Sonod stood on the highest wall, looking at the sea to the north, motionless as a sculpture.

"Your Excellency the Governor, you've been standing here for hours, so go down and rest for a while!" Onkos's voice rang in his ears.

At this moment, a cannon shot faintly came from the north, and a long sigh sounded almost at the same time.

Sonod slowly turned around and said in a somewhat hoarse voice: "Oncos, do you think I'm too cold-blooded, knowing that there is absolutely no chance of winning this sortie, but I still sent Lieutenant Commander Andner and his fleet out, just for an illusory honor, is it worth it?" ”

Onkos was silent for a while before he said, "Your Excellency, I am only your lieutenant, and I am far inferior to you in terms of courage and experience, but I have an advantage that you do not have. ”

Speaking of this, a trace of bitterness appeared on Angkos's face, "I have fought with the fleet of His Excellency the Marquis, and I have also spent some time in his prisoner of war camp, so I still have some understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Ming army. ”

"Angkos, I'm asking if it's worth it, not about the combat effectiveness of the Ming army!" Thornoud interrupted.

"But the two are inextricably linked!"

Ankos protested: "Only by understanding the combat effectiveness of the Ming army can we make a better choice, right?"

Honor is not to be eaten, we could have ordered Andernor to lead his fleet to the South Seas to take refuge, or even ordered them to return to their homeland, but you have put them on a path of no return, just for the honor of the soldiers.

In my opinion, wouldn't it be better to save this precious fleet and wait until the arrival of the native fleet before launching an attack on the Ming people together? ”

"Finished?"

Sonod surprisingly did not express his anger, but withdrew his gaze from afar, sighed, and asked, "Oncos, if I let Lieutenant Commander Andrenor and his fleet push to the South Seas or even return to the mainland, will the city of Geranza still be able to hold it?" ”

"Uh......"

It was like a scoop of cold water poured on Ancos's head, and the incomprehension and grief in Ancos's heart were extinguished at once.

Whether in ancient or modern times, in China or abroad, in addition to fighting for financial resources and equipment, the most important point in fighting a war is to fight morale. It is self-evident how an army with high morale and a mortal heart and two armies with low morale and no fighting spirit meet each other.

In addition to the agitation of Sonod, the most important point is that Lieutenant Commander Andreor's tragic courage of leading the fleet to attack despite knowing that he would die, affected them.

If, on the other hand, Anderno led the fleet to escape, then the morale that Sonod had finally mustered up would probably be discharged, not to mention holding out for four or five months under the attack of the Ming army, which had an absolute superiority in strength, I am afraid that it would not even be able to hold out for four or five days.

After thinking about this, the little courage that Encos had just mustered was like a deflated ball.

Seeing that Ancos hung his head, Sonord knew that his adjutant had already figured it out, and he put his hand behind his back and said lightly: "Okay, pass my order, except for the soldiers who left the guard, everyone else should go down and rest."

If I'm not mistaken, the current Ming people are busy cleaning up the battlefield and don't have time to pay attention to us, but from tomorrow onwards, we may not have much time to sleep. ”

Sonode is right, the naval battle is over, but the matter is not over yet, cleaning the battlefield and rescuing the wounded and a series of other things have kept Yang Feng busy.

Especially since this is the sea, it is not easy to salvage the wounded and corpses in the sea full of corpses and wreckage, and all the sailors are very tired after a great battle.

Cleaning up the battlefield is naturally a very hard thing, but how to "pull out" the bow of the Zhenyuan from the Black Pearl is nothing compared to it.

In today's combat effectiveness, the Zhenyuan relied on its solid ramming angle to load the bow of the Black Pearl into a pulp, but it was later found that the bow of the Zhenyuan was firmly embedded in the hull of the Black Pearl, and it couldn't be pulled out for a while.

This made everyone anxious, and more than ten nautical miles away from them was the city of Geranza, and if they stayed here too long, who knew what the Dutch would do.

After Liu Xiang, Lu Guangbiao and other officers saw the situation of the Zhenyuan, they all agreed that the two ships were too firmly inserted, and if they wanted to separate the two ships, they could only tow the ships back to the Xiamen shipyard.

Yang Feng was a little unhappy when he heard this, and shook his head on the spot: "No, the Zhenyuan is the flagship, how can it return to Hong Kong so gloomily when the war just started, besides, the Zhenyuan is not as fragile as you think, since it is not easy to separate, let's use a rough method." ”

"A rough way?"

Everyone looked at each other.

"Is it ......?"

"Just knock it out!"

Well, the rough method that Yang Feng said was very simple, which was to let another third-class battleship sail slowly for a certain distance and then hit the bow of the Black Pearl with half of the hull.

How's that, simple, right? Rough, right?

It's really simple and crude.

"Bang ......"

With a muffled sound, the huge bow of a third-class battleship crashed into the Black Pearl, and the Black Pearl, which had firmly clamped the bow of the Zhenyuan under the impact, began to shake.

"Bang ......"

There was another muffled sound, and another third-class battleship crashed into the Black Pearl, causing the Zhenyuan to shake violently.

After two consecutive impacts, many people's faces changed.

On the deck of another battleship, Lu Guangbiao looked at the Black Pearl that was constantly being hit, and only felt that his face was a little numb, thinking that he was also a person who thought he was proficient in maritime affairs, and he had never seen such a crazy practice.

Isn't he afraid that the Zhenyuan will be damaged, you must know that such a battleship is just the hull, without more than 100,000 taels of silver, it will definitely not be able to take it down, it seems that this is really the master who does not take silver as money.

After being hit continuously, the Black Pearl's half-cut hull could no longer hold the Zhenyuan, and was knocked back more than ten meters, and then the sea water frantically poured into its hull, and soon sank to the bottom of the sea.

The Zhenyuan that got out finally regained its freedom, and Liu Xiang, who had long been distressed, hurriedly asked people to check the damage to the battleship, and after learning that the hull, especially the keel, was fine, but the bow was slightly damaged, her heart was relieved.

In the evening of the same day, the mighty Fujian sailors finally drove into the harbor less than ten miles away from the city of Geranza......