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In view of the arrival of the typhoon season, the Dutch, who were unwilling to delay in Quanzhou Port, finally lost their patience, so in the early morning of 18 June, two Dutch ships loaded with silk, tea, and porcelain left Quanzhou Port and quietly sailed in the direction of Nagasaki. (The first text is published in the reading room biquge.info)

The Dutch were very shrewd in their calculations, and they chose to go north to Nagasaki instead of Batavia in the south, on the one hand, because they could make excess profits from the entrepot trade, and on the other hand, they also made a false shot to ensure that they would not be intercepted by the Zheng army when they went south, and of course they could also encounter the main force of the Zheng army when they went north, but at this time, the south wind prevailed, and the Dutch naturally thought that their ships were fast and could easily get rid of the pursuit of Zheng army.

"Sir!" However, the Dutch had made a mistake in their calculations, and before they had crossed the Nanri Islands south of Haitan, two Dutch ships were discovered by the newly built Thousand Feed Messenger Warrior. "Look, there's a brig following our ship all the time!"

"Red and blue, damn it, it should be the Zheng family's ship." Now the mark of Zheng Jun's sailor has also been passed through the merchant ships of various countries traveling to and from Penghu, so the merchant on board naturally ordered it. "Let the Neptune sink it!" After receiving the order, the 18-gun informed ship Neptune immediately turned around and forced into the Warrior after making a circle, but the Warrior did not intend to meet the other side, and also turned the rudder and sailed away in the direction of Taiwan. "Damn, they're going to report it." The clerk shouted hysterically. "Mr. Captain, how much time will we have to get to Nagasaki?"

"Your Excellency, the other party should not have found an accomplice so quickly, and we still have a chance to cross the strait." The captain of the Vostok, Huo? Encha's words made the salesman's face relax, but the next sentence made him almost jump. "But Your Excellency, our ship is too sinking, why don't you drop some supplies to speed up?"

"Dumping cargo on board? My God, Mr. Captain, do you not know how much these fine silks and porcelain are worth? "Because the East India Company has always been very harsh on the ranks of sailors, captains, and even merchants, they can only make a fortune by relying on a few smuggling goods that they carry with them." In Amsterdam, these can be exchanged for tens of thousands of gold coins, no, not to mention to Europe, just to Nagasaki, and these goods alone will allow you and me to buy several plantations in Batavia and live the life of a human being, no, I will never give the foolish order to abandon them in the sea. "The merchant has pale blue eyes full of thirst for wealth." Believe me, my captain, as long as we break out of the strait and the sea is vast, the Zheng family's fleet will definitely not find our traces."

The decision of the merchant is actually normal, but another Zheng Jun notification ship, the Jiashi, reappeared in the sight of the Dutch fleet more than an hour later, which made Huo? Captain Encha was very uneasy: "Your Excellency, the situation is now obvious, the Zheng family's troops have set up multiple blockade lines on the strait, if we don't abandon the goods, the main force of their fleet will soon catch up." ”

"No," the clerk refused again. "It's about to leave the strait, and they may not be able to catch up"

"Then immediately transfer back to Fuzhou." Suddenly? Captain Encha didn't dare to take this risk, so he built a way. "The Zheng family's ship will never dare to sail into the Majiang River, as long as the typhoon comes, they must go back to shelter from the wind, so that we will have a chance."

"Do you mean to keep us under the protection of the Tatars?" The clerk remembered his duties at this time. "There is no written promise to get back the chief from the Tatars this time, do you want the company to suffer their humiliation again? No, God Almighty will bless us from crossing the ocean to Asia, and will also bless us from the pursuit of the Zheng army, so there is no need to panic too much, Mr. Captain."

After saying this, the merchant went back to his cabin and prayed to God sincerely. Captain Encha could only continue to sail towards Nagasaki, and in order to prevent Zheng Jun from catching up with him in the first place, he also tried to change course to avoid the approaching enemy, but God seemed to be asleep, but after only fifteen minutes, three two-masted gunboats of about 200 tons followed closely like hyenas smelling of rotting meat, and at the same time the announcement ship that had been seen at first only overtook the Dutch queue and sailed away as fast as possible.

"Damn, it's going to contact more enemies." Suddenly? Captain Encha roared angrily, but the number of Zheng Jun warships behind him was limited, and the tonnage was larger than that of the Dongfang, which made Captain Encha have a bold idea. "Flag to Neptune, let's turn around and kill the enemy behind first"

The two Dutch ships then made a bend in the sea, and the gun doors on the side facing Zheng Jun were opened one after another. Seeing this scene, the three gunboats of the third detachment of the dog fighting team led by the new ship Feihua also turned their angles under the leadership of the sub-commander Chu Jin, so that the two sides continued to maintain a long-distance parallel voyage. Captain Encha's plan was completely ruined.

"Lord, this is how the Yellow Skins have become wise." Suddenly? Captain Encha yelled angrily, originally his course to the northeast, was in the direction of Nagasaki, in order to grab the T-word, he was forced to sail east, but now the plan has failed, if he does not correct the course, he will sail into the coastal waters of Taiwan in forty minutes, this is undoubtedly a self-defeating net. "Flag the Neptune, fix the course, and leave the gadfly behind."

