The Dutch were no longer confident of capturing the fort in one fell swoop, so they chose to gain a foothold on the island and then slowly try to do so. The shipyard is a good foothold, and there is a lot of information that the Dutch need, and since this is the shipyard building of Xinxiang, the battery will inevitably throw rat traps to cover them to a certain extent.

This option was the best choice after storming the battery, and they could even use the cover of the shipyard covering an extremely large area to go around to the rear of the battery side, where the number of artillery was small, and it was a relatively easy weak link to attack.

But when they arrived at the periphery of the shipyard, what awaited them was another dense mass of bullets!

Although it was not as fierce as the fort, the accuracy had increased a lot, and, more importantly, when the Dutch finally rushed into the wide open door of the factory under the rain of bullets, what awaited them was the machete in Qi Niu's hand!

Qi Niu led a hundred tiger guards in the teaching brigade and another hundred elites in the garrison tiger guards, and the weapons in the hands of these two hundred people, in addition to muskets, also had palm mines. When the Dutch broke into the factory, they were greeted by palm mines.

The Grenadier is one of the most troublesome weapons in street fighting in any era, and the Palm Grenade is a weapon that is more explosive than a musket and easy to control. Almost all of the tiger guards carried by Qi Niu have the stunt of pointing to the palm thunder within 30 meters with an error of no more than two meters, and the killing radius of the palm thunder is three to five meters. That is to say, the palm thunder thrown from Qi Niu's palm, the bullet was not missing, and in the blink of an eye. The more than 300 Dutch soldiers who poured into the shipyard were blown up and had to retreat.

After they withdrew, there was no movement in the shipyard, and Qi Niu scrupulously obeyed Yu Guozhen's order, resolutely did not leave the gate of the shipyard, and retreated to the factory, giving up the wall to the Dutch.

A bitter dispute ensued after the Dutch withdrew. After a while, an officer finally took control of the team and organized a new attack. They gathered more people this time. Almost all of the more than 1,000 Dutch soldiers were dispatched, and more than 1,000 soldiers of the Zheng family and hundreds of remaining natives were mobilized. With the aborigines as the guide, they were forced to break into the factory gate first.

"Can the old cow hold it?" Mao Yuanyi was a little worried.

"It doesn't matter. You can rest assured that the old cow is here. Yu Guozhen didn't care about this, he looked at the situation in the sea, the Zheng family's fleet was now in chaos, although Yu Guozhen didn't know that Zheng Zhilong's own flagship had been shattered, but it could be seen that the Zheng family's fleet had lost its backbone. The Dutch also saw this, and instead of moving closer to the Zheng fleet, they narrowed the distance, probably because they were afraid that the chaos of the Zheng fleet would infect them.

After all, the two sides are only a temporary alliance of interests, not a real ally. It's not a close friend who can sacrifice for each other. The Dutch's plan was to use the power of the Zheng family to deal with the Ming court, and now this situation may be better in Mendy's opinion.

In this way, the Dutch would have a monopoly on the entire South China Sea.

Until now. Mendy was still confident of his victory, and the capture of the shipyard on Longmen Island was only the first step, and his soldiers would use the cover of the shipyard to attack the batteries from the flanks and rear.

Reverend Yunius also looked over to the shipyard with the help of a telescope instead of his God. He suddenly exclaimed, "Mendy, Your Excellency Mendy." Look, look! ”

Following what he pointed to, Mendy moved the telescope to the gate of the shipyard, and then he saw a tall and strong man with full armor, holding a horse chopping knife in his hand, and came out of the factory gate with murderous spirit. The horse chopping knife in his hand was still dripping blood to the ground, and under his body, there were corpses of the Dutch, the Zheng family, and the indigenous people of Dayuan everywhere.

After a slight slowdown of two steps, the Ming ** man rushed forward again, breaking straight into the middle of a group of Dutch soldiers. At this distance, it took him only three or four seconds to break through, and the Dutch only made a backward movement, and before he could think about what to do with this terrible slaughtering machine, he rushed into the crowd.

By this time, the Dutch, if they had tried to reload and shoot, would have been too late, unless they were not afraid of injuring their own men by mistake.

After Qi Niu burst into the crowd, the swords in his hand swept the leaves like the wind, left and right, in the blink of an eye, more than ten Dutch soldiers were killed by him again, he turned over, quickly ran back, and behind him, a row of bullets shot out, and knocked down more than ten Dutch people who were aiming at him.

Although the Dutchman's bullets hit the ground right behind him, he managed to make it back to the shipyard walls. This attack of the Dutch was once again repulsed.

"Damn, is that a man, that's Satan himself!" Yunius shouted in horror.

Qi Niu stood out, slaughtered more than ten people, and then withdrew, the whole process, absolutely no more than three minutes, such a killing, almost simpler than killing chickens and dogs, at least in Europe, where firearms are already common, such warriors are almost extinct from the battlefield.

At least in his life, Yunius had never seen such a figure.

