When night gradually fell again, the originally concentrated ship group gradually dispersed, even one or two distant sails on the nearby scattered sea seemed to be separated by a lot of distance, and the main ship group of fifty-four ships of the scale had experienced a few hours of naval battle and pursuit, although the results were huge, but the entire ship group was also scattered in a radius of about 100 miles, far exceeding the sea horizon. However, in order to prevent the ship from getting lost further distance, and to prevent the risk of storms at sea, the ships had to lower their sails after nightfall. At this time, the vast majority of the crew and officers and men on the ship also collapsed from extreme exhaustion. Ordinary firearms were not the norm in combat, but it was a long time to carry heavy weights and step on the longitudinal propeller pedals as a heavy weight to climb a mountain race, and it was not until it took half an hour for most of the crew and officers and men, who seemed to have exhausted their physical strength, to gradually recover. The night also ended at this time.

It seems that at night at sea, especially when the risk has not been completely removed, the cabins of the ships that have gathered far away are dark and full of the smell of sweat, but the cheers are still coming and going. Although there were many casualties in the battle, more than 240 of the 12,000 officers and men, and more than 700 in this series of operations, the proportion of losses on most ships was slightly lighter. Although about sixty small and medium-sized ships eventually escaped, everyone knew what this naval battle meant, which meant that the main forces of the Dutch and Spaniards in the South Seas had been largely wiped out. Combined with the previous land and sea battles in and around Manila, it is estimated that at least 20,000 or 30,000 enemy troops would have been wiped out, and hundreds of enemy ships would have suffered losses. In comparison, the casualties of only 2,000 people up and down and around obviously did not seem to be heavy.

"After a great defeat of the enemy at sea, it is possible that a strong enemy on land may be shaken or temporarily dispersed and flee. After all, the neighboring island of Java is densely populated, and even if tens of thousands of armed people leave the original hoarding site, it may not be impossible to survive. If that's the case, I'm afraid the results of our battle this time will be greatly discounted... After thinking about it for a long time, Wang Yuan finally changed his original plan, not intending to waste the whole night's time, but to gather as quickly as possible.

Therefore, after the exhausting crew had completed their initial rest, Wang Yuan began to order all six lookouts with binoculars on the flag ship to climb to the top of the mast and look around. At the same time, the signal corps also lit a reconnaissance hot air balloon. The scout balloon usually carries at least two teenage children or an adult, but at this time it carries a large red fireworks bomb that weighs about 100 pounds.

After the hot air balloon rose to a height of about 150 zhang, it quickly tightened the arquebus fuse and ignited the entire fireworks bomb in the air. And just that: a violent explosion was accompanied by striking and penetrating red fireworks that exploded in the air.

After about an hour and a half, a succession of red points of light first began to appear in all directions, and at least five large ships near it had gathered. The ships set off with fireworks before they approached the estimated position of the voyage and set off with their own fireworks, as if it were a relay that spread more than 100 miles.

In this way, it took about a whole night, and after most of the spare liaison fireworks had been consumed, at least forty-two ships of sufficient mobility gradually gathered together with each other, and sailed south facing the shore when the sky was fully bright, and kept approaching from a distance by relying on the coast.

Just when the main ship group led by Wang Yuan spent a whole night to complete the assembly, and gradually relied on people who were familiar with the geography of this area to gradually approach Batavia.

The 12 ships that had experienced a lot of fierce battles and had fallen behind at the beginning also first touched the port near Batavia in the early morning, and gathered together without any scruples and formed a semi-circular formation to cover at least 500 or so Marine Corps temporary infantry battalions, and began to carry out landing operations in rickshaws and boats.

Seeing that the enemy had landed only a dozen or so sea ships, far less than the enemy formation that had been seen on the sea yesterday, many officers and generals of the defenders in the Batavia area with a garrison of about 15,000 men finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It seemed that even if the enemy won the victory, it would undoubtedly be a crushing victory, so without hesitation, about 5,000 land troops were dispatched with a lot of light artillery and heavy arquebuses to launch a counterattack operation at the landing site of the enemy army. As for the enemy forces on the sea? More information came from the Spanish fleet, and it was understood that this was an adversary with a lot of penetrating rifled guns, but the overall land firepower was not necessarily very strong. As long as they do not get close to the distance of about 100 paces from the beach, kill and injure the enemy's landing personnel as far away as possible, and at the same time equip a certain number of horses for maneuvering, even if the ten times the force cannot destroy the opponent in the real sense, the opponent can be compressed on the beach and blockaded, at least it will test the combat ability of these people on the ground.

The Marine battalion ashore had learned from the experience of previous operations, and instead of launching heavy fire at the outset, they continued to shrink under the enemy's seemingly strong forces. When the enemy was about 100 paces away from him, he returned fire with a heavy rain of arrows and guns, and stopped the attack of the enemy's vanguard on a large scale.

In this way, the enemy gathered more and more from all sides, and finally formed a seemingly tight encirclement around the perimeter of the Marine battalion that came ashore. It was at this moment that the muffled rumbling of the ship's cannons rang out again in a short time, and sixty blasting shells in this case were replaced with precise timing fuses and then launched fire support on land.

Violent and shocking explosions rang out from all directions again, and the attack of sixty explosive projectiles in a single moment almost reduced the number of forwards that had been densely packed with enemy counterattacks to very small, and the casualties and losses were at least more than a thousand, probably close to the scale of two thousand.

(End of chapter)