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373. Fireboat tactics! Can't afford to hurt! [1/2]

The Dutch were in a hurry to put out the fire. Some gunmen retreated from the side of the ship, threw down the muskets in their hands, and went to get wooden barrels to fetch water and sand. They sailed on the sea. They had to prepare enough drinking water in the cabin, so the Dutch were not worried about the flames. As long as the fire was not too exaggerated, they should be able to handle it.

Some wooden barrels with long ropes were hung to the sea, making buckets of sand. Although people in this era did not understand that flames needed air to burn, and they could put out the fire by blocking the air, but they knew how to use sand to cover the fire to extinguish the fire.

The gunmen were busy extinguishing the fire, and the Dutch firepower suppression became lighter. The larger cute national ships rowed over, and the sky was filled with arrogant rockets. With the cover of the rockets, rows of fire ships advanced forward one after another.

The first thing that is desperate for life on the sea is the Japanese pirates, and the second thing that is desperate for life is the pirates!

During the war, pirates would also turn into monsters that are fearless and cruel. Yi Yun watched the pirates rowing their boats desperately, and the Dutch on the boat kept pouring down the musket bullets. From time to time, some people were shot and fell down, but more people still rushed forward desperately.

He couldn't help but sweat, and asked Chen Yuanyuan beside him: "How much silver reward do you... Zheng Zhilong gave? These pirates are trying to this point."

"Hey, you asked the right person. I've asked about this information." Chen Yuanyuan whispered: "No matter whether the participants succeed or fail, they will first give two taels of silver. If they fight one game, they will have two taels of silver. If they fight the second game, they will have two taels of silver. If they burn a Dutch warship, the sailors who rowed the fireboat can equally divide the two thousand taels of silver. It will definitely cost several fireboats to burn a ship, so there are at least ten people who have divided the money, which is equivalent to more than one hundred taels per person. In addition, if you get the head of a Dutch soldier, you will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver."

"I'm sweating, I'm really a high-priced person!" Yi Yun sighed.

"Well, this guy is very rich!" Chen Yuanyuan whispered: "Zheng Zhilong controls all the pirates in the southeastern sea of ​​Dameng Country. And there are many trade lines in his hands for Fusang and Southeast Asia. He has a lot of wealth... tsk... I really want to go to his house to steal it out."

"You...you are so crazy about money!" Yi Yun khan.

"Is there any way to cheat him of money?" Chen Yuanyuan spread his hands and said, "I want to kidnap his son and ask him for ransom. I don't want much, only 50 million taels, he should give it to him."

"Tie his son?" Yi Yun almost spit out a sip of water. Zheng Zhilong's son is Zheng Chenggong. In theory, that person should be a hero. It would be better not to kidnap him. He would become a public enemy of the people.

The two laughed a few times. The situation on the battlefield had changed tremendously, and a large number of fire ships hit a round. Several large Dutch sailboats were burned. Fortunately, the Dutch people above kept splashing water and sand, and finally suppressed the fire.

But the Dutch were also frightened. Putmans did not dare to let his fleet rush into the sea of ​​the ship, and was forced to detour, trying to avoid the encirclement of the ship. In this way, he could no longer use his speed advantage to seize the key upper hand.

Under the command of Zheng Zhifeng, these ships rotated and surrounded very skillfully. As long as the Dutch did not rush to get on the upper hand, they would not rush to fight. After all, fighting will kill people. Although pirates are brave, they are not stupid. It is better not to die when they can survive.

Putmans was really crying. The upper hand he wanted to grab was actually snatched from the island by a large number of fireboats. How could he bear it? There were a lot of ships in front of him. In fact, there were only a few hundred sailors in the middle with perch skin, which means there were only a hundred people who could actually set fire up, but Putmans didn't know! He thought that all the ships were fireboats... At a glance, at least thousands of them were scared to him so much that he was so scared.

In fact, Westerners also use fire ship tactics, which are not ahead of their own. However,... the fire ship tactics of Western European countries are just a few fire ships, with a few sailors who have a belief in dying. However, relying on bass skin and water like Da Mengguo, the way of fighting hundreds of fire ships comes is really a bit unaffordable.

If he knew the network terms of later generations, he would definitely scream to the sky: I can't afford to hurt! Is there any unscientific fire boats?

"Left full rudder!"

"Your Excellency...Not to the left, there is a fire boat!"

"Then...the right rudder full!"

"Your Madness... I don't have to do it on the right... The pirates' main battle line is waiting there... Look, they are coming..."

"**! Shoot me!" Putmans jumped up.

The Dutch man's forehead was numb and did not dare to rush into the ocean of the ship, so he had to turn around and deal with Zheng Zhilong's main force.

