As soon as the flare was raised from the shore, they began to sail further, but did not go directly to the mouth of the Tamsui River, but only closed some distance and stopped again.

The second flare was raised, and they continued to sail at a low speed, continuing to close the distance to the mouth of the Tamsui River, and even the upper bucket on their ship could clearly see a few Dutch ships through the guò telescope, but they did not attack.

Time passed as they sailed slowly, until the third time they saw a flare rising on the shore and a bonfire lit, that the two of them began to give the order, using a signal light to inform all the ships in the fleet, and to start moving.

The first to pull up the sails and speed up to the Dutch fleet were naturally a few flying clippers, at this time their ships were already ready for battle, each gun had been loaded, pushed to the gun door, only after approaching the enemy ship, slightly adjusted, and could fire.

There were also a few hideous ships that began to speed up, and these boats were full of hedgehogs, covered with large iron nails with barbed spikes, and any ship that ran into them would be hooked by them, and it would be difficult to get out.

These ships followed the Feizi clipper and rushed towards the Dutch fleet in the dark, while the rest of the ships slowly surrounded the four Dutch ships from the north and south.

This time, the sea wolf used more than 60 ships of various types, including thirty or forty large brigs, including several Daifuku ships that had been deeply refitted, and even included two captured Spanish warships, and how many twelve Feizi clippers, which could really be described as the elite of the sea wolf, without any reservations.

Although these ships are not all the warships of the sea wolf, not even a third, but they can be said to be the elite of the sea wolf warships, and this time the warships that Yu Xiaotian used to deal with the Dutch can be said to have invested a lot of money.

In terms of quantity, ten to one, if this can't take these Dutch boats, then how will the sea wolves mix in the future?

So for the sea wolves, this time they were also desperate, without making any reservations, and the fleet from the north and south, targeting a few Dutch warships, all accelerated and rushed forward.

In the Dutch fleet, which was already slack, a lookout on the top of the mast dozed off a little, and secretly took out a small wine jug from his arms, which was filled with rum, and took a sip with his neck up, now it is winter after all, lying on the top of the mast to blow the sea breeze, it is a very hard thing, although they have been rotated in the middle of the night, but soon after going up to the mast, it will still be blown by the cold sea breeze, and it is difficult to contain a cold feeling.

So these lookouts secretly prepared a little rum on their bodies, and when it was cold, they could finally take a sip, and after taking a sip of wine, they put the flask back into their pockets, and they were in better spirits, and they habitually looked towards the seashore.

Suddenly, his eyes began to widen, and on the sea under the cover of night, he seemed to see several black shadows heading towards them, these black shadows had no lights at all, if it weren't for the slight color difference between the background sky and the sea surface at this time, it would be almost impossible to see their existence, and even the lookout himself couldn't believe his eyes.

So he quickly rubbed his eyes vigorously, and looked at the surface of the sea carefully, and this time he finally saw clearly, it was indeed several boats that were rapidly approaching them, and had already sailed a few hundred meters away from their fleet, and were about to rush to their fleet.

"Enemy attack!" He suddenly let out a terrible exclamation, then turned around and grabbed an alarm bell hanging on Wangdou, and struck it desperately.

The piercing alarm bell of "Dangdang ......" suddenly sounded throughout the sea, and the sleepy sailors in the fleet immediately became smart, quickly tensed their bodies, and began to look around.

"There is an unidentified ship on the starboard side, prepare quickly!" The lookout lay on the top of the mast, screaming at the sailors below at the top of the mast, and continued to beat the alarm bells.

The sailors quickly flocked to starboard and looked towards the dark sea, and then the faint light in the sky, this time they finally saw these black shadows coming quickly on the sea, although they were faintly invisible, but they were sure that they were indeed some ships.

Then all the Dutchmen, who had already woken up, suddenly became nervous, because the ships were too close to them, and had already sailed into full range, and there were only two or three hundred meters left from them at most, so they rushed to the various gun emplacements on the deck of the ships, and desperately tried to uncover the canvas that covered the cannons, and prepared to start the battle.

But it was still too late, and the ships that were rushing straight at them, without giving them enough time to prepare, began to fire almost immediately, and a flash of fire flashed from the side of the ship, and then the rumbling of cannons was heard, and at the same time the cannons rang out, and the shells whistled down on their ships.

