With an order, the three Fu ships immediately dispersed and approached the Dutch fleet under the command of Su Buheng and the other two captains.

Although the Dutch were very embarrassed by the previous shelling and rocket bombardment, they did not lose their fighting spirit, except for the Batavia, which had a mast blown off, and the battleship that had been blown out of five or six holes, the sailors on the other two battleships reacted quickly, extinguished the fire, and urgently repaired the sails.

Without waiting for Van der Win's order, the other enraged captains directed the warships and armed merchant ships towards the three abominable ships.

In this era of chaotic command, the captain has a very high autonomy surname, and the experienced captain also becomes an important factor in the success or failure of the battle.

The two Dutch warships that were still able to move swooped down with great momentum, and the speed was obviously better than that of the three Fukun ships of the First Fleet, while the other five armed merchant ships, because they were full of cargo, were obviously not as fast as the Fukufu ships converted into warships.

When the two sides were 600 meters apart, an artillery battle broke out again, and Qi Jiguang made a turn, and the side guns directly shelled a Dutch warship that was rushing in.

Two grenades hit the battleship, one of which exploded directly above deck, sweeping down the Dutch soldiers on deck.

But the battleship did not lose its combat capability, but continued to approach the Qi Jiguang. Zhang Hang, the captain of the Qi Jiguang, immediately ordered to retreat, wanting to retreat beyond the range of the enemy ship's cannons.

However, this intention was bankrupt because the speed was too slow, and soon Qi Jiguang was bitten by the Dutch battleship, Zhang Hang had to stop, and the two sides were only three hundred meters apart, and there was an artillery battle side by side.

The Dutch battleship, though not as large as the Batavia, also had forty guns on its side, twenty of which were large-caliber heavy guns.

The Dutch gunners finally fired their first shots in a fit of rage, with more than a dozen shells hitting the hull of the Qi Jiguang and four shells hitting the deck, causing five or six casualties among the sailors.

However, because it was a solid bullet, it did not cause much damage to Fufune.

Qi Jiguang immediately launched a counterattack, and a total of 27 guns of 165 mm cannons, 125 mm cannons, and 75 mm cannons roared in unison, and all 27 shells were hit, and the distance of 300 meters was easy for the artillery to hit the target.

The shells smashed the Dutch warship to pieces, most of which hit the deck of the Dutch warship, which was briefly covered with shrapnel from grenades, and some of the shells entered the lower cabins from the decks, causing explosions in the holds.

After the explosion, more than half of the Dutch soldiers on deck were killed or wounded, but their nightmare was far from over. I saw that the rocketeers on the Qi Jiguang were constantly firing rockets at the warship.

Several musketeers even grabbed the wooden pole of the rocket and held the fire fold at the enemy ship on the opposite side, but after the rocket whizzed, the musketeer held it in his hand and did not release the rocket until two seconds later. The rocket flew directly over the Dutch warship, exploded in mid-air with a bang, and shrapnel raged over the Dutch warship, sweeping several Dutch soldiers to the ground.

However, not all soldiers have the courage to do that, and most soldiers can only rely on launchers, after all, it is too difficult to control the launch in hand.

The front mast of the warship was directly blown off by a cannonball, and it was ignited by a rocket, Zhang Hang saw that the situation was not good, and quickly stopped the soldiers who wanted to continue firing rockets.

The sails of the Dutch warship were set on fire, and he was paralyzed in place, unable to move.

Things were worse on the Yue Fei's side, where the captain of the Yue Fei was bitten by another Dutch warship and besieged by two armed merchant ships.

And Su Buheng's flagship was attacking the other three armed merchant ships, and it could also be said that he was besieged by those three armed merchant ships, but because of the faster speed, he obviously took the initiative, and Zhang Hang hurriedly commanded the crew to rush to support Yue Fei.

Yue Fei was besieged by a warship and two armed merchant ships, but it was not at a disadvantage, Yue Fei suddenly turned around and pierced its head, pulled on the full sail, and directly crashed into the Dutch warship and an armed merchant ship, the Dutch warship and the armed merchant ship quickly turned and penetrated, and the three ships were facing each other on the side, and the distance was only more than ten meters.

The hard-to-hard artillery battle soon began, and the shells sent sawdust to the hull, but the tragedy of the Dutch was repeated.

In the time that the Dutch fired one shell, the Yue Fei fired four shells, and after the Dutch warship fired one shell, it was shelled four times face to face.

The distance between the two sides was only more than ten meters, and there was no problem with the hit rate at all, and after the four guns, nearly half of the Dutch gunners were directly killed in the cabin by the shells fired by the Yue Fei, but there were also casualties on the Yue Fei, and most of the casualties were the soldiers on the deck.

The soldiers inside the hull were still safe and sound, after all, even if the solid bullet penetrated the hull, it would not have much lethality, which is why the naval battles in this era could even last seven or eight hours.

However, the grenades used by the First Fleet changed this phenomenon, and each shell hit could cause massive damage to enemy ships.

