Sideluchistan was the new commander of the Dutch Formosa fleet, and his command was no small with eight warships and five armed merchant ships. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It should be said that his fleet is invincible in the Formosa Sea, Zheng Zhilong's warships have five hundred, but if the fireships are removed, Zheng Zhilong's fleet only has dozens of Galen merchant ships and Fuchuan modified warships, and it is not the opponent of this fleet, not to mention that Zheng Zhilong is busy with the big battle to unify the coastal areas of Fujian, and has no time to take care of anything else.

As long as the Dutch people in Formosa did not attack the coastal areas of Fujian, Zheng Zhilong tossed them around in Formosa.

As a result, the Formosa fleet became the hegemon of the Formosa seas, but now there are many Ming people who trade from Fujian and Guangdong to Taiwan, so in order to protect this smuggling route, the earlier practice of plundering maritime merchants is now strictly prohibited by the East India Company in Jakarta.

Today, the Formosa fleet was used to harass the fleets of the Spaniards and the Portuguese, as well as to maintain the smuggling route to the Ming Dynasty.

On this day, Sideluchi led three warships and an armed merchant ship to patrol the waters north of Formosa.

There is also a reason for choosing this area, because two years after the Dutch occupation of Tainan, the Spaniards captured the chicken coop in Taipei and expanded it to occupy a radius of more than 100 miles.

Of course, the Han people in the chicken coop area are scarce, mainly indigenous people, and the maritime trade routes are controlled by the Dutch people, and the maritime merchants and even some Japanese sea ships from all over the Ming Dynasty are trading with Dayuan, so there is almost no much income in the chicken coop area, mainly relying on Manila for supplies.

This means that the number of Spaniards staying here is not large, only 500 soldiers and more than 100 dependents, and the difference between the Netherlands and the thousands of water infantry garrisons and more than 500 families is too far away, and the most important thing is that there are three warships here, or small fast sailing ships, which are too far from the power of the Dutch people.

But. After all, the afterglow of the Spanish Empire is still there, and the Dutch people dare not take it lightly, and it is the norm to go north every time they go out to sea to patrol, and it is reassuring to see the actions of the Spaniards in the chicken coop from time to time.

This time, the four ships arrived at the city of San Salvador, the old nest of the Spaniards on the island outside the chicken coop, and seeing that the Spaniards were still half-dead in a few small boats, Sideluchi led the fleet to leave satisfied.

And Bodrow, the governor of the Spaniards, could only watch the other party come again and again blatantly to show off his might and was helpless. Without him, his poor warships could no match the Netherlands.

The four Dutch sea boats sailed north in a column, and the fishing boats of the natives were all hurriedly evaded on the way, which was all overlord-level can't say when to shoot the fishing boats, there was no purpose, it was just random shelling.

According to the plan, they always drove north from northern Taiwan for a day and night before stopping, and after the last night, they began to patrol south the next day. Until returning to the city of Geranza.

This fleet patrol was no exception, and it sailed along this route.

As in most previous situations, they did not encounter too many merchant ships, and of course the Ming merchant ships they encountered had to pay them hundreds of taels in tribute, otherwise they would sink into the sea, which was also an important source of income for the city of Geranza.

To put it bluntly, the city of Geranza today is mainly sustained by the taxes paid by the maritime merchants who trade here and the taxes collected at sea, and there is still the spare time to build ten sea ships. And maintained a military force of more than 1,000 people.

On that night, all the ships lowered their sails. I started to rest and recuperate, and I will start to return tomorrow, and overall, the small life is still good.

The next day it was only slightly bright, and Sidloch was woken up by his crew, who said only a word. There was an enemy situation ahead, and these words scared Sidluzhi out of his anger.

When Sideluch got dressed and came to the deck, he saw Captain Osim looking into the distance with a telescope, and when Sideluch looked there, he saw that two small soft-sailed ships were approaching the Dutch fleet from the northeast.

"The warship of the Ming people of the north." Take a look at this ship type. Hilluch was amazed.

"Yes and no," Osim said, with a helpless expression, "in the past it was said that they mostly flew the Portuguese flag, or the blue eagle-headed flag, but now they have changed to the red eagle-headed flag. ”

Sidluch did not politely take Osim's telescope and looked to the opposite side, there was still a distance of four or five miles, and it was not very real, but it was still clear that the sailors on the opposite side were all dressed as Ming people, not Portuguese.

"It's them, it's those Ming people, it seems that they have a caravan to pass through here again." Side Road Side.

Since the so-called Great General of the Wa issued a lockdown decree a year ago, all Portuguese and Spanish merchant ships passing through here to the Wa Kingdom have gradually stopped, which has also deprived the Dutch people of Formosa of the opportunity to make extra money.

