Hildeuch is the new commander of the Dutch Formosa fleet.
He has eight warships and five armed merchant ships under his command, which is quite large.
It should be said that his fleet is invincible in the waters of Formosa.
Zheng Zhilong has 500 warships.
However, if the fire ships are excluded, Zheng Zhilong's fleet only has dozens of Galen merchant ships and warships modified by Fuchuan.
This is not the case.
The opponent of the fleet, not to mention Zheng Zhilong was busy in the battle to unify the coast of Fujian and had no time to care about him.
As long as the Dutch in Formosa do not attack the coast of Fujian, Zheng Zhilong can do whatever they want in Formosa.
Therefore, the Formosa fleet has become the dominant force in the Formosa waters.
However, there are now many Ming people from Fujian and Guangdong to Taiwan.
Therefore, in order to protect this smuggling channel, the earlier actions of robbing maritime merchants are now being carried out by the East Indian in Jakarta.
The company strictly prohibits this.
Now the Formosa fleet is harassing the Spanish and Portuguese fleets and maintaining this smuggling trade route to the Ming Dynasty.
On this day, Hildruch commanded three warships and an armed merchant ship to cruise in the waters north of Formosa.
There is a reason for choosing this area.
This is because two years after the Dutch occupied Tainan, the Spanish captured the Chicken Coop in Taipei and expanded around it, occupying a territory of more than a hundred miles in radius.
Of course, there are few Han people in the Jilong area, mainly indigenous people.
In addition, the maritime trade routes are controlled by the Dutch.
Maritime merchants from all over the Ming Dynasty and even some Japanese ships came to Dayuan to trade, so there are not many people in the Jilong area.
Income mainly depends on supplies from Manila.
This means that the number of Spaniards staying here is not large, only 500 soldiers and more than 100 family members, which is far behind the thousands of water infantry garrison and more than 500 family members of the Dutch.
The most important thing is There are three warships here, and they are still small fast sailing ships, which are far from the power of the Dutch.
However, after all, the afterglow of the Spanish Empire is still there, and the Dutch do not dare to look down upon it.
It is normal to head north every time they go out to patrol the sea.
They often look at the behavior of the Spaniards in the chicken coop to feel at ease.
This time the four ships first arrived at the Spanish home city of San Salvador on the island outside the chicken coop.
Seeing that the Spaniards were still half-dead in several small boats, Hildroz led the fleet and left with satisfaction.
The Spanish governor, Bordeleau, could only watch the other party come blatantly to show off his power again and again, and was helpless.
Without him, his strength was insufficient, and his pitiful warships could not compete with the Dutch.
Four Dutch ships sailed north in a column.
They hurriedly dodged the fishing boats encountered by the indigenous people on the way.
These were all overlords who could not say when to shoot the fishing boats.
There was no purpose.
Just random bombardment.
According to the plan, they always drove north from northern Taiwan for a day and night before stopping.
After spending the last night, they began to patrol south the next day until they returned to the city of Relanja.
This fleet patrol is no exception and will still sail along this route.
Like most situations in the past, they did not encounter too many merchant ships.
Of course, the Ming merchant ships they encountered had to pay hundreds of taels of tribute to them, otherwise they would sink into the sea.
This is also an important point for the city of Relanja. source of income.
To put it bluntly, the current city of Relanja is mainly maintained by the taxes and maritime levies paid by the merchants who trade here, and it still has enough energy to build ten sea-going ships and maintain more than a thousand soldiers.
That night, all the ships lowered their sails and slowed down, and began to rest and prepare for the return trip tomorrow.
Generally speaking, they had a good little life.
The sky was only slightly brighter the next day, and Sidluchi was woken up by his crew.
The crew only said, "There is an enemy situation ahead."
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These few words frightened Sidluchi out of his anger.
When Hildeuch was fully dressed and came to the deck, he saw Captain Osim looking into the distance with a telescope.
When Hildeuch looked there, he found two small soft sailing ships heading towards Ned from the northeast.
The orchid fleet is approaching.
"The warship of the Ming people in the north."
Siddluchi said in surprise when he saw the shape of the ship.
"Yes, and no," Osim made a very helpless expression.
"In the past, it was said that they mostly flew the Portuguese flag or the blue eagle-head flag.
Now they have changed to the red eagle-head flag."
Sidrochi took Osim's telescope and looked at the opposite side without politeness.
There was still a distance of four or five miles, so the view was not very clear, but he could still tell that the sailors opposite were all dressed as Ming people, not Portuguese. people.
"It's them, those Ming people.
It seems they have a caravan passing through here again."
Sidlu said.
Since the so-called great general of the Japanese issued a country-locking order a year ago, all Portuguese and Spanish merchant ships passing through here to the Japanese have gradually stopped, which also left the Dutch in Formosa no chance to make extra money. .
