He now knew that Zheng Zhilong had only sent about forty large ships into the port, and all the other warships had been ambushed.

But can forty great ships do whatever they want in the harbor of Geranza?

How many warships did the Dutch still have in the harbor?

And what about so many of their shore defense artillery?

It's no wonder that Liu Xiang couldn't figure it out, because his imagination of the Ming battleships was still in the impression of a large Schmmiburg-class battleship.

The Fort Schmmi-class battleship is now the largest and most powerful warship in the Far East.

It is armed with twelve heavy cannons (the same class as the Hongyi cannon) and eight furlong cannons.

But looking at the Ming battleships, equipped with eighteen Hongyi cannons and eighteen Furlong cannons, the firepower is not a heavyweight at all.

In terms of hull protection, the Fort Schmmi-class is a two-layer wooden plate armor, but the Ming battleship is a three-layer wooden plate armor, plus iron armor in key parts!

Can these two types of warships be compared? There is no comparison at all.

You have to ask why the Ming army easily built such a large warship?

For no other reason, it is the world's leading shipbuilding industry, plus money!

At present, the battleships used by the Ming army could be built as early as two hundred years ago when Zheng He went to the Western Ocean, and they would be called "treasure ships". It was only later that the Ming Dynasty's national strength weakened, so it was not built.

But the drawings and technology of shipbuilding are still there, and all the works are well preserved, so why is it difficult to rebuild them?

As for the addition of armor and iron sheets, it is completely smashed by silver.

Can a battleship be built for more than 50,000 taels of silver?

But in other words, in any country in Europe at the moment, you let him build a ship for 50,000 taels of silver?

It is not excluded that individual countries can make it, but in terms of mass production, it is no exaggeration to say that no country dares to build it in batches!

In a word, Europe is still poor now!

It's true that Europe has opened up a lot of colonies now, but with the efficiency of their current colonization, it can only be said that it is much more generous than before - if you think about it, they have finally opened up colonies, and as a result, goods have to be turned around for a year from the colonies to their own country, how inefficient is this?

They really got rich, naturally, after the Industrial Revolution.

At least for now, they are not comparable to the Ming Dynasty.

According to the statistics of later scholars, the Ming Dynasty accounted for 40% of the world's total GDP during the Chongzhen period. Not to mention that this statistical error is not large, but there is a fact that the whole of Europe combined is not as rich as the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, it is not surprising that this kind of warship can only be built in batches by the Ming Dynasty.

Then Liu Xiang's insight is a little short-sighted, which is also normal.

However, this short-sighted insight killed him!

More than 50 Ming warships first went from west to south, circled behind the combined fleet of Liu Xiang and the Dutch, and then copied them from behind.

When they arrived, they successfully encircled the combined fleet of Liu Xiang and the Dutch together with the Spanish fleet.

Naval battles are more fearful of being surrounded than land battles, and by this time, in fact, the victory and defeat have already been decided.

But a stronger blow is yet to come.

By this time, the Dutch coastal defense guns in the harbor of Geranza had basically been muted.

Why?

Because after the Ming army's 8,000 troops landed, they easily captured the shore defense artillery positions.

The Dutch had less than a thousand men and horses in the port, and according to the calculation of eighty coastal defense guns, there were only a dozen men in each position—this was still a full battle, and in fact many Dutch soldiers were still in the city, not on the batteries.

In this case, it was easy for the Ming army to take them down.

Even, most of the Dutch soldiers in the batteries did not resist and obediently surrendered.

The Dutch fleet in the harbor was already struggling, and without the support of shore defense artillery, it was even more powerless to deal with the Ming army's more than forty battleships.

Soon, the only Fort Schmmire battleship in the harbor was sunk.

The remaining Galen ships and small clippers were also basically wiped out.

Of the forty battleships of the Ming army, only one was sunk, five were seriously damaged, and twenty-one were lightly damaged.

Leaving behind the seriously wounded battleships, the remaining thirty-four battleships slowly sailed out of the harbor to support the battle at the mouth of the bay.

And so—

Liu Xiang and the Dutch fleet, who had already been scorched, saw more than thirty huge monsters coming out of it, and the muzzles of countless black holes were like monster eyes, looking at them coldly and bloodthirsty!

"Boom!"

