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90,000 miles of mountains and rivers, wolf smoke again;

From Yumen Pass in the west, to Yilin in Monan, to Si'enfu in Guangxi and Chuxiong in Yunnan.

Even the South China Sea is no longer calm, the May breeze blows sultry across the sea, the sun is like fire, and the reflection of the sun on the sea surface is dazzling, almost dizzy.

On the ocean west of Palawan Island, a full forty-eight Dutch warships were on the left, and nearly three hundred small warships of the Sulu Sultanate were on the right, and the two fleets formed two columns, two miles apart, sailing northward.

A Great Qin merchant ship bound for Malacca was hijacked, and the sailors were thrown directly into the sea to fend for themselves, and the ship's cargo was appropriated by the Dutch.

The commander-in-chief of the Dutch Eastern Fleet, Callant, wore a crisp white shirt and held a monoculars in front of the flagship command cabin.

He looked at the row of boats of the Sulu Sultanate and the Boni Kingdom on his right, and couldn't help but show a sneering expression.

He and the Governor of Batavia, John. The reason why Ma Suiju was willing to fight with the Sulu Sultanate was mainly because the Sulu Sultanate could provide a lot of supplies nearby;

Moreover, although their small ships are inconspicuous, they are numerous, and the small and medium-sized warships used to entangle the Qin army can still play a great role.

What's more, John. It was clear to Ma Suibori and Callant that the Dutch maritime power, though powerful, was scattered throughout the globe;

The Far East is far away from the Netherlands itself, and in the face of such a huge empire as Great Qin, it is beneficial and harmless for them to unite some small countries in the Far East, and the more such small countries, the better.

On his way north, passing through the capital of the state of Boni in northern Borneo, Karant sailed forty-eight of his warships to the mouth of the Boni River;

The capital of Boni is located on the banks of the Boni River, known as the Venice of the East.

At high tide, the Boni River can be navigated with a huge ship with a draft of seven meters, and the Dutch warships can be driven directly under the capital of Boni.

Under the intimidation of the Karante warship, the envoys of the Sulu Sultanate went ashore to lobby, and finally forced the Boni Kingdom to send eight warships.

King Boni also deceived himself by saying that he only provided supplies. Do not go to war.

Callant secretly laughed, the dispatch of these eight ships, does he still want to get out of this troubled water?

From Palawan Island to the northeast, is Mindoro Island, and Callant has received news that two battalions of the Qin army's navy are recruiting the island's natives to dig for gold in the port of Calapan in the northeast of Mindoro Island.

Mindoro is a large island 300 li long and 200 li wide, inhabited mainly by Tagalog.

The island is also rich in a small buffalo, which is said to have a total of two or three hundred thousand heads, and this small buffalo is small in size. Known as a dwarf buffalo.

It's a pity that the Dutch are not Spaniards, they don't like bullfighting, what dwarf buffalo can't attract them, and Calante's first target is Wang Guichen's two battalions of men.

At this time, Wang Guichen was recruiting local natives to dig gold in the northeast of Minduluo Island, and when he came, he originally planned to make up a gold mine, but he didn't expect that after landing on the island, there was really a gold mine in the local area. And some indigenous people have been mining on a small scale.

Needless to say, Wang Guichen immediately occupied the mountain as the king, buried the gold he brought into the deposit, and then let the natives dig it out.

Time. The news of the discovery of a ten-pound dog's head gold on Mindoro Island spread far and wide, and the natives of the island came one after another on dwarf buffaloes, and the scene was spectacular.

Wang Guichen was secretly having fun. Suddenly, a merchant ship from Daqin fled back, saying that a large number of Dutch warships were coming towards Mindoro Island.

After carefully questioning the owner of the merchant ship, his heart could not help but tremble. Grandma is a bear, the Dutch are crazy this time, dozens of warships, and a large group of shrimp soldiers and crabs from the Sultanate of Sulu will go along.

Wang Guichen's two battalions numbered quite a few people, a full 1,000 navy.

However, there are only four gunboats, 16 small and medium-sized bluff ships and eagle ships, and if it is a land battle, there is still a lot of strength, but in a naval battle, the comparison of strength is too great.

The problem is that there are no batteries on the shore, so you can't tow the battleship to the shore to fight a land battle with the enemy, right?

