From morning to night, the fierce battle experienced by the three divisions of Hongtang today can be called the most tragic and the most aggrieved battle since the establishment of the church. From beginning to end, the Hongtang soldiers were passively beaten, and finally captured two warships, or relied on the fearless sacrifice of the warriors of the whale self-explosion warship to reap the results, which was bitter and sad.

According to post-war statistics, none of the 113 sailing ships of the self-bombing fleet survived, all of them died in the sea, and the 678 dead soldiers selected by the ships were only 147 soldiers who survived in the end, and most of them were wounded, and the survival rate was only about 1/4, which shows the tragedy of the war.

Of course, the losses of the three fleets of Hongtang were not small, as the first target of the Dutch fleet, 32 warships of Wu Daofu's whale department, together with four warships including the "Crazy Shark" that temporarily joined his command, finally sank 14 ships, including the "Crazy Shark", and nine warships, including the "Crazy Shark", were on the verge of scrapping and needed to be completely renovated or scrapped directly. Although the Shark and Leopard Divisions were not the direct targets of the Dutch fleet, and they only participated in the battle for one day today, four or five of the nearly 30 warships were sunk and three suffered heavy losses.

Not to mention the casualties of the soldiers, in addition to the 531 killed or missing in the self-bombing fleet, 847 people were killed or missing in the whale department, 561 people were injured, and nearly 300 casualties in the shark department and leopard department.

It can be said that after this battle, the Hongtang Whale Department was basically beaten into a wreckage, and the only remaining manpower could not even take care of the original territory from Huludao to the Ryukyu Sea, and after the war, Li Tianyang needed them to recruit a large number of people again. Although the losses of the shark department and the leopard department are not large, they still have their own territory to patrol and guard, and they may not be able to help the whale department.

Moreover, the Dutch fleet on Magong Island still has five warships, plus the four warships that went back this time, although they lost three warships, but the overall strength of the people is still there, as the main battleship, "Amsterdam" and other three third-class battleships have not been lost, and the absolute strength is still much better than Li Tianyang's Hongtang, so the shark department and the leopard department have to pay attention to it.

The only news that can be said to be good is that one is that Hong Tang captured three tattered Western warships, maybe the Dutch thought that after they blew up the battleships, Hong Tang might not have the ability to repair them even if they dragged them back. After all, the differences between Eastern and Western shipbuilding processes cannot be replicated by drawing a scoop according to the pattern, and the things involved in it are extremely complex.

However, they Dutch did not know that Hongtang Li Tianyang had already risked the big team a year ago to seize three Western-style foreign ships of the Portuguese in Macao for study and reference, and even this time their Dutch attack on Macao was somewhat related to the previous sneak attack on Macao by Li Tianyang and their people.

Although the two Dutch warships and one armed merchant ship were in tatters, they did not even have the ability to float at least at sea. However, in the secret base of Bengang, the shipwrights and masters of the craftsman workshop, who have been studying Western warships for nearly a year, are still not able to completely build a Western warship, but there is still no major problem in repairing important structures such as keels without damage.

Coupled with the various powerful guns carried on the warships that accompanied him and could not be withdrawn, a total of nearly 100 or so guns, even if they could not fully compensate for the losses of Hongtang's whale department, it also gave Hongtang the opportunity to further truly contact and study the top and most advanced artillery of the Westerners.

Thinking about it this way, Li Tianyang and Wu Daofu are always in a much better mood.

The Portuguese in Macao suffered a great loss at the hands of the Dutch and suffered heavy losses, so when they learned that they turned their heads against Li Tianyang and their Hongtang, they also supported a batch of copper cannons and iron cannons to Li Tianyang and them under false pretenses, otherwise Wu Daofu's whale department would not have so many artillery and ammunition to attack the Dutch fleet today.

Of course, the Portuguese said that it was support, but in fact, it was not for Li Tianyang to spend their own money to buy, but in terms of price, it was much lower, and even the Portuguese agreed to Li Tianyang to buy it on credit.

The Portuguese idea of fighting was also very simple and clear, although they resisted the attack of the Dutch fleet and made them retreat, but in terms of the strength of the Dutch fleet, the total strength of the Portuguese in the waters around Daming was still inferior to the Dutch.

If the Dutch can't think of another triple, the traumatized Portuguese in Macao really dare not guarantee that they will be able to withstand the powerful offensive of the Dutch.

Now it just so happens that the Dutch have found the head snake in the Penghu Sea of Daming, and the Hongtang is also powerful and powerful. Although the Portuguese did not think that the Eastern sailors, who were far behind the western maritime strategy and tactics, could withstand the footsteps of the newly emerging "sea coachmen" of the Dutch, this did not prevent them from sitting on the hill and watching the tiger fight, and providing some support to Hongtang, who thought that he was on the weaker side and had good relations, so that they could weaken the Dutch fleet.

In this regard, Li Tianyang wished that the Portuguese would have such bad intentions and give Hongtang some support in terms of materials and firearms. Under the muffled sound of making a fortune, Li Tianyang opened his mouth to the Portuguese in one breath and took twenty bronze cannons, artillery, and two hundred arquebuses, as for when to pay for this batch of arms, it depends on what Li Tianyang and they think next, anyway, if they can delay it for one more day, it will also be earned, isn't it?

At the same time, Lai Jiechen and his party, who had finished the ammunition reserves, were also extremely unwilling to go back, and in the process of marching, he also conducted an inventory of the battle damage under his command.

I don't know if I don't check it, but after checking it, Lai Jichen has a sense of frustration in his heart that the gains outweigh the losses: this attack on Jilong Harbor, the Dutch fleet can be said to be the best of its best, except for two of the seven warships are armed merchant ships, two of the remaining five are third-class battleships and three fourth-class battleships, so it can be said that most of the strength of the Dutch expeditionary fleet is here.

The ship was accompanied by 683 fully loaded Dutch sailors, and only 300 remained on Magong Island. However, after the first battle, 135 soldiers were killed, 58 were missing, and more than 100 sailors were seriously injured, so it can be said that after this battle, they lost at least 1/5 of the strength of their Dutch fleet.

Not to mention the loss of an armed merchant ship and two fourth-class battleships, which made Lai himself not know how to go back and explain to Governor Cohen.

However, the war has come to the present, for the ancient dynasty of the East, the Ming Dynasty, Lai Jiechen and they no longer dare to be as careless as when they first came, through this war, Lai Jiechen knows very well in his heart that if he wants to occupy the chicken coop port by force, defeating Hong Tang is a completely more than worth the loss, and he will never pay attention to the chicken coop port to which Hong Tang belongs!

(End of chapter)