Chapter 278: The war begins!

"Three Lanfang warships turned around, and it seemed that they were trying their best. Soldiers, show your spirits and clean up these guys for me." A captain saw that the other party was squeezing through the river valley between Mayer Island and Borneo, but because the river surface was too narrow, it could not pass through so many ships at once. Some Chinese soldiers were already panicked and began to jump into the sea, intending to escape to the two sides with their own water nature. However, there were still brave people among them, who were driving their poor small warships to charge forward to the alive.

Although the Dutch Navy admired the other party's courage, the other party's actions were just a desperate and stupid counterattack in the face of absolute strength. Soon, two Dutch two-masted warships swung their ships, revealing the hideous side gun window, and the gun muzzles from one door exposed their dark figures from the gun window.

"Each gunner is in his place, aim and prepare to shoot!" With the shout of the artillery commander, he stood on the tail building and looked at the captain of the Chinese warship, and felt a sense of superiority.

Although his two-massed warships are small and medium-sized warships in the Dutch Navy sequence, they have far surpassed the so-called warships of the opponents in all aspects.

Although this two-mass warship does not usually have three-deck gun positions like battleships or other three-mass warships, the number of side-side artillery guns is still at least fifteen, and this kind of firepower can easily destroy the opponent.

"The first shot of this battle will start with my order. In the future, it may be recorded in history and become the beginning of our Netherlands conquering the entire Borneo." The captain thought proudly that at this time, the opponent's warship had already entered his artillery range.

"Fire!" With a loud shout, fifteen artillery fired one after another, and the spitting flames still seemed so clear under the hot sun. Although the opponent had just entered the shooting range of the artillery, two shells still hit the opponent's warship. I wonder if the opponent's courage had been exhausted on the way back and charge. The moment the artillery fire hit the warship, the sailors on the Chinese warship rushed to the sea.

"Captain, do we need another round of artillery fire?" Seeing the Lan Fang warships that were moving slowly based on inertia, the first mate standing next to the captain curled his lips contemptuously and asked knowingly.

"No need, they are really not worth our waste of shells. Damn it. If I had known that they were so weak, I would not have let the warship stop here and tangle with them, turn the rudder, and continue to move forward, and no longer care about these timid cowards." The captain angrily slapped the mast railing on the side of the ship and issued a new order loudly.

"I said, we are now back on the ship and still staying in the sea." A pirate from the Liang family who was floating freely on the sea asked lazily to his companions. They were one of the "cowards" who jumped out of the warship to escape from the warship at the moment when the other party fired their guns.

"Whatever, but I still feel that the water is cooler. Besides, if we climb up again, the other party will fire at us again. It's better to just watch it. They don't have a chance to jump around anyway." Another pirate who had just exposed his head from the water breathed comfortably and then replied. For those Dutch warships who passed by, there was no fear or panic in their eyes, but instead looked eager and greedy. "I don't know how many of these warships we can capture." A pirate who was playing backstroke looked envious.

"That depends on how ruthless Brother Li Pao and the others are." Another pirate expressed a consensus on this.

"I hope these poor people will not be drowned. At that time, we can have a few more free coolies to dig gold mines." Brigadier General Van Gaal looked at the Chinese sailors in the distance who were dazed in the sea water, and joked with a relaxed expression.

"Don't worry, Lan Fang's Chinese are said to have more than 100,000 Chinese, and the indigenous people who surrender to them also have hundreds of thousands. Such a large population is enough for us to develop the entire northern part of Baltic." The commissioner Orvimas also looked relaxed. If it were not for the restrictions of discipline, he even wanted to move a small round table on the deck of this building, taste the delicious black tea, and watch the brave soldiers effortlessly occupy another city of Lan Fang's Chinese again.

"It seems that there are no artillery in their port, or in other words, their soldiers do not even have the courage to defend the port." Seeing that some warships had approached less than one mile from the port and were still not attacked, Brigadier General Van Gaal's first mate expressed his opinion.

"If we had known this, we should have set up the base camp here, not at the Kendawangan." Commissioner Orvimas said regretfully.

