"These damn Dutchmen. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

The news brought by the guards furious the king of Chu, who underestimated the savage nature of the Dutch.

"Father, what should I do?" Li Chuyuan was also very angry, and he gradually realized that these Dutchmen were as they were, a group of insatiable merchants.

The king of Chu hesitated for a moment, made up his mind, and said: "Send our warship, we want to let the Dutch know how powerful this king is." ”

"Yes, Father." Li Chuyuan answered the call and walked towards the dock.

Lin'an City, Cao Mansion.

At this time, the news of the attack on Lin'an Wharf quickly spread here, and after getting the news, Cao Kun, the head of the Cao family, immediately called his eldest son Cao Zhengtong to the front.

"Father."

Cao Zhengtong is about twenty-six years old, his face is a little pale, and his body is a little thin, it seems that Cao Zhengtong is still a little weak when he speaks when he is recovering from a serious illness.

"Zhengtong, you should leave for Qingzhou immediately, this time the King of Chu rashly started a war with the Dutch and suffered a big loss." Cao Kun said nervously, "If the battle is defeated, our Cao family's caravan may no longer be able to go to sea, after you arrive in Qingzhou, you will immediately contact Zhengyang to gather the merchant ships that are transporting goods in various parts of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, and at the same time buy new merchant ships from Qingzhou and organize the fleet, after all, the king of Chu is staring at us very closely, and our fleet in Chu is unable to move." ”

Cao Zhengtong was puzzled: "The King of Chu is strong, so there should be no problem in dealing with the Dutch." ”

"The King of Chu is strong, but there is no way to take the Dutch at sea, and his ship can't beat the Dutch warship." Cao Kun hurriedly said, "Don't be stunned, hurry up and do it, now I am afraid that the only one who can defeat the Dutch is the King of Qi, the hope of our Cao family is in Qingzhou, not in Lin'an, after all, the King of Chu is no different from other magnates of the Great Yu Kingdom, and the King of Qi can make our Cao family continue to prosper." ”

Cao Zhengtong's expression became heavy, he nodded, and said, "Yes, father, I will go to Qingzhou and tell King Qi about the matter here." ”

"Well, go ahead and tell me about the shipyard." Cao Kun sighed.

Accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, over the years, their Cao family has offered countless silver to the king of Chu before and after the saddle, but the king of Chu is insatiable and is now planning to directly annex the Cao family.

His eyeliner in the Chu Wangfu had already secretly told him about it, and because of this, he immediately decided to start arranging the Cao family's property in Qingzhou.

Although the King of Chu was a little wary of this, it was still unclear what his true purpose was, thinking that the Cao family was just doing business in Qingzhou normally.

In fact, he was preparing for the transfer of the Cao family's assets, and once the king of Chu made a move, they would flee even if they gave up the industry in Jiangnan.

While the father and son were talking, Li Chuyuan led a hundred warships to attack eastward from the Qiantang River outside Lin'an City, and on the ten battleships in front, ten guns were set up on each deck, and about five on each side of the deck.

Standing on the largest ship, Li Chuyuan was full of confidence, they had no artillery before, so they were naturally afraid of fighting the Dutch at sea.

But now that they were armed with ten ships with artillery, plus traditional ships, he believed they could fight the Dutch.

Going down the river to the east, Li Chuyuan saw the Dutch warships encircled at the mouth of the sea, and at this time, a total of ten Dutch warships were shelling the Linhai wharf.

These Dutch battleships were all three decks, each with a row of guns.

In the face of these Dutch battleships, Li Chuyuan gave the order to attack, and when the war drums sounded, a hundred battleships rushed towards the Dutch battleships.

At this time, on the Dutch battleship Liberty, a slightly obese middle-aged man with a monocular was observing the batch of battleships rushing out of the estuary.

Dressed in a brown waistcoat with long curly brown hair, shiny leather shoes and stockings, and black trousers on his legs, he was the new Earl of Ryukyu Island, Blake.

"Lord Earl, do you want to retreat, lead them into the deep sea and break them one by one." Rhodes thought he had a good suggestion.

"No need, these warships are unorganized, the number of artillery is insufficient, they are just using the chaotic tactics of fifty years ago, although there are many of them, but they are not our opponents at all, today I will let these stupid Chu kings understand what naval warfare is!" Blake put away his goggles and said to one of the crew members, "Hang the blue flag." ”

The crew received the order and immediately raised a small blue flag to the very top of the battleship.

At this time, the Dutch battleships, which were originally scattered and stayed in the sea, immediately began to adjust their direction as if they had received an order, and the scattered battleship shape immediately became the word "one", which was exactly the array warfare method in naval warfare.

In Blake's eyes, the fleet of the King of Chu at this time was nothing more than a chaotic battle method, which had no unified command, and each ship was fighting separately, and there was no unified dispatch at all.

In fact, fifty years earlier, the Dutch had also used the same chaotic tactics, but it was only after they lost three times their forces to the British in a naval battle that they began to change this method of warfare.

At this time, looking at the hundred mighty battleships, Blake did not have the slightest nervousness, and when the battleships were lined up in the word "one", he gave the order to open fire.

"Boom ......"

Ten battleships fired at the same time, and five hundred guns fired at the same time at the fleet of the King of Chu who rushed out from the mouth of the river, and in an instant, shells like raindrops flew towards the battleships that rushed out in a dense manner.

Immediately after a round of firing, the Dutch fleet began to rotate in a U-shape, and the other side of the first battleship immediately fired again with a salvo of artillery.

Under the continuous attack, the warships of the King of Chu who had just rushed out of the estuary of the river immediately began to sink seven warships, and these seven warships blocked the route of other warships like a reef, and even under the impetus of the river, some warships could not dodge and began to collide with each other.

Suddenly, the fleet of the King of Chu was in chaos.

And the soldiers on the fleet were even more frightened by the terrible artillery of the Dutch, and the land was rich, and there had been no war at all since the founding of the Great Chongqing State.

The people were content to enjoy themselves, the soldiers were afraid of war, and many soldiers were already terrified when Li Chuyuan ordered the war against the Dutch.

At this time, looking at the corpses floating in the river, the screaming soldiers, and the red blood, more soldiers lost their will to fight.

Li Chuyuan's face suddenly changed when he saw this hellish scene.

He was accustomed to hiding in the house to plot plots and was good at calculation, but the real battlefield was completely different from what he thought, and his legs began to tremble as he looked at the sunken battleships.

"Retreat, retreat!" Li Chuyuan roared.

Under this order, the confusion of the fleet began, and after the loss of ten battleships, the rout began.

On the Freedom, Blake looked at the chaotic fleet of the King of Chu and sneered, "It's time for the King of Chu to re-sign the trade agreement." ”

(To be continued.) )