However, two months ago, news came that tens of thousands of Ming people landed in the Wa Kingdom, and after a fierce battle and defeated the Japanese army, the Japanese generals were forced to withdraw the order to lock the country and allow the merchant ships of the Ming and Portuguese to go to the Wa Kingdom for maritime trade.

At that time, the newly arrived governor Vanderbilt was furious, and the general of the Wa Kingdom was a betrayal of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Siedluch still remembers Vanderbilt's furious roar, and to be honest, Vanderbilt was unlucky enough.

Although the previous governor Nitz lost a few warships, these losses were not worth mentioning compared to the fact that he drove the Portuguese and Spaniards out of the Japanese state, dominated the Japanese maritime trade, and brought the Netherlands an order of dozens of warships and 400 cannons.

Therefore, half a year ago, Nitz returned to Jakarta when he was promoted to director of the East India Company, and the new governor Vanderbilt was simply speechless as soon as he took office.

"It seems that there is a fleet of Aketo in the back." Sidluchi lowered his telescope.

"It must be so, sir, do you tell the ships to prepare for battle?" Osim asked.

"Tell the gentlemen, that a big fish has taken the bait." Sidluch laughed.

Three warships and one merchant ship could fight any merchant convoy's escorted warship, and Osim laughed and gave the order.

Just as the Dutch ships began to prepare for battle under the command of the flag, one of the Akito's ships in front of them suddenly began to turn, it drew a graceful arc, and then began to sail north.

"Every time I see a ship like this, I have to say that this is God's handiwork, look, it's so fast, it's too beautiful."

Sidluch watched enviously as the low clipper sailed away towards Osim, who had returned.

"Yes, if we had such a sea ship with Jakarta, it wouldn't take two months to get there."

Osim chimed in.

As old sailors, they especially yearn for extremely fast sea ships, without him, their lives are tossed by slow sea ships, and they feel that their life at sea is particularly long and boring.

The four ships were heading north, and the Ming ship was sailing four or five miles away, and Sidroad did not care, this ship was very fast, but its combat power was insignificant.

After a while, the distant sky was filled with sail shadows, and the mainsails of several ships began to appear there.

The two sides began to approach, and when the two sides approached six or seven miles, Sideroech found that the other side was five smaller warships and merchant ships of more than 200 tons.

Sideluchi didn't care too much about this point, although it shows that the power of the man's cannon is not small, but the power of the cannon on the small ship is still worse.

The three warships he commanded, two were the 500-ton battleship Lance and Jonke, and the 300-ton battleship Haifen, the first two battleships were also the main warships in Jakarta.

Because of the ferocity of the Ming people's artillery, Formosa, who was on the front line of the border with them, only got these two huge ships, of course, the big business that Nitz got at that time was the key, otherwise these two huge ships would never have come to the deserted place of Formosa.

The Reims and Jonk were Dutch battleships of pure blood, with forty nine-, twelve, eighteen-pounder, and twenty-six cannons in their round hulls, and eight cannons on the deck, which was very powerful, and in order to cope with the Ming people's cannons, they specially reinforced the ship's planks, although it made the ship look a little bulkier and its speed was reduced, but it was extremely strong.

With such attack power and protection, ordinary opponents don't pay attention to them, not to mention that there are only five small warships on the opposite side.

The four warships continued to advance forward, and when the bows of both sides approached the four miles, the Akito warship suddenly began to turn westward.

Seeming to be invincible, Sidluch sneered, and ordered the ships to turn in pursuit of them.

It's a pity that these Ming warships are much faster than their warships.

The Reims and other warships pursued for a while, and the distance between the two sides did not close, but became farther away.

Hildroch and Osim scolded the damned Dutch ships for their speed, complaining to each other about their usual disgust at it.

The round hulls of the Dutch warships made them large and capable, and the cargo capacity was greatly increased, and at the same time, the seaworthiness of the ships was much better, and the ride was relatively comfortable, but the speed of the pit father was really not the first choice for the warship.

The five Ming warships escaped the pursuit of the Dutch warships and began to turn south again.

And the four Dutch battleships could only chase after them weakly.

When the distance between the two sides was stretched to seven or eight miles, the speed of the Ming warship suddenly slowed down, and the distance between the same Dutch warship no longer increased.

Sideluch and Osim were puzzled, why didn't these Ming men flee when they made a name for themselves and made it clear that they were defeated by their warships.

At this moment, a terrible shout came from the highest part of their warship, battleships, countless battleships.

Sideluch and Osim looked back and saw that the sails were covered with sails on the northern sea level, and they were immediately stunned. (To be continued.) )

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