Sun Jingting said thoughtfully: "If you are not as strong as others, your connections will be repeated after all."

Gan Hui said: "That's the reason."

Wang Jingzhong and others also walked onto the side of the ship at this time, listening to Gan Hui's introduction to the situation in Taiwan very carefully...

"The Dutch castle has been built." Gan Hui said seriously: "It is very large, enough to accommodate thousands of people. The defense is very strong. It can be said that the army of ten thousand people cannot capture it. At the port, they dock two to three large warships and a large number of medium-sized warships and armed merchant ships. Recently, they have begun to attack ships on the route to Japan that harass us. The safe proof is no longer distributed, because at least twenty ships are harassing us. The safe ships are not safe. For the sake of future reputation, we have announced the suspension of the distribution."

A navy officer sent by Taiwan to greet him smiled bitterly: "In fact, no one will take the distribution even if it is distributed. Our own ships were harassed. Five ships were stolen in the past two months after receiving the Ping An Case. Fortunately, no one killed anyone. In this way, let alone others don't accept it, even if the sea ships with some old relationships are willing to receive the Ping An Case, we are embarrassed to give it."

Sun Jingting pinched his eyebrows and said, "When can this situation be reversed?"

"The Marine Department is planning a war." The navy officer said, "We previously sent a negotiating delegation, led by Zheng Zhilong and He Bin. We are willing to negotiate with the Dutch on the Japanese routes, cargo content and weight, and are willing to make some profits in maritime interests. Once the negotiations fail, we may declare war on the Dutch."

"Have you reported this to Qingcheng?"

"Xiaguan was ordered to wait for Sun Zhengshi outside Penghu. We have been rowing our pulp boat here for five days. This news happened five days ago. According to Xiaguan, it may have sent Tangma long ago."

"Oh, I get it."

Sun Jingting's face was quite serious. At this time, he no longer had any reservations or even disgusted with Taiwan's affairs as before. He really didn't know the situation ahead. It was like fighting on the sea and land were completely different. Hutchison's elite infantry and cavalry could not play any role. Taiwanese officials have long pointed out this clearly. Land wars that cannot win naval battles are meaningless. Even if the Dutch fights on land, they will be given in vain. The Dutch can go back to the shore anywhere, attack Hutchison's ports and bases at the estuary, block the coastline, prevent the Taiwan marching department from obtaining any supplies, disturbing the routes, and making Hutchison's ships unable to buy and sell goods and take action.

As long as you really fight, you will lose without the determination to compete for power at sea. If you cannot fight a naval battle, you can only endure it.

"Why has the Dutch not officially started the war until now?"

"They are also mobilizing troops." The navy officer said: "From the New Year, they started to rub against us. After spring, they began to restrict our routes and large-scale harassment of merchant ships. By the beginning of summer, they began to restrict us from purchasing goods on the coast of Fujian. At the same time, they colluded with Fujian maritime merchants to not sell goods to us. In addition, they restricted us from replenishing fresh water through Penghu. The tighter we had to fight with us. They did not go to war directly because they had to take care of the sea and islands. They had been slowly mobilizing warships. Now the tighter they were pressing against us, which meant that their manpower and ships were almost all mobilized. Even if we didn't fight, they would take action at any time."

Now the entire coastal coast of Fujian and routes to Japan are covered with Dutch ships, and Hutchison's trade space has almost been squeezed out, and even the safety of sea ships coming from the north cannot be guaranteed. The marching department sent a small boat to patrol the coast of Penghu with several squadrons of soldiers. There were several artillery and corners on their boat, and a squadron of war soldiers on one boat, ensuring the safety of important officials such as Sun Jingting as much as possible... If Sun Jingting was sunk by the Dutch in this crisis of upcoming war, Taiwan would not be able to explain to Zhang Han and the senior officials of the military department.

Sun Jingting originally blamed Taiwan for making a big fuss and doing so much, but after hearing the explanation, he was a little worried. He had never experienced naval battles and could not swim. If he fell into the water, he would die. This was even more scary than fighting with Mongolian cavalry on the grassland.

Maybe I was really afraid of anything I was afraid of. A large ship was looming over the surging waves. The navy officer who came to greet him quickly returned from the gangway to his own slurry boat. This is a small boat of sixteen slurry, which is generally used to pull large sailboats into the port to moor. Eight slurry boats are the most common, and sixteen slurry is relatively small, and they are used to pull the largest slurry boats. Sometimes one is not enough.

After the navy officer went down, he fired a cannon and brought together the other five slurry ships.

There are soldiers and soldiers on each slurry ship. The muskets are not bayonets, but they have been loaded and held in their hands.

