The members of the Dutch expedition were now devastated, how had they ever seen so many ships attacking them? Although nowadays pirates at sea usually attack in wolf packs, attacking with dozens or hundreds of small clippers.

But the problem is that now that the Ming Dynasty has entered their ships, there are almost no small ships, and the most recent is medium-sized ships, that is, ships of 600 tons, so many ships have attacked them in a mountainous manner, and in their opinion, no matter how much they resist, it is in vain.

The first to hit the target was not the Ming Royal Navy, there was no way, the Royal Navy received the news a little late, with the victory of the Ming foreign war, the people's morale and morale also came up, after learning that the military was going to deal with the Dutch, hoping that civilian ships would provide the Dutch movements.

If you don't say that, fuck him and it's over.

The Ming Dynasty's military merit reward system is not only to the sergeants, the people are the same, this system originated when Cheng Shijie led the Ning Navy to occupy Haizhou, when the Ning Navy did not have an absolute advantage in the face of Jiannu, the people were also very afraid to see Jiannu, so Cheng Shijie promulgated a rule that anyone in any way, whether it is poisoning, sneak attack, arranging traps, or beating sticks, as long as they kill the enemy, they can get military merit rewards, that is, reward land, if you don't want land, you can also get property of corresponding value.

The first to fall under this system is Mang Gurtai, the elite Jiannu under his command is the militia to yin, in this era, the sea is a paradise for warriors, whether it is the Ming Dynasty, or Europe, people who dare to run to the sea, there must be no cowards, these guys are bolder than the other.

The Vostok's guns were purchased from the Royal Navy, and were Dutch-style 36-pounder heavy naval guns, and because they were front-loading smoothbore guns, they were up to 400 meters away, and it was all a matter of luck. However, the Vostok's naval guns were more than a thousand meters away, and one shot hit the Dutch expedition's battleship "Popeye".

This was a third-class battleship, and the 36-pound shells directly hit the mainmast, and the mainmast, which was more than a dozen feet high, was broken in two on the spot, and the fallen mainmast and sail smashed the deck to pieces in an instant.

"So accurate?"

"Accident, accident, pure accident!"

The Ming armed merchant ships and civilian ships on the battlefield blocked almost all the offensive positions, and the Zhanzhou fleet looked at the civilian ships that were in full swing, and said indignantly: "Rob our lives!" ”

What made the Dutch expedition extremely desperate was that the Ming navy was still a spectator on the side, and the merchant ships and civilian ships of the Ming Dynasty alone beat them so that they could not take care of themselves.

The Dutch, who have always liked to bully those backward countries with strong ships and guns, have tasted the situation of being surrounded by strong ships and guns this time, and in the huge encirclement, there are many ships of the Ming Dynasty, but they do not enter the range of the Dutch guns, but use cannons on the periphery to beat blindly.

Although the accuracy is desperately poor, the problem is that when there are enough of them, the accuracy will also increase, especially on the beaten side, the Dutch feel that the naval guns of the Ming Dynasty are accurate, so that's it, but those merchant ships are also accurate.

In the rough sea, if the battleship wants to hit the target, it must fire at the moment when the waves rise and fall, and if it is a little late, or a little earlier, the waves will move the ship and the barrel out of the firing range, but the sailors on the armed merchant ship do not care about the three seven twenty-one, just the general direction is right, and the cannon is fired with their heads bored.

To say that businessmen are shrewd, this is really good. The militia takes their own weapons and ammunition to cooperate with the army, and the army will replenish the ammunition consumed in the battle, but the problem is that the ammunition has a service life, and after a long time, a lot of ammunition cannot be used.

"Boom ......"

For a time on the battlefield, the sound of artillery was filled with gunsmoke, and from time to time there were screams and explosions on the Dutch battleships.

"Boom Boom ......"

Feeling insulted, the Dutch artillerymen scrambled to light the fire, and the cannons mounted on the battleships roared like thunder, and the lead balls roared out of the chambers of the guns wrapped in flames, and smashed into the attacking Ming ships.

