Zhang Jingyi was very helpless.

He only has one ship.

Although it is true that the opponent can be directly beaten by poor technique, it is impossible to achieve total annihilation.

At least for now, the combined fleet is terrified.

The ships have begun to scramble for their lives.

They fled in different directions, and the ironclad ships at this time, even if they were fast, could not pursue them back one by one.

Therefore, since you want to solve the problem, then the best way is to kill the three soldiers.

After raging for a while, sinking dozens of ships, and dozens of large ships being damaged, Zhang Jingyi had to consider the problem of fuel and artillery shells.

Thereupon...... Just when all the crews and sailors of the Combined Fleet were conscious that their lives were in danger, the great ship had slowly departed, coming and going faster.

Of course......

Before leaving, a ship flying the royal flag was directly knocked out of a large hole.

When countless people fell into the water, Liu Wenxiu, the accompanying Jinyi Wei Qianhu official, had sharp eyes and saw a group of people escorting a few gorgeously dressed people onto a lifeboat.

So, he volunteered, directly brought a dozen water ghosts, entered the water along the rope ladder, slaughtered the guards alive, and then brought three of them directly.

In fact...... According to the actual situation, the other party can resist completely, after all, there are more of them, and they are also in the water, and the power of firearms cannot be exerted.

It's just that by this time, these people have already been frightened, and they are like fish waiting to be slaughtered.

When Liu Wenxiu triumphantly boarded the big ship, he hurriedly told the people on the ship about his 'bravery', but he was called directly.

When he arrived at Zhang Jingyi's command cabin, as soon as Zhang Jing saw him, he glared at him angrily, and scolded: "Who let you act without permission, is your life expensive or the life of those pirates?" Just for a few pirates, they are so dangerous, do you still think this is land? Liu Wenxiu, you bastard, you are no longer a pawn, nor is it the Donglin Army, you are a Jinyi guard, a thousand households, and it is not your job to be the first soldier! ”

This stinky scolding made Liu Wenxiu hang his head, and his voice was obviously much lower: "Teacher, the student saw that the person was dressed in gorgeous clothes, not an ordinary person...... I thought to myself......"

"Humph!" After Zhang Jing scolded, he still put on a reluctant look, and then said: "Let's go take a hot bath first, the sea is cold at this time, and I won't take an example." ”

Liu Wenxiu looked up at Zhang Jingyi suddenly, and the whole person was like being amnestied, and hurriedly saluted: "Yes." ”

With that, he ran away.

When it comes to bathing, it's not easy to bathe at sea because you need fresh water. Even Zhang Jingyi, who has always loved cleanliness, also maintained a record of not taking a bath for seven or eight days, although Liu Wenxiu was scolded, he immediately jumped up again.

The teacher scolded fiercely, but in Liu Wenxiu's opinion, this is not an example, but it seems to be saying: dare next time!

After scolding, Zhang Jingyi still couldn't be idle, and then looked at the map.

The only thing that the ironclad is torn up is that its maintenance and supply must pass through specific ports.

At least in this era, not every port could provide ironclad supplies and repairs.

Now that the Ryukyus have been taken, and then after this battle, the ironclad ship must find a place to resupply.

If not, Zhang Jingyi assured that this steam-powered ironclad ship and ten boilers would all be broken.

On the one hand, this thing is already ingenious and too sophisticated in this era.

On the other hand, it is because of the bottleneck of technical capabilities, and after all, this is only an experimental product, and the problems exposed by this ship can provide a lot of experience for building ships in the future.

And this thing, not to mention anything else, just to burn coal, must be specially supplied in this era, and it is by no means an ordinary coal shovel that dares to be stuffed into the boiler.

Today, in addition to Lushun, the only place in the world to supply this kind of coal is Tianjin Wei.

Therefore, Zhang Jingyi's plan is to go back to Tianjin Wei first, and when the supplies are sufficient, he will kill them again, and then sweep all these pirates away.

Just when he was thinking, Liu Wenxiu went and returned.

"Teacher, teacher." Liu Wenxiu called eagerly.

Zhang Jingyi pulled down his face, then looked up at Liu Wenxiu, who had run to him, and said angrily: "What's wrong?" ”

Liu Wenxiu said: "Teacher...... The three people who were arrested just now are strange. ”

"Strange?" Zhang Jing looked at Liu Wenxiu fixedly, and said with doubts: "What? ”

Liu Wenxiu said: "One of them is a Han general, named Yang Xi, and the other is a monk. The last person was a director of the Dutch East India Company, one of the seventeen directors, and his position was of paramount importance. ”

At this moment, with the British defeating the Spanish Armada.

Spain was weakening, and the British had not yet established hegemony over the whole of Europe.

