Dongfanzhong avant-garde, after the attack failed, they fled all the way south back to Batavia, among them, there were actually only two places where the battle took place, that is, Zhuhai and Dongfanzhong avant-garde, and the Dutch in other places just glanced at it and left. ”

All the generals did not follow the Dutch, so naturally they didn't know the attack process of the Dutch, and as soon as Zhang Bin introduced all the generals to the whole battle process, they immediately had a general understanding of the entire battle process.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Bin took out another combat diagram, hung it on the wooden board, and introduced: "This is the battle that happened near Zhuhai, the Dutch first poured more than 2,500 shells in Macao, and then began to attack the Zhuhai fortress, after the Dutch's super battleships carried out a round of port salvo, the marines' arsonist ships swarmed up, they immediately blocked them with armed merchant ships, and after more than ten armed merchant ships were set on fire, they took advantage of the wind and water to withdraw in embarrassment. ”

The battle of Zhuhai turned out to be so simple, except for Cao Wenzhao and Zheng Zhihu, who directly participated in the battle, the other generals all showed surprised expressions.

Zhang Bin then asked: "Do you know why the Dutch withdrew in embarrassment? ”

This is completely unreasonable, fifty super battleships and sixty armed merchant ships with more firepower than the main warships of the Daming Navy Division were scared away by one hundred and fifty small ships, which is completely unreasonable!

Looking at the puzzled expression of the general, Zhang Bin concluded: "Because they are afraid that we will burn their armed merchant ships and even super battleships, this is a typical fear of the enemy, such a huge advantage, they actually ran away, so, fear of the enemy is a big taboo, everyone must remember." ”

The generals understood that the Governor had really analyzed the reasons for the enemy's defeat and asked everyone to remember the lessons of defeat.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Bin praised again: "In this battle, our Ming soldiers are quite heroic, especially the guerrilla general Zheng Zhihu, who dared to lead one hundred and fifty small boats to rush up to attack the huge fleet of the Dutch, forcing the Dutch to withdraw in embarrassment. ”

When Zheng Zhihu heard this, he was inexplicably surprised, this Governor had never mentioned it to him, he quickly stood up and said, "Thank you, Governor." ”

Zhang Bin nodded, motioned for him to sit down, and then praised: "In this battle, General Cao Wenzhao also performed outstandingly, and was specially promoted to the deputy chief soldier of Fujian. ”

Cao Wenzhao was even more surprised, he didn't expect that even if he commanded his soldiers to fire a few shots, he stood up excitedly and said, "Thank you, Lord Governor." ”

Zhang Bin nodded, motioned for him to sit down, and then picked up a battle diagram, hung it on the wooden board, and introduced: "This is the battle that took place in the avant-garde in the east, the Dutch first divided their troops into two routes, one way to block the exit of the Taijiang Inland Sea, all the way to shell the castle of Geranza, after two volleys on the left and right sides, General Yu Chenglong led 250 wheels to catch up from behind when the thirty super battleships turned around, and then sixty armed merchant ships cut in from the right side, squeezing into the battlefield, and the super battleships withdrew to the west one after another. After the appearance of more than 300 capital warships led by Admiral Zheng Zhilong, the Dutch began to flee in a hurry, and finally we intercepted five super battleships and 24 armed merchant ships. ”

The Battle of Dongfan turned out to be so simple, except for Yu Chenglong, Zheng Zhilong and Qi Yuanbi, who directly participated in the battle, the other generals once again showed surprised expressions.

Zhang Bin then asked: "Do you know why the Dutch failed?" ”

This failure is too bizarre to come, and the generals really can't think of it for a while.

Zhang Bin concluded: "According to the report of the Sentry in Batavia, their commander this time is the Governor of Batavia, Spex, this person is not a general at all, looking at his performance, he has not commanded any battles, and the command error is the main reason for their defeat, of course, the fear of the enemy is also a reason. It can be seen from this that operational command is also very important, so this officer has built two schools for everyone, one for the army and one for the navy, and here is the navy and the navy is the navy. ”

It turned out that this was a place to learn the art of war and analyze combat examples, and the generals showed excited expressions and nodded again and again.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Bin appreciated: "In this battle, our Ming soldiers are also quite heroic, especially the naval generals Yu Chenglong and Zheng Zhilong, who can beat the Dutch away, they are indispensable, and they are rewarded with 1,000 taels of silver, and at the same time, Yu Chenglong was promoted to the commander-in-chief of the Guangdong Naval Division, and Zheng Zhilong was promoted to the commander-in-chief of the Fujian Naval Division. ”

Both of them were stunned, and it wasn't until the people next to them poked them that they hurriedly stood up and said, "Thank you, Lord Governor." ”

Zhang Bin nodded, motioned for him to sit down, and then praised: "In this battle, General Qi Yuanbi also performed outstandingly, and was specially promoted to the deputy chief soldier of Fujian. ”

Although Qi Yuanbi was mentally prepared, he was still a little surprised, after all, he was only in his twenties, and the deputy chief soldier was really a little too young, so he quickly stood up and arched his hand: "Thank you, Lord Governor." ”

The reason why Zhang Bin is so crazy about giving people promotions is naturally to take the opportunity to raise the positions of his generals, in the future, even if Chongzhen wants to transfer them away, it is not Chongzhen who earns it, after all, these people's positions are all there, no matter how they are transferred, it is impossible to demote them, even if they are transferred to other places, they are also generals with heavy troops, which is only good for him, not harmful.

Of course, these positions still need to be confirmed by the Ministry of War and issued official documents, but he believes that Chongzhen will definitely not embarrass him at this time, because he will report the silver of the leased land in Zhuhai and the merits of this war.

After introducing the battle situation and promoting a group of generals, Zhang Bin finally concluded: "In this battle, victory seems to come easily, but in fact, you might as well think about it from another angle, if it is the Dutch, do they dare to lead more than 100 small ships to attack the huge fleet?" Do they dare to lead more than 200 ships without any artillery wheels to rush towards the super battleship covered in artillery? They definitely don't dare, only our Daming Sailor soldiers will be so brave and fearless! When the two armies meet, the brave wins, everyone must remember that the brave and fearless can defeat the strong with the weak and create miracles. ”

When the generals heard this, they all nodded solemnly, and since then, the soldiers from Guangdong and Fujian provinces have all been brave and fearless, and they are terrifying!

After the summary meeting, Zhang Bin held a grand commendation meeting in the avant-garde school field of Dongfanzhong.

This time, not only Zhuhai and the avant-garde soldiers who participated in the war came, but also the garrisons of each guard, the detachment of each naval division, and the defenders of all places, and the nine schools of the avant-garde in the entire Dongfanzhong were almost full of soldiers of the Ming army, Zhang Bin sent eight generals under his command to reward the participating troops, and he personally awarded awards to the soldiers with outstanding military achievements, and also issued pensions to the fallen soldiers.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty did not even pay the soldiers with food, so naturally there was no need to expect any military merit rewards, Zhang Bin paid out of his own pocket, as long as all the military merits were doubled according to the imperial court standards, the pensions of the fallen soldiers were also doubled.

For a time, the morale of the soldiers in Fujian and Guangdong provinces was high, and others were afraid of the enemy and cowardly, but they began to be eager to fight!