He began to feel panic in his heart, this person was definitely not Yu Guozhen, not the Nanhai Bo of the Ming Kingdom. This person is already Satan, so what kind of monster can drive Satan himself to work?

Qi Niu's attack made the Dutch completely lose their courage, and they began to retreat and assemble towards the beach. When Mendy saw this scene, his face turned pale, he muttered a curse, and looked at Yunus: "What should I do?" ”

"Your Excellency, you are the commander-in-chief!" Yunius was stunned, then realized that it was Mendy who was looking for a scapegoat.

Mendy was still full of confidence just now, and he felt that he was sure of victory, but it was only because of the opponent's one-man rush that he completely lost confidence in this battle. Like those Dutch soldiers on the shore, although they were able to fight fiercely with the Spaniards in order to gain autonomy, after all, they took the opportunity of the Spaniards' distraction, and in terms of combat effectiveness alone, these merchants did not have too high a will to fight.

"Yes, I'm the commander-in-chief......"

Mendy muttered a repetition with a fierce glint in his eyes, if he went back like this, he would have lost two-thirds of the Dutch forces in the Far East, and what awaited him was an absolutely terrible end, if not better than death. In that case, what else is there to hesitate about!

"Order, the whole army - attack, those who receive us. Let the Zheng family's people attack with us, and send someone to tell them that if they don't attack, then we will form an alliance with Nanhaibo and destroy them!" ”

Mendy is very sober, he knows that compared with him, the contradiction between the Zheng family and Yu Guozhen is more irreconcilable, the Zheng family and Yu Guozhen are already incompatible with each other, but the Netherlands is not, the Netherlands can also use the Zheng family as a bargaining chip, and even send a little more benefits to Yu Guozhen to negotiate peace. Anyway, the Dutch came to the Far East to pursue interests, not necessarily to fight to the death.

His orders were quickly passed down, and his words were also transmitted to the ships of the Zheng family. This split the Zheng family, and although no one knew Zheng Zhilong's current situation, no one dared to think that this giant who had been crisscrossing the sea for many years had died, so he had to join the Dutch. The other part, which had their own plans, took the opportunity to break away from the battle and began to sail into the distance. It didn't take long for the Dutch and Zheng family's fleets to remain less than fifty ships still insisting on fighting, and their forces were divided into two parts: sea and land.

Mendy decided to attack the island desperately, forcing the Zheng family's ship to cover the Dutch on the perimeter, and then braving the fire from the batteries - Mendy still had a hint of luck in his heart, because he felt that the fire on the batteries had been poured out and now sparse again, and this was his last chance to turn defeat into victory.

Yu Guozhen was on top of the fort, watching this scene, and couldn't help laughing.

Mendy did this exactly what he wanted, and he was going to play his last card.

"Meng Fang, it's time for the new cannon, right?" He smiled and said, "It's up to you." ”

Meng Fang, who was originally a soldier of Daming Denglai, later from Jianjiao, and then captured to become a tiger guard, said with confidence when he heard this: "Uncle, just rest assured." ”

He stepped forward and said sharply, "Ready!" ”

In front of him were eight new guns, which had not been fired before. This is the first batch of guns used to replace the guns on the turret after the rifling cannon was created, and today it happened to go to the island with Yu Guozhen, and even just fixed the position, and then encountered this big battle!

The accuracy and rate of fire of the new rifled guns were better than those of the old smoothbore guns, after all, they were loaded with pointed bullets, not round balls. Meng Fang, with the most elite gunners, had been aiming for a long time, so the effect of these eight guns in unison was surprisingly good, at least five of the eight guns hit the target, two of which were penetrated by the shell bombardment, and the red-hot shells triggered the gunpowder on their ship, causing a huge explosion!

Immediately after the second and third rounds, five rounds were fired, and the new artillery destroyed six enemy ships and incapacitated ten enemy ships.

Don't say it's the Dutch, it's the Xinxiang fleet itself, if it encounters a blow of this magnitude, it will lose its fighting spirit! The rate of fire of the new artillery was so fast that it all happened in just a few minutes, so that the Dutch did not even have the speed to react. It wasn't until the cannon began to cool down with a water bag because the chamber was overheated, that Mendy, covered in blood, realized what a mistake he had made.

He was dejected, and everyone was crazy, and Yunius was even worse than he was, because a cannonball had passed through their ship, and half of Yunus's body had been taken by the cannonball, and only half of his body was still on deck. Mendy's adjutant shouted at him repeatedly, but he did not respond, and the adjutant did not want to die, so he could only call the shots in his place and order the whole army to retreat.

However, the cessation of the bombardment of the eight new guns did not mean that the rest of the guns were also silent, and while the Dutch turned to flee, the rest of the guns on the battery took the opportunity to beat the water dogs, and under repeated bombardment, smoke rose from the ship from time to time and caught fire. The Dutch and Zheng fleets, which were really out of the range of the battery, totaled only thirty, and nearly half of them were wounded.

Then, what they had to face was the interception and pursuit of the Flying Falcon and the Xinxiang fleet led by Xun Shilu. (To be continued)