In fact, it is also understandable that the British victory in the Spanish naval battle was carried by a certain element of luck.

Therefore, this gave the Dutch people who later became known as the coachmen of the sea a huge bonus period.

The Dutch people rose rapidly, claiming to have tens of thousands of ships, and seized the world's wealth through commercial interests.

The Dutch colonized and commercially controlled almost all of them by the East India Company.

Therefore, it can be said that at this time in this world, the Dutch East India Company has almost the largest wealth in the world, and has 100,000 employees and mercenaries, even if it is a colony, it is the best existence today.

There are people, money, land, and many new ships, Zhang Jingyi actually predicted that this attack on the Ming Dynasty should be the Netherlands threading the needle in Europe, because the dirt between the royal families is continuous, but the Dutch East India Company, which is purely focused on the interests of merchants, makes it easier for everyone to sit together.

And the Dutch East India Company, the people who can really call the shots are the seventeen board members who are called 'seventeen gentlemen'.

They controlled almost all the diplomatic, military, financial, and communications powers of the East India Company, and below the board of directors were the executive committees, and below the committees, there were many branches, extending their tentacles into every corner of the world.

These directors, although they do not have crowns, may be enormous.

The fact that one of the directors personally joined the fleet on this occasion clearly shows the importance that the East India Company attached to this war.

It's just that what I never expected was ...... He capsized.

At this time, Zhang Jingyi said calmly: "Don't make a fuss, clean up for an hour or two first......"

Liu Wenxiu immediately said: "Teacher, he hasn't cleaned it up yet, he has already said that he wants to speak." ”

Zhang Jingyi: "......"

The other party is very interesting, but if you think about it carefully, you can actually understand it, businessman, at this time, how dare you be hard-mouthed?

Zhang Jing said immediately: "Then clean up again, the procedure still has to go, you can't just give a little bitterness because he is willing to speak, and send it here later." ”

"Yes."

In fact, Liu Wenxiu was a little unhappy about the execution.

Because the Jinyi guards who came out of the military academy often disdain to play with torture to extract confessions and the like, in their opinion, this is the dirty work done by people like Wu Changchun.

But now in this vast sea, where to find Wu Changchun?

So more than half an hour later, two people were pushed in.

One was a Han Chinese in a scarf shirt, and the other was a Dutch covered in dried blood.

As soon as the Han man came in, he immediately bowed down and said, "The students are all dead." ”

When the Dutch saw this, they were obviously frightened, and they also imitated the appearance of the Han people, and knelt on the ground, babbling something in their mouths.

The two of them desperately buckled their heads like pounding garlic.

Zhang Jingyi: "Who is this?" ”

Zhang Jingyi pointed to the Dutch people.

Han said: "The student's name is Yang Xi, and this person is the director of the East India Company, and his name is Mark and Fante......"

Zhang Jing nodded and glanced at the guy named Mark: "Where is he from?" ”

Yang Xi said: "Netherlands." ”

He replied like this, in fact, Zhang Jingyi knew that this Yang Xi was just a simple translator, and he didn't know much about this person named Mark, he only knew that he was the Netherlands, but he didn't know where he was from the Netherlands.

Zhang Jingyi continued: "What is he here for?" ”

"Student...... What do students think...... It's the Overseer......"

"Overseers?" Zhang Jingyi glanced at this Yang Xi.

Yang Xi said: "This time the countries poured into the country, the soldiers and food are sufficient, among which the Netherlands has funded the most money and grain, and the supplies are also from the Ryukyu port in the Netherlands, the Dutch people regard this time as a huge investment, to put it bluntly, it is to do business, since it is to do business, then it is necessary to open source and reduce expenditure, on the one hand, to control costs, and secondly, to ensure profits." ”

When Zhang Jing heard this, he sneered: "Burning, killing and looting is also business? Killing is also business? Do you have any misunderstandings about the word business? ”

Yang Xi was so frightened that he didn't dare to answer.

And the director, Mark, was also trembling.

Zhang Jingyi: "How many people did they dispatch this time, how many countries were involved, and how many ships were used?" ”

Yang Xi didn't seem to know much about this, so he went to ask this Mark, but Mark was like a treasure, and he was busy revealing it.

The number of combatants is around 70,000, and the number of other personnel is 120,000 when it comes to logistical supplies and civilian and religious personnel. In addition, the manpower used is even more, of course, most of the manpower of the latter is the native manpower of the colony, in their eyes, in fact, it is no different from animal power.

There were 1,100 ships, including 621 warships, but when crossing the Tianzhu Strait, a storm was encountered, more than a dozen ships sank, and more than 40 ships had to dock to repair.