The Dutch battleship suffered a round of artillery fire in vain, but when the sea water stirred up by the cannonballs dissipated, Li Tianyang re-revealed seven intact battleships.

The distance of more than three miles, although it is in the effective range of the general cannon and the thousand-pound Franc machine gun, but the terrifying miss probability of the artillery long-range fire in this era made the Dutch proudly put out the formation they needed in the dense artillery bombardment.

Lined up against the swarming whale warships, looking down from the sky, an irregular capital "T" front showed the huge firepower advantage of the Dutch fleet.

When the angle of the Dutch battleship turned to the best position, the hideous faces of the seven battleships jumped out, allowing Li Tianyang and them to personally feel the shock and anxiety of being suppressed by firepower.

This is the first time that the Hongtang team members were pressed and beaten in the artillery fire. At the beginning, even if they were chased and beaten by Yuan Laoba and them, Li Tianyang and them would never be like today, when a cannonball bombarded the solid concrete building at any time, making a dull sound, and bringing up the crushed stone and soil as fine and powerful as rain.

Li Tianyang, who had already done several enemy drills in Jilong Harbor and knew that he would inevitably be targeted by the Dutch, kept his troops standing still in order to build civilian defense facilities in Jilong Harbor and Bengang Harbor.

The basement of each residential area is built with concrete in many places, and the residents of Jilong Harbor have already evacuated safely in the basement. At this time, he was quietly staying in a relatively cramped, safer basement, waiting for the end of the fighting on the surface.

There is no contrast, there is no harm, and the shells that occasionally fall on the seven battleships opposite, love you in front of the deck of a heavy Western-style battleship, unless it is a big general's cannon, it will not be able to cause effective lethality to other warships at all. After a few rounds of artillery fire, when fighting against the natives, the Franc cannon had a great effect, and even if it hit the deck of the Dutch battleship at this time, it would at most cause a pothole in the deck of the battleship, and even the dense wooden planks would bounce off the water, and even the outermost deck could not be shot through.

On the other hand, the salvo of the guns on one side of the seven warships can compare to the overall scale of the guns of the Jilong Harbor battery and the bow main guns of the whale warships. Not to mention the power of other people's artillery, even if it is the fortification built by the concrete structure that Li Tianyang is proud of, under the fire of people's high-power cannons, the powerful kinetic energy attached to the twenty or thirty pound shells has also been destroyed to the point of potholes and a little dilapidated.

Li Tianyang, who was hiding in the fortifications of the city wall, observing the surrounding situation through the skylight, as well as the dynamics of the Dutch fleet on the opposite sea, was already solemn and cold at this time. In vain, Li Tianyang spent countless money, focusing on building a powerful artillery battle array in recent years, but in the face of actual reality, the Franc machine gun, which was praised by the Macao Franc machine man, and the bronze general cannon of thousands of catties, compared with the power of the shipborne artillery of the Dutch fleet, are a few points inferior.

"The real TM are a bunch of sinister and cunning bastards, who talk about it all the time, but in fact the artillery sold to us is a scrap that is at least a generation behind!" Although it was expected, Li Tianyang couldn't help but curse in his heart.

Obviously, just from the comparison of artillery, it is not difficult for Li Tianyang to guess that these foreigners have one set in front of them and one behind their backs, and sell the backward and eliminated artillery to Li Tianyang, while the artillery he uses is much more advanced.

However, Li Tianyang has wronged the people of Macau, in fact, the Portuguese themselves have a certain gap with the Dutch in terms of their ability to cast artillery, and you don't see that the artillery carried on the "Maria" is actually similar to the one they use?

Under the fire of the cannons, the whale warships gradually approached the Dutch fleet of seven ships lined up and facing their warships. The first to bear the brunt was not the 400 warships of the Whale Department, but the dhows that Li Tianyang had carefully built for more than half a year to deal with the Dutch warships.

Abandoning other useless structures, the dhow was designed to improve speed and agility, and at the bow position, a layer of iron was extravagantly wrapped around the ship's side, which increased the ship's defensive ability, and the shuttle-shaped structure made the sailboat not only turn flexibly but also extremely fast in the case of a tailwind.

The cabin and bow of the sailing ship were not equipped with any guns or tools, but were filled with sealed wooden barrels, which were either filled with oil mixed with animal fat, or full of barrels of gunpowder.

And the sailboats, there are only a team of no more than six brave and not afraid of death, wearing a close-fitting water backing Hongtang soldiers, they have a very good water nature, a dive, often can swim three or four feet away, helping them to get out of the shooting range of the opponent's warship to the greatest extent.

Needless to say, you can probably guess what the purpose of these dhows is!

That's right, in the case that the strength of the warship is inferior to that of people and the power of firearms is not satisfactory, all Li Tianyang can think of is this ancient way of using dead soldiers and using fireships to deal with the Dutch fleet.

Just because it's old-fashioned doesn't mean it's not easy.

The crew of the Dutch fleet, which had originally occupied a geographical advantage and brought the power of artillery to the extreme, saw more than a hundred long, narrow and agile sailing ships coming at this time, fearlessly facing their blazing artillery fire, and the commander of the fleet, Lai Jichen, did not know what the other party's intentions were.

Although he was confident in the defense of his own ships and the guns of his ships, he even allowed these sloops to come close

It wasn't necessarily a big deal, but for the sake of prudence, Lai Jichen still ordered the battleship to pull a distance from the rear.

The Dutch warship, which looked bulky, had never put away its sails, and after receiving the order, they pulled up the iron anchor that had gone deep into the seabed again, and their speed was quickly increased, gradually slowing down the speed of the Hongtang sailing ship.

At the same time, the guns of the Dutch fleet turned their attention to the approaching sailing ships, and as the sailing ships got closer to the fleet, the Dutch sailors became more confident that they would overturn the sailing ships at the distance where the guns were most effective and accurate.

"Boom, boom!!"

A volley of artillery fire, which was denser than firecrackers, enveloped the hulls of the seven Dutch warships, making them look looming.

And after this round of shelling, the sea in front of them was already a mess!!

(End of chapter)