Among the more than 300 warships led by Gan Hui, fifty were super-large warships. Due to the stimulation of the Zheng group by Zhao Yan, the maritime power increased greatly.

Wen Bangliang was determined to command, and the soldiers from the First Fleet were not afraid at all. At this time, the First Fleet was unprecedentedly powerful, which was the source of confidence. After encountering the Zheng Group's huge fleet east of Penghu, he immediately launched artillery bombardment on the Zheng Group's fleet three thousand meters away. There were not many other ones, but there were many shells. After using it, they would go back to Shandong to transport it.

More than 300 warships were sailing in a mighty manner, but they also became a huge target.

Twenty warships of the First Fleet and eight frigates lined up. As the flags were waving, the warships and frigates suddenly opened fire.

On average, each warship has 52 heavy artillery on it, and the frigate has 23 heavy artillery, and the sidewalk has 588 heavy artillery. So many heavy artillery fire together, which is extremely powerful.

The shells fell from the sky and fell directly into the huge fleet of the Zheng Group. The rumbling explosion sounded again soon, and many water columns rose from the sea, but 30% of the shells hit the enemy ships. Some small boats were directly hit by the shells and were blown into two pieces on the spot.

Those big ships, if bombed onto the deck by shells, would be directly smashed by heavyweight shells and then exploded directly.

Some exploded above the deck, and some exploded in the cabin. Each hit would inevitably cause huge damage to personnel or damage to the hull.

Zheng Zhilong's warships are mostly small boats and medium-sized ships, and their long-range combat capabilities are basically zero. At the same time, those small and medium-sized ships cannot withstand the power of heavy artillery at all. Those small boats, such as mother-child ships that burn enemy ships, are basically shot one by one. Once hit, they will be torn apart or overturned by water columns raised by shells hitting the edge. Those medium-sized warships are better, but as long as they are hit directly, they will be seriously injured.

Only those fifty super-large warships have a displacement of 1,500 tons, and are strictly controlled during manufacturing and have super strong resistance to attacks.

Although the shells hit the decks of these super-large warships, they also caused great casualties and normal hull damage, this damage can be caused by a lot of damage to such tonnage, just like a layer of skin.

However, the first round of artillery bombing was like a slap, which made Zheng Cai and Gan Hui dizzy, but the even more stormy blow was still behind.

Just half a minute later, the huge fleet that rushed towards the First Fleet was hit again, with huge shells hitting like rain of fire. Amid the rumbling explosion, the originally dense formation was smashed into chaos.

The fierce firepower of the First Fleet was greatly unexpected and much harder to deal with than the Dutch.

The Dutch Navy likes melee combat, and the shells are usually not far away, but the speed is faster than them, so both sides are just half a dozen.

The Zheng Group, which has the advantage of numerical power, can often win the naval battle with the Netherlands, but every time at sea, the Dutch can escape most of them.

However, the Shandong Navy is different. They are good at artillery warfare.

Naval artillery is the best among the entire army, and he has always been very strict with artillery shells in training, and he uses live ammunition training.

The huge fleet of Zheng's group was attacked by two rounds of artillery. Zheng Cai and Gan Hui couldn't help but feel a little panicked, and the entire fleet stopped there for a while.

Then Zheng Cai and Gan Hui ordered their subordinates to scatter and continue to move forward with the intention of surrounding the First Fleet.

The first fleet remained motionless. After five rounds of artillery were bombarded, the Zheng Group's warships were already one thousand meters apart and surrounded in a fan shape.

On the way to approaching the First Fleet, the Zheng Group came back at a heavy price and was sunk more than 50 small and medium-sized warships by the First Fleet.

Just as he was about to be surrounded, Wen Bangliang ordered all ships to act freely and wait for an opportunity to burn the enemy ships.

Soon, twenty warships and eight frigates turned and retreated. As soon as they retreated, they jumped out of the encirclement shortly afterwards, and then began to circle around the Zheng Group's warships, seized the opportunity and hit a bunch of shells.

A frigate seized the opportunity and walked around the wind position of the Zheng Group's warship, aimed at dozens of gathered warship groups and launched rockets.

The whistling rockets continued to shoot into the dense warships, with a hit rate of almost 80%. The frigate launched more than 2,000 rockets in one go.

With the explosion of the rocket, dozens of warships ignited a raging fire. The fire spread rapidly and immediately lost control. The navy soldiers on the ship jumped into the sea one by one in horror in the fire.