Another armed merchant ship approached the head of Qi Ji at this time, forming a T-shape on Qi Jiguang, and the armed merchant ship carried out an artillery bombardment on the Yue Fei, and the gunner on the bow of the Yue Fei was killed directly in this shelling, and the main sail of the Yue Fei was hit by a chain bullet and lost the ability to move.

At this time, Qi Jiguang arrived and launched a fierce artillery bombardment on the armed merchant ship. But soon, the Batavia and the leaky warship arrived and laid siege to Qi Jiguang.

Su Buheng's Wei Qing was maneuvering with the three armed merchant ships, and had successfully destroyed the sails of the two armed merchant ships, Su Buheng abandoned the remaining armed merchant ships, and hurriedly rushed to support Yue Feihao and Qi Jiguang.

The scene was chaotic, even out of control, and it was completely hard-hitting.

However, the Dutch artillery fired one shell, and the artillery of the First Fleet fired four shells, and at this time, Yue Fei and Qi Jiguang completely abandoned their tactics.

Although it was three warships and three armed merchant ships that besieged the three ships of the First Fleet, they suppressed the Dutch to the death.

Wherever artillery is still firing back, the shells of the First Fleet will hit. The Dutch, both the captain and the crew, felt a chill.

In the twenty-third minute, the Prins, who was besieging Yue Fei, disintegrated and sank directly in the fire under the wandering blows of the Wei Qing and the continuous blows of the Yue Fei.

The sinking of the Prins made the Dutch fleet completely lose its fighting spirit, and the Batavia dragged the completely paralyzed and scarred hull of the ship, and slowly tried to escape, but the speed was really flattering, and the foremast and mainmast were blown off, barely driven by the rear mast.

Wen Bangliang immediately discovered the intention of the Batavia, and immediately reminded Su Buheng, Su Buheng hurriedly turned the bow of the ship, aimed at the sail of the Batavia and fired a round of cannonballs, after the shell bombardment, the Batavia was completely paralyzed.

The Dutch on other Dutch warships couldn't help but scold on the ship when they saw that Van Dewen wanted to run, but they couldn't run if they wanted to, their sails had already been destroyed by Su Buheng, and at the same time, the sails of Yue Fei and Qi Jiguang were also destroyed, and only Wei Qing was left on the field to maintain normal speed.

In order not to let the cooked ducks fly, Su Buheng began to strike the sails of the Dutch warship one by one.

In the thirty-fifth minute, the three armed merchant ships raised the white flag, and the Pedremoth also raised the white flag, the artillery battle finally slowly stopped, and the dense gunpowder smoke that filled the sea finally gradually dispersed, Su Buheng waved the flag and ordered Yue Fei and Qi Jiguang to withdraw from the battle and repair the sails.

Then Su Buheng began to deal with the Batavia, the Batavia had completely lost the ability to fight back, Su Buheng directly docked, and the sailors on the Weiqing directly boarded the Batavia.

Upon boarding the Batavia, the sailors saw a terrible scene, littered with Dutch corpses, some torn apart by shells, and splattered with flesh and blood.

When the remaining Dutch sailors saw the logged Weiqing sailors, they lost their fighting spirit and had no choice but to surrender obediently. Batavia is 48.8 meters high, 11 meters wide, has a draft of 5.3 meters, has 46 guns, and has a displacement of more than 1,200 tons, which is twice the displacement of the Fuku.

The ship has the main feature of a Dutch ship, namely its two-layer hull, which is why the Batavia was hit hard but did not sink.

The ship ran aground off the west coast of Australia in 1629 and was eventually towed out.

Van der Ven was picked up in the cabin, and when the guy saw the grenade's great destructive power, he hid in the cabin, and the battle was left to his lieutenant.

As a result, his lieutenant was killed in the battle, and he sent another of his men up to direct the battle, only to be killed again, and finally decided to run away.

Taking control of the Batavia, the Wei Qing turned to pursue the merchant ships laden with goods, and the rest of the endgame was cleared by Yue Fei and Qi Jiguang.

…… On the sixth day of the sixth month of June, Yue Fei and Qi Jiguang, who had been at sea for three days, returned to Qingdao Port with eight captured warships.

Of the eight ships captured, the Batavia was the largest with a displacement of 1,200 tons, followed by the Pedremoth with a displacement of 1,000 tons, and finally the Blothwick with a displacement of 900 tons.

These three warships are all three-masted warships, and they are much more difficult to ship than Fuship, but the tonnage is very large. The other five armed merchant ships also had a displacement ranging from 1,000 tons to 700 tons, but they were mainly used to transport goods, and like the Fu ships, they were not specifically designed to fight.

But for Zhao Yan, who lacked warships, these armed merchant ships had to be refitted, and the surname Neng could be better than the Fu ship, and the disadvantage of the Fu ship was that the speed was too slow, and the speed of these five cargo ships was obviously faster than the Fu ship.

In addition to the warships, the armed merchant ship and the other three warships also carried nearly two million taels of cargo inside, although this naval battle did not capture all the merchant ships, but the Dutch fleet, the valuable goods were concentrated in these five armed merchant ships, and some of the warships were also loaded.

Su Buheng drove the Wei Qing to pursue the other four fleeing merchant ships, and he had not yet returned.

(To be continued)