The first touch of fish belly white was revealed in the east, and the naval battle had come to a complete end.

After a night of fierce fighting, the Dutch were completely annihilated, fifteen warships, one was burned, one was sunk by cannonballs, and the rest were surrounded by the Ming fleet because of the sudden wind stop, and after a broadside battle, the under-armed Dutch fleet was all captured.

On the Northern Front, a company of 300 Dutch soldiers led by Thomas failed to destroy the fort or escape back to the city of Gelan, and after suffering more than 200 casualties, the rest surrendered.

It was a big win.

But Zheng Zhibao was not happy, he looked at his eldest brother angrily.

"Big brother, you have to say something, those nine-headed birds are too deceitful, this naval battle is commanded by you, and it is our people who charge into battle, but in the end, the benefits are all taken away by them. Damn, four big ships, they robbed three. Of the five armed merchant ships, they also robbed three, and the remaining four brigs, they also robbed two. Damn, Lao Tzu wants to ask who won this naval battle. ”

"Bastard, what they are, we are not all the army of the Ming Dynasty. Who commanded this battle? Of course, it was the overall planning of the Marquis of Zhennan, and the assistant command of Admiral Xiong and me. As for the soldiers of the naval battle, they are not only the soldiers of our South China Sea and East China Sea Fleet, but also the Yangtze River Naval Division and the Beiyang Naval Division, and even the officers and men of Fujian, Guangdong, and Zhejiang. Zheng Zhilong slapped his palm on the table, and the shocked teacup jumped.

In fact, when he learned that the Hydra had seized most of the ships, he was also quite angry in his heart. Especially when I learned that there were four big warships, and the nine-headed bird grabbed three. But he soon calmed down, although he commanded this battle, but the Chu army also participated in the battle, and even if Liu Jun had not transferred the second fleet from the coast, they would not have been able to fight this battle with the Dutch.

Besides, Liu Jun is a Qincha. Is it the emperor's righteous son, or the Marquis of Zhennan, what does he have to say about the battleships that his soldiers captured on the battlefield with their ability. If you want to blame, you can only blame yourself for not having the ability, and the meat in your mouth was robbed by others.

Moreover, Liu Jun's relationship in the DPRK and China, as well as the strength of the nine-headed bird under his command, deeply made Zheng Zhilong jealous. The longer he was in contact, the more he realized Liu Jun's strength. There is no need to turn his face with Liu Jun for a few boats.

The Nine-Headed Bird had already set aside the eight ships they had captured. Eight ships, including the Fubo and Zhenhai, also sailed to one place, and these ships were all under the flags of the Nine-Headed Bird and the Beiyang Naval Division.

Zheng Zhilong had moved to the newly captured battleship Victor, which he renamed Jianwei.

This time, the Ming army's naval division also suffered heavy losses, losing nearly 30 large and small ships and killing hundreds of people.

But when he boarded the Victor, he was excited.

This Victor is a 74-gun battleship with a four-masted double-deck gun, although it has a few fewer guns than Liu Jun's Fubo, and the ship is not that long, it is still much larger than the original Zheng Jun's three-masted gunboat. It turned out that the Zheng Jun's three-masted gunboat could be regarded as an eight-gun battleship at most. Although it was larger than the Dutch brigs, its firepower was inferior.

Now, he finally has a Western deck ship, although it is still far from the Batavia captured by Liu Jun's men. The ship had one hundred and four guns on its four-masted three-tier gun deck, and it was more than seventy meters long.

It's not dawn yet. Liu Jun had already received a good report of the naval battle, and at the same time learned that the northern line of Tail Island defeated a sneak attack by a Dutch army, killing more than 200. Nearly a hundred prisoners.

After daybreak, Debaul in the city of Gelanja also learned the outcome of last night's battle.

Liu Jun sent a prisoner of war into the city to inform them of the results.

When he heard that more than 200 people were killed and the rest were captured, and although the fleet led by Van Bronn sank more than 30 ships of the Ming army, he himself sank two ships, and the rest were captured, and even Van Bronn became a prisoner, he was extremely desperate.

Now, he only had one city left, the city of Gelan, and the fort of Utrecht to the east, and there were only more than 2,000 people and more than 1,000 soldiers left in the two castles.

How do you keep this?

The city was formerly known as Orange City, and in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, it was renamed the city of Relan, and the Han people often called it Taiwan City.

The castle was built on Dayuan Island, which covers an area of about 40 acres, with a length and width of nearly 200 meters. To the southeast is the town of Dayuan, which together with the town is called Dayuan, which was the political, economic, and military center of the Dutch East India Company in Taiwan. Since Dayuan is the most prosperous place in Taiwan at this time, Dayuan is often used as a synonym for Taiwan.

The city is a typical modern European fortress, surrounded by moats, sloped earthen embankments as the base, red bricks as the walls, with sugar water, glutinous rice, oyster shell ash, sand pounded and sticked. The inner city is square and has two floors. The length and width are 115 meters, the wall is about 9 meters high, 1.2 meters thick, and the four-corner fortress is 1.8 meters thick. The basement is a warehouse, which is used to store ammunition, food and sundries, and the upper floor is equipped with the governor's office, a church, a lookout, a soldier's barracks and other facilities. The four corners of the outer city are rectangular in shape, 160 meters long and 77 meters wide, slightly lower than the inner city, and there are public buildings such as dormitories for the chief and staff, offices, conference halls, hospitals, warehouses, etc.