However, news came two months ago that tens of thousands of people from the Ming Dynasty landed in the Japanese country.
After a fierce battle and defeated the Japanese army, the Japanese general was forced to withdraw the lock-down order and allowed Ming Dynasty and Portuguese merchant ships to go to the Japanese country for sea trade.
At that time, the newly arrived governor Vanderburgh was furious.
The Japanese general was betraying the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Hidluchi still remembers Vanderbilt's violent roar.
To be honest, Vanderbilt was quite unlucky.
Although the previous governor Netz lost several warships, compared with driving the Portuguese and Spanish out of Japan, dominating the Japanese maritime trade, and bringing orders for dozens of warships and four hundred cannons to the Netherlands, These losses are simply not worth mentioning.
Therefore, half a year ago, when Naz was promoted to a director of the East India Company and returned to Jakarta, the new Governor-General Vanderbilt received a blow to the head as soon as he took office, which was extremely speechless.
"It seems that there is Ming's fleet behind them."
Hildrucci put down the telescope and said.
"That must be the case, sir, have you told the ships to prepare for war?"
Osim asked.
"Tell you gentlemen that a big fish has taken the bait."
Siddluchi smiled.
Three warships and one merchant ship can fight against any warship escorted by the merchant fleet.
Osim smiled after hearing this and issued the order.
Just as the Dutch warships began to prepare for war under the command of the flag, a sea-going ship of Akito in front suddenly began to turn.
It drew a beautiful arc, and then began to sail north.
"Every time I see a ship like this, I have to say this is God's masterpiece.
Look at it, it's so fast and so beautiful."
Sidluchi watched with envy as the low clipper ship sailed away, and said to Osim who had returned.
"Yes, if we have such a sea ship, it won't take us two months to reach Jakarta."
Osim echoed.
As old sailors, they especially yearn for extremely fast sea ships.
Otherwise, their lives have been tortured enough by slow sea ships, and they feel that their life at sea is particularly long and boring.
The four ships sailed towards the north, while the Mingren ship sailed four or five miles away.
Sidluchi did not take it seriously.
The ship was very fast, but its combat power was negligible. .
After a while, some sail shadows appeared in the distant sky, and it was estimated that the main sails of several sea ships began to appear there.
The two sides began to get closer.
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When the two sides were six or seven miles away, Sidroch discovered that the other side was five smaller warships and merchant ships of more than 200 tons.
Sidluchi didn't care too much about this bit of force.
Although the cannons were powerful, the cannons on the small boats were still less powerful.
As for the three battleships he commanded, two were the 500-ton battleships Reims and Jonker, and the more than 300-ton battleship Haifen.
The first two battleships were also the main battleships in Jakarta.
Because of Akito's fierce artillery, Formosa, which was on the front line of the border with them, got these two giant ships.
Of course, the big business that Netz got at that time was the key, otherwise these two giant ships would never be able to come.
To the remote place of Formosa.
The Reims and the Jonker were pure Dutch warships.
There were forty nine-pound, 12-pound, 18-pound and 26-pound cannons in the round hulls, and there were eight more on the deck.
The cannons can be said to have powerful firepower.
In addition, in order to cope with Akito's huge cannons, they specially reinforced the ship's planks.
Although the ship seemed heavier and the speed was reduced, it was extremely strong.
With such attack power and protective power, ordinary opponents would not pay attention to them, not to mention that there were only five small battleships on the opposite side.
The four warships continued to advance forward.
When the bows of both sides were close to four miles away, Akito's warship suddenly began to turn and sail westward.
Seemingly knowing that he was outmatched, Sidluchi smiled sarcastically and ordered the ships to start turning to pursue these ships.
It is a pity that the speed of these Akito warships is much faster than theirs.
The Lance and other warships pursued it for a while.
The distance between the two sides did not get closer, but instead became farther.
Hildruch and Osim cursed the damned Dutch warships for their speed, voicing their usual disgust at each other.
The round hulls of Dutch warships make them larger and more capable, and their cargo capacity is greatly increased.
It also makes the ships much more seaworthy and relatively comfortable to ride.
However, the ridiculous speed is really not the first choice for warships.
The five Ming warships got rid of the pursuit of the Dutch warships and began to turn south again.
The four Dutch warships could only weakly chase behind.
When the distance between the two sides increased to seven or eight miles, the speed of Akito's warship suddenly slowed down, and the distance between the same Dutch warship no longer widened.
Sidrochi and Osim were puzzled as to what tricks these men were up to.
Why didn't they escape after it was clear that the warship was no match for them?
At this moment, a shrill cry came from the highest point of their warship, warships, countless warships.
Sidrochi and Osim turned around and saw sails covering the sea on the northern sea level.
They were stunned.
What was going on?
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