Chapter 1503: Battle of Batavia (5)

By the time Reynolds arrived at the battlefield, the Chinese army and the rear army with the Dutch fleet as the main body had more than 20 warships left, completely collapsed, began to lose their formation, and retreated towards the northern seas, unable to hold on, really unable to hold on, the attack of the Ming fleet was too fierce, at the beginning, it was still able to parry, after a long time, the battleships were damaged and sunk, where can the main force of the Western fleet withstand it?

Looking at the Dutch warships fleeing in all directions on the sea, Reynolds's angry eyes breathed fire, Marquez! This bastard actually let his fleet face it head-on and send him to death, he himself actually led the Spanish fleet to hide far away, shit, Lao Tzu is not finished with you!

But what if it's not over? The losses of the Dutch fleet are too serious, and they have been completely broken up, even if the Ming Empire stops the war and withdraws to the territory of the Ming Empire, I am afraid that the East India Company will be difficult to control the rule of the Java Islands, as for the entire South Sea, not to mention, if you don't have enough strength, who will bird you?

"Order, all the warships pounce on it, support our fleet, fuck Lao Tzu and the Ming fleet!"

Reynolds commanded dozens of small warships and rushed towards the Ming fleet!

"Your Majesty, look, another Western fleet is coming!"

Zheng Cai was taken aback, and hurriedly said to Zhu Jie: "Are we also transferring the fleet that protects the troop carriers behind, almost all the warships of the Dutch and Spanish fleets have been assembled here!" ”

Zhu Jie sneered: "So what? It's not worth it, we continue to increase the number of warships, but dozens of small warships, and we don't even need to open fire, our heaven-class battleships and earth-class warships collide directly, and they can all sink them, not at all at the same level, what are you afraid of them? Order, the second column moved towards Western reinforcements, and defeated them all! The third column continues the siege! ”

Zheng Cai hurriedly waved the order flag in his hand and commanded the battle on the battlefield.

Zheng Haotian and Cha Xuan saw the order flag on the super battleship, and immediately broke away from the siege battle sequence and pounced on Reynolds.

As soon as it came up, there was a salvo, and countless shells smashed down on Reynolds's small battleship, splitting his head and covering his face, Reynolds was not ready for a fierce battle, and was given a blow to the head by the Ming army, and the seven or eight small boats in the front were hit by flowering shells one after another, and then a fire broke out!

The largest tonnage of these small warships is only two or three hundred tons, and each of them is only a few dozen tons, in front of the heaven-class battleship, it is like a mouse meeting a cat, the difference is too far, even the size of the ground-class battleship is three to five times their size, or even larger, and the largest number of artillery pieces is only more than twenty guns, most of them are fifteen-pound solid bullets, occasionally there are some twenty-pound solid bullets and heavy guns, not to mention sixty-pound guns, eighty-pound guns, even forty-pound guns are rare, facing heaven-class battleships and earth-class battleships, Even if a dozen or twenty shells hit the hull of the ship, it would not cause serious injuries to the Tian-class battleship.

But being attacked by flowering cannons, it doesn't take much, just four or five shells are enough for these small warships to sink directly, and if it is a small warship weighing tens of tons, two shells are enough to send it away.

Where is such a rabble the opponent of the main battleships of the Ming fleet?

Seeing that the small warships sank directly, Reynolds was furious, and his face was already black to the bottom of the pot, but there was no way, sixty or seventy large battleships, the number is not less than his own battleships, but the volume is several times his own, and the offensive firepower is even more different, this is a fart!

Zheng Haotian and Cha Xuan didn't care whether it was a giant ship or a small ship, as long as it was a Western warship, it must be sunk, and they would never leave them a chance to escape.

It's over, it's completely over!

Reynolds's heart was full of despair, although the reinforcements he brought attracted a main force of the Ming fleet, but the Dutch fleet still couldn't get rid of the siege of the Ming fleet, the combat power of the Ming fleet was too strong, damn which one of the games did Marquez play, his fleet ran far away, and he actually left the main force here to harden the powerful attack of the Ming fleet, isn't this special self-destruction? His own Dutch fleet was finished, and he thought his Spanish fleet would be able to escape?

The only thing that Reynolds is fortunate about now is that the main fleet under Marquez has begun to fight back, after all, the number of battleships in Yang Geng's first column is not much, only two large battalions, but more than 40 warships, but Marquez is with more than 70 warships, almost twice as many as the first column, hard fighting, Yang Geng is definitely not Marquez's opponent, after all, the difference in strength is too much, after entangled with Marquez for nearly two hours, Yang Geng's fleet still slowly retreated, Anyway, now the main force of the Western Fleet has been completely damaged, and there is no threat to the Ming Fleet at all, the first column and the third column are enough to suppress Marquez's battleships, even if they are combined with more than 20 main warships behind, they have lost the opportunity, and they are definitely not the opponent of the Ming fleet.

"Your Majesty, General Zheng, you see, in the east, the forward fleet of the Western Fleet has returned from the southeast, and Lord Yang can't stop them!"

On the sentry tower, the sentry said to Zhu Jie and Zheng Cai urgently.

Zhu Jie smiled: "What if you can't stop it?" We have won a great victory, and we have ordered Yang Geng to retreat straight back, and we will meet the Spanish fleet for a while! ”

Zheng Cai said with a smile: "Your Majesty, in the battle of Manila Bay, the Dutch caught us off guard, and we were not able to have a good fight with them, this time, we must not let the Spaniards run away again!" ”

As he spoke, Zheng Cai waved the order flag in his hand and ordered the first column to start a rapid retreat, and the first column broke away from the battle and quickly retreated to the back!

Marquez finally rushed to the battlefield, but, what caught his eye was full of chaos, the rear army of the Chinese army, dominated by the Dutch fleet, had been beaten to pieces, and it was even difficult to find a few intact battleships, the flowering cannons of the Ming fleet were too powerful, as long as they hit the battleship, they would definitely blow up a large area!

"Beat the flag, let the friendly forces on the opposite side start a counterattack, and the whole army should fight, and fight with the Ming fleet!"

(End of chapter)