Chapter 199: Straight to Nanri Island

Yu Xiaotian did not personally receive the captured Wette, but only ordered all the captives to be temporarily imprisoned in the prisoner camp, and the captured Dutch warships were temporarily towed to the Tamsui Bunker to wait for the next repair.

In this battle, even he did not expect that he would completely annihilate the Dutch fleet, not even a single Dutch warship, and capture five of them, including the largest one where Waite was sitting.

The other two warships were sunk in the Tamsui River, and the other was on the battlefield outside the mouth of the Tamsui River, because the ammunition compartment inside the ship was hit, a large amount of ammunition was killed, and it was completely blown up on the spot and sunk into deep water, and there was no possibility of salvage and repair.

In this battle, the sea wolf also lost seven ships below the No. 2 Fu ship, and the rest of the ships were damaged, killing and wounding more than 200 naval personnel, but for such a loss, the sea wolf can bear it, and it will not let the sea wolf break his muscles and bones.

The reason why he didn't bother with the Dutch commander Waite was because he had more important things to do, and these days he had almost stayed up all night, keeping an eye on the situation in the entire Taiwan Strait, constantly analyzing the enemy's situation.

It turned out that he didn't expect that Waite would be so bold as he dared to lead his Dutch fleet to attack Tamsui City directly without the cooperation of the official and military warships, but fortunately he stayed behind on Nanri Island and discovered the movements of the Dutch fleet in time, and the Feizi clipper on the sea also discovered the Dutchman's premeditated plan in time, and notified him with carrier pigeons as soon as possible.

After Yu Xiaotian learned of this situation, he adjusted his strategic deployment in a timely manner, and transferred elite forces from the three major fleets of the Navy to arrange such a net for the Dutch in the area of the Tamsui estuary.

It turned out that he had a bit of a headache on how to deal with this Dutch fleet, and with the strength of his current navy, it would not be much of a problem if he dealt with the Dutch fleet alone.

However, the problem was that after the Dutch fleet arrived at Yongningwei, it was always with the official fleet, so that he and his men did not dare to act rashly.

Because although the Dutch fleet has weaknesses, once they have the cooperation of the officers and sailors, then if they want to annihilate them, they will have to pay a lot of losses, and at the same time, they may not be able to do all the work in one battle, and may even lead to their strategic defeat.

So Yu Xiaotian has been waiting for an opportunity, wanting to wait for the Dutch to act alone, and then find a way to kill them, but he didn't expect Waite to be so arrogant, without the cooperation of the official army and sailors, he would actually lead his fleet to attack the sea wolf's old nest on Taiwan Island, Tamsui City, trying to give the sea wolf a black tiger heart.

This time things are much easier, what Yu Xiaotian is afraid of is that he will not come, and now that Waite is doing this, it is tantamount to asking for his own death.

The reason why he gave the order not to allow the artillery forts at the mouth of the Tamsui River to go all out to block the Dutch fleet that tried to invade Tamsui City was to paralyze Waite and make Waite and his Dutch officers think that the main force of the Sea Wolves was not in Tamsui City, and they could have the opportunity to shell Tamsui City, inflicting huge losses on the Sea Wolves, and forcing the Sea Wolves to finally compromise with them.

Waite was really fooled, recklessly divided his troops, and sent three warships into the Tamsui River, as long as they entered the Tamsui River, then it would be difficult to come up with it again.

Because in order to protect Tamsui City, the sea wolf has already arranged several barrage cables in the river, and heavy artillery forts have also been arranged on both banks, no matter who dares to break into the Tamsui River, there is no other possibility except for a dead word.

If Waite didn't divide his troops, it would be better, even if the sea wolf was outside the mouth of the Tamsui River and surrounded them, it would be difficult to eat them in one bite, but Waite was really arrogant to the extreme, and he actually made unforgivable mistakes in a row, and finally led his fleet to be completely destroyed by the sea wolf.

But now Yu Xiaotian is not in the mood to do any celebrations, because killing the Dutch fleet is only the beginning of this battle for him, and he has more to do next, and he has no time to celebrate this great victory, let alone appreciate the faces of these Dutch losers.

Therefore, as soon as the battle of the Tamsui River ended, he immediately ordered the fleet to prepare for sailing, and the damaged ships were left to be repaired, and only the slightly damaged ships were simply repaired during the crossing.

The main fleet of the Sea Wolves assembled in the waters east of Nanri Island and began the second phase of the operation to recover Nanri Island.

If the Dutch fleet does not leave Nanri Island, even if the sea wolf gathers all its maritime strength, I am afraid it will not be easy to solve the official army and naval division, and completely block the official army on Nanri Island.

