On this day, it was the height of summer, and the sky over the Pacific Ocean was very blue, as if blue paint was covering the entire sky, only dotted with white clouds like vehies, cruising in the blue sky.

And beneath the sky, it's also an infinite blue.

More than 200 warships of the Ming Dynasty lay in the form of battle lines between the blue sky and the blue ocean.

The white sails are connected into a line, like a sharp blade standing proudly between the water and the sky, fluttering in the wind.

And the dark iron cannon on the battleship poked out a cold mouth, facing the shore in front of it.

On the shore, the water with a hint of fishy sweetness is not blue, but red, and there are even the corpses of Hermes-Epitek and the wooden sails broken by Dutch warships.

Hermes-Epitek, who was in a hurry to flee for his life, was intercepted by a Dutch warship and killed here!

……

Buzz!

Buzz!

Buzz!

A dull whistle began to sound.

This is the iconic sound of the Ming steam industry era, the sound formed by steam stamping is very sharp and piercing, like a war drum, in the vast ocean to stir up the fighting spirit and endless hatred of the Ming naval officers and men.

A super battleship in the center of the Daming South China Sea Fleet was like a giant dragon, cutting through the huge waves, and suddenly rushed out of the Great Wall-like battle line with a swing of its head.

This is the flagship of the Daming South China Sea Fleet - "Dongou King"!

The Imperial Warship is named after the title of the famous general of the Ming Dynasty, in order to commemorate the heroes who have made immortal contributions to the Ming Dynasty, and also to inspire the soldiers who are now fighting for the Ming Dynasty.

And this "Dongou King" is naturally to commemorate the founding father Tang He, this person is the first generation of the Ming Dynasty naval commander, the real originator of the Ming Navy, and the figure that cannot be ignored in the empire.

The flagship, which now bears his title, is no less impressive.

According to the customary classification of sail warships today, first-class warships are the strongest, and they are generally equipped with 90 to 100 guns.

And the "Dongou King" is equipped with a total of 120 guns! 、

Among them, there are 25 45-pound cannons, 37 25-kilogram cannons, 33 18-kilogram cannons, 22 6-kilogram cannons, and 3 3-kilogram cannons.

Just the artillery configuration, the "Dongou King" is already a top-level battleship far beyond ordinary first-class warships.

But the top of the "Dongou King" is not only here, he is also a dual-power battleship combining steam power and sails, although it is still the sail as the main power source, but he has steam power speed is undoubtedly faster, and the displacement is even more than 5,000 tons!

And the whole "Dongou King" because of the power is sufficient, but also wrapped in a layer of alloy iron, in order to avoid the defects of wooden sailing ships that are easy to be corroded by marine organisms, but also reduce the demand for precious wood, save production costs, and improve production efficiency, after all, there is no need to look for good wood processing with strong corrosion resistance.

In addition to this, the iron sheet was coated with anti-rust paint, and the entire battleship took on a light blue-gray color, in order to increase its concealment in the ocean.

The light blue-gray hull, white sails, and towering black chimneys spew out blue-blue steam, a square stern that helps to travel against the wind, plus paddle wheels and propellers hidden in the seawater.

The Ming "Dongou King" condensed the crystallization of Chongzhen's steam industry for 30 years, and he was like a giant beast on the sea, pushing flat on the waves.

Behind him, ten more second-class sail warships and twenty third-class sail warships formed their left and right wings, first bypassing the flagship like two sharp pincers towards the east and west sides of the sea area of Batavia.

……

The Dutch warships, which had retreated from Jinzhou, informed the news of the appearance of the Ming Dynasty's large-scale navy to the governor of the Dutch East India Company, Maszke.

Because the Netherlands and the Ming Empire had a naval battle before, which ended with the defeat of the Netherlands, the Dutch East India Company Governor Masuik did not pay attention to the Ming Empire, and immediately ordered all forty warships to gather in Batavia City, and at the same time one hundred merchant ships entered the port of Batavia to avoid being attacked by the Ming army.

In Maszk's eyes, forty sail warships were already a large enough size to withstand any of the most powerful navies in the world.

But apparently he doesn't know enough about Daming.

When the Daming South China Sea Fleet appeared in Batavia on the scale of a hundred battleships, Masuik directly took a few steps back in surprise.

The governor of the Dutch East India Company, Maszek, did not expect that the Ming would send such a large army, nor did he expect that the Ming Empire now had such a large scale of naval power.

"My God, when did this Ming Empire have sail warships of this size, more than thirty years ago, they were just hard sailing ships, how can this be fought?"

Masuik nervously put down the monocular in his hand.

"Your Excellency the Governor, Batavia is the headquarters of our East India Company, where most of our wealth is concentrated, and even we have just established our town hall, church, school, castle and market area here, this is already the home of our East India Company, we cannot evacuate, no matter how powerful the Ming Empire is, we can only fight hard."

Tasman, the head of the East India Company's mercenaries, said.

"Even if we want to withdraw now, we can't withdraw it, the Ming army is menacing, and once we lose here, we can't explain it to the shareholders, but now we have to figure out the purpose of their coming, if it's just asking for property, we can compromise and give up some interests, Chu Ling, you go!"

So, the Dutchman Chu Ling walked towards the Ming fleet with a third-class sail warship "Hidavia" and waved the flag of negotiation.

……

"Governor, they want to negotiate!"

At this time, a messenger walked up to Zheng Chenggong and said.

"Don't worry about them, Your Majesty has a will, this expedition is for revenge, tooth for tooth, blood for blood, see those stinky corpses on the coast that even sharks don't want to eat, that's our Han people, what qualifications do these beasts have to negotiate with us, the left and right flanks of the forward battalion continue to advance, and when the wind direction changes, immediately bombard its battleships, the middle battalion accelerates its advance, ready to complete the encirclement, and the rear battalion responds!"

Not long after Zheng Chenggong gave the order, the battleship "Dongou Wang" in the center of the forward battalion did not choose to stop advancing because the Dutchman's first-class battleship "Hidavia" waved the banner of negotiation, but instead opened all the gun doors, and as soon as the wind direction changed, and as soon as the Dutchman's third-class battleship "Hidavia" entered the firing range, it immediately turned around and met the enemy with its side, bombarding the 45-pound buckshot.

With the development of the chemical industry and machinery industry in the Ming Dynasty, after the popularization of nitrification explosives, now the 45-pound long-range howitzer of the Ming Navy also has a super explosive power.

As long as this 45-pound iron bullet hits the side of the ship, it can detonate nitrification explosives due to the collision of strong momentum, so that the 45-pound lead bullet can produce strong explosive kinetic energy to break through the hull again when it crashes through the side of the ship.

"The Ming army had no intention of accepting peace talks, they even fired artillery directly, turned around, and evacuated immediately!"

The Dutchman shouted at first, but as soon as he shouted, the grenade hit the side of his ship, the "Sidavia".

Boom!

The entire "Hidavia" was torn apart like a thin piece of paper.

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