The people in the fields and sugar cane fields not far away gathered, and instead of immediately hiding in the fort as instructed, many people with iron forks, shovels or scythes and other farm tools also gathered in a heap to watch the sea and shout.

Lu Da felt a little comforted in his heart, it seems that after more than a year and a half, many immigrants have regarded Taiwan as their home, and they regard the invasion of Taiwan by the Dutch as a matter of their own, which is not easy. In this era, there is no concept of country and nation, at the beginning of the Jurchen army, Liaodong fought for its own war, and there was no common hatred of the enemy, after all, people thought that it was a matter of other places, it was the matter of the court and the officials, and as a result, everything was completely changed in Taiwan, and the immigrants already regarded Taiwan as their home, and they hated the robbers who came to their doors, and they did not need to mobilize, they already had the will to hate the same enemy......

Lu Da was moved, but he still sent soldiers to urge those peasants and fishermen to enter the fort quickly, the fort is protected by thick high walls, and there are peasant soldiers with firearms to defend, even if the sailors are defeated and the Dutch come ashore, it is difficult to break through the defense of the peripheral batteries and garrisons, even if some luck enter the core area, with the protection of the fort and the city defense of the core area, it will not damage the property of the people, and the more important thing is, of course, the safety of life.

Lu Da and the others also sent Tangma to report back quickly, reporting the size and details of the Dutch warships that came to attack, watching Tangma quickly disappear on the seawall, Lu Da couldn't help but worry, this time the Dutch came to attack with all their might, I don't know if the preparations made by the marching division are enough, whether they can repel the enemy in the naval battle?

……

In the early morning, after Sun Jingting washed up, he met with Dezhnev and others.

Both sides have met before, and they have met and talked in detail in Lizhuang and Qingcheng, but at that time, Sun Jingting only knew some numbers, read some atlases, and did not know much about the things of the ocean, nor did he have much interest, and the meeting was just a procedure, but today's goodbye is completely different, Sun Jingting is very interested in things at sea, and most of the questions are quite professional...... In the past few years, Sun Jingting has been making up lessons every day, and his understanding of things at sea is very different from before.

Dezhnev said: "The sail ship we use is similar to the Shebek ship used by the Ottomans, the Shebek ship is an imitation of the Calais battleship and the Arab dhow, compared to the Calais battleship, our hull is more slender, we have a large area of triangular sail that is dexterous and easy to turn and accelerate, even if it is against the wind, we can adjust the direction to accelerate the sailboat, plus the sail pulp is shared, we can get faster speed and the ability to turn, our ship can use nearly forty guns, and the power is not lost, and at the same time, due to the heightened hull, Our Marines have a slight advantage when it comes to firefights or gang jumps. ”

Chang Wei said: "The only drawback is that it is made in a hurry, and it cannot sail far." ”

Dezhnev said disapprerovitically: "If I can help you win the naval battle, it is worth wasting any amount of money now, it is really worth it." However, if we can win, we will not build sail pulp warships, at most we can maintain the current pattern of three or four, after all, the hull of this kind of ship is slender, once it encounters a strong enemy, the sail pulp is easy to break, affecting the balance of the hull, only in the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean Sea suitable for this kind of sail pulp ship, but as far as I know, even the Mediterranean countries have abandoned sail pulp warships, only the Baltic countries, including our Russia, we still have to use sail pulp ships. Here in Taiwan, of course, you can't just defend and not attack all the time, and when you want to attack, the sailboats are useless, because you can't sail far away......"

"I see." Sun Jingting said thoughtfully: "It seems that you have also thought about it quite clearly. ”

"As for the firecrackers maintaining the array when engaging on the ship, or even keeping the fleet in line, this Lord Zhang of your side has already made a suggestion." Dezhnev said: "With Lord Zhang's idea is to fight in a linear queue, this theory is not yet in Europe, as for the army formation ship battle, this theory exists, it seems that the British have also done this, but the current habit of various countries is still not to train on the ship for war, since Lord Zhang thinks it is useful, our four sail ships have already done this, and the training has been two months." ”

Dezhnev shrugged his shoulders, and didn't seem to have much confidence in Zhang Han's arrangement.

After all, during the Anglo-Dutch War, the British defeated the Dutch with a neat queue during the broadside battle or 20 years later, and it has not been used yet, even on land, the current wars of various countries are still dominated by phalanxes, and cold weapons still account for a considerable proportion, and it will take a hundred years to really play the queue and shoot.

So now the warship battle is nothing more than artillery feats, and then the corner jumping, the gang jumping battle is about personal bravery, under a mess of chaos, how can it always keep the queue? In Dezhnev's view, Zhang Han is somewhat compatible......

