The two armed merchant ships captured were both large Galen ships of nearly 600 tons, belonging to the flute type, not the Yahat type of the Hector. Flutes carry a large cargo, have a long hull length, and require fewer sailors. However, the biggest weakness of the flute ship was that it was too slow, so it was easily defeated by the fast sixth-tier ship.

Wang Xinyu visited these two trophies, this kind of extremely slow ship, can only be used as a merchant ship in the future, or when negotiating with the Dutch, let the Dutch pay for it, anyway, Wang Xinyu is not looking down on flute-shaped ships. This kind of cargo ship is very capable of loading, but the speed is so slow, how long does it take for such a ship to run from the East to Europe! The ideal merchant ship Wang Xinyu wanted was a clipper ship, a kind of fast ship that would take more than a month to reach Europe.

When the Dutch captain asked why he attacked them, Wang Xinyu told the Dutch captain: "I can tell you that our Ming Dynasty is already at war with you!" Our King of Yanping is attacking Dongfan Island! ”

"Shameless! You shameless Orientals! We are your partner! but you have attacked us! The Dutch captain scolded.

"Now I ask you, how many warships and how many merchant ships there are in Batavia. There are also the firepower configuration of the battleship, the firepower configuration of the merchant ship, the berths of each ship, and whether there are hidden piles in the channel. Wang Xinyu asked.

The Dutch captain kept silent.

"Hold on! Give them enough to eat, don't go hungry! By the time we defeat the red-haired ghosts and negotiate with them, these people will be all for nothing! "Since the Dutch captain didn't speak, Wang Xinyu didn't bother to torture him, anyway, there were a lot of prisoners, and he didn't care about interrogating this person.

"No!" Liu Ping ordered the Dutch captain to be escorted down.

Wang Xinyu then interrogated the other captured Dutch sailors, and learned from the captives that the East India Company had a total of 41 warships, and there were about 30 warships parked in Batavia alone. Most of them are cruisers with a displacement of five hundred to seven hundred tons. Batavia also had more than one hundred and fifty merchant ships, three of which were of the 1,100-ton class and one of the 1,400-ton East India ship type. In order to ensure their own safety while sailing, this huge merchant ship also has strong firepower, even reaching the firepower of British third-class ships!

"East India ship type? How can there be such a big ship? Wang Xinyu was surprised.

Although those giants were ordinary merchant ships with fir structures, they had the tonnage of second-class battleships, and even approached the tonnage of first-class battleships. Although it is a merchant ship. The firepower is not weak.

As for the other merchant ships, they were all armed merchant ships, and once the fight broke out, if the Dutch entangled themselves with more than 30 warships of the Yahat type, and then attacked with huge East India ships, and used other large and small merchant ships to cooperate in the battle, their more than 20 warships would not be enough for the Dutch to eat.

The East India Company was so powerful that it was no wonder that Wang Xinyu frightened Manrik when he proposed to attack the Dutch. Dare not send the Spanish fleet to help in the war.

This can't blame Wang Xinyu for not being well-informed, because communication was extremely difficult in those days, and the intelligence personnel sent to Batavia in advance were not Wang Xinyu's own people, but Pan Liu's Nanyang Company personnel, and the two sides had certain troubles in contact information, so Wang Xinyu did not expect that the Dutch would be much stronger than he imagined.

However, the most advantageous point for Wang Xinyu was that the Dutch did not yet know that Ming Zheng had started a war against them, and Zheng Chenggong had landed in Taiwan. It is impossible to imagine that someone would have the audacity to attack the port of Batavia.

When the interrogation of the captives continued, the Dutch, who had just arrived from Europe, did not know much about it. Wang Xinyu couldn't get more information from them.

The naval fleet of the Nanyang Company made several circles off the coast of Batavia, and soon it was dark. As the sun sets over the sea in the west, the water turns black, and as night falls, it becomes pitch black.

The flotilla docked near an uninhabited island and the night passed.

There are many islands around Java. The next day, the fleet found an island with only local natives. Then the Marines were sent to land and set foot on the beach.

The indigenous people of Sulu on the island spotted the invaders and immediately organized samurai to attack. The non-commissioned officers of the Marine Corps bombarded with small cannons, another volley of guns, and then the hand-to-hand fighters rushed forward. easily subdued the local natives.

The largest of the Pari archipelago, the island was guarded by five small islands, making it a safe haven for the fleet and a natural haven from the Dutch. After capturing the island, the fleet anchored to the north of the island. In the next few days, the fleet waited here for the intelligence officers to send the news, and Wang Xinyu organized the operation again.

At that time, the means of communication and observation were backward, and Wang Xinyu's fleet was anchored on the side of the island facing the Gulf of Batavia, and the Dutch did not even notice that a huge fleet was hiding under their noses. However, the navy of the Nanyang Company used the canoes of the locals to conduct reconnaissance and knew every move of the Dutch inside out.

