"Angry hair rushes to the crown, leaning on the railing, Xiaoxiao rain rests, looking up at the eyes, looking up to the sky and roaring, strong and fierce......"

On the aft tower of the cruiser Sea Eagle, Captain Zhou He held on to the guardrail and sang loudly, and under his feet, this teak-made fast cruiser was riding the wind and waves, and on the gun deck on the second floor, more than 200 sailors were singing war songs like their captains, constantly busy beside the cannons, pushing forward these fifteen-pound rifled guns loaded with armor shells, and the muzzles of the black holes were aimed at the diagonal front. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Diagonally in front of them, more than a dozen frigates flying the Crusader flag were hurriedly forming up to meet them.

And behind these frigates, in a calm blue bay, countless merchant ships full of soldiers and supplies are quietly moored, all the sailors on the merchant ships are busy lifting anchor and sailing in panic, this is the landing force of the Crusaders, and the Sea Eagle and the Sea Eagle behind are the warships of the Ming army in Malacca, but before the Crusaders arrived, they had already left the port according to Qin Yan's order, and then hid between the islands near Sumatra Island on the opposite side and waited for an opportunity.

And now is their chance.

"Jing Kang is ashamed, still not snowing, the courtiers hate, when will it be destroyed, Zhuang is hungry for Hulu meat, laughs and thirsts for Hun blood, stays from the beginning, cleans up the old mountains and rivers, and faces the sky!"

At the moment when Zhou He's song fell, a thunderous cannon suddenly sounded, and a blazing flame under his feet sprayed out to both sides at an extremely fast speed, and almost at the same time, on the two closest Dutch frigates on the opposite side, a twelve-pounder gun also let out an angry roar, and the close-range shelling of less than five hundred meters made the shells of both sides penetrate the hull of the other party without any suspense.

But it's a pity that the Dutch are solid shells, while the Sea Hawk shoots A shells.

There is an essential difference between the two types of killing.

Just as the Dutch shells pierced the teak deck of the Sea Hawk, causing many casualties in the cabin, four terrifying white phosphorus shells also exploded inside the two Dutch frigates, and in an instant, the bright fireworks were like the flags of death rolling, and it was like a rain of fire in the narrow space, and like a volcanic eruption when it was splashed by countless droplets of lava, the flames rose almost everywhere, rising on the oak deck, rising on the soldiers' bodies, and rising on the bronze cannons. In those stacks of powder kegs rise......

Zhou He was still singing Jiang Hong's military song, and a piece of wood chips was stuck in his face, so that blood oozed out every time he opened his mouth.

But he still held on to the guardrail and sang.

Suddenly, two earth-shattering explosions rang out in quick succession, and the two Dutch frigates were shattered in the explosion of powder kegs on both sides of the Sea Hawk, which had just rushed into the middle of the two Dutch frigates.

Without pause, the Sea Eagle passed through two flames.

In front of it, eight Dutch frigates were lining up, showing their sides to it, and almost as soon as the two frigates were shattered, more than a hundred cannons roared at it at the same time.

And all the same, the Seahawk's cannons opened fire again.

This time the distance between the two sides was even less than three hundred meters, even in such an era, this could be regarded as a hand-to-hand combat of the battleship, and the Dutch's shells hit the Sea Eagle at full speed like a storm, and countless pieces of wood rose into the sky, even drowning Zhou He's figure, and even the sails were punched out of several holes. In the same way, the shells from the Sea Eagle continued to fire, and then fiercely pierced the deck of the Dutch frigate, exploding brilliant fireworks inside the cabin.

In less than half a minute, two Dutch frigates were reduced to pieces in the explosion of powder kegs.

The remaining Dutch battleships did not flinch, they gave up the attack on the Sea Eagle behind, and with all their firepower, they frantically poured shells on the Sea Eagle, and soon beat it to the brink of misery, but at this time, two more Dutch frigates burst into flames, and just as the Sea Eagle was fiercely in the middle of them, the two frigates turned into a pile of burning debris with two earth-shattering loud bangs.

Of course, the Sea Eagle is also riddled with holes, although the power of the solid shells is indeed not great, but after almost a carriage is hit, it is not something that a cruiser of several hundred tons can withstand, and the speed of the Sea Eagle is dropping sharply.

"Forward!"

On the Sea Eagle that followed, Captain Feng Xuan roared, and the helmsman immediately turned the steering wheel in his hand, and the same teak cruiser turned around slightly and sailed rapidly past the right side of the Sea Eagle.

"Help me take care of my mother!"

Just when the two ships were in parallel, Feng Xuan shouted to Zhou He, who still had broken wood on his face.

The latter glanced at him, nodded silently, and then turned his head to speak, and the helmsman of the Sea Eagle immediately turned the steering wheel, and the cruiser, which was so badly wounded and in fact incapacitated, immediately turned to the left, cut out of the range of the Crusaders' merchant ships, and dragged its bruised body straight west to Sumatra, and the four Dutch frigates behind also turned, ready to pursue it.

