East Factory Governor

Chapter 790 Rolling
He now knew that Zheng Zhilong only sent about forty large ships into the port, and all other warships were in ambush.

But forty large ships, can they do whatever they want in the port of Zeelandia?

Do the Dutch still have so many warships in the port?

What about their so many coastal defense cannons?
It's no wonder that Liu Xiang couldn't figure it out, because his imagination of the battleships of the Ming army still remained in the impression of the Schmidt-class large battleships.

The Schmidborg-class battleship is now the largest and most powerful warship in the Far East.

It is equipped with twelve heavy cannons (the same level as the Hongyi cannon) and eight Franco cannons.

But look at the battleships of the Ming army, equipped with [-] Hongyi cannons and [-] Fran cannons, the firepower is not a heavyweight at all.

In terms of hull protection, the Schmidborg class has two layers of wooden armor, but the battleship of the Ming army has three layers of wooden armor, plus iron armor for key parts!
Are these two warships comparable?There is no comparison at all.

You have to ask why the Ming army easily built such a large warship?

There is no other reason, but the shipbuilding industry is the world's leading, plus rich!
The battleships currently used by the Ming army could have been built as early as 200 years ago when Zheng He sailed to the West, and they would be called "treasure ships".It was only later that the national strength of the Ming Dynasty weakened, so it was not made.

But the blueprints and techniques of shipbuilding are still there, and all of them are well preserved by the Ministry of Industry, so how difficult is it to rebuild them?
As for adding armor and iron skin, it depends entirely on money.

Can a battleship cost more than 5 taels to build?

But on the other hand, in any country in Europe, you ask him to build a ship with 5 taels of silver?

It is not ruled out that individual countries can make it, but what about mass production?It is no exaggeration to say that no country dares to batch!

In a word, Europe is still poor now!
It’s good that Europe has opened up a lot of colonies now, but with their current colonization efficiency, at most they can only be said to be much richer than before. If you think about how hard it is to open up colonies, it turns out that the goods have to be turned around for a year from the colonies to the country. How inefficient is it?
They really got rich, naturally after the Industrial Revolution.

At least for now, they are still incomparable with the Ming Dynasty.

According to the statistics of later scholars, the Ming Dynasty accounted for 40% of the world's total GDP during the Chongzhen period.Not to mention that the statistical error is big or not, but there is a fact that the whole of Europe is not as rich as the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, it is not surprising that this kind of warship can only be built in batches by Ming Dynasty.

Then Liu Xiang's knowledge is a little short, which is normal.

However, this short-sightedness killed him!

More than 50 warships of the Ming army first went from west to south, circled behind the combined fleet of Liu Xiang and the Dutch, and then copied them from behind.

After they arrived, they successfully encircled the combined fleet of Liu Xiang and the Dutch together with the Spanish fleet.

Naval battles are more afraid of being surrounded than land battles. At this time, the victory and defeat are actually divided.

But a stronger blow is yet to come.

At this time, the Dutch coastal defense guns in Zeelandia Harbor have basically misfired.

Why?

Because after the eight thousand troops of the Ming army landed, they easily captured the coastal defense artillery positions.

The Dutch only had less than a thousand troops in the port. Based on the calculation of [-] coastal defense guns, there were only a dozen people in each position. superior.

Under such circumstances, it was easy for the Ming army to take them down.

Even most of the Dutch soldiers on the fort did not resist, so they surrendered obediently.

The Dutch fleet in the harbor was already fighting hard, but without the support of coastal defense artillery, it was even more powerless to deal with the Ming army's forty battleships.

Soon, the only Schmidt battleship in the harbor was sunk.

The remaining Galen ships and small clippers were basically wiped out.

Of the 21 extremely strong battleships of the Ming army, only one was sunk, five were seriously injured, and [-] were slightly injured.

Abandoning the seriously injured battleship, the remaining 34 battleships slowly sailed out of the port to support the battle at the mouth of the bay.

then--

Liu Xiang and the Dutch fleet, who were already battered, saw more than 30 huge monsters coming out of it. Countless black muzzles looked like monster eyes, looking at them coldly and bloodthirstyly!

"Boom!"

A long tongue of flame spewed out from the huge muzzle, spit out a series of life-threatening shells, and went straight to the United Fleet.

