Although the Ming warships were smaller, slower, poorly protected, and weaker in firepower than the enemy, they also made a lot of combat preparations and improvements because of their adequate preparations.

The battleship converted from a large sand ship played a role, and the cannons on the front deck of the ship were able to fire during the pursuit, and although the enemy ship was not severely damaged, it did a lot of damage to the facilities on the enemy ship.

Because the caliber of the Ming army's naval guns was small, they could hardly hurt the other side, and they did not hit the hull in battle, but specially bombarded the sails and decks.

The fort was on top, and the higher position played a role, and there was a flurry of running and firing, which made the Dutch very embarrassed.

By the time Cai Fuyi's Guangdong warships arrived, the Dutch had long since disappeared and had already run back to the base of the Penghu Islands.

In the battle of Xiamen, the Ming army experienced the strength of the tall and strong Dutch warships, and the power of the Dutch warships "equipped with huge cannons in the front and rear, left and right, and every shot of ten miles was immediately shattered".

At this time, the new governor of Fujian, Nan Juyi, arrived, and the imperial court explicitly ordered the Fujian authorities to cooperate with Wang Hongyu to organize a fleet, catch up with warships and ship-borne guns, and send small clippers to detect the movements of the Dutch navy occupying the Penghu Islands at any time.

When the Cantonese warships left, the Dutch warships returned and blockaded the Zhangzhou Haikou. A large number of merchants could not go to sea, and these merchants hated the "red-haired ghosts" to the core, especially those who lost their ships and goods, and plotted to take revenge on the Dutch people.

On this day, a Chinese merchant from Xiamen, on behalf of Xue Boquan, arrived and proposed to the Dutch people; Fujian merchants were willing to act as mediators for the Dutch and Ming government to mediate negotiations.

Thanks to the efforts of the merchants, the Dutch agreed to let Commander Frans lead two dhows to Xiamen for negotiations.

Dutch representatives arrived in Xiamen, and negotiations took place on a Dutch ship due to a lack of trust between the parties. After reaching a preliminary agreement, three officials of the Ming Dynasty came on board as hostages and invited the Dutch to send several captains ashore to meet with the governor to witness the signing of the agreement.

After a meeting of the Dutch people, it was decided that Commander Frans would lead a captain and a merchant to carry out the task, accompanied by about 30 people who went ashore.

Three Dutch delegates went to the Governor's Mansion to meet with them, while the rest of the Dutch were entertained by Xiamen officials ashore.

During the banquet, Xiamen officials tried all kinds of methods such as drunkenness and poisoning, and the Dutch delegation was imprisoned, and at 4 a.m., two Dutch dhows were attacked by 50 fireboats, one of which was burned.

This was only the beginning of a series of clashes between the Ming army and the Dutch people.

After burning the Dutch ships, the Fujian Ming army began to assemble and officially swear to fight, Cai Fuyi sent two large warships to help the battle, and the governor of Fujian, Nan Juyi, personally floated to Kinmen and ordered to cross the sea to attack Penghu.

The attack did not go well, and then within this month the Ming army sent reinforcements from Penghu again. After several months, Penghu has not been captured, and the Dutch are still holding on.

At that time, the maritime pirate gangs that traded privately with the Dutch were eager to support the Dutch people, and they were gathering in the waters of Penghu.

Yu Zhigao, deputy commander-in-chief, once reported to Nan Juyi on this matter: The Ming army must step up its attack, and if the war continues for a long time, the Ming army will not be able to receive food and salary.

At this time, Wang Hongyu sent the support of the fire gun troops and transported a large amount of food. The Ming army swore a general attack, thwarted the field forces of the Netherlands, and then became a stalemate.

When the new commander of the Netherlands, Sun Ke, arrived in Penghu, he found that the Minni crisis was widening and the situation was already very serious.

He learned that there were about 4,000 Ming troops and 150 warships stationed on Baisha Island, and the number of troops gradually increased until the middle of the month, when it increased to 10,000, entering and leaving the Penghu Islands.

Wang Hongyu has not sent the main force to fight, in fact, he is dragging it.

Large warships and large ship-based guns are still in the process of being manufactured, the main force of the Ming army is still being deployed, and food and strategic materials have not yet been put in place.

He deliberately let Nan Juyi besiege and fight small battles when the Ming army's losses were not large, and gradually occupied all the surrounding islands. But to give hope to the Netherlands, they asked for help, and transferred the navy that had assisted the Japanese in attacking Goryeo.

There were a large number of warships and armed merchant ships, as well as many transports. It is necessary not only to put the Dutch Navy in one pot, but also to play the role of encircling Wei and saving Zhao, and to keep more than 100,000 Japanese in Gao

Linan.

The first step is to attract the Dutch navy in Asia, and then the second step is to control the Strait of Malacca and build Sin Chew as Singapore.

After that, if you destroy the main force of the Japanese who cannot escape, you can dismember the Japanese and completely eliminate the enemy with the largest number of troops.

Yuan Keli supported Mao Wenlong and Zhang Shenwu to harass Jiannu; Han Jun mobilized the forces of the southeast of Shandong to ensure the unimpeded flow of the Grand Canal, and at the same time supported Yuan Keli. The British Duke Zhang Weixian and the general soldier Lu Qin were dealing with the White Lotus Sect to ensure the stability of the rear to the greatest extent.

Therefore, Sun Ke believed that there was no support from the Dutch side, and that there was no hope that he could continue the fight, and that there was not much gunpowder and shells left, and that the conflict must be resolved as soon as possible.

The Ming army once again divided into three routes and approached Yicheng. It was impossible for the Dutch to leave, and Sun Ke was sure that as soon as his warship moved, there would be Hongyi cannons on the reefs, and the kind of incendiary gravel shells that would block the sea route.

The current situation is that Sun Ke lined up the large and small warships of the Netherlands, as well as dozens of armed merchant ships, on the sea around the Hongmao City of the Wind Cabinet, and used the advantage of the long range of the ship's cannons to make it impossible for the Ming warships to get close, because the Ming army had few large shipborne guns.

As long as the Dutch people still have food to eat, no matter how many ships the Ming army has, no matter how many people there are, they can't get close to the Dutch battleship within 10 miles, and it is useless for the Ming army commander to be in a hurry.

The Dutch did not dare to fire shells easily because they could not replenish gunpowder and shells, and both sides did not dare to take a step beyond the thunder pool, as long as the supply of more than 10,000 Ming troops could not be replenished, they could only retreat.

Sun Ke had already sent a clipper ship to Goryeo to report the news, and it was estimated that a large number of Dutch naval warships would arrive in the Penghu Islands in a few days, and as long as the Ming army was attacked inside and outside, the crisis would be resolved.

Because of the small number of people in the Netherlands, it is no problem to support food and water for a few months, but there are few supply ships for the Ming army, how long can the massive food and water support?

In fact, Sun Ke was wrong, many warships of the Ming army were converted from large sand ships, and the displacement of the transport ships was very large.

Now all the ballast stones in those converted ships have been replaced with grain and water, and more than 10,000 people are rich and surplus after half a year, and the Ming army does not have to think about supply at all.

Because Wang Hongyu asked the imperial court to take precautions, Cai Fuyi also had friends who contacted him in advance.

The Penghu Inspection Division held on, and also increased troops, repaired forts, and improved ports in Penghu.

Treasure Island, not far from the east of Penghu, is also sending people to formally establish Beigang in the west of Baodao and place the Beigang Inspection Division.