The commander of the Dutch fleet who conquered Bengang was named Sneider. He was the deputy commander sent by the Netherlands to Taiwan and the lord of Chichi City.

In 1622 of the Western calendar, Dutch commander Lyerson led 12 warships, equipped with 1,000 white crew members, and sailed from Batavia to Macau, with the intention of seizing Portugal's colony in Macau.

But under the tightly fortified Macau city, the fleet suffered a crushing defeat, losing about one-quarter of the Dutch crew.

Immediately, the expeditionary fleet turned to Penghu, established a fortress, and continuously plundered the ships and personnel of the Ming Dynasty on the coast of Fujian.

Through the mediation of the Fujian tycoon Li Dan, the Fujian Navy and the Dutch reached an agreement: the Dutch withdrew from the Penghu Islands, while the Fujian side "decided" that the Dutch occupied the Taiwan Island of the Ming Dynasty.

In August 1624, the Dutch demolished the fortress in Penghu and moved to Tainan. They soon built the city of Raranzha and Chichicheng.

Until now, Tainan is still occupied by the Dutch and has become an important trade and military stronghold in Southeast Asia.

Zheng Zhilong was dependent on the Dutch in his early days and later purchased Dutch ships, so Sneijder was no stranger to it.

Today, the entire Taiwan Island is occupied by pirate gangs from Spain, the Netherlands and Zheng Zhilong.

Among the three, each of them wanted to expel the other two, monopolize the southeastern waters of Asia and trade rights to Fusang and North Korea.

Therefore, after obtaining the information provided by Huang Zhongcheng and others, combined with the information they had learned, the Netherlands made the decision to conquer Zheng Zhilong.

"Your Excellency Commander, there is Bengang in front of you. You can already see Zheng Yiguan's fleet. Judging from the number of ships, he really transferred most of the ships to the next to Quanzhou, Ming Dynasty, and asked me to sink these small boats!"

Zheng Yiguan was Zheng Zhilong. In the early days, Zheng Zhilong defected to the Dutch and joined the Catholic Church, and obtained the name "Nicolai Yiguan". The Dutch liked to call him Zheng Yiguan.

Major Vanderbil, who was deputy commander, was very excited to see the ships in Ben Harbor. This crushing feeling made him feel a huge sense of accomplishment.

Sneider shook his head and said, "There is no need to attack these small boats, they have no effect in the war, and they can be used to transport more goods when we win the war.

They are all our property and cannot be destroyed.

Send the fleet into the port and use artillery to attack their coastal defenses. Vanderbil, prepare your muskets and let Zheng Yiguan’s men feel our enthusiasm!”

"As for orders, commander! I will let these indigenous people see the power of Dutch muskets!" Although they cannot fire bombing ships, firing fire on the shore is also an option, and landing operations make Vanderbil feel even more excited.

"Don't fight too hard. Our goal is to destroy Zheng Yiguan's fleet. If we occupy this place, he will probably not come." Sneijder instructed.

In his impression, the Ming people's firearms were behind. When the number of people was not superior, the Dutch army could easily destroy them, but this time it was mainly to destroy Zheng Yiguan's fleet. If Zheng Yiguan sent people to find out that it had been captured, the most likely thing was that he would not come again.

Vanderbil didn't seem to hear this, and he couldn't wait to command the cannon.

Because it is difficult to deliver messages at sea, Zheng Zhilong immediately set off when he received the news of the Dutch fleet's dispatch. It would take nearly ten hours to arrive at Taiwan. After all, the speed of ordinary sailboats is very touching. From Quanzhou to Tainan, it has nearly one hundred nautical miles. It is impossible to move forward at full speed, and it is impossible to be very fast.

What's more, in order to avoid fighting on both sides, Zheng Zhilong deliberately slowed down the fleet and waited for the same unfast Liu Xiang fleet to approach.

On Liu Xiang's side, as Zheng Zhilong expected, after receiving the news, he chased Zheng Zhilong's fleet at full speed.

Because Liu Xiang was also afraid that his ship speed was too slow, once Zheng Zhilong and the Dutch fleet exchanged fire, he decided to escape, and he could not surround him later, so he gave Zheng Zhilong the chance to escape.

After today's war, he wanted only one Ming people in this sea area to have the final say, that is, Liu Xiang!

The news of Liu Xiang's fleet departure was then spread to Deng Chang, the commander-in-chief of the cruiser. Three armored cruisers and two high-speed armored cruisers attacked, and with the armored cruiser as the center and the high-speed armored cruiser as the flank, rushed towards Liu Xiang's fleet.

So a classic pursuit problem appeared in front of various fleets.

This is not a problem for the Ming Dynasty's official army, it's all done!

As long as Liu Xiang leads the fleet to sea, the cruiser can sink it. If he doesn't go out to sea and wants to catch him directly in Macau, the problem will be more difficult to deal with.

The Portuguese in Macau will definitely be cleaned up, but that is the next plan.

On the sea, after several hours of sailing, Liu Xiang heard the report from his subordinates in a daze.

"The boss, I saw Zheng Zhilong's fleet!"

Hearing this sentence, Liu Xiang was immediately excited, got up and rushed out of the cabin, picked up the telescope to see the scene in the distance. Sure enough, that kind of big bird boat was Zheng Zhilong's fleet.

However, he immediately had a hint of doubt. Logically, Zheng Zhilong should have had anger with the Dutch first, and something was wrong with catching up with Zheng Zhilong's fleet so quickly.

But at this time, the arrow was already on the string. No matter what worries he had in his heart, he still ordered the first time and shouted: "Let all warships spread out in one word, don't let any Zheng Zhilong's warship go!"

Zheng Zhilong also saw Liu Xiang's fleet, and the telescope in his hand was a Ming new-style observation glass "borrowed" from Deng Chang, which saw farther and clearer.

At this time, the sky was dark, but Zheng Zhilong could vaguely see that at the end of Liu Xiang's fleet, five rays of black smoke rose, which was the smoke and dust generated by coal combustion when the steam turbine was running at full speed.

He had to sigh that this new warship was fast!

After sighing, he also ordered: "The warships spread out, don't let any of Liu Xiang's warships go!"

The fleets of both sides quickly set off their formation, but in fact their speed was still too slow and it took too long to arrange them, so that the cruiser fleet had been exposed before them, while their fleet was less than 20%.

"What is that!" Liu Xiang held the telescope and looked at the huge ship that seemed to be wrapped in iron armor and could travel at high speed without sails. He fell into a terror.

This kind of warship was indeed beyond his imagination. A large ship without sails but with huge black smoke was no different from a marine monster in his eyes.

After getting closer, the huge cannon gradually became clear in the telescope almost stopped thinking.

Suddenly, he saw something and shouted: "Do not!"
Chapter completed!