Cleaning up the battlefield is both happy and still a little sad.

Of the twenty-four warships of the combined fleet of Westerners, there were less than five warships that were able to escape in the end, and the biggest contributors were the five steamships of the Hongtang fleet that did not show their steam engine power until the last moment.

With a speed far beyond the opponent's escape, specifically talking about the artillery fire aimed at the sail of the opponent's full sail, such a large target, coupled with the superb artillery accuracy of the Hongtang gunners, it is almost impossible for an opponent to escape their pursuit.

Since then, the weather vane of the sea warships of the entire era has been revealed, and if you want to compete with the Hongtang fleet on the sea in the future, then the forces on the sea need the same steamships as the Hongtang fleet, so that you can have the strength of a head-to-head showdown.

However. Hongmen, who had already thrown off any of their opponents in this era in the manufacturing process of steam engines and ships, even if their competitors mobilized more manpower and material resources to specialize in steam engines, they still had enough self-confidence and strong dominance in the face of this new technology.

The coal steam engine is no longer the research direction of the Hongmen R&D Institute, they have already focused on the black oil collected from the Western Regions.

Under the guidance of Li Tianyang, the R&D Institute extracted three or four kinds of fuel oil with different evaporation temperatures from petroleum through distillation.

Of course. These are all top-secret information of Hongmen, and at this time, no one can know these news except for a few high-level people in Hongmen, and more than a dozen researchers who specialize in this project.

As for when it will be put into use, it is a distant time, but because of these investments and correct goals, Li Tianyang is full of strong confidence in the leadership of their Hongmen scientific and technological strength.

In fact, many Westerner warships still have the strength to fight, but it is precisely because they are Colonel Lincoln of the Netherlands to persuade the major European powers in the Indonesian archipelago that the fleet formed can naturally be consistent when it is superior, but when it is inferior now, they are divided from it.

Except for the flying Ziola, which was played by the victor. There were also six warships that directly raised white flags to show their intention of surrendering, so this battle of the Wyvern Gang captured the most Western sailors.

When the leaders of the post-war statistics finally counted, the number of sailors captured by the Westerners reached more than 800, which was a rare scene in several major wars.

"Hey, hey, Captain Shi, let's discuss, can we give us the warship you captured, or we can buy it at a big price!"

Zheng Zhilong, who thought that he had more advantages in warships and strength, and everyone had negotiated the conditions at the beginning, did not expect that the first-class battleship of the Dutch fleet would be so vulnerable, and he did not even board the ship to fight, so he took the initiative to raise the white flag and raised his hand to surrender, which made Zheng Zhilong, who was greedy for this powerful battleship, feel annoyed.

"Hey, gang leader Zheng, this old saying is good, the gentleman is quick to say a whip, before you took the initiative to say who captured this warship, then this warship belongs to whom, you, as the gang leader, can't go back on your word!"

A first-class battleship, even if it is placed in the Hongtang fleet, is a good thing that makes people covet, and when it is towed back to the Bengang shipyard for transformation and loaded with a high-horsepower steam engine, it will be like a tiger with wings for the Hongtang fleet!

Therefore, although he knew that Zheng Zhilong and Lu Yi wanted this warship very much, and in fact, at the beginning of the war, Shi Peicai did not expect to get this warship, but if he really held this sea ship in his hands, Shi Peicai did not think that he would let it go.

"Hey......"

Zheng Zhilong let out a long sigh, his heart was full of regret and envy, and he didn't forget to have a lot of contempt for the group of sailors flying on the Zeola warship: "This foreigner looks like a big man and a rough horse, but he really doesn't have any ability, why don't you let you pick it up!" ”

I'm afraid even Colonel Lincoln, who has become a prisoner, can't think of it. This kingdom-class battleship, which he had great expectations for, was not only played around by a steamship in Hongtang from the beginning of the war, but also failed to exert its powerful artillery power; Later, it couldn't even escape from Ascension, and in the end, without a final struggle, it had a hand-to-hand fight with the Victory, and then raised the white flag and surrendered, which really made the soldiers on both sides lose their eyeballs.

However, if you think about it, this is not an unacceptable fact, after all, this first-class battleship that has just been brought from the European ocean to the eastern seas, and the sailors on board are afraid that its thinking is still stuck in the rules of engagement in the Mediterranean. Faced with the inability to escape, and the fact that the ship was about to sink and die, the white sailors who had always cherished their lives finally chose to surrender, at least in their eyes.

Even they had probably been told by Colonel Lincoln that if they lost this battle, they would be in a difficult situation in the Netherlands.

But that's fine, otherwise, with the strength of the army on the Hongtang Fleet Victory, if you want to eat this Western first-class battleship, even if you win, I'm afraid it will suffer heavy losses, and now you can have this harvest without much effort, which can be regarded as a surprise.

"Now that the decisive battle has been won, the road in front of us has become a smooth road, and then you can take your fleet with your fleet, first capture a piece of territory, and then use the prisoners in your hands as bargaining chips. Forced the Europeans to negotiate. ”

"Or take advantage of the victory to pursue, take advantage of the maritime strength of the European forces, and wipe out the power of the European forces again, completely let them lose the threat in the short term, and then come to negotiate with them."

The victory of a naval battle, just like Shi Peicai and their plan before, successfully made the combined fleet of the Flying Dragon Gang, the Shark Gang and Hongmen stand to the end, although the price paid was equally heavy, and only thirteen of the more than thirty combined warships could move at sea in the end.

"Needless to say, of course, it's to grab a piece of land first to make a good living!"

Zheng Zhilong did not dwell on Shi Peicai's failure to agree to the deal with him, but quickly packed up his mood and looked into the distance heroically and excitedly, as if he had seen a vast world.

But now, Zheng Zhilong's choice is much better, before they only thought about being able to gain a foothold in a remote sea area like Timor and develop slowly.

However, after they captured Purozhong and defeated the combined fleet of Westerners, they had a better choice......

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