Sun Jingting said: "Compared with the strength of the Dutch Navy, if we add these four sailboats, do we have the strength to fight?" ”

"Do the math." Chang Wei said: "We have five schooners launched, Tianchengwei, Yanghewei, Weiyuanwei, Yunchuanwei, Yulinwei, tonnage between 300 tons and more than 400 tons, now there are four ships in the port, Tianchengwei carries the mission to Hirado to negotiate with the enemy, and the rest of the ships stay in the harbor and are always in a state of combat readiness. Four sailboats, Brother Xiaozheng has already seen them yesterday, and they are enough to fight. In addition, there is the Zhenyuwei, which is the brother's southward ship, which can also be used, but compared to the serious large warship, the Zhenyuwei is still slightly weaker, after all, the guns of this ship are not thirty, and most of them are nine-pounder cannons, and there are no heavy guns, so they should not be reused. The rest are sixteen small and medium-sized merchant ships, nearly half of which are received by Yan Siqi and others of the Fu ship merchant ships, Yan Siqi left more than a dozen ships, we only choose the large ships and the best quality as merchant ships, and the rest are eliminated as fishing boats. Among the merchant ships, nearly half of the ships were equipped with one or two guns, and only a few or two ships were equipped with five or six guns. There are also a few sailing ships that we have been exploring and building ourselves in recent years, mostly about 100 tons and 200 tons, and most of them are only four or six guns on board, for the same reason, below the deck is the cargo hold, there is no artillery compartment, so we can only put artillery in the bow and stern, and because we are worried that the center of gravity is unbalanced, so we can only place light guns, helpless, and the combat effectiveness can only be threatened by the soldiers of the merchant ship, otherwise a few nine-pounder guns, there is almost no ......threat to the enemy in a naval battle."

Chang Wei also had regrets in his tone, after all, his strength was really weak, but there was no way, Taiwan started from scratch, and really took his own path.

In fact, if Yan Siqi or Zheng Zhilong are still in charge here, I am afraid that in the past few years, tens of thousands of pirates will be gathered, hundreds of large and small ships, and it will work if they can go to the South Seas and Japan, and then rely on maritime trade to accumulate wealth to attract more pirates, and in times of war, they don't expect artillery battles, hundreds of lucky ships and ants bite like elephants to surround the Dutch ships, jump gangs, set fires, and a naval battle will be fought, and it doesn't matter if you lose dozens of ships and hundreds of thousands of people on your side...... Put up the recruiting flag, not afraid that no one will run to join you.

But Hutchison took a different path, and the fortune boats were kept less, and all the big boats were left, and the small boats simply became fishing boats, and there were no large number of shipbuilding and buying boats, let alone recruiting pirates, and even the pirates from the Hirado Li family were scattered a lot.

In recent years, a large number of poor coastal people have been brought to Taiwan by Hutchison to come to Tuntian, and Hutchison has cracked down on pirates, so that the number of pirates on the seaside is gradually decreasing, and it is no longer the prosperous scene of the past.

However, in the coastal islands of Zhejiang, as well as the sea of Guangzhou, the number of pirates has not decreased, and the original marching division had a plan to go north to fight the Zhoushan bandits, but unfortunately it cannot be done under the current situation.

"Eight warships, sixteen merchant ships." Sun Jingting already knew the value of these ships at this time, and it was not at all the imagination of the northerners who had never seen the ships, those warships, huge ships tens of meters long, and the common flat leaf-like boats in the north were completely different things, each warship, more than 100,000, less than 80,000, the price was very expensive, and the construction period was extremely long, it took nearly two years for Taiwan to build five schooners, which were still built together, if there is a delay, a ship will inevitably have a cycle of nearly two years.

Even if the four sail warships were in a hurry, they would be supported at sea for a year at most, and it would take several months to mobilize more than 1,000 craftsmen to start work together, and if they built qualified warships, one year was the most basic time limit.

It is precisely because he knows that warships are expensive, and Western-style sailing ships are also expensive and difficult to build, but after they are built, both safety and seaworthiness are much better than Chinese-style lucky ships, and Sun Jingting can understand why Taiwan has not been able to give back to the military department for several years, and there is really no way to do it.

"So, we have twenty-five ......ships," Sun Jingting had not finished speaking, and the rumbling sound of cannon was heard in his ears.

Chang Wei immediately stood up and looked out the window.

The sound of artillery rang out one after another, and Sun Jingting's face was solemn, knowing that something extraordinary must happen.

Chang Wei looked at it for a moment, and when he saw thick smoke floating above the blue sky, he immediately said: "Okay, the battle has begun, and the Dutch fleet has taken the initiative to kill it." ”

Chang Wei had a sense of relief in his words, no wonder, no matter whether he won or lost, he had done everything he could anyway, and the rest was to see the efforts of the soldiers at sea. If we win, all the shackles will be opened, and Taiwan's development will reach a leap forward, and in the future, it will compete with the Dutch East India Company for supremacy at sea, instead of being forced to hide its entire fleet in the harbor and sit in a city of sorrow and have no choice.