And what is lacking in morality is that these sneak attackers did not use solid shells, but directly used grapeshot bullets, and mixed with a lot of chain shells, although these shells are not strong for the hull attack ability, but for the ability to kill people and the destruction of the mast and sail on the surface of the ship is excellent.

As a result, the Dutch ship on the far right was suddenly like a hailstorm, and the cannonballs swept across their decks, and the sailors who had just been busy on the deck were cut down as if they had been cut down as if they had been cut down, and they died horribly, as long as the grapeshotfire touched them, it was not good, either their hands and feet were torn off on the spot, or their heads were smashed on the spot, and some of them were even cut in half, and they were torn into two pieces by the shells at once.

What's even more terrifying is that almost instantly, a group of chain bullets swept across their deck, the main target of these chain bombs was not to kill people, but to go straight to the masts and sail lines on the ship, the most Western war ships are all kinds of sail lines, these sail lines control all the sails on the ship, densely packed like woods, and although the chain bombs are not necessarily enough to cut off the mast at once, but they are very effective against these sail lines.

As soon as the chain shells left the barrel, they were separated from the middle, and the two semicircular shells were connected by an iron chain more than a meter long, whistling and flying in the air, and as long as anything stopped them along the way, it would be cut like a sickle, and the sail rope could not stop them from moving forward at all, and immediately a lot of them were cut, and after the thunderbolt and tight sail rope was cut, it immediately whipped like a whip.

Some people are unlucky, although they were not hit by the shell, but they were accidentally pulled by the cut sail rope on their bodies, the weight of the thick sail rope is definitely not light, as long as the person is pumped, it can be pumped out of the air immediately, and some people are even directly pumped out of the deck, screaming and falling into the cold sea.

And not to mention the sails on their ships, which were torn apart by shells and began to lose the ability to power their ships.

What's even more terrifying is that although the firepower of these clippers is not very fierce, but the speed is very fast, with a very fast speed while firing cannons, while continuing to approach the Dutch warship, just when the distance between the two sides has narrowed to more than 100 meters, from their ships began to whistle up clusters of flames, hundreds of rockets emitted a heart-shattering whistling sound, like a rain of fire flew towards the Dutch warship.

These rockets are a swarm of bee rockets that are rarely used by sea wolves, although in naval battles, these swarm bees are not usually favored by Yu Xiaotian, and they have not used many before, but they still captured and manufactured them, and stored a batch of such swarm rockets, and this time they were also put into battle.

But the sea wolf's swarm of rockets is frequented, not only on the barrel of the arrow, but also in front of these rockets, there is also a cartridge, but the nozzle is located in front, as long as the rocket is burned, it will ignite the cartridge at the front end, at this time, if the rocket hits the target, the nozzle in front of the cartridge will spew out a ball of flame.

This is actually a strengthened version of the incendiary rocket, specially used for arson, the wooden boat itself has a lot of combustibles, whether it is the cable or the wooden boat itself, or even the sails on the ship, it is something that can be ignited, as long as the rocket is nailed to the target, the front end will spew flames, the temperature of gunpowder burning is very high, and it can often ignite things that hinder them in front.

So the two Dutchman ships became their target, and the rockets rained on their ships, although this kind of swarm of swarms was really not good, but hundreds of rockets, there were always some that fell on the enemy ships, so as soon as the fire was fired, the two Dutch ships immediately rose up with a ball of fire, although these fires were not big, but they could not stand much!

The rockets were nailed wherever they touched, and for a moment the two Dutchman's ships seemed to be in bloom, and suddenly they became a fire tree and a silver flower, and in an instant they were so bright that the Dutch were so startled that they hurriedly tried to put out the fires.

And until this time, the Dutch were not ready to shoot back, their guns had not been opened at this time, and the gunners and sailors in the cabin were still confused one by one, and they could not figure out the state for a while, only that they had been beaten, and the shells fell on the hull from time to time, and their cabin was like a drum being beaten.

The first of these flying clippers, not in love with the fight, after a fierce beating, two or three rounds of shelling in a row, and the swarm of rockets on the ship were emptied, and immediately began to leave the battlefield and sail into the darkness, at this time, some Dutch saw the one-way light lanterns behind the ships of these sea wolves.

It was only at this time that Waite rushed from the cabin to the deck in a panic, and with the support of the servants, he stumbled up the stern and looked towards the sea.