Putmans suffered one blow after another, knowing in his heart that this defeat was enough to make him lose his position as chief executive, nearly ten years of struggle, from a low-level merchant step by step to this position, will immediately come to naught, very unwilling, his mentality is already a little unbalanced, he waved his fists, shouted: "We can continue to fight, give me a cannon, those yellow-skinned monkeys can't hold out for long......"

Van Bommel looked at Putmans, who was almost out of control, in surprise, and took a few steps back: "Sir, you need to calm down, our sailors can't hold out anymore, and they want to return to Geranza City now......"

"Nope! Shoot me! Damn, I'm the commander of this fleet, did you hear my orders? Putmans grabbed Van Bommel by the collar and yelled at him. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Van Bommel was almost certain that after the setback, the commander was on the verge of a psychological breakdown, and his orders at this time could basically be regarded as gibberish. He turned his head and called to his men: "Guards, send Chief Putmans back to my captain's quarters, he needs to rest......"

Several soldiers with big shoulders and round waists came to take away the dancing Putmans, and Van Bommel straightened his collar and gave the order in place of his superiors: "Give up the battle and return home!" ”

"Give up the fight and return home." This popular order was conveyed to every armed merchant ship, and the surviving captains and soldiers stopped shelling and fled desperately in the direction of the chief.

Although the Qiongzhou battalion fleet kept firing artillery and tried to obstruct it, it still could not stop the Dutch. Although the shells broke the mast of the "Baram" during the interception, causing the armed merchant ship to lose power and become prisoners, the other few remaining warships broke away from the battle and successfully escaped.

William looked at the direction in which the Dutch fleet had fled with some pity and shook his head. If the eight Wuyi-class warships were also there, he would have a very good chance of completely annihilating the opponent -- the firepower and far-sea performance of the Wuxiang-class patrol ships were still insufficient, after all, it was too reluctant to let the coastal patrol ships do the main warship.

At this time, Liu Xiang and the Zheng family also divided the winners and losers.

After the Qiongzhou battalion took over the battle with the Dutch, the Zheng family only needed to deal with Liu Xiang's family with all their might, and the situation changed immediately. The original evenly matched battle of broadside, because the Zheng family threw all the reserves in, the number of people had an absolute advantage, and it became a one-sided battle, and Liu Xiang's side was defeated and retreated. After seeing the Dutch fleeing in a hurry, the last psychological pillar supporting Liu Xiang also collapsed, the "big brother" ran away, and the "little brother" still farted?

The hand-to-hand combat on the side eventually evolved into a sea chase, and Liu Xiang's fleet could still run and follow the footsteps of the Dutch, and all the ships of the Zheng family were desperately chasing after them in the rear. Because the dragon head gave a death order to take Liu Xiang's head, Liu Xiangzuo's boat flying the big flag of "Liu" became the most conspicuous target, and most of the pursuers stared at this boat.

"I'll give you a lung!" Seeing that the Zheng family was chasing after him, Liu Xiang spat indignantly. However, he also knew that killing the second child of the Zheng family with his own hands was a hornet's nest, and Zheng Zhilong would never let himself go. However, if there are too many lice, it is not itchy, and if there are too many debts, there is no worry, and the grievances between himself and Zheng Zhilong cannot be resolved, and this account is not bad.

He rolled his eyes and ordered his subordinates: "Put away the flag and run to the place where there are many boats, Zheng Zhilong's people in the province are always chasing me." ”

His ship lowered the "Liu" flag and burrowed into the fleeing fleet, and the Zheng family slowly lost its purpose. In the process of chasing, boats were caught up one after another, and a chaotic battle of "ping pong" was captured by the Zheng family, but the rest of the remaining boats ran away.

When Liu Xiang's remnants were fleeing, they consciously made a big circle to avoid the Qiongzhou battalion fleet - just kidding, the red hair can't kill these people, isn't it an egg hitting a stone when he bumps into it, isn't it self-sufficient?

His subordinates asked William if he wanted to intercept Liu Xiang's fleet, and William shook his head: "No." At this time, even if we stop them, it will be to help Zheng Yiguan, and we won't get much benefit. The general has already prepared a surprise on their way back, and our mission has been accomplished. ”

The Battle of Liaoluo Bay, which gathered all the maritime forces along the coast of Fujian, finally came to an end, and the battle ended in the crushing defeat of the Dutch and Liu Xiang. Of the 13 armed merchant ships of the Dutch fleet, 3 were burned, 4 were sunk, 2 were captured, and only 4 ships escaped. Liu Xiang had more than 50 pirate ships, and less than 20 escaped from the battlefield in the end. As the victorious party, except for Zheng Zhihu's death, the Zheng family's other losses were not large, and the sinking of more than ten or twenty ships was only a drop in the bucket for Zheng Zhilong, who had a big family; The battle damage of the Qiongzhou battalion was even smaller, not a single ship sank, half of the ships were damaged by shelling, some gunners died, and more than forty Caron guns were lost, all of which could be quickly repaired and replenished.

As the losers of the war, the Dutch and Liu Xiang had no time to consider the negative effects of this battle at this time, they were just glad that they were able to escape alive. After the rendezvous in the Taiwan Strait, the two brothers dragged their tired steps to the outside of the port of Geranza. Just enter the harbor and go ashore and take refuge in the fortified castle of Geranza, and you will be safe.

Putmans had now calmed down, and sat in the captain's room, thinking dejectedly about how he would deal with the anger of Batavia when he returned to the city of Geranza.

Van Bommel took his place as commander and was watching the harbor with a clairvoyant mirror in the bow of the ship - a routine practice that no one usually thinks of as an accident on their doorstep.

At this time, Van Bommel saw a dense fleet of ships, all Western-style warships, with tall masts and soft white sails.

Van Bommel thought he was hallucinating, and quickly rubbed his eyes, and raised the clairvoyant mirror again to look at the other side. True, there was indeed a fleet ahead, and the Galen ships, similar to those of the Dutch, should have a similar displacement - could it be that Batavia had sent reinforcements?

But the next scene soon shattered his illusions: at a distance of nearly two nautical miles, the fleet turned to the right and lined up in a line, blocking the way of the Dutch fleet and Liu Xiang, and the side gun windows were opened, revealing a dense array of gun emplacements, which could be seen even with the naked eye to be at least twice as powerful as the Dutch armed merchant ships.

Now even a fool knew that this fleet of unknown origin had bad intentions, and Van Bommel cried out in despair: "God, the war is not over yet, the enemy is attacking!" ”