Gerard Peak and the Dutch governor Ike returned again with a mighty 600 warships, of which 150 were Spanish and more than 400 were Dutch, and the Dutch had basically no losses except for the loss of some infantry and armed merchant ships last time, so this time as the main force to attack Cebu for the second time, they had to take Cebu and Mindanao.

Fifty armed merchant ships, thirty warships, and ten warships went to attack the ports and cities of Mindanao, and the rest came to Cebu to trouble Zheng Zhi, and as for the Hongtian cannon in Manila, the British said they could handle it.

The British left 50 warships to cover the landing and blockade the southwest coastline, and the other 180 warships and warships all went to meet the incoming fleet of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Knowing the strength of the Nanyang Kingdom, the fleets of the Spaniards and the Dutch drove straight in, a ruined port, there was no shore artillery defense, only dozens of armed merchant ships in the port, although they didn't know where the enemy's fleet went, but they knew that the enemy's fleet was only about a hundred warships and warships, in the face of a fleet of six hundred behemoths, the commanders of the fleets of the two countries knew that this time they were sure of everything, but they didn't know if they could destroy the enemy's fleet at once, without being surrounded so tightly like the last time, It was also run away by the enemy.

The six hundred warships stretched for thirty nautical miles, and the interval was only fifty meters away, because there were too many warships, and it was only one hundred and twenty nautical miles to go around Cebu Island to Leyte, and it would take one day to arrive, and the clippers would only take three hours, and the round trip would take less than half a day.

Thirty armed merchant ships of the Dutch were at the head, fifty armed merchant ships of the Spaniards patrolled and covered on one side, twenty-five on one side, and fifty merchant ships and thirty armed merchant ships of the Dutch were cut off.

Setting out in the early morning, the vanguard had reached the outskirts of the port by noon, and the troops behind had set off no more than fifty nautical miles.

Gilardpeak and the Dutch governor Ike were on the battleship, the flagship of the Dutch, on the Goddess, twenty nautical miles away looking at the peaceful port of Cebu Island in the distance, the port was dilapidated, there was no intact dock, only a makeshift wooden plank road for docking ships, and the thirty Dutch armed merchant ships in front of them were already close to the coastline five nautical miles, and the enemy's shore artillery fire was not seen.

When they reached the three nautical miles, the enemy's warships and armed merchant ships rushed out, about fifteen of them, and the two sides made maneuvering evasive maneuvers across the sea surface of one nautical mile, looking for each other's opportunities to attack each other, and marched in battle lines.

The enemy's armed merchant ships were slower and lagged behind, and five warships rushed to the thirty armed merchant ships of the Dutch, and the two sides approached a distance of four hundred meters and began to fire at each other.

The armed merchant ships of the Dutch here used the old Portuguese Furlong cannons, nine-pounder guns, ten-pounder guns, three-pounder guns, a total of sixteen guns on board, and as the fleet approached, the Goddess was already eight nautical miles from the battlefield, and the whole fleet stopped and spread out, covering the sea as much as possible, and then watched as the thirty armed merchant ships fought against the enemy's fifteen ships.

The artillery came and went, the water splashed by the shells was only five or six meters high, the width of the waves was only three or two meters, the two sides were entangled for a quarter of an hour, and no one hit anyone, and the artillery hit rate of this era was too low.

The two sides approached one hundred and eighty meters away, bombarding each other with chain bullets and solid bullets, the first record was the Dutch armed merchant ship, a chain bullet, finally hit the rear mast of one of the opponent's warships in a hundred and ten rounds of chain bomb attack, the speed of the local warship immediately slowed down, and the mast collapsed, making the opponent's warship sway, out of the team, the battle line, besieged by the five Dutch armed merchant ships that rushed up, under the bombardment of a dozen or so ten-pound guns, it quickly tilted, caught fire, and staggered to get away, Then five other armed merchant ships rushed closer, washed the deck with grapeballs, and the whole ship became quiet and stopped in place.

Just when an armed merchant ship approached and wanted to jump to capture the ship, the other party suddenly fired grapeshot, chain bombs, and solid shells together, a total of ten artillery guns fired, the approaching armed merchant ship was caught off guard and was hit, the mainmast was broken, the deck was a mess, thirty meters away, the grapeshot swept across the deck of the Dutch, and all the Dutch soldiers who were about to board the ship were made into a pile of minced meat, only a few of them escaped by extreme luck, but the armed merchant ship was hit under the waterline of the hull, and soon the water was tilted, uncontrollable, The lifeboat was lowered, and the few Dutch crews abandoned the ship in disarray, and then the two ships were beaten into a sieve by other armed merchant ships and sank together.

