How could the eight short-legged flute cargo ships outrun the battleship, and the flute ships, which were abandoned by the Dutch, were soon overtaken by eight sixth-rank ships of the fast echelon of the Nanyang Navy, and they were fiercely bombarded from behind.

The six-pounder cannon of the sixth-class ship was not painful to hit, but the chain bullet knocked off the sail, making the flute-shaped ship, which had short legs, lame, and unable to run. Then the Drake, Courage, Hector and other warships led by Wang Xinyu personally surrounded and greeted them with a fierce artillery fire, and the Dutch obediently raised a white flag and surrendered.

The fast-echelon sixth-rank ships continued to pursue the other Dutch ships, sinking three speedboats in succession, five small warships, and stopping a small Yahat ship, forcing the Dutch ship to surrender.

There was also an armed Galen ship that did not have time to run away was also caught up by the Ming army, and four fast sixth-class ships entangled the Dutch, like four vicious wolves biting a strong bull, and the Dutch ship could not move an inch. The two fifth-class ships then caught up with the armed Galen ships and sent flags to the Dutch to surrender.

The sea was full of Dutchmen who had fallen overboard, and three speedboats and five small warships had just been sunk, and more than 300 Dutchmen had jumped into the sea.

The Red-necked Duck, with her sister ship, salvaged the Dutch on the sea. These captives are all white money! As long as the Ming army was blockaded outside the Batavia Bay for some time, the Dutch would certainly send people to negotiate. When the time comes, the captives and captured flutes will be sold for money.

The raid on Batavia was a complete victory, Wang Xinyu captured a total of four huge East India ships, eleven large Yahat ships, one armed Galen ship, one small Yahat ship and ten flute-type ships, sank and sank more than 20 large and small ships, causing the Dutch in Batavia to completely lose their sea supremacy.

"Wang Junmen. Can we rush into Batavia Bay and sink all the Red-Haired Guys' ships? Chen Lei made a suggestion.

Li Rui, a personal soldier, also echoed: "Yes, we are now in high spirits after a complete victory, and we can just take advantage of the victory to pursue and kill into Batavia Bay, and sink all the ships of the red-haired ghost to the bottom of the sea." ”

Wang Xinyu shook his head at Li Rui's proposal. In naval battles, morale is not the decisive factor, it is more important to look at the quality of the battleship and personnel. In a naval battle, as long as the captain of a battleship does not run, even if a third of the sailors collapse, and if they want to escape, it will not have much impact, because they are all part of the battleship, as long as the captain does not run, no one wants to run. If the sailors want to survive, they can only give full play to their skills and fight to the death. And on land, only one in ten soldiers has a psychological breakdown and begins to flee, which leads to the collapse of the whole army.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we don't have the appetite to eat Batavia yet, the Dutch have lost their sea dominance, so why should we venture into Batavia? Now the Dutch are ready. When we enter the bay, we will only be attacked by their coastal batteries! Even if they sink all their worthless boats. And what effect can it have? We might as well just wait here and wait for them to come and negotiate with us, and we can get more out of the table. Wang Xinyu said.

The Ming fleet blocked the bay of Batavia, preventing any ships from entering Batavia and preventing the Dutch in the harbor from leaving. In order to prepare for holding back the Dutch for a long time, Wang Xinyu built docks on several relatively large islands on the outskirts of Batavia Bay. And with the captive Sulu natives, they exploited the wastelands and carved out rice and vegetable fields. Chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep raised on warships were also sent to the shore to build farms on the island.

At the same time, Wang Xinyu also sent several ships to Pontianak to bring back a group of friendly Han people. The Sulu people and their canoes, who knew how to fish, made them live on the nearby islands, and were responsible for fishing and providing seafood to the Ming army.

But more than half a month passed, and the Dutch did not send people out to negotiate with the Ming fleet cruising on the sea.

There are more than 3,000 Chinese in Batavia and more than 5,000 in other parts of Java. The Chinese in the city are engaged in commercial activities, opening shops, casinos, goods processing, retail and other industries. Elsewhere on the island of Java, including in the Kingdom of Banten, the Chinese mainly cultivated plantations to grow sugar cane and other fruits. The Dutch were not very numerous, only about 5,000, and most of the other whites of the East India Company were whites from other countries who came to Europe to pan for gold.