Such a castle, with a thousand garrisons, could have resisted a siege of 10,000 people for half a year or even a year.

But now Debaul does not have such confidence, because although Dayuan is an island, there is a northern line tail island in the north, and Taiwan Island in the south, and now the Sicao Sea Fort on the north line tail island and the red embedded city on the south island have fallen into the hands of the Ming army, and the fleet has also been captured by the Ming army, and now the Dayuan has become a real island.

The Ming army was besieged on all sides, especially since they had a large number of artillery.

In terms of defense, there are two fortresses and a half-moon fort in the outer city, and four fortresses and three half-moon forts in the inner city, and there are three city defense guns on each fortress, with a total of thirty cannons, which can be used to exert firepower along the side and side of the wall.

Thirty cannons combined with this extremely defensive fortress should have been as strong as a rock, but now the Ming army has thousands of cannons, many of which are 32 pounds, 24 pounds, 18 pounds and other artillery that are extremely threatening to the castle.

In particular, the Ming army also has an extremely strong siege mortar, and last night the Ming army fired about 100 shells from the battery of the southern artillery on the southern part of the northern line to the city of Relanjia. More than forty of them were hit in Debaul's office, and they razed it to rubble.

Last night, the Dutch in the city were killed by shells more than a hundred people and wounded more than two hundred.

The situation is extremely grim and extremely desperate.

The Ming army was still persuading Debaur to surrender the city so as not to increase casualties.

Debaul had been thinking about it and was hesitating. But by the afternoon, the 300 defenders of Bautlercht had surrendered. The castle was the guard of the city of Gelan, and the two cities were not far apart, but the castle occupied a high hill. When the Wubao is lost, then the Ming army can directly put the cannon on the Wubao Castle, condescendingly open fire at the city of Relan, and shell the fort.

At dusk, Debaul convened a meeting of the citizens to discuss whether to fight or surrender, and the vast majority of the citizens agreed to surrender.

"Then surrender." Debaul sighed helplessly. He sent people out of the city to offer Liu Jun to surrender, but with additional requirements, after he asked for surrender, Liu Jun returned the captured ships to them and asked them to leave with their company and private property.

"I can treat you as the Spaniards surrendered."

The messenger brought back the reply of the Ming army, and Debaul let out a long sigh. The terms of the Spaniards' surrender were not good, and all the Spaniards in Taiwan became prisoners of Liu Jun, and their property was confiscated.

He hesitated, and if he agreed to this condition, he would become a prisoner of the Ming army. But if they don't, they may be shelled to death.

"Ultimatum, if you don't surrender before dark, the Ming army will raze the city of Gelan with artillery fire!"

Later, Debaul finally ordered Kaesong to surrender.

The castle door opened, and Debaul finally came out of the city with more than 2,000 people in the city.

The Ming army held a surrender ceremony, in which Liu Jun accepted the sword presented by Debaul, and Xiong Wencan, He Tengjiao, Zheng Zhilong and others respectively accepted the roster, map, and ledger of stored materials.

For these Dutch, Liu Jun did not give them more preferential treatment than the Spaniards, and all of them became prisoners of the Ming army.

Liu Jun released all the Chinese maritime merchants who had been seized by the Dutch, and then selected a few Dutch to give them a boat to return to Batavia to deliver a message to the East India Company.

In the letter, Liu Jun wrote about the battle of the Ming Dynasty to recover the Netherlands, and also showed them that the Ming Dynasty was willing to trade with the Netherlands. But everything must be in accordance with the rules of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Jun demanded 20 million taels of silver from the Netherlands for the war indemnity and all the expenses for the Dutch to occupy Taiwan, the captive of the coastal people of the Ming Dynasty, and their redemption of hostages.

In his letter, he told them that the Ming was willing to trade with the Dutch, and that the Ming was not afraid of war with the Dutch. The Dutch lost a hundred warships in Penghu and Dayuan this time, and if they still dared to come, how many were destroyed by Daming. If they are willing to pay the ransom and pass the market, then send someone to negotiate with the big people.

"Will the Dutch accept it?"

"We are asking for a price, and the Dutch can also pay it back on the ground. But in any case, after this battle, the strength of the Dutch in the East Indies was greatly reduced, and they were unable to make any major moves in the short term. They will either honestly pay reparations and trade with each other, or they will completely abandon the trade markets of China and Japan. I think that the markets in China and Japan are so large that the Dutch will not be willing to give up. What's more, we also offered to trade with them this time, even if we have to lose some money for this, I guess the Dutch are willing to talk about it. As for whether it can be negotiated, we will talk about it at that time, and I believe that when the Dutch realize our strength, they will not come nonsense. The Dutch, in fact, are a group of businessmen. ”

Liu Jun said to Zheng Zhilong with a smile. (To be continued......)

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