Because of the proximity to night and the damage caused by grenades, the Dutch have temporarily died down.

It's not that they don't want to fight a quick battle, but when the Bengang soldiers changed their fighting style and no longer gave the Dutch a chance to fight head-on, they took advantage of the familiar terrain in the Bengang residential area to start a street battle with the other side.

This is a familiar way of fighting in the later era of firearms, just like the three-stage musket advance tactics of Hong Tang, who had not been in contact with the Dutch, and the narrow and often turned into the ruins of the city, the elusive figure of Lahouk, combined with the surprise attack of the grenade, a combat weapon, brought great trouble to the Dutch.

At the same time, it was already evening at Hongcheng Fortress on Magong Island, but the offensive on Hongtang's side was as fierce as ever.

The problem of the shortage of manpower in the Dutch has been noticed by Wu Daofu and them during this period of fighting, so the tactics formulated by Wu Daofu and Wu Juren are to let the soldiers who land continue to put pressure on the other side and not give the other side a chance to breathe.

As for the three Dutch warships on the sea, they have been chased and intercepted by more than 40 warships of Hongtang, and the range of activities has been compressed to the extreme, and they cannot break through, and they will soon arrive at the dock after retreating, even if they want to fight hand-to-hand, with the size of less than 20 sailors on each of their warships, it is a drop in the bucket if they have to press on forty or fifty warships, and they will be overwhelmed by Hongtang's sailors in the blink of an eye.

It's not that Lei Yousheng didn't see the hope of escaping on the sea, and the predicament of being surrounded by groups, but at the moment he was powerless, and even the wounded in the fortress were mobilized by him, but in the face of Hongtang's continuous offensive like a river, they couldn't even fire a few cannons to help the battleships fleeing at sea.

"I don't know if I can hold out until the commander comes back to help?" In the midst of his pessimism, Ray cheered up, lifted a thirty-two-pound buckshot, carefully loaded it into a cannon in front of him, and then took his only assistant with great difficulty to return the cannon to its place. This cannon, which usually requires five or six people to operate, can now only be operated by two people because of the relationship between manpower, and the rest of the men need to carry arquebuses to face the enemy's mountain of attacks.

In the last rays of the sunset, suddenly, three white flags flew on the three Dutch warships on the sea, which were reflected in the red sunset, which made Lei Yeo feel heartbroken, but then he thought about it, and sighed again, and had to give up.

To be able to persist until now under the suppressive pursuit of more than forty warships, and to say that his adjutant and his heroic sailors did not do their best, that is the idea that Rayjosheng himself cannot deceive himself, and after fulfilling his last duty, the surrender of the three Dutch warships is also completely forgivable.

In the minds of Westerners, although there are beliefs such as loyalty, surrender after doing something is not a shameful thing in everyone's consciousness.

The three white flags that fluttered suddenly, as well as the actions of the three battleships on the opposite side gradually stopped struggling, let Wu Daofu and Wu Juren know that the time had come to reap the results.

However, when the three warships were really received, Wu Daofu and Wu Juren were secretly competing again, in order to win the maximum benefits for their respective warships, the captains of the warships who had been quietly given tough orders in private had already been quietly given tough orders, and at this time they used their strength to eat, Hongtang Whale Department, Shark Department, and Wu Juren's Leopard Department launched an unknown race.

In the end, it was Wu Daofu who got the lion's head, gave the order the earliest, and the whale department and shark department with the largest number of men climbed onto the deck of the two Dutch armed merchant ships first, and even because they were afraid of entanglement with the leopard department, and to prevent the other party from rebelling, the armed merchant ships were surrounded by two other warships of the two divisions.

Even one side of the deck of the third armed merchant ship was taken up by a quick shark warship, but on the other side of the ship, the crew of the leopard department was the first to climb onto the bow and block the shark crew on the side of the ship, preventing them from boarding.

In this way, in the end, it was Wu Daofu's side who gave in, after all, Wu Juren was also his leader for many years, and he was Li Tianyang's third uncle, Wu Daofu was not good, and he didn't dare to compete with him too much.

Wu Juren's side, although he was also jealous of the two Western-style warships that Wu Daofu had grabbed, he was not too greedy, and he was satisfied that he could grab a battleship in his hands.

First jumped on the armed merchant ship that his son snatched, looking at the deck was more than a dozen black cannons, Wu Juren laughed, his expression was indescribably happy, and even the dozen or so foreigners who were obediently crouching on the ground on one side of the deck didn't care.

It wasn't until Wu Daofu brought someone over and asked Wu Juren what to do with these dozen foreigners, that Wu Juren glanced at this group of foreigners with a bright complexion and a face that was different from that of the Ming people: "How did the master of your family explain to you, anyway, it's useless for me to be one of these guys who don't understand the language, so you just take them away, lest I arrange for someone to be imprisoned!" ”

"Then I'll take someone to take these red ghosts away, the young master said, with these foreigners in hand, maybe I can extort something from the governor of their red ghosts!" Wu Daofu was also interested, and did not mention the ownership of this battleship, but just told Wu Juren the instructions that Li Tianyang gave him when he went to sea.

"That relationship is good, if you really extort something good, let the Tianyang boy not forget his third uncle and me, and the merits of my gang of sons and daughters will be done!" Got a new warship with strong firepower, Wu Juren was excited, and he wanted to take someone to take a good look at the internal structure of this Western warship, although he was a little interested by Wu Daofu's words, but then he still explained it lightly, he also believed that with their merits, even if Li Tianyang really exchanged these prisoners for any benefits, he would definitely not forget their brothers in the leopard department.

In Li Tianyang's view, among the Dutch warriors and sailors, if they can find a master craftsman who casts cannons, or a master who knows how to build Western warships, it will be much greater than the long-term benefits of one or two warships.

Of course, in Wu Juren's eyes, these things may not be more affordable than the warships they actually got their hands on, so Li Tianyang did not have the need to talk to Wu Juren about these considerations, but only instructed Wu Daofu to collect these foreign prisoners and wounded.

(End of chapter)