Four explosive bombs fell from the sky like meteors, crossed the southern waterway, and crashed into the city of Geranza, a fortress covering an area of nearly forty acres, but at this time it became an excellent rake.

With such a big target, Lu Fang and other artillerymen on the other side didn't bother much, so they smashed the cannonball into the castle.

Meteors fall into the castle, the delay fuse burns out, the gunpowder in the bomb ignites, explodes!

With a few loud bangs, the shell of the explosive bomb burst open, and hundreds of small lead bullets inside also burst out, like a metal storm, shattering everything in the vicinity into pieces.

At the mouth of the South Harbor in the southwest sea, Van Blonn, on the Batavia flagship, listened to the violent explosions and the fires that rose from time to time, and clenched his fists.

"Damn, why didn't they wait for us to start, they did it, now it's all exposed, Mingren must have been on guard."

"Sir, are we still going to raid the Ming fleet?"

Van Bulon clenched his fists, "Of course you have to fight, give the order, immediately attack the Ming fleet!" ”

The flagship of the Batavia set out with four other 74-gun four-masted two-gun deck battleships, followed by five fifty-gun four-masted merchant ships and six twenty-gun two-gun brigs. Although the fleet lost a large number of ships in Penghu, it was only small ships that were lost at that time, and the large ships lost three warships and five merchant ships.

If it weren't for the cowardly escape of the British later, which resulted in the loss of four more battleships, Van Bron would not have been so embarrassed.

But they still had four warships and five merchant ships, plus six clippers, thirteen ships and seven hundred and seventy cannons.

However, what annoyed Van Buron was that he was now understaffed on his ship, and their battleships originally had more guns, but they were not fully equipped with gunners, and many times they had to be helped by the ship's army. And with the help of sailors. But now the army on the ship is basically sent ashore.

Although there were many guns, they could not be fully utilized, and even if they maintained one side of the gunfire at the same time, they were not manpowered.

But tonight was the only chance, and he had to fight for it.

The fleet moved towards the north berth, and on one side it was already lined up in a long line, and began to fire on that side. The two berths in the north and south are not far apart.

The fleet of the Dutch moved. Zheng Zhilong also immediately found out, he had already sent a clipper to monitor the Dutch fleet. As soon as they moved, Zheng Zhilong knew their intentions.

"Line up the fleet and lean back on the tail island of the northern line, and let the island's artillery support." Zheng Zhilong knew that his fleet was not as big as the Dutch, and the artillery was not as large as theirs, but now they were backed by the northern line of the tail island, which had already been arranged with many artillery pieces.

Van Bronn led the fleet straight ahead, and the Batavia rushed to the front. The ship had three gun decks, and one hundred and four cannons, especially the thirty thirty-two-pounder cannons on its lower deck, were extremely powerful.

Relying on the strong artillery fire, they directly broke into the Ming fleet, the cannon sounded like thunder, and dozens of cannons on the side opened fire in turn, and the fire shone for half the sky. Soon sank three Ming army ships, in front of this giant Mac. The Fu Ship was not vulnerable at all, and it was directly shattered.

At this time, the wind at sea was fierce, the Dutch ships had many masts and sails, and the speed was extremely fast, and the Ming warships could not dodge, and they were connected and hit more than ten large and small ships. The Ming army's return fire did not cause much damage.

In particular, the guns on the Ming warships were placed relatively high, so that the artillery fire could often only hit the upper deck or sail of the enemy ship, even if it hit. It can't be fatal for a while.

And the Dutch warships, the more powerful the artillery, the lower the lower, especially their lower deck, the position is very low, a cannon fire, often hit near the waterline of the Ming ships, the cannon will not be broken will also sink into the water.

"Big brother, the Dutch have the wind, and the artillery is fierce, we can't beat them."

Zheng Zhibao looked at his ship sinking more than a dozen more, and he was very distressed.

Zheng Zhilong was still very calm, he watched the battlefield carefully, "Don't worry, although the Dutch are fierce, they have unknowingly approached the island, and we were only sunk by small boats." ”

"Big brother, let me lead this Fubo and those armed merchant ships to kill it."

"Nonsense, this is Hou Ye's flagship, how can he attack easily, in case of damage, how can he explain it?" Zheng Zhilong reprimanded the brother a few words, and then said, "Don't worry, since the Dutch are in a hurry to fight, then this initiative is actually still in our hands. Send some more boats and find an opportunity to get close to them, set them on fire, or blow them up with barrels of dynamite and sneak into the bottom of their ship to scuttle their ship. Let these Dutch know that the bigger the ship, the better, it is offshore, not on the ocean. ”

Zheng Zhibao sent more than 30 more ships, the Dutch fleet continued to rampage, the cannon roared like thunder, and the Ming warships also came and went, firing back and forth, and firing rockets, burning their sails.

The two sides fought for more than half an hour, and the Ming army successfully burned one of the Dutch armed merchant ships, and lost several more ships themselves.

It was at this time that the fierce wind suddenly stopped.

The wind goes out and the waves are flat.

