The Ming Dynasty fleet was so arrogant. When they could attack, they would not attack. They would first fire guns and demonstrate, telling themselves that they were going to start a fight.

Then, without attacking, he just bombarded the fortress under construction from a distance!

What is the way to play this?

Blasting the fortress under construction in front of you is not fighting a war, it is humiliating people!

Holland was furious and came to the deck. His eyes almost made him stare out. The shells whizzing from the sky were bombarding their fortresses and gravels!

Before the war officially began, many Dutch seamen in Jilong Harbor were injured by shrapnel and gravel, and were lying on the ground in pain.

And he could only see the Ming fleet in the distance through a telescope.

I didn't know if I didn't look at it. But when I saw it, I almost scared him to sit on the ground. The Ming fleet came this time was a large number, and it was still from two directions.

The number of these two fleets, either of which is about the same as the total number of the Dutch fleet.

Together, the body looks the same as that of his main battleship and the fifth-level Garen Gallery battleship. At a rough look, there must be at least one hundred.

In other words, these two fleets have more than 100 fifth-level warships, and there are only about 40 such warships!

Holland didn't understand. There were so many fifth-level warships in the Ming Dynasty, but why didn't I see a single one in the southeastern waters?

Do you have to wait until you are beaten before you send out a decisive battle?

It seems that during the Battle of Penghu, the East India Company sent an advance team, and the Ming Dynasty never sent a formal navy from beginning to end...

The most ridiculous thing is that the admiral of the Royal Dutch Navy actually believed the words of these two stupid pig pirates, thinking that the strongest fleet of the Ming Dynasty was like when the battle with Penghu.

Thinking of this, Holland had the heart to kill Yang Tiansheng and Li Kuiqi.

In fact, during the Battle of Penghu more than three years ago, Holland's idea was correct. The Ming Dynasty had only had such a little naval strength at that time.

It was not that huge battle, and Zhu Youxiao would not be cruel and invested more than 10 million taels a year to develop the navy.

Of course, money is not spent in vain, and you can actually see changes in this battle.

Even Shibazhi, who had been rampant on the sea for many years, never expected that in three years, the Ming Navy would have such earth-shaking changes.

From the Battle of Penghu that was suppressed by the Dutch Union's advance fleet to the current bombardment of the Dutch fortresses in the distance, this change is not small.

Judging from this, not all the people who came today, but I am afraid there are more people in the Denglai Navy.

The two looked at each other and looked at the furious Dutchman, and their hearts were tight. Could it be that the master was following the wrong one?

From this time on, the two of them were already thinking about a way out.

"Bang!"

A lead bullet accurately hit the tower not far from the Queen. The top of the tower was fragmented, and large pieces of gravel tilted down and fell to the deck.

The Queen is a serious fourth-class battleship, already an early sailing battleship, a large warship of 1,000-tonnage, equipped with more than 40 artillery pieces, and can be called a sea killer.

But there are also disadvantages and are inflexible.

The stones on the top of their heads were smashed down one after another, and the Dutch sailors of the Queen could either watch and run away with their heads in their arms. They had no other way.

Even if the Queen wants to start fighting back, it will take some time.

By that time, the Ming Dynasty's fleet had probably retreated calmly...

So, you have to pay it back when you come out.

In the Battle of Doro Bay, the Queen's fleet caught the Fujian Navy and the Invincible Armada off guard. A month later, the Denglai Navy also raided Jilong Port.

The techniques are roughly the same, they are all fired guns at a long range, and then left after a while.

However, the Queen fleet was on the battlefield of the Spice Islands, and it defeated Spain's larger invincible fleet head-on.

Most of the seamen in the fleet are former merchant sailors who have been with the ship for many years, and they have a lot of experience.

There were a total of 1,400 seamen on the twenty-nine main Galen battleships docked in Jilong Port. Holland did not believe that he would lose if he faced the Ming Navy head-on.

Unless the Ming Navy's strength is stronger than the Invincible Armada.

No one knows whether it is strong or not.

One thing is certain, the number of ships of the Denlei Navy must be much larger than the Spanish Invincible Fleet in the Spice Islands.

As for the cannon that had been pouring fire over his head, Holland didn't take it too seriously.