There are two cannons on each ship, all nine-pound cannons, and the slurry ship cannot carry heavier cannons.

The nine-pound cannon on the shore is already a heavy cannon, but at sea, it is just an ordinary small cannon.

Even so, Hutchison's pulp boat has the firepower of more than a dozen cannons, and several squadrons of musket warriors were on guard. They sat cross-legged in the middle of the hull of the pulp boat, and their bodies were rising and falling with the waves. Although the wind and waves were very strong and the hull was undulating, these soldiers obviously often trained at sea, their bodies were very stable, and they were well fixed on the ship...

Sun Jingting couldn't quite understand it, but Wang Jingzhong, who was standing beside him, praised: "Naval battle is completely different from land battles. The Fourth Regiment can train soldiers like this, which shows that Commander Li has really made some hard work."

Wang Junsurong said: "At the beginning, the soldiers vomited when they got on the boat. We also took a lot of effort. The medicine and exercise and supplements were finally over. "

Sun Jingting sighed: "We went north to ride horses and the southerners took boats. We still have many soldiers from the north. It is really not easy to achieve this."

Gan Hui said: "Now we are also strengthening the recruitment of soldiers from Fujian, and we have recruited two companies."

"It's still too little." Sun Jingting said: "When I look back, I'll mention it when I meet Chang Zhengshi. Since the naval battle of northern soldiers is half the result with twice the effort, it's better to focus on Fujian. You can recruit one more battalion or two battalions, which will be very effective in naval battles."

In fact, many people from Fujian have recruited, and now most of them are sailors and low-level officers of the navy. However, Gan Hui is also from Fujian. The more Fujian people there are in the marching department, the happier he is. When he thinks of this, he will not explain it.

What's more, the Dutch enemy ships are getting closer and closer. The tall hull and the mast that pierces into the clouds, and the continuous soft sails have crossed the waves. They are only a few miles away from the Hutchison side, so they can see clearly.

There were many people standing on the hull, and the Dutch officer stood at the bow, obviously looking at this side with a telescope...

The sailors and the land soldiers both held muskets, some with bayonets, and some without bayonets.

The Dutch were clamoring and clamoring, but they couldn't understand it here. Hutchison has special communications, usually they have to speak Dutch and Japanese, and some have to understand Portuguese and Spanish. However, the most Japanese talents are there. After all, Hutchison's ships are mainly on Japanese routes.

However, there must be someone on the pulp boat that could understand, knowing that the Dutch were cursing, and under the command of the officers, the officers and soldiers of the navy began to curse in unison.

The swear words in the north are not as exquisite as those in the south, and they are straightforward. However, several soldiers from the squadrons started to curse together, uniformly and swearing, and the momentum was suppressed first. Sun Jingting and other northerners heard these soldiers swearing in Datong or Liaodong dialects, and they actually adjusted their voices and laughed.

Gan Hui held back his smile and said, "We Fujianese are too soft to curse people, so they rely on brothers from the north to curse people."

Wang Jingzhong smiled and said, "Do you still often scold and fight at sea like this?"

"It's common." Gan Hui said: "For several months, I've been cursing when I meet, and sometimes I shoot and shoot each other, but I've been in contact with each other, either we leave or they leave."

Wang Jun said a little depressedly: "We usually leave."

Sun Jingting said in amazement: "This ship is so big!"

The Dutch ship opposite was getting closer and closer. It was indeed an extremely large warship, about twenty meters long than the Zhenluwei, several meters wider, and the mast was much larger. There were two floors under the deck that exposed the black holes. The front ship tower was large, with a bow gun with a large caliber. The stern at the stern was even larger, three floors high, and a large number of soldiers stood on the stern. Several officers were standing on the tall lookout platform, holding a telescope and looking at this side.

"This is the Galen ship." Gan Hui introduced to Sun Jingting: "This is the Batavia, which is considered a medium- and large warship. Ours is a small Galen ship. We are a small boat of 160 tons. The Batavia is more than 600 tons. We are 35 meters long. The Batavia is 46 meters long. It has more than 40 artillery pieces, and we only have more than 20. In terms of tonnage and firepower, our ship is only less than half of it."

The huge hull was like a sea monster, weighing heavily on Sun Jingting's heart.

Before the encounter at sea, the military officials, including Sun Jingting, were not very sensitive to the tonnage ratio and artillery numbers. Especially on the grassland, the Mongols often attacked tens of thousands of people. One said that tens of thousands of cavalry were fighting against more than a thousand soldiers of Hutchison, but the result was Hutchison's victory, and the Mongols won no longer win.
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