Mo Lianggui asked anxiously, "General, what should I do?" ”

Adjutant General Li Sangui hurriedly replied: "What else can I do?" The wind is tight, it's! ”

Wang Guichen scolded: "Damn, it's bullshit, the hero doesn't suffer the immediate loss, let the brothers hurry up to replenish food and water, and go to sea first." ”

Mo Liang looked at the natives all over the mountain unwillingly and asked, "Then what about these guys?" ”

"Can they still fly into the sky? Don't fucking be verbose, hurry up and replenish it, the red-haired devil wants to eat us, let's knock out a few of its teeth first. ”

Wang Guichen first sent an eagle ship back to Fusu City to report the news, and after the other warships were replenished, they also set sail for the sea.

The natives all over the mountain watched stupidly, and they didn't know what was going on, and when they saw the Qin army leaving in a hurry, they couldn't help but let out bursts of cheers and dig even harder.

Master Qin Jun is gone, whoever digs up the dog's head gold will be who's now

Perhaps the news brought back by the merchant ships was wrong, the Dutch fleet came faster than expected, and Wang Guichen's two battalions had just sailed out of the bend of the port of Kara when they ran headlong into the combined fleet of the Dutch and the Sultanate of Sulu.

The combination of warships of the two countries looks very strange, but it is definitely not easy to mess with, especially the more than forty warships of the Dutch, all of which are full of guns;

Although the warships of the Sulu Kingdom were small and rudimentary, they were superior in number. The territory of this country is scattered on various islands, and it is usually transported between the islands by boats, and there are naturally many ships in the country, and the soldiers are very skilled in handling sails and boats.

As the saying goes, ants bite elephants to death. Seeing that nearly 300 small boats from Sulu came up first, Wang Guichen couldn't help but feel a little numb, he only had 19 warships left, if he let these hundreds of small boats get entangled, it would really capsize in the gutter.

"Downwind to the north, quick!" Wang Guichen shouted, and the herald quickly transmitted his order to the warships in the language of the flag.

The Dutch warships lined up in columns, drawing an arc on the sea and pressing towards them, the two sides were getting closer and closer, and they were about to enter the range of artillery, and the atmosphere at sea was suddenly tense to the extreme, and all the soldiers of the Qin army were already in place, and their hearts were tense;

Before, whether they fought the Dutch or the Spaniards, they had an absolute advantage in terms of troops; Now the shape is reversed, the enemy's sails are like clouds, the ships are like ants, and he is alone, once he is entangled by the enemy, the consequences are unimaginable.

Rumble!

The front main guns of the Dutch roared first, the flames erupted, and the huge projectiles whistled, and it was necessary not to hit the Qin warship, but it had already become a preemptive momentum.

The sails on the Qin army's battleships had been adjusted to the best attitude, but Wang Guichen soon found that the Dutch battleships were still getting closer and closer, and with a slight turn of the rudder, the guns on the starboard side of the first few battleships in front of them could already fire a salvo at them.

Rumble! Boom Boom!

As the starboard side of several Dutch warships continued to spew fire, hundreds of cannonballs pierced the sky and smashed on the sea around the Qin warships.

One of the solid bullets hit the surface of the sea and jumped on the surface of the sea, like a child playing on the surface of the water with a tile.

This is rarely the case with solid bullets, but it appears today; After this solid bullet floated twice on the water, it hit Wang Guichen's flagship side waterline with a bang, and the huge impact force almost pierced the side side.

At this time, Wang Guichen and their warship were at the wrong angle, so they could only return fire with rear guns, and a few shells were fired, which was almost negligible.

Mo Liang looked at the enemy's battleship and shouted, "Hurry, hurry!" The enemy is getting closer and closer," he really wanted to jump into the sea and push his battleship faster.

Wang Guichen realized at this time that he had made a stern mistake, he had just ordered to flee north to the direction of Fusu City with the wind, which was not wrong in itself, but it was wrong that he ignored the different characteristics of the warships of the enemy and us.

The warships of the Qin army used traditional Chinese hard sails, and when sailing against the wind or crosswind, because the mast could rotate, so that the sail could be well exposed to the wind, and the warships were faster and more agile than the soft sails of the Westerners.

Western soft sails are usually several times larger than Chinese hard sails due to their lighter weight, and when sailing downwind, their sails are fully functional, and their speeds are naturally faster than those of hard-sail ships.

This is also the reason why Wang Guichen and the others desperately fled, but the Dutch were able to catch up easily.

"Left rudder, left rudder!"

In the roar of the Dutch's cannons, Wang Guichen corrected his mistake in time and gave the order to turn into a crosswind sail

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PS: Three more ask for a monthly pass, three more ask for a monthly pass! (To be continued......)