Sure enough, the Dutch did not choose to attack by land, but took the sea route by boat. After all, for the Dutch, known as the "coachmen of the sea", the cannon of the strong ship was their most advantageous weapon. However, taking the sea route from the southern part of Dongfan Island to Beigang is still much less than taking the land route, although driving against the wind, and it also saves effort.

In fact, the distance from Beigang Town to the Dutch town is more than 200 miles, although it is not too far, but if you take the land route, there are dense jungles everywhere in the middle, and there are many Taiwanese aborigines, all of whom are natives who do not understand the language, which is extremely dangerous. If you take the sea route, the sea off Beigang is now full of Zhoushan ships, and it is not easy to report the news.

The reason why the Dutch knew the news of the Zhoushan attack was that Almand had returned from the Japanese kingdom.

Monsoon, Armand approached Zheng Cai and asked Zheng Cai to take him back to the city of Reshalan.

There was an agreement between the Zheng family and the Dutch, which was a cooperative relationship, and Zheng Cai naturally did not refuse his request, plus the trade had already been completed, and there was nothing to do if he stayed in the Wa Kingdom, so he left the Wa Kingdom and returned to the south.

But compared with the Qiyun firm, which was immediately with the monsoon, it was always a few days late.

When they arrived in the northern part of Domand, the ship of the Zheng family carrying Armand turned to the chicken coop in the north of the island at Armand's request, and the Dutch lieutenant Labare, who guarded the chicken coop, was a good friend of Armand, and Labas was the cousin of the Dutch governor in Doman Caron, after all, Armand had lost two armed sailing ships, so he wanted to ask Lablas to write a letter to Governor Caron and say a few good words for himself.

Although he knew that when he arrived at the chicken coop, he saw the Ming flag fluttering on the castle from a distance, and Armand was shocked, only then did he know that the chicken coop had been captured by the Ming people.

When the boat returned to the city of Reshalan in the south through the Dayuan Strait, when passing through the waters of Beigang, I saw many Ming ships scattered on the sea in the distance.

Armand was on the ship of the Zheng family, who were the largest force in the Great Yuan Strait. Alderman initially thought that the Zheng family was going to attack Dongfan Island to expel the Dutch, but Zheng Cai was also ignorant of this situation. When he sent a ship to Beigang to inquire, it was the army of Qi Guogong of Zhoushan, who was dissatisfied with the Dutch occupying Dongfan Island and enslaving the Ming people.

Zheng Cai was shocked by this situation, he didn't expect Chen Yue to be so bold, but his current ability could not interfere with such a thing, so he could only return to Anping, Quanzhou by boat and report the news to Zheng Zhilong.

Armand, on the other hand, took a ship sent by Zheng Cai and went straight back to the city of Resharan in the south of Dongfan, and reported the news to the governor Karon.

For the Dutch at Dongfan, the Zheng family on the other side of the strait was the enemy who could threaten the Dutch rule in Dongfan. Caron never expected that a Zhoushan force would appear and brazenly launch an attack on the Dutch!

It's no wonder, after all, from Chen Yue to Zhoushan to now, it has only been half a year. The Ming Dynasty is so vast, the coastline is so long, and it is not the era of unimpeded information in later generations, and Caron can understand that he knows nothing about Zhoushan.

In fact, apart from Fujian on the other side of the strait and Zheng Zhilong's forces, the Dutch knew a little, but they didn't know much about other situations in the Ming Dynasty. In the eyes of the vast majority of Dutch, the Ming Dynasty is no different from the backward natives of Dongfan Island.

Hearing that the Ming people of Zhoushan had brazenly captured the chicken coop and were attacking Beigang and other places in the middle of Dongfan Island, Caron couldn't help but be furious!

The chicken coop was garrisoned by more than 100 Dutch soldiers, and since it was captured by the Ming army, those soldiers must have been unlucky. The villages and communities in Beigang and other places had already signed an agreement with the Dutch and incorporated them into the rule of the Dutch, contributing a large amount of tax revenue to the Dutch every year, and after losing it, they suffered huge losses. As the Governor, Caron could not afford to ignore this.

At the same time as writing a letter to Zheng Zhilong to condemn him, Caron decided to immediately lead his troops north by boat to destroy the hateful Ming army.

The reason why he wrote a letter to condemn Zheng Zhilong, in the eyes of Governor Caron, Zheng Zhilong was the representative of the Ming court, and it was impossible to be ignorant of this situation, maybe this Ming army was acquiesced by Zheng Zhilong. This is a bit wronged Zheng Zhilong.

The Dutch numbered more than 3,000 in the city of Resha, 1,200 troops, and the rest were family members of the army, priests, and some craftsmen. At this time, another Chichibu city had not yet been built, and the Dutch had only one castle in the southern part of the country.

Leaving 200 troops to defend the city, Caron took 1,000 troops out of Dayuan Bay on all ten warships, and headed north along the Dayuan Strait. The city of Resharan is a popular fortress structure in Europe, guarded by 200 troops, and there are nearly 2,000 Dutch people in the city, although most of them are women and children, but even if tens of thousands of enemies sneak attack, don't think about breaking the city.

As for the 1,000 troops and ten Galen warships in his hands, in Caron's opinion, this entire Daming Sea is already an incomparably huge ideal. Yiguan's fleet will not fail in battle, and it is naturally no problem to exterminate that despicable Ming army.

Going north along the Dayuan Strait, because of the headwind, the speed was not very fast, and it took five days to come to the waters near Beigang, and then I saw nearly 100 sailing ships of all kinds distributed on the sea in the north.

Seeing the opposite fleet, Caron couldn't help but smile, it was really a standard Ming fleet, the largest was only five or six three-masted junk ships, and the rest were mostly two-masted or even single-masted fishing boats, maybe they could be smashed with one shot!

More than 10 years ago, when Caron was just a captain, he was in the Gulf of Liaoluo and Nikolai. Yiguan's army fought a great battle, in which the Ming ships were dozens of times larger than the Dutch ships, and they burned two Dutch ships by despicable fire attack, which made the Dutch army withdraw from the battlefield. An agreement was reached.

As an excellent captain, Caron looked down on the Ming warships very much, as long as he did not fall into the encirclement to prevent despicable fire attacks, a Dutch warship had no problem defeating dozens of Ming ships, just like the Ming army boats on the opposite side, which could not withstand several bombardments from cannons. And now he has ten warships under his command, and each battleship has sixty or seventy cannons!

So, for the victory, Cuarón is full of absolute confidence.

The fleet continued to move north, and the Ming fleet also came to meet it. When the two fleets were two nautical miles apart, Cuarón ordered the artillery to open fire to prevent the Ming ship from escaping prematurely.

With Cuarón's order, the Dutch warships lined up in a line, and turned over the hull so that the side of the ship was facing north, and the cannons on one side opened fire one after another.

When one of the guns finished firing, the rudder was turned so that the other side of the ship was aimed at the north, and the guns on the other side opened fire again.

Hundreds of shells crossed the wide sea and smashed towards the speeding Ming warships, and through the binoculars, countless splashes could be seen on the sea. Most of the shells fell into the sea, and a small number of them hit the Ming ships, and Caron saw through the binoculars that two Ming boats were hit by the shells and were sinking into the sea at a speed visible to the naked eye.