Ruffin felt that those hazy fires, accompanied by the shouts of the Ming people sent by the sea breeze, were really a very pleasant symphony of sound and painting.

In the military port of Liuluo Bay, tonight there are not only the warships of the Fujian Navy Division of the Ming Army, but also some of the ships of General Yan in Taiwan.

Because a few days ago, the sailors of the Victoria disguised themselves as maritime merchants and heard the news from Dayuan Port that several of Yan Siqi's ships were dilapidated, and most of the trees on Taiwan Island were excessively flammable and were not suitable for portside planks, so Yan Siqi's ship sailed to Liaoluo Bay, and Xiamen transported teak wood to repair it.

In the Ming dialect taught by Gullit, this is to kill two birds with one stone.

After a slaughter tonight, the Dutch fleet will leave behind the fragments of Ming ships and the corpses of Ming soldiers all over the harbor, turn the rudder and sail, and after replenishing gunpowder in Penghu, continue to rush to Dayuangang in the east, and inflict heavy damage on General Yan's headquarters there.

Only when the Ming State had learned the power of the new Galen warships and cannons in several military ports along the coast of Fujian would they realize that the Portuguese were long gone.

The country from Fujian to Guangdong must and can only be opened to the Dutch, and the entrepot trade from the entire Far East to the South Seas will be dominated by the Dutch!

When Ruffin was imagining this, there was a sudden "boom" on the sea not far away, setting off a monstrous wave.

The splash of water that exploded in the wind fell on the faces of Ruffin and Byrne, and poured it on the two Ahat assault ships in front of the Groningen, drawing a shout from the sailors on board and the sergeants who were about to land on the beach.

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The Ahat assault ships were smaller than the large Galen ships, but they were also one or two hundred tons, but they were still swaying from side to side by the force of the impact.

Byrne said loudly to Ruffin: "The Ming army has finally woken up, and it seems that the cannonball they sent out is not small. ”

Ruffin grinned, revealing his teeth that were shining brightly in the firelight: "Yes, it's not small, but you listen, there is only this sound, this is the true face of the Ming army's warship, God, they are so rich, but they are only equipped with a cannon in the bow." Bourne, have you ever seen a navy more ridiculous than the Ming Army? Hahahaha. ”

There was another loud bang nearby, and the Dutch carefully discerned that a cannonball was fired from a different direction than the Ming ship that had just fired its cannon. This time, the shells were closer, and while they still didn't hit any of the five Galen ships, they almost grazed a few of the Yahat boats and exploded.

An Ahat ship, even heavily tilted by the agitated waves.

There were more than a dozen Dutch soldiers on the ship who fell into the water, and on the sea illuminated by the firelight, those heads could be seen rising and falling with the light and shadow, and then slowly approached the mother ship, and were rescued by the comrades on board and climbed onto the deck.

"Look, the Ming army is the most powerful, but that's it. True, they have ships, but they have already blown up quite a few by us. They had cannons, but one for each ship. To the west of us, in the direction of Xiamen of the Ming Kingdom, there were no reinforcement ships. The Ming people were sluggish and arrogant, and they were completely unprepared for tonight's sneak attack. Warriors, the beach is close at hand, and we will be landing soon! ”

Galen's captains and Ahat's captains howled and encouraged the soldiers and sailors. And the latter rejoiced.

Historically, it would not be until ten years before the Dutch annihilated the Spanish fleet, which had been the dominant maritime power, in the port of Antwerp, and it was not until more than thirty years later that they would engage the British fleet at Dover and the English Channel.

At this time, the Dutch, who had just tasted victory, was nothing more than the development of Batavia, a small island in the Indian Ocean, into the headquarters of the company.

Tonight, for the first time, they were confronted with the coastal defense gates of a vast empire, and they could drive the ships and fire their cannons to break through it without any scruples, and kill the generals and soldiers inside, which was a completely different experience from their slaughter of black slaves or yellow slaves like sheep, and a victory of great pleasure.

"Fire!"

"Forward!"

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In the northwest of Kinmen Island, on the sea between Guningtou and Lieyu, 50 small boats of the Ming army, which had been refurbished for a month, were like poisonous snakes swimming in the muddy shadows in the dark night, silently crossing the narrow waterway and burrowing into the dense fog west of Liaoluo Bay.

