Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 97
After the two ships approached, some of the captives, including Le Maire, were transferred to Ye Dacheng's flagship.

The main reason is that Ye Dacheng's flagship is too small compared to the opponent's flagship, and it will be too crowded if hundreds of people are transferred here.

Le Maire frowned slightly. It was only when he got to Ye Dacheng's flagship that he realized how small the ship was.

And he was defeated one-on-one by such a ship, and he was powerless to fight back.

Apart from unwillingness and anger, there is only deep shame left.

No one in the entire fleet understood Dutch, Ye Dacheng also asked the Dutch prisoners loudly if anyone could speak clearly, but did not get any response.

In this case, there is no way to communicate, and there is no need to communicate.

After Ye Dacheng's pursuit here ended, the battles in other directions were basically over as well.

Only three wounded enemy ships were left floating there, like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, waiting for their own side to take over.

Seeing the return of the flagship, the ships of the new army, which had already ended the battle, took the initiative to approach.

In the binoculars, Ye Dacheng and Huang Hairu saw twenty or thirty ships gathered together, which were their own warships and enemy ships.

When these ships are gathered together, the contrast is very obvious. Any enemy ship is more than twice the size of one's own.

If you don't know the situation, you may think that the small boat was captured by the big boat, but the fact is just the opposite.

Finally, all the ships gathered into a large fleet, including the three wounded Dutch warships. After seeing that their flagships were all captured, they dared not even have the slightest thought of resistance.

Ye Dacheng asked people to make a simple count, and his side sank three enemy ships, burned three, captured fourteen, and let them escape the other three.

Although it was a pity that they could not be wiped out, Ye Dacheng could still accept it.

Huang Hairu was very satisfied, because he knew too well the naval battle at Liaoluo Bay between the Ming army and the Dutch 11 years ago, and the battle was much more difficult than it is today.

Although the final result was that the Ming army won, it was a disastrous victory, and the results were completely incomparable with today's. So what is he dissatisfied with?

Ye Dacheng was different from Huang Hairu. He was one of the oldest members of the new army and had been following Tangning since the formation of the new army.

He has experienced every battle of the new army, which means that he has experienced every victory. The last battle of Huanggang wiped out 4000 Zheng Zhilong.

And Zheng Zhilong defeated the Dutchman again, so he felt that it was nothing if he defeated the Dutchman.

The new army's own losses were also counted. Four ships were hit by enemy shells and suffered a certain degree of damage, but the impact was not significant.

There were a total of 16 casualties, five of whom were killed in battle.

There is no way, people will always die in battle. Compared with the losses of the enemy, this loss of one's own side is almost negligible.

After the battle was over and the battlefield was cleaned up, the assembled fleet immediately headed towards Nan'ao Island.

The dark red sea water, floating corpses, and undispelled gunpowder smoke all showed that a tragic battle had been fought here.

The passing fishing boats and merchant ships all consciously detoured, watching the huge fleet sailing towards Nan'ao.

It was already late when they returned to Nan'ao, Ye Dacheng immediately sent someone to Fucheng to report the details of today's naval battle to Tang Ning, and then asked him to make a decision.

Tang Ning, who was busy recruiting talents for the academy in Fucheng at this time, did not expect that without her knowledge, the biggest naval battle between Ming Dynasty and Europe would start and end like this.

After receiving the order, the communications soldiers rushed towards Fucheng without stopping. First they set off from Nan'ao Island by boat, and after landing, they changed horses and galloped wildly.

But even so, when they arrived at Fucheng, it was already dark.

It was only after revealing his identity that the defenders opened the door. After entering the city, he went straight to the barracks.

Tang Ning lived in the military camp most of the time, but the Tang residence rarely lived there.If Tangning was not in the barracks, the barracks would send someone to find Tangning as soon as possible.

Tangning hadn't rested yet. Hearing the urgent report from Nan'ao, she immediately interviewed the messenger.

The communications soldier handed over the battle report.

Tangning watched carefully, and immediately revealed a look of joy.

"Yes, Ye Dacheng did a good job, Huang Hairu did a good job, and all the soldiers did a good job."

Tangning immediately asked some details, and the messengers answered them very well, and Tangning knew the whole battle process.

Tangning asked the messengers to go down to rest, and asked them to prepare some hearty meals as a reward. Then, she returned to her room with the battle report. After pacing back and forth in the room for a long time, she didn't feel relieved to rest until early in the morning.

The next day, Tangning directly dispatched [-] troops to Nan'ao to escort the prisoners, and then quickly posted a notice with his signature in the city.

Everyone in Chaozhou knew that Mr. Tang would not put up a notice easily, and any notice with his signature was posted, it must be a big deal.

Sure enough, the crowd erupted when they saw Tang Ning's signature at the bottom of the notice.

People in the entire Chaozhou Prefecture may not recognize their own name, but there are probably not many people who do not know the word Tangning.

"This is a notice signed by Mr. Tang. What happened? Read it quickly." Someone immediately urged him eagerly.

People who can read quickly glanced at it, first they looked surprised, showing disbelief, and then they were overjoyed.

"Haha, our new army has won the battle again."

Everyone was shocked, and they couldn't help wondering: "Win the battle? Who did you fight with? Could it be Zheng Zhilong again?"

"No, no, I'm afraid you won't be able to guess this time."

"Don't keep it up, just talk about it."

Feeling that he might be beaten if he whetted his appetite, the scholar-looking young man hurriedly said, "It's those red-haired ghosts. The notice calls them Dutch."

"It's the red-haired ghosts of the senior officials? How could they fight our new army? Didn't they send people to cooperate with our Master Tang some time ago?"

"That's right, everyone in Fucheng knows about that. Our Lord Tang even provided them with a temporary artillery factory, which is in the east of the city."

"There are more than a dozen red-haired ghosts who have been living in Fucheng. I heard that they are very generous."

The scholar waved his hand and said, "Don't make wild guesses, those are all illusions."

"Master Tang knows that those red-haired ghosts are both merchants and thieves, and he is unwilling to sell them our more powerful artillery, so he guessed that these red-haired ghosts might come to snatch them, so he has long ordered the new army sailors in Nan'ao to take precautions. "

"Sure enough, Mr. Tang is still predicting things like a god, and he was right."

"Just yesterday, dozens of big ships of red-haired ghosts wanted to sneak attack on our new army navy. Fortunately, we took precautions early in the morning, so they didn't succeed."

"Then our navy of the new army took the initiative to attack, and the two sides fought. Those red-haired ghosts were beaten to pieces by the new army. Except for a few ships that escaped, all the others were sunk and captured, including their flagship, haha."

"In the morning, Master Tang has sent someone to Nan'ao to escort the prisoners, and he should be back tomorrow."

"Yes, I saw a large group of people leaving the city in the morning. It turned out that they were taking prisoners."

"The new army is so powerful, it wins every time. Whether it is Zheng Zhilong or those red-haired ghosts, they are no match for our new army."

"Those red-haired ghosts are really cunning. Who would have thought that they would create so many false appearances to sneak attack us. It is really hateful."

"Yes, it's too hateful, those red-haired ghosts in the city, we have to arrest them."

"Yes, we're going to arrest them."

Immediately, everyone was furious, and they all found an outlet to vent their anger, and then went together to search for those despicable red-haired ghosts.

(End of this chapter)