Kirhorn looked behind him with a desperate gaze. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Bright fireworks are exploding in his barracks, the terrifying rain of magic fireworks keeps falling, everything is ignited by this magic flame, the wooden trestle of the dock, the fortifications around the barracks, the tents of the soldiers who live, the carriages that transport supplies, and even the ammunition piled up, everything is turning into flames rising into the sky, the fire dragon rises, the flames lick and roll, the red color dyes the sky, and the detonated powder keg turns into a roaring black ** dragon, bulldozing everything around with violent force.

It's all over.

The hopes of millions of people in the Netherlands, the ambition to retake the Spice Islands, and even the great power of the sea coachmen, were all over at this moment.

It's over.

More than a century of effort by the Dutch has vanished.

Of course, he couldn't go back.

The Ming army in the distance was attacking, and the soldiers with breech guns were walking while firing deadly bullets at a rate of less than ten seconds, they were calm, they were indomitable, they were like killing machines.

And in front of them......

The soldiers of the crusade are fleeing, most of them are fleeing like African, screaming, panicking, stumbling, showing their fear and cowardice with all their ugliness, and some are even kneeling on the ground and surrendering with their hands raised, this is the most elite army in Europe? Ke Houn smiled wryly, and only a handful of people in his field of vision were struggling desperately, firing chaotically with their front-loading muskets, and then being knocked down by the bullets of the Ming army, or killed by the shells that fell from the sky.

It was a complete rout.

He sighed helplessly.

"Fleet, our fleet!"

A cheer suddenly sounded beside him, but the cheering stopped abruptly, he looked back behind him, sixteen battleships on the sea were approaching at full speed, the flags on the mast were so familiar, but all the battleships were unrecognizable, even the starboard side of the majestic battleship William III II had a hole in smoke, and at the same time the starboard side of a battleship in the fleet was turning into a terrifying flame.

Next to this fleet, two strange schooners were sailing at high speed, two chimneys belching thick smoke, and paddlewheels on both sides were spinning.

Suddenly, a blazing flame erupted from the fore and aft decks of the two schooners, looking like those terrifying coastal defense cannons in Malacca, and less than five seconds later, in the middle of a second-class battleship in Admiral Bank's fleet, a huge ball of fire exploded, and then the mainmast with the Dutch naval flag jumped in a strange way, and fell down the moment the fire faded, and the speed of the battleship suddenly slowed down.

At the same time, warships flying red flags appeared on the sea behind.

It is clear that the Navy was also defeated.

Fortunately, the appearance of the Banks' fleet caused the three battleships that were shelling them at sea to quickly turn their guns, but it was useless, the docks became raging fires, the armed merchant ships transporting them were fleeing in confusion, they could not withdraw, and all their supplies were reduced to ashes in the flames, even if his soldiers still had the courage to fight, the final result would inevitably be destroyed.

Not to mention that his soldiers did not have the courage to fight anymore.

In fact, he has lost control of his army, under the attack of a fierce Ming army, more than 10,000 crusader soldiers are completely herded, more and more people choose to kneel and surrender, after all, they have no other choice, even if they run into the jungle in a foreign land thousands of miles away, what can they do? There are poisonous snakes and beasts, locusts and mosquitoes can eat people, hundreds of people are killed by various tropical diseases alone these days, and a group of routs without supplies running in is no different from committing suicide, and there is at least a glimmer of hope for surrender.

"What do they do with their captives?"

Ke Houn said with a wry smile.

"They are all sent to the construction site and the mine to work as coolies, and then ask our government or our family to take money to redeem it, usually a person needs 300 guilders, but in the mine there will be no nue treatment, and there will be no shortage of food, just need to work."

The officer beside him said cautiously.

"Thankfully, it's not a lot of money."

Kirhorn said with a shrug.

Yang Feng's ransom standard is indeed three hundred guilders, officers and soldiers are the same, unless it is a nobleman more, at this time the shield is the famous horse sword silver coin, a weight of 32.78 grams, 94.1% of the silver, slightly less than one dragon yuan. Three hundred guilders is really nothing for a person of Ke Heen's status, but it is a huge amount of money for ordinary soldiers, plus the cost of traveling half the world, basically those ordinary soldiers' families will have to go bankrupt if they want to redeem their relatives, but they can't afford it completely.

Yang Feng's practice is nothing to criticize, this is originally the standard practice of the European knight era, at most he still uses these people as coolies, but the ordinary soldiers captured in the European knight era are also to be coolies, even now European hard labor is very common and common.

