Chapter 221 The Dutch
During the Tianqi period, the Dutch wanted to occupy the Penghu Islands, but was eventually expelled by the Ming Dynasty. Later, they wanted to capture the Jinxia Shuang Island, but they were defeated again in Liaoluo Bay. They eventually had to retreat to Yizhou to establish a colony.
The core of the Dutch in East Asia was Batavia, located in the Spice Islands, which was later Jakarta. However, they had always wanted to obtain a stronghold that could directly trade with the Ming Dynasty. After the direct battle with the Ming Dynasty ended in failure, they snatched Macau from the Portuguese. After several wars, they failed and failed. In the end, they could only focus on Yizhou.
At this time, in the city of Jelancha in Tainan, the representative of the Dutch East India Company, the senior representative, was the Governor General of the Dutch East India Company, and was hosting Zheng Zhilong in his castle.
"Official Nicholas." Koeman put down the rum in his hand with the unique arrogance of European nobles. "As the overlord who dominates the East Asian oceans, you are really incredible now. You actually sunk the Garen ships we sold to you. It is said that you can't beat several enemy ships by hundreds of ships, and your combat power is really poor."
After Zheng Zhilong was defeated by Yan Fei, his strength was greatly damaged, not only because of the morale of the army, but also because of the collapse. This is also the fundamental reason why he reluctantly gave up Jin Xia's roots and defected to the Dutch.
As the former overlord, Zheng Zhilong's arrogance was also soaring. But at this time, he was humiliated by the Dutch by the people, but he could only respond with anger, "Governor, the Ming Navy has several large iron ships that can run without sails. He ran very quickly and could not catch up. The cannons on it were extremely far and quasi-powerful. He was covered with iron armor and could not penetrate the cannons. No matter how many ships we had, we could not beat them."
"Hahahaha~~~" Koman, with a red beard, laughed nonetheless with a rum pot. "One official, I can understand your mood after the defeat. But you actually made up lies that a ship made of iron can do without sails. Please don't insult my wisdom."
"Zheng has no false words." Zheng Zhilong faced a blue formation and white "Zheng was defeated by those big iron ships. The great governor of Yan was determined to rule the ocean and would inevitably have a conflict with the East India Company. Zheng came here this time to join forces with the East India Company to deal with it..."
Before Zheng Zhilong could finish his words, he was interrupted by Koeman's ridiculous laughter.
Koeman didn't believe Zheng Zhilong's words. In his opinion, Zheng Zhilong didn't dare to tell the truth just to shirke the shame of his defeat. As for the big iron ship, it was a joke that had no wisdom at all. If such a heavy iron ship was made, not to mention how expensive it was to make so much iron, but if it was just such a heavy iron ship, it wouldn't be allowed to sink directly to the bottom of the sea if it was launched?
"Dear official." Koeman laughed and said, "Don't say anything like this from now on. For us..."
Before Koman finished speaking, the door in the room was knocked open, and a guard wearing metal armor stumbled and ran in, "Governor! The communication ship sent a signal that an enemy ship was approaching quickly!"
Everyone in the room stood up. The Dutch people were surprised and mixed with surprise. Although they were surprised that a fleet was coming here, they were not afraid of fighting. However, Zheng Zhilong's people were all frightened. They had experienced how terrible Yan Fei's fleet was. When they heard Yan Fei's fleet coming, they were all scared to death.
A group of people ran out rumbling and came to the tower of Jelanzha Castle toward the distant sea. At this moment, there was a rumbling sound of thunderous cannons in the distance. Dozens of Zheng Zhilong's fleet and Dutch's ships were fighting against a strange-looking ship outside the harbor in the distance.
The Dutch and Zheng Zhilong both took out expensive thousand-mile mirrors and looked into the distance. Then they saw that the yellow-bottomed sun and moon golden dragon flag was indeed a big iron ship that could run fast without sails!
"Is there really an iron ship?" Governor Koman's hands trembled and even the expensive Qianli Milestone fell to the ground. However, he did not panic but shouted with excitement, "Great! If this ship can be seized and obtained the technology on the ship, the alliance of seven provinces will be invincible!"
"Let all the ships in the harbor go sailing!" Governor Coman excitedly ordered all the ships in the harbor to go out to sea to round up the big iron ship. In his opinion, there were dozens of ships on his side that were not easy to catch. This was not something that had not been repaired by ocean fishing boats. I don't know how powerful it was.
"Idiot." Seeing Koman sending all the ships in the harbor with excitement to deal with the big iron ship, Zheng Zhilong sneered. If those big iron ships were so easy to deal with, would Zheng Zhilong fall to this level?
"Uncle, what should we do?" Zheng Cai came to Zheng Zhilong and asked in a low voice, "Do you want our boat to go out together?"
"Let our boats rise up." Zheng Zhilong looked solemn. "After going out to sea, he stayed away. When he saw something was wrong, he ran south to Macau."
"Yes, uncle." Zheng Cai nodded and answered, but was stopped by Zheng Zhilong when he was about to leave. "Has Fusong been placed properly?"
"Uncle, don't worry." Zheng Cai paused, lowered his eyes and responded, "Brother Sen has already arranged it in the countryside, and the most loyal person is protected and safe."
"Okay, okay. Stay here to take care of the people here." Zheng Zhilong nodded, turned around with a desolate expression and walked towards the harbor.
