This was also expected, everything was developing in the direction he had imagined, and Gao Wenlu was relieved to see the fireship approaching...... This is still a fireship, there are not many changes, it should be able to prevent it.

But there was a difference, the fireboat came to a halt after getting closer, and after taxiing some distance on the sea, it was about twenty or thirty paces from the stern.

This distance is not close, but it is not far, and the Dutch sailors who are ready are a little stunned, not knowing what these Ming people are doing.

They quickly got the answer...... At the bow of the five fireships stood a full of men, all holding objects of the size and shape of a jar of wine, and then they lit the line of fire at the top of the altar, and the flames were ignited, and then these men threw their things at the stern.

There were screams everywhere, but there wasn't much panic yet, how much power could this little wine jar-sized thing be if it wasn't a cannonball?

The thing was quickly thrown over, with a thin line of fire.

With a "bang", the first jar hit a dozen paces away in the rear cabin, directly on the broken bulkhead.

Then there was a "boom", and the entire jar exploded, and a large area of fire exploded directly, and most of the cabin was shrouded in firelight.

Then came the second, the third, the fourth...... There were a continuous stream of fire pots coming in, and each one that came in exploded, and a large burst of fire exploded in the rear cabin.

At this time, the sailors knew that the original throwing over was explosives, the fire together, the heat was dissipated, many people were swallowed by the heat at the same time as they reacted, this kind of explosives similar to incendiary bombs together, it was really much worse than hitting the bomb to death, the closest sailor was fine, in the cabin was extremely miserable, instantly it was surrounded by fire, in the screams they desperately rolled, but this fire is the oil bursting, it is impossible to suppress it, That is, in a few seconds to more than ten seconds, these people stopped screaming, lying in the cabin and letting the fire burn themselves to charcoal.

More sailors jumped out of the defence and into the sea, and they did not dare to stay for a moment, but their comrades who had been burned alive were left behind, and there were still people struggling and screaming.

After jumping into the water, some of the sailors shouted directly to surrender, the big ships and merchant ships were evacuating, the Batavia was originally in a position, and it was left at the end, at this time it was impossible for someone to row a small boat to save it, and the Batavia ......

Everyone looked behind them and could be sure that the Batavia was finished.

A continuous stream of fierce oil cans were thrown in, and the flames exploded everywhere.

The sailors who threw the cans were all Hercules carefully selected by Hutchison, at least they were masters with superior arm strength, and it was not a problem to throw dozens of paces away, and the bird ship attack just now opened up the space in the aft compartment, and dozens of canisters filled with fierce fire oil were thrown into it, what else is there to say? The entire cabin was in flames, not to mention extinguishing such a fire, and there was no possibility of even getting close.

Ordinary fireships are hooked by the big ship burning, the fire is in the fire ship itself, it is not necessary to want to burn the big ship, and there are many ways to solve the threat, so the fireship is not invincible.

But if he blasted a big hole in the stern of the ship and threw the burning fire jar inside the cabin and burned it, there was no way for Da Luo Jinxian to save it.

This method of warfare, in fact, is the first in the hands of Zheng Chenggong, the so-called bird boat is also Zheng's weapon, the Westerners are also called mosquito boats, Zheng did not have heavy artillery, and later the Westerners carried forward, using mosquito boats to bombard the stern, and then throwing in with explosive incendiary materials to burn the ship, this is not Zheng's invention, but the European way of playing.

This plan is the wisdom of combining Chinese and Western, and it has nothing to do with Zhang Han at all, but if Zhang Han can see the scene in front of him, of course, he will not have any other emotions except happiness.

His subordinates were brought out by him and trained by him, but when fighting at sea, he was able to jump out of his way of thinking, ingenuity, and bring the tactics that would only exist decades later to the battlefield in advance...... With the bird-ship method of warfare, there is a new method of operation of fireships, and the contribution of the Russians, including Dezhnev, including the Firearms Bureau, can cast a cannon with enough power to destroy the stern building, all of which are indispensable.

In any case, the situation was exciting, the fire first burned in the aft compartment, then burned through the aft building, then to the middle cabin and deck, and soon there was a fire on the deck, and there was no room for people to stand.

Of course, most of the crew members of the Batavia were burned to death, but a few people crawled out and, along with the sailors and officers, chose to jump into the sea to escape.

The more Dutch ships had no intention of staying at all, and they continued to flee forward, the schooners in pursuit, and the sailing boats still controlling the captured ships, and did not participate in the pursuit.

The sea gradually calmed down, and there was no more deafening bombardment of artillery, only the crackling of burning wood, the sound of people paddling on the sea, and the cries for help in Dutch.

At this time, the Hutchison boats lowered their dinghys and began to salvage the Dutch sailors who had fallen overboard.

At this time, it is easy to kill them, and at most these people will not survive if they are ignored, and Hutchison has no intention of doing so...... When the fight started, there were many people who killed hard, that was the ability, killing these people who had no power to fight back, it was not done by the warriors, and Hutchison had been cultivated by Zhang Han with a considerable sense of honor, and asking them to do the thing of killing and surrendering and killing prisoners was contrary to the honor of soldiers, and no one would want to do that.

