As a super battleship with dual power of steam and sail, the flagship of the Daming South China Sea Fleet, the "Dongou King", is not only extremely fast and powerful with gunfire, but also very resistant to beating.

The alloy iron-clad hull has a strong cushioning effect, and even if the cannonballs fired by the five Dutch sail warships brought by Tasman hit the hull of the "Dongou King", the entire hull is still as stable as Mount Tai, and at most there are concave surfaces.

But only occasionally one or two cannons concentrated on the "Dongou King".

The 45-pound short cannon on the "Dongou King" began to exert power, and the so-called cannon was the so-called Karen cannon in later generations, with a short barrel, but the firepower formed by short-range fire strikes was very powerful.

In addition, the howitzer of the Ming Dynasty was a cannonball with nitrification as the propellant, so it had a very strong penetration against short-range Dutch warships.

With a bang, the Dutch battleship in front of it was directly broken, and the hull of the entire Dutch battleship directly turned on its side.

Coupled with the fact that the Daming artillery fired faster and covered by three layers of artillery, it made the Dutch battleships completely less advantageous when bombarding.

And the key is that the "Dongou King" is not weak because of its large size, because of the application of propellers and Minglun, coupled with steam power, his flexibility is stronger, just like a blue whale out of the water, with a dragon swinging its tail can adjust the firing position at any time according to the wind direction, so that the two Dutch second-class sail battleships have been sunk by the Ming "Dongou King".

"My God, what kind of super warship did this Ming Empire build, it was huge, it had a lot of artillery, it was still an ironclad battleship, but it could also run freely on the sea, and it could not move like a mountain, and there was even a chimney spitting out smoke, what is the principle?"

While Tasman looked at the "Dongou King" in astonishment, he did not forget to give a new order: "Our artillery can't compete with it, and the battleship can't move anymore, all of them take advantage of the sinking of the ship to approach the enemy ship and rush to the enemy ship, only by rushing forward, we can survive!" ”

As a result, the remaining two Dutch first-class warships that had been hit by countless shells but had not yet completely sunk to the bottom of the sea immediately switched to small wooden boats and came out in an attempt to forcibly board the "Dongou King".

"Shotgun attack, the first battalion of the Marine Corps fires a strike!"

Zheng Chenggong gave an order at this time, and countless shotguns and bullets rained down in the sea area of two hundred paces, forming a dense fire strike circle.

The Dutch soldiers, who were trying to turn the tide of the battle, were in an instant smashed into a sieve, along with the wooden boats, and the whole sea was filled with the sound of clattering gunfire and the sound of water stirring up by shotguns and bullets, as well as the cries of Dutch soldiers and the sound of bells on wooden boats.

Before the Dutch could raise their flintlock pistols, they were beaten to pieces.

Of course, this scene only happened for less than half a moment, people are still afraid of death in essence, although these Dutch soldiers of the Dutch East India Company have experienced countless naval battles and are not afraid of life and death, but at this time they also have no will to fight, many Dutch soldiers even just took the wooden boat not long before they turned around and ran back.

Seeing that there were no Dutch officers and soldiers who dared to resist, Zheng Chenggong ordered the "Dongou King" to rush directly to encircle and suppress these Dutch officers and soldiers who had fled and retreated at sea.

The "Dongou King" brutally and directly smashed into the wreckage of the Dutch warship that was half-sunk into the sea, and even the Dutch officers and men who were desperately struggling in the sea were slapped into the sea by the huge waves it brought with them, and were directly killed, or were shot dead by the ship's Guards navy.

The other sail warships of the Ming Dynasty also came up and kept harvesting the lives of Dutch officers and soldiers at sea through shotguns.

A Dutch red-haired fan swam desperately, and at this time, a series of shotguns hit, and the red-haired fan was directly beaten into a hornet's nest-like hole all over his body, and the blood directly stained the area around his body.

This is the revenge of the Ming Navy against these red-haired butchers, just like the slaughter of Han people by these red-haired butchers.

The Dutch East India Company, at its headquarters in Batavia, no longer had any naval power.

The Daming South China Sea Fleet also regrouped its battle line and drove directly towards the coast of Batavia.

And at this time.

On the shore, the governor of the Dutch East India Company, Maszk, began to order the batteries on the shore to begin preparing for the firing of artillery.

At the same time, this Masuik also organized 5,000 Dutch red-haired soldiers to use the shore fortress to organize a tight defense line in an attempt to organize the landing of the Ming South China Sea fleet.

The governor of the Dutch East India Company, Ma Suike, was furious, because he had seen many of his Dutchmen killed alive by the Ming army, but he had forgotten that he had treated the Han people in the same way before, and even more cruelly.

Because it was getting late, the Daming South China Sea Fleet had to seize the tidal flat position as quickly as possible and get the opportunity to temporarily camp and rest, so more than 200 warships drove directly over, completely ignoring the dense artillery on the shore of Batavia.

"Fire!"

The person who issued this life order was Zheng Chenggong, the chief officer of the Daming South China Sea Fleet.

The twenty-five-pound guns on the front deck of the Daming sail battleship are long-range cannons, firing at elevation angles, and they are breech-loading rifled guns, and the firing range can reach up to six or seven miles, so even if the Guards Navy is only faintly visible in Batavia City, most of the guns of the Daming South China Sea Fleet are enough to shoot at shore targets.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Within a minute, thousands of artillery pieces were spewing tongues of fire, and thousands of shells directly covered the setting sun, overwhelmingly and indiscriminately bombarded an area of two miles on the coast of Batavia.

A minute later, there was another round of indiscriminate bombardment.

Another minute later, another round of indiscriminate bombardment.

The forts along the coast of the entire Batavia City were directly overturned, and the Western smoothbore cannons lined up on the forts were directly blown up by the city's scrap metal, and even flew up directly, smashing heavily into the sea water to stir up big waves.

Many Dutch officers and soldiers were also bombed, and the cries and roars were heard one after another.

"God, why are they so powerful, before our artillery starts, they can fire first and bombard us with precision!"

Surprised, Maszke hurriedly fled inland with the remaining Dutch officers and soldiers.

Now the battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands is no longer relying on the tactics of the sea of people but relying on the scientific and technological level that surpasses two full centuries in the battle, so just like the late Qing green battalion soldiers in the original history saw the British army running wolf, the Dutch red hair fan at this time did not have the will to fight to resist on the shore after seeing the powerful artillery power of the Ming Navy, and hurriedly withdrew into the city.

The Daming South China Sea Fleet continued to advance after three rounds of artillery bombardment, and did not stop until it was a mile from the coast.

The reason for the stop was that there were many floating corpses of Han people in the sea in this area, and the Imperial Navy could not bear to damage their corpses while marching, so they first took a small boat to the shore.

It was now twilight, and the Dutch Red-haired Fan had retreated into the city of Batavia and did not dare to leave the city, so the Imperial Marines successfully landed.

At the same time, the Imperial warships still carried out long-range bombardment in the direction of Batavia City, and the Dutch East India Company did not build Batavia City too far from the coastline in order to facilitate the goods to go to sea, and the entire castle was less than three kilometers away from the coastline, so the artillery of the Imperial Navy could still effectively strike at Batavia City.

However, because it was night, the artillery of the Imperial Navy could not do much damage to the Dutch red-haired in Batavia, but it was easy to destroy a section of the wall.

(End of chapter)