"W-Is this the Wyvern fleet you've always regarded as a danger to your henchmen?"

The castle where the Batavian governor's palace is located is the strongest fortified place in the whole of Batavia, but the banquet originally held for the new governor now seems impossible.

Five warships bombarded from afar, each with nearly twenty guns on one deck, firing on the distant sea, turning a bustling and lively port of Batavia into a place of misery.

Looking at the smoke and chaos of the port of Batavia, Governor James, who still looked a little uneasy hiding in the strong stone fortress of the Governor's Palace, made an inquiring look with an extremely pale face at this time.

The former governor of Dandel, who was accompanying him, didn't know whether to say it was happy, or nodded sadly: "Yes, this is the fleet led by the Wyvern Gang." ”

"Just this fleet, it is still the fleet that they have formed again in just over a month after they were ambushed by us once, lost more than 20 main warships and 30 armed merchant ships!"

"Well, that's to be treated with caution, and now it seems that Colonel Lincoln's plan is doing well, and we have saved a lot of heart!"

Just as Colonel Lincoln had predicted, only after truly experiencing the threat of the Wyvern fleet for oneself, anyone who is not a fool should know the importance of uniting European forces against the Han Chinese pirate gangs.

It's just that Colonel Lincoln probably didn't expect that the fleet of the Wyvern Gang would come back so quickly, and even more so fiercely, leaving the great Timorese colonies alone, and just smashing the Yellow Dragons to the port where their Dutch Governor's Palace was located.

"Will our port be in danger?"

Although he thinks that he has experienced a lot of conquests, it is only a little bit of war compared to the small battles of the Europeans in the Mediterranean, and the battle situation that the Wyverns have brought over with more than 30 sea ships at this moment is almost only possible on the European battlefield.

After all, Governor James was still a businessman at heart, and in the face of real warfare, all his previous self-righteous perceptions were finally shattered one by one in the fierce artillery fire, and turned into more real cognitions.

"Don't worry, Lord James, this is the foundation of my Kingdom of the Netherlands and the East India Company for decades. And I, the former governor, though my talents are limited, will not let the face of our Kingdom of the Netherlands be lost in this wild land. ”

"With Colonel Lincoln leading the team, and a large number of forts and island fortifications, no matter how strong this Wyvern fleet is, with this number of warships, it is impossible for them to attack our port!"

For the fortifications of Batavia, which had been built brick by brick by his own hands, Dandel, the former governor, was full of confidence and kindly comforted James.

The sound of artillery fire rumbled, and not long after the five warships of Hongtang opened fire from a long distance, a large number of artillery built on the coastline also launched a counterattack, and the sea area where the fleet of the Flying Dragon Gang was located three miles away blew up a snow-white world.

It's just a pity that with the effective range of the Dutch artillery on the shore and the skill of the gunners, it is not so much that they are fighting back, but that they are venting their anger by killing the rats by blind cats.

The cannonballs smashed on the sea from far or near, and there were only a handful of shells that could really threaten the fleet of the Wyvern Gang in the morning, and on the other hand, the shells fired by the five Hongtang warships could at least ensure that more than half of the shells landed in the port of Batavia, which covered a large area, causing a sad scene of purgatory on earth.

Hongtang's artillery salvo brought unspeakable pain to the Dutch people and fear of the effective range of Hongtang's artillery fire, while what brought to the colleagues of the Wyvern Gang and the Shark Gang was not only shock, but also admiration and admiration from the heart.

"Awesome! Terrible! ”

"At such a distance, you can have such an accurate shooting chance, after all, a regular sailor is different!!"

Lu Yi and Zheng Zhilong have been holding the binoculars presented by Shi Peicai, carefully observing the port of Batavia a few miles away, watching it change from quiet and serene to gunsmoke, from silent to wailing, and then put down the binoculars and expressed their admiration to Shi Peicai with admiration and envy.

"The five warships sent by the Hongtang Navy Division are more effective than the ten warships in our gang!!"

Zheng Zhilong praised the strength of the Hongtang Water Master, and at the same time began to knock on the side: "I just don't know that it is inconvenient for the head of the Shi Regiment to pass on the experience to us wild people?" ”

"Hehe, in fact, there is nothing remarkable about these experiences, one is that the guns carried by our naval warships are of the same caliber, and the amount of gunpowder is strictly controlled, and the other is that our gunners have a set of extremely accurate methods for calculating angles."

Shi Peicai didn't mean to hide it, and seeing that Zheng Zhilong and they were interested, he told him the secret.

Shi Peicai has the confidence that he is not afraid of others stealing his teacher, and that is naturally because he knows in his heart that the two points that seem simple and clear actually contain the generations of new technologies that Hongmen has been throwing money on scientific research for decades.

Without Hongmen's mass steelmaking technology, you would not have been able to produce enough stiff steel to cast a large number of guns, so that the materials of the guns would be qualitatively improved.

Without steel, a good raw material that is stronger and more resilient, you would not be able to make the cannon be processed again and again at the time of casting, and the muzzle and supporting shells will be completely processed to the point where they are perfectly fitted.

However, without the new gunpowder that has been tested at the risk of explosion again and again, there is almost no residue left in the barrel, and the explosive power is more powerful and stable, so it is impossible to achieve the accurate distance of each shot.

As for every gunner and surveyor, in the training before the actual battle, they should shoot no less than 50 times with live ammunition, which one does not need to be smashed by Hongmen with money and watered with wisdom and sweat?

Are these conditions something that they can achieve as a team of pirates? At least not what the two current pirate gangs are capable of.

"Oh! Oh! ”

seemed to be persuaded by Shi Peicai's explanation, but in their hearts, Zheng Zhilong and Lu Yi couldn't help but scold: Isn't it the same as not saying it?

But even if you think about it, although you know that Hongmen has too many good goods, but this kind of Zhenguo heavy weapon is not sold casually, Zheng Zhilong thinks about his relationship with Hongmen, at least now he can't open his mouth to put forward the intention of purchasing.

However, after seeing the salvo of the Hongtang fleet and Shi Peicai's explanation, Lu Yi was a little interested, after all, more than half of their gang's artillery was provided by the Hongmen, and the relationship between the gang leader and Li Tianyang's sect master was there, so they didn't know if their Shark Gang still had a chance to learn a few hands!

(End of chapter)