When the three girls came to Dongfan Island, they were all interested in looking at the machine that was said to be able to move, but who knew that the result was a big disappointment. The machine didn't work, but it made Song Yingxing, Dai Cang and others ugly.

With the current level of science and technology and material technology, high-pressure boilers will not be able to be made in a few decades. Wang Xinyu studied chemical engineering in his previous life, but it was not omnipotent, and in this era, some basic industries were not matched, and basic materials science had not developed to this level, so it was not easy to get to the sky in one step.

The three girls returned to Tainan City with disappointment, and the three of them had their own merits along the way: Zheng Yun, the main wife, rode a snow-white war horse without a single miscellaneous hair, and the maids around her were all dressed in military uniforms, with a short steel knife hanging from their waists, and they rode a jujube red horse. As for the two prospective wives, Miss Qian sat in a sedan chair, the personal maid Luyun sat in it with her, and the little maids and domestic servants around walked on foot; Miss Pan didn't have that much pomp, she sat in a two-horse carriage, two personal maids sat behind the coachman, and the other little maids and domestic servants walked on foot.

When the three girls entered the palace, Wang Xinyu originally thought that the three of them were going to be jealous and quarrel, but when they saw that the three of them had a harmonious relationship, they held hands like sisters and chatted about family life.

This was the first time the three of them had been together. Wang Xinyu said secretly in his heart. The three girls had all met each other before, but none of the three of them sat together like today, and they all met in twos and twos.

It wasn't until the three of them finished speaking that Wang Xinyu got the opportunity to interject.

"Childe, I don't know what happened to General Zhang, is King Jin willing to borrow troops?" Pan Ying was a little worried about this. If Batavia had not been taken, as soon as the Dutch came, Nanyang would not be able to hold on, and their family's great industry would have been wiped out.

Zheng Yun's sister, Miss Zheng, said: "My father-in-law understands the righteousness, this battle is related to the life and death of my Han people, and my concubine believes that my father-in-law will definitely send troops." ”

Thousands of miles away in Burma, Li Dingguo finally agreed to send troops to Batavia and capture the opposite island of Java.

Originally, when the Ming Dynasty was at its strongest in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there were nearly forty small countries at the most! Many of them are small countries in Southeast Asia. However, with the rise of the West, most of the small countries in Southeast Asia were wiped out by Western colonizers, and in the Wanli period, only Korea, Ryukyu, Dongying, Mongolia, Annam, Siam, Cambodia, Burma, Tibet, Afghanistan, Rumi and Dashi were wiped out, and other kingdoms on Southeast Asian islands such as Java, Manraka, and Sulu Sultan were destroyed by Western colonizers.

"We want to restore the former Tian Dynasty Shangguo, they were originally our vassal kingdoms, but now they are under the guns of the red-haired ghosts." Zhang Yukun persuaded Li Dingguo bitterly.

In order to send troops to Batavia, Zhang Yukun also entered the palace to meet Emperor Yongli.

was persuaded by Zhang Yukun, Yongli also felt that if he wanted to restore the glory of the Ming Dynasty, he needed to teach the red-haired ghost a lesson. The location of the Dutch East India Company's Governor's Palace is in Batavia, and it is also the Javanese country that paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty in those years, and now this country has also been destroyed by the Dutch, and only by defeating the Dutch can we show the prestige of our Ming Dynasty.

In addition to showing force, Yongli also had a plan that if he could no longer stay in Burma, he could also flee to the islands further south.

Batavia City, the Dutch Governor's Palace in Batavia.

The Dutch Governor-General, John Masui, was looking at the information sent from the Strait of Malacca, and according to the news from some merchant ships of the East India Company, the Dutch Armada was going to sail to the East to teach the Ming people a lesson in the sky.

The Dutch fleet from Europe was not the armed Galen ships of the Dutch in Asia, but it was not a merchant ship, but a real battleship!

Although the Dutch did not build the perverted Lordship of the Sea and the King of the Seas like the British, the Dutch also had quite a few second-class and third-class battleships.

"Although the British have a first-class battleship, but the symbolism of a first-class battleship is far greater than the real effect!" John Marsuidu muttered to himself.

