On the third day of June, the sea in the western Pacific Ocean was very calm, and it was a beautiful day, and the sailors were bored fishing on the deck.

Su Buheng held a Jinchang fish with a tong, roasted it on the iron plate, and said to Wen Bangliang on the side: "I hope I can have a harvest today." ”

"It's like we're netting fish where the fish have to go, and the fish will always come." Wen Bangliang was not worried at all, although the fleet did not find anything on this route two days ago, but in Wen Bangliang's experience, there are at least hundreds of cargo ships passing through this route every year, and this season is the peak season.

At this moment, a small black dot suddenly appeared in the distance. The sailors on the lookout immediately reported: "Report to the commander, the reconnaissance ship has returned." ”

Su Buheng's spirit was shocked, and he hurriedly picked up the telescope and looked at the sea. Sure enough, I saw the clipper boat that had been scattered out in the morning, and it was approaching this direction.

When the flying clipper went out to investigate, if nothing was found, it usually did not return until shortly before the fall, Su Buheng hurriedly turned around and ordered: "All in place." ”

The speed of the clippers was very fast, and in less than ten minutes they were connected with the fleet, and they brought a piece of news that made people hesitate.

To the south, they found a large fleet of Hongyi ships, with a total of thirteen ships. Among them were four warships, five armed merchant ships.

And Su Buheng only has three refitted Fu ships, which are not proportional to the number at all.

…… Van der Van was one of the fleet commanders of the Dutch company Batavia, and he had recently received orders from the Taiwanese governor, Hansputmans, to lead four warships to escort the fleet to the city for trade.

A hateful competitor arose off the coast of China, Zheng Yiguan, who had served as an interpreter in their fleet and was at war with the Chinese side at the time, so the interpreter was of little use and was sent out to plunder Chinese merchant ships.

Later, Zheng Yiguan became a general in China, which had a huge impact on the company's interests, and last year their comprador Liu Xiang was also exterminated by Zheng Yiguan, so the company had to cooperate with Zheng Yiguan, and Zheng Zhilong helped him comprador Chinese goods.

According to the agreement, Zheng Yiguan's goods should be transferred by the company to Yueben, but Zheng Yiguan did not abide by this agreement, but sent pirates everywhere to intercept their merchant ships to Yueben, and at the same time continued to send merchant ships to Yueben.

The fleet carried a large amount of goods, including cane sugar, spices, rhino horn, herbs, raw silk, cloth, deer skin, venison, antlers, etc., with a value of more than 3 million taels.

The profit of the company's trade accounts for the first place among the company's thirteen guilds, while Taiwan ranks second. In response to Zheng Yiguan's shameless behavior, the company had to send more warships to escort the merchant ships.

Van Dewen did encounter Zheng Yiguan's armed ships on the road, but he didn't dare to offend them when he saw their huge fleet, and the road drove very calmly for three days.

Early this morning, an incredibly fast sailboat approached their fleet. I saw that the sailing ship had left immediately after the flotilla had circled around the fleet.

"Oh my God, what kind of ship is this! How could it be so fast. Van Dewen looked at the sailboat in astonishment, and at the same time a voice kept echoing in his heart: We must capture that sailboat!

When he gave the order to pursue, the adjutant below regretfully told him: "Sir, with our speed, even the fastest ship cannot catch up with it. ”

Van Dewen was depressed and had to give up the idea of pursuit, but he still remembered the extremely fast sailing ship in his heart.

"Sir, that sailboat is flying the flag of Akito."

"Could it be that a new sailboat made by Akito?" Fan Dewen pondered for a while and asked, "Could it be a sailboat made by Zheng Yiguan?" ”

"Probably not! Zheng Yiguan does not use the banner of their political axe. The adjutant replied, and then continued, "We can send men to gather intelligence in the Akito's country, and then attack their harbor to capture this kind of sailing ship of theirs." ”

"Hmmm! That's right. Van der Veen glanced appreciatively at his lieutenant.

At this moment, the sailor who was on the lookout suddenly shouted: "The ship has been found ahead......"

Fan Dewen hurriedly picked up the binoculars and looked at the black dots in the distance. I saw that they were three lucky ships built by the Ming people, and they were heading towards them at full sail speed.

On those three lucky boats, there was the same moon flag that I had just seen.

"What are they going to do? Did you send it to us to capture? Van der Van frowned and asked, "Or do you want to attack us?" ”

"I don't know." The adjutant shook his head in confusion and guessed, "They may be trying to write supplies to us!" ”

"It's not funny at all, unless their brains are smashed by a donkey." Van der Wen looked at the three lucky ships that were approaching in the distance like a clown.

"They had a shallow draft, it is estimated that there was no cargo loaded, and there were no artillery on board."

