It's going to be dark.

Before dark, the Dutch ship thought it would sink one or two more Hutchison warships or merchant ships...... The attack on the Zhenyuwei was very severe, the side of the ship was already full of scars, and there were many holes above and below the waterline, and the sailors were constantly repairing them, and even then there must have been a lot of water in the cabin, and whether it would sink or not was really only between the two.

Lu Dafu said suddenly: "After this naval battle, the people in the shipyard have to work overtime. ”

Jiang Kui smiled and nodded, and said, "The Dutch are no better. ”

Even if the game is closed now, Hutchison will make a lot of money, and the Dutch will lose a lot of strength, and if they want to blockade again, they will have to transfer at least four more decent warships to make Hutchison continue to be afraid, so he can only shrink in the port and dare not come out.

The current comparison of strength is the opposite, the schooner plus the sailing ship, and the repaired Galen battleship are enough to blockade the waters off Taiwan.

Whether the Dutch will transfer ships over is also quite questionable, the East India Company seized Ceylon, and fought a war with the Portuguese, the relationship between the two sides is not good, these years there are not more wolves and less meat, there is no lord of land, but there are still a few good places, Ceylon produces spices, Cohen in order to monopolize the spice industry from Asia to Europe, Ceylon must be obtained. The Portuguese were very weak, and they just used it to test the knife, and sure enough, Ceylon became the pocket of the Dutch East India Company, just as the East India Company seized Taiwan.

The Spaniards and the Dutch are also in a hostile state, especially after Cohen took Taiwan, the Spaniards in Taipei are also regarded as thorns in the side, and the two sides often have friction at sea, fortunately, the core interests of the Spaniards are from South America to Asia, and then from Asia to Europe, and the dispute with the Dutch in Asia is still limited, and then it is so, after the Dutch started, the Spaniards abandoned the base in northern Taiwan and surrendered, and the Dutch did not chase and fight, and had no intention of attacking Luzon...... Of course, Luzon is the top priority of the Spaniards in Asia, there is a permanent fleet in Luzon, at least a dozen warships, plus merchant ships and sailors, soldiers, thousands of people stationed, the East India Company in its heyday want to make up your mind and have to think twice, weigh the pros and cons, and Luzon is not a wild island like Taiwan, involving the war between the two countries, the Spanish mainland still has a very strong strength, after all, the golden ship is still constantly sending gold, fighting Luzon provoked the Spaniards, and declared war on the mainland and the Netherlands, That's more than worth the loss.

So no matter what, the Dutch will not invest all their strength on the side of Taiwan, Taiwan is important, second only to a few strategic places in the heart of Governor Cohen, but if he invests all the strength of the company here, it is equivalent to giving up the good management of the territory to others, Cohen will not be so stupid, and the thirteen shareholders of the company's headquarters will not let him mess around.

"It's going to be over." Jiang Kui pressed his hands on the side of the ship, and the sinking Xinpingbao caught fire, half of the hull sank into the sea, and the other half of the hull burned in the raging fire, reflecting a large area of the sea red.

There was still the sound of cannonballs, fire, smoke, and shouts of killing.

But I don't know if it's real or delusional, Jiang Kui felt that both sides were tired, as if after walking a hundred miles had reached the last ninety miles, people were cheering, laughing loudly, and speeding up their pace, but they were not as enthusiastic and energetic as when they first started walking.

Now it's just the afterglow of the sunset, which seems to be glorious, but people know that it has come to an end, and everything is almost over.

But it wasn't over yet, whether it was Song Ke, Gao Wenlu, or the captains of other Dutch ships, or Dezhnev, Jiang Kui, Zheng Shaolai and others, everyone's eyes were on those bird ships and the fireships that followed.

This was Hutchison's last chance, just as the Dutch put their last chance in the middle and poured artillery shells on the Zhenwei and a few small merchant ships, and seeing that the naval battle was about to end, should it be a draw acceptable to the Dutch, or a one-sided victory?

The island ships are still moving forward at a rapid pace, in Gao Wenlu's eyes, these small boats are quite strange, a main cannon, it looks very powerful, but how much room is there for it? Even if you are forced to come close and fire a few shots, what does it matter? So far in the naval battle, which ship has not been hit by dozens of shells, and a few more are hit, it is nothing more than that the shells are heavier, what does it matter?

But Gao Wenlu still had a strong sense of uneasiness in his heart...... This feeling was not unprovoked, something should have made him feel dangerous, but it was only a subconscious reaction, and there was no way to form a clear idea in his mind.

He could only order the artillery crew to speed up, don't care too much about the artillery, speed up and aim, and be sure to sink another Hutchison ship in front of him, Gao Wenlu made up his mind, as long as he sank another one, he would order the whole fleet to withdraw, as for whether to fight again after a while, he no longer had the slightest confidence.

