Zheng Zhilong deceived Zhao Han, this cargo was purely bragging, he didn't have more than 20 big bird boats.

He only has two!

The main reason is that the wood requirements are too high, and no oak can be found in Fujian and Guangdong, and better quality iron pear wood has been cut down. Hongyi cannons are installed in the bow and stern, and improved Franc cannons are installed on the side of the ship.

Zheng Zhilong's battleship, relying only on artillery battles, could not win against the Dutch battleship at all.

One is that the hull is too brittle, and the other is that the firepower is insufficient.

First of all, there is the problem of the main structure of the hull, the design of the bulkhead plate plus the bottom plate, the lack of a large number of rib reinforcement. The second is that the wood cannot keep up, and strong wood such as oak cannot be found. These two reasons led to the brittle hull of the ship, and even large-caliber guns did not dare to load it on the ship.

In the middle of this situation, Zheng Zhilong imitated the Western-style hull in the later period, and built it with a keel and rib structure. It was a very strange kind of boat, which was seen and painted by the British, with a Western-style hull and a Chinese-style sail.

At this moment, Zheng Zhilong is letting shipbuilders build this kind of warship that combines Chinese and Western weapons, and it is estimated that it will take a year or two before it can be launched.

But in any case, Zheng Zhilong was not afraid of the Dutch, because he could win every naval battle.

Historically, in half a year, the Dutch will go to war with Zheng Zhilong again. Nine Dutch warships, including a three-masted capital ship, were beaten back to Batavia by Zheng Zhilong and did not dare to come out.

This was also the last battle between the two sides, and from then on the Dutch honestly paid protection money, and it was not until Zheng Chenggong attacked Taiwan City that the deadlock was broken.

Just when the Dutch soldiers landed in Macao, Zheng Chenggong personally led a fleet and flew from Guanghaiwei.

Through the clairvoyant mirror, the Datong soldiers on the Macao side observed the situation in the watchtower and immediately sent a message to light the beacon fire.

Wan Bangyan's Guangzhou sailors, who were hiding in Tuen Mun, saw the beacon smoke in the direction of Macao, and hurriedly led three Xinhui ships and more than a dozen black ships to help in the battle.

Fifteen Dutch warships and twelve armed merchant ships saw Zheng Zhilong's fleet appear, and immediately chose to stay away from the coast to avoid being bombarded by the Macao Fort and Zheng Zhilong.

The main battleship of the Netherlands is the "Middleburke", with a displacement of about 500 tons, and it is the only "giant ship" of the Dutch Eastern Fleet.

This giant ship participated in the Battle of Liaoluo Bay, but it was evacuated ahead of schedule before the battle began.

The reason for the evacuation was that it was too large and too bulky, and it was too disadvantageous to fight in the near sea, and it was easy to be attacked by the Ming army using a large number of small boats.

At this moment, Zheng Zhilong led more than 270 large and small ships, most of which were offshore galleys, and quickly approached the Dutch fleet with speed advantage.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The two sides began to shoot at each other, and the intensity of their firepower was completely incomparable to that of the European naval battle.

The "Middleburke", the largest and most powerful on the battlefield, was only a Galen ship with a displacement of 500 tons. The ship has 251 soldiers, 125 sailors, and more than 30 artillery pieces.

The vast majority of Dutch warships had a displacement of about two or three hundred tons. And Zhao Han's Jiangxi Naval Division has a maximum warship displacement of 150 tons.

Of course, a naval warship and an inland river warship must not be compared with the displacement.

If the improved Franc cannon on Zheng Zhilong's ship is installed on the Jiangxi Navy Division's warship, it only takes a few shots to destroy its own hull.

I saw Zheng Chenggong's fleet, coming from the west and south, fanning the Dutch fleet in a fan-shape.

The cannonballs fired by the Zheng family battleship crackled and hit the enemy, but it seemed to tickle the Dutch battleship. Although the improved Furlong cannon has a fast rate of fire and high accuracy, its power is too small, and it can only cause minor damage after half a day.

There were two types of artillery for Dutch battleships, one was heavy artillery, which had an ultra-low hit rate; One is a small cannon, which is no different from the Franc cannon.