The huge muzzle spewed out long tongues of fire, spitting out one life-hushing shell after another, heading straight for the Combined Fleet.

For a while, explosions came and went, billowing smoke rose into the sky in a column, and only the warships of the Combined Fleet could be seen on the ocean that were on fire everywhere and exploding everywhere.

It's not an exaggeration to say that it's raining down!

The strength is overwhelming, absolutely worthy of the name!

Soon, the first battle for hegemony in the Far East, which was also a duel between the two strongest forces in the Far East, turned into a one-sided slaughter!

After Liu Xiang's flagship was hit by more than 30 shots, it began to tilt.

It wasn't that he hadn't thought about escaping, but under tight surroundment, he knew it couldn't be.

Liu Xiang is not the kind of pirate who surrenders easily, just as in history, he knew that he was defeated and killed Zheng Zhihu and then committed suicide.

What's more, he knew that surrender was also death - as a pirate who had attacked the coastal ports of the Ming Dynasty and sunk the merchant ships of the Ming Kingdom, if he fell into the hands of the Ming army, he would definitely be executed by Ling Chi.

So, at the moment when the tide was gone, he raised his unanimous fire and fired a shot at his own head.

Liu Xiang died.

His fleet was also almost completely wiped out.

And the fleet of the Dutch was devastated.

Under the intensive care of ten battleships, one of the two Schmmiburg-class super-large battleships was on fire, which could not be extinguished no matter how hard the crew tried, while the other cabin was broken with more than a dozen large holes, and the raging sea water rushed in so frantically that the hull tilted 45 degrees and slowly sank.

This is true for the Schmmiburg class, not to mention the Galen, Junk, and smaller clippers. The ships sank and sunk, and the fires started, and those who had not yet suffered a devastating blow hurriedly raised the white flag.

Nanyang Sailors have won a big victory!

In this battle, the Nanyang Naval Division only lost two battleships, six junk ships, and 23 small clippers, but annihilated three Dutch Schmmiburg-class warships, eleven Galen ships, twelve junk ships, and more than 40 small warships, and captured more than 50 large and small warships.

An out-and-out win!

From then on, the Netherlands had no power to compete with the Ming Dynasty in the Eastern Domain.

And Liu Xiang, a great pirate who has been rampant for many years, can no longer make waves in the ocean of the Far East.

Zheng Zhilong stood at the bow of the ship in high spirits, he pointed at the Dutch envoy and laughed, "Your envoy, this is the trial of the artillery fire of your Dutch warship?"

The Dutch envoy was already pale and trembling with fright, and hurriedly knelt down and said, "Please forgive me for my rudeness and ignorance, great general, I think you will eventually be the ruler of this ocean." I apologize for my previous words and sincerely apologize. ”

He grovelled, humble to the extreme, he had long lost his original arrogance, and the only thing he thought about now was not to be thrown into the sea by Zheng Zhilong to feed the fish.

After hearing his words, Zheng Zhilong's face turned dark, and he said, "You Xiyi is simply a great rebellion! This governor is the general of the Ming Dynasty, and the ruler of this ocean is naturally my Ming court, and my wise and martial emperor, Your Majesty, how can you be allowed to talk nonsense?"

Zheng Zhilong had dealt with the Dutch a lot earlier, and even worked as a general (translator) for the Dutch, so he said this in Dutch.

When the envoy heard this, he hurriedly kowtowed according to Da Ming's way of asking for sin, and said in a loud voice, "Please forgive the general, please forgive the general!"

Zheng Zhilong did not give up, and said to the left and right with a dark face, "Come on, take him down to the staff and punish him for fifty, and if he is killed, he will be thrown into the sea." ”

The two soldiers, who were like wolves, immediately rushed up and pulled the envoy down, no matter how much he begged for mercy and cried out for injustice.

Why is Zheng Zhilong so ruthless?

It's very simple, there are overseers sent by the emperor on board!

He Zheng Zhilong now only wants to be a feudal official, but he has no choice but to have the stain of being a pirate before, which has somewhat adversely affected his promotion, and he now wants to downplay this.

However, this messenger was so ignorant that he even said that he was the ruler of this sea, and that was not saying that he was still a pirate?

If the prison army listened to this and reported it to the emperor, what would the emperor think?

Mother-in-law, not only may affect the career, but also may attract death!

So who do you not hit him?