It can only be said that the unlucky Tian Chuan and Zheng Cai were easily deceived by the Ming Empire fleet, and they really thought that the Ming Naval Fleet went to the South Seas in order to fight with the Dutch.

After all, even if the expedition to the South Seas goes smoothly and really defeats the Dutch fleet, the loss of the Imperial Navy will definitely not be small, and when the time comes, the Imperial Navy will not have a few months, do not move towards being able to recover its peak combat power, if it is unlucky, then the Ming Imperial Navy can only be built from scratch, maybe in three or five years, the Hirado Domain will be as stable as Mount Tai.

It's just that no one thought that the navy of the Ming Empire drove into the South Seas violently, and it was just for show, when it arrived in Batavia, the artillery was pulled out, and more than 200 captives were lit with sky lanterns, and they returned to Songjiang Mansion from Batavia all the way, and only stayed in Songjiang Mansion for two days, and then killed the Hirado Domain, and it took less than three months before and after, Tian Chuan and Zheng Cai were completely kept in the dark, if there was a wireless telegraph in this era, maybe the news would be transmitted back to the Hirado Domain in time, but there was no telegraph, Relying only on ships and caravans to transmit information back and forth, it will be too slow, and it will not be able to keep up with the speed of the fleet at all!

What's more, now Tian Chuan and Zheng Cai control only a part of the power of the Yiguan Party, but three or four percent of the peak of the Yiguan Party, the penetration and control in Nanyang have been greatly weakened, and it is long gone, which is also the reason why the Dutch dare to open their mouths to the Lion of Tagawa Nanazaemon, or the Ming Empire, even if the Dutch are arrogant and domineering, they will never dare to blackmail like this.

Zheng Cai's fleet was thus blocked in the bay by the fleet of the Ming Empire, this bay is no more than six miles wide and ten miles long, and two or three hundred warships of all sizes are crammed into this narrow area, after all, the entire Hirado Island is not much bigger.

Zheng Cai watched wave after wave of shells, coming head-on, constantly bombarding indiscriminately, in less than half an hour, his fleet suffered heavy losses, and he had to fight again, but he was afraid that the entire fleet would be abandoned, but fortunately, although the fleet officers and soldiers were still a little flustered, the formation had gradually unfolded.

Zheng Cai no longer hesitated, and with an order, the horizontal team turned into a column, and began to charge towards the periphery of the military port, even if it was dangerous to rush out of the military port, as long as it reached the open sea, then the Zheng family fleet may not be the opponent of the Ming Empire's navy! If it's really not someone's opponent, then you have to kill it first, only if you kill it, you can survive, here is a big pocket, the opponent of the other family strangled the pocket opening, so it hasn't been served by others?

Nearly 100 warships, under the command of Zheng Cai, began a frantic assault attack, and the shells on the warships hit the opponent desperately!

However, nearly 100 warships can only use the guns in the bow of the ship, and there is no way to use a large number of side guns, even if there are nearly 100 warships, the artillery that can be used is only two or three hundred, as for the warships in the rear, because of the problem of range, they can not even participate in the battle, after all, the main warship of Daqingtou has a limited displacement, and the guns equipped are not too large-caliber, so the firing range naturally cannot be compared with the heavy guns of giant ships.

Just advanced only two miles away, Zheng Cai's fleet was hit hard, twenty pounds of solid bullets and forty pounds of solid bullets, simply could not pose enough threat to the giant ship, after all, the volume of the giant ship of two thousand or even three thousand materials, for forty pounds of solid bullets, is also too large, a cannonball smashed on the deck, at most the deck smashed a big hole, or smashed out a hole, but for such a huge warship has no impact at all, want to sink three thousand giant ships, It is simply impossible without a few dozen shells.

But the flowering bomb is different, first smashing the warship of the Zheng family's fleet out of a hole, followed by a violent explosion, the deck of the square is about to become a large piece of debris, if it hits the side of the ship below the waterline, it only takes two or three shells to pose a deadly threat to these smaller warships!

The most important thing is that the forward pressure of the fleet, the distance from the Daming naval fleet is getting closer and closer, and it has entered a distance of about three miles, above this distance, even the rockets of the frontmost battleships have been directly attacked, one by one, they rose into the air, with a blazing tail flame, and went straight to the warships of the Zheng family's fleet, which is really a weapon for killing people and setting fire!

Obviously, even if it can break through the encirclement of the Ming naval fleet, the Zheng family's fleet will suffer huge losses, so huge that the Zheng family can't bear it!

Seeing the warships exploding and catching fire, Zheng Cai was shocked and angry, and jumped like thunder, but now the situation is too passive, even if you want to rush out, it is too difficult, the Ming Navy poured out, it is obvious that it is to finish the battle in one battle, and not leave any way for the Zheng family and the Tian Chuan clan to live!

Zheng Cai knew that if there was no effective response, then today would be the end of his fleet, and the strength of the Ming Navy was too strong!

"Order, all the warships approached the three forts, with the help of the firepower of the forts, stabilize the situation on the battlefield, and ordered someone to immediately send a letter to the head of the house, asking him to ask the shogunate fleet to help in the battle!"

Zheng Cai reacted quickly, and soon found a favorable factor, approached the fort, and used the battery's artillery to fight against the Ming Navy!

All the battleships began to approach the three batteries quickly, and now the batteries have launched the most fierce confrontation with the Ming fleet, more than 30 guns poured out the shells without life, as a coastal defense heavy artillery, all the shells are sixty pounds level, even for the giant ships of 3,000 materials, they already have a lot of threat, the Ming fleet can suppress Zheng Cai's fleet, and it is not so easy to suppress the three batteries.

The battle on the battlefield is becoming more and more fierce, seven or eight of the Zheng family's main battleships have been directly sunk by the Ming naval fleet, a large number of flowering cannons, really not covered, the firepower is too powerful, not these big green heads can parry, as for the gunboats smaller than the big green heads, there are even more destroyed, if there is no help from the battery, now the Zheng family fleet is only afraid of a worse ending.

Zheng Haotian gathered dozens of capital battleships to attack the three batteries with all his might, but the guns on the batteries were protected, and it was not so easy to destroy these guns directly, the batteries were not destroyed, but the two main battleships suffered heavy losses and had to withdraw from the battle.

(End of chapter)