Although the Dutch on the island of Java are blocked, the food on the island is still enough for them. As for the interruption of trade, Kroenke believed that the pirates outside could not be blocked forever, as long as there was no goods to return to the country for a long time, the domestic fleet would arrive in half a year, and then the pirates could be easily defeated.

On August 4, a sixth-class ship patrolling in the north returned to Pari Island to report to Wang Xinyu: "Two large Dutch ships and six small Dutch boats have been found in the north!" ”

"Strike now! Stop these Dutchmen! Wang Xinyu decisively took two fourth-class ships, two fifth-class ships and four sixth-class ships to intercept the Dutch fleet.

Who knew that the Ming battleship had just approached, and before a single shell was fired, the Dutch ship hoisted a white flag.

Eight large ships of the Nanyang Company were laid down. More than 400 marines rowed in groups of eight small boats to take over the surrendered Dutch ships. After controlling the Dutch, Wang Xinyu personally took his own team and landed on the Dutch ship in a small boat.

As soon as he stepped onto the Dutch ship, he heard a Dutchman shouting in stiff Hokkien: "We are from Taiwan!" Your prince of Yanping let us go! You can't detain us! ”

"What's going on?" Wang Xinyu asked.

Chen Lei replied: "Back to the military gate, this red-haired ghost said that he came back from Dongfan Island, they have surrendered to the king of Yanping, they have compensated the king of Yanping a lot of silver, and the two sides have signed an agreement, and the king of Yanping will release them back." I didn't expect to be caught by us again when I came here. With that, Chen Lei took out the Dutchman's surrender agreement to Zheng Chenggong and presented it to Wang Xinyu.

Wang Xinyu took the surrender agreement and looked at it, only to understand that this Dutchman was the Dutchman! The guy surrendered to Zheng Chenggong on Dongfan Island, and when the two merchant ships bound for Japan returned, the Dutch left the cannons, silver, and valuable goods in the warehouse, and evacuated Taiwan with only food and personal weapons. The group boarded the ship to return to Batavia. Who knew that when he was about to arrive in Batavia, he was stopped by the Ming army again.

Wang Xinyu finished reading the surrender letter and said with a smile: "Mr. Yuyi, you have already surrendered once, you might as well surrender again!" Because we are Nanyang Company, we have nothing to do with Yanping Wang! So be it. Go and stay on my island for a few days, and I'll send a message to the governor of Batavia." As long as they send someone to negotiate, I will send you back. ”

"You don't have the right to detain me! We already have a surrender agreement with you! We have a ceasefire! He shouted angrily.

But Wang Xinyu didn't care how the Dutch protested, and he ordered the Dutch to be brought to Pari Island.

"Hahaha! We have another 600 prisoners on hand! This time we have more bargaining chips! Wang Xinyu laughed proudly like a profiteer, and these captives seemed to him to be white and silver.

Wang Xinyu then wrote a letter to the Bataviaan side, and then selected a Dutch soldier from among the captives, put him back, and asked him to report to Batavia. Wang Xinyu wrote in the letter: "Dear Mr. Governor of Batavia, your Mr. Yuyi. Mr. Van Delang is in our hands, Dongfan Island has been occupied by us, if you still want to trade by sea, then send someone to negotiate with us!" Otherwise, we would be happy to work with the Portuguese and Spaniards. Also, please don't think that the European battleships will come here, because they have to deal with the British battleships.

On the morning of the second day, a small boat with a white flag came to Pari Island.

The negotiators sent by Kroenke landed on Pari Island and met with Wang Xinyu.

Wang Xinyu met with the representative of the Netherlands. Smiling and mocking, he said, "I thought you were reluctant to negotiate!" I've been waiting for you here for more than half a month, if you don't send someone yet. I'm just going to have to wait here and ever. But it didn't matter, the ships of the Spaniards and the Portuguese had already begun to transport things, and besides, the English would have been glad to know the news, and their East India Company ships would have been happy to come too. ”

"May I ask Mr. Wang, what do you mean by that?" The representative of the Netherlands asked angrily.

"Because you Dutch people like to eat alone. When there is a benefit, I think about myself and refuse to give a bite to others. Your fleet blockaded Manila, blockaded Macau, and blockaded the Straits of Malacca, whether they were Spaniards. The Portuguese and the British must not like you, right? Wang Xinyu said with a confident smile.

"You're a bunch of shameless pirates!" The representative of the Netherlands said angrily.