The whole ship of the Batavia has been shrouded in fire, everyone is looking at this side, the sun has become a fireball, nearly half sunk in the seawater, at most a quarter of an hour later will sink to the bottom of the sea, under such a sky, it is easy to see the Batavia burning in the raging fire, like a torch in the dark night, bright and bright, even dozens of miles away, you can also see the situation here very clearly.

An officer suddenly laughed and said, "I don't know if the garrison on the Penghu side can see it?" ”

This place is dozens of nautical miles away from Penghu, the nearest place can almost be rowed over by a small boat, otherwise it would not have been chosen to establish a foundation here, the big man is closer to the Penghu Islands, this time the naval battle, shaking the earth, from near noon to the sky will be dark, the sound of artillery is endless, so many guns on both sides have been bombarding, the sound is afraid that it will definitely reach Penghu, I don't know what the psychology of the Penghu garrison is?

"No matter what," another person replied, "after this battle, I'm afraid that even the Fujian sailors will know who is strong and who is weak." ”

"And those Fujian businessmen, the most hateful is Xu Xinsu!"

Hearing this, many people let out a hearty laugh.

The whole fleet was full of laughter, and a few more laughters were not abrupt at all.

Indeed, although the relationship between Hutchison and Zheng Guochang, the governor of Fujian, is well known, and the relationship with the old soldier Yu Zhigao is also quite close, and other generals and officials do not get along badly under the paving of money.

But since Hutchison was blocked by the Dutch, it has indeed changed a lot. The biggest change was first caused by Xu Xinsu, a big businessman in Xiamen who has a huge supply of raw silk, and he also has quite a strong strength, and in history he is the same as Yan Siqi, Liu Xiang, Zheng Zhilong and Li Guozhu in the southern sea.

It's just that Xu Xinsu's foundation is in Fujian, and his sea power was later surpassed by Zheng Zhilong, and his people were later killed by Zheng Zhilong.

At this time, Xu Xinsu was a reliable ally of the Dutch. This is not surprising, the strong also need to cooperate with the stronger, the Dutch control a considerable colony in the South Seas, and if the government has a strong fleet and land forces, and also controls the trade routes to Japan, what is so strange that Xu Xinsu chose to cooperate with him?

He wants to cooperate with the Ming court, will the court pay attention to him?

Is there a need and reason to cooperate with the imperial court?

Xu Xinsu's affiliation with the Netherlands cannot be regarded as an act of traitor, but a reaction to the situation of the entire imbalance of overseas trade control at that time.

Why didn't there be a maritime merchant and pirate of the scale of Wang Zhi and Li Dan when the Southern Song Dynasty was changed? The Song Dynasty's control over the world and its density were incomparable to the Ming Dynasty.

As soon as Xu Xinsu defected, and other raw silk merchants followed suit, Hutchison could no longer buy much raw silk in Fujian, which was the main commodity of trade with Japan.

In addition, porcelain and tea were also restricted, and Hutchison had only its own cloth and ironware, as well as several miscellaneous goods that were very popular with the Japanese, including Hutchison-made table clocks and pocket watches.

The profit of trade is still not low, but after being completely blocked by the Dutch, even the Fujian sailors have many people watching the excitement, and even gloating.

The emergence of Hutchison is not something that everyone is happy to see, at least a considerable number of coastal guards, wealthy merchants, and big shipowners are not sincere in their cooperation with Hutchison, and they don't like the appearance of Hutchison.

Without Hutchison, they have the opportunity to sit big, or do their own thing, with Hutchison, everyone has a letter of peace is inevitably to pay, a boatload of 3,000 to 5,000 silver, although to ensure their safety, but how many of these people are worried about pirates? Those sailors who are responsible for the smuggling and theft are probably one of the sources of pirates at sea.

Hutchison received the peace state, of course, at that time, it was collected by strength, except for the weak or serious Jiangnan maritime merchants, I am afraid that the "maritime merchants" on the Fujian side are full of resentment.

As soon as the Dutch are strong, these people are naturally happy, at this time there is no concept of a nation-state, the northerners are mainly Hutchison suffers, and Fujian is only happy as long as it is not related to interests.

Now it's okay, the resentment of half a year has been swept away with laughter!

A large number of eight-pulp ships and four-pulp ships poured out of the port, and several merchant ships and warships were seriously damaged, and it was not easy for them to return to the port by themselves, so they needed to be dragged back to the port slowly and repaired in the slipway area of the shipyard, and it was estimated that there would be no way to launch again in a month or two.

There are also large ships that have been taken prisoners, which also have to be towed back, and there are not enough people, and the sailors of Hutchison can help steer and handle the sails on deck, but they still have to be towed when entering the port.

There were also a large number of prisoners, estimated at three or four hundred, and the boats of the major ships were crowded, and they were not very easy to move, so they had to come and pick them up and lock them up.