Suddenly? Captain Encha may have made the right decision, but in doing so, time was wasted, and less than twenty minutes after he had corrected his course, three Zheng gunboats of the same size as the enemy behind him appeared in the watchpost's sight.

In fact, in fact, Zheng Jun has set up a number of blocking lines in the Taiwan Strait, among which the three 3,000-material gunboats of the second detachment of the dog-fighting team, including Feixi, Feixiong, and Feixing, which are based in Penghu in the south, and the newly-built thousand-material notification ship Ruishi will never be able to catch up with this battle, and the three gunboats of the first detachment of the dog-fighting team, Feihu, Feiling, and Feizhen, and the notification ship Jiashi, are also staying in the western waters of the South China Sea based on Bin Tonglong at the moment, and they have not participated in this battle, and as for the main team of the dog-fighting team led by Gong Tian, they are still waiting in the waters further north. Therefore, what appeared in front of the Dutch was not even as many as the number of dog fighting teams dispatched during the naval battle off the coast of Xiangshanao.

Of course, the Dutch didn't know about this, and out of fear of the arrival of reinforcements from Zheng's army, Huo? Captain Encha first ordered: "Sue Sù Neptune to stay in formation, we will meet it"

The naval battle broke out forty minutes later, the Vostok, with a full load displacement of 470 tons, the habit of the Dutch, the same Galen, the deadweight tonnage of the Dutch ship was smaller than that of Britain, France and Spain, and its idea was similar to that of the current Zheng Jun's sailors, but Zheng Jun was not capable of building large ships, while the Dutch built it on purpose, it is said that because the smaller tonnage can be more flexible in naval warfare - by virtue of their own tall horses, like a heavily armored knight rampaging in the enemy formation, Forced to the headwind, the three new ships of the Taijiang team scattered and fled.

But Zheng Jun's goal was clear, to take out the smaller notification ship Neptune first, and then return to the Dongfang to beat up the Vostok. And the poor Neptune was only an eighteen-gun notification ship, not at all an opponent of the two guns on the single side of the three ships of Feihua, Feixi, and Feidian, so it ate the first shell in less than ten minutes after the start of the battle.

Half an hour after the start of the battle, the Yanshuixi of the Taijiang team ignited a raging fire, but Huo? Captain Encha was not happy at all, it turned out that at this time the Neptune was already paralyzed under the fire of Zheng Jun.

Now that the Neptune has fallen, the three Zheng warships that have not yet eaten have shifted their targets, and now the Dongfang is facing a joint attack from two directions. However, what is even more unfavorable for the Dongfang is that the dog-fighting team that has been informed by the Taijiang team's Dapai Port notification ship can already faintly hear the sound of cannons coming from the battlefield

"Your Excellency, we must surrender," ran and could not outrun the opponent, and the heavy punches of the strike often missed in front of the opponent who left with one blow, Rao was like this for more than forty minutes, in the face of more and more enemies and the fire caused by the blazing bombs, Huo? Captain Encha no longer reported that he had the confidence to break through victoriously, and in order to save the lives of all the sailors on the ship, he had to report frankly to the merchants. "Otherwise the sailors will rebel."

Captain Hohencha is not intimidating the ignorant merchants, you must know that only a third of the weak sailors on the Vostok are Dutch, and the rest are either European fugitives, liars, thieves, and adventurers who wander East Asia, or the natives of Batavia or even black slaves and Han Chinese, so it is not a problem to let them fight to the death, but it is as difficult as asking God to send down a miracle in an instant.

When the matter came, the merchant calmed down, and he puffed out his eyes and asked, "Have you not heard of what happened to the Portuguese?" A boat just disappeared, doesn't that dispel your illusions? No, these infidels will never let us go, and for the sake of the company, I order you to hold on, even if the ship is ruined! ”

The merchant's calculation was that defeat and capture were more likely to ruin his future than surrender, and he did not want to see his wealth fall into the hands of others, perhaps from this point of view, he was no different from the Jews understood by European society at that time.

"Your Excellency, do you know what you're talking about?" Suddenly? Captain Encha looked at the trader in front of him dumbfounded. "Your Excellency, do you know the consequences of this? If we don't get it, the Zheng family's army will kill all of us. "The salaries paid by the United East India Company are not enough for Ho? Encha and a group of sailors sacrificed their lives for it, so Huo? Encha crossed the trader and ordered some of the eager sailors. "Raise the white flag and tell the Zheng family's fleet, we, we announce our surrender."

"Bastard, you're betrayal!" The clerk was furious. "I'm going to report your cowardice to the company." But the threat doesn't stop Ho? Captain Encha's actions, so the merchant officer, who was the supreme commander of the fleet according to the regulations of the East India Company, ordered the rest of the sailors, who were still neutral. "Grab him, and the rest of the people keep firing!"

"What's going on? The Dutch fought on their own? "Gong Tian, who arrived in a hurry, saw the cannibalism on the deck of the Dongfang before he put a few shots, and he couldn't help but be a little puzzled." Isn't it the Dutch? Tell the brethren of the ships that they are still resisting unless the Dutch close the cannon doors and lower the sails."

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