The picture turned to the Penghu Islands, but it was said that the commander of the Dutch fleet, Lai Jiechen, returned to the Hongcheng Fortress on Magong Island, which had been occupied by them for more than half a year and had been in operation for a long time, with seven points of dissatisfaction and three points of helplessness.

If the Dutch were to be dispelled by a war that was not a defeat and coveted the well-developed Chicken Coop Harbor, it must be that even their opponent Li Tianyang would not believe it. However, the difficulties in front of Lai Jichen have also increased with the defeat of this war and the long stay abroad, like a rootless duckweed life.

For most of the year, Lai Jichen repeatedly harassed the coastal villages of the Ming Dynasty, without any regard for the military threat of the huge empire, in order to be able to replenish the men of his more than 1,000 sailors through plunder, as well as the consumption of gunpowder and cannonballs.

Wandering for a long time, with no regular source of income and logistical support, Lai, the commander of the fleet, has always had a great burden in his heart. After the failure of the attack on the Portuguese Macao, in fact, Lai Jichen did not think of following the Portuguese practice, occupying a foothold in the land of the Ming Dynasty and slowly developing.

The capture of Magong Island was already the second attempt of the Dutch, the first time surrounded by more than 80 warships of the Ming Dynasty, Wei Malang, the leader of the Dutch fleet, personally bowed to General Shen Yourong who went to the island alone, and led three warships to defeat Maicheng, which achieved the good talk of General Shen, but did not let the Dutch lose too much.

Now that he came with 12 warships this time, he was originally prepared to seize the Penghu Islands if he could not defeat Macao. But Lai Jichen forgot that the small Penghu Islands could not feed their huge fleet of more than 1,000 mouths.

Therefore, after the investigation, Jilong Port, which gradually prospered and did not have the Ming government as a backer, naturally became the best business base in the eyes of the Dutch.

I thought that the capture of Jilong Harbor should be a fact that the powerful Dutch sailors should be able to capture it, but what they never expected was that they Dutch would have no way to take down this port for three whole days when they faced a group of Ming indigenous pirates who were backward in naval combat skills and were basically in hand-to-hand combat!

Even, their expeditionary fleet, stunned by the self-detonation tactics of three warships being regarded as dead by the other side, became the trophies of the other side.

Although most of the sailors on the three ships that were about to sink had been rescued, these defeats made the Dutch such as Lai Jiechen, who was confident that they could capture Jilong Harbor, like a blow to the head, and they were stunned!

What's even more infuriating is that the other side relied on the advantage of having more people and more clothes and not being afraid of sacrifice, and finally let their Dutch fleet run out of ammunition in stock and return in vain.

Under the rise and fall, Lai Jiechen now has less than 1,000 soldiers under his command, and the Dutch expeditionary fleet has also changed from twelve warships at the beginning to nine warships today. Although in Lai Jiechen's view, their overall absolute strength is already stronger than that of the Daming Hongtang group, but objectively speaking, according to the fighting spirit and determination shown by the Hongtang people, if they want to snatch the chicken coop port from the hands of others, the price paid by the Dutch is definitely not small.

The Dutch were very young, and their population and land were not as good as those of the other Nordic powers, let alone the Dutch sailors and soldiers in their East India Company and Jawa colonies!

In the far eastern seas, every Dutch death means that their Dutch strength in the Far East is weakened by one point, so as the commander of the Far East Fleet, Lai Jiechen wisely chose to give up the idea of continuing to attack Jilong Harbor.

And, although the Dutch had ostensibly been anchored in the fort of Magong Island for the past two or three months, in fact they were well aware of everything that had happened in Chicken Coop Harbor.

The traitor has existed since ancient times, not to say that the ancients were more simple and more patriotic. In order to be able to struggle to survive in the dangerous ocean, in order to be able to resist the threat from the increasingly powerful Hongtang, among the Daming pirates, there are naturally pirate gangs that have quick brains and want to have greater development, and take the initiative to find the Dutch and provide them with all kinds of information.

Although the Dutch ate turtles in front of Hong Tang, in fact, in terms of the results of the battle, they could not be regarded as the defeated side. And Westerners have always been synonymous with power in the minds of the people of the Ming Dynasty, especially in the minds of the Ming pirates.

If they can get in touch with the Dutch, buy all kinds of weapons and ammunition from them, and arm their team, then they will naturally have more confidence to resist the strong rise of Hongtang!

Among them, the pirates who have the closest relationship with the Dutch are still the pirate teams that ganged up with Yuan Laoba a few years ago and wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob Hongtang Huludao.

Since that calculation of Hongtang failed, although relying on the complex geographical environment in the Ryukyu Sea and the tentacles of Hongtang have not extended into their territory, the life of their group of pirates has not fluctuated much.

However, I can't stand a few pirate leaders who are self-conscious, the Hongtang around them is getting stronger and stronger day by day, and the leader of Hongtang will lead his troops over on the day he can't keep it, and he will click on the pirates who have offended their Hongtang!

And since the opening of Chicken Coop Harbor, many pirate gangs that have no way to sell thieves and dirt, and many pirate gangs who want to find a nest of peace and pleasure, have been running to Chicken Coop Harbor one after another. As they came and went, they had already made Hongtang and Qixintang understand everything they had done.

This made several of their pirates dare not go to the chicken coop port to trade and consume, for fear that the people of Hongtang will make them like buns that beat dogs - never go back

Yuan Laoba slipped away quickly, because there was no territorial relationship, after the calculation of Huludao failed, Yuan Laoba's gang went all the way east, and it is said that it has now regained a foothold in the Bohai Sea. But several of their pirate gangs have developed to this point, and the territory under their hands is they desperately fighting back the team with knives and guns, and now they haven't enjoyed enough blessings, so how can they be willing to give up!

As close neighbors, when the Dutch attacked the Penghu Islands, they pirates had actually made a look of good play. The so-called one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, Hongtang and the Dutch are close at hand, and naturally there will be a zhang to fight sooner or later.

I thought that the Westerners had been rampaging in the Daming Sea for many years, and the reputation they had built with their great military exploits would be as easy as finding out for Hongtang! In this way, it not only eliminated a strong enemy for the pirates of their Ryukyu Sea team, but also allowed him, the pirates who had been eyeing Hongtang's territory for a long time, to get a piece of the pie.

Westerners are strong, but if they are not prosperous, that is their absolute shortcoming, even if they defeat the people of Hongtang, with the scale of their Westerners, they will not be able to occupy much territory at all.

But who would have thought that the Westerners would fail unexpectedly, which surprised many pirates who watched the show!

Many petite pirates, under Hong Tang's record, turned around and threw themselves into Hong Tang's arms, but more large and medium-sized pirate gangs with no small ambitions were even more worried and afraid.

Therefore, they took the initiative to come out of the shadows, find out the news for the Dutch, traffick materials, etc., in addition to wanting to get in touch with the Dutch, the deeper idea at the bottom is to hope that the Dutch will make persistent efforts, get up from where they fall, and then give Hongtang the most fatal blow, not to completely exterminate Hongtang's people, but to make Hongtang pay a heavy price and delay their strong footsteps!

(End of chapter)