A few days later, a large fleet slowly approached the harbor of Batavia, and it was the Ming naval fleet.

The whole of Batavia has already been shaken by now, such a huge fleet, for many years, has never been seen, even the fleet of the East India Company, is scattered in various harbors, patrolling in all directions, rarely when all assembled, in the entire South Seas, there is no force that can allow the Dutch to gather all their forces.

This time, differently, the Dutch finally had a formidable opponent, one that could really compete with the East India Company at sea, so to speak!

Similarly, the Dutch fleet of the East India Company was also cruising around the harbor, guarding against the sudden attack of the Ming Navy on the Batavia Harbor, and had to be guarded against, this Ming Navy fleet was too powerful!

It turned out that everyone thought that the powerful Ming Navy that Soria said was still making excuses for their losses, and naturally they wanted to describe the Ming Fleet as extremely powerful, but when they saw it today, everyone was shocked.

The Ming Empire unexpectedly built a fleet that was stronger than the Zheng family's Fujian Naval Division in a quiet manner, and it was definitely only strong but not weak!

Perhaps, there are more warships in the Fujian Naval Division, and there are no less than 300 warships in the Fujian Naval Division at the peak, which is much more than the number of warships in the Ming Naval Fleet, but it is meaningless to compare the number alone, the Dutch have been on the sea for hundreds of years, and their understanding of naval warfare is deeper than anyone else.

The Zheng family's most powerful Daqingtou main warship is only five or six hundred tons, equipped with more than a dozen red-coated artillery, and then dozens of Francophone artillery, the caliber is too small, and the power is limited, so Zheng Zhilong created the fire dragon tactic, using the fire dragon ship to get close to the large warship and set fire to the ship, which is the tactic that Zheng Zhilong had to adopt under the reality that the strength of the Fujian naval division is not as good as the Dutch fleet. In a word, fighting alone, the main battleship of the Zheng family is far from being the opponent of the main battleship of the Dutch fleet, and can only rely on numbers and desperate efforts to win the victory.

In that year, in the battle of Liuluo Bay, the Dutch were defeated and lost, but it was obvious that the Dutch only sent dozens of warships, plus some warships under Liu Xiang's command, the strength was limited, but Zheng Zhilong gathered almost two hundred warships, and finally paid a huge price to defeat the Dutch fleet, Zheng Zhilong's losses were even greater than the Dutch, and it can only be said to be a miserable victory.

However, look at the Daming naval fleet in front of you, it is completely different from the Fujian naval division, they are all big ships and huge guns, and even more than a thousand tons of giant warships, which are comparable to the flagship of the Dutch, seven or eight hundred tons of main warships, dozens, Daqingtou in the Ming naval fleet, can no longer be counted as the main battleship, this is not counted, just the large volume, but not to make the Dutch shocked, the most shocking thing for the Dutch is that the guns on the battleship, behemoths, just look at the volume, Just know that it is definitely not to be underestimated!

It's terrible, fortunately I didn't rush to the Ming Navy, if it really started, it would be difficult to say whether the outcome would be true, the Dutch Navy was strong, but the Ming Navy was also not soft tofu, once the decisive battle began, it would be a lose-lose, and the East India Company would definitely not have the strength to control the entire South Seas!

Cohen felt a fluke in his heart, and he didn't forget to glared at Van Gaal and the others fiercely, these people either instigated themselves to do something to the Ming Dynasty and ransack the Ordnance Division, or encouraged themselves to strike first in the South Seas and encircle and annihilate the Ming Navy in the South Seas, this is simply a joke, hurt the enemy a thousand, lose eight hundred, and then let others take away the benefits, that's a fool's thing!

These bastards, don't bring such a cheat!

"His Majesty William I of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Earl of the Crown of the Netherlands, Governor of the East India Company, Cohen, welcome the arrival of Mr. Messenger of the Ming Empire!"

Zheng Sen's handsome ship stopped steadily at the dock of Batavia's harbor, and without Zheng Chenggong and others walking down from the warship, Cohen had already greeted him with his cadres, bowed slightly to Zheng Chenggong and others, performed a gentleman's courtesy, and said with a smile.

Zheng Chenggong's family background, when he was a child, he dealt with foreigners, was proficient in Chinese and Dongying, and was no stranger to Dutch.

Zheng Chenggong hurriedly stood up and said in a deep voice: "This envoy was sent by Emperor Daming to Nanyang, Count Cohen, I have been waiting for a long time!" This is General Yang Geng, the deputy envoy of the Nanyang appointed by the Ming Emperor, and this general is the chief inspector of my Ming Imperial Naval Fleet! ”

Everyone greeted one after another, but they were also in harmony.

It wasn't until he entered Cohen's Governor's Mansion that Cohen brought the rhythm to the point.

"Lord Zheng, your father and I are also old acquaintances, quite a friendship, I heard that Ling Zun has passed away, it is really regrettable, the old man will never say goodbye, and we can no longer drink and talk together......"

Zheng Chenggong's face changed, Zheng Zhilong is now a hidden pain in his heart, almost, his father will bring the entire Zheng family into a desperate situation, if it weren't for the emperor's magnanimity, the Zheng family would really be extinct.

"Count Cohen, what my father did has nothing to do with me, now I am a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor is mighty, as a courtier, I am loyal to the state and will never give up!"

That means, don't be close, and don't plant thorns between me and other colleagues, I don't eat this!

"Then, I don't know what happened to Lord Zheng's mission to Nanyang this time?"

Cohen smiled.

Zheng Chenggong sneered: "Count Cohen, we Ming people don't say secret words, more than a month ago, the Ordnance Department of the Ming Empire was suddenly looted by pirates, a large number of firearms and ammunition were robbed, and dozens of lives were killed in vain, don't you have any explanation?" ”

Cohen's face was full of astonishment, and he exclaimed, "Is there such a thing? Ben Du is far away in Batavia, and he has no information, and he has not even heard of it! Who is so bold as to dare to spread wild in the territory of the Ming Empire? ”

"Cohen, don't you pretend to be hungry, dare you do it?"

Cha Zhu on the side said coldly: "We blocked this cargo pirate at the mouth of the Yangtze River, if it wasn't for the sudden killing of two fleets, how could this group of pirates escape?" After a fierce battle, we captured more than 200 people, at least 30 of them were you Dutch, all of them elite soldiers on the battleship, why, can you still escape? ”

(End of chapter)