The battle lines between the two sides exchanged fire again. This time the Dutch did not underestimate the enemy and planned to concentrate on responding to the enemy, but they were a little low by the fireboat tactics just now. Once the morale of these two armies was in war, it would be troublesome to come up. The Dutch attacked weakly with a round of cannons. On the other hand, the pirates were all refreshed and the cannons were thunderous.

Especially Yi Yun, this battle is really different from last time. Last time he watched the Beiyang Navy be fucked by the Dutch, and he was so angry that he sighed at his teammates like a pig, but this time his teammates were very powerful, and it felt different when he brushed the dungeon.

"The tank is topped with good treatment, and the output is strong!" Yi Yun stood on the bow of the boat and shouted something no one could understand. He felt refreshed and felt like he was back in the game. Infected by his inexplicable emotions, the female artillery soldiers on the flying Henan People also fought very hard.

"Girls, fight hard and knock the Dutch over. Brother, buy you love crazy five!" Yi Yun smiled smugly.

"Prince, what is Ai Crazy Five?"

"Well...is an English term for apples!"

"Prince, I don't want apples anymore! Can I want rouge powder produced by Yangzhou Fangxiang Pavilion?"

"Tsk! A bunch of local buns, I don't want even Ai Crazy Five. I want any rouge and water powder, I don't have taste!"

"Then we want to love Crazy Five! The prince bought it for us!"

"This... it seems that I can't buy this world. If I buy it, I will have no signal on my phone." Yi Yun knelt.

"Tsk! If you can't buy it, the prince bullies others. We should still want rouge and water powder."

"As long, no problem, everything is there!"

Yi Yun learned from Zheng Zhilong and gave the female artillery a great reward. For women, it is natural to love beauty. No matter she is an artillery, archer, gunman or even ordinary people, a creature like a woman can sacrifice her head, shed blood, and drink arsenic for beauty... There is a lyrics that sing well: For beauty in this life, you will never regret death.

Since there was rouge and water powder as a prize, how could the female artillery soldiers not work hard? The two battleships flying Dutch and Huberian suddenly became excited as if they were injected with chicken blood. The cannons loaded and fired were obviously half faster than usual. A burst of bombardment, and the Dutch who were intersecting their battle lines were immediately bombarded to pieces.

Not long after, the first shipwreck appeared, a warship on the side of the Great Man. Li Kuiqi's flagship in Fengyun Eighteen Zhi was finally overwhelmed because he was too bolted and began to sink. The surrounding ships quickly poked up and picked up Li Kuiqi and his troops on the ship.

The Dutch felt relieved, and before they could laugh, the two Dutch sailboats began to sink at the same time... It turned out that their Gallion sailboat could not afford such a high-intensity artillery battle. Tragic, when their ships sank, there would be no ships to save them. The sailors could only cry on the slowly sinking ship, hoping that Putmans would come to save them.

But the people of Da Mengguo are not stupid and will not give them a chance to rescue their companions. Countless cannons and bows concentrated their firepower and beat the Dutch sailboat that could no longer drive and was slowly sinking. Soon, the two ships took hundreds of Dutch people to the bottom of the sea.

At the same time, the pirates' large fleet began to shrink and wanted to surround the Dutch. At the beginning, the pirates' large fleet did not surround and pretended to be going to fight with the Dutch. However, as soon as the fire ship came out, the Dutch's maneuver power was limited, and there was no need to worry about using their maneuver to disrupt the formation of the Da Mengguo. Zheng Zhilong immediately changed his tactics and began to collect on a large scale.

Looking at the pirate ships surrounding them from all directions, Putmans felt smoke from his voice and sweat on his forehead. This was not a joke. The artillery battle did not necessarily defeat the opponent. The fire ship tactics left him helpless. There were so many messy pirate ships surrounding him. Once a platoon battle formed, he knew that it would be the ending of a place without a burial.

"Remove!" Putmans shouted: "Give up the Penghu Islands and return to Ryukyu to rebuild the situation."

"Your Excellency... There are still our five hundred gun soldiers in Magong Fort..." a lower-level officer said anxiously.

"Don't care about them anymore. In such a fleet battle, do we have time to pick them up on the shore?" Putmans also said anxiously: "Let them be captured and then rescue them through diplomatic negotiations."

"this……"

"The whole ship breaks through!" Putmans was furious.

"Your Excellency, it's not easy to break through... It's all ships, many ships." All the lower-level officers were mourning.

"At this time, don't think about retreating without thinking. Try to escape. How many ships can escape are counted as many as possible!" Putmans waved the flag.
Chapter completed!
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