"Hey, you think it's the other way around, right? The real pirates are you, not us. But today we are not going to talk about these unpleasant things, we should talk about how we can work together. ”

Next, Wang Xinyu set conditions: the first is the passage of the Strait of Malacca that the Nanyang Company wants, and the Dutch must allow ships flying the flag of the Nanyang Company to enter and exit the Strait of Malacca freely without obstruction; The second was that the Nanyang Company was to set up a city on the Malay Peninsula as a stronghold, and the Dutch were not allowed to attack it; The third was that the Nanyang Company would include the eleven captured warships and four East India ships in the Nanyang Company, and that the rest of the ships could be returned to the Dutch; Fourthly, the Dutch were to redeem their captives and ships with silver, and that they were to pay the Nanyang Company a total of one million taels of silver; The fifth is that the Batavian authorities must ensure the safety of the Chinese on the island of Java, otherwise it will be regarded as a declaration of war against the Nanyang Company; The sixth is that Pari Island belongs to the Nanyang Company.

The representative of the Netherlands said: "I have no right to accede to such conditions, and I must ask our Governor for advice on this matter." ”

"Then you should ask him to send someone who can call the shots to negotiate as soon as possible, my patience is limited! If you can't cooperate, then I'm more than happy to work with the British. Now that more than half of your fleet has been wiped out by us, we have every strength to destroy your fleet at Jinzhou again, and then we will send ships to Chennai to find the British. Wang Xinyu reminded the representative of the Netherlands.

After the Dutch representative returned, he told the Batavian authorities about Wang Xinyu's conditions.

After some discussion, the Batavian authorities finally sent Kobuya? Kau Wu landed on Pari Island and negotiated with Wang Xinyu.

On August 7, Kobuya? Kauu landed on the island of Pari. After meeting Wang Xinyu, Kobuya? Kawu told Wang Xinyu: "We, the Batavian authorities, have no objection to Mr. Wang's proposal that the ships of the Nanyang Company are free to sail in the Strait of Malacca, that the Nanyang Company should establish a base in the Malay Peninsula, that the safety of the Chinese on the island of Java should be guaranteed, and that the island of Pari should belong to the Nanyang Company, but all our ships that you have seized must be returned in full, and we can pay the ransom!" Also, if you rob us of a few cargo ships and a few hundred people, you want us to take a million silver, is that too much appetite? ”

Wang Xinyu pretended to be helpless, crying with a sad face: "We will return all the boats to you, we will lose too much, right?" I worked so hard for so long, and it didn't come to fruition. ”

Kobuya? Kawu thought to himself: Why is this person so shameless? It's obviously a business without capital, but it still says it's a loss! So he spoke: "Mr. Wang, those boats were originally ours, but they were robbed by you, and we are now willing to pay to redeem the boats, this is a business without capital for you, how can you say that you are losing money?" ”

Wang Xinyu asked, "Then how much are you willing to pay to redeem these ships?" ”

"One million silver to redeem all the ships, and another three hundred thousand silver to redeem our captives." Kobuya? Kaauu offered the price.

Wang Xinyu shook his head helplessly, and spread his hands: "This is too cheap, right?" If we take these ships to Chennai and sell them, even if they are sold as old ships, I'm afraid they will be more than a million, right? Just the four thousand-ton East India ships, there are more than four million! I think one sells for 300,000 yuan, and someone buys it. ”

"Mr. Wang, we are kind enough to negotiate with you, I hope you don't have to gain an inch!" Kobuya? Kawu said angrily.

"If you can't get together, then I'll send your men and your ships to India to sell to the British! You also know that we are friends with the British, Mr. Cauau. ”

I heard that all the prisoners were going to be sent to the British, Kobuya? Kau was taken aback, he knew that if these Dutch high-ranking officials went to the British, the price offered by the British would definitely be higher! In Europe, after the noble knights and the like were captured, they had to spend a lot of money to redeem them.

After some haggling, the parties finally reached an agreement that was acceptable to both parties:

Except for those that were not disputed by both sides, Wang Xinyu returned all the flute-type ships, six warships and two East India ships, and the Dutch side paid 800,000 taels of silver as a ransom; Wang Xinyu returned the captured Zhu Yi, Fan Delang and others, and the Dutch side paid 500,000 taels of silver as a ransom. (To be continued.) )