The battleship of the first rank, with a displacement of almost two thousand tons, was undoubtedly the most expensive weapon of its time, with a massive hull, three gun decks, solid oak, and exquisite carved crafts on board. The Sovereign of the Sea and the King of the Seas, so to speak, made the Dutch drool.

But the cost of building such a huge ship is too expensive, even the British can't build a few, and the cost of one is more than two million taels of silver, what kind of astronomical amount is that! In terms of purchasing power, the cost of a first-class battleship is equivalent to more than 3 billion yuan now, and because the actual construction difficulty was even more difficult at that time, this kind of first-class battleship is more valuable than today's aircraft carriers.

The capital ships of the British are also third-class ships, even second-class ships with a displacement of more than 1,200 tons will not be too many.

The Batavia-class of the Dutch is a kind of battleship of 1,200 tons, and it is said that eight second-class battleships will arrive this time. As for the seven-provincial battleship of about 800 tons, it was the capital ship of the Dutch, and this kind of battleship was equipped with seventy cannons, and even if only one came to the east, it was a powerful deterrent.

"As long as our fleet arrives, defeats the pirates of the Ming Kingdom, and teaches the Portuguese and Spaniards a lesson by the way, then the whole of Southeast Asia will be ours!" John Mars triumphantly.

Unbeknownst to John Marsui, the British had already occupied New Amsterdam, which was originally under Dutch control in North America, and the British renamed New Amsterdam New York.

In the Indian Ocean, a huge fleet is heading east. The commander of the fleet was the famous Dutch Admiral Trope, and the deputy commander was the famous Admiral de Knight. The Dutch fleet consisted of eight second-class battleships, twenty-two third-class battleships, fifty-two fourth-class ships, sixty-four fifth-class ships, and twelve fire attack ships. This time, the Dutch fleet was indeed menacing, with a total of 144 large and small warships, more than 20,000 naval officers and men, and this fleet had a total of more than 4,600 large and small guns!

The Dutch and British also had fire attack ships, but their fire attack ships were equivalent to a kind of mothership that specialized in launching small boats, and could carry a large number of fire attack boats. The Western fire-attack boats were somewhat similar to the later pole mineboats.

At this time, the Netherlands already had more than a hundred battleships, and its strength was not below that of the British Navy. Thirty of these battleships were sent to the east to trouble the Ming Kingdom, and more than seventy battleships were watching the British in their hometown.

If Wang Xinyu learned that the Dutch had come with thirty battleships in order to deal with him, he would be very surprised. You must know that thirty battleships are not at all something he can deal with.

The Indian Ocean is a relatively calm ocean among the four oceans, there are neither Pacific typhoons nor Atlantic hurricanes, compared to the two oceans that are full of waves at every turn, the Indian Ocean is like a quiet woman, the wind and waves in the Indian Ocean are much smaller, the warship sails on the Indian Ocean, and the huge hull has almost no bumps.

"The conditions offered to us by the Qing people are indeed too generous! This time our powerful fleet came to the East, and I believe that the Easterners have never seen such a large fleet before! General de Knight said.

Dutch Navy veteran Trop said: "Our previous defeat in Formosa (Dongfan Island, that is, the island of Taiwan, as the Dutch say) was completely due to our lack of troops. As for the defeat in Batavia, it was the shameless Orientals sneak attack! In fact, our country is making a bit of a fuss, and against a few small broken ships of the Orientals, such a powerful fleet is not needed at all! ”

"The strength of the East at sea is not worth mentioning! It is said that more than 200 years ago, the Orientals once had the most powerful fleet in the world, and their ships were bigger than the perverted Sea Kings of the British! But later, the Orientals only saw what kind of sea ban was carried out, and even the treasure ship was burned, what was the result? Now they were left with a few small wrecked boats. It is said that the largest ships of the Orientals now do not exceed five hundred tons. General de Knight said.

"The Orientals have destroyed their own navy! Their center of gravity is not on the sea, but inland. If they want to concentrate on developing the navy, I am afraid that the navy of the entire Europa together will not be the opponent of the Orientals! They have a large population and a lot of money, and it will not be a problem to really build a thousand battleships! It's a pity that they don't have this opportunity. Trop smiled as he looked out at the calm Indian Ocean.

"The Tatars are really our friends! In order to exterminate the Ming people, they chose to cooperate with us. The conditions they gave were far more than the conditions given to us by the Ming people! General de Knight laughed.

