I'm really not the carpenter emperor

"The Penghu waterway is not far from the shallow sea with many hidden reefs. If Hong Maozi's warship sails in there, if we block it again, they may not be able to return."

Zhang Pan thought for a while, and made a decisive decision:

"No matter what these red-haired boys plan, tell the brothers to hold the determination to die, raise the sails, and move forward at full speed!"

"Force them into the waterway!"

As the chief soldier of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Pan may never understand Luo Fu's order.

However, in fact, this is easy to understand in the West. Although the Dutch are currently on the rise, their fleet is far less organized than the Spanish and British fleets.

Compared with the unity of the Armada Fleet in terms of military administration and military orders, the management of the Dutch Federation Fleet can be described as fragmented.

So far, the Federation of the Netherlands has five naval departments in Friesland, Zealand, Amsterdam, Maas and North Holland.

The five naval ministries are all managed by the five provinces near the sea.

The Admiralties are only nominally governed by the Inter-Provincial Assembly, but they are not legally responsible to the Inter-Provincial Assembly, because each province also has its own parliament, and the Admiralty of each province only obeys the orders of their own parliament.

In peacetime, the provinces and the Ministry of the Navy acted independently, building ships and collecting taxes independently, and only in times of war did they mobilize ships to form a coalition.

In addition, the Dutch Federation did not have the strict subordination relationship that the Ming Dynasty had with the local governments to the navy of the provinces in the overseas colonies.

Therefore, the Dutch federal fleet did not pay for each other during the war, and it often happened that the commander-in-chief of the fleet could not command other provincial fleets.

Luo Fu's decision is actually not surprising.

In the Kentenok naval battle with Spain, the Sealand Squadron of the Dutch United Fleet left without permission because it refused to suffer damage, and was not punished by the Inter-Provincial Council afterwards.

This kind of thing, no matter in the Daming Navy, the Spanish Armada, or the British Navy, is subject to military law without exception.

This kind of management in the Netherlands has contributed to the rapid growth of the inter-provincial parliament and the mushrooming of colonies everywhere.

Of course, the disadvantage is that the command is not coordinated.

The governors of the colonies of the Dutch provinces have great powers. Each of them is like a local emperor. Not only does it have its own parliament, but it can even build shipyards and various facilities, and assemble fleets in the name of the provincial navy department.

Soon, Luo Fu was shocked to find that the Daming Navy behind him had no plans to evacuate. On the contrary, they accelerated and approached behind them under the leadership of the lead ship.

After all, he was a captain with rich sailing experience, and Luo Fu quickly judged that the shallow sea of ​​the Penghu Channel in front of him was passable for his Galen battleship.

He ordered:

"Pass through the waterway at full speed and bombard these Ming warships in the deep sea!"

Although Luo Fu's judgment was very correct, the shallow sea of ​​the Penghu Channel allowed the Galen battleship to pass by calmly, but the numerous hidden reefs still made the fleet move slowly.

Soon, the navy of the Laizhou Camp in the rear, led by Zhang Pan, chased after them, seized the fighter opportunity, and immediately released the first round of shelling to the Dutch fleet trapped in the waterway.

However, the fuchuan came from a long distance, and the speed of rushing over was too fast, and although the suppressing cannon could be carried on board, it did not have the technology of front sight and rear sight, and its accuracy was not enough.

Almost all of the first round of artillery failed, and only a small amount of solid lead bullets caused certain casualties to some Dutch warships.

Although the Ming army had popularized shotguns in the Nine Frontiers Town in land warfare, but in sea artillery battles, they only had solid lead bullets as a means of killing.

Compared with the lead bullets, shotgun shells, and chain bombs of the Dutch, their combat capabilities are still insufficient.

Finding that long-range shooting is difficult to achieve results, Zhang Pan immediately changed his tactics and decided to use the old backward tactics, that is, scuffle and side-to-side.

If the Dutch fleet hadn't been trapped in the Penghu waterway at this time, he would not have made such a gamble-like decision.

All of a sudden, the navy warships of the Ming army took this opportunity to approach the Dutch fleet one after another. During the operation, the advantages of the Ming army's Fuchuan began to show.

The Fu ship has a single deck for carrying the suppressing guns, and there is no tactic of shelling along the side of the ship. The structure of the Fu ship allows the navy officers and soldiers to continue to bombard the Luo Fu fleet in the Penghu waterway during operations.

Although doing so would greatly reduce the accuracy, the fifteen Galen warships that were quickly withdrawing from the Penghu waterway could only fire with broadside guns.

In other words, before the guns were turned, the Luo Fu fleet was almost a live target at sea for the officers and soldiers of the Laizhou Camp Navy.

Zhang Pan's flagship found a gap, stuck to the shore on the right side of the Penghu waterway, bypassed the sides of the four Galen warships, and quickly approached the main ship where Luo Fu was.

