What he gained from a piece of information made Li Tianyang couldn't help but be glad that he didn't act rashly against this enemy at the beginning, and he also paid more and more attention to and moved the Dutch fleet entrenched in the camp on Magong Island in Penghu.

It is a matter of course to pay attention to it, after all, this detailed information is placed in front of Li Tianyang and them.

The reason why Li Tianyang was excited was that he was jealous of the powerful firepower configuration of the twelve warships, and these Western-style warships that were enough to support these powerful firepower to fire on the deck without capsizing or deck breakage.

I thought that the three Clark warships looted from the Portuguese were relatively advanced Western-style warships in this era, but after receiving the news reported by Wu Shu and the information passed on by Major James, Li Tianyang realized that even the "Maria", which was extremely powerful in Li Tianyang's opinion, could not be classified as the most powerful battleships in the world, but could only be regarded as ordinary armed merchant ships.

But it is this kind of armed merchant ship, Li Tianyang has been in their hands for more than a year, but so far they have not been able to completely imitate it, and there are still several problems that need to be overcome by the masters of the craftsman's workshop.

But now that there is another tempting and extremely dangerous opportunity in front of Li Tianyang, Li Tianyang can't help but start to scratch his heart like a hundred claws, unspeakably uncomfortable and entangled.

But in the end, Li Tianyang still retreated in the face of the powerful firepower of the Dutch, obediently acted as a turtle with a shrunken head, and concentrated on building his own defense facilities.

I thought that the other party was strong, but now that the fortifications of Bengang and Jilong Harbor are complete, as long as the other party dares to come, Li Tianyang and they are also confident that the other party will not be able to eat and walk around.

However, in the face of detailed intelligence and facts, Li Tianyang couldn't help but start worrying, and even fearful, facing the invasion of the Dutch. But Li Tianyang also knows that although Bengang is closer to Penghu Magong Island, in terms of concealment, Jilong Port is more exposed to the eyes of the Dutch than Bengang.

At that time, compared with the coastal area of Daming, which has a huge area and strength as a support, the risk is higher, and Dayuan Island, which is empty and uninhabited, and is not within the actual jurisdiction of Daming, is likely to become the target of the Dutch. Combined with the history vaguely remembered by later generations, Li Tianyang asserted that 100% of the Dutch would be stationed on Dayuan Island.

And a fully developed Chicken Coop Harbor with a large population base and an excellent natural deep-water port will inevitably become a shining jewel in the eyes of the Dutch.

Who let Li Tian raise them Hongtang to look better than the Ming Dynasty to bully?

Although the Dutch took the initiative to retreat because they did not want to sacrifice too many soldiers, they lost a lot, but when facing a civilian pirate gang and a Ming Dynasty pirate gang, the strong self-confidence of the Dutch soldiers may not take Li Tianyang and their Hongtang seriously.

In addition to having a little more people and more sea ships, Li Tianyang and them couldn't compare with the Dutch in other aspects.

You must know that the Dutch navy, which dared to invade Magong Island in Penghu with only four warships, was not afraid in the face of the huge Ming Empire, and now the Dutch Admiral Lai, who has twelve warships, how could he put in his eyes no more than thirty or fifty pirate warships that are not even as good as their Dutch armed merchant ships.

Li Tianyang also understood that with the scale of their Hongtang's artillery, if they wanted to fight hard against the Dutch, they would not even have a glimmer of hope. Without more than ten times the size of the warship, you don't even want to send the twelve warships of the Dutch to the Penghu sea area head-on.

Remember, it's about chasing, not beating!

Because there was only one reason that forced them to retreat, and that was that in the face of a huge fleet, with the supply power and ammunition reserves of these twelve warships, it was impossible to achieve the goal of destroying all the more than a hundred warships.

However, this does not mean that Li Tianyang and them have no chance of winning at all, after all, Li Tianyang's base is on the shore, as long as they are willing to waste the foundation that has just been developed in Jilong Port, they will still rely on the enemy's bombing and hide in the cement fortifications of Jilong Port. With only eight or nine hundred soldiers in the Dutch fleet, as long as they dared to storm Jilong Harbor, Li Tianyang would dare to let them in, and then mobilize all his forces to encircle and annihilate them in Jilong Harbor.

The three divisions of Hongtang now have well-trained fighters, plus the special operations battalion under the command of Wu Jie, who is independent, and the total size is more than 6,000 people. Even if the other two places temporarily left 1,000 people for defense, Hongtang could mobilize more than 4,000 people to come over and annihilate the enemy in the chicken coop harbor with a strong numerical advantage.

Even if the Dutch arquebuses were powerful, of course they were good enough in the musket battle formation, but their numerical disadvantage and the slow rate of fire of the arquebus itself were flawed. Li Tianyang was prepared to take half of the manpower to fill in the price of sending him to death, and he was also confident that he could kill these eight or nine hundred foreigners.

Fighting hand-to-hand combat and small-scale cooperation, Li Tianyang is confident that even in the face of the regular army, he has the strength to fight, not to mention the numerical advantage.

Even if he fights hard at sea, Li Tianyang can also come up with a way to deal with it, these days have summarized the previous methods of the Ming Navy Division to defeat the Western warships, Li Tianyang has prepared a set of fireboat plans to let this group of Dutch know that they are not easy to bully when the dagger appears at the end!

In the past few days, the Dutch have been in and out of Magong Island with several warships, harassing Daming Zhangquan and other places with their strong firepower superiority, landing and plundering resources such as materials and grain, fresh water.

The Daming Guard has long been eroded, otherwise it would not have been made unbearable by groups of rabble pirates and pirates. The Qi family army, which originally had combat power, was transferred to Liaodong and other places by the Ming Dynasty to defend against the invasion of the Later Jin Jurchen, Mongols and other ethnic groups.

In more than half a month, the Dutch army, with its sharp weapons and powerful artillery, plundered more than 10 large and small towns along the coast of Fujian, and looted countless materials.

Later, seeing that the army of the Ming Dynasty was weak and no one dared to fight, in November, Lai Jiechen even dared to block the entrance and exit of Zhangquan with only seven warships, and did not allow passing maritime merchants and fishing boats to enter and exit, which was simply bold to the extreme.

Of course, Li Tianyang was naturally happy to see all this happen, and wished that the Ming Dynasty would carry out a strong blow to this group of wanton invaders, so that their group of overly proud and complacent Dutch people would hit their heads and break their blood. It's best that the army of the Ming Dynasty presses in, gives this group of bastards a fatal blow, and then lets Li Tianyang them pick up a bargain.

(End of chapter)