However, the consequences are different.

Many Zheng family battleships were smashed into a hole, and the fir hull was too unbeatable.

In the process of approaching the two sides, two of the Zheng family warships were sunk, and the other four were seriously flooded.

As for the Dutch warships, only three were heavily damaged, and they had nothing to do with the Zheng family, which was a record made by the Macao coastal defense artillery.

The wind direction was favorable for the Dutch fleet to break through, and it was late autumn at this time, and the sudden northwest wind blew the Dutch battleships to the southeast quickly, just at the gap in the encirclement on three sides.

"Boom!"

Wan Bangyan was leading the Guangzhou Navy Division to surround it from the east. After only one shell hit, one of the ships was seriously flooded, and the sailors hurriedly withdrew from the battlefield, and if they were slow to move, they were likely to sink.

Zheng Zhilong joined forces with the Guangzhou Naval Division, nearly 300 warships, and ambushed 27 Dutch warships in advance. After the battle, not an inch was built, but seven ships were sunk and severely damaged.

Finally, more than a dozen warships of the Zheng family caught up with three Dutch sea ships, which were the three that were heavily damaged by the shore defense guns.

It was only a matter of time before the group was surrounded, the gang jumped to the side, and the target was captured.

The remaining twenty-four Dutch warships, blown by the northwest wind, barely broke out of the encirclement. However, there were several Galen ships of more than 300 tons, because the sailing speed was too slow, and they were still stuck to the death.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

More than a dozen doors ran sideways, launched one after another at close range, and instantly smashed a Zheng family battleship that caught up into a sieve.

More than 40 Zhengjia warships surrounded the Dutch capital ship "Middleburke".

Then, can't gnaw down.

The Zheng family's warships are too short, and there are only a few that can engage in battle. After more than ten attempts to jump the gang, they couldn't jump at all, and occasionally the sailors who succeeded in jumping the gang were also killed by Dutch muskets.

"Boom, boom!"

Under the close-range bombardment, the Zheng family battleship suffered heavy losses, but the Dutch capital ship was only slightly damaged.

A three-masted galleon with a displacement of 500 tons, the Netherlands called itself a third-class battleship, but in fact it was not ranked in Europe at all. This thing has already blinded Zheng Zhilong's battleship, and it can only be piled up by numbers and human lives.

"Woohoo!"

Zheng Zhilong's ship rushed up, and the arsonist propelled by bamboo rockets fired incendiary materials at the Dutch capital ship.

Several successive firings, all of which failed to ignite.

It must be said that compared with the Battle of Liuluo Bay, the quality of Zheng Zhilong's warships has improved greatly. However, Zheng Zhilong also became more hesitant, he obviously had two big bird ships, but he was unwilling to enter a fierce battle, afraid that his two treasures would be sunk.

The reason is simple, Zheng Zhilong is a pirate with countless factions within him, and many of them are semi-independent.

He must keep his two large bird ships, or he will not be able to suppress the other pirates under his command.

The two large ships built to deal with the Dutch were delayed in doing so, resulting in a long time in front of the Dutch giant ships.

"Boom!"

The heavy cannon in the bow of the "Middleburke", after firing six times in a row, directly sank the Zhengjia battleship that was blocking in front. Seeing that their own warships were slowly silent, the rest of the pirates did not dare to plug the gap, for fear that they would become the target of the next heavy artillery hit.

The Dutch capital ships broke out of the encirclement, and the pirates simply bypassed the big guy and ran to besiege the other enemy ships with their speed advantage.

The two sides fought and ran, and the naval battle lasted for three hours, and after entering the deep sea area, Zheng Zhilong finally ordered to stop the pursuit.

"Gross!"

Wan Bangyan, the commander of the Guangzhou Naval Division, began to get seasick and vomit after the naval battle.

When he came back to count the achievements, Zheng Zhilong was very excited: "Six thief ships were captured, one thief ship (expedition ship) was sunk, and one thief ship ran aground and sank, and our army only damaged 34 large and small warships." Within three or five years, the Red Fan Ghost would not dare to make trouble anymore. ”

What's there to be happy about here?