But Trop said: "The Tatars are, after all, a bunch of barbarians!" To be honest, I'd rather come into contact with the Ming people than with the Tatars! They are even more barbaric than the Ottoman Turks! The Ming Kingdom was originally a civilized country, and I really don't understand why it was defeated at the hands of the Tatars. ”

"Dear General Trop, have you forgotten that hundreds of years ago, the same barbaric Mongols also came to our Europa? The Mongols back then, but they were in full swing! General de Knight said.

"Actually, the Mongols have long been weakened, and as far as we know, the Tatars are not even as strong as the Mongols, and it is inconceivable that they can defeat the huge Ming Kingdom," Trop said. I don't know much about the East, but I heard some missionaries come back and say that it seems to be the Ming Kingdom's own civil strife. ”

General de Knight said: "The East has a large population, but fortunately they do not have their eyes on the sea. It's our time, the Easterners want to return to the sea, we can't let them appear on the sea! I think we are absolutely right to cooperate with the Tatars! The Tatars can restrict the development of the Orientals on the sea, and if we want to firmly control the sea, we cannot give the Orientals a chance to turn over. Take advantage of this time to come to the East and send all their navy to the bottom of the sea. Oh no, they can't be called a real navy at all, they're nothing more than a couple of little wrecked ships! ”

Just as De Knight and Troppe were chatting, someone suddenly came from outside to report: "Report to the General, we have found a strange ship ahead!" ”

"Come out and have a look!" Trop shouted.

Trop and de Knight stepped out of the cabin and onto the upper deck. The two of them stood on the helm, picked up the monoculars, and looked in the direction of the soldier's finger, only to see a snow-white shadow appear on the sea in the distance, approaching the Dutch fleet.

Tang Wei stood on his catamaran clipper, holding a telescope and looking at the huge fleet that appeared in the distance. Speaking of which, Tang Wei is the farthest Oriental in the Indian Ocean in this era, his ship has long been far away from the Strait of Malacca, he only knows that his position has passed the position of the Great Food, this is probably close to the place where Kunlun Nu lived, Zheng He only ran here when he went to the West.

The huge fleet in front of him was not good at first glance, so Tang Wei decided to let his ship get closer and see which country's fleet it was.

The distance between the two sides gradually narrowed, Tang Wei picked up the monocular and looked at the national flag on the mast of the other party's ship. As the target gradually zoomed in, he finally saw it clearly: "Red-haired ghost! It's the red-haired man's fleet! Oh, my God! Lots of boats! ”

This time, Tang Wei was completely shocked: the Dutch came with a lot of huge ships! Look at the Dutch fleet, those ordinary warships with a large number, each of them is no smaller than the flagship of their own Nanyang Navy, the Drake! Moreover, in the Dutch fleet, there were at least two dozen huge ships like hills, as well as several particularly large warships.

That kind of giant ship like a hill, according to Tang Wei's judgment, has a displacement of about the same size as the Spanish galleon of his own South Sea Navy, but the Spanish galleon is just an armed merchant ship, and those ships on the opposite side are obviously battleships!

Looking at those bigger ships again, Tang Wei opened his mouth wide, and it took a long time before he shouted: "Oh my God! Three-tier gun deck! Could that be the battleship that our marshal is talking about? ”

With a displacement of more than a thousand tons, a majestic three-tier gun deck, and an estimated number of guns on each ship at least eighty or more, is that not a battleship or what?

"Turn around! We're going to send this message back! Tang Wei shouted anxiously.

On the Dutch battleship, Trop picked up the telescope and was also observing this strange ship, when he found that this strange ship was actually flying the flag of the Ming Marine, he put down the binoculars and said to De Knight beside him: "I didn't expect the Oriental's boat to run so far!" It's almost to the African coastline! ”

De Knight picked up the binoculars and looked at it: "The ship is small, with a displacement of less than two hundred tons, but it looks like it is running fast." ”

Tepra said, "Release the boat and catch up with them!" The ship of the Ming people must be stopped! ”

The Dutch raiders immediately released three small galleys, and the Dutch sailors on board rowed desperately with their oars, and the sails were raised to full sail, and rushed up at full speed of sixteen knots to catch up with the catamaran. (To be continued.) )