Luo Fu saw the distribution of the Ming army's navy through the binoculars, and found a warship charging towards him. He was shocked and quickly ordered the fleet to turn around and fight back.

Judging from the movements of the Ming army, it was their intention to fight them decisively in the Penghu waterway.

However, Fuchuan is a dual-purpose warship, which can maintain flexibility in offshore waters and maintain excellent stability in deep seas in the face of strong winds and high waves.

This is also the reason why Zhu Youxiao abandoned the Guangzhou Ship and let the Denglai Navy uniformly use Fuchuan as the main warship.

Although the Fuchuan is not as maneuverable as the Galen warship in the deep sea, once it enters the coastal waters, the Fuchuan's maneuverability will greatly surpass the Galen warship.

Many people know that the improvement of the maneuverability of warships has almost a qualitative change on the entire fleet on the sea.

Luo Fu never expected that his selfish decision would reverse the situation of the entire Penghu naval battle.

The [-] Galen warships that originally had an absolute advantage in the deep sea, after entering the Penghu waterway, their maneuverability plummeted, and they were almost completely overtaken by the Fuchuan.

A Galen warship was turning around, and the deck was full of Dutch sailors and sailors running back and forth, as well as a small number of naval soldiers.

After finally avoiding the hidden reef, the Ming army sailors turned their sides to the rear. Before loading the shells, the hull of the ship trembled violently as if it had been hit hard.

At the moment when they stopped running and turned their heads, more than [-] Fuzhou boats from the Laizhouying Navy in the rear chased them into the Penghu waterway.

The most forward one, a few crossbow bolts fired from the giant crossbow on the deck, were firmly nailed to the hull of this Galen warship.

Then, with the help of crossbow arrows, he began to quickly approach the Galen warship.

The Dutch commander on the deck looked shocked and quickly ordered the rope to be cut.

He knew that the crew of the Galen battleship was far inferior to that of the Fuchuan, and once it was boarded, he would not be able to fight no matter what.

Chapter 672 Fight to Fame

When it comes to fighting to the death, the Ming army is obviously better than the Dutch navy.

The generals of the Ming Army in the Laizhou Battalion, from Zhangpan, the chief soldier, to a gunner at the bottom, each fought this battle with the belief that they must die.

Such an attitude of seeing death as home also determines the next direction of this battle to a certain extent.

After all, one is an invasion, while the other is defending the country in front of the folks at the door of the house, so the responsibilities on them are naturally different.

The Ming army could not afford to lose, and no one wanted to lose.

"Mr. Qian! The red hair is cutting the rope!" A navy officer and soldier pointed forward and shouted.

Seeing Mr. Qian, he immediately said:

"Continue to fire the crossbow arrows, as many as you cut off, you can nail as much as you want!"

Immediately, he turned his head and asked, "What is the range of the Hudun cannon, two hundred steps? How far are we from the red-haired warship now?"

The shipbuilder stretched out his fingers to compare, and said visually:

"There should be four or five hundred steps away!"

"Okay!" Mr. Qian stepped on the wooden box with one foot, and said viciously: "The Hudun cannon is ready, and the shotguns are also brought up, listen to my order!"

"Two hundred steps, fire the Hudun cannon, you don't need to keep the shells, you can hit as much as you can! When you enter the hundred steps, the shotgun team greeted me fiercely on the deck of the red-haired warship!"

"If there is one of them who can take the lead, I will ask you!"

"Yes!" Everyone shouted in unison.

After the Galen warship turned its side, it immediately began to fire back fire in a hurry, but this kind of front-mounted cannon was very difficult to load.

Before they fired the second round, they had already entered the effective range of the Ming weapon on the Fuchuan, that is, within [-] paces.

At this distance, the tall Fuchuan is almost twice the height of the Galen warship.

Naturally, the Ming army could not allow the Dutch to carry out the next round of bombardment calmly, and began to pour intensive firepower on the deck of the Galen battleship using tiger pier guns and sudden fire guns.

And when the Ming army approached, the Dutch commander of this battleship did not hesitate, and decisively ordered all the sailors, sailors and naval soldiers on the battleship to prepare for the boarding battle.

"boom!"

Under the command of the Dutch commander, the Galen battleship began to ram suicide rams on the oncoming Fuchuan.

Not to be outdone, the Ming army stood on the rickety deck, hooked the Galen warship with the arrows fired from the giant crossbow to achieve the purpose of forcibly boarding the ship, and then condescendingly jumped onto the deck in batches.

Mr. Qian drew out his saber and shouted loudly:

"Kill with me!"

"Kill all these red-haired ghosts!"

Fuchuan has more than [-] crew members, while Galen battleship has only a few dozen crew members, and the melee combat capabilities of both sides are not at the same level.

After a very short and tragic battle, the naval officers and soldiers of the Laizhou Battalion killed all the Dutch inside and outside the third deck, and captured the first complete Galen warship.

