The only opportunity that the heroic and fearless Hongtang dead soldiers paid a heavy price, Wu Daofu and they could not help but seize it.

"Rush up !!"

Under his command, the scarred "Shark" did not care about swimming around in the midst of the gunfire of several Dutch warships, and rushed to the first place without hesitation.

The newborn Hongtang still retains its vigorous fighting spirit, and on land, everyone may still pay attention to Li Tianyang's orders, and the middle and high-level leaders generally do not go to the front line of dangerous battles, but at this moment, Wu Daofu and the others have already thrown the safety issues ordered by Li Tianyang out of the clouds. Under the leadership of Wu Daofu, the Hongtang battleships scattered on the sea, like sharks that smelled fishy, rushed headlong into the two heavily damaged Dutch warships in front of them amid the flying artillery fire.

"Order the sailors to abandon the ship, and the rest of the ships will do their best to rescue the overboard!" While desperately directing the soldiers to fire artillery and bullets, Lai took a deep breath and gave orders calmly and painfully.

In the moment of carelessness, they made their Dutch fleet pay a heavy price, although they also destroyed enough Hongtang warships, but in Lai's opinion, no amount of enemy destruction could make up for the loss of warships and manpower of their Dutch Far East fleet.

But this is not the time to hesitate, the battle situation is ever-changing, the destruction and capture of the two fourth-class battleships is already a fait accompli, if they delay a little longer, and fail to evacuate the sailors on the two doomed battleships as soon as possible before the opposing warships come over, then the losses of their fleet will be even greater!

After all, he is a resolute and decisive person, and it is not for nothing that Lai Jichen can climb to the position of commander of this fleet. Taking advantage of the dense artillery on the fleet, Lai Jichen and his fleet did not panic, but calmly fired artillery fire, covering the retreat of the sailors on the two ships.

By the time Wu Daofu and the others paid a lot of money again, and finally approached the two warships, they had already completed the response work, and most of the Dutch sailors had already boarded the decks of the remaining four Dutch warships, leaving Wu Daofu with only two warships that were in a mess and gradually sinking, and a few Dutch sailors' corpses and seriously wounded.

"!" Wu Daofu gritted his teeth hatefully, looking at the Dutch fleet that swaggered out of the encirclement of the three fleets again, but he couldn't find a place to vent his anger.

"Send a few warships to tow these two warships back to the port first, and the rest of the warships will continue to follow me after this group of bastards!" There is nothing to do, the commander on the opposite side is unexpectedly tricky, Wu Daofu can only seize the results of the battle in his hand first, lest after a long time, let these two battleships fall into the arms of the sea, then they will die!

Before the words fell, the two Dutch battleships made two loud noises one after the other, accompanied by the strong smell of gunpowder smoke and the scattered warship debris, and the two Dutch battleships, which were already half-sunk into the sea, sank faster again.

"These eight lambs are really vicious!" Wu Daofu didn't even have the heart to curse, and hurriedly commanded his team members to go on the two warships to make amends, slowing down the speed of the battleship sinking: "What are you doing in a daze, why don't you hurry up and pull the rope over and drag these two rags back!" ”

The Dutch's calculation is very clear, even if we give up, you don't want to succeed, even if the Hongtang people can tow the two battleships back at this time, in addition to being able to capture dozens of cannons, the entire hull has been bombed Western warships, just with the technology of the Oriental shipwright, don't want to bring them back to life.

Of course, the Dutch calculated more than that, they had already lost three warships, at least the Far Eastern Fleet, which had sacrificed more than 100 sailors, and the purpose of capturing the port of Jilong had not been achieved, and at this time they were completely annoyed and angry!

There was no longer any drag and burden, and the Dutch took the speed and firepower advantage of their warships to the limit, and took the warships of the Hongtang Third Division to toss and turn in the waters around Jilong Harbor, walking dogs to play Wu Daofu and Wu Juren around.

Having learned the lesson of the fangcai, even at the expense of artillery accuracy, the Dutch were no longer willing to let the Hongtang warship come within two miles of their warship.

Wu Daofu and they are not without a desperate bet, hoping to open their eyes to God and let them be blinded by the sails of one or two Dutch warships again. In the absence of distance, until Wu Daofu and they ran out of the chain bombs carried with the ship, they did not bring any losses and damage to the Dutch fleet.

On the contrary, it is the three departments of Hongtang, which have been led by the Dutch by the nose, taking advantage of the artillery fire, in each round of artillery fire, there are always a few unlucky warships will be hit by the infinitely powerful cannonballs falling from the sky, although they may not be sunk on the spot, but the damage to the warships and the loss of personnel are always inevitable.

Wu Daofu didn't want to be led away by the Dutch fleet anymore, but they were on the defensive, and as soon as they showed signs of wanting to retreat, the Dutch were like jackals, rushing over fiercely, either looking for an opportunity to bomb the dense fleet formation, or turning around and continuing to bomb towards Jilong Harbor.

In fact, the Dutch also knew that they had already lost this battle, although they were not defeated by Hong Tang on the tactical battlefield, but they gave full play to the advantages of the fleet and would give Hong Tang a heavy blow.

However, the purpose of their trip, to capture the chicken coop port and lay a base that can be established, accommodated and developed, has been broken. With the only four warships left now, and the only available warriors of more than 500 people, it is simply impossible to take the chicken coop harbor from Hong Tang, who is strong and well-manned.

After confronting Hong Tang head-on, the Dutch finally let go of their pride as Westerners and began to look at the group of indigenous opponents in the Daming Sea anew.

The tactics that were once invincible in Africa and India are now completely ineffective when facing the people of an ancient eastern country. Although the enemy on the opposite side is just a group of pirates, they are well-organized and well-armed, and they are no different from ordinary armies on the right track, and in the far east, if they want to defeat each other with less than a thousand men in their hands, without logistical supplies and personnel replenishment, it will be a miracle.

In the end, after emptiling all the ammunition reserves in the battleship, the Dutchman, who had finally breathed a sigh of relief, replied to the post and headed towards the fortress of Magong Island.

(End of chapter)