"Since it's the fat meat sent to the door, how can you let it go, lean over to me, and capture their ship." As soon as Fan Dewen gave the order, the three double-decker frigates and five armed merchant ships immediately broke away from the fleet and docked towards the three Ming people's lucky ships.

At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, Su Buheng and the Dutch fleet met in the western Pacific Ocean...... Van Dewen was very arrogant, unguarded and commanded the battleships to approach the three battleships of the First Fleet, but he didn't know that it was a sheep's mouth, and when the two sides were a thousand meters apart, the First Fleet suddenly pushed out the guns hidden in the cabin.

The other side has cannons!

Fan Dewen was shocked in his heart, and then showed a contemptuous smile, even if there is a cannon, what if there is a cannon, Mingren's cannon is like a toy, and the power is pitiful.

The company's soldiers, one can beat 15 Chinese soldiers. In the Battle of Penghu, the Fujian Navy besieged Penghu for August, which made the Dutch full of confidence.

......Commander, there is only a kilometer between the two sides. The rangefinder reported.

"Battle formation, command rocket crews to cover the strike, artillery aimed at enemy ships sail shelling." Su Buheng ordered, and the flag bearer immediately waved the flag to the other two warships.

Flag language was a form of herald that had not yet existed in this era, but command on the battlefield was still somewhat difficult, and the smoke of gunpowder often obscured the view.

The musketeers on the deck had already assisted the rocketeers in loading the rockets onto the launchers, "one thousand meters, 23 degrees angle......" With the rangefinder's order, the rocketeers quickly corrected the angle of the launcher and aimed the direction at the approaching Dutch battleship.

"Ignition!"

"Woo Woo Woo ......"

A terrible whistling sound streaked across the sky, and the Dutch, a thousand meters away, saw something unbelievable to them. I saw rockets with orange tail flames shooting towards them, and rockets continued to rise into the air...... A rocket fell directly on Van der Win's flagship 'Batavia', the rocket hit the deck and then began to jump, the nearby sailors were not frightened to jump on their feet, but they didn't know what to do for a while, in the sound of the sound suddenly 'boom' exploded, several sailors around who had no time to dodge were directly blown to the ground, blood flowed on the deck, the explosion also ignited the deck, two or three of them did not die, fell on the deck and let out a terrible howl.

Three hundred rockets continued to rise into the air, and soon four Dutch warships and five armed merchant ships were hit by half, and the worst was the Batavia, which was directly hit by six.

All the other rockets were shot into the sea, and the sound of 'Gong Gong Gong' was constantly heard from the surface of the sea.

The Dutch were blown up by this sudden rocket bombardment, and after the explosion, a fire broke out directly on a warship, although the Batavia was hit by more than a dozen rockets, the fire was destroyed in time, but the ship became a mess, and the rope of the mainsail was directly burned.

The white sails were whistling in the sea breeze like a woman's panties hanging on a hanger to dry, mixed with the wails of sailors who had fallen on the deck.

Su Buheng saw this effect through the telescope, and couldn't help but be very satisfied, the fleet's rocket soldiers were getting better and better at grasping the accuracy.

At this time, the artillery also aimed at the Dutch battleship, and Su Buheng's flagship 'Wei Qing' took the lead in firing, and 22 heavy guns aimed at the Batavia and made a violent cannon sound.

"Fight back, return the ......" Van der Ven threw himself on the deck in embarrassment, and roared angrily as he was blown up by the rockets of the First Fleet, but before his words could fall, there was a fierce cannon sound from the three lucky ships that were originally lambs in the distance.

Twenty-two balls of light roared from the sky, and a cannonball hit the tail mast of the Batavia, which was directly blown off. Two shells also missed their target and crashed into the hull of the Batavia's ship's side, and after two explosions, the Batavia's side was blown out of two large holes and caused a fire inside.

Only three shots were hit, and the other shells went into the water, but these three grenades caused great damage to the Batavia, and the scrapping of the mainsail and aft sail made the Batavia as slow as a snail.

Su Buheng immediately asked people to raise the flag and give up the shelling of the Batavia. The other two warships, 'Yue Fei' and 'Qi Jiguang', also launched an artillery bombardment on the Dutch fleet in the distance at this time.

The artillery on the Yue Fei was so accurate that five shells hit the hull of one of the three-masted battleships, knocking the Dutch battleship into the water.

The Dutch were directly blinded at a distance of a thousand meters, and two warships and one armed merchant ship were directly incapacitated. They couldn't figure out why the three Akito warships on the opposite side fired shells so accurately.

In the naval battles of this era, the artillery battles were generally within 400 meters, because the accuracy of the smoothbore guns was too poor, and sometimes the artillery battles between the two sides were even only a few tens of meters apart.

The first round of shelling received such remarkable results, and Su Buheng's courage suddenly became bigger, "Order, artillery bombardment will be carried out 600 meters away, mainly prisoners, and free shelling." ”

(To be continued)