Feng Xuan didn't bother with the Sea Eagle anymore, because at this time, the merchant ships in the bay full of infantry were in chaos, like a flock of sheep exposed to his claws.

"Tell the brothers, let's be loyal to the emperor today."

He took a deep breath and said to the first mate.

The latter saluted silently and turned to leave.

They are a one-way attack, a cruiser rushes twenty frigates and a hundred armed merchant ships, it is absolutely impossible to leave alive, Zhou He used the Sea Eagle as a meat shield to open a bloody road for them, in order to let the Sea Eagle be intact and attack these armed merchant ships full of infantry with full combat strength, the defenders of Malacca City have only one garrison, including the shore defense artillery, with a total strength of 3,000, if you really want to let these infantry all land, it is really difficult to say whether Qin Yan can hold it.

But in an attack at sea, if only four or five armed merchant ships could be sunk, the enemy's losses would be thousands.

"Fire, we're going to sink ten!"

Feng Xuan roared proudly.

The thirty-six fifteen-pound rifled guns on the Sea Eagle roared angrily at the densely packed armed merchant ships in front of them with extreme speed.

Coconut City.

The bells of the military port rang suddenly, and countless sailors rushed out of the cabin, out of the barracks, and out of the nearby hotel teahouse, rushing to their posts as fast as they could.

In the command cabin of the Kaiyuan, the flagship of the second squadron of the South Ocean Fleet, the commander of the fleet, Lin Hong, lay on the map with a solemn face and carefully measured it with a ruler, while on the deck outside, a large number of sailors were busy and busy, with huge sails constantly rising, boxes of supplies constantly being hoisted onto the ship through the crane next to them, and behind the battleship that captured the Dutch, the sailors on the other two battleships and six cruisers were also doing the same work.

News of the Dutch invasion had arrived in the city an hour earlier, and immediately after the Nanyang envoy Chen Tai had given the order for reinforcements, and he was about to lead this fleet to reinforce Malacca, which was being attacked.

"General, this is too risky, isn't it?"

The chief of staff beside him said cautiously.

"Adventure? No, as long as Qin Yan doesn't do stupid things, there won't be any danger, do you think that even the Dutch warships can still open those batteries guarded by eighty-pound guns? ”

Lin Hong said.

"But what if something happens?"

said the chief of staff.

"There is nothing to do, there is no risk in a war, as long as the harvest is big enough, the risk is worth it, order the fleet to set off immediately, the goal is ......"

Lin Hong patted the map on the table and said, "Sunda Strait!" ”

Well, this is the decision made by Chen Tai and him, not to go north directly for reinforcements, but to make a detour through Sumatra, from Banda Aceh to bypass this large island with a length of more than 3,000 miles from north to south, and then go south from the north mouth of the Strait of Malacca, which will take a long time, if you count the replenishment in Banda Aceh, it will take at least a month to reach Malacca, and it will only take ten days to go north directly.

But going straight north would only force the Dutch back at best.

And a detour to the north to the south can completely annihilate this huge fleet.

A month later, when Lin Hong's fleet entered the Strait of Malacca, the two battleships Dinghai and Zhenhai would also arrive in Malacca, the two battleships with 74 guns and two cruisers had just left Coconut City, and they were originally scheduled to sail to Jinzhou, and the patrol ships sent would catch up with them in Surabaya in five days at most, and then they would return north to Malacca, and one month was enough. At the same time, the four cruisers stationed in Cam Ranh Bay will also be ordered to go south to Malacca, which means that a month later, the Ming army will gather five battleships in the Strait of Malacca, the strength of a dozen cruisers, and flank the Dutch fleet from the north and south. And the Strait of Malacca is a long and narrow strait, only a hundred miles at the narrowest point, as long as Lin Hong's fleet holds the north entrance, then the Dutch have no way to escape, and when the main force of the Nanyang Fleet arrives in a month and a half at most, these invaders will be unable to escape.

The premise of this plan is ......

There were no prerequisites for this plan, even if the city of Malacca was captured, as long as the Dutch did not run away before Lin Hong's fleet arrived, they would be dead.

Of course, the best result is that Qin Yan can hold on to Malacca City.

But if he can't hold on, then he has to sacrifice, but this kind of thing must not be said to the outside world, compared with Qin Yan and his subordinates' three thousand defenders plus a few thousand civilians, the fleet of the Dutch is the most important thing for these generals, everyone is no longer pure children, for the sake of decisive victory, sometimes it is inevitable to deliberately sacrifice some people.

Immediately after receiving the order, the nine Ming warships in the port of Coconut City quickly sailed out, then turned west and then south straight through the Sunda Strait and then turned to the northwest, sailing at full speed along the offshore waters of Sumatra, aiming straight to the northernmost Banda Aceh.

And at this very moment, Admiral Bank was on his flagship looking at a messy bay and vomiting blood. (To be continued.) )