Chapter 164: Naval Battle (End)

Each small boat was led by a crew member of the Qiyun Firm, and under their loud orders, the Japanese samurai rowed their boats and quickly pounced on the Dutch ships without avoiding the rain of bullets. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

In the bow of each small boat was a very sharp piece of wood, which came with great speed, and the long pointed wood penetrated deep into the hull of the Dutch ship, and then the fire ignited from the small boat, and the samurai on board jumped into the water and swam towards the boat next to it. Half of the more than 30 small boats were fireboats, and a large amount of dry firewood soaked with tung oil was piled up.

The Dutch ship "Earl", which fell behind, was surrounded by more than a dozen fireboats, and the raging fire burned around the "Jazz", and the tongue of fire licked the hull of the "Jazz", and the hull made of wood could not withstand the fire at all, and was quickly ignited.

The deck of the "Earl" was covered in smoke, and the Dutch on it could not see through the smoke at all. The guns on the second deck could no longer be aimed and could only fire aimlessly.

"Get out of here!" The captain of the "Earl" roared angrily, and the ship finally turned around, and fled eastward with a dozen or so small boats hanging on its body, but much slower.

In the end, the third Dutch ship, the "Lemmsen", was the fastest to see the opportunity, smashed through several small boats that had surrounded it, turned around, and fled to the east.

Three or four fireships hung on its hull and burned, but the fire was much smaller.

"Don't let it escape!" Li Xingjiu, who was in charge of commanding the small boats, stood on a ship and shouted angrily, directing the small boats to chase after the "Lemson".

In order to make a smooth U-turn, the "Lemson" had just lowered half of its sails, and before the speed had been raised, more than a dozen small boats rushed towards it like hungry wolves.

The guns on the "Lemson" opened fire one after another, and the two small boats were hit squarely and immediately capsized in the sea. Muskets were fired from the deck, and bullets were fired at the approaching boats, and several Japanese samurai were hit by bullets and fell into the sea screaming.

As Chen Sheng and the other crew climbed onto the deck along the flying claws, the battle on the top deck of the "Princess" came to an end. Under the desperate attack of Takeshiro with the only two remaining Japanese samurai, the Dutch and Nanyang natives with muskets on the deck suffered heavy casualties. Under close attack, the musket in their hands was a burning stick, and in those days there were no bayonets attached to the muskets, and when the long swords were cut, they had to use the gun as a stick.

When Chen Sheng took more than 20 crew members to the deck, the desperate Nanyang natives threw down the muskets in their hands, knelt on the ground and surrendered.

The only three Dutchmen left on the deck were back to the quilt, sword in hand, fending off a possible attack.

Geert's desperation on his face, the "Princess", who had been the captain for more than ten years, was about to be captured, which made Geert's heart like a knife.

"Aren't you going to fight me alone? Come here. Takeshiro held a long sword in his right hand, hooked his fingers at Geert, and pointed diagonally at the tip of the knife on the deck, and the red blood dripped on the deck.

"Die!" Geert was furious and rushed over to Takeshita is sword.

Takeshita Lang leaned slightly, and the long knife swung outward to set the Geert long sword away. With his right foot on the ground, his body is aggressively forward, and he crosses Geert.

Geert's body froze for a moment, and he lowered his head and stared blankly at the long knife cut that appeared in his chest.

"What a quick knife technique!" Geert muttered, threw his sword away, and fell to the deck, his two blue eyes staring blankly at the sky, and a few seabirds were whirling on the mast.

With the cooperation of Chen Sheng and Takeshita, the second deck was quickly captured, and the Dutch gunners either died or surrendered, and the entire "Princess" was completely occupied.

At this time, under Ren Siqi's order, the sailboat blocking the exit re-hoisted its sails, sailed towards the sea, and gave way to the exit, Ren Siqi wanted to re-enter the battlefield with five sailing ships to encircle and suppress the remaining two Dutch ships.

The Dutch ship "Earl" was already on fire, and through the light of the fire, the Dutch could be seen running around the deck in a panic. Constantly people couldn't stand the hot deck and jumped into the water.

The third Dutch ship, the "Lemsen", escaped from the interception of the boat, but did not escape, but turned to the side of the hull and desperately put its guns. There were more than 20 guns on board the "Lemmson", and the fire was already strong and close, and in a short period of time, several small ships were hit by it, or the hull was broken in two, rolled and sank into the sea, or they were not sunk, but the Japanese samurai on board were beaten to pieces.

These 30-odd boats were Japanese boats that Ren Siqi had asked Matsuura Dong to buy, and most of them were fishing boats, with narrow hulls, and each boat could carry a dozen or so people at most, and they could not withstand the artillery bombardment at all.

When Ren Siqi joined the battlefield from the new with five sailing ships, he was faced with such a scene. The remaining two Dutch ships, the "Earl", have been caught in flames, the flames around them are about to lick the deck, the crew of the ship can not bear the heat, most of them have been forced to the upper deck, many have already jumped into the sea, so the ship has completely lost its attack power.

However, the third Dutch ship, the "Lemmson", had escaped from the encirclement and was desperately firing guns not far away, trying to save the situation on the battlefield independently.

"Destroy the ship!" Ren Siqi immediately made a decision and ordered all ships to attack the "Lemson".

Five ships passed the burning "Earl" one after another, and the three ships equipped with trebuchets also threw several canisters of fire oil into the deck of the "Earl", so that the deck of the Count also burst into flames, and the whole ship was completely engulfed in flames.

The "Lemson" did not love to fight, but walked as it went, and the guns on the second deck kept firing, and the shells with a very fast rate of fire fell around the five sailing ships that were in pursuit.

"Boom !!" Suddenly, there was a loud bang that shook the entire nearby sea, and everyone's ears were buzzing. Ren Siqi turned back in shock, and saw a huge spark rising on the sea behind him, the powder magazine of the Dutch ship "Earl" was ignited, and an explosion occurred, and the whole ship fell into the sea of fire, and the sparks flying randomly fell into the surrounding sea water and made a "zizi" sound, and a thick cloud of smoke shrouded the sky above the ship.

Just when everyone was shocked by the explosion, the "Lemson" knew that it was impossible to do it, and hoisted all its sails and sailed towards the depths of the sea.

"Owner, what should I do?" On the "Flying Fish", all the crew members stared at Ren Siqi with blazing eyes, just waiting for him to give an order, and all the ships chased after him to take down the last Dutch ship!

"Forget it!" Ren Siqi knew that with the speed of the Dutch ship, no other ship in his ships could catch up except for the "Exocet", and even if he caught up, with the firepower of the Dutch ship "Lemsen", his five ships plus one were not its opponents, and unless they engaged in a broadside battle with it, there was no chance of winning at all. (To be continued.) )