Gerard Peak and Ike were very helpless, after an hour of naval battle, they finally eliminated the fleet left by Zheng Zhi in the port, but they were trapped in nearly eighty armed merchant ships and warships, maybe some armed merchant ships with small tonnage can come out, but the warships are definitely not good, and their huge fleet can only be anchored at overseas anchorages, I thought it was an easy battle, but I lost fifteen warships, thirty armed merchant ships, and nearly thirty ships were injured, and fifteen warships were trapped in the harbor, Forty-five armed merchant ships of large tonnage could not come out, and two battleships were accidentally sunk.

The harbor was deserted, and there was no enemy resistance, and it seemed that the enemy had withdrawn his troops and civilians to the interior of the island.

But it was nearly 300,000 civilians and soldiers, and the Dutch and Spaniards wanted to get their hands on the market.

The Dutch sent survey ships to survey the shipping lanes, to find the waterways to get out and in, and to send sailors to the bottom of the sea to find out the situation, and so on, that when it was dark, the men sent to search the shore had searched the residential areas and the harbor for three miles, and found no enemy.

I couldn't move after dark, so I had to wait until dawn to work.

Nearly 500 warships and warships, as well as more than 100 merchant ships for supplies, were anchored at an anchorage ten miles away from the port.

In the middle of the night, the Dutch governor Ike was awakened by the sound of cannons, and when he put on his clothes and came out, he saw the flames rising from four or six nautical miles away, and the cannon of the armed merchant ships and warships on the periphery rumbled, and he said to the adjutant: "What's the matter, go and ask." ”

After a while, the commander of the fleet came, "Your Excellency the Governor, the Nanyang people have sent a fireboat to lower it from the current, and the interception of the ships that have broken through our perimeter patrol is rushing over at a speed of five or six knots, ten minutes ago, several armed merchant ships and a dozen warship anchorages on the periphery were raided, seven armed merchant ships were burned, one warship was burned, and there are still a large number of arsonist ships floating down the river, the sea breeze is getting stronger and stronger, it is estimated that the speed of the arsonist ships will be as fast as twelve knots, we have to make the fleet move, Otherwise, the arsonist ship will rush into the fleet and burn us all. ”

Ten nautical miles away, Zheng Zhi was looking into the distance from the flagship of the Nanyang, this time he used three hundred fireboats, quietly approaching the enemy for five or six nautical miles, and then exposed, with the help of the sea breeze, the fireboat has already increased its speed, and there are three thousand daredevils on board, including two thousand eight hundred Japanese servants and Southeast Asian indigenous servants, as well as his two hundred henchmen who control these people.

This time, even if he could not burn most of the enemy's ships, he would be able to inflict heavy losses on the enemy, and wait until the early hours of the morning to lead the fleet to surprise the enemy who was already in a panic.

It was already three o'clock in the morning, and by six o'clock in the morning, when the morning light was just shining, his fleet would fight to the death with the enemy.

The sound of artillery was heard, which was the sound of the enemy's panicked fire, and on the other side was the thirty armed merchant ships mixed in the middle of the arsonist ships, who would crush the armed merchant ships that were cruising and intercepting on the enemy's periphery, and make room for the arsonists.

It's been a day, I don't know if the support fleet of Hongtian Cannon has come out, and he doesn't know if he can delay the Dutch and Spaniards for a few days, from receiving the information to dispatching, it should take two to three days.

In the face of such a huge fleet of the Dutch and Spaniards, he had no bottom in his heart, if the fleet of the Hongtian Cannon did not come, then he could only flee for his life.

But as soon as he escaped, the power of Zheng Keshuang, who he took over, was lost again.

150,000 people and 150,000 soldiers and horses on the island, the Dutch and the Spaniards are cheaper again, and last time they almost killed all the people on Cebu Island, what about this time?

"The fireboat from the south rushed in." A lookout shouted from below.

Zheng Zhi raised the binoculars, although he couldn't see anything clearly in the night, the raging fire that ignited when the arson ship approached the target, and the artillery fire intercepted by the enemy could still be seen clearly.

Thirty fire-boats from the south, which were not smooth sailing, rushed in, and they were not covered by armed merchant ships, but they actually rushed in under enemy fire.

What is South Side?

Zheng Zhi hurriedly searched, the fleet was still slowly advancing, it was close to the battlefield for five miles, you can see it clearly, depending on the situation, in the south, it is the anchorage of the enemy's merchant ships and armed merchant ships, at least the anchorage of armed merchant ships, the firepower is not too dense, and most of the attention was attracted by the group of arson boats that raided from the north, so the people on this side panicked, the arson ships were close to a distance of five hundred meters, three hundred meters, two hundred meters, after five consecutive arson ships were hit and exploded into pieces, The remaining twenty-five arsonist ships rushed into the anchorage of nearly 100 enemy ships without leaking.

One caught fire, two caught fire, fifteen in a row, and then five in a row were sunk by the enemy, and they rammed each other again, losing three fireboats, and the remaining fireboats rushed over at once, a bunch of a dozen ships connected together, which should have crashed into each other while fleeing for their lives.

It was rammed by three arsonists from three directions, and then a dozen ships caught fire, and the fire was very fast, and in less than ten minutes, a dozen ships became a huge torch, illuminating the entire anchorage, and also exposing most of the arsonists to enemy fire.

In the next two hours, the 300 arsonist ships were sunk and shattered in succession, nearly 150 ships, and only 80 of them were able to make a contribution in the end, but they caused great chaos in the enemy's anchorage, and many ships crashed into each other because of the hasty anchor and sailing.

Seeing that the sky was almost dawning, the enemy must have discovered them, Zheng Zhi ordered to hit the light signal, armed merchant ships to assault, battleships charged, and the battleships lined up in a battle line to rush towards the enemy's battleships.

At half past six, the sky was slightly bright, Gerard Peak and Ike had been tormented for two and a half hours, but they had ushered in a more ferocious attack of the enemy, and now they were divided into several pieces, and the battleship and some of the warships successfully broke away from the anchorage and moved towards the shore, there were about two hundred of them, all of them were elite warships and warships, and the rest were scattered on the sea of twenty nautical miles off the shore of Cebu Island, fighting separately.

Just when they thought that the sky was bright and they could control the situation, countless shells suddenly burst out from the shore, flew five nautical miles, and smashed into the regrouped battleships and warship queues.

"The enemy still has shore artillery fire?" Gerard Peak and Ike lay on the railing on the side of the ship together and raised their binoculars to look at the shore, the shore was full of gunfire, countless soldiers of the South Seas Kingdom rushed to the port, residential areas and cities, countless large and small artillery guns fired towards the warships and armed merchant ships in the port, and at the same time from the beach where the Dutch had landed dozens of shore artillery fire flying towards the regrouped fleet.

They definitely didn't expect that Zheng Zhi would hide the remaining dozen or so shore guns that they didn't have time to blow up that day, as well as the shore guns that Zheng Zhi had dismantled from Gegong Island to support Zheng Keshuang, in the hilly area, and were pushed to the beach by nearly 5,000 people and 5,000 Southeast Asian servant troops overnight.

The two sides went back and forth, and when they fought until noon, Zheng Zhi's fleet was completely wiped out, and Zheng Zhi ran away with the only fifteen remaining warships.

And Gerard Peak and the British Governor Ike watched their huge fleet, which had more than 600 ships, shrink by more than half overnight.

(End of chapter)