The rest are sixth-class warships, these warships are the flat-bottomed ships that Yang Tingjian captured Liu Xiang and the water thieves, the large ones are more than 100 tons, and the small ones are forty or fifty tons, but the number is huge, there are more than 2,000 ships in total.

Yang Tingjian took all his naval strength to fight the Dutch in Taiwan this time, just to let his navy accept the test of actual combat.

Nearly 50,000 Huben Navy, including 30,000 marines, so many people to fight 5,000 Dutch, this is simply a knife to kill chickens, but Yang Tingjian still does this, if nothing else, that is, the first battle will be won, which is related to the soul of an army.

In 1624, the Dutch East India Company invaded Taiwan. They built two very strong castles in the southeast of Taiwan, the city of Pulinza, both of which were built by the Dutch to capture the Taiwanese people, and it can be said that these two castles were built by the Taiwanese people with white bones.

When the Dutch invading army heard that Yang Tingjian was going to attack Taiwan, they were very frightened. They concentrated their troops in the two castles of Geranza and Prominza in Taiwan, and sank ships in the harbor to prevent Yang Tingjian's fleet from landing.

As early as a year, the fans of the Intelligence Department infiltrated Taiwan and Luzon, Guawa and Boni, and most of them used the identity of businessmen as a cover to infiltrate these places with radio stations, as long as the Netherlands sent reinforcements, Yang Tingjian would know about it at the first time.

Yang Tingjian led the fleet straight to the southwest of Taiwan, where there was a settlement established by Zheng Zhilong (around today's Taipei City), Zheng Zhilong had returned to the Ming Dynasty for a few years, he almost monopolized the trade to Japan and Southeast Asia, even if other merchant ships went to Yuegang to trade, they had to pay him silver, 3,000 taels per ship.

The current Zheng Zhilong can be described as a strong soldier and a strong horse, plus rich and rival the country. He has 50,000 or 60,000 troops and more than 1,000 warships, but his main territory is still in Fujian, although Zheng Zhilong was born as a pirate, he still has a strong mainland mentality, and he does not attach much importance to overseas islands.

Didn't Yang Tingjian go to fight the Dutch? How to fight Zheng Zhilong's settlement. This is a matter of no way, one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, Zheng Zhilong monopolizes all trade, Yang Tingjian wants to go on an expedition in the future, and he must solve the trouble of Zheng Zhilong.

Even if Zheng Zhilong has surrendered, it is the same for Yang Tingjian, Zheng Zhilong's pirate group must collapse, if Zheng Zhilong knows each other, Yang Tingjian can spare his life. Go somewhere else and be a rich man.

Zheng Zhilong's settlement in Taiwan has a population of 10,000 or 20,000, a military force of about 3,000 people, and more than 100 warships. Zheng Zhilong's brother Zheng Zhibao, who guards here.

Zheng Zhibao learned that Yang Tingjian, the killing god, was coming to the Taipei settlement, and hurriedly ordered his subordinates to come out to intercept them, Zheng Zhibao and they are now also official soldiers, but the officials of the imperial court have never trusted Zheng Zhilong and his gang. Of course, Zheng Zhibao also knew, so Zheng Zhibao learned that Yang Tingjian had a large number of warships. Just choose the sortie.

The two sides met on the sea fifty miles away from Taipei, Zheng Zhilong saw the tall Tiger Ben Navy warship, and was frightened at that time, they had always heard that Yang Tingjian of Yangzhou was engaged in warships, and they didn't expect that this warship was so majestic and majestic, even the warships of those great powers were not so tall. Yang Tingjian's Victory-class warship is the last generation of sail warships, and it is definitely not comparable to the early sail warships.

Zheng Zhibao, who was scared half to death, originally planned to send someone up to inquire about the situation, but Yang Tingjian didn't give Zheng Zhibao a chance at all, and one hundred and sixty-four battleships rushed up in a wild goose formation.

Zheng Zhibao, a pirate, is not a vegetarian either. Since he is a pirate, he is to pin his head to the waistband of his trousers, and since Yang Tingjian plans to eat black, Zheng Zhibao will also break a few of his teeth.

Zheng Zhibao immediately lowered the Daming Dragon Banner and raised the Pirate Skull Flag, which was the signal for a decisive battle. Zheng Zhibao divided the warship in his hand into two, one part of which went straight into the middle of Yang Tingjian's wild goose array, and the other part outflanked the left flank of the wild goose array.

Zheng Zhibao's fleet was like two parallel lines, sandwiching the left flank of Yang Tingjian's wild goose array, and Yang Tingjian's wild goose array was sandwiching Zheng Zhibao's right flank, and the two sides flickered the advantages and disadvantages.

Zheng Zhibao's ship also has artillery, such as the Furlong machine, but there are not many guns on Zheng Zhibao's ship, a ship of more than 100 tons, at most ten guns, and the caliber is not too large.

The battle soon began, and the Tiger Ben Navy began to shell Zheng Zhibao's fleet when it was five hundred meters away from the previous one, and Zheng Zhibao's artillery had a range of up to one thousand meters, and the rate of fire of Shenwei's artillery was too fast, and it only took about fifteen seconds for one shot.

There are dozens of guns on one side of each warship, and the entire sea is full of thick cannon sounds, and the sound of "whooshing" projectiles shuttles through the air, and water columns continue to rise on the sea surface.

Zheng Zhibao's warship was sunk by more than half before it could get close, and Zheng Zhibao, who had seen the wrong thing, immediately hoisted the bow of the ship and ran.

The small sea ship is very flexible, but Yang Tingjian's first-class battleship is equipped with steam power, the speed of the pirate ship is only eight or nine knots, and the speed of the hybrid sail battleship is about eighteen knots, seeing that Zheng Zhibao, who could not escape, had to hang up and surrender.

This naval battle is hardly called a naval battle, Zheng Zhibao's battleship is simply tofu scum in front of a first-class battleship, and it is vulnerable, and the naval battle on this side cannot even achieve the purpose of training.

After the end of the naval battle, Yang Tingjian immediately asked the small boat team behind the fleet to rescue the people who fell into the water, Yang Tingjian was not killing people this time, even Zheng Zhibao was released by Yang Tingjian, but Yang Tingjian gave him a letter, which was written by Yang Tingjian to Zheng Zhilong.

Yang Tingjian made it very clear in the letter that he asked Zheng Zhilong to immediately hand over all the military forces in his hands, otherwise he would be wiped out.

The Tiger Ben Navy immediately occupied the settlement of Taipei, and tens of thousands of marines who followed it landed in Keelung Harbor, and all kinds of massive materials were unloaded from the ship.

The wave of construction of the Taipei settlement began, and Yang Tingjian wanted to make it his first transit point overseas.

It is said that after Zheng Zhilong in Xiamen received Yang Tingjian's letter, Zheng Zhilong was so angry that he threatened to fight to the death with Yang Tingjian.

Five days later, Zheng Zhilong's stronghold in Penghu was attacked by the Huben navy again, because there were many reefs here in Penghu and the water was relatively shallow, which was not suitable for the operation of first-class battleships, so Yang Tingjian sent 500 small sea ships of more than 100 tons to attack this time.

Penghu is Zheng Zhilong's real overseas stronghold, most of the materials of Zheng Zhilong's group are stored here, Yang Tingjian attacked Penghu, Zheng Zhilong did not have to go to the army to save.

…… (To be continued......)