The frigate that successfully set fire quickly evacuated the upper wind position. The disadvantage in the upper wind position is that the sails are very susceptible to attacks by enemy artillery.

The choice of the upper wind is at the lower wind level depends on the situation.

If you have the strength to overwhelm the surname, you will directly sink the enemy in the upper wind position. You will not be afraid of the sail being destroyed at this time. Even if you lose your mobility, the enemy will not be able to surround you.

Although the First Fleet had the advantage of absolute surname, it did not have the strength of absolute surname. Their advantage lies in their speed and gun range, so the integrity of the sails must be ensured, and the advantage lies in the lower wind position. Although the range of the Fujian Navy's artillery was not high, it was no problem to hit thousands of meters.

If it is at a lower wind, the shells shot are hit on the hull. The red cannons thousands of meters away have no substantial lethality on the hull. However, when hitting the sail, the sail will be punched into a hole, which will affect the speed of driving. Although there are not much impact on the few, if there are too many shells, it will not be able to withstand it.

Each warship and frigate was looking for an opportunity to burn enemy ships. They wandered around the periphery and shelled the Zheng Group's warships.

Find the opportunity and rush into the right position and launch the rocket out of the deck.

The warships of the Zheng Group often surround the First Fleet in a scattered and concentrated manner. If they are scattered, they will lose the meaning of surrounding, because in that case, the First Fleet will easily break out a gap and rush out.

Under the rocket's arson, the Zheng group's warships were tragic.

With the launch of the rocket, groups of warships were ignited and then dispersed.

Once they dispersed, they basically lost the threat they could pose to the First Fleet, and the First Fleet began to intersperse among the scattered warships.

They rushed into the boat, and the artillery on both sides kept firing, sinking small and medium-sized warships at close range. When dealing with those super-large warships, the First Fleet first sailed and paralyzed them in place.

The first fleet wandering around was constantly eating the warships of the Zheng group, and Zheng Cai and Gan Hui felt powerless.

They had no room for resistance against the First Fleet.

Half an hour later, the two men, who knew that there was no hope of victory, ordered their subordinates to retreat.

As soon as the Zheng group of warships retreated, the first fleet bit it. At this time, it was the southeast wind, and Gan Hui and Zheng Cai took the ship to Kinmen again.

As a result, when the First Fleet was in a downwind position, the side guns were aimed at the enemy ship.

Eight frigates pulled up and rushed to the front, aimed at a super-large warship and shot them with a round of shells. In the dense shells, the super-large warship was paralyzed there.

The frigate continued to pursue other warships, and the warship that had been beaten and paralyzed was soon surrounded by the warships that were chased, and was captured by the First Fleet in a short while.

The eight frigates in front specialize in fighting against the largest warships of the Zheng Group, because this is the most valuable. Once this three-story loft super-large warship similar to the Fu Ship is beaten and paralyzed, they can only be given up. If they do not give up, the First Fleet can continue to fight around them.

Both sides chased and fled, and fought all the way to the sea outside Kinmen.

Twenty-three were captured out of the fifty super-large warships of the Zheng Group.

Only when he arrived outside the Kinmen Sea, Zheng Zhibao brought more than 200 warships to support Zheng Cai and Gan Hui. Wen Bangliang ordered his retreat. This battle was a big advantage, so he would stop when he saw it! He was almost at Kinmen, and there was nothing to fight.

The first fleet retreated was profitable.

Although the twenty-three super-large warships captured this time were a little slower, they were later transformed as gunboats. If such gunboats were invested in naval battles, they would definitely be the main force of firepower output. However, too slow speed is the biggest constraint. At most, two or three will be transformed. The others will probably be transformed into passenger ships or cargo ships.

It has a three-story pavilion, plus two-story bottom cabin, and the large tonnage, coupled with the design of the lucky ship, it is almost not afraid of storms at sea, and it is very steadily driven, making it very suitable for passenger transport.

If it is converted into a cargo ship, it is suitable for transporting some fragile items, such as porcelain and glass products, and this kind of unbumping blissful ship is needed.

Zheng Zhibao arrived with reinforcements, but he saw a miserable scene. There were more than 300 warships when he set out, but when he came back, there were only less than 200 left.

Those small boats didn't matter. The problem was that the warships that had just been built had lost twenty-three, and the officers and soldiers of the Fujian Navy who fled back all looked disappointed.

Failed!

And it was a crushing defeat.

Zheng Zhibao asked about the naval battle, but he didn't dare to chase him.