In five or six minutes, the other four warships had sunk two Dutch armed merchant ships, and had made peace with the other ten armed merchant ships, covering their retreat to the port, but the Dutch armed merchant ships were in hot pursuit, and a dozen or so warships rushed up from behind, and finally blocked the harbor, and the two sides did not move in the harbor, bombarding each other, at a distance of one hundred and eighty meters, or even one hundred and fifty meters, so the bayonets were red, to see who had fierce firepower.

Of course, the ships of the Nanyang Kingdom that were hastily put together in the end could not fight the armed merchant ships and warships of the Dutch who were superior in numbers, and the fourteen warships and armed merchant ships were all sunk at the entrance of the port, and the warships and warships of the Dutch who tried to enter in the last war were sunk on the sea surface of three or four nautical miles, as well as the armed merchant ships, merchant ships, and the merchant ships and warships of the Nanyang Kingdom who tried to escape.

The Dutch and Spaniards could not have imagined that the ultimate mission of these ships of the South Seas Kingdom was to block the shipping lanes.

Although the daredevils had nothing to do, they used the calculated ships to hit the stones with pebbles and touch the enemy's vanguard fleet of armed merchant ships, which caused one to sink three nautical miles from the harbor channel, one armed merchant ship sank near the beach five nautical miles from the harbor channel, and the other ships sank in the designated position, but they still let go of two channel openings about 100 meters wide for the Dutch.

However, these two places need to be found by the Dutch, because if you sail in a straight line, then sorry, you must be equipped with the mast of a shipwreck under the sea.

At this time, the waterways were not actually cleaned much, and they were not as deep as the equipment, they were all natural deep-water waterways, as long as they were found and repaired simply, they could be used as docks and harbors.

However, fifteen ships used to block the shipping channel are still too few, and some armed merchant ships and warships with shallow draft can still pass, that is to say, about 80 percent of the armed merchant ships and warships can pass, but the battleships cannot, and the warship must not be at least three or four meters deep to pass.

Unbeknownst to the Dutch, the armed merchant ships and warships sank them, and immediately rushed into the harbor, where about thirty armed merchant ships and warships rushed over, and they continued to fight.

The 300-ton warships that rushed behind were tragic, and the 30 armed merchant ships in front of them fought for 28 minutes, sinking 15 of the enemy's ships, sinking 13 of their own ships, and seriously wounding 2 of them, and almost fought to the end, and only after sending 15 warships of 180 to 250 tons to help them in the battle did they defeat the enemy, and after completely destroying the enemy, they sent 30 warships and 2 warships to rush towards the warships and armed merchant ships of the Nanyang Kingdom in the harbor.

So the seventeen warships were tragically stranded in the harbor channel, scattered, either capsized, or damaged, or plunged headlong into the quagmire, the turmoil could not be achieved, and the other armed merchant ships rushed into the port in one breath, and no one noticed this situation in the case of so many ships, because in the harbor, three miles wide and three .5 miles deep, there was a lot of artillery fire, and about forty-five Dutch armed merchant ships and warships fought with thirty-one warships and armed merchant ships of the Nanyang Kingdom.

The two Dutch warships shook violently, and then one battleship tilted and capsized, and buckled upside down on the sea four nautical miles from the coast, there were about one or two hundred people on board, only a dozen of them were lucky enough to swim up from the water, and the others were taken to the bottom of the sea by the ship, and the capsizing of this battleship made this channel completely blocked.

Without waiting for this one to be understood, the other one felt a shock to the ship, and then the feeling of running aground, in the case of wind and inertia, the ship slammed across the sea, and then I don't know what it hit, there was a loud click in the stern, the tail rudder was broken, the tail was hit, hit the reef, the sea water surged into the cabin, and the personnel at the bottom of the warehouse immediately fled, the battleship shook suddenly, and then one tilted, and fell asleep on the channel, and the channel that was not blocked by the death squad of the Nanyang Kingdom was also blocked.

A 340-ton warship followed by the advance, the wind changed, rushed over, and gave the battleship the final blow, the battleship completely slid to the bottom of the sea, and then the bow of the warship was shattered, shook for a while, and was deflected by the vortex, and had a close contact with the main mast of a warship of a death squad sunk here, the mainmast was broken, and then the warship was brought to the bottom of the sea by the water in the bow, with its head down and tail up, inserted into the channel, expanding the scope of the blocked channel, and even the warship could not get out here.

The surrounding water is shallower.

Already approaching the port, hundreds of Spanish warships and warships, as well as hundreds of Dutch warships, and thirty warships watched this scene, and stopped one after another, they were only about two nautical miles away from the port passage, and they all turned sideways and prepared to support the battle on land and in the port with naval guns.

Gerald Peak's heart jumped, and he glanced at the Dutch governor Ike, "Could it be that the enemy has an ambush at the bottom of the sea?" ”

The commander of the Dutch fleet beside Ike said: "The enemy has blocked the waterway. ”

(End of chapter)