Zheng Zhilong sat on one of the boats, and together with more than a dozen prime-aged Ming soldiers on the left and right, he rowed hard.

When the fleet came to the vicinity of Liaoluo Bay, it lowered its sails to avoid being discovered by the Dutch in the fierce battle.

However, paddling by hand did not slow it down too much. Because of its inherently small size, the waves can still push it to move significantly.

The boats were also of a strange shape, with the tip of a goose-like wrought-iron spear nailed to the bow, and a wide plank of wood on top of a canopy made of cowhide, on which a large number of bars of wood were bound with hemp rope, piled up as high as a hill.

If the Minghe battleships that exchanged fire in the distance were fighting lions and tigers, the fifty ships in front of them were like tiny ants.

But ants can swallow elephants.

"Boys, stop the oars, the wind is about to turn northwestward, everyone is ready to put down the cowhide, and then check the iron rings and cables in the front and back of the boat."

In front of Zheng Zhilong, the leader of the ship turned his head and ordered the brothers.

On the surrounding boats, there was also the movement of Kerala.

Immediately, there was silence again.

Suddenly, the lead ship lit a torch. In the bright light, the flag was transmitted accurately backwards.

"Paddle hard, aim at the big boat!"

"Ignition!"

"Jump ship!"

"Connect!"

In the fierce northwesterly wind that suddenly blew in the second half of the night, five or six ships of the first camp took the lead.

Zheng Zhilong and his brothers on the same boat jumped from under the cowhide into the sea the moment the wooden strips poured oil on their heads were ignited.

These sturdy men, who were more familiar with the waves than with the flats, with their solid water skills and their training, tacitly cooperated with each other, dragging the cables accurately and joining the adjacent boats.

The sea around Zheng Zhilong suddenly became brilliant, like a thousand miles of bloody sunset, reflecting the sea water.

The young Hokkien could even see the frightened expression of the Dutch sailors on the nearest Yahat ship, who suddenly faced the Grand Grand Flame ship.

The sea water was cold, but Zheng Zhilong felt that his cheeks were hot.

Having never been in a regular army or a naval battle, he was eager to swim a little further, to see the first burning ships hunt in the wind, the iron spear in the bow piercing the hull of the enemy ship, and then enveloping the two unlucky Ahat ships like hell.

Zheng Zhilong wanted to listen to the screams of the invaders crying for their fathers and mothers, and watched them jump into the sea helplessly, enjoy the picture of the Dutch ships being burned to the ground, and then return to the Golden Gate Guard Station and tell it to Sister Ah Zhu in a vivid voice.

But after all, he didn't have the impulse to take his life as a child's play after completing the military order.

He soon followed the first batch of Ming troops and swam hard to the beach of Liaoluo Bay.

Behind them, the Ming troops on the second and third groups of fireships did the same, but they aimed at the large Galen battleship behind the Yahat ship, the Victoria.

Next, not only the Victoria, but all five Galen battleships of the Dutch will taste the barbecue gift given by the Ming sailors they despise.

A kilometre away, on the top of Mount Kinmen, Gullit, like the captains, couldn't believe his eyes.

At the beginning of the war, although he clearly saw the so-called Ming warships bombarded by artillery fire at the bottom of the mountain, which were just some broken ships moored in the harbor, and also saw clearly the real gunboats of the Ming army, cruising out of the harbor from both sides to meet the Dutch warships, but he secretly scoffed.

Because, the first half of the scene he watched showed the undoubted superior firepower of his motherland fleet.

He never imagined that the so-called firepower was not only guns.

When witnessing the low but dense Ming armies besieging the tall and majestic Dutch Galen ships, Gullitt stammered and exclaimed, "What are those, God, why are those ships like dragons with eyes!" ”

Zheng Haizhu turned his head sideways, glanced at him, and said in his heart, yes, you are in charge of the atmosphere group, and you are very good at applauding.

I'll send you a copy of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" when I go back.

In 1622 and 1633, in the Battle of Penghu Island and the Battle of Liaoluo Bay, the Dutch were all struck by the Ming army's skilled fireship technology. In 1622, Shang Zhou Zuo, the governor of Fujian, Zhang Yongchan, a guerrilla in Xiamen, and Zheng Zhilong, a guerrilla of the Five Tigers, twice expelled the Dutch invaders in naval battles.