Above the Galen battleship, the three flags of the United Provinces of the Netherlands gradually fell, and fell to the surface of the sea, and no one cared about them, while the high flag representing Ming Dynasty slowly rose.

Followed by loud cheers.

At the same time, the Fuzhou Ships of the Laizhou Camp Navy, which had seen results, also began to use boarding battles one after another, and the boarding battles spread across the vast Penghu waterway.

Zhang Pan led the Ming army to jump onto Luo Fu's flagship twice, but they were repulsed by the Galen warships who rushed over after hearing the news.

At this critical juncture, a Zheng family fleet that sailed from Tongshan last night suddenly arrived.

This fleet is mainly small and medium-sized warships, including a large number of sand ships, Cangshan warships and assault boats, led by Zheng Zhihu, a thousand households in Tongshan.

Zheng Zhihu was shocked when he found out that the Ming army had successfully approached and captured several Galen warships using boarding tactics, without hesitation, he said immediately:

"Shoot at the Dutchmen on deck!"

"Get on board and cooperate with them!"

Numerous assault boats boarded the Galen warships surrounding Luo Fu's flagship, and the Zheng family's crew jumped onto the deck and began to fight the Dutch.

At the same time, Zhang Pan also led the navy officers and soldiers to attack Luo Fu's flagship again.

This time, without the containment of the Galen warships on the left and right sides, the Ming army rushed into the flagship and began to slaughter the Dutch among them.

Zhang Pan chased to the captain's office on the ground floor, kicked open the door, beheaded Luo Fu, the captain of the Dutch reinforcements, and captured his flagship.

The rest of the Galen warships in the Penghu waterway saw their flagship captured, and all lost their will to resist.

Vice-captain Skirlock commanded the remaining fleet to cross the Penghu waterway to the north and return to the deep sea in an attempt to escape the pursuit of the Daming Navy.

But after running for a long time, they encountered another Zheng family fleet, led by Zheng Zhibao.

Zheng Zhibao looked at the direction in which the Dutch fled, and said in shock: "Unexpectedly, Zhang Pan defeated the Luo Fu fleet with only one Laizhou battalion."

As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately said:

"Pass my order, the left wing moves forward, cut off the passage for the Dutch to land in North Ryukyu, and the right wing and my central army continue to pursue!"

Zheng Zhibao judged the intention of the vice-captain of the Luo Fu Fleet, Skirlock, to land in Ryukyu and use his left-wing army to cut off the passage for the Dutch reinforcements to go ashore, and then led the center army and the right-wing army to attack.

After more than half an hour of chasing battle, in the Ryukyu Strait, the Zheng family's fleet wiped out the remnants of the Luo Fu fleet from South India.

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Penghu waterway from the Ryukyu Strait, the Denglai Navy and Zheng's fleet have won the victory, and the chicken coop and Diaoyu Island in the northern Ryukyu have also returned to the arms of Ming Dynasty, and the situation is very good.

At this time, at the northern end of the front line, the situation was very unfavorable to the Denglai Navy.

After losing the containment and encirclement of the Laizhou Battalion in the rear, the Queen's fleet successfully broke through the encirclement encircled by Shen Yourong and Zheng Zhilong.

Admiral Herlander of the Royal Netherlands Navy took advantage of the comprehensive firepower of the Queen's fleet to successfully turn the situation in the north.

After breaking through the encirclement, Holland launched a feint attack on the Zheng family's fleet, which had suffered heavy losses, in order to force Shen Yourong's Dengzhou battalion navy to divide up their troops for reinforcements.

Shen Yourong watched the gradually deteriorating situation on the sea with binoculars, with a solemn expression.

At this time, he clearly found the semaphore for help from the Zheng family fleet on his right wing, and it was difficult to make a decision for a while.

Dividing troops to reinforce the Zheng family's fleet will inevitably cause a serious shortage of warships in the front of the Dengzhou battalion, forming a large gap in a short period of time.

But if there is no division of troops, even if the Zheng family's fleet is defeated by the Dutch, it will be really difficult to do anything with the remaining left wing.

After careful consideration, Shen Yourong had no choice but to order twenty warships to reinforce the right flank.

Sure enough, the Dutch immediately spotted the gap ahead.

Holland commanded the flagship Queen, a Tier [-] battleship that was almost invincible on the battlefield, quickly rushed in through the gap, and cooperated with the Galen battleship to surround the left wing of the Dengzhou Camp Navy.

Soon, both Zheng Zhilong and Shen Yourong realized that the Dutch were actually feigning the Zheng family's fleet on the right wing.

Holland's real purpose was to take the opportunity to wipe out the ten or so lucky boats left by the Dengzhou camp in one fell swoop.

Chapter 673 The Navigator Zhu Youxiao

"boom!"