This Dutchman was none other than Van der Vaart's assistant Williams in Dongying, and Van der Vaart personally went to Daming to preside over this affairs, and all the affairs of Dongying were handed over to him.

In order to be able to earn this large amount of income, it can be said that Fantfat racked his brains, not only in the Ming Dynasty, but even the East India Company in Batavia has been mobilized, and the goods worth millions of taels of silver are mobilized, if Tagawa Nanazaemon really sells it to the East India Company at a price of sixty percent, and then changes hands, there will be at least two million taels of silver in it, such a large income, Governor Cohen is already red-eyed, even if it is a lot of price, he must get it back, not to mention, This time it was the strength of the Zheng family in Japan that came out, and the East India Company was at most beating the side drum, only if it did not leave conclusive evidence for the Ming Empire, compared to the Ming Empire, it was only a dry stare, and it was not a wise move to fall out with the Dutch.

According to Van der Vaart's request, Cohen sent a small fleet to the East China Sea in one go, with more than a dozen main warships, plus other small warships, there were thirty or forty of them, and even if they couldn't defeat the navy of the Ming Empire, they could guarantee that they would retreat.

Yang Geng had just suppressed Zheng Cai's fleet, and in the southeast direction of Chongming Island, the fleet of the East India Company launched an attack on Chongming Island, and the firepower of this attack was no weaker than the firepower put in by Zheng Cai.

Another sea fleet is trying to launch an attack on Chongming Island!

Zheng Haotian's sword eyebrows jumped, and he was angry, what is the matter, what is wrong today, first the foreigners, then Zheng Cai's fleet, and now there is a sea force that has emerged, all of them are coming to the imperial fleet, grandma's, come on, when were the warriors of the Ming Empire afraid?

"Someone, immediately send a message to the two Governors, an unknown fleet has appeared in the southeast of Chongming Island, and is attacking Chongming Island from the southeast, please send a fleet to support the two Governors immediately, this officer will surround the Dutch pirates' ships here, and will not use artillery to sink them until the last moment!"

Zheng Haotian shouted in a deep voice, yes, Zheng Haotian didn't want to sink it, after all, the sea ship was carrying tens of thousands of muskets and hundreds of boxes of ammunition, this is an arms that can arm tens of thousands of people, not only for Tian Chuan, but also for the imperial sailors and for the Ming Dynasty, once they all sink into the East China Sea, the imperial court will lose a lot!

However, it is obvious that Zheng Haotian underestimated the enemy's courage and determination, and now that the considerable strength of the imperial navy is concentrated at the mouth of the Yangtze River, it is obviously difficult to rush up in a short period of time.

Zheng Haotian didn't plan to deal with the opponent, but he didn't expect that the Westerners' fleet would give up attacking Chongming Island!

Zheng Haotian blocked Van der Vaart's sea ships, the Westerners' plan to contain the imperial navy failed, and the officers of the fleet decided to attack the naval battalion in Zheng Haotian's hands in a frenzy!

More than a dozen main warships quickly advanced towards Zheng Haotian's fleet, and soon the distance between the two was less than five miles.

"Lord Zheng, you see, the unknown fleet in the open sea is approaching us, and now it has entered the range of heavy artillery!"

The sentry shouted.

Zheng Haotian raised his eyebrows, what a boldness!

"The order should be answered, all the warships of the right wing battalion will form a goose-shaped formation, the side chord will be engaged, the rockets will be prepared, and the flowering cannon will be prepared, Lao Tzu will let them try it today!"

Now that the people have already come to the door, Zheng Haotian can't think of fighting, and with an order, the twenty or so warships of the right wing battalion are all lined up and launch a fierce attack on the fleet of the East India Company!

Shells whistled, heading straight for the Dutch warship, on the flagship of the Dutch fleet, Colonel Soria did not expect that the warships of the Ming Empire would take the lead, and it was really unkind, nearly a hundred shells hit the Dutch warships, and the Dutch warships avoided one after another.

One shell after another landed on the Dutch battleship, exploding instantly, blowing up the deck and side of the Dutch battleship to sawdust, gunpowder billowing and even causing the warship to start a fire!

"Damn it! Command, full force, shelling! ”

Soria shouted sharply, and more than a dozen warships were all thrown into the battle, and the artillery fire of the two sides was locked together.

However, Zheng Haotian responded with all his might, but it gave Van der Vaart a chance to escape, and Van der Vaart commanded the ship to pass through the gap between the two sides and rush towards the sea.

Zheng Haotian, who was sharp-eyed, saw at a glance that Van der Vaart's sea ship was about to escape, and his heart was in a hurry, and he shouted: "Beat the flag, order Zhu Tao on the far right, give up the battle, bite the sea ship to the death, and when necessary, launch an artillery bombardment, even if he is sunk by Lao Tzu, he must not give up and return to Dongying!" ”

Zhu Tao's main warship got the order, broke away from the battle sequence, and chased after Van der Vaart, but now the three sailor battalions were dragged by the opponent, seeing that Van der Vaart had broken out of the encirclement, all the warships began to fight and retreat, fleeing into the distance, this time the biggest goal of the big battle is to cover Van der Vaart's escape, as for dividing up and down, it is not necessary, let alone fighting you to the death.

Zheng Haotian and Yang Geng were anxious and angry, and they couldn't help complaining about Cha Zhu and Qin Mufeng, the news had been spread for a long time, why didn't they see the main force behind rushing up? Do you just let these foreign devils run away like this?

The two of them led three battalions of sailors to chase after them, and chased them out of Chongming Island from the mouth of the Yangtze River and came to the East China Sea!

When they entered the East China Sea, they found that both Zheng Cai's fleet and the pirate's fleet had stopped advancing in front of them, for no other reason, due east, a huge fleet had already started the offensive posture, at least forty warships, lined up on the sea.

Exactly the Imperial Navy!

Cha Zhu and Qin Mufeng have long felt that something is wrong, this time the opponent has definitely been planning for a long time, almost every link is fully prepared, if it is a step-by-step search and interception, it is really difficult to block it, simply, then play a big one!

At the sound of the order, all the warships of the Chinese army battalion were dispatched, plus some of the warships of the rear army battalion, there were forty of them, all of them were pulled out, and they plunged straight into the East China Sea from the north side of the Yangtze River estuary, detoured behind the enemy, and put all the enemies in their pockets!

(End of chapter)