Chapter Seventy-Three

There is finally a place for Natz to vent his anger after so many days: "Dear Lord Chincha, I am only responsible for the issue of merchant ships, as for the battleship, Commander Ryerson is in charge, you don't need to look for me, if you sink his battleship, it is his bad luck, we will not blame you." “

Sun Chengzong said anxiously: "This will cause a war between the two countries, can you bear the responsibility, Mr. Special Envoy?" “

Natz shrugged his shoulders indifferently and said, "We have signed an agreement, as long as the ships entering the Penghu and Small Sulfur Ball Sea can be sunk by your army, the Governor has agreed, so it will not cause a war between the two countries." “

Sun Chengzong sent away the fearless Natz, turned to Zheng Zha, and Chen Shiying said: "You see the arrogance of the Dutch, they are not afraid of us sinking their ship at all, because they think we can't do it at all. Now it's up to you. “

Zheng Zha, and Chen Shiying, who had already heard it on the side, were furious, and immediately shouted: "Please rest assured, see how we teach the red-haired ghost a lesson." “

Natz hummed a little tune easily on the ship back to Pishan Fort, secretly despised Sun Chengzong in his heart, and spoke with corresponding strength, just with the current warships of the Ming army, they were not the enemies of the Dutch at all, and said that you must first have the ability to sink when you sink them, do you rely on your small arsonist ship to sink the three-masted ship on this endless sea, or rely on the kind of centipede ship with a lot of pulp.

He couldn't help laughing, and at this moment, the sky suddenly darkened, and then a crew member stumbled in and said, "Sir, the big ship of the Ming army is coming." “

He looked up and already understood, it turned out to be a big fortune ship blocking the daylight, his face was a little pale, although this ship was only two masts, but it was no smaller than the Dutch three-masted ship, maybe even larger, these Ming troops were too cunning, and they actually transferred such a big ship from somewhere else. However, when I thought of the Ming army's extremely small bowl cannon and arquebus, my heart was a little calmer.

The speed of the Fu ship was not much faster than Nats's ship, so Natz followed far behind and came to the sea near the Copper Mountain, and Ryerson was leading eight large ships to show force outside the Copper Mountain, and the port of the Copper Mountain was calm, and not a single ship dared to leave the port.

On the first Fu ship, Zheng Zhan first let the twenty-four pound guns in the bow of the ship open fire, and one shot hit the mast of an enemy ship, the mast fell, crushing several sailors, and the cannonball fell on the starboard side, making a large hole.

When the cannon was fired, the ship continued to move forward, and when it passed the side of the enemy ship, the fifteen-pound cannon on the right side roared together, and the port side of the ship was punched several large holes, and the sea water poured into it, and the ship slowly began to deviate to one side, and the sailors on the deck fell into the sea like dumplings.

The second ship attacked with the bow guns first, and then the side guns as the previous ship, and then the Dutch fleet had already reacted and began to fire back, but Ryerson was originally here to show off, and he was not ready for battle at all, and the few shells that were sparse for a while were all fired into the sea without accuracy, and they did not even touch the side of the Ming army.

By the time the fourth ship had fired its shells, the first had turned its head and sailed towards the Dutch ship, and by this time one of the eight Dutch ships had already entered the water and turned on its side, one was slowly sinking, and two were wounded, but Ryerson's flagship was not injured.

Ryerson fought back with a hoarse voice, but the shells were larger than theirs, and there were more cannons than theirs, so that after the cannons on the left side of the Fukubune had fired one round, the Dutch ship had already sunk three, and the remaining five were all lightly or severely wounded.

At this time, the Cangshan boat, the centipede boat, the sand boat, the chain boat, and the mother and son boat all arrived after the lucky boat, and Lyerson had no choice but to hang the white flag. And the Ming army didn't care at all, Zheng Zhan turned the bow of the ship again, and was about to fire again, Ryerson saw that the situation was not good, and immediately asked people to raise their weapons over their heads and kneel on the ground.

Zheng Zha, who couldn't pretend that he didn't know, had to let the interpreter come forward and shout: "Put down your arms, and the resisters die." “

The Dutch were very simple, defeat is defeat, surrender when they surrender, they didn't want to make trouble at all, and they were particularly cooperative, for fear that the Ming army would find an excuse to be unfavorable to them, so soon the five Dutch ships were controlled by the Ming army, and the Dutch were tied with their hands tied and escorted into the boat in a row.

Natz had already followed at this time, but he could only watch the Dutch ship being beaten to pieces, and when the battle was over, he hurriedly let the ship sail to the side of Zheng Zhan's big ship and asked to see Zheng Zhan.

Zheng Zha asked him to be hoisted onto the boat with a hanging basket, and as soon as he got on the boat, Natz ignored his embarrassment and shouted anxiously: "General Zheng, where are you going to send our people?" ”

The interpreter didn't follow, and Zheng Zhan couldn't understand what he was saying, but he could guess what he meant, so he shrugged his shoulders indifferently and looked at him without speaking.

Natz's face was flushed but he couldn't do anything, so he went to the side of the ship to call his interpreter, who shouted to him, so Zheng had him hoisted him up in a hanging basket.

Now that we can communicate, Natz asked the question just now, and Zheng Zha said in surprise: "Didn't you say that as long as you enter Penghu and the small sulfur ball warships, they can be sunk?" Now that I have not only sunk all the ships, but also had people pick up your soldiers who have fallen into the water, do you not think that I have been merciful? ”

Natz then had nothing to say, such weather, if you fall in the water for a long time, you will lose heat, which may lead to death, Zheng Zha now ordered someone to fish out the Dutch soldiers, which is equivalent to saving their lives.

He also knew that it was impossible for Zheng Zhan to let go of the Dutch, so he hurriedly got off the boat and went back to find Sun Chengzong.

Sun Chengzong looked at the angry Natz with a smile on his face, and the breath in his heart was finally smooth. He took out the agreement and pointed to the terms and said, "Mr. Special Envoy, neither of us has violated the agreement. I don't know what you have to say to me? ”

Only then did Natz know that he had fallen into a big trap, it turned out that the Ming army's navy was already so powerful, but they deliberately showed weakness, just to wipe out the Dutch army in Penghu. At this time, it was obviously impossible to put the Dutch back, so he had to change his strategy: "Lord Chincha, according to our rules, we can redeem the prisoners of war with money, you see......"

Sun Chengzong smiled and said, "Your Excellency, is it in our place or yours now?" Should it be by our rules or yours? ”

Natz knew that he had said the wrong thing, so he had to ask, "I wonder how Lord Chincha is going to send down our soldiers?" ”

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