This is an asymmetrical naval battle, but also a strong to the weak crushing, in Caron's view, although there are many Ming ships on the opposite side, ten times the number of their own warships, but they are a herd of lambs to be slaughtered, and their own side is a herd of lions that are rampant in the steppe.

Battles at sea are never won by the number of ships, but more by the tonnage of ships and the number of artillery.

Although there were many ships of the Ming army on the opposite side, most of them were small ships, and the total tonnage was not as good as their own. As for the artillery, up to now, only sporadic cannon sounds have been heard from the opposite side, and the shells have fallen into the sea at a long distance from their own fleet, which shows that the artillery of the Ming army is nothing but small-caliber artillery, and there is no threat to their own side at all!

Just a few rounds of shelling, the experienced Caron already predicted the outcome of the naval battle. The Ming army will only pose a little threat to their own side except for the despicable tactics of engaging in broadside battles with their own side or relying on fire attacks.

However, this is the vast Dayuan Strait, not a narrow bay like Luowan, where it is so easy to attack or engage in fire! The Dutch warships were equipped with a large number of sails, which could be adapted to the complex sea conditions, and were much more agile than the Junk ships with only longitudinal sails like the Akito, so how could Caron give them the opportunity to get close to their own ships?

Looking at the approaching Ming boat, Cuaron ordered the rudder to turn, and the flotilla turned westward, facing the Ming ship with the right side of the ship, and launched another artillery bombardment. If the Ming boat approaches again, it will turn south, in short, it will not get too close to the Ming boat. Annihilating enemy forces with powerful artillery superiority was already the main tactic in naval warfare in Europe. Caron was an experienced captain, how could he engage in such a stupid broadside battle with Akito?

Countless shells were fired at the Ming warships, and more and more ships were sunk, and through the telescope, Caron could see the Ming soldiers fluttering in the sea, as well as the Ming ships that were desperately rescuing, and not only laughed.

Finally, perhaps unable to endure this situation of being beaten and unable to fight back, the Ming warships suddenly turned around and fled against the wind in the north!

Caron would not have allowed them to escape, and immediately ordered them to turn around and chase after them.

However, from here to the north, it was headwind, and although the speed of the boat was not fast, it was not fast, and it lost the opportunity, and saw that the other party was getting farther and farther away. The Dutch ships are mostly equipped with sails, and it stands to reason that the speed of the ship is faster than that of the Ming ship, and it can adapt to complex sea conditions, after all, it is the east that has crossed thousands of miles of ocean, and the Dutch navigation skills are much stronger than the Ming people. However, Cuaron was shocked to find that the ships on both sides were getting farther and farther away, and gradually the Ming ships were out of the range of the cannons.

Galley sail boat! Caron finally understood that each boat should be equipped with a large number of oars, and in addition, the boat is small and lightweight, so it is of course much faster to row with oars when driving against the wind!

Since you can't catch up, you can only give up. Cuarón ordered the fleet to dock at the port of North Harbor for repairs. It has been four or five days since the departure from Resharan City, and it is time to repair it, and also to check the situation of Beigang Town being harassed by the Ming army, if the Ming army sends troops to Beigang Town, they will have to go and eliminate them.

The Mingren Village Community in the Beigang area is an important source of wealth for the Dutch, and contributes a lot of tax revenue to the Dutch every year.

After the fleet docked at the North Harbor, Caron sent a team of scouts ashore along the North Harbor Creek to the east to explore the town of North Harbor. The channel of the North Harbor Creek is too shallow for the big Dutch ships to enter.

It was about thirty miles from the port to Beigang Town, and it was known that the group of soldiers had rushed back in a hurry when it was dark, but the number was a few fewer than when they went, and there were two arrows hanging from their buttocks, and they were screaming in pain.

"Report to the Governor that the town of Beigang has been occupied by the Ming army, which is numbering in the thousands, and is coercing the local villagers to build a city wall. As soon as we got closer, we were noticed by the Ming army, and then attacked us with arrows, and two soldiers were killed by the Ming army's bows and arrows! The Scout Captain reported to Caron.

"Building a wall?" Hearing this, Caron's face suddenly darkened, and he could imagine that once the Ming people successfully built the city, the vast western plain of Dongfan Island near Beigang would no longer be owned by the Dutch!

Although the Dutch warships were powerful, they could not sail to the island within thirty miles to bombard the Ming city, and they could not even stay near this coast all day to prevent the Ming army from reinforcing them.

It is necessary to destroy the city wall that the Ming people have not yet successfully built, and completely annihilate this Ming army, so as to strangle the Ming people's attempts in the cradle! Thinking of this, Caron had a determined look on his face.

But today it was already late, Caron ordered the fleet to anchor in Beigang, because he was afraid of being attacked by the Ming army, and did not dare to order the soldiers to camp ashore, so he paid attention to the night on the ship, and waited until tomorrow to dawn, and immediately sent troops to Beigang Town to destroy this hateful Ming army!

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Beigang Town, only a small part of the wall surrounding the town has been built, but the work has been stopped, because today a group of Dutch soldiers suddenly broke along the Beigang Creek, although defeated by the army of Qi Guogong, but made all the people of Beigang Town tremble.

The strength of the Dutch is well known to all the Ming people in North Port, and now a group of Dutch soldiers has suddenly appeared, which means that the Dutch army has arrived, and they don't know when they will attack North Port?

Although Qi Guogong's army was large, it was not necessarily an opponent of the Dutch. Because in the hearts of all the Ming people, the Ming army is basically rotten to the home, who doesn't know what kind of bird the guard army looks like on weekdays? Bullying the people may be in the business, and dealing with the vicious Dutch, the people of Beigang are not optimistic.

And although Qi Guogong's army was not the Weisuo army they were once familiar with, they didn't know how much better it could be than the Weisuo army? If it is Zheng Zhilong's army, everyone still has some confidence, after all, the power of the Zheng family is even afraid of the Dutch, but the people of Beigang do not have much confidence in the army led by the young Guogong in front of them.

Once Qi Guogong's army was defeated by the Dutch, would the Dutch carry out a massacre of this northern port? This is what all the people are worried about.

Seeing that the people who built the city were restless, Chen Yue kindly announced that he would stop work and rest for two days, anyway, even if he worked overtime, he would not be able to repair the city wall before the Dutch attacked. Just let the people and soldiers rest to prepare for the coming big war with all their might.

Chen Yue never thought of defeating the Dutch in naval battles, although he had more and more ships under his command, but compared to the Dutch, who were known as the "coachmen of the sea", it was not enough. Therefore, if you want to fight, you have to make use of your strengths and avoid your weaknesses, and lead the Dutch to come ashore to fight, but fortunately, now it seems that everything is going in the direction you predetermined.