At this time, Van Gaal took out his pocket watch from his arms and looked at the time. He turned his head to look north. At this moment, he could only see the shadows of sails. He turned his head and looked at the port where there were only one or two cats and dogs running around except for the scattered boxes, clothes, and even shoes and socks. "Forget it, these guys are already hot-headed, don't have to wait for them anymore, tell Lieutenant Colonel Dink to be ready to get by."

"Yes, general." After the first mate loudly responded, he ordered the signal soldiers to sing flags. A three-masted warship located on the left side of their flagship began to slowly sail towards the dock. Not long after, nearly two hundred fully armed Dutch soldiers had gathered on the dock, and they soon occupied it, or entered the key points of the dock and guarded it.

Suddenly, dense cannon sounds came from the north along the sea breeze. Van Gaal subconsciously turned around and looked towards the north. Soon, another round of dense cannon fire appeared again. Although the distance was very far, it still faintly came into their ears.

Van Gaal couldn't help but frown: "What's going on? With such dense artillery fire, have we met the main fleet of Lan Fang Chinese?"

"What should we do now? General, will we reinforce immediately?" Orvemas tried hard to squint his eyes through the telescope and looked to the north in vain. The distance was too far. Apart from seeing the vast sails and coastline at sea level, there was no way to see more.

"This is all we can do. In addition to Lieutenant Colonel Dink's warship, three more warships were left just in case, and the rest would follow me..." Brigadier General Van Gaal issued an order loudly. At this time, he suddenly heard the sound of dense artillery fire, but it was not from the north, but from the southwest, that is, from behind them.

At this moment, almost everyone looked back. "My God!" The face of the commissioner Orvimas instantly turned gray and he screamed in disbelief.

About seven miles behind them, a reconnaissance ship was slowly sinking into the sea, and the soldiers on the ship were jumping into the sea, swam desperately toward this side. Behind them, tall masts were exposed to the sea, tall warships were revealing their dark and solid hulls, and the Spanish flag hanging high on the top of the mast was fluttering in the wind.

"Alarm, a large number of Spanish warships with unknown intentions were found behind, alarm!" The soldiers standing in the mast watchtower shouted in their sharp and high voices. There was an unspeakable fear in the voice.

"What did the Spanish warships come here to do? And when will they have such a powerful fleet here? This is impossible!" The Dutch Navy General swallowed with difficulty, looking at the mast that still appeared from the horizontal line. There were at least dozens of three-masted warships on the other side, and more than a dozen fourth-class battleships with firepower slightly lower than third-class battleships. Other large and small warships made Van Gaal's scalp numb.

It was like a crowd of locusts covering the sky.

"Alarm! A large number of warships with unknown intentions were found on the starboard side, alarm!" At this time, the soldier in the mast watchtower tower was like a high-pitched singer in an opera house, which had a very arias smell, but there were too many tremolos.

Van Gaal turned around and looked over. There were also a large number of warships in the west. However, judging from the styles of these warships, most of them should be the kind of Eastern Fu Ship-style warships, but the number was also quite large, and they were also wearing the Spanish flag.

But soon Van Gaal and his team concluded that the warship on the starboard side should be the mercenaries hired by the Spanish for money.

"What's going on? What's going on? Where did these ships come out?" The commissioner Orvemas grabbed his wig hard, and even the alopecia areata exposed his forehead did not care. His expression was like seeing a gangster at the entrance of the black alley with a weak woman pounced on him with a lewd laugh, desperate and helpless. "Damn Spaniards, do they want to start a war with us in the Netherlands!"

"There are at least hundreds of warships. When did the Spanish drive such a huge fleet to the east? Could it be that their arch-rivals have been wiped out by them?" Van Gaal, the brigadier general, couldn't help but have such absurd thoughts come to his mind.

"Tsk tsk tsk tsk, these Dutch people seemed a little dumbfounded." Xiaobai was expressing his opinion to the quiet lady Shi Xianggu, who was as quiet as water beside him. "Miss, let's rush over and beat them up first."
Chapter completed!