Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 618 Annihilation of the Battleships of the Dutch East India Company

The flagship of the South China Sea Fleet of the Ming Dynasty, the "Dongou King", is a steam and sail dual-powered super battleship. Not only is it extremely fast and powerful, but it is also very resistant to beating.

The alloy-iron-wrapped hull has a strong cushioning effect. Even if the shells fired by the five Dutch sailing warships brought by Tasman hit the hull of the "East Ou King", the entire hull is still as stable as Mount Tai, with most concave surfaces .

But it is only occasionally that one or two shots are concentrated on the "Eastern Ou King".

The 45-jin short cannon on the "Dongou King" began to show its power. The so-called cannon is the so-called Karen cannon in later generations. The cannon is short, but the firepower formed by short-range firepower is very powerful.

In addition, Ming's howitzers use nitrate explosives as propellant shells, so they have a strong penetrating power against short-range Dutch warships.

With a bang, the Dutch warship in front of it was directly broken, and the entire hull of the Dutch warship turned sideways.

Coupled with the faster firing speed of the Daming artillery, and its own three-layer artillery coverage, the Dutch warships did not take advantage of the slightest advantage in the bombardment.

The key point is that the "Eastern Ou King" is not inflexible because of its large size, because of the application of propellers and Minglun, coupled with steam power, its flexibility is even stronger, just like a blue whale out of water with a dragon By swinging the tail, the shooting position can be adjusted at any time according to the wind direction, so that two Dutch second-class sailing warships were successively sunk by the Ming Dynasty "East Ou King".

"My God, what kind of super battleship did the Ming Empire build? It's huge, has a lot of cannons, and it's still an iron-clad battleship, but it can operate freely on the sea, and it can't move like a mountain. It even has a chimney that spits out thick smoke. What's the point of this."

While Tasman looked at the "East Ou King" in astonishment, he did not forget to issue a new order: "Our artillery can't compete with it, and the battleship can't move anymore. We all take advantage of the ship's sinking and approach the enemy ship with small boats. Get on the enemy ship, only by rushing up can we survive!"

As a result, the Dutch soldiers of the remaining two Dutch first-class warships that had been hit by countless shells but had not completely sunk to the bottom of the sea immediately changed to small wooden boats and tried to forcefully board the "Eastern Ou King".

"Shotgun attack, the [-]st Battalion of the Marine Corps is firing!"

Zheng Chenggong gave an order at this time, and countless shotguns and bullets rained down in the sea area of ​​​​[-] paces, forming a dense firepower strike circle.

These Dutch soldiers who were still trying to reverse the situation of the battle were smashed into a sieve in an instant, including the wooden boat, and the whole sea was full of gunshots, shotguns and bullets, and the sound of the Dutch soldiers crying. And the clang on the wooden boat.

The Dutch soldiers were battered and battered before they could raise their flintlocks.

Of course, this scene only happened for less than half a moment, and people are still afraid of death. Although these Dutch soldiers of the Dutch East India Company have experienced countless naval battles and are quite fearless, they are not afraid of life and death at this time. Without the will to fight, many Dutch soldiers even turned around and ran back shortly after boarding the wooden boat.

Seeing that no Dutch officers and soldiers dared to resist, Zheng Chenggong ordered the "East Ou King" to rush directly to encircle and suppress these Dutch officers and soldiers fleeing and retreating at sea.

The "East Ou King" savagely smashed into the wreckage of the half-sunken Dutch warship, and even the Dutch officers and soldiers who were desperately struggling in the sea were shot into the sea by the huge waves brought by it, and were directly beaten to death, or He was shot and killed by the Guards Navy on the ship.

The other sailing warships of the Ming Dynasty also surrounded them, and they kept reaping the lives of the Dutch officers and soldiers at sea through shotguns.

A Dutch red-haired fan was swimming desperately, but at this moment, a series of shotguns hit the red-haired fan, and the red-haired fan was directly punched into holes in his body like a hornet's nest, and the blood directly stained the area around his body.

This is the revenge of the Ming Navy on these red-haired butchers, just like the slaughter of Han people by these red-haired butchers.

The Dutch East India Company no longer has any naval combat power at its headquarters in Batavia.

The Ming South Sea Fleet also reorganized its battle line and drove directly towards the coast of Batavia Port.

And this time.

The governor of the Dutch East India Company on the shore, Masiike, began to order the forts on the shore to prepare for firing.

At the same time, Masiike also organized [-] Dutch red-haired soldiers to use the fortress on the shore to organize a tight line of defense in an attempt to organize the landing of the Ming South Sea Fleet.

The governor of the Dutch East India Company, Masiike Xiuzheng, was very angry because he saw many Dutch people being killed alive by the Ming army, but he completely forgot that he had treated the Han people in the same way before, even more cruelly.

As it was getting late, the Ming South Sea Fleet had to seize the tidal flat position as quickly as possible, and get a chance to temporarily camp and rest, so more than [-] warships came directly, completely ignoring the dense crowd on the shore of Batavia City artillery.

"Fire the gun!"

It was Zheng Chenggong, the commander-in-chief of the South China Sea Fleet of the Ming Dynasty, who issued the life order.

The 25-pound cannon on the top deck of the Ming Dynasty sailing warship is a long-range cannon, which shoots at an elevation angle, and is also a rear-loaded rifled cannon. Most of the artillery of the South China Sea Fleet of the Ming Dynasty is sufficient to hit targets on the shore.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Within 1 minute, thousands of cannons spit out flames, thousands of shells directly covered the setting sun, and bombarded the area two miles above the coast of Batavia City indiscriminately.

One minute later, there was another round of indiscriminate bombing.

Another minute later, there was another round of indiscriminate bombing.

The entire fort on the coast of Batavia was directly overturned, and the western smoothbore long cannons lined up on the fort were directly blasted into scrap iron, and even flew directly into the sea, causing big waves.

Many Dutch officers and soldiers were also bombed, crying and roaring one after another.

"God, why are they so powerful? Before our artillery starts, they can fire first and bombard us with precision!"

Surprised, Masiike hurriedly followed the remaining Dutch officers and soldiers and fled into the inland.

Now the battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands is no longer based on the tactics of crowds, but on the level of technology beyond two centuries. Therefore, it is just like the green battalion soldiers in the late Qing Dynasty who saw the British army running around. After seeing the powerful artillery power of the Ming Navy, the Dutch red-haired fans did not have the fighting will to resist on the shore, so they hurriedly withdrew into the city.

The Ming South Sea Fleet continued to advance after three rounds of bombardment, and did not stop until an area one mile away from the coast.

The reason why they stopped was because there were many corpses of Han people floating in the sea area of ​​this mile area. The imperial navy couldn't bear to damage their corpses while marching, so they changed to a small boat to land in advance.

It was already twilight, and the Dutch Red-haired Fans had retreated into the city of Batavia, not daring to leave the city, so the imperial marines landed smoothly.

At the same time, the imperial warships still carried out long-range bombardment in the direction of Batavia City. The Dutch East India Company did not build Batavia City too far from the coastline in order to facilitate the shipment of goods. The entire castle is less than three kilometers away from the coastline. Therefore, the artillery of the Imperial Navy can still carry out effective strikes on the city of Batavia.

However, because it was night, the Imperial Navy's artillery could not cause too much damage to the Dutch Red-haired Fans in Batavia City, but it was easy to destroy a section of the city wall.

(End of this chapter)