There is fresh water on the island, which can be used by the officers and men of the fleet. There are more than 300 local Sulu people on the island, and more than 30 people were killed in the clash just now, and more than 40 Sulu people who were injured were also ended by the Ming soldiers. The rest of the Sulu people were basically women, children, old and weak, and all of them became prisoners of the Ming army.

The captives were held and put to use when the Singapore Fortress was being built. Wang Xinyucai doesn't care whether these Indonesian captives are women or men, anyway, Indonesian women and children will be used by him as adult men, and Indonesian men are used as animals.

I stayed on the island for ten days. At noon on 15 July, the fast echelon sent out to patrol brought back an intelligence officer sent by Nanyang to Batavia in advance.

"The lowly Liu Dong has seen the general manager!" The comers were taken aboard the flagship Drake, met Wang Xinyu, and presented a map of the defense of Batavia and the berths of the Dutch warships.

Wang Xinyu pointed to the map and asked, "The Dutch don't have any forts outside the port of Batavia?" ”

"My lord, the entrance to Batavia Bay is too big, and the Dutch have a fort on the east corner, but there is no way to seal the harbor. In addition, the Dutch thought that they were strong on the island of Java, and no one dared to provoke them, so they had no forts to defend themselves, and all the ships were anchored in the bay of Batavia without any protection. Liu Dong replied.

"Do the Dutchmen usually live on boats, or do they live on the shore?" Wang Xinyu asked another question.

Liu Dong replied: "The Dutch usually don't live on ships, they all go to live on the shore. There are bars on the shore, and some Dutch people spend the night having fun. The average Dutch sailor did not want to live on a ship on a regular day. On a normal large boat, there are only a dozen to twenty Dutch people who stay on guard at night. ”

"Then we'll be able to do it! We can capture a dozen big ships in one go! Wang Xinyu was overjoyed.

Liu Dong said: "But even if we take the boat, we can't get out." The Dutch laid a lot of underwater piles in the Batavia Bay, and those who were not familiar with the channel could not get out at all. They placed underwater piles in case the Spanish and Portuguese fleets attacked them at night. If there is no one to lead the way, the big ship cannot enter or leave at all. ”

"It's easy to do! We captured their sailors and put knives around their necks to force them to lead the way! It's impossible for them to leave! At the same time that Wang Xinyu was planning to seize the ship, his own fleet also entered the bay of Batavia, attacked the Dutch fleet overnight, and sank all the ships that could not be snatched to the bottom of the sea. In this way, it can only be a change of plan, and after seizing a batch of ships, the ships will be released. The Dutch will inevitably come in pursuit. His own fleet was set up in ambush outside, and when the Dutch fleet came after him, he would engage them in a naval battle to destroy them as much as possible.

Wang Xinyu calculated the time, it was the first day of the sixth lunar month, and there was no moon in the sky. If they had acted at night at this time, the small boat in which the naval special operations team was traveling would not have been able to see the target clearly. Therefore, he set the time of the attack on the evening of July 18, the fourth day of the sixth lunar month. In this way, there is a crescent moon in the sky, and you can see the sea clearly with the help of the weak moonlight illumination, and you will not accidentally expose yourself because the moonlight is too strong, and the boat can move very closely.

The specific battle plan was as follows: On the night of 17 July, the main fleet arrived at a small island 16 nautical miles northwest of Batavia Bay, and hid to the north. After dark, the fleet sailed away from the island and sailed for about three hours to the mouth of Batavia Bay, where it then dropped fifteen small boats, and ninety naval special forces and three hundred sailors who knew how to steer soft sails were divided into small boats and dived into Batavia Bay overnight, each with fifteen Dutch ships.

After the big ship put down the small boat, it retreated to wait in ambush between two small islands eight nautical miles west of the mouth of the bay.

The ship-seizing special forces boarded the Dutchman's ship, eliminated the sentry, controlled the captives, and then picked up the sailors on board, and then waited for dawn to force the captives with knives, let the captives lead the way, and drove the ship out.

When the Dutch found out that the ship had been snatched, they would inevitably send a fleet to chase it out. In this way, the special combat team drove the captured ships and led the Dutch fleet into the ambush circle, and the main fleet annihilated the Dutch fleet.

The ships that Wang Xinyu wanted to capture were East India-type ships and Yahat-type warships, and he didn't need flute-type ships. Even if the flute-shaped boat was snatched up, it could only be redeemed by the Dutch in the end, and this kind of desperately slow ship had no effect on Wang Xinyu at all. The East Indies not only had a large transport volume, but also had a strong firepower, reaching the firepower of a third-class ship; The Yahat-type battleship, the capital ship of the Dutch East India Company, had to be taken.

After waiting patiently for two more days, on the evening of the 17th, after the officers and men had had dinner ashore, the fleet pulled anchor and set sail for the small island off the bay of Batavia.

In the early morning of the 18th, the fleet docked north of a small island 18 nautical miles west of Batavia Bay. Another full day passed, and when it was dark on the 18th, the fleet again pulled anchor and set sail for the bay of Batavia. (To be continued.) )