When the news reached Ishii, Zheng Zhilong was obviously unbelievable and thought he had heard it wrong. Even if he lost, he would not be defeated so miserably!

Zheng Zhilong still knew the strength of the Fujian Navy.

Shandong has only been involved in the ocean for a few years, but they are all pirates. How could people who have been on the sea for decades be killed and defeated? Didn’t they send out the newly built warship?

However, the facts are ruthless.

After Zheng Zhilong learned that this was true, he leaned his head down on the chair and said nothing.

"Brother, if we don't use powerful means, I'm afraid our Fujian merchant ships will run away~!" Zheng Zhibao said.

"The rapid development of Shandong Navy is indeed unexpected." Zheng Zhilong sighed, "At this moment, we can only compete with the emperor."

"That sea..."

"Before the big Western ships and new artillery are built, let me bear it." Zheng Zhilong said, "As long as we endure for a certain time, there will always be a chance for us to turn the tables."

"But as soon as our merchant ship went out to sea, they stopped us. If this continues, we will have no source of wealth." Zheng Cai said.

"At present, the only way is to let the emperor come forward." Zheng Zhilong said calmly.

After the Battle of Penghu, the first fleet's naval battle area searched and rescued for two days and rescued more than 3,000 people. Wen Bangliang then dragged his captured warship back to Tainan. At the same time, Wen Bangliang sent a flying shear ship back to Shandong to report the passage.

...After Nanyang, Su Buheng arrived in Palembang, he integrated his power and began to attack eleven Dutch strongholds in Asia in early May.

Su Buheng first attacked Batavia, which was later Jakarta.

The Dutch set up many turrets in Batavia, and the frontal attack was obviously too disadvantageous. Su Buheng followed the previous strategy of attacking Taiwan, blocking the fleet outside, and then the Marines landed on the attack.

Those turrets are only useful for ships on the sea, but for enemies on land and those with more intense artillery fire, they do not have much defensive power.

It was much easier to land in Batavia than in Tainan. Su Buheng led his fleet to capture a small fishing port next to Batavia, and the Nanyang Marines landed directly on the shore.

After Han Sheng led the Marines to land, the Dutch Batavia Company, which had only more than 3,000 soldiers, could not resist the offensive of the Nanyang Infantry Brigade, and soon advanced all the way outside the city of Batavia.

The bombardment of Batavia has begun!

The bombardment was unprecedentedly fierce. The heavy artillery regiment bombed Batavia one after another. After a day of bombardment, the walls of Batavia collapsed directly, and the city of Batavia was also bombarded with shells.

Batavia Governor Jenks hid in the chief's office and was directly killed by howitzers falling from the sky, and his whole body was blown to black.

The next day, Han Sheng launched an attack on Batavia.

Artillery and hundreds of artillery fired together to cover the infantry in front.

In the blasting gap, the Nanyang Infantry Brigade rushed directly into the city. After the heavy artillery behind was extinguished, the light artillery became the main force of cover.

The Dutch in the city soon surrendered after the Nanyang Infantry Brigade rushed in. Batavia is a larger city, where tens of thousands of Dutch people live.

They are all soldiers, merchants, officials and their families.

Many of these people were killed by shells. When the prisoners were counted, there were only more than 8,000 people, nearly 2,000 people died. Tens of 120,000 taels of gold and more than 6 million taels of silver were found in Batavia. There was also a Batavia shipyard, which was a place where the Dutch repaired and equipped with ships and warships. It was not too large.

After controlling Batavia, the Nanyang Infantry Brigade began to cooperate with the Navy to clear the port.

More than fifty merchant ships were moored in the port, and five warships were also anchored.

These five warships were transferred from the Indian Ocean. I thought the Batavia company was far away from the Ming Dynasty and did not require so many warship protection, but they were knocked to the door.

The first fleet outside the port was blocked there, and these five warships and more than one hundred merchant ships could not get out at all.

When Batavia fell, the Nanyang Infantry Brigade began to appear in the Port of Batavia, and the Dutch in the Port of Batavia surrendered for not long.

After Su Buheng brought the fleet to the port and went ashore, he gave the seal of the Governor of Batavia to the Education Commission of the First Fleet, "Go to find someone who can write Dutch words and write ten letters that order surrender."

"But it's easy to see that it's fake."

"It doesn't matter whether it is true or false. What's important is that they have a decent reason to surrender." Su Buheng said.
Chapter completed!