Wan Bangyan felt incomprehensible that our coalition forces had nearly 300 boats and designed to ambush 27 ships of the other side.

He destroyed more than 30 ships, captured only six enemy ships, and the enemy ran aground and sank one. Among them, three enemy ships were captured and damaged by Macao coastal defense guns.

It's a shame!

Zheng Zhilong said with a smile: "Brother Wan, naval warfare is different from inland water warfare, and fighting land warfare with your Datong army is even more different. The Red Devil's battleships are sturdy and their guns are fierce, and it's good to be able to fight like this. Moreover, there were only more than 30 warships of the Red Fan Ghost, and this time they lost seven, which is equivalent to a loss of nearly a quarter. Six years ago, the Red Devil lost a third of its warships, but it has only now recovered. ”

Wan Bangyan immediately changed his smile and arched his hand and said, "Thanks to General Zheng's effective command!" ”

"Haha, after crippling the Red Devil, no pirates in the South Seas dare to make trouble. Let's go to Guangzhou for a few drinks, and leave it to the subordinates here. Zheng Zhilong said in a happy mood.

Wan Bangyan made some arrangements, so he accompanied Zheng Zhilong to drink, and wrote a letter immediately when he returned to his residence in the evening.

In the letter, he told Zhao Han that Zheng Zhilong, the overlord of the sea, was not worthy of his name at all and had no ambition at all.

In addition, Wan Bangyan asked Zhao Han to order Duoduo to transplant oak trees in Guangdong. He inquired with the Portuguese about the fact that the warships built in Europe were often made of oak trees that were more than 80 years old, and they had to be treated with wood for more than 10 years, and the warships were far superior to the fir warships.

A hundred years of navy, the materials for shipbuilding will take a hundred years.

Oak and teak, both top-quality materials for shipbuilding, are rarely found along the coast of China. It may be common after a few hundred years, but most of them were introduced from abroad, and it was very difficult to find them in China at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

There are a lot of teak trees in the Indochina Peninsula, which are distributed in Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos in later generations.

Moreover, the use of teak to build warships is better than oak warships.

This naval battle completely woke Wan Bangyan up, and he lost a Xinhui ship, three black ships, and fortunately he was able to share the three captured Dutch warships.

After Zhao Han received this letter, he immediately ordered the oak to be harvested and transported over the mountains and mountains to Guangzhou for shipbuilding.

This is a native Chinese oak, and the wood is of the highest quality. However, the trees that can be used for shipbuilding must be at least seventy or eighty years old, and they can basically only be found in the deep mountains and old forests, and the transportation cost will be very high.

As for the offensive and defensive battle in Macau, there is no suspense.

As soon as the naval battle began, the Dutch soldiers who landed were all stupid. Their ships are retreating, and they ...... Lao Tzu hasn't been on the boat yet!

More than 1,000 Dutch, Japanese, and Malay soldiers were preparing to attack the battery. Seeing that the naval battle was starting and the guns were getting farther and farther away, the commander immediately gave the order to retreat.

"Boom, boom!"

Under the bombardment of the batteries, pursued by the defenders, the retreat quickly turned into a rout.

Don't count on the morale of these people, a group of Dutch troops who don't have enough salaries to feed themselves, a group of Japanese ronins hired to rob, a group of semi-slave Malay natives. Their combat quality is not much better than that of the Ming officers and soldiers.

Sixteen years ago, Dutch soldiers who had been captured by the defenders of Macao begged to convert to Catholicism in order to survive.

Catholicism and Protestantism are regarded as heretics and are fighting for their lives. Not only was the Dutch Army warlike, but their faith was also questionable.

Of course, the Portuguese are not much better.

Due to the exploitation of the Portuguese king, many Portuguese in India directly converted to green religion and Hinduism......

"There's another one here!"

New Zealand's discoverer, Australia's surveyor, 35-year-old Abel Tasman, was sunk on his expedition ship. Finally swam back to the shore, and was met by a group of Macao defenders.

Abel Tasman, a Dutch Protestant, raised his hands very simply and shouted in Portuguese: "I'm a Catholic, don't kill me!" ”