He was an experienced naval admiral, and he could only hear from the roaring sound of cannons that there were not many ship-borne guns of the main warships of the Ming Navy.

This is the weakness of the Ming Navy.

In fact, Holland thought it was good. Although the Fu Ship is already the most used Garen warship with the Dutch Federation of the United Provinces fleet at this stage and belongs to the ranks of fifth-class warships, the Fu Ship cannot withstand as many ship-borne guns as the Garen warships due to the structure of the hull.

The most powerful Red Barbarian heavy artillery weighs up to a thousand tons, while the Cangshan ship is only three or four tons in size, which cannot bear at all.

As for the lucky ship, at most, it can only carry a heavy red artillery on the bow of the ship.

At this stage, the Ming army placed heavy artillery on the top of the city to defend the city and the effect of equipment on warships in Shanghai was not as good as imagined.

At present, the main force of the Denglai Navy's Fu Ship has a double deck, which is one less layer than the Garen Sailing Ship, but the bottom layer is not used for cannons.

The Fu Ship only has one deck on the left and right sides, which can be used to undertake carrier-based guns. There are nine gun positions in each direction, which is much less than the fifteen gun positions on the Garen Sailing Ship.

The Zhenlu cannon that can be used in naval battles can be called twelve-pound cannons, and can be pulled out for combat. Each ship is based on eighteen gates, which is now the standard configuration of the lucky ship.

The other Fran machine cannons also have large and large copper iron cannons, which also have this kind of cannon, but they are basically useless. The reason they are still kept is that this cannon has excellent firepower in short range and has miraculous effects during counter-board warfare.

If it really doesn't work, rushing up to fight a boarding battle is also one of the desirable tactics.

This is why Holland thinks it can be fired. Although his Queen fleet is not as good as the other party, the carrier-based guns are several times that of the other party.

As long as the other party dares to rush over to catch the board, the thirty cannons on the Galen sailing ship will definitely give them a taste of gunpowder.

The Spanish Invincible Fleet still uses the boarding tactic as a whole. In the Battle of the Spice Islands, it lost to the Queen's fleet, which uses more advanced "dog walking" tactics.

But Holland would never think about how many ships there were in the Ming Dynasty now.

"Transfer my order! Our number of seafarers is not as large as that of the other party. We abandon the battle on the side, and all ships will immediately use side guns to fight back!"

Holland's order was very wise, and it was also one of the common tactics used by the Dutch United Provincial fleet at present, side gun battle.

A proud naval admiral like him is simply disdainful of using backward platoon tactics.

However, the Dutch Navy has not yet developed a battle line tactic, and it just feels that the battle on the shore war is very backward, while the battle against artillery can give full play to the advantages of their warships.

In the distance, Dengzhou General Chen Yourong led the Dengzhou Water Camp in the northwest waters.

More than 60 ships were all wearing the "sink" flag and the Ming Dynasty's order flag. Among them, there were more than 50 lucky ships that could be called fifth-level warships.

The remaining few are sand ships responsible for transporting soldiers, each capable of carrying 200 soldiers, but except for the muskets in the hands of soldiers, the sand ships have almost no combat capability.

In other words, there must be a frigate.

Since I have brought the sand ship, I have not completely abandoned the old concepts and have the intention of catching the enemy ship if I really can't do it.

At this time, more than half an hour had passed since the shelling. When I looked at the collapsed fortress with a thousand-mile mirror, my sunny pale beard shook.

"Bang bang bang--!"

Splashes rose in the distance, and some Dutch warships had turned around and began to fight back.

It seems that the Dutch's artillery attack range is no closer than that of himself. Chen Yourong sneered, put down the Qianli Mile Mile and said:

"Send the order, withdraw."

Holland had just stood on the deck of the Queen's flagship, preparing to compete with the coming Ming Navy, and the fleet turned around and planned to fight back.

But the following news made him blush with anger.

The other party actually ran away like that!

He injured more than 200 seafarers and knocked the fortress he had worked hard to build for a month into a piece of gravel. Then they ran away so casually?

Holland widened his eyes and once again pointed his eyes at the two pirates behind him.

It's so annoying!
Chapter completed!