Sinking two Hutchisons, and four of them being captured, it was still a big defeat, but fortunately, it was not a fiasco, there were comings and goings.

The bird boat was already closer, only a few arrows away, the sails on all five sides were constantly adjusting, eating the wind, and the boat came quickly, almost like an arrow from a string.

A naval officer muttered beside Gao Wenlu: "This ship looks like a bird from a distance, and up close, it looks like a mosquito boat." ”

Gao Wenlu nodded, quite agreeing.

From a distance, it looks like a bird, the sail is like wings, and up close, it looks like a huge cannon in front of the small hull, isn't it like a mosquito rushing over to suck blood?

They don't know that this kind of bird boat should appear a few decades later, although the artillery is not as good as the current Hutchison artillery, and the ship is also the killer feature of Zheng Chenggong's fleet, but the name of the mosquito ship is correct, and then the West also built a large number of mosquito boats, the hull is small, the artillery is large, as the name suggests, this kind of small boat should not be used, but it is a very useful killer weapon in the stalemate, just like Hutchison first launched this kind of ship, it is in the stalemate, the final word.

Gao Wenlu's face was gloomy, looking at the speeding boat, the uneasiness in his heart was even stronger.

Sailboats, mosquito boats, and small fireboats, Hutchison seems to have really not been idle in the past few months, in addition to building a brisk schooner, all kinds of strange tricks have come up one after another, on the other hand, on his side, but because the restrictions on Hutchison are quite successful, arrogant and arrogant, the defeat in front of him, it can be said that he is to blame.

I just don't understand, Hutchison has taken a big advantage, what can I do if I release this small boat?

"This is what you Han people call the winner and loser!"

The bearded Dezhnev is usually very calm, after all, he is a technical expert, and he has a little ink in his stomach, unlike the Russians who buy and sell cities, he is simply ugly.

There is no vodka here in Taiwan, and of course there is no soju, most people in the south drink rice wine and rice wine, and the soju that is only available in the bitter cold places in the north is rare in Taiwan.

It is unlikely that the military department will send wine from the north, and with the mild climate, the idea of alcoholism has been invisibly reduced a lot.

At this time, Dezhnev was screaming wildly, without any intention of holding on to his status.

The officers and sailors of the sailors around him were the same, their eyes were full of fanaticism, and like Dezhnev, they knew that this was the best opportunity for Hutchison to expand his victory.

At the beginning of the design and function of the bird ship and the fireboat, Dezhnev was keenly aware of the function of these two ships and the effectiveness of the cooperation, because Zhang Han did not approve, it took a lot of trouble to build this ship on the Taiwan side, but fortunately, with the insistence of Dezhnev and others, this kind of ship with the characteristics of Chinese-style naval warfare will appear in the battle sequence.

Even if it is used, it is the result of Dezhnev's single-minded commitment.

Hutchison up and down, regard Zhang Han as a god, and sometimes take Zhang Han's wrong understanding as the truth, fortunately, Dezhnev does not have this kind of awareness, although he is also full of admiration for the proprietor of Hutchison, but it is only to the level of admiration, after all, it is an outsider, and it is not a person who watches Hutchison from scratch, from childhood to adulthood, in seven or eight years, to this point, dare to doubt Zhang Han's decision or idea?

The sailing ship has proved that 300,000 taels are not in vain...... The two captured Galen ships were worth more than 300,000 yuan, and there were two large armed merchant ships as additions, which was already a big profit.

At the bottom is to take a small amount of money, a few island ships and fireships, added up to 100,000 taels, that is, a few heavy cannons cost a lot of silver, the cannon is not as big as you want to cast, the process is not good, cast out of a shot and exploded, or the power is insufficient, only the shape of the power is insufficient, it is also in vain.

The Firearms Bureau cast these cannons, but it took a lot of effort.

A large number of master craftsmen were transferred from the north, and when they first entered Taiwan, they began to work at hand, in addition to providing the conventional guns on various warships, they began to cast the largest artillery of all this kind of Hutchison, the 46-pounder gun.

The small boat cannon, of course, is not used for head-on fire, although the shells are heavy and powerful, but the recoil is also huge, even if the anchor is also called the bird boat after a cannon to reset has to wait for a long time, no matter how powerful it is, the ten shells of the people also returned fire, the boat can not withstand a few rounds, it is likely that the first round of shelling comes, a few shells smashed, the boat was directly sunk.

Under the wary gaze of the Dutch, the bird ship did not rush to the front of the battleship, but bypassed the fiercest battle, and circled the stern of the Batavia from the side and rear of the Zhenwei.

"Oops!"

Gao Wenlu has been at sea for at least twenty years, and the faint uneasiness just now immediately came to fruition, and the whole person jumped up on the deck!

What else can these small boats, with Ruyi and huge cannons, detour to the stern?

Bombarding the stern with heavy artillery, and then the fireship follows, this is Hutchison's fireship tactics!