Looking at Zheng Zhilong's back, Zheng Cai's eyes were complicated.
Zheng Zhilong used the most loyal and important force to protect his eldest son Zheng Sen to hide in the countryside of Fujian. If Zheng Zhilong fails, he will at least be a rich man in his life, and his descendants will still reproduce.
But Zheng Cai was taken here in a dangerous situation, and might have to go into the sea to feed the fish at any time. Zheng Zhilong regarded himself as cannon fodder!
The world is unfair, and Zheng Cai wants to survive too!
More than thirty Dutch ships tried to siege the large iron ship. Although there were only five large Garen ships, and the others were small boats such as sloops.
The Dutch were full of confidence and believed that they had so many of them to siege a ship, which was absolutely right. But after the cannons on the ocean-going fishing boats opened fire, they understood what a crushing strike was.
The cannons on the ocean-going fishing boats are powerful high-explosive bombs, and as long as one hits one, it will basically be fatal. Even the near-near bomb is enough to destroy the cabins under the waterline, causing a large amount of water inflow and sinking. Western ships in this era do not understand what water-tight partitions are. There is no bamboo in Europe that does not understand watertight partitions. Once the water inflow cannot be blocked, no matter how big the ship is, it can only sink in water.
Not long after the fire opened, several ships on the Dutch side were either smashed or infiltrated a lot of water began to tilt down. After that, the ocean-going fishing boat even accelerated and rushed into the Dutch fleet, using high-speed cannons on both sides to shoot out bullet links to clean the decks crazily, turning numerous Dutch ships into burning torches.
The Dutch were not just targets, they were fighting back desperately. However, they could not hit when the distance was far away, and when the distance was close, the large iron balls shot from the front-mounted smoothbore cannons were lucky enough to break through even if they hit the ocean fishing boat.
This kind of thing that cannot be reached, but cannot be shot, or shot, or catch up, and a random shell can kill half of their lives. At this moment, the Dutch on the ship finally realized the pain and despair of Zheng Zhilong's fleet before.
However, this was just the beginning. When several such large iron ships appeared on sea level, the morale of the Dutch quickly collapsed and began to flee.
Ocean fishing boats chased the ships that fled to the outer sea, but those who fled into the port of Relanzha City ignored it. As for Zheng Zhilong's fleet, although they went out to sea early, their speed was too slow and they were quickly caught up by the ocean fishing boats. A fierce pursuit continued until dark before it ended.
Almost all of the more than 30 Dutch ships were sunk, and only two of the fastest sloops fled into the harbor. Most of Zheng Zhilong's fleet was sunk in pursuit, and only a few ships escaped with the cover of night and headed south towards Macau.
After the sky got darker, Yan Fei recalled the ocean-going fishing boats to block the port. After the transport fleet arrived early the next morning, it directly landed near the city of Jelanzha under the cover of artillery fire.
At this time, Zheng Zhilong actually fled in the fast ship in advance, but left behind the Zheng family's strength, which was the commander of Zheng Cai in Relanzha City. At this time, Zheng Cai's anger towards Zheng Zhilong had reached the peak.
The subsequent battle was dull, and Yan Fei's powerful army quickly broke through the defense of Relanzha City and entered the city with the support of artillery.
"What's your name?" In the lord's hall in the city lord's castle, Yan Fei sat in the lord's seat and looked at Koman, who was tied up with a rope on the unkempt face, lit a cigarette and asked casually.
"I am the Governor General Eustin Van Koeman appointed by the Alliance of the Seven Provinces." Koeman, who was tied up like a dumpling, still maintains the pride of his European nobles. "Dear Your Excellency, I admit that I have become your captive. I hope to redeem my freedom."
"Governor?" Yan Fei sneered and spit out the smoke ring. "You are indeed my prisoners, but you cannot be redeemed."
In history, the Dutch people massacred local people on Wanwan Island, burned villages and communities, forced wealth and promoted slave education. The evil deeds they did were no less than those in the northern Qing Dynasty. When the famous Guo Huaiyi was suppressed, tens of thousands of local people died tragically under the Dutch's butcher's knife. At this time, these people fell into Yan Fei's hands and wanted to live and redeem themselves. This was really overthinking.
"I saw many locals in the dungeons who were tortured to death by you." Yan Fei's eyes were slightly cold and he asked calmly, "Is it your order?"
"Those people refuse to pay taxes, and as a senior governor, I am performing my duties." Koeman defended himself with striking remarks.
"Responsibility?" Yan Fei sneered, "Very good, then I must fulfill my responsibilities too. My duty is to protect China and kill all the invaders!"
"I heard that there is a game against pirates over you that is very interesting." Yan Fei stood up and walked towards Koman. "Turn the sharks in the sea with blood, and then tied the person and pushed them off the boat. I'm very interested in this game."
Yan Fei told the army in the hall to "throw all the captured Dutch people into the sea to feed the sharks. You should divide the Dutch women."
Screaming and cursing Yan Fei as a devil, Koman, who prayed to God to punish Yan Fei, was smashed into the stock and dragged it out. He would throw him into the sea with the local captured Dutch people as food for sharks, paying the price he deserves for his crimes here.
"What else do you have to say before Lin died?" Yan Fei's eyes fell on Zheng Cai who was beside him.
Chapter completed!