The hull of the Dutch battleship "Hidavia" was broken through a large hole.

The hull of the ship shook the waves under the force of the powerful cannonballs, and the surging waves mixed with the pungent smell of gunpowder slapped against the ship's board.

The entire ship "Hidavia" suffered heavy damage under the heavy attack of the "Dongou King" of the Ming Dynasty, and it had lost power, and even the direction could not be controlled.

The captain of the "Sidavia" staggered from his feet, pulled out his command knife, and roared: "Withdraw!" Remove! ”

As an experienced naval general of the Dutch East India Company, he now understood that the Ming army had no intention of peace talks, and even found through the bombardment just now that the range of the Ming army's artillery was far beyond his imagination, so he was only shocked and frightened now, and ordered the battleship to quickly turn back.

However, the bombardment of the Ming "Dongou King" had just begun, and the forty-five-pound cannon was just a test of the range.

The Dutch battleship "Hidavia", which is about 400 steps away, can still be accurately bombarded by rear-loading rifled cannons, which is the glory of the Ming ship's guns! It's also an equipment gap that Western fans never thought of!

Forty-five-pound grenades continued to fire.

Although the Ming did not have Galileo, Galileo's ballistic parabolic theory had been applied to artillery firing by the Ming in a sacred way.

Just as the Dutch captain had just finished speaking, more than a dozen 45-pound grenades pierced the sky and exploded again on the Dutch battleship "Hidavia."

Bang!

The Dutch battleship "Hidavia" burst open into a pile of broken wood, and black smoke rose into the sky.

The captain of the "Sidavia" was also blown to pieces, and countless Dutch officers and soldiers were blown up and fell into the sea, like dumplings in soup, struggling in the crowded sea water.

At this time, the two Daming-3 sail warships were already rapidly approaching the wreckage of the Dutch battleship "Hidavia", and the three-pound guns fired flowering shotguns and frantically strafed the surviving Dutch officers and soldiers who were struggling on the sea.

Patches of red began to glow on the ocean, and these Dutch red-haired pans were swept to pieces, and some of their heads were directly knocked away.

This is the most direct revenge of Daming against these Dutch thugs who slaughtered the Han people, and at this moment, these wailing Dutch red-haired fans also have to experience the pain of being killed.

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"Bastard! They are not here to provoke, they are here to slaughter, the people we have jumped into the sea, these Ming troops will not let go, they are a group of murderous Satan! ”

The Dutch governor, Masuik, roared angrily.

"Your Excellency the Governor, it seems that they have come to take revenge on us for our massacre of the Han people, we can no longer surrender, and they have no intention of making us surrender, now we can only resist now, you need to return to Batavia City now to organize a land resistance, and leave it to me by sea."

After the Dutchman Tasman said this, he immediately took the remaining thirty-nine Dutch sail warships and approached the Daming South China Sea Fleet.

"The Ming Empire's naval guns have a long range and great power, and we can only win by speeding up and engaging in a broadside battle with them, so now listen to my orders, move forward quickly, get close to his flagship, and kill the supreme commander of the Ming army wearing a python robe!"

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Although the Dutch East India Company had only 39 warships in total, the Dutch officers and men on these warships were also the backbone of mercenaries trained by the Dutch East India Company for many years, and they had rich experience in naval warfare, so they were also skilled in tactics and had a strong ability to cooperate.

It looks like a wolf pack tactic, and it also seems to be a bit of a desperate gamble.

But in any case, the Daming South China Sea Fleet is also going all out, and Zheng Chenggong, the chief officer of the fleet, methodically commanded more than 200 warships to rearrange their troops by taking advantage of the wind direction, preparing to encircle and annihilate these 39 sea wolves.

Every Dutch warship that appeared would inevitably be besieged by three Ming first-class sail warships, two second-class warships, and three third-class warships.

Once the Daming battleship bites a Dutch battleship, it can immediately bombard it directly with a 25-pound gun, which can severely damage the Dutch battleship in an instant, and the sail battleship of the same company can quickly close up and fire chain bullets to directly destroy its sails, causing the Dutch battleship to lose power.

There were three types of shells for the entire Ming battleship, namely, grenades that hit the hull of enemy battleships from a long distance, shotguns that hit enemy officers and soldiers intensively, and chain shells that damaged the sails of enemy ships and lost power.

After all, the steam industry has entered a mature blowout stage, and the machinery industry is highly developed, which is equivalent to the level of the middle of the nineteenth century in the original history, and it is not difficult to manufacture precision and multi-functional shells.

Now, the "Naam" Dutch second-class battleship was hit by the Ming "New Nymber" with five guns, and the entire "Naam" side was beaten to the point of losing ten gun positions, and its combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, and because the guns of the "Naam" were still front-loaded 24-pound smoothbore guns, the firing range was far less than that of the rear-loading rifled guns of the Ming Dynasty, even if the combat effectiveness was not completely lost, it could not form a striking force on the Ming fleet.

At this time, the "Pinglianghou" and "Jiangyinhou" that had been pasted over directly fired chain bullets with their 18-pound mortars, and a huge explosion resounded above the "Naam," and the sails of the "Naam" battleship were suddenly blown off, making a creaking sound, or they were directly broken and fell to the sea.

As a result, the entire "Naam" tilted directly over, slowly sinking almost to the bottom of the sea.

Because, now that the "Naam" has almost completely lost its combat power due to tilting and loss of power, the "Pinglianghou" and the "Jiangyin Hou" continue to get close, attacking the Dutch fighters on the ship or jumping into the sea with rapid shotguns.

The Ming artillery not only had a more powerful range, but also a fast firing speed, because of the use of the flintlock machine principle and the improvement of the lead, the guns of the Dutch battleships took three or four minutes to fire a cannon, while the Ming only needed one minute to fire a cannon.

The guns of the Ming battleships fired three or four times faster than the guns of the Dutch battleships!

Therefore, once the Dutch battleship was bitten by the Ming battleship, it was difficult to take advantage, and they either chose to surrender or were beaten to the ground.

And even if a Dutch warship broke through the barrier and used its skillful navigation technology to encircle the Ming flagship "Dongou King", it would be to no avail.

At this time, Tasman successfully approached the flagship of the Daming South China Sea Fleet, the Dongou King, with the five remaining Dutch sail warships.

Because the distance between ships had been shortened to less than 300 paces, and the Ming long-range cannon was not of combat significance, Zheng He ordered the mortar on the flagship to fire chain bullets to destroy the sails of its Dutch battleship.

As a result, as soon as the Dutch battleship waiting for Tasman approached, it was destroyed by countless Ming warships that fired chain bombs, and the agility of the entire Dutch battleship decreased, and it could only form a battle line in the existing area to bombard the Ming flagship, and at the same time lost the ability to escape.

At the same time, the broadside battle that Tasman wanted to carry out could only be turned into a close-range bombardment.

And the flagship of the Daming South China Sea Fleet, the "Dongou King", is not afraid of short-range bombardment.

Thank you for the 588 book coins reward, and I have been promoted from the hall master to the protector of the law

(End of chapter)