The Dutch battleship, which was extremely fierce just now, slowed down, and Zheng Zhilong was overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately ordered the siege, and at the same time let the island's artillery that had been waiting for a long time start firing.

A cannon on Gate Island opened fire, and at the same time, Zheng Zhilong also personally led several Spanish ships of Liu Jun's Beiyang Fleet such as the Fubo to attack.

Dozens of Ming sailing ships approached with their oars, like wolves surrounding the tigers.

At this time, the Dutch army fell into Pingyang, and the dragon was trapped in the beach.

The Zheng army was given a great opportunity to practice what they were best at, which was to help them board the ship and melee combat when they were impressed at sea.

What the Dutch are best at is that they have many cannons, and when they fight, they have the upper hand, line up, and keep firing their guns from a long distance, taking advantage of the firing range. But now, they are trapped on the shore, there is no wind, they are approached by the small boats of the Ming army, and no matter how many cannons there are, they have become useless.

A few lighter sailing ships tried their best to protect the warship, but the guns on the shore were also quite fierce, and they quickly sank one, and the addition of several warships such as the Fubo also made the Ming army's firepower more and more fierce.

Suddenly, countless cheers rang out, and the marines on the Zhenhai were the first to approach the Batavia under artillery fire, and a rope hook was thrown up, and then the fierce Hydra began to climb the ship without hesitation.

"Brothers, this ship is ours, take him down and dedicate it to Hou Ye as a new flagship!" Now the original dog who has been given the name of Wang Qiang, has now become a hundred presidents. With a knife in his back, a short gun at his waist, and a large slingshot, he was desperately climbing up with his brothers.

He has been eyeing this giant ship for a long time, he has been a personal soldier by Liu Jun's side for a while, and later entered the training camp for a period of time, and now he has been promoted to the top 100. He always felt that the Hou Ye gave him all this, otherwise he would just be a small patrol archer.

Hou Ye likes giant ships and cannons, so he will take down the biggest ship for Hou Ye and give it to Hou Ye.

"This ship belongs to our Hou Ye, no one wants to rob it!" The kingdom is as strong as madness.

He was the first to jump on the bow of the ship, slash one of the sailors on deck, and then drew two short guns, one for one, and put down two more. Throwing aside the short gun after the shot, he pulled out his knife and continued to slash, which was a kung fu, and the brothers in the back finally jumped up.

The Batavia had more than 800 men at full capacity, and sometimes even hundreds of troops, capable of carrying thousands of troops. But at this time, not only had the army on the Batavia been transferred ashore a long time ago, but even the sailors were seriously insufficient, otherwise, Wang Guoqiang and they would not have boarded the ship so smoothly.

There were no army soldiers who specialized in close combat, and those sailors were no match for the Hydra soldiers.

Wang Guoqiang slashed a young red-haired man who looked to be only fifteen or sixteen years old to the ground with a knife, and rushed into the captain's room.

Van Brom was swinging a sword to fend off the attacks of several Hydras, holding on left and right, and was in a difficult situation. Zhang Guoqiang took out a large slingshot from his waist, took out a lead bullet and shot it at the red hair, the lead bullet hit Van Bronn's arm holding the sword, his hand was numb, the sword fell to the ground, and several knives immediately rested on his neck.

"Surrender and I won't kill you!" Wang Guoqiang said to Van Bronn, "Do you understand? ”

Van Bron nodded, "I'm a nobleman, you can't treat me like this, I demand treatment that is befitting my status." ”

When Wang Guoqiang heard that this old man could actually speak Chinese, he laughed, "As long as you order the crew to surrender, everything is easy to say." ”

Van Bronn was extremely sad and angry, but the knife in his throat was so cold that it was even dripping blood, and he didn't know whether the blood was his own or his own crew.

Such a real death threat made him nod helplessly.

"I surrender."

Van Buron surrendered, and the Dutch crew on deck who were still resisting soon surrendered, and then he sent men to the lower cabin to announce their surrender, and the others finally surrendered.

"Raise the flag of our nine-headed bird to the mast, the ship is ours."

Zheng Zhibao had also set his sights on the Batavia, but when he arrived with the ship, he found that the mast had been replaced with the logo of the nine-headed bird.

"Grass, these Chu barbarians, it's fast to grab things."

He was a little reluctant to get on board, but was confronted by a group of Hydra soldiers with firearms, openly claiming to him that it was the property of Hydra and that no one else was allowed to board the ship.

Zheng Zhibao almost turned his face, but in the end he took a boat with an ugly face.

He led his men to rush to the next Dutch battleship, only to find that the battleship was once again boarded by the Chu army, although the ship was still fighting. But these Chu troops refused to allow them to board the ship to help in the battle.

The third one was the same, until the fourth battleship was not preempted by the Chu army, Zheng Zhibao hurriedly took people on board the ship in person, and only after a fierce rush did he take the ship down. When he took the ship, the first thing he did was to immediately hang the flag of the South China Sea Fleet on the mast first, and leave a group of soldiers and horses for them to firmly guard the battleship, especially not to let the men of the Hydra come up. (To be continued......)