After Li Tianyang learned of the Battle of Portugal and the Netherlands in Macao, although he did not know how the Dutch warships suffered casualties, he thought that since the other side took the initiative to withdraw his troops, it showed that their casualties were definitely not few.

Therefore, Li Tianyang was also somewhat relieved in his heart, still relying on his confidence in Hong Tang, but he couldn't stand the power of the huge fleet of the Dutch. In particular, several of these warships, in terms of hull alone, are nearly one-third longer than Li Tianyang's flagship "Crazy Shark". From the comparison between the news and the sketch reported by the spies, as well as the looting of the Portuguese warship, Li Tianyang seemed to be able to feel the thick black cannon muzzles on the upper and lower floors of the battleship.

Since the Dutch failed to achieve their first goal of occupying the port of Macao, it is not surprising that they now occupy Magong Island. After all, a fleet of more than a dozen warships also needs a base to be repaired, especially a team that has just been defeated and left.

Half a month later, a warship finally set sail on Magong Island with dense sails and headed for the interior of Daming, which was close at hand.

In fact, even if the Dutch fleet does not find trouble with the Ming Dynasty at this time, the Ming Dynasty will come to find trouble with the Dutch fleet because of the invasion of the Penghu Navy Magong Island camp.

The only pity is that the Daming Navy Division has been abandoned for a long time at this time, and there are actually not many warships under the Fujian water mark. In particular, in the past few years, he went out to Korea repeatedly and fought naval battles with the Japanese state, which caused a lot of losses to the naval divisions and warships, and there was not much replenishment. For example, the more than 30 warships of the Penghu Naval Division are already a fleet that cannot be underestimated among the Fujian Naval Division.

For a while, the governor of Fujian really had no way to immediately requisition too many warships out to expel the invading Dutch fleet. Moreover, the sailors who had dealt too much with Western warships participated in the bidding, and the old general Shen Yourong suggested at the same time, gave advice to the governor of Fujian, and made preparations for the expedition.

At this time, Wang Shichang, the governor of Fujian, was about to be investigated in Beijing at the end of the year, and according to the usual practice, he may also step down from the post of governor of Fujian and be transferred to another place. Officialdom pays attention to the principle of doing less and making fewer mistakes, and not doing good, especially for this kind of big event, in this kind of imminent resignation, so although Shen Yourong has a lot of suggestions, Wang Shichang still only reports the situation to the court, and waits quietly for the court's opinion.

For this reason, the old general Shen Yourong was naturally quite indignant, but he was also helpless, the malpractice of officialdom was not a matter of one or two days, and it was not him Wang Shichang who acted like this alone.

The Ming Dynasty has not yet moved, but the Dutch have made a new move, after the failure to capture Macao, two British armed merchant ships left the Dutch fleet, but the Dutch still have twelve warships in hand. Therefore, they also have full confidence and contempt for the declining Daming Water Master.

It took the Dutch fleet more than five months from Nanyang to Macao, and with the delay in their attack on Macao and Penghu Magong Island, the supply of their fleet was actually already visible, so they also urgently needed to replenish the fleet.

The Dutch Navy, which was already armed to capture Macao, must not have much money left at this time, and after the capture of Magong Island in Penghu, their relationship with the Ming Dynasty was naturally reversed, and it was impossible to go to the Ming Territory for replenishment.

Then a shortcut in front of the Dutch was to forcibly loot supplies from the coastal area of the Ming Dynasty by force.

This kind of thing, of course, will be resisted and condemned by various countries in later generations, but it is a normal thing for European countries today. Even emerging sea powers like Britain encourage their own people to plunder other countries' sea ships to supplement their own goods and economies.

At this time, several warships dispatched by the Dutch were going to the coast of Daming, preparing to plunder the maritime merchants and the rural towns along the coast.

However, although Li Tianyang and them would not act rashly against this group of Dutchmen, it did not prevent them from making a fool of these foreigners behind their backs. As early as after the Dutch captured Xiamagong Island, Li Tianyang, who knew that something was wrong, had already issued a vigilant order to the passing maritime merchants, informing them of the current dangerous situation in the Penghu area, and suggesting that they suspend or detour to the waters of Penghu to conduct ocean trade.

Therefore, at this time, the Penghu route, which was originally quite prosperous, is now a period of time when there are few sea boats, and even the fishing boats that go out to fish have heard some news and dare not go out to sea to fish.

In this way, the Dutch went to sea several times, but did not encounter any targets to plunder, and in the end they turned their targets to the more risky, but also more inland.

Not long after, in the midst of Li Tianyang's frightened battle, seven warships set off from Penghu and headed straight towards the most prosperous Zhangquan.

At the same time, Father Felix of Bengang finally got in touch with Macau again. After receiving the relevant information from Major James about the Dutch, the Dutchman, who originally knew nothing, could be regarded as revealing his true colors in front of Li Tianyang and them.

The Dutch fleet that came this time was originally under the command of the Dutch governor of Java, Cohen, and this time it was led by Admiral Lai Jiechen, and the ships under its jurisdiction consisted of four third-class battleships headed by the "Gouda", five fourth-class battleships, and three armed warships.

At the same time, there were more than 1,200 crew members, including more than 200 who died in the battle of Macao, and the light and serious wounded were also recovered one after another, bringing the number of Dutch sailors with fighting strength to more than 800 again.

At the beginning, Li Tianyang was still surprised that the term battleship appeared in this era, shouldn't the battleship be the kind of steel monster-like warship after the steam age? How is it that in this era of battleships, which are still only wooden structures, there is such a term as battleships? And how many levels are there?

When he looked down, Li Tianyang suddenly realized: This so-called third-class battleship is probably the one that Wu Shu and the others reported in the information, those warships that are a little larger than ordinary sea ships, with two layers of guns!

Looking at the standard configuration of this third-class battleship, each third-class battleship has a configuration of more than 58 guns, combined with the Portuguese know-how the Dutch artillery configuration is mainly heavy guns of more than 32 pounds. Thinking about the pictures of shells bombarded by shells that were at least 29 catties or more, Li Tianyang felt a chill in his whole body.

Even this fourth-class battleship has at least 38 guns or more, which is more than twice as much as Li Tianyang's flagship warship "Crazy Shark", not to mention the caliber of other people's guns, any one of which can be comparable to Li Tianyang's Shenwei General Cannon at the bow of their ship.

(End of chapter)