At the end of March of the 47th year of Wanli, the night fog on the sea from Xiamen to Kinmen became thicker and thicker day by day.

The sailors, maritime merchants and fishermen in the Zhangquan and Xiajin areas have long been accustomed to such weather.

Every year from late autumn to early summer of the following year, the turn of the year begins, no matter how strong the northwest wind or southeast wind, the vast fog cannot be dispersed.

Golden Gate, Liuluo Bay.

Under the bunker of the guardhouse, the door to one of the cells was opened.

Gullitt instinctively raised his hand to cover his eyes before the light of the torch that suddenly shone into the dark world.

Two Ming guards came in, untied his ankle chains, and pointed a knife at him: "Go out by yourself." ”

Gullitt was immediately horrified: "What are you going to do?" You must not slaughter civilians! This will cause the two countries to go to war! ”

"Stop talking nonsense, get up and follow us. Don't kill you. What a timid foreign monkey. A Ming guard dragged Gullit up.

The other guard was a little gentler and pointed outside: "You won't lose your head, the master let us take you to Miss Zheng." ”

When Gullitt heard this, his panic turned into burning anger.

He shook off the guards and cursed a Dutch swear phrase, which seamlessly transformed into a newly learned Chinese metaphor.

"I was about to question this femme fatale!"

When the foreign monkey thinks of the femme fatale, the monkey nature seems to have turned into a tiger.

Gullitt strode forward, his head held high, and he followed the two guards with his head held high.

When he felt the chill break through the already dirty woolen coat on his body, he realized that he had actually arrived at the top of the guard.

Zheng Haizhu and Xu Xinsu were chatting around the small red clay stove, drinking tea.

Turning his head to see Gullit, Zheng Haizhu stopped talking about future cooperation with Xu Xinsu, poured a cup of hot tea, walked over and handed it to the Dutchman.

"If you come to see the battle, you have to see the dawn. Bake your hands, it's cold on the mountain. ”

The swear words that Gullit held back all the way were blocked back by the words "come and see the war" before he could say it.

Seeing Gullitt staring at the pair of Persian cat-like eyes, Zheng Haizhu added: "Your company has given up on you. Attack directly tonight. ”

Gullit's heart fluttered.

Ruffin was a belligerent coachman, and apparently didn't care about the lives of his company's senior advisers and more than a dozen excellent sailors.

But he is also a man, and he can't cry in front of a woman to survive, especially when there are many Ming men around.

Gullit then held up his pride and said with a straight face: "Zheng, it was you who set the insidious trap first, ah, this trap must have been approved by your government." It's you Ming people who don't have credit, our general, it's right not to negotiate with you! ”

Whole Haizhu-for-tat: "Gullit, give you an idiom, the thief shouts to catch the thief." It's about you Dutch. The thieves we Ming people talk about are robbers. You wanted to occupy Penghu Island in our Ming Kingdom more than ten years ago, but you didn't occupy it at that time, and now you are coming to occupy it again, what is it that is not a robber? If you don't go through the Ming government to collect a large number of slave laborers from the hands of black market merchants like me, and transport them to your construction sites and plantations, what are you not robbers? Our sailors seized the slave ship, and gave it to Ruffin with the seal of the general soldier, and ordered your ships to leave our land within a certain time, and to sign an agreement. Shouldn't the hunter set a trap for a hungry wolf like you robbers? ”

This Ming dialect is not difficult and profound, Gulit understands it, and he was choked for a while, and he only stared at Zheng Haizhu in a restful manner.

Xu Xinsu smiled on the side: "What kind of trap is not a trap, it is already a piece of shit, do you blame others for picking off your pants to make you ugly?" All right, Dutch gentleman, sit here and watch the play. Miss Zheng said, you are a businessman, your brain is not too stupid, and you used to buy a lot of goods from our Ming Dynasty in Yuegang. The battle is over, and a seat will be reserved for you at the negotiating table. ”

……

About half an hour later, it was due south of Liuluo Bay.

"Drop the sails!"

"Ships in formation, port side facing twelve o'clock!"

"Fill the gunpowder!"

"The gunners of the Groningen are in position!"

"The Victoria gunner is in position!"

"The mid-boo gunner is in position!"

"The Orange gunners are in position!"

"The Deft gunner is in position!"

After the fog barrier, the Herald's Dutch language continued to reach Ruffin's ears, who was standing in the center of the port side of the Groningen.

Ruffin looked to the left and right, and five large Galen battleships lined up horizontally, and seven or eight three-masted Ahart assault ships with a displacement of one or two hundred tons scattered nearby, formed the most beautiful naval battle formation in the eyes of the Dutch.

At this moment, the Dutch artillery adjusted the elevation angle of ten degrees, which can form an effective lethality at a range of two kilometers.

Their current task is to bombard the Ming warships in the bay first.

As they approached the beach of Liao Lo Wan, the elevation angle of the cannon gradually became smaller until it was adjusted to a level to bombard the military installations on the shore.

Ruffin was pleased with the dense fog over the sea and the southeasterly winds that strengthened during the night.

The harbor is fixed, and so are the ships sleeping in the harbor, and the fog barrier is not only not a problem for the Dutch who take the initiative to attack fixed targets at night, but also helps to hide their tracks. The southeasterly night wind blowing from Penghu Island to Kinmen made the Dutchmen's boats much faster than usual.

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Ruffin picked up the binoculars. In the chaos brought about by the sea fog, it takes a lot of effort for the human eye to discern the general outline of Kinmen Island.

It did not illuminate the lights of the heavens, the mountains, and the sea, piercing the chaos and entering Ruffin's eyes.

"The warriors of the Ming Kingdom are sleeping heavily." Ruffin pursed his lips and teased Captain Byrne of the Groningen beside him.

Bourne responded with a smile: "Then use our artillery fire to wake them up!" ”

"Fire!"

"Boom-"

With a loud earth-shattering sound, a 48-pound heavy shell on board the Groningen tore through the foggy night curtain and headed straight for Liuluo Bay.

The other four gunboats in the front line opened fire on the other hand, and the sea of Liuluo Bay, which had been quiet and silent a moment ago, suddenly rumbled with cannon roar and dazzling fire.

The deafening roar, the orange flames, the pungent smell of sulfur, and the high-pitched cheers instantly stimulated the adrenaline of the male beasts on the sea, making their desire to kill and destroy stronger than the raging waves.

After a burst of bombardment, and during the interval between the second round of fire, Ruffin and his captains keenly noticed that the southeast wind seemed to have changed direction, restraining the Dutch fleet from moving northwestward.

But the aggressors are less anxious about it. The fleet was already so close to Liuluo Bay, and the heavy and powerful shells with an astonishing range could still be blown away by the southwest wind?

In fact, from the telescope, the officers had already proudly seen that the shadowy but growing orange-red fire balls behind the fog curtain indicated that the ships of the Ming army had become the first victims.

(2nd update later)