Chapter 367: Defeat the invaders

Although the Dutch warships were equipped with super-heavy naval guns such as the Hongyi cannon, they had to get a little closer because of the turbulence of the sea, the distance was long, the power was weak, and the attack was not accurate.

The Macao Fort also has Hongyi cannons, although the number is not as large as the cannons of so many warships, but there are covers, not bumpy and accurate.

Moreover, the ship's naval guns could only fire with one side of the cannon at a time.

It is not easy for a warship to turn around, it is necessary to go around in a big circle at sea to use the cannon on the other side, and only do it when the cannon on one side needs to be cooled.

Seeing that the Dutch warship was within cannon range, a new army gunner took over the Portuguese gunner, and the new army gunner adjusted the angle and direction, and then gave the order to reload and ignite.

A bombardment hit the powder magazine of the Dutch battleship, causing a large explosion.

The battleship exploded and burned, and only a few of the gunners and sailors on the ship jumped into the water to escape for their lives.

The loud explosion shocked the Dutch fleet and stunned the Japanese and enemy infantry who were still resisting on the shore.

The rest of the new army began to lead the Macao militia and the people to counterattack together, taking advantage of the cover of the thick smoke of the enemy formation to quickly approach the enemy army.

The New Army bombarded the Dutch with grenades, and the Macao militia and civilians then greeted the Dutch Army with various weapons, and women and children could also use bamboo arrows and slingshots to wound the enemy, and the Dutch Army was defeated under the leadership of the New Army.

The Japanese ronins did not want to die in vain, and when they found that they could surrender without dying, they disarmed and surrendered one after another. They are not the kind of dead soldiers who have been brainwashed by militarism in later generations, they are mercenaries in order to survive.

"Da Ming is here! Macau is my Ming land, rented to the Francophone people, but after all, it is the place of the Ming Dynasty! ”

The shouts of the Ming army could be heard in the distance.

Cai Fuyi also transferred the Guangdong battalion to support.

He had already prepared for a long time, dividing the soldiers and horses into two major groups, one with great fanfare, to deter the enemy and encourage the military and people of Macao.

And another group of thousands of people, quietly approaching without a banner, directly cutting off the back road of the landed Dutch.

The Dutch army, which was throwing off its armor and fleeing in embarrassment, had already collapsed, and a group of three people and five people ran away with their heads bowed, not forgetting to call friends, they did not lose their way, they knew how to run towards the sea to the sound of the waves.

Before reaching the beachhead, the road was blocked by the Cantonese battalion soldiers, and a burst of guns fired, and the Dutch rebels who ran in the front fell a large number, and the rout soldiers behind had to turn around to meet the pursuers.

Under the attack of the two phases, the enemy army cried and cried for his mother. The enemy and us were in a scuffle, neither the artillery on the Portuguese batteries nor the naval guns of the Dutch could be bombarded with shells, and the two sides could only bombard each other from the air.

The Portuguese and Cantonese battalions killed no less than 300 Dutch troops and captured more than 400 prisoners, as did Captain Hans Luffin.

The remaining hundreds of people had long lost their will to fight, and some of the Dutch soldiers swam and fled to the sea, where they were rescued by the battleship from the small boat, and the rest were buried in the sea to feed the fish.

Lei Jason has lost almost all his melee forces, and the rescued soldiers have no weapons and ammunition, most of them have been wounded, and Lei Jason's battleships only have sailors and gunners, and it is impossible to occupy Macao.

It is true that only more than 100 Portuguese soldiers participated in the war in Macao, and the rest of the people who participated in the war were militiamen and ordinary people, and the people of Macao opened Ray Jason's eyes.

Whether it was the Portuguese, or the mulattos and the black slaves, they could even share the same hatred.

There were also hundreds of unidentified Ming troops who finally cut off the retreat of the Dutch army, whose combat effectiveness was far from comparable to that of the Dutch mercenaries.

Lei Jason never thought that the Ming Dynasty had such a powerful army, in his opinion, the short Japanese people were weak, would the Ming Dynasty be stronger?

Obviously, the Chinese in Nanyang are not powerful.

In fact, the Dutch people don't know, this is the relationship between home and away.

The Chinese in Macau were in the territory of China, and they were different from the Chinese in Nanyang, and they fought for the defense of their homeland just like the army of the Ming Dynasty.

He was furious, and there were not many people on board, all of whom were attracted to Ray Jason's attention, and he didn't even notice that the back road had been cut off by Cai Fuyi's warship.

The fleet of the Netherlands was lined up, the cannons on the north side were loaded, and they were just ready to bombard Macao, when 50 warships appeared on the southern sea, completely surrounding them.

The last time Cai Fuyi met Wang Hongyu, Wang Hongyu asked him to build a fleet, escort and trade, and the merchants of Guangdong all had ships, many of which were armed merchant ships, and some of them were transformed to form a large armed merchant ship.

Cai Fuyi dispatched Cao Xibin, the commander-in-chief of Guangdong, to lead the battalion and the sailors of the guard post to be prepared.

This time, the Dutch only had eight large warships and three medium-displacement warships, and these armed merchant ships did not need to be dispatched, and Cao Xibin's navy could deal with them, so as not to expose their strength, Wang Hongyu said that the decisive battle with the Netherlands was also fast.

It was a southerly wind, and the ships raised their sails and flew fast without paddling, and the sound of 50 ships drifting in the wind was drowned out by the sound of the waves.

Due to the lack of manpower, Lei Jiesen loaded the cannonballs towards the cannons on the Macao side, and before he could reload on the sea side, he had no time to stop the Ming warships from approaching with artillery fire.

It was too late for the battleship to turn around, and Ray Jason hurriedly transferred all the seamen to the other side to load the guns, and for a while, the loading speed was even slower.

Approaching a distance of 2 miles, the Dutch finally loaded the cannon on this side, but because of the sudden strengthening of the waves and the southerly wind, the battleship was very bumpy, and the aiming speed was very slow.

The Ming army's naval division had several ships with sea cangs and centipede ships, which were relatively fast, and after approaching, they opened fire, and the Franc machine and all kinds of small artillery suddenly opened fire, although they could not blow up the deck of the Western-style battleship, but they also killed and injured the people on the enemy ship.

The Fran machine guns of the Ming army's Haicang ship and centipede ship that were too close could not shoot, so they could only use the mortar cannon to fire scattered shells at a large elevation angle. And the artillery of the Netherlands could not fire at negative angles.

The few soldiers in the Netherlands could only look for muskets to shoot at the Ming ships below, because the Western-style warships were very tall and condescendingly as if they were on the city walls.

As the Ming boats approached and opened fire, the Dutch battleships were even more understaffed, some of the battleships were about to flee immediately, and some were still scrambling to resist.

However, the condescending large warships could not fire shells at negative angles, and as long as the muzzle was lower than the horizontal position, the shells rolled out on their own, which was a major defect of the front-loading guns.

When the Canton approached, he grabbed several Western-style warships with hook locks, and the sailors climbed up several towering Western-style warships with hook locks to fight for the warships in hand-to-hand combat.

Unexpectedly, the Dutch people are very good at formation, although they are small.

But after all, it is not as good as Wang Hongyu and Aceban Duckman.

According to Wang Hongyu's reminder, Cai Fuyi specially asked these sailors to prepare for the battle before the war, but fortunately, he won 4 Western-style warships.

Ray Jason fled quickly and escaped with 4 other ships.