But now that the threat of the Dutch has been lifted, then the next officer and army naval division is not a problem, although on the surface it seems that the strength of the official military naval division is not weak, but it also depends on who he compares with, and now if they are compared with the fleet of the sea wolf, the official military naval division is simply a vegetable, so Yu Xiaotian decided to start the second phase of combat operations, completely recover Nanri Island, and close the official army on Nanri Island to fight dogs.

So early the morning of the second day after the Battle of the Tamsui River ended by the Sea Wolves, the Sea Wolf fleet assembled in Tamsui City began to act again, led by the Flying Clipper, two captured Spanish warships in the center, and several deeply modified Daifuku ships as vice-presidents, and began to sail in the direction of Nanri Island.

Nothing happened during the crossing, it was winter, and the sea was not stormy, which was just right for the sea wolf to conduct large-scale naval operations.

Therefore, after only a day's crossing, Yu Xiaotian personally led the fleet to the eastern waters of Nanri Island, and joined the other ships that had already arrived in advance.

This time, the sea wolf can be said to have poured out of the nest, concentrating almost all the combat strength of the navy, and gathering more than 170 warships of all kinds, including even some large sand ships in the merchant fleet, loaded with a battalion of marines, to cooperate with the fleet's next landing operation.

Just when Yu Zhigao thought that he could succeed, the fleet of the sea wolf suddenly appeared near Nanri Island, and the officers and sailors of the official army also arranged some patrol ships around Nanri Island, and when the sea wolf fleet sailed to Nanri Island, they found the fleet of the sea wolf, and when they saw more than 100 ships flying the sea wolf battle flag and began to gather in the eastern waters of Nanri Island, the officers and men on the official and military sentry ships were suddenly frightened.

The sentinel ships of the officers and soldiers, like lost dogs, panicked and fired cigarettes and rockets, using all the means that could alarm the police, and one by one they fled towards Nanri Island with their tails between their legs.

Under the operation of the sea wolf troops, the graceful hull of the ship rode the wind and waves on the sea, rowed out a white track, and rushed straight to the sentinel ships of those officers and soldiers.

The speed of these Feizi clippers is their trump card, and their speed is more than twice that of normal Chinese sailing ships, which is very suitable for sea pursuit warfare.

Before they could escape back to Nanri Island, several official and military sentry ships were intercepted by them, and a few shells bombarded them, and these official and military sentry boats were immediately destroyed and surrendered.

However, these official and military sentry boats still provided early warning to Yu Zhigao in advance.

When he heard the report from the soldiers, Yu Zhigao, who was discussing things with his staff in the tent, trembled, and immediately dropped the tea bowl in his hand to the ground, stood up, and asked in surprise: "What did you say?" The sentinel ship spotted a large number of sea wolf warships heading towards Nanri Island? ”

The soldier's face was very unsightly, and he quickly knelt down and replied: "Commander Qiqi!" Wolf smoke rose one after another from the east of Nanri Island, and it was the news from the sentinel ship that a large number of enemy ships must have been spotted approaching, and the sound of cannons had been heard from the sea! Please make arrangements as soon as possible! ”

Yu Zhigao listened carefully, and then faintly heard a long distance, and indeed seemed to be sounding a cannon sound, so he didn't dare to slack off anymore, and immediately shouted an order: "Command the sailor, immediately raise anchor and set sail to prepare for war!" ”

It turned out that the harmonious atmosphere in the big tent suddenly disappeared after hearing the report of the soldiers, and everyone immediately became nervous, and some people even began to feel scared, and some people even said: "Didn't the sea wolf thieves have abandoned Nanri Island, why are they coming back now?" ”

Yu Zhigao's mood at this time was also nervous and angry, and he shook his head and said, "What are you talking about at this time?" I have long thought that this thief would not abandon Nanri Island so lightly, and he would definitely not give up! Sure enough, he still has a thief heart and wants to come to demonstrate with Ben Shuai!

In that case, Ben Shuai will go to him! I want to see what kind of thief this can do, and can he get Nanri Island back? Passing on my order, everyone began to prepare for battle, and the land division immediately rushed to the shore to prevent thieves from landing on the island! ”

Nanri Island, which had gradually calmed down, heard the sound of artillery coming from the sea east of the island, and suddenly jumped up again, and a large number of officers and soldiers immediately took action and rushed to the sea.

The officers and men of the naval division, who were originally resting on the shore, did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly began to board the ship one after another amid the shouts and scolding of the generals.

The warships of the official and military sailors docked at several anchorages on Nanri Island did not dare to slack off at this time, and after receiving Yu Zhigao's general order, they began to quickly pull out the anchor and set sails, and one by one began to move, heading towards the sea.