"Just shoot! If I can hit, I lose! ”

Nonsense, now the distance between the two sides has reached more than a thousand meters, and the Dutch are using front-loading smoothbore guns, and there are only a few cannons involved in the shooting, and it is hell to be able to hit! No, shells are flying all over the sky, one day at a time, and the error is almost measured in kilometers!

The angry Dutch, regardless of the cost, smashed out all the expensive flowering bombs, which were also quite competitive, and all of them exploded, but the results achieved were very frustrating, and they didn't even touch the other party's, but just blew up a few fish that were watching the fun.

In the eyes of the Dutch, they had obviously hoisted up the white flag and surrendered, but the problem was that the Ming people seemed to have not seen it, and all the ships stopped outside the firing range and fired at them, this wordless mockery almost drove the Dutch crazy, and they roared with red eyes: "Fire!" Fire! Fry that bastard for me into pate! ”

The Dutch soldiers cleaned the chambers of the guns as fast as they could, reloading them.

The Ming people are too hateful, in fact, the Dutch really wronged the Ming people, the Ming people just feel that the Netherlands is kind enough, only five expedition ships, only one of which is a third-class battleship, three thousand-ton armed merchant ships, and a six-hundred-ton fifth-class cruiser.

In the face of more than 200 Ming merchant ships, plus more than 30 warships of the Imperial Sea Navy, they still dared to resist, but their courage was commendable.

In fact, as soon as the white flag of the Dutch was hung up, it was hit by a cannonball from the Ming Dynasty, and even the white flag fell into the sea.

After the Dutch found that the solid shot put and flowering bullets could not help him, the Dutch artillery actually replaced them with chain bullets!

You must know that this chain bullet cannot be fired casually, it is quite serious wear and tear on the gun chamber, if you blindly fire chain bullets, it is easy to scrap the whole gun.

Therefore, chain bombs are generally equipped with naval guns to deal with the sails and masts of enemy warships, and to kill and injure people on deck. But now the Dutch are already mad, so they don't care so much, what is useful and ruthless, just smash it with an ancient brain, and if you can kill the Ming people, you can earn it.

But the Ming Navy will not honestly stay behind and watch them fire the main guns of the Ming merchant ships and more than a dozen warships. These were all four-inch and twenty-eight times the caliber of naval guns firing at the same time, a row of high-explosive shells flew over, hit around the Dutch battleship, the water column rushed, the sea water flew wildly, the Dutch soldiers were once again drenched in soup, and the most terrible thing was that a lot of gunpowder was drenched by the stirred water column, so angry that they wanted to vomit blood.

"It's too bullying!"

This scene made the Dutch army desperate. The cannon of the Ming Dynasty has an overwhelming advantage over the most advanced front-loading smoothbore guns in the Netherlands, not to mention the power of the cannonballs.

This is a weapon that belongs to the devil!

The Navy intervened, and although the first round of shelling did not hit the target, it succeeded in firing a close miss, stirring up more than a dozen columns of water on Thursday on the Dutch battleship, causing dozens of Dutch guns to be dumbfired, which was only a temporary mute at the time, and they could still get gunpowder from the cabin and continue firing.

In the third round, they successfully hit the target, this time it was the unlucky battleship Popeye, who let their main sense of warmth be wasted? The loss of the main mast is equivalent to the scrapping of the main engine, the speed slows down all of a sudden, and it is easier to hit a fixed target than a moving target.

With just one shell, the Dutch sailors were bloody, and several of them were even thrown high by the blast wave of the explosion and then fell down to pieces. A cannon that was racing against time to reload was overturned, and almost all the artillery was spared, all of them were blown to pieces, and the bones and flesh near the gun position were miserable.

To add insult to injury, the Popeye rose into flames and turned into a huge torch, and countless Dutch soldiers hurriedly jumped into the sea, preferring to jump into the sea rather than become a roast suckling pig.

Expedition Leader Fernan's face was trembling, his face was bloody, and he muttered, "Demon...... These demons! This is a weapon that belongs to the devil! ”

The captain of the Popeye waited for Duncan to finally be rescued, looked at the Popeye who had become a torch, and tore his beard and hair and shouted: "My battleship, my battleship......"