By this time a group of Ming soldiers had almost reached Kohun, and more than a hundred rather valiant Dutch soldiers were rushing forward with rifles loaded with bayonets, but they were beaten to the ground one by one by a storm of bullets.

"Maybe we should end this tragedy in a decent way."

Looking at this scene, Ke Houn said with a righteous face.

"General, if we can achieve victory at sea, we still have hope."

The officer said.

Obviously, as a younger generation, he is still a little unwilling.

"At sea, do you say now?"

Ke Houn looked at the sea not far away and said bitterly.

The William III was fleeing in panic with a total of eight battleships, and even at this time it had already sailed past the burning improvised dock, and it was obvious that it was no longer ready to rescue them, and in fact Bank was not capable of rescuing them, and with the Ming armies meeting the north and south fleets, the situation at sea had already been reversed. The Ming army had a total of five battleships, two steam battleships with eighty pounds of cannons, plus eleven cruisers that could be used as battleships, while Admiral Bunk could only use eight battleships for decisive battles, including two second-class battleships, and all the remaining battleships were sunk or destroyed or suffered heavy losses and lost their combat effectiveness.

Although there are still some frigates and armed merchant ships, the caliber of the guns of these ships is too small, especially the vast majority of armed merchant ships have nine-pounder guns, let alone against battleships, even against the teak cruisers of the Ming army.

What's more, most of these ships have already run away.

In fact, now the Strait of Malacca is full of armed merchant ships that fled in panic, this time Admiral Bank took one hundred and thirty armed merchant ships to transport soldiers and goods, but ten were sunk by the Sea Eagle, and the Sea Eagle had also sunk two ships before many raids, and half of the remaining went back to transport reinforcements, and sixty ships were here, but now most of them have run away, after all, the main job of the Ming army is to deal with battleships, these merchant ships have enough chance to escape, and several more have run aground in panic.

Now there are only a dozen or so left, and these have not had time to run out because of the threat of Ming cruisers, but it is impossible to expect them to fight side by side with the main fleet.

So the only option for Admiral Bank is to escape.

However, he still had some strength after all, and when Ke Houn raised the white flag and formally surrendered to the Ming army, he and the remaining eight battleships also rushed to intercept the Ming army, and escorted a group of armed merchant ships to escape, and fled directly to Colombo, more than 2,000 kilometers away.

Next, he also needs to defend the colonies in the Indian Ocean, at this time the Netherlands still rules Ceylon in this ocean, Dutch Bengal, Coromandel Coast, Malabar Coast, Dutch India and other colonies, especially Ceylon and the Malabar Coast and Coromandel Coast in southern India, the area of these three colonies is about to catch up with most of Goryeo, and then it is impossible for the Ming army not to attack these places, if these places are lost, the Netherlands will basically be cleared out of Asia.

Without Asia, the Netherlands is still a fart!

Don't talk about colonial plunder, I'm afraid I can't even hold the mainland, Louis XIV is thinking about annexing the Netherlands every day, if there is no supply of wealth in Asia, in the big part of the Netherlands, it may be useless to rely on the trade between the Americas and Africa alone, after all, there are still a bunch of hungry wolves fighting there.

As for the Ming fleet, they did not continue to catch up, although they achieved a great victory, but all the battleships were also scarred, after all, the Dutch actually had an absolute advantage, and the victory of the Ming army was largely a stroke of luck, and the four fleets were put into battle on the same day, completely catching the Dutch by surprise. However, the casualties of all the ships involved in the battle were not light, especially those cruisers with poor protection, because in order to exert the power of fifteen-pound guns, these battleships had to be closed to a hundred zhang to open fire, and this distance was the most accustomed combat distance for the Dutch, so these cruisers were all beaten to a thousand holes.

In total, two ships were sunk, one was destroyed or even lost repair value, and together with the previously sunken Sea Eagle, the Ming army lost four cruisers in this battle.

Of course, the results were also brilliant.

"Let's go, clean up the battlefield!"

Chen Han said with a smug smile.

They really had to clean up the battlefield well, in this pursuit they usually wounded the Dutch battleships rather than sank them, especially the Zhenwu both ships aimed at the opponent's mainmast and opened fire, after breaking the mainmast, the Dutch battleship basically became a turtle crawling, and then they didn't care about it at all, just throw it down, these battleships that were damaged and abandoned were all behind. Among them, including the Ruyt, which was badly damaged at Dragon's Tooth Gate, a total of at least two second-class battleships and one seventy-four-gun third-class battleship, plus the two in the Johor Strait, a total of eight medium-sized third-class battleships waiting to be cleaned. (To be continued.) )