"This damn Dutchman."

The news brought by the guards made the King of Chu furious, and he underestimated the barbaric nature of the Dutch.

"Father, what should I do?" Li Chuyuan was also very angry. He gradually realized the true face of these Dutch people, which were a group of greedy businessmen.

The King of Chu hesitated for a moment and made up his mind. He said, "Send our warships, and we must let the Dutch know how powerful this king is."

"Yes, Father." Li Chuyuan responded and headed towards the dock.

Lin'an City, Cao's Mansion.

At this time, the news of the attack on the Lin'an Wharf quickly spread here. After receiving the news, Cao Kun, the head of the Cao family, immediately called his eldest son Cao Zhengtong to the front.

"Father."

Cao Zhengtong is about twenty-six years old, with a pale complexion and a little thin body. It seems that Cao Zhengtong is still a little weak when he is just recovering from a serious illness.

"Zhengtong, you set off for Qingzhou immediately. This time, the King of Chu rashly fought with the Dutch, which would lead to a great loss." Cao Kun said nervously, "If you are defeated, our Cao family's caravan will probably never go to sea again. After you arrive in Qingzhou, you immediately contact Zhengyang to convene merchant ships transporting goods in various parts of the Great Yu Kingdom, and at the same time buy merchant ships from Qingzhou and organize fleets. After all, the King of Chu is staring at us very tightly, and our fleet in Chu cannot move."

Cao Zhengtong said in confusion: "The King of Chu is strong, so there should be no problem dealing with the Dutch."

"The King of Chu is strong but there is no way to deal with the Dutch at sea. His ship cannot defeat the Dutch warships." Cao Kun said anxiously, "Don't stand there, hurry up and do it. Now the only one who can defeat the Dutch is probably the King of Qi. Our Cao family's hope is in Qingzhou, not in Lin'an. After all, the King of Chu is no different from other powerful people in the Great Yu Kingdom, and the King of Qi can make our Cao family continue to flourish."

Cao Zhengtong's expression became heavy. He nodded and said, "Yes, father, I will go to Qingzhou now and tell the King of Qi about what happened here."

"Well, go quickly and tell me about the shipbuilding workshop." Cao Kun sighed.

Being with the king is like a tiger. In recent years, their Cao family has offered countless silver to the King of Chu, but the King of Chu is insatiable and is now planning to directly annex the Cao family.

His spies at the Chu Prince's Mansion had already secretly told him about this. Because of this, he immediately began to arrange the Cao family's property in Qingzhou.

Although the King of Chu was a little vigilant about this, he was not clear about his real purpose at present, and he thought that the Cao family was just operating a business in Qingzhou normally.

In fact, he was preparing to transfer the Cao family's assets. Once the King of Chu took action, they would escape even if they gave up the industry in Jiangnan.

While the father and son were talking, Li Chuyuan led a hundred warships to attack eastward from the Qiantang River outside Lin'an City. On the ten warships in front, ten artillery pieces were set up on each deck, with about five on each side of the deck.

Standing on the largest building, Li Chuyuan was full of confidence. In the past, they did not have artillery, so they were naturally afraid of fighting with the Dutch at sea.

But now they are equipped with ten warships with artillery, plus traditional warships, he believes that he can fight the Dutch.

Going east along the river, Li Chuyuan saw the Dutch warships surrounding the sea outlet. At this time, a total of ten Dutch warships were shelling the Linhai Pier.

These Dutch warships all have three decks, and each deck is a row of artillery.

Faced with these Dutch warships, Li Chuyuan issued an offensive order. When the war drum sounded, hundreds of warships rushed towards the Dutch warships.

At this time, a slightly obese middle-aged man was watching the battleships rushing out of the river mouth with a monocular telescope on the Dutch warships.

The middle-aged man wore a brown vest, curly brown hair, shiny leather shoes and stockings under his feet, and black pants on his legs. He was the new Earl of Ryukyu Island, Black.

"Sir Earl, should you retreat? Bring them into the deep sea and break them one by one." Rhodes thought he gave him a good suggestion.

"No, these warships are unorganized and the number of artillery is insufficient. They are just using the chaos of 50 years ago. Although there are many, they are not our opponents at all. Today I will let these stupid kings of Chu understand what naval battles are!" Black put away his glasses and said to a crew member: "Hang the blue flag."

The crew received the order and immediately raised a small blue flag to the top of the battleship.

At this time, the Dutch warship, which was originally scattered and stayed in the sea, immediately began to adjust its direction as if it had received an order. The scattered warship fleet immediately turned into the word "one", which was exactly the array tactics in naval battles.

In Black's eyes, the Chu King fleet at this time used only chaotic tactics. This tactic has no unified command, and each ship is fighting on its own and has no unified dispatch at all.

In fact, fifty years ago, the Dutch also used chaos tactics, but after losing three times the force to the British array tactics in a naval battle, they began to change this tactic of fighting each other.

At this moment, looking at the hundreds of huge warships, Black was not nervous at all. When the warships were arranged in the character "one", he ordered the fire.

"Boom..."

Ten warships opened fire at the same time, and five hundred artillery fired at the Chu King fleet that rushed out of the river mouth at the same time. In an instant, raindrop-like shells flew towards the battleships that rushed out in large numbers.

After one round of shooting, the Dutch fleet immediately began to rotate in a U-shaped shape, and the other side of the first warship immediately fired artillery together.

Under the continuous attack, seven warships of the King of Chu who had just rushed out of the river mouth immediately began to sink. These seven warships blocked the route of other warships like reefs. Even under the push of the river, some warships could not dodge and began to collide with each other.

Suddenly, the King of Chu fleet was in chaos.

The soldiers on the fleet were even more frightened by the terrifying Dutch artillery. Chu was rich and there was no war since the founding of the Great Yu Kingdom.

The people were content to enjoy themselves, and the soldiers were afraid of war. When Li Chuyuan ordered a war against the Dutch, many soldiers were already frightened.

At this time, looking at the corpses floating in the river, the screaming soldiers, the bright red blood, more soldiers lost their fighting spirit.

When Li Chuyuan saw this hellish scene, his face changed suddenly.

He was used to hiding in the house to plan conspiracies and was good at calculating, but the real battlefield was completely different from what he thought. Looking at the sunken warships, his legs began to tremble.

"Retreat, retreat!" Li Chuyuan roared.

Under this command, the chaos of the fleet began, and after losing ten warships, the defeat began.

On the Freedom, Black looked at the chaotic fleet of King Chu and said grimly: "It's time for the King of Chu to sign a trade agreement again."
Chapter completed!