The expedition was not part of the Dutch Navy, nor was it affiliated with the Dutch East India Company, but belonged to Duncan's personal property, and he rushed to the edge of the deck desperately, and the only property was gone, and he might as well be dead as alive, and if he lived, the dead sailors, and the wounded sailors, he was responsible, and it was better to die cleanly.

But the problem is that several Dutch soldiers dragged him to safety, he punched and kicked, screamed and cried, like crazy, where is the slightest aristocratic demeanor!

"It's too easy, isn't it!?"

"Who's to say it's not, if everyone plays like this, this battle can't be fought!"

Shen Tingyang squinted his eyes and said What tactics, temptation is all played by you scumbags, Lao Tzu's tactics are to lock the position of the main force of the enemy fleet, rush!

I felt like I had almost had enough, the two rounds of rocket artillery passed, and it was all over.

Of course, for the Dutch expedition, everything was over, the entire expedition of five ships, more than three hundred and sixty people, all died, none of them survived, they were afraid that they did not know until they died, the reason for their death was a few koalas.

Although for the Dutch expedition the war ended with their deaths, for the Ming Dynasty, this was only the beginning.

Catherine in Beijing is very frustrated, Cheng Shijie is not easy to deal with, this guy seems to be greedy for money and lustful, but once it comes to these key technologies, the magic of beauty and money will all fail, let you grind the soft bubble coercion and temptation, he just doesn't nod!

Thinking of that hateful fellow, Catherine hated her teeth so much that her teeth itched, can you die if you sell me two new naval guns? I'm not going to lose your money!

What's more, Venice is now a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty?

Equally frustrated was Antony, who did not know what had happened in the Banda Sea, but, in response to his request to become a Ming vassal state, his original intention was to target the Republic of Venice, which only garrisoned 6,000 soldiers to the Republic of Venice and set aside half of Crete for Ming as a garrison.

Venice bore all the garrison costs of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the logistics supply of more than 6,000 soldiers, and the rest, the Ming Dynasty did not have many requirements for Venice, the governor of Venice was still the governor, how to manage Venice, they did not ask, and Venice also had the most preferential trade rights with the Ming Dynasty.

This is much more than taking out military expenses, you must know that the garrison cost of Venice is only 300,000 taels of silver, and the average soldier is only equivalent to 50 taels of silver.

Even if Anthony proposed that the Ming could garrison 20,000 troops in the East Indies, they could provide no less than four million taels of silver per year, but the problem was that the Ming would not spit out.

This hurt Anthony very much, why?

What Anthony didn't know was that in the Ming Dynasty's strategic plan, the East India Company was very close to the Ming Dynasty, although most of these territories were not resource-rich places, but the problem was that the strategic position was very important, and only by taking the East Indies could the South Seas be regarded as the Ming Inland Sea in the true sense.

Anthony thought of a good way to give Cheng Shijie a big toy.

This big toy is actually a submarine, and the concept of a submarine has been around for a long time, and in the 15th and early 16th centuries, Leonardo da Vinci proposed the idea of a submarine.

In 1620, the first submarine was built by the Dutch-English Cornelius Jabbus Debor, largely based on the design of the former, with propulsion generated by a man-operated oar. But some people think that it is just "a bell-like thing tied under a surface vessel" and cannot be considered a submarine at all.

In 1620-1624, it was experimented on the Thames with two modifications. However, at this time, the submarine can only be regarded as a rich man's toy, and has no practical value.

This large toy is about eight meters long and two meters in diameter, can carry five people, through the glass window of the submarine, you can see the fish in the water, in the way of taking two human pedals, can move at a speed of five or six kilometers per hour.

This large toy shell is made of oak wood, and in the Netherlands and Europe, it belongs to the rich people's toys, and even has a double bed, two bathrooms, and a fishing platform.

When Cheng Shijie saw this thing, he was surprised: "I'll go, it's actually a submarine!" ”

After Anthony's explanation, it was found that this submersible was driven by manpower, was very slow, and was of no military value, but in Cheng Shijie's view, this kind of thing could be expanded somewhat, and Daming had a steam engine, so he could try to use a steam engine to drive it. (End of chapter)