All of a sudden, there were explosions one after another, and billowing thick smoke rose into the sky in a column shape. On the ocean, only the warships of the United Fleet were on fire and explosions everywhere.

It's no exaggeration at all!
Crushed by strength, it is absolutely worthy of the name!
Soon, this first battle for supremacy in the Far East, which was also a confrontation between the two most powerful forces in the Far East, turned into a one-sided massacre!

After Liu Xiang's flagship hit more than 30 shots, it began to tilt.

It's not that he didn't want to escape, but under the tight siege, he knew it was impossible.

Liu Xiang is not the kind of pirate who surrenders easily, just like in history, he knew that he would kill Zheng Zhihu and commit suicide after knowing that he was defeated.

What's more, he knew that surrender was also death - as a pirate who attacked the coastal ports of Daming and sank Ming merchant ships, if he fell into the hands of the Ming army, he would definitely be executed by Ling Chi.

So, at the moment when the general situation was gone, he raised his gun and shot himself in the head.

Liu Xiang is dead.

His fleet was also nearly wiped out.

The Dutch fleet also suffered a devastating blow.

Under the intensive care of ten battleships, two super-large warships of the Schmidt class caught fire on one of them, and no matter how hard the crew tried, it was impossible to extinguish it, while the cabin of the other was damaged with more than a dozen large holes. The seawater rushed in so violently that the hull tilted 45 degrees and slowly sank.

This is true of the Schmidberg class, let alone Galen ships, Junk ships, and smaller Clippers.These ships sank, those that caught fire caught fire, and those that had not suffered a devastating blow immediately raised the white flag.

The Nanyang Navy won a big victory!

In this battle, the Nanyang Navy lost only two battleships, six junk ships, and 23 small fast boats, but annihilated three Dutch Schmierburg-class warships, eleven Galen ships, twelve junk ships, More than 50 small warships captured more than [-] large and small warships at the same time.

A big win without compromise!

Since then, the Netherlands has no power to compete with Ming Dynasty in Dongfan.

And Liu Xiang, the great pirate who has been rampant for many years, can no longer make waves in the Far East.

Zheng Zhilong stood at the bow of the ship in high spirits. He pointed at the Dutch envoy and laughed loudly, "Your envoy, is this the trial of your Dutch warship's gunfire?"

The Dutch envoy turned pale and trembling with fright, and quickly knelt down and said, "Please forgive me for my rudeness and ignorance before, great general, I think you will eventually be the ruler of this ocean. My apologies for what I said earlier, my sincere apologies."

He bowed his knees, humbled to the extreme, he had long since lost his previous arrogance, and now the only thought in his mind was that he must not be thrown into the sea by Zheng Zhilong and fed to the fish.

After Zheng Zhilong heard his words, his face darkened, and he said, "You Xiyi is really rebellious! This governor is the general of the Ming Dynasty, and the ruler of this ocean is naturally my court of the Ming Dynasty, my wise and mighty emperor, His Majesty. Allow you to talk nonsense?"

Zheng Zhilong had dealt with the Dutch a lot in the early days, and even worked as a reporter (translation) for the Dutch, so he said this in Dutch.

Upon hearing this, the special envoy hurriedly kowtowed in accordance with Daming's way of pleading guilty, and said repeatedly, "Please forgive me, General, please forgive me, General!"

Zheng Zhilong didn't give up, and said to the left and right with a dark face, "Come on, take him down and give him fifty sticks. If he is killed, he will be thrown into the sea."

Two soldiers like wolves and tigers rushed forward immediately and dragged the special envoy down, no matter how much he begged for mercy and complained, it would be useless.

Why is Zheng Zhilong so cruel?

It's very simple, there are supervisors sent by the emperor on board!

He, Zheng Zhilong, now only wants to be a great official in the frontier, but he has the taint of being a pirate in the past, which has a negative impact on his promotion, and he is now trying his best to play down this point.

However, this envoy was so ignorant that he even said that he was the ruler of this ocean. Wouldn't that mean that he was also a pirate?

What would the emperor think if the supervising army heard this and reported it to the emperor?
My mother, not only may it affect my official career, but it may even lead to death!
So if you don't hit him, who will you hit?

(End of this chapter)