Chapter 1433: The First Battle of Yizhou

In the port of Luermen, the officers and men of the Dutch fleet were directly frightened!

Powerful, too powerful!

There are more than 100 warships, and the size of each one is far above the big Qingtou warship of the Fujian Navy Division back then!

The Dutch fleet is strong, but that is the main fleet is strong, the Dutch fleet in Luermen Port, there are only three main warships, seven small warships, and the largest warship is only similar to the size of the Ming fleet's ground-class warships.

"Withdraw! Withdraw to the port immediately! ”

Ruiz, the admiral of the fleet, shouted urgently, fighting? I'm afraid that in less than two quarters of an hour, my fleet will have to be reimbursed in full, and it is not anyone's opponent at all!

More than ten warships of the Dutch fleet did not even dare to fight, and withdrew into the distance!

However, Zheng Cai naturally did not leave the opponent a chance to retreat calmly, and with a wave of the flag, several ground-level battleships outflanked the opponent along the side and back, and the two heaven-level battleships in the middle were pressing step by step from behind, biting tightly!

Most of the warships of the Ming army are new ships with excellent performance, compared to the lowest age of the Dutch warships are fifteen years old, almost all of them are battleships that are about to be eliminated, and they are thrown off by the Ming ships in terms of speed, and soon, the Ming warships will catch up!

"Open the gun, open the gun, the bow gun fire with all its might, aim, hit hard!"

The general of the heaven-class battleship chasing behind directly gave the order to attack, and the two heaven-class battleships, the eight flowering cannons in the bow of the ship, fired at the same time, and one shell after another fired at the Dutch battleship!

At this time, the distance between the two sides is at least five miles!

Ruiz didn't expect that at such a large distance, the Ming fleet would open fire directly, under normal circumstances, if you want to hit the target accurately, it is within a distance of two miles, more than two miles, the hit rate of the shells will plummet, five miles away, the range of some shells can not hit such a distance at all!

However, the Ming fleet opened fire!

Different from the guns on both sides, the main guns of the main battleships of the Ming fleet have been converted into rifled guns, although they are only the most primitive rifling, but they still give the performance of the artillery, forming a huge bonus, one is the range, the maximum range is as high as eight miles, and the accuracy of hitting, with the help of rifling, even if it is only two rifling, it will also bring great help to the shells!

Five miles away, eight guns fired together, four shells, and hit the target accurately!

Boom Boom Boom Boom ......

The most unfortunate thing is that a capital battleship after the break, was directly hit by two shells, and exploded when it landed, breaking the rudder of the Dutch battleship to pieces, without the support of the rudder, the Dutch battleship wanted to run, it was impossible at all, and the direction could not be controlled.

Two other shells landed on the two small ships, which also set the ships on fire, and the Dutch soldiers howled from the ships......

Ruiz was frightened on the flagship, this is too high, four or five miles away, it can also guarantee half of the hit rate! And they are all flowering bombs, and once they explode, they will ignite a raging fire, and there is no way to fight this battle!

"Retreat, retreat at full speed! Retreat at full speed! Ask for battery support, ask for battery fire support! ”

Ruiz commanded the fleet to flee desperately, trying to hide in the harbor, with the help of the battery to save his life, as long as he entered the battery, for a while, the Ming fleet could not help himself!

Seeing that the fort was getting closer and closer, and seeing the signal of the fleet flagship for help, the Dutch troops on the turret were directly engaged in the battle, and one shell after another flew towards the Ming fleet with a huge roar, preventing the pursuit of the Ming fleet, and the two heaven-class battleships wanted to continue the pursuit, but the difficulty was getting bigger and bigger, and they had to stay, however, with the several ground-class warships that looked back, but no matter what set they were, they also began to attack!

Several ground-class battleships were diagonally opposed to the battleships of the Dutch fleet because they were inserted diagonally, and this time the ground-class battleships did not directly launch the bow gun to attack, but fired all the side guns!

The side guns of the six ground-class battleships are added together, even if the number of guns on the main battleship is reduced now, there are still about 100 guns, and they attack at the same time, and in an instant, the position of the Dutch fleet is shrouded in cannonballs, and the cannonballs are like flying locusts!

Although these guns are still ordinary smoothbore guns, they can't stand a large number, a hundred shells, even if the hit rate is only 20%, there will be 20 shells, which have smashed on the Dutch battleships, and ten Dutch battleships, almost all of them were hit, and they caught fire one after another!

"Order, the battleship Chris and the battleship Benjamin, the battleship Stoia, and the battleship Jem should respond to the battle, contain the Ming army, and all the remaining warships will withdraw into the military port!"

Ruiz reached a critical time, and he had to keep surviving, the battleship Chris was hit by a capital battleship, the rudder was destroyed, and the other three battleships were small battleships, although they were far from the opponents of several ground-class warships in front of them, at least they could delay for a minute, as long as they protected the other warships and withdrew into the military port, it would be a great victory.

The four battleships stopped their retreat and began to attack the ground-class battleships!

However, it is obvious that the four damaged battleships, if they want to block the attack of the six ground-class warships, it is simply impossible, especially the flowering cannons and rockets on the ground-class battleships, which are not fatal, and now the distance is getting closer and closer, it is less than two miles, hundreds of flowering cannons, dozens of rockets, constantly launching attacks, so that the Dutch ships have no power to fight back, in just a quarter of an hour, the three small warships were directly destroyed by the intensive artillery attack, and only one Chris, which was also broken, There were no sails on the battleship, so it could only stay quietly on the surface of the sea.

Fortunately, Ruiz led several other warships to finally escape from the danger area, cowering in the military port, never daring to show his face again.

The two batteries in the Luermen military port are still constantly launching attacks, preventing the Second Fleet from approaching, and the Second Fleet is also not to be outdone, dozens of warships are surrounding the forts, constantly launching offensives, and the shells of both sides are coming and going, and the fighting is fierce.

"Give the order to the right battalion to leave the battlefield and sail in a southeasterly direction, meet the Dutch ships, sink them on the spot, and leave no trouble, we must be ready for a surprise attack! The rest of the battleships put pressure on the two batteries and restrain the energy of the Dutch army on land! ”

Zheng Cai shouted in a deep voice.