The Dutch raid ship continued to sink, and both the Dutch and the beam-bound sailors who jumped ship to escape were struggling to row or swim far away to avoid the whirlpool caused by the sinking of the ship.

And the sailors of the girder are also very experienced, and dozens of small boats are also cruising around the periphery, not too close. Whenever there were Dutch people who approached their ships, the soldiers on board did not rescue them, but drove away the Dutch sailors who were immersed in the water, and did not let them leave the waters.

Two quarters of an hour later, all three Dutch ships sank, and the last wrecked Dutch raider had only one mast exposed to the water.

The boats cruising in the sea began to weave among the hundreds of people floating on the surface, searching for their comrades. The people who flutter in the water are easy to identify, just look at the color of the hair, the Dutch hair color is basically red, and you can see from a distance where there are comrades and where the enemy is.

After a while, the boat rescued twelve of its own people, which was less than the full crew of the two explosives boats, and the other missing soldiers, probably before they had time to take off their chain mail, had sunk to the bottom of the sea.

The big ship sent a liaison ship to report the situation to Zhang Han. He had already moved to another battleship by this time as his own flagship. Seeing that the time was almost up, he gave the order with a tense face. The signalmen, who received the order, fired two red flares.

After seeing the flares, dozens of small boats began to slowly move from the periphery to the middle. When passing by the Dutch who were floating in the water, the soldiers on the ship killed the Dutch who dared to sneak up without mercy, either with bows and crossbows, or with handcuffs, or long knives. Within a quarter of an hour, the waters were dyed red, and groups of corpses floated on the sea.

The Dutchmen, who had not yet been killed, swam far away, but no matter how fast they swam, they could not move faster than the speed of the boat. The Dutch sailors, who had two shipwrecks in another sea, watched the slaughter in horror, and they involuntarily gathered together, as if ready to resist. On the captured warship, the bound Dutch captives were helplessly chanting scriptures and praying to their doomed companions.

Eventually, when there were no more living Dutch sailors in the sea where the Dutch raider had sunk, the small and large ships shifted their positions and headed for the place where the other two Dutch warships had sunk.

The more than 200 Dutch sailors gathered together were terrified, they had no weapons to resist at this time, and gathering together only made it easier for the Chinese to kill. Many people are cursing the cruel Chinese, and many more are cursing the Taiwanese governor O'Ward who hastily started a war. The sailors of the new Chinese regime are not as vulnerable as they think, but on the contrary, they are quite combative.

But this time the Chinese did not start the massacre, but made a gesture to let them swim over and send them on the big boat. Since there is no interpreter, they can only communicate with each other in body language.

The Dutch, having just seen the slaughter of their companions, naturally did not believe it easily. The sailors of the girder were not in a hurry either, and were waiting not far away. They didn't dare to come closer, after all, the Dutch had gathered about 200 men, and if they approached rashly, their boat would be overturned by the Dutch, and it would be quite dangerous.

They could wait, but the Dutch didn't have much time. The killing just now, the blood in the sea will soon guide the sharks in the sea. So after a brief hesitation on the part of the Dutch, some began to loosen and try to swim towards the boat. Although those rescued from the boat were tied up for safety, they were not harmed.

The Dutch saw that the Forerunners were not in danger of life, and the others finally swam towards the boat. After all, staying in the sea is also life-threatening, and once the bloodthirsty sharks come over, staying in the sea is the only way to die. And they also understand that the Chinese are only a punishment for their companions' deception, and for those of them who have no bad deeds, the Chinese are still relatively restrained.

The sun was about to set, Zhang Han received a report, everything was ready, so he ordered to return to the shore. The captives were kept in batches in various ships, and the captured Dutch three-masted battleship was towed back. Although there are still many sides left on the cloth sails of the Dutch battleships, the operation of these sails is much more complicated than that of hard sails, and there are hundreds of ropes alone, which are not operated by their sailors, and they are not at ease to use those Dutch prisoners, so they can only drag them all the way.

When Zhang Han and his fleet returned to Songjiang, the Dutch envoy had just received a reply from Emperor Daliang. Nor did the girder embarrass the Dutch envoys, allowing their dhow to sail back. At this time, the governor of Taiwan, O'Ward, had just stopped the two merchant ships returning from Japan, and before he gave the order to leave, he received the news that the four warships had been destroyed.

At this time, Oward did not dare to make his own decisions, and hurried to report to the board of directors of the East India Company in Batavia. Later, he received more detailed information, and also reported it to the Batavia headquarters, and gave a suggestion to severely crack down on Chinese merchant ships at sea, so that China could not get profits from the sea. At the same time, he also suggested that he could cooperate with the pirate official (Zheng Zhilong) to deal with the new Chinese regime.

However, due to the long sea route, the speed of transmission of information was rather slow, and by the time the Dutch East India Company finally made the decision to fight back, the situation in China had changed even more, which led to another heavy loss.

And Daliang's side did not relax his vigilance because of a victory. In addition to allowing coastal areas to continue to strengthen their vigilance and continue to build land batteries, they also strengthened the escort work of maritime merchants. All maritime merchants going to sea to trade had to agree on a date, gather in groups, and then send a fleet to escort them by sailors. Of course, escort is not free, and you need to pay an escort fee.

At the same time, Daliang also opened the port of Shanghai, allowing foreign merchant ships other than the Dutch to come and trade. Shanghai has also benefited from this, becoming the largest trading port in Asia in just three years. The exclusion of the Netherlands has further deepened the contradictions between China and the Netherlands, further escalating the maritime conflicts between the two sides, and frequent fights between the two sides on the South China Sea trade routes.

The large-scale naval conflict between China and Ho lasted for a decade, and it was not until the Dutch finally conceded defeat after losing more than half of the number of ships in the East in the South Sea. The Dutch East India Company took the initiative to seek understanding from the Chinese government, and finally ended this period, which later came to be known as the "Ten Years War".

It was also because of the heavy losses of the Dutch in the South Seas that its shipping industry around the world was greatly weakened, and it was finally at a disadvantage in the struggle with the British. Finally, after thirty years, it lost its position as a maritime hegemon.

Of course, that's all for later. The biggest benefit of the Great Beam in this naval battle was that they were finally able to actually observe the Dutch warships, thus providing a template for the development and construction of the new Great Liang warships. It also laid the foundation for the strength of the Daliang Navy more than ten years later.